I have to go back to Sweden today. I’m not happy about it, but it must be done. Will miss Ramat Gan and Tel Aviv. I’ll be back soon.

You can be sure of one thing, leftist anti-Semites aren’t very clever:

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says he will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza.

Petro, the country’s first left-wing president, has already heavily criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and requested to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.

“Here in front of you, the government of change, of the president of the republic announces that tomorrow we will break diplomatic relations with the state of Israel for having a government, for having a president who is genocidal,” Petro tells cheering crowds in Bogota, who marched to mark International Worker’s Day and back Petro’s social and economic reforms.

He appears to confuse Netanyahu’s title with that of President Isaac Herzog.

From the Jerusalem Post:

A video was posted on X earlier this week that showed footage of a Palestinian man visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he called on Jews to return to the site of the extermination camp, a place he claimed where they belonged.

Footage of the man can be seen walking through the Auschwitz memorial, calling to free Palestine.

“From these ghettos from which the Zionists came, I say Allah have mercy on all the Palestinians and our martyrs. Free Palestine,” he exclaimed.

University of Wisconsin police confirm chants of “Heil Hitler” being directed to Jewish students. I suppose it’s alright as the protesters are leftists.

An interview with me has been published in Swedish gay magazine QX. Read it here.

The Times of Israel reports about this. It’s no surprise. Eric Saade has been one of the artists who signed petitions agains the Jewish State being allowed to partake in Eurovision after Hamas’s terror attack on 7 October 2024.

Robert Zimmerman writes:

The student protests and riots on college campuses as well as at a variety of other public events in the past month in support of the terrorist organisation Hamas has apparently succeeded in only one thing: tarnishing the reputations of their universities while disqualifying their own job prospects.

It appears the public really doesn’t support anti-Semitism and the killing of all Jews in Israel. Nor have the violent riots by the protesters to destroy libraries while illegally taking over campuses done anything to change the public’s mind.

From Nitay Arbel:

Some clown on French-language Quora claimed that Arabic is a much older language than Hebrew, because modern Hebrew was supposedly a conlang (constructed language like Klingon) and previously all Jews spoke Yiddish.

It takes talent to pack so much kloterij in a single statement.

People on the political extremes are really immune to facts these days. Especially when it comes to anything related to Jews and Israel. Israel, a country that was created more than 3,000 years ago, is routinely described as an invention by evil Zionists who changed everything Arab to Hebrew.

Tonight, it’s the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Israel secured a spot after gaining enough votes in Thursday’s semifinal. But I don’t think we’ve ever experienced a Eurovision week this fuelled by hate. There has been two large anti-Israel rallies in Malmö. I witnessed them both, and although it was mostly without incidents, there were some distasteful elements. Pictures of dead children. Call for the destruction of Israel. Chants in Arabic about the forthcoming killing of Jews. One thing that made me really uncomfortable was the poster protesters plastered on walls along the route. The poster depicts Israeli singer Edin Golan with devil horns, surrounded by dead babies. And it’s not the babies that died by the hands of Hamas. No, the only babies anyone seems to care about are those in Gaza. And yes, I feel bad for them, too, but Israel didn’t start this war. Israel has suffered the death of its innocent babies, too.

Let’s hope the final will be entertaining without any political interruptions.

Switzerland was the winner in last night’s Eurovision final. Israel came in fifth, which is very good considering the negative pressure the Israeli singer has been under from hostile protesters and onlookers.

“Four-time Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer), 59, was shot after today’s government meeting in Handlová, a mining town in the Trenčín Region,” Slovak Spectator reports.

And yet we keep hearing that there is no anti-Semitism in protesting Israel and Zionism.

Read the story at College Fix.

While Palestinians were stuck in the past, Jews built a thriving society in Israel.

Aviram on Threads.

Worrying predictions in The Economist:

At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient. America has boomed even as its trade war with China has escalated. Germany has withstood the loss of Russian gas supplies without suffering an economic disaster. War in the Middle East has brought no oil shock. Missile-firing Houthi rebels have barely touched the global flow of goods. As a share of global GDP, trade has bounced back from the pandemic and is forecast to grow healthily this year.

Look deeper, though, and you see fragility. For years the order that has governed the global economy since the second world war has been eroded. Today it is close to collapse. A worrying number of triggers could set off a descent into anarchy, where might is right and war is once again the resort of great powers. Even if it never comes to conflict, the effect on the economy of a breakdown in norms could be fast and brutal.

I don’t really know what the plans are, but I think it would be a mistake to let Hamas rule Gaza. It wouldn’t be good for Israel, not the Palestinians. Read about it at the Guardian.

Well, that’s what the current situation is. Besides, a two-state solution could be accepted on the term that Palestinians hand över their weapons, like IRA did in Northern Ireland. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

“If there was a sound effect for the new Dutch government’s coalition agreement, it would be the creak of a drawbridge being raised,” Dutch News writes. “After decades in which the Netherlands prospered from being one of the most open, accessible and international economies in the world, the four right-wing parties say it is time, in their own words, to ‘turn a new corner’.”

It’s not trans people that are mad, it’s the Peruvian government.

Read about it at the New York Post.

The Israeli embassy in Stockholm has been sealed off after a shooting at 2am this morning. Patrolling police heard several gunshots and drove to the site. House searches have been carried out in different parts of the city. Read about at Swedish newspaper Expressen.

It’s Sunday, so a new week has begun according to the Hebrew calendar. Not that this matters in Denmark, where I work must of the time. But I’m working in an office that never closes, so I’m at work.

“Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash in foggy weather in the mountains near the border with Azerbaijan,” the Guardian reports. “Foreign minister Hossein Amir-abdollahian was among those killed.”

A nutty story from Axios New Orleans.

