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Monday, April 07, 2025

04/07 Links Pt2: Passover and Antisemitism: Three Chilling Insights; Sudan’s ‘forgotten war’ exposes the inhumanity of Israelophobia; Melanie Phillips: Home truths for secularists

From Ian: ‘My tidal wave of monstrous fury’: Simon Schama on tonight’s Holocaust documentary There is a moment when Sir Simon Schama looks straight at the camera in his latest documentary – the first to take him to Auschwitz – and it is one of the rawest things ever seen on television. Having come face to face with the horror of what antisemitism can lead to, he cannot hold...

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Addicted to the Drug of Hamas Propaganda This was not a foreign-policy speech to some think tank; it was Khan’s message to the Muslims of Britain on a religious holiday. His words were chosen very carefully and the intent—to stoke the flames of sectarian resentment in a country already feeling their heat—was transparent. It’s not as if Khan doesn’t...

The New York Police Department has gotten better at updating their hate crimes dashboard. Here is a chart showing all the hate incidents reported by category for the first quarter this year.What is it going to take for people to see that there is a real problem here - far worse than anti-Asian crimes, far worse than anti-Muslim crimes, far worse than anti-Black crimes, 50%...

If you thought coming up with those eleven principles of universal personal ethics based on Jewish concepts last chapter was audacious, well, buckle your seatbelts. This chapter argues that Jewish tradition doesn’t just offer personal ethics—it provides a robust system for national conduct. It is not enough to have a set of moral ideas for people. Jewish philosophy...

When China’s Ambassador Zhang Jun called Palestinian armed struggle an ‘inalienable right’ in 2024, it was a gift to pseudo-scholars like Richard Falk, who’ve spent years twisting international law to bless terrorism.From Countercurrents:On February 22, 2024, China’s Ambassador to The Hague, Zhang Jun, uttered the unexpected. “Palestinian people’s use of force to resist...

It happens every year before Passover. A couple of Temple Mount groups say they want to offer a korban Pesach sacrifice on the site, Arab media freaks out, it never happens, then the Islamists congratulate themselves on how they managed to stop it with their solidarity.Qudspress reports:The so-called "Temple Groups" called on settlers to begin attempts to slaughter Passover...

04/06 Links: Hamas demanded $500m from Iran for destruction of Israel; John Lydon: 'Hamas are basically just Jew exterminators, that’s their only real purpose'

From Ian: Jake Wallis Simons: It is now far past time to stop paying attention to the lies of Hamas A year ago, I wrote about "the devastating proof that Hamas is faking its death figures." Last week, it emerged that Hamas had quietly dropped 3,400 "identified" deaths from its casualty figures, including 1,080 children. These deaths never happened, but they had been verified...

In the past couple of years, there has been a spate of articles in the media painting a grim picture on Christians in Israel, making it sound like most of them are experiencing discrimination and attacks like being spit upon by Jews.A new survey of Israel's Christians shows that in at least some ways, Christians in Israel are more comfortable than Jews - in America.The Rossing...

We mentioned an irony of how so many antisemites project their own ambitions of world domination onto Jews. Jews don't want to control the world. (It sounds exhausting!) Judaism is one of the few religions that do not recruit more members. But Jews do want to influence the world. God in Isaiah calls Israel "a light unto nations" and that is part of the Jewish ethos. ...

Middle East Eye reports:Several prominent Muslim scholars have issued a rare religious decree or "fatwa", calling on all Muslims and Muslim-majority countries to wage "jihad" against Israel after 17 months of devastating war against Palestinians residing in the besieged enclave.Ali al-Qaradaghi, the secretary general of the International Union Of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an...

04/05 Links: The lies behind the Gaza casualty figures; BBC Arabic journalist describes Jews as ‘devils,’ defended Oct. 7 during massacre; The Al Aqsa-fication Of Federal Research Grants

From Ian: NYPost Editorial: Pray Israel’s new war plan crushes Hamas, frees the hostages — and ends the war Gazans are taking to the streets, rightly blaming Hamas and calling for its ouster, along with the release of hostages and an end to the war. Plus, Israel is dealing with a far more supportive White House. President Donald Trump himself has called for the evacuation...