“The increasingly mainstreamed BDS-BLM narrative poses a grave danger to the U.S. and European progressive and liberal Jewish communities”

Posted on July 19, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The BDS-BLM alignment: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry
by Dan Diker
July 19, 2020

…Despite universal Jewish support for BLM, it failed to prevent a surge of anti-Semitic violence across the United States in the aftermath of the Floyd murder. Jewish storeowners were assaulted; Jewish-owned stores and restaurants were defaced and looted. Social media has been rife with anti-Semitic libel denouncing the Jewish state and delegitimizing Jews. In the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles, demonstrators were heard screaming, “Kill the Jews.” Synagogues were defaced with graffiti reading, “F-ck Israel,” and “Free Palestine.” Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) organizations have exploited simmering racial tensions by accusing Israel of complicity in the Floyd murder. The BDS strategy is not new. The Jewish state has, for some years, been recast as an illegitimate “white oppressor.” READ MORE

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Black Columbia University professor savages “White Fragility” which “aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people” and teaches us “how to be racist in a whole new way”

Posted on July 19, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

THE ATLANTIC
The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility
by Professor John McWhorter
July 15, 2020

I must admit that I had not gotten around to actually reading Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility until recently. But it was time to jump in. DiAngelo is an education professor and—most prominently today—a diversity consultant who argues that whites in America must face the racist bias implanted in them by a racist society…I have learned that one of America’s favorite advice books of the moment is actually a racist tract. Despite the sincere intentions of its author, the book diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us. This is unintentional, of course, like the racism DiAngelo sees in all whites. Still, the book is pernicious because of the authority that its author has been granted over the way innocent readers think. READ MORE

UNHERD Stop pretending the BLM protests were peaceful A standard retort one often hears is that “the riots” must not be conflated with “the protests,” which is technically accurate in certain contexts. But the distinction is not as obvious as the media like to make out. In many locations, police and fire services were diverted to accommodate these massive protests, which in turn created a vacuum that enabled the outbreak of riotous activity…the resulting destruction may have set their majority-minority neighborhoods back economically for months or years, if not longer

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“While China does business with Israel’s #1 enemy, Israel is doing business with China”

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSLAEM POST
After the China-Iran deal, why is Israel still working with Beijing?
by Yaakov Katz
July 16, 2020

In six weeks, at the end of August, a number of international construction groups will submit their offers for an estimated NIS 15 billion tender to construct the Tel Aviv Light Rail’s Green and Purple lines. This is one of the largest infrastructure projects in Israeli history, meant to connect portions of Gush Dan with the middle of Tel Aviv. What makes the tender noteworthy is that out of the six groups pre-approved to submit proposals, three of them include a Chinese partner. In addition, all three of the Chinese companies are owned by the state. READ MORE

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“We work together side by side, Jewish and Arab doctors, friends, colleagues. It’s time that the political system takes up this model”

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

FDD
Coronavirus: Arab countries, Palestinian and Israeli cooperation must be welcomed
by Toby Dershowitz and Talia Katz
July 17, 2020

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, good news is hard to come by. However, historical foes in the Middle East have teamed up to fight the virus, breaking taboos and opening up new areas of cooperation. Arab countries and Palestinian health workers have been working closely with Israel in delivering aid and researching life-saving treatments. Within Israel, Arab Israeli citizens have been at the forefront of the pandemic response. Half of the pharmacists, a quarter of the nurses, and a fifth of the doctors in Israel are Arab. “The Israeli health care system is an inspiring place,” said Arsalan Abu Much, a doctor at Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel. READ MORE

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Yishai Fleisher: “Many Arabs want Israeli residency, as opposed to full voting citizenship, and much prefer life in a Jewish Israel to a Palestine that is both jihadist and corrupt”

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

NEWSWEEK
A Jewish State Beats Peter Beinart’s Bi-Nationalism
by Yishai Fleisher
July 17, 2020

The good news is that even Peter Beinart understands that the two-state solution is dead. The progressive public intellectual recently penned a New York Times op-ed in which he admitted that the Left’s old dream of creating an independent Palestine in the historic Israeli heartland is never going to happen. The land in question—Judea and Samaria, or the “West Bank”—is the ancient cradle of Jewish civilization. In modern times, the Jews lost this land to the Arab onslaught during the 1948 War of Independence, but liberated it from Jordanian occupation in 1967 and began to resettle. READ MORE

CAMERA BLOG In Anti-Zionist Essay, Beinart Disses Mainstream Jews, Dispenses with Accuracy From start to finish, Beinart’s piece, titled “Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine,” misrepresents facts, conceals inconvenient truths, and plays fast and loose with ideas while purporting to tell the story of Jews and Arabs living in the Holy Land. Whether this is a result of self-deception or an attempt to deceive his readers is beside the point.

