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French police arrest protesters who allegedly assaulted security at Jewish event

2024-05-22

[IsraelTimes] No one is hurt in incident at aliyah fair in Lyon, which saw a similar disruption in December

Police in Lyon, La Belle France arrested several people who assaulted security personnel guarding an event organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel, the organization said.

The incident Tuesday evening ended without serious injury, the La Belle France office of the Jewish Agency wrote in a statement.

The altercation followed a pro-Paleostinian demonstration that took place earlier Tuesday near the Perrache train and bus station in the second district at the center of the eastern city.

Several hours after that demonstration ended, the Jewish Agency for Israel held an aliyah fair — an event to encourage immigration by Jews to Israel — at a venue in the same district.

About 90 minutes into that event, several pro-Paleostinian activists arrived and began assaulting the security guards, leading police to intervene, the French-language statement said.

"At no point did the assailants enter the venue and none of the participants was in any danger," the statement said. No protesters were present on the street when the fair ended and participants left the venue "in total safety," the statement said.

More than 3,000 people have attended a series of aliyah fairs in Gay Paree, Marseille and Lyon this week, Sofer said. The Jewish Agency expects some 3,200 new im~~migrants~~ colonists, or olim, to move to Israel this year, more than three times last year’s tally, Jewish Agency representative Shay Felver said Monday at a Knesset committee discussion about aliyah.

Ariel Kandel, the head of the Qualita nonprofit for encouraging aliyah from La Belle France, told The Times of Israel that a similar incident happened in Lyon during an aliyah fair in December. "Unfortunately, this is the current reality in La Belle France," he said.

In 2023, La Belle France registered the highest increase in recorded antisemitic incidents of any country with reliable statistics, according to a report published earlier this month by Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League. The report showed a near-quadrupling of incidents in La Belle France, from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 last year.

On May 17, a synagogue was torched in Rouen, La Belle France, in what police suspect was an antisemitic hate crime.

The 2023 tally showed that 74 percent of the incidents happened after October 7, when invading Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
Lions of Islam killed some 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped another 252, triggering a still-ongoing military campaign by Israel in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah along the border with Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
"The war in Israel, along with the atmosphere of antisemitism and the thousands of incidents targeting French Jews, is prompting an unprecedented desire among French Jews to make aliyah and help the war effort," Kandel said in a statement Monday.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Rep. Jamaal "Fire Marshal" Bowman says ‘From the river to the sea' chant isn't hate speech during debate

2024-05-14

[NY Post] Rep. Jamaal Bowman insisted the phrase “From the river to the sea” — which implies the destruction of Israel — isn’t hateful during a high-stakes debate Monday night.

The two-term congressman defended anti-Israel protesters who use the controversial phrase, despite the Anti-Defamation League’s criticism that is calls for the annihilation of the Jewish state.

“I know some do, others don’t, I do not,” Bowman (D-NY) said in response to a question from an audience member at Monday’s News 12 debate against Westchester County Executive George Latimer ahead of June’s Democratic primary.

Meanwhile, Latimer offered a sharp contrast to Bowman’s brief assessment.

“I think it is hate speech because I think it’s clear that ‘From the river to the sea’ has meant specifically the eradication of the Jewish population from the land of Israel,” Latimer said. Latimer, 70, also said some young protesters might be parroting the phrase while not understanding its meaning.

“What’s behind the marketing campaign that’s being advanced is to try to delegitimize Israel and that there be a free Palestine is a hopeful sign, but it has to accept the fact that there is an Israel there as well,” he said.

Bowman, 48, made clear earlier in the debate that he believes in Israel’s right to exist and wants a two-state solution. Latimer has also said he agrees with a two-state solution.

The two sparred for nearly 60 minutes during the local television debate, during which sparks flew at times.

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16 Republican senators demand IRS investigate fiscal sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine

2024-05-15

[Jpost] Republican senators urge IRS to investigate nonprofits backing pro-Palestinian groups like National Students for Justice in Palestine, alleging support for terrorism.
The "investigation" has likely been conducted. The results of the "investigation" is what is needed.
A group of 16 Republican senators is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate nonprofits that support National Students for Justice in Palestine - including the group’s fiscal sponsor, the suburban New York nonprofit Wespac.

