Switzerland and Netherlands freeze UNRWA contributions in wake of scandal

Posted on July 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Netherlands Becomes Second Country to Suspend UNRWA Funding Over Corruption Allegations Against Palestinian Refugee Agency
by Staff
July 31, 2019

The allegations of systematic corruption at the highest levels of UNRWA — the United Nations body dedicated solely to Palestinian refugees and their descendants — proved too much for a second donor nation on Wednesday, as the The Netherlands announced that it was freezing its contributions to the agency…The Dutch decision came hours after Switzerland announced that it was freezing its contributions to UNRWA, based on its concerns about the report into the agency’s operations assembled by the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services. The 10-page document cited “credible and corroborated reports” that members of an “inner circle” at UNRWA had engaged in “abuses of authority for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives.” READ MORE

JNS Ruthie Blum: Schadenfreude and the UNRWA scandal UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl collected money for business-class trips with his mistress, whom he fast-tracked into a role he invented for her so that she could accompany him around the world in style.

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Antisemite E. Michael Jones: “Three rich Jews determine American foreign policy”

Posted on July 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
E. Michael Jones’s War on The Jews
by Dexter Van Zile
July 30, 2019

If Jews or Christians still harbor any doubts that American civil society has entered an era where public expressions of Jew-hatred are not the career-enders they used to be, they need look no further than at the success of professional antisemite E. Michael Jones. Jones, a failed academic who resides in South Bend, Indiana, has been able to earn his living by promoting and normalizing a hateful narrative about evil Jews running the world. He offers this narrative to a small but growing fan base of disaffected Catholics and white nationalists. READ MORE

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“Despite Pelosi’s best efforts, the House voted on a resolution to oppose the boycott Israel movement — and its bipartisan support was overwhelming”

Posted on July 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE FEDERALIST
With New House Resolutions, Democrats Finally Allow Their Israel Divide Into The Open
by Melissa Langsam Braunstein
July 26, 2019

…That nearly all Democrats signed onto a resolution opposing the boycott-Israel movement and unequivocally reaffirmed that “Israel is a key ally and strategic partner of the United States” is undeniably good, “especially in the context of rising anti-Semitism.” …However, before anyone declares game over, it’s important to note three issues: 1) This was a purely symbolic vote, 2) Democratic support would likely drop if this vote were more than symbolic, and 3) there’s a small but growing number of legislators willing to publicly support boycotting. First, symbolism is important, but it obviously doesn’t have the same real-world consequences as laws. READ MORE

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Farrakhan: “You don’t hear nobody talkin’ about Weinstein. You don’t hear nobody talkin’ about Epstein.”

Posted on July 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Notorious Antisemite Louis Farrakhan Falsely Claims Talmud Permits Sex Crimes
by Benjamin Kerstein
July 25, 2019

Nation of Islam leader and notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan has blamed “Talmudic, satanic Jews” for the sex scandals surrounding Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, claiming the Talmud makes such conduct “lawful to them.” In a video posted to Twitter by the Team Farrakhan fan account, Farrakhan can be seen speaking at the Nation of Islam’s headquarters on July 21. “Did you know that pedophilia, homosexuality, sex trafficking, is the work of Talmudists?” he asks. READ MORE

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“Illinois’ Northwestern University officially collaborates with Al Jazeera, the biggest anti-American and Islamist extremist propaganda outlet in the world”

Posted on July 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CLARION PROJECT
Northwestern University Partners with Al Jazeera
by Ryan Mauro and Alex VanNess
July 22, 2019

…Al Jazeera is owned by the government of Qatar, which is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbyists, think-tanks and U.S. universities to influence American public opinion and policy so it can get away with aiding and supporting Al-Qaeda, the Iranian regime, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood…The relationship between Northwestern University and Al Jazeera began in 2008 when the Qatar Foundation, a “charity” linked to terrorism and controlled by the Qatari regime, funded the establishment of a campus in Qatar for Northwestern University (NU-Q). Since 2012, Northwestern University has received over $340 million from Qatar. READ MORE

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Netflix’s “The Red Sea Diving Resort” tells story of Mossad agents who in 1984 established a fake resort up the coast from Port Sudan in bid to rescue Ethiopian Jews

