“Of the hundreds of hate crimes committed against Jews in NYC since 2018, many of them documented on camera, only a single perpetrator has served even one day in prison”

Posted on August 26, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
It’s Open Season on Jews in New York City
Armin Rosen
August 28, 2022

…Perhaps the attack, which stemmed from a seemingly innocuous dispute over a parking space—a common enough occurrence in a densely populated place like Crown Heights, and one that almost never ends with anyone in the hospital—was just too fraught of an event for the police to want to handle too aggressively. Maybe someone feared that drawing additional attention to a group of young Black men attacking a prominent Orthodox Jew would threaten to inflame tensions in a neighborhood with a long but mostly improving (and generally misunderstood) history of racial division. READ MORE

JNS Muslim man in France turns himself in after murdering Jewish roommate with ax He ultimately confessed that he killed Eyal Hadded, 34, with an ax and burned his face because he is a Jew.

TIMES OF ISRAEL French Jewish man killed in suspected antisemitic attack buried in Israel ‘Antisemitism in France does not spare any Jew there,’ says Beersheba chief rabbi at funeral for Eyal Haddad; mourners urge French authorities to take strong action

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“Khomeini’s decree stoked Muslim anger and paralyzed the West’s response to Islamic fundamentalism”

Posted on August 26, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
How the Salman Rushdie Fatwa Changed the World
Reuel Marc Gerecht
August 25, 2022

Apart from Iran’s Islamic revolution, for which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini could claim only partial credit, his most momentous achievement was the February 1989 fatwa against author Salman Rushdie. Pronounced in response to Mr. Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses,” Khomeini’s edict was the first time a Muslim militant had the audacity to apply an Islamic punishment deep inside the West. Khomeini applied jujitsu to the West’s claim that it stood for “universal values,” obliging it to take note of Muslim sensibilities about the sacred and the profane. Muslim reaction to Khomeini’s decree varied, but it elicited considerable sympathy among Sunni as well as Shiite believers. READ MORE

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In Gaza, it’s “Beat the Press”

Posted on August 26, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON TIMES
Reporters in Gaza have never been free
Clifford May
August 16, 2022

Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood branch that rules Gaza, sat out this month’s conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller Gaza-based terrorist group tied to Iran’s rulers. However, perhaps to show it still rules the roost, Hamas issued sweeping restrictions on foreign journalists working in Gaza. Among them: a prohibition against reporting on Gazans killed by misfired Palestinian rockets and a requirement that Israel be blamed for the battle. In addition, Hamas ordered all foreign correspondents to employ Palestinian “sponsors” who must submit full reports on where those correspondents go, what they do and any “illogical questions” they ask. READ MORE

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“Catering exclusively to Gentile clientele: Always a view, never a Jew”

Posted on August 26, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

The Doral: How two immigrants changed Jewish life in Florida

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“My family was falsely accused of racism by a powerful school in a small town. Our business was destroyed. We won our case. But the school is refusing to pay?”

Posted on August 26, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

COMMON SENSE
Will I Ever See the $36 Million Oberlin College Owes Me?
Lorna Gibson
September 1, 2022

On the night of November, 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected president and the country was forever changed. But for my family, it was the following night—November 9, 2016—that our world was turned upside down and has never been set right. Late that night, my husband, David, came home from work and told me that there had been a shoplifting incident at our bakery, Gibson’s. We’ve been in business for 137 years, so we’ve had our fair share of shoplifters, including earlier that very week. READ MORE

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Thanks to Biden’s #IranDeal, Kuwait and the UAE can see the coming “realignment” in the Middle East

Posted on August 24, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Distrust of Biden Administration Leads UAE, Kuwait to Restore Ties with Iran
John Hayward
August 24, 2022

Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took steps this week to restore diplomatic relations with Iran, a tacit acknowledgment that President Joe Biden’s reckless determination to restore the Iran nuclear deal will make Tehran vastly more rich and powerful, not to mention bringing it closer to deploying a nuclear umbrella. The latest word on the Biden nuclear deal has Iran allegedly reaping an incredible $90 billion windfall from sanctions relief and unfrozen currency reserves, even before Tehran begins piling up cash from renewed oil sales. The Biden deal, if as reported, is even more lucrative for the world’s leading state sponsors of terrorism than former President Barack Obama’s very generous Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was suspended by President Donald Trump in May 2018 after years of Iranian misbehavior. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Mossad Chief Calls ‘Inevitable’ Nuclear Deal a ‘Strategic Disaster’ The director of the Mossad warned that the emerging nuclear deal with Iran is a “strategic disaster,” and cautioned that Israel will not be able to sit idly as the danger to its security grows closer. “The agreement is a bad deal that gives Iran a license to manufacture a bomb,” David Barnea was quoted as saying during internal security meetings which Israeli media reported, citing unnamed sources.