The senators’ letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, dated May 9, says the agency should investigate whether, by directing funds to NSJP, the nonprofits are supporting terrorism - which would violate their tax-exempt status.

“We should not need to remind you of the heinous support NSJP chapters across the country have voiced for Hamas, a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,” the letter says. “That support has exploded at NSJP chapter-led demonstrations in recent weeks.”

The recent wave of pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations - many of them organized by SJP chapters - has made the investigation especially urgent, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, the letter’s lead signatory, told the New York Jewish Week. A range of Jewish groups have condemned the protests for targeting Jews with antisemitic rhetoric and creating a hostile atmosphere at schools across the country.

“The antisemitism that has popped up on college campuses coast to coast is fundamentally un-American,” Ernst said in a statement, adding, “it is clear these organizations should not receive any favors from our government to do Iran-backed Hamas’s bidding on our own shores.”

The IRS is notoriously underfunded when it comes to enforcement, making it unlikely that the call will swiftly lead to an investigation. Still, the senators’ call highlights just how closely they are scrutinizing the organizations that are known to be tied to the protest movement, which many of them have decried as antisemitic.

Other signatories included Marco Rubio of Florida, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mitt Romney, from Utah.

The letter cites a recent lawsuit filed by survivors of Hamas’ October 7 attack, which claims that NSJP collaborated with Hamas and has promoted its messaging in the months since the attack. It also refers to an existing investigation into one of the groups by Virginia’s attorney general.

The letter comes seven months after dozens of Jewish groups signed a letter in mid-October asking schools to withdraw funding for SJP due to its support for Hamas’ attack. On October 12, NSJP released a “toolkit” lauding the October 7 invasion as a “historic win,” and the senators’ letter argues that in the months since, the pro-Palestinian student group has continued to promote Hamas, including at the campus protests.

Wespac and the IRS did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The other nonprofits named by the senators are the California-based Tides Foundation and Virginia’s AJP Educational Foundation. The Tides Foundation donated $35,000 to Wespac in 2022.

Wespac’s tax-exempt status allows it to support a number of pro-Palestinian groups. The organization, a small nonprofit with the stated mission of “current affairs education,” quietly facilitates funding for NSJP along with Within Our Lifetime, which has organized frequent pro-Palestinian street protests and also endorsed Hamas’ attack.

Wespac - which is chaired by an anti-Zionist Jew named Howard Horowitz - facilitates funding for the groups by acting as a fiscal sponsor, which allows it to receive tax-exempt donations and grants for organizations that do not have nonprofit status, including NSJP. The arrangement allows NSJP to keep its finances out of public view and doesn’t require the fiscal sponsor to detail the funding it channels to other groups.

In its most recent tax filings, covering September 2022 through August 2023, Wespac reported $2.3 million in revenue, mostly from donations and grants. It does not make its fiscal sponsorships public. The Anti-Defamation League said in a 2022 report that Wespac sponsored a total of 15 groups related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, far more than for any other cause. It is unclear how many groups it sponsors in total.

Among the other groups it sponsors are the US Palestinian Community Network, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the Palestinian Feminist Collective, the Palestine Freedom Project, and Adalah-NY, which all collect donations through Wespac online. Wespac has sponsored NSJP since at least 2019 and Within Our Lifetime since 2020, according to archived web pages.

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Antisemitism was higher worldwide in 2023, even before October 7, report states

2024-05-05

[Ynet] In the aftermath of the October 7 massacre committed in Israel by Hamas, the world has seen the worst wave of antisemitic incidents since the end of World War II, according to an annual global antisemitism report issued Sunday. But in the nine months of 2023 before October 7 during which there were no major upheavals, most countries with significant Jewish populations saw a rise in the number of antisemitic incidents compared to the same period in 2022, including the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Brazil, The Netherlands and Mexico.

