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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden (18)



This is the latest in our series of translations from European sources on the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood in European nations and the 18th such article on Sweden. The article is translated by Fousesquawk from the conservative Swedish site, Nyheter Idag. It concerns the resumption of financial support from the city of Stockholm to the Ibn Rushd Study Association, a documented branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

 https://nyheteridag.se/stockholms-stad-beviljar-miljonbidrag-till-ibn-rushd-stoppar-bidrag-till-forening-mot-hedersvald/

City of Stockholm grants one million (kronors) to Ibn Rushd- stops contributions to association against honor violence

Thursday, 28 March 2024

Last December, the city of Stockholm paused a planned payment of 3.9 million (kronors)  to the controversial study association, Ibn Rushd after the Public Education Council determined that the study association's teaching materials dealt with child abuse, child marriage, and described homosexuality as a sin. But on Tuesday, the Cultural Committee in Stockholm decided to resume the payments, Swedish Radio reports. 

The criticized material was reportedly used by the study association in other places than in Stockholm, and after Ibn Rushd came back with a plan of action as the city was visiting the association's operations, the payments to the association were resumed.

At the same time, the city of Stockholm stopped payments of 600,000 (kronors) per year to the association, "Never forget Peta and Fadime" (GAPF), which works against honor oppression. The reason is that a board member of the association, put up postings on his private Facebook page that the city views as breaking the city's guidelines.

GAPF states in a press release that it has distanced itself from the board member's now-deleted posts and that the association has taken measures such as updating its communication policy and ethical guidelines, as well as conducting training for staff and personnel, but the city of Stockholm is standing fast to its decision.

"We wonder how the city really works within democracy. How can a study association that has links to the Muslim Brotherhood and has been involved in brokering temporary marriage contracts, i.e. trafficking in women's bodies according to a disclosure by Uppdrag Gransking (Assignment Examination) qualify for support but not us, who strongly help and protect vulnerable women and girls?" says Sara Mohammad, founder of GAPF, in a statement.

Since the election, the city of Stockholm is run by a coalition made up of Social Democrats, the Left Party, and the Green Party.


Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Gaza: One Hostage's Story

This article first appeared in New English Review.

Amit Soussana
-Reuters


Amit Soussana, a 40-year-old Israeli woman who was taken hostage on October 7 by Hamas and later released in a prisoner swap, has come forward to tell her story. It is beyond disturbing and should serve as a lesson for all the people in the West who are demonstrating on behalf of the Palestinians-in effect, Hamas. It is a tale of beating, torture, and sexual abuse, not just by the terrorists of Hamas who kidnapped her and took her to Gaza, but apparently by “civilian” men who kept her prisoner in their homes and abused her. Her story, which appears in the Times of Israel (as well as many other major news sources), can be read here. (Reader warning.)

Putting aside the obvious barbarity of Hamas on October 7 (and beyond), according to many reports, it appears that not all the hostages have been kept in the subterranean tunnels where Hamas terrorists are hiding. Many have reportedly been turned over to people in their homes for guarding.  On October 7, videos from the terrorists themselves showed howling mobs of civilians celebrating the arrival of the Israeli hostages in Gaza. There is the infamous video of a young German woman, kidnapped from the music festival she was attending, lying motionless, half naked in the bed of a pickup truck, and Palestinian civilians spitting on her body and striking her. Gaza was cheering on October 7, just as they were cheering on 9-11. Make no mistake: Hamas enjoys the vast support of the civilian population in Gaza (and the West Bank as well). Today, it is those same civilians in Gaza that the world is expressing so much concern for. Of course, nobody should celebrate the death of innocents. There are surely women and children in Gaza who have died during the Israeli invasion who are not guilty of anything, and that is regrettable. Their blood, however, is on the hands of Hamas, who cowardly uses civilians as shields and refuses to surrender even as the Gaza Strip has been decimated. I am not afraid to state that any sympathy I might hold for the citizens of Gaza is tempered by the horrors that most of them celebrated.

