Bookworm on Oct 24 2012 | Filed under: Israel, Jews
Tweet The editor of a Jewish newspaper — let me repeat: a Jewish newspaper — has endorsed a Republican. Because we’re discussing Jews, it may be wrong to analogize this to pigs flying, but I guess it’s okay as long as we’re not eating those pigs for breakfast. I was at a luncheon today (see [...]
Bookworm on Aug 12 2012 | Filed under: Presidential elections
Tweet Within seconds of Romney’s announcement that Ryan would be his running mate, the chatter started. Democrats expressed delight, because they see Ryan’s stance on Medicare as one they can use to portray Romney and Ryan as Satan incarnate. A couple of years ago, they showed Ryan pushing grandma’s wheelchair off the cliff. This year, [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet You all saw that Mr. “I know Judaism better than the Jews” is now refusing to apologize for having referred to Polish, as opposed to Nazi, death camps. What a maroon. I always tell my kids (usually after they’ve said “Moooom, you’re embarrassing me”) that a person can only embarrass himself. President Obama is [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, Jews
Tweet The handwriting was on the wall in 2008 but Jews, despite having eyes, could not see it: Obama is not now and never was a friend to Israel. His social and political allegiances meant that any protestations of friendship were lies. And certainly his acts during more than three years in the White House [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2012 | Filed under: Jews
Tweet I wrote this during Iran’s Green Revolution. For the paragraphs regarding Iran, please feel free to substitute Syria, the Sudan, the economic victims of the financially decimated European Union, Palestinian children who are pawns in Hamas’ genocidal strategy, or any other group of people groaning under a tyrant’s yoke. **** An antisemitic Jew I [...]
Bookworm on Mar 19 2012 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jews
Tweet Today, a gunman hunted out a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing four (three of whom were young children) and then vanishing. Despite the unusual specificity of the targets (i.e., Jewish children), the usual suspects are very busy denying that the unusual specificity of the targets had anything to do with anything. D.G. Myers will [...]
Bookworm on Feb 16 2012 | Filed under: Jews, Media matters
Tweet The Daily Mail is one of my go-to places. I love the strange amalgam of real news, crime stories, pop culture, and general miscellanea. Today, that miscellanea included an exquisite, and completely un-antisemitic, photo essay about an ultra-Orthodox wedding in Israel. The pictures are dazzling windows into a different world, a world that is [...]
Bookworm on Jan 23 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet We can expect tomorrow night’s State of the Union address to be an action-packed hour (or so) of vitriol and self-pity. Obama will cherry-pick a few numbers about the 1% and then whine about how he’s been trying really hard to destroy that same 1%, but that a vast array of insurmountable obstacles — [...]
Bookworm on Jan 02 2012 | Filed under: Media matters
Tweet As you already know, I’m sure, the Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem are fighting hard to segregate men and women in public spaces in Jerusalem. I posted about the fact that Mr. Bookworm analogized this small group, which is fighting against a democratic, egalitarian government, to the sharia law that exists across large segments of the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 13 2011 | Filed under: Jews
Tweet Please, please, please tell me the Rabbi was writing with tongue fixed firmly in cheek: I’ve got a Tim Tebow problem. I want to root for the guy, but I’m afraid of what will happen if the hulky Denver Bronco quarterback continues to pull off what is fast becoming the Greatest Gridiron Story Ever [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2011 | Filed under: Media matters
Tweet I didn’t bother to read the entirety of an endless article about a bad thing happening in Mexico. No, I’m not talking about drug cartels or about Mexican citizens being slaughtered by guns sent over courtesy of a Democrat Department of Justice attempting to prove that guns hurt people. I’m talking about plants that [...]
Bookworm on Oct 07 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet Wouldn’t you like to have lunch with this guy?
Bookworm on Oct 03 2011 | Filed under: Jews, Military
Tweet Do you remember Johnny Carson’s droll “I did not know that”? I do. And that’s precisely what popped into my head when JKB sent me a link to a post discussing the fact that 161 years ago, the U.S. Navy outlawed flogging. It’s a wonderful little story, especially because it combines three things I [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Jews
Tweet Obama is having a bad week when it comes to Joo . . . janitors. After his mispronunciation faux pas (which was probably the innocent act of a mental stumble bum, but which sounded appalling coming from Obama, who has proven hostile to Israel and the Jews), he’s now issued a Rosh Hashanah message [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet Bill Whittle narrates this clear summation of 20th and 21st century relations between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. It does not reflect well on the Arabs:
Bookworm on May 27 2010 | Filed under: Israel, Jews
Tweet A few days ago, I mentioned Robin of Berkeley’s American Thinker piece about the two different types of Jews in America: the kind who are reflexively liberal and reflexively pro-Israel, and the kind who are reflexively Leftist and reflexively hostile to Israel. Robin’s point was that the former do not understand that they have [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Jews
Tweet Robin of Berkeley hits a home run — actually, she hits it right out of the park — in this post explaining the two different types of Jews who support Barack Obama. One type is the type I used to be, an unthinking liberal, who actually loves America and strongly supports Israel. The other [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2010 | Filed under: Iran
Tweet An antisemitic Jew I know, rather than seeing the Passover ceremony as the celebration of freedom (the world’s first and for a long time only successful slave revolt), and of justice and morality (the Ten Commandments), derides the whole ceremony as the unconscionable and immoral celebration of the genocide of the Egyptian people. What [...]
Bookworm on Jun 10 2009 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama
Tweet My Manchurian candidate post is getting a lot of readership, and I can’t even figure out what the sources are. It’s just kind of dribbling around the internet. That post focused on something very specific about Obama, which is the disconnect between his much trumpeted innate qualities. We are told that he is brilliant, [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, United Nations
Tweet It will be interesting to see how Obama’s talks with Netanyahu go. Netanyahu is light years ahead of Obama in terms of intelligence and experience. Obama, however, has dense ideological filaments in his brain that may render him incapable of deviating from his biases. In other words, I doubt that anything Netanyahu says will [...]
Bookworm on May 13 2009 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel
Tweet I agree with Jonathan Tobin, who notes the Pope’s missteps and tone-deafness while in Israel, but then goes on to add this important caveat: But to say that Benedict is not John Paul should not be an excuse for Israelis or Jews to spend this week bashing either the Vatican or the Pope. While [...]
Bookworm on Mar 01 2009 | Filed under: Israel, Jews
Tweet Sometimes, things just come together. After shamefully neglecting my facebook, I checked in today and got a letter from a friend, asking why non-Jewish Americans should still support Israel when both American and Israeli Jews have so consistently made bad choices in support of that nation. It’s a good question, and one that deserves [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jews
Tweet One of the things that was most obvious about the Mumbai massacre was the extraordinary effort the attackers — who were ostensibly upset about the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir — made to kill Jews. Not only did they seek out Jews in the hotels, they planned carefully and in advance to attack the single [...]
Bookworm on Nov 05 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Jews, Marriage
Tweet Contentions blog has a short post about the Jewish vote for Obama. I wrote a comment to that post, and share it with you here: American Jews aren’t really Jewish anymore. With regard to Prop. 8′s success in California (preserving male/female marriage), I told a disappointed Jewish acquaintance, who was blaming “fanatic” Christians, that [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Education, Islam, Israel, Jews
Tweet The title of my post is not true. But it could be, which is really, really sad: American elementary and high school textbooks contain many “gross misrepresentations” of Judaism, Christianity and Israel, according to a book-length study released this week by the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish and Community Research. “It is shocking to [...]
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