The New York Times Gets Israel Wrong – Again

The New York Times, doing its imitation of the Palestinian news agency Wafa, has yet again misrepresented the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians who would, if only they could, cheerfully destroy the Jewish state. The Times provides what it calls a “news analysis” – more rigorous, presumably, than a mere report of facts — of the current […]

Iranian President Raisi: Zionist State Is Collapsing

Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran known best for his bloody past as a hanging judge, responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranian dissidents, recently spoke by telephone to the Butcher of Damascus, President Bashar Al-Assad. More on the conversation can be found here: “Global Winds Blowing Away from ‘Arrogance, Zionism,’ Raisi Tells Assad,” […]

Jordan Claims That Holiest Site In Judaism Must Be Free of Jews

The Temple Mount (for the Muslims, Haram al-Sharif) is the holiest site in Judaism, the place where both the First and Second Temples were built and then destroyed, the first in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians, and the second by the Romans in 70 A.D. It is also the third holiest site in Islam, after […]

Turks Recoil At Their Very Own ‘Little Aisha’

At the age of six, a Turkish girl — identified only by her initials HKG — was married off to 29-year-old Kadir Istekli, a friend of her family, by her father. Why at the age of six? That was the age at which little Aisha was called in from playing on her swing to be […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Guardian Changes Words to Erase Palestinian Terror, Distort Israeli Actions

When it comes to the Palestinian war on Israel, it doesn’t take much to lead an audience astray, to prepare minds with a headline, or a first sentence, in order that they receive a story in a certain way. So many people read no more than the headline, or the headline and first sentence of […]

Israeli Nobel Prize Winner Voices Rare Support of Judicial Overhaul

Very few members of Israel’s professional class, especially university professors, have had a good word to say about the new government’s proposal for judicial reform. Still, 120 Israeli academics have signed a letter — that received almost no coverage in the Western press – supporting the judicial overhaul. All the attention — approving attention — […]

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 […]

The ‘Poor’ Palestinians Are Not So Poor

Elder of Ziyon has a piece on the latest UN report on poverty in countries around the world. This “Multidimensional Poverty Index” is arrived at by studying health, education, and the standard of living, based on ten weighted indicators. It turns out that in the “State of Palestine,” there is less poverty than in more […]

About Those Six Muslims Charged In Vienna with Cruelty to Animals

It was in 1683 that the Muslim Turks, in their invasion of south and central Europe, lay siege to Vienna for the second and last time. They did not obtain their objective; the Viennese withstood the attack. That unsuccessful siege was the high water mark of the Ottoman entry into Europe. Now, in 2023, there are […]

Biden Singles Out Israel For Criticism

Joe Biden has been looking for ways to distance the United States from Israel since the end of 2022. Now, with the recent mass protests over judicial reform in Israel, Biden has found his excuse to berate Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish state. More on this here: “In His Supposed “Concern” For Democracy, Biden Singles […]

Anti-White Racism Can Now Be Taught In German Schools

This just in! Germany, whose last encounter with similar stuff led the Germans to murder six million Jews, has just upheld the right of its schools to teach anti-white racism. More on this victory for the naked racism of Critical Race Theory can be found here: “Germany: Berlin court rules anti-White Critical Race Theory can […]

Ilhan Omar, Jeremy Corbyn Call For Perpetrators of War in Yemen to Be Held ‘Accountable’

In Yemen, the civil war that has continued since 2015 is a proxy war between Iran, which supports with weapons and money the Shi’a Houthis, and Saudi Arabia, which not only supports with money and weapons the Sunni Arabs who control the ever-shrinking national government, but has sent 100 planes and 150,000 soldiers to fight […]

The Graves of Academe: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Queer and Trans Studies

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics I’ve been intermittently visiting – sometimes with amusement, always with horror —  a website where academic jobs are advertised. I do this not  for myself, but to help keep tabs for a friend’s son, who has been looking for permanent employment in a university for several years. His problem is […]

Archeologists Discover Oldest Pearl City In UAE

Archeologists have just announced the discovery of the oldest “Pearl City” – a city whose economy was based solely on pearl-diving – on the island of Siniyah that belongs to the United Arab Emirates. The story is here: “Archaeologists Discover Oldest Pearl City in the Gulf in the UAE,” i24 News, March 20, 2023: Archaeologists on […]

