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Jewish students have had ethnic of being society's punch bag https://www.ujs.org.uk/enough
In case you have missed it last week, on #TheGlobalJigsaw we looked at how water is being used as a weapon of war, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. #BBCMonitoring 's #Russia and #Ukraine experts, Francis Scarr and Sergey Arsentyev deconstruct the narratives around the #Crimean water dispute:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5hld
BBC World Service - The Global Jigsaw, Contested waters: Crimea

How water is used as a weapon of war following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

BBC
Zelensky hits back after Russia links Ukraine to Moscow attack

Ukraine's leader says Russians should ask questions of their own security services instead.

BBC News

Niall Holohan, Irish 'diplomat' says that the tiny number of Jews in the country has given the government 'a freer hand to take ... a more principled position'. The UK barely has a higher proportion. This is an old antisemitic trope about almost supernatural power, undue influence and a singular malign purpose.

Via Dave Rich at the CST. The Guardian since edited out that bit but the authors and editors didn't see anything wrong originally. Instinctive, probably.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/ireland-palestine-ceasefire-gaza

‘It’s part of our psyche’: why Ireland sides with ‘underdog’ Palestine

Ireland is seen as an outlier in the EU – but its sympathy for the suffering in Gaza is rooted in its own history

The Guardian

Apparently I’m a ‘menace’ to walk around with in other towns because I keep assuming I have the right of way. I’m used to streets where cars are allowed, but they must yield to pedestrians and cyclists. So I unthinkingly wander in the middle of the road in other cities too, gathering cars behind me like a pied piper until a sighing friend pulls me aside. As I stand with all the other people forced aside to let 1 driver in 1 car pass, I wonder: who’s the real menace here?

#Aarhus #LiveableCities

Responding to Douglas Murray stoking fear and division in the JC, Jonathan Freedland writes with compassion: "let’s combat the threat we face, but let’s also assess its size and scale accurately" #antisemitism

https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/these-are-dark-times-but-we-mustn't-let-fear-cloud-our-judgment-75UFcLadfUGjAX5qMaeZQO...

What Israel should actually be doing inside Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital

With boots on the ground in Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF must prioritize providing humanitarian aid

The Forward

I was trying to find out why some academics said they found Hamas' depravity and targeting of civilians inspiring, and how 'decolonisation' came to celebrate these things

https://fathomjournal.org/universities-in-crisis-the-professors-and-the-pogrom-how-the-theory-of-zionist-settler-colonialism-reframed-the-7-october-massacre-as-liberation/

Universities in Crisis | The Professors and the Pogrom: How the theory of ‘Zionist Settler Colonialism’ reframed the 7 October massacre as ‘Liberation’

This essay seeks to register and understand the deeper causes of the appalling reaction of parts of the western academic left to the massacre perpetrated by Hamas[1] on 7 October 2023. For the mask di...

Fathom
It's bad when a very experienced hostage negotiator concludes the political wing of Hamas has no influence over its military wing https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/11/why-israeli-hostage-negotiator-cut-contact-hamas
Why an Israeli hostage negotiator cut contact with Hamas

Gershon Baskin, who helped negotiate the release of Israeli solder Gilad Shalit in 2011, says his contacts in Hamas have no influence over the fate of the Israeli hostage.

Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East