I’m at work, but I really wish I wasn’t. The sun is shining, people outside the office window look happy.

A thing that many anti-Israel activist have in common is their inability to see beyond prejudices. Take this article in Salon as an example. Throughout, Zionism is described in term of colonialism and violence against innocent Palestinian. Not once can they authors touch on the core of it all—that Jews are the indigenous people of the land the Romans renamed Palestine. Anti-Zionism is mostly based on misconceptions.

It would probably be a good thing. Extremists are rarely reliable in times of conflict. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

The rabbi is right. Israel has a very good ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in the war on Hamas.

Read it at the Jerusalem Post.

Only 19% consider the military actions to be excessive. When asked about the likelihood of Israel achieving its war objectives, 40% expressed certainty, and 27% were optimistic.

Read it at Ynetnews.

This is so gay. Someone really loves Pride. 🌈

Read it at the Guardian.

I hate those people. They think they’re progressive, but they’re only a bunch of racists walking in the same shoes as generations of anti-Semites before them.

Read about it at the New York Post.

Andrew Sullivan on what isn’t yet fucked.

Claudia Sheinbaum won the election. The first woman and Jew to do so in Mexico.

Another musician seems to have lost the plot. Read at at PJ Media.

Residents of Jerusalem are bracing for an annual flag march through Muslim areas of the Old City.

Read the full story at the Guardian.

“The left doesn’t care about anti-Semitism if they deem it inconvenient to their cause. They just call it ‘anti-Zionism’ and carry on,” Hadley Freeman writes.

Read the full story at the Times of Israel.

When Jews are murdered, it’s resistance. When Jews defend themselves, it’s genocide. Read the full story at the Jerusalem Post.

At least some countries show courage and decency. Read the full story at the Jerusalem Post.

It’s time we call this mass psychosis.

“Why Aren’t We Talking About It?” Peter Savodnik asks in the Free Press.

From the Jerusalem Post:

Hamas may have up to 12,000 fighters left, according to US officials who spoke to Reuters. This assessment would mean that Hamas has lost around half its strength in eight months of war.

Israel’s assessments were that Hamas had some 24 battalions at the outset of the war and that most of them were defeated. Israel also believed that around 14,000 Hamas members were killed. This would mean thousands were wounded.

This is now a numbers game of interpretation. If Hamas has 9,000-12,000 fighters left, then it has some 12-15 battalions left, not just a few.

Greek soldiers recreated ancient life conditions in a study to determine if the Dendra panoply, armour used by the Mycenaeans some 3,500 years ago, could stand up to combat. Study authors found it did. Read about it at the New York Times.

Apparently, Disfrutar in Barcelona has the best food in the world. Read about it at 50 Best.

The Qatari authorities lured a British-Mexican gay man and then sentenced him for illegal homosexuality. A country so focused on fighting love is not worthy any respect. 🇶🇦🤮 Read about it at Pink News.

This is mostly great news. However, any progress like this risk hurting people. Read about it in Nature Medicine.

Now, Qatar has done something right. Read about it in the Jerusalem Post.

“The world’s first human trial of a drug that can regenerate teeth will begin in a few months, less than a year on from news of its success in animals.” Read about it at New Atlas.

From the National Review:

I’d argue that when characters are created with “representation” in mind, they’re just about destined to be boring because they aren’t allowed to be too flawed. If, for example, you make your television series’ first and usually only gay character a kleptomaniac, someone out there will loudly complain that your series is portraying gays as kleptomaniacs. Any character who is offering “representation” must therefore be nice and safe and pleasant and unlikely to offend or bother any potential viewer. The characters become symbols, not evocations of a flesh-and-blood human being.

I actually think Jim Geraghty is on to something.

The faces of brutal anti-Semitism. Read about it at Campus Reform.

Sometimes a reminder is good. Read about it at Hot Air.

This is quite an unexpected move by a nation so opposed to human rights and civil liberties. Read about it at the Sydney Morning Herald.

The election of a new members of the European Parliament is happening this weekend. So, if you’re a EU citizen, don’t forget to use your vote. The far-right is gaining support, so all sane people need to get to the polling station.

One socialist anti-Semite down… 👍 Read about it at the Times of Israel.

The World Meteorological Organisation warns that the likelihood average temperature will surpass 1.5℃ in the next five years has risen to 80%. Hardly surprising. Read about it at United Press.

