SHABBAT READING
Colors of Holiness: Clothing the High Priest to Match the Tabernacle: Dr. Soren Lorenzen, The Torah.com, Mar. 16, 2023 –YHWH gives Moses meticulous instructions to build the Tabernacle (Exod 25–31) and design clothing for Aaron and his sons—stand in figures for the high priest and regular priests—all of which feature several colors. In the Bible, colors are embodied in things and never discussed as abstract categories. In the case of the high priest’s outfit, the colors are references to specific pigments made from dyes.
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THE CENTRALITY OF PALESTINIAN IDENTITY
The Birth and the Evolution of the Palestinian Cause: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, Emetonline, Mar. 8, 2023 — In this exciting, first-of-its-kind, webinar, our own Hussein Aboubakr Mansour discusses the regnant role of the image of the Palestinian within both modern Western intellectual thought and within the Arab mind. What were the academic factors that shaped this romantic notion? How true to actual life is this notion, and the idea of the Palestinian struggle? In which circles is it the most regnant? And how can this romantic notion be replaced with reality on the ground?
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Identity, Education, and Palestinian Violence: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, Emet, Feb. 2, 2023
Reality-Guided Imagination: The “Angel of History” Considers the Palestinian Issue: Matti Steinberg, INSS, Feb. 22, 2023
The 1936-1939 Great Revolt in Palestine – Arabs, Jews, and Britons in the Holy Land’s Forgotten First ‘Intifada’: Oren Kessler, Military History Now, Feb. 19, 2023
An Anti-Imperialist Father and His American Diplomat Son: Robert Malley, Jewish Currents, Feb. 4, 2021
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Hamas Conduct ‘Violates Laws of Koran,’ Islamic Fatwa Council Rules: Jerusalem Post staff, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 14, 2023 — The Islamic Fatwa Council (IFC) announced last week that they have ruled the terror organization Hamas and charged them with “violating the laws of the Holy Koran.”
Australian Literary Fest Hosts Palestinian Writers Who Peddle Antisemitic Tropes: Ash Obel, Times of Israel, Mar. 13, 2023 — An annual writers’ festival held in the Australian city of Adelaide recently became center stage for a ferocious ideological battle centering largely on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
68% of Online Antisemitism Comes from Palestinians or Progressives: Shimon Sherman, JNS, Jan. 30, 2023 — Sixty-eight percent of antisemitic discourse on social media originates from Palestinian or pro-Palestinian progressive circles, a report presented by Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli shows.
Not Just Slip of the Tongue: Palestinian Textbooks Rife With Holocaust Denial: Itamar Eichner, Ynet News, Aug. 18, 2022 — In a written statement on Wednesday, he claimed he did not intend to deny “the singularity of the Holocaust – the most heinous crime in modern human history.”
UNRWA Continues to Teach and Spread Hate to Palestinians, Report States: Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 14, 2023 — Despite repeated reports warning of the antisemitism in United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) schools, the UN agency continues to employ teachers who spread hate and teach hateful and inciting content to children, according to a new report by UN Watch and IMPACT-SE published on Tuesday.
Thoughts on the Dialectics of Revolution and Palestinian Nationalism: Miriam Qamar, The International Marxist-Humanist, Aug. 16, 2010 — A student active in the support movement for Palestine discusses the dialectics of revolution and of national liberation in Marx, Lenin, and Luxemburg based upon a reading of Dunayevskaya’s work.