Yet, here in the US, Canada, and Europe, thousands take to the streets to condemn Israel. Many are of Middle East descent, many are not, just gullible “woke” activists jumping on the anti-Israel, anti-West bandwagon. What occurred on October 7 has not changed their point of view one iota. The beheading and burning alive of innocent civilians-including infants(!) has not changed their minds. The fact that Americans are among the hostages matters nothing to them. The ongoing plight of the hostages, people like Ms. Soussana, has not changed their point of view one iota. I have no doubt that her tale will not change the opinion of the pro-Palestinian mobs one iota. Nor will any of this change the opinions of the leftist university professors, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, and all the other “woke” mobs that infest our university campuses from the East Coast to the West Coast, from Columbia to UC Berkeley and points in between. The warped professors will continue to hold their teach-ins, condemning Israel for fighting back, demanding a cease-fire, and devoting all of their compassion to the civilians of Gaza, including those who cheered October 7, including those who joined in the abuse of the hostages on that day, including those that are helping keep hostages under guard, and including those who have so horribly abused people like Amit Soussana.

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

The Continuing Turmoil at Columbia



Columbia University business professor, Shai Davidai, who is of Israeli-Jewish background, is charging that the university's Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action office is investigating him. Davidai claims that this is in retaliation for his criticism of the university's alleged failure to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment. The (Los Angeles) Jewish Journal has a report here.

In querying the campus newspaper of Columbia, the Spectator, I found this article on Davidai dated February 13, 2024. It concerns a complaint against Davidai by a group of Columbia students who allege that he has "targeted" pro-Palestinian students, as well as other "vulnerable racial groups".

So it appears that Davidai has criticized both the university and certain pro-Palestinian student groups in regards to the anti-Semitic climate at Columbia. In return, some students are complaining that Davidai has targeted them in some manner, which Davidai explicitly denies in the above Jewish Journal article.

Davidai is not alone on the campus. He is part of a group called Faculty and Staff  Supporting Israel. On March 8, the Spectator published this article, which is an open letter from the group. 

On the other side, a group of anti-Israel Columbia faculty issued their own letter dated October 30 basically defending the October 7 attack by Hamas as a legitimate military operation. Hamas itself, a terrorist organization, is not mentioned. Two of the most notable signers of the letter are Columbia professors, Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad.

In fact, Columbia has been suffering campus anti-Semitism for several years now disguised as pro-Palestinian advocacy. In 2016, Algemeiner published the results of a survey in which Columbia was rated number one among the top forty universities in terms of anti-Semitism. The Amcha Initiative, a group founded to expose and confront campus anti-Semitism, keeps a database of universities and reported incidents of anti-Semitism. Here is their page for Columbia. 

There are too many Columbia-related articles on this blog to even count, but like so many other campuses, Columbia's problem has exploded since October 7.

Personally, I find it repulsive that professors at Columbia could write such a letter about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that basically excuses the barbarous attack on October 7 and not even mention the perpetrators of the attack, Hamas. How ironic that they choose a name for their group like "Columbia University and Barnard College Faculty in Defense of Robust Debate About the History and Meaning of the War in Israel/Gaza" when anti-Israel student groups at Columbia and virtually every campus refuse to engage in any civil discussion with pro-Israel students. Instead, their preferred tactic is robust disruption and intimidation.

Equally disgusting is that the campus Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action office at Columbia is investigating Professor Davidai for his criticism of the actions of pro-Palestinian students against Jewish students and his criticism of Columbia itself. Maybe they should take a look at the findings of Algemeiner and the Amcha Initiative if they want to find real problems on their campus.





Monday, March 25, 2024

Netherlands: Free Speech in Question

Raisa Blommestijn


Raisa Blommstijn is a conservative commentator in the Netherlands who has been outspoken when it comes to the problem of migrant crime in her country. Until recently, she appeared regularly on the conservative broadcast, Ungehoord Nederland. I have watched her several times, and to me, she is no more controversial than say, our Dana Perino on Fox News.

Yet she now finds herself under investigation by prosecutors over tweets she made on what is now X last year calling attention to violent migrant crime. In the below article (translated by Fousesquawk), the conservative Dutch site, Nieuw Rechts, discusses the issue and also calls attention to conservative Dutch politician, Gideon van Meijeren, who used the term, "Negroid primates" to refer to a gang of migrants who violently attacked an Italian tourist at a train station and threw him on the tracks.  When the statement by van Meijeren created a ruckus, Blommestijn ( it appears from the article) adopted the language in support of van Meijeren.

