Crossing the Jordan: The New Antisemitism and How it Will Destroy the West

December 12, 2023 By Janet Levy

As Israel deals with a multi-pronged Hamas-led invasion from the Gaza Strip amidst unwarranted international pressure, Canadian writer David Solway’s scholarly collection of essays, Crossing the Jordan: On Judaism, Islam and the West, comes as a timely reminder of how multiplicity in self-identification is undermining Jewish unity.  The book, to be released today, December 12, also addresses the idiosyncratic position of Israel among the nations of the world, the threat to liberal Judeo-Christian values posed by Islam, and the Left’s catalysis of the subsuming of Western culture..........

Solway asks, is Israel the only nation whose right to exist is questioned and threatened?  Why is it labeled an occupier and a colonizer when Eretz Yisrael and Judah predate any Arab presence in the Holy Land by more than a thousand years?  Why is it the only country that has been pressured to return captured territory after winning wars started by Muslim neighbors who have vowed to eradicate it?  Why are its defeated enemies allowed to dictate terms of peace?.........To Read More.....

Illuminating the October 7 Massacre - By Elise Cooper - Two books have been recently published highlighting recent atrocities against the Jews. The first, a novel, The Paris Housekeeper by Renee Ryan, and the other a non-fiction, War Against the Jews by Alan Dershowitz. These books are very relevant to the atrocities committed on October 7^th by Hamas against Israeli civilians. But they also show the similarities between what happened to the Jews during the Nazi reign and the October 7^th massacre. How apropos that Hanukkah, the miracle of resistance, started on December 7^th, the “Day of Infamy,” when America was the victim of an unprovoked brutal attack. As Jews around the world celebrate this festival, they are reminded that October 7^th was, quoting an Israeli official, “Israel’s Pearl Harbor.” Below is an interview with both authors about their books and the relevance to today...........

 

Wokism vs. American Jews - December 11, 2023  By Blaine L. Pardoe - The resignation of the University of Pennsylvania’s president Liz Magill for misspeaking before a congressional committee regarding university anti-Semitism is further evidence that the woke movement on campus is out of control. The presidents of Harvard and MIT should also face either suspension or removal as well, if only for the symbolic effect such acts create. Along with many other university leaders, they have administered a culture of arrogance, violence, threats, and intimidation on their campuses.  This goes far beyond the three universities that went before Congress last week.  The wave of hate coming from colleges is far from new. What makes it different is that it is getting media exposure. Having interviewed conservative students on woke campuses, I can assure you that the hate has been there for years. Students have told me of being shoved, intimidated, and taunted on college campuses. When they turned to the universities for protection, they were dismissed, the same as Jewish students today: “These people are just expressing their views.” The colleges and universities suddenly found copies of the Constitution and supported the First Amendment...............

 

Hamas supporters are completely unhinged from logic and even reality - December 11, 2023

By Andrea Widburg - I’ve noticed on Facebook that, in 2022, the non-conservatives I follow obsessively posted, “I stand with Ukraine.” However, these same people have been remarkably silent since October 7. The single exception is the series of posts from a woke acquaintance who is fanatically pro-Hamas because he claims that Israel is committing genocide against the Gazastanians (a belief he shares with his Jewish wife). When I challenged this claim, I learned that behind a patina of rationality lay only madness. I don’t know how it’s possible to function in the same political and social universe as people like this..............

 

Hamas: Pigs at the trough who ate all the food December 10, 2023 By Monica Showalter - Are the terrorists who attacked Israel 'Hamas' or are they just 'ham' for short? We all know what they looked like when they surrendered to Israel's military-fit, battle-tested troops.   Hamas hijacks aid trucks full of food for the people of Gaza and eats it itself.........

 

Sarcasm on: How the state of Israel successfully convinces the world the Jews are land thieves - December 10, 2023 By Yehuda Israel - Some people seem awfully puzzled these days.  How come international Jew-hatred increased right in step with the holiday pogroms? They even killed Man's Best Friend.  Where's the sympathy?  Shouldn't the hate have dipped a bit, at least politely paused until the Israeli army struck back?  How odd!   Is it wokeness?  What, then, of the non-woke?  Well, here's another riddle for you.  Unrelated, of course, but if the shoe fits, well…A tongue-in-cheek look at some of the most ridiculous arguments around Israel and Palestine..........