Sold Out By Liberal Jews and their Establishment  

By Rabbi Aryeh Spero, AMERICAN THINKER  (First published in Sept 2019)

The rash of physical attacks against Jews in Brooklyn and Manhattan began almost a year ago.  We have cellphone and street camera footage of many of the attacks, and they are coming from assailants bellowing “Allahu Akbar” and from younger black and Hispanic men often yelling “dirty Jew.” They sneak up on Jewish-garbed citizens using bricks and stones, breaking bones and smashing eyes. There was no mainstream media discussion about this until a few weeks ago, and the major Jewish establishment organizations were basically silent as well. Even now, none of these Jewish organizations are flexing their muscles or evincing anywhere near the type of outrage we should expect.

You can be sure that if the attackers were white or Jewish and the victims Black, Muslim, or Hispanic, the establishment alphabet Jewish organizations (ADL, AJC, NYF, JCRC, Conference of Presidents, and Federations) would be the very first organizing protests against racism and pontificating about something rotten within American society.
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November 28, 2021 | 7:34 am | 19 Comments »

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U of T denounces BDS motion passed by Scarborough students as “unacceptable”  

“The motions are specifically focused on Israel in a way that is troubling,” writes President Meric Gertler

HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS

TORONTO (Nov. 27, 2021)  – The University of Toronto has strongly denounced the recent motion passed by the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union (SCSU) in support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it “unacceptable” and “troubling.”

The statement, issued Friday evening, came one day after Hasbara Fellowships Canada called on the university to intervene when the SCSU voted to “refrain from engaging with organizations, services, or take part in events that further normalize Israeli apartheid,” which would directly threaten funding for Jewish and/or pro-Israel student clubs on campus.

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November 28, 2021 | 7:24 am | Comments »

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To Biden Admin: Do Not Give Away US Leverage Against Iran  

by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  November 27, 2021

  • Since the Biden administration evidently is insisting on negotiating with a predatory regime such as Iran, at least it should not enter the negotiations from a position of weakness.
  • The Biden administration needs to understand that the Iranian regime is desperate for the revival of the nuclear deal due to the significant financial and sanctions relief that the JCPOA offers the ruling clerics.
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November 27, 2021 | 6:13 pm | Comments »

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Florida reports lowest daily coronavirus cases per capita in nation  

Michigan leads the nation in daily coronavirus cases per capita

By Andrew Mark Miller | FOX NEWS

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis welcomes Fox Nation Patriot Awards to the sunshine state 

Florida is reporting the lowest amount of coronavirus cases per capita in the nation after Gov. Ron DeSantis was widely criticized by media outlets for his handling of the virus.

The Sunshine State reported a daily average of 1,393 coronavirus cases as of Friday, six per 100,000, which was a two percent decrease over the last two weeks.

DeSantis has been slammed by critics in the media since the start of the pandemic over his opposition to government-imposed mask and vaccine mandates. In 2020, DeSantis was accused by a Democratic politician of going on a “killing spree” for opposing mask mandates and a Vanity Fair headline from September of this year referred to the governor as an “angel of death.”

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November 27, 2021 | 6:03 pm | 19 Comments »

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Abraham Accords are helping Israel transform the Middle East  

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: How the deal with the Gulf states is helping Israel improve relations with its ‘first generation’ of Arab partners.

John Kerry, the former US secretary of state currently serving as President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy, finally got to help hammer out and watch the signing of a Middle East agreement on Monday.

It wasn’t, however, an Israeli-Palestinian accord, one that former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon said Kerry was “obsessive and messianic” about brokering.

Rather, it was the signing in Dubai of a tripartite energy-water accord between Israel, the United Arabs and Jordan.

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November 27, 2021 | 5:22 pm | Comments »

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Fairfax County Public Schools Returns Pornographic Books to School Libraries, Calling them ‘Diverse Reading Materials’  

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In Virginia, the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) district has announced that it will return two pornographic books, including a graphic novel, to the shelves of its schools’ libraries, after an internal investigation determined that the materials qualified as “diverse reading materials,” as reported by the Daily Caller.

