| "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" officers on campus are the most intolerant people aroundnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Dec 05:45 AM In recent | | In recent years, American universities have been appointing large numbers of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff with the intention of creating more tolerant environments on campus for students from all backgrounds.
The Heritage Foundation did a study of the tweets from over 700 DEI staff, and found that when it comes to Zionism and Israel, they are quite intolerant.
The analysis is somewhat predictable but still shocking: To measure antisemitism among university DEI staff, we searched the Twitter feeds of 741 DEI personnel at 65 universities to find their public communications regarding Israel and, for comparison purposes, China. Those DEI staff tweeted, retweeted, or liked almost three times as many tweets about Israel as tweets about China. Of the tweets about Israel, 96 percent were critical of the Jewish state, while 62 percent of the tweets about China were favorable. There were more tweets narrowly referencing "apartheid" in Israel than tweets indicating anything favorable about Israel whatsoever. The overwhelming pattern is that DEI staff at universities pay a disproportionately high amount of attention to Israel and nearly always attack Israel. While criticism of Israel is not necessarily antisemitic, the inordinate amount of attention given to Israel and the excessive criticism directed at that one country is evidence of a double...Read More |
From Ian: At UJA-Federation's Wall Street Dinner, attendees pledge to fight antisemitism Despite the swanky setting and the (mostly) maskless crowd in bespoke suits and dresses, UJA-Federation of New York's Wall Street Dinner Monday night made very clear that the city – and even its most affluent denizens – still lived in the shadow of the pandemic. There was an atmosphere of relief in the room, with the usual scenes of hugging, smiling and schmoozing that typify fundraising dinners. Hors d'oeuvres were eaten, awards were given and speeches were made. But the ongoing effects of COVID pervaded the event Monday night at the Marriott Marquis in midtown Manhattan, and lent it an air of guardedness. Former mayor Michael Bloomberg received the night's main award, and Stephanie Cohen, an executive at Goldman Sachs, was also honored. But in the first speech, former Goldman Sachs CEO and current chairman Lloyd Blankfein made a point of reminding attendees how the pandemic has bared their privilege. "The lesson of COVID that's most pertinent to tonight's purpose is just how bifurcated our society is," said Blankfein, who emceed the event. "So let me say, at the risk of being provocative and sounding tone-deaf, I had a pretty good pandemic, and most of my friends who live in the same bubble as me had a pretty good pandemic too," he continued...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal This morning I sat down with my newspaper, my coffee, and my cat, to read that the IDF held a ceremony on Tuesday to mark the completion of the massive and sophisticated barrier on the border (or whatever it is) with the Gaza Strip. They call it an "iron wall," 65 km long, with a fence that rises to a height of 6m above the ground and a concrete barrier below it whose depth is not specified, but is said to go deep enough to stop the tunnels that Hamas loves to dig. There is also a barrier that extends into the sea at its northern end. The whole system is rich in various kinds of sensors, radar, cameras, and even remotely controlled weapons. The IDF reports that numerous tunnels were discovered and destroyed during the construction of the underground barrier. The system took three and half years to build at a cost of 3.5 billion shekels, or more than US$ 1.1 billion. That is a lot of money that could be used for many other purposes, but given the situation it was necessary. There is nothing quite as frightening for civilians living near Gaza or on the northern border near Lebanon than the prospect of a terror tunnel opening up a few meters from their homes. In some cases, residents heard sounds of digging and voices speaking Arabic before a tunnel was discovered. Hamas had plans to kidnap civilians and execute...Read More |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a Holocaust film from 2008, is one I'd never seen before. I didn't really want to watch it. I've seen enough Holocaust movies to last a lifetime, if you'll excuse the inappropriate idiom. But like vegetables you eat for your health and not your palate, I figured I was due for a serving. Anyway, it's not like one can really shy away from learning about and remembering the Holocaust. Or maybe you can, if you are a non-Jew. You can just choose to stick your head in historical sand and live your life blind to the implications of so many millions of Jews hunted down, herded into gas chambers, and incinerated into ash. But not only non-Jews become ostriches when faced with the catastrophe that is the Holocaust. Jews worldwide say, "Never again," and then do very little when actually faced with a huge spike in antisemitic incidents and attacks as is currently the case. For this reason alone, the rest of us are tasked with the heavy responsibility of refreshing our collective memories, and continuing to educate ourselves on this subject. This work will never be over. Watching The Boy in Striped Pajamas is a part of this work, only because it teaches a lie. Which is why it is unsurprising that The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is on Netflix. After all, Michelle and Barak "randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli" Obama, are...Read More |
