It’s the weekend, and for our Jewish readers, it’s the eve of Yom Kippur, the most solemn day of the calendar. So whether you’re fasting, atoning or just relaxing, here’s a superb short film set around Kol Nidrei services at Sandys Row Synagogue, in the heart of London’s East End.
H/T: Edward C.
This is a crosspost from Philosemitism.
A petition to free Vincent Reynouard, a French denier, who is serving a prison sentence and to abrogate the Gayssot Act was initiated by two foremost “experts” on the famous Jewish/Zionist Lobby: Paul-Eric Blanrue and Jean Bricmont (Jean Bricmont is Belgian, he is a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain). The petition has so far been signed by 1,000 people - not a great success. The initiators are proud that it has Noam Chomsky’s backing. This is the letter he wrote :
Arising from this post and the comments that follow it I’d like to advise readers that from now on attempts to blame antisemitic behavior on the policy or activities of the Israeli government will be referred to in this blog as examples of the Gurvitz-Goldman doctrine. The term honors Yossi Gurvitz, whose article identifying Israel as one of the main causes of antisemitism I critiqued in the post, and Lisa Goldman who vigorously defended it in the comments.
The Northern Ireland analogy really is the gift that keeps on giving. Here we have Niall O’Dowd, bloated with self importance, portraying himself as the key figure whose brilliant negotiating skills undid the logjam of the Troubles, defeated the massed ranks of the CIA, FBI and probably the KKK too and paved the way for peace in Northern Ireland.
Continue reading ‘Ismail Haniyeh: First Minister of the Gaza Region of Greater Israel’
Some Israeli commentators seem to be developing a curious distaste for national self-determination and the rights and burdens it brings with it. Take Yossi Gurvitz, for example. His article starts with a consideration of a recent survey of attitudes to Jews in Spain and his first paragraph concludes like this:
Continue reading ‘Gurvitz: Sick of Having National Rights And Blaming Jews For Jew Hatred’
Anyone who still believes that a single state between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River can be brought about without exterminating and expelling the vast majority of Jews living in the territory should watch this sordid little fantasy about the “liberation” of Tel Aviv, courtesy of the genocidaires of Hamas.
Read more on Ynet.
This is a guest post by Nathan Roth, a New York lawyer writing under a pseudonym.
Despite the enormous attention given to the proposed Islamic Center at Ground Zero, I think an essential issue - perhaps the issue - has been missed. Many people object to the location not because they are bigots or Islamphobes, but because the decision to site it there is “insensitive.” This is the word of the day, and has become the proxy for unexplained sentiments that cause people who otherwise embrace religious freedom and pluralism just to shake their heads when it comes to Imam Rauf’s project.
Continue reading ‘Message to Imam Rauf: The Battle is Within Islam’
Regular readers will be familiar with Luis D’Elía. Ample of girth and firm of opinion, he’s an energetic social activist and a prominent supporter of the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. However, Luis is feeling a bit unloved these days and thinks his position at the court of the government’s most uncompressing loyalists is being undermined by the machinations of certain elements in the media (guess which ones?), elements that are denying him and his followers the coverage he thinks they deserve.
No one who believes that the right of Jews to govern themselves should not depend on a favorable assessment by others of how they exercise it can remain unmoved by the death this week of Israel Tal.
[Y]ou might draw two conclusions about the various groups and individuals who’ve tried to hijack the commemoration. Firstly, that they regard themselves as the bearers of truths which the rest of us are too deadened or complacent to realize, as anyone who has condemned himself to a session surfing wingnut websites knows painfully. Secondly, that the camps which promote these truths are mutually exclusive; you cannot both fulminate against the “Islamization” of America and insist that 9/11 was a message to U.S. imperialism that its chickens had come home to roost. You cannot - to transpose this theme to the motley crew of misfits gathering with their slogans in Lower Manhattan - be Pamela Geller and George Galloway.Or can you?
From my latest piece which you can find on The Propagandist. I’d like to record, here, my gratitude to Adam Holland, whose superb dispatches helped crystallize my thoughts. Of course, I’m responsible for the argument, not Adam.
Emilio Menéndez del Valle represents Spain’s ruling PSOE party in the European Parliament and was formerly his country’s ambassador to Jordan and Italy. He has an op-ed in today’s El Páis about the Israel-Palestine negotiations in which he doesn’t hold back on the power of the Jewish lobby in US politics and goes so far as to say that America’s foreign policy in the Middle East has been kidnapped by Jewish power. Another brave socialist speaks out about Jewish power. Well done, Emilio.
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Hamas announces a ceasefire and calls for dialogue and negotiation to resolve the conflict with state of Israel. The government of Israel responds like this:
Remember that rape case in Israel, the one that made quite a splash around the world a few weeks ago? The gist of the story was that an Arab man had been convicted of rape because he pretended to be Jewish in order to get a Jewish woman to have sex with him. The usual chorus piped up with claims that this incident proved the inherent racism of Israelis/Jews and the untenable and repugnant and unacceptable nature of Zionism.
Continue reading ‘The Rape By Deception Case And The Rush to Judgement’
Long live Ireland! Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes at book signing in Dublin http://bbc.in/cdIZgU
Guess who tweeted that a few minutes ago?
I regret having to return soon to the wretched Northern Ireland analogy but the persistence with which people appeal to it is really amazing. They seem to be unable to accept Hamas on its own terms and driven by a desire to wish it into being something that it is not.
Continue reading ‘The Northern Ireland Analogy And Irrational Yearnings’
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