“Harris statement comes as many observers in the Middle East will be watching the outcome of the 2020 US election”

Posted on November 1, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Kamala Harris: We will restore aid to Palestinians, renew ties
by Cody Levine
November 3, 2020

Democratic Party candidate for vice president Kamala Harris indicated on Saturday in an interview via email with The Arab American News that under a Joe Biden administration, the United States will renew its ties with the Palestinians, and oppose Israeli unilateral actions that undermine a two-state solution. Harris also said that a Biden administration will take immediate steps to restore economic and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians, attempt to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and reopen the US consulate in east Jerusalem, in addition to working to reopen the PLO mission in Washington. READ MORE

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“Trump’s better-than-expected showing, despite many Jews thinking that he’s a hatemonger, speaks volumes about the chasm between the two warring Jewish political tribes”

Posted on November 1, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The Jewish vote mattered more than we thought in 2020
by Jonathan Tobin
November 4, 2020

We already knew that the chasm that separates those Jews who vote for Democrats and those who vote for Republicans was already wide. The partisan split between all Americans who vote for the two major parties is growing all the time. But is there any gap greater than that between two branches of the same ethnic/religious tree that separates the Jews who voted for former Vice President Joe Biden and those who voted for President Donald Trump?…The other surveys all showed that Biden’s percentage of the Jewish vote appears to be the lowest total for any Democrat since 1988 while Trump is the best showing for a Republican since that same year. READ MORE

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Boca Raton school board “received thousands of comments from Holocaust survivors all over the world”

Posted on November 1, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL
Principal fired for second time over Holocaust remarks
by Scott Travis
November 2, 2020

A principal’s reluctance to say the Holocaust was real — leading to a two-year saga that inflamed his Jewish community and people around the world — reached a possible climax Monday when the School Board decided to fire him for the second time. William Latson was the principal of Spanish River High, a school in Boca Raton that serves a large Jewish population. He told a parent in a 2018 email that, as a district employee, he couldn’t confirm the Holocaust was a factual event. After the story received international attention, he was reassigned, then fired but then rehired last month on the recommendation of administrative law judge who said the firing was improper. READ MORE

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“Power-drunk NY bureaucrats are now menacing people in the name of public health, ostensibly with the blessing of the governor, who has repeatedly singled out Orthodox Jews”

Posted on November 1, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
New York’s crackdown on Jewish businesses makes no public health sense
by Melissa Braunstein
October 30, 2020

Nobody is tossing tea into New York Harbor, but restlessness appears to be growing in Brooklyn. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo complained earlier this month that New York City was too lax about enforcing COVID-19-related health regulations, but Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish residents wouldn’t necessarily agree, especially now. Seven months into our “new normal,” reports are emerging of the city and state being notably heavy-handed in their public health enforcement. The New York City Department of Buildings issued a summons to a kosher pizzeria “that was only open for takeout.” READ MORE

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“Israel’s Arab neighbors have demonstrated that the Palestinian cause is not as high on their agenda as it appeared to be in the past”

Posted on November 1, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE INSTITUTE
The Future of Arab Normalization with Israel
by Alan Dershowitz
October 28, 2020

Now that the Sudan has joined the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in normalizing relations with Israel, the future seems bright for even more Arab countries to make peace with their former enemy. The big prize, of course, would be Saudi Arabia, and already we are hearing rumors from its leaders pointing in that direction. Even Lebanon, which currently houses Hezbollah, has dropped hints about possible peace overtures. The possibility does exist that before long, most of the Sunni Arab states will recognize that their interests lie in a peace process with Israel. They will see the economic, technological, diplomatic and military advantages in having Israel as an ally instead of an enemy. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Abbas is holding out for a Biden White House The PA hopes the US presidential election will bring an end to what it sees as four nightmarish years, but Ramallah would be better served by coming out of its defensive crouch and starting to progress towards reconciliation with Israel and America.

