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Chag sameach!noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Sep 05:30 PM Wishing a chag sameach to all! I will not be online until Wednesday night. \* \* \* \ Like   Tweet   Chag sameach! noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Sep 05:30 PM Wishing a chag sameach to all! I will not be online until Wednesday night. * * * * * * ...Read More 09/20 Links Pt2: Bari Weiss: Everybody Hates the Jews; American Blood Libel; Jean Améry as a Critic of the Anti-Israel Left; 80th anniversary of the Farhud pogrom against Iraq's Jews marked by BBC noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 20 Sep 05:00 PM From Ian: Bari Weiss: Everybody Hates the Jews Everybody hates the Jews. That's the refrain from the brilliant satirist Tom Lehrer in "National Brotherhood Week," a song that I had memorized by the time I was ten, given that I was raised by the kind of dad who made sure songs like "The Vatican Rag" and "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" were the soundtrack to our lives. My sisters and I would laugh as we sang along to lyrics we only half-understood: Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics And the Catholics hate the Protestants And the Hindus hate the Muslims And everybody hates the Jews The very fact of the song's existence, of course, is evidence of abundant American tolerance and pluralism. But these days, the idea that "everybody hates the Jews" feels like less of a punchline and more like an accurate report of public sentiment. It seems every other day a new study or survey confirms what so many American Jews are feeling, as the old joke had it, that they are hating us more than is necessary. Today, came the latest study from the Brandeis Center, which released a poll of "openly Jewish" college students. Seventy percent of the students surveyed reported that they experienced antisemitism. Half of the students said they have felt the need to hide their Jewish identity at school, explaining that they felt doing so would protect them from harassment, bullying or social exclusion. This is the kind of thing...Read More The American and Israeli Right Differ on Vaccines (Judean Rose) noreply@blogger.com (Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose)), 20 Sep 01:00 PM There are major differences between the American and the Israeli right. Never has this been more apparent to this author than during the pandemic. The vast majority of my acquaintances on the Israeli right support vaccination and even banning the non-vaccinated from events and shops. We see those who refuse vaccination and try to sneak into shul, for example, as endangering our lives. But tune into conservative American talk shows, and it is easy to see that the American right sees vaccinations and "passports" as an infringement of their civil liberties, and sometimes something even more nefarious. It is not the only difference between the Israeli and American conservative right. One of the more obvious disparities between the two is seen in the way the American and Israeli view the two-state solution. A 2016 Pew report revealed that 43 percent of American Jews who identify as conservatives say that "A peaceful two-state solution is possible, compared with 70% of those who say they are liberal – a gap of 27 percentage points. Among Israeli Jews, 29% of those on the political right say a peaceful two-state solution is possible, compared with 86% on the left – a 57-point gulf." One might also suggest that our issues are different. In Israel, our health care system is socialist and it works. We offer all sorts of benefits to encourage immigration (albeit JEWISH immigration/Aliyah...Read More 09/20 Links Pt1: The UN Durban Antiracist Process: Projecting Racism Onto Israel; Is the PA going to deceive the US into opening the PLO offices in DC?; America Is Sending the Wrong Signals to Iran noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 20 Sep 11:00 AM From Ian: David Hirsh & Hilary Miller: The UN Durban Antiracist Process: Projecting Racism Onto Israel Israel had always been ready to make peace, but in the January before Durban, the peace process had collapsed. Israel was ready to negotiate over land, but never considered negotiating itself out of existence. Israel was not a racist elite clinging to privilege but an instrument of Jewish renewal and a survivor of three attempts by the Arab League states to eradicate it. Today, academics and student activists across the world are signing declarations affirming the idea that Israel is an apartheid state that must be boycotted and destroyed to be foundational both to their scholarship and to their morality. These statements function as loyalty tests for Jews, which makes their membership in the community conditional. Demonstrating one's legitimacy by contrasting oneself to evil Jews is an antisemitic practice that has been re-animated by self-defined "antiracists" in the 21st century. Zionism is portrayed as an obstacle to progress and a spreader of racism and Islamophobia. Zionism is treated as a universal evil and as a keystone of a global system of oppression. The term "Zionist" has been substituted for "Jew" in accusations of child-murder, control over the media, police violence, betrayal of "the people" and the instigation of imperialist wars...Read More Lebanon is falling apart - but Lebanese are upset over Arab actress posing with Israeli noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Sep 09:00 AM Israelis have some amazing superpowers over the Lebanese. From Arab News: A photograph of Lebanese actress Nadine Njeim apparently posing with an Israeli make-up artist in the UAE sparked a social media storm over the weekend. "Lebanese model and actress Nadine Njeim is pictured with an Israeli make-up artist in UAE. Likely his customer. Is this another case of 'Oh, I didn't know'!?" Twitter user Lebanon News and Updates (@LebUpdate) wrote in a message posted on Twitter on Saturday alongside the photograph. In a subsequent Tweet, he said: "It is confirmed that she was his customer, according to his TikTok video. It is obvious that famous people do not simply choose random makeup artists without some background research on his/her work and experience." The messages provoked a number of shocked and angry responses on Twitter. "Nadine Njeim they are asking for models in Tel Aviv," a user called Mimo wrote. Another, called Adam, simply tweeted three puking-face emojis, as others chimed in. Some critics predicted that Njeim, a former beauty queen who was crowned Miss Lebanon in 2004, would say she did not know the makeup artist was from Israel. But other people said so what if he is? "I am so tired of this backward mentality and these people," a Twitter user called Romy wrote. "When they're not destroying Lebanon with their foreign allegiance and ideology they spend their time online on their iPhones stalking people...Read More PLO/Fatah official: There will never be peace or security until Israel releases murderers from prison noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 20 Sep 07:00 AM Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the Executive Committees of the PLO as well as Central Committee of Fatah, visited the families of the six prisoners who briefly escaped from Gilboa Prison. He gave the standard party line of Fatah regarding the terrorists in prison - terrorists that the PLO pays handsomely. Al-Ahmad said, "We are proud of the persistence, determination, and will of the six prisoners ...who conveyed their message to the whole world that without their freedom and the establishment of our state, there will be no security, no peace, no stability, and that we will not rest. " This means that the Palestinian leadership intend to continue to encourage terror attacks against Israeli Jews until Israel gives in to blackmail, releases all prisoners and gives the Palestinians a state from which they can continue to attack Israel. Al-Ahmad added: "We came to Jenin and its camp, the governorate of steadfastness, challenge, struggle and determination, and the city of martyrs, prisoners and the wounded, which always embodies its national unity by confronting the policy of the occupation. [The escapees] embodied the national unity among the one people in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and the lands of 1948, through their support and backing of the prisoners." About 25 Israeli Arabs came to a protest outside the Gilboa prison on Sunday evening. It was hardly a huge turnout but the Palestinian media gave it lots of coverage...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company