“Feminists denounce the Western “patriarchy,” but say nothing against the Muslim treatment of women as chattel; gays denounce Christian bakeries, but say nothing against the Muslim execution of gays”

Posted on November 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN THINKER
Understanding the Islam/West Narrative
by Raymond Ibrahim
November 26, 2019

Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world is eye-opening, to say the very least. In the first century of its existence (between 632-732) Islam permanently conquered, Arabized, and Islamized nearly three-quarters of the post-Roman Christian world, thereby permanently severing it. Europe came to be known as “the West” because it was literally the remaining and westernmost appendage of Christendom not to be swallowed up by Islam. For roughly a millennium thereafter, Arabs, Berbers, Turks, and Tatars — all of whom called and saw themselves as Muslims — launched raid after raid, all justified and lauded as jihads, into virtually every corner of Europe. READ MORE

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“How nonsensical jargon like ‘intersectionality’ and ‘cisgender’ is imbued with an air of false authority”

Posted on November 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘Idea Laundering’ in Academia
by Peter Boghossian
November 24, 2019

You’ve almost certainly heard some of the following terms: cisgender, fat shaming, heteronormativity, intersectionality, patriarchy, rape culture and whiteness. The reason you’ve heard them is that politically engaged academicians have been developing concepts like these for more than 30 years, and all that time they’ve been percolating. Only recently have they begun to emerge in mainstream culture. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

JEWISH PRESS Rabbi Dov Fischer: Modern Orthodoxy Has A College Problem The college campuses these children are going to are not the campuses you and I went to. Children today are receiving, not a liberal arts education, but indoctrination. Indeed, the social climate today is so rife with intimidation that kids are essentially being brainwashed.

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BBC to Corbyn: “Eighty percent of Jews think that you’re antisemitic. That’s quite a lot of British Jews”

Posted on November 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘train-wreck’ interview on antisemitism
by Ezra Taylor, Reuters
November 27, 2019

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn did little to quell accusations of antisemitism in an interview on the BBC on Tuesday. In an interview with the British political journalist Andrew Neil, Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly declined an invitation to apologize to the British Jewish community over long-standing antisemitism claims. UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn did little to quell accusations of antisemitism in an interview on the BBC on Tuesday. In an interview with the British political journalist Andrew Neil, Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly declined an invitation to apologize to the British Jewish community over long-standing antisemitism claims. READ MORE

DAILY MAIL Archbishop of Canterbury backs Chief Rabbi’s condemnation of Labour over anti-Semitism in unprecedented election intervention Corbynistas launched vile attacks on Britain’s Chief Rabbi today after he condemned Labour over its anti-Semitism crisis – and was backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Making an unprecedented intervention, Ephraim Mirvis said the vast majority of British Jews were ‘gripped by anxiety’ at the idea of Jeremy Corbyn in No 10.

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“If Netanyahu stood down, Likud could elect a new leader in the hopefully forthcoming primaries, and swiftly form a national unity government with Blue & White, the majority of whose members already support their basic policies related to defense and the settler blocs”

Posted on November 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Netanyahu – in the national interest, please step down now
by Isi Leibler
November 26, 2019

After the electoral impasse, I was one of the first of Prime Netanyahu’s long-term admirers and supporters to suggest that unless he made a deal with Benny Gantz, he would be well advised to retire now, or he would damage his illustrious career. Only six months ago, he was at the peak of his career and poised to make major progress with President Trump which could have set the foundations for a secure and prosperous Israel incorporating the major settlement blocs. Sadly, however, he has now been indicted – unjustly in my opinion – on three charges of breach of trust and bribery. READ MORE

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“Since the land did not belong to Transjordan, we must not use the term “Occupied Territory,” and under the precepts of international law it is nonsensical nomenclature”

Posted on November 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
There are No Settlers on the West Bank
by Professor Jason D. Hill
November 25, 2019

…To begin with, the Israeli Jews are not settlers in Judea and Samaria. From here on, they should be referred to as heroic pioneers on re-founded land in Holy Israel…We must, therefore, strike from our vocabulary the term “Occupied Territory.” The Jordanian annexation of Judea and Samaria was regarded as illegal. The British had relinquished its claim to the land when the British Mandate left the region. The Arab forces claimed vehemently that the 1949 Armistice line did not have any legal significance. By that reasoning the land did not belong to anyone. READ MORE

TABLET MAG Alan Baker: Israel’s Rights in the West Bank Under International Law Firstly, and underscoring all other considerations, are the international legal rights emanating from the indigenous and historic claims of the Jewish people in the area as a whole, virtually from time immemorial.