44 Retired Generals and Admirals Ask Biden Administration to Provide Israel with the Weapons It Needs

Joe Biden has assured the world that Iran will not acquire nuclear weapons “on my watch.” How much credence ought the people of Israel, who will be the ones most affected should Iran acquire a nuclear weapon, give to this assurance? None at all. Israelis cannot entrust their national survival to assurances from Joe Biden […]

Israel Soars to Fourth Place in World Happiness Index

In the World Happiness Index, Israel has now soared from ninth to fourth place. It’s an astonishing result, given that Israelis must live with the daily threat of terrorism, the massive effort to delegitimize the state through endless UN resolutions, the relentless BDS campaign, and the threat from a state actor – Iran – that […]

Is Israel the Loser In the Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement?

The Saudi-Iranian agreement, brokered by China, to renew diplomatic ties has now been followed by the Saudis inviting Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi for an official visit. It looks as if the two rivals are serious about promoting ever-better relations. What does this mean for Israel, which has its own security ties to Saudi Arabia, with […]

In Gaza, 70% Youth Unemployment Leads to Despair

For young Gazan Arabs, life is terrible. There are scarcely any jobs, even for those with higher degrees. Positions are filled not on merit, but on the applicant’s connections to Hamas, or Fatah, or to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Corruption is colossal, siphoning off billions that ought to have gone to all of the 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 […]

That ‘Arab Demographic Time Bomb’ In Israel? It Doesn’t Exist

The Israelis are constantly told that one reason they need to accept a “two-state solution” is so that they can preserve a state that is “both Jewish and democratic,” which will not be possible if the Arab citizens outnumber the Jews. There is a need, so they are told, to create a new state where […]

German Tourists Get a Taste of Palestinian Hospitality

Two German tourists were visiting Israel recently, where they experienced something Israelis have experienced in the past when they have taken a wrong turn in the West Bank and ended up in the middle of a Palestinian city: an Arab mob quickly forming, intent on pulling them out of their car, in order to beat […]

UNRWA Schools Still Spreading Antisemitic Hate

Every year, watchdog groups IMPACT-se and UN Watch study the textbooks of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and the UNRWA curriculum, and reports about disturbing behavior by teachers, And every year they find that yet again they must charge UNRWA with using schoolbooks, and employing […]

A Palestinian Visits A Holocaust Museum

Rasha Abdullah Salameh, a Jordanian of Palestinian descent, describes her anger after her visit, in 2017, to a Holocaust museum in Skokie, Illinois, and how she came away in a state of fury, because the museum did not include anything about the far greater tragedy that the Palestinians, she claims, have endured at the hands […]

That Islamic Group’s Fatwa Against Hamas

A major Islamic organization has just issued a legal ruling against the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, saying that its treatment of the millions of Palestinians under its rule goes against the Qur’an and teachings of Muhammad. The ruling came after a series of video clips were made public, containing testimonies from numerous residents of Gaza, […]

Roger Waters Claims His ‘Free Speech’ is Being Denied, Promises to Sue German Cities

Roger Waters is the world’s best-known antisemite. He hates Israel with a passion, despises every aspect of the Jewish state, a wicked country that he claims – despite all the evidence to the contrary — practices apartheid, is a “colonial-settler” enterprise erected on “stolen Palestinian land,” and kills Palestinians in a “genocide.” He’s been a […]

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 […]

Who Needs To Major In English or History or Philosophy, When All Things Digital Are Available?

Marymount University is a Catholic institution in Virginia that has always focused on the liberal arts: English, History, Philosophy, Art. But Marymount’s trustees are keenly aware that we have entered a brave new world, where vocational training, and not liberal education, in the traditional sense, must take precedence, because what counts now is not the […]

92.5% of Palestinians Killed This Year: Members of Terror Groups Or Active in Attacks, Rest Were Caught In Crossfire

Adin Haykin is an Israeli who – just as he did last year – has been documenting every single Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank this year, and identifying their terrorist affiliations or, absent any, their participation in attacks. Elder of Ziyon put Haykin’s current thread on a Twitter Thread Reader post. […]

After New Accord, Saudis Will Watch Iran’s Behavior Closely

The renewal of diplomatic relations, after seven years, between Saudi Arabia and Iran, brokered by China, is cause for alarm in the West for several reasons. It shows that China is moving to replace the United States as the chief outside power in the region. China hopes for greater economic ties to the fabulously rich […]