CAMERA: “The core of HBO’s “Our Boys” story is informed by the false perception that overwhelming numbers of Israelis were marching in the streets calling for the deaths of Arabs”

Posted on October 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
Why the Controversy Over HBO’s “Our Boys”?
by Ricki Hollander
September 26, 2019

…The series is a co-production of HBO, Keshet International, produced by Movie Plus. Although its title echoes the hashtag #BringBackOurBoys, the production is not about the Israeli teenagers who were the subject of the social media campaign. They and their families are seen only fleetingly in archival TV news clips. The series, instead, focuses on dissection of the brutal murder of Mohammed and the trial of his killers, with the abduction/murders of Naftali, Gilad and Eyal serving as a backdrop to establish the revenge motive of the Israeli perpetrators. READ MORE

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“Described as a counterpart to Anne Frank’s diary, a journal written by Renia Spiegel, a Jewish girl who lived in Poland during World War II, is being published in English”

Posted on October 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
A Slain Jewish Girl’s Diary of Life Under the Soviets and the Nazis
by Joanna Berendt
September 24, 2019

She was a Jewish teenager in a small trade city in southeastern Poland when she began writing her diary, months before the advent of World War II. By the time she was shot in the head by Nazi soldiers, she had chronicled life under two totalitarian regimes: the Soviets who advanced from the east and the Nazis who came from the west. Her journal, hidden in a safe deposit box in New York City for decades, has been described as a counterpart to Anne Frank’s diary, a valuable historical document and a poignant coming-of-age story. READ MORE

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Columbia University’s Global Leaders Forum welcomes Mahathir Mohamad, antisemite

Posted on October 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON TIMES
Columbia University celebrates anti-Semitism
by Clifford D. May
October 2, 2019

There are very few Jews in Malaysia. I know because I checked with the intelligence community — or at least looked it up in the CIA World Factbook. But my point is that even though Malaysia has very few Jews, it apparently has its share of Jew-haters. Why should Malaysians miss out on this ancient yet increasingly fashionable brand of bigotry Malaysia’s most celebrated Jew-hater is Mahathir Mohamad, the country’s 94-year-old former prime minister. Last week, Columbia University joined in the celebration. Ben Cohen of the Algemeiner was apparently the only reporter who considered the event significant enough to cover. READ MORE

BEGIN SADAT CENTER Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld: Berlin, Capital of European Antisemitism Berlin has surpassed Malmö as Europe’s antisemitism capital, with a wide variety of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitudes on display. They include dozens of cases of physical aggression against Jews, including rabbis. Jewish pupils have had to leave public schools. Thirty-five percent of Berliners view Israelis as analogous to Nazis. 

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“Kingmaker Liberman vows to try to bridge the gap between the sides”

Posted on October 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Liberman will ‘make own offer’ to PM and Gantz if no breakthrough by Yom Kippur
by Staff
October 2, 2019

Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party on Wednesday said it would “present its own offer” to the country’s two largest rival parties if they fail to reach a power-sharing agreement by next week. “The last thing the country needs now is new elections,” the party said in a statement, adding that a third vote was unlikely to significantly alter the political landscape…Liberman on Sunday had warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz that the public would not forgive them if they failed to form a unity government…READ MORE

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“When Cohen met Pompeo in March 2018, the CIA director was wowed by the Mossad’s mythic achievement”

Posted on October 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Yossi Cohen: The Mossad spy chief who stole Iran’s secret nuclear archives
by Yonah Jeremy Bob
September 29, 2019

It was not the first time Mossad director Yossi Cohen took the elevator up to the CIA director’s office on the seventh floor of the building known as Langley. But this meeting in March 2018 was different. This was not a regular courtesy call. Cohen was about to update one of his closest allies – CIA director Mike Pompeo – with information that had the potential to change the world and the course of history. In his three-and-a-half years as the Mossad’s spy chief, Cohen, 58, has transformed the organization into a hard-hitting, risk-taking, history-altering machine. READ MORE

