WaPost Op-ed: “All American Muslims are somehow affiliated with or sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood”

Posted on May 13, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CLARION PROJECT
US Mainstream Media Shills for Brotherhood (Read: Qatar)
May 13, 2019

Many mainstream media newspapers have joined The New York Times in shilling for the Muslim Brotherhood— claiming that the movement gave up violence years ago and such a designation stems merely from Islamophobia — yet few are looking at the Qatar connection.  In a particularly disingenuous article, The Washington Post ran an op-ed authored by human rights lawyer and Muslim personality Arsalan Iftikhar titled “Calling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization will scapegoat all Muslims.” The article postulates that “Nearly 7 million American Muslims [there are actually only 3.5 million American Muslims] would become the primary domestic target of such a designation.” READ MORE

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Auschwitz exhibition at NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage ‏”engaging and moving, though too often the Jewish victims seem to be afterthoughts”

Posted on May 13, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
An Auschwitz Exhibition Fails the Jews
by Edward Rothstein
May 11, 2019

…In the introductory section, Jews seem like afterthoughts, secondary to more fundamental political hatreds. Even in portraying the death machinery, descriptions are made as broad as possible: “Trains, traveling around the clock, brought 1.3 million Jews, Poles, Roma, and other enemies of the Third Reich, real or perceived, to Auschwitz.”…Make no mistake: This show wields considerable power, but, like most Holocaust exhibitions (aside from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem), it is oddly discomfited by that Judaic center and overly content with contemporary platitudes. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

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BDS-supporting Imam invited to give opening prayer at Congress

Posted on May 12, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY CALLER
Militantly Anti-Semitic Imam Gives Opening Prayer At House Of Representatives
by Joshua Gill
May 10, 2019

A Muslim cleric who called for violence against Israel and expressed support for Hamas gave the opening prayer before the House of Representatives Thursday, angering several representatives. Omar Suleiman, an imam and president of the Yaqeen Institute, delivered the invocation at the invitation of his congresswoman, Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency. Republican New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is Jewish, decried the invitation in light of the fact that Suleiman has repeatedly called for a third Intifada against Israel, referred to Jews as “Zionists” and called them “enemies of God,” and defended the terrorist organization Hamas on social media. READ MORE

NATIONAL REVEW Senator Rick Scott:Democrats’ Tolerance of Anti-Semitism Exposes Their Intolerance The inability of the national Democratic party to take a strong, declarative, and unequivocal stand against anti-Semitism will cost the party dearly, and not only with Jewish voters. 

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Late Night TV luminaries Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah put “seal of approval” on Ilhan Omar

Posted on May 12, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism wins the pop-culture primary
by Jonathan Tobin
May 9, 2019

…If smears of Jews and of Israel have become mainstream fare, it’s not because of anything Congress did or didn’t do. It’s because the late-night television comedy circuit has embraced Ilhan Omar as a heroine who must be defended at all costs. In doing so, the likes of Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah have essentially put the popular-culture seal of approval on a figure who, in a saner time in our political history, would be viewed with disdain rather than admiration by the people who keep America laughing after prime time. READ MORE

THE FEDERALIST Everything Seth Meyers Said About Ilhan Omar Is Wrong Meyers also asked a misleading rhetorical question about whether people could be “critical” of Israel without being called anti-Semitic. Virtually every member of the Barack Obama administration was critical of Israel. Tons of people are critical of Israel all the time. Omar wasn’t merely critical of Israel—and by critical of Israel, it is true that she doesn’t believe it should exist—but she smeared American Jews as seditious activists.

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“Is there really a difference between Hamas or Nazis trying to murder Jewish children?”

