“I invite Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to meet with me, a Palestinian living in the West Bank, to discuss the problems of the Palestinians and the best solutions to address them”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Palestinian Activist: It’s Time Ilhan Omar and ‘The Squad’ Learned the Truth About Israel and Hamas
by Bassem Eid
July 1, 2021

…I’m a Palestinian who grew up in a UNWRA refugee camp outside of Jerusalem, and have been a human rights activist all my life. Let me say this as directly as I can: Rep. Omar does not know what she is talking about. Worse, for years, Rep. Omar has been engaged in not arguing any facts, but simply throwing out dirty antisemitic epithets, a mirror image of the antisemitism by “white supremacists” she claims to decry…But if they truly care about the well-being of Palestinians, they ought to focus their attention elsewhere. These days, the vast majority of suffering Palestinians experience is the direct result of the corruption of the Palestinian Authority and the influence of the terrorist group Hamas. READ MORE

JNS Andrew Lappin: Ilhan Omar’s CRT hypocrisy must be discredited, not embraced The Democratic Party’s unwillingness to challenge the Minnesota congresswoman speaks to the growing narrative that would replace the virtues of freedom celebrated this Fourth of July.

NEWSWEEK David Harris: Ilhan Omar Has a Problem With Jews  That, in turn, triggered a response from Omar’s spokesman, Jeremy Slevin: “As usual, the far right is ginning up hate against Rep. Omar,” he tweeted. The “far right” in this case were Representatives Jake Auchincloss, Ted Deutch, Lois Frankel, Josh Gottheimer, Elaine Luria, Kathy Manning, Jerry Nadler, Dean Phillips, Brad Schneider, Kim Schrier, Brad Sherman, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. All are liberal Democrats who have made the pursuit of justice central to their political biographies

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“By supporting the plight of the Palestinians, China is cynically stoking the most emotional issue in Middle Eastern politics in order to distract Muslim nations from its own campaign against Uyghurs”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Why has China turned on Israel?
by Ilan Berman and Joshua Eisenman
July 5, 2021

Amid the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, a surprising voice led the charge against the Jewish state. While Israel’s defensive military response to thousands of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip generated a predictable outcry from Europe and some on the American Left, it was China that emerged as one of the country’s most strident critics. Beijing did not hesitate to point the finger at Jerusalem, going so far as to cosponsor the UN Human Rights Council decision to establish a commission to investigate Israeli “violations in the occupied Palestinian territory.” READ MORE

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“The now-deleted assignment suggested that Israeli oppression was a helpful “contemporary connection” for understanding the struggles of Native Americans”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Washington State removes anti-Israel lesson from K-12 Native American curriculum
by Jonah Cohen
July 8, 2021

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) removed on Wednesday what it called “a clear example of implicit bias” against Israel from its mandatory K-12 Native American curriculum, a precedent that could hinder attempts by anti-Israel activists to misappropriate Native American history in other state schools.  The assignment’s removal came after CAMERA staff contacted state education officials and tribal leaders about problems in the curriculum. A tendentious portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was strangely inserted into a fifth-grade lesson about the Indian Fight for Independence. READ MORE

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“Both Lewis and Naibryf were prominent members of the University of Chicago’s small Jewish community, which numbers around 800”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
University of Chicago’s Jewish community reels with 1 student missing in Surfside and another killed by a stray bullet
by Ben Sales
July 6, 2021

Rabbi Anna Levin Rosen has counseled Jewish students at the University of Chicago through crises before. But she says the last two weeks have been “devastating.” First, Ilan Naibryf, 21, disappeared in last month’s Surfside, Florida, building collapse. He had been visiting with his girlfriend, Deborah Berezdivin, whose family owned two units in the building; neither of them has been found yet. Then, last week, Max Lewis, 20, was struck by a stray bullet while riding the train back from his internship at a finance firm. Paralyzed from the neck down, he died on Sunday after he asked to be taken off life support. READ MORE

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“The Abraham Accords represent a future that we believe must become more commonplace: one in which differences are set aside in favor of dialogue”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

THE NATIONAL NEWS
UAE-Israel peace is more than an agreement. It’s a way of life.
by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Yair Lapid
July 1, 2021

The world expected our differences to define us. One of us is a Jew, the other a Muslim. One of us is Israeli, the other Arab. Not only have these characteristics shaped us as human beings, they have also presented an enduring question: Does the past determine the future, or is our fate in our own hands? This past week, with the first-ever official visit by an Israeli minister to the UAE and the opening of an Israeli embassy and consulate in the country, we have an opportunity to reflect on the answer. Fundamentally, the UAE and Israel decided to do things differently with the signing of the historic Abraham Accords in 2020.  READ MORE

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Hamas aims to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible, but its rockets place both Israelis and Palestinians in peril; 680 misfired and exploded inside Gaza

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
How many Gaza Palestinians were killed by Hamas rockets in May? An estimate.
by Alex Safian
July 5, 2021

Numbers were at the heart of much of the coverage and commentary surrounding the fighting in May between Hamas and Israel. One example was the front-page New York Times story and photo spread about the number of (mostly) Palestinian children killed. Upon closer examination, however, the numbers tell a very different story from that propounded by Hamas and most media outlets. First, some baseline facts. In the 11 days of fighting between Israel and Gaza, Hamas and similar groups launched at least 4,360 rockets and mortars (rockets, for short) at Israel. Of those, 3,573 penetrated Israeli airspace, 280 landed in the Mediterranean and a significant 680 fell short and landed in Gaza (according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center [ITIC]). READ MORE

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“The conspiratorial notion that Israel deliberately sent unusable vaccines to the Palestinians would later be exposed by events, after both Israelis and South Koreans happily made use of the doses”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The Palestinian Vaccine Fiasco
by Yair Rosenberg
July 7, 2021

…The exchange is a win-win for Israel and South Korea—and a lose-lose for the Palestinian people, who were originally supposed to receive these very vaccines in the exact same arrangement with Israel. But thanks to a bad faith anti-vax campaign—enabled by feckless political figures, inept international media coverage, and partisan activism—the deal was capsized shortly after it was announced. This public health disaster deserves a lot more attention than it has received, because it reveals the pathologies that continue to prevent progress in the region, and because, quite simply, it’s going to get people killed. READ MORE

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“The inclusion officer’s identity as a black Jew should have made her unassailable. Instead, it was used to discredit her”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

COMMONS SENSE WITH BARI WEISS
April Powers Condemned Jew-Hate. Then She Lost Her Job.
by Kat Rosenfield
July 6, 2021

On first viewing, it looked like a Tik-Tok riff on The Purge: a caravan of cars rolls down La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. The passengers — young men in keffiyehs, some draped to mask their faces — stand and shout through sunroofs and windows. The cars honk incessantly. In the back of a slow-moving Jeep, one man waves a billboard-sized Palestinian flag while another shouts through a megaphone: “Israel kills women and children every day!” His companions jeer: “Yeah! Fuck you!” The next video shows the same men on the sidewalk, shouting and advancing on another man in a grey shirt who’s trying to fend them off with a metal pedestal. In the next: The man in grey is lying on the ground, curled in the fetal position. They punch him, kick him, claw at him. READ MORE

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Inside Black Lives Matter: A BLM Expose from Ami Horowitz

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

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New Schedule: ArchitectGuy MailChimp summaries to be emailed every Friday

Posted on July 3, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

Beginning this Friday July 9, my MailChimp ArchitectGuy news blog summaries will change to once-a-week to provide you with informative weekend reading every Friday.

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