The two books in question – “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, and “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison – both feature graphic depictions of homosexual intercourse, with one of them being a graphic novel with visual depictions of an underage boy performing oral sex on an adult male. They were brought to national attention after a Fairfax County mother, Stacy Langton, brought both books to a public LCPS board meeting in September and showed them to everyone in attendance, denouncing the books’ inclusion in school libraries for minors to read.
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November 27, 2021 | 5:14 pm | Comments »

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Toronto School board refuses to allow students to hear from ISIS survivor because it might encourage ‘Islamophobia’  

By Thomas Lifson AM THINKER

“You can’t handle the truth,” the famous line uttered by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, could well be the motto of many educrats. Sheltering students from the truth when it offends the politically correct sentiments of favored minorities is all too common. And this phenomenon is not limited to the United States. Consider this from the UK Daily Mail:

A Canadian school has cancelled an event with ISIS survivor Nadia Murad, saying her visit would be offensive to Muslims and foster ‘Islamophobia’.

Murad was scheduled to sit down with students from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) – the largest school Board in Canada with nearly 600 schools – to discuss her book The Last Girl: My Story Of Captivity in February 2022.

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November 27, 2021 | 4:59 pm | Comments »

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China and Russia race ahead of America  

The US has been twiddling its thumbs while the Chinese and the Russians develop anti-satellite capabilities as well as hypersonic missiles.

By Caroline B. Glick

China and Russia race ahead of America

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet at the Taj Exotica hotel in Goa, India, in 2016

Over the past several weeks a hard truth has become undeniable: The United States of America is no longer the all-powerful superpower it has been since the end of the Cold War. Far from it. The strategic implications of this state of affairs are epic for both the US and its allies.

A nation’s position in the global pecking order is based on two things – its capabilities and its credibility. America’s capabilities have diminished relative to its superpower competitors in a stunning way. And so has its credibility.

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November 26, 2021 | 4:06 pm | 1 Comment »

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Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative  

The west blunders because of its fantasy that the world is shaped in its own image

By Melanie Phillips

A fascinating BBC TV series has explored the way in which Britain’s former Labour prime ministers, Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown, revolutionised their party to create the election-winning machine of “New Labour.”

In a moment of painful clarity, Blair reflects on the devastating mistakes that were made in the 2003 war against Iraq, which he helped lead alongside US President George W. Bush to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

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November 26, 2021 | 3:51 pm | Comments »

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Bennett is caving on Consulate and Airport  

By Ted Belman.

ARUTZ SHEVA . Report quotes high-ranking Israeli official as admitting that consulate will reopen “soon,” despite right-wing objections within government.

Apparently Israel will do nothing to stop it even though her consent is required.

Also there was a report that Bennett told the US that construction in Jerusalem neighborhood would not happen.

Israeli official to Arutz Sheva: Bennett did not stop construction in Atarot

An Israeli official told Arutz Sheva on Thursday evening that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett did not stop the construction of the Atarot neighborhood of Jerusalem, but rather explained to the Americans that this is a technical procedure that will last at least a year.

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November 26, 2021 | 10:22 am | 4 Comments »

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US “Orders” Israel to Desist  

by Steve Kramer

The United States, France, Germany, the UK, the EU, Russia, and China are about to resume “negotiating” the JCPOA, better known as the “Iran Deal,” concerning Iran’s nuclear weapons capability,  Who’s missing from these meetings? Those countries most at risk from Iran’s warmongering: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states.

Not only is Israel not invited or even consulted, but the Biden Administration has given a clear warning to Israel to desist from taking any further actions against Iran which might exacerbate tensions, such as cyber warfare, assassinations, or “accidents” which occur in Iran. Evidently, the current US government doesn’t want any impediments to its “longer, stronger” deal with Iran – as if that were possible.

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November 26, 2021 | 4:30 am | 2 Comments »

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U of T Scarborough students vote to eliminate funding from pro-Israel student clubs  

“Kosher food brought to campus must come from an organization that does not support Israeli apartheid,” the motion read

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TORONTO  – Hasbara Fellowships Canada is demanding that the University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC) intervene after its student union (SCSU) voted to eliminate funding for student groups that support Israel.

At its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday, Nov. 24, the SCSU passed its second motion in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. A subsection of the original motion passed in 2013 now requires that any kosher food brought to campus must come from an organization that does not support “Israeli apartheid.”

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November 26, 2021 | 2:25 am | Comments »

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Caving to Arab pressure, Israel to dismantle public menorah  

T. Belman.  Blame it on the Civil Administration

Menorah placed on tomb of Jewish prophet “infringes upon the sanctity of the site,” local Arabs complain.

