Representative Omar: Have you ever called out Jordan for establishing Islam as the religion of the state?

Posted on February 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Singling Out the Jewish State
by Aaron Kliegman
January 31, 2019

There are 43 countries with official state religions and another 40 that give one religion preferential treatment over other faiths. Of the former group, 27 countries enshrine Islam as their state faith, and 13 do the same for Christianity—including nine countries in Europe. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) does not seem to have a problem with any of them; one would be hard-pressed to recall a single word of criticism. But she does have a problem—a big one—with the world’s only Jewish state—a tiny country, home to just under nine million people—recognizing itself as, well, the Jewish state. READ MORE

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“Horrible as Riyadh’s behavior is, the Houthis are worse. Thus by ending support for the Saudi coalition, American would empower an even greater evil”

Posted on February 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Backing the Saudis in Yemen is right, strategically and morally
by Evelyn Gordon
January 30, 2019

…On the strategic side, let’s start with the fact that an organization [Iran] whose official slogan is “God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse the Jews, Victory to Islam” isn’t one Americans should want ruling anything, much less a country [Yemen] whose location enables it to dominate a strategic waterway vital to the global oil industry. And without the Saudi-led coalition, the Houthis would long since have taken over Yemen. READ MORE

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“With ground support from a big tent of vitriolic groups, it was Human Rights Watch that pressured Airbnb into boycotting Israel”

Posted on February 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Why has Human Rights Watch become an anti-Israel activist group?
by Jonathan Schanzer and David May
February 4, 2019

When Airbnb, the online lodging service, announced in November that it would ban Israeli listings in the disputed West Bank, hardcore anti-Israel groups took an undeserved victory lap. Surprisingly, though, the credit belongs to Human Rights Watch, an nongovernmental organization with seemingly no reason to enter into the circus of anti-Israel activism…It was HRW that published “Bed and Breakfast on Stolen Land,” a report documenting alleged human rights violations associated with renting Jewish properties in the West Bank. To avoid bad press, Airbnb yanked its Jewish-owned listings one day before the report dropped. READ MORE

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For reporting on Henry Ford’s antisemitism, Dearborn mayor fires an editor

Posted on February 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Double Standard for Historical Revisionism
by Alan M. Dershowitz
February 6, 2019

Imagine if an American city continued to celebrate a prominent businessman who had published newspapers and books advocating overt racism and racial discrimination against Black people. Imagine if the Grand Wizard of the KKK had a picture of this man in his office and credited him with inspiring him to kill African Americans…Henry Ford does not deserve to be honored. The question the good people of Dearborn should ask themselves is: What would you do if the performing arts center were named after Jefferson Davis? If the answer is that you would remove Davis’s name, then you should remove Ford’s. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES A Mayor’s Effort to Play Down Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism Backfires  Henry Ford is everywhere in Dearborn, Mich., his hometown, where more than 70 years after the famed industrialist’s death, his name or likeness graces everything from the performing arts center to the manhole covers. But Bill McGraw, editor of a local quarterly journal published by the city’s historical commission, felt that residents could stand to learn more about the unflattering side of the man who founded Ford Motor Company and pioneered assembly line production in his factories.

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#BDSFail UK #BDS poll concluded “Muslim respondents were almost four times likelier to agree with the need to boycott Israel than the average”

Posted on February 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Boycotting Israel has little appeal in the UK, Despite star power
by Cnaan Lipschiz
February 1, 2019

…In the poll of 4,005 British respondents, only 10 percent agreed that Israel should be boycotted, compared to 46 percent who disagreed, according to the Ipsos MORI polling company. It conducted the survey in 2016 and 2017 for the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the Community Security Trust. Significantly, another 42 percent said they either had no opinion or did not know, with the remaining 2 percent saying they would rather not express an opinion. The study found a distinct correlation between support for BDS and the view of Israel as an apartheid state. READ MORE

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New Gaza-Israel fence will sit atop tunnel-blocking subterranean wall and connect to sea barrier

Posted on February 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel starts construction on 20-foot-high fence surrounding Gaza
by Judah Ari Gross
February 3, 2019

The Defense Ministry has begun the final phase of construction of a 20-foot high galvanized steel fence that will completely surround the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials said Sunday. The barrier will extend 65 kilometers (40 miles) miles around the enclave and sit atop the subterranean concrete wall Israel is constructing around the Gaza Strip to block terrorist groups’ attack tunnels from the coastal enclave…The overall Gaza barrier project is due to be completed by the end of 2019, according to the army. READ MORE

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#SOTU “was one pro-Jewish speech”

Posted on February 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY
The State of the Union is Pro-Jewish
by Abe Greenwald
February 6, 2019

…Trump talked about a great many other things, but it’s remarkable the extent to which his speech acknowledged, celebrated, and urged on America’s doing right by the Jews. It would be welcome enough if he emphasized such things in an address to an exclusively Jewish audience, but this was a State of the Union speech, and so his righteous words were meant to shape our very understanding of America. This takes on additional importance because Congress is now home to some anti-Semites of unprecedented ferocity and because the larger left has failed to call out the Jew-hatred that now permeates its ranks. Say what you want about Trump, this was glorious. READ MORE

AMERICAN GREATNESS Karin McQuillan: Why Liberals Don’t Call Out Democrat Hate Everything America has ever stood for must go. Being colorblind is attacked as racist. Equality before the law is attacked as sexist. The list of Democrat doublespeak becomes a tedious rant, and what’s the point? Democrats are not listening and if forced to listen, plug their ears and scream at the top of the lungs that it is Trump, Trump, Trump who is ruining everything.

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“Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein says that views on Israeli sovereignty are changing and the idea of a Palestinian state is looking more and more like a pipe dream”

Posted on February 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
‘The next Knesset will apply Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria’
by Ariel Kahana
February 1, 2019

…“The 21st Knesset will be the one to start applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” he tells Israel Hayom, voicing a political opinion that no other Israeli figure of his status has yet…“Either something to ‘start with,’ like Maaleh Adumim or Gush Etzion, or all of Area C, or Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. There [would be] a legal debate about that. There will be bills, maybe more than one, but the in the next Knesset it will be possible to move on to practical steps. READ MORE

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“Israel’s principal supporters in the US today are the evangelical Christians, whereas the Jewish community is utterly disunited and betraying its loyalty and obligations to the Jewish state”

Posted on February 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
American Jewish leaders: Where are you?
by Isi Leibler
January 31, 2019

.. American Jews are free to support or oppose Trump, but they should do so as American citizens, not as Jews. If there is a case for or against Trump acting with regard to Jewish issues, a consensual statement should be made by mainstream leaders – one that will not detract from bipartisanship. What is now taking place has defied all precedents and is fomenting needless antisemitism among Trump’s supporters, who represent half the electorate. If the Jewish leaders do not reverse the tide, most American Jews will be betraying Israel and, in the process, obliterating what little is left of Jewish identity. READ MORE

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Prager U asks: What Do People Know About the Holocaust?

Posted on February 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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