Morningstar has said repeatedly through statements that it “does not support the anti-Israel BDS campaign”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
18 states join Missouri in probe of Morningstar’s alleged biased anti-Israel ratings
Mike Wagenheim
August 19, 2022

Following a JNS report on a growing list of state agencies investigating the investment firm Morningstar for potential anti-Israel practices, Reuters reported this week that 18 U.S. states have joined a Missouri probe into the company. A spokesperson for Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said on Wednesday that attorneys general in 18 U.S. states have joined Missouri’s investigation into whether Morningstar violated consumer-protection law with its evaluations of companies’ performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues…JNS reported on Aug. 9 that pro-Israel groups had been holding discussions with representatives from various agencies across a number of states to bring their attention to Morningstar’s practices, specifically with regard to its subsidiary, Sustainalytics, and the anti-Israel bias in its investment ratings. READ MORE

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“The Inquirer portrays Abulhawa as being fired for purely being “pro-Palestinian.” The newspaper posits her dismissal as being part of a dastardly plot to silence “pro-Palestinian” voices”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
The Philadelphia Inquirer Hides Antisemitism — Again
Sean Durns
August 24, 2022

Antisemitism, The Philadelphia Inquirer warned in 2018, is “rising.” But the newspaper is doing its best to hide what it once acknowledged was a growing problem. Indeed, the Inquirer has launched nothing short of an advocacy campaign on behalf of a woman who` once said that “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.” On August 23, 2022, the Inquirer filed a dispatch entitled, “She was fired for being publicly pro-Palestine. One year later, no one is hiring her.” However, in more than 1,600 words, reporter Massarah Makati failed to inform readers that Natalie Abulhawa, a one-time private school teacher, was fired for not only saying that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist, but for attending rallies where signs read “Jews control the U.S. Senate.” That seems like an important detail. READ MORE

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Jews in Medicine

Posted on August 19, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

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“It was the Lion of Judah engraved on the door of a synagogue that helped him identify it as his grandfather’s hometown of Nasielsk, Poland, about 30 miles north of Warsaw”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Devastating lost footage of Polish Jews revealed in new Holocaust doc
Johnny Oleksinski
August 19, 2022

One day in 2009, Glenn Kurtz made a shocking discovery. In the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home of his late grandfather David Kurtz, he found a fused, decaying old roll of Kodak movie-camera film in the closet. After a lab restored the reel, the younger Kurtz couldn’t believe what it revealed: more than three minutes of footage depicting about 150 Jewish residents — men, women and unbelievably happy children — who lived in a small town in Poland in the months before the Holocaust began. READ MORE

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“As both senators Johnson and Cruz must know, only about 2,000 of the IRS’s 75,000 employees carry a firearm — and for good reason”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
Stop the dangerous rhetoric: The truth about IRS funding
David F. Eisner
August 24, 2022

…On the Democratic side, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) recently asserted that “[t]he Trump administration did a despicable thing. They didn’t audit anybody who made over one million dollars, and they said if you made $40,000 we’re going to audit you, because there is fraud in the earned income tax credit.” Schumer should know better. In the final year of the Trump administration, 8.6 percent of the highest earners — those making more than $10 million — were audited, as were 5.1 percent of those earning $5 to $10 million and 2.5 percent of those earning $1 to $5 million. These were the highest percentages in more than a decade (including the Obama years). Moreover, these percentages are six to 20 times greater than the percentage of taxpayers earning $25,000 to $500,000 who were audited. READ MORE

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“The IDF learned that Islamic Jihad commanders wanted the terrorists to use the tunnel, but the terrorists in the field were too scared”

Posted on August 17, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Islamic Jihad wanted to infiltrate Israel through tunnels in Breaking Dawn
Walla
August 18, 2022

The Islamic Jihad was preparing to carry out operations that included infiltrating into Israeli territory during Operation Breaking Dawn which led to a high level of preparedness in the south and intelligence communities. During the operation, the IDF marked Islamic Jihad activity around one of its known tunnels, and the security forces expected that it was being prepared for use. According to Walla, while the commanders of the Islamic Jihad intended for an operation to be carried out, the terrorists in the field refused to enter the tunnels. The IDF presumes that the terrorist organizations in Gaza are wary of using the tunnels because of Operation Guardian of the Walls in May last year when the IDF showed that it was able to directly hit tunnels that were dug at a depth of 20-30 meters while there are terrorists in them. READ MORE

