Is Holocaust education making antisemitism worse?

Posted on July 10, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
We Misunderstood the Nazis
Matti Friedman
July 9, 2024

…The failure of Holocaust education has been most sharply observed by the writer Dara Horn, particularly in a prescient essay for The Atlantic last spring and before that in a 2021 book, People Love Dead Jews. After visiting numerous museums and speaking to educators who teach Holocaust curricula, she concludes in the essay, “The bedrock assumption that has endured for nearly half a century is that learning about the Holocaust inoculates people against antisemitism. But it doesn’t.”
By turning the Holocaust into a generic story about prejudice, Horn argues, Holocaust education left its recipients without any understanding of the specific problem facing Jews—or even much sympathy for real Jews in the present.” READ MORE

THE ATLANTIC Dara Horn: Why the most exucsted people in America fall for antisemitic lies At Harvard and elsewhere, an old falsehood is capturing new minds.

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While in Israel, Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz watched the attack on his neighbouring congregation in LA with horror

Posted on July 9, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH CHRONICLE
Hollywood cop-movie rabbi shocked by the criminality on his Los Angeles doorstep
Nicole Lampert
July 3, 2024

…“I also think that American Jews and British Jews and Australian Jews are going to have to learn to live differently than they lived for the last 50 years. The bubble has burst. We’re no longer living in our in our dream state. We’re back to the Jewish experience of our grandparents and our great-grandparents. And so the way that we raise our kids has to be different. The way that we walk through the streets has to be different, the way that we advocate for ourselves has to be different. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST White-shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to screen job applicants for participation in anti-Israel protests A white-shoe law firm whose clients have included Goldman Sachs, Google and Tesla will screen job applicants to determine whether they took part in incendiary anti-Israel protests, according to a report. Sullivan & Cromwell has hired HireRight, a company that specializes in background checks, to scrutinize pro-Palestinian college graduates fresh out of law school who are seeking a job with the firm, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Job applicants who seek to work at Sullivan & Cromwell can be disqualified if they are found to have taken part in demonstrations in which protesters utter phrases that are “triggering” to Jews, according to Joseph Shenker, a partner at the firm.

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The Biden administration, in violation of federal law actually enables “financing and promoting the murder of innocent Americans, Israelis and others”

Posted on July 6, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Federal court allows action to enforce the Taylor Force Act
Leonard Grunstein
July 5, 2024

…Shockingly, the Biden administration restored and even increased funding [to the Palestinian Authority], in flagrant violation of the act. Under the act, such funding is illegal unless the secretary of state certifies in writing to the appropriate congressional committees that, among other things, the P.A., PLO and any successor or affiliated organizations are taking credible steps to end acts of violence against U.S. and Israeli citizens; have terminated terror payments; and have revoked or invalidated any law or decree providing for the same. However, the secretary was unable so to certify because it would have been flatly untrue. READ MORE

WALL STREET JOURNAL Where’s the Biden Report on Iran’s Nuke? President Biden says Donald Trump is a lawbreaker, but his Administration is hardly any better. A case in point is its failure to file a report to Congress required by law on the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Sen. Lindsey Graham helped to write Public Law 117-263, Section 5593 of the Iran Nuclear Weapons Capability and Terror–ism Monitoring Act of 2022. It requires the Administration to send Congress an assessment every six months about Iran’s progress on uranium enrichment and other nuclear weapons development. Mr. Graham has been asking the White House for weeks about the report, and he’s finally lost patience.

