“BDS movement by definition anti-Semitic…there are at least 100 land disputes across the globe that are not subject to “BDS” movements”

Posted on April 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CLARION PROJECT
CAIR: Defending the Right to Be Anti-Semitic
By Meira Svirsky
April 8, 2019

…The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued an “action alert” to voice its opposition to the newly proposed “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2019” in Congress. The act directs Department of Education to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism, which has been officially adopted by the U.S. and 31 other nations, including the UK, Germany and other European nations. The definition addresses traditional and current forms of anti-Semitism, specifically labeling as anti-Semitism anything that “[applies] double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of by any other democratic nation [in the world].” READ MORE

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Some of what went down at RJC Vegas, both Trump and Pence speaking with barely an hour in between

Posted on April 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
RJC Vegas Highlights
April 8, 2019

Trump began his speech by saying “Shabbat Shalom” and was quickly interrupted by protestors from IfNotNow. After the protestors were escorted out, Trump said they’re “going back home to mommy… And will be reprimanded.” Trump’s speech made national headlines for his long digression on immigration and asylum, in saying that America is already “full.” He also referred to Benjamin Netanyahu as “your prime minister,” in discussion his historic recognition of the Golan Heights. In jest, he gave special thanks to “Representative Omar, oh, oh, oh, I forgot, she doesn’t like Israel, I forgot.”…Adelson’s appearance was rumored in the days before the RJC event, even though he’s reportedly undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in southern California. After taking his seat in the front row, he put on an RJC “Trump” yarmulke. READ MORE

POLITICO Pro-Trump Republicans plan big-money play for the Jewish vote in 2020 Republicans are planning a multimillion-dollar offensive aimed at fracturing the Democratic Party’s decades long stranglehold on the Jewish vote.

JEWISH PRESS IfNotNow: Disrupting Trump’s Pro-Jewish Speech Was ‘Living Out Our Values’ I would venture that the stunts performed by IfNotNow clowns in their campaign to push their anti-Israel agenda do more to push US Jews into the arms of the GOP than do a hundred presidential speeches. The rest of the “Jews go Republican” campaign is being successfully carried out by Muslim and pro-Muslim Democratic House members.

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“Islam Yusef Abu Hamid found guilty on charges of murdering Ronen Lubarsky; suspect’s family home was demolished by IDF in December”

Posted on April 7, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Palestinian convicted of killing IDF soldier with stone slab last year
by AFP
April 7, 2019

An Israeli military court on Sunday convicted a Palestinian of murdering an Israeli soldier in the West Bank last year, the army said. “The military court in Judea (the West Bank) convicted the terrorist Islam Yusef Abu Hamid on charges of murdering soldier Ronen Lubarsky,” the army said in a statement. Lubarsky, a special forces member, was struck in the head by a stone, during an arrest operation in the West Bank, on May 24, 2018. The 20-year-old Israeli sergeant died of his injuries two days later. READ MORE

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“Iran has warned of a “crushing” response should the United States go ahead with the designation”

Posted on April 6, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
U.S. to designate elite Iranian force as terrorist organization
by Phil Stewart, Lesley Wroughton and Steve Holland
April 5, 2019

The United States is expected to designate Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps a foreign terrorist organization, three U.S. officials told Reuters, marking the first time Washington has formally labeled another country’s military a terrorist group. The decision, which critics warn could open U.S. military and intelligence officials to similar actions by unfriendly governments abroad, is expected to be announced by the U.S. State Department, perhaps as early as Monday, the officials said. It has been rumored for years…The announcement would come ahead of the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran and to reimpose sanctions that had crippled Iran’s economy. READ MORE

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Bibi: “There’s only one way to guarantee that Lapid and Gantz won’t form a left-wing government, and that is to vote Likud”

Posted on April 6, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Netanyahu vows to annex settlements in West Bank if he wins election
by Gil Hoffman
April 6, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began a campaign over the weekend to take seats away from the Likud’s satellite parties on the Right, in an effort to win more seats for Likud than Blue and White in Tuesday’s election, and ensure that President Reuven Rivlin will ask him to form the next government. As part of that effort, in an interview with Channel 12 on Saturday night, Netanyahu vowed to annex territories in settlements and evacuate the illegal West Bank herding village of Khan Al-Ahmar, if he wins another term. READ MORE

ELDER OF ZIYON The liberalism in the “far right” Zehut platform Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut party, when it is mentioned in the media at all, is usually described as a quirky “ultranationalist” party that supports annexing the West Bank although it also supports legalization of marijuana. However, polls show that it may get as many as 5-8 Knesset seats…People are realizing that Feiglin very well may emerge as the kingmaker as long as the top two parties remain close in the polls.

