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Hijabbed Biden State Department official and Tlaib participated in event featuring anti-Semite Linda Sarsour

Hijabbed Biden State Department official and Tlaib participated in event featuring anti-Semite Linda Sarsour
On Sept. 22, 2011, Linda Sarsour tweeted: “shariah law is reasonable and once u read into the details it makes a lot of sense. People just know the basics.” Her position didn’t change over time. On May 12, 2015, she tweeted: “If you are still paying interest than [sic] Sharia Law hasn’t taken over America. #justsaying.” And […]

UN top dog António Guterres: ‘For well over a millennium, Islam’s message of peace has inspired people’

UN top dog António Guterres: ‘For well over a millennium, Islam’s message of peace has inspired people’
For the reality of the fourteen centuries of Islam, see here. It would have been refreshing if Guterres had read out a bit more of Surah Al-Tawbah of the Qur’an, such as these verses: “Then, when the sacred months have passed, kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and besiege them, and […]

France24 suspends four Muslim journalists for extreme antisemitism and pro-jihad messages

France24 suspends four Muslim journalists for extreme antisemitism and pro-jihad messages
Any guesses on what the angle might have been when these now suspended journalists covered any topic related to Israel? Laila Odeh celebrated murderers as “martyrs.” Lebanese journalist Joelle Maroun tweeted: “If Only Hitler Was Lebanese.’” Dina Abi-Saab celebrated Hamas rocket fire upon Israel, and Sharif Bibi declared “We will eradicate you, Israel.” CAMERA said […]

France 24 Investigates the Staff of its Arabic Service

France 24 Investigates the Staff of its Arabic Service
The Arabic Service of international broadcaster France 24 has had problems with its staff similar to those experienced by the BBC’s Arabic Service in 2021. It has suspended four of its journalists over their antisemitic social media posts. A preliminary Jihad Watch report is here, and more on the staffing problems of France 24’s Arabic […]

Indonesia: Muslims block Christians’ construction of a church

Indonesia: Muslims block Christians’ construction of a church
Islamic law forbids the construction of new churches. Christians are “forbidden to ring church bells or display crosses, recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays, and are forbidden to build new churches” – Reliance of the Traveller o.11.5 (6,7) “Muslims Block Christians’ Construction in Indonesia,” Morning Star News, March […]

UK’s Consul-General in Jerusalem meets with ‘Palestinian’ Muslim cleric who likened Jews to apes and pigs

UK’s Consul-General in Jerusalem meets with ‘Palestinian’ Muslim cleric who likened Jews to apes and pigs
It would be tough for Diane Corner to find a “Palestinian” Muslim cleric who hadn’t made viciously antisemitic statements. After all, the bit about Jews being transformed into apes and pigs is straight from the Qur’an (2:63-5; 5:59-60; 7:166). The mistake was treating these genocide-minded jihadis as if they were a respectable group in the […]

Sweden: Catholic football star praises Sharia, compares it favorably to Swedish society

Sweden: Catholic football star praises Sharia, compares it favorably to Swedish society
Zlatan Ibrahimović says he is a Catholic. His father was a Muslim, however, and he grew up in Muslim-dominated Malmö; these details may explain how he came to have such a Sharia-positive viewpoint. In any case, he just needs to be patient. Sharia will be along in Sweden soon enough. “Zlatan wants to see Qatar’s […]

Bezalel Smotrich is Right: There is No Such Thing as the Palestinian People

Bezalel Smotrich is Right: There is No Such Thing as the Palestinian People
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich dismissed the existence of a separate Palestinian people in a speech he delivered in Paris on Sunday. This has caused predictable outrage from the Arabs, from the EU’s Josep Borrell, and from the Bidenites, who found his remarks on this matter “unhelpful.” But is his statement false? A preliminary Jihad […]

Congresswoman demands answers over DC children’s hospital Youth Pride Clinic’s ‘life-altering gender procedures’

Congresswoman demands answers over DC children’s hospital Youth Pride Clinic’s ‘life-altering gender procedures’
It’s about time. There’s much work to do to start protecting children from a dangerous element of the trans community that has mutated into a cult, and is now inflicting grooming and mutilation upon children, allegedly without parental consent. 🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE REPORT🚨 .@ChildrensNatl admits in damning audio recording that they do “gender affirming” hysterectomies on […]

Church of Sweden archbishop screams ‘Allahu akbar,’ says Muhammad is prophet, successor says Muslims welcome to join

Church of Sweden archbishop screams ‘Allahu akbar,’ says Muhammad is prophet, successor says Muslims welcome to join
This is the last gasp of a dying church (and a dying civilization). A culture that has no identity of its own and welcomes those who wish to conquer and subjugate it is a culture that will soon be a matter of history. These two archbishops are signposts on the way to the demise of […]

