“How much antisemitism must pile up in the Democratic Party before something can be done about it? And will the mainstream media hold them accountable?”

Posted on January 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FEDERALIST
CNN Does Not Know How To Question Ilhan Omar’s Conspiracy Theories And Anti-Semitism
by Warren Henry
January 18, 2019

… Why did [CNN’s Christine] Amanpour limit her question to whether Jewish Americans should be concerned about the anti-Semitic remarks of both Omar and her colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)? Shouldn’t it be a matter of concern to all Americans? …“Can I just move on to something that’s generally a rite of passage for politicians in the United States, and that is to sort of pledge fealty or at least pay homage to AIPAC, the pro-Israel PAC that is very, very prominent.” Omar smiles and smirks in reaction to this inflammatory assertion that American lawmakers are de facto required to bend the knee to the Israeli lobby. READ MORE

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“Emerging evidence suggests BDS movement has extensive ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations, using the “social justice” movement as a veritable human shield for anti-Israel ideology and activism”

Posted on January 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Evidence mounting that US BDS groups are fronts for terror organizations
by Sean Savage
January 18, 2019

Over the past decade, the BDS movement has emerged as one of the principle challenges towards the legitimacy of the State of Israel. A modern distortion of the South African anti-apartheid campaign, the movement seeks to economically pressure Israel and isolate it politically…American Muslims for Palestine is a Chicago-based organization that is a leading driver of the BDS campaign,” [Jonathan] Schanzer told lawmakers at the time. “AMP is arguably the most important sponsor and organizer for Students for Justice in Palestine, which is the most visible arm of the BDS campaign on campuses in the United States. READ MORE

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“Illinoisans pay the highest property taxes in the nation. At 2.7 percent of home value annually, Illinoisans pay far more than residents in neighboring states”

Posted on January 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WIREPOINTS
Illinois’ lethal combination: Rising property taxes and stagnant incomes
by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
January 21, 2019

A lethal combination of rising property taxes and stagnant incomes has forced many Illinoisans to rethink their relationship with their state. More than 1.5 million net residents have already fled the state since 2000 – and you can’t blame others for thinking about joining them. Property taxes have become punitive in Illinois. We’ve written about how these taxes have destroyed the equity in people’s homes across the state. Many families have done the math, and whether they’re in the struggling south suburbs of Chicago or the affluent North Shore, they’ve decided to leave Illinois behind. READ MORE

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“As the Covington High School brouhaha reminds us, the media have precast the meaning of every story”

Posted on January 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CITY JOURNAL
Beating the Drum
by Seth Barron
January 22, 2019

The story of a group of white parochial school kids wearing MAGA hats heaping racist abuse on a dignified Native American Vietnam veteran sparked an inferno of indignation across mass and social media. The incident was depicted as an iconic example of toxic white smugness, as well as a recapitulation of the history of European conquest of the American continent from its earlier inhabitants. Respected journalists and public figures responded to the images of a “smirking” teenager with calls for violence against him, his classmates, and their parents. READ MORE

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Democrat Congressman to Trump: Golan belongs to Israel

Posted on January 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Rep. Gottheimer urges Trump to recognize Israeli control of Golan
by Jacob Kornbluh
January 18, 2019

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Trump on Friday urging him to adopt a “comprehensive strategy” on the day after withdrawal from Syria and to formally recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. “In recent months, Iranian-backed militias fighting alongside Assad’s forces assailed rebels in southwestern Syria, bringing Shia militiamen within reach of the Golan and Israel,” states the letter obtained by Jewish Insider. “Given the state of present-day Syria and its foreseeable future, requiring Israel to cede control over this area would pose an unacceptable risk to our ally’s existence. READ MORE

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Pelosi awards freshman congresswoman BDS supporter with seat on House Foreign Affairs; Women’s March leader Mallory opines on Farrakhan, Israel

Posted on January 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
House Democrats reward an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist with a place on the Foreign Affairs Committee
by Tiana Lowe
January 17, 2019

