None of these “celebrity” virtue-signalers evidenced any concern about the Hamas massacre and kidnapping of Israelis on October 7. Their hypocrisy and antisemitism are now on full display

Posted on January 13, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Wallace Shawn, Cynthia Nixon lead actors backing genocide charges against Israel
January 13, 2024

Several leading actors, musicians and writers, including Cynthia Nixon, Susan Sarandon and Wallace Shawn, have expressed their support for South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. The 29 celebrities gave their backing in a series of videos that was started Friday by the Palestine Festival of Literature in which they read out sections of the charges in a show of support for the case. The first video, which was published on Friday, included participants from nine countries with various positions in the entertainment industry. READ MORE

This video courtesy of Palestine Festival of Literature

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“Slandering Israel and Jews is a time-honored method of diverting attention from the depredations of others”

Posted on January 13, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
21 Things Israel Should Really Tell the World Court
Joshua Hoffman
January 13, 2024

Israel, is it true that your decision to respond to the terror attacks on October 7th has included actions of genocidal intent against the Palestinians in Gaza?

Israel: To borrow a now-infamous line from our friends who run some of America’s most prestigious universities, it is a context-dependent decision.

What does that mean?

Israel: The International Court of Justice has never judged a country responsible for genocide. Not Cambodia. Not Rwanda. Not Syria. Not China. Not Sudan. It has never censured the desire for genocide either. This is only expressed against Israel. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES Bret Stephens: The Genocide Charge Against Israel Is a Moral Obscenity In recent decades, as many as three million people perished in a famine in North Korea that was mainly government-induced. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were gassed, bombed, starved or tortured to death by the Assad regime, and an estimated 14 million were forced to flee their homes. China has put more than a million Uyghurs through gulag-like re-education camps in a thinly veiled attempt to suppress and erase their religious and cultural identity. But North Korea, Syria and China have never been charged with genocide at the International Court of Justice. Israel has. How curious. And how obscene.

JEWISH POLICY CENTER Shoshana Bryen: The Real Genocides the World Ignores According to legal scholars Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany, the definition of genocide is “well settled” and “commonly agreed.” There is a consensus that “genocide involves killing members of a national or ethnic group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group and inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction in whole or in part.” Despite the baseless accusations against Israel at the International Court of Justice, this is not happening in Gaza. Nonetheless, the ICJ blood libel is an object lesson in how the international anti-Israel mob works.

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“Liberal Jews ignored DEI promoters, and CRT advocates, as they advanced a radical agenda to fundamentally undermine American values”

Posted on January 12, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
As Liberal Jews feel abandoned by the Left
Adam Milstein
January 10, 2024

…Liberal Jews failed to recognize how CRT and DEI initiatives, and intersectional theory would be weaponized against them. And today, we see how Jewish students are maliciously portrayed as wanton oppressors and colonialist abettors. American universities who fully adopted these doctrines are now hotbeds of antisemitism due to embedded leftist orthodoxy. So, where do liberal Jews go from here? The “October 8th Jew” as Bret Stephens coined it, recognizes their home as a centrist. The October 8th Jew knows that the extreme left, like the extreme right before it, is no political home. The October 8th Jew is united in the mission to fight enemies of America, who always come first for the Jews. “Never again” must be backed by action and Jewish unity. READ MORE

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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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