October 2, 2019

A couple good books.

Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli–Arab Tragedy (2007) Shlomo ben Ami

Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel (2014) Joshua Muravchik

September 24, 2019

Aurora shooting victims raise concerns about Joker in letter to Warner Bros.

Family members of theatergoers killed in a mass shooting during a 2012 screening of The Dark Knight Rises have signed a letter to Warner Bros. expressing concerns about the new film Joker.

The family members say they remain haunted by “absolute hell and pain” over the shooting in Aurora, Colo. — when a gunman wearing body armor and armed with multiple weapons killed 12 and injured scores of others — and say the storyline of Todd Phillips’ Joker is worrisome. In the film, the DC Comics villain played by Joaquin Phoenix is presented as a mistreated outcast who goes on a killing spree.

[The Aurora shooting], perpetrated by a socially isolated individual who felt ‘wronged’ by society, has changed the course of our lives,” reads the letter obtained by EW. “When we learned that Warner Bros. was releasing a movie called Joker that presents the character as a protagonist with a sympathetic origin story, it gave us pause.”

The group isn’t asking the studio to halt the film’s release, however, or urging a boycott. Instead, they’re asking the studio donate to groups that help victims of gun violence, as well as “end political contributions to candidates who take money from the NRA and vote against gun reform” and “use your political clout and leverage in Congress to actively lobby for gun reform.”

https://ew.com/movies/2019/09/24/aurora-shooting-joker/


I think this movie is an incels wet dream and probably shouldn't be released at all.

September 16, 2019

The Womens March has a new board member.

https://twitter.com/ZahraBilloo/status/773885643743227904


https://twitter.com/ZahraBilloo/status/297184412645339137


https://twitter.com/ZahraBilloo/status/1039264852588552192


https://twitter.com/melissaeweiss/status/1173660989855846400

September 16, 2019

Womans March cutting ties with three original board members accused of anti-Semitism

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The Women’s March is cutting ties with three inaugural board members who have been dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism, infighting and financial mismanagement — controversies some say have slowed the organization’s progress and diminished its impact.

Co-Chairs Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour stepped down from the board July 15, though the organization has been slow to announce their departures. The Women’s March website continued to host their photos and titles as co-chairs through this week, when the group announced the board turnover.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/09/16/womens-march-cutting-ties-with-three-original-board-members-accused-anti-semitism/

September 11, 2019

This is quite common, in a certain context.

https://www.camera.org/article/wave-of-palestinian-violence-accompanied-by-spate-of-bad-writing/

August 31, 2019

Iran first violated UNSCR 2231 in March 2016.

Exclusive: Iran missile tests were 'in defiance of' U.N. resolution - U.S., allies


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-missiles/exclusive-iran-missile-tests-were-in-defiance-of-u-n-resolution-u-s-allies-idUSKCN0WV2HE

August 16, 2019

I think it was a mistake to prevent the trip

But Rubin is understating Rep. Tlaib's positions on the IP confict when she describes them as mere "criticism". The one state solution Rep. Tlaib supports is in direct opposition to the UN Security Council's resolutions on the Israel/Palestinian conflict as well as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She does not support the very idea of a Jewish homeland, and does not recognize the Jewish connection to the land, going as far to claim that Jesus was a Palestinian.



The candidate, Rashida Tlaib, also said in an interview that she favors a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as opposed to a two-state solution that would establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

https://forward.com/news/national/408368/michigan-democratic-nominee-endorses-one-state-solution-cuts-to-israeli/

She said her immigrant mother keeps her grounded, and is so compassionate. She said her mother told a man who voiced opposition to her hijab, “You don’t understand. Jesus was born in my country!” Tlaib said her mother believes that if people know that, things will be so much better.

http://www.pressandguide.com/news/rashida-tlaib-an-arab-american-woman-s-rise-to-congress/article_b5ac5c24-6211-11e9-addd-cb9dffac23c3.html?


In an interview on the Skullduggery podcast released last Friday, Tlaib — the first Palestinian-American woman representative in Congress — chose to take a historical detour when asked about her vision of a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“There’s a kind of a calming feeling, I always tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust in the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways had been wiped out, and some people’s passports.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-palestinian-scholars-reject-rashida-tlaib-s-take-on-post-holocaust-history-1.7239784

July 31, 2019

New searchable collection of Holocaust records from Ancestry.com

Search the new collection of Holocaust records.

Find the untold stories in your family history in millions of never-before searchable records related to the Holocaust.

https://www.ancestry.com/cs/alwaysremember

July 17, 2019

Ex-CNN commentator at progressive summit: Major news outlets are 'Zionist orgs'

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A t-shirt sold at the Netroots Nation summit.



PHILADELPHIA — Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content,” during a panel on Friday at the annual Netroots Nation summit held by progressive activists in Philadelphia.

The summit describes itself as “the largest annual conference for progressives” and has long been a stop for Democratic presidential hopefuls, including this year.

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In response to a question from the audience, Hill described the choices faced by young journalists when they tell stories about Palestinians.

“They’re like, I want to work for Fox, or I want to work for ABC or NBC or whoever. I want to tell these stories,” he said. “You have to make choices about where you want to work. And if you work for a Zionist organization, you’re going to get Zionist content. And no matter how vigorous you are in the newsroom, there are going to be two, three, four, 17, or maybe one powerful person — not going to suggest a conspiracy — all news outlets have a point of a view. And if your point of view competes with the point of view of the institution, you’re going to have challenges.”

The comments on the panel and the t-shirt sale both drew condemnation from Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. In a statement to Jewish Insider, Greenblatt said “Zionism is nothing like white supremacy. Anyone who offensively claims Zionism is a white supremacist project is ignorant of the tremendous diversity of modern Israel and seeks to negate the millennia-old connection of Jews to the Land of Israel.”

He added that while the list on the t-shirts “includes antisemitism among things to ‘resist,’ this claim that Zionism is one of these horrible types of discrimination is, ironically, antisemitic.”


https://jewishinsider.com/2019/07/ex-cnn-commentator-at-progressive-summit-major-news-outlets-are-zionist-orgs/