“A newly discovered planet, located approximately 1,200 light-years from Earth, is 50% larger than Jupiter but seven times less massive,” SciTechDaily writes. “This results in it having an extremely low density comparable to that of cotton candy.”

Iran’s allies and proxies have sent condolences after President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Times of Israel reports.

A fascist that oppressed his own people and the free world. Oh, boohoo!

The EU Observer lists a sweet mix of homophobes and environmentalists.

Read about it at the Times of Israel.

I’m having a day off work. I love it. Especially since spring has come to Malmö.

The nutty protesters at university campuses want you think at anti-semitism and Israel-bashing is popular in America. It’s not. Read about it at Legal Insurrection.

According to media reports in Norway, Hamas welcomes this diplomatic attack in the Jewish State.

Hamas: “We killed 1,200 civilians and kidnapped a 9-month-old boy. And we’ll do it again.”
Norway, Ireland, and Spain: “Great, we’ll give you statehood to show support.”

From the Guardian:

Maximilian Krah, who last weekend told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that the SS, the Nazis’ main paramilitary force, were “not all criminals”, said in a statement on today that his comments were “being misused as a pretext to damage our party”.

Today, all eligible voters in Sweden can start early voting in the elections to the European Parliament. I did my civic duty on day one.

C. B. Thompson on America’s Dreyfus Affair:

On May 5, Jonathan Yudelman was confronted on a Phoenix street corner during a pro-Israel rally by a baying mob of masked, pro-Hamas counter-demonstrators. The hate-filled mob screamed in Mr. Yudelman’s face that the mass murder of over 1,100 Israelis on Oct. 7, did not occur, that the Israel Defense Force was responsible for raping children, and that Mr. Yudelman himself was a “butcher.”

Wait… Wasn’t it all Israel’s fault? I mean, there is no Egypt-Gaza border, right? And no blockade at this border if it existed?

Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

The Jerusalem Post reports that fifteen anti-Semites will be unable to graduate with the rest of the student body with suspensions remaining in effect.

The New York Times runs an unsettling story. Jews are being target for wanting the same rights as everyone else.

The Irish Times gives some background to Ireland’s bashing of the Jewish State.

The perfect clickbait. One of those headline that you can’t resist.

Jim Treacher:

Hamas butchers and rapes a bunch of innocent people, diligently documents it all on livestream video, and now the world is supposed to hand them a state? Please take that idea and stuff it up your bottom with a broom handle till your tonsils ache.

Yes, terrorism pays off—when the victims are Jews.

“European Broadcasting Union reveals ratings for the song competition, which show its viewership remained high throughout the event despite attempts to boycott it due to Israel’s participation,” Ynetnews reports.

Perhaps people—normal people—aren’t as anti-Semitic as the keffiyeh-wrapped protesters who run around with Palestinians flags.

Just the fact that Reason magazine can make a list is disturbing.

I have no idea what this is about, but a dead dog is always sad news.

The International Court of Justice is unhappy about the fight against Hamas. It wants Israel to stop trying to rescue hostages and smoke out terrorists from Southern Gaza. “The Court finds it deeply troubling that many of these hostages remain in captivity and reiterates its call for their immediate and unconditional release,” it wrote, but the ruling was entirely targeted at Israel. As could be expected.

One thing that has always bothered me about the so-called new atheists is that they are always criticising Judaism based on what religion is to Christians. They always seem incapable to understand that religion is something completely different to Jews. Now, finally, Richard Dawkins, the most aggressive of the atheists, acknowledges that he is a cultural Christian.

The terrorists want to show the world they are not defeated. Israel should rule out any idea of cease fire.

I hate people who care about the Palestinians suffering in Gaza but refuse to acknowledge the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. Bring them home, and there will be peace. It’s that simple.

Bullying is all they know. Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute writes:

As to the rightful owners of particular pieces of property, Israel’s founders—like the homesteaders in the American West—earned ownership to the land by developing it. They arrived in a desolate, sparsely populated region and drained the swamps, irrigated the desert, grew crops and built cities. They worked unclaimed land or purchased it from the owners. They introduced industry, libraries, hospitals, art galleries, universities—and the concept of individual rights. Those Arabs who abandoned their land in order to join the military crusade against Israel forfeited all right to their property. And if there are any peaceful Arabs who were forcibly evicted from their property, they should be entitled to press their claims in the courts of Israel, which, unlike the Arab autocracies, has an independent, objective judiciary—a judiciary that recognizes the principle of property rights.

Fascinating. Read about it at the New York Times.

Support for Hamas as a political party has fallen to 34% among Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, a 12-point drop from December 2023. Gazan support for a diplomatic two-state solution has jumped to 62%.

The research found that as men age into older adulthood, those who have children tend to have worse cardiovascular health compared to their childless peers. This was determined by looking at factors like diet, exercise, smoking, weight, blood pressure, and blood lipid / glucose levels.

Read it at AJPM Focus.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overtook war cabinet minister Benny Gantz as the public’s preferred choice for premier in a television survey aired yesterday, the Times of Israel reports.

“Why are so many in the West washing away Hamas’s responsibility for the Gaza catastrophe?” Brendan O’Neill asks.

Well, hating Jews goes back centuries in the West.

It’s not easy being a bigot.

It’s still morning and Shabbat is hours away, but my plan is to do other things than blogging today, so here’s an early wish for a nice weekend. !שבת שלום

Read about the latest from the Trump circus at the Guardian. Jeebus!

Donald Trump, in a rambling and misleading 33-minute speech, derided the trial as rigged and made numerous false statements about what had taken place in court. Read the full story at the New York Times.

Considering popular jargon among bigots, I suppose it’s anti-Zionism and not anti-Semitism that makes people open fire against Jews in Canada.