“The Palestinians are right to believe that the Arab world no longer cares about them and their problems”

GATESTONE
Palestinian Leaders and Inconvenient Truths
by Khaled Abu Toameh
May 4, 2019

…The Arab betrayal of the Palestinians is not new. Instead of supporting their Palestinian brothers, the Arab states have been cutting aid to them. According to one report, Arab financial aid to the Palestinians has dramatically dropped in the past two decades. Another report revealed that donations from the Arab world to the Palestinians has been slashed over the past few years by 50%. A mere quarter of the PA’s 2017 budget of approximately $3.7 billion has come from Arab states, the report saidREAD MORE

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH PA misrepresents photos of Holocaust victims as Arabs killed by Jews – again! Official PA TV last month deceitfully broadcast pictures of bodies of Holocaust victims in a Nazi concentration camp presenting them as pictures of Arab victims killed by Jews in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948. Two other pictures, which PA TV also claimed were of Arabs killed in 1948 by Jews, were actually pictures from the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon in 1982. 

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Memo to American Jews: “Israel’s Security is NOT a Jewish Issue”

DAILY WIRE
The Clash Of American Liberal Jewry And Israeli Nationalism
by Yishai Fleisher
April 30, 2019

…In this light, Israeli support of the current American president makes sense: Trump is understood to be a determined, defense-minded fellow sovereign, a strong ruler, and an ally. Many American Jews are dumbfounded at the nearly ubiquitous Israeli approval of a man they detest so much. But from across the pond, and in the tough Middle East reality, things look quite different. Trump’s nationalism and certitude might threaten American liberal Jews, but these characteristics play well in Israel where those very characteristics are needed and admired…READ MORE

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Rabbi Sacks on the connection between, antisemitism, anti-Zionism, Judaism and Israel

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“Hysterical children” at Chicago DePaul University condemn professor and demand his resignation for defending Israel

THE FEDERALIST
DePaul Students Demand Professor’s Censure, Call Him ‘Xenophobe’ For Supporting Israel In The Federalist
by Joy Pullmann
April 30, 2019

Campus administrators are trying to calm down students after a week of outrage over DePaul University professor Jason Hill writing in The Federalist to support Israel’s right to create defensible borders and repel Islamist attempts at genocide….The protesting students demanded that the university formally censure Hill, require him to take “racial sensitivity training,” and him to publicly apologize for writing that Israel has a “moral right” to annex the West Bank because it is territory it won during a war initiated by enemies who believe Israel and Israelis should be wiped from the earth. READ MORE

Watch Tucker Carlson interview Jason Hill: College students, faculty calling for the removal of a professor after he publishes pro-Israel op-ed

COMMENTARY At Williams College, Zionists Need Not Apply Late last month, the College Council at Williams voted, 13-8 against recognizing a pro-Israel club, Williams Initiative for Israel…Your “club is pro-Israel, which means you support a state that is built on Palestinian land,” said one and made it clear that “believing in the right of Israel to exist” was a red line that no registered student organization should be permitted to cross. Israel is a “fascist state” said another. The “existence of Israel is built on the killing of Palestinians,” said a third.

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Benjamin Anthony speaks at a vigil for Poway and offers wise words for American Jews

Benjamin Anthony addresses the Chabad of Poway shooting and the rise of antisemitism in the United States and across the world at a vigil held by the Palm Beach Synagogue in Florida. To listen, click here, then click ‘play’

https://soundcloud.com/israelrisingpodcast/onantisemitism

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL Solidarity, call to action stressed at Palm Beach vigil for Poway [Benjamin] Anthony said, regarding what he hopes people took away from his presentation, “I think it’s vital that people recognize and understand that the battle for the American Jewish future is a worthy battle that can be won and that actions must be undertaken both in the realm of security and political enfranchisement.” “This battle is against a form of anti-Semitism that is of a physical kind, an institutional kind and a political kind emanating from the far left and from the far right.”

THE TOWER Violent Anti-Semitism on the Rise Worldwide, Report Warns
Anti-Semitic attacks spiked 13% in 2018 from the previous year, Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry said in a grim assessment in its annual report on Wednesday. The highest number of anti-Semitic incidents in Western countries were reported in the United States, France, Britain, and Germany. The report said that Islamists, as well as far-right and far-left activists, were behind many of the attacks but also warned that anti-Semitism was going more mainstream.

