I got an email from the Messiah.

The email says so. The title is, “I am the Messiah.”

The Messiah has a website.

I am going to go there and report back to you (with much mockery) when I get time.

You may all feel jealous now that I got an email from the Messiah, and you did not.

He obviously likes me better than he likes you.

Google is the Internet’s card catalog.

Iran says if the U.S. attacks Iranian nuclear sites, Iran will attack — wait for it — Israel’s.

Mahmoud Abbas wants the UN to make the IDF stop catching terrorists and breaking up bomb factories, thus proving that it doesn’t matter which palestinian is in charge; they’re all in favor of dead Jews.

In an example of the famous Muslim tolerance for other religions, Tajikistan’s only synagogue is being razed so the presidential palace can be extended.

Oh, and for those of us out there that thought Abbas was going to provide cover for Hamas, he’s doing it. He says Hamas is trying to prevent rockets being fired on Israel. Shyeah. They’re helping the other terrorists do it.

The war on Israel continues.

Gotta love irony.

On Wednesday, Shtawi told an AP reporter that soldiers had surrounded his hideout for five hours that day, but he and several friends slipped away. “They will never catch me,” he said at the time.

On Thursday, Shtawi said:

Nothing. The IDF got him.

March 15th is coming up fast, folks. International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day, a.k.a. IEATAPETA Day, March 15th. Lair Simon has a site where you can post your restaurant get-togethers.

I’m going to check my teaching schedule to confirm, but I’m pretty sure I will be at the Royal Dragon kosher Chinese restaurant in Rockville, MD for a late lunch/early dinner on Sunday, March 12th. My class ends at noon, so I don’t foresee the gathering starting before 3 or 4 (probably four, I’ll pick up more kosher meat while I’m there).

If you live in the northern VA/DC/Baltimore area, you are close enough to attend. I tried the restaurant last Sunday. It’s superb. And the host looks like my Uncle Mendy, which I suppose is to be expected.

Hey, David. You’re in the area, aren’ t you?

I’d ask Snoopy to come along, but he’s not local. (But he is slightly depressed over not getting many links lately, so go over there and cheer him up. You can cheer yourself up as well, because Simply Jews is as funny as always.)

Related post: Why March 15th became International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day.

Christopher Hitchens is calling for a pro-Denmark rally today at noon.

Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue) between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24. Quietness and calm are the necessities, plus cheerful conversation. Danish flags are good, or posters reading “Stand By Denmark” and any variation on this theme (such as “Buy Carlsberg/ Havarti/ Lego”) The response has been astonishing and I know that the Danes are appreciative. But they are an embassy and thus do not of course endorse or comment on any demonstration. Let us hope, however, to set a precedent for other cities and countries. Please pass on this message to friends and colleagues.

I’d be there if it weren’t a two-hour drive. Shoulda called it for Sunday, Hitch.

When I read this article, proclaiming anti-Semitism down in France, I ignored it. Because I didn’t believe it was true. French Jews are emigrating to Israel and elsewhere in record numbers. And the French have a habit of insisting that a Jew-hater is not a Jew-hater.

I thought of that article when I heard the news of the horrific kidnapping/torture/murder case of a young Jewish man by a group of Muslims, who spent weeks entertaining themselves by cutting, burning, and otherwise torturing him while supposedly waiting for a ransom. First, the French police insisted that he wasn’t kidnapped because he was Jewish. Then, they insisted that the torturers didn’t torture him because he was Jewish. Finally, they said, gee, we think they did it because he was a Jew, and they were out to ransom or kill Jews.

The French media is ignoring the anti-Semitism of the case.

Which leads me to wonder what I wondered when I first read the statistics about attacks on Jews decreasing in France: Are they really? Or are the media and the French authorities refusing to report anti-Semitic attacks as anti-Semitic attacks?

It is no comfort to me that the heads of France attended Ilan Halimi’s funeral.

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