The UN has waged an unceasing campaign, on social media and elsewhere, that falsely accuses Israel of deliberately targeting schools, children, civilians, hospitals and healthcare workers

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

MELANIE PHILLIPS SUB STACK
Complicity with barbarism:
Both the UN and Human Rights Watch have helped bring the west to moral ruin
December 8, 2023

…According to an Israeli journalist, one member of UNWRA’s staff held an Israeli hostage in his attic where the hostage was starved. UNRWA dismissed this claim as unsubstantiated, said it “may amount to misinformation” and asked the journalist to delete the post immediately in which the claim was made. The journalist has stuck by the story. The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW), which enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the UN, obsessively demonises Israel. It took two days for HRW to issue a statement on the Hamas pogrom, which it framed as a justified reaction to Israeli oppression. After the war started in Gaza, it repeated the familiar tropes with which it has falsely defamed Israel and accused it of “deliberate indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks” in Gaza, the precise opposite of what was actually happening. READ MORE

JNS Jerusalem: ‘No UN chief has done more to secure the survival of a terrorist organization’ Israel’s government sharply criticized UN chief António Guterres on Monday, with a Prime Minister’s Office spokesman telling the press, “I don’t think any U.N. secretary-general in history has gone so far to secure the survival of a terrorist organization.”…On Dec. 8, Israel thanked the U.S. for vetoing the proposed UN resolution, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying, “I greatly appreciate the correct stance that the U.S. has taken in the U.N. Security Council.” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan also expressed appreciation to the U.S. for “standing firmly by our side and showing its leadership and values.

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The answer to Zakaria’s question: “Diversity Equity & Inclusion” — Jews are oppressors and that’s why they don’t deserve safe spaces on campus

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

CNN
Why university presidents are under fire
Fareed Zakaria
December 10, 2023

…American universities have been neglecting excellence in order to pursue a variety of agendas — many of them clustered around diversity and inclusion. It started with the best of intentions. Colleges wanted to make sure young people of all backgrounds had access to higher education and felt comfortable on campus. But those good intentions have morphed into a dogmatic ideology and turned these universities into places where the pervasive goals are political and social engineering, not academic merit…In this context, it is understandable that Jewish groups would wonder, why do safe spaces, micro aggressions, and hate speech not apply to us? If universities can take positions against free speech to make some groups feel safe, why not us? Having coddled so many student groups for so long, university administrators found themselves squirming, unable to explain why certain groups (Jews, Asians) don’t seem to count in these conversations. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER David Litman: Anti-Israel Crybullies and the Free Speech Inversion The term “crybully” rose to prominence over the last decade, and describes a phenomenon that has become increasingly common on campus. As defined at Dictionary.com, a crybully is “a person who self-righteously harasses or intimidates others while playing the victim, especially of a perceived social injustice.” This is a particularly accurate label for the crowd of anti-Israel activists who have spent decades working to silence and intimidate Jewish and Israeli voices on campuses, while also portraying themselves as victims of an attack on their free speech.

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Economist/YouGov poll also found a majority of Americans support the U.S. backing Israel in its war against Hamas. About 61 percent of Americans said it was either “very” or “somewhat important” to support Israel

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
1 in 5 young Americans think Holocaust was a myth
Nick Robertson
December 8, 2023

A fifth of Americans ages 18-29 believe the Holocaust was a myth, according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov. While the question only surveyed a small sample of about 200 people, it lends credence to concerns about rising antisemitism, especially among young people in the U.S. Another 30 percent of young people said they didn’t agree or disagree with the statement, while the remaining 47 percent disagreed. Only 7 percent of Americans overall believe the Holocaust is a myth, according to the poll. READ MORE

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Braun launched into an antisemitic rant after attacking the menorah, telling those who berated him that they were the ones who should feel “ashamed to participate in the acts of a Satanic Talmudic cult.”

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Fury as Antisemitic Polish MP Extinguishes Candles on Hanukkah Menorah in Parliament Building
Ben Cohen
December 12, 2023

A viscerally antisemitic member of the Polish parliament was expelled from the chamber on Tuesday after he extinguished the candles of a lit Hanukkah menorah with a fire extinguisher. The incident occurred in a hallway of the Sejm, Poland’s legislative assembly, where a menorah was on display celebrating the annual Hanukkah holiday. The MP, Grzegorz Braun of the far right Confederation Party, grabbed a fire extinguisher to spray the menorah, filling the area with smoke. Dozens of people who attended the candle lighting ceremony, including several children, were immediately evacuated by security officers. READ MORE

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Jerusalem of Gold

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

35 leading musicians from different parts of the world play the famous Israeli song in support of Israel

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Half of American babies are born to unmarried mothers. And those with two parents, Melissa Kearney argues, have an immense advantage

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE FREE PRESS
Why Two Parents Are the Ultimate Privilege
Bari Weiss
December 9, 2023

…The ultimate privilege in America is not being born white or straight or male. The ultimate privilege, as Melissa Kearney argues, is being born into a household with two parents. Melissa Kearney is an economist at the University of Maryland and her new book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind, argues that declining marriage rates in America—and the corresponding rise in children being raised in single parent households—are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems. In the 1950s, fewer than 5 percent of babies in this country were born to unmarried mothers. Today, nearly half of all babies in America are born to unmarried mothers. Most surprising—and worrisome—is how this trend is divided along class lines, with children whose mothers don’t have a college degree being more than twice as likely—compared to the children of college-educated mothers—to live in a single parent home. READ MORE