"This means that the war in Gaza helped spread a fire that was already out of control. And it was already out of control despite the significant efforts invested in recent years by governments on educational and legal initiatives aimed at reversing the trend," according to the Annual Antisemitism Worldwide Report, published by Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which was released on Sunday ahead of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah.

What we should teach on Yom Hashoah is what it wasn't the first time (not even the 21st) they tried*. And, most importantly, it's not the last.
*And every time they try and fail - they hate us more.

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After drawing protests in other cities, expo on Israeli real estate nixed in Brooklyn

2024-03-16

[IsraelTimes] Event canceled over ’serious’ security concerns on last leg of tour, says organizer; gatherings in Teaneck, Montreal, Toronto drew criticism and protests but were not scrapped

A tour promoting real estate in Israel and West Bank settlements that has become a flashpoint for controversy and pro-Paleostinian protests canceled its final event in Brooklyn on Wednesday due to security concerns, an organizer said.

Gidon Katz, a producer of the My Home in Israel real estate events, said the hosts of the exhibition, which was due to take place at a synagogue in the Flatbush-Midwood area, called it off due to "serious threats." Katz said he disagreed with the decision and that community leaders "succumbed to terror."

"There’s nothing I could [do]," Katz told the New York Jewish Week. "It was not in my hands."

The synagogue where the event was set to be held, Khal Bnei Avrohom Yaakov, did not answer phone calls on Tuesday or Wednesday. Its "simcha hall" is frequently used for community events.

A coalition of pro-Paleostinian groups declared "victory" due to the event’s cancellation and called for a rally instead of the planned protest.

The Brooklyn event was to be the last stop on a tour that included exhibitions in heavily Jewish areas such as Teaneck, New Jersey, Montreal, Toronto, and Lawrence, New York.

The other events drew fierce criticism and protests but were not canceled.

Katz, who works for a public relations company in Israel, where he lives, said the real estate group has been doing the tour for 20 years. This year, following Hamas
Hamas

...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s October 7 attack on Israel and during the ensuing war, the real estate events have become both more popular, Katz said, and more controversial.

In addition to drawing attendees interested in owning Israeli real estate while the country undergoes a crisis and antisemitism rises abroad, the events have also drawn activists who claim the exhibitions are hawking "stolen Paleostinian land" — a claim Katz denies.

"People feel that there’s a big problem here, so as much as there’s a problem in Israel, if really there’s trouble, it’s better to be all together, and they feel Israel’s their home," Katz said, referencing reports of rising antisemitism.

Some of the potential buyers, Katz said, are looking to Israel as a safe haven, while others want a vacation home or to be close to children. The war appeared to have gotten prospective buyers off the fence, he said. "What happened is the war expedited it and not the other way around," he said.

At the events, 35 vendors marketing 100 real estate projects staffed tables and made pitches to attendees to buy homes in Israeli locales popular with American im~~migrants~~ colonists, providing information on topics such as mortgages and shipping property overseas. The developments are in population centers such as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, as well as smaller cities with large Orthodox populations such as Beit Shemesh and Givat Shmuel.

Three West Bank settlements — Efrat, Neve Daniel and Maale Adumim — were also advertised on a flier promoting the events, although Katz said he was only aware of vendors active in Efrat.

Controversy over the initiative spread after Rich Siegel, who identified himself as a Jewish resident of Teaneck, spoke out against the stop in his town at a town council meeting in February. Siegel claimed the event was illegal, alleging that only Jews were allowed to attend, that the synagogue was running the event and that settlement homes were being sold.

The speech, in which Siegel claims the event "violates both domestic law and international law," went viral online and led to a protest of hundreds carrying signs that said "resistance until liberation" outside the Teaneck event.

Further protests, and pro-Israel counter-protests, took place at the tour’s other stops. At one protest in Toronto, a man who appeared to be a counter-protester against the Paleostinian groups was arrested for carrying a nail gun, Canadian media reported.

Katz disputed the protesters’ charges. He said the events were not restricted to Jews and that the synagogues were renting space, not co-hosting the events. Nor did the vendors directly sell homes at the events, he said. The Anti-Defamation League also issued a warning about the "inaccurate, divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
and inflammatory rhetoric" surrounding the events.

