| Not only NYC: anti-Jewish hate crimes skyrocket in Chicago, but down in LAnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Oct 04:45 AM Chicago released its hate c | | Chicago released its hate crime statistics for the year so far. Through Oct. 18, 77 hate crimes had been reported to the [Chicago's Commission on Human Relations,] a 71% increase from the 45 reported to the commission through the same period last year. The most frequent targets were Jews (18). Black people were the target 16 times, while in 12 cases white people reported being targeted. After that the reported targets were members of the LGBTQ community (8, not including one crime specifically noted as anti-lesbian); Asian (5); biracial (5); Arab (3); Catholic (1). Those numbers reflect only hate crimes reported to the commission; the Chicago Police Department received reports of 120 hate crimes during the same period. The Chicago Police hate crimes dashboard shows things a bit differently. And the most frightening part is the increase of anti-Jewish hate crimes in Chicago. (The beige line is anti-Jewish crimes.) Between 2021 and (partial) 2022, anti-Black crimes went from 22 to 27; anti-gay plummeted from 27 to 11, but anti-Jewish hate crimes skyrocketed from 8 to 25 - and there are still two months to go. While hate crimes against Blacks and Jews are very similar in Chicago, in New York there is no contest - Jews "win" by far in every quarter...Read More |
From Ian: An Inconvenient Truth: The Jewish People Never Left the Land of Israel I just finished reading former US Ambassador David Friedman's recent article, in which he makes the point that Judaism and Zionism are inseparable. It is a fine article and I agree with him, but I wonder if it places too much emphasis on the return of the Jewish people to their homeland after a lengthy absence. I have the same concern with an upbeat review of Israel's achievements in a recent article by David Weinberg, which refers to two millennia of Jewish dispersion. To imply that the Jews left the Land of Israel for 2,000 years, after the fall of Masada, is not accurate. It feeds into the view that the modern state of Israel is a European colonial enterprise with no historical connection to the land. What's more, the Jewish return did not originate with the modern Zionist movement in the early 1880s. Aliyah has been continuous throughout the ages. The Jewish people never really left the Holy Land. Certainly, many were killed or expelled at the time of Masada and later, but many Jews continued to live in "Palestine" (the name given by the Romans after the Bar Kochba revolt, 132-135 CE) for a considerable time afterward. The evidence is clear from the extensive archeological sites visible today, such as those at Beit Alpha, Beit She'arim, Tzippori (Sepphoris), Baram, and...Read More |
Some recent EoZ memes
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 24 Oct 03:00 PM Things I tweeted over the past couple of months that were not posted here (to my recollection.) * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
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Egypt's El Balad and Jordan's Ammon News describe an Israeli TV report that some 12,000 Israelis visited Jordan during the Jewish holidays over the past month, as many Israelis felt that it was less expensive than going overseas. Most of these visitors went to Aqaba as a cheaper alternative to Eilat.
That's a fairly significant number of visitors, and Jordan's tourism sector no doubt benefited a great deal.
But when the TV station wanted to interview a representative of Jordan's Ministry of Tourism, a fairly innocuous request to get some generic quotes, the Jordanian government didn't grant the request.
How childish can they be? They are afraid of being seen, or quoted, on TV along with Israelis in any context. They'll take money from Israeli "settlers" (as the articles described all the tourists) but they won't deign to speak to Israeli TV.
Do they think they are going to destroy Israel through microaggressions? Because that sometimes seems to be the prevailing mentality.
The microaggressions don't end there.
Both articles headline the fact that Jordan refused to speak to the Israeli news crew, even as they eagerly covered what the news channel had to say about Jordan. They seem to want to give the impression to their readers that they are so strong and mighty that they can refuse a request from the all-powerful Jews.
It's sort of pathetic.
The news producers didn't lose...Read More |
From Ian: Ben-Dror Yemini: UN report on human rights in West Bank and Gaza serves only terror supporters How can Pillay, Kothari and Sidoti be appointed to a committee scrutinizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Well, everything is possible when it comes to Israel. The report's findings correspond well with the views of the three. Gaza, the report reads, is under occupation. The reason? The closure in the border crossings between Gaza and Israel. Since the committee is working under the UN, the report could have mentioned the offer the UN itself presented to Gaza leaders - open borders in return for adherence to international rules of conduct. Other offers could've also been mentioned, like that of the EU, which offered Hamas a reconstruction of Gaza in exchange for demilitarization. Hamas rejected every one of them. This is the reason the so-called blockade has still not been lifted. The report has no mention of this, it doesn't need to because it wants to draw a target on Israel. Hamas, which is undoubtedly happy with the report, is not even mentioned in it. Other words not mentioned in the report include: "Jihad," "terror" and "rockets". The committee's information sources include many radical Israeli far-left organization and outlets, such "B'Tselem" - mentioned 17 times, "Peace Now" - 12 times, and "Haaretz" - 10 times. Occupation is the report's focal point, and it is becoming permanent, the authors claim...Read More |
Today is National Day of Palestinian Women.
The theme of the day was to pressure Israel to release terrorists from prison. The participants in supportive vigils for prisoners organized by the Ministry of Women's Affairs in coordination with the governorates, on the occasion of the National Day of Palestinian Women, today, Monday, stressed the need to form a fact-finding committee to study the situation of male and female prisoners and discuss it with the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, and to facilitate and facilitate regular and regular family visits for female and male prisoners. For its part, the Ministry of Women's Affairs called, in a press release, on the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, to put pressure on the Israeli occupation, the occupying power, to end the file of administrative detention and to abolish the policy of solitary confinement and stop its use against Palestinians. What does that have to do with women? Not much, but they tried to shoe-horn it in, by mentioning female prisoners (a whopping seven prisoners are mothers, out of 30 total) and that Palestinian women are suffering when their husbands or sons are in prison. Nablus Governor Ibrahim Ramadan said, "The wounded, the martyr, and the captive represent the homeland. Without them, there is no homeland. We support their mothers who shed tears for their children...Read More |
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The ADL is planning its annual "Never is Now" conference on antisemitism to be held on November 10 in New York City.
It features an impressive array of experts, politicians, media personalities and others who will be speaking on various aspects of antisemitism.
There's only one problem: None of them have a good definition of antisemitism to begin with.
The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism is not a definition. It is a very vague guideline whose main advantage is that it is better than nothing. When a new controversy erupts about some famous person like Donald Trump, Rashida Tlaib or Kanye West saying or doing something, the narrative about whether it is antisemitic or not almost never refers to the IHRA Working Definition - because that definition is nearly useless in making such determinations.
I have created my own definition that does not have the shortcomings of the IHRA definition. I describe it in the paper below, slightly modified from a paper I submitted to ISGAP for publication. (I previously excerpted from this paper.)
The ADL's webpage on the IHRA definition says, "The IHRA...Read More |
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