Well, It’s what could be expected from this clown. Read about it the Jerusalem Post.

Trump knows no shame. Read about it at Associated Press.

With Iran threatening Israel of imminent attack, and Turkey’s lunatic president talking about its army entering Israel, it feels like a great war is approaching. The target being my people, the Jewish people. May God finish the enemies off.

According to an Australian government review, Israeli airstrikes that killed international aid workers in Gaza in April were the result of serious operational failures but were not intentional. Not that any of the pro-Palestine nutjobs will care about these facts. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

Jewish lives matters, too, unless you’re a leftist a*hole. Read about it at the Washington Examiner.

It’s not really Shabbat yet. It’s a few hours to go, but I’ll start early.

שבת שלום

What they refuse to understand is that trans women aren’t men. Read about it at OutKick.

A Jewish customer in Melbourne requested to laminate an article about the October massacre, and an employee of the shop refused and threatened to call the police. Read about it at Ynetnews.

The Nordic Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi organisation, tried to interrupt today’s parade through the Swedish capital. Idiots! Read about it at Aftonbladet.

This anti-Semite gang, known for harassing Jews at Pride events, is now whining about being banned. Boohoo! Read about it at QX.

The orange man is a tiny man. Read about it at Reuters.

It must feel good to have others do Khamenei’s dirty job. I’d suggest every rocket from Lebanon be retaliated with a bomb in Iran. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Yesterday was a sad day in England as far-right thugs battled police in the streets. Read about it at the Guardian.

Judging from the pictures, these übermensch all had a bad run in the gene-pool lottery.

It has recently been revealed that:

• 14 UNRWA staff took part in the October massacre.
• 1,200 UNRWA staff in Gaza are members of terrorist groups.
• 3,000 UNRWA teachers were in a Telegram group that celebrated October massacre.
• Hamas built a terror tunnel directly below UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza, hiding a computer intelligence centre that was powered by the agency’s electrical grid.

Read about it at UN Watch.

Sign the petition #ReplaceUNRWA

Ali al-Shakati has never existed, but that didn’t stop Channel3 Now—an obscure, Russian-linked fake-news outlet—from naming him as a 17-year-old supposedly Muslim asylum seeker responsible for the murder of three British schoolgirls. The far-right mob naturally jumped on the fake news and started to riot. Read about it at the Telegraph.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said yesterday that starving two million Gazans may be the right and moral to do until Israeli hostages held in Gaza are released. He’s a complete idiot! No, it would not be morally acceptable. Far-right a*holes like Smotrich that gives far-left a*holes “proof” of Israeli apartheid and genocide. Read about it at Haaretz.

The most iniquitous and despicable man they could find for the job, I suppose. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Very non-kosher. Read about it at the Guardian.

Seems worrying. War is looming. But personally, I think everyone should avoid Iran’s airspace—always. It’s a country that is a hub for global terrorism. Read about it at Jerusalem Post.

Interesting developments in humankind’s battle against cancer. Read about it at Ars Technica.

“We’re not able to say that this is a sign of life,” Katie Stack Morgan of NASA tells Science News. “But this is the most compelling sample we’ve found yet.”

The Mayor of Paris Defends the Olympics’ pro-LGBT opening ceremony against far-right hatred. Read about it at EU Observer.

A few days ago, the statue commemorating Anne Frank, one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, was again defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti. In modern newspeak, I’m guessing it’s anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism. Read about it at CBS News.

“Iran’s mullahcracy might be made up of crazies, but they aren’t suicidal.” Well, I’m so sure about that. Seventy virgins and all that… Read about it at PJ Media.

The scientists behind a new study call for urgently bringing carbon emissions to zero to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Read about it at Nature Communications.

“It’s hard to overstate how toxic and endemic anti-Zionism has become on many campuses.” Read about it at Legal Insurrection.

“Donald Trump’s campaign recognises that it could lose in November.” Read about it at the Guardian.

It might be bad for the heart, but I think obesity from sugar is worse, still. Read about it at the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.

