Francesca Albanese @franceskalbs declares Israeli real estate investments in...
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, has apparently found a new form of Israeli apartheid: real estate investments in Europe.On October 12, she shared an AJ+...
View Article10/13 Links Pt2: One year ago today, the last 20 living hostages finally came...
From Ian: Deborah Lipstadt: ‘It begins with words’ – the dangers of Holocaust denialThe historian and former US antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt spoke about the power and danger of words at an event...
View Article10/13 Links Pt1: The Palestinians have played the West for fools, and here’s...
From Ian: Nicole Lampert: The Palestinians have played the West for fools, and here’s the awful proofThese countries insisted they believed – naively? stupidly? wishfully? – that, when Abbas said he...
View ArticleThe Chabad Rabbi Advocating a Jewish State in 1872
While looking at yet another stupid anti-Israel academic paper, I saw that the Romanian writer was upset over an anti-Romanian quote from a 19th century Jew who railed against Romanian persecution of...
View Article10/12 Links Pt2: Brendan O'Neill: The bourgeois war of annihilation against...
From Ian: Brendan O'Neill: The bourgeois war of annihilation against IsraelIf Zohran Mamdani had a functioning moral compass, Wednesday would have been the wake-up call of this life. There he was in...
View Article10/12 Links Pt1: Herzog calls out Nobel Peace Price winner Pillay; Teen...
From Ian: Amit Segal: Israel has two years left to act. After that, it will be too lateOn Jan. 20, 2029, in the early evening, a new occupant will sit down in the Oval Office at the White House. In...
View ArticleBook review: "Excuse Me, Is This Yours?" by Tuvia Tenenbom
A few weeks ago I wrote on my Substack about how the world seems to prefer to admire the emperor's new clothes than admit that the child who speaks the truth is right.No one does as good a job at...
View Article10/11 Links: Israel Is Clear-Eyed, Not Traumatized by Oct. 7; The lone wolf...
From Ian: Israel Is Clear-Eyed, Not Traumatized by Oct. 7The third anniversary of Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel was filled with agonizing and loving remembrances of the many civilians slain by Hamas...
View ArticleIf Jews are really Khazars, why do Islamic prophecies about Jews apply to them?
Many Palestinians insist that today's Jews, especially Ashkenazim, are not descended from the biblical Israelites at all. They are supposedly Khazars, descendants of medieval converts to Judaism with...
View Article10/10 Links: Bret Stephens: Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Obscenity; The Nobel Peace...
From Ian: Bret Stephens: Zohran Mamdani’s Moral ObscenityZohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor, set off a firestorm of criticism Wednesday morning with a social media post ostensibly intended to...
View Article10/09 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,...
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