#BDSFail Anti-Israel activists fail to convince ICC that Israel is guilty of “war crimes”

Posted on December 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
ICC Again Rejects Petition to Probe Israel for War Crimes in 2010 Mavi Marmara Incident
By Aryeh Savir
December 3, 2019

The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has once again refused to launch an investigation into the IDF’s takeover of the Mavi Marmara ship, the latest phase in an ongoing campaign to charge Israel with war crimes at the ICC. In 2010, the Israeli navy intercepted the Turkish Mavi Marmara as it attempted to violate the Israeli-imposed military blockade on the Gaza Strip. Passengers onboard ambushed the IDF soldiers with knives and metal rods. In the ensuing scuffle, 10 Turks were killed and several soldiers were seriously wounded. READ MORE

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6 European countries join forces to do business with Iran (and throw Israel under the bus)

Posted on December 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Israel Rebukes Six European Countries for Joining Sanctions-Avoiding Financial System
by Karys Rhea
December 1, 2019

Israel sharply rebuked six European countries on Sunday after they announced their intention to become members of INSTEX, a financial system that provides a path for Iran to circumvent US sanctions and continue exporting oil and other goods to Europe Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden said on Friday that they would join the trade mechanism, which has yet to facilitate a transaction. After the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal in 2018, the bartering system was established to sidestep sanctions and preserve the deal...The [Foreign]  Ministry’s Director General Yuval Rotem urged the six countries to reconsider. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Merkel gov’t continues UN assault against Israel, snubbing German Jews Germany’s UN ambassador has voted again for an anti-Israel resolution, ignoring pleas from the nearly 100,000-member Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Jewish state to change its voting pattern.

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“Human Rights Watch has become a shill for the Palestinians’ campaign to demonize and delegitimize Israel”

Posted on December 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Israel Expels Human Rights Watch’s BDS Supporter
by Joseph Klein
November 28, 2019

…The anti-Israel bias of the UN Human Rights Council is well-known. This dysfunctional UN body doesn’t even try very hard to hide it. However, Human Rights Watch portrays itself as an objective source of information on human rights abuses around the world. It claims on its website that its researchers “work to an established, proven, and consistent methodology based on information gathering from a broad range of sources.” Yet, at least when it comes to Israel, all such pretenses of objectivity and careful research are replaced by pro-Palestinian advocacy. READ MORE

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“Forty years after the Islamic Revolution, substantial numbers of Iranians are finally rejecting the priorities of their masters”

Posted on December 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
Iranian Protests Were Not about the Price of Gas
by A.J. Caschetta
December 2, 2019

Anyone who thinks that the recent protests in 100 cities throughout Iran were about gas prices did not pay attention to what the protesters were saying. The immediate spark that led to the Arab Spring was the 2010 self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor, but the Arab Spring revolution was not about Tunisian citizens’ ability to obtain permits to sell fruit. Likewise, this unrest in Iran was not about the price of gas. Iranian protesters (and rioters) chanting “No to Gaza, no to Lebanon!” “Leave Syria and think of us,” and even “Death to Palestine!” indicates that something much larger than the price of gas drove their outrage. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Liel Leibovitz: Iran in flames and ‘experts’ didn’t foresee it due to Trump-hate blindness Did our ­experts see this coming? Nope: Most were too busy blasting President Trump. The prestige press and Twitterati spent the last few years railing against the president for trashing the nuclear deal and ratcheting up sanctions — actions that had supposedly sent the Iranian people rallying around the flag…Blinded by their disdain for Trump, they could credit no narrative that didn’t feature the president as the ultimate bumbler.

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“Jews are ‘colonialists’ and ‘occupiers’ who only arrived in Israel in 1948, the academics claimed on Palestinian TV”

Posted on December 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Palestinian academics deny archaelogical evidence of Jews in Israel
by Donna Rachel Edmunds
December 1, 2019

The Palestinian Authority is continuing with its propaganda mission to deny Jewish links to the land of Israel by placing on television academics who are willing to refute clear archaeological evidence to the contrary. Palestinian Media Watch has recorded three examples of Palestinian academics appearing on official PA TV in October and November to discuss the archaeological evidence linking Jews to the region. In all three cases, the academics outright denied that there was any evidence at all of Jewish life in Israel before 1948, painting the current Jewish population as occupiers and usurpers. READ MORE

