Saturday, July 9, 2022

Iran's Infiltration of Latin American Politics Complicates "Aeroterror" Flight Investigations (IPT)

IDF Doesn't Use Type of Weapon that PA Claims Killed Reporter - Sean Durns (CAMERA)  not a single major Western news outlet bothered to note that the IDF doesn't even field the weapon that the PA says was used. 
After years of unjustly accusing Israel of human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch has finally acknowledged that Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip systematically torture critics in detention and has called for donor countries to cut off funding to Palestinian security forces that commit such crimes and urged the International Criminal Court to investigate. Note: PMW reports, PA critic Nizar Banat’s suspected murderers sent on vacation by the PA https://palwatch.org/page/31827



Meanwhile, at the UN...
Condemnations by UN Human Rights Council since it was founded: 0 ���� Cuba 0 ���� Saudi 0 ���� China 0 ���� Turkey 0 ��‍☠️ Taliban 0 ���� Pakistan 0 ���� Zimbabwe 1 ���� Russia 2 ���� Venezuela 10 ���� Eritrea 12 ���� Iran 13 ���� Belarus 15 ���� North Korea 26 ���� Myanmar 37 ���� Syria 99 ���� Israel

U.N. Human Rights Council members now include: ���� Pakistan—death penalty for 'blasphemers' ���� Mauritania—has 500,000 slaves ���� Somalia—death penalty for gays ���� China—1 million Uyghurs in camps ���� Venezuela—Maduro tyranny ���� Qatar—enslaves migrants ���� Libya—same ⬆️

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Friday, July 1, 2022

If you read "Unilever Cancels Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Boycott" don't get too excited. Ben & Jerry's board didn't change their minds. Unilever found a work around and sold off its Ben & Jerry’s Israeli business interests to Avi Zinger, allowing him to continue selling the ice cream in the Jewish state. See also: Honest Reporting's Ben & Jerry’s ‘Settlements’ Boycott: NYT, WaPo Cover Up Eliminationist Goal of BDS, Giving Free Pass to Orgs That Support It



Iraq parliament swears in new members after walkout of 73 (AP)  Iran-backed bloc is now the main force in the 329-seat parliament

Hezbollah sets up 15 posts along Lebanon-Israel border (Israel Hayom) Manned by terrorists, each post stands about 5-250 yards from the border

Pakistani army says shootout with militants killed 2 troops (AP) near the border with Afghanistan, has killed two soldiers and seven militants

Palestinian Islamic Scholar Sheikh Yousef Abu Islam: Homosexuals Should Be Thrown Off Rooftops (MEMRI) I tried to find confirmation of this on other sites, why is only MEMRI reporting this during Pride Month? Similarly, they're reporting homophobic incitement in Qatar ahead of FIFA World Cup.



Strike conducted in Syria (Central Command)

Turkey: Jihad against Cyprus (Gatestone) Turkey is now using the distraction of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a cover to increase its likelihood of officially annexing Cyprus's north.

UNRWA’s Teachers of Hate (UN Watch) Over 120 UNRWA educators and staff have been found to promote violence and antisemitism on social media. UN Agency Suspends 6 Staff for Calling to Murder Jews (UN Watch)

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Friday, June 24, 2022

A little longer than usual. I was on vacation, but my inbox wasn't😉

Last week, Israel announced it recently foiled Iranian attempts to kidnap and attack Israeli tourists in Turkey (in one case, intercepting a couple before they returned to their hotel where assassins were waiting). Earlier came news that Iran removed 27 surveillance cameras used by the U.N. to monitor its nuclear sites, as well as a separate report that Iran is preparing a test launch of a new solid-fueled rocket. Further, Iran has executed over 100 people in the first 3 months of 2022. Now, all eyes are on President Biden in the Middle East, hoping for a strategy to contain Iran.


Taliban frees 5 Brits (The Times) An American, Mark Frerichs, remains detained in Afghanistan.

EU restarts flow of funding to Palestinians (Israel Hayom) without getting any changes to textbooks, incitement or pay-to-slay
Trends in Iranian External Assassination, Surveillance, and Abduction Plots - Dr. Matthew Levitt (Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)


Cops by day, terrorists by night - the PA Security Forces’ double role (Palestinian Media Watch) A new video released by Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party reiterates that the US-trained and funded PA Security Forces fulfill a double role: Cops by day and terrorists by night. 





BBC News Erases PFLP From Lod Airport Massacre (CAMERA UK)  I didn't know about this link between:  ‘Japanese Red Army founder Shigenobu' and the PFLP terrorists. Did you?
Britain: The Cause of Advancing Human Rights "Is Not Served by the Disproportionate Focus on Israel"  (UK Foreign Office)
"The UK has been clear that we oppose the open-ended nature of the Commission of Inquiry on the situation in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza and its vaguely defined mandate. The cause of advancing human rights in Israel and the...Palestinian Territories is not served by the disproportionate focus on Israel." 

