“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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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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Michigan leads the nation in daily coronavirus cases per capita

By Andrew Mark Miller | FOX NEWS

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

By HERB KEINON, JPOST

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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By Eric Lendrum, AM GREATNESS

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

https://mailchi.mp/hasbarafellowships/yom-haatzmaut-2022739?e=a62b1951e2

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

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

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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‘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

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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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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CONSERVATIVE HQ. We share Ms. West’s column with her kind permission because Kennedy’s remarks have received no coverage in the establishment media and, as she observed, are “unique among national American figures, sizes up the pandemic response for what it is: a coordinated assault on liberal democracy all over the world, which has nothing to do with public health, but which, in the USA, gutted our Bill of Rights and thus robbed us of our constitutionally protected liberties.”

https://www.conservativehq.org/post/diana-west-on-rfk-jr-in-milan-resist-resist-resist-resist

Ms. West’s column begins:

Here is a picture (above) of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he is about to give a historic address in Milan, Italy, one of many Italian cities where anti-“green pass” demonstrators have thronged the streets and central plazas, protesting to reclaim their freedom, week after week, all through this fall.

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