Chicago area Jews and Jewish facilities surveilled by Iranian regime; indictment doesn’t identify targets

Posted on November 6, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
2 Iranians accused of spying on Jewish, Israeli targets in US plead guilty
by Staff
November 6, 2019

Two Iranians who were charged with collecting information on Israeli and Jewish targets in the US and on opponents of the Iranian regime have pleaded guilty to acting on behalf of Tehran, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday. Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, a dual US-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were arrested last year… The indictment states that on or about July 21, 2017, Doostdar carried out surveillance and took photos at several Jewish centers in Chicago, including the Hillel Center and the Rohr Chabad House, where he is accused of taking detailed pictures of the security measures, and the Hillel Center. READ MORE

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“The BDS movement was established in part by major Palestinian terrorist organizations as a “non-military” way to eradicate Israel”

Posted on November 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Israel’s top court upholds deportation of Human Rights Watch official
November 5, 2019

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a government decision not to renew the work visa of a Human Rights Watch official and he will have to leave the country within 20 days or face deportation, his lawyer said. The unanimous three-judge decision supporting the Israeli government’s move against Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen who represents HRW in Israel and the Palestinian territories, was published on the court’s website. Shakir had contested the government’s argument that his past pro-Palestinian statements constituted current backing for anti-Israel boycotts. Israel says that Shakir supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Adam Milstein: How BDS Mainstreamed Antisemitism on the American Campus — and Beyond Antisemitism did not die with the fall of Nazi Germany and its mass murder of six million Jews. The ancient hatred of the Jewish people has mutated like a deadly virus and now infected many college campuses across the US as a mainstream movement — and was embraced at a national conference at the University of Minnesota last weekend. The conference was held by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which has been one of the main drivers of the antisemitic and anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on American college campuses.

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“The New Israel Fund is seeking to create an alternative to Federations by allowing donors to give money to exactly the kind of groups that mainstream philanthropies want no part of”

Posted on November 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
New Israel Fund’s war on Jewish life
by Jonathan S. Tobin
November 4, 2019

According to the Forward, the rationale for the New Israel Fund’s push to create an alternative philanthropic system can be explained by what a Philadelphia psychologist named Roy Idelson considered to be a reasonable request. He wanted his local umbrella Jewish philanthropy—the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia—to allow him to use its foundation to donate money to an entity of his choice, IfNotNow [a request ultimately denied by Federation]. A number of federations and many others operate foundations that allow their supporters to create so-called “donor-advised” philanthropic funds to funnel money to nonprofit groups of the individual’s choice. READ MORE

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Omar rails against the West that had zero to do with her own people’s barbarism. By the way, it was the “Western Imperialists” that rescued her family and gave them asylum

Posted on November 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

POWERLINE
Omar Rails Against “Western Imperialism”
by John Hinderaker
November 4, 2019

Yesterday Bernie Sanders held a rally on the campus of the University of Minnesota, at which he was introduced by Ilhan Omar. Attorney General Keith Ellison also appeared in support of Sanders’ presidential campaign. The rally was successful, with thousand of adoring far-leftists attending. Omar sounded like an unreconstructed Marxist, calling for “a mass movement of the working class” and assuring her listeners that Sanders will “fight against Western imperialism.” It’s 1969 all over again! READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Clifford May: Selective anti-imperialism Right now, people in Hong Kong, Iraq and Lebanon are putting their lives on the line in struggles against oppressive empire builders. Ms. Omar, Mr. Sanders and others who fancy themselves anti-imperialists show not the slightest concern for them.

