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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“Poverty, hardship and a sense of hopelessness are driving protesters into the streets in Iran, where they have been met with brutality by the Revolutionary Guard”

Posted on November 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

SPIEGEL ONLINE
Eyewitnesses on the Unrest in Iran
by Susanne Koelbl
November 28, 2019

Thousands have been protesting against the government and revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei in dozens of Iranian cities for more than a week now. The security forces have responded with lethal force, with human rights organization Amnesty International reporting more than a hundred deaths…Under sanctions imposed by the United States, Iran is only able to export small amounts of oil and goods, which has created a financial and economic crisis in the country. One of the aims of the American sanctions is to provoke protests. Officials in Washington hope a counterrevolution can bring down the regime. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST US Ambassador slams Norway for praising bypass of Iran sanctions The US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell on Friday savaged the Norwegian ambassador to Iran for lauding a European system to circumvent American sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran for Tehran’s illicit nuclear activities and terrorism.

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IKEA Israel: The Swedish furniture and home accessories giant is becoming increasingly popular nationwide among the Haredi public

Posted on November 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Courting ultra-Orthodox consumers, IKEA turns to kosher inspiration
by Ira Tolchin Immergluck
December 1, 2019

When walking through the winding showroom in the IKEA store in the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion, it’s understandable if you think you’ve wandered into a religious home. In this iteration of the famous IKEA experience, which seeks to inspire shoppers to spend a little more by introducing finished looks to the various rooms around the house, you’re brought face-to-face with the best the catalog has to offer for the observant Jewish lifestyle…A visit to this IKEA branch in the evening shows that most of the customers are ultra-Orthodox families with children. READ MORE

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“Jewish refugees from the Middle East know the truth: Only a sovereign people seen as invincible and indestructible are secure in this region”

Posted on November 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israel will only attain peace through victory
by Nave Dromi
November 24, 2019

Ever since the Muslim conquest, occupation and colonization of the Middle East and North Africa in the seventh century, Jews, among others, lived under a dhimmi status. While the term dhimmi has been translated as “protected,” the actual meaning is far more sinister. Under Islamic law, Jews were less than second-class citizens, they were a brutally oppressed minority, forced to pay special taxes called jizya, frequently forced to place distinctive signs on their houses and clothing, and sometimes brutally humiliated by other restrictions. READ MORE

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“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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