Germany: Antisemitic Islamic association takes part in UN anti-racism event

Germany: Antisemitic Islamic association takes part in UN anti-racism event
Of course. The willful ignorance is pandemic. Anyone who tries to provide the correct information is smeared as “Islamophobic.” “A flagship event for tolerance – with Islamists on the list of speakers,” translated from “Ein Vorzeigeevent für Toleranz – mit Islamisten auf der Rednerliste,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 22, 2023 (thanks to Medforth): Racism has many […]

Sweden: Malmö police send Muslims good wishes for Ramadan, doesn’t recognize other holidays

Sweden: Malmö police send Muslims good wishes for Ramadan, doesn’t recognize other holidays
The Malmö police are just getting ahead of the curve. Before too long those other holidays won’t even be allowed in Sweden, and so why bother noting them now? “Malmö Police celebrates Muslim fasting month: ‘Ramadan Mubarak,'” translated from “Malmöpolisen firar muslimsk fastemånad: ‘Ramadan Mubarak,’” Samnytt, March 23, 2023: In a post on social media, […]

What Are They Smoking? Vatican Says Ramadan Is Important for Christians, Too

What Are They Smoking? Vatican Says Ramadan Is Important for Christians, Too
New in PJ Media: Christians of all traditions were likely surprised on Friday when the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued a message to Muslims for Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting by day and gorging by night. The fact that such a message was sent was not a surprise, as interreligious dialogue has for many years […]

Greece: Muslim migrants plot jihad massacre at synagogue, would be paid $16,250 for every person they murdered

Greece: Muslim migrants plot jihad massacre at synagogue, would be paid $16,250 for every person they murdered
Celebrate diversity! This plot was a direct result of mass Muslim migration into Europe. You know, the mass migration that only “racists” and “Islamophobes” oppose. The Left is forcing “diversity” upon Europe in a sea of blood. “Greek police uncover Pakistani plot to attack Jewish synagogue in Athens – ‘€15,000 per dead,'” Greek City Times, […]

Netanyahu’s address at the US State Department Summit for Democracy 2023

Netanyahu’s address at the US State Department Summit for Democracy 2023
Joe Biden had strong words for Netanyahu, calling upon him to back away from judicial reform, even after the State Department was exposed for paying money to stir up the massive protests in Israel. Biden also stated that Netanyahu won’t be invited to the White House anytime soon. Bear in mind also that Democrats’ sympathies […]

Sweden: Court seals photos of Muslim migrant rapists so they won’t be ‘exposed to the disrespect of others’

Sweden: Court seals photos of Muslim migrant rapists so they won’t be ‘exposed to the disrespect of others’
What is Sweden going to be like in five years? Ten? “Court of Appeal: Rapists ‘become exposed to the disrespect of others,'” translated from “Hovrätten: Våldtäktsmän ”blir utsatta för andras missaktning,” Samnytt, March 27, 2023: The three men who earlier this month were convicted of robbing and raping prostitutes in Malmö risk being exposed to […]

Georgia: Hamas-linked CAIR lobbies against and kills antisemitism bill

Georgia: Hamas-linked CAIR lobbies against and kills antisemitism bill
Murtaza Khwaja said that the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) opposed the bill because it would restrict criticism of (and no doubt propaganda against) Israel, but there is also this: the Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe […]

Germany: Leftist state government takes ‘clear stance against antisemitism’ while ignoring Islamic Jew-hatred

Germany: Leftist state government takes ‘clear stance against antisemitism’ while ignoring Islamic Jew-hatred
Of course they do. The Green Party is much more worried about appearing to be “Islamophobic” than it is about Islamic antisemitism. “German State Ignores Iranian, Palestinian, and Turkish Antisemitism,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jewish Press, March 28, 2023: The chairman of the Jewish community in Bamberg, Bavaria, dispatched a scathing letter to a German Green […]

UK: Anglican cathedral to host Ramadan iftar during Easter season

UK: Anglican cathedral to host Ramadan iftar during Easter season
Once again, do these Christians really think that this will change what the Qur’an teaches about Christ and Christianity? Qur’an 98:4-6: “Nor were the people of the book divided until after the clear proof came to them. And they are not ordered to do anything else but serve Allah, keeping religion pure for him, as […]

UK: Anglican cathedral hosts iftar event to spread ‘the spirit of Ramadan’

UK: Anglican cathedral hosts iftar event to spread ‘the spirit of Ramadan’
This spirit? “Ramadan is not a month of laziness but rather a month of activity, of effort, and of hard work, and as it also was in the life of the Prophet, a month of jihad, conquest, and victory.” — Palestinian Authority Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash “Ramadan is a month of holy war and death […]