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“Some in the Trump administration believe that the Lebanese Army is as likely to collaborate with Hezbollah as resist it”

Posted on November 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
In Slap to Hezbollah, Trump Halts Aid to Lebanese Army, Ignoring Congress, State Dept., Pentagon
by David Israel
November 3, 2019

The Trump White House on Thursday froze a $105 million in security aid for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), at a time when the country is in the midst of a political and economic crisis, with its prime minister having just resigned following several weeks of riots. Despite the similarity between this arms freeze and the “quid pro quo” of which President Trump is being accused in halting military aid to Ukraine, the freeze of aid to the LAF appears to be based on a sound evaluation of its real value in resisting the greatest threat to Lebanon’s democracy: the terrorist group Hezbollah. READ MORE

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“Whites are being asked to “repair” the slavery of the 18th century while turning a blind eye to the slavery of the 21st century”

Posted on November 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN THINKER
Islamic slave markets flourish with high tech help
by Christian Larnet
November 3, 2019

It has been going on for years; the UN says it is fighting modern slavery, and international civil servants are either corrupt or incompetent, because nothing changes. The BBC has discovered Islamic slave markets on Instagram and other applications. A secret investigation by BBC News Arabic revealed that domestic workers are being bought and sold illegally online and that the market is booming, thanks to new technologies. READ MORE

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Joe Lieberman: “Bipartisan American support for Israel is not collapsing, but it’s changing and there are parts of the American political spectrum where support for Israel is dearly diminishing”

Posted on November 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Joe Lieberman: I see storm clouds gathering on US support for Israel
by Rossella Tercatin
November 2, 2019

With Democratic presidential hopefuls including Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders threatening to withhold American aid to Israel, former US Senator and Democratic nominee for Vice President Joe Lieberman warned of the presence of “storm clouds gathering” on American support for Israel while speaking at the first Herzl Conference on Contemporary Zionism organized by the World Zionist Organization in Jerusalem on Wednesday. READ MORE

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Most Americans “fed up with the pandering to college students, Antifa mobs, and woke thinkers who are making conversation, debate, and free speech untenable in American life”

Posted on November 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY WIRE
‘No Safe Spaces’ Review – How Far Will Political Correctness Take Us?
by Jacob Airey
November 1, 2019

PragerU founder Dennis Prager and comedian/podcast host Adam Corolla team up for “No Safe Spaces,” a documentary covering the hot topic of political correctness and how it has infected everything from politics to educational institutions, as well as the entertainment industry. From getting speakers banned to harassing public officials, this “woke” crowd is targeting anyone that disagrees with them, and this documentary highlights some of the most egregious examples of bad actors trying to stop free speech. READ MORE

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PA government declares Palestinians “fell victim to the greed of colonialism, expansion and ethnic cleansing” as a result of the Balfour Declaration”

Posted on November 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Palestinians call on Britain to apologize for Balfour Declaration
by Khaled Abu Toameh
November 2, 2019

Palestinians on Saturday marked the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration by calling on Britain to apologize for the 1917 pledge supporting the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.”…The PA government in Ramallah called on Britain to “quickly remove the injustices of the ominous Balfour Declaration by correcting its historic mistake and recognizing the independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital.” READ MORE

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Biden’s “denunciation of threats to cut Israel aid was great, but it’s far from clear that the fading establishment champion can best his party’s increasingly dominant left wing”

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Can Joe Biden save the day for pro-Israel Democrats?
by Jonathan S. Tobin
November 1, 2019

After a week in which attacks on Israel by Democratic presidential candidates dominated discussion at the J Street conference, Joe Biden finally gave what’s left of the pro-Israel wing of the party a reason not to despair. After Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg had all endorsed cutting military aid to Israel, Biden finally weighed in on the subject. Speaking to a reporter from The Wall Street Journal, the former vice president said the notion of conditioning continued assistance to Israel was “absolutely outrageous,” and that such a policy would be a “gigantic mistake.” READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Top US Jewish Group Defends American Military Aid to Israel After Some Democrats Tout Potential Conditions  Arthur Stark, chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said on Friday, “We are deeply troubled by recent statements that would place conditions, limitations, or restrictions on the US security assistance provided to Israel, so vital for the defense and security of the country, the protection of essential US interests, and stability in the region.”

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