A response to Professor Salim Mansur, a once courageous pro-Israel academic who recently made a radical shift and became a strident anti-Israel voice.

Herzl and the Bible – This unsolicited commentary is a response to three essays by Professor Salim Mansur, a once courageous pro-Israel academic who recently made a radical shift and became a strident anti-Israel voice.

I became acquainted with Salim Mansur in 2017 at a conference in Jerusalem, where he presented a positive view of the right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel. As a Muslim, he pointed out that the Quran validated this primordial connection. In the same year, he wrote The Qur’an Problem and Islamism in which he defined Jew-hatred as a pathology, though not embedded in the holy book of Islam.


This comes as a shock, I have held Salim Mansur and his work in high regard for many years.

Below is Salim’s latest piece which came out after the above article was written.

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

The Chronicle of Zionist lies and their implosion foreseen

The owl of Minerva in Roman mythology represented wisdom and the German idealist philosopher Hegel in the 19th century borrowed the symbolism of Minerva’s owl to note that it took flight at dusk, meaning understanding and wisdom came to people about events in history after their passage. It might thus be said that in the fading lights of dusk in which Minerva’s owl took flight over Gaza following the events of 7 October 2023, one could discern the approaching inexorable denouement of Israel as a colonial-settler state in the Levant.

The entire Zionist project in the making of Israel was built upon and sustained by lies and, consequently, there cannot be any avoidance from its eventual karmic – the interlocking chain of cause and effect – dismantling as a historical aberration like other similarly built colonial-settler states that got dismantled, such as French Algeria or the white-minority regimes of Rhodesia and South Africa. This eventual dismantling was foreseen and forewarned by Jews and non-Jews alike who were not gulled by Theodor Herzl’s manifesto, Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), published in Vienna in 1896 for the scam it was and the effort he set in motion in bringing to fruition his imagined Zionist agenda. Herzl proposed,

Let the sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the globe large enough to satisfy the rightful requirements of a nation; the rest we shall manage for ourselves.

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Europe’s policies to combat antisemitism have failed the ‘real world’ test

Part of my job as a rabbi is to inspire, to show my fellow Jews beauty in the seemingly mundane. It is to rally, lead and keep the flame of Judaism alight — a flame that’s endured for thousands of years despite repeated efforts to extinguish it.

But with reported or documented cases of antisemitism through the roof since the Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel — in Spain, France and the U.K., the rise is over 1,000 percent — my role has become even more challenging, to say the least.


Europe’s Muslim problem is far worse than our own but we’re working to catch up. They will stay the course of appeasement.

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South Africa: Safe-haven for Hamas, Islamic State and al-Qaeda Terrorists

Hamas officials celebrate Nelson Mandela in South Africa

South Africa might appear to have scored another diplomatic victory propaganda victory by getting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to accept onto its judicial docket the African state’s charge that Israel’s presence in the West Bank is an illegal occupation. This recent initiative follows South Africa’s December 29, 2023 presentation to the ICJ that Israel’s military operations in Gaza were supposedly acts of genocide against the territory’s civilian population.

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Barbara Kay: BC Must Reject Activist Demand to Teach Historically Inaccurate Account of 1948 Arab-Israeli War in Schools

A pro-Palestinian activist group called Nakba Education BC has sent an open letter and a petition to Minister of Education Rachna Singh demanding that “the Nakba” be immediately (“NOW”) integrated into B.C.’s elementary and secondary school curricula.

Nakba means “catastrophe” in Arabic; it characterizes the ongoing Palestinian view of Israel’s victory in the 1948 War of Independence.

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Poilievre wades into Middle East conflict during speech to Montreal-area synagogue

Says Conservatives would ‘defund antisemitism’

It can be one of the thorniest issues for Canadian politicians — highly divisive and filled with decades of fighting, with potential for political blowback from one side or the other.

While conflict has raged in the Middle East in recent months, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has tended to focus on bread-and-butter domestic issues, such as inflation and the Liberal government’s carbon tax.

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World Central Kitchen halts operations in Gaza after strike kills staff

International food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) is suspending its operations in Gaza following the death of seven of its workers in an Israeli air strike.

The charity said those killed were part of an aid convoy that was leaving a warehouse in central Gaza on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged that Israel’s forces hit “innocent people”.

Gaza’s Hamas-run media office also blamed Israel.

Bad things happen in war zones.

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The Second Battle for Shifa Hospital Shows Israel Will Accept Only Victory

This is what a ‘sustainable campaign’ to eliminate Hamas looks like.

Those who camouflage their hostility toward Israel’s objectives in its defensive war against Hamas as little more than antipathy toward Benjamin Netanyahu must be frustrated today. The dubious claim that Israel is conducting a cruel war devoid of respect for human life is being rebutted today by one of the Israeli prime minister’s foremost domestic opponents.

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The unbearable sanctimony of the ‘pro-Palestine’ set

Britain’s ‘queer’ activists aren’t happy. In fact the poor dears are fuming. They haven’t been this pissed off since the last time some middle-aged woman politely requested the right to shower at the gym without seeing a tumescent knob in the neighbouring cubicle. For one of their cultural icons has done something unconscionable. He’s broken the cardinal moral code of right-on society. He’s deviated from the holy law of the upper-middle class. Brace yourselves: he has agreed to share a space with – my God – someone from Israel.

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Israeli troops end 19-day siege of Al-Shifa hospital

Israeli troops have withdrawn from Gaza’s largest hospital after a 19-day raid, leaving parts of it completely destroyed amid reports of dozens of dead bodies left at the scene.

Following eyewitness reports early on Monday of IDF troops leaving the compound in Gaza City, the Israeli army confirmed that its operation at Al-Shifa Hospital that started on March 18 has wrapped up.

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Green light for Rafah offensive as calls grow for Binyamin Netanyahu to resign

Binyamin Netanyahu has said that Israel’s war cabinet has authorised military plans to invade Rafah, just before he was prepared for hernia surgery on Sunday.

“We have approved the IDF’s operational plans for Rafah. The IDF is preparing to evacuate the civilian population and provide humanitarian aid,” the Israeli prime minister told a televised press conference.

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Police union takes Hamas supporters to task for ‘unacceptable’ treatment of officers

The Toronto Police Association came to the defence of its members after a pro-Palestinian protest on Saturday in the downtown area ended in multiple arrests and three people charged, including a woman accused of throwing horse manure at officers.

A post on the TPA’s X account said officers, away from their loved ones over the holiday weekend, are “compelled to attend these protests to ensure public safety.

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Pro-Hamas protesters attacking St. Patrick’s Easter Mass reveal a global jihad

On September 11, 2001, Muslim terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and would have attacked Congress were it not for the brave people on United Flight 93. They immediately killed 2,977 people, with untold others dying later from injuries, such as lung ailments and cancer. For one brief moment, Americans understood that Islam was engaged in an existential war against the West. That’s a war that began in the early Middle Ages and has continued in fits and starts since then. The latest hot front in that war is Israel, but make no mistake: This is a global jihad, as today’s attack on the St. Patrick’s Easter Mass proves.

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