Amnesty International campaigns neatly align with BDS goals

Posted on December 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
Amnesty International’s Obsessive Anti-Semitic, Anti-Israel Hatred
by Arye Greene/TPS
December 22, 2019

Close scrutiny of dozens of social media accounts linked to Amnesty International and research of the output of over 40 of the organization’s staff and volunteers outlines the “extreme bias” against Israel in the posts and shows “there are clear political and discriminatory influences at work at Amnesty,” a new report on Amnesty’s approach to Israel shows. The report was written by David Collier, a British anti-Semitism researcher and commissioned by the Jewish Human Rights Watch. READ MORE

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Smoke dope, butcher a Jew and walk away a free man: “French court rules Kobili Traore can’t be held criminally responsible for #SarahHalimi’s killing because he was in a psychotic state from marijuana use”

Posted on December 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Suspect in 2017 Paris killing of Jewish woman won’t stand trial
by Agencies and Staff
December 19, 2019

A man accused of murdering his Jewish neighbor in Paris will not stand trial after a French court ruled Thursday he could not be held responsible for the killing because he was in a psychotic state from smoking marijuana. Kobili Traore is alleged to have beaten his neighbor, 66-year-old Sarah Halimi, to death in 2017 while calling her a demon and shouting about Allah, before throwing her body from the window of her third-story apartment. The appeals court, whose decision Thursday ended Traore’s detention, ordered he be hospitalized or made to attend a drug rehabilitation program. READ MORE

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As of December 21, it’s official: Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in 30 minutes

Posted on December 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem fast train finally begins operations
December 22, 2019

After an 11-year delay, the new high-speed rail link between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem began running on Saturday night, Dec. 21. The rail line cost approximately NIS 7 billion ($2 billion) to construct, with some estimates ranging as high as NIS 9 billion ($2.6 billion). The Jerusalem station is 80 meters underground, making it one of the deepest railway stations in the world. Travel time on the new route is 30 minutes—a third of the time taken by the old Jerusalem-Tel Aviv railway line. READ MORE

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A Chanukah message from Boris Johnson to Britain’s Jews

Posted on December 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

“Britain would not be Britain without its Jewish community. And we will stand with you and celebrate with you — at Chanukah and all year round.”

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The real story of Hanukah, not the one you hear at Sunday school: “the battle Judah Maccabee and his boys won was really a civil war against the Jews who turned away from their faith”

Posted on December 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD
‘The Greeks Tried To Kill Us’ And Other Hanukkah Myths Debunked
by Zach Epstein
December 19, 2019

…The Hellenistic Jews were engaged in a battle of identity with the traditional Jews, and enlisted the help of the brutal King Antiochis and his Seleucid Empire to wipe out the “un-enlightened elements” of Jewish religion, particularly acts through which Jew claim to be able to sanctify physicality. Decrees against these elements ensued. The Jews didn’t assimilate into Greek culture like the other peoples. They maintained their identity, religion, and values even amid the strong pull of the Zeitgeist, and were thus a threat to the authority of the Empire as well as an independent moral conscience. READ MORE

AMERICAN THINKER Hanukah: The First Battle against Transnationalism and the Deep State At first, there were the usual military attacks by the Seleucids [Syrian Greeks] against Judea. But that changed. Instead of undertaking costly military campaigns to accomplish this, Antiochus, circa 175 BC, reasoned it would be easier and less conspicuous to bring Judea under heel by simply de-Judaizing it, by forbidding Israel’s core and distinctive religious practices and educating its children in the mores of the hedonistic gymnasium.

