#FreeSpeech What geniuses in government will be tasked with deciding what we can and cannot say?

Posted on July 7, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
France has turned into one of the worldwide threats to free speech
by Jonathan Turley
July 6, 2019

…While our politicians in the United States may applaud Macron like village idiots, most Americans are hardcore believers in free speech. It runs in our blood. Undeterred, however, Macron and others in Europe are moving to unilaterally impose speech controls on the internet with new legislation in France and Germany. If you believe this is a European issue, think again. Macron and his government are attempting to unilaterally scrub out the internet of hateful thoughts. READ MORE

GATESTONE Judith Bergman:UN Launches All-out War on Free Speech In other words, forget everything about the free exchange of ideas: the UN feels that its ‘values’ are being threatened and those who criticize those values must therefore be shut down.

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Tunisia PM Chahed cites security reasons for the niqab ban following a double suicide bombing in Tunis last month.

Posted on July 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALJAZEERA
Tunisia bans face veils in public institutions after bombing
July 5, 2019

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab – a full-face veil – in public institutions with immediate effect, citing security reasons. ” Chahed signed a government decree that bars any person with an undisclosed face from access to public headquarters, administrations, institutions for security reasons,” an official source told Reuters News Agency on Friday. The decision, which was reported on state media, comes at a time of heightened security in the country following a double suicide bombing in the capital, Tunis, on June 27 that left two people dead and seven wounded. READ MORE

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“EU’s Mogherini successor Josep Borrell last year denounced Netanyahu’s ‘warlike arrogance’ and advocated for unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood”

Posted on July 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Tough on Israel, fond of Iran: Jerusalem wary of incoming EU foreign policy czar
by Raphael Ahren
July 3, 2019

Israeli officials are warily following the changing of the guard at the European Union, where someone who has recently floated the idea of unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood and has expressed strong support for Iran was tapped to be its next foreign policy chief. On Tuesday, the European Council nominated Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell Fontelles, a member of the country’s ruling Socialist Workers’ Party, as the EU’s top diplomat…“More difficult times [are] ahead between the EU and Israel I fear,” tweeted Bas Belder, a Dutch member of the European Parliament and veteran pro-Israel advocate. READ MORE

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“Was the principal of one of Palm Beach County’s largest public schools suggesting that the Holocaust was a belief rather than an actual event?”

Posted on July 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

PALM BEACH POST
Spanish River High’s principal refused to call the Holocaust a fact
by Andrew Marra
July 5, 2019

She sent off the email with few expectations — a routine question seeking a routine answer. How, the mother wondered, was the Holocaust being taught at Spanish River High School? She wanted to make sure, she wrote to the principal, that her child’s school was making Holocaust education “a priority”…. In an email reply, Principal William Latson assured her that the school had “a variety of activities” for Holocaust education. But he explained that the lessons are “not forced upon individuals as we all have the same rights but not all the same beliefs.” READ MORE

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Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef and younger brother of Green Prince Mosab Yousef, flees organization and gives revealing interview to Israel TV

Posted on July 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Another son of Hamas founder flees, blasts terror organization’s corruption
July 4, 2019

Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef and younger brother of “Green Prince” Mosab Yousef, deserted his post in Turkey, flew to an undisclosed Asian country and then gave an interview to an Israeli journalist in which he excoriated the terrorist organization’s corruption…“The point of the attacks in the West Bank is to kill civilians, not for the aim of resistance, or Jerusalem, not for liberating Palestinian land, and not even because they hate Jews,” said Yousef. READ MORE

I24NEWS Shin Bet captures Hamas operative entering Israel under guise of medical treatment The Israeli security agency Shin Bet announced on Wednesday the arrest of Hamas operative Fadi Abu Al Sabakh, 35, who entered Israel with a false humanitarian pretense, pretending to require medical treatment. According to local reports, the suspect had undergone a full year’s training by the military wing of Hamas before entering Israel.

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Famed “bad guy” Philistines like Delilah and Goliath, came from Europe, DNA shows

Posted on July 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Biblical bad guys the ancient Philistines came from Europe, DNA shows
by Rinat Harash and Ari Rabinovitch
July 3, 2019

The ancient Philistines, the Biblical villains whose origins have puzzled scholars for decades, came to the Middle East from southern Europe more than 3,000 years ago, new DNA testing has shown. The genetic findings came from skeletons unearthed by archaeologists in Israel in 2016, including the bones of infants buried beneath Philistine houses, archaeologists said in a paper published on Wednesday. The much-maligned group is regularly depicted as the enemy of the Israelites in Biblical texts. READ MORE

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Yishai Fleisher asks “Who’s hurting the Palestinian people?”

Posted on July 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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“A parade of diverse people—poets and politicians, generals and physicians, God-fearing and disbelievers—turned to the Lubavitcher Rebbe for guidance. Why?”

Posted on July 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Me Among the Believers
by Liel Leibovitz
July 2, 2019

…Those of us who spend too much time on social media, who shout at the TV news, who are quick to ascribe disagreements to malice and end friendships at the first sign of discord, those of us prone to infighting and name-calling and purity tests, those content to cast out others until the tent is nearly empty: We need to follow in the footsteps of our elders—whether you consider your direct elder to be Avraham Shlonsky or Yitzhak Rabin or Arthur Miller—and listen to the Rebbe. The lesson he bequeaths us isn’t an easy one to learn, but it’s one we can’t afford to ignore…READ MORE

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And this, from a Joe Biden supporter: “Liberals repelled by both a blatant idiot and a bankrupting socialist could simply stay home”

Posted on July 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

SPECTATOR USA
Where is the Democrat who can take on Trump?
by Lionel Shriver
July 3, 2019

I have plenty of shamefaced company in having rashly predicted, as pundits are warned never to do, that Donald Trump wouldn’t win the White House in 2016. I don’t plan on repeating that mistake. Liberals are especially prone to confuse the words ‘should’ and ‘will’. Just because Trump shouldn’t win in 2020 doesn’t mean he won’t. Nevertheless, American Democrats are approaching an election that ought to be a slam dunk. In Gallup polls, Trump is the only president in modern history never to exceed a 50 percent approval rating (having sunk as low as 36, he’s currently at 42, with a disapproval rating of 53). READ MORE

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“Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan acknowledges the “great sorrow and suffering” of the Israeli-Ethiopian community, but says police will be forced to use “all means” to disperse demonstrations if violence continues”

Posted on July 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
136 arrested, 111 police wounded during riots over police shooting of young Israeli-Ethiopian man
July 3, 2019

According to the Israel Police, more than 100 people have been arrested across the country in connection with the wave of protests sparked by the shooting of a young Israeli-Ethiopian man by an off-duty police officer on Sunday. The protests devolved into violent riots Tuesday night, following the funeral earlier in the day of 19-year-old Solomon Tekah…According to police, though an effort was made to act with restraint in the early hours of Tuesday’s demonstrations, when things became violent they were forced to act. Those arrested are being held for assaulting police officers, vandalism and disturbing public order, said police. READ MORE

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