The True Origins of BDS; #BDS is #AntiSemitic

Posted on September 2, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Lana Del Rey cancels Israel concert amid Palestinian pressure
by Eran Swissa, Maya Cohen, Shimon Yaish, Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff
September 2, 2018

Singer Lana Del Rey has canceled her planned performance at an Israeli music festival after pressure from Palestinian boycott activists. It was the second time in four years the American pop star has canceled a concert in Israel. In a Twitter message late Friday, Del Rey said she was postponing the performance “until a time when I can schedule visits for both my Israeli and Palestinian fans.” The decision sparked anger among many of her Israeli fans over the weekend. It was not clear whether the cancellation was a direct result of calls by anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions [BDS] movement on the singer not to perform in Israel. READ MORE

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The courageous Vanessa Redgrave felt the need to call out those “Zionist hoodlums”

Posted on August 31, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Vanessa Redgrave: Still hating after all these years
by Ben Cohen
August 31, 2018

…In 1978, Redgrave won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in “Julia,” a searing drama about resistance to the Nazis during the Second World War…During her acceptance speech, Redgrave saluted the audience for having “refused to be intimidated by the threat of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums, whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world, and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression.”…In subsequent years, Redgrave was to claim that her statement had cost her several starring roles—an intimation that “Zionist hoodlums” were also running movie studios. She never expressed regret.” READ MORE

JTA Vanessa Redgrave unapologetic about 40-year-old ‘Zionist hoodlums’ remark  Vanessa Redgrave is unapologetic for referring to “Zionist hoodlums” during her Academy Award acceptance speech 40 years ago.

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After defunding UNRWA, “Trump Administration will allow Gulf and Arab allies to help keep UN’s Palestinian refugee agency afloat for now, but ultimately wants it dismantled, Israeli TV reports”

Posted on August 31, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON POST
US ends funding of UN agency for Palestinian refugees
by Susannah George
September 1, 2018

The United States is ending its decades of funding for the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees, the State Department announced Friday, a week after slashing bilateral U.S. aid for projects in the West Bank and Gaza. The U.S. supplies nearly 30 percent of the total budget of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, and had been demanding reforms in the way it is run. The department said in a written statement that the United States “will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation.” The decision cuts nearly $300 million of planned support. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL After defunding UNRWA, US said seeking to limit others’ aid to it, then close it A day after the US announced it will not give any further funding to UNWRA, the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees, Israeli officials said the Trump Administration has made clear to them that it intends to see UNRWA closed down altogether and all its functions taken over by other agencies.

JNS UNRWA lobbyists: Israel and Saudia Arabia keep it afloat as US funds dry up There is concern that if UNRWA is unable to help hundreds of thousands of needy Palestinians due to budget cuts, Israel will see rioting, an escalation in violence and terrorist attacks.

MIDDLE EAST FORUM Trump Administration Implements MEF Plan to Sideline UNRWA In announcing today an immediate end to all U.S. government funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Trump administration has adopted one of the Middle East Forum’s signature policy prescriptions.

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“It was Neil Simon who would bring the Jewish experience to the rarified spaces of Broadway in a new and profound way”

Posted on August 31, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

THE FEDERALIST
How Neil Simon Helped Make Jews In America White
by David Marcus
August 30, 2018

…There are many tributes to Simon celebrating a myriad of his plays, but I’d like to focus on the three I think are most important — his three most autobiographical plays. “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” “Biloxi Blues,” and “Broadway Bound” are the stories of Jewish acceptance in America…It is “Broadway Bound” that most fully explores the fundamental way in which Jews came to be white, a process that always involves a two way street of assimilation and contribution. Arguably the biggest contribution made by Jews in America was in the field of entertainment, specifically comedy. READ MORE

ARIZONA JEWISH POST Prolific and uninhibited, Neil Simon got us right. That’s what geniuses do. He was the Michael Jordan of Broadway — with all quirks, critics, and limitations that come with. But his achievement was singular, and the way he re-shaped the game ­ and the art form and business of theater ­­— is total. We’ll not see his like again.

