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[eretzyisrael]

by Amelie Botbol

Pretoria serves as a “crucial base of operations” for Islamic terror groups, according to a soon-to-be released report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.

The report’s publication comes in the wake of the International Court of Justice’s latest ruling against Israel’s military offensive in Rafah, in a case brought before the court by South Africa.

On Friday, the court ruled by 13 to 2 that the Jewish state must “immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

“The ICJ’s ruling is a stark reminder that South Africa has become a hub for extremist activities across the African continent,” said ISGAP Executive Director Charles Asher Small. 

“South Africa embraces antisemitic ideologies, supports state-sponsored terror, maintains close ties with and acts on behalf of Iran, Qatar and Hamas,” he added. 

According to ISGAP’s report, Pretoria serves as a “crucial base of operations for Islamic terror groups, facilitating connections with networks throughout Africa.”

The report states that “despite long-standing U.S. sanctions, international Islamist entities with terror links continue to operate freely within South Africa, evading global scrutiny.” 

It argues that the “Financial Action Task Force (FATF) [which leads global action to tackle money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing] noted South Africa’s failure to effectively identify, investigate, or prosecute terrorist financiers, revealing critical gaps in its anti-terrorism financing measures.”

Addressing Pretoria’s governing party, the report claims that “the African National Congress (ANC) maintains close relationships with Qatar, Iran and terror groups like Hamas.”

The report also highlights “the possibility that Iran funded South Africa’s ANC party in exchange for favorable outcomes in ICJ cases, especially since the ANC’s sudden financial stabilization in early January 2024, after years teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, remains shrouded in mystery and devoid of any detailed explanation.”

According to Small, “South Africa has become a leading voice for terror. By bringing this case against Israel and in favor of Hamas, South Africa further positions itself as a bad actor on the global stage.”

The time has come for the international community “to recognize and address South Africa’s alarming connections with terror-supporting states and entities,” he added.

ISGAP is an international organization that works on mapping, decoding and combatting contemporary antisemitism. 

Earlier this year, Small told JNS that the South African government was acting in complete opposition with South Africa’s freedom charter and  Nelson Mandela’s vision of democracy by embracing the Iranian revolutionary regime, Qatar and Hamas.

“For the ANC and the South African government of 2024, which inherited the work of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu among others who sacrificed their lives for social democracy, to be in bed with Hamas, the Iranian revolutionary regime and the Qatari Muslim Brotherhood regime is an affront to the South African people,” he said. 

“For Pretoria’s ruling party, the corrupt party of 2024, to be in bed with the disciples of true apartheid, true Nazism and true racism, to invite Hamas after they committed a racist massacre based on the ideology of Nazism and Fascism of Europe, is an affront to what the ANC is supposed to represent,” he added. 

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Lee Fang and Jack Poulson at The Guardian:

Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities. “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now, that I think we should, especially in the United States, be on the offensive,” argued Chikli. Chikli has since led a targeted push to counter critics of Israel. The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law. Seconds after a smoke alarm subsided during the hearing, Chikli assured the lawmakers that there was new money in the budget for a pushback campaign, which was separate from more traditional public relations and paid advertising content produced by the government. It included 80 programs already under way for advocacy efforts “to be done in the ‘Concert’ way”, he said.

The “Concert” remark referred to a sprawling relaunch of a controversial Israeli government program initially known as Kela Shlomo, designed to carry out what Israel called “mass consciousness activities” targeted largely at the US and Europe. Concert, now known as Voices of Israel, previously worked with groups spearheading a campaign to pass so-called “anti-BDS” state laws that penalize Americans for engaging in boycotts or other non-violent protests of Israel. Its latest incarnation is part of a hardline and sometimes covert operation by the Israeli government to strike back at student protests, human rights organizations and other voices of dissent.