Regarding the properties in settlements, Katz drew a distinction common among wide segments of Israelis. While the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
and nearly all countries consider settlements to be in contravention international law, many Israelis distinguish between built-up, suburban settlements close to the West Bank’s border with Israel, and less established outposts deeper in the West Bank, many of which are considered illegal under Israeli law as well. (Israelis on the far right support the outposts and call for their expansion.)

Efrat, Neve Daniel and Maale Adumim are relatively close to Jerusalem. They have been referred to in the past as "consensus" settlements that would almost certainly be annexed to Israel should a peace deal with the Paleostinians ever emerge. Katz also said the vast majority of homes on the tour were located within Israel’s recognized borders.

Ahead of the Brooklyn event, pro-Paleostinian groups issued condemnations and vowed to protest. The Council on American-Israeli Relations in New York, known as CAIR, advertised a demonstration, accusing the organizers of "land theft."

CAIR’s New York branch said dozens of activist groups from around the city were backing the protest as co-sponsors.

That’s our Antifa link.

Protest organizers called on followers to pressure public officials, including the attorney general’s office, to cancel the events, alleging they were illegal. The attorney general’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

In an Instagram post declaring victory, one of the pro-Paleostinian groups, called al-Awda, also laid claim to the land on which the homes stand — without distinction between the West Bank and Israel.

"The illegal real estate sale of stolen Paleostinian land in Flatbush, Brooklyn was CANCELLED!" it said. "We will continue to SHUT IT DOWN for PALESTINE and fight for our land until full liberation and return from the river to the sea."

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ADL honors Jared Kushner at annual summit, despite pushback from some groups

2024-03-08

[IsraelTimes] At the opening of its annual conference on fighting antisemitism on Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO defended the decision to honor Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, Jared Kushner.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s chief, presented Kushner with an award recognizing his Middle East diplomacy. It came less than a day after Trump won a string of overwhelming primary victories, essentially guaranteeing him the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

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Top Biden aide tells US-Arab leaders he has no confidence in Israeli government

2024-02-11

[IsraelTimes] In recorded meeting in Dearborn, deputy NSA Jon Finer also says administration finds some Israeli leaders ’somewhat abhorrent’; constituency is key to Biden’s reelection hopes

A top White House official said he does not have "any confidence" in the current Israeli government, specifically regarding its readiness to take "meaningful steps" toward the creation of a Paleostinian state, The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported Friday, citing a recording from a meeting between the official and Arab American leaders in Dearborn, Michigan.

That seems reasonable. I have no confidence in the current Palestinian leadership in either territory to take meaningful steps toward the creation of a Palestinian state.

US Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer reportedly made the comments Thursday during a visit to the city, which has a large Arab-American population. He visited alongside other Biden administration officials, including ex-UN ambassador Samantha ~~Shanty Irish~~ Power, to plead the president’s case before a constituency that is crucial for his 2024 reelection bid, but has been outraged by his support for Israel during its war with Hamas
Hamas

...always the voice of sweet reason...
in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

According to the report, Finer told attendees at the meeting about the Biden administration’s efforts to end the war in Gaza, and to establish formal diplomatic relations between Israel and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, which, he said, is a crucial step toward Paleostinian statehood and would demand all parties to compromise.

"We will have to do things for Saudi Arabia that will be very unpopular in this country and in our Congress," Finer was quoted as saying. "Will Israel be willing to do the hard thing that’s going to be required of them, which is meaningful steps for the Paleostinians on the question of two states? I don’t know if the answer to that is yes. I do not have any confidence in this current government of Israel."

Finer also called some unnamed Israeli officials "abhorrent" and said the adaministration should have taken a stronger stand against those who compared "residents of Gaza to animals."

While he did not name names, the Times report specified that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was quoted in the first days of the war saying, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."

Would Mr. Finer have been happier if he’d described them as brainwashed psychopaths? Because that is what they’ve been trained from childhood by the PA and Hamas governments to be.

