“With a week to go before general election, as Labour trails Johnson in polls but starts to close the gap, two surveys show Brits’ attitudes to Jews vis-à-vis their politics”

Posted on December 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
UK’s Corbyn is the ‘politician of choice for anti-Semites,’ new report claims
by Robert Philpot
December 5, 2019

Jeremy Corbyn is the most popular political leader among Britons who hold anti-Semitic views, a report released this week indicated. Sixty-seven percent of British adults who say they strongly support the hard-left opposition leader hold at least one anti-Semitic view and 33% hold four or more anti-Semitic views, according to the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) report. “Jeremy Corbyn is now the politician of choice for anti-Semites,” Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of CAA, said in a press statement. The CAA study was published as polls appeared to suggest Corbyn’s Labour Party is starting to close the gap on Prime Minister Boris Johnson as Britain’s general election campaign enters its final week. READ MORE

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Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Jonathan Kay about why so many intellectuals and young people loathe the culture of the West

Posted on December 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

QUILLETTE
Benedict Beckeld-Jonathan Kay Interview
December 1, 2019

Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Oikophobia—the knee-jerk dislike of your own culture. Click here to listen to podcast.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1vynMFVrQ2pP1R3EON8rp2

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#BDSFail Jewish groups welcome French resolution which recognizes connection between anti-Zionism and antisemitism

Posted on December 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
French Lawmakers Adopt Definition of Antisemitism That Includes Anti-Zionism
by Ben Cohen
December 3, 2019

The French parliament approved on Tuesday a resolution that recognizes and condemns anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism. Deputies in the National Assembly voted 154 to 72 to adopt the motion. Several French news outlets commented on the small overall turnout for the vote on the measure, with the majority of the 577 deputies in the parliament opting to abstain amid the political controversy surrounding its content. READ MORE

MOSAIC A French Court Absolves a Man of Anti-Semitic Murder—because He Smoked Marijuana In 2017, a Muslim man named Kobili Traoré broke into the Paris apartment of a Jewish woman named Sarah Halimi, tortured her for several hours, and then killed her by throwing her off a balcony—while police patiently waited on the street for backup to arrive. A French judge dropped the murder charges last week, ruling that Traoré was temporarily insane since he had smoked marijuana prior to committing his crimes.

TABLET Want to Keep Jews Safe? Criminalize Marijuana A French court ruled that Sarah Halimi’s murderer—who shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ while holding her captive—can’t be held responsible because he smoked pot before killing her.

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#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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