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UN report recognizes for the first time that “the objectives, activities, and effects of the BDS movement are fundamentally anti-Semitic”

Posted on October 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ADAMMILSTEIN.ORG
BDS is the new face of the old antisemitism: What will we do to stop it?
October 2, 2019

…After more than a decade of deception, new evidence is being presented by a range of governments, international organizations, and media outlets to show that BDS is nothing but a front for anti-Semitic hate groups and terrorists that seek nothing less than the destruction of the State of Israel. It is the new face of the old antisemitism. The world is just waking up to this horrifying truth, which sheds light on what America can do to address this growing hatred around the world. On September 24, 2019, the United Nations — a body with no love for Israel and a well-documented history of bias against the Jewish State — released an unprecedented report on the worldwide spread of anti-Semitism. READ MORE

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“In his new book, ‘We Stand Divided,’ Daniel Gordis examines the deep roots of the growing rift between American and Israeli Jews”

Posted on October 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAGAZINE
Between Two Promised Lands
by Ari Blaff
September 24, 2019

…In the book [We Stand Divided]’s most stimulating and provocative chapter, Gordis presents American and Israeli conceptions of democracy as being fundamentally at odds.  In the U.S., politics have been organized around the right to free and equal exchange in the public square, Gordis argues, and American Jews acculturated into this system have come to idealize a form of “naked” democracy, utterly stripped of all cultural symbols. Such “hypercivility,” as Gordis describes it, is incompatible with the Jewish particularism that is a founding mission of Israel, a nation created, after all, not to enshrine universal values but to ensure the survival of a single people. READ MORE

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One Family along with Israeli singer Hanan Ben Ari sing together “World Champion” in moving clip

Posted on October 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

Terror Victim Families recorded a chilling and emotional version of his famous song “Aluf, Ha-Olam, World Champion” with Hanan Ben Ari. The moving performance is a part of the World- Wide Crowdfunding Campaign for One Family to continue its financial, emotional and social support for terror victims and their families.

 

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“Palestinian wanted to behead refugee because he “insulted his religious feelings,” also planned campaign of bloody revenge on Germans and Christians”

Posted on October 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Palestinian Islamist convicted of attempted murder of German officials
by Benjamin Weinthal
September 29. 2019

A German court in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday sentenced a radical Islamist Palestinian asylum seeker to a 10 year prison term for attempting to murder judges and prosectors. Haidar A, the extremist Palestinian, had previously been sentenced in 2017 for attempting to behead a refugee. “It’s amazing how a young man can be so caught up in hate, anger and blind rage,” said presiding judge Sandra Mayer, ” reported the local paper Augsburger Allgemeine. She added that “Haidar A. is caught in almost medieval ways of thinking and the court has little hope that he will develop for the better.” READ MORE

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Actor Ben Kinsgley, one of Algemeiners “Top 100 People Influencing Jewish Life,” honored at gala

Posted on September 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Real-Life ‘Schindler’s List’ Holocaust Survivor Introduces Algemeiner Honoree Sir Ben Kingsley at ‘J100’ Gala
by Staff
September 27, 2019

Famed British actor Sir Ben Kingsley was honored with the prestigious “Warrior for Truth” award on Thursday at the 6th annual Algemeiner ‘J100’ gala in New York City. Kingsley, whose most prominent Jewish role was as Itzhak Stern in the 1993 Steven Spielberg film “Schindler’s List,” was introduced by Holocaust survivor Halina Silber — who was No. 16 on the real-life list compiled by German industrialist Oskar Schindler. In his subsequent remarks, Kingsley remembered, “When I met with the great Steven Spielberg to discuss playing Itzhak Stern, I asked him, ‘What is my narrative function in this role?’ and he said, ‘Conscience. Witness.’  READ MORE

ALGEMEINER The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2019

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