Lost in the incomprehensible word salad of the freewheeling, Trumpian, and mathematically illiterate performance of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on CNN today was the more ominous fact that the Democratic Party rewarded her, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist, with a place on the prestigious House Foreign Affairs Committee. Omar, who replaced accused domestic abuser Keith Ellison in Congress, is no run-of-the-mill Democrat. She openly supports the boycott, divest, and sanction movement against Israel. She cozied up to Farrakhan fan Linda Sarsour on the day she entered Congress. But most damning is a tweet from 2012, in which she invokes a classic anti-Semitic trope… READ MORE

WASHINGTON TIMES Women’s March leader spars with PBS over Israel’s ‘right to exist’: ‘I’m done talking about this’ Women’s March national co-chair Tamika Mallory refused to say whether Israel has a “right to exist” during an interview that’s set to air on PBS Friday night. Speaking to “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover, Ms. Mallory argued that Palestinians are “native to the land” and are being “brutally oppressed” by the Israeli government.

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“Forward” pulls the plug on print, no doubt not unrelated to their “radical-feminist editorial policy that also upped the ante on anti-Orthodox and anti-Israel diatribes”

Posted on January 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
Forward’s ‘Savior’ Loses Readership, Goes Strictly Digital, Fires Half the Staff
by David Israel
January 17, 2019

The Forward is ending both its English and Yiddish print editions, laying off Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner and 40% of her staff, and will continue to do business strictly online, the NY Post reported Wednesday. The Post cited a source that said, “They’ve been losing money for years but lately the losses have been more than $5 million a year”…Apparently, the sharp turn the newspaper has taken a few short years ago, towards a radical-feminist editorial policy that also upped the ante on anti-Orthodox and anti-Israel diatribes, just didn’t attract enough readers, who can easily and cheaply find this stuff in the NY Times. READ MORE

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“Jews are 0.2% of the world population, but 23% of Nobel Prize winners. We Koreans want to learn the Jews’ secrets”

Posted on January 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Talmud-inspired learning craze sweeps South Korea
by Tim Alper
January 15, 2019

…“Koreans don’t have to emulate Jewish belief systems,” educational researcher Seol Dong-ju said, “but we do need to copy the way Jews teach their children.” The result is dozens of private chavruta-themed academies, with busy branches in major cities throughout the country, catering to everyone from toddlers to adults. Some make use of Korean-language Talmudic texts, while others follow entirely secular curricula. Kim Jung-wan, who directs one such academy — the Havruta Culture Association — explains that South Korea’s Jewish education quest is over 40 years old. READ MORE

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“Although terrorist attacks are severe, the attempt by one civilization to subjugate the other is occurring on a broader ideological and religious plane”

Posted on January 17, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
The Peaceful Takeover of Europe
by Jan Keller
January 16, 2019

…According to a report released by Institut Montaigne in September 2016, the Muslim population of France is divided as follows: Nearly half consider the laws of the state — as opposed to Islamic law — as binding. This sector does not wish to live separately from French society. Around a quarter of the Muslim sector is extremely devout, yet willing to tolerate other religions. The remainder puts the laws of Islam over the laws of the Republic, and creates a parallel society. This last group seems to be increasingly radicalized and dominated by the younger generation — those born in France. In this sense, no two distinct civilizations are pitted against each other. READ MORE

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“The Palestinians were integral to both the Islamic Revolution and to the formation of the Khomeinist regime”

Posted on January 17, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAGAZINE
Arafat and the Ayatollahs
by Tony Badran
January 16, 2019

When Yasser Arafat arrived in Tehran on Feb. 17, 1979, the first “foreign leader” invited to visit Iran mere days after the victory of the revolution, he declared he was coming to his “own home.” There was some truth in Arafat’s flowery words. Having developed and nurtured a decade’s worth of relationships with all the major forces, from Marxists to Islamists, which had toppled the shah, he had good reason to feel like the victory of the revolution was in some part his own. READ MORE

FREE BEACON Iran and the Palestinians: Bonded Through Hate The relationship goes back decades, with the Palestinians playing an important role in the Iranian Revolution

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