Apparently something of a mix between dolphin and crocodile. They fed on squids and fish. Read about it at the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

Nikk Ogasa explains the reason behind the heightened tension in Japan. Read it at Science News.

Seems she’s doing Las Vegas like a star. Read about it 8 News Now.

“There are far too many radical professors who dominate academia, peddle hate, and dehumanise those who dissent from their narrow-minded ideological views.” It’s sad because it’s true. Read about it at Campus Reform.

“We can safely declare, without exaggeration or hyperbole, that Britain is now a totalitarian state.” Hm… Hard to exaggerate more. Read about it at PJ Media.

Tonight, at sundown, the Jewish Tisha B’Av begins. It’s a day when we remember the destruction of the temples. It’s a day of sadness. Now, many predict that Iran will take on the symbolism and attack Israel on this day. In other words, we might be only hours away from an even bigger war than the one we’re already fighting against Hamas.

I’ve never heard om raw-dogging until today. Seems like torture. Read about it at BBC.

Prominent Al-Jazeera commentator Jamal Rayyan accused Arab leaders of having “Jews ruling among them”. No one should be surprised, really. Al-Jazeera is always racist. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

I don’t like that some Democrats and other use J.D. Vance’s cross-dressing images to bash him. Attack him on policy, not on this. This is bordering on transphobia. Read about at the Daily Beat.

Palestine is the only “country” that was occupied before it is existed. Just saying. I’m so tired of people talking about occupation. Israel was there 3,500 years ago. Jews are the indigenous people. That doesn’t mean the Arabs have no legit claim to the land, it’s only means that the State of Palestine and its flag is a a twentieth-century invention. Before the current State of Israel, Palestine was rulered by the Turks and the British. So, please, stop posting British passport for Palestine and pretend it’s passports for an Arab state. Read at the top, it reads “British passport”.

Isn’t strange how Gaza has access to bombs but not to food? Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Anti-Israel protesters shut down motorway in Los Angeles. Beyond the mumbo-jumbo, they really want Israel to surrender to Hamas. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

The 1,000km² Ukraine says it controls in the Kursk Oblast amounts to a tiny share of Russia’s massive terrain. Yet, politically, the Ukrainian move poses one of the biggest challenges to Putin’s grip on power. Read about it at Kyiv Independent.

The far-left group If Not Now, allegedly a Jewish organisation, is not endorsing Jews. They are instead endorsing all the most outspoken anti-Semites in American politics. It’s absurd.

The student’s attorney told the New York Post that her client was influenced by a Cornell professor who described Hamas’s terror attack in October 2023 as “exhilarating”. Read about it at the College Fix.

🤣 Read about it at Ars Technica.

“The delegation sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel.” Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

On Nasrina Bargzie’s CV, one finds regular attacks on Jewish students who experienced threats. These Jewish victims of bigotry are, according to Bargzie, guilty of “organised legal bullying”. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

And still, somehow, we all know that Luxembourg is the bigger of the two countries. Read about it at EU Observer.

One of the monument’s largest stones was moved more than 725km. Read about it at Guardian.

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on this day in 1769. He would be responsible for 81 battles in Europe and Africa before finally being defeated at Waterloo. Had it not been for Napoleon, we might no have had ABBA.

A new study on the topic has been published in JAMA Network Open.

The new trend began in Sweden, where smokeless tobacco called “snus”—sold as both loose tobacco and portioned pouches—has been used for centuries. Read about it at the Washington Post.

“Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers, many of them masked, rampaged in the West Bank Palestinian village of Jit on Thursday night, setting fire to homes and vehicles. A Palestinian man was also reported killed amid the attack.” Idiots! Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Ironically, the historicaly correct Caligula would probably be even dirtier. Read about it at the New York Post.

Time for a complete reboot. Read about it Nature Aging.

“Drinking four or more cups of coffee a day can raise the risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to a new study.” I refuse to belive it. There’s no such thing as too much coffee. Read about it at Talker.

The new anti-Semitism at its core. They say Zionist, but what the mean is that they don’t like Jews claiming the same human rights as all other peoples. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

“Holocaust inversion transposes the guilt of the abusers, the Nazis, onto the abused, the Jews, and leaves no room for any other possibility. The point, of course, is to legitimize violence against Jews.” Read it at Israel Hayom.

