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Friday, August 18, 2023

08/18 Links Pt2: We Should Be Thanking Bradley Cooper and Helen Mirren for Playing Legendary Jews; Princeton must stop promoting antisemitic blood libels

From Ian:

In the Tradition of William F. Buckley, the Conservative Movement Must Drive Out Its Anti-Semites
Considering the dangerous anti-Semitic trends that have recently emerged from certain dark corners of the American right, Natan Ehrenreich looks to the precedent set by William F. Buckley, the founding editor of National Review who, more than anyone, created U.S. conservatism in its present form. Buckley, in his long career, more than once anathematized conservative writers—including those with whom he had close personal and professional relationships—who developed unhealthy fixations on the Jews. Ehrenreich hopes contemporary rightwing leaders will learn from his example:

I was taken aback by the recently leaked messages from the conservative influencer and [former fellow at the prestigious rightwing thinktank] the Claremont Institute, Pedro Gonzalez. That Gonzalez was an ardent anti-Semite was not that surprising; he has publicly tweeted about “Rothschild physiognomy.” But the sheer hatred displayed toward Jews, especially from someone who dwells in lofty intellectual circles, is nothing less than astounding.

A few samples: “Yeah like not every Jew is problematic, but the sad fact is that most are.” [Of the alt-right Holocaust denier and social-media personality Nick Fuentes]: “Fuentes does one good thing when he trolls Jews: He shows people how subversive they can be.”

What’s most pertinent to our moment, though, is the fact that today’s popular conservatism has shifted closer to the “paleoconservatism,” [an analogue to neoconservatism], that Buckley thought relatively more likely to produce anti-Semites than the popular conservatism of the 90s. As he notes in [his In Search of Anti-Semitism], the great Irving Kristol predicted this shift, and he was far less confident that Buckley’s crusade against conservative Jew-hatred was complete.

History, it seems, has proved Kristol right (though it would, of course, be a terrible mistake to label most paleoconservatives as inherently anti-Semitic). . . . It is becoming rather obvious that if modern conservatism is to thrive, the work Buckley began must persist as well. Conservative leaders can look to In Search of Anti-Semitism for inspiration that such work can succeed, but also to see why it is necessary.
We Should Be Thanking Bradley Cooper and Helen Mirren for Playing Legendary Jews
Right on cue, the Jewish Whiner Brigade has jumped on Bradley Cooper for his use of a prosthetic nose in his depiction of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in the upcoming movie, “Maestro.”

Curiously, these serial kvetchers have hardly uttered a word about another non-Jew, Helen Mirren, who also had her nose accentuated in her depiction of Golda Meir in “Golda.” Maybe they saw or heard about Mirren’s extraordinary performance and decided it would be petty or shameful to attack her for playing a Jewish legend with such brio.

In any case, the whiners attacking Bradley are not waiting for the film to come out. They’ve seen his face and that’s enough.

“Hollywood cast Bradley Cooper — a non Jew — to play Jewish legend Leonard Bernstein and stuck a disgusting exaggerated ‘Jew nose’ on him,” the activist group StopAntisemitism said on X, in one of many examples of Jews lashing out at Cooper on social media.

Writing for The Independent, Noah Berlatsky criticized Cooper’s decision and said that using prosthetics “effectively turns Jewish people into their physical characteristics. It makes us caricatures.”

Some critics couldn’t even accept the endorsement of Cooper from Bernstein’s three children, who issued this statement on Instagram: “It happens to be true that Leonard Bernstein had a nice, big nose. Bradley chose to use makeup to amplify his resemblance, and we’re perfectly fine with that.”

“They may be ‘fine’ with that—but that’s part of the problem,” Malina Saval shot back in Newsweek. “Whatever their reasons for being ‘fine’ with it—internalized shame, self-hatred—their support of prosthetic noses sends a dangerous signal that spinning Jewish characters into caricatures is socially acceptable.”

Notwithstanding her unseemly speculation about the children’s motives, even if we grant some truth to that “dangerous signal,” Saval and other chronic critics have once again overlooked that spinning American Jews into a paranoid, thin-skinned, insecure bunch of scolds brings its own dangers.