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“ Even well-meaning WSJ editors are going to have a hard time earning reader trust when 300 of their own employees have questioned their own paper’s standards and inadvertently announced their liberal worldview in the process”

Posted on November 1, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
A Campaign to Neuter the WSJ Opinion Page?
by Mark Hemingway
October 30, 2020

Earlier this year, newsroom employees at the New York Times went to war with the paper’s opinion section for publishing an edgy op-ed by a Republican senator. Now the furor over coverage of the Joe Biden October surprise has many worried that a similar civil war between news and editorial is brewing at America’s largest, and arguably most respected, paper, The Wall Street Journal. The stakes are high. If the Journal’s conservative op-ed page is unable to hold out, it may be the death knell of conservative opinion in legacy media. READ MORE

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“In effect, what we’ve been doing is requiring young people to bear the burden of controlling a disease from which they face little to no risk. This is entirely backward from the right approach”

Posted on November 1, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

IMPRIMIS
A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy
by Jay Bhattacharya, MD
October 2020

…Those who dare to talk about the tremendous economic harms that have followed from the lockdowns are accused of heartlessness. Economic considerations are nothing compared to saving lives, they are told. So I’m not going to talk about the economic effects—I’m going to talk about the deadly effects on health, beginning with the fact that the U.N. has estimated that 130 million additional people will starve this year as a result of the economic damage resulting from the lockdowns. In the last 20 years we’ve lifted one billion people worldwide out of poverty. This year we are reversing that progress to the extent—it bears repeating—that an estimated 130 million more people will starve. READ MORE

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Global Imams Council adoption of IHRA definition of antisemtism comes after hearing from office of US Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr, calling on the council to do so

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Largest NGO of imams worldwide adopts universal definition of anti-Semitism
by Jackson Richman
October 29, 2020

The largest nongovernmental organization of imams in the world, the Global Imams Council (GIC), has adopted the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The council’s governing board, senior imams committee and advisory committee unanimous voted on Monday to adopt the IHRA definition. This was followed by an overwhelming majority vote on the same day by the general council of imams and the council’s members worldwide. The council’s membership consists of more than 1,000 imams from all Islamic denominations and schools of thought, according to its website. READ MORE

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By giving the prize to the World Health Organization, the Nobel committee kicked the can down the road. Maybe President Donald Trump will be defeated next week. Maybe Netanyahu will be ousted from power.

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The real Netanyahu (and Trump) dilemma
by Caroline B. Glick
October 30, 2020

he Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s decision to award the prize to the World Food Program this year assuaged the fears of elitists from New York to Paris and Berlin. The Abraham Accords, which include bilateral peace treaties between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and most recently Sudan, and Israel have fundamentally changed the Middle East. They have upended fifty years of failed peace processing on the part of Western foreign policy elites who seem to fall into deeper and deeper funks with word of each new peace deal. Newsweek’s cover story on Oct. 2 nicely encapsulated the distress. The cover featured a leering black and white photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a red and white headline, The Netanyahu Dilemma: Can The Nobel Prize Say No to Bibi? READ MORE

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Always known as a left-winger, Greenwald “also emerged as a vocal critic of the mainstream media, accusing it of quashing alternative views when it comes to coverage of certain news stories'”

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept
by Joe Concha
October 29, 2020

Journalist Glenn Greenwald has resigned from The Intercept, seven years after co-founding the online publication, citing censorship by his own editors over an article concerning former Vice President Joe Biden. The 53-year-old shared his resignation letter in a tweet to his more than 1.5 million followers on Thursday afternoon, in which he accused editors of refusing to publish an article he wrote unless he removed “all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.” READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Glenn Greenwald says mainstream media is ‘desperate to see’ Trump lose Most of the mainstream news media has been “concocting excuses” to ignore The Post’s exposé about Hunter Biden’s emails — which actually justify hard questions for Joe Biden, according to award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.

JNS Jonathan Tobin: A conformist media is no friend to freedom Glenn Greenwald viciously attacked Israel. Now he finds himself on the same side as some old foes because he dissents from liberal orthodoxy on Russia and Trump.

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