10/16 Links Pt1: Netanyahu to Obama: ‘Our land isn’t stolen,’; Bret Stephens:...
From Ian: Bret Stephens: Going Back to To Jerusalem and BackCurrent events books tend to age poorly. Controversies fade. Trends that seem unstoppable in one decade are unexpectedly reversed in the...
View ArticleFrancesca Albanese has a Katie Zacharia problem: she also lied about being a...
The media have spent the past several days investigating new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia's legal credentials. She admitted that she failed the California bar exam, even though she has...
View Article10/15 Links Pt2: Obama’s Grudge; It’s Time to Wake from Woke; The Democrats...
From Ian: Gil Troy: It’s Time to Wake from WokePainfully divided and ideologically adrift, American Jewry has become a case study of weakness at a time when the Jewish people need to display strength...
View Article10/15 Links Pt1: Why Hamas Cheered Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize;...
From Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: Europe Risks an Economic War over Israel and the ICCLast month the Netherlands and the UK both announced bans on business activities with what they described as Israeli...
View ArticleTalmud Silent On Two People Calling Shotgun At Same Time (PreOccupied Territory)
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook and Substack pages.Lakewood, NJ, October 15 - Scholars pored over ancient, medieval, and modern texts this week to...
View ArticleDutch researchers claim the media is biased toward Israel. Their own study...
A new Dutch study claims that the country's major news outlets have systematically favored Israel in their reporting on the Gaza war. The researchers analyzed more than 17,000 articles published...
View Article10/14 Links Pt2: This Is Not the London I Grew Up In; Dublin hotel cancels 70...
From Ian: This Is Not the London I Grew Up InI grew up with London’s history of resilience in the face of war and terrorism. Now a giant statue of a man convicted of five murders has appeared above a...
View Article10/14 Links Pt1: UN Commission Member Chris Challenged on Gaza Genocide...
From Ian: Joseph Lemkin: My relative defined ‘genocide,’ honoring him means scrutinizing Pillay’s Israel findingsOur history also makes us alert to the danger of collective blame. An accusation against...
View ArticleFrancesca 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”...
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