So for some Texas Republicans, it seems, being Jewish is enough to disqualify a fellow Republican from holding high office in the state legislature.

 https://www.texasobserver.org/hotonthetrail/srec-member-i-got-into-politics-to-put-christian-conservatives-into-office

 I wonder if anyone's… Read full post »

Khaled Abu Toameh notices an epidemic of not noticing [extended excerpt follows]:

 "The arrest last week of seven Palestinian university lecturers at the hands of Palestinian Authority security services in the West Bank is yet another example of how the international media functions in this… Read full post »

Michael Bloomberg -- a mayor in whom New York can truly take pride:

The simple fact is, this building is private property, and the owners have a right to use the building as a house of worship, and the government has no right whatsoever to deny

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... and guess who didn't do it?

 http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/06/28/gaza.summer.camp.attack/index.html

Heard any outrage about this here in OS land?

Didn't think so. Read full post »

Here we go. Up front: I'm not particularly in favor of the Gaza blockade (though I do think when it is lifted some provision needs to be in place to ensure Hamas doesn't import rockets along with the coriander), and I agree with the many Israelis who think the raid was… Read full post »

In Poland, a patch of sunlight:

 http://www.forward.com/articles/124919/

Relations between the Catholic Church and the Jewish community have not fared especially well in this Benedictine era. It is gratifying, therefore, to learn of Father Maksymin Tandek of Torun, Poland (the birthplace of Cop… Read full post »

Who says Jews need a homeland, anyway? There are so many places where they're  made to feel welcome, like this one:

 http://www.realitatea.net/un-simbol-religios-evreiesc-a-fost-profanat-la-chisinau-de-circa-100-de-ortodocsi---video_691659.html

Yitzhak Shapiro, a loathsome rabbi in the West Bank, offers up a particularly loathsome bit of Biblical exegisis. Many a reader rightly keen to point out that only a tiny minority of Muslims advocate violent jihad will, of course, lose his grip on such subtle nuance in the face of the… Read full post »

But we all know that expressions of support for the Palestinian cause never ever have anything to with antisemitism. Right?

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Here's one for Mr. Boffo's catalog of People Unclear on the Concept: some Poles (including a number of elected officials) are incensed that film-maker Aro Korol is working on a documentary exploring contemporary Poland's peculiar brand of Jewless antisemitism. The compelling counter-argument from Kor… Read full post »

The JJ's prayers answered.  Read full post »

Paging the Jolly Judaeophobe. The Jolly Judaeophobe to a white courtesy phone, please.

A Dutch journalist interviewed by De Telegraf, Holland's largest daily, has exposed the nefarious origins of -- the flu (another of the JJ's, ah, interests).  It was (who knew?) -- the Jews.

Because why shoul… Read full post »

OS's Jolly Judaeophobe and Aborigine Al will want to break out the big spoons for this one: the chief Islamic judge of the Palestinian Authority, one Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, has decreed that there never were Jews in ancient Jerusalem and that their so-called Temple never existed. (Those contempo… Read full post »

The Eurpoean Instititue for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism publishes an article by Arieh Kovler, giving some historical context to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet's journalistic coup. It seems that for some Swedish reporters, it's permissible to research a story by watching an Iranian minis… Read full post »

Nothing like a good old-fashioned blood libel to get the heart (or kidney, or liver) started in the morning. That Palestinians would be happy to circulate stories about Israeli soldiers ripping out their organs for resale is hardly surprising. That a major Swedish newspaper would publish the story as… Read full post »

Gordon Wagner, OS's own jolly judaeophobe, goes the extra mile by reposting another utterly undocumented report, this one asserting that China and Russia have warned the US that they will declare WWIII if the US allows Israel to destroy Iranian nuclear sites, and that Israel has "moved three quarters… Read full post »

 One of seven things Norm would like Caryl Churchill to tell them:

1
Tell them it's a play
Tell them it's serious
But don't enlighten them
Tighten them
Put some night in them.
Tell it in the voice of Jews
Tell it only in the voice of Jews
That way any… Read full post »

Thuggery, eh?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOIjuB6Gpww Read full post »

http://www.thejc.com/articles/muslim-changed-forever-her-visit-auschwitz

Journalist Nick Cohen: "Hatred is turning me into a Jew."

 http://www.thejc.com/articles/hatred-turning-me-a-jew Read full post »

... UK?

Norm Geras points to this. Excerpt:

"One disturbing aspect involves the targeting of Jewish children. A Birmingham school is investigating reports that 20 children chased a 12-year-old girl, its only Jewish pupil, chanting "Kill all Jews" and "Death to Jews". In another incident a Jewish sch… Read full post »

Writing in the Feb 3 Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl's father Judea locates with absolute precision the moral vacuum that is the mind of Jimmy Carter:

"But the clearest endorsement of terror as a legitimate instrument of political bargaining came from former President Jimmy Carter. In his book 'Pal… Read full post »

"To hold Israel to the standards of international humanitarian law, the elementary standards entailed by codes of human rights, is only right and proper. But to hold Israel to those standards, but not also its regional adversaries, suggests a special hostility towards it that needs some explanation.… Read full post »

Yes, Virginia, there really is antisemitism.

Americans (e.g., http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=99884) are clearly eager to swallow even the most transparent anti-Israel propaganda. Thanks to OS, this fecal, Jew-baiting swill has now seeped from the  Islamic fundamentalist propaganda cesspo… Read full post »

According to this gem from the Egyptian press, it wasn't the mob or the Commies that killed Kennedy, it was, of course, the Jewish Lobby. And it was this omnipotent Jewish Lobby's unrestrained malevolence that required such a heavy security presence during the Obama inauguration. 

http://watchin… Read full post »