France: Catholic church to host Ramadan iftar during Easter octave

France: Catholic church to host Ramadan iftar during Easter octave
Isn’t this wonderful? Now: when is the Easter celebration at the local mosque? What’s that? Never? These expressions of generosity and outreach always and in every case only go in one direction, and are never reciprocated? Now, why is that? “Lille: during the Easter octave, we will celebrate iftar at the St-Pierre-St-Paul church,” translated from […]

Greece signs contract to extend border fence with Turkey to keep out migrants

Greece signs contract to extend border fence with Turkey to keep out migrants
Any reliable leader knows that responsible immigration policies are imperative for national security. An open border amounts to an invitation to all manner of criminal and terrorist. Leaders who have implemented such policies have round-the-clock security, paid for by taxpayers. The economic future of these irresponsible “public servants” is also guaranteed, courtesy of taxpayers. Greek […]

Vatican repudiates papal bulls calling for resistance to jihad violence

Vatican repudiates papal bulls calling for resistance to jihad violence
They might harm the “dialogue.” “Rome Cancels Anti-Muslim Papal Bulls As Uncatholic,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, April 4, 2023: VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Vatican has abrogated three papal bulls claiming that the documents are offensive to indigenous peoples and “have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith.” The bulls Dum Diversas (1452), Romanus Pontifex (1455) and Inter Caetera (1493) contain the […]

Lebanese Runner Pulls Out of Competition to Avoid Israeli 

Lebanese Runner Pulls Out of Competition to Avoid Israeli 
The world of sport has been let down – again – by a Muslim who prefers to pull out of an event rather than face an Israeli competitor. This time, it was not a head-to-head encounter that was being avoided, but the prospect of having to run a race in which one of a dozen […]

Denmark: Muslim migrant who murdered two people collects $1900 monthly pension, is training to be an imam

Denmark: Muslim migrant who murdered two people collects $1900 monthly pension, is training to be an imam
He’s mentally ill, you see, but healthy enough to become an imam. Lord, what fools these Infidels be. “​Double murderer and imam apprentice get an early pension,” translated from “Dobbeltmorder og imamlærling får førtidspension,” by Bertil B. Fruelund and James Kristoffer Miles, Ekstra Bladet, April 5, 2023 (thanks to L.): A 62-year-old Iraqi citizen who […]

UK: College cancels annual St. George’s Day dinner, denies it ever held it, will celebrate end of Ramadan instead

UK: College cancels annual St. George’s Day dinner, denies it ever held it, will celebrate end of Ramadan instead
“Magdalen College denies it has a tradition of designated St George’s Day dinners. However, the newspaper cited proof of such events, including a formal invite in 2018 from the then college vice-president for lecturers to ‘celebrate St George’s Day’ with ‘a formal hall and high table at 7.30pm with a special English menu.'” They have […]

Sign of the Times: UK College Cancels Annual Dinner for Christian Saint, Will Celebrate End of Ramadan Instead

Sign of the Times: UK College Cancels Annual Dinner for Christian Saint, Will Celebrate End of Ramadan Instead
New in PJ Media: There are around four million Muslims in Britain, and with that rapidly growing population come societal changes. Oxford’s Magdalen College has in the past celebrated St. George’s Day on April 23 with a ceremonial dinner; this year, however, St. George’s Day plans have been deep-sixed, and Magdalen will instead host a […]

Tehran Professor: Less Than 10% of Iranians Want to Annihilate Israel

Tehran Professor: Less Than 10% of Iranians Want to Annihilate Israel
Prof. Sadegh Zibakalam, once a supporter of the Islamic Republic, has been more and more outspoken in his criticism of the regime. Some Iranians in exile are still suspicious of him, given that he is apparently able to avoid punishment and even retains his post as a professor at Tehran University. More in Zibalakam’s recent […]

France: ‘Transgender’ threats force halt to symposium defending Afghan and Iranian women

France: ‘Transgender’ threats force halt to symposium defending Afghan and Iranian women
You cannot defend Afghan and Iranian women from Islamic misogyny unless you agree to pretend that men can become women and vice versa. Otherwise, you may be murdered by “transgender” activists. If they don’t get you, their Islamic jihadi friends will get you for standing for Afghan and Iranian women against the suffering they must […]

At an Austrian School, an Easter Tradition is Banned

At an Austrian School, an Easter Tradition is Banned
At a school in Austria, a teacher did as she had always done during Holy Week: she put a small handful of palm fronds in her classroom, of the kind that are given out in churches on Palm Sunday. And she took her students to visit an Easter Market, which, despite its name, has very […]

Austria: Government financed ‘Islamist associations’ with COVID aid money

Austria: Government financed ‘Islamist associations’ with COVID aid money
Lenin said, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” “​FPÖ criticizes: Five million euros in Corona aid money went to Islamist associations,” translated from “FPÖ kritisiert: Fünf Millionen Euro an Corona-Hilfsgeldern flossen an islamistische Vereine,” Exxpress, April 5, 2023 (thanks to Medforth): During the corona pandemic, the state spent […]

Sweden: Police dispute court’s ruling allowing for Qur’an burning, want such burnings banned

Sweden: Police dispute court’s ruling allowing for Qur’an burning, want such burnings banned
I’m no fan of book burnings, but they are a matter of free expression. If the police prevail in this and Qur’an-burning is banned, the door will be opened to all manner of violent intimidation in other areas. Jihadis will have seen that it worked, and be encouraged to employ the tactic more liberally. “The […]

Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement, 1964-2024. RIP

(Steven Hayward)

This fall will mark the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the famous “free speech” movement at UC Berkeley. You can find my account of it, written in the aftermath of the Milo Yiannopoulos riot of February, 2017, which I was present for, at this link.

