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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Two foreign-looking men tried to break into a Toronto yeshiva pretending to be phone repairmen

In a chilling incident, a yeshiva in Toronto managed to keep two potentially dangerous people from entering the Jewish school thanks to good security procedures. The school, Yeshiva Darchei Torah, sent out this letter to parents on Tuesday evening: Dear Parents, Over the last months, we have worked to enhance our security infrastructure and procedures. While we...

10/29 Links Pt2: J Street, blank checks and putting the "squeeze" on Israel; Apologist for Terror: Hamas Suicide Bombings Were ‘Unwise Strategy’; Max Blumenthal: Tyranny’s Mouthpiece

From Ian: J Street, blank checks and putting the "squeeze" on Israel “Our aid is not intended to be a blank check,” J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami, stated on October 27, at the organization's annual conference. This type of so-called "conditioning," "linking," and/or "squeezing" of Israel over US aid and support has an unfortunately long history in Washington and it is...

On January 28, 2010 -- just one day after Holocaust Remembrance Day -- Udo Pastors made a speech, where he stated that "the so-called Holocaust is being used for political and commercial purposes" and condemned a "barrage of criticism and propagandistic lies" and "Auschwitz projections" At the time, Pastors was a member of the Land Parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,...

Jeremy Ben Ami of J-Street said on Sunday night: Clarify that US assistance to Israel is to be used solely for the country's defense and that the United States will not foot the bill for annexation or pay for... a one state outcome. An important conversation has been started in this campaign about American policy regarding the uses for which American assistance to Israel...

From Ian: Noah Rothman: How Trump Can Avoid Obama’s Terror Trap Obama’s impulse to dismiss the threat posed by Islamist insurgents in the wake of bin Laden’s death explains why he was so quick to dismiss the first wave of ISIS terrorists even as they sacked Iraqi cities. “The analogy we use around here sometimes,” the former president told the New Yorker’s David Remnick, “is...

This story from JIMENA has not received the publicity it requires: The Cultural Property Advisory Committee at the U.S. Department of State has been signing Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) agreements with foreign governments that blockade the entry of cultural property to the USA and deny Jews and Christians from Arab countries the rights to their historic heritage....

Yesterday at the J-Street conference Bermie Sanders said that as president he would tell Israel, “If you want military aid, you’re going to have to fundamentally change your relationship with the people of Gaza. In fact, I think it is fair to think that some of that $3.8 billion should go to humanitarian aid to Gaza.” Others have already noted how crazy what he said...

This video was proudly uploaded by a branch of Students for Justice in Palestine. Earlier this week, Holocaust survivor Harold Kasimow spoke at Benedictine University about his experiences and the horrors of living as a Jew in Europe during the Shoah. A Palestinian student named Ayah Ali decided to harass him, asking him whether he opposed the "exile and ethnic...

10/28 Links Pt2: Jewish Unity Required to Combat Anti-Semitism; Islamists impersonating Jews; Disguised as Agricultural Work, French Pro-BDS Org also Supports Terrorism

From Ian: Jewish Unity Required to Combat Anti-Semitism A neo-Nazi gunman's attack in Halle, Germany, on Yom Kippur, the Jewish people's holiest day, made the mounting security threat we face that much clearer. For American Jews, the wake-up call came exactly one year ago in Pittsburgh, when the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history struck the Tree of Life building housing...

One of the most common challenges to the Divest-nista crowd is why they don’t call and march for divestment against Sudan, China, Syria or any of the totalitarian dictatorships whose daily human rights abuses dwarf anything Israel could have possibly done over the course of 60 years. Generally, their first response is to ignore the question and move onto their next accusations...

Omar Shakir from Human Rights Watch responded to his critics that wanted him deported from Israel last April: Israeli authorities say they’re deporting me because I promote boycotts of Israel. Setting aside the paradox of the region’s self-proclaimed “only democracy” deporting a rights defender over peaceful expression, the claim isn’t true. Human Rights Watch neither supports...

From Ian: Seth J. Frantzman: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rapist, led genocidal 'caliphate,' died in tunnel Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a rapist. Like most jihadists, his main motivation was murder and genocide, combined with far-Right religious hatred. In Islamic State, the organization and "state" that he led, he was able to exploit various strands of followers to create the closest...

Yamine Mohammed is an ex-Muslim who now helps Muslims and ex-Muslims deal with their circumstances with their communities and families. Her recently published memoir, Unveiled, is a truly harrowing account of her life. It is ultimately a heroic story of how she managed to overcome a sickeningly abusive childhood and to escape her circumstances, while shining a light on...

On Sunday, the J-Street conference hosted a panel session entitled "Scorched Earth: The Trump Legacy on Israel/Palestine." The participants were: Debra Shushan, Director of Policy and Government Relations, Americans for Peace Now (Moderator) Khaled Elgindy, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Ilan Goldenberg, Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security...

Al Araby, the British pan-Arab newspaper known in its English edition as The New Arab, has a scoop. The Jewish Agency in Israel is secretly trying to get Jews to move to Israel! YNet reported: The Jewish Agency's board of trustees was meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday to approve a strategic action plan of action for the next decade, addressing the challenges facing the Jewish...