By  Jewish Press News Desk February 6, 2022

Seventy-seven percent of the NGOs cited in Amnesty International’s damning report against Israel (Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians) were Israeli organizations that received a total of $105,209,347 (NIS 337,553,677) from foreign governments since 2012, Im Tirtzu reported on Sunday.

According to Im Tirtzu, Amnesty International’s report accusing Israel of being an apartheid state was heavily based on information provided by “radical anti-Zionist” Israeli NGOs.

Throughout the 280-page report, 26 NGOs (16 of them Israeli) were cited 597 times out of the total 1559 citations in the report.

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BY RICK MORAN, PJ MEDIA            FEB 05, 2022

By Victor Rosenthal

Surprise! Liberal American Jewry feels “betrayed” by the Bennett-Lapid government.

Here they had such high hopes that if Israel would just get rid of “hard-line right-winger” Netanyahu, then the Jewish state would behave herself. After all, not only is Netanyahu out, but the new government under Naftali Bennett includes left-wing parties Meretz and Labor, and even an Arab Islamist party. And yet, we are still acting like a sovereign state, and a democratic one that must respond to the demands of an electorate, at that! Israel still fails to understand, it seems, that Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism in the USA knows what’s good for us better than we do.
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By Gunnar Heinsohn, AMERICAN THINKER

Because the angry debate about Whoopi Goldberg’s statements is focused on the definition of racism and its role in the Holocaust, perhaps the views of Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) himself will be of interest.

In one of his last statements on Judaism (3 February 1945), Hitler told Martin Bormann (1900–1945), his personal secretary and head of the NSDAP chancellery:

I never held the opinion that the Chinese or the Japanese, for example, were racially inferior. … I admit that their tradition is superior to ours. … Our Nordic racial consciousness is aggressive only towards the Jewish race. However, we speak of a Jewish race only for reasons of linguistic convenience, for … from the genetic point of view, there is no Jewish race. Circumstances make us label in this way a racially and spiritually coherent group, membership in which is claimed by Jews all over the world, no matter which individual citizenship is given by passports. This group of people we call the Jewish race. … The Jewish race is most of all a spiritual community. … Spiritual race is tougher and more enduring than natural race. The Jew, wherever he goes,  remains a Jew … and to us he must appear as a piece of evidence for the superiority of “spirit” over flesh.  (H. Trevor-Roper, A. Francois-Poncet, eds., Hitlers Politisches Testament. Die Bormann Diktate vom Februar und April 1945, Hamburg: Albrecht Knaus, 1981, pp. 66, 68, 69)

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Ahead of the battle over who will succeed him, Abu Mazen is using a series of decisions on appointments and candidacies taken recently at the Fatah Central Committee to appoint loyalists and allies to senior positions; these appointments are expected to be approved by the PLO’s Central Council.

These decisions are seen as an underhanded move by Abu Mazen and his associates, and have sparked anger in the Palestinian arena, both among the public and the political opposition, which will try with greater effort to stir up the West Bank. This in turn could well weaken the Palestinian Authority and undermine the security of the Jewish settlements there

By  Yohanan Tzoreff, INSS   INSS Insight No. 1551, February 6, 2022

A series of decisions made by the Central Committee of the Fatah movement headed by Chairman Abu Mazen prior to the convening of the PLO’s Central Council has sparked anger in the Palestinian arena and raised questions regarding the future of the PLO and the possibility of intra-Palestinian reconciliation. The questions also relate to the very ability to carry out the policy to which Abu Mazen is committed, according to the speech he gave in September 2021 at the UN Security Council. This includes rescinding the recognition of Israel and withdrawing from the Palestinians’ commitments if Israel doesn’t end the occupation within one year. In a process that was imposed on the members of the committee and did not allow any real room for opposition, a series of appointments and candidacies were declared regarding figures from among Abu Mazen’s associates and loyalists.

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The ADL’s pathological refusal to state the truth that Amnesty International and the miserable report it issued this week are anti-Jewish indicate that in the campaign against the existence of the State of Israel, the ADL is not on the side of the Jews.

