Khaled Salem, a pro-Israel Arab Democrat in primary to unseat Chuck Schumer

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Schumer-Challenger: Israel is “NATO’s South-Eastern Flank”
by Mark Langfan
June 22, 2021

Khaled Salem, a naturalized American Arab running in the Democrat primary to unseat Sen. Chuck Schumer, has a simple message for President Biden: Israel is a “vital” ally protecting NATO’s “southeastern flank.” While congratulating the new Israeli Government, Salem makes clear that Israel is in terrible danger from Iran. The release states that Salem “has repeatedly implored the US government to ‘open its eyes and admit the real danger’ of Iran’s role in trying to annihilate Israel.” Salem goes on to quote the famed Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel, by stating “If we’ve learned anything from the Nazi Holocaust, if someone says they are going to kill you, believe it.” READ MORE

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“Israeli national security leaders are reluctantly coming to the conclusion that they may soon be forced to take unilateral military action to neutralize the Iranian threat”

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Meet the only living Israeli prime minister ever to order the IDF to destroy a foreign nuclear reactor
by Joel C. Rosenberg
June 18, 2021

Israel is the only country in the world to have ever used military force to destroy the nuclear program of an enemy country. And Israel has done so not once, but twice.The first time was exactly 40 years ago this month, when then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the IDF to bomb the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq on June 7, 1981. The second time was on September 6, 2007, when then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the IDF to bomb the Al Kibar nuclear reactor in northeast Syria. Might Israel be forced to take such action for a third time, against Iran’s grave and growing nuclear program? READ MORE

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Tarantino: “If I’m going to be in another country, the country that handled COVID the best is probably the best country to be in”

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Tarantino to Kimmel: ‘Israel was the best country to be in’ during COVID
by Hannah Brown
June 23, 2021

Movie director and sometime Tel Aviv resident Quentin Tarantino said on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night that he was happy to have waited out the pandemic in IsraelAgreeing with Kimmel that Israel had handled the COVID crisis well, he said, “Well look, I would rather not have been out of my own country against my will for a year. However, if I’m going to be in another country, the country that handled COVID the best is probably the best country to be in.” Tarantino, who is married to Israeli singer/model Daniella Pick, said that the couple, whose son, Leo, who was born in February 2020, said they had planned to spend three or four months in Tel Aviv and head back to Los Angeles, but “then COVID hit.” READ MORE

WATCH: Tarantino talks about living in Israel on Jimmy Kimmel Live

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“Parties in Germany’s coalition government have agreed to ban the flag of Hamas, as a mark of respect for Jewish citizens in the wake of anti-Semitic attacks linked to last month’s Middle East violence”

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German government agrees to ban Hamas flag after anti-Semitic incidents
by Helen Collis
June 20, 2021

…Germany witnessed attacks on synagogues, the burning of Israeli flags and a surge anti-Semitic slurs during demonstrations over a violent 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas last month.  The flag ban was first proposed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel. After initially raising constitutional concerns, according to a letter seen by Welt am Sonntag newspaper, the center-left German Social Democratic Party (SPD) came around to the proposal…Palestinian militant group Hamas is included on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations.  READ MORE

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“If we want to make an impact, we need to enlist not Jews but Arab Israelis. They have the credibility to turn the success idea into a progressive Israeli ideal”

JNS
How Do You Fight Antisemitism? With Arab Israelis
by David Suissa
June 20, 2021

We’ve reached a point where it’s impossible to separate Jew-hatred from Israel-hatred. If you single out and unfairly malign the world’s only Jewish state, you’re effectively going after Jews. Using Natan Sharansky’s famous “three D” test — demonization, double standards, and delegitimization — it’s clear that most of the attacks on Israel today smack of antisemitism. Instead of bemoaning this connection, we can turn the tables and use Israel to fight antisemitism. The stronger we can make the case for Israel, the better it will be for the Jews. READ MORE

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“In 2017, the Chicago Dyke March threw out participants for carrying flags emblazoned with the Star of David”

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Chicago Dyke March Posts Promotional Image Showing Burning Israeli and American Flags
by Benjamin Kerstein
June 21, 2021

The Chicago Dyke March, an annual LGBT parade that in 2017 ejected marchers carrying flags with Jewish symbols, promoted its upcoming [2021] event with an image showing the burning of Israeli and American flags. The image depicted a woman standing atop a burning car holding the two flags, which were both shown in flames. The Instagram promotional post was removed by the company for “hate speech or symbols,” in a warning that threatened to delete the group’s account. READ MORE

JNS Jonathan Tobin: The left slides into acceptance of anti-Semitism Banning an Israeli food truck at a Philadelphia event shocked some Jewish leftists. But why? Their acceptance of anti-Israel hate has inevitably led to such prejudice

AMERICAN GREATNESS Chicago Dyke March Flier Shows Woman in ACAB Undies Burning Israeli and U.S. Flags The group’s flier for the event features an overweight woman squatting on the hood of a burning police car clad in underwear that says ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards), and holding two burning flags; an Israeli flag, and an American flag.