The Yiannopoulos riot was bad enough, but last night there was a sequel at Berkeley. As loyal readers may know, I am not around campus much this semester, as I’m temporarily filling in for a recently deceased professor at Pepperdine’s graduate school. So I missed a mob that prevented Ran Bar-Yoshafat, a reserve combat officer in the Israel Defense Forces who has been deployed in Gaza, from giving a presentation on campus at the invitation of several student groups.

The mob was not peacefully protesting. As has happened to Jewish students at many campuses, the mob was banging on doors and threatening violence. The Jewish News of Northern California offers an account—some excerpts:

Jewish students at UC Berkeley evacuated from a campus theater Monday night after a mass of protesters, chanting “Intifada! Intifada!” and other slogans, shattered a glass door at the venue and shut down a scheduled lecture by an Israeli attorney and IDF reservist.

Several students who were attending or working the event at Zellerbach Playhouse were injured, including two young women, one of whom sprained a thumb wrestling to keep a door shut as protesters tried to muscle it open. Another female student reportedly was handled around her neck, leaving marks. A third student was spit on, he told J.

The lecture was scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Ran Bar-Yoshafat, who is a reserve combat officer in the Israel Defense Forces and was deployed in Gaza, planned to discuss international law as it pertains to Israel. “He’ll explore whether Israel violates international law, the rules of wartime conduct, and how the IDF can better protect civilians,” a social media post publicizing the event said.

The talk was conceived of as a small lecture in a classroom at Wheeler Hall, but organizers moved it at the direction of campus police for safety reasons after the anti-Zionist group Bears for Palestine, the Cal affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine, called for a protest to “shut it down,” according to Joseph Karlan, a student leader of campus pro-Israel group Tikvah and one of the event organizers.

There’s more at the link.

Separately in the Jewish News, Daniel Solomon, a graduate student acquaintance of mine who was present, reports:

The people who were forced to flee apparently forfeited their right to security after committing the unpardonable sin of coming to hear an Israeli speak on campus. The university, which has touted its commitment to free speech while actually condoning a climate of antisemitic intimidation, did little to protect the safety of the speaker and audience — and even less to protect their free speech rights.

Parading through the campus in a fashion worthy of the finest paramilitary, the pro-Palestinian rioters exulted in their victory.

This latest episode at UC Berkeley caps months of harassment — and on occasion, violent outbursts— from wannabe Hamasniks. On Oct. 7, the day of the Hamas pogrom, Bears for Palestine released a statement praising its “comrades in blood and arms” for their operations “in the so-called ‘Gaza envelope.’” The same organization then mounted demonstrations at which participants clamored to “globalize the intifada” and “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”

Again, more at the link above, and do read the whole thing if you have time.

If there are no consequences for this latest act, which is worse in many ways than the Yiannopoulos affair if you think about it for a few minutes, then it can truly be said that free speech is dead at UC Berkeley.

Here are some related videos and collateral material:

I didn’t know this but apparently students were spat on, called antisemitic insults, and even assaulted at last’s night event @UCBerkeley . Shame on this institution, which still has nothing to say.
https://t.co/AQO7Yu35yw

— Daniel Solomon (@DanielJSolomon) February 27, 2024

Last night at @UCBerkeley, Jewish students were threatened, assaulted, and prevented from attending a speech by a Jewish speaker on campus. Campus police shut down this private event when it became clear that they could not protect the students. Multiple students reported being… pic.twitter.com/FKidts1FvZ

— JCRC Bay Area (@SFJCRC) February 27, 2024

I’ve reached the point where I hope a second Trump Administration will propose Nuremberg Trials for campus anti-Semites, on whom who foolish college administrations bestowed tenured faculty positions.

Artists Try to Ban Israelis

(John Hinderaker)

The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s biggest art shows. The show has a national focus:

Held since 1895 and considered the world’s top art event, the Venice Biennale, which starts in April, gives nations the chance to show off their best artists at national pavilions.

That is the hook for pro-mass muder artists to try to boot Israel out:

A petition to kick Israel out of the Venice Biennale art show because of the war in Gaza signed by more than 16,000 artists, curators and academics has been angrily dismissed as “shameful” by Italy’s arts minister.

