“This is the Biden administration’s betrayal of Jews in a nutshell”

Posted on May 26, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Biden’s antisemitism strategy fails to condemn BDS, includes CAIR
Daniel Greenfield
May 28, 2023

There were many expectations for Biden’s “U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism” among the usual organizational types, but anyone with common sense could have seen this coming a mile away. The “U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism” fails to address Muslim and leftist antisemitism. It briefly delves into campus antisemitism but does not address its source, has a single throwaway line about the attacks on Orthodox Jews in New York City and gives the pro-Israel IHRA definition of antisemitism nearly equal billing with the Nexus anti-Israel one. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA ZOA slams Biden’s inclusion of ‘dangerous’ antisemitism definitions in nation action plan Zionist Organization of America also decries strategy’s lack of calling out Islamists and other antisemites endangering US Jewish community

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“The Kingdom’s China-brokered renewal of ties with Iran has strained its relations with Israel and may have weakened Riyadh’s appetite for normalization”

Posted on May 26, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ARAB NEWS
High time for a ‘Hajj Express’ for Israeli Muslims
Mark Dubowitz and Tzvi Kahn
May 24, 2023

With the Hajj being only a month away, Saudi Arabia has a chance to take the high road with Israeli Muslims and sidestep the obstacles in their efforts to normalize relations. Riyadh is hereby called upon, for the first time, to allow direct flights for Muslim pilgrims from Israel…After all, Qatar admitted direct flights from Tel Aviv for World Cup fans. Surely Saudi Arabia can be no less accommodating for the Muslims who make up 18 percent of Israel’s population. READ MORE

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Debates surrounding the pandemic continue to rely on false narratives about Haredim

Posted on May 26, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
How Religious Jews Became Official Scapegoats of COVID Policy
Moshe Krakowski
May 29, 2023

Dr. Anthony Fauci became famous early on in the pandemic for his dedication to lockdowns and masking. For many, this made him a hero—and anyone who questioned or defied these measures a villain. Perhaps no one in the country became greater COVID pariahs than religious Jews. “Just drove through Hasidic Williamsburg. Saw at least 250 people, and not a *single* person was wearing a mask,” New York Times reporter Eliza Shapiro tweeted in outrage in May 2020. But rhetoric about COVID has changed. Officials who once advocated for harsh restrictions are quietly seeking to distance themselves from their earlier positions. READ MORE

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Tower of David in Jerusalem is also an ancient fortress, telling stories of the Hasmonean Kingdom, Byzantine period, and early Islamic period of the Middle Ages

Posted on May 26, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
Tower of David Museum to reopen as Jerusalem’s official museum
Erica Jackson
May 29, 2023

After over ten years of planning and three years of construction, the famous Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem is reopening to the public on June 1 as the holy city’s official museum. “The new museum tells the secrets of this city – how Jerusalem, a small city in the hills of Judea, became so important city for so many people from all over the world,” Eilat Lieber, director and chief curator of the museum, told i24NEWS. But the Tower of David in Jerusalem isn’t just a museum – it’s an ancient fortress. The strategic location tells the story of the biblical Hasmonean Kingdom, the Roman and Byzantine periods, and the early Islamic period through the Middle Ages. READ MORE

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Celebrity Highland Parker rips into Chicago as they increasingly ignore criminals

Posted on May 26, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY CALLER
‘Cops Have To Be Able To Chase’: Maher, Famous Rocker Rip Into Chicago Over Restrictions On Police
Brianna Lyman
May 26, 2023

Comedian and podcast host Bill Maher and The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan tore into Chicago over its restrictions on police. Chicago police officers are no longer permitted to chase people on foot if they are fleeing from crimes they’ve committed if they are minor offenses. Maher noted that several of his old friends from Chicago feel the city is now “very unsafe.” “Just to add a little bit of teeth to what I’m saying, I know a lot of Chicago Police Department people,” Corgan said. “So these are the people that are dealing with it everyday. And they’re like, ‘this is fucked up.’ They’re telling me that.” READ MORE

Billy’s comments about Chicago begin at 57:40

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Military court in Gaza sentences four who were convicted of providing information to Israel to be executed by hanging and by firing squad

