Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: I come from Sephardic Jews who fled to Puerto Rico

Posted on December 27, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Genetic study finds widespread Sephardic ancestry in Latin America
by Cnaan Liphshiz
December 27, 2018

In a genetic study of 6,589 people from five Latin American countries, about a quarter displayed traces of what may be Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Geneticist Juan-Camilo Chacón-Duque and his colleagues published their findings last week in Nature Communications magazine, in an article titled “Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance.” Converso is the Spanish-language word for people who converted from Judaism to Christianity during the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: I come from Sephardic Jews who fled to Puerto Rico Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of 435 members of the incoming US House of Representatives, said on Monday that members of her family were Sephardim who were forced to flee to Puerto Rico during the Spanish Inquisition.

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Hezbollah commanders targeted by Israel as they board plane

Posted on December 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
US official says top Hezbollah brass hit in alleged Israeli strikes in Syria
by Staff and Agencies
December 26, 2018

An alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria Tuesday night hit several senior Hezbollah officials as they boarded a plane bound for Iran, Newsweek reported Wednesday morning, citing a Defense Department source. The unnamed source told the magazine he had received the information from top Israeli military brass. He said strategic Iranian munitions were also targeted, including advanced GPS components for weaponry. READ MORE

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Stockholm Hospital makes Top Ten list: Jewish doctors “systematically discriminated against by department head for years”

Posted on December 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

HAARETZ
Top Swedish Hospital to Make List of 10 Worst anti-Semitic Incidents of 2018
by David Stavrou
December 23, 2018

One of Sweden’s most prestigious hospitals will be included in a high-profile list of the year’s worst cases of anti-Semitism, in a grouping that has in the past included white supremacists and Muslim fundamentalists. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, recently informed Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital that it will appear on its list of the 10 worst anti-Semitic incidents worldwide in 2018. The full list will be published on Thursday. READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG Leftists Dominate List of Top 10 Antisemitic Incidents This shouldn’t be surprising. While anyone can commit an act of violence like the Tree of Life massacre, establishment anti-Semitism, as practiced within politics, academia, and major employment categories, is largely a behavior linked to the Left…The Left climbed into bed with black nationalists and supremacists, legitimizing their anti-Semitism.

DAILY WIRE Women’s March Takes Another Hit, This Time In Obama’s Hometown The fallout from a damning exposé on the Women’s March leaders published by Tablet continues, with The New York Times publishing a follow-up piece that echoes some of the key claims of anti-Semitism permeating the leadership of the organization. The latest blow to the embattled group comes from Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago, where the big annual Women’s March event has just been canceled. 

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“Netanyahu reportedly requested that the American initiative be postponed until at least May so as not to harm his chances of receiving a new mandate from the public”

Posted on December 25, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

THE MEDIA LINE
Israeli Elections Likely To Push Back Release Of Trump Peace Plan
by Charles Bybelezer
December 25, 2018

The upcoming Israeli national vote is liable to further delay the release of United States President Donald Trump’s much-hyped two-years-in-the-making peace plan to end the conflict with the Palestinians. The American leader has expressed a desire to roll-out the proposal by February, however, analysts believe that doing so could place electoral pressures on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as he invariably tacks to the right in order to rally his base ahead of the poll. According to sources, the White House prefers to deal with Netanyahu and should its peace plan call for concessions to the Palestinians it could put the premier in a difficult bind. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Netanyahu corruption cases to take center stage in election The consensus in the political field these days is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have tried a lot harder to come to a compromise with the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties or with opposition parties to allow for a haredi IDF enlistment law to pass before the Supreme Court’s January 15 deadline. The real reason Netanyahu wants an early election seems to be that he is racing against Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, to get reelected before a decision is made to indict him and on what charges.

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#BDSFail “The decision came in response to a complaint from Shurat HaDin, an Israeli advocacy group that files lawsuits around the world against Israel’s foes”

Posted on December 24, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ASSOCIATED PRESS
US fundraising site suspends Palestinian boycott account
by Josef Federman
December 21, 2018

A U.S. software company [Donorbox] said Friday it blocked the fundraising account of the Palestinian-led boycott [BDS] movement against Israel following a complaint by a pro-Israel group that the campaign has links to militant organizations…The complaint noted that the boycott movement’s membership includes the “Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine,” an umbrella committee representing all major Palestinian political factions. Committee members include Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, groups that have been branded terrorist organizations by the U.S. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Madrid rejects BDS Madrid City Council votes against a draft resolution calling for a boycott of Israel…In August, two municipalities in Spain – Villarrobledo and Sagunto – rescinded their adhesion to the campaign to boycott Israel.