While I certainly would not have used the above term, I ask whether the actual use of that term in public should be a cause for criminal prosecution. Certainly not in the US, but this is the Netherlands, and their free speech laws are not the same as American free speech laws.

https://nieuwrechts.nl/97281-raisa-blommestijn-strafrechtelijk-vervolgd-vanwege-haar-tweets

Raisa Blommestijn criminally prosecuted due to her tweets

News   24 March 2024  

The Public Prosecutor's Office has filed a criminal prosecution against legal (commentator) Raisa Blommestijn. The reason for this is her comments on social media from last year. "This is indicative of the state of the West," Blommestijn wrote on X. 

The Public Prosecutor's Office filed the prosecution last year due to Blommestijn's tweets about migrant violence. This was confirmed by the legal commentator herself on X after an earlier report by opinion maker Ashley St. Clair.

Violent video at Bijimar Arena Station

The reason for this is the tweets that Blommestijn wrote after a violent video went viral last year. In the video, an Italian tourist at the Bijimar Station was beaten and thrown onto the tracks by a group of youths with a migration background. The images went all over the Internet.

Blommestijn devoted a number of reports on X (formerly Twitter). "Every day, people are raped, beaten, intimidated, and slaughtered by migrants. The elite have opened the borders and deliberately forfeited our safety. Our home destroyed. And we let it happen. We let it happen. When is enough enough?" wrote the legal commentator, among other things.

For years, people with a migration background have been overrepresented in crime statistics. Not just in the Netherlands, but also in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Sweden. meanwhile, the Hungarian capital, Budapest, where there is hardly any mass immigration, is considered the safest place in continental Europe. 

"Negroid primates"

Shortly afterward, Forum for Democracy MP, Gideon van Meijeren, denounced the violent incident in the Second Chamber (House of Representatives). Here he used the term, "Negroid primates" to describe the rioters at the station. A ruckus arose over this terminology, to the dissatisfaction of Van Meijeren. He did not think it was racist, but a factual designation: "Primates" refers to the primitive behavior of the youths, "Negroid" referring to their skin color.

To show support, Blommestijn decided to use his terminology in her tweets. But a few months later, she noticed that her tweets were deleted because she was reportedly in conflict with Dutch law. Therefore, the legal commentator decided to repost the tweets, in her words, "to show how far censorship now goes".  

Criminal prosecution

For the Public Prosecutor's Office, this was a step too far. In August, Blommestijm received a telephone call that a criminal prosecution was being filed against her on suspicion of insulting a group (of people) and provoking hate and discrimination (Article 137c of the Criminal Code).

Blommestijn was subsequently interrogated by two police officers. According to her, it was a "very intense" experience. "For about three hours long I was grilled about my intentions with the tweets-which is understandable- but also, for example, how I react when I see people with a head covering. Also discussed were my purported connections with political parties, organizations, and other things.  It was downright surreal, and, as I also told the officers, deadly scary. At such a moment, you are literally looking a totalitarian government straight in the eye," she writes on X.

Now, three-quarters of a year later, Blommestijn is still awaiting a notice from the Prosecutor's Office. At any moment, she can be summoned to appear before the judge. But whether this will happen is as yet unclear. For a long time, Blommestijn has kept her prosecution out of the media due to her work for Ongehoord Nederland. But given that she broke with the broadcast group in January, she sees no further reason to be silent.

Personal data queried

Blommestijn has long been in the sights of Dutch authorities. Her personal data in the population register (BRP) is regularly queried by ministries, police, and the Marechaussee (National Gendarmerie Police). The legal commentator discovered this herself last year, through her own inquiry at the National Identity Data Service (RVIG).

Until March of 2022, the queries were still sporadic. But since then, the number of inquiries has increased explosively to an average of one every three days. This would amount to about 180 inquiries over one-and-a-half years. Blommestijn herself suspects that this has to do with her activist work.

"Dissidents are prosecuted"

The legal commentator views her criminal prosecution as part of a wider trend in the West. On X, she writes, "The fact that the Public Prosecutor's Office is going after me (and other dissidents) instead of tackling the real violence of these migrants is indicative of the state of the West."

