J.E Dyer’s comment: From a former State Dept official who understands the Impoundment Control Act. Note that Axios says shipment halted, Times of Israel says shipments proceeding. Possible layers of meaning.  The Hill has article suggesting US might “need to beat a deadline” of 8 May to continue w/shipment, before requirement to certify Israel’s use of US munitions doesn’t violate US policy. Hill article guaranteed to be admin-approved for Biden push-narrative to pressure Israel. Creates context for doubt & latent threat regarding munitions transfer. From available info, wpns in question wd be artillery shells, 500/1000-lb air-delivered bombs, prob JDAM kits & some Iron Dome-fam components

JNS | May 5, 2024

An Israeli official downplayed the report, saying that “the flow continues” and Jerusalem was “not aware of a policy decision to stop it.”

U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

The Biden administration has halted a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, Axios reported on Sunday, citing two officials in Jerusalem.

According to the U.S. news outlet, last week’s decision to place the shipment on hold left the Israeli government concerned, as it is the first time since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre that the U.S. has halted military aid to the Israel Defense Forces.

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Live Broadcast of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 Opening Ceremony at Yad Vashem

PM Netanyahu’s Speech [English translation] :

Don’t miss the portion of the speech which Netanyahu directly addresses the world, as he spoke to them in English.

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By Victor Rosenthal  May 5, 2024

The struggle to establish and maintain a Jewish sovereign state in Eretz Yisrael has lasted more than one hundred years. Since 1948, the existence of the state has hung in the balance several times. This is one of them.

Our endless war is primarily with the Palestinian Arabs, but other nations join in confrontation from time to time. The war is at bottom a tribal/religious war, between Muslims and Jews over this land. Despite various shifting alliances, and despite the involvement on either side of various non-Muslim powers and their maneuvering for access to the resources and strategic aspects of the Middle East, one single fact is unchanging and underlies the hostility directed at Israel: Muslims cannot tolerate a sovereign Jewish entity in Dar al Islam. It is an affront to Islam and an affront to the honor of the Muslims who have been defeated – to their minds, only temporarily – by Jews.
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By Tyler Durden, ZERO HEDGE    4 May 2024

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team admitted on Friday that key evidence in Trump’s classified documents case was altered or manipulated – leaving two different chronologies; one that was digitally scanned vs. what’s in the actual boxes.

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That flame is burning in our hearts, and it will not be extinguished.

By Shmuel Klatzkin, AMERICAN SPECTATOR 5 MAY 2024

Passover has been a compelling holiday for me. My cousin recently reminded me of early elementary school years, claiming to have a snapshot of me and him and his brother allegedly chanting “We want the Seder!” (That’s the meal on the first night of the holiday.)

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INN | May 5, 2024

After the cabinet meeting today (Sunday), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the negotiations for a deal to secure the release of the hostages held by Hamas and accused the media of harming the efforts to free the hostages.

“I would like to refer to trending publications in the media, publications that cause damage to the negotiations for the release of the hostages, and also to unnecessary suffering for the families of the hostages who are going through a nightmare,” Netanyahu began.

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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is a carbon copypasta of Claudine Gay and has destroyed another Demoralized DIEvy League institution, UNC frat white pill at the end

By Yuri Bezmenov, HOW TO SUBVERT SUBVERSION   5 May 2024

Comrades: Minouche Shafik is the final boss of the naked emperor globalists.

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Director, John Davidson, YOUTUBE    April 2024

Award Winning Film Epidemic of Fraud explores the bizarre media, medical, and partisan political attacks levied against a class of ancient medications, told from the perspective of a former CNN journalist and Hollywood industry veteran. Why were the people who allowed the opiate disaster to go unchecked so eager to discredit a drug that is safer than tonic water? Director John Davidson takes you into an audio/visual time machine back to 2020 to reveal the forbidden knowledge that our medical, academic, and political officials are desperate to hide from you.

Joel B. Pollak | The Jewish Voice | May 5, 2024

Pro-Hamas protesters demonstrate outside the main gate at Columbia University in New York City on Friday, April 26th. Credit: AP Photo/Aaron Morrison

The Wall Street Journal reports that many of the pro-Palestinian activists in campus “encampments” around the nation trained for “months” with veteran activists and groups before launching their invasions last month.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

In the 5th May 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israel shows gratitude to all its supporters during the current war.
• An Israeli startup allows you to grow your own replacement bones.
• The first Arab women to become University rector and IDF airborne mechanic.
• Israeli professors explain their research to save the planet.
• Investment funding in April topped $1 billion.
• Israeli technology stretches from Cyprus to California.
• Gold medalists dedicate their victories to fallen Gaza war heroes.
• Israel’s “miraculous” defense from Iranian drones and missiles.

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Why Evolution Is True | May 4, 2014

DEI statements are affirmations made when you’re applying for college admission, university jobs, or even science-society grants, recounting to the authorities your philosophy of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” your history of DEI activities, and how you will implement DEI initiatives if you get the admission/job/grant.  I have posted quite a bit about them (see collection here), and object to them because they are not only compelled speech and are often completely irrelevant to what you’re applying for, but also ignore the fact that there are many ways to make contributions to society beyond enacting DEI. (For example, what about a college applicant who has taught illiterate adults to read?)  And I think many institutions are eliminating them. For one thing, some of them may violate the recent Supreme Court decision on race-based admission. Now MIT has joined the statement-eliminators.

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Bloodstained currency, smuggled gold bars and a $200,000 check.

