Avodah, a Jewish social justice organization, fired a prominent anti-Zionist activist following an online campaign targeting the group over its decision to hire her. Anna Rajagopal, a Houston college student, announced Wednesday that Avodah had fired her and blamed StopAntisemitism.org, which published a blog post last week calling Rajagopal, who uses both they and she pronouns, a “rabid antisemite” and encouraging readers to demand Avodah “cut ties” with them. Avodah confirmed on Twitter that it had “parted ways with a new temp-hire this week” but said it could not elaborate on personnel decisions. READ MORE
On two evenings in late May, the streets of Jerusalem were once again the scene of violent riots. Incensed mobs threw stones, glass bottles and punches, upending cars, vandalizing property and littering the streets with debris. Victims, including a police officer, were hospitalized, and police were forced to use water cannons and to rescue elderly Rabbi Shaul Alter, head of the Hasidic breakaway group that was the target of the violence. Instead of the usual political or ethnic opponents, both sides of this conflict were black-garbed, fur-hatted Gur Hasidim. Far from being a fringe group whose battles affect only themselves, Gur Hasidim are the largest and wealthiest Hasidic group in Israel, well acquainted with Israel’s halls of power. READ MORE
A Twitter debate among some users broke out over the weekend on whether Anne Frank had “white privilege.” The debate was widely condemned among Jewish and non-Jewish users alike. The tweets, highlighted by both The Jerusalem Post and TBZ, involved a couple of Twitter users stating that “Anne Frank had white privilege. Bad things happen to people with white privilege also but don’t tell the whites that.”…These tweets were roundly denounced throughout Twitter. “Over the weekend, Anne Frank was trending on social media with users debating whether she had ‘white privilege,’” the American Jewish Committee tweeted. “It is an absurd and deeply offensive claim that this victim of the Holocaust benefited from any privilege, white or otherwise.” READ MORE
Decades after his execution in Israel for crimes against humanity, newly unearthed audio recordings of Adolf Eichmann reveal how the architect of the Holocaust described his role in organizing the “Final Solution.” For the first time, the Nazi war criminal, who maintained at his trial that he was nothing more than a “little cog” in the machine, can be heard, in his own words, defending the Holocaust that resulted in the death of six million Jews. “If we had killed 10.3 million Jews, I would say with satisfaction, ‘Good, we destroyed an enemy,’” Eichmann says in one of the recordings…READ MORE
…When President Joe Biden schedules his first official visit to your country, you bend over backwards to accommodate your superpower ally and patron. In pre-visit preparations, you strive mightily to paper over areas of disagreement that cause friction. If your American guest is determined to amp up the friction, you answer with a smile during the joint presser, offer noncommittal statements, and move on. Such is the Israeli playbook for Biden’s visit, and the Saudi playbook, too. It’s worked before. Of course, it is wishful thinking by the leadership of both countries if they imagine the Biden visit to be this kind of run-of-the-mill diplomatic episode. Relations during the three terms of Barack Obama have been chilly if not outright hostile.READ MORE
Rapid-fire popping noises — a loud burst, then a brief pause, then another sustained staccato, somehow even louder — echoed down Central Street. It had been three years since the last Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade — a treasured small-town ritual. On a beautiful, clear summer day, the atmosphere was relaxed and festive. Everyone was grateful for the return to normalcy. In the first 15 minutes of the parade, my wife, Susan, and I waved to the mayor and the folks riding in the vintage fire engine, saluted the military honor guard and cheered the Highland Park High School marching band. Then came that loud popping sound, from a little over a block to our left, farther down the parade route, where the teens in the band were just arriving…READ MORE
WASHINGTON POST With little outcry, Chicago’s bloody weekend eclipsed Highland Park tollNo new counseling resources were announced this week on this city’s impoverished South Side, even after a man was shot to death in broad daylight, feet from a playground, days before July Fourth. There are no crowdsourced charity drives raising millions for victims’ families in Chicago, where the holiday weekend death toll reached at least 10 with 62 injured — numbers that exceed the toll from a July Fourth parade shooting in nearby Highland Park, Ill.
