Tuesday, July 18, 2023
The long arm of American law does not seem to reach as far as Jordan
Arutz Sheva has taken the initiative in reminding the public of an indefensibly ongoing saga - the efforts to bring to justice the murderess responsible for the deaths of 16 innocent people in a Jerusalem Sbarro pizza restaurant twenty two years ago.Yoseph Haddad: Jenin operation exposed growing radicalization in the West against Israel
In the most recent development, a full ten years after her conviction in the USA, former Congressman Ted Deutsch, head of the American Jewish Committee, wrote a letter to the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick B. Garland, calling on the Department of Justice “to intensify its pursuit of the extradition from the Kingdom of Jordan of Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, the Jordanian terrorist whose 16 murder victims in the 2001 Sbarro restaurant bombing in Jerusalem included three U.S. citizens."
"They were," he wrote, "Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31 years old and five months pregnant; the 15-year-old American-Israeli Malka Chana Roth; and Chana Finer Nachenberg, also an American-Israeli, who suffered catastrophic injuries that left her in a vegetative coma and who died on May 30, 2023, without ever regaining consciousness.”
Tried in an Israeli courtroom, Tamimi proudly confessed to all charges brought against her and was convicted for her central role in the atrocity.
So what is she doing in Jordan?
Deutsch's letter explains: "Tamimi... received 16 life sentences, served eight years in prison before being released in a 2011 exchange [of 1027 terrorists convicted by Israel] for Hamas captive Gilad Shalit, and has since resided in Jordan, her homeland."
Upon her return to Amman, Tamimi received a tumultuous reception which was given wide media coverage and, Deutsch wrote, "unrepentant, she has enjoyed celebrity status since returning to Jordan, glorifying and inciting terrorism and for five years hosting a program on the Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds TV, beamed throughout the Arabic-speaking world."
Not a few of the terrorists released in the Shalit exchange deal returned to terrorism, but Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi alone actually became a terror-glorifying celebrity..
She has since regaled in speaking about the finer details of her murderous atrocities, referring to the innocents murdered by the human bomb she planted at the crowded central-Jerusalem eatery as “Zionists," (i.e. expendable) and describing her role in the murders as “a crown on my head”.
Tucked away between the headlines about Israel’s recent operation to weed out Palestinian terrorism in Jenin was a troubling phenomenon that went virtually unnoticed. Prominent media outlets and “human rights organizations” went from simply delegitimizing Israel to openly supporting terrorism and promoting blood libel.David Collier: Sowing the seeds of support for terrorists
On July 4th, former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett was interviewed by the BBC’s Anjana Gadgil. Instead of asking about the increasingly common Iran-backed Palestinian terrorism infesting Jenin and endangering civilians, Gadgil took a page right out of antizionist propaganda and claimed that "Israeli forces are happy to kill children."
To suggest such a thing is truly horrific and dishonest, especially since there were zero civilian casualties during the operation, and any minors that were killed were directly taking part in terror activities. Although the BBC “apologized,” and Gadgil shut down her Twitter account, it is unlikely that the outlet’s coverage of Israel will change any time soon.
Another British outlet, The Economist, published an article on July 7th glorifying the Lions’ Den, a new Hamas-funded terror group with members from both Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Since its establishment less than a year ago, the Lions’ Den has claimed over 100 shooting attacks targeting Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers. Yet the article fawns over the social media expertise and the brand it created as “the face of Gen Z Palestinian resistance,” raving about how Palestinian “souvenir shops sell Lions’ Den mugs, necklaces, trinkets and flags emblazoned with the group’s logo.”
In addition to the vile behavior from these media outlets, organizations dedicated to delegitimizing Israel escalated their tactics to include support for terror.
For example, once the operation in Jenin ended, the Washington, DC chapter of the BDS group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) shared a video of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists with machine guns and body armor in Jenin, handing toys and candy to children “in celebration of the failure of Israeli occupation forces invasion to assassinate them.” PIJ is a designated terror group.
This isn’t the first time JVP, which claims to be for "peace," as its name suggests, has posted pro-terror content; however, it is a step up, showing that the group is becoming more radical.
Why do those who support and celebrate the murder of Jews always have a queue of people who want to give them money and shake their hands? The Seeds for Development and Culture
‘Seeds for Development and Culture’ (SFDC) is an NGO operating out of Nablus. The Facebook page suggests it has been around since 2012.
