Shurat HaDin calls on AG Garland to investigate Amal Clooney, wife of actor George Clooney, for alleged violation of so-called Hague Invasion Act in tribunal role

Posted on July 1, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

YNET NEWS
Israeli group urges US to probe Amal Clooney’s role in ICC warrant for Netanyahu
Itamar Eichner
June 28, 3024

Amal Clooney, a human rights lawyer and the wife of Hollywood actor George Clooney, played a crucial role in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As part of her duties, Clooney participated in the advisory forum for the ICC and supported the issuance of arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif. Israeli civil rights Shurat HaDin, representing hundreds of victims of the October 7 terrorist attacks, has appealed to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, demanding an investigation into Clooney for violating the federal American Service-Members’ Protection Act, known informally as The Hague Invasion Act. The organization claims that Clooney’s participation in the ICC’s investigative actions against Netanyahu for war crimes, while she was on U.S. soil, constitutes a felony under U.S. law. READ MORE

GATESTONE Big Lies About Israel For months, Israel has refuted libelous claims of famine in Gaza, as international organizations — especially the UN and the EU, the International Court of Justice and mainstream media alongside NGOs such as Human Rights Watch — pushed the false, malicious narrative that Israel was causing famine in Gaza and even using it as a “weapon of war.” Israel might have saved itself the effort. No one was listening. “Starvation,” claimed EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell, “is used as a weapon of war. Israel is provoking famine.”

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“In cosmopolitan Rotterdam, Jews say they feel unsafe on campus, where they endure explicit calls for their people’s ethnic cleansing alongside intimidation and antisemitic violence”

Posted on July 1, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Only those with palms painted pro-Palestinian red can enter parts of Erasmus University
Canaan Lidor
July 1, 2024

An anti-Israel protester approached this reporter while narrowly avoiding the guidelines of the 20-odd tents that dotted Erasmus University campus’s main square. Wearing a keffiyeh over her face, she asked about the purpose of my visit. About 30 of her comrades watched while eating dinner: a rice and lentil dish served from a large pot atop a portable gas stove. “It’s a Zionist,” she called out, upon learning the name of this publication, prompting the group to cover their faces with their keffiyehs and surgical masks. They encircled, screaming, “Intifada!” as they placed a Palestinian flag over the camera to prevent any filming of the events taking place at one of Europe’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. READ MORE

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They changed their mind about Hezbollah

Posted on June 29, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Arab League Rescinds the Classification of Hezbollah as a Terrorist Group
i24 News and Algemeiner Staff
June 29, 2024

The Arab League no longer defines Hezbollah as a proscribed terrorist group, an official said on Saturday. Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Shiite militia and a proxy of the Islamic regime in Iran, boasts the world’s largest rocket arsenal of any non-state actor. It is animated by the antisemitic ideology of jihad and is committed to the destruction of Israel…“The League’s member states concurred that the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization should no longer be employed,” Zaki said, adding that the regional body “does not maintain terrorist lists and does not actively seek to designate entities in such a manner.” READ MORE

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Claims that Israel is colonialist and imperialist are unabridged nonsense. A dictionary and a map are all that is needed to prove it. Too bad that both seem to be in short supply.

Posted on June 28, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Palestinians’ Dishonest Use of Maps
Nachum Kaplan
June 28, 2024

The Palestinian propaganda machine has successfully gotten people to forget this by publishing maps showing only Israel and the disputed territories, which make Israel look huge and the Palestinian areas look small and shrinking. However, if one pulls back a bit, it becomes clear that Israel is a tiny country surrounded by an Arab Muslim empire, now broken into nation-states at least in part due to the collapse of Europe’s empires. Far from expanding, as an empire does, Israel has been shrinking in its pursuit of sovereignty and peace, even from before conception…The fetal Jewish state lost about 78 percent of its legally promised territory before it was even born. READ MORE

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Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser: “Whoever doesn’t share our values, will not be able to get a German passport. Antisemitism, racism and other forms of contempt for humanity rule out naturalization”

Posted on June 28, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

CNN
Germany demands new citizens accept Israel’s right to exist
Sophie Tanno
June 27, 2024

People applying for naturalization in Germany will now be required to affirm Israel’s right to exist, under changes to the country’s citizenship law. The legislation, which came into effect Thursday, is part of a larger citizenship overhaul from Berlin as the government grapples with rising antisemitism, a surge in popularity for the far right, and fierce debate over its response to Israel’s war in Gaza. The country’s naturalization exam will now include a number of new questions, according to a statement from the interior ministry…But other voices in the country have accused authorities of going too far, infringing on the rights of pro-Palestinians to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Adding to the complex picture, Germany has the largest Palestinian diaspora in Europe, which is estimated at 300,000. READ MORE

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The ongoing U.S. policy of slow-walking munitions deliveries to Israel isn’t about Rafah

Posted on June 27, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Biden’s Italian Strike
Michael Doran
June 20, 2024