They hate Jews and liberty, but love tyrants and violence. Read about it at Campus Reform and the Boston Globe.

Well done! 👍 Read about it at the Kyiv Independent.

Many people in such a small space. Read about it at Dutch News.

I think that pre-emptive attacks could be justified. Read about it at Jerusalem Post.

It’s not easy being an advocate for anti-Semitic pogroms who’s not used to being questioned.

“Red fascists is the name that has recently been given to those Bolshevik communists who are most inclined to espouse fascism’s methods for use against their adversaries.” Correct observation by Italian anarchist Luigi Fabbri (1877–1935). You’ll find his 1922 article Preventative Counter-Revolution here.

Hamas published an official statement on last night in which it rejected the terms for a hostage-and-ceasefire deal. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

After a speech and prayers by a guest imam who called for God to destroy Zionist Jews and for Hamas victory, the New York mosque at which the services occurred has condemned the sermon. Good! Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

Utterly homophobic if you ask me. 😜 Read about it at the Guardian.

To stop nanoplastic particles from penetrating deep into human bodies and brains, researchers at the University of Missouri have come up with a potentially sustainable and safe way to rid water of such pollutants. Read about it at the journal ACS Applied Engineering Materials.

John Spencer in Foreign Affairs:

It is now Israel’s responsibility to create the conditions that would allow new leadership in Gaza to survive. The first step is to reduce Hamas’s capabilities enough to let an external force enter Gaza and provide security in population centres. When a new body, such as the Palestinian Authority, takes over governance from Hamas, Israel will need to provide it security assistance, including with counter-terror operations. The role of Israeli forces should not amount to a constant presence in Gaza. As parts of the strip are stabilised, the new authority can lead the post-conflict work of deradicalisation, disarmament, demobilisation, and reconciliation. By supporting this new government in Gaza, facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid, and making it possible to rebuild, Israel can show the Palestinian public it is committed to a better future without Hamas.

It’s about time the Russian leadership turns its back on Putin. Read about it at Swedish newspaper Expressen.

I rarely post anything in Swedish in this online diary, but today I replied to an article by Fredrik Segerfeldt in Dagens Arena, a Facebook comment I think holds some important aspects often ignored in Sweden’s debate on Israel.

Dina anklagelser helt utgår ifrån ett ensidigt arabiskt narrativ. Du utlämnar flera helt avgörande skeenden. De är för många för att bemöta i detta forum, men ett par saken vill jag ta upp.

Vi judar ansågs inte vara européer. I Östeuropa beskrevs vi som palestinier (se exempelvis Kants texter). Efter förintelsen förvägrades flertalet av våra överlevare att återfå sina tillhörigheter och återvända till sina hem. Dessa egendomar hade förstörts eller konfiskerats, och hemmen hade oftast blivit hem åt européer. Miljontals av oss var hemlösa och egendomslösa. Inget land i Europa ville ge asyl och uppehälle annat än åt en mindre grupper.

De palestinska araberna var delaktiga i det nazistiska projektet. I november 1941 hölls ett toppmöte i München mellan Hitler och ledare för de palestinska araberna. Araberna försäkrade att de delade Hitlers syn på judar men fruktade att nazisternas politik i Europa skulle leda till att vi skulle flytta till vårt historiska hemland. Ledande palestinska araber blev inte bara sympatisörer utan aktiva medlemmar i det tyska nazistpartiet. I januari 1942, ett par månader efter toppmötet i München, beslutade nazisterna att judarna skulle hindras från flykt och att industriellt folkmord var enda sättet att göra sig av med oss.

Samma Europa som fördrev sin judiska befolkning beskyller nu Israel för etnisk rensning. Detsamma gäller för arabländerna som efter München 1941 började fördriva sin judiska befolkning. Långt fler judar fördrevs från arabländerna (ca 1 000 000) än araber som fördrevs från Israel (ca 700 000). Men av någon anledning – som vi återkommande får höra inte är antisemitism – så ska araberna få återvända medan judarna ska hålla sig borta. Judarna ska helst gå upp i rök, bildligt och bokstavligt.