They claim that SFDC ‘aims to create a positive impact on the Palestinian youth’ and they appear to be a popular destination for western politicians. Here is a 2017 photo of the group at a ’round table’ with British politicians – Ruth Cadbury, Sarah Champion, Helen Goodman, Philip Hollobone, Rupa Huq, Stephen Metcalfe, and Martin Linton:
Seeds For Development and Culture
The purpose of the MPs visit was a ‘fact finding mission’ – and it was paid for by the Britain-Palestine Communications Centre. These are hand held propaganda tours, during which MPs are fed little but a mountain of lies. Upon their return the MPs become naive accomplices to a sinister and antisemitic industry, spreading the lies that they were told.
In a speech in Parliament a month later, Ruth Cadbury said this about her January visit:
“Every Palestinian we met—Palestinian Authority members, elected city leaders, political activists and young people—subscribed to the two-state solution and wanted help in ensuring that it is achieved.”
If she truly believes those words then she is a fool. Does it even enter her head that she may only have been told the lies that they wanted her to spread?
Colonisers introduce:
— Israel Advocacy Movement (@israel_advocacy) July 18, 2023
🇵🇸 Foreign languages: Arabic
🇵🇸 Foreign religions: Islam
Indigenous people preserve:
🇮🇱 Indigenous languages: Hebrew
🇮🇱 Indigenous religions: Judaism
Just sayin' 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/FlJiax9Oom
Jonathan Tobin: Did RFK Jr. cross the line between unwise and antisemitic?
That ought to earn him some criticism. But given his past history of floating all sorts of false conspiracy theories, including a claim that the 2004 presidential election (he said it was stolen by Republicans), linking childhood vaccines and autism, and one about Wi-Fi causing cancer, he has lost the right to claim the benefit of the doubt. A man of the left with a troubling personal history of drug use and wild living, his extreme positions on many issues lend a degree of credibility to the accusations against him.‘It’s clear to me now that I need to be much more careful,’ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells JNS
And though he has some ardent defenders within the Jewish community like Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Zionist Organization of America national president Mort Klein, who tout his support for Israel and the Jewish people, he’s also been under fire for past comments that concerned Jews. He expressed support for notorious antisemite Roger Waters after a particularly egregious musical performance in Berlin and then made the unpersuasive claim that he was among the few on the planet who didn’t know that the rock star was an Israel-hater. Kennedy also made an egregious comparison between coercive government anti-COVID policies to Nazi persecutions that forced Anne Frank into hiding—something that even elicited a condemnation from his actress wife Cheryl Hines.
So it’s hard to have sympathy for a person with that kind of history who floats an unsubstantiated theory about Jews and disease that can easily be misconstrued to justify antisemitic conspiracies.
That said, it’s also true that the rush to disparage Kennedy in the corporate media is also rooted in an effort to shut down discussion about mistaken government pandemic policies and his skepticism about administration policies about the war in Ukraine. A lot of what he has said in the past is bunk, but his criticisms of coronavirus lockdowns, as well as masks and vaccine mandates, were largely on target.
Nor should the effort to treat all discussions about the origins and properties of COVID as conspiracies—as the Times article seemed to do—be accepted. Given the way the Chinese Communist government in Beijing has stonewalled the issue, the world may never know the truth about the origins of the pandemic. The fact that it began in Wuhan (the same city as a government bioweapons lab) and speculation about it being linked to bioweapons is not off the table for discussion. Indeed, if his gadfly candidacy has any purpose, it is in the attempt to force a discussion about damaging COVID government policies that the political and media establishment doesn’t want to have.
Given the way the Democratic Party has stacked the deck in next year’s primaries in order to ensure President Joe Biden’s renomination, RFK Jr. has little hope of victory. But if he is serious about showing his support for the Jewish community, then he needs to stress his positions opposing the targeting of Israel, and opposition to a new and even more dangerous Iran nuclear deal being sought by his opponent, as well as his opposition to antisemitism from left-wing antisemites in the Democrats’ intersectional progressive wing. And he needs to stop invoking ideas that are adjacent to antisemitic conspiracy theories and easily portrayed as hateful.
Such sober behavior may be asking too much of someone like Kennedy. He may not be an antisemite, and he is giving voice to concerns about COVID and Ukraine that deserve to be heard. But his careless linking of Jews to a modern-day plague is additional proof that, regardless of the shortcomings of his opponents, he is also not necessarily the sort of person who should be president.