For example, it was revealed last week that Flemish politician Dries Van Langenhove has been sentenced to one year in prison. In addition, he may not hold any public office, such as a political position. According to the judge, Van Langenhove was guilty of "racist, hateful, and Nazi" ideas and would incite "physical and psychological violence". Van Langenhove himself speaks of a politically motivated trial.

Blommestijn on X:

"I have never publicly said anything here- primarily because of Ongehoord Nederland, but (now) the word can get out: In August 2022, I was told that the Public Prosecutor's Office was filing a criminal prosecution over a number of tweets about a defenseless white man who was beaten by migrants at a station- and the danger of mass immigration for our society.

I was interrogated for 3 hours (!) by two police officers, and at any moment, I can be summoned to appear before a judge.

The fact that the Public Prosecutor's Office is going after me (and other dissidents) instead of tackling the real violence of these migrants is indicative of the state of the West."

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Austrian Security Forces Gear up for Easter

Stephansdom, Vienna


Easter is fast approaching. In Europe, that spells danger due to the danger of Islamist attacks upon Christian places of worship and public gatherings. How is it in Christian Europe that Christians have to fear for their safety in their own countries from Muslim extremists? It is outrageous.

In Austria, security measures are being beefed up by security police.

The below article from Heute (Austria) is translated by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.heute.at/s/hohe-terrorgefahr-karner-erhoeht-polizeipraesenz-120027238

At Easter

"High" terror danger-Karner increases police presence

Due to the danger of terrorism, Easter celebrations will be monitored by more police. Reportedly no indication of concrete dangers.

By Newsdesk Heute

March 23, 2024, 12:04

Caption: Police special forces guard the Stephan Cathedral. Easter celebrations reportedly to have stronger monitoring,

The danger of terrorism remains high in Austria, according to Interior Minister Gerhard Karner. Therefore, during the days of Easter, more police will be deployed. In particular, the Easter markets and Easter masses will have increased police monitoring.

There will likely be a larger contingent of police in uniform and plainclothes in the coming days, the (Austrian Peoples' Party) Interior Minister reported on Saturday. However, there are currently no indications of a concrete danger. 

"High" (threat) level for terrorism and extremism

The risk level in relation to Islamist extremism and terrorism continues to be rated "high" by the State Security and Intelligence Service. This is the second-highest level. Although "to date, there is no indication of a concrete danger," Easter celebrations and Easter markets are "symbols of a high Christian festival combined with peoples' gatherings in public space".

The Federal Police Directorate has ordered special protective measures, "in order to ensure as safe a process as possible for participants", they state. This also applies to the Jewish Passover festival from 22-30 April.

"The police work around the clock for the safety of Austrians, and this is also required at Easter.  Everything will be done there to ensure the safety of Easter markets and Easter celebrations as best as possible, Interior Minister Karner assured.

Due to attack plots against the Vienna city center, the police had already increased security measures shortly before Christmas and warned of attack plots against Christmas markets and worship services. During the Christmas holidays, Stephan's Cathedral was guarded by elite police.


The Latest Absurdity from UC Berkeley

Hat tip The College Fix



Here we go again. A professor at UC Berkeley is in hot water after giving his advice to a frustrated student who was not having success with the girls in the Bay area. In response, Professor Jonathan Shewchuk (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) suggested the young man look outside the Bay area for a girlfriend.

 Sounds like good advice to me.

But to the Jacobins at UC Berkeley, especially two departmental chairs, Shewchuk had crossed the line.  The College Fix has the report. It also has a link to the reportage by UCB's campus fishwarp, the Daily Californian.

I don't want to draw unnecessary attention to any specific people here, but (as I commented in the DC reader comments), I find it ironic that for years, the DC has regularly featured op-eds by female students describing their sexual encounters and practices. Maybe the university officials who are dragging this professor over the carpet should read some of these op-eds, past and present. The same goes for whoever is in charge of the DC before they use labels like "misogynist" to refer to Shewchuk. I know nothing about Shewchuk, but I do sense some hypocrisy here, especially when people at UC Berkeley talk about their "values and principles". 




