ADL leader Jonathan Greenblatt: “Data shows Jew-hatred at an all-time high, while “we are gaslit and told that what happened was something we imagined or blamed for the act in the first place”

Posted on January 14, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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ADL poll shows nearly half of adults worldwide harbor antisemitic views
Mike Wagenheim
January 14, 2025

A new survey released by the Anti-Defamation League shows nearly half of the global population holds elevated levels of antisemitic attitudes. The Global 100 poll found that an estimated 2.2 billion people, representing 46% of the world’s adults, “harbor deeply entrenched antisemitic attitudes,” the ADL stated. That figure is double the level from a decade ago and the highest on record since the group monitoring Jew-hatred began examining worldwide trends. Through its polling partners, including Ipsos, the ADL surveyed more than 58,000 adults from 103 countries, covering some 94% of the world’s adult population, with responses solicited between July 23 and Nov. 13, 2024. READ MORE

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One of many Israel-hating mosques awarded funds by Biden admin: The Islamic Center of Detroit, whose imam prayed to Allah to “eradicate” the “sick, disgusting Zionist regime”

Posted on January 13, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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Biden Program Meant To ‘Protect Jewish Institutions’ Pays Out Six-Figure Grants to Mosques That Preach Anti-Semitic Hate
Chuck Ross
January 10, 2025

The Biden White House and Senate Democrats have touted their funding for an anti-terrorism initiative they say “has been critical to the security of Jewish institutions.” But the program has given hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent months to mosques whose clerics have preached anti-Semitic hate, cheered Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, and been accused of raising money for terrorist groups. The Department of Homeland Security has awarded $150,000 in grants since November to Masjid Jamaat al Mumineen, the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent, and the Islamic Center of Bothell as part of its “Nonprofit Security Grant Program,” according to federal records. READ MORE

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“Trump has chosen people who understand the threat of government coercion—because they have experienced it firsthand”

Posted on January 13, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

CITY JOURNAL
Cabinet of the Canceled
Abigail Shrier
Winter 2025

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently expressed what many felt at the reelection of Donald Trump: not triumph so much as relief. “I hope this last ten years increasingly is just going to feel like a bad dream,” he told podcast host Joe Rogan. “I can’t believe we tolerated the level of repression . . . and anger and . . . emotional incontinence and . . . cancellation campaigns.” Much of it was orchestrated or encouraged by our government. One could say many things about Trump’s cabinet picks. At times, they seem to embody Government by Middle Finger. But they also, undeniably, represent Government by the Canceled: an assemblage that doesn’t need to be reminded of the administrative state’s ability to coerce the American public by calling in favors from Big Tech or pulling the levers of regulation, audit, or investigation. Many have experienced such treatment firsthand. READ MORE

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Los Angeles slashed fire and other basic services after Mayor Karen Bass awarded fat contracts to government workers

Posted on January 10, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

CITY JOURNAL
L.A.’s Total Leadership Failure
Steven Malanga
January 10, 2025

The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have spotlighted questionable state and local government policies in California that may have contributed to the blazes and left areas like Hollywood vulnerable due to insufficient firefighting resources. Mayor Karen Bass’s budget cuts to the city’s fire department, enacted just months ago amid warnings about the city’s deteriorating finances, stand out as a striking example of misplaced priorities. The cuts stemmed from a budget crisis triggered by her administration’s decision to reward city employees with rich contracts and benefits—even as it dismissed worries that the reductions would hurt services. “Predictions that city services will be impossible to deliver,” deputy mayor Zach Seidl told the press, “are simply false.” Few public statements have aged as poorly—or as hauntingly—as this one. READ MORE

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Hillel Neuer: UNRWA is no longer a humanitarian agency — it has become a full-fledged partner to terrorist organizations like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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UN watchdog group urges dismantling of UNRWA for ‘enabling crimes against humanity’
Carl Campanile
January 6, 2025

A United Nations watchdog group says the infamous UN relief agency that provides $1.5 billion a year to Palestinians should be disbanded for colluding with terrorists and “enabling crimes against humanity.” “The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is neither independent nor neutral,” says a scathing new report by the Swiss-based group UN WATCH. “UNRWA’s senior management not only employs individuals tied to Hamas terrorism but also allows terrorist groups like Hamas to influence and obstruct critical agency decisions and policies. READ MORE

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Nearly all House Republicans, several Democrats back legislation punishing the ICC for going after Netanyahu and Gallant

Posted on January 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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US House votes to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants
Jacob Magid, Reuters Staff
January 10, 2025