For one thing, it reinforces the dangerous antisemitic stereotype of powerful Jews who love to throw their weight around any time something upsets them.


JNS TV: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik & Why We Need True Jewish Leaders Now More than Ever | Top Story
What is true Jewish leadership? Have we been thinking about our Jewish heroes all wrong?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the essence of Jewish leadership with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, the author of Providence and Power: 10 Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship.

They discuss
- why he wrote the book and how it is a first of its kind
- what the true makeup of a Jewish leader is and how it is entirely lacking in today's world
- the narratives surrounding leaders such as King David and Herzl and why they are false
- what Jewish leadership can do for the current political climate.

An insightful, fundamental and big-picture discussion that you won't want to miss!


Arsen Ostrovsky: Princeton must stop promoting antisemitic blood libels
The charter of Princeton University, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in America, reaffirms that “the central purposes of a university [is] the pursuit of truth” and “the discovery of new knowledge through scholarship and research.” Yet inexplicably, this same institution of higher learning is now also promoting the vile antisemitic blood libel that Israel intentionally maims Palestinians and harvests their organs.

This outrageous claim from a book titled ‘The Right to Maim’, authored by Professor Jasbir Puar, is set to be taught in the upcoming 2023-24 course ‘The Healing Humanities: Decolonizing Trauma Studies from the Global South’, to be led by Assistant Professor Satyel Larson of the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

In the book, the author claims that Israel, and specifically the Israel Defense Forces, intentionally seeks “maintaining Palestinian populations as perpetually debilitated, and yet alive” as “a form of biopolitical control.” The author’s publisher, Duke University Press, adds “[s]upplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies.”

The charge that Israel intentionally maims Palestinians or seeks to harvest their organs, is not only demonstrably false but a modern-day antisemitic take on the ancient blood libel that Jews use the blood of Christian children for ritualistic purposes, like baking matzah on Passover.

It should also be noted that, only as recently as February this year, Princeton hosted Mohammed El-Kurd, a notorious Jerusalem-based Palestinian activist, whom the ADL has called an “unvarnished, vicious” antisemite, and who himself has accused Israel of harvesting and even eating the organs of Palestinians.

One might be forgiven for asking therefore, does Princeton seek to be America’s foremost institution of higher learning or a platform for promoting purveyors of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Jew hatred? If Princeton is serious about the pursuit of truth and academic scholarship on the one hand, and demonstrating it has zero tolerance for such unvarnished racial hatred, it will remove this work of hate from its curriculum.


Resource on UK government’s proposed BDS bill
Previously we looked at a BBC Radio 4 programme relating in part to the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill which is currently on the agenda in the UK parliament:

Earlier BBC reporting on that topic has included a July 4th report headlined ‘Backlash over bill banning boycotts of Israel goods from public bodies’.

Those wishing to understand more about that proposed legislation and the debate around it can find useful information in a recent webinar produced by UK Lawyers for Israel.

“The UK government has presented a long-awaited Bill to Parliament to ban boycotts divestment and sanctions (BDS) by public bodies. This had been promised in the Conservative Party’s manifesto for the general election in 2019. The Bill has been welcomed by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council, as well as other Jewish and Israel-supporting organisations in the UK. However, its drafting has been criticised by some as unclear, as restricting freedom of expression, for singling out Israel, and for allegedly contravening international law. The Bill passed a second reading in the House of Commons on 3 July 2023 after an amendment to reject it, tabled by the opposition Labour Party, was defeated. Examination of the Bill is expected to continue in public committee in September following the Parliamentary recess. In this webinar Jonathan D.C. Turner, UKLFI Chief Executive, and Natasha Hausdorff, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director, will examine what the Bill says and criticisms that have been made of it.”




Auschwitz Memorial criticises Twitter for not removing post calling for Jews to 'burn in hell'
The Auschwitz Memorial has criticised social media platform Twitter for failing to remove an antisemitic post on the site which called for Jews to 'burn in hell'.