Gallant was referring to Paleostinian snuffies behind the October 7 massacres in Israel and not all residents of Gaza, but his quote has been widely used as ostensible proof of Israeli dehumanization of the Gaza population.

"Out of a desire to sort of focus on solving the problem and not engaging in a rhetorical back-and-forth with people who, in many cases, I think we all find somewhat abhorrent, we did not sufficiently indicate that we totally rejected and disagreed with those sorts of sentiments," Finer said.

He also expressed regret at the "missteps" the Biden administration has made handling the war, particularly with regard to a perceived lack of concern about the civilian casualties as it refused to back calls for a ceasefire.

"We are very well aware that we have missteps in the course of responding to this crisis since October 7," Finer said.

"We have left a very damaging impression based on what has been a wholly inadequate public accounting for how much the president, the administration and the country values the lives of Paleostinians. And that began, frankly, pretty early in the conflict," he added.

Most explicitly, he expressed remorse that a Biden statement marking 100 days of war did not mention Paleostinians killed in Gaza.

"It did not in any way address the loss of Paleostinian life during the course of the first 100 days of the conflict," Finer said, according to the Times. "There is no excuse for that. It should not have happened. I believe it will not happen again. But we know that there was a lot of damage done."

Finer declined The New York Times’ request for comment.

The News Agency that Dare Not be Named later reported that a White House National Security Council spokeswoman had confirmed the reported comments’ veracity, but sought to downplay them, saying that "the President and Mr. Finer were reflecting on concerns we have had for some time and will continue to have as the Israeli operation proceeds, about the loss of Paleostinian lives in this conflict and the need to reduce civilian harm."

The comments reported in the Times come as the White House has stepped up public criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resistance to the prospect of Paleostinian statehood, and his prosecution of the war, which Biden said Thursday was "over the top."

Among those present at the Thursday meeting were Osama Siblani, publisher of the Dearborn-based Arab American News, one of whose previous meetings with Biden administration representatives was slammed by the Anti-Defamation League due to the publisher’s remark at an October rally that Hamas "is not a terrorist organization."

Finer also reportedly met with Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, who, in a November rally, articulated Arab Americans’ growing disenchantment with Biden ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

"If American democracy depends on our current president being reelected, then why is being bedfellows with the terrorist Netanyahu, worth sacrificing American democracy?" Hammoud was quoted by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Washington-based think tank.

Hammoud has recently found himself at odds with MEMRI after a senior figure from the think tank published a Wall Street Journal op-ed dubbing Dearborn America’s "jihad capital," which led the mayor to beef up security in the Michigan city, and elicited condemnation from President Biden.

Michigan is a battleground state in the 2024 US presidential election in November. Biden won it in 2020 with a margin of under 3 percent. Arab Americans make up some 2 percent of Michigan’s population.

Dearborn, which has America’s highest per-capita population of Arab Americans, is represented on Capitol Hill by Rep. Rashida Tlaib
...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors...
, the first Paleostinian-American elected to Congress, who has fronted progressive Democratic calls for a ceasefire.

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Jordanian school textbook said to paint October 7 atrocities in positive light

2024-02-04

That was fast.

[IsraelTimes] Paragraph in civics textbook says ‘Palestinian national resistance movement’ merely responded to Israeli aggression by taking hostages

Jordan has inserted the Hamas
Hamas

...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
October 7 massacres into its high school civics curriculum, painting the terror group’s atrocities in a positive light, Kan news reported Saturday.

According to the report, there is a passage in a chapter on the history of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict in a 10th-grade civics textbook that refers to the "Al-Aqsa Flood" — the Hamas name for the October 7 attacks.

"Israel disregarded repeated decisions made by the UN Security Council, refused to retreat from the occupied Arab territories, continued to persecute the Arab and Paleostinian people, committed massacres against them daily, and attacked the al-Aqsa Mosque," the text begins.

Referring to the terror group Hamas, the paragraph continues: "This led the Paleostinian national resistance movement in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip to infiltrate the Israeli settlements around the Strip on October 7, 2023, and take Israeli settlers and soldiers hostage, leading to a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful response from the Israeli enemy — a completely destructive attack against the Gaza Strip that brought about the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands and the destruction of infrastructure, including schools, mosques, churches, hospitals, and civilian structures."

