| By 2030, the majority of world Jews will live in Israelnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 06 Sep 05:20 AM Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics came out | | Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics came out with its annual Rosh Hashanah report on Israeli and worldwide Jewish populations. This year, there are 6,940,000 Jews living in Israel, compared to 15,200,000 Jews worldwide. This means that 45.7% of all Jews live in Israel, today. I looked at the Jewish population worldwide and in Israel since 1970. Here is my graph, with a forecast going to the year 2030: That line is remarkably straight even as over a million Jews moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s it only affected the slope a little bit. If current trends continue, the majority of world's Jews will live in Israel by 2030. (Actually, it would happen in 2027, but I'm playing it safe because the diaspora population used to be lessening every decade but seems to have bottomed out.) An Israel that has more than half the world's Jews would be significant, both in terms of Zionism being proven to be a wild success and to give antisemites more reasons to direct their hate at Israel while claiming to be merely expressing political opinions. It turns out I'm not the first to make this observation. Top Israeli demographer Sergio Della-Pergola said this in 2016, but the media didn't really make a big deal out of it. It seems hugely important. Israel has had a plurality of Jews for a while now but we are on the cusp of seeing Israel as the true center for Judaism. Practicing Jews...Read More |
Wishing all of my readers a sweet and happy New Year!
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Continuing on my research into how newspapers in the 18th century reported about Jews, I see lots of stories of European countries imposing taxes specifically on their Jewish populations. The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, Scotland, Sunday, December 1, 1726, reporting from Warsaw: Same newspaper, October 14, 1728, reporting from Hamburg: Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, March 5, 1730: The Newcastle Weekly Courant, England, Tuesday, July 25, 1730: * * * * * *
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From Ian: David Collier: Teaching to hate – UK Islamist extremism grows in confidence The legitmised attacks on Jews Whilst attacks on Christians still occur in the dark – those against the Jews happen in broad daylight. A man has recently been arrested following a spate of attacks on Jews in Stamford Hill. The man's MO was simple. He would simply walk by someone who looked visibly Jewish and then punch them. It is only a few months since a convoy of cars drove through a Jewish area calling for the 'rape' of our daughters. This got mainstream attention because it happened on our own doorstep. It also fits the narrative – the ability to blame a couple of extremists and pretend there is not a far wider problem. But at the same time as those cars drove through North London – hundreds of other Islamists gathered in cities throughout the UK and chanted Islamist songs about massacring Jews. Those actions received absolutely no coverage outside of the Jewish bubble. Hundreds of Islamists actually marched through the streets of the UK, promising the Jews that the army of Mohammed is returning to slaughtered them – and not a single mainstream outlet gave a damn. It is too 'real' to be addressed – and anyway they think, 'it is only the Jews' – it is all because of 'Israel'. Rather than see Israel as being under attack from the Islamists – this twisted logic actually blames Israel for the hate it receives from radical Islam...Read More |
Former Iranian armed forces chief and senior military advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, has died of COVID-19. He was 70. In 2011, he said, "The Zionists, who do not have any fate but death, will continue screaming of war until their destruction." In 2012, he said, "The Iranian nation is standing for its cause, [which] is the full annihilation of Israel." He also has said that Israel's Iron Dome doesn't work and that the West uses lizards as nuclear spies, so it seems that his record of expertise is perfect. * * * * * *
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Some Catholic media have lately been posting articles about how Pope Pius XII was not as passive in the face of the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust as he has been accused of. The Catholic News Agency interviewed Deacon Dominiek Oversteyns, a former engineer with no formal background as a historian, who pored over public archives to show that Pius XII actively helped save several hundred Jews from Rome. According to his study, there were 8,207 Jews in Rome before the Nazi raid on the Jewish ghetto on Oct. 16, 1943. Out of these, 1,323 — or 16% — found refuge prior to the raid. Eighteen went to the Vatican extraterritorial properties, 393 to villages in the mountains around Rome, 368 to the private homes of friends, 500 to 49 different Roman convents, and 44 to parishes and pontifical colleges in Rome, Oversteyns reported. Pius XII was also able to help 152 Jews hidden in private homes under the protection of DELASEM, the Delegation for the Assistance of Jewish Emigrants. In all, Pius XII gave support to some 714 Jews. Oversteyns also highlights the Vatican intervention that slowed down Nazi deportations of Jews from Rome, as the Nazis released some 249 Jews out of 1,351 who had been rounded up from the Rome ghetto in 1943 after Catholic pleas. The Jews who were released were those who had married Catholics or who were in the service of...Read More |
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