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Friday, April 04, 2025

04/04 Links Pt2: How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?; Antisemitism among Irish Christians at ‘Medieval’ levels; Orange butterfly renamed in honour of Ariel Bibas

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Princeton Honors Official Involved in Altercation with Jewish Student After viewing the parts of the Piegaro incident that were captured on video, it isn’t surprising the court ruled in his favor. Strother and two other men—according to testimony, the men were faculty advisors helping the pro-Palestinian demonstrators—are seen walking up the steps to...

From Ian: John Spencer: Why the US is striking the Houthis in Yemen On Oct. 31, 2023, the Houthis fired a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel. One of those missiles was intercepted just miles from Eilat, a southern Israeli port city. More disturbingly, U.S. officials confirmed that a Houthi-launched drone that same week passed over the Red Sea and came dangerously...

Salo Aizenberg reported this week that he compared the newest Hamas health ministry list of Gaza casualties with older one - and found that thousands of names from the older lists, including many children disappeared.At least 3,400 previously reported deaths that had been claimed as "identified" and verified, including more than 1,000 children Hamas had claimed were...

(This is the latest chapter in my series on a unified theory for antisemitism, and it is turning into so much more than that. I am truly excited about where this is going. )___________________Most of us don't actively think about our ethical framework. We absorb it by osmosis from our parents, our teachers, our friends, media and online. By the time we enter college, most...

Here's another case where the media does the minimum possible to adhere to journalistic ethics while subtly allowing its own editorializing to dominate a news story.The New York Times says that the renewed attacks on Houthi infrastructure and leaders are just so darned expensive:U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited SuccessIn just three weeks, the Pentagon...

Israel Hayom reports:The IDF eliminated a senior Hamas commander in Lebanon early Friday morning in a targeted airstrike on an apartment in the city of Sidon.Hassan Farhat, a commander in the terror organization, was killed alongside family members in the aerial strike. Farhat previously operated within Jamaat Islamiya, a group affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon...

04/03 Links Pt2: Seth Mandel: Rules for Jews; We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan; Six Lessons from the Holocaust According to Menachem Begin

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Rules for Jews Unlike most voters, American Jews apparently do not get to choose which policies or government actions they support based on political principles. There’s a list, you see, of Special Obligations. Jews must do this or that, because as Jews we have a special obligation to everyone except ourselves. This Law of Special Obligations is on...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The Gazan revolt People in the West refuse to accept the implacable nature of Palestinian Arab rejectionism, and the murderous hatred of Israel and the Jews. This is partly a refusal to face up to the reality of Islamic holy war. Partly, it’s due to widespread ignorance of the Middle East, Jewish history in the land and the spurious nature of...

The antisemitic play "Seven Jewish Children" by Caryl Churchill has been turned into a movie.When it first came out, I wrote a response in a similar fashion. So now is a good time to revisit the original play with all its deceptions and innuendoes, and my response that happens to be accurate.First, Seven Jewish Children:SEVEN JEWISH CHILDRENa play for GazaCaryl ChurchillNo...