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Former abductee Amit Shani, at Hanukkah rally, says relatives must ‘keep fighting until the last hostage is returned’; IDF commander hails soldiers as ‘modern day Maccabees’

Posted on December 7, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Hostages’ families light menorahs in Tel Aviv, troops in Gaza mark start of Hanukkah
December 8, 2023

Marking the start of Hanukkah Thursday evening, the families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas held a candle-lighting ceremony during a rally in Tel Aviv calling for the release of their loved ones, while soldiers fighting against the terror group lit menorahs in Gaza to celebrate the first night of the Jewish holiday. The ceremony in Tel Aviv was held in an area called Hostages Square, where relatives and friends of those abducted in the Hamas-led onslaught on October 7 lit Hanukkah candles. The display included at an empty table set for the festival that featured menorahs with photos of hostages. READ MORE

NEWSWEEK Merry Christmas! Hanukkah Is Canceled Anyone still clinging to the belief that there is a difference between hating Jews and wanting Israel to disappear now needs to explain away another inconvenient truth. Scheduled Hanukkah celebrations across the United States, Canada, and elsewhere have been scrapped. The reason cited over and over is that hosting such holiday events would imply support for Israel in its war against the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist organization. A Hanukkah candle lighting that was due to take place at a music and arts festival in Williamsburg, Virginia, was canceled by the festival’s founder because the lighting of a menorah ‘seemed very inappropriate’ given current events in Israel and Gaza.

FOR HANUKKAH, SEND A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO ISRAELIS IsraelShalom.org gives you the chance to send your personal message of support, and solidarity to Israelis. A few words of encouragement can go a long way. Messages are being collected from around the world and sent to Israel. They will be distributed to hospitals, soldiers, first responders, schools, community centers, and beyond. We will distribute as many as possible. Let Israelis know that they are not alone – especially during this horrifying time of terror and war. CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSSAGE

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My fellow millennials and subsequent generations have become conscientious objectors on steroids, proselytizing pacifists—no one should fight!—who type “taking life is never justified” on Instagram from gentrified neighborhoods separated from war zones by large oceans

Posted on December 5, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The Un-Conscientious Objectors: How progressive education made my peers morally confused
Jackson Greenberg
December 3, 2023

In my 11th grade American Literature class at a private school in the Philadelphia suburbs, our first assignment was to bring an object to class that represented America. Setting aside the inanity of having 16-year-olds perform show-and-tell—and presenting it as “education”—that day stuck with me for another reason. One of my classmates, a fellow member of the student orchestra, held up a baseball card, explaining: “This is the first African American player to play professional baseball: Doug Glanville.” Glanville is indeed Black and was an excellent centerfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1990s. But he was, as anyone who is familiar with the history of the baseball can tell you, not the first African American to play baseball professionally. READ MORE

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Israeli officials were in possession of a document called ‘Jericho Wall’ outlining Hamas’ strategy for October 7, the NYT reported

Posted on December 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE JC
Israel ‘knew about’ Hamas terror attack plan a year before it happened, reports claim
December 4, 2023

Israel was aware about plans for Hamas’ terrorist attack more than a year before the planned assault on October 7, reports say.  The New York Times (NYT) reported Israeli officials had a 40-page Hamas battle plan called ‘Jericho Wall’ which outlined a hypothetical attack by the terror group on southern Israeli communities. It was not clear how Israel obtained the document, but it had been translated, indicating it could have originally been written in Arabic and come from Hamas.The document stated Hamas would target Israel with rockets and use drones to disable security systems at the border wall, allowing the terror group to take control of IDF military bases. Hamas’ plan, according to The NYT, also called for automated machine guns along the border and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot – which occurred on October 7.  READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings. Click here for the interview with Ronen Bergman: The Oct. 7 Warning That Israel Ignored.

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The Times, the United Kingdom’s paper of record, features shocking testimonies from Israelis victims who were raped by Hamas terrorists on October 7

Posted on December 1, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Leading UK daily features Hamas’s rape of Israelis on front page
Maariv Online
December 3, 2023

The leading UK newspaper The Times featured a comprehensive report on the front page of its Sunday issue, shedding light on the horrifying stories of victims who were raped by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre. Yoni Saadon, a 39-year-old father of four, who attended the Supernova music festival in Re’im, shared a heart-wrenching account of a young woman who sought refuge from the terrorists next to him under the stage. “I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her,” he recounted. “She was screaming, ‘Stop it — already I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!’ When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head.” READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Horrific new stories of Hamas attacks in Israel surface, including rape of ‘beautiful woman with face of angel’ who screamed to be killed That’s when he witnessed two more Hamas gunmen attack another young woman who was resisting being stripped, he said. “They threw her to the ground, and one of the terrorists took a shovel and beheaded her,” Saadon told the UK outlet. “And her head rolled along the ground. I see that head, too.”

STEYN ONLINE Diversity Rape of the Day Have you ever been to Hamburg’s Stadtpark? They call it the “green heart” of the city, over 350 acres of woods and lakes and meadows, playgrounds and sports fields and concert stages, plus Germany’s largest planetarium. It’s also a great place to rape someone. So a fifteen-year-old girl gets dragged into the bushes by a gang of four “youths”. They rape her, and take the trouble to film themselves doing so. Because, after all, if you gang-rape someone, you want to have something to show to the lads who weren’t able to make it.

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