| Black diversity director who was fired had created an incredible Jewish Heritage Month for her college noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Apr 04:45 AM | | Tabia Lee was the Director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, CA, and was recently fired from that position because she didn't adhere to the standard DEI orthodoxy. She describes her experiences in Compact: What made me persona non grata? On paper, I was a good fit for the job. I am a black woman with decades of experience teaching in public schools and leading workshops on diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism. At the Los Angeles Unified School District, I established a network to help minority teachers attain National Board Certification. I designed and facilitated numerous teacher trainings and developed a civic-education program that garnered accolades from the LAUSD Board of Education. My crime at De Anza was running afoul of the tenets of critical social justice, a worldview that understands knowledge as relative and tied to unequal identity-based power dynamics that must be exposed and dismantled. This, I came to recognize, was the unofficial but strictly enforced ideological orthodoxy of De Anza—as it is at many other educational institutions. On section of her essay is relevant for this site: The conflicts were not limited to my tenure-review process. At every...Read More |
From Ian: Big business: the monetization of antisemitism In a 2020 report, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a British non-profit organization with offices in London and Washington, DC, found that "Facebook and Instagram [were] hosting dozens of accounts that sell neo-Nazi merchandise to fund far-right extremism." Both social media behemoths are owned by Meta Platforms and the organization accused "tech giants" of providing purveyors of hate with "a platform to reach mainstream audiences and generate funding." Similarly, Cooper warned in December 2022 that "the monetizing of antisemitism" was one of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's greatest concerns regarding the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment. "We have to fight very hard to make sure [monetization] doesn't become mainstream, so that someone's going to get on a United Airlines flight wearing the swastika and say what's wrong with that?" he said at the time. "The sale of goods with antisemitic messaging and Nazi memorabilia is an issue of deep concern for Jewish communities," European Jewish Congress Executive Vice-President & CEO Raya Kalenova tells The Media Line, calling it a "rising and lucrative phenomenon" with uneven responses that need to be regulated more tightly across countries and retail organizations. "In some EU member states like Germany, Austria and France, it is illegal to sell Nazi 'collectibles'," she says. "In some other countries...Read More |
From Ian: We must keep the memory of the Holocaust alive THESE DANCING, Bavarian coopers receive applause from the delighted crowd. I stare at the figurines. No longer are they 16th-century coopers but 20th-century hassidim, pious Eastern European Jews who are dancing and singing themselves into ecstasy to come closer to God. The sound of the chimes starts to warp into a distant rumbling that seems to be coming closer. I hear the staccato of machine gun fire. Its volume increases with each chime. I hear the cries of the dancing Jews as they fall into the pits they have dug with their own hands. I see my distant relatives in Pinsk being shot by the drunken officers of the mobile killing units, the Einstazgruppen, in July 1941. I hear the machine gun fire, the screams and the sobbing of one million victims of the four Einsatzgruppen. The chiming continues as the coopers dance and the screams continue as old photographs I have seen return from memory: Jews, young and old, being led to their execution in Ponary, the ninth Fort, Babyn Yar and Lvov, as SS men laugh as the victims attempt to cover their nakedness. I hear the screams of Jews in Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec and Chelmno and the cries of terror from death by gas. The screams and the chimes of the Glockenspiel fuse – they are one. A feeling of shame passes over me: my own vague nightmare seems to belittle the suffering of one million Jewish children, five...Read More |
From i24 News: More than 20 guests from different Arab Gulf and African countries arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a historic visit to Jerusalem, where they will discuss a range of issues that pertain to regional links with the Jewish state. Among these guests, some of whom were from countries with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations, were representatives of think tanks, institutes of applied diplomacy, and journalists, Ynetnews reported. They participated in a three-day conference, initiated by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, focused on Israel's relations with the countries of Africa and the Gulf region. Representatives of Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Djibouti, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Sudan - states that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel - were among those at the forum, as well as envoys from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, and Uganda. To have delegates from Tunisia and Saudi Arabia is not a small thing...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: America's outrageous attack on Netanyahu's right to govern Whatever one thinks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, any true Israeli patriot will surely react viscerally to U.S. President Joe Biden's outrageous attack on Israel's right to govern itself without foreign interference. On Monday, Netanyahu announced he was suspending his coalition's judicial reform legislation in order to negotiate a compromise with the opposition. The next day, Biden told Netanyahu to "walk away" from the legislation, saying he was "very concerned" about the health of Israeli democracy. Warning that Israel "cannot continue down this road," he added for good measure that he wouldn't be inviting Netanyahu to the White House "in the near term." It is deeply disturbing that the U.S. should brazenly and insultingly interfere in the internal affairs of another country and tell its prime minister how to behave. Biden was supposedly speaking as Israel's friend, but he sounded like a colonial administrator barking at the natives to fall into line. While Likud politicians hit the roof, left-wing and centrist politicians and commentators got behind Biden and kicked Netanyahu even more viciously in the head. After three months of mass protests, incitement to hysteria and ludicrous hyperbole about the end of democracy that have caused Israel untold social, financial...Read More |
By Daled Amos Among the casualties of the demonstrations in Israel opposing the judicial reforms is the relationship between Israel and the US, between Netanyahu and Biden. But just how much of the current tension is recent? Politico already reported back in December that the Biden administration was looking for a fight with Netanyahu: The Biden administration will hold the presumptive Israeli prime minister personally responsible for the actions of his more extreme cabinet members, especially if they lead to policies that endanger a future Palestinian state, two U.S. officials familiar with the issue told POLITICO. What was overlooked then, and overlooked (or ignored) now during the protests, is that Netanyahu had the backing of a majority of Israelis. Is the White House was just looking for an excuse to destabilize the Israeli government? Is it surprising that Biden went out of his way to announce that there were no plans to invite Netanyahu to the US in the near future? Netanyahu had already agreed to suspend the push for the reforms for the time being, yet on Tuesday, Biden was still discussing the issue in public and saying that Bibi should drop the reforms altogether...Read More |
Artificial intelligence is advancing at a breakneck pace, and Pallywood is about to enter a golden age. For years, we've seen anti-Israel activists post photos that have been manipulated, photos that have been staged, falsely captioning real photos to give a fake narrative, real photos from elsewhere in the world using false captions, gruesome scenes from videogames and movies that they claimed were of Palestinians killed by the IDF, and staged videos passed off as real.
The fake photos and videos are distributed worldwide at Internet speed. The vast majority of their intended audience do not even consider that they are being duped, and even the fastest fact checker and debunkers do not have nearly the reach that the Israel haters do.
In short, Pallywood works.
But as bad as it is now, it is going to get a whole lot worse.
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