Nazi comparisons
“As a practice, I don’t compare anything to the Holocaust. I’ve been accused of doing that, but I never did it,” Kennedy told JNS. “You can look at my words. In the two instances where I was accused of doing that, I actually didn’t do it.”
In January 2022, Kennedy apologized for a comment that people were then worse off than Anne Frank was during World War II. He has made other statements that critics have said drew improper comparisons to the Holocaust.
“I think you lose arguments if you compare people to Hitler,” he told JNS. “But I think it’s really important that we are able to talk about these aspects of history.”
Kennedy worries about “the pervasive reach of technology,” particularly artificial intelligence (AI), facial-recognition programs, GPS and listening devices, which he sees as “turnkey totalitarianism.”
“It is very important for the population to be educated enough to recognize all the milestones of tyranny,” he said. “It’s important to be able to say, ‘What he’s doing is the same technique that was used by the Third Reich.’ Or that was used by [Joseph] Goebbels or [Hermann] Göring, and I think it’s really important to understand the history, to have a thorough knowledge of history and to be able to make those comparisons so that we can steer clear of that kind of future.”
Kennedy told JNS that it is inappropriate when people compare former President Donald Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler, or make “appalling” comparisons between Jews and Nazis.
“I think the public has the ability to say, ‘OK. That person is not in touch with reality who is making those comparisons,’” he said. “I think it’s important for us to be able to talk about our history and have those historical references if we’re going to make sure it never happens again.”
Roger Waters and Louis Farrakhan
Kennedy hadn’t met Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters when he publicly expressed support for the musician. He told JNS he had no idea that Waters had made anti-Israel statements. All he knew was that people would send him pictures they snapped at Waters’ concerts, during which the singer displayed Kennedy’s photo on stage.
What he did know was that Waters was an active critic of COVID protocols, as he is.
“I posted a thank you for his courage, but I was talking about COVID. As soon as someone alerted me about his opinions about Israel, I took it down,” he said. (Kennedy said that his close friend Adam Aron, chief executive officer of AMC Theatres, told him he also had no idea about Waters’s views. “And he’s Jewish,” Kennedy said.)
In 2014, Kennedy penned a book about mercury in vaccines. He wrote that multi-dose flu shots, which were largely distributed to minorities, had large amounts of mercury, while single-dose ones, which were made available to more wealthy people, were safer.
Someone in the Nation of Islam, who read the book, asked him to give a talk to leaders of the movement. “I said, ‘Yes I will.’ They have 400,000 followers. I wanted to protect the children, so I went to Chicago and I gave that talk,” Kennedy told JNS.
“I’ve never endorsed anything that Louis Farrakhan has said. I’m an opponent of his,” he said.
Kennedy had partnered for years with a Nation of Islam minister named Tony Muhammad, whom he called a close friend and who was known for brokering peace between the Crips and the Bloods. Kennedy made a documentary with him about “medical apartheid,” he told JNS.
Then an Israeli woman, who was a former member of the Israel Defense Forces Kennedy hired to run a program on “radio frequency traditions of cell phones and cell towers” alerted him to Farrakhan’s positions on Israel and Jews.
Kennedy told Muhammad, “Listen, Tony. I love you, but I cannot be your friend unless you publicly disavow those views,” he told JNS. “He said, ‘I understand. I cannot do that.’ That was the end of our friendship. I’ve never seen him since. That was not something I did publicly. It was very painful for me. But at the same time, I feel strongly about it and it was something I felt I had to do.”
RFK Jr. sister, nephew speak out on ‘deplorable’ COVID comments
RFK Jr.’s nephew, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) also repudiated his uncle’s statements on Monday.White House Blasts Presidential Hopeful RFK Jr for ‘Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories’
“My uncle’s comments were hurtful and wrong,” Kennedy III, now the special US envoy for Northern Ireland, wrote on Twitter. “I unequivocally condemn what he said.”
Both the Department of Energy and the FBI have assessed that COVID-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China — but there is no evidence it was designed to spare certain religious groups or ethnicities.
Meanwhile, a congressional watchdog group called on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to cancel Kennedy Jr.’s invitation to testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government later this week, deriding the presidential candidate as a “madman.”
“Chairman Jordan must immediately disinvite Kennedy from next week’s hearing. In fact, we’re frankly shocked that in the time it’s taken to write and send this statement, Jordan apparently still plans to let Kennedy testify in the halls of Congress,” wrote Kyle Herrig, the executive director of the Congressional Integrity Project, in a letter to Jordan.
