Why have all the human rights groups gone silent when it comes to the October 7 massacre?

Posted on November 17, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

BOSTON GLOBE
Israeli women and girls were raped during Hamas attack. Where’s the outcry?
Elizabeth Gaufberg and Cami Tussie
November 18, 2023

Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy took a deep breath after warning the audience about the graphic horrors she was about to relate. Then she described just some of the overwhelming visual evidence that has emerged of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel: a young concert-goer, stripped from the waist down, frozen by rigor mortis into a spread-eagle position, her body partially burned. A young woman, similarly exposed in death, torn underwear hanging off one naked leg. Rape victims paraded through the streets of Gaza, blood gushing from between their legs. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST ‘Glaring hypocrisy’: Cornell Jewish student testifies on college antisemitism Iranian Jewish student Talia Dror spoke of the abuse her family had received in Iran for being Jewish, and her suffering having found it at her university.

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An Arab Muslim speaks about her life in an Israel

Posted on November 17, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

Muslim Arab Sophia Salm Khalifa sits with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to discuss the accusations that Israel is an apartheid state, that Gaza is an “open air prison.” and that Israel Defense Forces are guilty of committing genocide of Palestinians.

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“People should be aware of which of their favorite brands stand in solidarity with the Jewish people, and those that support terrorism”

Posted on November 17, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
New Shopping Guide Grades Businesses on Support for Israel, Jewish People — and Hamas
Dion J. Pierre
November 23, 2023

A new online guide launched ahead of the start of the holiday shopping season aims to help shoppers avoid spending their money at businesses that support the Hamas terror group and espouse hatred toward Israel and the Jewish people. The initiative, called “StopDontShop,” was announced earlier this week byStopAntisemitism, a nonprofit that tracks incidents of anti-Jewish hatred across the world. “We’re hoping that consumers take into account which businesses they’re supporting this holiday season, and StopDontShop is the perfect guide to help them decide,” StopAntisemitism executive director Liora Rez told The Algemeiner. READ MORE

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“It is worth reminding again and again that the mission will not be completed until all our abductees return home. Condolences to the family of the late Noa”

Posted on November 15, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
IDF confirms soldier held hostage by Hamas killed in Gaza
November 14, 2023

The IDF confirmed on Tuesday that 19-year-old Noa Marciano, a soldier in the Border Defense Force, was killed while being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. On Monday, Hamas published footage showing Marciano’s body. The circumstances of her death remain unclear. A representative of the IDF visited Marciano’s family on Monday after the genocidal terrorist group released a video of the captive soldier, still alive. “Our hearts are with the Marciano family whose daughter, Noa, was brutally kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization,” the military stated. “The IDF and all the relevant bodies will continue to support her family, as well as all of the families of the hostages and missing persons. We are using all means, both intelligence and operational, to bring the hostages home.” READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Military recovers hostage’s body near Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, says Hamas killed her Yehudit Weiss was undergoing cancer treatment at time of October 7 attack, when her husband was murdered; children plead for government to bring hostages back before it’s too late

JEWISH PRESS Laptop Found in Shifa Hospital Contains Photos of Hostages Soldiers searching through Gaza’s Shifa Hospital have found a laptop containing videos and photographs of hostages, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Thursday. “Already now, after scanning some of the buildings, weapons, intelligence materials, including information related to the events of 7/10, military technologies and military equipment, headquarters, means of communication – all belonging to Hamas – have been located,” the IDF said in a statement.

JERUSALEM POST Israel ‘days away’ from hostage deal, Hamas pushes for five-day truce “The truce should include a complete ceasefire and allow aid and humanitarian relief everywhere in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas’s military wing spokesman said.

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The “March for Israel” in Washington, D.C., was a great response to pro-Hamas mobs. But ending the source of a rising tide of Jew-hatred requires opposing the woke ideology that created it.

Posted on November 15, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Stopping antisemitism needs more than a successful rally
Jonathan Tobin
November 15, 2023

After the Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7, followed by more than a month of antisemitic rallies and incidents including violence against Jews on the streets of American cities and on college campuses, American Jewry needed a feel-good moment. And that is exactly what the Nov. 14 “March for Israel” on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., provided. Attended by as many as 300,000 people, the rally was the largest pro-Israel event in American history and offered a contrast to the smaller anti-Israel mass protest that took place in Washington the previous week, held to show support for a ceasefire that would allow Hamas to get away with mass murder and its modus operandi of wiping Israel from the map.  Unlike that event, by all accounts, there was no violence, vandalism, arrests, thuggish wearing of masks to conceal the identities of the attendees, anti-Americanism or chants for the mass slaughter of other groups. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Jews Left Stranded as Chartered Buses Across US Allegedly Refuse to Drive Pro-Israel Supporters to Major DC Rally Large numbers of people traveling to attend the rally either could not show up or were forced to scramble last second and final alternative transportation due to multiple instances nationwide of buses not driving them. Hundreds of American Jews from Detroit, for example, were left stranded at Dulles Airport in Virginia after drivers of chartered buses refused to transport them to nearby Washington, DC, according to multiple reports. 