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Fieldston, “elite New York private school, founded by Jews, is rocked by allegations of systemic anti-Semitism”

Posted on December 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Pride and Prejudice at Fieldston
by Sean Cooper
December 18, 2019

On Thursday, Nov. 21, a week before Thanksgiving, 500 high school students settled into their seats in the auditorium of the Fieldston School’s main campus… The invited speaker was Kayum Ahmed, an employee of the Open Society Foundations and adjunct faculty member at Columbia University Law School…As the crowd filtered out of the auditorium, some of the Jewish students present registered the moment with fear and confusion, according to multiple parents and others familiar with the event. In a classroom later that day, one Jewish student shared that Ahmed’s comment [“That Jews who suffered in the Holocaust and established the State of Israel today—they perpetuate violence against Palestinians that’s unthinkable“] was upsetting.  READ MORE

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“With the world’s largest trade fair opening in an Arab country for the first time next year, Israel is stepping up preparations, hoping to boost nascent ties with regional neighbours”

Posted on December 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRANCE 24
Israel eyes Dubai expo as ‘portal’ to Arab world
December 15, 2019

…The Dubai Expo 2020 trade fair will gather nearly 200 countries vying for the attention of a projected 25 million visitors over nearly six months from October. Like most Arab countries, the United Arab Emirates has no diplomatic relations with Israel. But the Jewish state has been quietly moving closer to Gulf Arab countries on the basis of shared security interests and a common enemy — Iran. An Israeli pavilion at an Arab-hosted expo presents a unique opportunity to speed up the “normalisation” of relations and reach out to Arab peoples, officials say. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Emirati FM tweets report on warming ties with Israel; Netanyahu welcomes detente PM says ‘time has come for normalization and peace’ after retweeting Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s link to news report on ‘Arab-Israeli alliance taking shape’

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Report concludes “global interconnections between BDS and terror organizations were vast, with more than 100 connections being identified”

Posted on December 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israel’s Arrest of Palestinian Terrorist Leader Highlights ‘Extensive Overlaps’ Between BDS and Terror Groups
by Sean Savage
December 18, 2019

The announcement on Wednesday by Israel’s Shin Bet security agency that it has arrested some 50 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) capped off a months-long targeting of the terror group for its role in the deadly terror attack on Aug. 23 that killed an Israeli teenager hiking with her father and brother…The arrests coincidently provide evidence of further links between the PFLP and the BDS movement. Among those arrested by the Shin Bet include Khalida Jarrar, 56, who the Israeli security service noted was the head of the terror group’s operations in the West Bank. Until recently, Jarrar also served as the vice chairperson, director and board member of the BDS organization Addameer. READ MORE

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“The narrative that Jesus was Palestinian is deeply rooted in a global anti-Semitic movement to rob Christians of their true Hebraic heritage”

Posted on December 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CBN.COM
Evangelical Leader: If Jesus Were on Earth Today, He Would be Banned from Bethlehem for Being Jewish
by Emily Jones
December 19, 2019

…While the Bible clearly states Jesus was a Jew living in Judea, some believe he was in fact Palestinian. The Palestinian Authority held a Christmas celebration earlier this month in Birzeit, north of Ramallah, during which Jesus  was praised as a “Palestinian guerilla fighter.” “Christmas is a Palestinian national holiday, and Jesus was a Palestinian guerrilla fighter, standing against injustice, calling on the citizens living in Birzeit to support their town,” PA Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh told attendees of the celebration…Laurie Cardoza-Moore, an evangelical leader and founder of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), believes the idea that Jesus was Palestinian is not only wrong, but anti-Semitic. READ MORE

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“You f**king stinking a** Jew,” the attacker is heard screaming after police arrive at the scene”

Posted on December 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Israeli woman, Jewish man attacked on NYC subway, called ‘stinking Jews’
by Rachel Wolf
December 17, 2019

Lihi Aharon, an Israeli woman, was verbally and physically attacked recently by an apparently Muslim woman in a New York City subway car. It is suspected that the attacker is Muslim because she repeats the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) and references the Koran. After the attack, Aharon recorded a video of herself and has a noticeable scratch on her face that she says is from the incident…Aharon says the woman told the Jewish man that last week’s shooting attack at Jersey City’s JC Kosher Supermarket was “great.” READ MORE

Lawfare Project representing Israeli student subjected to anti-Semitic attack on NYC subway

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