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National Post
6 days ago
- Politics
- National Post
Once Liberal-funded antisemite Laith Marouf arrested in Lebanon
Article content In the meantime, Marouf went on to establish his own pro-Hezbollah 'Free Palestine Television' in Beirut. He has insisted that his FPTV is 'unaffiliated with any political party or groups,' but FPTV relies heavily on interviews with fellow 'anti-Zionists,' sympathetic coverage of Hezbollah's tribulations, and combat videos featuring Hamas, the Mujahideen Brigades and the Al-Qassam Brigades. Article content Last year's massive Israeli military operations in Lebanon, involving a punishing invasion of Hezbollah-controlled territory and the complete decapitation of the Khomeinist proxy's leadership, led to a tentative ceasefire last November. Hezbollah's persistent rocket attacks were brought to an end, but hundreds of civilians were killed in the conflict, entire communities on both sides of the border remain displaced, and Israeli forces continue to make occasional incursions into Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from reestablishing itself in the border areas. Article content Article content Mais al-Jabal, the border town where Marouf was picked up on Sunday, had been a Hezbollah stronghold for years. Last October the IDF destroyed lookout posts and dozens of weapons caches and tunnels in the town, some mere metres from the Israeli border. Only last Friday, the IDF sent several armoured vehicles into Mais al-Jabal and blew up two bulldozers. Article content When Marouf arrived in Mais al-Jabal he was detained at a checkpoint and informed that he didn't have any authorization to be in the area, according to a statement from FPTV. He was then taken to a detention centre at nearby Tebnine, where his driver Hadi Hoteit, an FPTV producer and correspondent for Tehran's Press TV, was released. Marouf was to be taken to the South Command of Military Intelligence in Saida to complete the 'formalities' to obtain a permit, but instead, Marouf was removed to the Defence Ministry headquarters in Yarzeh, in the Beirut suburbs, according to FPTV. Article content Mais al-Jabal is only about 20 kilometres from Kiryat Shmona, Israel's northernmost city. Roughly 22,000 people lived there before Hezbollah joined Hamas in its war on Israel in October, 2023. Roughly half the buildings in the city were destroyed by Hezbollah rockets. Article content
Wall Street Journal
7 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
The Teachers Union Could Use a Visit From 16 Rabbis
Extrapolating from the concerns that Jonathan Greenblatt rightly raises in his op-ed, 'Antisemitism and the Teachers Union' (July 17), America's tax dollars are going to teaching anti-Zionist beliefs in K-12 schools. When Mr. Greenblatt replaced Abraham Foxman as head of the Anti-Defamation League, many of the more conservative Jews were concerned that the ADL was being pulled too far to the left. Thankfully, Mr. Greenblatt seems to have recognized that much antisemitism these days comes from the left and has adjusted his viewpoint accordingly.
New York Times
15-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Defining ‘Antisemitism' Is the Subject of Bitter Debate
Many donors, politicians and Jewish students have pressured their colleges to confront antisemitism more forcefully. But one challenge can make the exercise feel like quicksilver. There's no consensus about what, precisely, constitutes antisemitism. University administrators and federal officials alike have considered one contentious definition that has gained traction in recent years, put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The definition itself is not the source of controversy. It states that antisemitism is a 'certain perception of Jews that may be expressed as hatred' toward them. But the alliance also includes with the definition a series of examples that alarm many supporters of free expression. They include holding Israel to a 'double standard' and claiming Israel's existence is a 'racist endeavor.' Supporters of the Palestinian cause say those examples conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism and are intended to protect Israel from criticism. Supporters of the alliance's definition say that it helps press colleges to stop tolerating behavior against Jews that would be unacceptable if it were directed at racial minority groups or L.G.B.T.Q. students. Debates over how to define antisemitism have intensified on college campuses since the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 and Israel's ensuing war in Gaza. The definition has been invoked in debates over whether to cancel controversial speakers, events and panels on the ground that they are antisemitic. Donald Trump campaigned on punishing universities that did not do enough to curb antisemitism. His administration has threatened significant amounts of funding to institutions like Harvard, saying they did not do enough to keep Jewish students safe.
