Chicago Event: CAMERA presents How the Media Influence Policy-Making on Capitol Hill

Posted on March 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA and Kehilat Chovevei Tzion present
How the Media Influence Policy-Making on Capitol Hill
Presented by Sean Durns, CAMERA Senior Research Analyst

Ever wonder how Senators and Congressional Representatives get their information on particular issues, specifically those relating to Israel? Join Sean Durns to learn how policy-making works on Capitol Hill and how the media helps set policy.

Program and dessert reception
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 7:45 PM
Kehilat Chovevei Tzion
9220 Crawford Avenue, Skokie, IL

There is no charge for this program, but pre-registration is required. Click here to register. For more information, email nadine@CAMERA.org or call 773.720.8578

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“So far overnight, Israeli fighter jets struck several targets in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, including a military compound and a weapons manufacturing site belonging to Hamas”

Posted on March 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
IDF to Haniyeh: Don’t forget to let us know where your new office is
by Yasser Okbi / Maariv
March 27, 2019

“When you arrive at the location that used to be your headquarters, look right, look left,” teased Avichay Adraee, who is in charge of the IDF’s social media in the Arab world, in a social media post to Hamas leader Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh on Tuesday night…The IDF on Tuesday attacked dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip, including a number of compounds belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in Shati, Beit Hanoun, Saja’iya and other locations throughout the strip. Weapons tunnels, military posts and rocket launching sites were all attacked. The Israeli military even struck Haniyeh’s office. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Why did the Iron Dome not intercept the rocket from Gaza Monday morning? On Monday morning, a rocket from Gaza struck a private home in central Israel, wounding at least seven people…The rocket is named J-80 after the head of the military wing of Hamas, Ahmed Jabri, and according to Hamas – since it travels on a nonlinear path – it can not be intercepted by Iron Dome.

ARUTZ SHEVA Iran ordered rocket attack, aimed to hurt Netanyahu in election Senior officials in Gaza and Egypt now say rocket attack on central Israel was ordered by Iran, with aim of hurting Netanyahu in election

JERUSALEM POST Itamar Marcus: Hamas strategy: Kill Israelis to defeat Fatah Numerous analysts are trying to explain the timing of Hamas’s missile launch this week at a town north of Tel Aviv 85 km. inside Israel. While it seems clear the missile was directed at Israelis, Hamas’s real target was Fatah, the ruling PA political party of Mahmoud Abbas.

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“We are exposing an extensive sanctions evasion network that was established by the Iranian regime to evade American sanctions”

Posted on March 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
U.S. sanctions firms accused of helping fund Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
by Lesley Wroughton
March 26, 2019

The United States on Tuesday imposed fresh sanctions on a network of companies and people in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates it said was helping to raise billions of dollars to fund the operations of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. The U.S. Treasury blacklisted 25 people and organizations, including a clutch of front companies based in the three countries, that were working on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s defense ministry to raise money for their activities. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Germany refuses to disclose Iranian attempts to buy nuclear, missile technology One explanation for Germany’s refusal to disclose the statistics on Iranian regime violations of the JCPOA and sanctions could be Berlin’s flourishing trade relationship with Iran. 

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#MeghanMcCain: “Americans do not support Israel because #AIPAC is influential, AIPAC is influential because Americans support Israel”

Posted on March 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Despite attacks from the left and the right, AIPAC is still needed
by Jonathan S. Tobin
March 25, 2019

…Still, the argument that AIPAC has become irrelevant to pro-Israel advocacy is mistaken. Just like liberals who have wrongly interpreted the lobby’s willingness to embrace right-wingers who love Israel as proof that it is a Republican front, so, too, does the right get it wrong when it blasts as AIPAC as a weak sister for refusing to go to war against the Democrats. Both ends of the political spectrum simply don’t understand what AIPAC does and why—their criticisms notwithstanding—it is still doing its job. READ MORE

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Joan Ryan gets standing ovation as she tells America’s biggest pro-Israel conference Labour is now ‘riddled with antisemitism’ I’m at AIPAC “To Remind You How Quickly Things Can Change”

JNS Former US and Israeli defense officials clash over duty of AIPAC When AIPAC and other liberal Jewish groups lead congressmen, senators and other leaders on trips to Israel, posed [Harold] Rhode, “why are AIPAC and the other major U.S. Jewish groups so hesitant to take people to see the Jewish towns and villages in Judea and Samaria?

DAILY WIRE Leftist Organization Claims False Victory For Dem Candidates Not Attending AIPAC. Here’s The Real Reason. Last week, the leftist organization MoveOn declared victory over several Democratic presidential candidates as they did not attend AIPAC’s annual bipartisan Policy Conference. But the truth is more prosaic; many of the candidates were simply not invited or had scheduling conflicts.

