Who Is Antifa?  

What You Need To Know

By Ray DiLorenzo, STAND UP AMERICA

Antifa headquarters in Berlin from 1926 – 1933. The Antifaschistische Akton (Antifa) logo can be seen prominently on the front of the building. In 2005, the building was renamed ‘The Left Party PDS’ or Party of Democratic Socialism which merged with the Social Justice Electoral Alternative. Notice the hammer and sickle flags.

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August 25, 2019 | 3:14 pm | Comments »

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My Palestine itinary for Tlaib and Omar  

BY Barry Shaw, JPOST

My Palestine itinerary for Tlaib and Omar
U.S. Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) react as they discuss travel restrictions to Palestine and Israel during a news conference at the Minnesota State Capitol Building in St Paul, Minnesota, August 19, 2019. (photo credit: CAROLINE YANG/REUTERS)

Ilhan Omar tweeted, “Yesterday at Social Justice Day a student asked me, ‘How do I stay hopeful that change is going to come?’ This is tough to unpack,” she responded before going on to give a meaningless ramble.

More perceptively, @rdunnflorida tweeted, “Only weak people blame others. Strength is taking responsibility for everything that you do.”

This set me thinking. How about a different Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib itinerary for their tour of Palestine? One based on them educating Palestinians to take responsibility for themselves based on their social justice and civil rights principles.
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August 25, 2019 | 11:33 am | 7 Comments »

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The myth of Jewish influence in the Democrat Party  

Why were we never invited to any meetings of the International Zionist Conspiracy?

By Rabbi Prof Dov Fischer, INN

Take heart, antisemites. Or be depressed.  Because the myth on which so much antisemitism is built finally now is exposed as one more fantasy, one more falsehood, one more libel. The myth that Jews have influence in the Democrat Party. Turns out ‘taint so. Duh!

Don’t get me wrong. Like most American Jews, I love many of the main antisemitic myths and defamations. Lying Jew haters say that Jews control the banks. They say that Jews control the wealth. They say that Jews hypnotize the world. They say that Jews control everything.

As a Jew, what’s not to love when you read that stuff?  Think about how it feels for me:  I control the banks, the wealth, hypnotize the world, control everything. It’s like the guy in every eighth “Twilight Zone” episode that has a story built around that variation. Honestly, for me as a Jew — that is so unbelievably cool! Ah, to control everything. Everything.
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August 25, 2019 | 9:01 am | 1 Comment »

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How Trump Started a Civil War Between the UN and Hamas  

A civil war in UNRWA

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How Trump Started a Civil War Between the UN and HamasEven within the United Nations, a sprawling multinational bureaucracy linked by luxury dining, corruption and complicity in terrorism, the UNRWA stands out for waste, corruption and terror.

The UNRWA’s abbreviation leaves out its full title, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, and its heavy focus on Gaza. The UNRWA classifies 1.4 million or 73% of the people living in Gaza as “refugees” even though it’s an independent territory run by Hamas.

While a handful of European UN employees act as the public face of UNRWA, the actual agency is run by Hamas operatives who control its schools, using them to recruit and to store weapons

There are really two UNRWA agencies. One is a UN agency run by a small number of international staffers. Another is an arm of Hamas which employs thousands of “Palestinians”. Many if not most of these are members of Hamas. Some, like Suhail al-Hindi, the former head of the UNRWA union, who was also a member of Hamas’ leadership, serve in the upper echelons of the terror group.
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August 24, 2019 | 2:56 pm | 2 Comments »

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Victims of Islamic Delusion  

Repeated intense indoctrination of the children even changed the perception of some of the charlatan mullahs so that they, themselves, believed their own lies, took their own keys to Allah’s paradise and rushed to their death…

By Amil Imani:

It is important to understand that the human mind is not a perfect discerner of the objective reality. It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Similarly, it can be said that reality is in the mind of the beholder. The outside world only supplies bits and pieces of raw material that the mind puts together to form its perception—reality. Depending on the type and number of bits and pieces that a given mind receives and its already in-place data, its reality can be very different from that of another mind.

The more prescribed and homogeneous a group, the greater is the group’s consensual reality, since the members share much in common experiential input and reinforce each other’s’ mindset. Thus, members of a given religious order, for instance, tend to think much more similarly to one another than to members of other groups with different experiential histories. Read more…

August 24, 2019 | 2:50 pm | 1 Comment »

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It’s Time For New Jewish Leadership  

By Bruce Abramson, JEWISH PRESS

Cartoon by: Asher Schwartz

The past few weeks have seen a number of stories about “Jewish protesters” at ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facilities. That phrasing is important. These were not protests that some Jews happened to join. These were explicitly Jewish protests, organized in the name of American Jewry, claiming fidelity to the Biblical command of “loving the stranger.”

