United Nations anti-Israel campaign “emboldens the radicals among the Palestinians, including the Iranian-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose declared goal is to eliminate Israel and replace it with an Islamist state”

Posted on December 9, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
The Apartheid Libel to Destroy Israel
Khaled Abu Toameh
December 12, 2022

Many of Israel’s adversaries, including the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), have long attempted to stamp Israel with the false label of “apartheid”. Recently, however, with the UNHRC’s persistent allegations that Israel is an apartheid state, that label is being pushed even further in an apparent effort to make it stick. The complicity of recent reports from NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch appear to be trying to ensure that their libel will be complete. These allegations are part of an ongoing massive campaign of incitement waged by the Palestinians and anti-Semites around the world to invalidate the State of Israel and vilify Jews. READ MORE

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Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa tells Reuters his party offered its condolences “after the unintentional incident that took place between the residents of al-Aqbieh and individuals from the Irish UN unit”

Posted on December 9, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

IRISH EXAMINER
Soldier killed in Lebanon named as Private Seán Rooney; Cork soldier among three injured
Eoin English and Steven Heaney
December 15, 2022

The Irish soldier who was killed in an ambush by a “hostile mob” while on UN peacekeeping duty in Lebanon has been named as Private Seán Rooney. Private Seán Rooney, 23, a native of Newtowncunningham, Co Donegal, who grew up in Dundalk and whose family is steeped in military tradition, was fatally wounded after the UN jeep he was driving was attacked in a village just south of Beirut at about 9.15pm Irish time, 11.15pm local time, on Wednesday night…The two white jeeps with UN markings came under small arms fire in Al-Aqbieh. One jeep managed to escape but the second jeep came under sustained fire and is believed to have crashed into a building and overturned. READ MORE

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‘The trial stunned the Jews of Iraq. What unfolded before their eyes was a tragedy that they had never believed could happen: their country was about to execute an innocent man, one of its leading citizens, simply for being a Jew”

Posted on December 9, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The Adas Affair
Adi Schwartz
December 8, 2022

A woman makes a frantic journey from the southern city of Basra to the Royal Palace in Baghdad. Her name is Aliza (Alice) Adas. She is Shafiq Adas’s wife and will soon be his widow. Waiting for her inside the palace is the Hashemite prince Emir ‘Abd al-Ilah, the head of the Iraqi Royal Family. She genuflects before him, falling to the ground and kissing his feet. Little does she know in this moment that hanging in the balance is not only her husband’s life, but also the fate of the whole Jewish community. It was September 1948. READ MORE

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“Tensions have been high in the West Bank over the past year, with the IDF conducting an ongoing major anti-terror offensive mostly focused on the northern West Bank”

Posted on December 8, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
3 Palestinian gunmen killed in clash with IDF soldiers during Jenin raid
Emanuel Fabian
December 8, 2022

Three Palestinian gunmen were killed during intense clashes with Israeli troops in the northern West Bank city of Jenin before dawn on Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. The Israel Defense Forces said troops came under “accurate gunfire” when they entered the city and the adjacent Jenin refugee camp to arrest three wanted terror suspects. A local wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group claimed to have opened fire on Israeli troops and hurled explosives at them. Heavy gunfire could be heard in videos published online. READ MORE

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Glick: “Irving, West, the Black Israelites, the Nation of Islam and their ilk have no choice but to demonize the Jews, because Jewish endurance and legitimacy expose the fraud at the heart of their invented identity”

Posted on December 8, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Cultural appropriation and the Jews
Caroline Glick
December 1, 2022

On Monday night, an Egyptian television reporter covering the World Cup tournament in Doha, Qatar was assaulted by an angry mob and forced to leave the games to avoid being lynched. The mob assaulted him because they mistook him for an Israeli reporter. Qatari officials were reportedly embarrassed by the incident. They weren’t embarrassed about the crowd’s violent anti-Semitism, though. The Qataris were embarrassed because their officials hadn’t believed the poor Egyptian when he insisted he was one of them. And so, they stood by as the mob gave him the “Israeli treatment.”From the moment they touched down in Doha to cover the World Cup, Israeli reporters have been showered with hatred. READ MORE

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“But there’s one thing that everyone can agree on: Benjamin Netanyahu is the reigning master of Israeli politics”

Posted on December 8, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

THE FREE PRESS
Bibi’s Back: A Conversation with Israel’s New Prime Minister
Bari Weiss
November 30, 2022