…Hezbollah represents the most formidable direct military threat that Israel faces. A full-scale conflict with it will burn up an enormous amount of equipment and ammunition in a very short period, and it risks drawing Iran more directly into the war. The Israelis came to Washington to stock up, to be ready for the conflict should it erupt. The Americans, by contrast, seek to restrain them. The purpose of the Italian strike [Biden slow-walking munitions to Israel] is to force the Israelis into dependence on the United States, to deny them the ability to make long-term plans—namely, plans regarding Hezbollah and Iran. To the extent that the administration even admits it is withholding arms, it justifies its actions by expressing concern over civilian deaths in Gaza. The Biden administration sees a gauzy humanitarianism as a defensible explanation, before the American public, for its policy of restraining Israel. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL US weapons shipments to Israel dropped significantly 4 months into war, figures show Stats compiled by Haaretz, while incomplete and unconfirmed, show average monthly shipments were at 30 through January before falling to 15 in the five subsequent months

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“Nine judges on Israel’s High Court have ruled that the government must begin conscripting haredi men”

Posted on June 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
In landmark ruling, Israel’s top court rules that haredi Orthodox Jews must serve in the army
Philissa Cramer
June 25, 2024

Israel must draft haredi Orthodox Jews into its army, the country’s Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision Tuesday. The ruling could trigger a political earthquake in Israel at a time when it is already embroiled in a war in Gaza and has seen social unrest at home. The requirement to begin drafting more than 60,000 fervently Orthodox men into the army could lead to a sea change in military procedure, mass haredi street protests and the breakup of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which includes haredi parties that are irrevocably opposed to mandating haredi conscription. For decades, Israel has offered a blanket exemption from the army for young men enrolled in full-time learning in yeshivas, an accommodation first instituted in the country’s early years when relatively few people fell into that category. READ MORE

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A paper circulating in Israeli government offices calls for the total defeat of Hamas, initial Israeli control of the territory and an overhaul of the Palestinian education system — along with a path for Gazan self-rule

Posted on June 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
The day-after plan for Gaza on Israeli leaders’ desks
Lahav Harkov
June 26, 2024

With continuing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to present a postwar plan for Gaza, a document has been circulating around the upper echelon of Israel’s government and security establishment. “From a murderous ideology to a moderate society: transforming and rebuilding Gaza after Hamas” is a 28-page paper, obtained by Jewish Insider, outlining four academics’ recommended dos and don’ts for ensuring Hamas and Gaza are no longer a threat to Israel…According to the document, “Israel’s ability to achieve its goals depends not only on the military and diplomatic campaign taking place these days, but also on its ability to rehabilitate and transform a nation that was led by a murderous ideology, to produce stable institutions and an Arabic culture that does not educate for jihad, a culture that accepts the existence of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.” READ MORE

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LA: I went to synagogue with my kids to learn a bit about real estate in Israel. Instead, we witnessed a street battle.

Posted on June 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
The Pogrom on Pico Boulevard
Noah Pollak
June 25, 2024

On Sunday, a synagogue in the largest Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles hosted a small, privately advertised event for those interested in purchasing homes or second homes in Israel. “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” at Adas Torah synagogue wasn’t political and it had nothing to do with the Gaza war. But within moments of its noon start time, it became the backdrop to the worst antisemitic violence in Los Angeles since an attack on Jewish diners at a restaurant in 2021. Over the course of several hours, with dozens of LAPD officers decked out in riot gear largely staying out of the fray, around 100 pro-Hamas activists attacked, bear-sprayed, harassed, and brawled with Jews up and down Pico Boulevard. READ MORE

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VARIETY Hollywood Jews Slam Violence Outside L.A. Synagogue as ‘Horrifying,’ Vow to ‘Mobilize’ “I passed by like a group of like 10 to 15 Palestinian protestors, and they just jumped me,” says Sherman. “One guy punched me in the nose, and I was gushing blood. All the other ones were kicking me in the head. It was so scary. You’re getting jumped by a bunch of people, and the cops are just standing there and watching. They’re not interfering. The other Jewish people were the only ones to protect me.”

FRONT PAGE MAG Victor Davis Hanson: How California’s Paradise Became Our Purgatory California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism? The symptoms of the state’s suicide are indisputable.

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“One Squad member down, eight to go…Bowman was always an out-of-touch radical, but Oct. 7 exposed him as a bitter antisemite”

Posted on June 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Hopefully Jamaal Bowman’s defeat is the first against the radical left ‘Squad’
Editorial Board
June 25, 2024

…Vulgar junior fire marshal Jamaal Bowman lost his Democratic primary to George Latimer Tuesday night, bringing to an end one of the more embarrassing political tenures in New York history. He’s the first member of the Squad — the radical leftist caucus under Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez — to be shown the door. The liberal press is presenting this as a tragedy. A “heartbreaker” wrote Mich­elle Goldberg in The New York Times, saying it will “probably serve as a warning to other politicians about the cost of breaking with Washington’s pro-Israel political consensus.” If by consensus you mean the rational majority who reject Bowman’s belief that the rapes of Israelis by Hamas terrorists was “propaganda,” then, yes, reason prevails. READ MORE

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