One of the more constant dynamics among self-styled liberals at the Guardian is that - though they often view themselves as erudite, morally enlightened intellectuals - the "logic" which informs their polemics is often remarkably facile.  Particularly, they demonstrate a tendency to recycle the same "right-wing" villains in response to any political phenomenon they find displeasing.

Savagery by Islamists is carried out in the same ritualistic manner as they prostrate multiple times toward Mecca in tribute to Allah and his emissary Muhammad. Yet, from time to time, and much more often these days, the devotees of Muhammad manage atrocities that are beyond the pale. The massacre, in cold blood, of three children and a rabbi in front of a school in Toulouse, France, represents the ultimate in a most dastardly act, even in the shameful annals of this cult of violence.

And We're Back 

On Tuesday I spoke at the Skirball, the evening of the next day I was back home and glancing at the number next to my latest article, "The New Nazis" saw that it was my 3000th article.

It's been an interesting ride and it was a reminder of how I got into this, by writing day in and day out and connecting with more and more people. At the event and the Chai program with Adam Taxin, I was asked how I write so much. The simple answer is that writing perpetuates itself. Words are bricks and if you put enough of them together, you build something. Initially they may be small humble abodes but as the construction continues, they become places to live in and invites others into.

When in doubt, kill a Jew. That seems to be the de rigueur thing to do. After all, even after a cold-blooded and ruthless radical Muslim killer deliberately takes a sub-machine gun and mows down three small Jewish children and a young rabbi-teacher in front of a Jewish day school in Toulouse, France, no one seems capable of just saying that an extremist Muslim murdered three Jews because they were Jews.

On Friday, the 16th, Obama signed a new Executive Order into being and this one’s timing is very curious. Ed Morrissey (who I highly respect) of Hot Air says that it is simply a reissue of an EO that is 18 years old, that was issued in 1994 by Bill Clinton – EO (12919). I find myself mostly in agreement with Morrissey. The EO is vague and far-reaching. Basically Morrissey points out that it simply adds the DHS to the mix of departments and is apparently just an update.

Recently, I travelled to South Africa to talk with Jewish and Christian groups and give them the Israeli perspective to counter the hate campaign that makes that country a leading hub in the delegitimisation efforts against Israel. For decades, South Africa has been at the forefront of actions that demonise the Jewish State. From the infamous “Zionism is Racism” at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban in 2001 to the inaccurate Goldstone Report, headed by the South African jurist, Richard Goldstone, and, more recently, the Russell Tribunal, a kangaroo court led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu that tried to railroad a guilty verdict on Israel for being “an Apartheid state,” South Africa has been the radical centre of anti-Israel activity.