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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Pro-Trump supporters discover that hate does in fact have a home here in Highland Park: “The hate, the foul language, the physical abuse of senior citizens was inexcusable.”

Posted on September 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

HIGHLAND PARK NEWS
Despite some heated moments between demonstrators, Labor Day pro-Trump rally in Highland Park a peaceful one: City officials
by James T. Norman
September 12, 2020

Highland Park police estimated that more than 300 people attended a pro-President Donald Trump rally Monday that was, overall, peaceful despite moments of contention between counter-demonstrators who showed up. Much of the three-hour Labor Day rally, which took place at the intersection of Central and St. Johns avenues, included participation from a few local organizations and groups, city officials said…City officials say two primary groups made up the crowd: The Lake Bluff Social Club and the Highland Park and Highwood Co-Alliance for Racial Equality [apparently many of the pro Trump supporters had no connection to or knowledge of The Lake Bluff Social Club, which is reported to be a “militia”] READ MORE

HIGHLAND PARK PATCH Pro-Trump Rally In Highland Park Dwarfed By Counterprotest In addition to heated verbal confrontation, Strom [a pro-Trump attendant] said she had to physically help an elderly man away from the group after he was surrounded. “They really only had the F-word to use. They were absolutely despicable. There’s no other word to describe them. We were shocked at their disrespect toward the police,” she said. “The hate they were just screaming in our faces is truly like nothing I have ever seen before” Strom said.

Watch this video for a side of Highland Park most of us have never seen

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Heard in #AbuDhabi: “The younger generation in the Middle East has much to gain from abandoning extremism and fostering ties with Israel”

Posted on September 6, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Netanyahu gave Israel a place among the nations in a new Middle East
by Lahav Harkov
September 4, 2020

…It clearly was not just Israelis who were excited about this new development. The Emiratis pulled out all the stops. They literally rolled out the red carpet for the El Al plane that landed at the airport in Abu Dhabi. They held a banquet with steaks and caviar for the officials of both governments. The journalists were given a private tour of the futuristic-looking Louvre Abu Dhabi and served a four-course dinner, including camel meat, a delicacy. (There was an elegant kosher option, from the newly OU-certified local kosher caterer, as well.) READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Gefilte in the Gulf? Abu Dhabi tells all its hotels to offer kosher food Anticipating influx of Jewish tourists, city instructs its many hotels to offer kosher items on all menus and bars, ‘designate an area in all kitchens for Kosher food preparation’
150,000 to 300,000 Jewish visitors expected per year

BREITBART Chad is fourth country in four days to promise Jerusalem embassy Chad told Israel on Tuesday that it plans to open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem within a year, making it the fourth country to do so in the past week. Serbia and Kosovo, followed by Malawi, over the weekend announced their intentions to open a Jerusalem embassy.

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“The top three states from which people seek to make aliyah are New York, California and New Jersey”

Posted on September 6, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Aliyah to Israel on the rise, despite COVID-19 and bureaucracy bottlenecks
by Israel Kasnett
September 9, 2020

Israel is seeing a spike in aliyah (immigration to Israel) this year, with a higher number of people interested in moving to the Jewish state compared to previous years. But with COVID-19 wreaking havoc across the world, it has become more difficult to get through the process and once in the Jewish state, whole families are required to sequester in a hotel for two weeks. Welcome to aliyah in 2020! According to Yael Katsman, vice president of public relations and communications at Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit organization that promotes and facilitates aliyah to Israel, “aliyah is continuing, and we are seeing a [200%] spike in interest in the number of applications.” READ MORE

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