“By inviting this madman, Jordan is giving a platform to dangerous and racist conspiracy theories targeting Chinese and Jewish people. It’s hateful. It’s despicable. And it has no place in Congress,” Herrig added.
The Ohio Republican told Politico that he disagrees with RFK Jr.’s comments, but will not be rescinding his invitation to testify on Thursday about the federal government’s role in censoring free speech.
Liora Rez, the executive director of StopAntisemitism, suggested that there is little doubt that Kennedy Jr. is an antisemite.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can no longer credibly defend himself against accusations of antisemitism. His recent comments regarding the COVID vaccine weren’t taken out of context – he repeated them in a 2020 meeting with infamous antisemite Louis Farrakhan, where he said the vaccine had been ‘genetically modified to attack black and Latino boys,’” Rez told The Post Monday.
“Kennedy defended Roger Waters’s Nazi-inspired Berlin concert, lauding Waters as a ‘global hero’ and exhorting him to ‘keep speaking truth to power.’ He also equated COVID controls with the Nazi policies that forced Anne Frank’s family into hiding for years. Nor can these positions be attributed to ignorance; Kennedy’s ‘apology’ tried to distance himself from the specific antisemitic tropes his comments evoked. As antisemitic incidents continue to rise, we cannot tolerate antisemitism on the part of our elected officials,” she added.
US President Joe Biden’s chief spokesperson sharply criticized Democratic presidential opponent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for alleging in a recently released video that COVID-19 was targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people and that Jewish and Chinese people are most immune.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joined a chorus of Democratic outrage at the comments from the 69-year-old son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a member of the Kennedy political dynasty who was assassinated while running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2024, putting him directly in competition with Biden, who is seeking a second four-year term. Kennedy is a long shot for the nomination, with a poll average from election data website FiveThirtyEight showing that about 15 percent of Democrats support him.
“The assertion that COVID was genetically engineered to spare Jewish and Chinese people is deeply offensive, and incredibly dangerous. Every aspect of these comments reflect some of the most abhorrent antisemitic conspiracy theories throughout history and contributes to today’s dangerous rise of antisemitism,” Jean-Pierre said.
For over two minutes, KJP refuses to directly condemn @RepJayapal for calling Israel a racist state: pic.twitter.com/jjGks3Orao
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) July 18, 2023
Daniel Greenfield: Muslim Mobs Get a Pass for Assaulting Jews in NYC and LA
In May 2021, Joseph Borgen was violently assaulted by a Muslim mob while walking down the street in midtown Manhattan in the vicinity of an anti-Israel rally. The Jewish man was kicked, punched, pepper sprayed, beaten with a metal object, and ended up in the hospital.New Jersey Woman Hurls Antisemitic Insults During Council Meeting
Borgen was taunted as a “dirty Jew” and the assault was caught on video. “They were kicking me in my ribs, my stomach,” he described.
Waseem Awawdeh, the best known of the attackers, was out two days later. Even after Awawdeh reportedly told prison guards, “If I could do it again, I would do it again”, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg offered him a plea deal of only six months in prison. After public outrage, including protests and condemnations by elected officials, it was raised to eighteen months.
Faisal Elezzi, another of the attackers, got off with probation and an obligation to complete “anti-bias programming”.
That same month in Los Angeles, a pro-terrorist Muslim convoy was driving down the street near the Jewish neighborhood of Fairfax, and began harassing outdoor diners at a sushi place. Members of the Muslim mob waved a PLO terror flag, demanded to know who at the restaurant was Jewish, and witnesses said chanted, “death to the Jews” and “free Palestine”.
The Muslim attackers reportedly punched, kicked, threw bottles and pepper sprayed their targets who were members of the Persian Jewish community who had fled Islamic violence in Iran.
Samer Jayylusi and Xavier Pabon were arrested and immediately released on bail. They have since been sentenced to probation and ordered to visit a Holocaust museum.
The assaults in Manhattan and Los Angeles went viral. Videos of Muslim mobs attacking Jews made their way around the country and the world. They ended up appearing in national news stories. And yet most of those suspects got off with a slap on the wrist and diversity training.