The memorial, which preserves the site of the death camp set up by Nazi Germany during World War Two, had reported the antisemitic message on the site which also called Jews 'vermin'.

The controversial post read: "Still about those disgusting Jews. Sad that no one talks about the 80 million victims of the second war, they are probably 'worse' than this Jewish vermin. May they burn in hell, phooey."

Posting screenshots of the post on Twitter, the memorial wrote: “Leaving such language unchecked perpetuates the cycle of hatred and reinforces the idea that such hateful language is acceptable on this platform.”


The memorial also posted what it said was Twitter's reply to its complaint which stated the post did not violate the platform's rules.

The response said: “After reviewing the available information, we determined there were no violations of the Twitter rules in the content you reported.”

The post was later deleted by the account owner.


Hate machine: Social media platforms pushing antisemitic recommendations, study finds
Why do algorithms automate hate and antisemitism?
Algorithms are partly to blame, says Matthew Williams, founder of HateLab, author of "The Science of Hate" and professor of criminology at Cardiff University.

Social media platforms use these automated systems to suggest content for users and keep them on the platform longer.

Williams says “algorithmic antisemitism” is driven by engagement metrics such as views, likes, shares and comments.

“Because extreme content, such as hatred in general, tends to capture the attention of users due to the evolved human proclivity to identify threats, such content racks up a lot of engagement,” he said.

Hate is “sticky,” Williams said, “meaning it gets recommended unless humans step in to adjust the algorithm.” YouTube is one of the platforms that appears to have adjusted its algorithms, he said.

If YouTube can do it, why can't other platforms, asked Yael Eisenstat, ADL’s vice president and head of the ADL Center for Technology & Society.

Eisenstat says the findings suggest that social media platforms should be doing more to curb the spread of online antisemitism and extremism.

“I understand how complicated these things are,” said Eisenstat, who previously worked at Facebook. “It is still a business decision on what you will and will not prioritize.”

Detecting hate and antisemitism on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X
Rooting out antisemitism isn't simple and requires more than technical know-how, according to Sabine von Mering, a professor at Brandeis University. What’s more, Nazis and other extremists play a cat-and-mouse game with social media platforms, resorting to codewords, emoji combinations or deliberate typos to evade detection.

“Whether it's human content moderators or AI, detecting antisemitism requires intricate knowledge of a long history of hatred of Jews,” she said.

Antisemitism is so common in cultures around the globe that not everyone recognizes the memes for what they are, says Monika Hübscher, co-editor with von Mering of “Antisemitism on Social Media.”

If social media users show interest in topics related to Jewish life or the Holocaust, social media algorithms notice and suggest more content and that includes antisemitic memes that can be generated in seconds and then spread intentionally or unwittingly on social media, according to Hübscher, a PhD Candidate at the University of Haifa and research associate at the project “Antisemitism and Youth” at the University Duisburg-Essen.

Images generated by AI such as pornographic images of Anne Frank or a pillow fight in Auschwitz are also increasing on social media, she said.

Over time, the spread of conspiracy theories and tropes has created an environment where people feel comfortable expressing antisemitism, Hübscher said.

“Because antisemitism is a cultural code we all learned, and are able to recognize and put to work, its algorithmically reinforced dissemination is very dangerous,” she said.


ADL, Law Enforcement Investigating Nationwide Outbreak of Swattings Targeting Synagogues
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is working with law enforcement agencies to identify those responsible for a series of swatting incidents targeting Jewish institutions in recent weeks.

Swatting is a form of criminal harassment that involves falsely reporting a crime or emergency with the intention of triggering an aggressive response — often involving a SWAT team — from law enforcement. The idea is to use the hoax emergency calls to harass and intimidate a target.

The recent, ongoing wave of swattings — at least 26 across 12 states — mostly struck synagogues that livestream their services and, in some cases, caused interruptions of prayer. The most recent incident took place on Wednesday, when members of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta were forced to evacuate the building after law enforcement told them a bomb would detonate in 20 minutes.