Voices’ latest activities were conducted through non-profits and other entities that often do not disclose donor information. From October through May, Chikli has overseen at least 32m shekels, or about $8.6m, spent on government advocacy to reframe the public debate. It didn’t take long for one of the American advocacy groups closely coordinating with Chikli’s ministry, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, or ISGAP, to score a powerful victory. In a widely viewed December congressional hearing on alleged antisemitism among student anti-war protesters, several House GOP lawmakers explicitly cited ISGAP research in their interrogations of university presidents. The hearing concluded with Representative Elise Stefanik’s viral confrontation with the then president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, who later retired from her role after a wave of negative news coverage.

[...] Other American groups tied to Voices have pursued a range of initiatives to bolster support for the state of Israel. One such group listed publicly as a partner, the National Black Empowerment Council (NBEC), published an open letter from Black Democratic politicians pledging solidarity with Israel. Another group, CyberWell, a pro-Israel anti-disinformation group led by former Israeli military intelligence and Voices officials, has established itself as an official “trusted partner” to TikTok and Meta, helping both social platforms screen and edit content. A recent CyberWell report called for Meta to suppress the popular slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

[...] Haaretz and the New York Times recently revealed that Chikli’s ministry had tapped a public relations firm to secretly pressure American lawmakers. The firm used hundreds of fake accounts posting pro-Israel or anti-Muslim content on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. (The diaspora affairs ministry denied involvement in the campaign, which reportedly provided about $2m to an Israeli firm for the social media posts.) But that effort is only one of many such campaigns coordinated by the ministry, which has received limited news coverage. The ministry of diaspora affairs and its partners compile weekly reports based on tips from pro-Israel US student groups, some of which receive funding from Israeli government sources. For example, Hillel International, a co-founder of the Israel on Campus Coalition network and one of the largest Jewish campus groups in the world, has reported financial and strategic support from Mosaic United, a public benefit corporation backed by Chikli’s ministry. The longstanding partnership is now being utilized to shape the political debate over Israel’s war. In February, Hillel’s chief executive, Adam Lehman, appeared before the Knesset to discuss the strategic partnership with Mosaic and the ministry of diaspora affairs, which he said had already produced results. “We are changing administrations. Just last week, MIT, the same president who was lambasted in front of Congress, took the step of fully suspending her Students for Justice in Palestine chapter for crossing lines, and for creating an unwelcoming environment for Jewish students,” said Lehmann, referencing the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sally Kornbluth. Hillel International, CyberWell, the NBEC, the Israeli ministry of diaspora affairs and Voices of Israel/Concert did not respond to a request for comment.

This investigative report reviewed recent government hearings, Israeli corporate filings, procurement documents and other public records. While private individuals and foundations primarily fund many of the organizations devoted to pro-Israel advocacy, most likely without foreign direction, the records point to substantial Israeli government involvement in American politics about the Gaza war, free speech on college campuses and Israel-Palestine policy.

The Guardian reports that Israel Apartheid State has documents detailing efforts to shape US opinion on the Gaza genocide in favor of the pro-Israel position.

Read the full story at The Guardian.

[nicklloydnow]

““From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” chant the useful idiots at elite institutions and parades in the West. Who are these people? Atheists who support theocratic lunatics, democrats who endorse medieval tyrants, feminists who defend misogynists who parade with the desecrated corpses of women, gays who defend maniacs who would joyfully hang them or toss them off the roof of a tall building. They talk of a secular, democratic and socialist Palestine. As George Orwell observed: “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.” But the world has now seen what “from the river to the sea” actually means. It is nothing less than a remake of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen.

Israel expelled its own population from Gaza in 2005 so that Palestinian Arabs could begin building their own state. They instead chose Hamas. The enemies of Israel aren’t in favor of a Palestinian state. They aren’t in favor of anything positive, but only of a negative: the denial of life, especially of Jewish life. The goal is genocide. The method is mass murder of the type Jews haven’t experienced since the Holocaust.