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Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein at White House National Day of Prayer: “We cannot control what others do, but we can control how we act”

ABC NEWS
Trump invites heroes of Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting to National Day of Prayer event
by Rachel Scott and Jordyn Phelps
May 2, 2019

The heroes of Saturday’s Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting in California, along with Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, attended an event marking the National Day of Prayer on Thursday in the White House Rose Garden, alongside President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump. Goldstein, who was shot in both hands in the attack, called the president a “Mensch par excellence” – a Yiddish term meaning a person of integrity and excellence — and credited him with helping him start to heal. “Mr. President, when you called me, I was at home weeping. You were the first person who began my healing. You healed people in the worst of times and I’m so grateful for that,” Goldstein said. READ MORE

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#EMP, the threat no one likes to talk about: “Fatalities estimated from a protracted nationwide blackout lasting one year range from 67 to 90 percent of the U.S. population, due to starvation, disease, and societal collapse”

NATIONAL REVIEW
The EMP Executive Order — Where Were Bush and Obama?
by William Graham, R. James Woolsey & Peter Vincent Pry
May 3, 2019

…Combined-Arms Cyber Warfare, as planned by Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, may use combinations of cyber-, sabotage-, and ultimately nuclear EMP-attack to impair the United States quickly and decisively by blacking-out large portions of its electric grid and other critical infrastructures. Foreign adversaries may also consider nuclear EMP attack as the ultimate cyber “denial of service” weapon, one which can gravely damage the U.S. by striking at its technological Achilles’ heel, without having to engage the U.S. military…Alarmingly, in the military doctrines of potential adversaries, nuclear EMP attack is considered a dimension of cyber warfare, because EMP is not directly injurious to people, only to electronics. READ MORE

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Yom Hashoah 2019: Peggy Shapiro from StandWithUs tells her story: “So it came that I was born in Lansberg, Germany, the same place where Hitler had written Mein Kampf, his plan for genocide, his plan to prevent my existence”

THE TOWER
One Story Multiplied by Six Million
by Peggy Shapiro
April 30, 2019

On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we gather to remember the Shoah. Although it happened almost 75 years ago, it has left scars on us all and forever blemished humanity. But for me, it is very personal. I was born in a refugee camp in Lansberg, Germany, near the ashes of my family and a vanished thousand-year-old Jewish community. My parents were teenage survivors of concentration camps. Between them, they had lost 182 family members. By miracle and chance, they survived, met each other after the war, fell in love, and made a heroic commitment to “choose life.” READ MORE

JNS Love letters of the Shoah: Messages thrown from cattle cars convey final wishes, prayers, blessings “Last Letters From the Holocaust: 1944,” an online exhibit from Yad Vashem, has arrived on its website just in time for Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), which this year corresponds to May 2. Click here to view the online exhibit.

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“Designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist designation could complicate Washington’s relationship with NATO ally Turkey”

REUTERS
Trump weighs labelling Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
by Steve Holland
April 30, 2019

President Donald Trump is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO), the White House said on Tuesday, which would bring sanctions against Egypt’s oldest Islamist movement. “The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern and this designation is working its way through the internal process,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in an email. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi asked Trump to make the designation during an April 9 visit to Washington…READ MORE

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Jewish NY Times columnist Bret Stephens calls out his paper: “The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it”

NEW YORK TIMES
A Despicable Cartoon in The Times
by Bret Stephens
April 28, 2019

…For some Times readers — or, as often, former readers — the answer is clear: The Times has a longstanding Jewish problem, dating back to World War II, when it mostly buried news about the Holocaust, and continuing into the present day in the form of intensely adversarial coverage of Israel. The criticism goes double when it comes to the editorial pages, whose overall approach toward the Jewish state tends to range, with some notable exceptions, from tut-tutting disappointment to thunderous condemnation. For these readers, the cartoon would have come like the slip of the tongue that reveals the deeper institutional prejudice. What was long suspected is, at last, revealed. READ MORE

JNS In midst of apology for one anti-Semitic cartoon, ‘New York Times’ publishes yet another Norwegian cartoonist Roar Hagen depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with sinister eyes taking a picture of himself with a selfie-stick, carrying in what appears to be an empty desert with a tablet featuring the Israeli flag painted on it.

GATESTONE Dershowitz:What if the New York Times Cartoon had depicted a Muslim, a Lesbian, an African American or a Mexican as a Dog? Imagine if the New York Times cartoon that depicted Israel’s Prime Minister as a dog had, instead, depicted the leader of another ethnic or gender group in a similar manner?

ALGEMEINER New York Times Is ‘Cesspool,’ Israeli Ambassador to US Says NYT writers defend their paper and attack Stephens for his column

Read Caroline Glick’s Tweet.

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