One Fine Day on a Flight to Philadelphia

Hat tip The Religion of Peace 



On March 19, a flight from Tampa to Philadelphia was set to take off when an unruly passenger stood up and began making a nuisance of himself. At one point, he reportedly called a female flight attendant a "kike". .At another point, he told all the passengers on the plane that he was trying to get to his home country (Philadelphia?) and that they (the "mostly white passengers) were preventing him. Ultimately, the unruly mope got in the face of the wrong man, a burly off-duty police officer, who, assisted by another female off-duty cop, dragged the mope off the plane and presumably to jail. Hopefully, that will be his home for a while followed by immediately sending him to his home country- wherever that is.



The Daily Mail has it all including videos taken by passengers.




The Moscow Terror Attack-Time for Putin to Change Course

 

-BBC

We still don't know all the facts from yesterday's horrendous attack on a concert in Moscow. As I write, Russian authorities put the death toll at 133 with hundreds wounded. As for the perpetrators, there are varying reports of arrests being made, four or eleven? ISIS quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. Most likely, the gunmen themselves were Chechen, but that is yet to be confirmed.

It seems that the US tipped off the Russians several days ago that an attack like this was imminent. Putin is calling that warning a "provocation" on the part of the US. Typical Putin. Russia and the US are adversaries, but we did the honorable thing and warned the Russians for the purpose of saving innocent lives from the barbarities of ISIS. 

I sincerely hope the Russians have arrested (or killed) the true culprits as opposed to just "rounding up the usual suspects". It's hard to tell with the Russian justice system.

One final point: If this attack is, indeed, the work of ISIS, I would hope that Mr Putin learns his lesson. That is instead of sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers in his unjustified invasion of Ukraine, he will order them home and put them to use against the true enemy-ISIS and Islamic terrorism. 

Whatever we think of Russia under Putin's rule, we must condemn what happened in Moscow. 


Thursday, March 21, 2024

Florida International University: Jewish Shabbat Dinner Disrupted



On March 8, a campus Shabbat Dinner hosted by Hillel at Florida International University in Miami was disrupted by a pro-Palestinian protest led by -you guessed it-Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The dinner was featuring two IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) speakers.

Here is how the campus newspaper, Panther Now, reported it. According to their account, campus police arrested one protester for loudly disrupting the event. In contrast, the Jerusalem Post is reporting that a protester was arrested for assault and battery.

The same edition of Panther Now features a letter to the editor from a Jewish student who was present.

Whatever the actual circumstances of the arrest, for SJP to hold a protest in front of the campus Hillel facility holding a Shabbat dinner is outrageous. I don't think they would have appreciated it if Jewish students or anyone else were to show up to protest at an Iftar dinner. being held by Muslims.

But this is SJP. This is just another example of why they are a despicable organization that doesn't belong on any campus.





Netherlands: Arnhem Mayor Bans Pegida Leader

Hat tip Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna

Edwin Wagensveld


Edwin Wagensveld wanted to burn a Koran in Arnhem on Saturday

Arnhem (Netherlands) Mayor Ahmed Marcouch has issued a 6-month ban on Pegida leader Edwin Wagensveld from entering Arnhem. Wagensveld was planning to hold a demonstration in the town on Saturday to burn a Koran. In January, he attempted to do so in Arnhem but was prevented when a riot broke out. Marcouch is citing concern for public safety if Wagensveld is allowed to enter the city.

The below article from Nu.nl is translated from Dutch by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6306119/pegida-voorman-krijgt-gebiedsverbod-van-zes-maanden-in-arnhem.html

21 March 2024 at 18:45

Pegida leader gets 6-month local ban in Arnhem

Edwin Wagensveld, the leader of the radical-right group, Pegiga, cannot enter the city of Arnhem for 6 months. Mayor Ahmed Marcouch has imposed a (local) ban on Wagensveld. The ban goes into immediate effect.

Marcouch will reconsider the ban after three months, he has informed Wagensveld.

The Pegida leader wanted to burn a Koran next Saturday on Jans Square in Arnhem. On Wednesday, Marcouch forbid that on the advice of the police out of fear of chaos and because there would be concrete terrorist fears.

Wagensveld said on social media that he would definitely come to Arnhem on Saturday. The mayor reacted that the Pegida leader would definitely not enter Arnhem. Now Marcouch has imposed a local ban on him.

