“When the left began its anti-government campaign, the public expectation was that violent lawbreakers would be treated the same way as their right-wing counterparts had in the past. That has not been the case”

Posted on June 9, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The Israeli left threatens murder and incites civil war
Caroline Glick
June 9, 2023

On Sunday, retired Brig. Gen. Nehemiah Dagan, one of the heads of the left’s anti-government campaign, published a post on his Facebook that included an explicit call for civil war and physical destruction of the Kohelet Forum—a think tank in Jerusalem that Dagan and his associates have singled out for harassment and assault. Dagan’s post, which he deleted three days later, is worth quoting at length…Throughout the past several months of leftist political violence, Kohelet scholars and donors have been subjected to a continuous stream of violent threats on social media. Kohelet has filed repeated complaints with the police. To date, no one has been indicted. READ MORE

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“Netanyahu’s voters are typically darker-skinned Mizrahi Jews, and so Israel’s progressives often play on ethnic and racial stereotypes to express their scorn for the right”

Posted on June 9, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Israel’s Civil Rights Movement
Gadi Taub
June 7, 2023

…Israel’s “resistance” movement is not a popular revolt. It is the revolt of Israel’s elites, out to protect Israel’s peculiar oligarchic structure of government. The Supreme Court, which holds more power in Israel than any court in any Western democracy, has allowed Israel’s liberal elites to rule from the bench even as they keep losing elections. They will not give up this arrangement without a fight. The protest movement was, accordingly, lavishly (and in part internationally) funded. It was well organized by people who have both the time and the skills for such a large-scale operation, and it was cheered on, rather than covered, by the mainstream press. It also helped, of course, that Israel’s “democratic resistance” movement was politically supported by the Biden administration and its ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Bill defining anti-Haredi hate as racism passes preliminary Knesset reading The bill’s authors warned against the “expanding phenomenon” of racist incitement against Haredi population and its entrenchment in the broader society.

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Borgen, an Upper East Side accountant, said his attackers called him a “dirty Jew” and yelled “F–k Israel, Hamas is going to kill all of you” as they pummeled him

Posted on June 9, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg offers sweetheart plea deal to suspect in brutal anti-Semitic attack
Elizabeth Rosner and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
January 12, 2023

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office is offering a sweetheart plea deal to a suspect charged in the brutal anti-Semitic beating of a Jewish man in Midtown, prosecutors confirmed. Waseem Awawdeh — who defiantly said “I would do it again” after his arrest in the cowardly assault on Joseph Borgen near a pro-Israel rally — has received a six-month plea deal offer from the controversial prosecutor. That would be a slap on the wrist compared to the up to seven years he would face if convicted of the charges, including attempted assault as a hate crime, at trial. Awawdeh, 24, was part of a gang of brutes busted in the May 20, 2021 attack on Borgen, who was wearing a yarmulke as he walked to a pro-Israel rally near Broadway and West 49th Street. READ MORE

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“The Iran regime may believe the world isn’t watching as it terrorizes citizens into silence. We all must support those who stand by the Iranian people in the face of this brutality.”

Posted on June 9, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
‘No Joke’: The Baffling Silence by The Biden Administration, UN and EU on Iran’s Human Rights Abuses
Majid Rafizadeh
June 10, 2023

Not only have the Biden Administration, the EU, and the UN have been silent in the face of the Iranian regime’s increasing human rights violations, but just a few days after the regime executed two young men, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, for “blasphemy,” Iran was rewarded by being appointed chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council 2023 Social Forum, as well as being handsomely compensated by the European Union. The grotesque move prompted The Telegraph to headline, “Iran human rights role ‘like granting Bin Laden a Nobel Peace Prize.’” READ MORE

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CUNY Chancellor Matos Rodriguez has strategically replaced Jewish leaders with individuals that spew harmful antisemitic rhetoric

Posted on June 9, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

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Antisemite of the Week:
CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez
June 10, 2023

In 2019, Felix Matos Rodriguez was promoted as Chancellor of The City University of New York (CUNY), leading the nation’s largest urban university and overseeing its 25 colleges and nearly 250,000 students. Just 4 short years later, in the city where the population is 20% Jewish, Matos Rodriguez has transformed CUNY into America’s most antisemitic university. Matos Rodriguez parades himself as a “champion of student equity” however results show CUNY’s Jewish students and faculty are continually disregarded, dismissed, and attacked over their identity. Jewish students at CUNY have said they have been harassed and bullied to the point of some dropping out. In most of these instances, the perpetrators of this abuse are never addressed, and Chancellor Matos Rodriguez’s silence is deafening. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST College grad delivers ‘sick’ speech accusing Israel of ‘killing and torturing Palestinians’ Another college student at a publicly funded school spewed antisemitic hate during her recent commencement speech, critics say — and the university even touted part of her talk on Twitter.

