Levi Meir Clancy, at The Blogs

Jul 6, 2024, 12:28 AM

An employee of the Islamic foundation administering the Temple Mount stands guard, enforcing on a ban on Jewish pilgrims. The policy is based on an ancient Islamic tradition that Jews have been forsaken and corrupted, thus losing the right to enter Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem and Hebron.

The inner conflicts within Palestophilia — the glorification of a “Free Palestine” based on the belief that this issue is the cornerstone of a better world — are not viewed as conflicts by Palestophiles themselves. Instead, they are embraced...

Oct 21, 2023, 9:45 AM

How the United States manufactures its islamophobia

Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian Arab boy killed by his landlord, is the first American to be killed in a hate crime connected to the current Arab-Jewish conflict. Will County investigators stated that Joseph Czuba stabbed six year old Wadea Al-Fayoume...

Oct 16, 2023, 2:40 PM

Jews are tired

Parking lot at Zikim Beach, one of the areas impacted by the Simchat Torah massacre. Photo by the author.

There are 15 million Jewish people in the world. There were over 70 million White Germans. There are over 400 million Muslim Arabs. There are about two billion each of Christians and Muslims. And sometimes they decide to try and wipe...

Oct 9, 2023, 4:28 PM

This massacre is not a response. It’s a tradition

At Zikim, a small Israeli village impacted by the massacre, a public menorah was made out of Hamas rockets. Photo by the author.

When you read Jewish history, it is filled with centuries of massacres, kidnappings, expulsions, and oppressive policies by Arab federations. Before Palestinian Arab leaders called themselves Palestinian, they had another name for their federation. And before that, an even earlier...

Sep 7, 2023, 2:42 PM

With her poetic lyrics, Narkis has lessons for all of us

This post is all about נרקיס Narkis, a Jewish singer of Teimani (Yemeni Jewish) and Parsi (Persian Jewish) ancestry, born and raised in the State of Israel. She is deeply under-appreciated. Narkis draws upon her Jewish, Yemeni, Persian, and Israeli identity...

Aug 27, 2023, 3:10 PM

Behind Amnesty’s Walid Daqqah advocacy, I found stomach-churning misinformation

Amnesty International's press release advocating for Walid Daqqah's release from prison included shocking misinformation about the murder of Moshe Tamam, the victim of the Walid Daqqah. Background of the case Walid Daqqah was one of four men who kidnapped Moshe Tamam...

Aug 23, 2023, 6:45 AM

The antisemitic worldview of Travis Ikeguchi, the alleged Laura Carleton killer

Black and white picture of pedestrians in hard lighting. Photo by the author, Levi Meir Clancy.

Across the United States this week, there have been headlines about the deadly shooting of Laura Ann Carleton in California, over her display of an LGBTQ pride flag. After an initial waiting period, law enforcement has named the alleged shooter,...

Dec 2, 2021, 11:58 PM

From the Nishul to Yom HaGirush, the DamGana emerges

Early 20th century haggadah, published in Baghdad. In the Damgana, the Babylonian Jews were completely removed after thousands of years of life in Mesopotamia.

First: Who, what, when, where? What is the דמגנע Damgana? The Damgana is the turning point at which Jewish populations in the Islamic world collapsed from almost one million to nearly zero, due to killings, riots, dispossession, expulsions, and the...

Nov 30, 2021, 9:19 PM

I moved to Erbil. Step by step, antisemites made a plan to murder me.

Two Hanukahs ago, I was shocked when charlatans broke into a Jewish holy site and staged a fake candle-lighting. A few months later, the FBI called me to tell me my life was under threat.

Note: This post is the second in a series about how I found myself targeted for my Jewishness by a cell of antisemites, and the collective indifference that allowed a small handful of people to cast a large shadow...

Sep 30, 2021, 9:54 AM

In the Kurdistan Region, antisemitic figures wanted me dead. They still do.

Note: This post is the first in a series about how I found myself targeted for my Jewishness by a cell of antisemites, and the collective indifference that allowed a small handful of people to cast a large shadow...

About Me

Levi Meir Clancy lives in California, and is the founder of Foundation of Ours, which supports Jewish expression and Israel education. He was born in Venice Beach into a multiracial Jewish, Ryukyuan, and White family. He started university in 2004, when he was thirteen years old. in 2014, he moved to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and lived there until 2022, when he was detained as a security threat due to his Jewish identity. He was repatriated to the United States, where he works for Jewish causes.

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