A rare cache of weapons from the Roman period found stashed away in a cave in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve

Posted on September 6, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Four Roman swords, nearly 2,000 years old, found in Judean Desert
September 6, 2023

A sensational find in the Judean Desert: a cache of four 1,900-year-old, excellently preserved Roman swords and a shafted weapon were discovered in a crevice in a cave in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve. It appears that the weapons were hidden by the Judean rebels, after they were seized from the Roman army as booty. “Finding a single sword is rare—so four? It’s a dream! We rubbed our eyes to believe it,” say the researchers. The rare weapons were exhibited for the first time at a press conference that took place Wednesday morning with Eli Escusido, the Director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the researchers. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Crack unit of rock-climbing archaeologists claims success in curbing antiquities theft Six years into wide-scale Judean Desert cave survey operation, few Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are found. But the Land of Israel’s historical picture is ever more in focus, says IAA

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The distinction between hating Jews and hating Israel is bogus

Posted on September 2, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israelophobia is the newest form of the oldest hatred
Melanie Phillips
August 31, 2023

Antisemitism is a rotten term for the “longest hatred” that targets the Jewish people. For a start, there is no such thing as “semitism” to be “anti.” The word “antisemitism” was invented by a 19th-century Jew-hater, Wilhelm Marr, who wanted to invest this prejudice with the spurious characteristic of race in order to appeal to a society that increasingly defined itself in scientific terms. Today, with Jew-hatred having reached unprecedented global levels, the inadequacies of “antisemitism” are becoming ever more manifest. Many wrongly believe that it’s just another form of racism. Few understand that it’s a uniquely paranoid, deranged and murderous mindset. READ MORE

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On September 28, Israel’s Supreme Court is expected to rule in favor of a petition from the far-left Movement for Quality Government to overturn the November 1, 2022 elections

Posted on September 2, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

CAROLINE GLICK BLOG
Will Israeli Democracy Survive the Court?
Caroline Glick
September 1, 2023

…In January, MQG [Movement for Quality Government] petitioned the Supreme Court asking the justices to ban newly sworn in Netanyahu from serving in office. MQG argued that with all due respect to the 2.4 million Israelis who voted for Netanyahu, as a criminal defendant, Netanyahu is legally “incapacitated” from performing his duties in office and therefore, the Supreme Court should order the Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara to declare Netanyahu “incapacitated “and oust him from power. MQG’s petition was ridiculous on its face. The Supreme Court ruled in an 11-0 judgment in March 2020 that Netanyahu may serve as Prime Minister while standing trial. Basic Law: The Government, stipulates that a Prime Minister can only be compelled to leave office if he has been convicted of criminal charges, and even then, only after he has exhausted all appeals. READ MORE

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The settlement comes after years in which officials around Jackson have been accused of trying to push out Orthodox residents

Posted on September 2, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
NJ township will pay $575,000 to settle lawsuit alleging discrimination against Orthodox Jews
Jackie Hajdenberg
August 29, 2023

New Jersey’s Jackson Township has settled a state lawsuit alleging that it used local ordinances to discriminate against Orthodox Jews, after settling both a federal complaint and a private lawsuit based on similar claims. In the settlement with the state attorney general, Jackson Township will pay $575,000 in penalties and restitution funds, repeal the ordinances that allegedly target Orthodox Jews and adopt new policies and procedures that protect religious freedom. It will also form a multicultural committee composed of residents that will meet quarterly to combat discrimination, and local officials will undergo anti-discrimination training. READ MORE

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In one of the movie’s memorable scenes, Meir and Kissinger engage in a battle of wills over the Israeli prime minister’s kitchen table, with Meir forcing the exhausted diplomat to eat borscht

Posted on September 2, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Helen Mirren plays Golda Meir in a new biopic about the Israeli prime minister
Sean Durns
August 25, 2023

A decade before the rise of U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Israel had its own “Iron Lady,” Golda Meir, a 75-year-old grandmother more famous for her chicken soup recipes than wielding weaponry yet who led the country through its biggest military challenge 50 years ago when Egyptian and Syrian forces invaded during the Yom Kippur holiday. And her life is now told on screen in Guy Nattiv’s new film Golda. Helen Mirren stars as Meir, and Liev Schreiber portrays Henry Kissinger, the U.S. secretary of state often, but not always, at odds with the Israeli prime minister. This is by a wide margin the best portrayal of the Israeli premier put to film, easily surpassing Ingrid Bergman’s 1982 movie A Woman Called Golda, among others. The film is dark and somber. READ MORE

JPOST Egypt wanted a limited war, Mossad reveals in declassified Yom Kippur docs The Mossad on Thursday initiated its own declassification of history for the first time, relating to before, during, and after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As part of a ceremony conducted by Mossad Director David Barnea, and with a number of former Mossad chiefs and senior officials in attendance, the spy agency released a book called Some day, when it can be revealed. The title is taken from a statement made by then-prime minister Golda Meir to then-Mossad chief Zvi Zamir. 

