“This “blame it on Israel” or “blame it on the Jews” bigotry is common throughout the world at demonstrations for legitimate causes”

Posted on June 7, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Exploiting the Floyd protests to demonize Israel
by Alan Dershowitz
June 8, 2020

As usual, anti-Israel extremists, especially some on the hard left, are trying to exploit the tragic and inexcusable death of George Floyd to level their typical baseless charges against Israel…The organization “Black Lives Matter,” which does much good, is not immune from this bigotry. Its own platform blames Israel for police violence against African Americans, and compares such violence to what it falsely calls the “genocide” of the Palestinian people. Many good people who support the organization are unaware of its gratuitous demonization of Israel, and would oppose such distractions from its core mission READ MORE

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“Efforts to link police brutality in the United States with the Israel Defense Forces maintaining security against Palestinian attacks have flooded the Internet and been used as propaganda by the BDS movement”

Posted on June 7, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Groups on both far-left and far-right co-opt Black Lives Matter movement to target Israel
by Sean Savage
June 9, 2020

…In particular, anti-Israel groups have been using the protests over the public murder of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minnesota by a police officer to target the Jewish state over past training programs set up between the United States and Israeli police departments. “This is where the Minneapolis Police Department learned their police brutality tactics from. israeli occupation terrorist soldiers (on the left) murder Palestinians on a daily basis. We must stop training our American police officers to be gestapo units. #GeorgeFloyd #Palestine.” tweeted Abbas Hamideh of the group Al-Awda, a pro-Palestinian BDS group. READ MORE

NEWSWEEK Paul Miller: BDS Is About Bigotry While the BDS campaign has had limited success, its advocates among professors and far-left student groups on college campuses have put targets on the backs of Jewish students and groups. “BDS is designed to incite hatred and inject divisiveness on campus, and it almost always results in the harassment of Jewish students,” explained Tammi Rossman-Benjamin to the Haym Salomon Center.

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“Thanks to tenured radicals, we are witnessing the retribalization of the world”

Posted on June 7, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

SPECTATOR US
How to destroy civilization
by Roger Kimball
June 3, 2020

…For decades now, our colleges and universities (and increasingly our grades schools) have been preaching a gospel of cultural self-hatred. America, according to this gospel, is evil. The country is inextricably racist and beholden to an irredeemably exploitative economic system. The latest retelling of this creation myth is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning ‘1619 Project’ whose fundamental message is that America was started as a ‘slavocracy.’ According to this malignant fantasy, the Revolutionary War was fought primarily ‘to protect the institution of slavery.’ At last count, elements of this disgusting bit of historical revisionism were being adopted in the curricula of some 4,000 school districts. READ MORE

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“Netanyahu said determined to move ahead with annexing parts of West Bank and is working on high-resolution maps, despite threat of EU sanctions, ambivalence from US”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
German FM to make urgent visit to Israel to warn against annexation
by Staff
June 5, 2020

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is reportedly set to come to Israel on Wednesday for an urgent visit to warn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against annexing parts of the West Bank. Maas will warn Netanyahu that the move will harm Israel’s ties with the European Union and with Germany, despite the importance of the relationship to Berlin, according to a Friday Channel 13 report Friday…[Netanyahu] has repeatedly declared determination to unilaterally annex all the settlements and the Jordan Valley, a total of some 30 percent of the West Bank, provided he has American support. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Shtayyeh to EU: Impose sanctions on Israel, recognize Palestinian state Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the European Union to impose sanctions on Israel to prevent it from extending its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank. He also called on the EU to recognize a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 lines, with east Jerusalem as its capital.

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“Major synagogues in the Los Angeles area have piously condemned racism, but not the hatred that defaced synagogues and schools”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

SULTAN KNISH
The Los Angeles Pogrom That No Jewish Organization Will Talk About
by Daniel Greenfield
June 4, 2020

…One would think that the hateful vandalism of 8 Jewish institutions and a mob screaming slurs after trashing Jewish businesses would lead to some sort of meaningful response. But that would be the optimistic perspective of people who haven’t experienced the unmitigated level of cowardice and appeasement that comprises Jewish institutional life at virtually every level. In June, my inbox has been littered with missives from assorted Jewish organizations, institutions, and even, shamefully, synagogues, some good and some bad, wringing their hands over George Floyd’s death, and timidly condemning violent responses, while failing to mention the racist attacks on Jewish businesses and institutions by supporters of the anti-Semitic Black Lives Matter group. READ MORE

