Category Archives: Anti-Semitism

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You can’t make this stuff up dept.: Okay, let’s be clear. When Israelis protested to the Turks that their portrayal of IDF soldiers as bloodthirsty murderers and rapists, the Turks said that it wasn’t meant to be harmful, and that … Continue reading

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Orwell, antisemitism and Egypt

Barry Rubin observes about antisemitism: Orwell noted that anti-Semitism had been driven underground by the war and that the authorities and media went out of their way to avoid offending Jews in order to establish their credentials as not being … Continue reading

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The Goldstone Effect

The Goldstone Commission is having its desired effect. With these few lines in an AP report, it explains exactly why Richard Goldstone was chosen to head the commission. Israeli officials across the board have condemned the report, saying their country … Continue reading

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Comment posting is now registration-only

Okay, three straight days of anti-Semitic vitriol is about all I can stand at a time. So now, commenters must be registered in order to comment, and, well, sorry. Registration is closed to new users. If you are a regular … Continue reading

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Goldstone impeaches self

Stephanie Guttman noted who Judge Goldstone listened to. I wrote the other day about the ludicrously biased Goldstone Report issued by the UN’s Human Rights Council, which accuses Israel of war crimes in last winter’s war with Hamas in the … Continue reading

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Anti-Semite blames Jews for his UNESCO loss

So, gee, ya think maybe there wasn’t a conspiracy to take this Jew-hater down if he, well, hates Jews? Several days after having lost the vote for UNESCO’s leadership, Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni declared Saturday his intention to “launch … Continue reading

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Goldstone’s double standard’s double standard

Ehud Barak in an excellent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal recalls: While such logic eluded Mr. Goldstone and his team, it was crystal clear to the thousands of Israeli children living in southern Israel who had to study, play, … Continue reading

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Yes, it’s anti-Semitism

Exhibit A: The Egyptian minister of culture lost his bid to become the head of UNESCO, after a campaign that showed his viciously anti-Israel feelings, which he insisted weren’t anti-Semitism. How does he respond? By blaming “New York Jews.” “There … Continue reading

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Your morning snark

I know you are, but what am I? Ahmadinejad exhibits the grown-up attitude we’ve come to expect from the Holocaust Denier-in-Chief: He flips the bird to the world in response to the worldwide denunciations of his Holocaust-denying speech on Quds … Continue reading

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Germans to Israel: Shut up if you want Gilad Shalit to come home. To be fair, he wants all parties involved to shut up, but really—this is what the mediator thinks is a necessary ingredient to getting Hamas to release … Continue reading

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Built on a foundation of sand

Avi Bell doubts that the Goldstone report will result in any significant diplomatic damage to Israel however, The situation in the wake of the Goldstone Report is reminiscent, to some degree, of the international uproar that erupted over the building … Continue reading

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When is a war crime not a war crime?

Jules Crittenden asks, “is it a war crime?” (via Instapundit) It’s a small incident in the grand scheme of things. Another Navy corpsman doing his job, working on the wounded, sometimes under fire, and dying in combat as thousands have … Continue reading

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Halvorsen’s record

A number of outlets have reported that Norway’s pension fund divested its shares of the Israeli technology firm, Elbit. It’s true,as Yaacov Lozowick points out that Norway had divested from a lot of companies ( e.g. Boeing for helping build … Continue reading

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Bostrom for a Pulitzer

Apparently the reason that the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet decided to publish its false story about the IDF stealing the organs of Palestinians is because the paper’s editor wanted to verify the authenticity of the story. In the United States the … Continue reading

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Boycott backlash

A week and a half ago, Israeli professor Neve Gordon wrote an op-ed in the LA Times calling for a boycott of Israel. So if the two-state solution is the way to stop the apartheid state, then how does one … Continue reading

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