AP has an article about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan chiding Israel by saying that it should show more "sensitivity" towards Palestinians, by - for example - not letting Jews pray in their holiest place. A few paragraphs down, it mentions:
Israel, for its part, is upset by Erdogan's warm relations with Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip. Israel considers Hamas a terror group. The implication is that only Israel considers Hamas a terror group. However, much of the free world considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization. Canada, the European Union, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States all agree with Israel that Hamas is a terror group, and Australia, New Zealand and Paraguay have designated its Al Qassam Brigades only as a terrorist organization. Why would AP imply that it is only Israel that makes this designation? There is really no way to look at this and not conclude that AP wants to downplay Hamas terrorism and subtly make Israel look paranoid for calling out Hamas for what it is. And when a major wire service shills for Hamas, that should set off alarm bells for everyone. (h/t Arnold) * * * * * *
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From Ian: New GOP Taylor Force Bill Targets Palestinian 'Martyr Payments' Routed Through US Financial System A group of Republican senators led by Tom Cotton on Monday introduced a bill that would allow the US government to sanction foreign banks using the American financial system to facilitate so-called "martyr payments" to families of Palestinian terrorists. "Radical Islamic terrorists shouldn't be rewarded for killing innocent people, and banks should be held responsible for processing any sort of 'martyr payments,' Cotton stated at a press conference Monday introducing the new bill. The bill, named the "Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act of 2021," seeks to ensure "Palestinian terrorists don't benefit financially for committing these senseless murders," Cotton added. The legislation builds on the Taylor Force Act, which was passed with bipartisan support in 2018 to restrict non-humanitarian US aid to the Palestinian Authority if it continues to make payments to security prisoners and their families. The Act was named in memory of a former American army officer stabbed to death in 2016 by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv. "The legislation has made a difference, but our work is not yet finished. Reporting has revealed that foreign banks in the Middle East in the Mediterranean, continue to process the so-called...Read More |
An op-ed in Kuwait's Al Rai Media by columnist Sultan Ibrahim Khalaf starts off with: Zionists are inherently prone to be blackmailers. Perhaps the famous play "The Merchant of Venice," written by Shakespeare, gives the best examples of this bad quality that was represented by the Jewish merchant Shylock in the play. This characteristic still accompanies the Zionists in their relations with the countries of the world. Yes, Shylock is the ultimate blackmailing Zionist. Khalaf goes on to use Israel's dispute with Poland over Holocaust restitutions as proof of the "Zionist" blackmailing nature, and then he says, "The accusation of anti-Semitism is used by the Zionists at any time and for any reason." "Zionists" are genetically disposed to be blackmailers as is proven from a piece of antisemitic fiction. Even worse, they falsely accuse righteous people like this author of antisemitism! * * * * * *
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Every week, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency publishes an unintentionally funny list of articles in the Israeli media that they claim show Israeli "racism and incitement." Practically none of their examples ever show actual incitement or racism.
Examples from this week's edition include an article that quoted a Jew who lives in Judea and Samaria who says that there is a 50% chance of him being hit by a stone when he passes by the Al Lubban school. Another article in Israel Hayom called for a law against teaching terrorism in schools, in the wake of an Arab teacher murdering a Jew in Jerusalem and the discovery that he taught his students to hate Jews. Perhaps the craziest example of "racism and incitement" was a TV report from Kan that described the recent unearthing of a building in Yavne from the era of the Sanhedrin immediately after the destruction of the Temple. The story showed evidence that Jews lived in the building. To Palestinians, anything that proves that Jews lived in Israel before the 20th century is clearly incitement against them, because it shows that Jews were there before Arabs. Therefore, it is "racist." * * * * * *
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