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“Observers warn that while the Islamic State may have been “defeated” in the Middle East, it remains a potent danger to Europe”

Posted on December 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Islamic State Alive and Well in Europe
by Soeren Kern
December 2, 2019

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the November 29 jihadi attack at London Bridge, where a Pakistani Islamist stabbed two people to death and injured three others. The suspect, 28-year-old Usman Khan, a convicted terrorist, was subsequently shot dead by police. Khan, from Stoke-on-Trent, was convicted in February 2012 of plotting — on behalf of al-Qaeda — jihadi attacks against the London Stock Exchange and pubs in Stoke, in addition to setting up a jihadi training camp in Pakistan. He was sentenced to an “indeterminate sentence,” meaning that he could have been kept in prison beyond his original minimum term of eight years due to the danger he posed to national security. READ MORE

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“The draw of Israelis to physical culture & embodiment began with early Zionist thinkers who sought out to become the “muscle jew” and to flex the muscles of physical survival instead of spiritual faith”

Posted on December 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Gal Gadot, Zionism and The ‘New’ Jewish Body
by Kinneret Kim Dubowitz
November 30, 2019

…While the fitness craze has ignited people in many countries, and especially those inhabiting warmer climates, this trend towards physical fitness among Israeli Jews may have a deeper root; A story of the transformation of the oppressed Eastern European “Old Jew” and a desire for Israeli society to replace this with the physically fit embodied Israeli “New Jew.”…The “New Jew” would not make the same mistakes of the Jews of the past and grow in weak, unhealthy, therefore defenseless bodies, becoming subject to continuous oppression. READ MORE

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Representatives from 15 Arab countries meet in London to oppose #BDS

Posted on November 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
Newly Formed Arab Council Publicly Decries BDS and Seeks Reconciliation with Israel
by Jenni Frazer
November 27, 2019

…Thirty people from all walks of civil society, from 15 Arab countries, took part in the creation of a new body, the Arab Council for Regional Integration. Their mission is one of “peace and love and friendship,” whose aim is to repair relations with the Jewish state…Two opening presentations electrified the listeners: one from the urbane Muhammed Anwar el-Sadat, nephew of the late president who signed the first peace treaty with Israel; and the other, a passionate address by former Kuwaiti information minister Sami Abdul-Latif Al-Nisf, outlining the “mistakes” made by the Arab world in dealing with the Jewish state. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Saudi reporter secretly visits Israel, says ‘loves Jewish people’ Prominent scholar slams Palestinians, says Arab countries should work toward ‘real peace’ with Jerusalem.

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“To its credit, the ADL has been all over the problem of anti-Semitism on the far-right.” On the left, not so much.

Posted on November 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Who can speak for American Jews against anti-Semitism? Not the ADL
by Jonathan S. Tobin
November 27, 2019

…Anti-Semitic trends that couldn’t be connected to Trump by even the most rabid liberal were swept under the rug. Its belated response to the targeting of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn by African-Americans has been too little and too late, and bespoke more of a group that is addicted to playing politics than a national defense organization. Just as bad is the fact that under Greenblatt, ADL has been slow to recognize the threat from the left as basically uninterested in it. That’s hardly surprising given Greenblatt’s role in an Obama administration that helped normalize anti-Israel sentiment within the Democratic Party. READ MORE

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Canada concurs with the United Nations: The Western Wall, the Temple Mount and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City are occupied Palestinian land to which Israel and Jews have no claim

Posted on November 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
More Than 11,000 People Urge Canada to Reverse UN Vote Calling Western Wall ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’
by Staff
November 25, 2019

More than 11,000 people have signed a petition urging the Canadian government to reverse its vote in favor of an annual United Nations resolution that deems the Western Wall and other sites of Jewish worship occupied Palestinian territories. The General Assembly motion in question, which passed on Tuesday afternoon, describes east Jerusalem — home to the Temple Mount and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City — “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” without recognizing any Israeli claims to the land. It also condemned the construction of the West Bank security barrier, which was erected following a Palestinian campaign of suicide bombings and other attacks targeting civilians. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Disabled Jewish friends don kippas in holiday ads for Canadian apparel company Danny Laszlo and Daniel Propper enjoy the limelight as the Roots brand turns to everyday people for their 2019 winter campaign centered around Canucks’ reputation for niceness.

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