Iran is weaker than we think. It’s time to take advantage.
Between Israel’s demonstrated ability to send a missile through Iranian air defense in April and its more recent capacity to take out a high-level asset in Tehran under the regime’s protection, Washington defense and intelligence planners should understand the Islamic Republic is far more fragile than its information operations would suggest.The Haniyeh assassination is a window for the U.S. to seize. This is not a time for restraint or de-escalation. This is a moment to maximize pressure on Khamenei, increase support for the Iranian people and improve the odds that the Islamic Republic crumbles into the ash heap of history.
Judge Orders 2 Defendants in LA Restaurant Hate Crime Assault to Pay $1.6 Million in Damages
A judge ordered two pro-Palestinian protestors to pay more than $1.6 million in damages to a hate crime victim following a 2021 attack outside of a Los Angeles sushi restaurant.
The incident occurred in May 2021, following Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip. The protestors approached the Beverly Grove restaurant with pro-Palestinian flags, shouting slurs at Jewish diners. A brawl then ensued with a victim being assaulted.
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Harris campaign event by throwing smoke bombs - report
Pro-Palestinian protestors in New York reportedly interrupted an event in support of Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris by throwing smoke bombs at the scene, resulting in the arrest of dozens.
In footage circulating on X, formally Twitter, a video published by the unofficial independent news outlet FreedomNews shows police officers pulling what appears to be pro-Palestine protesters out of the crowd and arresting them. Additionally, the video shows a considerable amount of smoke, possibly from a smoke bomb allegedly being thrown.
Western Europe’s Hamas Networks Operate Openly🚨#BREAKING: Chaos Erupts as Pro-Palestine Protesters Storm Democratic After Party Event, Throw Smoke Bombs During Kamala Harris Campaign
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 15, 2024
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The official revocation notice of the Jewish National Fund of Canada’s charity status, published in the Canada Gazette on Aug. 10, caught many by surprise. Lance Davis, CEO of JNF Canada, says the venerable Jewish charity was “blindsided” by the Canada Revenue Agency’s move because it came so quickly, despite efforts to negotiate a solution. It also came only two weeks after JNF Canada said that, if no deal was reached, it would appeal the government’s “biased” findings to the Federal Court of Appeal.Experts say losing the charitable status means JNF Canada can no longer issue tax receipts for donations; it has one year to wind down business, and dispose of all its financial assets or pay 100 percent tax on the millions in its accounts.
Is the Biden-Harris administration an Iranian fifth column?The extraordinary situation has arisen, in the deadly game of geopolitical multi-dimensional chess that Israel is being forced to play in the war being waged against it by Iran, where the Jewish state has remarkably achieved checkmate — but as a result, America is trying to cancel the match.
Can Josh Shapiro’s Party Forgive Him for Telling the Truth in 1993? (Ruth Wisse)
The damage antisemitism has done to the Democratic Party and the country isn’t best reflected by Kamala Harris’s rejecting Josh Shapiro as her running mate. Far more telling is the Pennsylvania governor’s apology for an opinion piece he published in his college newspaper.
On Aug. 2 the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story titled “Josh Shapiro once wrote that peace ‘will never come’ to the Middle East. He says his views have changed over 30 years.” Whether intended as negative research or honest vetting of a prospective nominee, the newspaper treated Mr. Shapiro’s college op-ed as an indiscretion he has since tried to correct.
Actually, his article, published when he was 20, was so sound that it could have proved his qualifications for leadership. Its context, which the Inquirer usefully supplied, was the Sept. 13, 1993, signing of the Oslo accords, which put Yasser Arafat in charge of the Palestinian Authority and, territorially, Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Recalling Neville Chamberlain’s proclamation of “peace for our time” after meeting with Hitler in 1938, the younger Mr. Shapiro found it “extremely difficult to trust a man with as much blood on his hands as Arafat, who was also on both the Israeli and American lists of international terrorists.”
As an advocate of peace and “realism,” Mr. Shapiro described Arafat as an “egotistical power-hungry tyrant” who didn’t represent majority Palestinian opinion and was unlikely to control other warring factions like Hezbollah. To his sorrow, Mr. Shapiro believed that “Palestinians will not coexist peacefully.” “They do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States,” he added. Once they tired of fighting among themselves, they would turn against Israel. Not satisfied with Gaza and Jericho, they would “demand . . . Jerusalem.”
Refuting the Common Campus Lies Told About Israel: "Settler Colonialism" (Andrew Pessin)
Jews are not outsiders but the oldest surviving indigenous inhabitants of this land. Per Israel’s Declaration of Independence, “the Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people”: the Jews formed their national identity there by about 1200 BCE, had sovereignty, autonomy, or dominant presence there for some 1400 years, maintained a continuous presence for the next 2000 years, and made relentless efforts to return in small groups and large. The establishment of Israel was in fact the first and perhaps only case where an indigenous people reclaimed (and thus “decolonized”) the homeland that others had colonized. Those promoting “decolonization” really should be siding with the Jews.
The big lie of genocide & Gaza: Seven experts on Nazi genocide expose the canard of Israeli 'crimes'
In our work at the U.S. Department of Justice as prosecutors of Hitler’s henchmen, we meticulously investigated acts of genocide — and then we proved them in court. We feel impelled to declare that any fair review of the verifiable, publicly available facts shows that the accusation of genocide against Israel is false and indeed outrageous.