Hence, the West needs to understand that to defend human life and dignity, it isn’t enough to claim to side with Israel. It needs to understand what this means: total, unrestrictive support. That is nothing less than allowing this beleaguered country to defend itself fully. To recognize that Hamas needs to be destroyed for the same reason and by the same method that the Nazis were. Israel is entitled to do whatever it takes to uproot this evil residing next to it. And, more important, that once it begins to proceed in that direction, it won’t be demonized for defending that which is the core of Western civilization and which its enemies hate the most: the love of everyone’s right to human life, dignity and happiness.

In other words, it needs to support a complete, total and decisive Israeli victory. If this implies an overwhelming, unprecedented use of military force, so be it. Hamas is and will be responsible for any civilian casualties. Cause and effect. They created their own destruction, and its consequences.

Mere victory isn’t enough. Israel has won every war it has ever fought. This time, the triumph must be so thorough and conclusive that there will never be any other war for this country. Israel has a moral right to finish the job, and the West has a moral duty to support it. Let Israel do what it must to finish this war in the fastest way possible, with the minimum civilian and military casualties on its side. The consequences of this lie on the group that initiated the causal sequence—the one that must be completely destroyed, Hamas.”

“If “peace” breaks out right now (we are writing on 10/23/23), or, better yet, if it had done so a few days ago, Hamas would have literally gotten away with murder (and torture, and other unspeakable evils too). They would have suffered from no IDF reaction at all.

Is this what the Middle Eastern “peace-niks” really want? If so, they are aiding and abetting sickening attacks on innocent Jews. If that is not their goal, they should cease and desist from their cries for “peace.” That would be the peace of the grave for Israel.

(…)

If Israel disarmed, there would no longer be any such country, and all of its Jewish citizens would be murdered. If Hamas and other such groups, including Hezbollah and their ultimate masters in Iran, deactivated their weaponry there would be peace, real peace, with no scare quotes surrounding that word.

Given that this scenario is extremely unlikely to occur, what is the path to peace in the Middle East, to real peace, to long run peace?

It is at present, paradoxically, war. And not just “lawn-mowing,” a superficial battle as the New York Times recommends. But, rather, precisely what they inveigh against: “Once and for All” war. War to end the need for any further war. War of the sort conducted by the Allies vis a vis Nazi Germany in 1945. Only then will real peace be achieved.

(…)

Yes, the way forward toward peace, real peace, permanent peace, long run peace is to demonstrate that Israel will no longer tolerate the abominations dished out to it with glee by theocratic murderers.

Its motto henceforth ought not to be “Peace”, but “Peace through strength.” Or: “Never Again.” (Where have we heard that before?) But this time, really mean it and act on it. No peace without justice. Without it, the massacre is guaranteed to occur once again. Israel must not let it happen and the West must support it. Otherwise, Israel will be in an existential danger of which what we saw on October 7 is only a prelude. And make no mistake, if such catastrophic scenario occurs, the rest of the West are next.

No justice, no peace!”

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Fighting Antisemitism: The ISGAP Hour - Benny Morris on 1948

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Het Instituut voor de Studie van Mondiaal Antisemitisme en Beleid (ISGAP) pakt het toenemende antisemitisme aan https://www.indegazette.be/het-instituut-voor-de-studie-van-mondiaal-antisemitisme-en-beleid-isgap-pakt-het-toenemende-antisemitisme-aan/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

Even among world leaders, Biden and Trump are old (Washington Post) When President Biden, 81, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, 78, take the debate stage Thursday, they’ll be making history as the two oldest major-party candidates in American history to vie for the Oval Office. They are also both at least 16 years older than the median age of world leaders. It’s no surprise that world leaders are often older than the people they govern. In democracies, age requirements to run, costly campaigns and incentives to gain experience and clout in political spheres mean it can take a long time for candidates to reach the top job. The median age difference between a country’s leader and its population is 32 years. Europe appears to be bucking this trend. Countries there have some of the smallest gaps between their leaders and their populations. Its heads of state, including French President Emmanuel Macron, 46, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, 46, and Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris, 37, skew so young that even a candidate in their early 60s can cause a stir.