Posted on May 12, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
The Double Standard on Killing Jews in California and Israel
by Daniel Greenfield
May 9, 2019

…After the shooting at Chabad of Poway, Almog Peretz told reporters that his experience in Sderot, where residents may have minutes to get children to safety before a rocket hits, had prepared him to save the children being shot at in the synagogue. “This is sad, but I am originally from Sderot, so we know a bit about running from the Kassam rockets.” A little over a week after the Poway shooting, rockets are once falling on Sderot. Once again, the walls of a Sderot kindergarten were gouged by shrapnel. Photos showed debris and holes in the wall above a blackboard reading, “My Israel”. READ MORE

LOS ANGELES TIMES The ‘Tactical Rabbi’ helps synagogues defend against anti-Semitic violence It was 45 minutes into his lecture when the rabbi pulled out an AR-15. “Who thinks, by show of hands, that we should be carrying more guns in shul?” Rabbi Raziel Cohen asked the crowd at a Westside Chabad synagogue Wednesday night, during an active-shooter seminar organized in the wake of the deadly attack at Chabad of Poway.

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Iran Judo: We’ll stop throwing matches with Israel

Posted on May 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Iranian judo agrees to end decades-long boycott of Israeli athletes
by Joshua Davidovich
May 12, 2019

In a historic move, Iranian judo officials have agreed to stop boycotting Israeli athletes on the mat, ending a practice that had drawn criticism against Tehran in the sporting world. In a letter to the International Judo Federation published Saturday, Iran’s Olympic Committee and local Judo Federation agreed to “fully respect the Olympic Charter and its non-discrimination principle.”…Iran has had a long-time policy of avoiding Israelis in athletic competitions, frequently at the expense of its own competitors. READ MORE

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#GazaRockets Western media showed “usual eagerness to believe the propaganda produced by the attackers, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad”

Posted on May 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Doing what comes naturally – the West’s suicidal animus
by Melanie Phillips
May 9, 2019

As around 700 rockets rained down on southern Israel last weekend, leaving four Israelis dead and many more wounded, many in Western media were doing what comes naturally to them – suspending the normal rules of journalism to distort, twist or lie. The usual, fundamental errors littered their reports – such as that Gaza was “occupied,” regardless of the fact that Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. There was the usual reversal of aggressor and victim, with sly implications of moral equivalency between Arab attack and Israeli defense. READ MORE

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Chicago DePaul student hysteria over Jason Hill “part of the growing anti-Semitic culture that is pervading American campuses”

Posted on May 9, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON TIMES
DePaul professor ignites free-speech uproar with unabashed pro-Israel views
by Valerie Richardson
May 7, 2019

Since arriving from Jamaica with $120 in his pocket, DePaul University professor Jason D. Hill in many ways has embodied the American dream, until he received a rude awakening over his unabashed admiration for Israel. His article last month declaring that Israel has a “moral right to annex all of the West Bank” has made him Depersona non grata on campus, the focus of student protests and a Faculty Council vote condemning his article for promoting “racism toward Arabs generally and Palestinians in particular.” READ MORE

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Bipartisan Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 “passed on a vote of 93 to seven in the Senate and 374 to 37 in the House”

Posted on May 9, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK SUN
Waving Goodbye To the Jerusalem Waiver
Editorial
May 9, 2019

…Three presidents — Messrs. Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama — defied the spirit and intent of the law over and over, renewing the waiver every six months. One of the original sponsors of the Jerusalem Embassy Act, Joe Biden, was eventually elected vice president. Yet even he failed to press the case for carrying out the law that he had helped write. It wasn’t until President Trump acceded to power that a bipartisan policy, hammered out in Congress, was brought into reality. The result is that, as Secretary Pompeo put it this week, “no further Presidential waiver” is needed for the Jerusalem embassy. READ MORE

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Has Congresswoman McCollum “developed any legislation to censure the P.A. for rewarding terrorists’ families with cash, holding celebrations for the murder of Jews and naming streets and schools after the murderers?”

Posted on May 9, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
An open letter to Congresswoman McCollum
by Gary Schiff
May 6, 2019

Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) chose Holocaust Remembrance Day to introduce a bill calling Israel to task for allegedly mistreating Palestinian children. The bill calls for Congress to allocate $19 million to fund non-governmental organizations who would oversee Israel’s interrogation and treatment of Palestinian children…Her introduction of this bill also begs several questions about the congresswoman’s genuine concern for children. Has the congresswoman developed any legislation to provide oversight of the Palestinian Authority regarding its use of Palestinian children as human shields or suicide-bombers? Or using summer camps to train children in terrorism?  READ MORE

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