Dearest Readers:

I have buried myself in reading about the long history of both Catholic and Protestant Jew-hatred for my new book: The Complete and Utter Palestinianization of American Feminism. It is pretty toxic but absolutely essential reading. However, I am now briefly surfacing. Tonight begins–and earlier today in Israel, it began–the observance of Holocaust Memorial Day. I am sharing with you a very good piece by Dr. Alexander Grobman on how the Arab Muslims of British Mandatory Palestine treated the Jews–and this was before Israel won its sovereignty and long before it won yet another war of self-defense in 1967.

Once Jewish Blood Was Cheap. To the World, It Still Is

By Dr. Alex Grobman

On April 13, 1948, a medical convoy on its way to Hadassah Hospital and The Hebrew University on Mount Scopus was ambushed in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Doctors, nurses, patients, professors, and students-non-combatants on a humanitarian mission-were attacked for hours. Seventy-eight Jews were murdered.

This was not just a massacre. It was a revelation. It showed how easily Jewish lives could be abandoned, rationalized, and written off. That is why the Hadassah convoy massacre should not be remembered as a tragic footnote from Israel’s War of Independence.

It should be remembered as part of a much larger and uglier truth:

When Jews are murdered, the world has repeatedly found ways to excuse it, explain it, or ignore it.

The irony was grotesque. During World War II, Hadassah Hospital and The Hebrew University made major contributions to the Allied war effort in the Middle East. Hadassah’s staff offered lectures and training to British medical personnel on regional diseases and health threats, including jaundice, dysentery, anemia, high blood pressure, and insect-borne illnesses. The Hebrew University’s Department of Bacteriology and Hygiene produced anti-typhus and anti-dysentery vaccines. Its Zoology Department helped the British avoid cave fever. Its Parasitology Department contributed vital medical expertise.

Malaria was one of the greatest threats to Allied forces. The British Army established ten anti-malaria units for deployment across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Four were commanded by Jewish malaria experts, who helped pioneer the use of aerial pesticides to destroy mosquito breeding grounds.

Read the rest at: Israel National News

I must congratulate the quite wonderful kick ass writer, Eve Barlow, for her first appearance on Fox. I hope it is not her only such appearance. I must also mention the fabulous British women who are being published by Feminists Against Antisemitism. If you haven’t done so, please read their latest post, “Why We Stand With Jewish Women: Part 4 – How I Learned to Recognise and Fight Antisemitism,” at their Substack.