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Tree of Life shooter’s attorney: “There is no disagreement, there is no dispute and there will be no doubt as to who shot the 11 congregants”

Posted on June 9, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Defense rests in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial without calling witnesses or presenting evidence
Ron Kampeas
June 14, 2023

Defense attorneys in the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter will not be calling witnesses or presenting evidence in court, following 11 days of harrowing testimony from witnesses called by the prosecution. The defense attorneys’ choice underscores their acknowledgement that their client committed the attack. Since the beginning of the trial, lead defense attorney Judy Clarke has made clear that her goal is to prevent the shooter, Robert Bowers, from being sentenced to death…The prosecution wrapped up its case before lunch on Wednesday with testimony from Andrea Wedner, one of two worshippers who were injured by gunfire in the shooting and survived. Wedner was with her mother, Rose Mallinger, when the gunman entered the chapel. Mallinger, who was 97, was killed in the attack. READ MORE

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US Secretary of State Blinken vows “to stand with J Street,” also that J Street is “now more needed than ever”

Posted on June 9, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
ZOA Condemns Secy Blinken’s Extraordinarily Hostile-to-Israel & Jews AIPAC Speech
Morton A. Klein
June 14, 2023

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s speech to the June 5, 2023 AIPAC Policy Summit shamefully reiterated and promoted Biden administration policies that are extraordinarily hostile to our greatest and most reliable human rights-loving ally, the Jewish country of Israel. Sadly, we are not surprised. Blinken promoted similar policies in his more detailed speech to the extremist, Soros-funded anti-Israel group J Street in December 2022; and President Biden promoted these policies in statements during his Middle East trip last July. Blinken’s policies contradicted the empty “lip service” that Blinken gave to the need for a strong Israel…READ MORE

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The IDF said that during the first week, the 91st Territorial Division carried out exercises that simulated “defense scenarios in large numbers along the Lebanese front” and “wide-ranging offensive scenarios”

Posted on June 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
IDF wraps up major drill focused on multi-front war with Iran, Middle East proxies
Emanuel Fabian
June 8, 2023

The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday wrapped up a two-week drill focused on a potential multi-front war with Iran and its terror proxies across the Middle East, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah. The exercises — dubbed “Firm Hand” — involved troops from the standing and reserve army, from nearly all units. According to the IDF, the drills included ground forces simulating fighting on Israel’s northern frontier with Lebanon, the Air Force carrying out mock airstrikes “deep in enemy territory,” Navy operations at sea, intelligence units working around the clock, and cyber units simulating electronic warfare. READ MORE

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UN “Commission of Inquiry” parrots terror-linked NGOs, grossly distorts Israeli policy and practice, and contravenes fact-finding best practices”

Posted on June 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

NGO MONITOR
UN Human Rights Council COI Report: Defamation and Disinformation
June 8, 2023

On June 8, 2023, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s permanent “Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel” (COI) published a report purporting to investigate “attacks, restrictions and harassment of civil-society actors.”…The COI document contains little original research. Rather, it copies-and-pastes from previous UN attacks on Israel – themselves largely based on distorted NGO claims; NGO publications account for nearly 40% of all material cited in the report. Notably, the COI cites to Israeli-designated terrorist entities – including Addameer, Al-Haq, and Bisan – and other terror-linked organizations such as the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR). READ MORE

JNS Will a flawed UN report lead to a blacklisting of Israel? A United Nations report accusing the Israeli military of grave human rights violations is expected to be released in the coming weeks, and could have serious ramifications for the Jewish state.

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Outgoing Israel Ambassador Tom Nides involvement in $1m funding effort certain to attract congressional scrutiny as Israel’s defenders on Capitol Hill worry the Biden administration is alienating the Jewish state

Posted on June 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

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Biden’s Ambassador to Israel Approved Grant Aimed at Delegitimizing Israel, Emails Show
Adam Kredo
June 7, 2023

The Biden administration’s outgoing ambassador to Israel personally signed off on a controversial $1 million grant to a program critics said was meant to delegitimize Israel, according to internal State Department communications obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. U.S. ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides approved the funding project in a January 2022 internal “action memo,” according to a trove of internal emails obtained by the America First Legal Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act request for information about the grant. The emails detail how Nides personally cleared the State Department to offer $987,654 for groups to investigate alleged human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. READ MORE

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