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Norway’s Jew- and Israel-obsession harkens back to WW2 Prime Minister Quisling who helped the Nazis murder Norwegian Jews

Posted on August 31, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

NEWSMAX
Why Did Nearly 40 Percent of Norwegians Compare Israelis to Nazis?
by Abraham Cooper and Manfred Gerstenfeld
August 29, 2018

Not long ago, a poll taken in Norway showed that 38 percent of Norwegians actually believe Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated Jews. Around the same time, the Oslo municipality published a study on harassment of children in Oslo high schools. It found that one-third of Jewish high school students were harassed verbally or physically at least twice a month. In any culture, the tone comes from the top — and Norway’s festering zeitgeist of anti-Semitism proves this point. A few weeks ago, former Norwegian Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, unleashed another one of his hate salvos against the Jewish state. READ MORE

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SodaStream BDS takeaway: “In this topsy-turvy world if you’d like to see Palestinians living in peace, gainfully employed, with access to quality medical care, and reason to believe tomorrow will be brighter than today, you’re denounced as anti-Palestinian”

Posted on August 30, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON TIMES
The sparkling waters of the West Bank
by Clifford D. May
August 29, 2018

…The news of PepsiCo’s purchase of SodaStream makes one thing abundantly clear: While the BDS campaign managed to deprive Palestinians of good jobs, it failed to prevent the company that had provided those jobs from becoming an enormous international success. Also significant is the fact that PepsiCo is the buyer: Years ago, it was one of the companies complying with the Arab League boycott against Israel. Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS campaign, is livid.  He issued a statement declaring that the PepsiCo purchase notwithstanding, SodaStream “is still subject to boycott” READ MORE

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Former Jordan PM: ‘we’ll take’ Haifa if we can despite peace treaty

Posted on August 30, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Ex-Jordanian prime minister: ‘If we ever become stronger, we will take Haifa by force’
by MEMRI
August 30, 2018

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Abdelsalam Al-Majali defended the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, saying: “My mentality is a mentality of peace,” and talking about the fundamental issues that Jordan had achieved through the treaty…On the question of the Palestinians’ Right of Return, he said: “The Arabs do not have any power. If we ever have military power, will we let them keep Haifa? We’ll take it. If tomorrow, we become stronger and can take Haifa by force, will we really decline just because we have an agreement with them?” The interview aired on August 18, 2018. READ MORE

i24NEWS Former Jordan PM: ‘we’ll take’ Haifa if we can despite peace treaty

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“Jewish power is the theme that Peter Beinart returns to again and again in his attacks on the Jewish community”

Posted on August 30, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

SULTAN KNISH BLOG
The Problem of Anti-Semitic Leftist Jewish Power
by Daniel Greenfield
August 29, 2018

…The Forward is full of critical headlines about “Jewish Power,” from “New Film Reveals The Perils of Jewish Power,” to “The Burdens of Jewish Power” and “How the Jews Are Tarnished by Money.” …[Karl] Marx saw Judaism as the embodiment of Jewish self-interest. For the latter-day left, for whom Judaism doesn’t exist, Israel is Marx’s embodiment of Jewish clannish power. Like Marx, the anti-Israel left is convinced that Israel corrupts and controls America. Even, echoing the old leftist anti-Semite, that America is becoming like Israel. Destroying Israel will liberate Jews from their selfish Jewishness. READ MORE

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“If gender activists prevail, they will be left with a world they neither recognize nor like very much”

Posted on August 30, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Transgender Language War
by Abigail Shrier
August 29, 2018

If you want to control people’s thoughts, begin by commandeering their words. Taking this Orwellian lesson to heart, Virginia’s Fairfax County public school system recently stripped the phrase “biological gender” from its family life curriculum, replacing it with “sex assigned at birth.” Without permitting parents to opt out, public schools across the country are teaching children that “gender” is neither binary nor biological. It’s closer to a mental state: a question of how girllike or boylike you feel. Students will fall anywhere along a gender spectrum, according to these educators. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

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“Adam Milstein pushes back on AL Jazeera report claiming he funds anonymous site tracking anti-Semitic, anti-Israel in US college”

Posted on August 28, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Pro-Israel donor Adam Milstein denies funding Canary Mission
by JTA
August 27, 2018

Real-estate investor Adam Milstein denied a report that he is a funder of Canary Mission, an anonymous website that aims to name and shame anti-Israel activists. Milstein’s charity, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, donates to a number of groups that work on campus from a pro-Israel perspective, including Students Supporting Israel, the Amcha Initiative and the media watchdog CAMERA.  On Monday, the Electronic Intifada, an anti-Israel website, posted an excerpt of a previously un-aired Al Jazeera report saying Milstein funds Canary Mission as well. READ MORE

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