T. Belman. Block says the old source of antisemitism comes from the right and that Charlottesgville was an example of that. I disagree on two counts. Nazism was a movement on the left, not right. Furthermore, the media spun Charlotesville to attack the right. But that was a distortion of reality. The real story was the violence of Anifa which is funded and defended by the left. In my opinion the left is a much bigger threat to Jews than the right. Just look at the Democratic Party.

by Joshua S. Block, ALGEMEINER

Linda Sarsour (right). Photo: Screenshot.

For most of us, there is a reflexive tendency to think of antisemitism as something that is propagated by the alt-right — white supremacists, the KKK, or neo-Nazi groups. That version of antisemitism was on full display during the violent protests that rocked Charlottesville last year. For us, Charlottesville was like muscle memory. We’ve seen it before, and we know exactly what it means.

But what happens when the hate comes from somewhere unexpected, somewhere much closer to home? What happens when it comes from your friends and allies, and is disguised as something else?
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Move expands list of parties facing sanctions for dealing with Iran-backed Lebanese terror group • Marking 35th anniversary of Hezbollah attack that killed 241 U.S. Marines, Trump says he aims to “starve Hezbollah of their funds, and they are starving.”

Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House event marking the 35th anniversary of the Hezbollah attack that killed 241 U.S. Marines, Thursday 

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed new sanctions targeting Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.

T. Belman. This is a lousy deal.

The agreement doesn’t include a halt to the processions along the border but does call for an end to any violent acts by protesters, including the sailing of incendiary balloons

By Jack Khoury, HAARETZ

Egypt reached a short-term agreement between Israel and Hamas to ease violence along their common border, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Friday.

A delegation from the Egyptian intelligence service that has been shuttling between Gaza and Ramallah and which has also been meeting with Israeli officials achieved an understanding regarding a halt to the violence by Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza along the border fence with Israel, in exchange for an easing of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to the report.
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Jonathan 

Last week Bristol University Socialist Workers Students Society hosted Rob Ferguson of Jewish Voice for Labour to speak about ‘Corbyn, Antisemitism and Justice for Palestine’. Ferguson is a retired sociology lecturer. He says he is Jewish but he had no qualms about speaking in Bristol on Kol Nidre.

The meeting was part of a series of similar meetings arranged by hard Left Corbyn supporters, designed to deny Labour’s antisemitism problem, challenge the IHRA definition of antisemitism and vilify Israel. On the same day this was happening in London.
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By Yochanan Visser, ISRAEL TODAY

On Sunday, King Abdullah II dropped a bombshell when he announced that Jordan would not renew parts of the 24-year-old peace agreement with Israel.

In a first statement the King said he had informed Israel “that we are putting an end to the application of the peace treaty annexes regarding Baqura and Ghumar.”

He was referring to two parcels of Jordanian land in north and south Israel which were leased for a period of 25 years by Jerusalem under the peace treaty signed in November 1994 by Abdullah’s father, King Hussein, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, whose assassination was commemorated the same day Abdullah made his announcement.
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After multiple rulings by top court thwarting attempts to deport asylum seekers, Knesset proposes a new provision aimed at bypassing the court to ‘guarantee that infiltrators will leave Israel’

By Jonathan Lis, HAARETZ

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will discuss on Sunday legislation of a new provision that will override the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty in the case of asylum seekers. The provision allows the Knesset to re-enact parts of the Prevention of Infiltration Law, despite opposition from the High Court of Justice. The court has annulled or frozen a number of government moves to imprison or deport asylum seekers.

A coalition source estimated that the committee will support the proposal on Sunday, and enable it to advance in the Knesset.
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By Dr Susan Berry, BREITBART

Americans who recognize the central role played by biology in shaping human needs and desires are applauding a report by the New York Times that the administration will roll back President Barack Obama’s establishment of the transgender ideology.

“It is high time that governmental agencies at the national and local levels return to valid science which reveals that there are two biologic sexes, and only two: male and female,” said Dr. Quentin Van Meter, president of the American College of Pediatricians.
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Trudeau actually announced the pending apology back in May.

BY Jeremy Sharon, JPOST

Canadian ambassador to Israel Deborah Lyons announced on Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will formally apologize next month for the decision in 1939 by then Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King refusing to grant asylum to the more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.

Speaking at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Tel Aviv, Lyons said that Trudeau will apologize for failing to admit the refugees, of whom 254 were eventually murdered during the Holocaust, according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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By Janet Levy

Tommy Robinson has been vilified, beaten up, prosecuted and sent to jail for exposing the long-standing Muslim rape and sex grooming gangs of girls as young as 11 throughout Britain.  (For a better understanding of this horrific epidemic and the negligence of authorities, read A Look Inside Britain’s Muslim Sex Grooming Gang Scandal. 

Following Tommy’s recent court appearance (his 5th), he gave the excellent speech below.

G-d bless and keep Tommy Robinson!

PM tells US Jewish leaders in Tel Aviv that spats over the site and conversion can easily be overcome and that he’s worried more by the loss of Jewish identity in the Diaspora

By RAPHAEL AHREN, TOI

Addressing North American Jewish leaders in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his controversial freezing of a compromise deal to expand the pluralistic prayer platform at the Western Wall, blaming pressure from the “ultra-Orthodox street,” and arguing that religion and state issues in Israel have always been settled with “ad hoc compromises” and “slowly evolving arrangements.”

While the agreement — made in January 2016 and suspended a year and a half later — will not be fully implemented, he vowed that a new “refurbished” prayer platform will open very soon.
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T. Belman. I don’t see these liberal bastions giving back the money anytime soon. Trump is right when he suggests that we shouldn’t react in a fit of righteousness.

By Luke Rosiak, DAILY CALLER

Before the death of a Washington Post contributor in a Saudi Arabian embassy, elite U.S. universities took more than half a billion dollars from the country and its affiliates between 2011 and 2017.

These gifts and contracts, in some instances, are intended to influence students’ and faculty experts’ views on the kingdom.

Saudi Arabian interests paid $614 million to U.S. universities over a six-year period, more than every country but Qatar and the United Kingdom, Department of Education data analyzed by The Daily Caller News Foundation shows. That includes $120 million from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the U.S., whose website says it “disseminate[s] information that reflects Saudi culture, tradition, and heritage through our active participation in academic, cultural, and social activities.”
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T. Belman. Not to worry. GOP won’t lose the House and Trump will crush the pipsqueak.

A top Israeli official revealed that Jerusalem believes Macron will release his plan for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement if Trump does not produce his long-awaited deal-of-the-century plan within a few weeks.

By The Algemeiner

An Israeli Foreign Ministry official told a Knesset committee earlier this week that if U.S. President Donald Trump did not present an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan within a few weeks after the upcoming Nov. 6 midterm elections, French President Emmanuel Macron would likely unveil a diplomatic initiative of his own, Channel 10reported on Tuesday.

Alon Ushpiz, the Foreign Ministry’s director of diplomacy, also revealed that Israel was not aware of the details of Trump’s long-awaited proposal.
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