Cong Brad Schneider (IL-D) anti-BDS resolution condemned by Cong Rashida Tlaib (MI-D)

Posted on July 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Tlaib condemns bipartisan anti-BDS resolution, claiming it is ‘unconstitutional’
July 11, 2019

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) condemned the House Foreign Affairs Committee for considering a resolution condemning the anti-Israel BDS movement. The resolution seeks “to silence opposition of Israel’s blatantly racist policies that demonize both Palestinians & Ethiopians. Our 1st Amd. right to free speech allows boycott of inhumane policies. This bill is unconstitutional,” tweeted the freshman congresswoman. The resolution currently has 336 co-sponsors. It was introduced by Reps. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Ann Wagner (R-Mo.). READ MORE

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Radioactive Iran to IAEA: “Nothing to see here, move along”

Posted on July 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Mossad led IAEA to radioactive material at Iran site, proving it broke deal
by Yonah Jeremy Bob
July 11, 2019

The IAEA has found signs of radioactive material which would violate the 2015 nuclear deal at an Iranian nuclear site identified to the agency by Israeli intelligence, Channel 13 reported late Thursday. According to Channel 13, top Israeli sources revealed to it that the IAEA is sitting on the information and has avoided making it public to date. In April, Reuters reported that the IAEA had finally visited the secret Iranian nuclear site at Turquzabad revealed in a September 2018 UN speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Since then, all parties to the US-Iran nuclear standoff have been waiting for the IAEA’s June announcement of its findings from that visit. READ MORE

THE HILL Ilan Berman: Trump’s Strategy Is Turning Europe Against Iran It’s hardly a secret that European leaders dislike Donald Trump. Over the past two years, the U.S. President’s divisive personal style, and his confrontational rhetoric on everything from Europe’s deficient defense spending to bilateral trade, have severely strained trans-Atlantic relations. And yet, on at least one issue — Iran — European countries are slowly but surely drifting into alignment with the White House, even if they are doing so grudgingly.

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“Linda Sarsour: What makes you most worthy of this request to shut the hell up is that you’ve contributed to a culture that vilifies Jews for speaking out against anti-Semitism”

Posted on July 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
OMG, Just Shut Up: An Open Letter to Linda Sarsour
by Ariel Sobel
July 11, 2019

Dear Linda Sarsour: This is an appeal to you on behalf of the Jewish community for you to stop speaking for us, about us or to us. I know you’ve ignored these requests before.  You laughed off more than 21,000 Jews who signed a petition for you not to speak on a panel called “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice” because you are neither Jewish nor a scholar on anti-Semitism. Declaring you know better about hatred of Jews than actual Jews is — you guessed it — anti-Semitic. It also is belittling and disrespectful. READ MORE

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Ocasio-Cortez emerges as a one-woman Committee to Re-Elect the President

Posted on July 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
I Come to Bury Biden, Not to Praise Him
by Peggy Noonan
July 11, 2019

Three small points we labor mightily to connect: Joe Biden has me thinking about . . . Julius Caesar. The political class of Rome wanted Caesar gone and successfully dispatched him with 23 wounds. But the conspirators themselves came to unhappy ends—Caesar’s base hated them and chased them out of town! Nobody loves an assassin. The only political survivors were Caesar’s designated heir and the leaders who didn’t join the conspiracy. That is the predicament of the 23 contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination who are not named Joe Biden. They want the front-runner gone. But they don’t really want to be the one who does him in. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

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Jerusalem court ruling proves “Second Intifada was not a popular uprising, but a planned and deliberate war against the civilian population of Israel”

Posted on July 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Palestinian terror liability
Editorial Board
July 9, 2019

In a landmark ruling this week, Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori ruled that the Palestinian Authority is “liable” for terrorist attacks that took place during the Second Intifada, the violent Palestinian uprising against Israel between 2000 and 2005. The unprecedented case was initiated by Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center, a Tel Aviv-based NGO focused on representing victims of terrorism. Shurat HaDin was acting on behalf of the families of eight such victims. The next stage of the case will involve proving damages in 17 separate terrorist attacks, which…could total some NIS 1b. (more than $280 million)….READ MORE