Israel and Jordan are not enemies, having signed a peace deal in 1994, but relations have deteriorated markedly in recent years amid repeated cycles of violence between Israel and Paleostinians. Millions of Jordanians are of Paleostinian descent.

Notably, the textbook completely disregards the 1,200 people, most of whom were civilians, that Hamas killed in Israel on October 7, as well as the myriad reports and testimonies regarding rampant sexual violence, torture, and other brutalities that its ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems perpetrated on that day.

The Kan report added that a Jordanian TV station asked people on the street what they thought about inserting the October 7 attack into the curriculum. Those asked overwhelmingly approved.

Denialism of the atrocities committed by Hamas has become widespread in the Arab world. A recent poll showed that over 90 percent of Paleostinians falsely believe that Hamas did not attack civilians on October 7.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, Jordanian textbooks consistently contain antisemitic content.

MEMRI has reported the same about textbooks in various Moslem countries.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

New Jersey man pleads guilty to series of violent assaults in antisemitic attack spree

2024-02-03

[IsraelTimes] A New Jersey man pleads guilty to a series of attacks on Jews in a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful mostly peaceful crime spree in April 2022, the US Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey says.

Dion Marsh, 27, pleaded guilty to five counts of violating the federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act, as well as carjacking.

Marsh was charged with willfully causing bodily injury to five people, and attempting to kill and injure four of them because they were Jewish, the US Attorney says.

"This defendant is being held accountable for his series of depraved, antisemitic assaults against members of the Orthodox Jewish community," says Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

"Hate-filled acts of violence, intended to harm, intimidate and isolate communities, have no place in our society," Clarke says. "The Justice Department will continue to aggressively prosecute perpetrators of antisemitic violence across our country."

A sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 11.

The attacks critically injured two Jewish men, and seriously injured a third.

The rampage started at 1:18 p.m. in the town of Lakewood, when Marsh forced an identifiably Jewish man out of his car, assaulting and injuring him, and driving off in the vehicle.

At 6:06 p.m. on the same day, Marsh rammed another Orthodox Jewish man while driving a different vehicle. He was attempting to kill the victim and broke several of his bones, prosecutors said.

At 6:55 p.m., driving the stolen vehicle, Marsh rammed another Orthodox Jewish man, then got out of the vehicle and stabbed the victim in the chest with a knife, prosecutors said.

At 8:23 p.m., during Shabbat, Marsh rammed another Orthodox Jewish man in the nearby Jackson Township, attempting to kill him and causing several broken bones and internal injuries.

Law enforcement arrested Marsh at his home that night.

The Jerusalem Post adds:

WHY DID DION MARSH CARRY OUT THE ATTACKS?
Marsh told Sherlocks that the attacks "had to be done" because Hasidic Jews "are the real devils," according to the federal complaint.

"They had this coming," he said.

The Anti-Defamation League said that Marsh had not displayed any indication of antisemitism before the attacks. He now faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of the four hate crimes violations in which he attempted to kill his victim, a maximum sentence of 10 years for the hate crime assault and 15 years for carjacking. He also faces additional state charges.

The FBI investigated the case along with local police.

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Government Corruption

Elliot Resnick, former Jewish Press editor, pleads guilty to Jan. 6 felony

2024-02-01

[IsraelTimes] Prosecution recommends prison sentence of 8-14 months and fine of between $4,000 and $40,000; judge to decide on sentence in June

Elliot Resnick, the onetime editor of a Jewish newspaper who claimed that he was at the Capitol riot to cover it, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge for joining the attackers and obstructing a police officer.

"Did you do what the government stated?" US District Judge Rudolph Contreras asked the former editor of the Jewish Press who stood, subdued, alongside his lawyer in the courtroom, a 10-minute walk away from the Capitol he and hundred of other rioters besieged on Jan. 6, 2021 in a bid to overturn Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
’s presidential election.

