United Airlines going nonstop Chicago-Tel Aviv

Posted on July 5, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
United Airlines to launch Tel Aviv-Chicago route in September
by Zachary Keyser
July 7, 2020

United Airlines said this week it was further expanding its international schedule in September by adding new nonstop flights between Chicago and Tel Aviv. The new direct charter route will be introduced in September of this year. “We are proud of this announcement which is reflected in the company’s expanding flight schedule and looking forward to offering our customers more flight options that will connect Israel and the United States,” said United Airlines Israel CEO Avi Friedman…The flights will depart from Tel Aviv en route to Chicago O’Hare on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Return flights are scheduled for Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST El Al flights to Chicago postponed indefinitely “We still don’t know when we will fly at all,” a company official said. It is still unknown when El Al will fly again despite a deal reached on Wednesday, but it is already clear that El Al’s flights to Chicago have been postponed indefinitely, sources at the company said.

JEWISH PRESS Israel Nationalizes El Al 17 years almost to the day following the 2003 privatization of Israel’s national carrier El Al, El Al’s board of directors decided on Monday afternoon to adopt the Finance Ministry’s rescue plan, according to which the company will receive a $250 million loan with a state-provided 75% loan guarantee, along with the issuance of $150 million shares to the general public. The state will pledge to buy the shares that the public will not buy, which would facilitate the de facto nationalization of the company.

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In other words, the term “anti-Semitism” was coined not to marginalize Jew hatred but to mainstream it

Posted on July 5, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD
Since we’re debating labels, stop calling it anti-Semitism. It’s Jew hatred.
by Stephen D. Smith
July 7, 2020

…While the phenomenon of Jew hatred is inscribed in ancient texts, the term “anti-Semitism” is actually of relatively recent vintage, about as old as the telephone or the lightbulb. The German journalist Wilhelm Marr coined the term “anti-Semitism” in 1879 to give an air of modernity to long-embraced animosity toward the Jewish people. Earlier Germans were blunter: They called it “Judenhaas,” literally Jew-hatred. Wilhelm, himself a deeply anti-Jewish political agitator, sought a pseudo-scientific and therefore more palatable word. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Public Campaign Launched to Remove Three-Hour Antisemitic Speech by Louis Farrakhan From YouTube A public campaign has been launched to persuade YouTube to remove a video of the notoriously antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s July 4 address, in which he referred to Jews as “Satan” who should have their brains knocked out by the “stone of truth.” Farrakhan’s three-hour rant, titled “The Criterion,” was streamed live on YouTube and has so far garnered over 850,000 views.

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“Zahra Haider continues to spread her one-sided, hateful, and dangerous views far and wide thanks to her position at ‘NowThis'”

Posted on July 5, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

STOPANTISEMITISM
Antisemite of the Week: Zahra Haider – The ‘NowThis’ Jew Hater
July 4, 2020

Zahra Haider is one of the leaders of the antisemitic Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a member of the notorious campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and a supporter of convicted terrorists. What’s most concerning is that Haider produces content for NowThis, a widely popular social-media focused news group. She exploits the organization’s large reach to spread antisemitism and hatred of the Jewish state. From her defense of our previous Antisemites of the Week, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, to her obsessive rants about the evil perils of Israel, Haider uses ‘NowThis’ to spread bigotry to millions of people. READ MORE

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“Most radical leftists believe this noxious legacy foretells our future and will continue unabated unless American politics is fundamentally overturned”

Posted on July 5, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
The Fierce Fight Over America’s Ideals and History
by Charles Lipson
July 6, 2020

Americans do more than tolerate calls to live up to our highest ideals. We embrace them. Martin Luther King knew that when he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. … So we have come to cash this check.” Honoring that check brings together Americans of all political stripes. Most think, rightly, that King’s dream is the American dream. They do not believe the dream itself is a fraud, an opiate for the masses. READ MORE

THE SPECTATOR Douglas Murray: The new inequality It is a strange habit, the American one of making talk-show hosts into preachers. There is no good reason, after all, why a comedian should be any kind of arbiter of morality or anything much else. Yet in America the court of public opinion accepts the right of the jester to preach the homily too. So it was that, in a period not short on ‘personal takes’ and celebrity messaging, one night in early June on his Late Late Show, James Corden delivered a teary monologue about race relations in America.

