[IsraelTimes] The Wall Street Journal reports that the killers of Chabad Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates had kidnapped him and planned to take him to neighboring Oman.
The report says the three suspects were driving the Israeli-Moldovan national toward the border until their plan was somehow disrupted.
While the cause of Kogan’s death has not been revealed, the outlet says he came to a “bloody end,” according to his friends and family.
Kogan, a 28-year-old UAE-based rabbi, went missing in Dubai at the end of last month and his body was found a few days later in the Emirati city of Al Ain, which borders Oman.
The UAE is holding three suspects over the murder — all of them Uzbek nationals who were arrested in Turkey.
According to Kan, Israeli officials believe that Kogan’s killing was not necessarily carried out on behalf of Iran, but that it was a terror attack.
Another step toward driving the Saturday people out of their public spaces...to be followed by the Sunday people.
[IsraelTimes] Candida Gertler announces move to protest ‘normalization of hate’ after London art museum severs ties after calls to boycott her for Israel advocacy, friendship with Netanyahu
A prominent Jewish philanthropist announced she was immediately resigning from all voluntary positions within British art institutionsin protest over antisemitism and the "normalization of hate" following campaigns against her art fund over its links to Israel, art journals reported Friday.
Candida Gertler, co-founder of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, announced the move after Goldsmiths’ Centre for Contemporary Art at the University of London said Monday that it would remove her and her husband’s names from one of its galleries and its donor board, ending a months-long boycott by pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel activists.
Gertler said her her decision "comes not out of fear, weakness, or defeat, but as an act of principled protest against the alarming rise of antisemitism."
"The failure to confront such hate compromises the very essence of what art stands for — a medium for empathy, exploration and shared humanity," she said, adding that "this is not a goodbye to art but a reimagining of how it can be a force for true societal change."
Outset, which Gertler co-founded in 2003, has raised over 16 million pounds ($20.3 million) for the arts, earning her royal recognition, according to the Art Review. The fund also contributes to Israeli art institutions, and Gertler is a committee member of the British Friends of Art Museums in Israel.
Gertler is married to billionaire German-British real estate developer Zak Gertler, who hosted Benjamin Netanyahu’s 70th birthday party in 2019 and has donated handsomely to the prime minister’s political campaigns, according to Hebrew media.
The Gertlers’ ties to Netanyahu, and Outset’s support for Israeli museums that offer "art programs for Israeli soldiers," are cited by the Strike Outset campaign, which calls for a boycott on the fund.
The campaign, launched in March, figured this week in a letter signed by over 1,000 people from the art world demanding the premier British museum Tate cut its ties with Outset.
They also targeted another Jewish-linked trust, the Zabludowicz Art Trust.
The missive accused both funds of being "deeply complicit in the Israeli regime" and "the artwashing of genocide and apartheid."
Poju Zabludowicz, who founded the Art Trust with his wife Anita, is the founder of Britannia Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) and is a donor to several Jewish and Israeli causes. Part of his family’s fortune can be traced back to his father Shlomo’s involvement in Israeli defense contractor Soltam.
According to the Art Newspaper, Poju and Anita Zabludowicz declined to comment on the letter urging their boycott, and instead reiterated a 2023 statement saying they were "deeply saddened and troubled by the horrific war that is unfolding in Israel and 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 a rusty 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... ." The statement added that they "strongly support a two-state solution and peaceful existence that guarantees the rights of Israelis and Paleostinians to live and work side by side, in cooperation with the wider Middle East."
Art institutions the world over have faced increased calls for boycotts against Israel amid the war in Gaza, sparked when thousands of Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -led bandidosmurderous Moslems stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
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Hotel Huitante-Huit. "Vite! A double!"
"Monsieur, please! A nice hubble-bubble?"
"Of all the... djinn joints
In the Ummah,"
[Z points]
"ACA JOE chooses mine to make trouble?"
[LegalInsurrection] Court: CAIR must produce the names of donors of $5,000 or more and contributions by “any individual or entity within … Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Kuwait.”
The Islamic advocacy group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... ) must disclose the sources of its funding, a federal district court has ruled in a defamation case against the organization.
The lawsuit was brought by Lori Saroya, a former chapter head and employee at CAIR, who resigned in 2018. After she left, Saroya took to the internet, the court filing says, in social media posts accusing CAIR of creating a hostile work environment and financial mismanagement.