A bad day for the pro-Palestine crowd, I’m sure. I’m thinking about those protesters in Europe who shout that Hamas’s terrorism is legit resistance. And those who claim that the kidnappings never happened. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Read Victor Davis Hanson’s list at the Daily Caller.

Yesterday’s election to the European Parliament was a big win for the far-right in many countries. Depressing, but not surprising. Good news is that Hungary seems to move towards the centre, with Viktor Orbán’s party losing momentum. In Sweden, the far-left won most seats. Good news is that far-right Sweden Democrats lost seats.

It’s not as bad as one might have feared. Read about it at the EU Observer.

“The symbols were uncovered during research conducted by Shai Halevi and Michael Tchernin of the Israel Antiquities Authority, who mapped and deciphered forgotten British symbols at the site,” Ynetnews reports. From the time when Britain occupied Israel and Arab pretend that the land was ruled by them.

Brexit was never a good idea for British interests. Read about it at the Local.

Mosab Hassan Yousef condemns the terrorist group, saying they have blood on their hands and that there is “nothing good or righteous about Hamas.” Not that the leftist students will care about violence as long as Jews are the targets. Read about it at Townhall.

“The Chabad Rabbi of UCLA was just physically assaulted live on camera. The students subsequently began calling him a ‘Zionist pedophile Rabbi,’ telling him to ‘go back to Poland’,” Shabbos Kestenbaum writes on Twitter.

I guess the leftists would say this is anti-Zionism and not anti-Semitism.

Exaggerating the likelihood of success after failure may make us less willing to help others who are struggling. Read the study at the American Psychological Association.

While people all over the world criticise Israel, Yahya Sinwar doesn’t care the slightest about civilian causalities in Gaza. Read about it at the Wall Street Journal.

Blah, blah, blah … Read about it at the Times of Israel.

It does acknowledge that Hamas has done some minor crimes as well.

I’m not in New York often, but I know what Rabbi Kleinbaum’s work has meant to gay Jews in the city. A job well done. Read about it at the New York Post.

French conservative party remove their leader Eric Ciotti for trying to strike an electoral alliance with the far right. Read about it at the France 24.

Read about it at Pink News.

G7 leaders plan to use interest from $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine. 👍 Good!!! Read about it at Deutsche Welle.

Traditional gender roles have propped up authoritarian regimes of the past. And it seems to do so again. Read about it at the New Statesman.

The former president turns 78 today. And he’s the younger of the two candidates in the 2024 presidential election! Read about it at Yahoo News.

Seven out of eight members of the government’s committee for a more dignified death recommend that euthanasia be allowed in Denmark. This is good news. Death has been taboo for too long, which has caused unnecessary anguish. Read about it at Berlingske.

I’m glad for Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi, but it’s absurd that Iran is prepared to hurt innocent people to get mass murderer Hamid Noury free. Read about it at the Guardian.

President Trump’s daughter-in-law has promised to prosecute anyone who cheats in an election. Why not begin with her father-in-law? Read about it at the Hill.

Analysis of 2,000-year-old tefillin found in Judean Desert caves shows no dye was used in their construction. Deep black is considered mandated by contemporary Halacha interpretation. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

George R. R. Martin on Facebook:

Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and “make them their own.” It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by Stan Lee, Charles Dickens, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, or… well, anyone. No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and “improve” on it. “The book is the book, the film is the film,” they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound. Then they make the story their own. They never make it better, though. Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse.

The constant distractions of modern life have become an excuse to avoid the search for meaning. Read Paul Lynch’s essay at the New York Times.

“I just know all too well what can happen when the world gangs up on Jews, scapegoats them, and holds them to an entirely different standard than anyone else,” Michael Corwin writes in the Jerusalem Post. “Heck, we’re even going to be blamed for Trump 2024 when all those Democrats throwing stones don’t vote for Biden.”

No work today. Yay!

Not exactly the press coverage Sweden wants. Read about it at the US Sun.

I refuse to believe this is true. Coffee is my friend. Read about it at the Sydney Morning Herald.

Frightening stuff. Scientists have found microplastics in every part inspected in the human body. Read about it at Science of the Total Environment.