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Interview with Roz Rothstein, CEO of #StandWithUs on #antisemitism and what to do about it

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

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Ray Kelly: “In today’s environment, synagogues cannot be fully open environments”

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Former NYPD commissioner warns US Jews: Protect your communities
by Donna Rachel Edmunds
July 15, 2020

Jewish communities in America should follow the example of those in Europe and put security measures in place in synagogues, Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has said in an interview, as he warned that “we are in a dangerous place in history.” Budget cuts due to the coronavirus lockdown and an erosion of respect for police officers are creating a perfect storm that will see safety decline in New York and elsewhere, Kelly told Matthew Bronfman, chair of the International Steering Committee of Limmud FSU during an online interview. “In the US the Jewish community needs to be more alert about who is entering community premises,” Kelly said…READ MORE

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Biden’s Democratic Party Israel platform: “U.S. embassy, which Trump moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May 2018, five months after recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, should remain there”

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Democratic Party advances platform, including language on Israel
July 16, 2020

Members of the drafting committee voted to approve the language of the Democratic Party’s 2020 platform in a virtual meeting on Wednesday ahead of the July 27 vote by the full 187-member platform committee, including the party’s conventional language surrounding the U.S.-Israel alliance…The platform also expresses opposition to “unilateral steps by either side—including applying sovereignty to Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank—that jeopardizes the prospects for two states” and objection to “settlement expansion.”…”We believe that while Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations, it should remain the capital of Israel, an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.” READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER DNC advances the 2020 platform, including a pro-Israel plank, by unanimous consent An individual with knowledge of the internal process told JI that while the committee discussed including a reference to ‘occupation’ — a proposal backed by Sanders allies and J Street — the panel drafted language that more closely mirrors the views expressed by the Biden campaign in recent weeks.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “calls out the hateful outbursts against Jews by Ice Cube, DeSean Jackson and others”

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood?
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
July 14, 2020

Recent incidents of anti-Semitic tweets and posts from sports and entertainment celebrities are a very troubling omen for the future of the Black Lives Matter movement, but so too is the shocking lack of massive indignation. Given the New Woke-fulness in Hollywood and the sports world, we expected more passionate public outrage. What we got was a shrug of meh-rage. When reading the dark squishy entrails of popular culture, meh-rage in the face of sustained prejudice is an indisputable sign of the coming Apatholypse: apathy to all forms of social justice. After all, if it’s OK to discriminate against one group of people by hauling out cultural stereotypes without much pushback, it must be OK to do the same to others. Illogic begets illogic. READ MORE

FEDERALIST Why ViacomCBS Ignored Nick Cannon’s Remarks About White People’s ‘Genetic Inferiority’ Nick Cannon’s comments about whites being ‘genetically inferior’ and ‘closer to animals’ than blacks would have been front-page news if they had been uttered by a white person about blacks.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Nick Cannon apologizes for ‘hurtful’ anti-Semitic comments “I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sisters and brothers for the hurtful and divisive words that came out of my mouth,” Cannon said in a series of tweets addressing his remarks on a podcast that was released last month.

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Black Lives Matter SC founder agrees with Nick Cannon when he observed white people “had to be savages” adding that he was referring to “Jewish people, white people, Europeans”

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ABC NEWS COLUMBIA
Founder of BLM SC defends controversial comments made by Nick Cannon
by Rob Dew
July 15, 2020

The face of the local Black Lives Matter group has drawn criticism for supporting and reiterating comments made by Nick Cannon, now former host of the Masked Singer and America’s Got Talent who was fired Tuesday from CBS/Viacom. On his podcast last month Nick Cannon made anti-Semitic remarks and re-enforced stereotypes about Jewish people [including comments that] Black people are the true Hebrews and that Jews have usurped their identity….Those without dark skin have a “deficiency” that historically forced them to act out of fear and commit acts of violence to survive, he said…Wednesday morning, founder of Black Lives Matter SC, Lawrence Nathaniel defended Cannon saying he agrees with the controversial comments. READ MORE

 

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