Judaism

A collection of 22 posts

Shanah Tovah Featured

Shanah Tovah שנה טובה.

I am writing this on the final day of Elul 5784, the last day of a year that can only be described as an annus horribilis for the people of Israel. The events of this month, and especially the last two weeks of it, very firmly promises the dawning of

Anti-Semitism Featured

What Jews need to understand about Gentiles*

When one understands the real and corporeal nature of evil in Christianity and Islam, one also understands the power and pervasiveness of antisemitism.

Judaism Featured

Reflections on Tisha B'Av, by a wannabe Jew, Part 2

Let us not mention the thousands of Palestinian civilians who scrambled to beat, to taunt and to humiliate the captured Jews. Let us say nothing of how they imprisoned us in their homes. Let us only whisper of "the horrific events" of October 7, for we are a people destined to suffer.

Judaism Featured

Reflections on Tisha B'Av, by a wannabe Jew, Part 1

"The eastern and western winds" obscures a time bomb at the very heart of Zionism, for the descendants of Labour Zionism are ideological, and will not reconcile themselves to the end of exile. Their project all along has been to make a Diaspora out of Israel, and they will never give that up.

Judaism Featured

Are Jews smart and brave enough to save the world?*

The best Israel can expect from the Muslim world is to be respected because it is wealthy, powerful, and fearsome. Anything else is the pipe dream of people who learned nonsense at workshops and conferences sponsored by European donors and the New Israel Fund.

Israel Featured

Netanyahu's address to the Joint Houses of Congress, 25 July 2024, in context. Part 2

As the longest-serving Prime Minister of Israel, no fewer than sixteen years and counting, there is much that Benjamin Netanyahu could have accomplished that no other Prime Minister stood a chance at.

Propaganda Featured

Is it Islamophobic to call out Ed Husain for his stance on "Islamophobia"? Part 2

Ed Husain does not see that "Islamophobia" is a club with which Muslims, the woke, and communists, together, have been bludgeoning the West into letting Muslims dismantle civilisation. Or perhaps he does.

Propaganda Featured

Is it Islamophobic to call out Ed Husain for his stance on "Islamophobia"? Part 1

Ed Husain is trapped, as is every Muslim who does not revel in “extremism”. I say “extremism” in inverted commas because the concept has no meaning in Islam, and the word has today lost all meaning in English.

Da'wah Featured

Ayaan's da'wah, Part 3

It is hardly possible to suggest that the Muslims who crashed passenger jets into skyscrapers had a “God-hole,” since they were about as God-filled as it is possible to be. Their actions do not result from “a jumble of irrational quasi-religious dogma,” since the mosque has definitely not retreated.

Jew-hatred Featured

The problem with the chosen people*

Israel is accused of precisely the crimes that are being committed against it and by others. Internationally, democratic countries support the anti-Israel accusations made by tyrannies such as Russia and China, South Africa, and Venezuela, and abstain when they try to feign decency.

Debate Featured

Answering my critics, Part 2

Let us, first of all, be crystal clear about one thing: if I could become Jewish and Israeli tomorrow, I would seize the opportunity with both hands.

Editorials Featured

Happy Birthday, beloved Israel

The same fate that befell once Buddhist and Hindu Afghanistan awaits the secular West – think of the Notre Dame, think of St Peter's Cathedral, then think of the Temple Mount, think of Ayodhya and think of Bamiyan.

Israel Featured

Happy 76th birthday, Israel*

It doesn't make any difference whether you are pro-Israel or not. If another holocaust looms, it leaves Israel with no alternatives but to lash out without pause or restraint at those who wish to destroy the Jewish State.

Jihad Featured

The Annexation of Territory in War: Answer to Dr Meir Finkel, Part 2

Back in 2004-5, when Palestinians saw the Knesset debating capitulating in Gaza, imams in all the mosques instructed Palestinians to be on their best behaviour, because they were about to win back Muslim land without a fight and they definitely did not want to blow it.

Propaganda Featured

"In response to Israel's oppression"

We always forget what Muslims do; each time reject (or worse) the Cassandras who warn against them; each time give them the benefit of the doubt; and each time discover to our bloody cost all over again that Muslims do exactly as they have done countless times before.

Halacha

Is it permissible for a man to hear the voice of a woman singing? Answer to Anjuli Pandavar*

There are few arbitrators who believe that it is permissible for men and women to sing sacred songs together, without a woman singing solo.  And perhaps your opinion is that since they are busy with holy things, there is no fear that they will commit an offense.

Propaganda Featured

Muslims are “scum and rubbish,” said Muhammad. The Simchat Torah massacre proves him right.

I see in this War Cabinet the makings of a coup to form a new, unelected government around Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot that excludes Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich to outright disenfranchise the Jews of Judea and Samaria. It's what the US demands.

Jihad Featured

Those who live to kill you will never thank you for sparing their lives

All Arabs, including me when I was a Muslim Arab, are waiting for the promised day. The promised day is the day that you [Jews] hide behind the Gharqad tree. Normative Muslims — not extremists — will not get up and hasten this day. The extremist says, "Bring on this day already!"

Jihad Featured

Give the Qur’an to Jews!

"In Hamas’s eyes, Paris and Rome are the next targets, in their view there is no place for either Jews or Christians in the Islamic caliphate that will be established, and you will be condemned to either convert to Islam or be slaughtered."

Dissidents/Ex-Muslims

So, you think leaving Islam is a big deal...

Allow me to introduce my friend, Timor Aklin.

Israel Diaries #6 Featured

Why I joined Professors for a Strong Israel

Professors for a Strong Israel stands as a reminder to academics and students everywhere of what it means to be in control of your own mind, and of just how precarious a privilege that is.

Polemics Featured

"Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 3

"You shouldn’t be in the totalitarianism business if you can't exploit a ready-made reservoir of credulity and servility that’s as big as that." —Christopher Hitchens.