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

Posted on December 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GLOBES
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”

Posted on December 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
‘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”

Posted on December 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘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

Posted on December 15, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
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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