Several Hoboken City Council members have blasted an antisemitic comment made by a member of the public at the regular council meeting Wednesday night.CAA to write to University of West of England over staff member’s alleged tweets about the “Holocaust industry” and comparisons between Israelis to Nazis
At the meeting, the council was considering whether to vote on the mayor's appointments of two new municipal judges — Benjamin Choi as the city's next chief municipal judge, and Scott Pennington as the city's new municipal court judge, starting this September.
The two appointments would mark the first time in the city's history that an Asian American and African American individual held the positions.
Later in the meeting, a female resident of the city, Melissa Blanco, who is not an elected official, got up to complain. She said she didn't see why Fazio wouldn't be reappointed.
But then her comment took a turn.
"It’s about as diverse as all the people that have been plucked out of synagogues and all the synagogues that run the city of Hoboken," the resident said, although only one synagogue remains in Hoboken and only two of the city's elected officials, including nine council members, are Jewish.
Campaign Against Antisemitism will be writing to the University of West of England over reports that a staff member published numerous incendiary tweets relating to the Holocaust, Zionists, and Israel, many of which breach the International Definition of Antisemitism.
According to Gnasher Jew, Siamak Alimi, a Senior IT Instructor in the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education, posted tweets under the account ‘@Salimi’, which has now been deleted.
A screenshot appears to show that on 21st July 2014, the account wrote: “Fed up with feeling sorry for Zionists who hide behind holocaust industry whilst committing atrocities.”
A tweet from 19th March 2016 asserts that “powerful Jews were not the only ones engaging in slave trade and other forms of exploitation,” before continuing: “The more we emphasize the uniqueness of the role of ‘the jew’ in global exploitation and atrocities rooted in their culture and religion, the more we legitimize the idea of tribalism and ‘chosen-ness’ which people like Gilad [Atzmon] try to negate.”
On 22nd November 2020, the account tweeted: “Zionism is a racist ideology and the creation of Israel was a racist endeavour.”
Similar sentiments appear to have to been expressed on 10th and 11th July of this year when Mr Alimi allegedly wrote that “Zionism is based on racism and Jewish exceptionalism” and that “it is a form of tribal/racist/supremacist nationalism based on National Socialism.”
Additionally, the account appears to have published tweets comparing Israelis to Nazis, with one tweet referring to “Nazi and Zionist states committing similar atrocities.”
THREAD: The “Judaization” charge is a core tenet of apartheid libel against Israel & came out again with recent "Sub Laban" eviction. Premise is racist Jews displace Arabs in Jerusalem Galilee & Negev etc. HRW mentions it 12 times in their report but omits data. It's a lie. 1/ pic.twitter.com/gxRoh5NY7Y
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) July 17, 2023
https://t.co/xvSzhjCkNW pic.twitter.com/ZulmSgZlcS
— Noam Blum ?? (@neontaster) July 17, 2023
NYC Pro-Palestine Rally: North Korea Has Been Arming and Training the Palestinians for Decades
On July 9, 2023, the Palestinian Youth Movement, as well as other organizations, held a rally in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in support of the Palestinian “resistance” in Jenin and of imprisoned terrorist Walid Daqqa (who was part of PFLP cell comprised of Arab Israelis who kidnapped IDF soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984, gouged his eyes out, and castrated him before shooting him to death). Korean activist Ju-Hyun, who belongs to Nodutol (a pro-DPRK organization promoting the “reunification” of Korea), expressed his support for Palestinian resistance “by any means necessary,” and he stated that North Korea has been training and arming the Palestinian resistance for decades. He quoted North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, saying that the Korean people will “resolutely support the Palestinian people in liberating their homeland.” Ju-Hyun also said that Koreans and Palestinians have a common enemy and that they will have a common future when “imperialism has fallen, and we have built socialism in its stead.”
In addition, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who attended the rally said: “We do not just mourn our martyrs, we come here to be like our martyrs.”
Video of the rally was posted on the Instagram page of the Palestinian Youth Movement. Other organizations that participated in the event were American Muslims for Palestine, New York 4 Palestine, Al-Awda NY, Samidoun, Within Our Lifetime, CUNY for Palestine, Palestinian Assembly Liberation.
Back the ultra racist! Give him money!
— habibi (@habibi_uk) July 17, 2023
This is the "Palestine Solidarity Campaign", a grubby antisemitic hatred movement. It openly supports terrorists who murder Israeli civilians.
Trade unions continue to back the PSC.
Unite just urged all its branches to affiliate.
