Please set aside ten minutes to listen to this speech by Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck. It covers everything with a strategically sober and morally firm perspective and avoids all the tired cliches.
Day: 8 November 2023
Kristallnacht
Today, November 9, 2023 is the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party’s Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938.
The sin of moral equivalence
From Sam Harris’ Making Sense Podcast.
Episode 146: Acute Psychoanalytic Care of the Victims of the October 7th Massacre with Merav Roth, Ph.D. and Mira Erlich-Ginor, M.A. (Tel Aviv)
We begin by tracing the recent history of those organizations that are dedicated to the premeditated butchery of civilians. Both Merav and Mira share with us their experiences when the sirens went off on Saturday morning October 7th. We follow them as they attend to those who physically survived the mutilation, murder and kidnapping of their family members.
Michael Oren: A War Against the Jews
Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
This is Britian’s Antisemitic moment – and our institutions are failing to respond
At the university where I teach in London, the local branch of the lecturers’ union has just passed a motion calling for “intifada until victory!” The university’s Jewish studies department notifies students of lecture venues by text, for fear of disruption.