Month: May 2026 – כ״ג באייר תשפ״ו
Busting Open the ‘Violent Settler’ Defamation
Excerpt from Liel Leibovitz in Tablet Magazine:
Let us, then, turn to the records of that notoriously Zionist agency [ed., sarcasm], the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, which has maintained a database on Israeli and Palestinian casualties in the “occupied Palestinian territory (OPT)” since 2008 and publishes regular “Humanitarian Situation Updates” and reports. The OCHA’s database and reports are used widely by the media, NGOs, and the Office of U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA)—run by the partisan Lt. Col. Mike Fenzel until the end of 2025—which in turn briefed members of Congress and fed the violent-settler narrative.
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Once you study OCHA’s criteria for determining violence—as my colleague Gadi Taub did recently in Tablet—you learn a valuable lesson in creative methodology. For instance, what counts as “settler violence”? The answer, unbelievably, includes everything from any instance in which Israeli settlers were victims of violence, to every reported incident that ended with no injury or damage to property on either side, to every clash between Israeli police and Palestinians on the Temple Mount, even when precisely zero Israeli civilians are involved and even when said riots were sparked by the Palestinians.
And speaking of the Temple Mount, OCHA counts every single visit by a Jew to the site where the ancient temple once stood as an act of settler violence. Since I, too, make a point of ascending to the mountain—located, you’ll recall, right above the Kotel, smack in the heart of Jerusalem—according to the OCHA, that makes me, a Jew who simply wants to pray in the exact location where Abraham bound Isaac, a Very Violent Settler™.
כיצד לנסח כללים נוקשים לפורום סגור בשמות אמתיים
לא יודע אם הפורום עצמו עדיין קיים, אבל הכללים של “בית ועד לחכמים – פורום סגור לתלמידי חכמים” נשארו למזכרת…
דוגמא מתוך סדרה – בענין אכילת חולין בטהרה בזה”ז
מן הסתם ניתן לקבל מהם גם את השאר.
In Marx’s Own Words: Marxism Is a Big Fat Lie!
Quoting a letter to Engels, August 1857:
As to the Delhi affair, it seems to me that the English ought to begin their retreat as soon as the rainy season has set in in real earnest. Being obliged for the present to hold the fort for you as the Tribune’s military correspondent I have taken it upon myself to put this forward. NB, on the supposition that the reports to date have been true. It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way. The persistent rumours about the fall of Delhi are being circulated throughout India by the government in Calcutta, no less, and are intended, as I see from the Indian papers, as the chief means of preventing unrest in the Madras and Bombay presidencies. For your diversion I enclose herewith a plan of Delhi which, however, you must let me have back.
End.