EVENT Live Conference: Fight Racism, Not Jews: The United Nations & The Durban Deceit

Fight Racism: Not Jews
The United Nations and the Durban Deceit

Sunday, September 19, 2021 9:00 am – 6:00 pm EDT

First broadcast ever. Leading international experts and human rights voices from around the world will be heard addressing the United Nations Durban agenda and modern antisemitism. How it affects you and what you can do about it.

Featured speakers include: Gilad Erdan, Ruth Wisse, Eugene Kontorovich, Andrea Levin, Kenneth Marcus, Zuhdi Jasser, Gil Troy, Michael Pompeo, Shelby Steele, Jonathan Tobin, Joel Pollak, Anne Bayefsky and others. Click here to watch conference

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“The ADL’s apology for its former director’s opposition to a Ground Zero mosque is one more way the anniversary is being used to change the narrative about the attack”

JNS
The real lesson of 9/11 isn’t a story about Islamophobia
by Jonathan Tobin
September 10, 2021

One of the strangest aspects of post-9/11 America has been the compulsion of so many to change the narrative about the attacks that took place 20 years ago. We’re reminded of that due to the bizarre decision of the Anti-Defamation League to commemorate the attack on America by revisiting the organization’s decision to oppose the building of an Islamic center in the shadow of the fallen twin towers of the World Trade Center…Though there was little or no evidence to support it, a myth that there was a post-9/11 backlash against Muslims in America was embraced by much of the mainstream media and others who purported to advocate for civil rights. READ MORE

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Four of the six prison fugitives were in jail for life in connection with deadly attacks against Israelis; Israel cancels family visits for Palestinian prisoners, following violent riots that broke out in jails across Israel

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Escaped security prisoners said to have dug tunnel from their cell’s shower
by Staff
September 9, 2021

The six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped Gilboa Prison earlier this week dug a tunnel from the shower basin in their cell, according to initial findings by the Israel Prisons Service, reported Thursday night by the Kan public broadcaster. The same prison saw an attempted jailbreak in 2014, in which inmates tried to dig a tunnel under their toilet…The six escaped from the high-security prison in northern Israel in the predawn hours of Monday morning, making their way out through their cell’s drainage system in one of the most severe prison breaks in the country’s history, and prompting a massive manhunt in northern Israel and the West Bank. READ MORE

JNS Yaakov Lappin: Could Gilboa Prison escape help spark another intifada? Palestinian security prisoners also broke out of an Israeli prison in 1987, an incident that Col. (res.) David Hacham, a former Arab affairs adviser to Israeli defense ministers, said was one of the catalysts for the outbreak of the First Intifada.

JERUSALEM POST Security forces gear up for more violence, as manhunt continues Israel’s defense establishment is preparing for an escalation in violence in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as the manhunt continues for six security prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison earlier this week. The IDF has reinforced the West Bank with four battalions with a focus on the area of Jenin and the border with Jordan, two locations to where the fugitives could have run.

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According to Canary Mission, UIC branch of Students for Justice in Palestine stepped up its efforts in 2020-21, even attacking the wider Chicago Jewish community

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
New report finds ‘disturbing’ levels of antisemitic activity at Univ. of Illinois Chicago
by Meira Svirsky and JNS
September 3, 2021

Last week, the University of Illinois at Chicago welcomed students back to campus. But how welcome can the university’s Jewish population feel sharing a campus with a student group whose members have a long history of horrific antisemitic social media posts? The group, Students for Justice in Palestine, runs a very active chapter at UIC. Even with the COVID-related shutdown of in-person learning in the past academic year, SJP made great headway in its campaign to demonize Jewish students. READ MORE   CLICK HERE TO WATCH “SJP UIC: Bullying Jews”

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Today’s thought experiment: Imagine the international outcry if Israel had done this

JERUSALEM POST
Egypt pumps toxic gas into Gaza tunnel, three Palestinians dead
by Staff
September 3, 2021

Three Palestinians died on Thursday as the Egyptian military pumped toxic gas into a smuggling tunnel, Palestinian media reported. The tunnel stretches from the Gaza Strip to the Sinai peninsula. In 2019, two Palestinians died and several others wounded after Egyptian troops pumped toxic fumes into a smuggling tunnel stretching into the Sinai Peninsula from the Gaza Strip. In February 2017, three Palestinians were killed in a tunnel between Gaza and Sinai in similar circumstances. Egypt has destroyed more than 3,000 tunnels along its border with the Gaza Strip in the past six years, Egyptian Army Spokesperson Tamer Al-Refai said in 2020. READ MORE

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Counterterrorism expert says Palestinian ally of bin Laden unwittingly revealed 2002 plan to kill hundreds at nightclubs, enabling thwarting of attacks ‘at the last moment’

