Israel, on Thursday, will for the first time in its history find itself in the dock in the International Court of Justice in The Hague — charged with genocide.

Posted on January 11, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
South Africa acting as Hamas’s legal arm, Israel says after ICJ hearing
January 11, 2024

The Israel Foreign Ministry accused South Africa on Thursday of acting as the “legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization,” as two days of preliminary hearings kicked off at the U.N.’s top court in The Hague. “Today, we were witness to one of the greatest shows of hypocrisy in history, compounded by a series of false and baseless claims,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lior Haiat said in a statement shared on X…The Israeli rebuke came after lawyers for South Africa demanded that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) order an immediate end to the Israel Defense Forces’ operation against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. “Israel has transgressed article two of the [Genocide] Convention, committing acts that fall within the definition of genocide…READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL ‘We should be worried’: Israel faces peril at The Hague in Gaza ‘genocide’ case  Although the idea that Israel is committing genocide in the war in Gaza, meaning intentionally murdering Palestinian civilians, might seem outlandish to some, the allegations are extremely serious and even an interim ruling against Israel could have a severe impact on its international status and global reputation, with potentially dire diplomatic and political consequences. A ruling against Israel could even affect the ongoing conduct of the war against the Hamas terror group’s regime in Gaza. 

REALITY CHECK Here’s where it gets cleverly sinister: South Africa isn’t even trying to win – just bringing the case allows them to request an order for an emergency ceasefire. A ceasefire that would come into place while Israeli hostages are still in captivity and undergoing torture, while Hamas is still in power and saying they plan to carry out more massacres.

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PA calls for unity with Hamas: “Our arms and hearts are open” to Hamas

Posted on January 11, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
PA goal: Unity with Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations
Nan Jacques Zilberdik
January 7, 2024

While many question what will happen and who will rule the Gaza Strip after Israel has destroyed Hamas’ terror infrastructure, the PA’s Fatah leaders are confident that the PA /Fatah will unite with Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations and together will rule Gaza. Some PA and Fatah leaders have been adamant about joining forces with the terror organizations. Jibril Rajoub, a top PA official and Fatah Central Committee Secretary, speaking in the name of Mahmoud Abbas, the PA leadership, and the PLO Executive Committee, has repeatedly stressed the PA’s goal of uniting with Hamas and Islamic Jihad – which he whitewashes as “political Islam” – against Israel…READ MORE

GATESTONE Amir Taheri: Gaza War: It isn’t Over Until it is Over The usual suspects in the Middle East peacemaking industry are already beginning to recycle their old and discredited ideas. President Joe Biden, sounding like a dummy for the ventriloquist Barack Obama, is talking of “a two-state solution: one for the Israelis and one for the Palestinians.”

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“Harvard’s deliberate indifference to, and indeed enabling of, antisemitism on its campus constitutes an egregious violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964”

Posted on January 9, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Jewish Students Sue Harvard for Antisemitism
Joel B Pollak
January 11, 2024

A group of Jewish students sued Harvard University for antisemitism on Wednesday, alleging that it is violating Title VI of the U.S. Civil Rights Act by allowing Jewish students to be subjected to bullying and harassment amid a storm of anti-Israel hostility. The suit has been brought by Harvard Divinity School student Alexander Kestenbaum and Students Against Antisemitism. The complaint states: Harvard, America’s leading university, has become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment…Mobs of pro-Hamas students and faculty have marched by the hundreds through Harvard’s campus, shouting vile antisemitic slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel. READ MORE

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The parents are helping each other cope. ‘We cry together a lot. We speak a lot, we understand each other’ #BringHershHome

Posted on January 9, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY MAIL
The faces of the girls STILL being held by Hamas as their families make a desperate plea for their release three months after they were captured
Natalie Lisbona In Tel Aviv and Andy Jehring In London
January 7, 2024

