Borat steps in it again: “Holocaust survivor Evans, who passed away this summer, was “horrified and upset” upon learning that the film was a satirical comedy”

Posted on October 18, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Holocaust survivor’s daughter wants her late mother’s interview out of ‘Borat’ sequel
by Cnaan Lipshiz
October 16, 2020

The daughter of a late Holocaust survivor is suing to have her mother’s appearance in Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming “Borat” sequel removed from the film, stating that the comedy mocks “the Holocaust and Jewish culture.” Cohen, who is Jewish, interviewed Judith Dim Evans earlier this year “under false pretenses with the intent of appropriating her likeness,” reads the lawsuit, which was filed this week with the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Cohen approached Evans for an interview in what he called a documentary earlier this year, the lawsuit states. READ MORE

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A Georgia State adjunct professor says he’s voting against anti-Semitism at the ballot box

Posted on October 18, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES
When Mobs Rule, Jews Lose
by Jerry Levy
October 16, 2020

…I get it when the BLM leadership explicitly states they are Marxists. I get it when they march in the streets of D.C. screaming about “Israeli genocide,” and I get it when their platform finds space to single out only one foreign country for boycott and divestment, Israel. But what I don’t get are the secular leftist Jewish groups announcing support for this political movement that hates us. The Anti-Defamation League has even aligned themselves with Al Sharpton, a renown anti-Semite and bigot. The abandonment of American Jews by hundreds of Jewish organizations supporting BLM has been tragic. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER New York Times Op-Ed Glorifies Farrakhan March, as Bari Weiss Says Jew Hate Is Times Blind Spot A former editor and writer for the New York Times editorial page, Bari Weiss, is faulting the Times for publishing an op-ed piece glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failing to provide context about Farrakhan’s antisemitism. “Today the New York Times ran an oped about the Million Man March and Louis Farrakhan. If you read the oped and knew nothing about Farrakhan, you would think he was a gentleman,” Weiss tweeted.

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“The polls so far show that the Democrats, a party extremely heavily influenced by Marxism and the doctrine of state control, is about to take control of the federal government”

Posted on October 18, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Our Second Civil War: Communism Collapsed Only to Revive
by Ben Stein
October 12, 2020

Now for a few thoughts on the coming second civil war and why the first Fort Sumter shots may have already been fired. Stupid us back in the late 1980s and in 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved and we thought Marxism had finally been defeated. Marxist promises of an earthly paradise for workers had been thoroughly exposed as lies. Marxism gave the world the most bloody, brutal, murderous, and impoverished regimes the world had ever seen. Russia, which was renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, had turned into a vast killing ground. The repression of the Russian people under the Tsars was a picnic in a park compared with the immense murder state that the USSR became. READ MORE

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“There is nothing “fair” about Governor Pritzker’s “fair tax amendment””

Posted on October 18, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
A Progressive Tax Will Doom Illinois Small Businesses
By John Tillman
October 19, 2020

…While all taxpayers are at risk once Illinois state lawmakers can divide taxpayers without facing pushback from constituents, the insidious part is the progressive tax would kick small businesses and our economy as we struggle to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Economists roundly warn against adding taxes during a recession. In Illinois, small businesses are responsible for 3 out of every 5 net jobs created. Small-business owners have also suffered the most during the economic fallout from COVID-19.State lawmakers already passed initial progressive rates in case they win voters’ approval. The hit to over 100,000 small businesses in Illinois will be up to a 47 percent tax increase. And that’s just the damage so far. READ MORE

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“The Illinois and Columbia student governments seem to have decided that Israel is an “oppressor” and the Palestinian government is “oppressed,” therefore, as per the prevailing “logic,” support for Black lives in America demands opposition to Israel”

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD
BDS resolutions on campuses represent dangerous ‘intersectionality’
by Daniel Pomerantz
October 15, 2020

Over the past few weeks, in moves that were in equal measures galling, ill-timed and stunningly decontextualized, students at two prominent American universities — including my alma mater — voted in favor of divesting from Israel. These votes occurred during the 2020 High Holiday season, when Jewish students may have been less available to weigh in on this debate as they were navigating virtual synagogue services or other COVID-compliant religious gatherings. While these votes, at Columbia University in New York and at the University of Illinois, are symbolic in terms of university policy, they are nonetheless significant as they reflect a shift in student opinion that affects life on campus…READ MORE

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Obama appointee Zogby polls the Arab world, reports dramatic levels of support for US brokered peace plan

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Surprise: Majority of Arabs back Trump Middle East peace plan, 79% of Saudis
by Paul Bedard
October 16, 2020

In a surprise that experts didn’t see coming, most Arabs in countries that would be affected by President Trump’s Middle East peace plan endorse the pathway to normalized relations with Israel. In the survey, a remarkable 7 in 10 people in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan said they also feel that normalization is coming despite what Palestinian leaders do to resist peace with the Jewish state. “Such findings would have seemed preposterous 5 or 10 years ago,” said a report on the findings in Middle East expert Joel Rosenberg’s All Arab News. The poll, done by James Zogby, founder of Zogby Research Services and president of the Arab American Institute, raised the prospect that Saudi Arabia…is warming to a deal. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Reports: US gives Sudan 24 hours to take or leave normalization with Israel Unconfirmed stories citing Sudanese officials say Khartoum given deadline on deal that would give it aid, remove it from terror list; but country’s PM said to remain opposed

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Gal Gadot Teaches You Hebrew Slang

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

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“Paty had shown a class of teenage pupils a caricature from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo during a moral and civic education class discussion about freedom of speech, sparking a furious response from a number of parents”

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

THE GUARDIAN
Teacher decapitated in Paris named as Samuel Paty, 47
by Kim Willsher
October 17, 2020

A history teacher was decapitated outside his secondary school in a Paris suburb on Friday after he showed a caricature of the prophet Muhammad to his pupils has been named. Samuel Paty, 47, who taught history and geography at the school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, north-west of the French capital, was attacked on Friday evening by an 18-year-old man who was shot dead by police shortly afterwards. The anti-terror prosecutor has opened an investigation into “assassination linked to a terrorist organisation and association with terrorist criminals”. Nine people were being questioned by police on Saturday, among them members of the attacker’s family, including his grandfather and 17-year-old brother. READ MORE

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Roman colonialists invented the word “Palestine” in order to insult the native Jewish population with the memory of their ancient enemies, the Philistines.

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Christianity deeply rooted in Judaism, new Bible translation claims
by Sarah Chemla
October 15, 2020

A new translation of the Bible, called the Hebrew Heritage Bible Newer Testament by Dr. Brad H. Young – a Hebrew University-trained scholar who taught biblical literature for over thirty years at Oral Roberts University in the United States – is highlighting the Jewish roots of Christianity. “Rather than employing the standard translation technique of simply selecting the most appropriate English word for the Greek,” noted Young, “I asked the question, ‘What is the Hebrew thought and wording underpinning the Greek text?’” Using this method, his text reconstructs the Hebrew sources, language and mindset behind the early church and its foundational documents. READ MORE

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“American liberalism is in danger from a new ideology—one with dangerous implications for Jews”

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Stop Being Shocked
by Bari Weiss
October 14, 2020

…The liberal worldview was one that recognized that there were things—indeed, the most important things—in life that were located outside of the realm of politics: friendships, art, music, family, love. This was a world in which Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg could be close friends. Because, as Scalia once said, some things are more important than votes. Crucially, this liberalism relied on the view that the Enlightenment tools of reason and the scientific method might have been designed by dead white guys, but they belonged to everyone, and they were the best tools for human progress that have ever been devised.  READ MORE

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