The expected rallying-around-the-flag response from Jews in a time of perceived danger. As they say, progressive except for Palestine. From today’s New York Times: “Progressive Jews who have spent years supporting racial equity, gay and transgender rights, abortion rights and other causes on the American left — including opposing Israeli policies in Gaza and the West […]
After Writing an Anti-Israel Letter, Harvard Students Are Doxxed A truck with a billboard displayed their names and photos, and critics put out do-not-hire lists. The students say it’s a campaign to shut them up. … But within days, students affiliated with those groups were being doxxed, their personal information posted online. Siblings back […]
Warning of ‘Grave’ Errors, Powerful Donors Push Universities on Hamas Wall Street financiers are pressing elite schools to condemn criticism of Israel. Amid pressure, the University of Pennsylvania on Sunday issued a statement referring to Hamas’s attack as terrorism. … Though some complaints — like that from Harvard’s former president, Larry Summers — were made […]
Emil Kirkegaard has posted on a natural experiment in Denmark with Palestinian refugees. Excerpt: With a war looming and probably lots of Palestinian refugee applications on the horizon, I thought it would be wise to summarize what we have so far about them. The horrors of war aside, how good immigrants are the Palestinians? Denmark […]
The vicious attack by the Palestinians in Gaza is certainly understandable given the apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and essentially establishing Gaza as an open-air prison where supplies allowed in are strictly limited to ensure an essentially starvation-level diet for Gazans. The Western media is replete with images of Jewish suffering and civilians who have been raped, […]
The only relevant fact is that some Jews are suffering. In the Tablet, by Ani Wilcenski and Isaac De Castro. In the past two days, Jews in the diaspora have experienced the horrors of a 1940s-style pogrom through our phones. We have been frantically refreshing Twitter and Israeli news, worrying that the next victim will be […]
Jonathan Cook on the historical blindness and hypocrisy of the Western media. All the current analysis focusing on Israel’s intelligence “blunders” distracts from the real lesson of these rapidly evolving events. No one really cared while Gaza’s Palestinans were subjected to a blockade imposed by Israel that denied them the essentials of life. The few dozen Israelis […]