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“I wonder if the dictator Erdogan will be so kind as to offer thanks to Mossad for saving the lives of his people. Spoiler alert: He won’t”

Posted on July 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Mossad intel foiled 50 terrorist attacks in 20 countries
by Ariel Kahana
July 10, 2019

Information provided by Israeli intelligence services helped foil at least 50 terror attacks planned by the Islamic State group and Iran in 20 countries across the globe over the past three years, Channel 12 reported on Tuesday. Despite ongoing diplomatic tensions with the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at least 12 of the aforementioned terrorist plots targeted Turkey, whose security agencies were able to stop potentially catastrophic attacks on its soil. According to the report, the information that helped prevent the attacks was provided by the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence organization, and the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate. READ MORE

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“Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the son of an avid Israel supporter who advocated strengthening Greek Israeli relations”

Posted on July 9, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

YNET
Jerusalem pleased with Greece’s choice of new prime minister
by Itamar Eichner
July 8, 2019

Satisfaction was evident in Jerusalem Sunday, when results of the Greek election became known. The candidate considered a long-time friend of Israel has emerged victorious in the country’s elections, winning almost 40 percent of the vote. The New Democracy party and its leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, expected to receive some 158 seats in the 300-member parliament, a comfortable governing majority. The prime minister elect had visited Jerusalem in the past year meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and speaking publicly about his commitment to strengthening relations between the countries. READ MORE

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“Shiite Iran is much hungrier to take over the lands of the Sunni Arabs and the holy cities Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia than it is to enter into a nuclear standoff with Israel”

Posted on July 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY WIRE
The End Of The 100-Year Arab-Israeli War
by Yishai Fleisher
July 8, 2019

…While the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was the context of the Bahrain gathering, the subtext, and maybe bigger story, was the normalization of Israel among the elites of the Arab states. First, there was the welcoming atmosphere for all participants, which should not be taken for granted since Israelis, until very recently, were barred from entering Bahrain at all. Then, Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa spoke with Israeli press on the sidelines of the workshop and told them: “Israel is a country in the region … and it’s there to stay, of course … we want better relations with it, and we want peace with it.” READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST First Gay Tunisian running for president supports Israel Openly gay Tunisian lawyer Mounir Baatour, who has voiced pro-Israel sentiments, announced on June 25 that he plans to run for president in the country’s November election.

PAKISTAN DAILY TIMES Diplomatic relations between Pakistan and Israel are long overdue The collective interests of the state should be paramount. If we accept this principle, then Pakistan’s long-held position against diplomatic relations with Israel makes little sense. Reason above passion and emotion is the pillar of a successful foreign policy.

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Why the leftist Jewish media leaped to the defense of a Jew-hater in Congress

Posted on July 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Straining to Defend Rashida Tlaib at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
by Ken Levin
July 2, 2019

Attacks on Israel that distort the reality of the Jewish state’s past and present in the service of undermining its well-being and its very survival have become ever more widely disseminated in bastions of the Left in America. This is occurring most strikingly in academia, among both students and faculty, but also in prominent mainstream media and even within the Democrat party. At the same time, those Jews who align themselves with the Left often resort to the most contrived of contortions to mitigate the message of such attacks. A representative example of this phenomenon was recently provided by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)’s editor-in-chief, Andrew Silow-Carroll. READ MORE

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Half of millennials are unable to name a Nazi extermination camp

Posted on July 7, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
WJC calls on Congress to make Holocaust education mandatory in U.S. schools
by Ilanit Chernick
July 7, 2019

The World Jewish Congress has called on the United States Congress to ensure that Holocaust education will be mandatory in schools. The WJC started a petition late last week following recent statistics, which found that 49% of millennials polled are unable to name one Nazi extermination camp, while 41% believed that the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust was significantly less than 6 million. READ MORE

CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION

WPTV/NBC Spanish River High School principal reassigned after controversial Holocaust comments The principal of Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton has been reassigned following controversial comments he made about the Holocaust. In an email from 2018, Principal William Latson told a parent, “I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” adding that “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.”

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