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To help with its coverage of Israel, the New York Times has hired: someone who had praised Hitler; someone who denied Hamas has murdered Israeli civilians; someone who has said her objectivity about Israel was out the window

Posted on July 6, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA
NY Times hires another anti-Israel extremist to cover Israel
Gilead Ini
July 5, 2024

…So it is unfortunate, but hardly surprising, that the New York Times has hired Bora Erden to cover the Israel-Hamas conflict. Erden was a committed anti-Israel activist prior to joining the Times last October. In May 2021, after Hamas rocket attacks into Israel and a consequent round of fighting, Erden signed a letter supporting what was termed the “Palestinian struggle against Israeli colonial rule and its apartheid system.” READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Top New York Times Editor Says His Paper Prompted US Pause of Arms to Israel The executive editor of the New York Times, Joseph Kahn, is boasting that his newspaper is responsible for the Biden administration’s decision to stop sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. Kahn also recently disclosed a $62,500 gift from his family charitable foundation to the Harvard Crimson, a student-run newspaper that has endorsed the movement to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel and that also calls for Harvard to divest from weapons manufacturers and give amnesty to student anti-Israel protesters.

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Kamala thinks campus antisemites are very fine people

Posted on July 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
Kamala Harris Says Anti-Israel Student Protesters ‘Are Showing Exactly What the Human Emotion Should Be’
Philip Klein
July 8, 2024

There have been many hints at the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris is more hostile to Israel than President Biden. As Democrats take a closer look at her as the most likely replacement should Biden drop out of the race, her views on Middle East policy will undergo closer scrutiny. Now, in an interview with Joan Walsh in the The Nation, Harris makes clear that she sympathizes with the anti-Israel protesters on college campuses — even though she doesn’t agree with everything they said. READ MORE

JNS Jonathan Tobin: Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people Whether or not the vice president becomes the Democratic nominee, any attempt to portray her as a friend of the Jews is undermined by her praise for pro-Hamas mobs.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Iran encourages Gaza war protests in US to stoke outrage and distrust, intelligence chief says The Iranian government is covertly encouraging American protests over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza in a bid to stoke outrage ahead of the fall election, the nation’s top intelligence official said Tuesday. Using social media platforms popular in the U.S., groups linked to Tehran have posed as online activists, encouraged protests and have provided financial support to some protest groups, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said in a statement. 

JEWISH INSIDER Proposed New York mask ban receives broad, bipartisan support A push by New York state lawmakers to implement mask bans in some public settings, coming largely in response to recent antisemitic activity in New York City, is winning bipartisan support. The effort comes weeks after masked demonstrators protested outside the Nova music festival exhibit in Manhattan, targeted Jews and Zionists on subways, harassed members of the board of the Brooklyn Museum at their homes and occupied parts of Columbia University’s campus for weeks.

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Anti-Israel group “accused Schneider of being complicit in “genocide” because he has voted for emergency defense assistance for Israel and to defund UNRWA”

Posted on July 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Hostage posters ripped off the wall outside Brad Schneider’s office
Ron Kampeas
July 5, 2024

Vandals tore down Israeli hostage posters hanging outside the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Brad Schneider, an Illinois Democrat, a week after pro-Palestinian activists used megaphones and drums to protest outside his home in the middle of the night. “My Capitol office was vandalized yesterday in a vile act of hate in which the posters of the more than 100 people still held hostage in Gaza (including 8 Americans) were ripped from the wall, shredded and tossed across the hallway,” Schneider, who is Jewish, posted Friday on X, attaching a photo of the posters scattered on the floor…The vandalism comes a week after an Illinois-based group called Direct Actions for Palestine staged a rally of about 40 people shouting slogans through megaphones and banging on drums outside his home at 2:30 a.m. in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago with a large Jewish population. READ MORE

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After a lifetime as a Democrat, Danny Cohen decided his party now “has a cancer” in the form of antisemitism

Posted on July 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Meet the Jewish Americans who feel abandoned by the Democrats, now voting Republican for the first time
Rikki Schlott
July 9, 2024