Watching the terrified faces of the four bloodstained teenage girls being paraded by Hamas gunmen was beyond their parents’ worst nightmare. Three months have passed since that recording of them lined up against a wall in Gaza, their hands bound behind them – and still they are in captivity. With negotiations stalling following the collapsed ceasefire, the parents of the youngest female hostages are today sharing the heart-wrenching pictures as they demand their immediate release. They are appealing to mothers and fathers around the world to speak up as horrific new details emerge that some female captives have been raped at gunpoint or had limbs amputated. READ MORE

A MESSAGE TO CHICAGOANS FROM RACHEL GOLDBERG January 14, 2024 will mark 100 days since October 7th, when Hersh Goldberg-Polin and the other hostages were abducted by Hamas. We pray that before Day 100th, Hersh and all the hostages will be able to return to their loved ones. But if they are not, we need you, now more than ever, to help raise global awareness and mobilize advocacy efforts to bring them home! THIS IS AN ISSUE OF GLOBAL CONCERN. The hostages range in age, religion, and nationality. Their lives are at risk with every passing hour. We can’t leave them in captivity for even one more day. Help us with the following actions and show the world that this crisis is unacceptable. CLICK HERE FOR THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP

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Ken Levin: “DEI teaches us that Jews are disproportionately successful, so they must have gained their place in society by inequitable, oppressive means”

Posted on January 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
American Jews Enabling Anti-Semitism
Kenneth Levin
January 11, 2024

…The abysmal failure of mainstream Jewish organizations and their leadership to address forcefully the anti-Semitic onslaught is due in large part to much of that leadership identifying closely with the leftist bodies that are the major sources of contemporary Jew-hatred, such as academia and elements of the Democrat Party and its constituency. A key factor in the rot on campuses and in the Democrat Party is, as others have noted, the current leftist orthodoxy of critical race theory (CRT) and its action auxiliary, the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) movement. While purporting to advocate equity and inclusion, DEI is intrinsically and irredeemably anti-Jewish. It adheres to the far left reduction of all political issues as entailing conflict between oppressors and the oppressed. READ MORE

COMMENTARY MAG Seth Mandel: Mutiny at the Anti-Defamation League The Anti-Defamation League’s public opposition to those calling for the mass murder of the Jewish people is not what these [ADL] staffers signed up for. Perhaps this clash was inevitable: Greenblatt’s support for censorship in the public square was a weapon his progressive allies were never going to accept being turned on them. And there is much anger at the realization that the activists who thought they had fully captured this particular institution still have work to do. Greenblatt’s conscience has awoken in the wake of Oct. 7, and now he won’t just take orders from his subordinates, which apparently was the state of play prior to the massacre 

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Biden’s preferred rulers of Gaza still #PayForSlay monthly stipends to murderers

Posted on January 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Your Aid Dollars for Palestinian Terrorists
Editorial Board
January 4, 2024

The terrorists who started a war on Oct. 7, according to Palestinian Authority law, will be compensated financially for a massacre well done. The same PA that President Biden wants to run postwar Gaza will reward the murderers’ families with grants followed by monthly stipends for life. That means taxpayers from the U.S. and Europe will help pick up the tab. The Palestinian postal service said at the end of the year that “martyrs, wounded and prisoners”—Palestinian terrorists or their families, in other words—will receive their November stipends starting this past Saturday via the Palestine Post Bank. The PA is in a fiscal crunch, so this time payments will be at a reduced rate of 65%, plus 14% of the money that the martyrs & co. are owed from past deductions. READ MORE

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ZOA Strongly Opposes Dangerous Biden Plan for Palestinian Authority (Pay to Slay) Terror Regime to Rule Gaza & Create a State
After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken despicably and outrageously insisted that the “only” approach is “a pathway to a Palestinian state” and stated that “Israel must stop taking steps that undercut Palestinians’ ability to govern themselves effectively” . Blinken thus wrongly blamed Israel while saying nothing about the Palestinian Authority’s pay-to-slay terror incitement, and participation in and support for the October 7 atrocities. Instead, Blinken insisted that Israel should turn over tax revenues to the PA, which the PA will use for pay-to-slay payments to murder Jews. 