Dismal. pic.twitter.com/JdJgucCzad
The self-styled "Islamic Human Rights Commission" is a band of Khomeinist thugs. Its antisemitism record is one of the very worst in the whole country.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) July 17, 2023
So Asa Winstanley and David Miller are perfect guests. This is a meeting of putrid racist minds. pic.twitter.com/hcMFbonsSj
The Guardian Falls Victim to Amnesia in Piece About Israel Targeting Islamic Jihad Terrorists
Shortly after prominent Islamic Jihad figure Khader Adnan starved himself to death in an Israeli prison, a conflagration between Islamic Jihad and Israel was sparked when, hours after his demise was announced on May 2, Islamic Jihad decided to pay tribute to Adnan in the only way it knows how: by firing more than 100 rockets over the Gaza border toward population centers in southern Israel. At least one projectile hit its target in the city of Sderot, wounding three foreign nationals.
A week later, the IDF launched its legally-sanctioned defense of Israel in the form of Operation Shield and Arrow, which saw precision strikes launched to take out three senior Islamic Jihad operatives who were responsible for the previous rocket fire and were also planning further terror attacks.
Given these events occurred mere weeks ago, we must assume The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Bethan McKernan has a very short memory indeed. For, in her latest co-bylined piece about Israel’s so-called “targeted killing operations” in Gaza, she appears to be both confused about the timeline of the conflict and unable to recall what necessitated the IDF’s response in the first place.Here's more on the three high-ranking Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza targeted by Israel.https://t.co/yV9W8LukvC
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) July 18, 2023
In the piece, which details how several NGOs are challenging Israel’s supreme court to conduct independent probes into civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip, McKernan incorrectly reports that the IDF’s strikes on May 9 comprised a “surprise Israeli airstrike campaign” that shattered a “ceasefire” — apparently ignoring the fact that the opening salvo actually came from Islamic Jihad.
A notable aspect of the article is the emotive emphasis on the deaths of two sisters in the Hamas-ruled enclave, who died during a strike to take out senior Islamic Jihad commander Khalil al-Bahtini in a neighboring property.
While their deaths are undoubtedly tragic, it is conspicuous that there is no mention of why Israel was forced to target Bahtini. If there had been, Guardian readers would know that his terror career stretches back to the 1990s and saw him orchestrate numerous suicide bombings and rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.
In August 2022, Bahtini was awarded his most senior role in Islamic Jihad as head of the designated terror organization’s Northern Gaza Division and, at the time of his death, he was planning an imminent campaign of shooting attacks.
German Public Broadcasting Palestine Correspondent spreads Conspiracy Theories about a navigation software because the app comes out of Israel. https://t.co/1NLtOaoLQn
— Michael Weingardt (@Michael_Wgd) July 17, 2023
Israeli protesters have demonstrated outside many places in the country. "The Senate" is not one of them because there is no Senate in Israel.@UPI, what on earth are you talking about? https://t.co/yHHVTppf9i pic.twitter.com/casB0SXvKV
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) July 18, 2023
PodCast: The Massacres of 1391 and the Beginning of the End of Spanish Jewry
In 1391, a wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through Christian Spain, leaving thousands dead and leading many thousands more to accept Christianity (sometimes by force) or to flee the country. As a result, the Church became increasingly suspicious of the sincerity of these former Jews’ conversions, which were then duly investigated by the Inquisition. Ecclesiastical authorities were particularly exercised about the possible influence of Spain’s large Jewish population on their former coreligionists, a concern that eventually led to the expulsion of the remaining Jews in 1492.Roald Dahl museum to place apology plaque marking his antisemitism
Maya Soifer Irish explains the background to this outburst of violence, which marked the beginning of the end of what was then the world’s largest Jewish population, and delves into the specific constellation of political, economic, and religious factors that set off the riots in Seville, the city where they began. (Interview by Nachi Weinstein. Audio, 88 minutes.)
The Roald Dahl museum has said the author’s racism was “undeniable and indelible” in an anti-racism statement published on their website.White supremacist Nick Fuentes: 'We will make Jews die in the holy war'
In the statement, issued online and to be displayed on a panel in the museum’s entryway, the charity said that they “deeply apologise” for the impact of his antisemitism.
The author of Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a “contradictory person,” they said. “He could be kind…however, there are also recorded impacts of him being very unkind and worse, including writing and saying antisemitic things about Jewish people”.