THE NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK AIPAC After-Parties With An Ideological Bent The Yesha Council, representing West Bank settlers, hosted an event Sunday evening at the evangelical-backed Museum of the Bible. Hosted by the Hebron community spokesman Yishai Fleisher, the event opened with a “Woodstock-style” rendition of the national anthem and “Hatikvah” 

CBN NEWS Romania and Honduras Tell AIPAC Conference They’re Moving Embassies to Jerusalem

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“Ted Cruz replaces the Democrats’ muddled manifesto with a clear and unequivocal exploration of the hatred of Jews and its particular evils”

Posted on March 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Finally, a Resolution That Actually Condemns Anti-Semitism
by Liel Leibovitz
March 26, 2019

Earlier this month, after Rep. Ilhan Omar accused American Jews of dual loyalty and the Israel lobby of purchasing undue influence, the House passed a resolution that did not mention Omar by name and that condemned not only anti-Semitism but every other conceivable form of bigotry. Doing his best to hide his disappointment, Rep. Eliot Engel, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, said, “I wish we had had a separate resolution about anti-Semitism. I think we deserved it.” The congressman can take heart: A new resolution, drafted by Ted Cruz and slated to be introduced in the Senate this week, delivers everything that the Democrats’ muddled manifesto did not. READ MORE

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Ilhan Omar, the elephant in the room at AIPAC

Posted on March 25, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Ilhan Omar, anti-Semitism center of talks at Israeli lobby conference
By Nikki Schwab
March 24, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar — and some of her progressive allies — were the talk of the AIPAC Policy Conference Sunday, though no speaker would call them out by name. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) dared critics to say that he held a “dual loyalty” to both the US and Israel. “I stand with Israel, proudly and apologetically. So when someone accuses American supporters of Israel of dual loyalty, I say — accuse me,” he taunted the crowd, who cheered loudly…Hoyer also reminded attendees that “there are 62 freshmen Democrats. Not three.” READ MORE

JTA Ilhan Omar lashes out at Pelosi, Netanyahu for their AIPAC jabs at her Rep. Ilhan Omar hit back at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after they called out the first-year congresswoman at the AIPAC policy conference for her attacks on the lobby and support for the Israel boycott movement.

DAILY WIRE Ilhan Omar Trashes Pro-Israel Protesters: ‘Could Care Less About What They Have To Say’ Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) continued to show her disdain for Israel and the Jewish people on Saturday after she mocked a group of hundreds of pro-Israel demonstrators who showed up to protest her at a [CAIR] fundraiser event she was attending…“I don’t think any of them realize that people like myself and many of the people in this room could care less about what they have to say,” Omar said.

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“In banning the entire organization of Hezbollah, the UK joins Canada, the U.S., Israel, the Netherlands and the Arab League”

Posted on March 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
UK Bans Hezbollah
by Judith Bergman
March 23, 2019

British Home Secretary Sajid Javid recently proscribed the Iranian terrorist proxy organization, Hezbollah (‘Party of God’) in its entirety under the UK Terrorism Act 2000, a government decision that the UK Parliament also recently approved. “There have long been calls to ban the whole group with the distinction between the two factions derided as smoke and mirrors,” Javid said during a debate on the prevention and suppression of terrorism in the House of Commons. READ MORE

FLORIDA DAILY Brian Mast Wants Sanctions on Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla…paired up with the two leaders of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee–chairman U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-NY, and top Republican U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Tex.–and U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-NJ, to introduce the  “Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act”.

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“Phillips has won a well-earned reputation as a stalwart opponent of the misrepresentations and downright lies about Israel that constantly fill the world’s media”

Posted on March 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
The transformational autobiography of Melanie Phillips
by Neville Teller
March 22, 2019

…She believes that the world-view promulgated by the left-wing intellectual élite in both countries grew increasingly out of step with the opinions of ordinary working and middle-class people. Progressive thinkers, perceiving the Western nation state as the source of colonialism and oppression, put their faith in transnational institutions like the European Union and the United Nations.  They took no account of the pride that many ordinary people feel in their nation, their institutions and their independence. This, Phillips believes, largely explains the intense shock the US establishment felt at the election of Donald Trump as president…READ MORE

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Former employee trashes Southern Poverty Law Center in The New Yorker, effectively calling them “a scam” and bastion of white privilege

Posted on March 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE NEW YORKER
The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center
by Bob Moser
March 21, 2019

…Cameras were everywhere in the open-plan office, which made me feel like a Pentagon staffer, both secure and insecure at once. But nothing was more uncomfortable than the racial dynamic that quickly became apparent: a fair number of what was then about a hundred employees were African-American, but almost all of them were administrative and support staff—“the help,” one of my black colleagues said pointedly. The “professional staff”—the lawyers, researchers, educators, public-relations officers, and fund-raisers—were almost exclusively white. Just two staffers, including me, were openly gay. READ MORE

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Dershowitz: “If Jewish power and influence are used in the cause of peace and justice, we should not be ashamed of it. It should be a source of pride”

Posted on March 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
We Need More Jewish Power, Not Less
by Alan Dershowitz
March 21, 2019

When I hear that Jews are too powerful, my response is, we are not powerful enough. When I hear that AIPAC is too influential a lobby, I say it must become even more influential. When I hear that Jews contribute too much money to support pro-Israel causes, I say we must contribute more. When I hear that Jews control the media, I ask “Why is so much of the media so anti-Israel?” When I hear that Jews have too much influence on the outcome of elections, I say we need to increase our influence. READ MORE

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