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We identified a set of over 700 people from all walks of life profiled by the organization Stop Antisemitism for displaying flagrant hostility toward Jews and Israel. We found that health professionals were more than 2.5 times more likely to be found among antisemites than their share of the workforce. Doctors were almost 26 times overrepresented in the list of antisemites relative to their prevalence in the workforce. And half of those Jew-hating doctors received their medical degrees abroad.
The fact that Jew-hatred has found a perch among highly educated doctors and other health professionals runs counter to the conventional explanations for antisemitism. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other legacy Jewish organizations, antisemitism is born of ignorance, which must be fought through education. As ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt frames the issue, antisemitism intersects with “ignorance and conspiratorial thinking … Ultimately, any strategy for protecting the Jewish community must include education at its core—we can’t fight hate without changing hearts and minds.”
Both the past and present put the lie to Greenblatt’s hypothesis. Campus Hamasniks at Columbia and Harvard are radical and morally depraved, but they aren’t uneducated. Nor were the architects of the Holocaust, inheritors of a German cultural tradition that was arguably unmatched in its yearning for modernity.
The challenge posed by foreign-trained doctors is that they arrive in the U.S. after having largely completed their moral formation, sometimes in political systems that explicitly promote antisemitism.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-medicine-antisemitism-foreign-trained-doctors
Western leaders are getting Jews killed
Powerful politicians across the West are "fighting"
antisemitism with one hand, while feeding it with the other. Sadly,
they don't seem to understand the link, and it is now costing lives.
Western leaders’ anti-Israel rhetoric is having foreseeable ugly consequences.It is not a coincidence that the murder of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, D.C. follows an escalation in anti-Israel rhetoric from world leaders.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar rightly said the murders were a direct consequence of rising global antisemitism and anti-Israel incitement, and called out world leaders for spreading “modern blood libels.”Britain, France, Canada, Australia and other countries have dialed up the rhetoric and again repeated Palestinian lies about Israel’s war against the genocidal terror group Hamas in Gaza.
These countries’ leaders now have blood on their hands and all over their bodies.U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee gets it. He accused Britain and France of “hypocrisy” and said he was “outraged” by their recent rhetoric and actions against Israel. The two countries “need to go back and remember their history,” he said, referencing how Britain, France, and their allies won the Second World War. They “bombed the heck out of Germany, and that’s what ended the war, it was a decisive victory.
”This is not the first time violence has followed Western countries’ anti-Israel actions. The firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue in November came immediately after Australia betrayed Israel by clandestinely changing its policy and voting at the United Nations to recognize Palestinian sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank).
https://open.substack.com/pub/futureofjewish/p/western-leaders-are-getting-jews
Gaza Starvation lies
(From Israel Realtime)
GAZA STARVATION LIES - are shown on live video from Gaza: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r17lo2wbxg to be so ridiculously false, with literally piles of excellent quality food stuffs abundantly available. We note that sources such as Al Jazeera, and taken then by media such as the BBC, line up and pay tens of children to stand with empty pots - but don’t turn around and capture the full markets.
“Even based on UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) food security report own analysis, there is no famine in Gaza.”
.. 9 aid trucks were allowed to enter today.
Yuval Raphael!!!!!
Earned second place in the Eurovision contest. She won the popular vote by a landslide.
A New Day Will Rise.
I'll post a video when I can find it.
Yuval Raphael IS ...
GOING TO THE FINALS!!!
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/yuval-raphael-advances-to-eurovision-final-after-performing-new-day-will-rise/
For those who wondered about why intelligence didn't warn of Oct 7 attack by Gaza
I have seen this from several reliable sources. When I have a link, I will add it:
📌📌 Braking EXPOSED: Hamas Double Agent Within Shin Bet Network
In a chilling revelation, Israel has reportedly arrested a source embedded in Gaza who worked with Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service—but not for the reasons they believed.
This man was a double agent—secretly loyal to Hamas.
Just before the October 7 massacre, he falsely assured Israeli intelligence that Hamas had no plans to strike, deliberately blinding Israel to the most devastating attack in decades.
The betrayal didn’t happen on the battlefield. It happened in the shadows—inside the intelligence network trusted to protect Israeli lives. This deception may have helped Hamas catch Israel completely off guard, costing over 1,200 lives and leaving an entire nation in trauma.