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ADL has no moral standing to dictate appropriate speech

Posted on September 2, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE FEDERALIST
Elon Musk’s Legal Threats Aside, The ADL Doesn’t Speak For Jews
David Harsanyi
September 6, 2023

Elon Musk has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for some $22 billion over its slandering of him as an antisemite, which he alleges has tanked X’s advertising revenue. “Based on what we’ve heard from advertisers, ADL seems to be responsible for most of our revenue loss,” Musk says…The ADL isn’t a “Jewish” organization in any genuine ethnic or theological sense. Its primary mission is no longer to stop the defamation of Jews. The ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, a former Barack Obama appointee, has created a partisan leftist social justice outfit. And its primary goal these days is cynically using the organization’s historical position to advance often illiberal, completely irreligious, leftist ideas. One of the ways it does this is by dishonestly framing an endorsement of free expression as an endorsement of the things people say using free expression, including antisemitism. That’s what it has done with Musk. READ MORE

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Obama evaded the Nation of Islam leader’s core antisemitic ideology.

Posted on August 31, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Obama’s non-responses to black antisemitism
Eunice G. Pollack
August 27, 2023

In his 2017 book Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama and a Tablet interview this month, historian David Garrow revealed that Obama refused to take a stand against black antisemitism in the late 1980s when, as a Loyola University professor put it at the time, “virulent antisemitism has gripped Chicago’s black community.” Andrew Greeley, a Chicago priest and author, warned, “If I were Jewish, I would be terrified.” In 1988, the press reported that Steve Cokely, a “favorite aide” of the acting mayor Eugene Sawyer, had given a series of talks to followers of the Nation of Islam (NOI) in which he alleged that Jewish doctors were injecting black babies with AIDS, which Jews had invented. After Sawyer fired him, black student organizations hosted Cokely, who inverted the Holocaust, claiming that Jews were “building gas chambers to kill blacks.” READ MORE

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Diplomatic sources in Jerusalem say that Minister Ben-Gvir’s comments on restricting Arab movement inflict major damage on Israel’s public diplomacy efforts after American model Bella Hadid accuses him of racism

Posted on August 30, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Officials concerned Ben-Gvir’s spat with Bella Hadid ‘gift for BDS’
Eran Swissa and Shirit Avitan Cohen
August 25, 2023

…Ben-Gvir shot back on Friday, in a tweet attacking the pro-Palestinian advocate. “Good morning to Israel-hater Bella Hadid,” he wrote. “I saw that you took an excerpt from my interview yesterday and sent it out to the world in the hope of making me look racist and unenlightened. I invite you to my hometown Kiryat Arba to see how we live our lives, how Jews who have never hurt a soul get murdered here, and to witness the threats me and wife and children get every day…So yes, my right, my wife’s, my children’s, to roam the roads of Judea and Samaria and to make it back home safely – that is more important than the right of terrorists who throw rocks and murder us. I am not apologizing and not retracting what I said. I will repeat this 1,000 times. The People of Israel live.” READ MORE

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Terror deaths of Israelis fell every year under Trump and rose every year under Biden

Posted on August 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Biden’s Terror Funding Just Killed an Israeli Preschool Teacher
Daniel Greenfield
August 28, 2023

Last year, Biden met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and boasted that, “I reversed the policies of my predecessor and resumed aid to the Palestinians — more than a half a billion dollars in 2021.” Batsheva Nigri, a preschool teacher, was riding in a car with her six-year-old daughter when Islamic terrorists from the Palestinian Authority’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade cut them off and riddled the car with 22 bullets. Batsheva’s six-year-old daughter watched her mother die. The Palestinian Authority’s terror group hailed the murder of a 42-year-old preschool teacher as a “natural response to the crimes of the occupation”…Monday’s murder comes after an Israeli father and son were shot to death on the Sabbath. They’re among a growing list of terror victims this year ranging in age from a 6-year-old boy run down on a Jerusalem street to an 82-year-old woman who was killed while trying to get her disabled husband to safety when a rocket hit their building. READ MORE

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Former state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said Robin L. Garrell leaving CUNY sends a message to “to stop hiring Jew-haters.”

Posted on August 25, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
CUNY official who hired fired ‘CNN’ commentator exits position
August 31, 2023

Marc Lamont Hill lost his cable-TV news gig after giving a speech calling for anti-Israel boycotts and “a free Palestine from the river to the sea.” Now the woman who just brought him to the City University of New York (CUNY) will likewise depart from her role. Chancellor Matos Rodríguez announced that Robin L. Garrell, president of CUNY’s Graduate Center, will conclude her position after three years, stepping down at the end of September. While no official reason appeared for her leaving, opponents of the decision to hire Hill saw it as “wonderful news.”  READ MORE

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