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Israel-hater shown clueless in interview with Palestinian when it becomes clear that Hamas is the enemy (not Israel)

Posted on April 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAELLYCOOL
Antisemite Ariyana Love’s Interview With a Palestinian Goes Horribly Wrong For Her
by Aussie Dave
April 5, 2019

For those who don’t know, Ariyana Love is a vile jew hater I have exposed here on Israellycool. My expose on her hit such a raw nerve, that she published libelous accusationsagainst me and my wife, and sent them to my place of employment (with the assistance of fellow Jew-hater Brendon “Brendover” O’Connell). But as I said at the time and reiterate now, I don’t give in to threats and intimidation. Be that as it may, the really-not-aptly-named Love recently interviewed a BDS-hole by the name of Younes Arar, who she invited on to bitch about Israel. Bad move. She soon learned that as much as he hates Israel, his hatred for Hamas is even stronger. READ MORE   Click here to view video

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Wiesenthal Center: ”Don’t degrade Anne Frank’s memory to push the big lie that Israelis are today’s Nazis”

Posted on April 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Wiesenthal Center urges removal of Anne Frank’s name from NGO due to antisemitism
by Benjamin Weinthal
April 4, 2019

The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on the Frankfurt-based Anne Frank Educational Center to remove the Holocaust victim’s name from its organization after it invited an alleged anti-Jewish conspiracy theorist who loathes Israel to speak at its conference on antisemitism. The latest antisemitism scandal at the center is roiling Frankfurt’s city government…“Yes, people have the right to speak their minds, but debasing Anne’s memory to abet efforts to delegitimize and eliminate the Jewish state, in Germany no less, is beyond the pale. Remove Anne’s name from this Center and have the guts to openly promote your animus towards the democratic State of Israel,” [Rabbi Abraham] Cooper said…READ MORE

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“A tiny robotic spacecraft from Israel just inserted itself into orbit around the Moon in a critical maneuver that sets the vehicle up for a landing on the lunar surface next week”

Posted on April 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

SPACE.COM
Pioneering Israeli Lunar Lander Arrives in Orbit Around the Moon
by Mike Wall
April 4, 2019

Israel just became the seventh nation to orbit the moon. After slowly spiraling away from Earth for the past six weeks, an Israeli spacecraft known as Beresheet slipped into orbit around the moon today (April 4). This was a historic achievement for the little robot, but it paves the way for something truly epic: a lunar touchdown attempt a week from now. If Beresheet succeeds on April 11, it will become the first Israeli craft, and the first privately funded vehicle, ever to land softly on the surface of the moon. READ MORE

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“Special negotiator for hostages and prisoners of war Yaron Blum says it was thanks to prime minister’s special relationship with Putin that Israel succeeded in bringing Zachary Baumel’s remains home”

Posted on April 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
‘We must act tirelessly to bring captives, missing home’
by Ariel Kahana
April 5, 2019

Yaron Blum, special negotiator for hostages and prisoners of war at the Prime Minister’s Office and a former senior Shin Bet security agency official, said it was “a great privilege” to be involved in the efforts to return the remains of Staff Sgt. Zachary Baumel to Israel, 37 years after he was killed in Battle of Sultan Yacoub in the 1982 Lebanon War. According to Blum, it was thanks to precise intelligence and Russia’s assistance that the State of Israel was able to bring Baumel’s remains to Israel for burial…Blum rejected criticism over the timing of the move. To say it is “because of the elections – that is just nonsense.” READ MORE

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Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: “I see that Arab nations today tend toward reconciliation with Israel”

Posted on April 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
‘The Arabs have realized Israel cannot be destroyed’
by Eldad Beck
March 29, 2019

…”In the past, contact with Israel was considered treason, and today there is no mass opposition to it. And the Arabs have been convinced that Israel exists, that it cannot be destroyed by force and that it is preferable to negotiate with it.  For 70 years, the Arabs tried every means of violence against Israel and saw that it only grows more powerful as they grow weaker.” “One more thing,” Al-Ansari adds, “Arab states spend vast sums of money on arms, at the expense of the advancement of their societies. Had they invested these billions of dollars on development, the state of the Arab societies would be better. READ MORE

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