This isn’t just espionage. This is blood treason.
And it highlights the cruel sophistication of Hamas: not only does it murder civilians—it plays the long game, infiltrating trust, manipulating truth, and exploiting Israel’s own system of protection.
Let this be a warning: our enemy doesn’t always wear a uniform. Sometimes it wears a mask of cooperation.
The State of Israel must now ask the hard questions—how many more infiltrators? How many more lies were whispered into our ears while the enemy sharpened their knives?
Never again can we afford to trust without vigilance.
Kedoshim: The Holy Nation and the Dangers of Racism
Food for thought.
The harm and suffering that racism and its offshoots have inflicted upon humanity throughout the course of history is deeply felt in its anguish, wide-ranging in its impact, and egregiously pernicious in its multifaceted assault on dignity, justice, and life itself. As such, rejection of racism should be visceral, intuitive, and essential to decency; no explanation would seem to be necessary.
Nonetheless, we gain from examining, rationally and intellectually, the basis for this rejection. Such attention is vital to effectively combat the most damaging elements at their foundation, while placing in context the varying nuances, as well as separating out less founded allegations that cloud the landscape of contemporary discourse.
Fortunately, the corpus of Jewish law and philosophy provide valuable tools and crucial insight to this analysis. At the outset, it is important to note that “Racism” is a composite term, applied in multiple contexts and in varying degrees, encompassing many actions and attitudes. These components are most effectively discussed individually.
First Component of Racism – Disparaging Speech about Groups:
The extensive legal, philosophical, and moralistic literature surrounding the prohibition of lashon hara (derogatory speech) – a transgression marked by extraordinary condemnation in Jewish tradition – provides a framework for a value system of speech that transcends the technicalities of its many details. As such, it furnishes insight into one element of racism, disparaging speech about groups of people.
https://riets.substack.com/p/kedoshim-the-holy-nation-and-the
The Unbreakable Link Between Zionism and Judaism
At a time when the word "Zionism" has become an accuastion and a curse, at a time when "I'm not antisemetic, I'm antizionist has become a common (antisemetic) trope, and at a time when seemingly none other than Jews comprehend what Zionism is, an excellent essay has been written explaining this core aspect of Judism. Perhaps in reading it the "antizionists" might grasp a bit more about what they are really talking about:
Critics of Israel — the only country in the world that has “critics” — frequently claim that Zionism is a modern political ideology with little connection to Judaism, or that one can be a faithful Jew while rejecting Zionism altogether.
But such assertions flatten the deep historical, religious, and emotional link between the Jewish People and the Land of Israel. In truth, Zionism is not some foreign graft onto Judaism; it is a natural flowering of Jewish identity, continuity, and yearning.
To understand the connection between Zionism and Judaism, one must begin with the concept of Am Yisrael (the People of Israel). Judaism is not merely a set of beliefs; it is the lived culture, set of laws, moral code, and memory of a people.
https://www.futureofjewish.com/p/the-unbreakable-link-between-zionism
The Gaza Famine Myth
How lazy journalism, bad data, and skewed statistics fueled accusations of war crimes against Israel.
In April 2024, Samantha Power, director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the Biden administration, became the first senior U.S. official to declare that famine in Gaza had begun. She cited a report published by an independent, United Nations–affiliated monitoring system, called the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Global Initiative (IPC).
But there were serious problems with Power’s sensational testimony. Foremost among them: The IPC never declared a famine in Gaza. The report she cited was a projection of possible outcomes, not a conclusive finding. The next month, USAID issued its own analysis alleging that famine was underway, an indictment so serious that it required confirmation from an independent board of global experts known as the Famine Review Committee (FRC).
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-gaza-famine-myth
The Next 24
The 24 hostages presumed to be alive who are still held by Hamas: Top row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Edan Alexander, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from left: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Bipin Joshi, Rom Braslavski, Ziv Berman, Gali Berman. Third row, from left: Omri Miran, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Bottom row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Tamir Nimrodi, Pinta Nattapong. (Hostages Families Forum)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-next-24-these-are-the-remaining-hostages-presumed-alive-in-gaza/
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