“Poland’s ambassador to the UK says culture, history and science offer plenty of reasons for Jews to rediscover his country”

Posted on April 21, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH CHRONICLE
Why Auschwitz is not the only reason for Jews to visit my country
by Arkady Rzegocki
April 19, 2019

…It is difficult to imagine modern-day Poland without Jewish heritage, which is why when visiting Auschwitz and learning about the camp’s tragic history, it is worth seeing other Polish places which reflect it. The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw is perhaps the next best known Jewish landmark in Poland. Built on the site of the former Warsaw ghetto, it celebrates the thousand-year history of Poland’s Jewish community and is a place where you can learn about past and present Jewish culture, confront stereotypes, and consider perils from today’s world —such as xenophobia and nationalistic prejudices. READ MORE

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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar: “not alone among members of the House in her close alliance with terrorist groups”

Posted on April 21, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
The Terrorist Caucus in the House
by David Horowitz
April 22, 2019

…Here is the way Qanta Ahmed, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations views Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her claim to represent Muslims: Rep. Ilhan Omar continues to be an embarrassment and a disgrace for me and other American Muslims with her outrageous, ignorant, anti-Semitic and now anti-American comments. And while Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, holds herself out as a proud Muslim, she repeatedly projects a distorted and patently Islamist interpretation of Islam – a religion that in reality stands for the values of justice, peace and ethical conduct…” READ MORE

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NYT “Apology” OpEd: “After Trump’s vindication, the liberal media and its allies in government should face a reckoning. I’m not holding my breath”

Posted on April 21, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
Barr Is Right About Everything. Admit You Were Wrong
by Christopher Buskirk
April 18, 2019

…And yet nearly the entire complex of elite media was actively complicit in promoting the biggest political conspiracy theory in American history: that Hillary Clinton lost the election because Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to — well, that was always a moving target — but to somehow deprive Mrs. Clinton of victory. What we now know definitively is that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, and a team of very accomplished, mostly Clinton-supporting, prosecutors were unable to find evidence of a conspiracy that had been taken as an article of faith by Trump haters. READ MORE

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EVENT CAMERA Gala New York City Sunday June 2

Posted on April 21, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

Join CAMERA to Celebrate “The Promise Of Israel and The Battle For Truth”
with Ambassador Ron Dermer, CAMERA’s Emet Award Honoree

Sunday, June 2, 2019
Cocktail Reception | 5:30 pm
Dinner | 6:30 pm
Dietary laws observed
Pier Sixty | Chelsea Piers | NYC
Click here to register

Gala Leadership and Sponsorship opportunities available. Please contact Tracey Johnson, National Director of Development at Tracey@CAMERA.org or 617.377.6898

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Beresheet human error “led to the failure of the nearly $100 million lunar mission”

Posted on April 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GEEK WIRE
Beresheet bummer: Investigation of Israeli lunar lander’s crash points to human factor
by Alan Boyle
April 17, 2019

A manually entered command apparently set off a chain reaction of events that led to last week’s crash of an Israeli-built lunar lander during its attempt to touch down on the moon, the mission’s managers said today. Preliminary results of an investigation into the crash indicate that the manual command was entered into the spacecraft’s computer, which caused the main engine to switch off and stay off during the Beresheet lander’s descent. The Jerusalem Post reported that problems started with a malfunction in an inertial measurement unit that kept track of the spacecraft’s orientation and motion. READ MORE

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Arson fire set at Torat Chaim yeshiva in eastern Moscow as 60 people gather there for Passover Seder

Posted on April 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Moscow yeshiva set on fire during Passover Seder
by Elad Benari
April 19, 2019

An arson fire was set at the largest yeshiva in Russia as during a Passover Seder on Friday, Jewish officials said, according to The Associated Press. No one was reported injured in the fire at the Torat Chaim school in an eastern Moscow suburb. Olga Esaulova, a spokeswoman for Moscow’s chief rabbi, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying the fire was set in a storage area for kosher meat and that swastikas were drawn at the yeshiva’s entrance. There were about 60 students, rabbis and guests in the building at the time, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. READ MORE

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Gérard Araud, former ambassador to Israel, dismissive of Trump plan, calls West Bank “an apartheid state”

Posted on April 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
French envoy to US: Trump plan ‘very close to what Israel wants, 99% doomed’
by Staff
April 20, 2019

France’s outgoing ambassador to the US, Gérard Araud, said US President Donald Trump is uniquely able to “push” Israel on his upcoming peace plan because he is extremely popular among Israelis and they “trust him.” In an interview with The Atlantic magazine published on Friday, Araud said the White House plan, engineered by Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, will be “very close to what the Israelis want,” and is 99 percent “doomed to fail.”…Araud told the magazine that the White House was counting on three factors when it comes to the peace plan. The first is Trump’s popularity in Israel. READ MORE

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UNC and Duke jointly sponsor Jew hatefest underwritten with federal funds

Posted on April 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ROLL CALL
‘Anti-semitic rhetoric’ at Duke-UNC event prompts Rep. Holding to ask for federal probe
by Griffin Connolly
April 16, 2019

Rep. George Holding has asked the Department of Education to investigate whether a joint conference on Middle East studies by Duke University and the University of North Carolina that allegedly contained “anti-semitic rhetoric” should be the basis for pulling federal funding from a consortium of university foreign language and studies programs. In a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Holding criticized the “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics, and Possibilities” conference in March in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he says he saw “reports of severe anti-Israeli bias and anti-Semitic rhetoric at a taxpayer-funded conference.” READ MORE

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“Jewish and Palestinian positions are entrenched, and no party offered ideas for changing that”

Posted on April 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

BLOOMBERG
Israel’s Election Didn’t Kill Hope for Peace. It Was Already Dead.
by Daniel Gordis
April 17, 2019

…What Israelis had to decide was whether they wanted the security and prosperity that Netanyahu has delivered at the cost of corruption indictments and Trump-like attacks on democratic institutions, or whether they preferred a Mr. Clean who would end the corruption, but whose ability to maintain the security and prosperity was entirely untested. They voted for the “devil they know.” Whatever Israel’s election means, Israelis did not vote against peace: No party was committing to it. Nor did the election reflect a weakening of Israeli democracy. READ MORE

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Washington Post: “By omitting any mention of Jordan, reporter misleads readers into thinking Israel took the West Bank from the Palestinians”

Posted on April 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN THINKER
WaPo covers up information to make Israel look bad
by Michael Berenhaus
April 16, 2019

In “Netanyahu makes election vow to annex settlements in occupied West Bank” (4/7/19), the Post clearly and correctly states that the Golan Heights is “a plateau captured from Syria in 1967.” The Post then obfuscates the issue of who owned the West Bank before Israel captured that territory. It describes the West Bank as “lands Israel captured in 1967.” But whom were the lands captured from? The Post has no policy of concealing the former owners of captured territory, as shown by the passage on the Golan Heights. So why the disparity? The only possible reason is because the Post wants to hide the fact that Israel won the West Bank from Jordan [which occupied it illegally]. READ MORE

CAMERA New York Times Suggests “Terrorist” Label for Israel And considering the way those journalists shoehorned the Jewish state into the conversation — by suggesting that maybe Israeli intelligence should also be designated as a foreign terrorist group — it is, most troublingly, a story about a newspaper that has lost any measure of self-restraint when it comes to the small, Jewish country that so often dominates its attention.

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