More to come from the culture minister, a Giorgia Meloni appointee.

Signed by art world luminaries including Jesse Darling, the British Turner prize winner, the petition claims: “The Biennale is platforming a genocidal apartheid state. No death in Venice. No business as usual.”

“Platforming” is a sinister term that generally means failing to discriminate against. Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano pushed back:

The petition drew a furious response from Gennaro Sangiuliano, the Italian culture minister, who lambasted what he described as “a diktat from those who think they are the custodians of the truth, and who with anger and hatred try to threaten the freedom of thought and creative expression in a democratic nation like Italy”. He added: “The Biennale will always be a space of freedom, meeting and dialogue rather than censorship and intolerance. Culture is a bridge between people and nations, not a wall of division.”

Israel is to be represented at the Biennale by Ruth Patir, who is plenty far left by any normal standard. But that doesn’t cut any ice with anti-Semites.

This flap is a reminder that art isn’t what it used to be. As noted above, Britain’s Jesse Darling is apparently the most notable of the artists trying to ban Israel. Here he is with some of his art works:

Which prompts the question: is there a connection between bad art and bad politics? Mr. Darling is, on this question, a data point.

Mitch, We Knew Ye Really, Really Well

(John Hinderaker)

Mitch McConnell announced today that he will resign his Senate leadership position in November, while remaining in office through his current term. I have generally thought well of McConnell and believe that on the whole, he has done a good job of leading his caucus. But it is notable that, as far as I know, not a single Republican has expressed regret at his decision.

It was time to go, if only because the geriatric era in Washington needs to end. While nowhere near as debilitated as Joe Biden, McConnell’s health issues in recent years have been visible. It is highly desirable for Republicans not to be seen, like the Democrats, as a party of octogenarians.

What comes next? The Wall Street Journal speculates:

Potential successors, including Sens. John Thune (R., S.D.), John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas), have been quietly positioning themselves for the day McConnell steps down. Other possible candidates include GOP Sens. Steve Daines of Montana, Rick Scott of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas.

Most of those senators are perceived as more conservative than McConnell, although that may be largely because McConnell has been in a leadership position for so long. As the leader of a caucus, responsible for negotiating agreements that can actually pass, you can’t be a firebrand backbencher–although, to their credit, that description doesn’t fit those the Journal identifies as candidates, either.

Finally, let’s hope Republicans do it the old-fashioned way by agreeing on a new leader behind closed doors, and then anointing him with a show of unanimity. A fiasco like the one we endured in the House of Representatives is to be avoided.

Longing for Auschwitz

(Scott Johnson)

As a guest of the Jewish Community Relations Council I attended a private showing of the atrocity video compiled by the IDF in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre this past December. Several of the clips compiled in the video had previously been posted to social media. The sadistic glee of the Hamas savages is apparent throughout the 45-minute video. They shriek in ecstasy as they perform their barbaric deeds. They take sensual pleasure in committing acts from which we recoil in disgust and horror.

Now Professor Alvin Rosenfeld seeks to capture the Hamas spirit in the Tablet column “Longing for Auschwitz.” What’s it all about? Professor Rosenfeld seems to me to get at the mania that is otherwise beyond our verbal grasp if not our human understanding. This is just the opening slice of his column:

Hamas’s assault on Israelis on October 7th was not an act of war as we normally think of it but something far worse. We don’t have an adequate term for what occurred on that day, so people use words like “terrorism,” “barbarism,” “atrocity,” “depravity,” “massacre,” and so on. All are correct, and yet all fall short of capturing the annihilationist fury set loose at the Nova music festival and in the kibbutzim and small towns of southern Israel. The people attacked in those places were not only to die, but to die in torment. In addition to the merciless torture, killings, slashings, burnings, beheadings, mutilations, dismemberments, and kidnappings, there were gang-rapes and other forms of sadistic sexual assault, including, according to some reports, the cutting off of women’s breasts, nails driven into women’s thighs and groins, bullets fired into their vaginas, and even intercourse with female corpses. Unimaginable? For most normal people, yes. But before going into Israel, the Hamas assassins were instructed to “dirty them” and “whore them.” And that’s precisely what many of them faithfully did.

If it were possible to encapsulate all the evil of that day in a single image, it would be that of the violent seizure of a young Israeli woman, Naama Levy, 19, barefoot, beaten, and bloodied, her hands tied behind her back, the crotch of her sweatpants heavily soiled, possibly from being raped, dragged by her hair at gunpoint into a Hamas car, and driven off to Gaza to suffer an unspeakable fate among her captors there.Her assailants filmed every second of her ordeal; and as one watches the clips of her being taken away, one sees crowds nearby loudly shouting “Allah-hu Akbar” – “Allah is the greatest”—a victory cry that offers religious sanction to the malign treatment of Naama Levy and countless others seized, slaughtered, and abducted on that horrific day.

