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Jan 16, 2025 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Philip Earl Steele
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Philip Earl Steele
War rages between Israel and its neighbours. Much of Europe’s public opinion turns against the Jewish state, and antisemitism resurfaces across the continent in force. Political ties with Israel are strained, even severed, with Israel being widely accused of Nazi tacticsand of perpetrating outright genocide. Young progressives and internationalists across Europe succumb to the allure of the Palestinian cause and adopt a pose of terrorist-chic.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Philip Earl Steele
This week marks the 140th anniversary of Zionism’s first significant international conference, held in today’s Katowice, Poland from November 6 to 11, 1884. But with all the torturous matters currently underway in Israel, who can be surprised if there’s no commemoration?
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Philip Earl Steele
In his recent Hartman lecture for North American rabbis, Yossi Klein Halevi shared a series of immensely enlightening insights. And that certainly goes for his remarks on the tension between Israeli power and the sense of Jewish victimhood. Over the past few days of renewed mass protests in Israel, I’ve been struck by another example of power’s discontents.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Philip Earl Steele
120 years ago this week – July 3, 1904 – Theodor Herzl died at the age of 44 in the Alpine village of Edlach, not far from Vienna. The Father of Zionism, as he is known, had converted to Zionism just 9 years earlier, in 1895 – and yet in that relatively brief period he managed to push the cause forward like none of the numerous Zionists before him. But in what condition did Herzl leave Zionism upon his early death? Theodor Herzl truly is the pre-eminent Zionist leader of the 19th century.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Philip Earl Steele
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
biorxiv.org | Philip Earl Steele |David Frew |Kevin McLean |Dorota Androscuk
AbstractPrevious vaccination trials have demonstrated that thiol proteins affinity purified from Ostertagia ostertagi excretory-secretory products (O. ostertagi ES-thiol) are protective against homologous challenge. Here we have shown that protection induced by this vaccine was consistent across four independent vaccine-challenge experiments. Protection is associated with reduced cumulative faecal egg counts across the duration of the trials, relative to control animals.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Philip Earl Steele
The anniversary of David Ben-Gurion’s passing, now half a century ago (Dec. 1, 1973), was commemorated last week in his Polish hometown with a lecture, concert, and workshops. A very special event, as the city honored his jahrzeit at the brand new museum devoted to Płońsk’s onetime Jewish neighbors. Most prominently among them, of course, is Israel’s founding father. The elegantly restored “Memorial House” stands on Płońsk’s newly refurbished market square.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Philip Earl Steele
In the wake of the horrible pogroms that began sweeping the Pale of Settlement in 1881, Leon Pinsker, a physician from Odessa, authored the foundational Zionist tract Autoemancipation!, published in September 1882. Pinsker’s prescription for the Jews’ predicament – the creation of a Jewish state – is what captured attention. However, the doctor’s diagnosis of the nature of antisemitism was largely ignored then. As it is today. Pinsker’s diagnosis – “demonopathy” – is nonetheless correct.
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Philip Earl Steele
Today in France, Marine Le Pen and her rightist party the National Rally (formerly the National Front) has marched in Paris against antisemitism, in support of the summons issued by the Speakers of the French Parliament’s two chambers. However, the leftist LFI (‘France Unbowed’) refused to take part. Who can be surprised?
