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”

Posted on April 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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”

Posted on April 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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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“Friend says 60-year-old mother jumped between gunman and rabbi at Poway Chabad center; Israeli girl and her uncle injured in rampage”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Chabad shooting victim named as Lori Gilbert-Kaye, said to have shielded rabbi
by Staff
April 28, 2019

The US woman killed in a shooting at a San Diego County synagogue was named late Saturday as Lori Gilbert-Kaye, a 60-year-old mother. Gilbert-Kaye was attending Passover services at the synagogue when a gunman opened fire with an assault rifle on worshipers at the Poway, California, synagogue, local authorities said. Three other people were injured, including Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 57, who was leading services at the time and was shot in both hands. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein: A Terrorist Tried to Kill Me Because I Am a Jew. I Will Never Back Down Today should have been my funeral. I was preparing to give my sermon Shabbat morning, Saturday, which was also the last day of Passover, the festival of our freedom, when I heard a loud bang in the lobby of my synagogue. I thought a table had fallen down or maybe even that, God forbid, my dear friend Lori Gilbert Kaye had tripped and fallen.

ISRAEL HAYOM ‘He pointed the gun at me but I had to get my nieces out’ Despite being shot in the leg, Almog Peretz was able to gather his nieces and escape the Chabad of San Diego County synagogue when the shooting began. “I wouldn’t have been able to forgive myself if I wouldn’t have saved the girls,” Peretz tells Israel Hayom.

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“New book gives reason to reflect on the little-known story of the Jewish teenager who assassinated a German diplomat in 1938, an act that served as the pretext for Kristallnacht”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

MOSAIC MAG
One Who Fought Back: Herschel Grynszpan and the Holocaust
by Rick Richman
April 25, 2019

On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year old named Herschel Grynszpan entered the German embassy in Paris. Hidden within his three-piece suit was a gun he had purchased earlier that day; in his pocket was a postcard on which he had written an abbreviated Hebrew phrase invoking God’s help and a message in German for his family: My dear parents, I could not do anything else, may God forgive me, my heart bleeds when I hear of the tragedy that befell you and 12,000 other Jews. I need to protest so that the entire world hears it, and this I will do. Forgive me. READ MORE

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Jews who hate Jews at the New York Times: “The rhetoric of the likes of Ku Klux Klan and far-right anti-Semites is beautifully conveyed by the caricature published in one of the world’s most liberal newspapers”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

YNET
Does Jewish anti-Semitism exist?
by Ben-Dror Yemini
April 28, 2019

One of the most influential newspapers in the world, the Jewish-owned New York Times decided to present the Jews with a gift in honor of the last day of Passover – a major Jewish holiday – an antisemitic caricature. The controversial cartoon shows US President Donald Trump as a blind man with a skullcap on his head, being led by a dog that looks like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And to make sure the reader knows it is indeed the Israeli premier, the dog has a Star of David dangling from its collar. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Flood of condemnations of New York Times for anti-Semitic cartoon US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell called the cartoon “despicable,” and the American Jewish Committee said it was “naked antisemitism.” Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas, 2nd District) wrote that “even if unintentional, the Left has normalized antisemitism under the guise of criticizing US-Israel foreign policy.”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Likud minister links New York Times to Nazis over Netanyahu cartoon Gilad Erdan urges dismissal of those responsible for caricature of Trump and PM; leaders’ sons Yair and Don Jr. lash ‘anti-Semitic’ drawing

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“The Poway and Pittsburgh shootings are connected by hatred of Jews and hatred of Trump, who is accused of being a “Jew-lover” and hosting an administration “infested” by Jews”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Anti-Trump antisemitism: The link between Pittsburgh and Poway
by Seth J. Frantzman
April 28, 2019

