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 […]
Meanwhile Jordan Peterson, who went with Ben Shapiro to Israel to have a meeting with Netanyahu, is all in for Israel. Completely unbalanced. No mention of the blockade, the vicious occupation, ethnic cleansing, apartheid. Just another establishment figure no matter how much he rails against the WEF and says politically incorrect things about gender. See […]
The war in Israel-Gaza is likely to increase Jewish identification and commitment. In my battles with Nathan Cofnas he claims American Jews are not particularly ethnocentric based on intermarriage statistics. This is wrong for a number of reasons, but at times like this, Jewish consciousness and identity will surely rise. From the revision of CofC: […]
Recently there has been something of an uproar around an incident where Orthodox Jews spat at Christians in Jerusalem. This has been a complaint of the Christian community in Israel. First, the recent incidents. From AP: A video that shows ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting on the ground beside a procession of foreign Christian worshipers carrying a […]
