By Robert Spencer

(JANUARY 17, 2022 / PJ MEDIA) The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) claims that its mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all …” So you might think that after an Islamic jihadi stormed a Texas synagogue and took hostages, the ADL would be drawing attention to Islamic antisemitism, as well as to the targeting of synagogues by Islamic Jihadis in the past. Instead, it once again proves that it is more interested in preserving the Leftist narrative than in combating antisemitism: the ADL is very concerned that some of the reactions to the hostage-taking incident have been, in its view, “Islamophobic.”

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By Eric Mandel, MEPIN

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and UAE Ambassador to Israel Mohamed Al Khaja shake hands during the opening ceremony of the Emirati Embassy in Tel Aviv in July.(photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)

Since the early months of president Barak Obama’s first term in 2009, the United States (US) looked to pivot from the Middle East towards the Far East to confront a growing and assertive China. Unfortunately, the Obama administration thought the path forward was to rebalance the Middle East, beginning a process to elevate and normalize Iran, while downgrading and creating daylight with longtime US allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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By  Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Aerial view of Illegal PA construction in Area C, in the Gush Etzion Arab village of Nahalin. May 2020

The European Union (EU) has invested half a billion dollars in support of the Palestinian Authority’s illegal takeover of Area C in Judea and Samaria, a comprehensive report by the Ministry of Intelligence on the PA’s plan to take over Area C shows.

The report was exposed Tuesday ahead of a special discussion at the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the initiative of the Land of Israel Lobby, which members are warning that “the battle for Judea and Samaria has reached a critical stage.”

According to the report, the PA employs about 600 workers in some 100 registration branches who are engaged in a huge project to map properties, including in Area C, which is under full Israeli control as per the Oslo Accords. The stated goal of the project is gaining and claiming ownership of the land.
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Video shows female Trump supporter’s desperate pleas to prevent rioters from breaking windows: “Stop! No! Don’t! Wait!”

By Joseph M. Hanneman, EPOCH TIMES    January 17, 2022

Ashli Babbitt desperately tried to prevent rioters from vandalizing the doors leading to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even stepping between one troublemaker and police officers guarding the doors, a video analysis shows.

Frame-by-frame video evidence analyzed by The Epoch Times paints a vastly different picture of Babbitt’s actions than that portrayed in media accounts over the past year. News media regularly painted Babbitt as “violent,” a “rioter,” or an “insurrectionist” who was angrily trying to breach the Speaker’s Lobby.
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T. Belman. This was not an antisemitic attack per se. Its motive was to pressure the US to release a convicted terrorist. To accomplish his goal he chose to take hostages in a synagogue rather than Christians in a church. Why? Because the Jews control Congress, don’t you know.

The Times of Israel

“COLLEYVILLE, Texas — Malik Faisal Akram chose to hold synagogue worshipers hostage in Colleyville, Texas Saturday because he believed in antisemitic tropes and was convinced that the Jewish worshipers inside would have the power to organize the release of a Pakistani prisoner jailed nearby, one of the four worshipers held at gunpoint told The Times of Israel on Monday.

“He did not come there to kill Jews … He came here to release [Aafia Siddiqui], and he had bought into the extremely dangerous, antisemitic trope that Jews control everything, that we could call President [Joe] Biden and have him release her,” Jeffrey Cohen said in an interview over Zoom.”

Watch:No..2 of the northern Islamic movement does not bat an eyelash as he says that “the Negev is an inseparable part of Palestine.”

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN <
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Even his most ardent supporters know Binyanim Netanyahu and his Likud also might have formed a governing coalition with Mansour Abbas and Ra’am if he and they could have formed a 61-seat coalition majority with that Arab party associated with the Muslim Brotherhood – the crucial difference being that they would have been four Arab MKs ro 57 right wing MKs, but still crossing a red line. Netanyahu also closed down building new homes in Judea and Samaria at times, although he also authorized the construction of others and a of a new settlement, but also stopped Chomesh from expanding although carefully did not destroy it, He also was prepared during coalition talks to negotiate a split governance that the President had not initially authorized, and more.

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By Yoni Kempinski, INN

MK Shlomo Karhi from the Likud said on Monday that even if the chairman of his party, Benjamin Netanyahu, agrees to a plea bargain, he will still emerge from the entire situation as a winner.

“I must say that at the public level Netanyahu has achieved the two main goals: The first is for the public to understand that there was nothing because there is nothing. This can be seen both in the testimony of Nir Hefetz and in the State Attorney’s Office, which is willing to go to the plea bargain and give up on the ‘main clause’ of bribery. The goal of the fight against ‘the gang of the rule of law’ that does everything it pleases has also been realized,” Karhi said in an interview with Israel National News.