By  Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM      02-04-2022

A copy of Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians” | Photo: AP/Maya Alleruzzo

One of the more curious responses to Amnesty International’s Israel Apartheid report this week came from the Anti-Defamation League. Monday, the heads of Amnesty held a press conference in Israel’s capital Jerusalem. In it they presented the main “findings” of the “investigation” they conducted regarding the status of Israel’s existence.

It works out that after years of “careful study,” Amnesty’s entirely professional “researchers” determined that Israel has no right to exist. The Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to Jews after two thousand years of homeless wanderings, is a type of apartheid. Israel’s Jewish identity is apartheid, they said.

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By Randy DeSoto, WESTERN JOURNAL           Feb 5, 2022

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s insensitivity toward the Jewish people apparently dates back to at least the 1990s.This week ABC placed the star on a two-week suspension after she claimed the Holocaust, which resulted in the deaths of six million Jews, was “not about race.” As a brief refresher, Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler wanted to establish a master Aryan race. His plan included exterminating all the Jews, whom he viewed as “parasitic vermin,” according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Read more…

HUDSON INSTITUTE

The Azerbaijani flag is displayed on  November 28, 2020 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)

Azerbaijan has presided over a tectonic shift in Eurasia, serving as a counterbalance to Iran while slipping out of Moscow’s bear hug more adeptly than any other post-Soviet state. In his latest essay, Dr. Michael Doran argues that Washington must partner with countries that are willing and able to do the hard work of containing our adversaries, and that Azerbaijan could provide a crucial bulwark against Russia and Iran.

See below for key takeaways, and learn more about the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, a new Hudson initiative led by Doran dedicated to bolstering American interests and allies in this pivotal region so that the U.S. can prevail in the new era of great power competition.

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By Soeren Kern, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  February 5, 2022

• “There is a growing threat that seeks to transform the European Union into an ideologically charged federalist super-state; a corporation which disregards national identity and sovereignty, and therefore democracy, plurality and the interests of the citizens of the nations that form the Union. This drift endangers the Union itself by moving away from the Christian European ideals on which it was founded…. We should cooperate and join forces to protect Europe from enforced ideologies and anti-democratic drift that are leading to its downfall.” — Joint Statement, Madrid Summit, January 29, 2022.
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The return of Syria could happen due to the policy changes of some Gulf countries.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf attend the 30th Arab Summit in Tunis, Tunisia March 31, 2019 (photo credit: ZOUBEIR SOUISSI / REUTERS)<
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While there is no consensus in the Arab League when it comes to re-admitting Syria into the political organization, Iranian media appears to be focused on this issue.

Iran’s Tasnim news published an article based on a piece in The New Arab that analyzed the current issues involved. This comes as The National, a UAE newspaper, reported that “Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Wednesday that the Syrian regime was unlikely to be present at the next Arab summit, with consensus lacking to readmit the country into the organisation. But Mr Aboul Gheit said member states would discuss letting the regime of Bashar Al Assad back in next month.”“Sources in the Arab League in Cairo said that the UAE has started moves to launch the case,” they reported.

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By Henry F. Smith Jr., MD, AM THINKER

It’s a common occurrence in winter. A patient calls a primary physician to report a nonproductive cough, slight hoarseness, muscle aches, and a low-grade fever. The physician, and likely the patient, realize that this is almost certainly a viral upper respiratory infection. If the patient were in the office, the physician may test for a streptococcal bacterial infection, but it will likely be negative.

This is probably an infection with a rhinovirus, adenovirus, or endemic coronavirus. Despite this, the afflicted patient will happily proceed to the pharmacy to pick up their prescription for an antibiotic. The patient will feel as though the physician was proactive, something the doctor certainly understands.
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By Daniel Greenfield, JEWISH PRESS        February 4, 2022

There’s hardly a Muslim terrorist attack committed by a single perpetrator in Europe or America in the last five years that the authorities and the media haven’t tried to spin as mental illness.

Both Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the Syrian Muslim mass killer who shot up a Boulder supermarket, and Faisal Akram, who took a Texas temple hostage to secure the release of ‘Lady Al Qaeda’, had their attacks blamed on mental illness.

