“Jews have taken and are taking #antisemitism very seriously. Non-Jews must do the same”

Posted on December 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE ATLANTIC
Jews Are Going Underground
by Deborah Lipstadt
December 29, 2019

In a month of terrible anti-Semitic attacks, including a stabbing yesterday of multiple people at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, the news that most depressed me did not involve violence. It was not something done to Jews but something Jews did. A synagogue in the Netherlands is no longer publicly posting the times of prayer services. If you want to join a service, you have to know someone who is a member of the community. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Karol Markowicz: How liberals are allowing anti-Semitism to flourish Like many of you, I’m thinking, “Not this subject again.” How many columns can be devoted to it? I’ve read them. I’ve written them. It’s exhausting, and it’s dreary. Jews are being beaten up, anti-Semitism flows some years and ebbs in others. So what? But it matters — gravely.

Guardian Angels – not the Jews – patrolling in Brooklyn:

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“The 1619 Project represents a new nadir in the politically correct, anti-American machinations of The New York Times”

Posted on December 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW CRITERION
1619 & all that: On The New York Times’s recent disinformation campaign
January 2020

…It was to console its core readership that The New York Times undertook The 1619 Project in a special flood-the-zone issue of its Sunday magazine in August and then in a snazzy, graphics-heavy series of features on its website. For two years, the Times had invested heavily in the vaudeville entertainment called “Trump–Russia.” The spectacular failure of its leading man, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to deliver a happy ending to that fiasco underscored the essential futility of the entire enterprise. This was something that Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of the Times, grasped instantly. READ MORE

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“We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history”

Posted on December 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

SPECTATOR USA
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
by Matt Ridley
December 22, 2019

Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 percent when I was born. Global inequality has been plunging as Africa and Asia experience faster economic growth than Europe and North America; child mortality has fallen to record low levels; famine virtually went extinct; malaria, polio and heart disease are all in decline. Little of this made the news, because good news is no news. READ MORE

GATESTONE Douglas Murray: Celebrating a Great Non-Event of 2019 The hope of most of us in a country such as Britain is not that everybody leaves their faith, but simply that people have religious freedom and that this should include the freedom to leave a faith if you wish to do so with no repercussions against your person.

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Monsey NY machete attack comes amid a frightening spike in anti-Semitic attacks on Jews across New York

Posted on December 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Multiple stabbings at the home of a Monsey rabbi
by Ron Kampeas
December 28, 2019

A man wielding a machete walked into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York and stabbed at least five people. In a series of tweets, the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council of the Hudson Valley said that five Hasidic Orthodox Jews were taken to hospital on Saturday night, two in critical condition. The Council said the assailant was an African American male, his face partially masked with a scarf. It said the attack took place at 9:50 pm Eastern Time. A number of outlets, including the Haredi Orthodox Vos Iz Neias, identified the building as the Rabbi Rottenberg Shul. Outlets said a Hanukkah party was underway when the attack occurred. READ MORE

CHABAD.ORG Stabbing Attack at Chanukah Celebration in Monsey, New York A Chassidic man threw a table at the assailant and chased him from the home. The attacker then attempted to enter the adjacent synagogue, but was locked out by the people there, who barricaded themselves inside. Five people were stabbed, at least one in critical condition. The assailant fled in a gray car and was reported to have been placed under arrest in New York City two hours later.

NBC NEWS Guardian Angels to patrol Jewish neighborhoods in New York City after recent attacks “We’re a visual deterrence,” said Curtis Sliwa, who founded the unarmed crime-prevention group.

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Netanyahu wins primaries: “He re-learned a valuable lesson about political campaigning”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Primaries reinvigorate Netanyahu and tighten the political knot
by Lahav Harkov
December 28, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent evening after evening over the past two weeks in the living rooms of Likud activists packed with supporters hanging on his every word. Sometimes he stood on chairs, or even tables to make sure the rapt audiences could see him and hear every word…With the Likud holding its first leadership primary in five years and the most serious race in 14 years, despite rival MK Gideon Sa’ar’s poor odds, Netanyahu decided it was time to get back in touch with the party’s grassroots. The plan worked, with Netanyahu winning a resounding 72.5% victory. Sa’ar’s 28.5% was respectable, but not what he and his supporters had hoped for. READ MORE

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Attorney Brooke Goldstein represents Columbia University student, a former IDF’er in first Title VI action of its kind