Posted on July 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Film on rescue of Ethiopian Jews to debut in San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
by Staff
July 26, 2019

A new Netflix film that explores the heroic rescue of Ethiopian Jews in the mid-1980s will make its world premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival next week, ahead of its screening by the American streaming giant. “The Red Sea Diving Resort” is the incredible story of an operation by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians, who in the 1980s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel. The movie was written and directed by “Homeland” executive producer Gideon Raff, based on the book “Mossad Exodus” by former intelligence officer Gad Shimron. READ MORE

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“The visit of two anti-Israel members of Congress is an opportunity for them to see the real Israel, and perhaps learn a thing or two”

Posted on July 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The tour Israel should arrange for Tlaib and Omar
by Lori Lowenthal Marcus and Jerome M. Marcus
July 26, 2019

…But just because Israel has let them in doesn’t mean its leaders have to sit passively by while Tlaib and Omar use the country as a backdrop for their personally designed advertisements for Hamas and Hezbollah; their accusations of apartheid, genocide and all other things repugnant; and their program to eliminate Jewish self-determination. On the contrary: As any fair-minded person knows, none of the things these women claim to believe about Israel is actually correct. So Israel has this one potent weapon on its side: the truth. READ MORE

FEDERALIST Roger Simon: Here’s Where Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib Should Go When They Visit Israel It’s been all over the news that “Squad” stalwarts Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tliab are planning a trip to Israel. Whether this will be at U.S. taxpayers’ expense is unclear. The two women have shown their affinity for anti-Semitism, so it’s a virtual certainty their visit will be a staged opportunity to accuse Israel of being Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa rolled into one, or possibly something even more monstrous if they can figure out what that is. Doubtless, an international press crew will traipse after them to record their every calumny.

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“Ben Rhodes portrays the demolitions as examples of ethnic cleansing, writing that the Jewish state destroys Palestinian homes precisely because Palestinians live in them. The truth completely contradicts his claims”

Posted on July 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Progressives Discard the Truth to Demonize Israel
by Aaron Kliegman
July 25, 2019

…It should not be surprising, then, to see [Ben] Rhodes lie and mislead to demonize Israel. He did just that earlier this week, retweeting a story on Israeli crews demolishing Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem with the added message: “Imagine having your home destroyed just because of who you are, and that being the point.” Naturally, [Ilhan] Omar and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) both endorsed Rhodes’s tweet. To say that Rhodes mischaracterized the situation would be a radical understatement. It is possible that Rhodes is remarkably ignorant about Israeli affairs and did not read the article, but he is an intelligent man who presumably follows international news closely. READ MORE

 

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Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targeted by bill passed in House this week

Posted on July 25, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FLORIDA DAILY
House Passes Brian Mast’s Bill Sanctioning Hamas
by Kevin Derby
July 24, 2019

U.S. Rep. Brian Mast’s, R-Fla., bill sanctioning Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and their supporters passed the U.S. House this week. Back in March, Mast paired up with the two leaders of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee–chairman U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-NY, and top Republican U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Tex.–and U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-NJ, to introduce the “Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act” which “imposes sanctions on foreign persons, agencies and governments that assist Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad or their affiliates.” READ MORE

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ISIS fighter Sayyaf Daoud defends Israel: “Israel is a democracy in which he has not seen injustice and in which Arabs and Jews live together and are treated equally”

Posted on July 25, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

MEMRI
Captured Israeli-Arab ISIS fighter Sayyaf Sharif Daoud: Israel isn’t nearly as bad as Assad’s regime; Israel treats Arabs justly, equally to Jews
Interview with Feras Kilani
July 16, 2019

Sayyaf Sharif Daoud, a captured Israeli-Arab ISIS fighter who holds Israeli citizenship, said in a July 16, 2019 interview on BBC Arabic (U.K.) with correspondent Feras Kilani that he had joined ISIS instead of the Palestinian resistance because his experience of having lived through the Second Intifada and of having lived in the West Bank and in Israel had taught him that Israel “has not done one percent of what Bashar Al-Assad has done.” He explained that despite the fighting, Israel has never raped women or brutally killed people like the Assad regime has. Daoud also said that his father had warned him against joining Hamas and Fatah, and he expressed regret at having joined ISIS…READ MORE

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