All wars cause human suffering, but the cruelties visited upon Israelis on October 7th far surpasses what normally happens when armies go to war. Hamas’s actions had a different aim: not conquest but the purposeful humiliation of Jews by people who detest them and were sworn to degrade and dehumanize them before murdering them. For those familiar with Jewish history, the mass violence enacted against Jews in Kishinev in 1903 came instantly to mind, as did the Farhoud in Iraq in 1941 and Chmielnicki’s savage decimation of Ukrainian Jewish communities in the mid-17th century. With memories of those earlier massacres newly revived, October 7th instantly evoked the word “pogrom.” With cause. But how could such a catastrophe occur in today’s Israel? The country’s military has been hailed as one of the strongest in the world and was regarded as invincible. And yet on October 7th, it failed to protect its southern border and prevent the ruthless assault on Jews in the Gaza envelope. Responding to Hamas’s bloody deeds, one Israeli woman summed up the reactions of virtually every Jew in the country and millions of others abroad when she said, simply and incontrovertibly, “Every Israeli’s worst nightmares have come true.”

October 7th, 2023 was the most destructive day of mass violence against Jews since the end of the Holocaust. The carnage carried out on that day, far from being a by-product of war, was a religiously sanctioned, orgiastic display of unrestrained Jew-hatred. One cannot begin to understand it if one ignores the Hamas Charter and other Islamist teachings that make Hamas the organization it is and inspires it to do what it does.

Hamas originates as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is and always has been a jihadist organization, which sees the existence of the State of Israel as an intolerable intrusion into the Domain of Islam (“dar al-islam”) and is committed to removing Israel by whatever means necessary. The preamble to the Hamas Charter declares that “Israel exists and will continue to exist until Islam obliterates it, just as it obliterated others before it.” The “Palestinian problem,” it affirms, “is a religious problem” and is not amenable to a negotiated political settlement. The only way to “raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine” is through “jihad,” a holy war that is a “duty for every Muslim wherever he may be.”

After watching the atrocity video, I wondered: Has Dementia Joe or blind Tony Blinken seen this? (Kelly Jane Torrance reported in her New York Post column on it that Biden has seen it.) If so, what are they doing hectoring Israel, yammering about a two-state solution, and disparaging a country acting in self-defense while in the throes of a crisis that goes to its reason for being? If that’s the best they can do, why won’t they shut up?

The “solution” is part of the problem. A people must have civilized norms and civil institutions on which to predicate a state. It can’t be created ex nihilo or ex worse than nothing.

Israel exists as a homeland and refuge for the Jewish people. The events of October 7 belie its reason for being. In other words, it won’t remain a refuge if Israelis aren’t safe from such atrocities in their homeland. Thus the war on Hamas in which it is currently engaged. Israel, by the way, also has to contend with Iranian proxies including Hezbollah and the Houthis as well as Iran itself. The day of reckoning is coming.

No government freely elected by the people of Israel can tolerate what Israel withstood on October 7. There can be no return to the status quo ante or its functional equivalent under the supervision of the Palestinian Authority, whose president for life himself supports terrorism with funds generously provided by his supporters among the Biden administration and elsewhere.

An SOTU Postscript

(John Hinderaker)

Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech began almost a half hour behind schedule. The reason apparently was that his route to the Capitol was blocked by an illegal “kill the Jews” protest. So an official government proceeding was delayed by protesters who were violating the law. Doesn’t that sound familiar?

Blocking an official proceeding. I think we have recent precedent on this. https://t.co/fxOZ9vxc74

— Josh Holmes (@HolmesJosh) March 8, 2024


Don’t hold your breath waiting for the “kill the Jews” gang to be arrested and held for a year or two in solitary confinement.

The trouble with Dennis Ross

(Scott Johnson)

Dennis Ross is a scholar and diplomat of unmatched experience in the vagaries of “the peace process.” His 2005 memoir The Missing Peace: Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace runs to 880 closely printed pages. He served in both the Bush (41) and Clinton administrations. He also served as special assistant to President Obama and worked on National Security Council in both the Reagan and Obama administrations. He currently serves as a distinguished fellow on the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His impressive Washington Institute profile is posted here.

On a personal note, I would like to add this. When I was working on the 2007 Weekly Standard article “How Arafat got away with murder,” I caught Ambassador Ross by telephone in his office late on a Friday afternoon. He was on his way out the door and didn’t know me from Adam, yet he took my question and responded as quoted in the article. He seemed to me a straightforward and decent gentleman.

Ross was invited by the MIT Jewish Alumni Alliance to speak at MIT’s “Standing Together Against Hate” program launched in the aftermath of the the October 7 massacre. MIT president Sally Kornbluth trumpeted the program as an effort aimed at “community building.” She put MIT chancellor Melissa Nobles in charge.

