IfNotNow bird-dogging Democratic candidates on the trail in New Hampshire

Posted on July 15, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
Democratic presidential candidate Biden says Israeli ‘occupation a real problem’
July 15, 2019

“The occupation is a real problem,” said Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday, referring to Israel’s military presence in the West Bank, in an election rally event in Dover, New Hampshire. “Elias Newman, 26, an American Jew from far-left group IfNotNow asked Joe Biden if he were elected, would he pressure Israel to end the occupation. The former vice president said that “there’s no answer but a two-state solution,” then added, “I think the settlements are unnecessary.” Biden continued and said that pressure should also be exerted on Palestinian leaders, who need “to be prepared to stop the hate.” READ MORE

JNS The problem with opposing Israel’s ‘occupation’ While it wasn’t likely that IfNotNow volunteers could persuade Democratic presidential candidates to adopt their anti-Zionist platform, they had a much more realistic goal. They hoped to create confrontations on the campaign trail, especially in state like New Hampshire, where local retail politics is a must, which could produce viral video moments in which some Democrats might be persuaded to make statements that would illustrate their party’s drift away from Israel.

Anti-Israel activists from IfNotNow try to pigeon hole New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and force him to agree with their claim that the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria is a “human rights crisis”. They use fake statistics to try to strengthen their argument but Booker doesn’t fall for it.

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“No one wants a full-blown war with Iran. We’re already, though, in a war with it now, in the Middle East theater and beyond”

Posted on July 14, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE NEW YORK SUN
The Biden Plan for Appeasement
Editorial
July 12, 2019

…One thing to remember about the Iran deal that Mr. Biden now promises to rejoin: It was opposed — “overwhelmingly,” said the New York Times — by both houses of Congress at the time the deal was struck. Yet President Obama and Secretary Kerry, without a peep of opposition from Mr. Biden, took the deal to the United Nations and voted for it there in opposition to our own Congress. The aim was to trap America in the deal despite Congress…Americans were horrified when they discovered that, as part of the deal, the Obama administration had airlifted pallets of cash — billions — to Iran. READ MORE

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“I was born in Somalia and grew up amid pervasive Muslim antisemitism. Hate is hard to unlearn without coming to terms with how you learned it”

Posted on July 14, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice?
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
July 12, 2019

I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them. It was 2006 and I was a young native of Somalia who’d been elected to the Dutch Parliament. The American Jewish Committee was giving me its Moral Courage Award. I felt honored and humbled, but a little dishonest if I didn’t own up to my anti-Semitic past. So I told them how I’d learned to blame the Jews for everything. Fast-forward to 2019. A freshman congresswoman from Minnesota has been infuriating the Jewish community and discomfiting the Democratic leadership with her expressions of anti-Semitism. Like me, Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia and exposed at an early age to Muslim anti-Semitism. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

JERUSALEM POST Ilhan Omar introduces pro-BDS resolution, announces visit to Israel The resolution aims to affirm ‘the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad’ and was co-sponsored by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and John Lewis.

FREE BEACON Omar: I ‘Do Not’ Regret Past Anti-Semitic Comments ‘I’m grateful for the opportunity to really learn how my words made people feel’

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American campuses: “The core principles and foundations that keep the United States intact, that provide our citizens with their civic personalities and national identities, are being annihilated”

Posted on July 14, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
A professor’s call to shut down our nation’s universities
by Professor Jason D. Hill
July 16, 2019

Thirty-three years ago, when I entered college, left-wing ideologies dominated American universities, and especially the humanities and social sciences. But one still could get a fair, balanced education by consulting traditional canonical texts that countered the dogma. Free speech was alive on college campuses. There were hisses and boos, of course, but for the most part, hearing perspectives different from your own was considered essential to your education. Few of us lived in our own curated silos. Today, after 22 years of being a college professor, and having traveled much of America to lecture, I am sad to say the situation is not the same. READ MORE

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At DC CUFI conference, “several speakers reminded the overwhelmingly Christian audience (with a smattering of observant Jews) that #antisemitism is a cancer, and it’s everybody’s problem”

Posted on July 13, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE FEDERALIST
How To ‘Shine A Light’ Against The Growing Darkness Of Anti-Semitism
by Melissa Langsam Braunstein
July 12, 2019

“Why Israel, From Why Should I Care to What Can I Do?” was the multi-part question asked and answered this week, as more than 5,000 members of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) braved biblically bad rain to gather in Washington, D.C., and stand with Israel…At the summit, significant time was devoted to exciting new archaeological discoveries like the pilgrimage road and biblical kings’ seals, as well as security threats posed by Hamas and Hezbollah’s terror tunnels and Iran’s nuclear ambitions…Time was also devoted to domestic anti-Semitism and the urgency of opposing it. READ MORE

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Iran “failed to declare the construction of Fordow facility and admitted to its existence only after it was exposed by Western intelligence”

Posted on July 13, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE TOWER
Iran Never “Repurposed” Fordow Nuclear Facility in Breach of JCPOA
by Staff
July 12, 2019

The Iranian regime has never “repurposed” the Fordow uranium enrichment facility as required by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between the Islamic Republic and world powers, the Institute for Science and International Security said in an explosive report Wednesday. The deal stated, “Iran will convert the Fordow facility into a nuclear, physics and technology centre.” However, the report noted that the facility has in fact “never been repurposed” in that “everything required to enrich uranium to weapons grade could be quickly reconstituted.” READ MORE

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“I’d like to remind Arab countries that today you share more common interests with Israel than the terrorist militias”

Posted on July 12, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Former Miss Iraq faces loss of citizenship for defending Israel at the UN
by Zachary Halaschak
July 10, 2019

Sarah Idan, who represented Iraq in the 2017 Miss Universe competition, is facing calls for her citizenship to be revoked over remarks she made before the United Nations in support of Israel and peace. The 29-year-old Idan’s family was forced to flee Iraq after she posed for a photo on Instagram with Israel’s representative to the competition, 21-year-old Adar Gandelsman. Idan, who lives in California, received death threats over the photo. Earlier this month, Idan appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council where she expressed public support for Israel….READ MORE

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Not your father’s Sweden

Posted on July 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Sweden is at War
by Judith Bergman
July 13, 2019

…“Sweden is at war and it is the politicians who are responsible. Five nights in a row, cars have been set on fire in the university town of Lund. Such insane acts have occurred on hundreds of occasions in various places in Sweden over the past fifteen years. From 1955 to 1985, not a single car was ignited in Malmö, Gothenburg, Stockholm or Lund…. None of these criminals is starving or lacking in access to clean water. They have a roof over their heads and they have been offered free schooling…. They do not live in dilapidated houses…. It is called upbringing and this is missing for thousands of girls and boys in Swedish homes today.” — Björn Ranelid, Swedish author, Expressen, July 5, 2019. READ MORE

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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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