According to the Israeli prime minister, there will not be a new cabinet. I’m not sure this is a good idea. Internal fighting is never a smart move in times of war. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

Men’s testosterone levels have been declining over the last few decades, and no one knows exactly why. But there’s home in new research. Read about it at Microsoft Start.

Jerry Seinfeld delivered a master class on how performers should handle useful idiots for Hamas. Read about it at Hot Air.

It appears that Mossad knows for sure where the Hezbollah leader is at any given moment—even if he changes locations. Read about it at Ynetnews.

Johan Floderus has been held a prisoner in Iran for two years. In a prison exchange, he was released and brought back to Sweden. At the airport, the first thing he did was to propose to his partner Jonathan. Breaks my heart. Read about it at Expressen.

Two authoritarian idiots and a piece of paper. Read about it at AP News.

Finally some good Trump news. “Former President Donald Trump has been hit with a series of negative polls this week.” Read about it at Newsweek.

So, even Israeli defence against rockets from abroad is bad. Tell me again how this bloodthirsty activism isn’t anti-Semitism. Read about it at Campus Reform.

The Russian Bear seems to suffer from fur loss. Read about it at Yahoo News.

“Rather desperate.” Rather pathetic, too. Read about it at the Kyiv Independent.

Let’s face it, Wikipedia is a cesspool of hate. A bit like Twitter, but with better image. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

It’s Shabbat. I survived yet another week.

Hashtags and social media campaigns led by Lebanese media personalities attempt to restrain Hezbollah. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

My job is so far from 9-5 that I no longer keep track of what day of the week it is. I have to look at my phone. Just learned that it’s Monday. Good thing though, it’s a day off work.

A Jewish mother and her husband were attacked and beaten at a New York elementary school graduation by an Arabic-speaking family. Read about it at the New York Post.

It’s getting hotter. Read about it at Semafor.

The thoughts of a nutty spoon bender. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

The never-ending legal drama might finally come to an end as Assange is set free. Read about it at NBC News.

It’s a bromance, I’m sure, as both regimes are known to hate women, Israel, and all things decent. Read about it at FDD’s Long War Journal.

The Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz has pushed a false claim that a Los Angeles synagogue was auctioning off Palestinian land. Read about it at Washington Free Beacon.

“Hamas is a completely different movement since Yahya Sinwar was released from prison in the Shalit deal. It didn’t take him long to completely transform Hamas.” Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

Cher dropped out of school at 16 and devoted herself to networking her way around Hollywood. Read about it at Yahoo News.

“Following the publication of the second FRC report on 18 March 2024, which projected that a Famine would occur in the most likely scenario, a number of important developments occurred,” IPC writes in a new report. “In contrast with the assumptions made for the projection period (March–July 2024), the amount of food and non-food commodities allowed into the northern governorates increased. Additionally, the response in the nutrition, water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health sectors was scaled up. In this context, the available evidence does not indicate that Famine is currently occurring.”

Read more about it at the Times of Israel.

In experiments using mice and liver tissue from humans, the researchers identified how the aging process prompts certain liver cells to die off. They were then able to reverse the process in the animals with an investigational drug. Read about it at the journal Nature Aging.

I watched the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on CNN that just ended. It was a hard watch. Biden looked like he was about to die at any moment, and Trump acted as a bully and lied about everything throughout. Both should retire. America deserves better candidates.

Biden’s shaky debate performance has Democrats panicking. And they are right to do so. Read about it at the New York Times.

“While Joe Biden struggled onstage, party plotters scripted his premature exit,” Matt Taibbi writes.

From Politico:

The New York Times editorial page Friday said he should drop out for the good of the country. The Washington Post editorial page said he should at least cancel his weekend plans to think about it. Multiple prominent commentators—including, one notes, a preponderance of white males over 60—said it gave them no pleasure to say so but they had ruefully concluded that it is time for Joe to Go. These voices included Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Tom Friedman, Nicholas Kristof, Jonathan Alter, David Ignatius and former congressman Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” All said the chance of a diminished Biden losing to Trump is too high to risk.

This is worrying. The far-right National Rally seems to be gaining support ahead of tomorrow’s election in France. Read about it the Guardian.

This is pure madness. Read about it at NBC News.

I hope the benefits overtake the disadvantages. Fish is yummy. Read about it at the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Quite funny list in Politico.

If Joe Biden is dropped, it could end with a very small group of people electing a new candidate. Very elitists. Read about it at Lee Fang.