They maintain that Dahl’s “creative legacy is an important part of the heritage of English literature, but importantly does not mean flawless”.
Roald Dahl admitted in 1990 that he had “become antisemitic”. In an interview with the New Statesman in 1983, he said: “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity”. “Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t pick on them for no reason,” he continued.
Dahl also said that Jews had “switched so rapidly from victims to barbarous murderers,” and that the US was “so utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions” that the country “dare not defy Israel”.
The Roald Dahl museum worked on its apology with Jewish organisations, including the Board of Deputies, the Antisemitism Policy Trust, and the Communities Securities Trust. Danny Stone, chief executive of the Antisemitism Policy Trust, said that the museum engaged with them “in good faith”. He said “the desire of staff to educate themselves on antisemitism” was clear.
Speaking at a rally for America First, founder and white supremacist Nick Fuentes called for a holy war against Jews on Sunday evening as well as going on an antisemitic rant, followed by influencer Sneako appearing on stage and calling him the future President of the United States.
"If a Gentile hits a Jew, he must be killed," Fuentes said as he began his antisemitic rant. "But, when a Jew murders a Gentile, there will be no death penalty."
Fuentes founded America First, a far-right organization that has questioned the number of Jews who were killed in the Holocaust and believes that Israel has a malicious influence on US policy.
"Do you think it might be a problem that the people that are running your banks, that are making the movies your children watch...," Fuentes added. "Do you think it's a problem that they believe that all Christians must die? It's a big problem. It's a huge problem."
Fuentes is a known Holocaust denier who first gained prominence after participating in the white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and was banned on Twitter in July 2021, amid the platform's crackdown on far-right extremists, particularly in the wake of the insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
He's amassing an army of shin kickers. https://t.co/eRKKsiFSoN
— Noam Blum ?? (@neontaster) July 17, 2023
Israel building high-tech campus for Jerusalem’s Arabs
The EasTech high-tech campus was inaugurated on Saleh al-Din Street in eastern Jerusalem on Monday, part of the Israeli government’s effort to create jobs for Arab programmers and technology professionals.After Orthodox ‘Ninja Warrior’ cut from show, NBC releases unaired footage
Meir Porush, the minister of Jerusalem affairs and Jewish heritage, and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion inaugurated the complex in East Jerusalem, budgeted for a total investment of 10 million shekels ($2.75 million).
The plans include the establishment of the high-tech campus within which 200,000 square meters (about 2 million square feet) of offices and work spaces will be built with a total investment of about 200 million shekels ($55 million).
Both Israeli and international hi-tech companies will be based in the complex and will employ programmers from the east of the city.
The place is offered to companies free of charge in order to encourage and develop the high-tech sector in the eastern part of the city and enable quality employment for young academics who have difficulty finding work in technology companies elsewhere.
Among the companies that have already started operating there are Ness, Natural Intelligence, Techlinic and Quantum Vision. Twenty local programmers have already started working in the complex as employees of these companies.
Lion said, “The construction of the new complex is another step on the way to realizing a more significant historical and strategic plan in the east of the city, which brings great news to the economy in Jerusalem in general and the east of the city in particular, with an increase in the supply of employment in the high-tech field.
When Michael Neuman found out his run on this season of the NBC obstacle course competition show “American Ninja Warrior” would not air, the competitor inside of him was crushed. Part of the filming schedule had conflicted with his Shabbat observance.
But Neuman was even more disappointed that he would not get to keep any footage from the show. Neuman, a 30-year-old psychotherapist from Miami Beach, had arranged to bring three young people from his Jewish Inspiration Foundation — which supports Jewish youth with physical challenges through sports — onto the show with him. Their parents were counting on keeping the footage of their family members on the obstacle course sidelines as a keepsake of a bright moment in their lives.
Now, just over two weeks after a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article about their story, the show has given Neuman and the families he brought on set a 47-second montage clip from Neuman’s time on the show. In an email reviewed by JTA, a producer alluded to the article and commended Neuman for his foundation’s work.
“I’m so appreciative to ‘American Ninja Warrior’ for releasing the clip to us,” Neuman told JTA. “I think it means a lot more than just a clip from the show. It means people care, and we are all in this together as humans.”
He added that having the video “means the world” to the families. “It’s so impactful and so inspiring that [the show] would do something so generous,” he said.
Here is the clip from “American Ninja Warrior”:
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