By Steve Sailor, TAKIMAG

Israel is one of the intellectually freer nations, which helps explain how an Israeli political philosopher, Yoram Hazony, has suddenly established himself as perhaps the most interesting thinker of the post–Merkel’s Mistake era with his spectacular new book, The Virtue of Nationalism.

With Israel being nationalism’s prime success story in recent decades, this Israeli nationalist is well positioned to offer a resounding intellectual justification to his fellow nationalists in America, Britain, and the Netherlands. Israel is one of the rare nation-states where nationalism is not demonized by elites, so its defense attracts more elite talent than in the West. Hazony explains:
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Sweden’s Islamic invasion catalyzed by the death of free speech.

By Bruce Bawer, FPM

A few prefatory words: I was invited to give a talk in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Saturday, September 29, as part of an “Alternative Book Fair.” The Gothenburg Book Fair was being held that weekend, and the point of the alternative event was to highlight books – mostly about Islam, I gathered – that the official fair had rejected. I was asked to talk about freedom of speech, a freedom that is in increasingly short supply in Sweden, as elsewhere in Western Europe. As if to prove the point, civic officials – at the urging of police, who were spooked by Antifa threats – banned the “Alternative Book Fair.” Here’s what I planned to say.

When I was twenty years old, there was a famous free-speech case in the state of Illinois. Nazis wanted to march in a Chicago suburb called Skokie, which had a large population of Jews, many of them Holocaust survivors. Skokie sued successfully in county court to prevent the march. The Nazis, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, took the case to the state appellate court and the Illinois Supreme Court. Long story short, after the case had gone to the United States Supreme Court, the Nazis were allowed to march.
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By Eldad Beck, ISRAEL HAYOM

“This is the happiest moment of my life!”

•  Israel’s Ashram sets world record in rhythmic gymnastics, grabs gold
•  Israel’s Linoy Ashram continues to rack up rhythmic gymnastics medals

By Tamar Beeri, JPOST

The winning exercise of the Israeli acrobatic trio that won in the Budapest Acro Cup, 2018. (photo credit: PUBLIC RELATIONS GAL COMMUNICATIONS)

Three 15-year-old Israeli acrobats won the gold in the Budapest Acro Cup for trio pyramid acrobatics at the advanced level between ages 12-18 on Monday.

Shai Horesh from Moshav Hatsev, Shir Edri from Rehovot and Leah Curcus from Rehovot competed against and eventually defeated some of the most renowned teams in the world such as China, Russia, and Great Britain.
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Once a student filed a police complaint against those who disrupted a panel including israeli Reservists on Duty, the ball began to roll.

By Edwin Black, INN

Campus police at University of California, Irvine will in the near future refer anti-Israeli event disruptors of a May 3, 2018 pro-Israel event to Orange County prosecutors, according to a UCI spokesperson. Referral will occur, says the spokesperson, as soon as the campus police investigation concludes.

If so, UCI will be the second UC campus, after UCLA, to refer loud and raucous anti-Israel disruptors to prosecutors for violation of California’s statutes prohibiting disruption of public meetings, disturbing the peace, and conspiracy to do either.
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The New Israel Fund supports assistance to terrorists, this time funneling its funds through Hamoked.

By Ronn Torossian, INN

On January 4, 2017, a Palestinian-Arab terrorist drove a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, killing four and injuring 17 others. The attack was immediately identified as terrorism, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the scene of the attack and said the perpetrator was “by all indications a supporter of the Islamic State.”

Fast forward to October 2018, Israel decided to expel the terrorist’s family from Israel, as they have links to ISIS, are not citizens and present a security concern.  Opposing the state in court is Hamoked, an organization supported by the New Israel Fund, which assisted the relatives of the terrorist to petition against their deportation from Israel.
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Newspaper report claims US president’s family avoided paying tens of millions of dollars by undervaluing properties and creating a sham corporation

By AP, TOI

NEW YORK — The New York Times reported Tuesday that US President Donald Trump received at least $413 million from his father over the decades, much of that through dubious tax dodges, including outright fraud.

The 15,000-word Times report contradicts Trump’s portrayal of himself as a self-made billionaire who started with just a $1 million loan from his father.

The Times said Trump and his father, Fred, avoided gift and inheritance taxes by setting up a sham corporation and undervaluing assets to tax authorities. The Times said its report is based on more than 100,000 pages of financial documents, including confidential tax returns from the father and his companies.
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To avoid that fate, rabbis and synagogues might begin by acknowledging where and how Judaism differs, and proceed from there.

By Jack Wertheimer, MOSAIC

My thanks to Lawrence A. Hoffman, Elliot Cosgrove, and Christine Rosen for their thoughtful responses to my essay, “The New High Holy Days.” My comments here proceed in reverse order of the responses’ sequential appearance in Mosaic.

Writing as an outsider, albeit one who has attended Jewish High Holy Day services and has written extensively on religious life in America, Christine Rosen offers a valuable comparative framework. As she notes at the outset, the phenomenon of once-a-year Jews has its counterparts among so-called “C&E Christians” or “Chreasters.”
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By John Eidson, AMERICAN THINKER

In comments that laid bare the hidden agenda behind global warming alarmism, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, let slip during a February 2015 press conference in Brussels that the U.N.’s real purpose in pushing climate hysteria is to end capitalism throughout the world:

This is the first time in human history that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally changing [getting rid of] the economic development model that has reigned since the Industrial Revolution.

The economic model to which she referred is free-market capitalism.  A year earlier, Figueres revealed what capitalism must be replaced with when she complained that America’s two-party constitutional system is hampering the U.N.’s climate objectives.  She went on to cite China’s communist system as the kind of government America must have if the U.N. is to impose its environmental will on the world’s most free and prosperous capitalist nation.  In other words, for the U.N. to have its way, America must somehow be transformed into a communist nation.
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By Ted Belman

David Singer’s latest article, Jordan-“West Bank’ reconciliation is in the air”, includes the following:

“Jordan’s retirement from the West Bank moved Abu Iyad – PLO-leader Yassar Arafat’s deputy – to declare on 15 December 1989:

“I say that on the day immediately following the establishment of the Palestinian State, we will begin unity with Abu Iyad, 1989: You cannot make a distinction between a Jordanian and a Palestinian.

“We will begin unity with Jordan. I am not concerned what kind of unity this may be, because we are one people and have the same history. You cannot make a distinction between a Jordanian and a Palestinian. It is true that we encourage unity between Arab peoples, but the relation between Jordan and Palestine in particular is clearly distinctive; all those who tried in the past and are still trying to create divisions between the Jordanian and Palestinian people have failed. We indeed constitute one people… when the Palestinian state and unity is established … The Jordanian will be a Palestinian and the Palestinian a Jordanian”

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By Alex VanNess, CLARION PROJECT

The Islamic Center of Detroit conference will damage the Michigan Muslim community by giving the stage to a panel pro-extremist speakers. The Islamic Center of Detroit (ICD) recently announced their first Muslim Revival Conference 2018: Reconnect. The stated goal of the conference is “to inspire positive change within the Michigan Muslim community.”

The ICD has strong Muslim Brotherhood connections.  The mosque has co-hosted events with Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).  AMP has a history of employing terrorist financiers, with at least five AMP officials previously served with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s pro-Hamas Palestine Committee and CAIR was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood entity from evidence presented at the Holy Land Foundation trial.
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