Two other swattings occurred late last week in California, with police evacuating members of Beth Torah Jewish Temple in Fremont and Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton.

“We continue to investigate and work with law enforcement on finding the people who are responsible,” Oren Segal, vice president of the ADL’s Center on Extremism, told The Algemeiner, noting the incidents have created panic in Jewish communities across the US.

“Swatting is tended to create fear and anxiety in communities as they’re carrying on their everyday activities,” he continued. “There have been times when law enforcement has been able to come in and respond to the threat as they need to do without creating panic and doing it calmly. There have been times, though, when institutions have to be evacuated, and anybody who has had to experience that knows how alarming it can be. People don’t know what’s going on — whether it’s real or fake.”
Islamist Philadelphia teen, who planned ‘catastrophic’ attack, arrested
An FBI special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team arrested a 17-year-old on Friday in Philadelphia. The FBI allege that the teen bought bomb-making supplies and tactical gear.

The teen is said to have received guidance from Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad, which the State Department designated last year as a terrorist group and which is thought to be responsible for attacks in Kyrgyzstan and Russia in 2016 and 2017.

According to authorities, the teen received 14 international shipments of military items and was given instructions on how to build explosives. Investigators also observed him acquiring chemicals, wiring and devices to create remote detonators.

The teen, who is not being named, faces charges for criminal conspiracy, arson, possession of an instrument and recklessly endangering another person.

“I think it’s very fair to say that lives were saved because of this investigation,” said Jacqueline Maguire, FBI special agent in charge.


New York Police Arrest Man for Synagogue Vandalism
Police in New York have arrested a 21-year-old man who allegedly daubed a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with antisemitic graffiti.

Lenny De La Rosa was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with a hate crime. He is accused of having defaced the electronic message board on display outside the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue with an antisemitic message.

According to the police, De La Rosa used a marker pen to scrawl his message before fleeing along East 85th Street, where the synagogue is located. The message was quickly erased and no permanent damage to the message board was reported.

It is not yet clear whether De La Rosa is the same individual who targeted other Jewish community facilities two days after the vandalism at Kehilath Jeshurun. An individual matching his description was reported to have attempted to forcibly enter Temple Shaaray Tefila, another synagogue on the Upper East Side, before defacing it with antisemitic graffiti. The same man also went to an ambulance zone of Hatzalah, a Jewish volunteer emergency medical service, and confronted a worker there. Multiple vehicles were also defaced with graffiti, including one with the words “Drop Dead.”


Berlin Cops Arrest Man for Arson Attacks, Vandalism Against Holocaust Memorials
German police have arrested a 63-year-old man in connection with a series of recent arson attacks and vandalism targeting memorials to Jewish and LGBT victims of the Nazis and a lesbian community center in Berlin.

The man, who has not been named, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon at his apartment in the Baumschulenweg neighborhood of the German capital. A statement from the Berlin public prosecutor’s office confirmed that he had accepted full responsibility for the attacks, which took place between Saturday and Monday. The statement added that the man’s motive in carrying out the attacks had still to be determined, with investigators reportedly investigating whether his actions were the result of poor mental health.

Two of the attacks took place last weekend, with one targeting the memorial to the more than 10,000 Jews deported from Gleis 17 (“Platform 17”) at Berlin’s Grunewald station to Nazi concentration camps, and the other the memorial to LGBT victims of the Nazis in Berlin’s Tiergarten park. On Monday, a third attack was reported at a lesbian community center in Berlin’s Neukölln district.

An independent investigation by the news outlet Die Tageszeitung concluded that the attacks were the work of one person who is likely responsible for similar past outrages.

In a report on Tuesday, the newspaper observed that at the scene of all the offenses, police officers discovered “notes or graffiti with a similar pattern of antisemitic annihilation fantasies.” All the notes bore the same signature — the name “Kassandros,” with “Berolinensis” sometimes added as well — the paper reported.
Retired Archbishop’s Antisemitic Rhetoric Can Do Real Harm
Nearly 60 years after the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, Catholics continue to disagree about modernism within the church, and the conciliar reforms. The current pope is a passionate supporter of Vatican II, and he has paid special attention to the call for interfaith dialogue and the dignity of all people, including marginalized people.