Israel är mitt land. Vi har inte byggt Israel på stulen mark. Vi är landets urfolk. Det fanns en israelisk statsbildning för 3 000 år sedan. En palestinsk stat som idé fanns först 1988. Många fel har begåtts, men den nuvarande situationen är inte resultat av sionistisk illvilja utan av att grannländerna inte kunnat acceptera att araber sålt sin mark till judar. Araberna förlorade med Hitler sin dröm om en judefri värld. Men till skillnad mot Tyskland när de fortfarande ett hopp om framgång. Därför särbehandlas flyktingar från israeliska områden. Dessa araber förvägras medborgarskap i sina nya länder och med stöd av världssamfundet anses de som enda folk ärva flyktingstatus i generationer. Så kan debattörer på bekvämt avstånd framhålla lidandet hos palestinska araber som ett rumsrent exempel på judisk grymhet.

Numerous media files were found on the doctor’s phone, including executions, beheadings, and mutilated bodies. I guess Hamas wasn’t hardcore enough. Read about it at Jerusalem Post.

Arwa Mahdawi has written a new article for the Guardian, in which she complains about people putting Israeli warfare into context. Only clear language is legit, and nothing should be added to the explain actions. However, in November 2023, a month after the worst program against Jews since the Holocaust, it was very important for Mahdawi so stress that Hamas’s terror attack “did not take place in a vacuum”. When it comes to anti-Semitic crimes, context seems very important for Mahdawi.

The declaration of a State of Palestine took place in Algiers in Algeria on 15 November 1988. Whenever pro-Palestinians say that Israel is only 76 years old, remind them of fact that “Palestine” is only 36 years old. It could have been of equal ages as the modern State of Israel had the Arabs accepted the Partition Plan of 1947 (see map).

I moved a domain, and that caused my link shortener to stop working. As a result, all links that begins with aqurette.blog are currently broken.

Finally some coffee science I can trust. 💕☕️ Read about it at Science Alert.

Sphen and Magic were two male gentoo penguins in Australia. After meeting in 2018, they adopted and raised two chicks together, becoming internationally famous and symbolic for the gay-rights movement. Sphen died today. He was 11 years old.

“The change in the Atlantic’s cooling rate brings an end to the 15-month streak of record-high ocean temperatures.” Read about it at BGR.

Following the comment I made yesterday on Facebook about Israel’s right the land, some replies are more horrendous than others. Here’s woman who writes that Jews have themselves to blame for anti-Semitism and pogroms because we didn’t give up our identity and assimilate into oblivion. In fact, being Jewish in Europe is an insult to Europeans. So—to sum it up—Israel has no right to Israel, and Jews have no right to be in the diaspora, either.

“We have bolstered our military capabilities in the region, and we’re watching it every single day,” National Security Council Communications Adviser John Kirby told reporters yesterday. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

It’s time for an outright war on mosquitoes. Read about the study at Nature.

The Islamic State terror organisation claims it’s behind the attack. Read about it at Deutsche Welle.

“A suspect caught on a surveillance camera outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the seaside resort of La Grande-Motte, near the city of Montpellier, was caught in surveillance camera footage clad in a Palestinian flag.” Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Interesting, but also scary. In a near future, your smartphone will outsmart you. Read about it at the Guardian.

“The energy emerging from the Democratic National Convention and Vice President Harris’s hot streak is making Republicans increasingly nervous.” Read about it at The Hill.

Roger wasn’t always Roger. Read about it at Pocket.

Hundreds of new recruits have joined Hamas and its armed wing, exhilarated by the terror group’s ongoing war with Israel. Read about it at the New York Times.

“A man has gone on a stabbing rampage in southern Sydney after a car crash, allegedly slashing a woman in his car and attacking others including a policeman.” Read about it at the Sydney Morning Herald.

Terror group says response to Israel killing of one of its commanders has begun. Read the live blog at Times of Israel.

