Some state attorneys general are looking to punish Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, for the chain’s decision not to sell ice cream in the West Bank and Gaza

Posted on November 19, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Cold shoulder: NJ ad blitz slams Ben & Jerry’s Israel boycott
By Carl Campanile
November 21, 2021

A pro-Israel group is launching a $500,000 ad campaign to put the squeeze on Ben & Jerry’s parent company over the ice-cream maker’s refusal to peddle its products in Israeli-controlled Palestinian territories. The organization StandWithUS is posting billboards in North Jersey, including near Unilever’s Englewood Cliffs headquarters there, that say, “Don’t Let Ben & Jerry’s Melt Your Profits,” and “Don’t Let Antisemitism Melt Your Brand.” Unilever is Ben & Jerry’s parent company, but the ice-cream manufacturer is run by an independent board…The billboards include the Web site “corporatehate.com” at the bottom.  READ MORE

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BLOOMBERG Israel’s Ice Cream Battle Heats Up Since Ben & Jerry’s announced in July that it would no longer sell its ice cream in Gaza and the West Bank, its British owner, Unilever PLC, has sought to do damage control. Now Unilever faces an unlikely player in international statecraft: U.S. state attorneys general.

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Blaming Israel for everything wrong in the Gaza Strip may fool many. But Palestinians fleeing Gaza and their families who remain behind know the truth — that it is Hamas that has brought them to the abyss.

Posted on November 19, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE INSTITUTE
Why Palestinians Are Fleeing the Gaza Strip
by Khaled Abu Toameh
November 15, 2021

A tragedy that recently hit the Gaza Strip has again exposed the extent of the suffering of Palestinians under the rule of the Iranian-backed group, Hamas. The tragedy also serves as a reminder of the double standards of the international community in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, especially the obsession with Israel and the tendency to ignore any wrongdoing on the Palestinian side. According to reports from the Gaza Strip, at least three Palestinians who fled the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave went missing, apparently after their boat capsized off the shores of Greece and Turkey. READ MORE

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“We have just signed a defense cooperation MOU with Morocco. It is a very significant development,” said Defense Minister Benny Gantz

Posted on November 19, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Israel, Morocco sign historic defense agreement
by Anna Ahronheim
November 24, 2021

Israel and Morroco signed a defense agreement Wednesday as Defense Minister Benny Gantz made the first official visit to the North African kingdom by an Israeli defense official. The memorandum of understanding was signed by Gantz and his Moroccan counterpart Abdellatif Loudiyi and sets a solid security cooperation framework that formalizes defense relations between the two countries, allowing for increased cooperation in the fields of intelligence, industrial collaboration, military training and more…Israel and Morocco have had close economic, diplomatic, and military ties for years and according to a report in Haaretz, military ties between Israel and Morocco primarily involve intelligence cooperation and trade in arms. READ MORE

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Whatever policy the US special envoy is conducting on Iran does not qualify as diplomacy, but rather as ideology

Posted on November 19, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

THE ARAB WEEKLY
Malley should go back to the basics
by Hussain Abdul-Hussain
November 22, 2021

The US special envoy on Iran Robert Malley thinks that there is only one way to solve the global stand-off with Iran: ending Tehran’s exclusion and boosting its economy, which should incentivise the Islamic regime to stay in the nuclear deal. To Malley, sanctions have failed and war is not an option. Malley also thinks that Iran’s destabilising activities, ballistic missiles, explosive drones and terrorist militias, are not America’s problems and should be solved independently of nuclear talks and in negotiations between Iran and its regional opponents. Malley’s plan, however, is riddled with loopholes that make his diplomacy look more like ideology. READ MORE

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Stoudemire: After two years of studies in Israel, he made a formal conversion to Judaism. “I felt like: mission complete,” he said about the accomplishment

Posted on November 19, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Retired NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Shares His Journey to Judaism in HBO Series
by Shiryn Ghermezian
November 24, 2021

Former NBA player Amar’e Stoudemire opened up about his spiritual journey to becoming an Orthodox Jew in a new episode of HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” that aired Tuesday night. “Its been a quest of searching for emet, searching for the truth. I’m for sure a different person than I was before,” said Stoudemire, who played in the NBA for 14 years. “It’s very intense, you’re leaving your old way of thinking, you’re leaving your old way of action to a new concept.”…Stoudemire was drafted into the NBA by the Phoenix Suns shortly afterwards, and shared in Tuesday night’s episode that even during his early years in the NBA, he would seek library books that could teach him more about his Israelite ancestry. He kept the information a secret for about eight years. READ MORE