CAIR first sued Saroya for defamation over those online accusations in 2021, alleging they "falsely implied CAIR received funding from foreign governments and terrorists." It later voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit in 2022. But the legal dispute between the parties didn’t end there.
Rather than leave well enough alone, CAIR renewed the hostilities less than 10 days later in a blurb suggesting it had won its case against Saroya on the merits. It said she was using lawfare to "demand the names of CAIR supporters who have donated to us," and accused her of "cyberstalking," a state and federal crime, the court noted this week.
That blurb turned the tables. Now Saroya is suing CAIR for defamation over its accusations. And unlike CAIR’s earlier lawsuit, this one has legs.
As a nonprofit organization, CAIR isn’t ordinarily required to reveal its donors’ identities. But Saroya’s claims bring that information within the scope of discovery, federal Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled this week. Saroya alleges "eyebrow-raising financial mismanagement" in the lawsuit, including "hiding from its own Board the sources, nature and magnitude of massive foreign funding of CAIR."
In its order granting her sweeping request for discovery, the court required CAIR to turn over the names of donors of $5,000 or more from 2014 through 2022, and documents showing contributions by "any individual or entity within, or any governmental unit of, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... or Kuwait between 2007 and 2014."
That broad ruling, the court said, was "a self-inflicted wound occasioned by its own blurb. In commenting on the merits of the 2021 lawsuit in the manner in which it did, CAIR resuscitated the very issues that had just been laid to rest."
"CAIR’s blurb has opened the door to litigating—and thus discovering—the merits of the 2021 litigation," Judge Schultz wrote on Monday.
While it holds itself out as a Moslem civil rights organization, CAIR has long been accused of sympathizing with Islamic terror, including Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... , a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Last year, CAIR executive director Nihad Awad celebrated Hamas’s October 7 attacks against Israel at an event for American Moslems for Paleostine: "I was happy to see people breaking the siege...the people of 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 a rusty 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... have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense," he said.
In an interview with The Post, Saroya’s lawyer, Jeffrey Robbins, described Monday’s ruling as "the mother of all legal boomerangs": "It will force CAIR to ’turn over evidence about everything from fundraising practices, such as having raised money from foreign sources and concealed it; whether it deceived donors; whether it mismanaged donor money; whether it retaliated against employees or threatened to retaliate against employees for raising concerns about sexual harassment or the like,’ he told the paper.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... although the court hasn’t set a deadline for discovery, it has scheduled a settlement conference for early next year. Now that it’s under order to open its books, CAIR could decide to settle—and close the case, only this time for good.
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And they will absolutely ensure that they comply fully and honestly, because after all, nobody actually believes that taqiyya and kitman nonesense? (sarc/off)
[IsraelTimes] The National Security Council warns that the “terrorist infrastructure” that murdered Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE last week is planning additional attacks on Israelis and Jews in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand.
Thailand is a popular tourist destination for Israelis.
The NSC recommends that Israelis in Southeast Asia avoid going to places identified with Israel and/or Jews; maintain increased vigilance in public places; refrain from displaying Israeli symbols; contact local authorities in case of a threat or violence; avoid posting details of the trip on social media, and lock social media profiles; and avoid sharing details about service in the IDF or other security services online or in conversation.
“Israeli security officials continue to work with all relevant partners in order to remove the threat,” the NSC says.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The Armenian authorities have withdrawn a group of humanitarian demining specialists and medical workers from Syria in connection with the intensification of hostilities in the Arab Republic.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on February 8, 2019, a contingent of 83 Armenians arrived in Syria on a humanitarian mission.
Armenian humanitarian demining specialists and medical workers who carried out a mission in the Aleppo region of Syria have been returned home, the Armenian Defense Ministry reported.
According to the military department, this decision was made in connection with the sharp deterioration of the operational situation and the beginning of active military operations in a number of areas of Syria.
Under the current circumstances, the normal functioning of the group became impossible, the ministry explained. "Accordingly, a decision was made to temporarily suspend the group's activities in Aleppo," the message, translated by a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, explains.
The specialists returned to Armenia on the evening of November 29.
According to the Syrian authorities, on the morning of November 27, the extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra carried out a large-scale attack in the north of the country, attempting to attack populated areas and military facilities; positions of government forces were attacked. Syria is doing its utmost to repel attacks by armed groups, TASS reported today.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