One of the most vocal opponents of modernism, and especially of Pope Francis, is retired Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. A former Apostolic Nuncio to the US and secretary-general of Vatican City, Archbishop Viganò consistently opposes the pontiff’s overtures to other faiths and marginalized groups, such as the LGBTQ+ community.

But Viganò often takes his opposition to the modern church further, veering into antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ animus — ideologies that can cause real harm to the people upon whom he casts aspersions. Despite his official retiree status, he routinely shares these ideas in several traditional Catholic publications, including Catholic Family News, LifeSiteNews, The Remnant, and Crisis magazine — all of which have significant followings on social media.

Archbishop Viganò frequently traffics in antisemitic dog whistles that sometimes verge into more overt antisemitism. For example, he has suggested that a “modernist Sanhedrin” is behind the pope’s purported desire to separate Traditionalist Catholics from the official church. In using the term “Sanhedrin,” an ancient Jewish judicial body, Viganò invokes a fringe belief among Traditionalist Catholics that Jews have secretly infiltrated and corrupted the Catholic hierarchy — a charge that is antisemitic and false.

Viganò has invoked antisemitic tropes on many other occasions. He has used the Jewish financier George Soros as a boogeyman, blaming him for causing the war in Ukraine. For many antisemites, Soros is a symbol of the alleged global control and financial power of world Jewry.

Similarly, Viganò has claimed that Mario Draghi, a former prime minister of Italy, was appointed by the “globalist cabal,” another allusion to the supposed power of Jews around the world. These notions of subversive Jewish power have deep roots but are especially famous as the subject of the fabricated document known as the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

Viganò’s words have the potential to reinforce existing antisemitic beliefs and incite Jew hatred.
Man who beat up Orthodox Jews in Hackney given hospital order
A man has been sentenced to detention in a secure medical facility for carrying out a series of brutal attacks on members of the Jewish community in Hackney.

Abdullah Qureshi, 30, of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was found guilty last November of attacking two men and a 14-year-old boy as he walked through north London in August last year.

In one of the assaults, he hit a teacher in the head with a bottle while playing Arabic music from his phone.

He was handed a hospital order at Wood Green Court on Thursday, after being convicted of the attacks in November 2022.

He will be detained until he is considered safe to be released. He was also given a ten-year restraining order.

Detective Chief Inspector Yasmin Lalani, from the local policing team, said: "The Met will not tolerate any form of discrimination or abuse. London is an incredible and diverse city and it is completely unacceptable for certain sections of our communities to be subjected to deplorable abuse and harassment.

“Abdullah Qureshi’s action caused severe distress to the victims, their families and the wider Jewish community. I can only hope the victims in this case find some comfort in the fact that Qureshi has been sentenced after the ordeals they suffered."

DCI Lalani added: "I would like to thank Shomrim, the Community Security Trust, Hackney Independent Advisory Group and Varinder Hayre of the Crown Prosecution Service for their support throughout our investigation. Together we have achieved justice for the victims. Our message is clear – we will not tolerate hate crime. Do not come to Stamford Hill to commit offences against our community – we will hold you to account."

Qureshi was found guilty of one count of racially or religiously aggravated grievous bodily harm and two counts of racially or religiously aggravated common assault.


CAA to write to Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood over sale of Nazi memorabilia
Campaign Against Antisemitism will be writing to an Exeter-based auctioneer over the sale of Nazi memorabilia.

Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood will be hosting a two-day “Sporting & Collectors” auction with an array of items, including an assortment of Third Reich daggers and a metal swastika pin.

The auction also features swastika and eagle armbands, swords, a bronze Gothe medal and a belt buckle, all from the Nazi era.

