After a while, it became a parody worthy of classic comedy skits: the Biden administration’s reflexive need to launch into a condemnation of “Islamophobia” every time the discomfiting topic of antisemitism came up — which, you may have noticed, it does quite a bit these days. Progressives hate antisemitism. Not, unfortunately, the concept . . . the word. It holds a mirror up to their internal contradictions. [Quite ironically] Jews have been among the most consequential, cutting-edge progressives in history. READ MORE
NATIONAL REVIEW David Mamet: The Marchers Should Own It: ‘Proud Antisemite’There are two sides to the jihadi–Jewish conflict until his synagogue is bombed, his relatives are slain, or he is terrified into either defending himself or indicting his brothers and sisters — in which case he determines that there is just one side, but it is the side of his enemies.
Chilling newly released video appears to show the moment a heroic off-duty Israeli soldier tossed hand grenades back at Hamas terrorists after they threw them inside a crowded bomb shelter, where he was eventually killed. Staff Sgt. Aner Shapira, 22, was among a group of Israelis attending the Tribe of Nova music festival who fled to the shelter in Kibbutz Re’im on Oct. 7 when Hamas launched its invasion of the Jewish state. Shapira’s mother has told Kan News that her son stood near the shelter’s entrance to protect the roughly 30 people who hunkered down inside. “He stood at the entrance, and threw the grenades out and he managed to save so many people,” she said in Hebrew. Click here to view video
Rachel Goldberg spoke at March for Israel describing her life in “slow motion torment” since her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin was abducted after his arm was blown off by a Hamas grenade on October 7. She asked the gathering to ponder how they will answer, “Where were you when your brother’s blood cried out from the ground. WHAT WILL YOUR EXCUSE BE?” #BringThemHome
Dozens of student groups at Northwestern University just outside Chicago on Thursday dismissed concerns of rising antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war as “mass hysteria and collective psychosis,” seemingly calling for the destruction of the Jewish state and joining faculty in castigating the school for forming a new panel to combat Jew-hatred on campus. On Monday, Northwestern President Michael Schill announced the creation of a new committee “on preventing antisemitism and hate.”…The student groups did not mention or denounce the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, when they invaded the Jewish state and murdered over 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped more than 240 others as hostages.READ MORE
…The secret of the commie mommies, I’m pretty sure, is that they aren’t commies. They perform commie rage, as a status signal, like well-to-do white women who were afflicted with neurasthenia during the Gilded Age. (They…had to…summer at…very expensive resort hotels…to…recover.) But they don’t divorce the hedge funders, and they don’t pull their children out of the $50,000 middle schools, and they don’t give up the keys to the Mercedes. Their signaling of disgust and loathing for capitalism is how they separate themselves from the poors, much as the more you spend on college the more you learn to despise wealth and privilege. We’ve established the yearning for cultural suicide as a high-status socioeconomic signal, like you burn your house down to prove that it’s the nicest one in the neighborhood. READ MORE
Israel on Thursday demanded that international media outlets explain the circumstances under which photographers in their pay were present at the scene of the surprise October 7 assault by the Hamas terror group on southern Israel, and warned they could be held complicit in the crimes. The move came after the pro-Israel watchdog group Honest Reporting published a report Wednesday showing that photographers used by The Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and CNN provided images taken as the attack was ongoing from the border area and including from inside Israel — intimating they may have had advance knowledge of the assault.The report also raised questions about the relationship between some of the photographers and the Hamas terror group that rules Gaza.READ MORE
NATIONAL REVIEW CNN Cuts Ties with Freelancer after Photo Emerges of Him Sharing a Kiss with Hamas LeaderCNN cut ties with a freelance photojournalist based in Gaza hours after a photo emerged purportedly showing a top Hamas leader kissing the photographer on the cheek. Freelancer Hassan Eslaiah can be seen in the photo being friendly with Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7 massacre that killed 1,400 Israelis.
BREITBART Washington Post Censors Anti-Hamas Cartoon After Reader Complaints, Staff RevoltThe Washington Post has taken down a cartoon by conservative artist Michael P. Ramirez that mocked Hamas, after criticisms by readers and a revolt by staff members. The cartoon shows a Hamas spokesman with several children and a woman tied to his head and body, being used as human shields. The spokesman is seen saying: “How dare Israel attack civilians…”…The Post did not, however, take town a cartoon on its YouTube page that depicts an Israeli leader maliciously punching a child.
Twenty-two Democrats on Tuesday voted to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-Mich.) for her criticism of Israel following Hamas’s deadly attack last month. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.), accused Tlaib of “promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.” It also references her use over the weekend of the controversial phrase “from the river to the sea,” which is considered by many to be antisemitic. Democratic leadership earlier in the day urged members to vote for a motion to kill the censure resolution and the party largely stuck together, with only one Democrat voting to advance it. READ MORE
A broad coalition of American communities will gather for the “March for Israel” rally on November 14 at the National Mall in Washington. The event, which will take place under tight security, is expected to be a display of unanimous support for Israel, as well as flagging the surge in antisemitic events in the US since the Hamas massacre on October 7 The organizers haven’t said so directly, but are attempting for this to be the largest display of unity and support for Israel in decades. They are hoping for hundreds of thousands of Israel supporters…The slogan for this historic event is “Americans March for Israel, March to Free Hostages, March Against Antisemitism.” READ MORE
Fistfights broke out Wednesday night outside a Holocaust museum in Los Angeles that was screening footage of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis after pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated against what they said was a “Gal Gadot military propaganda video.” Several people were reportedly pepper-sprayed and detained by police following the Museum of Tolerance screening of “Bearing Witness,” a 45-minute compilation of footage largely from cameras carried by Hamas terrorists when they attacked Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. About 1,400 Israelis died in the attack and about 250 were taken hostage in Gaza, which Israel has invaded with a stated goal of demolishing Hamas. READ MORE
The pro-Palestinian protestor who struck an elderly Jewish man on the head and caused his death in Los Angeles had stalked his victim before the deadly altercation, according to witnesses to the event. Jonathan Oswaks, a friend of Paul Kessler, the 69-year-old man who was murdered at the protest, told the Jewish Journal that after he and Kessler had arrived at the scene, he received a phone call from a friend warning that he was “being watched” and that his face was appearing on a live video online. He then saw three people watching them from a bench, including the man who would go on to murder Kessler…The anti-Israel activist struck Kessler on the head with the megaphone. Kessler fell to the ground, bleeding, and was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead due to blunt force trauma. READ MORE
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