Meanwhile at the UN...
North Korea was to Head UN Conference on Disarmament and China was elected to the board of WHO Executive Board. WHO singled out Israel as a violator of Health Rights in a resolution submitted by Syria.  Russia, which bombs hospitals and schools in Syria, is drafting U.N. Security Council resolution to condemn Israel for striking Damascus airstrip to stop Iranian smuggling of missiles to Hezbollah. And the UN Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry released its report erasing Israel's security concerns and ignoring Palestinian aggression/terrorism.

Boston BDS "Mapping Project" Targets Synagogues and Jewish Schools - Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS)    see also  Hiding Behind Buzzwords: How BDS Spreads its Anti-Israel Agenda (Honest Reporting) To understand how alarming this is, read this letter to the editor by my friend Richard.
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Longtime Ann Arbor Synagogue Protesters - Andrew Lapin   (JTA) Attorney Nathan Lewin told JTA: "I am shocked and dismayed that the Supreme Court and the court of appeals view anti-Semitic picketing timed and designed to harass and intimidate Jews only when they come to pray - clearly protected by the First Amendment's Religion Clause - as free speech that may not be curtailed."
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Friday, May 13, 2022

 As I will be traveling, this Update will most likely be on hiatus through mid June. Stay safe!

Militants kill 11 Egyptian troops in Sinai (AP, NYT, etc) Why "militants"? Egypt is battling an ISIS-led insurgency in Sinai 








Gigi and Bella Hadid’s Dad Tells 1.3 Million Instagram Followers Late Israeli PM Golda Meir Was ‘Proud Palestinian’  (Honest Reporting) In the full interview, which Hadid did not include, Meir suggests the notion of a Palestinian identity is a modern development, pointing out that prior to Israel’s birth there were just “Jews and Arabs” and rhetorically asking, “When were the Palestinians born?” Meir also noted that there is no difference between Arabs living on the east or west side of the Jordan River, and highlighted how Jordan had failed to establish a Palestinian state when it ruled the West Bank between 1948 and 1967.

Meanwhile at the UN...
While Russia ousted from UN Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia is now on the Women's Rights Commission. 

AP Coverage of death of Shireen Abu Akleh

Whether she was killed by an Israeli or a Palestinian bullet is unknown because the Palestinian Authority has refused to allow Israeli scientists to examine the bullet, and has furthermore refused to participate in a joint and impartial Israeli-Palestinian-US investigation. None of these inconvenient facts were in the AP article.

            What else was not in this article?

• Israeli police entered Jenin to arrest Jihadi murderers of 9 Israelis, among the victims Vyacheslav Golev who died defending his fiancée, Victoria from the Palestinian killers.

• Decorated Israeli paratrooper Noam Raz was killed in the fighting. Where is the AP article glorifying him?

• One of the Al Jazeera journalists confronting Israeli police was shot in the back, this means, by the Palestinian rioters with whom he stood shoulder-to-shoulder.

• During the IDF operation in Jenin, hundreds of bullets were shot at Israeli troops, who responded by firing dozens of bullets at specific targets. Most of the Israeli fire was directed southwards, while Abu Akleh was positioned to the north of the Israeli forces

• Five Jihadi murderers were arrested.  

• Palestinians at Akleh’s funeral rioted attacking Israeli police with rocks and bricks. Rioters took Shireen Abu Akleh's casket at the hospital against her family’s wishes.
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Friday, May 6, 2022

Report: Iran to Execute Swedish-Iranian National by May 21 (VOA)


PA PM: Mother of 6 murderers is “awe-inspiring” (PMW)  While Israel mourns its fallen soldiers and those killed in terror attacks, teenagers in the PA are announcing their desire to bring about their own deaths as Martyrs for Allah– in an attack against Israelis. See also https://palwatch.org/page/31318

Massacre of Nearly 300 in Syria by Assad Regime Revealed - Ugur Umit Ungor and Annsar Shahhoud (New Lines)

Along with China, Turkey and UAE welcoming Oligarchs and not joining Western nations in enforcing sanctions on Russia.

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Jimmy Quinn (National Review)

Apartheid on the Temple Mount - Stephen Daisley  (Spectator-UK) If you're after 
evidence of apartheid, the Israel Police has declared the Temple Mount in Jerusalem 
off-limits to non-Muslims for ten days. Religious discrimination against non-Muslims is 
routine on the Temple Mount, which is governed by the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, a 
Jordanian religious trust.


Palestinian Authority Curriculum Ramps Up Incitement - David Isaac  (JNS) the EU 
Commission also said it wasn't going to hand over 200 million euros annually until the PA
 made "significant changes to the textbooks. 

(CBS News)

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On Campus
The Algemeiner’s Annual List of US and Canada’s Worst Campuses for Jewish Students 
puts Columbia, Vassar, the University of Toronto and McGill at the top of the list.
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