Bibi speaks to the first national virtual FIDF gala: “The great transformation of our people’s history took place when the Jewish people restored the capacity to defend ourselves by ourselves”

Posted on September 13, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
$15-plus million raised at first virtual FIDF national gala
September 14, 2020

Thousands of supporters from across the globe joined Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) in saluting Israel’s soldiers and veterans at the first-ever virtual FIDF National Gala on Sunday. Themed “A Night of Heroes,” the event raised a total of $15 million to support educational programs for Israeli soldiers, with donations still being made. The program featured several segments honoring IDF soldiers, including lone soldiers who join the IDF with no immediate family in Israel…READ MORE

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “Neither Islamists nor the Woke will engage in debate, and both prefer indoctrination of the submissive and damnation of those who resist”

Posted on September 13, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
What Islamists and ‘Wokeists’ Have in Common
by Ayaan Hersi Ali
September 10, 2020

…Nineteen years on, we see a similar dynamic, only this time it is within our borders. Naive observers explain this summer’s protests in terms of African-Americans’ material disadvantages. These are real, as are the (worse) socio-economic problems of the Arab world. But they aren’t the main driver of the protests, which appear to be led mainly by well-off white people. Their ideology goes by many names: cancel culture, social justice, critical race theory, intersectionality. For simplicity, I call it all Wokeism. I am not about to equate Wokeism and Islamism. Islamism is a militant strain of an ancient faith. Its adherents have a coherent sense of what God wants them to achieve on earth to earn rewards in the afterlife. Wokeism is in many ways a Marxist creed…READ MORE

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Bahrain becomes fourth Arab nation to recognize Israel; MSM ignores story because, you know, #OrangeManBad

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
Bahrain Will Normalize Relations With Israel, in Deal Brokered by Trump
by Michael Crowley and David M. Halbfinger
September 11, 2020

President Trump announced on Friday that Bahrain would establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, following the United Arab Emirates, in another sign of shifting Middle East dynamics that are bringing Arab nations closer to Israel…The announcement came after a similar one last month by Israel and the United Arab Emirates…”Its importance is mostly because it’s an indication that the new leadership in Saudi Arabia supports normalization,” Ms. Fontenrose said. “Bahrain doesn’t make a foreign policy move without Saudi Arabia’s express permission.” READ MORE

FOX NEWS CNN, MSNBC ignore Trump’s major Israel-Bahrain peace deal during primetime Earlier in the day, MSNBC spent less than two minutes covering the major Middle East agreement

JERUSALEM POST Israel, Morocco to establish direct flights Israel and Morocco are expected to establish direct flights as the next step in US President Donald Trump’s normalization efforts, N12 reported Saturday. This is a developing story.

THE SPECTATOR Professor Charles Lipson: What Bahrain’s Deal with Israel Really Means On September 15, representatives from the oil-rich Kingdom of Bahrain will meet Israeli leaders at the White House to sign a historic peace deal. It will normalize relations between the Muslim state and the Jewish one, not long after the United Arab Emirates concluded a similar pact. Expect more such ‘normalization deals’…These deals also signal that Arab-Muslim regimes are less concerned with domestic, Islamist opposition to their outreach to Israel. Equally important, they show that the Palestinian Authority no longer holds a veto over fellow Muslims’ relations with Israel.

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Iran executes again after torturing wrestler for confession

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

AL JAZEERA
Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari executed, says state media
September 12, 2020

Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari has been executed after being convicted of stabbing to death a security guard, according to state media…Authorities had accused Afkari, 27, of stabbing the water supply company employee in the southern city of Shiraz. Iran broadcast the wrestler’s televised confession last week. But Afkari said he was tortured into making a false confession, according to his family and activists…The provincial court in Shiraz also sentenced Afkari’s brothers Vahid Afkari and Habib Afkari to 54 and 27 years in prison, respectively, over the killing. READ MORE

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“Emgage’s main crime, to Abunimah, is that it is not focused like he is on hating Israel”

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
Moderate Muslim-American group supporting Biden is angering Israel-haters for not sharing their bigotry
September 10, 2020

Emgage is a moderate American Muslim group that “seeks to educate, engage and empower Muslim American communities through educational events, voter initiatives, and leadership development for the purpose of creating a community of equitable, knowledgeable, and motivated citizens.” Joe Biden’s Muslim American outreach advisor is a member of Emgage, and it seems to have raised its profile significantly during the Biden campaign. The pro-terror extremists at Electronic Intifada are very upset – because Emgage is not rabidly anti-Israel. Ali Abunimah goes through his usual attempts of smearing by association as he ticks off the supposed offenses of Emgage’s leadership. READ MORE

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BDS at SFSU: What would you do if your kids were being taught by terrorists ? Not a hypothetical.

