J Street Conference coming October 26-29, “includes speakers from anti-Israel organizations such as If Not Now, the New Israel Fund, and the PLO national and central councils”

Posted on October 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Schumer, Pelosi to address attendees of J Street National Conference in Washington
October 4, 2019

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic members of Congress and elected officials plan to address the annual J Street National Conference later this month, also featuring speakers from anti-Israel organizations including IfNotNow, the New Israel Fund, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) national and central councils. Schumer and Pelosi are frequent speakers at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, one of J Street’s main rivals. READ MORE

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In the latest Siena College poll, only 4% of NY Jews support Bernie Sanders

Posted on October 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
Jews Hate BS–Bernie Sanders
by Daniel Greenfield
October 3, 2019

…New York Jews are a lot less radical than the stereotype on both sides would have it. The same poll that has Bernie Sanders coming in at 4% also shows that 44% of Jewish voters in New York have a favorable opinion of President Trump. Although only a third (33%) intend to vote to reelect him. That’s around the same number (34%) who rate him as doing a good job. Those numbers may not seem great, but they show that a larger number of Jews like Trump personally than support him politically. READ MORE

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US previously “one of the largest donors to the Palestinians and the PA, providing upward of half-a-billion dollars a year, has slowly halted that funding over the last two years”

Posted on October 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
U.S. gives cold shoulder to major Palestinian donor parley
by Tovah Lazaroff
October 4, 2019

The United States gave a cold shoulder last week to the major bi-annual meeting for donor aid  to the Palestinian Authority, known as the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), which has operated for the last 25 years. “We limited our participation to working-level observers only,” US special envoy Jason Greenblatt told The Jerusalem Post this week as he described the downgrade. It is the latest Trump administration action against traditional venues that help provide financial assistance to Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority. READ MORE

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‘Recent convert to Islam’ stabs 4 to death at Paris police headquarters

Posted on October 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Paris knife attacker who killed 4 in police headquarters had converted to Islam
by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
October 3, 2019

The deranged employee who stabbed four people to death — including three cops — inside a Paris police headquarters had converted to Islam 18 months ago, according to a report. The 45-year-old deaf IT worker — identified in media reports as Michael Harpon attacked three members of the police force’s intelligence division Thursday inside two ground floor offices, then went into a stairwell and assaulted two women, French newspaper Le Parisien reported. READ MORE

BREITBART Charlie Hebdo Boss Blasts Leftist ‘Collaborators’ in New Book on 2015 Terror Attack The head of Charlie Hebdo has blasted leftists and others in a new book about the 2015 radical Islamic terror attack on the satirical French magazine’s office. Laurent Sourisseau, more commonly known in France as Riss, tells the story of the terror attack in January 2015 that claimed the lives of 12 people, the majority his fellow Charlie Hebdo writers and cartoonists, France Inter reports.

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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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