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Saudi news outlet says Israeli drones and mid-air refueling aircraft took part in exercises, managed to avoid Russian and Iranian sensors

Posted on August 24, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israeli F-35s penetrated Iranian airspace repeatedly during war drills
Ash Obel
August 24, 2022

Israeli F-35 stealth fighters penetrated Iranian airspace on multiple occasions in the last two months, a Saudi-run news outlet reported Wednesday, as Israel stepped up its rhetoric against a nascent agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. The unverified report in London-based Elaph said the jets successfully evaded Russian and Iranian radars during the exercises. Drones and mid-air refueling tankers were also reported to have participated in the “massive” drills. According to Elaph, Israel and the US also carried out secret exercises over the Red Sea simulating a strike on Iran from the sea and air and the seizing of Iranian warships. READ MORE

JNS Caroline Glick:Biden Ushers in an Era of Nuclear Chaos and War The Biden administration is on the verge of closing its long-sought for nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Europeans distributed a “final draft” of an agreement to the Americans and the Iranians last week. While the text was billed as a “take it or leave it” offer, neither the Europeans nor the Americans walked away after Iran returned with reservations. Instead, President Joe Biden and his advisors are avidly looking into Iran’s positions and are reportedly trying to incorporate them into the agreement which will likely be concluded quickly, if only the Iranians will agree.

JERUSALEM POST Lahav Harkov: Iran receives US response to nuclear deal draft, Lapid decries deal PM Lapid said that Israel would not be obligated by any nuclear deal made with Iran…“I told them these negotiations have reached the point where they must stop and say, ‘Enough,’” Lapid said.

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“Is it now a little bit clearer that radical Islam is today one of the biggest threats to Western culture and that we are not winning, but instead becoming like turkeys celebrating Thanksgiving?”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Forget Free Speech: Rushdie’s Fatwa Is Winning
Giulio Meotti
August 21, 2022

…Many of the slogans, paraphrases on “free speech” and demonstrations of solidarity to the author of The Satanic Verses hide a terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground, and more and more people have to live under protection due to criticism of Islam. In the words of the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal writing for L’Express last week: “[T]o speak only of France, the police will soon no longer be enough, it will be necessary to recruit battalions or form a new body of bodyguards, who know Islam and can recognize under which dress it is presented.” Islamic extremists in 2012 published a terrifying “most wanted list”, like those of the FBI. Title: “Yes we can. A bullet a day keeps the infidel away…” What happened to the faces and names on that list? They have been killed, left the public arena to protect themselves, or died under police protection. READ MORE

YNET Why New York Times still at a loss to explain what prompted Rushdie attack Media’s insistence on claiming not to know devout Shi’ite Muslim and Iran admirer’s motives for stabbing the Satanic Verses writer is a point of concern; if our generation’s intellectuals choose to ignore reality to push agendas, we’re in deep trouble

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The quintessential difference between #JStreet and #AIPAC

Posted on August 19, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Who tried to block US funding for Iron Dome?
Lenny Ben-David
August 17, 2022

…By mid-June 2021, opposition to replenishing the essential defensive materiel to Israel was emerging in Washington among a squad of members of Congress, anti-Israel progressive groups, and some think tanks of the so-called “deep state.” Who led the charge against the Iron Dome? None other than the purportedly “pro-Israel” J Street and Dylan Williams, the organization’s chief lobbyist and senior vice president for policy and strategy. On the other side of the political spectrum, AIPAC was all in, lobbying both Democratic and Republican members of Congress. In September 2021, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 420-9, to provide $1 billion to restock Israel’s Iron Dome missiles. READ MORE

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From my pal Yishai Fleisher, Fireworks in Hebron for the Children of Abraham

Posted on August 19, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

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