“Candace Owens’ outburst is part of a troubling trend in her rhetoric over the past year”

Posted on August 25, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Shmuley Boteach and daughter file complaint to FBI against Candace Owens
August 20, 2024

Shmuley Boteach, a popular celebrity rabbi filed a complaint with the FBI against Candace Owens on Monday, a controversial figure in conservative media after she seemingly accused him and his daughter of trying to kill her…“Yesterday, before more than one million people in a live X feed,” who he called, “arch antisemites,” Candace Owens, “arguably the foremost female Jew-hater in America, accused me of trying to murder her, in collaboration with the world’s Zionists, thereby putting a national target on my back and naming me specifically from all American Jewish leaders,” Boteach wrote to the FBI…According to Boteach, Owens, months ago, “insinuated that I killed Michael Jackson. Two days ago, to her 5.5 million X followers, she said that Michael Jackson put me on a list of Jews who were seeking to destroy his life. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Candace Owens’ father-in-law defends Israel after controversial commentator is accused of antisemitism Candace Owens’ father-in-law [Lord Michael Farmer] sought to distance himself from her controversial comments about Jews that have sparked an uproar, prompting social media users to accuse her of spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories…Lord Michael Farmer, a member of the House of Lords, which is the upper chamber of the UK parliament, went on to praise Israel as a “rare example of a democracy in the Middle East.”

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Gal Gadot is no stranger to calls for boycotts against her films, but since October 7, we’ve witnessed a surge of antisemitic campaigns targeting Israelis and Jews

Posted on August 25, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Giving Gal Gadot the poison apple will not liberate Palestinians
Zina Rakhamilova
April 15, 2024

“A character that tries to kill a child and steal her kingdom. How fitting.” Those are the words used to describe Israeli-Jewish actress Gal Gadot. The live-action remake of Disney’s Snow White is set to hit theatres in March 2025. While many are excited to see their childhood film brought to life, a group of pro-Hamas activists is calling for a boycott because the film features Israeli actress Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen… Israeli Eurovision representative Eden Golan was forced to hire security measures typically reserved for world leaders. She had to wear a disguise on the rare occasions she left her hotel…Calls to boycott Snow White are spreading across social media, with statements like: “They’ve cast Israeli terrorist Gal Gadot in the film. She’s a trained killer who served in the Israeli degenerate forces.” READ MORE

JPOST Gal Gadot haters call for Snow White boycott, co-star Rachel Zegler voices support for Palestine Zegler posted the trailer on her X account, noting the film would be released in 2025 and thanking viewers for their support, then added in a comment, “and always remember, free Palestine.”

CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PEACE 150+ Entertainment Industry Leaders Call on Emmys to Rescind Nomination of Bisan Owda Amidst Ties to Terrorist Organization More than 150 entertainment industry leaders signed an open letter released by the nonprofit organization, Creative Community For Peace (CCFP), urging the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) to rescind the Emmy nomination of Bisan Atef Owda for the 2024 News & Documentary category. The letter, which comes in response to Owda’s nomination for the documentary “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive,” calls on NATAS to rescind the nominations due to Owda’s documented ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a United States-designated terrorist organization.

INSIDE HIGHER ED AAUP Faces Criticism for Reversal on Academic Boycotts The American Association of University Professors announced Monday it had dropped its categorical opposition BDS. Critics say the organization has changed for the worse, but its new president isn’t backing down…Academia leans very heavily to the left, so a lot of professors naturally bring left-wing political interests with them into their organizations…” There’s real interest among politically activist academics in taking part in the boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel…

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Oren: “ Is this period more like 1967, when Israel preemptively attacked its enemies? Or like 1973—when it failed to do so?”

Posted on August 24, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

CLARITY
Should Israel Strike First?
Michael Oren
August 20, 2024

For more than two weeks, Israelis have been waiting for war. Immediately after the July 31 assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran pledged to retaliate massively against Israel. So far the main event hasn’t happened. Talks for the release of the remaining 111 Israeli hostages in Hamas’s hands drag on inconclusively and Hezbollah rockets slam into the north, but it’s the fear of Iranian missiles raining down on our homes that most consumes Israelis. We are hoarding essentials and stocking our bomb shelters with canned tuna and bottled water. Nobody dares travel far from home. Nobody wants to get caught in their car, in the middle of a highway, when the sirens wail. READ MORE

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Rabbi Jonathan Abraham, 47, has been detained for over three weeks for committing circumcision

Posted on August 23, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH CHRONICLE
Rabbi arrested in Ireland over ‘illegal’ circumcision granted bail
Felix Pope
August 22, 2024