A Hamas apologist is scheduled to speak at MIT as part of the program on March 18. Jewish alumni reached out to Ross and confirmed his willingness to participate in the program’s speaker series. When attempts were made to move forward, however, program planners informed the alumni that Ross is not an appropriate speaker because they deem him “a politician.” The alumni group has posted its March 12 open letter to Kornbluth here.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Jessica Costescu now takes a deep dive into the story under the headline “MIT Refused To Host Dennis Ross. It Invited a Hamas Apologist Instead.” Subhead: “Dalia Mogahed, who described Hamas terrorism as legal ‘resistance,’ slated to speak as a part of MIT’s ‘Standing Against Hate’ Initiative.”

What’s the trouble with Dennis Ross? It’s not that he is a politician. He has never run for office:

Like Ross, Mogahed has served as a presidential adviser, albeit to fewer presidents and in more junior roles. She served as an adviser to former president Barack Obama in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

For Matthew Handel and Lori Ullman, two Jewish Alumni Alliance members, MIT’s refusal to host Ross—and its excuse for excluding him—are insulting.

“It’s already patronizing for anyone to say we’re at MIT, so we think we’re smarter than you,” Handel, who co-founded the group, told the Free Beacon. “It’s beyond arrogant that they would say, ‘We work at MIT, so as MIT alums, we’re smarter than you; MIT students, we’re smarter than you; Congress, we’re smarter than you.'”

Costescu gives the reader everything he might need to understand the story and the actual trouble with Ross, including this valuable note: “MIT did not return a request for comment.”

WATCH: Anti-Israel Protesters at Yale Tear Down American Flag

Anti-Israel protesters at Yale University tore down an American flag on Friday night as they occupied the campus in what Jewish students have called an act of intimidation against them and against the university.

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WATCH: Anti-Israel Protesters at Columbia Chant Pro-Terror Slogans

Protesters at Columbia University chanted explicitly pro-terror slogans this week, calling for the killing of Israeli soldiers, as they occupied the campus illegally — even after a wave of arrests by the New York Police Department. The video of the

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Columbia Rabbi Tells Jewish Students to Leave for Their Own Safety

An Orthodox rabbi who serves the Jewish community at Columbia University sent a message to Jewish students this weekend urging them to leave campus for their own safety in the midst of pro-terror, pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

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NBC Reporter: Anti-Israel Protests at Columbia Are Actually 'Peaceful'

NBC and MSNBC correspondent Antonia Hylton claimed Sunday that the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, which are so extreme that a campus rabbi told Jewish students to leave for their own safety, were actually "peaceful."

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Michael Rapaport Says Radical Anti-Jewish Campus Protests Will Help Trump: 'I Can't Wait to See' Your Screaming and Crying When He Wins

Hollywood star Michael Rapaport has no time for the endless anti-Jewish protesters screaming their messages on campuses across the country. He warned Monday the law of unintended consequences will apply and the hate-filled protests will simply enhance the prospect of a Donald Trump victory come November.

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Ron DeSantis: Foreign Students Engaging in Antisemitic Protests Should Have Visas Canceled

Foreign students should have their visas canceled if they are engaging in antisemitic protests, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told the press on Monday, adding that U.S. students who are doing the same should be expelled from colleges and universities.

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Stephen A. Smith Blasted by Sportswriter for Saying Black People Relate to Trump: 'It's F*cking Insane!'

Sportswriter Jeff Pearlman has had enough of Stephen A. Smith giving his "opinion about everything." Specifically, Pearlman is upset at Smith for saying black people relate to Donald Trump, and he'd like the ESPN hot-taker to "stop f*cking talking" about Trump like he knows who he really is.

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Biden Sees Very Fine People on Both Sides of Campus Antisemitism

President Joe Biden condemned antisemitism on college campuses on Monday -- but equivocated, saying that he also condemned those who did not understand the Palestinians' point of view.

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Obama's Passover Message Adds Palestinians Into the Story; Omits Hostages

Former President Barack Obama used a Passover message on Monday to work Palestinians into the Jewish holiday, calling for empathy for those suffering in "Israel and Gaza," and for solidarity with "people of all religions."

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MSNBC's Maddow: Trump 'Seemed Old and Tired and Mad' in Court

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said Monday on "Chris Jansing Reports" that it was striking to see former President Donald Trump seemed "old and tired and mad" in the "dingy" Manhattan courtroom.

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Harvard Suspends 'Palestine Solidarity Committee'

Harvard College has suspended the “Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee” (PSC) on Monday for the remainder of the school year because of an unauthorized protest it held last Friday in solidarity with anti-Israel students at Columbia. The Harvard Crimson reported: The suspension

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Adams: Jewish Students Are Facing What Black Students Faced in Little Rock

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said that Jewish students are “going through” the same experience as black students did in Little Rock when they had “to be escorted on campuses because

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Columbia Denies Campus Access to Jewish, Pro-Israel Professor

Prof. Shai Davidai, a Jewish Israeli who has led counter-protesters against anti-Israel demonstration at Columbia University, was denied access to the main campus on Friday, ostensibly for his own safety from an anti-Israel mob.