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“Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick hospitalized with light injuries after incident at home of Iyad Halak, a Palestinian autistic man shot dead by police”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Former Likud MK assaulted during visit to family of slain East Jerusalem man
by Staff
June 4, 2020

A former Likud lawmaker was assaulted Thursday in East Jerusalem while visiting the family of an autistic Palestinian man who was shot dead by police. Yehudah Glick, a longtime activist for Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount, said he wanted to pay his condolences to the family of Iyad Halak, 32, who was killed in Jerusalem’s Old City over the weekend. Police said Halak appeared to be holding a gun, but he was unarmed and apparently didn’t understood officers’ orders to halt as he passed near the Lion’s Gate. He reportedly fled on foot and hid in a garbage room, where he was gunned down. READ MORE

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“In 1967, Arab militaries based much of their strategy and battle doctrine on Soviet concepts; a doctrine Israel closely studied”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

MIRYAM INSTITUTE
The Six Day War: Israel’s Air Force Seizes the Advantage
by Avishai Levi
June 5, 2020

The Six Day War presents an exceptional case study of the Israeli Air Force’s ethos of military planning and preparation – something that resulted from the clear understanding that the country’s very existence rested – in no small part – upon the shoulders of its pilots, air crew and ground crews. On land, tens of thousands of graves had been dug to be filled by the anticipated casualties of war.  Our young nation felt like it was on the edge of the abyss, with powerful enemies rounding upon it in the form of several Arab militaries.  The sense throughout the defense establishment was that if Israel was to avoid what it perceived to be a looming second Holocaust, it must capitalize upon the first opportunity to push back the threats massing against it to the north and, much more forebodingly, to the south. READ MORE

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“El Al direct flight from Buenos Aires to Tel Aviv shortened by 2 hours; Sudanese authorities insisted aircraft enter its airspace only after local TV news broadcasts end”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
In fresh sign of warming ties, Israeli airliner enters Sudan’s airspace
by Raphael Ahren and Michael Bachner
June 4, 2020

An El Al plane flying from Argentina crossed through Sudan’s airspace on Thursday, the first Israeli airliner to do so, in another sign of warming ties between the Jewish state and the Arab African country, which had long been hostile to Israel. The plane, marked ELY046, was seen on flight tracker site flightradar24 entering Sudan’s airspace around 9:30 p.m. (Israel time), about 12 hours after it took off from Buenos Aires, and was scheduled to land in Tel Aviv around midnight. The development, if it turns permanent, would allow for direct flights between Ben Gurion Airport and Buenos Aires to be shortened by some two hours. READ MORE

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“The radicalization of white progressives at the heart of the mayhem represents the greatest threat to the communal future of American Jewry, to relations between the American Jewish community and the rest of the Jewish world, and to US-Israel relations”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The great threat to America – and to American Jewry
by Caroline B. Glick
June 5, 2020

…For American Jews, the violent riots constitute a challenge on several levels. First, there is the challenge of squaring their political identity with their Jewish identity. As the 2014 Pew survey of American Jews showed, around half of American Jews identify as progressives. As progressives, many American Jews share the views of their non-Jewish progressive counterparts regarding the need to prioritize the interests of minority communities over their own interests. But the Jews’ progressive desire to work on behalf of those demonstrating for African Americans places their political identity on a collision course with their Jewish identity. Black Lives Matter, the radical group leading the demonstrations, is an anti-Semitic organization. READ MORE

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“The families of Bezalel and Ruth found themselves at the ‘COVID-19 Hotel’ in Nir Etzion. Last Thursday, the two announced their engagement”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Only in Israel: Love in the time of COVID-19
by Staff
June 6, 2020

The families of Bezalel Rafael Cohen and Ruth Shema found themselves at the “coronavirus hotel” for virus patients in Nir Etzion as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. On Thursday, the two announced that they were engaged to be married. Their story is another reminder of the special merit of life in the Jewish State. The couple and their families became infected with coronavirus over the Passover holiday and were taken to the hotel, which was converted into a coronavirus recovery ward for the haredi public…A friend of the families who received word of the potential match organized a date between the two. The rest is history. READ MORE

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