“The #ShyTrumpVoter makes intuitive sense for anyone watching the cancel culture in America grow more menacing by the day. One of the communities where it likely plays a role is the American Jewish community”

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
American Jewry’s Most Fateful Hour
by Caroline Glick
October 16, 2020

Almost all the polls say that US President Donald Trump is heading towards defeat at the hands of his Democrat challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden next month. But Robert Cahaly, who heads the Trafalgar Group polling firm, disagrees. Cahaly was the only major pollster that accurately called the 2016 presidential race. In an interview with The Political Trade podcast last week, Cahaly said his data show Trump headed for another upset victory Nov. 3. Cahaly said that today, as in 2016, the disparity between his numbers and the marquis polling firms’ numbers owes to the latter’s systematic neglect of what he calls the “Shy Trump Voter Effect.” READ MORE

WALL STREET JOURNAL An Ex-Liberal Reluctantly Supports Trump Mr. Siegel, a professor emeritus at New York’s Cooper Union and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says he overcame his distaste for Mr. Trump for three reasons. First, foreign policy: “Crushing ISIS, pulling us out of the Iran nuclear deal, moving our embassy to Jerusalem, and making fools of those people who insist that the Palestinian issue is at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict.”…Mr. Siegel’s third purpose goes to the guts of his personal political philosophy. He sees the president as a champion of “bourgeois values”…

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Pennsylvania’s “nightmare highlights the difficulty of ramping up vote-by-mail on the fly without enough voter education”

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Pa. has rejected 372,000 ballot applications — most of them duplicates — bewildering voters and straining officials
by Jonathan Lai and Ryan McCarthy and Derek Willis, ProPublica
October 16, 2020

Pennsylvania has rejected 372,000 requests for mail ballots, straining election offices and bewildering voters in one of the most hotly contested battlegrounds in the presidential election. More than 90% of those applications, or about 336,000, were denied as duplicates, primarily because people who had requested mail ballots for the state’s June 2 primary did not realize they had checked a box to be sent ballots for the general election, too. Voters have also been baffled by unclear or inaccurate information on the state’s ballot-tracking website… READ MORE

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Twitter targeting Gadot for everything from being Israeli to being ‘too pretty.’ But Gadot has more in common with Cleopatra than your average Hollywood starlet

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

FEDERALIST
Blue Checkmarks Are Hurling Insanely Racist Remarks At Gal Gadot Over Her Perfect Casting As Cleopatra
by Elle Reynolds
October 12, 2020

Gal Gadot is set to play Cleopatra in an upcoming movie about the Queen of the Nile. Patty Jenkins, who also directed Gadot in “Wonder Woman,” will direct the biopic. Gadot herself pitched the idea of a Cleopatra biopic. “Cleopatra is a story I wanted to tell for a very long time,” she tweeted, adding that she hopes “to tell her story for the first time through women’s eyes.” Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt from 51 B.C. to her death, a few years after she and her Roman lover Mark Antony were defeated in the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. READ MORE

AISH Cleopatra and the Jews 7 little known facts about Cleopatra and the Jewish communities she ruled.

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Democrats “have embraced Black Lives Matter, have ignored the anti-Jewish rhetoric of BLM leaders, and were silent as BLM mobs attacked and defaced synagogues in LA”

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Jews betraying Jews
by Kenneth Levin
October 12, 2020

…The Democrat Party has also been essentially silent about growing hostility towards Jews being promoted in Democrat bastions in the wider society. The major American institutions abetting anti-Semitism are America’s colleges and universities, dominated by Democrats, and the party has made no effort to curb this disgrace. Jew-hatred is rapidly expanding from higher education into public and private schools, often aided by Democrat state and local governments, and this, too, proceeds unchecked by the party. In addition, of course, is the hostility to Israel coming from major elements of the party, including from elements of its congressional delegation. READ MORE

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“National Cyber Directorate personnel spend every waking hour warding off the wide array of cyberattacks launched at Israel on all levels by terrorist groups, hackers, and malicious state actors”

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
‘Israel is a cyber superpower, the potential is endless’
by Yoav Limor
September 30, 2020