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Israel and Turkey withdrew their respective ambassadors in 2010, after Israeli forces stormed a Gaza-bound flotilla that defied orders to dock at an Israeli port. The incident resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish activists

Posted on August 17, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Israel, Turkey to exchange ambassadors in diplomatic reset
AP
August 17, 2022

Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic relations and dispatch ambassadors for the first time in years, the latest step in months of reconciliation between the two countries, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Wednesday. The two countries, once friendly, had a more than decadelong falling out, but earlier this year Israel and Turkey began a process of rapprochement. “The resumption of relations with (Turkey) is an important asset for regional stability and very important economic news for the citizens of Israel,” the Prime Minister’s Office announced. Once warm relations between Israel and Turkey disintegrated under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been an outspoken critic of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. READ MORE

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“The families have threatened to boycott next month’s ceremony commemorating 50 years since the 1972 terror attack in which 11 Israeli Olympic athletes were murdered”

Posted on August 17, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
German president mulling Israel visit amid Munich 50th anniversary boycott
Ash Obel
August 18, 2022

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is considering flying to Israel in a bid to convince the families of the Munich massacre victims to attend commemorations in Germany after they decided they would boycott the events, Hebrew media reported Thursday. The families of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in Munich are refusing to attend after rejecting a German compensation offer as insulting. The controversy has been exacerbated in recent days by the furor over Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s inflammatory comments Tuesday, in which he claimed that Israel had carried out “50 holocausts” against Palestinians, drawing international condemnation. READ MORE

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Words are not violence. Violence is violence.

Posted on August 12, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

COMMON SENSE
We Ignored Salman Rushdie’s Warning
Bari Weiss
August 13, 2022

We live in a culture in which many of the most celebrated people occupying the highest perches believe that words are violence. In this, they have much in common with Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who issued the first fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989, and with Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old who, yesterday, appears to have fulfilled his command when he stabbed the author in the neck on a stage in Western New York. The first group believes they are motivated by inclusion and tolerance—that it’s possible to create something even better than liberalism, a utopian society where no one is ever offended. The second we all recognize as religious fanatics. But it is the indulgence and cowardice of the words are violence crowd that has empowered the second and allowed us to reach this moment, when a fanatic rushes the stage of a literary conference with a knife and plunges it into one of the bravest writers alive. READ MORE

THE HILL Jonathan Schanzer: Rushdie attack reveals — again — true nature of Iranian regime In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced Rushdie to death. On Tehran radio, the Supreme leader stated: “I would like to inform all intrepid Muslims in the world that the author of the book Satanic Verses, which has been compiled, printed, and published in opposition to Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur’an, and those publishers who were aware of its contents, are sentenced to death. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, where they find them.” In essence, Khomeini pitted Islam against the West.  A $2.8 million bounty was put on Rushdie’s head.

NEW YORK POST Salman Rushdie attacker praises Iran’s ayatollah, surprised author survived: jailhouse interview The New Jersey man who allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie in Western New York last week praised Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in an exclusive jailhouse interview with The Post on Wednesday — and admitted he didn’t think the author would survive the attack.

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#NYT reportedly severs ties with Fady Hanona after his antisemitic social media posts revealed

Posted on August 12, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
NYT said to cut Gaza stringer loose for urging murder of Israelis
August 14, 2022

The New York Times has cut ties with Gaza-based stringer Fady Hanona over a string of anti-Semitic social media posts brought to light by Honest Reporting, the media watchdog said on Saturday. The NGO, that according to its website “monitors the media for bias against Israel,” published a list of post by Hanona, who was a contributor to at least six articles published by the Times during the latest round of fighting between Israel and Gaza-based terror groups. “I don’t accept a Jew, Israeli or Zionist, or anyone else who speaks Hebrew. I’m with killing them wherever they are: children, elderly people, and soldiers,” wrote Hanona. READ MORE

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