MELANIE PHILLIPS BLOG Negotiation in a war of extermination is no solution but surrender Every part of that claim — that Israel is in “occupation,” that the land it is “occupying” is “Palestinian territory,” and that Israel is acting illegally — is false.

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What motivated House Democrats members to send Pompeo that letter?

Posted on November 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ABU YEHUDA
Progressive Democrats Get it Wrong About Israel, Again
by Victor Rosenthal
November 24, 2019

…In response to the decision by Secretary of State Pompeo to finally officially reverse the US position that “Israeli settlements in the West Bank” – that is, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria – are inconsistent with international law, 100 Democratic members of Congress sent him a letter urging him to take back his decision. I use the word “stupid” because despite their obvious ignorance about the history of the US position, about international law, and about the significance and likely consequences of the change – they went ahead and sent the letter anyway. Sheer stupidity is the most generous explanation, because other explanations – like a desire to aid the enemies of the state of Israel who want to end it and re-disperse or murder its Jewish residents – are much uglier. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Israeli diplomat slams Democrats for ‘flawed’ letter criticizing White House policy on settlements Former Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold called out the Democratic Party over a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo which criticized the Trump administration’s new stance on Jewish territory within the West Bank.

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“Leaving the story of Mizrahi Jews out of pro-Israel advocacy is a mistake”

Posted on November 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
The Damage Done by Shouting Down Ideas
by Hen Mazzig
November 20, 2019

For the past several years, I’ve traveled around the United States as an advocate, speaking about my family’s story of exile from Iraq and Tunisia and its journey home to Israel. I visit schools, temples, community centers, LGBTQ groups — you name it. After each talk, listeners tell me that their knowledge about the Mizrahi community was limited before hearing me. Although Mizrahim make up 60% of Israel’s Jewish population today, even devoted Zionists entrenched in Israel’s policies know little about the largest demographic living there. READ MORE

JNS Arab States Are Claiming the Heritage of Their Expelled Jews On or around November 30, Jewish communities around the world will be holding events to remember the mass exodus of Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran. Almost a million people were displaced in the past 50 years, leaving billions of dollars’ worth of property behind.

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“Why would students calling themselves progressives feel the need to use such a startling, antisemitic chant to make their presence known?”

Posted on November 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

COLLEGE FIX
I’m a queer Jew of color. Woke college students tried to shut me down at Vassar
by Hen Mazzig
November 23, 2019

As part of a recent three-week campus speaking tour, I traveled to colleges across North America to share my family’s story. My father is Tunisian and my mother is Iraqi; their families came to Israel as refugees. In my talks, I share their stories and those of the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab and Muslim countries between 1941 and 1972. We are known as Mizrahi Jews, those whose families came from Arab and Muslim lands. Because of this history, I am also an advocate for Israel. Not for a specific policy, government, or political party, but for my country’s right to exist. READ MORE

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Unless the Palestinians manage to rise up against their abusive and corrupt leaders, their hope of building a democratic society will remain nothing more than a dream

Posted on November 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Are Palestinians Not Entitled to Human Rights?
by Bassam Tawil
November 25, 2019

While Palestinian officials repeatedly condemn Israel for violating Palestinians’ freedom of expression, it is actually the Palestinian Authority (PA) that continues to harass, intimidate and detain Palestinians for expressing their opinions on social media or being affiliated with rival political groups. Business as usual. The latest victims of the PA’s ongoing assault on public freedoms, particularly freedom of expression, are Palestinian lawyers, judges, political activists and university students….In another assault on freedom of expression, Palestinian political activist Ghassan al-Sa’di is currently facing charges of “insulting” senior PA officials. Palestinian sources said that al-Sa’di was summoned for interrogation after he posted a comment on Facebook deemed offensive to senior PA officials, accusing them of corruption. READ MORE

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At $25,000-per-couple Trump fundraising luncheon in Midtown, “many of attendees were Chuck Schumer donors”

Posted on November 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Orthodox Jews opening their wallets for President Trump in 2020
by Doree Lewak and Jon Levine
November 23, 2019

Hanukkah came a month early for Donald Trump this year. Though he polls as generally unpopular with Jews and has even been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in office, New York’s Orthodox enclaves are kvelling over the president — and even raised $4 million for him at a Midtown banquet last week. “[He’s] the first Hasidic president,” gushed Yossi Garelik, an Orthodox rabbi in Crown Heights who voted against Trump in 2016. “Literally right before he went into office when Obama abstained at the U.N. in December 2016 [jeopardizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank], Trump said, ‘January 20th everything will change.’ I said,’ This guy means business.’ I completely converted.” READ MORE

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