10/09 Links Pt2: An Abusable Past; Mamdani spit on the graves of October 7...
From Ian: Allan Arkush: An Abusable PastAnti-Zionism has been around almost as long as Zionism and has a respectable Jewish pedigree. When Zionists deny this and decry today’s Jewish anti-Zionists as...
View Article10/09 Links Pt1: Natan Sharansky: Is the Whole World Wrong?; October 8: The...
From Ian: Natan Sharansky: Is the Whole World Wrong?This morning the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that it has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to South African judge Navanethem “Navi”...
View ArticleThe Anti-Zionist Master's Thesis That Says It Doesn't Need to Prove Its Thesis
There is a peculiar epistemic move at the center of the claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Genocide is one of the gravest accusations imaginable, so ordinarily it should require an...
View Article10/08 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: The Jewish fifth columnist; David Collier:...
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The Jewish fifth columnistsThis movement has made a fetish of these Jewish fifth columnists. They include politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); talking heads like...
View Article10/08 Links Pt1: Andrew Roberts: I documented the crimes of October 7. Too...
From Ian: Andrew Roberts: I documented the crimes of October 7. Too many still believe the lies of HamasAs the Red Army closed in on Auschwitz, the Nazis blew up the crematoria to hide the atrocities...
View ArticleFecal Bacteria Insulted By People Using Election Flyers To Wipe (PreOccupied...
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook and Substack pages.Jerusalem, October 8 - The microorganisms prevalent in human excrement begged Israelis today to...
View ArticleThe amazing hypocrisy of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, BRISMES, spent years warning that vague political standards, investigations of academics’ speech, and institutional pressure over controversial opinions...
View Article10/07 Links Pt2: Who still fights the war on terror?; Simon Sebag Montefiore:...
From Ian: Clifford D. May: Who still fights the war on terror?Addressing Congress nine days after Sept. 11, President George W. Bush declared: “Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not...
View Article10/07 Links Pt1: How will we remember October 7?; In Israel, even fear and...
From Ian: How will we remember October 7?Three years later and at times October 7 still feels like yesterday. For the victims and their families time has stood still, stuck in the moment of the last...
View ArticleSan Diego's Islamophobia Definition Could Make Criticizing Terrorism...
San Diego recently adopted an official definition of Islamophobia. Definitions are important, but they must be defensible.Here is the actual wording:"Islamophobia is a form of racism, prejudice,...
View Article10/06 Links Pt2: Three years since October 7: Why Zionism is more relevant...
From Ian: Jpost Editorial: Three years later, October 7 is still not in the past for IsraelisLife after October 7 is more about learning to live with what happened For much of the country, then, the...
View Article10/06 Links Pt1: Gaza: the most lied about war in history; Bret Stephens:...
From Ian: Howard Jacobson: The Big LieIn truth, to aficionados of the new, revisionist colonial history of Israel, Jews haven’t been the good guys for a long time. If the genocide is the icing on the...
View ArticleMy responses to The Muslim Question
In August, I published an anonymous essay called The Muslim Question. It asked provocative questions about how we should deal with the very real dangers of Islamism and political Islam. On my Substack,...
View ArticleThey're Right: It Didn't Start on October 7 2023. Arabs Attacked Jews on...
Israel-haters love to say that "it didn't start on October 7." But no matter how far back they go, there have been Arab attacks on Jews in the Middle East earlier than the other way around. In fact, if...
View Article10/05 Links Pt2: ‘An entire nation bows its head and mourns’: Israel marks...
From Ian: ‘An entire nation bows its head and mourns’: Israel marks memorial day for Oct. 7Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday opened the national day of remembrance for Oct. 7, 2023, by lowering...
View Article10/05 Links Pt1: Howard Jacobson: I am obsessed with the ignorance of the...
From Ian: Howard Jacobson: I am obsessed with the ignorance of the Jew-hatersI need a new hobby to take my mind off my obsession. The catch, of course, if you happen to have an obsessive personality,...
View ArticleIn 1909, Harvard's former president predicted "the religion of the future." A...
The Evening Star (Washington DC), October 8, 1909, published an article about Simchat Torah and also about a speech about religion given by a former Harvard president that was causing a stir.In 1909,...
View Article10/04 Links: Douglas Murray: Israel Is Winning; The Green Party is now an...
From Ian: Douglas Murray: Israel Is WinningThe attempted hijacking of a Flydubai plane en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv is a reminder that Israel and the West remain at war with Islamic radicals, and...
View Article10/02 Links Pt2: Holocaust education is not working in the fight against...
From Ian: Holocaust education is not working in the fight against contemporary antisemitismThis universalising impulse turns Jews into symbols, not people. It encourages students to see Jews only as...
View Article10/02 Links Pt1: The Morality of the Gaza War; Oman banned flydubai terrorist...
From Ian: The Morality of the Gaza WarThe most clearly legitimate reason for going to war, one that finds universal acceptance, is self-defense. That is a basic principle – perhaps the basic principle...
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