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“As a teenager, he helped provide safe passage to artists and intellectuals out of Vichy France. He went on to teach literature at Bard College for six decades”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
Justus Rosenberg, Beloved Professor With a Heroic Past, Dies at 100
by Alex Vadukul
November 17, 2021

For nearly 60 years, Justus Rosenberg was a beloved literature professor at Bard College. Clad in his familiar tweed jacket, he taught French, German and Russian classics and was known for popular courses like “10 Plays That Shook the World.” But on Bard’s leafy campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Mr. Rosenberg also represented a remarkable living link to Holocaust history. As a teenager in World War II, he served as a courier in the fabled rescue team of Varian Fry, an American journalist who launched a covert operation that provided safe passage to artists and intellectuals out of Vichy France. The mission aided luminaries like Hannah Arendt, Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst and André Breton. READ MORE

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Israeli couple recount their ordeal after returning home from Turkish prison

Posted on November 12, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Natali Oknin: I keep kosher, all I ate was bread and water
by Staff
November 18, 2021

Natali and Mordy Oknin, the Israeli couple who were released from Turkish prison and allowed to return to Israel on Thursday, described their ordeal in conversations with Israeli media…Natali described the moments of the arrest and her assumption that it was probably due to her act of taking a photograph of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s palace: “I took the picture and sent it to the family group on WhatsApp. Within two minutes they approached us and started asking questions. They took the phone, saw the picture and started asking what and why. READ MORE

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Will pro-Israel Democrats join forces with Republicans to oppose Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem?

Posted on November 12, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
House GOP seek to block Biden from reopening Palestinian mission in Jerusalem
by Laura Kelly
November 18, 2021

House Republicans have introduced legislation aimed at blocking President Biden from reopening a U.S. consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem since it was shuttered by former President Trump in 2019. The legislation has the support of more than 100 GOP lawmakers, underscoring the partisan divide over how Congress should approach the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The legislation is being led by Rep. David Kustoff and has support from top Republicans including Minority Whip Steve Scalise, Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin. READ MORE

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#WokeLogic: “Israelis are simply whites (an obvious lie) who are said to oppress the darker-skinned, innocent, indigenous Palestinian population”

Posted on November 12, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICANS FOR PEACE & TOLERANCE
Israelis give American Jewish leaders a bad review
by Charles Jacobs
November 10, 2021

…The Israeli study validates our analysis: that American Jewish leaders are, like deer in the headlights, paralyzed by their own misunderstanding of the current socio-political dynamics in American society. They seem incapable of responding to the rise of “intersectionality” — a radical organizing scheme which has captured major American institutions and upended mainstream Jewish policy. This ascendant “woke/progressive” strategy divides America into two opposing camps: the oppressive whites and the oppressed “people of color” along with their allied gender minorities. This new division displaces Jews out of their former position as friends and supporters of American minorities, and as (former) co-victims. It re-defines Jews as “white adjascents” — oppressors who exploit the victim classes. READ MORE

WORLD ISRAEL NEWS ADL convenes a summit of antisemites to fight antisemitism The ADL’s decision to stock its virtual conference with radical leftists who wage a disinformation war against Jews shows just how destructive to Jewish life the organization’s wokeness under Greenblatt has become.

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Libya’s Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the leading presidential candidate, has recently voiced his desire to normalize ties with Israel on several occasions

Posted on November 12, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Senior Libyan officials: Libya wants normalization with Israel
bt Daniel Siryoti
November 11, 2021

Following the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan – is Libya the next in line to make peace with Israel and join the Abraham Accords? The political camps in the North African country, which has suffered two brutal civil wars over the past decade, are preparing for a highly charged election campaign that will determine Libya’s future According to senior Libyan officials with close ties to the leading presidential candidate, Gen. Khalifa Haftar, it appears the large Arab country is moving toward normalization with Israel. Haftar has recently voiced his desire on several occasions to normalize ties with Israel, and declared he would work to that end if he is elected president. READ MORE

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