"Yes, I did, your honor," said Resnick, a 40-year-old New Yorker, who was clad in a black suit and black yarmulke.

Under a plea agreement the prosecution filed at the hearing, the prosecution and the defense agreed to recommend a prison sentence of 8-14 months and a fine between $4,000 and $40,000, in part because Resnick has no criminal record.

Contreras, who is not bound by the plea agreement, reserved sentencing for June 12, after he receives a report from the probation office. The maximum sentence for the charge, obstruction of law enforcement, is five years and three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.

Resnick has already agreed to pay $2,000 restitution to the Architect of the Capitol, his part of the damages incurred that day. The prosecution also agreed not to charge Resnick with other charges related to his actions on Jan. 6.

Contreras released Resnick on his own recognizance. Appointed to the court by President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
in 2012, Contreras is not known to be harsh sentencer. On Tuesday, he sentenced another Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police to 2.5 years in prison.

Resnick and his lawyer, Clay Kaminsky, declined to comment as they left the court.

Prosecutor Sean Murphy, seated alongside Erica Tobin, the FBI agent who wrote the charging document, read parts of the document out loud.

Using video evidence and the testimony of police, Dobin wrote that Resnick held the arm of a police officer attempting to use chemical irritant to repel the rioters. The agent alleged that Resnick attempted to open doors for rioters to follow him, even when a police officer was trying to keep the door closed, and that he beckoned rioters to follow him and that he pulled rioters in through an open door.

After video emerged of his presence of the Capitol, Resnick and The Jewish Press, the Brooklyn-based tabloid where he worked from 2006-2021, the last three years as editor, said that he was covering the riot. Just months after that claim the newspaper let him go without explanation.

Resnick’s low-key affect in the courtroom contrasted with his in-your-face social media, podcasting and writing style. He has a history of using incendiary language and has called the gay rights movement "evil." Under Resnick’s editorship, the Jewish Press, which says it presents "Torah values and ideals from a centrist or Modern Orthodox perspective," was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League in 2019 after publishing an op-ed titled "The Pride Parade: What Are They Proud Of?" which compared marchers in the New York City event to animals, adulterers and thieves.

He also has a history of derogatory statements about Black people, and more recently has complained about how his Jan. 6 experience has inhibited his dating life.

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Claim: Anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian discrimination in the US rose 180% after Oct. 7

2024-01-30

Real, imaginary, or hypersensitivity in a fraught time? Based on the samples given, half the complaints are not justified as bigotry.

If you start with the assumption people don't like you, they probably won't. Double the chances if you start out despising them.
[IsraelTimes] The Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
says it received 3,578 complaints during the last three months of 2023, which also saw sharp rise in antisemitism

Complaints of anti-Moslem and anti-Paleostinian discrimination and hate in the US rose by about 180 percent in the three months after Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s October 7 terror onslaught in southern Israel and the subsequent war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, an advocacy group said on Monday.

Rights advocates have noted a rise in Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
and anti-Paleostinian bias in the US and elsewhere since the eruption of war between Israel and Hamas, which in turn sparked wider regional tensions.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it has received 3,578 complaints during the last three months of 2023, amid what it called "an ongoing wave of anti-Moslem and anti-Paleostinian hate."

The figure is a 178% rise from complaints in the same period from a year earlier.

Complaints of employment discrimination led the list with 662 instances;

...how many are withheld or retracted job offers to students who marched for Hamas after news of the 10/7 came out? Quite a few American employers do not want employees who publicly support torture, kidnapping, and mass rape...

hate crimes and hate incidents were reported 472 times; and education discrimination 448 times, the organization said.

Of particular concern was a November shooting in Vermont where three students of Paleostinian descent, Hisham Awartani Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, were shot during Thanksgiving break. The three students, childhood friends who graduated from a private Quaker school in the West Bank before moving to the US to study, were visiting Awartani’s relatives in Burlington when they were shot in an unprovoked attack, Awartani’s family said. One of the bullets fired in the attack was lodged in Awartani’s spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.