The Chicago community in DC

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Pro-Palestinian Professor Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji stalked Kessler before killing him

Posted on November 15, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Suspect arrested in killing of Paul Kessler in LA
Gary Willig
November 18, 2023

A suspect has been arrested in the murder of Paul Kessler, an elderly Jewish man who was killed during an anti-Israel protest in Los Angeles on November 6, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office announced. Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, 50, was arrested yesterday (Wednesday) in Moorpark. He faces charges of involuntary manslaughter after striking Kessler, 69, on the head with a megaphone, leading to the older man’s death. Authorities do not appear to be charging Alnaji with a hate crime. Kessler fell to the ground, bleeding, and was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead due to blunt force trauma. The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office said that Kessler suffered from skull fractures and swelling and bruising of the brain and determined his death to be a homicide. READ MORE

RUTHFULLY YOURS Ruth King: London Has Fallen I have been following London’s decline for a while now, and have written a fair amount about the societal decline in Britain. I often speak of Western culture, and the Anglosphere as a subset of it. Generally speaking, the Anglosphere comprises Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA–the countries that not only predominately speak English, but whose traditions and legal practices derive from English Common Law and the Scottish Enlightenment…And London has fallen to the barbarians.

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If you listen to one podcast today, please make it this Sam Harris podcast. And how to save the West.

Posted on November 10, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

HONESTLY WITH BARI WEISS Sam Harris: The Bright Line Between Good and Evil Sam Harris speaks about our society’s moral confusion—the ongoing war in Gaza, the global rise of antisemitism, and the enduring problem of jihadism

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THE FREE PRESS Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why I Am Now a Christian I was born a Muslim in Somalia. Then I became an atheist. But secular tools alone can’t equip us for civilizational war…Here, a special hatred was reserved for one subset of unbeliever: the Jew. [In Islam] we cursed the Jews multiple times a day and expressed horror, disgust, and anger at the litany of offenses he had allegedly committed. The Jew had betrayed our Prophet. He had occupied the Holy Mosque in Jerusalem. He continued to spread corruption of the heart, mind, and soul.

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“We need to think about what the Oct. 7 attack represents within the Iranian blueprint for the annihilation of the Jewish state”

Posted on November 10, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israel’s strategic imperative
Caroline Glick
November 16, 202

As of now, it appears that owing either to U.S. insistence or the Israel Defense Forces’ operational preferences, Israel is leaning towards keeping the issue of Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon on the back burner in the hopes of not having to engage Iran’s most powerful proxy force directly. The argument presented on behalf of this approach is that by defeating Hamas completely and reducing Gaza to rubble, Israel will deter Hezbollah from attacking it for the foreseeable future. While reasonable in theory, this view appears to ignore two key aspects of the strategic equation. First, we need to understand what it means that Hamas and its partners/trainers/suppliers/bosses in Iran and Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon planned this war for two years. READ MORE

FDD 10 Things to Know About the UN and Hamas The UN does not consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization. The WHO ignores Hamas’s use of human shields. UN calls for a ceasefire play into Hamas’s hands. The UN criticizes Israeli efforts to minimize civilian casualties

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To sustain the alliance between leftists and Islamists, something had to give. And that something was Jews.

Posted on November 10, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
Jews Get Kicked Out of the Progressive Club
Andrew McCarthy
November 11, 2023

After a while, it became a parody worthy of classic comedy skits: the Biden administration’s reflexive need to launch into a condemnation of “Islamophobia” every time the discomfiting topic of antisemitism came up — which, you may have noticed, it does quite a bit these days. Progressives hate antisemitism. Not, unfortunately, the concept . . . the word. It holds a mirror up to their internal contradictions. [Quite ironically] Jews have been among the most consequential, cutting-edge progressives in history. READ MORE

NATIONAL REVIEW David Mamet: The Marchers Should Own It: ‘Proud Antisemite’ There are two sides to the jihadi–Jewish conflict until his synagogue is bombed, his relatives are slain, or he is terrified into either defending himself or indicting his brothers and sisters — in which case he determines that there is just one side, but it is the side of his enemies.

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Childhood friends Aner Shapira and Hersh Goldberg-Polin went to a party the night of October 6, a gathering of peace-loving youth…

Posted on November 10, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Chilling video shows Israeli soldier toss grenades back at Hamas terrorists, saving several people
Yaron Steinbuch
November 14, 2023

Chilling newly released video appears to show the moment a heroic off-duty Israeli soldier tossed hand grenades back at Hamas terrorists after they threw them inside a crowded bomb shelter, where he was eventually killed. Staff Sgt. Aner Shapira, 22, was among a group of Israelis attending the Tribe of Nova music festival who fled to the shelter in Kibbutz Re’im on Oct. 7 when Hamas launched its invasion of the Jewish state. Shapira’s mother has told Kan News that her son stood near the shelter’s entrance to protect the roughly 30 people who hunkered down inside. “He stood at the entrance, and threw the grenades out and he managed to save so many people,” she said in Hebrew. Click here to view video

Rachel Goldberg spoke at March for Israel describing her life in “slow motion torment” since her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin was abducted after his arm was blown off by a Hamas grenade on October 7. She asked the gathering to ponder how they will answer, “Where were you when your brother’s blood cried out from the ground.  WHAT WILL YOUR EXCUSE BE?”  #BringThemHome 

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