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05/28 Links Pt1: U.S.-Led Gaza Aid Efforts Are About Much More Than Food;...
From Ian: Seth Mandel: U.S.-Led Gaza Aid Efforts Are About Much More Than FoodThe concerted effort to undermine the new U.S.-administered Gaza aid program should force us to reconsider the funding and...
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05/28 Links Pt2: 600 days in the dark: Social media campaign highlights grim...
From Ian: Seth Mandel: On Holocaust EnvyHolocaust envy, then, is a demented inversion of the current conflict’s modern origin story, a way for some Palestinians to wipe the slate of guilt clean and...
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The UN criticism over Gaza aid proves that they knew Israel didn't occupy Gaza
The anger over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shows, as clearly as can be, the double standards applied to Israel.The Humanitarian Country Team yesterday said, "A new militarized distribution system...
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Ireland: "Oh, Israel ISN'T guilty of genocide? That's unacceptable!" (Cartoon)
Real life has overtaken parody a lot in recent years.Ireland wants an expansion of the definition of genocide to bring home the enormity of what Israel is doing in Gaza, the Taoiseach has told the...
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It's funny - the more Israel helps Gazans directly, the more upset the...
The Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distributed 1.6 million meals to Gazans - today alone.Its ramping up of providing aid from zero to this number in only three days is nothing short of...
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Trump Criticism Of Industry Full Of Jews Puts Anti-Trump Antisemites In Bind...
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook and Substack pages.Washington, May 29 - Jew-hating opponents of the sitting US President have found themselves...
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05/29 Links Pt1: The West’s lies about Israel are falling apart; UNICEF Has...
From Ian: Brendan O'Neill: The West’s lies about Israel are falling apartWill the media elites retract their defamations? Not likely. My guess is they’ll let this story fade. They’ll subtly memory-hole...
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05/29 Links Pt2: A Secular Jihadi Brings the Intifada to Washington;...
From Ian: Clifford D. May: A Secular Jihadi Brings the Intifada to Washington On May 21, a college-educated terrorist fatally shot Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, two young Israeli Embassy...
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A rare pro-Israel article in UK-based pan-Arab news site Elaph
This article, part 1 of what is intended to be a three part article, is quite remarkable in how pro-Israel and philosemitic it is. It was published in Elaph which is an independent, reformist UK-based...
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So far, GHF food distribution looks chaotic but Gazans like it better than...
After the first day where some problems were exaggerated or overemphasized, how has the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation done since then?On the one hand, Israel Hayom (Hebrew) reports that GHF is...
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Latest antisemitic conspiracy theory: Israel is encouraging Arab crime
+972 Magazine is going off the deep end, again:“Crime is a strategic project of the state, whose ultimate goal is ‘voluntary emigration’ of Palestinians,” [political activist Ameer] Makhoul argued....
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Jewish Ethics Breaks Every Universal Ethical Rule. That's a Good Thing.
Jewish particularism is often accused of being parochial or exclusionary. But in a world obsessed with universalism, maybe particularism is what we need most.Many thinkers have noted how Judaism is a...
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05/30 Links Pt1: Kemp: Ignore the Left-wing naysayers, Israel is winning this...
From Ian: Israel must not cower: Sovereignty for Judea, Samaria, and Gaza nowISRAEL’S RESPONSE must be one of resolve, not retreat. Rather than waiting to be boxed into a corner by foreign...
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05/30 Links Pt2: Phillips: Diaspora Jews under siege; The Anti-Israel Right...
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Diaspora Jews under siegeIt’s not what it actually is: a uniquely murderous and deranged creed that all people of conscience must oppose. Unbelievably, for the Western...
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05/31 Links: Where have all the Jews gone?; Iran secretly enriching enough...
From Ian: Where have all the Jews gone?Just as in the past, American Jews are moving away from urban cores – where violence and now anti-Semitism are more obvious. Historian Arthur Hertzberg estimated...
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Latest conspiracy theory: Israel is supporting Gaza aid looters
Reuters reports:On Saturday, aid groups said dozens of World Food Programme trucks carrying flour to Gaza bakeries had been hijacked by armed groups and subsequently looted by people desperate for food...
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The Gaza "starving children" meme, which only ACCELERATED since millions of...
The New York Times published a photo essay and article about supposedly starving Gazans, describing children there as "emaciated."According to the Gaza health ministry, the number of people who have...
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Community is the unspoken engine of morality (including Shavuot tie-in)
In my last post on the topic of Jewish ethics for the world, I discussed the importance of community in the context of extending “kiddush Hashem” to the world, and noted that community is a missing...
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06/01 Links: Fake News: CNN, BBC Ran Unverified Claims Israel Killed...
From Ian: John Spencer: No one should want ceasefire in Gaza until clear defeat of HamasWar is always tragic. But some wars are necessary. The just purpose of war is not vengeance—it is justice,...
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Chag sameach!
For those who celebrate, have a chag Shavuot kosher v'samech!I will not be back online until Tuesday night. Buy EoZ's books on Amazon!"He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December...
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06/03 Links: ‘Free Palestine’ Terrorism; Why Humanitarian Organizations hate...
From Ian: John Spencer and Arsen Ostrovsky: The US-Israel Gaza aid plan is working — which is why Hamas is spreading lies about itThe GHF threatens to dismantle that system by delivering directly to...
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Popular Kuwaiti news site denies the Holocaust
From Sultan Ibrahim Al-Khalaf, a columnist at Al Rai Media, which runs the most popular newspaper in Kuwait along with a major TV station:Western media has been able to distort the image of Nazi...
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Why Jewish Ethics Cannot Be Fitted Into Western Models (And Shouldn't Be)
Over Shavuot, I have been reading The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, an overview of the field. Since I have been coming to this project of universalizing Jewish ethics from outside the...
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CAIR uses Boulder attack as an excuse to attack Israel and Jews
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, issued a condemnation of the attack by a Muslim man on peaceful and elderly demonstrators in Boulder, CO on Sunday:This attack on the Run for Our Lives...
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The Jew Who Stays: With or Without the Missiles (Judean Rose)
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.It’s weird that a person can get used to missile sirens, but there it is. So I...
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