Meanwhile, last week the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations expressed “reservations” over Israel’s decision to cancel Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s visit to “Palestine,” which was organized by a PLO-affiliated, pro-BDS organization. Apparently, fighting American immigration law is a core Jewish value while fighting anti-Semitic agitation against Israel is not.

How did we arrive at this point? The answer is illuminating – and critical.
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August 24, 2019 | 2:31 pm | 11 Comments »

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Fact Checking The Claim Of 97% Consensus On Anthropogenic Climate Change  

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University of Houston Energy Fellows

BY Earl J. Ritchie, Lecturer, Department of Construction Management
(Photo by Fabrice BEAUCHENE)

The claim that there is a 97% consensus among scientists that humans are the cause of global warming is widely made in climate change literature and by political figures.

The 97% figure has been disputed and vigorously defended, with emotional arguments and counterarguments published in a number of papers. Although the degree of consensus is only one of several arguments for anthropogenic climate change – the statements of professional societies and evidence presented in reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are others – there is data to suggest that support is lower. In this post, I attempt to determine whether the 97% consensus is fact or fiction.
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August 24, 2019 | 9:17 am | 8 Comments »

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BDS is Primarily an Assault on American Jews  

By Caroline Glick

“President Trump took issue with continued American Jewish support for the Democrats after Tlaib and Omar gave a press conference libelling Israel in furtherance of their anti-Jewish, BDS agenda. For his actions, he is again being falsely defamed as an anti-Semite.

American Jews who wish to deny leftist anti-Semitism, pretend that BDS is primarily directed against Israel. After all, if the likes of Omar, Tlaib, AOC and the rest only hate Israel, then they aren’t anti-Semitic. They just hate Israeli Jews.

(And anyway, those Israeli Jews must have had it coming to them.)
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August 24, 2019 | 1:57 am | 5 Comments »

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FOIA Uncovers Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Propaganda Forced on Teachers, ‘Islam Glorified, Christianity Disparaged and America Bashed’  

By Christina Laila, GATEWAY PUNDIT


Graphic via TMLC

The Thomas More Law Center, a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, uncovered a massive Islamic propaganda campaign which is being forced onto teachers in public school systems in Michigan and many other states.

TMLC was concerned after hearing about a two-day MANDATORY Islamic training course for teachers taught by a Muslim consultant who was hired by Michigan’s Novi Community Schools District, according to TMLC.

The Thomas More Law Center filed a FOIA request for documents related to this two-day Islamic training workshop and discovered that the teachers were being told lies about Islamic terrorism, jihad and Sharia law.
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August 23, 2019 | 2:09 pm | 4 Comments »

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Iran’s allies in Iraq face complex choice amid increasing “airstikes”  

Deputy commander of paramilitary forces blames US, while leadership considers next step after fourth mysterious explosion destroys munitions of Iran-backed militias.

BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST

Members of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) walk as they enter their headquarters

A divide within the Popular Mobilization Forces, a group of mostly Shi’ite militias that are seen as pro-Iran, is emerging in response to alleged airstrikes that have struck their facilities over the last month. The divide pits the official line of the PMF against comments made by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy of the PMF and a leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah. On the ground the larger issue confronting the powerful paramilitary groups of the PMF is how to respond.

Muhandis condemned the recent explosions at PMF facilities, including Amerli, Camp Ashraf, Camp Falcon and near Balad Air Base, accusing the US of being responsible for them and arguing that Israeli drones were used to carry them out. But the PMF’s leader Faleh al-Fayyadh is more cautious in assigning blame. This opens up many questions about what is going on internally within the organization and long-term affects it might have on Iraq.

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August 23, 2019 | 1:38 pm | Comments »

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PA accepts half a billion dollars from Israel  

PA accepts money from Israel despite previously rejecting tax payments due to offsetting of terrorist salaries.

By Elad Benari, ARUTZ SHEVA

The Palestinian Authority (PA) said on Thursday it had accepted a partial payment of just over half a billion dollars from Israel, AFP reports.

“An agreement was reached a few days ago with the Israeli side for transferring duties on oil and fuel which the Palestinian Authority bought in Israel to the amount of around two billion shekels ($568 million, 512 million euros),” the PA’s “civil affairs minister” Hussein al-Sheikh told the news agency.

Israel in February decided to offset the PA’s payments to terrorists from the tax money it collects on behalf of the PA. The decision meant it would withhold around $10 million per month from revenues of some $190 million per month it collects on the PA’s behalf.
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August 23, 2019 | 8:21 am | 9 Comments »

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The crimes of Palestinians against history, religion and civilization  

Jewish antiquities and holy relics dating back 3,000 years deliberately destroyed by Arabs on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

By Victor Sharpe

Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, infamously said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” He told lies about the hapless European Jews and millions of Germans and other Europeans eagerly believed them and willingly participated in the Holocaust.