That one was not Islamophobia. James J. Eaton, local Burlington, Vermont crazy man who loves Joe Biden and Hamas, stumbled out of his house and shot at the three men walking past his house. After which all the usual suspects blamed it on Israel defending itself from Hamas after 10/7.

Another incident that raised alarm was the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Paleostinian American child in Illinois in October. Joseph Czuba, 71, was charged in the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume and the wounding of his mother, Hanaan Shahin on October 14, and US authorities have said they were targeted because of their Moslem faith and as a response to the Israel-Hamas war.

This one is strange. Mr. Czuba was divorcée Ms Shahin’s landlord, and in the habit of bringing the young lad toys. But after 10/7 he became afraid to have a Palestinian tenant, and then something happened. The estranged father then sued to get lotsa money out of what he presumed was a rich American, with no hint that any of it would be shared afterward with the dead child’s mother...

Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League said that in the three months after October 7, US antisemitic incidents rose by 360% compared to the prior year.

The US government recently issued security guidance for faith-based communities amid heightened antisemitism and Islamophobia since October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led turbans poured into Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages, of whom 132 remain captive in Gaza, not all of them alive.

In response to the deadly assault, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip, which the terror group has ruled since 2007. An aerial campaign and subsequent ground operation has laid waste to much of the Paleostinian enclave, and the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
has estimated that around 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced.

According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, more than 26,000 people have been killed, though these figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.

The IDF says it has killed over 9,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 turbans inside Israel on October 7.

The US Justice Department is monitoring rising threats against Jews and Moslems amid the conflict, and President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
has condemned both antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Pro-Palestinian students file complaint alleging Harvard failed to protect them

[IsraelTimes] Over a dozen students are alleging that Harvard University failed to protect them from harassment and threats "based solely" on their pro-Paleostinian identity, the group representing them said.

The Moslem Legal Fund of America says its legal division filed a civil rights complaint on Monday with the US Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on behalf of those students. The complaint urged a probe into Harvard.

Rights advocates have noted a rise in Islamophobia, anti-Paleostinian bias and antisemitism in the US since the eruption of war in the Middle East.

Among anti-Paleostinian incidents that raised alarm were a November shooting in Vermont of three students of Paleostinian descent and the fatal stabbing of a six-year-old Paleostinian American child in Illinois in October.

The Harvard students alleged "harassment, intimidation, threats and more based solely on them being Paleostinian, Arab, Moslem, and supporters of Paleostinian rights," the group said. It added the students also underwent racist attacks, doxxing, stalking, and assault, including for wearing keffiyehs, or Paleostinian scarves.

A Harvard spokesperson said the university had no comment on the complaint on Monday, but added that Harvard had resources in place to support students including a task force announced on Friday to combat Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias.

Harvard and other US colleges have simmered with tension over responses to the October 7 shock Hamas Hamas

attack on Israel, and Israel’s subsequent offensive in Gazoo.

Earlier this month, Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard following backlash over her congressional testimony on antisemitism and allegations of plagiarism.

During a Congressional hearing, she and two other university presidents declined to give a definitive "yes" or "no" answer to a question on whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their schools’ codes of conduct regarding bullying and harassment, saying it would have to be balanced against free-speech protections.

Some students alleged that Harvard had threatened "to limit or retract the students’ future academic opportunities," the Moslem Legal Fund of America said on Monday.

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Good News! Times Square's iconic New Year's Eve ball drop kicks off 2024 without a hitch

2024-01-01

[MAIL] At midnight the ball dropped in Times Square and kicked off the fireworks and celebrations across the country.

Fireworks lit up the sky across the East Coast in Miami up to Boston - Key West, Florida had a 'Red Shoe' drop to ring in the new year.

One million people were expected to watch the ball drop in Time's Square in person and another billion were anticipated to watch on TV.

At least one pro-Palestine group was spotted marching from 59th Street all the way down to 45th and 5th Avenue, just a block away from where the ball dropped at midnight.

The marchers were singing the infamous 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' chant that has been decried as anti-Semitic by members of both parties in Congress, as well as the Anti-Defamation League.

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