Paul Schneider:

Intersectionality also gives Israel-haters an aura of respectability when they proclaim the blood libel that the victims of Nazis have become Nazis. Or that people defending their country against a genocidal foe are themselves committing genocide. Or that an indigenous people, connected to the land for millennia, are actually colonists. Or that Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and Mizrahim kicked out of Arab and Muslim countries are now imperialists. Or that a multi-ethnic country where people of colour make up at least half the Jewish population practices white supremacy. Or that a country of less than 10 million people and roughly the size of New Jersey has successfully conspired to dominate American politics.

Arab world mocks Hezbollah online over thwarted attack. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

In the Israel-Hamas/Hezbollah war, fact-checks are not always true. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team reporting on the war in Ukraine, was killed, and two other Reuters journalists were injured in a Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk that occurred late at night on 24 August. Read about it at the Kyiv Independent.

Researchers found that antioxidants in the seaweed may protect our neurons from free radicals to prevent this debilitating disease. Read the study at MDPI Nutrients.

I’m about to move my domain address to a new host, which might cause some interruption in the following days.

Update: It’s been done successfully.

“Vice President Harris holds a 7-point edge over former President Trump nationally in a new poll, marking the latest gain for the Democratic presidential candidate as the general election approaches.” Read about it at The Hill.

“In fact, it actually is important that Harris is not a foundational black American (FBA), but rather, the child of immigrants. I know we don’t talk about it nearly enough, but remember slavery?” Ann Coulter is doing what she does best, writing complete garbage with racist undertones. But it’s entertaining because it’s so stupid. Read about it at Coulter’s website.

“The question of the difference between man and woman, especially from a philosophical point of view, provides an illuminating case study of the relation between Thomas Aquinas’s thought and the scientific approach to reality.” Hm… Read John DeSilva Finley’s essay at MDPI Religions.

A new study by Brandeis University researchers reveals that one-third of non-Jewish university students in America embrace patterns of ideas hostile to Jews or Israel. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Bertrand Benoit in the Wall Street Journal:

Björn Höcke, the firebrand head of the AfD [Alternative für Deutschland] party in the eastern German state of Thuringia, is leading ahead of a Sept. 1 regional ballot, according to an Aug. 13 survey by the INSA polling group. This puts a man who once said it was problematic to represent Hitler as “absolutely evil” in pole position to be the first postwar far-right politician to win a German state election.

Even if he doesn’t end up governing, a ballot win would make history in Germany. Crowning one of Europe’s most hard-line far-right groups would also mark an inflection point for a region where right-wing parties have found success by sanding down their ideological edges.

“It would be a turning point for sure, an earthquake,” said Axel Salheiser, scientific director of the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society in Jena, Thuringia’s second-largest city. “It would be highly symbolic for a far-right party to win, here of all places, in former East Germany, where the experience of dictatorship stretches across the 20th century.”

Times for 1990s nostalgia. Read about it at NBC News.

We’re doomed. Damn those monkeys! Read about it at Mirror Online.

From the Times of Israel:

A left-wing member of France’s lower house of parliament accused the country’s chief rabbi, Haim Korsia, of “defending war crimes,” a criminal offense, over comments he made in a television interview in which he said he wanted to see Israel “finish the job in Gaza” so it could make peace in the Middle East.

“Cross-strait couples are required to marry in China, but with gay marriage still impossible on the mainland, many couples are left in limbo.” Read about it at the Guardian.

F*ck, yeah! 👍 Read about it at Pink News.

Don’t expect the environmentalists to act. They’re too busy fighting for Hamas. Read about it at the Wall Street Journal.

Good news! Controlling the border between Gaza and Egypt is the only way to prevent Hamas from rearming. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Party like it’s 1699. Read the study at the Journal of Archaeological Science.

A new study suggests that beer is associated with a higher risk of gout. Personally, I refuse to believe it. Read the study at JAMA Network.

“Less than a year after resigning her position as the president of the University of Pennsylvania following controversial statements regarding anti-Semitism on campus, Liz Magill has been hired by Harvard University for a research position.” Please don’t tell me that this had been the case if she defended bigotry against other racial minorities. Read about it at Campus Reform.