Daniel Greenfield | Front Page Magazine | May 3, 2024

On March 1, 2018, Joe Biden got a $200,000 check. The story of where that check came from involves everything from “bloodstained currency” to smuggled gold bars to ‘The Exorcist’.

But above all else it involves an enemy Muslim tyranny with ties to 9/11 and Hamas.

When I first broke the story a week before Election Day, it was about how hospital patients in smaller poorer hospitals, including one that had inspired ‘The Exorcist’, had suffered because of the corrupt greed of the Biden family. But even then there was a strange element which led to one of the key figures in the case receiving “blood-stained currency from a Middle Eastern country” and a “torture ticket” after suing James Biden: Joe’s brother.

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“I think that the energy story is a lot of what drove the military side of this…”

Mike Benz | MikeBenzCyber | May2, 2024

Mike Doran | Hudson Institute | May 4, 2024

Jonathan Hosts Dr. Michael Doran, former Senior White House Advisor on the Middle East, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington DC. The main discussion focuses on what message is being sent by the US to both allies and enemies alike as a result of its weak military policy in the Middle East, part of which includes negotiating with Israel’s enemies, as well as internal politcal division and uncertainty within the US itself. Also discussed is the US’s view VS Israel’s view on how the Gaza conflict should end, what does the “day after” in Gaza look like, and how is the US-Israel alliance viewed by its enemies in the Middle East?

Peloni:   I have yet to see a reasonable explanation why this bill should not be passed if Title VI is to be maintained at all.  People whom I respect and dislike oppose it, yet the reasons for doing so are well diminished by Tobin in this article.  Meanwhile the best defense for passing this bill is that its need is palpably obvious as campuses all across the US are being subjectd to violent Jew Hating mobs as the astroturf movement against Jews continues unabated.

A bizarre coalition of left- and right-wingers opposes a measure to mandate the enforcement of Title VI protections for Jewish students on campus. They’re both dead wrong.

Jonathan Tobin | JNS | May 4, 2024

The UCR sign at the center of the University of California, Riverside, covered in pro-Palestine, anti-Israel and anti-Zionist symbols, April 30, 2024. Credit: Fluffy89502 via Wikimedia Commons.

Faced with an opportunity to do something that would actually help give the federal government the ability to punish American universities that have let their campuses become hotbeds of antisemitism, a bipartisan majority of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives did the right thing and passed a bill that can make that possible this week by a vote of 320-91.

But the number of “no” votes was still discouraging for two reasons.

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E. Rowell:  In this article the author explores the ties that bind us to prior generations of Jews.  All of the family members from my father and mother’s side of the family who did not leave Europe or Russia prior to World War II perished.  It is a strange kind of loss.  It is not the loss of loved ones I knew and cared for.  It is the loss of family members I never got a chance to know, and lost.

My grandfather kept a picture from his childhood school in prewar Bratislava. Most of his classmates were murdered by the Nazis, but those who survived the Holocaust remained connected for the rest of their lives.

By Nomi Kaltmann, TABLET MAGAZINE    3 May 2024

The author’s grandfather’s class photo/MELBOURNE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM

My grandfather Yossi Kaltmann always kept a picture of his classmates on his living room mantle. The black-and-white photograph of him and more than 30 of his peers was always given a place of prominence. For most people, looking at a photo of their school friends is a form of nostalgia. For my zayde, it was a form of remembrance, because most of his classmates were murdered by the Nazis. Captured during the 1936-37 school year at Bratislava’s Yesodei HaTorah School in Czechoslovakia, the image portrays young Jewish boys aged 8-9, many of whom would only live a few years more before being killed.

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Just like Columbia, Democrats have a history.

By Jeffrey Lord, AMERICAN SPECTATOR    3 May 2024

The scene: the Democratic National Convention of 2012. The job at hand: renominate President Barack Obama.

But first, as is standard procedure for both political parties, a party platform had to be adopted. As such, headlines like this one from the U.K. Guardian emerged:

Democratic convention erupts over reinstatement of Jerusalem to policy

Row over Israel mars second day of convention as party moves to add back ‘God’ and ‘Jerusalem’ language to platform

It took the personal intervention of Obama to reverse the removal — because, according to reports, Jewish donors were livid.

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Manahel al-Otaibi was sentenced in a counter-terrorism court after allegedly speaking out against male guardianship laws and “her choice of clothing.”

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD, JPOST

Manahel al-Otaibi was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a secret court in Saudi Arabia for “her choice of clothing and support for women’s rights,” according to international media reports from the last week.

Saudi officials confirmed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that al-Otaibi had been sentenced on January 9 for what the officials described as “terrorist offenses,” the Guardian reported.

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By William R. Hawkins, AM THINKER

As campus protests turned violent, necessitating police operations to clear illegal encampments, the true agenda of the activists became apparent. Initially, the demonstrations were presented as saving innocent lives in Gaza with a cease-fire and humanitarian aid. Within this demand lurked the desire to save the Hamas terrorist group from defeat; a group that was using civilians as human shields. They charged that Israel was conducting “genocide” in Gaza with its offensive to clear out the thugs who had purposely massacred civilians in Israel on October 7, 2023. However, the genocide issue quickly shifted as the campus radicals openly embraced the Hamas objective of destroying Israel “from the river to the sea.” Indeed, the only side in this conflict calling for genocide is Hamas.
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By Stephen Soukup, AMERICAN GREATNESS    4 May 2024

This week, with the global celebration of May Day and with the ongoing protests on the nation’s college campuses, it is worth remembering that the man who largely inspired both was a hateful, intellectually shallow misanthrope, remembered by history and admired by jesters and dupes largely because of his odiousness.

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