Push to defund police created what some have called the “Minneapolis Effect”

Posted on October 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY SIGNAL
FBI Statistics Show a 30% Increase in Murder in 2020. More Evidence That Defunding Police Wasn’t a Good Idea.
by Jarrett Stepman
September 29, 2021

The surge in violent crime over the past year—murders in particular—has been astounding and historic. The numbers back this up and paint a grim picture. Property crime is generally down, but violent crime is way, way up. The murder rate rose by nearly 30% in 2020, more than any other time in the last half-century. This is according to recently released statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its annual report on crime. The report shows that there were 4,901 more murders committed in 2020 than in 2019. It’s the largest single-year increase—by a wide margin—in murder rate since the FBI began compiling these statistics in 1960. READ MORE

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“Palestinian groups warned of an escalation after an Israeli court ruled in support of Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount”

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Palestinians outraged over court ruling allowing Jewish prayer on Temple Mount
by Tzvi Joffre
October 7, 2021

Palestinians expressed outrage and warned of an escalation on Thursday after a court ruling on Wednesday implied support for allowing quiet prayer by Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount, the first such official recognition of the practice which has gone relatively undisturbed for the past year and a half. On Wednesday, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court heard the appeal of Aryeh Lipo, a Jewish visitor to the Temple Mount who had been removed and distanced from the complex for 15 days after a police officer ordered him to stop praying during a visit on Yom Kippur. After watching a recording of the incident, Justice Bilha Yahalom ruled that the appellant’s behavior did not violate the law or police instructions on the Temple Mount…READ MORE

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“The US Embassy in Jerusalem already provides consular services to the Palestinians. Why do they need an independent consulate in the same city?”

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Why the US really wants a Palestinian consulate in J’lem
by Prof. Eugene Kontorovich
October 7, 2021

The Biden administration is trying to partially undo one of Israel’s greatest diplomatic achievements of recent decades – the recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over all of Jerusalem by the US, followed by numerous other countries. The good news is unlike many diplomatic attacks, the Israeli government has the power to stop it. The US is pushing to open up a new diplomatic office in Jerusalem – one that would be directed to the Palestinian Authority. The US Embassy in Jerusalem already provides consular services to the Palestinians. It is unheard of to have an independent consulate in the same city where a country has an embassy. The point of creating a separate consulate is to undermine former US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem. But under international law, the US would need Israel’s permission for this move. READ MORE

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“The message from Israel’s top leadership could not be any clearer: It is prepared to act to prevent a nuclear Iran”

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
Why an Israeli Military Option against Iran Is Back on the Table
by Ilan Berman
October 5, 2021

The most important message to come out of last week’s United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York wasn’t Africa’s call for greater vaccine diplomacy, or a plea for the world body to get more engaged in Myanmar. Rather, it was that Israel, now under new management by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his broad political coalition, is making serious contingency plans to move unilaterally against Iran, should it become necessary to do so. In his September 28 address before the U.N. General Assembly, Israel’s new premier made it clear that the Jewish state continues to view the Islamic Republic’s persistent nuclear ambitions as a truly existential danger — and that it is prepared to take military action on its own in order to thwart them if it feels it has no other choice. READ MORE

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South Africa’s uniquely evil regime has been maliciously twisted into a uniquely evil lie

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

MELANIE PHILLIPS SUBSTACK
The false accusation of “Israel apartheid”
Melanie Phillips
October 1, 2021

The campaign to demonise and delegitimise Israel has recently moved into a higher gear with the increased use of one particularly vicious falsehood. This is the claim that Israel is an apartheid state. The claim is as fatuous as it is pernicious. Apartheid was the name given to South Africa’s systematic oppression of its black inhabitants who were denied political, civic and human rights. By contrast, Arab Israeli citizens have fully equal rights. They study in Israel’s universities; enjoy Israel’s beaches and parks; receive equal treatment as patients in Israel’s hospitals and work there as doctors and other medical staff; serve as members of the armed forces and as judges; and are represented by members of Knesset who are currently lynch-pins in Israel’s governing coalition. READ MORE

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“A Jewish-American essayist explores what we talk about when we talk about pogroms, the Holocaust and murderous antisemitism”

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘People Love Dead Jews’ Review: Lessons in Remembering
by Martin Peretz
October 4, 2021