Iowa floodwaters breach levees as even more rain dumps onto parts of the Midwest (AP) Tornado warnings, flash flooding and large hail added insult to injury for people in the Midwest already contending with heat, humidity and intense flooding after days of rain. The National Weather Service on Tuesday afternoon and evening issued multiple tornado warnings in parts of Iowa and Nebraska as local TV news meteorologists showed photos of large hail and spoke of very heavy rain. Earlier on Tuesday, floodwaters breached levees in Iowa, creating dangerous conditions that prompted evacuations. A vast swath of lands from eastern Nebraska and South Dakota to Iowa and Minnesota has been under siege from flooding from torrential rains since last week, while also being hit with a scorching heat wave. Up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) of rain have fallen in some areas, and some rivers rose to record levels. Hundreds of people were rescued, homes were damaged and at least two people died after driving in flooded areas.

Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war (Guardian) It’s no secret that the discussion surrounding America’s Israel policy has become increasingly toxic and divisive. What has been kept under wraps—until recently—was just how much effort Israel has put into manipulating that discussion, especially on college campuses. Since October, Israel has launched a government program known now as “Voices of Israel.” “Voices” is the result of Israeli attempts to create a “PR commando unit” using Israeli government funds to “provide a rapid and coordinated response against the attempts to tarnish the image of Israel around the world.” The program works by sending millions of dollars to non-government organizations like the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and Hillel International to target campus debates over American-Israeli affairs. ISGAP research has been cited by Republicans as they try to remove college presidents from office, while Hillel has pushed back against pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. Groups have also pushed U.S. legislators to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which equivocates harsh criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism.

Foreign Police Officers Land on the Ground in Haiti (NYT) Foreign law enforcement officers began arriving in Haiti on Tuesday, more than a year and a half after the prime minister there issued a plea to other countries for help to stop the rampant gang violence that has upended the Caribbean nation. Dozens of armed men in military fatigues filed out of a Kenya Airways plane at Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The officers are part of a deployment of officers from eight nations who will fan out across the capital to try to wrest control of the city from dozens of armed groups that have attacked police stations, freed prisoners and killed with impunity. Some security experts say the Kenyan officers face a significant challenge supporting Haiti’s police and facing off with well-armed and highly organized Haitian gangs that have seized control of much of Port-au-Prince and had vowed to fight the Kenyans.

Bolivian general arrested after apparent failed coup attempt (AP) Led by a top general vowing to “restore democracy,” armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in what the president called a coup attempt, then quickly retreated—the latest crisis in the South American country facing a political battle and an economic crisis. Within hours, the nation of 12 million people saw a rapidly moving scenario in which the troops seemed to take control of the government of President Luis Arce. He vowed to stand firm and named a new army commander, who immediately ordered the troops to stand down. Soon the soldiers pulled back, along with a line of military vehicles, ending the rebellion after just three hours. Hundreds of Arce’s supporters then rushed the square outside the palace, waving Bolivian flags, singing the national anthem and cheering. Late Wednesday, Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo said “everything is now under control.”

Russia starts closed-door espionage trial for U.S. reporter Gershkovich (Reuters) A shaven-headed Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors on Wednesday in a Russian court where the U.S. journalist is accused of spying. Prosecutors say the Wall Street Journal reporter gathered secret information on the orders of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency about a company that manufactures tanks for Russia’s war in Ukraine. If convicted, he faces a sentence of up to 20 years. Gershkovich, his newspaper and the U.S. government all reject the allegations and say that he was just doing his job as a reporter accredited by Russia’s Foreign Ministry to work there. Closed trials are standard procedure in Russia for cases of alleged treason or espionage involving classified state material, which typically can last several months.