Earlier this year, Campaign Against Antisemitism wrote to the Emporium and Canterbury Auction Galleries over the sale of Third Reich items.
Israel's defense tech industry defies negative economy forecasts - analysis
With negative ratings and report after report coming in against Israel's economic stability in recent months and weeks over the government's judicial overhaul policy, there is one part of the economy which has defied the trend: The defense technology sector.

Even as Israel's military, Shin Bet, and Mossad are shaken to their foundations with a wide mix of senior and rank-and-file officials protesting the treatment of the legal establishment and some even starting to quit their roles, Israel Aerospace Industries made history with moving its deal with Germany for the Arrow 3 missile system forward.

And that deal is not an outlier.

In fact, since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Europe and some other countries have become much more serious about spending money on their national defense.

When The Jerusalem Post met with EU officials in Brussels in February and in Paris in April, many of them looked viscerally terrified of Moscow.

They might significantly disapprove of Israel's policy regarding the Palestinians and of the government's judicial overhaul, and maybe someday that will lead to concrete changes in how they work with Jerusalem.

But right now, many Europeans just want weapons and defense technologies to save them from Russian President Vladimir Putin's spontaneous whims.

Since Israel is one of the only countries which has strong missile defense and is the only country with serious successful experience in multi-tiered missile defense (Ukraine has started to have some success with multiple countries providing it with new capabilities, but is not an exporter and does not have Israel's history of success), some EU countries are desperate to cut deals with the Jewish state.
78 years after the Shoah, Israel’s air defense system to protect Germany
Thursday’s dramatic announcement by the Israeli Defense Ministry that the United States gave the green light for the sale of Israeli’s Arrow 3 air defense system to Germany—the largest defense export deal in the Jewish state’s history—carries powerful historical messages.

Boaz Levy, president and CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries, the prime contractor of the Arrow 3 system, said during a telephone press briefing, “One final sentence as a person who has led this project for so many years and as someone whose mother survived the Holocaust, this is a very important moment for me. I believe that the fact that Israelis developed a system that can protect a population from all over the world from ballistic missiles is a very important milestone. For me personally, for IAI and for Israel in general.”

Arrow 3 is designed to intercept ballistic missiles in space, and it will in the coming years protect the whole of Germany from the threat of Russian missile attacks.

The Israeli Defense Ministry, German Federal Ministry of Defense and Israel Aerospace Industries will sign the landmark $3.5 billion defense agreement in the coming weeks, and in 2025, the system will enter into initial operational status before becoming fully operational in 2030.

IAI teams will train the German Air Force on the technical aspects of operating the system. Israel Air Force representatives will also take part in the training, sharing real-world operational lessons with their German counterparts. Later on, German personnel will take over the training programs.

As part of the agreement, IAI’s American subsidiary, Stark Aerospace, will continue to produce half of all components for Germany’s Arrow 3, just as it does for Israeli Arrow 3 systems.
Eric Adams to visit Israel on first overseas trip since becoming NYC
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is scheduled to spend next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Israel—his first trip to the Jewish state since becoming mayor.

Adams will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders to “discuss combined efforts to combat antisemitism,” per the mayor’s office.

“Mayor Adams is excited to travel to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv next week to meet with Israeli leaders, learn firsthand about new technologies and strengthen our joint efforts to combat antisemitism,” a City Hall spokesperson, who did not provide a name, told JNS.

“As home to the two largest Jewish populations in the world, New York City and Israel share a special bond,” the spokesperson added. “The mayor looks forward to deepening that relationship even further on this trip.”

The trip would be the mayor’s first outside the country since being elected last year.

Emily Kutner, director of public relations at UJA-Federation of New York, told JNS that her organization was “proud to host Mayor Adams in Israel.” The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York is also sponsoring the trip.

“New York City and Israel are both highly diverse and face many similar challenges and opportunities,” Kutner told JNS. “The trip will facilitate the exchange of experiences and strategies regarding important shared priorities.”
Israeli documentary on Ukraine-Russia war nominated for Emmy award
The Russia-Ukraine war documentary film produced by “Uvda” (Fact) has been nominated for an international Emmy award, Maariv reported on Tuesday.