Posted on December 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
Israeli Student at Columbia Files First Violation of Title VI Lawsuit under Trump’s Executive Order
by David Israel
December 26, 2019

Jonathan Karten, 23, a senior at Columbia University, who served in the IDF with the rank of Sergeant, on Tuesday filed the first legal action since President Trump’s December 11 executive order applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jewish Americans. Karten asserts that the university is in violation of Title VI for discrimination against Jews…Attorney Brooke Goldstein, who represents Karten, said her client “has been ridiculed and embarrassed because of his religion and his national identity” on campus by members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) – and by professors. READ MORE

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“The ICC chief prosecutor’s hand is now controlled by organizations linked to the 3rd Reich”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
The ICC decision on Israel would make Himmler proud
by Richard Kemp
December 26, 2019

SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler, architect and director of the Holocaust, would be proud of the latest move by Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Intent on the total elimination of the Jewish race, Himmler supported Amin al-Huseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in his plans to eradicate the Jews in Palestine. Now Bensouda and the ICC have joined the international campaign aimed at eliminating the Jewish state, led by al-Huseini’s successors. In a grotesque inversion, the ICC, heir to the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, has become a propaganda weapon of anti-Semitic hate. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Professor Avi Bell: There are no judges in The Hague Fatou Bensouda, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, has already adopted doubtful legal arguments made by the Palestinians that: The PLO comprises a state; all parts of Israel that were under illegal occupation by Jordan and Egypt from 1948-1967 – including the Old City of Jerusalem – belong to the state of Palestine; Jewish settlements are an international crime; and IDF soldiers are war criminals. Therefore, we already know what the results of the “investigation” will be and what “evidence” will be collected.

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America’s Jewish leaders are “like failed generals fighting the last war” obsessing on Nazis and the political right, deliberately “minimizing the assaults coming from progressives and Islamists”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Why Trump’s Protection Leaves Jews Confused
by Ruth R. Wisse
December 22, 2019

Anti-Semi­tism is on the rise in the U.S., but the re­sponse from Amer­i­ca’s Jews has been con­fused. Don­ald Trump is the first pres­i­dent to con­front anti-Semi­tism by rec­og­niz­ing Jerusalem as Is­rael’s cap­i­tal and by ex­tend­ing civil-rights pro­tec­tion to Jew­ish col­lege stu­dents in the U.S. Yet some Jews and Jew­ish or­ga­ni­za­tions con­demn him as an anti-Semite and de­nounce his ini­tia­tives. One rea­son, per­versely, is the suc­cess of Holo­caust teach­ing. Amer­i­cans raised on this his­tory are so used to Nazi vil­lainy that they can­not imag­ine any other form of anti-Jew­ish pol­i­tics. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser: America’s Failed Jewish Leadership Must Resign It’s hard to ignore the simple fact that Jewish leaders have failed to stop or even slow down the accelerating epidemic of Jew-hatred in America. Good intentions and doing their “best” is not good enough. It’s irrational to continue with the current policies and leaders and expect different results. Part of the reason for their failure is that many mainstream Jewish leaders have failed to fully understand the new threats we face.

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Iran protests “represent the best chance there is of avoiding a terrible war with Iran by bringing down the regime”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

MELANIEPHILLIPS.COM
Against the odds, heroic Iranians continue their resistance
December 27, 2019

While the west puts its feet up over the holiday season, the heroic people of Iran are continuing to put their lives on the line in their attempt to bring down the tyrannical Iranian regime. The current wave of protests across the country started last month. The courage and determination of the people are staggering. According to a report published on the Persian-language section of the Al Arabiya news website, some 1360 people have been murdered so far by Iranian security forces, principally the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). READ MORE

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“ICC prosecutor Bensouda’s bid to probe Israel for war crimes is being met with intense hostility, including by reporters highlighting her past work for a brutal African dictator”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
From The Gambia to The Hague: Meet Israel’s new public enemy number one
by Raphael Ahren
December 26, 2019

Israel has many detractors, real and imagined, but since Friday the country has a brand new public enemy number one: Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Since announcing her intention to open an investigation into the “situation in Palestine” because she believes war crimes “have been or are being committed” there, the 58-year-old Gambia native has endured a massive wave of criticism. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly accused her of “pure anti-Semitism,” comparing the legalistic argumentation she put forward to the anti-Jewish decrees by the villains of the Hanukkah story. READ MORE

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