This is a beautiful book, and in its particular genre—nonfiction meditations on the murder of Jews, particularly in the Holocaust, and the place of the dead in the American imagination—it can have few rivals. In fact, I can’t think of any. Dara Horn’s project is hers alone: to consider how Jewish-American identity has been “defined and determined by the opinions and projections of others”—most but not all of them well-meaning gentiles—and, leaning directly into “that distorted public looking glass,” to report her findings. Her mission is “to unravel, document, describe, and articulate the endless unspoken ways in which the popular obsession with dead Jews, even in its most apparently benign and civic-minded forms,” is both a “profound affront to human dignity” and a shaping influence on American life, for Jews and non-Jews alike. READ MORE

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An unprecedented exodus has taken place in France. Muslims enter, Jews flee – and the decision makers call it “multiculturalism”

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Multicultural barbarians are emptying France of its Jews
by Giulio Meotti
October 5, 2021

…Bensoussan tells Le Figaro what is happening to the Jews of France: “For safety reasons, Jewish children have massively abandoned public education. In the neighborhoods there is a climate that recalls the worst memories of the Jewish Maghreb. It is a French defeat and not a Jewish defeat, because the whole of French society is threatened by what threatens Jews today. For the descendants of Jews who have left the Arab world, the anti-Semitism of the ‘neighborhoods’ is once again a nightmare. It is a trauma to be overwhelmed by a climate of persecution that was thought behind and that condemns them to undergo a new exodus, abroad or in France itself: thus, the Seine-Saint-Denis has lost 80% of its Jewish population in twenty years “. READ MORE

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“The command center, which is located in Chicago, will be staffed 16 hours a day but can be increased to 24 hours a day if needed”

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Jewish groups launch online portal for college students to report anti-Semitic incidents
October 7, 2021

Hillel International has teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League and the Secure Community Network to launch an online portal where college students can report anti-Semitic incidents on their campus and receive immediate support. The creation of ReportCampusHate.org is in response to the growing threats of anti-Semitism on college campuses. Hillel International recorded 244 anti-Semitic incidents on college and university campuses last year, up from 181 the year before. It also comes after a recent survey found that 74 percent of college students reported experiencing an act of anti-Semitism, but that they did not report it. READ MORE

JNS Secure Community Network unveils command center to track, respond to Jewish threats A state-of-the-art security command center was unveiled this week by the Secure Community Network (SCN) to ensure that the Jewish community is prepared in the event of any violence or threats. 

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“If everyone sees themselves first as members of a group, rather than citizens of a country, then Hanson argues, a constitutional republic cannot exist”

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN THINKER
The Alarm Bells are Ringing for American Citizenship
by Richard Baehr
October 4, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson, the classics scholar and military historian, has written or co-authored two dozen books and many hundreds of articles. His latest book, The Dying Citizen, is a powerful and carefully developed argument for preserving American citizenship, a unique patrimony now under attack in many ways from many sources, and from all appearances, a losing battle. Hanson provides a history of the concept of citizenship dating back to the Greeks and Romans and makes clear how rare the American experience has been in creating a modern citizenry with both rights and responsibilities. Hanson’s book was mostly written from 2018 through early 2020 and contains a final chapter that updates the impact of the calamitous last year on the citizenship issue, dominated by the coronavirus, racial unrest, and a bitterly fought presidential election. READ MORE

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An appeal from Clarion Project, an organization I support

Posted on October 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

The Afghans who helped U.S. forces are now, along with their families, under direct threat of torture, enslavement, and death at the hands of the Taliban, and you can help them. Since the Taliban takeover, we have received hundreds of emails from Afghans who are desperately trying to get out of Afghanistan before the Taliban catch them. They’ve been sending us their heart-rending stories along with their passports and documentation of their involvement with the U.S., hoping that we can help them. We joined forces with a hastily assembled team of volunteers that is handling the logistics of processing documentation from those in danger, staying in communication with them, and helping them find their way to safety before its too late. The US government has unfortunately turned its back on these people who helped us, and they are now turning to us as their last hope for evading the horrors that the Taliban have in store for them.

Your tax-deductible (U.S.) donation will be used to pay for the expenses involved in getting these people out of Afghanistan and with their immediate needs as refugees.

Donate Now to Afghan Emergency Rescue Campaign

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