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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called Iranian president elect Raisi the “Butcher of Tehran” and “an extremist responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranians”

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‘Butcher of Tehran’ Raisi wins Iran election amid low turnout
by Lahav Harkov, Reuters
June 19, 2021

Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline judge under US sanctions for human rights abuses, secured victory as expected on Saturday in Iran’s presidential election after a contest marked by voter apathy over economic hardships and political restrictions. With all 28.9 million ballots counted, Raisi was elected with a tally of 17.9 million, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on state TV…The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Raisi has “been rightly denounced by the international community for his direct role in the extrajudicial executions of over 30,000 people. READ MORE

JNS Ben Cohen: Iran’s election farce raises ‘regime change’ debate once more Its next president will assume office after what will be remembered as a laughably poor voter turnout amid an economy shattered by the coronavirus and years of U.S. sanctions.

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Natan Sharansky: “Israel has become the ball and chain that endangers their standing as good progressives”

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The Un-Jews
by Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
June 15, 2021

In May, when Israelis were attacked by Hamas missiles from Gaza, the criticism from some voices within the American Jewish community seemed not only more intense but categorical, escalating very quickly from what Israel did to what Israel is. In many blue state cathedrals, it was no longer good enough for critics to call themselves “pro-Israel” and “pro-peace” or affirm their Zionist credentials while blasting Israel for real or supposed misdeeds. Echoing social justice talk, dozens of Jewish and Israel studies scholars defined Zionism as “a diverse set of linked ethnonationalist ideologies … shaped by settler colonial paradigmsand “contributed to unjust, enduring, and unsustainable systems of Jewish supremacy” READ MORE

DAILY WIRE ‘Un-Jews’: Famed Jewish Refusenik Who Spent 9 Years In Soviet Prisons Blasts American Leftist Jews The internationally famous refusenik and human rights activist Natan Sharansky, who spent nine years in Soviet Russian prisons, including a prison camp in the Siberian gulag, slammed leftist American Jews who have swallowed the anti-Israel rhetoric of Palestinian supporters that denies the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, calling them “Un-Jews”

COMMENTARY Seth Mandel: The Jews Who Are Complicit in Jew-Hatred Several Democratic members of the House took turns standing next to blown-up photos of bloodied Palestinian children and gave fiery speeches denouncing Zionist perfidy—the sorts of words and charges that, since the age of the czars, have been followed by the spilling of Jewish blood. This time was no different, except it wasn’t a Russian backwater or a Munich beer hall. It was on the floor of the United States Congress.

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@MichaelDickson of @StandWithUs accused Hollywood actor @SethRogen of ‘providing cover for extremists who seek to ridicule, bully and troll Jews online’

JEWISH NEWS
Seth Rogen in online spat with head of pro-Israel group StandWithUs
by Francine Wolfisz
June 16, 2021

Seth Rogen and a leading Israel advocate were embroiled in a heated Twitter exchange this week, with the Hollywood actor accused of “providing cover for extremists who seek to ridicule, bully and troll Jews online”. Michael Dickson, the Israeli executive director of StandWithUs, a pro-Zionist charity which also counters antisemitism, found himself coming under attack by Rogen after user @Howard_Lovy tweeted on Monday: “I wonder if @Sethrogen says to himself every day. “Nice job, me. I’ve made sure that every Jew on social media is continuously harassed by anti-Semites with fart jokes. Now, that’s funny.” READ MORE

TABLET MAG Eve Barlow: The Social Media Pogrom Twitter will not free Palestine, but it will certainly make the world a more antisemitic place…In the streets of major cities around the world, Jews have been targeted with fireworks, with fists, and with human spit. Who knew this could happen? Well, we did, and we tried to make noise about it.

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“The presence of the Egyptian construction teams in the Gaza Strip means that Hamas and other Palestinian factions will not be able to resume the rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinian sources told The Jerusalem Post”

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Is Egypt planning to retake control of the Gaza Strip?
by Khaled Abu Toameh
June 10, 2021

Scenes of dozens of Egyptian bulldozers, cranes and trucks entering the Gaza Strip last Friday have left some Palestinians wondering whether Egypt is planning to return to the coastal enclave it ruled between 1948 and 1967. The Egyptian decision to send building equipment and engineers to the Gaza Strip came within the context of Cairo’s pledge to contribute to reconstruction efforts there after the recent fighting between Israel and Hamas…According to the sources, the Egyptians have warned Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar against initiating another round of fighting while Cairo pursues its efforts to help rebuild the Gaza Strip. READ MORE

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