Another such miscreant, the late and unlamented Egyptian born arch-terrorist, Yasser Arafat, spewed many canards, but one which has been repeated relentlessly by the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians is that there were no Jewish Temples on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, thus rejecting the Hebrew Bible and faith based history that Jews and Christians revere.

Other Palestinian Arab ‘notables’ such as the once Chief Palestinian Justice, Sheik Taysir Tamimi, had declared the Jewish Temples “never existed.” And even the Palestinian so-called moderate whom the Leftists and gullible liberals love to love, Sari Nusseibeh, made the preposterous and malicious claim that “the historical ties and attachments of the Palestinians precede any Israeli claim to Jerusalem.” Well, when Islamic preachers teach children that Abraham, Moses and Jesus were not Jews but Muslims you have to conclude that it’s loony tunes time.
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August 23, 2019 | 8:13 am | 1 Comment »

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Who’s Funding Illegal Palestinian Settlements in Area C—Terrorist Links  

Hundreds of millions of euros flow annually from European nations to fund illegal Palestinian settlements in Area C. Under the Oslo Accords, only Israel can issue construction permits. The current rapid expansion plan dispenses with any coordination with Israel.

According to Israeli activist watchdog groups, such as Regavim, during the last five years, illegal Palestinian settlements and infrastructure have sprawled across more than 9,000 dunams (9 square km) in more than 250 Area C locations, supported by more than 600 kilometers of illegally constructed access roads and more than 112,000 meters of retaining walls and terracing. This massive works project is being conducted in broad daylight. Palestinians no longer apply for permits in Area C; they deny Israel’s right to issue them. Now, they just start building, powered by millions of annual euros in joint projects with the EU.

How is the money routed? Among the many NGO recipients, one name keeps appearing: Union of Agricultural Work Committees.
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August 23, 2019 | 8:06 am | Comments »

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The implosion of American Jewry  

By Isi Leibler

Over the past decade, the Jewish establishment leadership in America – with the exception of the Orthodox, the Zionist Organization of America, and other small groups – has failed to speak up in defense of Israel and imposed a curtain of silence. This became blatantly evident during the presidency of Barack Obama, who diplomatically related to Israel as a rogue state, employing moral equivalence toward Israeli defenders and victims and Palestinian terrorists.

Much of the hostility to Israel within the Democratic Party can be attributed to the passiveness of non-Orthodox American Jews – a byproduct of the Jewish illiteracy of younger generations. Many of these consider support for social radicalism to be a far higher priority than support for Israel.
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August 22, 2019 | 1:36 pm | 1 Comment »

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With eyes on ‘erasing’ Green Line, Yamina introduces plan to fix housing crisis  

Ayelet Shaked’s proposal seeks to relocate half a million Israelis to northern West Bank, claims central Israel is nearly as crowded as Gaza and as expensive as New York

By JACOB MAGID 21 August 2019,

Yamina chairwoman Ayelet Shaked (R) introduces her party's housing plan in the Etz Efraim settlement on August 21, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
Yamina chairwoman Ayelet Shaked (R) introduces her party’s housing plan in the Etz Efraim settlement on August 21, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

ETZ EFRAIM, West Bank — Yamina party leaders on Wednesday introduced their plan to solve Israel’s housing crisis, proposing the construction of over 110,000 new apartments in the northern West Bank that would serve as home to half a million Israelis.

“The Tel Aviv metropolitan area is almost as crowded as Gaza and as expensive as New York,” Yamina chairwoman Ayelet Shaked claimed at an event inaugurating the housing plan in the northern West Bank settlement of Etz Efraim.

August 22, 2019 | 11:23 am | 3 Comments »

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Land Theft in Area C is Creating a De Facto Palestinian State  

The Roots of Evil: The Palestinian Authority’s Systematic Annexation of Tens of Thousands of Acres in Judea and Samaria 

REGAVIM NOVEMBER 2018

Regavim’s latest report exposes the Palestinian Authority’s systematic but silent plan, powered by massive European Union financial support: Strategically-positioned agricultural land-seizure projects covering tens of thousands of dunams of land in areas under full Israeli jurisdiction are creating irreversible facts on the ground. Large-scale planting, creation of irrigation systems, and an enormous network of illegal roads are carving up the open spaces in Judea and Samaria and drawing the borders of a de facto Palestinian state in Israel’s heartland – in flagrant violation of the law. 
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August 22, 2019 | 10:38 am | 2 Comments »

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