By World Israel News Staff    November 25, 2021


Menorah atop the grave of the Prophet Samuel (Facebook/Screenshot)

Israel’s Civil Administration ordered the Nature and Parks Authority to dismantle a large menorah installed atop the tomb of the prophet Samuel because local Arabs complained, Arutz Sheva reported on Thursday.

The tomb is located in the northern outskirts of Jerusalem, within a national park administered by Israeli authorities, near the Arab neighborhood Bayt Iksa.

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November 26, 2021 | 2:14 am | 3 Comments »

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Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization  

Conservatives now have lost their former traditional confidence in many of the pillars of our civilization. And with good reason.

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Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far Left and deliberately hostile to Middle America.

Yet American conservatives still adamantly supported the nation’s traditional investigatory, intelligence, and military agencies—especially when they came under budgetary or cultural attacks.

Not so much anymore.

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November 25, 2021 | 4:16 pm | 4 Comments »

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Report: Senior Israeli officials warn US against reaching partial deal with Iran  

‘Less for less’ agreement would only benefit the Iranian regime … It would be an enormous gift to Iran’s new, radical, and IRGC-affiliated regime, The Washington Post reports Israeli officials as saying.

By  ILH Staff     11-25-2021 12:11

Report: Targeted Iran nuclear facility known to Israeli, US intelligence

An Iranian flag is seen at the Bushehr nuclear power plant during a ceremony to kick-start works on a second reactor there, Nov. 10, 2019 | File photo: APF/Atta Kenare

The US must not reach a partial nuclear deal with Iran, senior Israeli officials have warned the White House, according to a report in The Washington Post Wednesday.

Israeli officials have expressed concerns US President Joe Biden’s administration is laying the ground for a deal that would see Tehran freeze or reverse its nuclear program in return for a partial rollback of sanctions, The Washington Post reported.

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November 25, 2021 | 3:41 pm | Comments »

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Israel advances controversial plan for East Jerusalem neighborhood at old airport  

Municipal panel gives initial backing to proposal to build thousands of new homes for ultra-Orthodox in Atarot, adjacent to Palestinian neighborhoods

By TOI STAFF     24 November 2021, 9:20 pm

Architects’ plans for the new neighborhood in the Atarot industrial area in East Jerusalem. (Jerusalem Municipality)

The Jerusalem City Council’s Planning and Building Committee gave its backing Wednesday to a plan for a new neighborhood slated to house tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews at an abandoned East Jerusalem airport. The city’s support marks an early step forward for the proposal, which is to be considered by the District Committee for Planning and Building, under the auspices of the Finance Ministry, on December 6.

The new neighborhood is set to be located at the site of the Atarot Airport, sandwiched between the Palestinian neighborhood of Kafr Aqab and the Qalandiya refugee camp in the far northwest corner of the city largely beyond the West Bank security barrier.

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November 25, 2021 | 1:32 pm | 1 Comment »

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Behind Biden’s Iran Policy  

by Victor Rosenthal         November 25, 2021

What does the Biden Administration actually want?

One might think it is that Iran will not make nuclear weapons. But it’s more complicated than that. To try to answer the question, I looked at a recent article in America’s own Pravda, the NY Times.

Some of the arguments attributed to US officials that appear in that piece are difficult to criticize, because they are so bad that it’s impossible to take them seriously. For example,

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November 25, 2021 | 12:46 pm | 2 Comments »

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The #IslamophobiaIndustry: The Insidious Infiltration of Islam into the West by Diane Bederman  

By Diane Bederman

The West is under attack internally from progressive ideologies, including critical race theory, and foreign ideologies from China and Islam. This book shares the methods by which Islam, like China, is insidiously infiltrating our government, education and media. Their values are undercutting our Judeo-Christian ethic that informs us of our values, that all people are born with equal intrinsic value, all life is sacred and we are blessed with free will.

In our desire to be diverse, inclusive and tolerant we are allowing these foreign ideologies into our societies and homes. If this continues, the West will fall.

It is hoped that after reading this book, you will fight to maintain our way of life for you, our children and our grandchildren. We are on the front lines. Silence is collusion.

Please read Mark Tapson’s Frontpage Book Review

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November 25, 2021 | 12:39 pm | 1 Comment »

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