“California’s proposed new ethnic studies curriculum is even worse than you imagined”

Posted on January 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
California Is Cleansing Jews From History
by Emily Benedek
January 27, 2021

…Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of AMCHA Initiative, which fights campus anti-Semitism, points out that all 13 founding members of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) are BDS activists. CESA, the national home base for critical studies, passed a resolution to boycott all Israeli academic institutions in 2014, and the group’s past four biennial meetings included multiple sessions demonizing Israel. “There are a couple thousand academic boycotters of Israel in the country,” she said, “and the largest percentage of them come from ethnic studies. Anti-Zionism is built into the theory and the discipline of ethnic studies, which demonizes Israel as an apartheid settler-colonialist Nazi state.” READ MORE

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New Biden NSC appointee: “while in college, he was a leader in Students for Justice in Palestine, a pro-BDS campus group known for bullying Jewish students”

Posted on January 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Biden Taps Anti-Israel BDS Activist for Top White House Intel Job
by Adam Kredo
January 27, 2021

The Biden administration is tapping for a top intelligence post a Palestinian-American who spent years at the forefront of efforts to boycott Israel and danced in front of a banner calling Israel an apartheid state. The selection of Maher Bitar to be the senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council is already generating concerns that he will use the post to diminish intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel. Bitar spent years leading anti-Israel organizations that promote the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which wages economic warfare on Israel. READ MORE

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“History has told us that if you want to know a person’s truest nature, examine his attitude toward Jews”

Posted on January 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

SPECTATOR
The uncomfortable truth about Black Lives Matter, Malcolm X and anti-Semitism
by Jake Wallis Simons
January 26, 2021

..It goes without saying that Malcolm X was a towering figure in the civil rights struggle, and played a major role in enhancing black pride. But he was a figure both of dazzling light and troubled darkness. History has told us that if you want to know a person’s truest nature, examine his attitude toward Jews. If you find this to be malign, be on your guard; as the late Lord Sacks put it, ‘the hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews.’ Dr King and Malcolm X were both assassinated almost six decades ago. In the years that followed, they have come to inspire the polarized forces that battle for the soul of Western culture all around us. While one sought to defuse racial tensions, the other attempted to force the aggressive ascendency of an oppressed community. READ MORE

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“The new AT age — “After Trump” — began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented”

Posted on January 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TOWNHALL
The ‘After Trump’ Era Begins
by Victor Davis Hanson
January 28, 2021

…Pfizer had hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late October. Then, mysteriously, it wasn’t. Then, stranger still, it appeared — a few days after Election Day. Suddenly, after Joe Biden’s inauguration, Illinois, Michigan and other blue states eased some of their lockdown restrictions to get their economies back on track despite little change in COVID-19 rates. During the Trump Age, the president was supposedly responsible for every death from COVID-19. Now, the media reports that career scientists and health administrators in the federal government, especially at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were largely to blame for past slow testing, and were tardy and lax in apprising the nation of the infectious threat. READ MORE

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“IDF’s Kohavi warns US against rejoining 2015 nuclear deal or even a slightly improved version, calling it ‘a bad thing to do’ that would lead to an Iranian bomb, which Israel won’t allow”

Posted on January 24, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
IDF chief says he’s ordered fresh military plans to thwart Iran’s nuke program
by Judah Ari Gross
January 26, 2021

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on Tuesday said he has directed the military to prepare fresh operational plans to strike Iran to block its nuclear program “Iran can decide that it wants to advance to a bomb, either covertly or in a provocative way. In light of this basic analysis, I have ordered the IDF to prepare a number of operational plans, in addition to the existing ones. We are studying these plans and we will develop them over the next year,” Kohavi said. READ MORE

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“Earlier this month, the organization B’Tselem issued an eight-page paper that declares the Jewish state guilty of apartheid. It’s absurd”

Posted on January 24, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

THE FEDERALIST
No, ‘Jewish Supremacism’ Does Not Define Israel
by Dexter Van Zile
January 26, 2021

Newly elected U.S. President Joseph Biden is reportedly preparing to hit the reset button with the Palestinian Authority, whose President Mahmoud Abbas severed ties with the Trump administration over the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem in 2017. According to the Times of Israel, which covered the impending reset late last year, relations were also strained by disagreement over the so-called pay-to-slay program that pays stipends to the families of terrorists who had killed Israeli civilians…Regardless of what one thinks of these policies, it is clear they present a new lease on life for so called peace and justice organizations in the United States and Israel. READ MORE

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#Holocaust remembrance: “Participants from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia joined viewers from North America, Europe and Israel in more personal kind of diplomacy”