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Al-Qaeda plotted multiple terror attacks in Israel after 9/11, FBI agent says
by Staff
September 4, 2021

Al-Qaeda planned to carry out massive terrorist attacks on Israeli nightclubs in 2002 and was in the final stages of the plan, but was thwarted with the help of United States intelligence operatives, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation researcher has said. Ali Soufan, who with other agents had monitored al-Qaeda for the FBI both before the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 and afterward, told Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Friday that the details of the nightclub attacks plot had previously been blocked for publication by the Central Intelligence Agency and has only now been cleared for publication. READ MORE

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Bernard Zell Anshe Emet School Head responds to Chicago Contrarian criticism

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School “Replaces Maimonides with Marx”
by Michael J, Bernard
September 7, 2021

In interviews with current and former students, parents, board committee members and administrators, Chicago Contrarian has learned that there is no longer a tolerant Jewish Day school on the Chicago Northside, but rather an illiberal institution that tolerates hate among faculty when it fits the progressive narrative, constantly tells middle-school Jewish students to consider their privilege, blames anti-Semitism only on “white supremacy” and demonizes liberal and conservatives voices alike. “The very notion of a liberal Jewish education is dead at Bernard Zell,” says a parent who left the school. READ MORE

BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET SCHOOL Response to Chicago ContrarianResponding to anonymous, misinformed and malicious attacks is not the same as engaging in healthy debate. The blog in question has demonstrated that it is willing to publish inaccurate, mean-spirited and uninvestigated opinions as fact. It has repeatedly served as a platform for personal attacks against respected faculty members. The site is not acting in good faith for our students, parents, faculty, staff or community; it purposefully distracts us from the important work of educating children; and we do not intend to engage in anything it may publish in the future. It continues to be our unbroken promise to this community that we will always listen, with open ears and hearts, when spoken to directly. We continue to encourage the respectful exchange of ideas and voicing of concerns. We may not always agree, but we will listen and we will learn together, and we will always do our best to act in the best interests of our young people.

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Israel’s rising stature as a military power in the region is clearly a by-product of the new US policy decision to reduce its own military presence in the Mideast

GATESTONE
Israel: Still the ‘Strong Horse’
by Lawrence A. Franklin
September 4, 2021

Israel — no longer diplomatically isolated — appears to be assuming a more prominent political and military role in the Middle East. Following Israel’s generous peace terms with its Arab neighbors, states such as Egypt and Jordan decided decades ago to establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. More recently, Islamic countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan also decided to normalize ties with Israel. Presently, these strong new ties appear to be leading to cooperation on an ever-deeper strategic level, especially regarding the destabilizing threat to the area posed by an increasingly aggressive and hegemonic Iran. READ MORE

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“While a covert campaign to make critical race theory part and parcel of school curricula has been the most visible part of the activist educators’ efforts to corrupt teaching of America’s children, not far behind has been a troubling, pernicious campaign to demonize Israel and Zionism”

FRONT PAGE MAG
Public School Educators’ Obsessive Hatred of Israel
by Richard L. Cravatts
September 2, 2021

It is inexcusable that educators in America’s public schools have decided to become pro-Palestinian activists; that they have decided it is appropriate and productive to bring that activism to the classroom and include false history and contortions of fact in school curricula; that the Palestinians are perennial guiltless victims of Israel’s oppression; that Israelis—and by extension, Jews—have become part of white supremacy and colonial oppression; and that educators have decided it is critical to push this propaganda and bigotry down the throats of impressionable students and teach it as fact. READ MORE

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The fall of Afghanistan: Service can’t review its own performance. An independent civilian commission is necessary.

WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Army Needs to Understand the Afghanistan Disaster
by Frank Sobchak and Matthew Zais
September 8, 2021

The U.S. war in Af­ghanistan was a costly fail­ure. More than 2,400 Amer­i­cans died dur­ing the two-decade con­flict. Tens of thou­sands more re­turned home with life-al­ter­ing wounds. The Kabul gov­ern­ment col­lapsed be­fore Amer­i­can forces had with­drawn and the Afghan Army sim­ply evap­o­rated. The Tal­iban marked its vic­tory with cel­e­bra­tory gun­fire and pa­rades. This dis­as­trous out­come de­serves an hon­est reck­on­ing. Such in­tro­spec­tion is es­pe­cially needed within the U.S. Army, which pro­vided most of the mis­sion com­man­ders and a ma­jor­ity of the troops. Un­for­tu­nately, there is lit­tle in­cen­tive for ei­ther the ser­vice’s lead­ers or bu­reau­cracy to con­duct such an in­quiry. READ MORE

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