Ukraine and Moldova launch EU membership talks, but joining is likely to take years (AP) The European Union on Tuesday launched membership talks with Ukraine, a decade after Russian troops seized the Crimean Peninsula to deter the country from moving closer to the West, part of a chain of events that set the two neighbors on the path to war. Moldova also launched its membership talks. While the events are a major milestone on their European paths, the talks could take years to conclude. Turkey’s accession talks have lasted almost two decades without result.

Saipan, placid island setting for Assange’s last battle, is briefly mobbed (AP) It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists—attracted by laid-back resorts, snorkeling, diving and golf—and the furthermost reach of the United States. When Julian Assange stepped from a car Wednesday to enter the Saipan courthouse, from which he would emerge hours later a free man, it was against a backdrop that could have adorned a travel brochure. Palm trees waved gently and verdant hills stood against a bright blue sky. If the location felt bizarre to Assange, his sudden arrival—along with dozens of reporters from news outlets across the world—was equally startling to the 43,000 residents of the largest island and capital of the Northern Marianas, a territory of the United States.

UN tells Israel it will suspend aid operations across Gaza without improved safety (AP) Senior U.N. officials have warned Israel that they will suspend the world body’s aid operations across Gaza unless Israel acts urgently to better protect humanitarian workers, two U.N. officials said Tuesday. The ultimatum is the latest in a series of U.N. steps demanding Israel do more to safeguard aid operations from strikes by its forces and to curb growing lawlessness hindering humanitarian workers. Israel has previously acknowledged some military strikes on humanitarian workers, including an April attack that killed seven workers with the World Central Kitchen, and has denied allegations of others. The U.N. and other humanitarian organizations also complain of increasing crime in Gaza and have urged Israel to do more to improve overall security from attack and theft.

One in five households in Gaza go whole days without food, draft UN report says (Guardian) More than half of households in Gaza have had to sell or swap their clothes to be able to buy food, the UN is to report, as a high risk of famine remains across the whole of the territory after a new round of violence in recent weeks. The latest “Special Snapshot” of Gaza from the UN’s hunger monitoring system, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), that will be published on Tuesday also says that one in five of the population—more than 495,000 people—are now “facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity” involving “an extreme lack of food, starvation, and exhaustion. ... More than half [of households] also reported that, often, they do not have any food to eat in the house, and over 20% go entire days and nights without eating.”

Kenyan President Vows to Prevent Violence ‘At Whatever Cost’ (NYT) Kenya’s president, William Ruto, deployed the military on Tuesday to crack down on what he called “treasonous” protesters, after demonstrators furious over the passage of a package of tax increases stormed the Parliament building in the capital, Nairobi, climbed in windows and set fire to the entrance. The contentious bill was introduced by the Ruto government in May to raise revenue and limit borrowing in an economy facing a heavy debt burden. But Kenyans have widely criticized the legislation, saying it adds punitive new taxes and raises others on a wide range of goods and services that would escalate living costs. The detractors also pointed to corruption and mismanagement of funds. Kenyans “feel increasingly squeezed by disappearing subsidies and increasing taxes, and misled by a government that campaigned on a message about economic empowerment but has governed with a message about austerity,” said Michelle Gavin, a senior fellow for Africa policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. “All of this is happening in the midst of inadequate employment opportunities and the spectacle of ongoing corruption among political elites,” she added. “The Finance Bill has a ‘last straw’ quality about it.”

Traffic (Bloomberg) A new report from INRIX estimates that gridlock cost the United States more than $70.4 billion in lost productivity in 2023, up 15 percent compared to 2022, with the average American driver losing 42 hours to congestion alone. New York is the epicenter of this, the world’s most congested city, costing $9.1 billion in lost time alone and forcing 101 hours of lost productivity for the average driver.