Simply put, we have seen no evidence of Israeli commission of genocide, and there is much evidence that disproves that charge — including the recent report that, since October, Israel has facilitated the entry of more than 870 metric tons of food and other humanitarian aid to Gaza’s two million inhabitants. Meanwhile, Hamas attacks or plunders food shipments, and it has denied Gazan civilians access to vast storehouses of food and medicines that it secreted in its tunnels before Oct. 7.
Genocide is defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as killing and other specified acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Israel has targeted only Hamas and its terrorist group partners, not the civilian population of Gaza. Hamas is not a national, ethnical, racial or religious group; it is a designated terrorist organization that itself engages in genocidal acts.
Israel has, in fact, done more than any other military has ever done to minimize civilian casualties during large-scale urban warfare, even sacrificing the lives of many of its own soldiers in the process. For example, Israeli forces drop warning leaflets, distribute maps, and place automated phone calls to civilians in Gaza to identify areas in which combat is planned, in order to enable civilians to evacuate in advance.
Avi Shlaim Falsifies Iraqi Jewish History (CAMERA)
The thesis? That Jews are to blame for the wholesale flight of the Jewish community from Iraq. Four explosions set off by Iraqi Zionists, Shlaim insists, succeeded at terrorizing fellow Jews into emigrating.
Why is it untenable? Above all, because it defies the basic relationship between cause and effect. In truth, an overwhelming majority of those who would register to leave had already done so by the time of the first bombing Shlaim pins on Jews. The remaining three allegedly Jewish explosions were even less consequential, as they occurred only after the year-long period in which Jews could register to leave—and so after all 105,000 Jews who would ultimately register had already done so.
At best, then, Shlaim’s argument is incoherent. This isn’t science fiction. The future didn’t cause the past.
Worse, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the author misled his audience in bad faith. After all, an Oxford historian writing about the bombings and exodus should be aware of the chronology. One whose bibliography cites Professor Moshe Gat’s indispensable research on the topic surely would be. But the book doesn’t grapple with, or even hint at, the inconvenient truth that undermines its bombshell thesis.
More alarmingly, Shlaim changes the date of one of the bombings, an egregious falsification of history that, conveniently, makes his argument seem more plausible.
Fringe comedian’s ‘joke’ drives couple from venue
American comedian Reginald D Hunter has been accused of going “far beyond the bounds of acceptable comedy” and “a sickening low” after an Edinburgh Festival Fringe audience told a couple to “f**k off” amid chants of “free Palestine” when they objected to his joke about Israel.
According to audience member Dominic Cavendish, chief theatre critic for The Telegraph, the “ugliest Edinburgh Fringe moment ever” then unfurled.
In a scathing review of the performance, he wrote: “The pair, who said they were from Israel, then endured their fellow audience members shouting expletives (‘f*** off’ among them), and telling them to go – with slow-hand claps, boos and cries of ‘genocidal maniac’, ‘you’re not welcome’ and ‘free Palestine’ part of the toxic mix.”
The couple eventually left the venue as Hunter is said to have “openly laughed” at them, while the audience continued to heckle as they exited the hall.
The history of Hamas' lifeline: 20 years of broken Egyptian pledges along Philadelphi Corridor
The story of the Philadelphi Corridor spans over four decades of smuggling, broken promises, accusations and indirectly, numerous casualties. This has long been a problem for Israel, as the transfer of weapons, terrorists, infiltrators and goods beneath the border between Gaza and Egypt was a known and frustrating issue long before Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007 and even before the disengagement in 2005.
However, only during the massacre of October 7 and the subsequent war did the extent of its impact on building a terrorist army in the Gaza Strip become evident.
The Palestinian ‘Traitor’ Risking Everything to Speak Out (Free Press)
His story is one of setbacks, hardships, and discrimination, but also of hard work, perseverance, unlikely friendships, and in the end—against all odds—success.
But then his life was ruined. . . by a social media post. On October 7, he woke up in his home in the West Bank to the news of the massacre happening inside Israel. While some people in his community celebrated, he was horrified. He posted online how he felt: “What sad and horrible news to wake up to and out of words and unable to digest what’s going on right now. I’m Palestinian and firmly stand against this terror. I pray for the safety of my friends, colleagues, their loved ones and everyone else affected.” He continued to post about how he felt—six posts in total.
Suddenly, he says, 500 people unfollowed or unfriended him on social media sites. People blocked him on WhatsApp and, in real life, people stopped speaking to him altogether.
And then, people started calling him a “traitor.” And as he told me in this interview, the word traitor means something in the West Bank. “It means they are going to kill you.”
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in matters of public policy, today declared its support for the lawsuit brought by Benjamin Neel, MD, PhD, against his former employer, NYU Langone Health. A respected cancer researcher with an exemplary record and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Neel used his private X account to share political cartoons condemning Hamas and the brutal October 7 attack on Israel. NYU Langone Health then terminated his employment, accusing him of “insidiously sharing racially and ethnically offensive posts on social media without regard for the potential impact on others.” CJV is proud to partner with X and Dr. Neel to challenge his termination.
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