With the 2024 election almost upon us, Donald Trump is gaining a new cohort of voters: Jewish Americans who feel abandoned by the left. According to exit polls, 77 percent of Jewish voters went for Biden in 2020. But a recent poll from the Jewish Electoral Institute found the president has lost 10 points on his lead against his rival. Between college protests erupting into chants for an “intifada revolution,” Democrats like Jamaal Bowman leaning hard into pro-Palestine messaging, and progressive organizations like Black Lives Matter chapters celebrating the October 7th terrorist attacks, many Jewish Americans feel abandoned by their party. Some lifelong Jewish Democrats feel an explosion of left-wing antisemitism has pushed them to re-register as Republicans — and vote for Trump. READ MORE

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If it can be believed, Hamas has dropped its demand for an upfront pledge that Israel ends the war

Posted on July 4, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Netanyahu and Biden speak as Hamas drops upfront end of war demand
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Tovah Lazaroff
July 4, 2024

Hamas has dropped its demand for an upfront pledge that Israel ends the war, a move that prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a team led by Mossad Director David Barnea to participate in further negotiations IN DOHA for a deal, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Netanyahu spoke with US President Joe Biden and informed him that Israel would participate in talks based on the latest draft of the three-phase deal which Israel received on Wednesday. It’s a proposal that deals with the release of the remaining 120 hostages and the issue of a Gaza ceasefire. The terror group is still expected to demand a commitment to a permanent ceasefire, possibly even before the completion of phase one, but would allow that first phase to get underway without such a pledge. READ MORE

GATESTONE Bassam Tawil: Why Are Hamas’s Crimes Ignored by Western Media? The Palestinian Authority and other Arab governments have been reminded in recent days of the reasons why entering the Gaza Strip after the war would be risky, if not impossible, unless Hamas’s military capabilities are first destroyed and the terrorist group is completely ousted from power. According to reports from the Gaza Strip, Hamas has murdered a number of Palestinians who it believed had indicated willingness to be part of a new government that would replace the terrorist group after the war. The most recent victim of Hamas’s measures to prevent the emergence of new leaders in the Gaza Strip is a prominent member of the Abu Amra clan. 

ARUTZ SHEVA ‘The sword is coming’: The dramatic warning before the massacre in the Gaza region One of the closest and most focused warnings before the Hamas-perpetrated massacre in the Gaza envelope was revealed this evening (Thursday) on Channel 12 News. According to the report, the warning ahead of the massacre was written by the same female sergeant from 8200. Like others, it was ignored. In an email sent by the sergeant shortly before the massacre, she wrote that “The sword is coming. The time to warn the people is now.”

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“Becoming a citizen of this great nation is a divine gift, not a universal right”

Posted on July 4, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
American by the Grace of God
Liel Leibovitz and Tony Badran
July 2, 2024

What, to an immigrant, is the Fourth of July? For the two of us immigrants—a Christian from Lebanon and a Jew from Israel, respectively—Independence Day, in addition to hot dogs on the grill and fireworks in the sky, is about taking a moment to reflect on the seminal decision of our lives: the decision to come to America to be part of a great and good nation. If you’re detecting a religious undertone in our love for this country, you’re not wrong. Though we come from two very different faith traditions, we both see becoming an American as an act of grace, an unmerited privilege bestowed on an individual in the belief that he or she can, in the brightness and warmth of this singular country, find salvation. READ MORE

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Oren: “Hezbollah won’t accept a ceasefire unless Hamas does. Hamas will not agree to a ceasefire. Hence, Israel will go to war against Hezbollah”

Posted on July 4, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
The Brutal Syllogism of this War is a Deathtrap for Israel
Michael Oren
July 3, 2024

The basis of Aristotelian logic, and arguably of all Western philosophical thought, is the syllogism. It states, simply, that if A equals B and B equals C, then A equals C. And what was foundational for Aristotle in antiquity is for Israelis today nothing short of nightmarish. We are trapped in a deadly syllogism in which the refusal of one terrorist organization to end its war with Israel means a second terrorist organization will also refuse, pitching Israel into a regional – and potentially existential – conflict. How did we become so lethally enmeshed? What factors contributed to our syllogistic entrapment? And how, if at all, can Israel escape? READ MORE

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