Anti-Semitism
December 2, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
As Steve notes, in its survey of college woes, the Chronicle of Higher Education flags “alleged campus antisemitism.” Their readers might check out the University of California at Davis, just down the road from Sacramento. As the California Globe reports, UC Davis is one of the most anti-Semitic schools in the country, beating out Columbia, “the lodestar of pro-Hamas protests” and UCLA, where earlier this year “Hamasniks blocked Jewish student access
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November 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In January 1933 the Oxford Union voted 275-153 to approve the motion: “That this House refuses in any circumstances to fight for King and Country.” The proposition became known as the Oxford oath. Winston Churchill was not amused. While others counseled that it be dismissed as youthful folly, he declined to ignore the proceedings at Oxford. Rather, he declared it “a very disquieting and disgusting symptom” and proceeded to explain
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November 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Jewish Insider reports on the events in Amsterdam last night in “Israeli soccer fans attacked by assailants in Amsterdam.” The Times of Israel has its own story here. The Jerusalem Post reports that previously missing Israelis have now been accounted for and provides relevant background based on a “highly classified report from Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism, written in May 2024.” These do not appear to be
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November 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Barack Obama has entered from stage left to instruct American Jews to return to the Democratic fold in their usual numbers. The video below captures him in Milwaukee this weekend retailing the “very fine people” lie. The high-handed arrogance of this riff is incredible. "If you’re a Jewish American worried about the rise of antisemitism,why would you place your faith in somebody who sat down for pleasantries with Holocaust deniers,
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November 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has released a report titled “Antisemitism On College Campuses Exposed.” At 122 pages, plus a much longer appendix, I haven’t had time to read it all. I want to call attention to one section of the report that describes the reaction of some educators and politicians to the scrutiny that universities received in the wake of widespread anti-Semitic activity on their campuses.
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October 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Trump campaign has released the video of Holocaust survivor Jerry Wartski below. Wartski met Trump in Brooklyn at the Ohel of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. They prayed for the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza. Wartski rejects the “Trump Is Hitler” theme that the Harris campaign is currently peddling in its quest to defeat President Trump. The New York Post has background on the video here, the
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October 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
So Kamala Harris’s last, desperate ploy is to go full Hitler. There is nothing surprising about this; as we and many others have said, repeatedly, the Democrats have called every prominent Republican since Thomas Dewey another Hitler. Abraham Lincoln obviously predated Adolf, but the Democrats’ attacks on him as a would-be dictator, a threat to the fundamental human right to own slaves, was a precursor. Comparing any American political faction
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October 21, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Jon Levine has the New York Post story: “Kamala Harris publicly agrees with protestor accusing Israel of genocide: ‘What he’s talking about, it’s real.’” What she’s talking about — it’s unreal. The imputation of genocide to Israel is an Orwellian phenomenon. Israel has taken many excruciating losses because of the IDF’s concern for innocent civilian life. WATCH — Vice President Harris in response to a heckler screaming that Israel is
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October 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Wall Street Journal has posted the video of Michael Pack’s unfortunately timely documentary Get the Jew. Lloyd Billinsgley wrote about it here. The Journal explains in the paragraph that accompanies the video as posted at YouTube: This 20 minute documentary sheds light on the worst antisemitic riot in American history, which occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991. Triggered by a Hasidic man running a red light and accidentally
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October 12, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Get the Jew is the title of Michael Pack’s new film about the Crown Heights riot in 1991, portrayed as the worst anti-Semitic race riot in American history. Here viewers meet Leonard Jeffries of the department of “black studies” at the City University of New York, who charged that Jews ran the slave trade and whites were an inferior breed of “ice people.” The mainstreaming of this racist dogma is the
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October 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Jews begin the observance of Yom Kippur at sundown tonight with the Kol Nidre prayer service. Ten years ago our friend Rachel Paulose asked to join us at our service. Since then she has regularly attended the service with us and joined my family when we break our fast, as she is doing again this year. The first time around at services with us she pointed in our prayer book
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October 9, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Naomi Klein, climate-justice professor at the University of British Columbia, is the author of “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war,” a 6000-plus-word essay in the October 5 Guardian. Back in 1990 in The Varsity, a University of Toronto publication, Klein authored “Victim to Victimizer,” subtitled “What Israel has become: Racism and misogyny at the core of its being.” As the author explains: When I speak out on
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October 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Below Steve takes up the incredible story of the roiling of CBS News by a morning host’s treatment of Ta-Nehisi Coates as an adult writer rather than the author of holy writ. Coates was peddling his new book attacking the existence of Israel. Having read his old book — Between the World and Me, published in 2015 and celebrated as a masterpiece wherever the left holds sway — I was
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October 8, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped to mark the passing of one year since Hamas’s surprise and bloody attacks last 7 October. That is from “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war,” an October 5 Guardian essay by Naomi Klein, “professor of climate justice
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October 7, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Today is a good day to bring to bring to mind George Washington’s famous letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island in 1790, replying to their letter of congratulations to the first American president. They key paragraph from the middle of Washington’s reply: The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal
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October 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Our friends at Tikvah deem this the most consequential year in modern Jewish history. They refer, of course, to the invasion of Israel by Hamas this past October 7 and the related events since then. Well, since then…as has frequently been noted by the Israelis, they have been fighting a war on seven fronts. On every front the intention of Israel’s enemies is to wipe it off the map. They
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October 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Hamas’s massacre of well over 1,000 Israeli Jews on October 7, 2023. That is the purpose for which Hamas exists, and the massacre was celebrated by the overwhelming majority of Gazans as it was taking place. That the massacre included the burning of babies alive and the gang rape of Jewish women only increased the Gazans’ enthusiasm. Anti-Semites around the globe immediately joined in, protesting
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