…The [PA] claimed that Shireen was shot by a Roger rifle, a sniper rifle used by the IDF, a 0.22-LR-type which employs reduced energy and power, and is considered non-lethal at a distance of over 100 meters. In this case, however, the bullet not only penetrated her spine but completely dismantled her lower jaw. I have seen the horrible image of what happened to her. The Roger rifle could not have done that. This is a rifle known to be non-lethal at such distances, and certainly could not have destroyed her face like that. A wound like that requires a very strong bullet moving at a very fast pace.” The obvious conclusion for Shahaf is that: “the bullet was fired from a different and [more] powerful gun. READ MORE
JNS Major media outlets ignored eyewitness testimony on the death of Shireen Abu Akleh But the analysis found that the bullet was too badly damaged to reach any conclusions as to which side had fired it. As a result, many questions about Abu Akleh’s death still remain unanswered. However, this has not stopped major media outlets from jumping to conclusions.
Jewish groups are criticizing City University of New York (CUNY) Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez for not appearing at the June 30 New York City Council hearing on antisemitism plaguing the university. The hearing had initially been scheduled for June 8 but was postponed; the City Council had said at the time that the postponement was because the chancellor “had a scheduling conflict,” according to Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “Dear @ChancellorCUNY,” Students for Faculty and Equality (S.A.F.E.) CUNY tweeted, “if you cannot even bother to show up at an antisemitism probe into your own university, after it was postponed once to accommodate your schedule, you are unfit for this position and you must step down.”READ MORE
TABLET MAG CUNY Schools Jews on the New Race RegimeSkipped by the university’s chancellor for the second time, Thursday’s hearings to address allegations of pervasive student and faculty antisemitism ended in bitter stalemate.
The biggest loser (and liar) from today's @CUNY Antisemitism Probe was @PSC_CUNY Jew hater President James Davis. If you watch only 1 video from today, make sure it is this! It'll give you a really good idea of what we are dealing with with this evil union. Credit to @kcjohnson9pic.twitter.com/LyziCzAA7R
On Saturday afternoon three Hezbollah drones were shot down by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after they approached Israel’s economic waters. In a statement published on Twitter, the IDF said a fighter jet and an Israeli Navy missile ship intercepted the drones over the Mediterranean Sea. “An IAF fighter jet and an Israeli Navy missile ship intercepted 3 hostile UAVs from Lebanon which approached the airspace over Israel’s economic waters today,” the tweet said. Hezbollah later published a statement claiming credit for launching the drones and said they were on a reconnaissance mission to the disputed Karish gas field…As previously noted by the Jerusalem Post’sLahav Harkov, Israel is in negotiations with the European Union on exporting gas to Europe. READ MORE
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An IAF fighter jet and an Israeli Navy missile ship intercepted 3 hostile UAVs from Lebanon which approached the airspace over Israel’s economic waters today. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/yAXVzLjvy0
I24NEWS Lebanese officials chide ‘risky, unacceptable’ Hezbollah drone launchHezbollah launched the drone operation on Saturday – following so far fruitless US-mediated efforts to agree on a maritime border – toward the Karish gas rig, which Lebanon claims is in disputed waters but that Israel says is in its exclusive zone.
Ben & Jerry’s on Tuesday sued its parent Unilever Plc (ULVR.L) to block the sale of its Israeli business to a local licensee, saying it was inconsistent with its values to sell its ice cream in the occupied West Bank. The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan said the sale announced on June 29 threatened to undermine the integrity of the Ben & Jerry’s brand, which Ben & Jerry’s board retained independence to protect when Unilever acquired the company in 2000…Unilever, in a statement, said it does not discuss pending litigation, but that it had the right to sell the disputed business and the transaction had already closed. READ MORE
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