The documentary was created by Israeli filmmaker Itay Engel, who kept up with Ukrainian troops outside of Kyiv and captured many scenes of fighting on film.

The documentary will be Israel’s representative in the award competition and will compete against films from the UK, Brazil, and Turkey in the Current Affairs category.

The International Emmy Awards have been held every year since 1973 and function to highlight excellence in non-American film and television. The awards are hosted by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS).

This year’s News & Documentary International Emmy Awards will be the 44th since the categories were inducted.

According to the International Emmy Awards website, “The International Emmy Current Affairs & News categories are presented alongside their American news and documentary counterparts as part of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences News & Documentary Emmy Awards. “

The News & Documentary International Emmy Awards will take place in New York on September 27th.

The website described Uvda describing how “documentary filmmaker, Itay Engel, and photographer, Eddie Gerald, spent weeks with the people of Ukraine, standing strong against the Russian invasion in Kyiv, a nation fighting for survival. This is a report on resilience and hope.”
Reporter foresaw Farhud pogrom in 1939
“If events continue along their present course, the 2,000 year-old community will be in imminent danger of a pogrom.” This was the stark prediction of the 1941 Farhud against Iraq’s Jews made by Roman Slobodin, JTA Middle East staff correspondent, in March 1939. His article in the Canadian Jewish Chronicle, partially transcribed below, traces the growing penetration of Nazism in the Middle East. The Germans monopolised advertising to obtain a stranglehold over the Arab press, flooded clubs with Nazi agents and poured money into the Arab nationalist movement. (With thanks: Lichtov)

(Jerusalem): a sudden blossoming of new, pretty faces has occurred in cabarets in the Near and Middle East. Bevies of unfamiliar beauties have turned up in the night clubs of Cairo. A feminine regiment has captured the night life of Beirut, “Paris of the Middle East.”

The new girls are Nazi agents. Though some of them pose Hungarians, they are all German. The most comely and clever among them have undergone an intensive course in propaganda and “information” -work at the schools for foreign agents directed by Propaganda Minister Goebbels. Their mission in the Levant is far from frivolous (…).

Reputedly the center of German activities among the Arabs is the comfortable Arab Club in Damascus. Thus institution, German-supported, has important Syrian officials among its members.

There are many rumors about the secret “athletic training” that goes on in its gymnasium. A police raid at the home of a prominent member uncovered a little armory of eight rifles, twelve bayonets, four revolvers and plenty of ammunition. There could be slight doubt of the connection between this cache and Arab terrorism in neighboring Palestine. It was interesting to note that most Syrian newspapers ignored the raid. Members of the club had hurried to see the editors.

The German influence over the press, and particularly the Arabic press, throughout the Levant, is a notable development of past months. It has been achieved largely by Nazi “co-ordination” of the advertising German commercial interests. The mechanism was laid bare in Egypt. The German Government notified German firms advertising in the Egyptian press that henceforth their ads were to be placed through a certain Nazi official. The influence over the press, obtained through the totalitarianized spending of advertising money was quickly evident in the flood Nazi and anti-British propaganda, and the support of extremist politicos.

The dealings with the press are a fair sample of the thorough systematization of German interests to serve Nazi aims. Every German in the Levant is given his place, and registered at the Hamburg office for control of Germans abroad. According to reliable reports, every German must have official permission to anything which might affect his status or present future usefulness, such changing his residence or selling land which he owns. Those coming from Germany recently have had special training for their Nazi duties.
PodCast: What Matters Now to author Oren Kessler: 1936 Palestine’s missed peace deal
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.

Jewish-American journalist Norman Cousins once said, “History is a vast early warning system.” This week we speak with Oren Kessler, the author of “Palestine 1936,” who would likely agree. But as we see in Kessler’s new book, history can also be a collection of missed opportunities.

“David Ben-Gurion, starting in about 1933-34, had a series of meetings with a man by the name Musa Alami and he and Ben-Gurion met again and again throughout the early mid-1930s and they come tantalizingly close to some sort of an agreement before everything goes wrong, as tends to happen,” Kessler said this week in Jerusalem’s Nomi Studios.

