“Instead of monitoring a growing wave of left-wing antisemitism, the ADL ignored it, at best”

Posted on May 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Blue State Blues: Jews Need the NRA More than We Need the ADL
by Joel B. Pollak
May 28, 2021

The National Rifle Association (NRA) does a better job of protecting American Jews from antisemitic violence than the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). That’s because the NRA defends the Second Amendment, which allows Jews to own firearms and deter attacks against our families and communities. The ADL, on the other hand, asks us to trust our lives to strongly-worded statements, even as it aligns with the same radical left-wing causes that are pushing anti-Israel hatred…[Jonathan] Greenblatt and [Abe] Foxman share the liberal Jewish fallacy that it is Jewish strength that provokes hatred, rather than Jewish weakness. READ MORE

BREITBART Biden Campaign Jewish Engagement Director Tells Jews to Hide Judaism Aaron Keyak, Jewish Engagement Director at Biden for President, said Friday, “take off your kippah (head covering) and hide your magen david (star of David)” if you fear for your life as a Jew.

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Will the judges in the Netanyahu trial have the courage to admit that the case was carelessly stitched together?

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Case 4,000 falling apart, makes mockery of prosecution
by Gilad Zwick
May 26, 2021

…On the morning of Ben-Ari’s opening argument, I published an article that focused on the huge holes in the prosecution’s basic thesis that Netanyahu had asked for unusual coverage on the Walla news site in exchange for regulatory benefits for controlling shareowner of Bezeq – which owns Walla – Shaul Elovitch. Supposedly, this was a legal precedent – the first instance of media coverage comprising an element of charges of bribery against a politician. If you missed it, the word on which the case will survive or fail is “unusual” – whether the tradeoffs between Netanyahu and Elovitch were so unusual as to be criminal enough to be bribery. Amazingly, even before the evidentiary stage of the trial began, it was already known that the prosecution had not troubled itself to create any criteria that would determine a norm, deviation from which would cross into the area of criminality. READ MORE

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“Arab mob crashes pro-Israel rally in Illinois, torching Israeli flag, attacking demonstrators, and calling for massacre of Jews”

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
‘Kill the Jews’: Arab mob attacks pro-Israel rally in Illinois
by Staff
May 24, 2021

A pro-Israel rally held outside of Chicago over the weekend was crashed by a mob of Arab protesters who attacked the pro-Israel demonstration and called for the slaughter of Jews. The incident occurred on Sunday in downtown Naperville, a city of roughly 150,000 less than 30 miles west of Chicago. Dozens of Israel supporters gathered outside of city hall Sunday to express support for the Jewish state, before marching through downtown Naperville, organizers said… The anti-Israel demonstrators called not only for the destruction of Israel, but also the slaughter of Jews. READ MORE

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“The criticism shows that a growing number of Arabs are fed up with the continuous efforts of Iran to destabilize the Arab countries with the help of the mullahs’ proxies in the Middle East, including Hamas”

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Arabs: Hamas Does Not Care About Palestinian Suffering
by Khaled Abu Toameh
May 20, 2021

While many in the West denounced Israel for its military strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past week, prominent Arab writers and political analysts held the Iranian-backed Hamas responsible for the violence and bloodshed. These Arabs evidently understand what the anti-Israel activists around the world fail to see — that Hamas has brought nothing but disaster and despair to the two million Palestinians living under its rule in the Gaza Strip. These Arabs also seem to understand that Israel is not waging war on the Palestinians, but against an Islamist terrorist group whose charter openly calls for jihad (holy war) and the elimination of Israel. These Arabs can also see that if one cares about the Palestinians, why would one want them ruled by terrorists who place weapons caches near hospitals and schools, and use children as human shields? READ MORE

TORONTO SUN Tarek Fatah: Palestinians Die as Hostages of Hamas As hundreds die in Gaza once more, one cannot help feeling the pain of the Palestinians. They bury their dead children with no end in sight. Another ceasefire may come into effect soon, but will not end their multi-generational misery as a people without a state. The tragedy of the Palestinians is not that they don’t have a state of their own (which they deserve), but that they are being held hostage by a leadership that, decade after decade, does not learn the lessons of their accumulated defeat and humiliation.

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Read the 14th paragraph of this AP story on Gaza and see how they omit and misreport (or said differently lie) about this war’s origins. Is it naivety or deceit ?

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hamas defiant with military parade, appearance of top leader
by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy
May 22, 2021

…The fighting began on May 10, when Hamas militants in Gaza fired long-range rockets toward Jerusalem. The barrage came after days of clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Heavy-handed police tactics at the compound and the threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinian families by Jewish settlers had inflamed tensions. READ MORE

Informed readers have followed the Sheik Jarrah dispute for years as it works its way through Israeli courts. Read Almost Nothing You’ve Heard About Evictions in Jerusalem Is True: Neutral application of property law becomes an international incident because a landlord is a Jew.