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Last weekend, twenty masked Hamas men dragged my father away. His crime? He refused to brainwash his people with their politics.

Posted on January 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

THE FREE PRESS
My Father Is an Imam in Gaza. Hamas Kidnapped Him for Refusing to Be Their Puppet.
Ala Mohammed Mustaha
January 4, 2024

On Saturday, December 30, our front door was busted down, and twenty masked men barged in and took my father, a widely respected and deeply learned imam here in Gaza. One dragged him by his head, and another grabbed him by his beard. My younger brother tried to intervene and reason with the kidnappers, but they beat him. I have a medical condition that makes it hard for me to breathe, so all I could do was watch as the horror unfolded. I know that if Hamas kills my father, they’ll say that the Israeli army did it. But my father was very keen that even if he died, we should make known the despicable demands they made of him. It was his last request to us, literally as he was being carried out of the door, that should he die, we should publicize the real reason for his death…READ MORE

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Biden administration “dragging its feet on the prosecution of Hamas sympathizers across the country”

Posted on January 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Biden Admin Not Investigating Violence and Vandalism by Hamas Supporters, Complaint Alleges
Adam Kredo
January 4, 2024

The Justice Department has effectively issued a “stand-down order” to federal law enforcement and U.S. attorneys to stop them from investigating “incitement, violence, and vandalism” committed by Hamas supporters who hold U.S. visas, according to a complaint filed with the Justice Department and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The complaint, filed this week by the America First Legal Foundation, a conservative legal advocacy group, accuses the Biden administration of turning a blind eye to the massive uptick in violence against Jews across America in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel…In addition to the Justice Department complaint, America First Legal has filed FOIA requests with the Education and Homeland Security Departments to unearth information about pro-Hamas activity on U.S. college campuses…READ MORE

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“You’ve seen the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’? That’s what these young men did at first: They dug and put the dirt in their pockets”

Posted on January 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Extremist Jewish teens secretly ‘hired migrants’ to dig covert Brooklyn synagogue tunnel ‘Shawshank’-style
Isabel Vincent
January 11, 2024

Extremist students from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic group secretly hired migrant laborers to help them build a controversial tunnel at the sect’s world headquarters in Crown Heights — all to fulfill what they felt was a religious obligation to expand the holy site, The Post has learned. Six renegade members of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement secretly began digging the 3-foot-high, 20-foot-wide, 50-foot-long tunnel themselves, using crude instruments and their hands. They stuffed the dirt into their pockets so that their work wouldn’t be detected by the sect’s leaders and wider community, a source in the Orthodox community told The Post. READ MORE

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“The Anne Frank Gift Shop” is joltingly, infectiously funny thanks to a dry humor-filled script by Rapkin, a seasoned journalist and writer who wrote “Pitch Perfect”

Posted on January 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

KVELLER
Dark Comedy ‘The Anne Frank Gift Shop’ Is a Must Watch
Lior Zaltzman
January 5, 2024

The first time Mickey Rapkin went into the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was a religious experience. “You can’t believe you’re there,” he recalls about the visit almost two decades ago. “You’re in this sacred space, and you’re walking around, and you’re silent, taking it all in — and I’m crying, you know, I’m having the emotional reaction you expect you’re going to have.” But when he finished his tour and, like at most museums, exited through the gift shop, that sense of reverence abruptly snapped. “I remember having this almost inappropriate laughter of like, oh my God, I’ve just had this emotional experience. And now I’ll buy a postcard.” READ MORE

GQ MAG How Do You Market Anne Frank to Gen Z? That’s the provocative question posed in The Anne Frank Gift Shop, a new short film from writer-director Mickey Rapkin. “The jokes will not be for everybody, but even that will spark conversation,” he says.

This film is streaming exclusively at GQ.com until January 16th, 2024 at this link

 

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