Kessler’s new book is about the Arab Revolt that took place in 1936-1939. Watching the seemingly endless tide of Jewish population, Arabs began a series of murderous attacks on the Jewish popular, which quickly snowballed into a full-fledged intifada.

In “Palestine 1936,” Kessler argues, quite convincingly, that those years in British Mandate Palestine form the roots of the Middle East conflict. The book attempts to illuminate all three sides of the complex relationship between the British, Jews and Arabs as they attempted to occupy the Holy Land during these formative years.

Kessler is a journalist and political analyst based in Tel Aviv. He spent five years researching and writing “Palestine 1936” and it’s clearly a labor he loved.

There are many lessons that have yet to be learned as we see this bloody history repeating itself in Israel, even today. So this week, we ask author Oren Kessler, what mattered then and why does that matter now?
How Jerusalem Got Its Quarters
As anyone who has visited the Old City of Israel’s capital knows, it is divided into four sections: Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Armenian. Shlomo Deutsch explores the origins of this division, and how each quarter evolved:

The first map to include names that resemble the names of today’s four quarters (Armenian, Christian, Muslim, Jewish) was produced by the British lieutenants Edward Aldrich and Julian Simmonds in 1841, and later labeled by Rev. G. Williams in 1849. However, some of these names (Christian and Armenian) already appear in European travelers’ writings in 1806.

The Hebrew University professor Yehoshua Ben-Aryeh suggests that each religious group to move into the Old City built its community around focal points significant to its religion. . . . For Muslims, the Temple Mount, which houses the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, served as a major force of attraction. . . . The Christian community took root around the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Armenians, [the vast majority] of whom were Christian, were drawn by the Church of St. James, their most significant church in the Old City. The scope of the Armenian quarter is elusive, some defining it only as a certain walled-off area that was locked at nights.

Initially, the Jewish Quarter spanned from the “Street of the Jews” eastward to the Western Wall (excluding the adjacent Mughrabi neighborhood). . . . At the beginning of the 19th century, the Jewish quarter was almost entirely comprised of Sephardi Jews, with some 2,200 Sephardi Jews and a minimal number of Ashkenazim. Once Ashkenazim began moving in, they chose to settle near the Sephardim, holding their services in several Sephardi synagogues, including the Beit-El synagogue, until the Ashkenazi. community built the Menachem Tzion synagogue in 1837.
Jewish MMA fighter beats antisemitic troll into submission in Vegas fight
When Jewish cage fighter Natan Levy saw antisemitic trolls defending a prominent Holocaust denier online, he knew he had to teach them a painful lesson.

To show up one “dumb kid”, the professional martial artist invited him to his Las Vegas training studio and beat him into admitting that six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime.

Levy, who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, sparked the showdown earlier this week when he commented on a white nationalist's topless photo to mock his supposedly muscular physique.

"He's built like a chopstick,” wrote the Israeli fighter on Twitter. “Definitely not a threat."

A user identifying himself as Ben replied and offered to fight Levy on behalf of Nick Fuentes - a white supremacist who has denied the Holocaust, said that Republican politicians should oppose “Jewish power”, and praised Adolf Hitler.

The 24-year-old’s regular online show, America First, has attracted a cult following among young people on the far right.

"I'll drive to Vegas any day of the week to spar you on behalf of Nicholas J. Fuentes and America First,” Ben wrote to Levy.

“With no formal MMA training [it] should be easy right?"

Levy responded to take up his offer, saying: "Sure, I'll gladly KO [knock out] your punk ass. Come see me bro… I'll Venmo [transfer] you the gas money."
Natan Levy: Jewish UFC fighter destroys white supremacist supporter
Jewish Israeli UFC fighter, Natan Levy takes on Twitter troll who supports far-right white supremacist Nickless Fuentes who tries to defend his honor in an MMA sparring session at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas.

MMA fighter Shimon "The assassin" Smotritsky destroys his internet friend who thought he could hold his own in the cage against a professional.




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