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“Broadcasting the Fatah-Hamas ‘unity’ event on official TV, the PA president made plain his strategic choice: Israel, and any prospect of reconciliation, out; Hamas, in”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
The day Abbas moved from rebuffing Trump to joining forces with terrorists
by David Horovitz
July 3, 2020

At a joint press conference on Thursday, Fatah’s Jibril Rajoub and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri vowed to work together to resist unilateral Israeli annexation moves and “topple” the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal…Here, after all, was one of Abbas’s most senior colleagues, a former PA preventive security chief and potential successor who once worked in close coordination with Israeli security forces, grandly declaring that Fatah was henceforth partnering with Hamas…An Islamist terror organization, moreover, that 13 years ago brutally forced Abbas’s Fatah out of the Gaza Strip, and would have long since finished him off in the West Bank too were he not protected by Israel’s ongoing overall security presence there. READ MORE

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“Israel is getting closer and closer to the Arab Gulf nations, as they realize that the Palestinian cause is a self-created dead end”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
Israel is doing better than ever. Idiots tying up traffic can’t hurt it.
July 3, 2020

It’s easy to see the sheer volume of anti-Israel material online and in social media and feel like we are losing. But when you step back, you can see that the reality is that Israel is winning in every conceivable field. While the haters scream about “occupation” and “annexation,” Israel continues to grow, get stronger and become more indispensable to the region and the world. Israel is strong militarily, economically and in innovation. Both Western and third-world nations want to be like Israel. They want to learn from Israel. It really is a “light unto nations.” READ MORE

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“Kuwaiti newspaper cites unnamed senior source as saying Jerusalem behind recent incidents in Iran, following an alleged attempt by Tehran to hack Israel’s water infrastructure”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Report: Israeli cyberattack caused Iran nuclear site fire, F35s hit missile base
by Judah Ari Gross
July 3, 2020

Israel was responsible for two blasts at Iranian facilities — one related to uranium enrichment, the other for missile production — over the past week, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Friday. The Al-Jareeda daily cited an unnamed senior source as saying that an Israeli cyberattack caused a fire and explosion at the largely underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in the predawn hours of Thursday morning. According to the source, this was expected to set back Iran’s nuclear enrichment program by approximately two months. The newspaper also reported that last Friday Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jets bombed a site located in the area of Parchin, which is believed to house a missile production complex…READ MORE

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“What Netanyahu does over the next few weeks will determine if he goes down in history as one of the greatest Jewish leaders of all time, or if he is remembered as a disappointment of Sabbatean proportions”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Trump and Netanyahu face their rendezvous with destiny
by Caroline B. Glick
July 3, 2020

…Netanyahu’s sovereignty plan is predicated on Israel asserting and the US recognizing Israel’s rights to Judea and Samaria on the one hand, and Israel securing in perpetuity its vital security interests. Here too, in the face of Trump’s hesitation and his coalition partners’ efforts to subvert him, Netanyahu is wavering. He missed the July 1 target date he had declared for implementing his plan. Now there is talk of him putting it off until some later date, which of course, will never arrive. If Netanyahu stays the course and implements his plan now, he will secure his political power now. More importantly, he will be remembered in the annals of Jewish history as a leader of historic proportions. READ MORE

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View the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra gala that was hacked

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Hackers disrupt Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s online gala fundraiser
July 2, 2020

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s virtual gala on Sunday was disrupted by what is now confirmed to be a cyber attack. Hackers crashed the websites of the IPO and its partner, Medici.TV, for the duration of the one-hour gala, which sought to fundraise to make up the losses incurred by the orchestra due to the coronavirus pandemic. The June 28 live virtual gala had more than 13,000 registrants from around the world at the time of the planned broadcast on Sunday. Despite the disruption, the program now has a combined total of more than 300,000 views on Medici. READ MORE

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“Anti-Israel demonstrators teamed up with Black Lives Matter on Wednesday, part of a series of anti-Israel demonstrations in a series of American cities over the next several days”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Black Lives Matter Joins Anti-Israel Demonstrators in ‘Day of Rage’
by Joel Pollak
July 2, 2020

Black Lives Matter protests joined anti-Israel demonstrators in a nationwide “Day of Rage” on Wednesday that included calls for Israel’s destruction and claims that Israel murders children, an allusion to medieval antisemitic blood libels. The Jewish News Service reported that antisemitic and anti-Israel groups organized the “Day of Rage” on July 1, the first day that Israel’s government said it could extend its law to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”). READ MORE

JTA Black Lives Matter demonstrators in DC chant ‘Israel, we know you, you murder children, too’ The march, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol building, was led by a Harvard student, Christian Tabash, who read a poem about Israel’s crimes against Palestinian Muslims, according to the Examiner. The poem referred to Israel as “puppet master of continents,” an age-old conspiracy theory that Jews run the world.

IPT News “Death to America,” Love for North Korea and Hate for Israel at Brooklyn Rally A chant of “death to Israel” and “death to America” triggered an enthusiastic response Wednesday during an anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn.

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