Telegraph
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
The IDF is not just Israel's army: it is a symbol of Jewish self-defence
Anti-Zionists are the edgiest cowards around. Leftists revelled in Bob Vylan's Glastonbury hate rally as a dramatic shifting of the Overton Window in their favour. A throng of middle-class festival-goers led in a chant of 'death to the IDF' by a performer who demanded that Palestine is free 'from the river to the sea' and recalled working for 'f***ing Zionists' – all carried live on the BBC iPlayer, no less. But now Jews are fighting back. Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has blasted 'toxic Jew-hatred' posing as 'edgy political commentary'. The Jewish Leadership Council declaimed an 'obscene display of extremist hatred'. The anti-Zionists, meanwhile, have argued that Vylan's chant was nothing more than criticism of Israel and its military operation in Gaza. In fact, they say, it is Vylan's detractors who are the real anti-Semites for conflating Israel with Jews. If the Palestinians must be patronised by grandstanding Westerners, they deserve better than these faint-hearted crybullies. Not that the feelings of the Chief Rabbi or communal organisations have any impact on anti-Zionists. Lived experience is sacrosanct for every minority apart from Jews. For a movement that appears to glory in violent rhetoric, when consequences rear their head they fold like a Hamas command centre paid a visit by the Israeli Air Force. They embrace nuance and complexity and all those other traits of the snivelling liberals they scorn. Their anti-Zionism retreats from banner slogans to multi-page footnotes. Yes, they cavil, the IDF is a conscript army made up almost exclusively of Jews, but that doesn't mean calling for its 'death' is a call for death to Jews. (Disparate impact is another doctrine of the Left that applies to every minority except the Jews.) Why do they cry ' death to the IDF'? The Israeli army is civilian led. Why not death to the Israeli prime minister, or the defence minister, or the security cabinet? It is not just a matter of what rhymes. The IDF is not just Israel's army; it is the symbol and the substance of Jewish self-defence and Jewish sovereignty. Without the IDF, there would be no Israel, and this is exactly what they want. Across 2,000 years of exile from their homeland, Jews were reviled, calumnied, excluded, expelled, pogrommed, and exterminated. As the Passover Haggadah observes: 'Not only one has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise up to destroy us.' The restoration of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel was about ensuring that future generations had a means of defending themselves. More would come to destroy them, but this time they'd be prepared. Strong Jews, sovereign Jews, Jews you can't push around. For two millennia, these were concepts not merely revolutionary but fantastical. But now they are lived out every day in Israel. Political anti-Zionism is a project to separate the Jewish people from the theory and practice of Jewish self-determination. The Israeli army is all that stands between 'death to the IDF' and 'death to the Jews'.
Daily Mail
07-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Jewish football writer's son: I'll not let Gary Lineker anywhere near Dad's memorial after antisemitic rat emoji post
Gary Lineker will be barred from paying tribute at a memorial service for a friend, football writer Brian Glanville, because of his attacks on Israel. Celebrated reporter Glanville, who died aged 93, was Jewish and his son Mark said: 'I am not having Lineker anywhere near Dad's memorial.' Mark's sister Jo had suggested asking Lineker to speak at a service at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street as the family knew he had been friends with Glanville since his early days at Leicester. But Lineker, 64, has been forced to leave his Match Of The Day role early after sharing an anti-Zionism post that had an illustration of a rat, which is how the Nazis characterised Jews. Mark said: 'I can't have somebody coming to speak at my Dad's memorial service who, though not anti-Semitic, is someone who is giving ammunition to people who are anti-Semites. 'Once you share a picture of a rat which is associated with Nazis, you really are crossing a line.' He added that Glanville, who died last month after suffering from Parkinson's Disease, would not have wanted Lineker to speak, despite his admiration for him as a player and Match Of The Day host. He said the horrors of the Holocaust deeply affected Glanville, who was born in 1931 and suffered anti-Semitic abuse at fee-paying Charterhouse School. Mark said: 'Dad was passionate about Israel. He was a schoolboy during the Second World War but he was aware of what happened. 'He saw Israel, after all the utter horror, like so many Jews, as a country that was Jewish and where Jews could thrive as Jews and be safe. 'I do not think Lineker is an anti-Semite. But he does single out almost exclusively Israel, as so many people do, with the type of criticism that gives no context of what happened on October 7 and what has triggered it all. 'As he is such a major public figure, he is lending a lot of fuel to people who have a very different agenda and who really don't just hate Israel, but also detest Jews. 'I believe Lineker really cares about issues but I wish he would talk about what is going on in Syria, in Sudan and with women in Afghanistan.' Glanville was an award-winning football correspondent for The Sunday Times for 30 years and wrote several novels. Mark said: 'We felt that for a man of such stature, Dad deserved a proper memorial service and my sister suggested inviting Gary Lineker to speak, saying that he had really loved Dad's work. 'But I said that while this was undoubtedly the case, loads of other people were admirers of Dad's work as well. I then said there was no way Lineker was coming anywhere near it. 'She was very understanding as I explained that in my view Lineker was an exceptionally talented footballer and that is where it should have stayed.' In 2007, recalling his most memorable footballing moments, Glanville cited the 1992 Euros tournament when England manager Graham Taylor 'inexplicably' substituted Lineker in a crucial match with Sweden. 'And England lost,' added Glanville in his trademark disdain, lamenting Taylor's foolish decision and supporting Lineker, playing his last match for England.