A ton of job postings might actually be fake (Quartz) If you aren’t hearing back from a job you applied to, it might be because it’s not real. A new survey from Resume Builder revealed that 39% of hiring managers said their company posted a fake job listing in the past year. The fake jobs ranged from entry-level roles to executive positions, said Resume Builder, which surveyed 649 hiring managers. Companies said they are posting fake jobs for a laundry list of reasons. More than 60% of those surveyed said they posted fake jobs “to make employees believe their workload would be alleviated by new workers.” Sixty-two percent of companies said another reason for the shady practice is to “have employees feel replaceable.” Two-thirds of companies cited a desire to “appear the company is open to external talent” and 59% said it was an effort to “collect resumes and keep them on file for a later date.” What’s even more concerning about the results: 85% of companies engaging in the practice said they even interviewed candidates for the fake jobs.

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HMM. WEIRD.

[the-rainbow-lesbian]

"Anti-Semitism has been on the rise at North American universities in recent years. As a result of traditional forms of anti-Jewish sentiment on the political Right and more modern anti-Zionism promoted by progressives on the Left, who seek to delegitimize the Jewish people's right to self-determination by advocating a wide-ranging boycott of the state of Israel, Jewish students have been made to feel increasingly unwelcome at institutions of higher learning. This perspective is becoming pervasive within academia.

Qatar is not unique and neither are those universities. Based on its "Follow the Money" report, ISGAP found that a number of autocratic Middle Eastern regimes funneled billions of dollars of unreported funding to U.S. universities in order to promote an atmosphere sympathetic to their efforts to demonize Israel on campus."

"Al-Qaradawi is a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatari Foundation, holds a prominent position in Education City and his ideology emanates throughout—from the Al-Qaradawi Centre for Research and Modern Thought to the Sheikh Al-Qaradawi Scholarship and other similar programs. Al-Qaradawi is an extremist who has advocated the destruction of America and the Jews. He also calls on all "true believers" to finish the work of Hitler. He also been a trustee at the Center for Islamic Studies at Oxford University."

[planttitta]

Roger waters anti semite

“Whether or not he views himself as an antisemite, Roger Waters is using his platform as a musician to promote a completely false and antisemitic narrative,” said Mostyn. According to Halperin, none of these experts minced words by calling out Waters and everyone else who supports BDS as antisemitic. Wish You Weren’t Here includes interviews with the world’s leading experts on racism and antisemitism, including Small, Pope Francis, Natan Sharansky, Ronald Lauder, Alan Dershowitz, and Michael Mostyn. The screenings will take place on the same nights as Waters’ Canadian tour stops. In a bid to raise awareness of how, through his support of BDS, Waters promotes antisemitism, B’nai Brith has partnered with Halperin and Smalls to present screenings of the former’s latest film, Wish You Weren’t Here, which explores the role BDS and its supporters (mainly Waters) play in contemporary antisemitism. Waters is universally recognized as the de-facto leader of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which uses inhumane tactics to demonize, delegitimize and isolate the State of Israel economically, culturally, and politically. 2 in Toronto and has stops in Quebec City, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver. The film is expected to be released this year.Įnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.MONTREAL – In the midst of his latest North American tour, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is being accused of a malicious and intensive campaign against Israel and the Jewish people.ī’nai Brith Canada, as well as two former Montrealers – Professor Charles Small, the founding Director and President of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), and New York Times best-selling author/filmmaker Ian Halperin – have been leading the charge against Waters, whose Canadian tour begins on Oct. But to call for a universal boycott of Israel is deplorable, baseless and unfounded. You can argue with some of Israel’s policies, no problem. South Africans are insulted by his claims. Waters doesn’t know what he’s talking about. “I’ve met all the leaders who fought to liberate South Africa. In the Observer article, Halperin talks about how South African leaders feel insulted by Waters. Halperin was recently interviewed by the Observer. A riveting film that is a must view for everyone!! Halperin, the son of a Holocaust survivor, traveled the globe for two years to get to the bottom of this incredible story, meeting up with and filming hundreds of experts from all faiths, including Ronald Lauder, Pope Francis, Haras Rafiq, Palestinian and Israeli leaders, U.S., British and French government officials, The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Alan Dershowitz and Dr. Is Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters an anti-Semite? Is he the de-facto leader of BDS? Find out in this jaw dropping documentary about contemporary antisemitism combined with Waters rise to the forefront of the BDS movement, and his controversial journey attempting to get all artists to boycott Israel. The film is described on its YouTube trailer page with the following:Ī shocking, explosive and most compelling film by award winning filmmaker/No.1 NY Times bestselling author Ian Halperin. Waters is a founding member of classic rock band Pink Floyd. A new documentary is coming out soon that focuses on Roger Waters’ anti-Semitism and his hatred of Israel.