…If you ask, what is my goal now? The first thing is to prevent Iran from annihilating us. Number one, that’s simple. The second is to expand the circle of peace beyond our imagination. Saudi Arabia would be a tremendous achievement, to have peace with them, because it would effectively end the Arab-Israeli conflict. Not the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Remember, the Palestinians are one to two percent of the Arab world, but they’re the tail that’s wagging the Arab body. I’ll get there, too, but I think that it’ll be easier to get there if you end the Arab-Israeli conflict and leave that one to two percent. READ MORE

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UN leader: IHRA definition is “wielded to prevent or suppress legitimate criticisms of the State of Israel”

Posted on December 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY
How Biden, Congress can stop the UN from legitimizing antisemitism
Richard Goldberg
December 7, 2022

United Nations officials urged countries in October and November to reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, the global benchmark for identifying anti-Jewish prejudice. The call to reject the IHRA definition reflects a split within the UN, where some officials are moving firmly against antisemitism, while others have adopted practices that are antisemitic per the definition. On October 6, 2022, E. Tendayi Achiume, then UN Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, reported to the UN General Assembly that despite widespread endorsement of the IHRA definition across Europe and North America, it “has become highly controversial and divisive owing to its susceptibility to being politically instrumentalized and the harm done to human rights.” READ MORE

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“It would be easy to laugh in the faces of the ADL people but it’s not a joke. Putting out these junk studies has real consequences”

Posted on December 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

FEDERALIST
Elon Musk’s Twitter Has Created More Hate Speech, According To Group That Says So And That’s That
Eddie Scarry
December 3, 2022

Hand it to the Anti-Defamation League. There isn’t a single other organization out there that can declare something as fact, with no evidence, and have every major news organization repeat it verbatim, no questions asked. The New York Times on Friday published the headline, “Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find.” That frightful claim was backed up, in large part, by none other than the leftist ADL, which is wildly successful in convincing anyone who will listen that Nazis are lurking in every American household. READ MORE

FREE BEACON FBI Official Casts Doubt on Twitter’s Rationale for Censoring Hunter Biden Laptop Story An FBI official’s testimony last week is setting up a potential showdown with Twitter over the social media company’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election. FBI supervisory special agent Elvis Chan disputed former Twitter executive Yoel Roth’s claims that the FBI warned that Russia would likely release Hunter Biden’s emails before the 2020 election. 

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Clinging to the moth-eaten mantra of the two-state solution is unfortunate at best, mendacious at worst

Posted on December 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Court Jews courting favor
Naomi Kahn
December 3, 2022

In a recent opinion piece published by The Washington Post, Daniel Kurzer and Aaron David Miller urge the Biden administration to “respond boldly to a radical Netanyahu government.” The article, written by two men whose combined titles are almost as long as the article they penned, drew an immediate reaction from people of equal pedigree, including former U.S. ambassador David M. Friedman. “Another bad idea from two guys who consistently have been wrong on U.S.-Israel policy: To punish Israel for its democracy that finally achieved a stable government. Denying the Israeli people their free will is an affront to Zionism and certain to fail,” said Friedman. READ MORE

JNS Ruthie Blum: No, Hady Amr is not ‘our friend’ The AJC shouldn’t be welcoming a U.S. appointee who assists forces bent on Israel’s destruction. But lauding him after expressing concern about the incoming government in Jerusalem is beyond inexcusable.

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The assailant in one text to a teacher wished “death to all Jews”

Posted on December 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
An Arizona man who wished ‘death to all Jews’ killed his professor. A Jewish security consultant says he could have been stopped
Ron Kampeas
November 23, 2022

A top Jewish community security consultant accused the University of Arizona of ignoring antisemitism as a warning sign in a case that culminated in the shooting death of a professor. “Professor Thomas Meixner lost his life because antisemitism is not being taken seriously enough,” Michael Masters, the CEO of the Secure Community Network, wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in the Arizona Republic. Masters said the alleged assailant’s explicitly antisemitic threats should have been a red flag for the campus police, which, Masters said did not aggressively pursue criminal charges, and the Pima County Attorney’s Office, which did not file charges. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Has antisemitism in US reached a tipping point? The Jewish community was the target of more than half (54%) of all religious bias crimes in 2021 according to the FBI. This means that half of all hate crimes targeting religious groups, target Jews. And yet Jews make up only a very small percent of the US population: less than 3% of adults.

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