The alleged manifesto of shooter behind the attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue includes condemnation of US President Donald Trump. The letter or manifesto was posted on 8chan. “That Zionist, Jew-loving, anti-White, traitorous [expletive],” John Earnest wrote in a version quoted online. Similarly, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers wrote on Gab that he opposed Trump who he claimed was surrounded by Jews. “Trump is a globalist, not a nationalist.” He claimed that Jews, who he used an expletive to describe, were an “infestation” in the White House. READ MORE

BREITBART Glick: New York Times, Central Clearinghouse of Antisemitism in America Both [Bowers and Earnest] hate Trump, whom they view as a friend of the Jews. Earnest referred to Trump as “That Zionist, Jew-loving, anti-White, traitorous c**ks****er.” Bowers wrote that he opposed Trump because he is supposedly surrounded by Jews, whom Bowers called an “infestation” in the White House. The New York Times also hates Trump. And like Bowers and Earnest, it promotes the notion in both news stories and editorials that Trump’s support for Israel harms U.S. interests to benefit avaricious Jews. READ MORE

AMERICAN THINKER Thomas Lifson: By its own standards, the New York Times deserves blame for the Poway synagogue shooting Does anyone else remember when a New York Times editorial blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Gabby Giffords because of a bulls-eye on a map? The New York Times published a hideous, obviously anti-Semitic cartoon the day before a gunman entered a Chabad synagogue in suburban San Diego, killing one person and injuring 3.

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“Goldstein continued to deliver his sermon after he was injured, encouraging others in the synagogue to remain strong”

Posted on April 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Brave San Diego rabbi who wouldn’t stop Passover sermon has deep roots in Brooklyn
by Elizabeth Keogh and Dave Goldiner
April 27, 2019

When a hate-filled gunman opened fire inside his San Diego synagogue, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein kept his cool. The brave cleric continued preaching the message of the Passover freedom holiday, even after being shot in the hand. “He continued his speech,” Minoo Anvari, a congregant whose husband was inside the synagogue, told CNN. “We are strong. We are united. They can’t break us.” The founding rabbi of the Chabad of Poway synagogue — who has deep roots in Brooklyn — was taken to a local hospital in stable condition. One congregant died of her wounds. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Fresh synagogue shooting appears to highlight spread of deadly hate On the very last day of Passover — and six months to the day of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting — another gunman went to a Jewish house of worship and opened fire.

Hillel Neuer’s reply Tweet to AOC’s call for more gun control (in one of the most gun-controlled states in the nation)

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Julius Streicher would be proud: New York Times channels Der Stürmer with antisemitic Netanyahu cartoon

Posted on April 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
ADL head calls NY Times cartoon ‘vile anti-Semitic propaganda’
by Eric Cortellessa
April 27, 2019

Anti-Defamation League chief Jonathan Greenblatt excoriated The New York Times over the weekend for publishing a cartoon that depicted anti-Semitic tropes. “I thought the cartoon was disgusting,” he told The Times of Israel on Saturday night, during an interview in which he also addressed a deadly shooting at a California synagogue. “I thought it was despicable.” The paper acknowledged on Saturday that a cartoon it published in its international edition “included anti-Semitic tropes” and called its running the image an “error of judgment.” The graphic, which was in Thursday’s international print edition, showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a Star of David on his collar, leading a blind US President Donald Trump, seen wearing a skullcap and Hasidic garb. READ MORE

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“Substantial majority of Americans” support Israelis, but not the government they have democratically elected.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

PEW RESEARCH CENTER
U.S. Public Has Favorable View of Israel’s People, but Is Less Positive Toward Its Government
April 24, 2019

A substantial majority of Americans – 64% – say they have a favorable opinion of the Israeli people. However, fewer than half (41%) have a favorable view of the Israeli government; a larger share (51%) views the government unfavorably. The public also expresses more positive views of the Palestinian people than the government. While nearly half (46%) view the Palestinian people favorably, just 19% have a favorable opinion of the Palestinian government…By nearly two-to-one (61% to 32%), Republicans have a favorable view of Israel’s government. By contrast, two-thirds of Democrats view Israel’s government unfavorably, while just 26% have a favorable opinion. READ MORE

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