Other items missing from this AP story: Iran, which funds Hamas and has thus enabled these attacks, is not referenced once–instead it is “Jewish settlers” who are the cause. Also conveniently omitted, the number of Palestinian casualties as a result of errant missiles from Hamas. Also this: If AP really didn’t know it shared space with Hamas, why trust its reporting? After an Israeli airstrike Saturday destroyed a high-rise office tower on the Gaza Strip, the Associated Press, which had offices there for 15 years, complained, claiming it had no idea the building was also home to Hamas. If it’s true that AP was so unaware — and the evidence suggests it’s unlikely — how can anyone trust its reporting in the region?

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Hamas Cofounder in SkyNews interview: Israel has no right to exist

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST A renewed call for Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel On the Hemed bridge overlooking the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, Jews and Israeli Arabs stood together two weeks ago with banners proclaiming their commitment to one another.

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Your only two choices are Zionism and anti-Zionism. Pick wisely

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Us and Them
by Liel Leibovitz
May 25, 2021

We’ve lived through skirmishes between Israelis and Palestinians before, but May 2021 felt different. It’s not only that the number of rockets lobbed at Israel, 4,360, marks an all-time high. It’s not just that suddenly it seemed as if every one of your favorite actors, singers, writers, and lawmakers took to social media to accuse Israel of everything from apartheid to deliberately killing Black and brown people, shouting down anyone who advocated for balance and complexity—even Rihanna. It’s not even that speakers on protest stages are saying things like “every time they bomb Gaza, this is what creates antisemitism.” Or that a majority of House Democrats voted against providing Israel with emergency funding to boost its Iron Dome defense system. Or that mini-pogroms are popping up everywhere from West Hollywood to the Upper East Side, with mobs attacking Jews indiscriminately. READ MORE

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“George Washington’s promise to American Jews helped define this nation. Breaking that promise would define us again”

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

THE DISPATCH
Can America Be America When Jews Are Beaten in the Streets?
by David French
May 23, 2021

It happened again. As war raged between Hamas and Israel over there in the Middle East, we watched in horror as American Jews were beaten right here in American streets. Thursday evening a gang of men beat a Jewish man in Midtown. On Tuesday, a gang attacked Jewish diners at a sushi restaurant in L.A. Synagogues were vandalized in Skokie, Tucson, and Salt Lake. I say “again,” because we must not forget the wave of anti-Semitic violence before the pandemic. In late 2019 and early 2020, attackers beat Jewish Americans repeatedly. The violence culminated in a mass shooting at a Kosher Deli in Jersey City and a machete attack on a Hanukkah party in Monsey, New York.  READ MORE

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“The controversy has been widely misreported as an effort by the State of Israel to evict a number of Palestinian Arab families from their ancestral homes in a purely Palestinian Arab neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem”

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The Sheikh Jarrah property dispute and the false claim of Israeli land discrimination
by Avi Bell
May 23, 2021

The claim that Israeli law permits Jews to reclaim ownership of lands they owned prior to 1948 but denies Palestinians such a right is false in every particular. The real estate dispute in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has played a crucial role in international accounts of the recent fighting between the State of Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization ruling the Gaza Strip. The Sheikh Jarrah dispute concerns several eviction orders issued by Jerusalem’s Magistrate Court, upheld on appeal by Jerusalem’s District Court and awaiting a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court on a request for a final appeal. READ MORE

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“Only the obliteration of Hamas can secure a lasting peace”

Posted on May 23, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

FRONTPAGE MAG
Catastrophe of a ‘Ceasefire’
by Professor Jason D. Hill
May 24, 2021

The recent “ceasefire” between the terrorist organization, Hamas, that rules Gaza, and the ethical state of Israel is a recipe for future disaster. There is one winner, which is Hamas. The loser in this pitiful surrender is Israel. What does Hamas have to gain by a ceasefire? An awful lot. It claims an indefinite time frame in which to rebuild its arsenal of destruction that will be levied against Israel in a relatively short space of time. It has a chance to showcase to the world the destruction of its infrastructures and civilian habitats. A great segment of the anti-Semitic world will refuse to acknowledge that Hamas is literally responsible for all these civilian deaths — as it is the only army in human history that uses the lives of its civilian population as weapons of war by using hospitals, infant nurseries, schools, civilian homes, and mosques as launch pads for its rockets. Hamas also refuses to allow its citizens to evacuate buildings and targeted areas of attack announced well in advance of any military strikes by the IDF. READ MORE

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