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“How pressure campaigns by criminal suspects can collapse the journalistic ideal of boldly-defiant truth-telling”

Posted on December 24, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

MIDDLE EAST FORUM
‪Reflections on How Islamist Lawfare Has Succeeded
by Todd Bensman
December 21, 2018

The 10-year anniversary of the “Holy Land Foundation Five” trial in a Dallas federal courtroom has quietly arrived.  In November of 2008 federal prosecutors convicted five leaders of a Muslim charity in a case often described as the largest terrorist fundraising operation in U.S. history….As a staff writer for The Dallas Morning News, covering the FBI at the time, I became what might well be one of the first U.S. targets of Islamist “lawfare…” In early 2000, Steve [McGonigle, now deceased] and I were named as defendants in a libel lawsuit along with two other reporters. The other three of us happened to be Jewish, although this obvious coincidence was never discussed out loud in mixed company at the paper. READ MORE

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“It’s hard to think of a time when an American president has so publicly stripped his most senior advisers of their credibility”

Posted on December 24, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

THE ATLANTIC
‪Trump Delivers a Victory to Iran‬
by Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht
December 24, 2018

…Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, concurrently with his intention to drastically reduce the number of American soldiers in Afghanistan and the likely soon-to-be-announced further drawdown of U.S. personnel in Iraq, has made mincemeat of the administration’s efforts to contain Iran. If you add up who wins locally by this decision (the clerical regime in Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad,  Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite radicals, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan) and who loses (Jordan, Israel, the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds and Sunni Arabs, everyone in Lebanon resisting Hezbollah, the vast majority of the Iraqi Shia, the Gulf States), it becomes clear that the interests of the United States have been routed. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Did Israel request US withdrawal from Syria? Jake Turx, the senior White House correspondent for Ami, claimed Tuesday night that sources had confirmed to him that Israel had encouraged the US to withdraw from Syria ahead of a “winter offensive” against the Hezbollah terror organization. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who tendered his resignation following President Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria, reportedly opposed Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah.

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“Now J Street is on a second phase of its campaign – to undermine the Birthright program because it serves the “right-wing annexationist agenda””

Posted on December 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Is J Street still pro-Israel?
by David M. Weinberg
December 23, 2018

When it was founded 11 years ago, J Street claimed to be a pro-Israel and pro-peace organization…Since then, alas, J Street has become something else altogether: an organization that spends almost all its time and money besmirching Israel, smearing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other leading American Jewish organizations, boosting U.S.-Iran relations and backing political candidates for whom promoting the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is a badge of honor. READ MORE

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“A staggering series of events took Mosab Hassan Yousef from the home of the terror group’s co-founder, to a decade as a Shin Bet agent, to speaking on behalf of Magen David Adom”

Posted on December 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘Just trying to save lives’: 5 surreal days in Florida with the ‘Son of Hamas’
by David Horovitz
December 17, 2018

…Actually, his transformation was far more than crazy, way beyond improbable. “Collaborating with Israel is worse than raping your mother,” Mosab says in the film [The Green Prince]. But becoming the Shin Bet’s most vital source in the war against the suicide bombers, when your father is helming their West Bank hierarchy, is simply unimaginable. Which is why he got away with it. And why, he would later tell me, when he telephoned his father from the United States to tell him that it was so, and that the whole story was about to become public, it came as a complete shock to Sheikh Hassan Yousef.  READ MORE

U.N. stunned, Palestinian delegates in shock, as UN Watch brings surprise guest speaker—Palestinian Mosab Hassan Yousef—to expose PLO lies. Watch heads turn.

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The honor crime of choosing Judaism over Islam

Posted on December 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
Arabs upset at latest “normalization” as a a Jew raised as a Palestinian marries a Jewish woman
December 23, 2018

Israel’s Channel 20 has the story of Daniel Dabash, who grew up in the Arab village of Sur Baher as Nidal Dabash. His mother was Jewish but died in 2002; he grew up knowing she was Jewish but not that he would be considered Jewish as well. His stepmother hated him and he discovered that he was halachically Jewish, so he asked for more information and help on Facebook and got it. Now he just got married to a Jewish woman. And the story is driving Arab social media crazy. READ MORE

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