Posted on January 24, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
In a first, Arab-initiated event commemorates the Holocaust in wake of Abraham Accords
by Eliana Rudee
January 27, 2021

In the wake of the Abraham Accords and in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, individuals from the group Sharaka held an event to memorialize victims of the Holocaust and to promote an action plan for Holocaust awareness and combating anti-Semitism. According to Sharaka (“partnership” in Arabic), this week’s event was the first-ever initiative to commemorate the Holocaust, bringing together Arab leaders in the Middle East. Participants from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia—some of whom participated in Sharaka’s tour of Israel in December, which marked many of their first experiences learning about the Holocaust—were joined by viewers from North America, Europe and Israel. READ MORE

NATIONAL AFFAIRS Ruth R. Wisse: The Dark Side of Holocaust Education But is there any evidence that Holocaust education decreases hatred of the Jews among those Americans who are susceptible to it? In reality, anti-Semitism in the United States has spread in tandem with increased teaching about the Holocaust. And there is really no sound theoretical underpinning for this expanding educational initiative.

JEWISH JOURNAL Micha Danzig: If “Never Again” Means Something, It Must Go Hand-in-Hand With “Never Forget” Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day….As a person who is active on social media and in writing articles about both Israel and anti-Semitism, I often hear from anti-Semites and Israel-haters (I know, I am being redundant) that Jews “talk too much about the Holocaust.”

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Biden administration needs to send a consistent message to the Iranian regime about its misbehavior

Posted on January 24, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

BLOOMBERG
Biden’s First Foreign Policy Blunder Could Be on Iran
by Eli Lake
January 21, 2021

President Joe Biden has done a good job so far of calming the anxieties of allies that the U.S. will rush into negotiations to re-enter the flawed 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Appointing Robert Malley as special envoy to Iran could change that….So it’s strange that, according to the Jewish Insider, Biden is considering Robert Malley, the former Middle East director for Barack Obama’s National Security Council, to be his special envoy to Iran. Unlike Sullivan, Blinken and for that matter Biden himself, Malley seems to believe that engagement with rogues is the only way to tame them. READ MORE

FREE BEACON Top Iranian Official Celebrates Biden’s Rumored Iran Envoy A top Iranian official is celebrating President Joe Biden’s rumored selection of Robert Malley as his envoy to Iran, offering praise for the new administration as it seeks to reenter the 2015 nuclear accord. Hesamodin Ashna, a senior adviser to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, “welcomed Robert Malley’s selection,” saying late last week that it “conveys a clear message about an efficient approach to resolving the conflict quickly and effectively,” according to a translation of his Farsi-language remarks carried in Iran’s state-controlled press.

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AIPAC Response to NBC News’ Charge of Dual Loyalty

Posted on January 24, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

AIPAC
Brian Shankman, Director of Regional Affairs and Development
January 28, 2021

Earlier today, NBC News posted an article challenging whether a longtime AIPAC member could be trusted with a security position in the Biden administration due to her support for Israel. The charge of dual loyalty has a long and disturbing anti-Semitic history. It has been used for generations to question the patriotism of pro-Israel Americans and undermine our rights. It is a targeted accusation that our community cannot be trusted, and that we are unlike other Americans. It is inexcusable for a major news outlet to perpetuate this offensive charge. Tonight, we posted this tweet in response to the story:

NBC News must retract this offensive story. Charges of dual loyalty are anti-Semitic and insult millions of Americans—Jewish and non-Jewish—who stand by our ally Israel.  We will not be deterred from exercising our rights as citizens to advocate for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship.

NBC NEWS Foundation linked to Biden pick for cybersecurity gave $500,000 to pro-Israel lobby AIPAC Anne Neuberger was named senior director for cyber policy on the National Security Council. She spent the last decade at the National Security Agency.

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Bus driver says 200 rioters ‘tried to lynch me’; blazing vehicle burns through power cables; mayor blames police for violence, is also attacked by crowd

Posted on January 24, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Driver recounts ‘nightmare’ after Haredi mob torches his bus at lockdown protest
January 25 2021
by Staff

Police used stun grenades to clear ultra-Orthodox rioters from the streets of Bnei Brak early Monday after a group attacked two buses, setting one on fire and completely destroying it. The mob pulled a driver from his bus and beat him, lightly injuring him before setting the vehicle on fire. The driver, Eyal Tzipori, told Channel 12 on Monday evening that he had feared for his life. He said he called the police, but waited half-an-hour in vain for them to arrive. He then got off the bus, was attacked, took refuge back in the vehicle, and was ultimately extricated by two paramedics. READ MORE

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