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By Ted Belman

A look back at the Muhammad al-Dura affair, 20 years later

The Truth of Deir Yassin

Recalling the Jenin ‘massacre’ libel

What other major hoaxes should I list here and provide a link that best exposes it.

T. Belman. This is not unbiased reporting. The narrator said that it was a mission to end the occupation. In no way was the Israeli presence in Gaza an occupation. She referred to the expulsion as a deportation. This suggests that Gaza is a country. It is not.

Did you know that these Israelis were living on lands purchased by Jews before the War of Independence.

Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier: ‘It really came on strongly after the death of George Floyd’

By Patricia Tolson, EPOCH TIMES    Jam 17/22

On Jan. 2, The Epoch Times reported how lower expectations and the shift in focus from academic excellence in K-12 education toward the implementation of social constructs like critical race theory equals fewer literate graduates. Beyond K-12, four experts explain how woke culture is also destroying academia, corporations, and the military.

‘Our Universities’ and ‘the Student Population’

Based on his 50 years of experience, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Jon Zubieta at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences believes “the most decisive defeat for common sense in our universities has been the introduction of offices for diversity, inclusiveness, and equity.”

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By Victor Rosenthal

On any scale of importance, the absurdity that the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures somehow ignored the fact that Jews, most of them running from antisemitic Eastern Europe, created the industry ex nihilo in the face of still more antisemitism in America, is insignificant.

Naturally, in these diverse and inclusive days it is supremely important to emphasize the role played by non-whites (and downplay that of non-BIPOC), so that Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki gets more play than – get ready – Walt Disney, who was not Jewish, thus demonstrating that the discrimination was merely racism and historical negationism and not primarily antisemitism.
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PULSE OF ISRAEL

FBI & Progressives Ignore Root Cause of Growing Islamist Terror Against US Jews

Mounting evidence of irregularities and rigged rules has emerged through state and local investigations, court decisions, financial disclosure, and audits in the 14 months since the election.

By Natalia Mittelstadt, JUST NEWS

Conspiracy projection has split apart the country. The Left has fought efforts to learn the full truth, as they project conspiracies to disguise conspirators.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS    Jan 16/22

American politics over the last half decade has become immersed in a series of conspiracy charges leveled by Democrats against their opponents that, in fact, are happening because of them and through them. The consequences of these conspiracies becoming reality and reality revealing itself as conspiracy have been costly to American prestige, honor, and security. As we move away from denouncing realists as conspiracists, and self-pronounced “realists” are revealed as the true conspirators, let’s review a few of the more damaging of these events.

Russians on the Brain

Consider that the Trump election of 2016, the transition, and the first two years of the Trump presidency were undermined by a media-progressive generated hoax of “Russian collusion.”

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And the same charade of denial and obfuscation starts all over again.

By Robert Spencer, JIHAD WATCH

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On Saturday, Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas was in the middle of Shabbat services that were being livestreamed on Facebook when a Muslim gunman named Malik Faisal Akram, burst in and took hostages, including the rabbi. After a standoff that lasted hours, all the hostages were safely freed and Akram was killed. Then the denial and obfuscation began almost immediately.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno got the ball rolling when he said: “We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, uh, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community, uh, but we’re continuing to work to find motive and, and we will continue on that path.”

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T. Belman. We cannot leave them unattended. We must reduce their reproduction rates and inclination to Islamism. It is obviously in our interest to do so. First and most important is to get more women to go to college. This has proven very effective in reducing Arab fertility. Secondly we should enforce laws that penalize bigamy.

Finally we must make them abide by all our laws.  They cannot live their nomadic lifestyle at our expense. We have no obligation to allow them to. They must learn to conform.  They must stop incest within their ranks. Its a crime for good reason.

Like other countries in the region, Israel has failed to provide its Bedouin population with housing, employment, and education opportunities.

By  Prof. Eyal Zisser, ISRAEL HAYOM

At the beginning of the 1950s, the Bedouin population in the Negev was a little over 10,000. Today, 70 years later, there are almost 300,000 Bedouins in the Negev. Alongside infiltration into Israel, primarily in the years after its establishment, this astounding increase is the result of unprecedented natural growth – in Middle Eastern terms as well – of a population that has doubled every 15 years.

In 1951, there were 12,700 Bedouin. Twenty years later, in 1970, there were 25,000. In 1980, that number stood at 37,000, and in 2000, it had already reached 120,000. Today, the number stands at almost 300,000 people.

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