Walking into the Tel Aviv office of Israel National Cyber Directorate Head Yigal Unna, you immediately notice a very specific memento – a weighted plaque with a golden plate that he was awarded by his counterparts in the United Arab Emirates. Unna was part of the historic delegation that traveled to Abu Dhabi last month after the landmark peace deal between Israel and the UAE was announced, and the plaque sheds light on the deep cyber and technological ties between the two countries…Unna, 49, is Israel’s cyber gatekeeper. His agency guards every entity in the public and private sectors – from critical state infrastructure and state-owned corporations to the home computer of the very last member of the public. READ MORE

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“Tischler, who is also Orthodox, allegedly caused the attack on Kornbluh after some in the community were upset about the journalist’s reporting on the anti-lockdown protests”

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Protesters gather outside home of assaulted journalist after arrest of Heshy Tischler
by Kenneth Garger
October 12, 2020

Dozens of noisy protesters gathered outside the Brooklyn home of an Orthodox journalist on Sunday night in reaction to the arrest of activist Heshy Tischler for allegedly inciting an unruly mob to attack him. “No Heshy, no peace,” the protesters chanted at Jacob Kornbluh, a reporter for Jewish Insider who was assaulted last Wednesday during Borough Park protests over coronavirus restrictions. Another man shouted into a bullhorn and passing cars honked their horns in an apparent show of solidarity with the group who appeared to be pinning the blame for Tischler’s arrest on the victim, Kornbluh. READ MORE

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“According to the survey by US-based Zogby Analytics, 59% of Jordanians and Saudis, along with 58% of Egyptians and 56% of the residents of the UAE support normalization with Israel, while 61% of Palestinians oppose it”

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Poll finds growing support for ties with Israel in some Arab countries
By Neta Bar and Daniel Siryoti
October 12, 2020

A recent poll published in the United Arab Emirates over the weekend shows that there is growing support for establishing ties with Israel in some Arab countries. The poll, conducted by US-based Zogby Analytics, has found that in four out of five Arab states and entities there is majority support for normalization with Israel and that the driving force behind this shift is a desire to stabilize the political and military situation in the Middle East. According to Sky News Arabia, the poll included 3,600 Arab respondents living in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority, and was supervised by James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab-American Institute. READ MORE

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An Orthodox Jewish professor at a small SC liberal arts college refuses mandated diversity training

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
The Man Who Refuses To Undergo Sensitivity Training: An Interview With Political Scientist Professor Jeffrey Poelvoorde
by Elliott Resnick
September 2, 2020

It’s become increasingly common in recent years. Companies require their employees to undergo “sensitivity training.” Employees say nothing and do as they’re told. Professor Jeffrey Poelvoorde won’t stand for it, though. When asked recently by his employer, Converse College, a private college in South Carolina, to watch two videos –“Diversity, Inclusion and Equity” and “Unconscious Bias” – he flatly refused and published a 2,700-word open letter explaining why. “I do not tell President Newkirk or Provost Barker what to read or watch or think. I demand the same respect from them,” he wrote. READ MORE

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Rather than speaking out against a Jew-hater, #ADL has made common cause with a notorious Farrakhan supporter

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Say her name? How the Breonna Taylor case became another ADL disgrace
by Jonathan Tobin
October 9, 2020

…For those who think that there’s nothing wrong with the ADL jumping on the liberal bandwagon in this case, there’s another interesting point about the unjustified effort to portray this incident as evidence of systemic racism. It’s that the person behind most of the agitation in Louisville about it—Tamika Mallory—is also one of the country’s more prominent supporters of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and a notorious anti-Semite in her own right. It’s not just that Mallory’s role in this effort to attack and subvert the nation’s legal system should have caused the ADL to avoid entangling itself—and, by definition, the American Jewish community as a whole—in this case. READ MORE

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“History teaches that wars end when one side wins and the other accepts defeat. It is a paradigm that must be repeated in our conflict”

Posted on October 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Lessons to Be Learned on the 20th Anniversary of the Ramallah Lynching
by Nave Dromi
October 8, 2020

On October 12th, twenty years ago, like most Israelis I sat transfixed by the unmistakable image of a man proudly waving his bloodstained hands to the outside world. Along with countless others, Aziz Salha had just finished butchering Vadim Norzhich (Nurzhitz) and Yosef “Yossi” Avrahami, two IDF soldiers who had accidentally entered Ramallah, and was wildly gesticulating his bloody murderous triumph to a cheering crowd. This image is seared into the minds of all Israelis over 30 years old. It took place only months after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had offered the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a state of his own on almost all of the territory he claimed, half of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and plenty of other Israeli concessions. READ MORE

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