A British rabbi detained in Ireland and accused of performing illegal circumcisions has been granted bail and permission to return to the UK. Rabbi Jonathan Abraham, 47, was arrested late last month when police officers found him scalpel in hand at a property in Dublin. He was charged with performing a surgical procedure, a circumcision on a male child, without being a registered medical practitioner. The Golders Green rabbi’s bail has now been set at €60,000 with €50,000 set to be put up by his solicitor and the remaining €10,000 by the chief rabbi of Ireland, Yoni Wieder…Were Rabbi Abraham to be convicted of breaching the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, he could face a maximum fine of €130,000 and five years’ imprisonment. READ MORE

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Phillips: “Kamala Harris has helped fuel the current tsunami of anti-Jewish hatred by recycling the lies and blood libels against Israel spread by Hamas and its Western stooges since Oct. 7”

Posted on August 23, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The anti-Jewish candidate
Melanie Phillips
August 23, 2024

…Ignoring the reality of plentiful food supplies in Gaza and the thefts of aid by Hamas, she accused Israel of causing starvation there so that families were “eating leaves and animal feed” and children were “dying from malnutrition and dehydration.” …Despite the antisemitism on display around this week’s Democratic convention—both from the pro-Hamas mobs in the streets and the pressure on Jewish groups that were forced to hold their meetings at secret locations—Harris hasn’t uttered a word of condemnation…As pro-Hamas, virulently anti-Zionist students wrought havoc on campus, Harris commented: “They are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza….” READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG Kamala’s Racist ‘White Devil’ Pastor After the Biden coup, Kamala phoned Rev. Amos Brown to pray for her political campaign. Kamala, an “old timer” and “dues paying” member of Brown’s church had turned to one of the most hateful political figures in her old city to offer spiritual inspiration for her presidential bid. “America has not changed” since the days of segregation, Kamala’s pastor had argued while revisiting the killing of Emmett Till. “This sin of race is so deep, so pervasive in the body politic of America that if we don’t find a remnant to help turn things around, America is going to go down.”…“Greed, bigotry and too many whites with this evil, brutal system, built the American economy,” the radical preacher who was a member of the national board of the NAACP argued.

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Sinwar tells negotiators: “Don’t let Israel kill me”

Posted on August 22, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
‘Sinwar Insists’: Hamas Leader Reportedly Wants Guarantee in Gaza Ceasefire Deal He Won’t Be Assassinated
Jack Elbaum
August 22, 2024

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar wants a guarantee he won’t be assassinated by Israel included in a hostage and ceasefire deal, even as he sacrifices Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to reports. A senior Egyptian official told Ynet that Sinwar, the mastermind of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel, wants to be protected from the prospect of an Israeli assassination as a condition of agreeing to a deal that would return Israeli hostages who Hamas kidnapped on Oct. 7 and implement a ceasefire in Gaza. “Sinwar insists on guarantees for his safety and life,” the official said. In recent months, Israel has taken out numerous top Hamas and Hezbollah officials in Gaza and Lebanon. READ MORE

FDD U.S. Carrier Strike Group Arrives in the Middle East The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group entered the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility on August 21 amidst the continued threat of a potential Iranian attack against Israel and the risk of a wider regional war. The Lincoln, equipped with F-35C and F/A-18 Block III fighters, is accompanied by Destroyer Squadron 21, consisting of three guided missile destroyers. 

FUTURE OF JEWISH Israel is fighting the hardest war in modern history — and winning. Despite all these hurdles in front of Israel, the Jewish state has been whooping those who started this war. The war in and of itself, on the battlefields, is not even close. Israel is rather easily having their way with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and, ultimately, the Islamic Republic of Iran. At the same time, it has become painstakingly obvious that there are three types of countries in the world: developed, developing, and Israel.

JPOST IDF confirms signs of bullet wounds found on hostage bodies recovered from Gaza Evidence of bullet wounds was found on the bodies of the hostages who were recovered from the Gaza Strip earlier this week, the IDF confirmed on Thursday. These are preliminary findings, the army stressed. The captives may have been killed by friendly fire. Alternatively, they may have been shot dead by their captures. … The bodies of six men taken captive on October 7, all of whom were killed in captivity, were brought back to Israel for burial. They were Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtab, Yoram Metzger, Haim Peri, Alexander Dancyg, and Avraham Munder all found in the Khan Yunis area in Gaza.

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Parents of Hamas hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin speak at 2024 DNC; both parents wore a piece of tape with “320” written on it, marking the number of days Hersh has been in captivity.

