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

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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 chairpersondirector 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”

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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”

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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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“Business intelligence company Euromonitor International sees 38% growth in tourism to Jerusalem in 2019.”

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Jerusalem ranked world’s fastest growing tourist destination
by Michal Raz-Chaimovich
December 15, 2019

The latest survey of the world’s most popular tourist cities by UK business intelligence company Euromonitor International shows Jerusalem as the world’s fastest growing destination. Jerusalem rose six places in the rankings of the Top 100 City Destinations report in 2018 to 61st place with 3.93 overseas tourists, up 12% from 2017 and is expected to enjoy 38% growth in 2019 to 4.8 million, according to Euromonitor International. With Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics projecting 4.9 million overseas visitors to Israel in 2019, this figure might be an overestimation.  READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Immigration to Israel surging, asylum seekers no longer arriving — state report Israel is on pace for a 20 percent surge in immigration in 2019 over the year before, according to new figures released on Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. In 2019, some 27,300 people immigrated to the Jewish state between January and the end of October, the CBS report said. The state report said the figure was 20% more than the same period last year.

JNS Forbes Names Tel Aviv 2nd-Best City to Visit in 2020 Between its sandy beaches and vast array of culinary delights, Tel Avivians already know that they live in one of the best cities in the world. Now, however, it’s official: Last week Forbes named Israel’s White City the second-hottest world destination.

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“Prisoners of War debuted in Israel in 2009. Following the success of Homeland, it became available in the US on streaming platform”

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‘New York Times’ names Israeli show top international TV series of decade
by Hannah Brown
December 21, 2019

The New York Times released a list Friday of the 30 best international television shows of the decade and put the Israeli series Prisoners of War in the top spot. The series, produced by the Keshet network, was remade in the US as Homeland in 2011. The series has a clever premise, with built-in suspense: Two Israeli POWs return home after 17 years in captivity, bringing the remains of a third soldier. As they work to integrate themselves back into their families and society, a military psychiatrist begins to suspect they are hiding something and launches an investigation. READ MORE

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“Jewish leaders worry over a backlash, as anti-Semites spread notion that a cabal of Jews is trying to oust the US president”

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‘Jew coup’: The anti-Semitic conspiracy theories surrounding Trump’s impeachment
by Eric Cortellessa
December 19, 2019

…But to far-right anti-Semitic extremists, there’s been something else entirely driving the president’s woes: a cabal of powerful Jews determined to oust him from office. Last month, the founder of TruNews, a fundamentalist Christian platform that regularly publishes anti-Semitic and racist videos, raged against a “Jew coup” to impeach Trump. Many of the officials involved in the impeachment inquiry — such as California Congressman Adam Schiff, New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, and witness to the probe Trump’s US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, among others — are Jewish. READ MORE

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NJ school board member blames Jersey City Jews for kosher market murders

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After Anti-Semitic Killings, Jersey City School Official Called Jews ‘Brutes’
by Ed Shanahan
Dec. 17, 2019

Jersey City’s mayor called on Tuesday for a school board member to resign over a Facebook post in which she called Jews who had moved to the city “brutes” and suggested a deeper “message” to the deadly attack at a kosher market there last week. The mayor, Steven Fulop, was reacting to remarks posted online over the weekend by the board member, Joan Terrell-Paige, who is black. In her post, she questioned the outpouring of fellowship and support for Jersey City’s Jewish residents in the wake of the Dec. 10 attack. READ MORE

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Pompeo points out multiple errors in Democrat’s letter on settlement legality

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Pompeo brings down the House
by Ruthie Blum
December 17, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returned fire on Monday to a large group of House Democrats who lambasted him last month for declaring that Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are not illegal. In a letter to Michigan Rep. Andy Levin, who led 106 of his colleagues to sign a joint complaint against what they called the “State Department’s unilateral reversal on the status of settlements, without any clear legal justification,” Pompeo picked apart each false claim lobbed by the likes of “Squad” members Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) with the force of an ax and the slice of a razor blade. READ MORE

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Kuwaiti youth: “I am Jewish and I am proud and if you think it is crazy you should be ashamed”

ELDER OF ZIYON
Kuwaiti man considers himself a religious Zionist Jew
December 15, 2019

…It turns out that Naftali is Youssef Al-Mebhanna from Kuwait. He grew up a Muslim but when he was twenty, after speaking with a friend from Qatar who asked him for proof Israelis are murderers, he realized that he was being told lies all his life. He became interested in Judaism and Zionism, and even though he never had a formal conversion he puts on a talit and tefillin every day, and he learned Hebrew from watching Israeli comedies…Naftali is now in England where he hopes to convert to Judaism and then make aliyah to Israel. READ MORE

Here is his interview and story, in Hebrew:

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#BDSFail “For Austria, Israel’s right to exist is non-negotiable, and any form of anti-Semitism, including Israel-related anti-Semitism, is unacceptable and must be severely condemned”

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Boris Johnson to pass anti-BDS law, official says
by Lahav Harkov
December 15, 2019

The new Conservative government in the UK will pass a law making it illegal for public bodies to engage with BDS, UK Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues Eric Pickles said at the International Institute for Strategic Dialogue’s conference in Jerusalem on Sunday. “BDS is antisemitic and should be treated as such,” Pickles said, explaining that the new law will not allow public bodies to work with those who boycott, divest from or sanction Israel in any way. Pickles, who is also the chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, said that Labour’s historic defeat in last week’s general election in the UK showed that the British people reject antisemitism. READ MORE

GATESTONE Austrian Parliament to Declare BDS Movement as Anti-Semitic All of the major parties represented in the Austrian Parliament have agreed to support a resolution condemning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. The measure calls on Austria’s federal government to fight anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and to withhold any form of financial and other state support from anti-Semitic organizations and advocates of BDS principles…The Austrian resolution, one of the most forceful European statements of support for Israel to date, is part of a growing pushback against the BDS movement.

ISRAEL HAYOM BDS uses veil of social justice to spread Jew-hatred, report says With anti-Semitism on the rise in the United States and across the world, a new report has just been released that seeks to highlight how the delegitimization campaign against Israel is fueling such incidents. The report, titled The New Anti-Semites: The Radicalization Mechanism of the BDS Movement and the Delegitimization Campaign Against Israel, seeks to expose “the BDS faux ‘civil rights’ movement for what it is – a delegitimization campaign with genocidal aims, rather than the human rights movement that it purports to be.

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