The US House of Representatives voted on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court to protest its decision to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel’s campaign against the Hamas terror group in Gaza. Lawmakers voted 243 to 140 in favor of the “Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act,” which would urge sanctions on any ICC official or entities backing The Hague who advance “any effort to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.” The sanctions include blocking or revoking visas and prohibiting US property transactions. READ MORE

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Canadian Jews angered by Trudeau’s lack of action against soaring post-October 7 antisemitism, failure to support Israel during war, threats to arrest Netanyahu

Posted on January 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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‘Deep disappointment’ with Trudeau, Canadian Jewish leaders say
Dave Gordon
January 6, 2025

Canadian Jewish leaders reacted almost immediately—many with sighs of relief—to Justin Trudeau’s announcement on Monday that he will resign as prime minister after his party replaces him in a March 24 vote…Guidy Mamann, president of the Toronto Zionist Council…told JNS that the Canadian Jewish community was “appalled” when Trudeau said that he would arrest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to face prosecution for what Mamann said are “specious war-crimes allegations.”…Joe Oliver, a Canadian finance minister under then Prime Minister Stephen Harper, told JNS that Trudeau, whom he has criticized in newspaper columns, has a “lack of moral clarity about Israel’s defensive war against genocidal terrorism.” READ MORE

FORWARD What the election of Pierre Poilievre would mean for Canadian Jews and Israel The Conservative politician poised to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister of Canada took a hitchhiking trip through Israel in his youth, has referred to Canadian Jews as “the true Indigenous people,” condemned campus protests against the Gaza war as antisemitic and is staunchly pro-Israel. “The Jewish people are the only people I know of who, in the same language, worship the same faith on the same land in the same country as they did 3,000 years ago,” Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, said at an Orthodox Montreal-area synagogue last March.

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“By accepting Palestinianism and supporting the Hamas narrative, the Pope is siding with the enemies of Christianity, the enemies of Judaism and the enemies of decency”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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Pope Francis Violates Catholic Teaching by Bearing False Witness Against Israel
Alan M. Dershowitz
January 7, 2025

…Much more seriously, Pope Francis has joined the chorus of blood libelers who have accused Israel of genocide, writing: “According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide.” This indictment is totally false as a matter of fact, law and morality. The Vatican knows what genocide is. It perfected this crime against humanity during the Crusades, the Inquisition and the priest-inspired pogroms that led to the Holocaust. Genocide requires an intent to destroy an entire religious, racial or ethnic group, without exceptions. It does not include acts of self-defense, such as those engaged in by the Israel Defense Forces following the massacres of October 7, 2023. READ MORE

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“The idea is to hit the Iranians in a very severe manner that will paralyze them and create the conditions for a new nuclear deal on Trump’s terms, which will be very close to the terms sought by Israel”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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Former Israeli Military Officials Float Audacious Plan To Strike Iran in Final Days of Biden Presidency
Andrew Tobin
January 9, 2025

Two prominent Israeli national security analysts have proposed that the Jewish state go it alone with major attack on Iran in the final days of Joe Biden’s presidency. Kobi Michael and Gabi Siboni, both former senior Israeli military officials, argued in a policy paper published last month that only a series of airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear, military, economic, and government infrastructure can prevent the regime from rebuilding its regional terrorist network, which Israel has degraded over 15 months of war. Israel should start the attack just ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, according to the analysts—thereby minimizing the risk of diplomatic retaliation by Biden and forcing the hand of the president-elect. READ MORE

FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Iran Opportunity It is hard to think of a country that has lost as much influence in as short a time as has Iran. Until recently, it was arguably the most important regional actor in the Middle East, more influential than Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, or Turkey. Yet in a matter of months, the edifice of Iranian influence has come crashing down. Iran is weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades, likely since its decadelong war with Iraq or even since the 1979 revolution. READ MORE

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Lebanon’s new president: “My era will include the discussion of our defensive strategy to enable the Lebanese state to get rid of the Israeli occupation and to retaliate against its aggression”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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Israeli FM congratulates Lebanon’s new president, Joseph Aoun
January 9, 2025

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Thursday congratulated Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun on becoming president, after more than two years of a presidential vacuum in the politically unstable Arab state…The minister’s message came after more than a year of war between Israel and Hezbollah, which ended with a ceasefire agreement signed between Israel and Lebanon on Nov. 26…In a speech addressing the nation, Aoun said that this was a “new era” in Lebanon, pledging to stir it away from its economic and political woes, CNN reported. He promised to “monopolize weapons” in the country, making a clear reference to the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah. As for the Jewish state, he said, “The Lebanese state—I repeat the Lebanese state—will get rid of the Israeli occupation. READ MORE

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