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

STOPANTISEMITISM.ORG
Antisemite of the Week: Leila Khaled – the Queen of Terrorism
September 5, 2020

This month, San Francisco State University is bringing Leila Khaled, a Terrorist in Suit, to teach our young generation about the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is the new face of antisemitsm today. Leila Khaled is a Marxist loving, convicted PLFP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) terrorist who hijacked two planes on separate occasions. In August 1969, Khaled was part of a team that hijacked TWA Flight 840 on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv, diverting the Boeing 707 to Damascus, Syria…San Francisco State University (SFSU), a federally funded school, is allowing a convicted terrorist to speak openly on campus to young, impressionable students. The school has received over $28 MILLION in Federal subsidies under the 2020 CARES act. READ MORE

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“The director of a film that slams AIPAC holds the erroneous view that any group that’s not explicitly left-wing is the right-wing enemy”

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Misunderstanding AIPAC and American politics
by David E. Bernstein
September 8, 2020

The Times of Israel Monday carried an interview with Mor Loushy, director of The Kings of Capitol Hill, a new documentary critical of Israel. I have not seen the film, but in the interview Loushy presents a one-sided and wrong-headed perspective on AIPAC and American politics. First, she points out that “AIPAC’s aims do not mirror those of the bulk of American Jewry.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but most American Jews are fairly indifferent to Israel, and on average are politically much more left-leaning than the population as a whole. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL New Israeli film projects AIPAC’s steady drift from idealistic bipartisan roots ‘The Kings of Capitol Hill,’ airing on Israel’s YesDocu before going global, examines how the pro-Israel lobby eschewed mainstream US Jewry for Evangelical Christians and the right

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“Since outbreak of BLM violence and rioting, there have been numerous affiliations shown between BLM and US-designated foreign terrorist organizations, particularly those that promote BDS”

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

EIN PRESSWIRE
Zachor Legal Institute Supports the Department of Justice’s Reported Inquiry into Black Lives Matter leaders under RICO
Zachor Legal Institute
September 10, 2020

Zachor Legal Institute strongly supports the US Department of Justice’s reported inquiry into Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act…These [BDS] affiliations are neither circumstantial nor immaterial—the evidence shows that BLM appears to be working on behalf of, and in coordination with, foreign terror organizations and their promoters…In the ongoing riots and social unrest, BLM has regularly partnered with BDS organizations with ties to designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestine Islamic Jihad.  READ MORE

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Jackie Mason: “The degradation of my beloved city has happened in front of my eyes, well at least from what I can see on the TV screen while 60 floors up”

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH NEWS
Jackie Mason’s new year message: ‘This world is run by putzes and schmucks’
by Jackie Mason
September 11, 2020

I don’t know what’s going on in the rest of the world, but when I walk down the street to get a coffee in 2020 New York City, I have to thank God that I have 2020 vision and the reflexes of a champion boxer to duck any knockdown sucker punches. And this is on 57th Street, what they call Billionaires’ Row. I can’t imagine what’s going on way Uptown, Downtown or in the Bronx…And you know who is solely responsible for all of this? Our two schmegeggi state and city leaders, Mr de Blasio and Mr Cuomo. These two schmucks have led us down a dark and dreary path. The two Putzes-in-chief, but really putz is too nice of a word to call either of them. READ MORE

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“Joe Biden proposes to take this concept even further with a housing plan that couples the premises of AFFH with Sen. Cory Booker’s proposal to end single-family zoning in the suburbs”

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN COMPASS
In Defense of Picket Fences
by Rachel Bovard
September 3, 2020

…Obama administration HUD officials created and implemented AFFH [Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing] in 2015. And they did this very quietly, for they were well aware that AFFH was radical in its intent, and that its ultimate outcome would prove extremely controversial. Indeed, although AFFH was billed as an attempt to foster “economic integration,” it was actually a deliberate effort to re-engineer America’s suburbs according to the federal government’s preferred and preconceived racial and ethnic composition. The rule sought to use racial quotas, densifying housing and creating “little downtowns” in the suburbs with business districts built around transportation centers. READ MORE

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