CAMERA The ABC’S of skewed Jenin coverage ABC’s July 4 article covering the Israeli military’s Jenin incursion and a Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv provides a particularly striking example of egregiously skewed news coverage of the recent violent events (“Israeli forces fire tear gas inside hospital as raid continues.”)
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Iran’s Pincer War on Israel Is No Intifada
Dan Diker
June 29, 2023
…This is no intifada. It’s a premeditated Iranian regime “pincer” war now executed from the northern Samarian hills. Iran now outflanks Israel on three sides: From Gaza in the south, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives Hamas and PIJ have targeted Israel with tens of thousands of rockets and terror tunnels. From Israel’s northern neighbors Lebanon and Syria, IRGC Quds forces and Hezbollah’s proxy terror army have about 180,000 rockets and laser-guided missiles directed at Israeli cities. Hezbollah has even set up outposts on Israel’s side of the border with Lebanon. Now, the Iranian regime has taken its 44-year-old war to the Samarian hills that overlook Ben Gurion Airport and Israel’s main cities along the Mediterranean coast. READ MORE
ARUTZ SHEVA
France burns and multiculturalists yawn
Giulio Meotti
July 3, 2023
Those who warned Europe for years that this would happen have the feeling of a person sitting with his legs crossed, a cat on his knees, a bag of popcorn – and the view from the terrace of the burning city, living out his prophecies..There are many images to remember of a new night of violence in France. There is the looting of an armory in the heart of Marseille, during which numerous pistols were stolen. Not a good sign for the future. And a post office hit by a giant explosion in Lyon. And, in the same city, a hooded man shooting through the houses of the Duchère district with a Kalashnikov. Duchère…Does it say anything, Duchère? Here a few months ago René Hadjadj, a 90-year-old Jew was thrown from the 17th floor of his apartment by a Muslim. In Duchère, the central Christmas tree was set on fire, but the synagogues were already set on fire twenty years ago. READ MORE
OPENDOR MEDIA
July 4, 2023
Haym Salomon, largely unknown to many, immigrated to the American colonies just before the outbreak of the War of Independence. With his unique business and language talents, he outwitted British forces on several occasions and his contributions were instrumental in securing American victory and laying the foundation for its independence. He also dedicated himself to building and strengthening the Jewish community in the newly formed United States of America, leaving behind a powerful legacy of faith, resilience, and unity.
JEWISH PRESS Jason Stverak: Haym Salomon: Remembering a Founding Father on Independence Day You won’t find the name Haym Salomon in text books in your local elementary school. U.S. History classes at the finest universities rarely utter his name. But without the dedication of this Polish Jewish immigrant to the American Revolution, the Fourth of July would not be celebrated as Independence Day.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Congress demands info on security clearance suspension of Iran envoy
Matt Lee
June 30, 2023
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is demanding that the State Department produce more information about the suspension of the U.S. special envoy for Iran’s security clearance. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican, said Friday the Biden administration owed Congress a full explanation for the suspension of envoy Rob Malley’s clearance and his being placed on unpaid leave. Malley had led administration efforts to revive the faltering Iran nuclear deal. READ MORE
JNS Congress wants answers on suspension of US Iran envoy Rob Malley The State Department’s failure to inform Congress of the move “demonstrates at best a lack of candor,” says House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman.
CNN Biden’s Iran envoy placed on leave after security clearance suspended amid investigation into possible mishandling of classified material, sources say Earlier this year, two sources said, the State Department ramped up its own investigation into Malley’s handling of classified information, which led to his clearance being suspended within the last two months. It’s not clear what was uncovered that specifically led to Malley’s clearance being suspended.