Wagensveld is not allowed to appear anywhere in Arnhem because of the ban. He is allowed to travel through Arnhem by train or bus but is not allowed to get off. Arnhem is a central station for trains to and from Germany, where Wagensveld lives. There is also an exception in the case that he has to appear in the courthouse in Arnhem.

Police cannot guarantee safety

The mayor of Arnhem fears that the arrival of Wagensveld will attract groups and individuals who will try to stop him with violence or try to prevent his actions.

In addition, there are probably groups who also want to commit acts of violence. Marcouch speaks of a "high degree of probability". There are concrete threats against the Pegida leader.

Marcouch expects that many more counter-demonstrators will come to Arnhem via calls on social media shortly before the demonstration, "which increases the unpredictability and thus, the uncontrollability of the anticipated serious disorder". Police say safety cannot be guaranteed, even with the deployment of a large police presence.

Wagensveld tried to burn a Koran in Arnhem on January 13. That did not occur because there were many counter-demonstrators. The demonstration turned into riots and fights.



Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden (17)




Last year, we posted a translation of a Swedish article about a researcher conducting dissertation research at the University of Lund on the Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden. Sameh Egyptson's research actually came under investigation as reported here. Here is a follow-up report on the case, which we translated last December. We are now pleased to translate an update from Nyheter Idag that the prosecutor has closed the case. The entire dissertation (in Swedish) is linked here.

The below translation is by Fousesquawk. It is part of a series on the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and the 17th such article on Sweden.

 https://nyheteridag.se/forundersokning-mot-egyptson-laggs-ned/

Preliminary investigation against Egyptson dropped

The preliminary investigation against Sameh Egyptson's attention-grabbing and debated dissertation on political Islam has been dropped, Prosecutor Pia Björnsson tells TT (News).

In February last year, researcher Sameh Egyptson presented the dissertation, "Global Political Islam? The Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Federation in Sweden" at Lund University.

In the dissertation, Egyptson advanced the thesis that the Islamic Federation is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which means that Sweden is infiltrated by political Islam.

In the dissertation, several persons were named as being active in the Islamic Federation in Sweden or some of the Islamic Federation's sub-organizations, which led to several reports to the Appeals Board for Ethics Review (Önep).

Önep prosecuted the dissertation since it was considered that Egyptson used sensitive personal information without ethics review permission, and in February, Prosecutor Pia Björnsson initiated a preliminary investigation into Egyptson's dissertation to determine if Egyptson had permission to conduct the research.

"I consider that I did research within the framework of academic freedom. This is an attempt to deter researchers from working on important societal issues," said Egyptson to Dagens Nyheter when the investigation was initiated.

But now the investigation has been dropped. "This was expected since I began my dissertation before the law (2003:460) on ethics review even existed, something my critics didn't care about when they reported me," Egyptson writes in a posting on the X platform.

"My hope now is that the Ethics Review law will be reworked so that researchers will be able to feel free without fear to choose controversial and debated topics, and that it will be possible to research public persons in leading positions, based on public sources and their own public statements, without this being deemed as 'sensitive personal information' and being forbidden from researching it," Egyptson further writes.

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Jonathan Glazer: A (Partial) Correction

 A few days ago, I wrote a piece for the Times of Israel Blogs (which was cross-posted on this site) about Jonathan Glazer's controversial acceptance speech at the Oscars. A reader on this site took me to task for misinterpreting a critical line in the speech-which I highlighted. It was this:

"Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation......."

I also re-emphasized the point here: 

"To think that at this moment in time, when anti-Semitism is now running rampant worldwide, largely thanks to the Palestinian propaganda machine, people can stand up in public and "refute their Jewishness" and imply there is a moral equivalency between Hamas' actions on October 7 and the Israeli military response is sickening to this non-Jew."

Most observers have agreed that Glazer's speech was confusing in its wording. I am willing to concede that I probably erred in my own interpretation of this line. My interpretation was that Glazer was refuting his Jewishness in his criticism of Israel's "occupation". In fairness, I feel I should give Glazer the benefit of the doubt and concede that what he actually meant was that his Jewishness and the Holocaust were being hijacked by the Israeli occupation of Gaza and/or the West Bank. That is my error, and I take responsibility for it. I have also submitted my correction to the Times of Israel Blogs.

That being said, my overall criticism of Glazer (and others) who refuse to support Israel's response to October 7 stands.