[anamericanconversationpodcast]

Phyllis Chesler Legend & Icon

Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, a retired psychotherapist, and an expert courtroom witness. She has lectured and organized political, legal, religious, and human rights campaigns in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and the Far East. Her work has been translated into many European languages and into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Hebrew.

Dr. Chesler is a co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969), The National Women's Health Network (1974), and The International Committee for the (Original) Women of the Wall (1989). She is a Ginsburg-Ingerman Fellow at The Middle East Forum and a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP).

She is the author of eighteen books, including the landmark feminist classic Women and Madness, as well as many other notable books including With Child: A Diary of Motherhood; Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody; Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M; Woman's Inhumanity to Woman; and Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site. After publishing The New Anti-Semitism (2003), she published The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle For Women's Freedom (2005) and An American Bride in Kabul (2013), which won a National Jewish Book Award. In 2016, she published Living History: On the Front Lines for Israel and the Jews 2003-2015, and in 2017 she published Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing A Veiled War Against Women. In 2018, she published A Family Conspiracy: Honor Killings, and a Memoir: A Politically Incorrect Feminist.

Since 9/11, Dr. Chesler has focused on the rise of anti-Semitism, the demonization of Israel, and the nature of terrorism; the rights of women, dissidents, and gays in the Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic world. Dr. Chesler has published four studies, and is working on a fifth, about honor-based violence, including honor killings, and penned a position paper on why the West should ban the burqa; these studies have all appeared in Middle East Quarterly. Based on her studies, she has submitted affidavits for Muslim and ex-Muslim women who are seeking asylum or citizenship based on their credible belief that their families will honor kill them. She has archived most of her articles at her website: www.phyllis-chesler.com

She has been profiled in encyclopedias, including Feminists Who Have Changed America, Jewish Women in America, and in the latest Encyclopedia Judaica.

Dr. Chesler has published widely over the years in the mainstream media (New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Times of London, London Guardian, Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, Jerusalem Post, etc.), as well as at FOX, FrontpageMag, Israel National News, Jewish Press, Middle East Quarterly, New York Post, PJ Media, Tablet Magazine, Times of Israel, etc.

She lives in Manhattan and is a very proud mother and grandmother.

Check out this episode!

[eretzyisrael]

by Robert Williams

In 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, made 13 demands of Qatar: "to cut off relations with Iran, shutter Al Jazeera, and stop granting Qatari citizenship to other countries' exiled oppositionists." They subsequently cut ties with Qatar over its failure to agree to any of the demands, including ending its support for terrorism, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Jazeera.

The Saudi state-run news agency SPA said at the time:

"[Qatar] embraces multiple terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at disturbing stability in the region, including the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS [Islamic State] and al-Qaeda, and promotes the message and schemes of these groups through their media constantly,"

This is the kind of influence that US universities and colleges are more than happy to see on their campuses in exchange for billions of dollars in Qatari donations. According to ISGAP:

"[F]oreign donations from Qatar, especially, have had a substantial impact on fomenting growing levels of antisemitic discourse and campus politics at US universities, as well as growing support for anti-democratic values within these institutions of higher education."