JTA
Supreme Court ruling in Sabbath accommodation case has far-reaching consequences for observant Jews
Ron Kampeas
June 29, 2023
In a case that drew support from a broad array of Jewish groups, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that employers had to show a “substantial” burden to deny workers religious accommodation. In a decision released Thursday, the court sided with Gerald Groff, an evangelical Christian mail carrier who asked not to work on Sundays, his Sabbath. Jewish groups that do not often line up on the same side of church-state issues before the court were of a single voice in this case. Justice Samuel Alito, writing the opinion, sought to substantially narrow a 1977 decision that faith groups have for years said is so broad in setting the standard for religious accommodation that it is meaningless. READ MORE
TIMES OF ISRAEL
The one place in the Middle East where minorities are thriving
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
June 18, 2023
Palestinian propagandists want you to believe that Israel is engaged in the “ethnic cleansing” of non-Jews. A closer look at demographics, however, proves otherwise. On the occasion of Jerusalem Day last month, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics published numbers showing that close to forty percent of the residents of Jerusalem are Arabs, a level unchanged since a census was taken as far back as 1947, a year before the founding of the state. Israel is a Jewish state. Its minorities are Arab: Muslim, Christian, and Druze. Their numbers have grown steadily along with the country’s overall population. In areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA), everyone is Arab. Muslims are the majority and Christians a dwindling minority that fears for its security. In neighboring Lebanon, whose population is overwhelmingly Arab, Christians were a majority when the state was founded in 1920, although not anymore. If one asks where minorities thrive in the Middle East, the answer is Israel. READ MORE
FAIR SUBSTACK
SCOTUS Ends Affirmative Action, Sort of
Ilya Shapiro
June 29, 2023
Forty-five years and a day after one Supreme Court justice opened the door to race-based college admissions (the 1978 Bakke case), six justices closed it. The Court has finally recognized that the Constitution prohibits such racial discrimination. In the words of Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion, “ending racial discrimination means ending all of it.” It’s unbelievable that it took until 2023 to do so, but sometimes the wheels of justice are slow…But this is only the end of the beginning of the fight for equality in educational opportunity. Higher-education grandees have long interpreted the Court’s cautious approval of the temporary use of race (as one of many factors) as a green light for a permanent diversity-industrial complex. They will not go quickly into the colorblind night of merit-based admissions, but will fight for workarounds to maintain their system of racial spoils. READ MORE
JERUSALEM POST Jewish quotas were at the heart of Supreme Court affirmative action ruling In 1922, Harvard’s president, A. Lawrence Lowell, noticed a precipitous rise in the number of Jews accepted to the university and proposed accepting a quota of only 15% Jewish students.
BREITBART Boston University Law Students Urged to Seek Therapy in Response to Supreme Court Rulings Law schools have become notorious in recent years for coddling left-wing students disappointed by reality. In 2016, some offered counseling services to students upset by Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.
JEWISH JOURNAL
Biden Admin Reinstates Ban of Taxpayer Research Funding to Israeli Settlements
Aaron Bandler
June 28, 2023
The Biden administration has reinstated a ban from the Obama administration barring taxpayer funding toward research and development and scientific cooperation projects with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights. Axios reported on June 25 that the administration informed the Israeli government about the reinstatement of the ban a couple weeks prior; a spokesperson from the administration told Axios that they staunchly believe in and will continue “scientific and technological cooperation” with Israel and that the ban reflects “the longstanding U.S. position … that the ultimate disposition of the geographic areas which came under the administration of Israel after June 5, 1967 is a final status matter and that we are working towards a negotiated two-state solution in which Israel lives in peace and security alongside a viable Palestinian state.” READ MORE
JNS Caroline Glick: Biden’s State Department goes BDS In this week’s episode, Caroline Glick focuses on three main issues. The first is the Biden administration’s new directive banning the United States from carrying out scientific cooperation with Israeli Jewish institutions in Judea and Samaria. The U.S. State Department informed Congress of the move last Friday night when Congress was going into recess. It only became widely known after journalists got wind of it. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has issued a blistering statement excoriating the administration over the move.
TIMES OF ISRAEL
Netanyahu to US media: Judicial overhaul is moving ahead without ‘override clause’
June 29, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that the so-called “override clause” — one of the most contentious elements of his government’s judicial overhaul plan — would not be advancing. “The idea of an override clause, where the parliament, the Knesset, can override the decisions of the Supreme Court with a simple majority, I said, I threw that out… It’s out,” Netanyahu told the newspaper, adding that he is “attentive to the public pulse, and to what I think will pass muster.” His comments echoed remarks he made in March and April noting that a blanket override clause was no longer on the table. READ MORE
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