Posted on May 24, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Gaza: Four sentenced to death over providing information to Israel
Dalit Halevi
May 25, 2023

A military court in the Gaza Strip has sentenced several Palestinian Arabs who were convicted of providing information to Israel to be executed by hanging and by firing squad. According to a report in the Ma’an news agency, one of the convicts made contact with Israel at the Erez crossing, where he met with an Israeli intelligence officer who offered him information in exchange for a work permit in Israel. The convict agreed, and began to transmit information about terrorist operatives, their telephone numbers and places of residence, as well as the location of tunnels, communication networks and the location of military posts. READ MORE

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Bernie Sanders, Dick Durbin and Elizabeth Warren among Democrat Senators opposing Israel’s entry into Visa Waiver Program

Posted on May 24, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
16 Senate Democrats say Israel still falls short of Visa Waiver Program requirements
Marc Rod
May 25, 2023

As Israel moves toward expected admission into the Visa Waiver Program later this year, a group of 16 Democratic senators suggested in a letter to top administration officials on Wednesday that Israel continues to fall short of the requirements for admission into the program and is unlikely to fix these alleged issues before its expected entry date. Israel has long pursued entry into the program allowing visa-free entry into the United States, but has faced obstacles, including its rejection rate for visa applications and concerns about Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Americans at its borders. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said earlier this year that Israel will likely be added to the program in July or August.  READ MORE

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It is disturbing that the four professors who wrote this defamatory rant against Israel are indoctrinating a generation of students

Posted on May 24, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
A ‘Foreign Affairs’ article wants to destroy Israel
Morton A. Klein
May 24, 2023

This month’s issue of Foreign Affairs included a disgraceful, antisemitic, Israelophobic article entitled “Israel’s One-State Reality.” It calls Israel libelous names without a shred of evidence and then urges the U.S. government to adopt a Jew-haters’ wish list of 14 anti-Israel policies aimed at crushing, weakening, leaving defenseless and annihilating the sole Jewish state.The article is a frightening example of the antisemitic, anti-Israel blood libels and policy prescriptions that have infested the media and too many college political science departments and left-wing think tanks. The article’s authors are three George Washington University professors—Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown and Marc Lynch—and University of Maryland professor Shibley Telhami, who is also a fellow at the Brookings Institution. READ MORE

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As Jews in Israel and around the world read the Book of Ruth during the holiday of Shavuot, which starts Thursday evening, it is worth asking how beloved – and welcome – converts truly are today

Posted on May 19, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Love the convert
Avi Mayer
May 24, 2023

…It is perhaps the most moving verse in the Book of Ruth, and one of the most moving in the Bible, capturing the moment Ruth – a young Moabite woman widowed by the death of her Israelite husband – implores her mother-in-law, Naomi, to allow her to accompany her return to Judea, proclaiming her identification with Naomi’s people and with her God. Ruth’s declaration – and her decision to bind her fate to that of Naomi and her people – has been viewed by rabbis throughout the ages as an act of conversion, and she is considered the archetypal convert to Judaism. Traditionally, Judaism has held converts in extraordinarily high regard, lauding their dedication to the Jewish people and its faith…The medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides explains that although converts are included in the general commandment to “love your neighbor,” their decision to take the laws of the Torah upon themselves causes God to love them even more and dedicate a separate commandment to loving them.READ MORE

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Mark Twain affirmed the unbreakable Jewish connection to the Land, and that it was desolate under then Ottoman control

Posted on May 19, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TOWN HALL
Mahmoud Abbas’ Foolishness on Center Stage at the UN
Jonathan Feldstein
May 18, 2023

…As much as these are historic facts that the world has overlooked in a knee-jerk response for supporting the Palestinian Arabs’ narrative, Abbas repeated and doubled down on ridiculous historical revisionism by claiming that the Jewish people have no legitimate history in, or claim to, Jerusalem and its most sacred site, the Temple Mount. It’s just a foolish lie, but one the world has bought into for decades. He may not agree with or like the truth, and may have to say that Israel is the bogeyman because that is the cornerstone of Palestinian Arab identity, but it is beyond ridiculous to suggest that the Jewish people are not indigenous in the Land of Israel. READ MORE

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