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Joe Biden Condemns 'Antisemitic Protests', Also People 'Who Don't Understand' Issue 'with the Palestinians'

President Joe Biden condemned "antisemitic protests" happening on college campuses, while attempting to see the perspective of Palestinians, during an Earth Day event on Monday held at Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia.

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Moskowitz: Columbia 'Lost Control' and Is Letting a Second Charlottesville 'Ride'

On Monday’s “CNN NewsNight,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) stated that Columbia University has “completely lost control of the situation” and is “just letting it ride,” and that Jewish families he’s talked to have said that “if this was a minority

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Dershowitz: Biden Made 'Same Kind of Moral Equivalence He Complained About in Charlottesville,' He Wants Mob's Vote

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz stated that President Joe Biden’s response to antisemitism on college campuses is “the same kind of moral equivalence he complained about in Charlottesville,” and won’t

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Republican Senators Demand Biden Officials 'Protect Jewish Students,' 'Restore Order' at Colleges

Most Republican senators are demanding federal law enforcement and the Department of Education “act immediately to restore order” on college campuses where anti-Israel and antisemitic protests have broken out, especially at Columbia University.

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Romney on Trump's Character: 'You Don’t Pay Someone $130,000 Not to Have Sex with You'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Tuesday on CNN's "News Central" that his assessment of former President Donald Trump's character is you don’t pay someone to not to have sex with you.

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Mitt Romney Renders Verdict Already as Trial Begins: Donald Trump Is Guilty

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) believes that former President Donald Trump is guilty, something he stated clearly publicly, even before Trump's trial is really underway.

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AOC Spreads Hamas 'Mass Grave' Hoax to Demonize Israel

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is spreading a hoax about a "mass grave" supposedly discovered at a Gaza hospital where Israeli soldiers had recently been fighting terrorists.

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WATCH: Netanyahu Blasts Antisemitism on U.S. Campuses: 'Like Germany in the 1930s'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video Wednesday blasting antisemitism on American college campuses, saying the atmosphere had become like Germany in the 1930s, and calling on leaders to do more to fight it.

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Nolte: Elite Universities Breed the New Hitler Youth

Through compulsory Youth Camps, Adolf Hitler did in the 1930s what elite universities are doing today: creating Jew-hating totalitarians.

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NYU Prof.: 'Orthodoxy' Promoted By Us of 'Oppressors and Oppressed' Helped Cause Antisemitism Double Standard

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business Scott Galloway stated that the double standard around antisemitism on campus is partially “because of an orthodoxy promoted by me and my colleagues that there

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Barnard Prof.: Jewish Students Aren't Unsafe, Columbia Will 'Reinforce' Incorrect Views that Jews Have More Power

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Associate Professor of Sociology at Barnard College Debbie Becher stated that it’s “unfortunate that leaders are telling Jewish students who support Israel’s war on Gaza that they are unsafe” and that while antisemitism

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Cruz: Biden Should Threaten Colleges with Sending in the Guard Like Eisenhower

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that President Joe Biden should threaten that if colleges will not protect Jewish students, he will send in the National Guard like President Eisenhower did to

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Rove: Anti-Israel Protests Likely at Dem Convention this Summer

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "America Reports" that anti-Israel protests at the Democratic Party’s Chicago convention in the summer are likely.

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Omar: Johnson Went to Columbia to 'Stir Up' 'More Anger and Hate' and 'Endanger' 'Lives'

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) stated that House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) visit to Columbia was to “stir up really more anger and hate and endanger the lives of young people who

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Pro-terror CAIR Complains After USC Clears Anti-Israel Protesters

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) complained Wednesday evening after the University of Southern California (USC) cleared an encampment that anti-Israel protesters had set up at the private Los Angeles campus.

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Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill Includes ‘$3.5 Billion to Supercharge Mass Migration from the Middle East'

President Joe Biden's pro-migration border chief is opening new processing centers for Muslim migrants from the Arab world, just after Congress granted $3.5 billion more for migration within the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel.

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Harvard Yard Invaded by Anti-Israel Encampment; 'Intifada Revolution'

Anti-Israel protesters invaded Harvard Yard on Wednesday, the second day of Passover, setting up an encampment and chanting "intifada revolution," provoking an angry response from Jewish leaders concerned for student safety.

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Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard's Anti-Israel Encampment

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and pro-Hamas protesters who camped out in Harvard Yard on Wednesday received a rude awakening overnight as automatic sprinklers switched on, soaking tents and sending the activists into a panic.

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