Posted on August 22, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY
The Fight Over Having a Palestinian Speaker at the DNC
Seth Mandel
August 22, 2024

After the parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin were given a gracious reception at the Democratic National Convention last night, demands that a Palestinian-American speaker be added to the program went into overdrive. The Uncommitted movement—which has been pushing voters to punish the Democrats for being too friendly toward Israel—is especially agitated, though it remains unclear why they think they should be rewarded by a party for trying to sabotage that party. Chutzpah and hypocrisy aside, though, there’s a very clear reason such a speech hasn’t happened: The Democrats don’t cultivate relationships with Palestinians whom they trust to handle a prime-time convention speech. READ MORE

YOUTUBE Parents of Hamas hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin speak at 2024 Democratic National Convention Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin, American-Israeli parents whose son Hersh was abducted by Hamas from a music festival during the attack on Oct. 7, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday. Rachel told a hushed crowd inside United Center that Hersh’s left forearm was blown off by a grenade in the attack before Hamas loaded him onto a pick-up truck, “stolen from his life – and me and Jon – in Gaza.” “Since then, we’ve lived on another planet,” she said. “Anyone who is a parent or has had a parent can try to imagine the anguish and misery that Jon and I and all the hostage families are enduring.” Click here to watch video.

TABLET MAG The Democrats in Chicago  The radicals who actually matter have been brought back into the Democratic fold in order to project party unity. The Harris-Walz campaign is simultaneously courting the party’s pro- and anti-Israel constituencies in an effort to delay intra-party debates until after the election. The people on the outside of the convention are the leftovers. They have no power of their own now that their patrons within the party establishment have withdrawn their support, and their protests are, in effect, media pseudo-events, misleading even when they depict something “real.”

ARUTZ SHEVA Anti-Israel protesters confront Vivek Ramaswamy in Chicago: Racist go home! Anti-Israel protesters swarm former Republican presidential primary candidate blocks from DNC, tell him he has no right to be there unless he calls out Israel over “genocide” in Gaza.

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israeli diplomat hails platform adopted by DNC, decision not to platform Palestinian representative An Israeli diplomat at the Democratic National Convention hails the platform adopted by the party this week along with organizers’ decision not to offer a speaker slot to a representative of the Palestinian-American community.

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“Hamas has become obsessed with rooting out traitors in their midst, but Israel keeps finding new informants”

Posted on August 22, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
How Israel recruits Gazans inside the heart of Hamas to risk their lives for the Jewish State
Elon Perry
August 20, 2024

There is one phenomenon that worries Hamas almost as much as the Israeli military in Gaza: the thousands of informants who risk their lives for Israel. Without their work, none of the operations to kill senior Hamas officials would have worked or the hostages been rescued. So why do they do it – and how are they recruited? An informant’s fundamental mission is to locate targets such as senior Hamas leaders, weapons production tunnels and Hamas operatives who travel throughout the Gaza Strip dressed in civilian clothing. The informant passes this information to his Israeli handler – but never, usually, by phone or any other device, lest he be exposed. It is always done in a meeting at one of the kibbutzim in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza. READ MORE

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“Numerous media files were found on the Israeli’s phone, including executions, beheadings, and mutilated bodies”

Posted on August 22, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Israeli doctor who cared for wounded IDF soldiers pledges allegiance to ISIS
Darcie Grunblatt
August 22, 2024

A doctor at Soroka Medical Center who pledged allegiance to ISIS was arrested by the Israel Police and the Shin Bet in a joint operation, and an indictment has been filed against him, Israel Police reported Thursday morning. The Shin Bet arrested the Israeli citizen for questioning in July on suspicion of engaging in activities inspired by ISIS The Beersheba resident, Muhammad Azzam, 34, originally from Nazareth, works as a doctor at Soroka Medical Center…Following October 7, Azzam decided to join ISIS officially and pledged allegiance to Abu Hafs al-Hajri al-Qurashi, the new caliph of the organization. Furthermore, following October 7, Azzam sent his friends footage of October 7 atrocities with a tone of mockery and joy, according to the indictment. READ MORE

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“Envy is the sin of Cain and leads naturally to murder. The question put repeatedly to a free people, ultimately their Israel Test, is between envy and admiration of excellence”

Posted on August 20, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
Israel: Leader of the Free World
George Gilder
August 14, 2024

For eight decades after the end of World War II, America’s proudest title was “Leader of the Free World.” Today, both on grounds of practical leadership and grasp of what it means to be free, we are yielding the title to Israel…A self-governing people does not whine. They do not expect to be catered to like children. Unlike the so-called “Palestinians” who depend entirely on funds from Western “charities” – billions annually from the U.S. through the UN – the Israelis give back far more than they take. They assume responsibility for their own fate and flourishing. Israelis don’t complain; they fight. The very essence of Zionism is that no Jew should ever again be a pet, dependent on the forbearance of some alien elite for survival. READ MORE

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