But France continues to lead the world in whitewashing Muslim terrorism as mental illness.

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Nova Scotia government “prohibits” all residents from donating or participating in freedom convoy through emergency order

Will Give to Charities Instead

By Omid Ghoreishi, EPOCH TIMES

GoFundMe says it won’t be giving the C$10 million ($8 million USD) raised to support the truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates to the organizers anymore, saying it will instead work with the organizers to send the funds to “established charities verified by GoFundMe.”

“To ensure GoFundMe remains a trusted platform, we work with local authorities to ensure we have a detailed, factual understanding of events taking place on the ground,” the fundraising platform said in a statement on Feb. 4.

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T. Belman. I decided to post this article because Melanie covers the subject broadly where my comments just focused on Whoopi saying “not a race”. Her arguments are always worth reading carefully.  She wrote “The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism.”  Hitler defined you as a Jew if at a minimum one of your grandparents was Jewish.  Calling that “a tenuous connection with Judaism” is odd.

She also made the case that the message of the Holocaust was being universalized as I did.

Dennis Prager took a different tack and said the Whoopi was right, the Jews were not a race. He also cited the Torah in support.

The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism. Op-ed.

By Melanie Phillips, INN

(JNS) Whoopi Goldberg has got herself into a terrible mess. She was suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s “The View” talk show after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. It was instead, she said, about “man’s inhumanity to man” involving “white people doing it to white people.”

She insisted: “It’s about how people treat each other. It’s a problem. It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, Jews … everybody eats each other.”

This was clearly idiotic. The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism.

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The “war” with Russia is as real as Russiagate.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Biden tried to be FDR and failed at that. Now he’s settling for playing a senile elderly JFK.

If you watch 5 minutes of CNN or any cable news network, you might believe that we’re on the verge of war with Russia. That’s what the same people who claimed that President Trump was working for Putin want you to believe. Their new war with Russia is as real as Russiagate.

Democrats want to fight Russia to the last Republican.
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By Civis Americanus, AM THINKER

Ben & Jerry’s is circling the drain due to its decision to join the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. VINnews reports that Ben & Jerry’s parent Unilever has lost $26 billion in value (down more than 20%, it seems to have recovered a bit since then) and has laid off 1500 workers partly due to backlash, including invocation of state anti-boycott laws, against Ben & Jerry’s.

BDS supporters believe prices must be paid by everybody but themselves, for the Cause. They will fight to the last Unilever stockholder, the last Unilever employee, the last Ben & Jerry’s franchisee, the last tax-exempt professional organization such as the American Studies Association, and the last tax-exempt union to harm Israel and therefore, by necessity, advance the cause of Hamas.
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Britain joins US and Germany in denouncing findings of British organization that accused Israel of internationally oppressing Palestinians

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI

A journalist holds a copy of Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians,” in Jerusalem, February 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The United Kingdom on Thursday rejected an Amnesty International report accusing Israel of apartheid.

“We do not agree with the use of this terminology,” a spokesperson for the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office told The Times of Israel.

“Any judgment on whether serious crimes under international law have occurred is a matter for judicial decision, rather than for governments or non-judicial bodies,” they said.

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The Untold Details of Latest Israeli Strikes on Syria

JaFaju    Feb 3, 2022

1-Introduction: Middle Eastern media has reported an Israeli Air Force strike on the outskirts of Damascus. The strike reportedly took place in the very early hours of Monday, January 31, 2022.  The media specifically reported that the Israeli strikes targeted Lebanese Hezbollah training camps in various regions of the country.  Neither the Syrian government, nor Hezbollah officials, have confirmed or dismissed the reports, nor have they provided any details or locations.

2-JaFaJ intelligence sources have confirmed that Israel carried out the attack and that it was against Hezbollah terrorists’ camps in Syria, particularly in the village of Khirbat Al-Ward. [COMMENT: Positioned at 33.39841°N 36.36937°E, with a population of a mere 8,000, Khirbat Al-Ward is a village from the Reef Dimashq (Damascus Suburbs) County, south to the Syrian capital, Damascus. END COMMENT].

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