In November 2023 ISGAP published a report, "The Corruption of the American Mind: How concealed foreign funding of higher education in the United States predicts the erosion of democratic values and antisemitic sentiment on campus." It found that there is a direct correlation between antisemitism and censored speech on campus and undocumented contributions from foreign governments, notably Qatar. According to the report:

"At least 100 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undocumented contributions from foreign governments, many of which are authoritarian. "In institutions receiving such undocumented money: "Speech intolerance—manifesting as campaigns to investigate, censor, demote, suspend, or terminate speakers and scholars—was higher at institutions that received undocumented money from foreign regimes."

Qatar makes it possible for Ivy League universities to claim that they receive no funds from the Qatari state, because the donations are funneled through the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, a not-for-profit organization established in 1995 by the Emir of Qatar. This ensures that the foundation can identify itself as a private organization, which enables Qatar to conceal its state funding as private donations.

[louve-garoue]

*je donne tu dents*

c'est un cadeau

*cligne des yeux*

*une fois*

*deux fois*

*prends les dents*

Merci.... ?

translation and ID of the image under the cut :

xx-dark-dart-xx asked :

*I give you teeth*

it's a gift

*blink*

*once*

*twice*

*take the teeth*

Thanks... ?

ID of the badly photoshoped image- [ an emoji with big red-shot eyes isgaping at their hand which holding teeth.] -end ID.

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In addition to his consulting and appellate practice, Alan is a Professor at Harvard Law School. In 1967, at the age of twenty eight, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. Since 1993, Alan has held the Felix Frankfurter professorship at Harvard.

Dershowitz is the author of several books about politics and the law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film; Chutzpah (1991); Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case (1996); The Case for Israel (2003); Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (2004); and The Case for Peace (2005). His two most recent works are: The Case Against Impeaching Trump (2018) and Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo (2019).

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American universities receive billions in undocumented funds from Arab regimes in violation of federal law

A report released earlier this month by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism (ISGAP) underscored the importance of the Department of Education's ongoing investigation into unreported foreign funding of American universities.

The findings, which ISGAP director Charles Asher Small first reported at the Department of Justice's summit on antisemtism in July 2019, show that American universities receive billions in undocumented funds from autocratic Arab regimes in violation of federal law.

The investigation, which has been reported in major media, including the New York Times, found that Harvard, Yale Georgetown, Texas A&M, Cornell, and Rutgers have failed to disclose donations from countries seeking influence, including Russia, China, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

According to the ISGAP, Harvard and Yale alone have failed to report $375 million in foreign funding.

According to ISGAP's investigation, Qatar has contributed nearly $3 billion to U.S. universities that has not been reported.

The ISGAP team, including Small, Muslim Brotherhood expert Glen Feder, and investigative accountant Michael Bass, discovered that Qatar was responsible for almost $3 billion in unreported gifts. ISGAP's research also found a strong correlation between Qatari funding and the presence on campus of virulently anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). SJP fosters a climate of intimidation and antisemitism.

Universities should be required to disclose the source and amount of all foreign funding as well as the specific use of each grant or contract. Failure to do so allows foreign powers to finance influence operations in the heart of American academe.

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From the report:

Behind the funding

It is important to understand the players behind the funding and their ideology. Qatar has long been an important source of funds for the Hamas Palestinian terror organization and has forged relationships with Islamist groups from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Taliban.[6] It maintains a western enclave known as Education City on the outskirts of its capital Doha, which is home to a number of satellite campuses of prominent American universities, such as Georgetown, Northwestern and Cornell.

According to ISGAP’s research, the universities that maintain a presence in Education City have failed to disclose the full amount of the funding they have received from the Qataris. We estimate that out of $4,879,315,375, only $1,905,613,216 have been reported.

Education City is funded by the Qatar Foundation, which maintains close ties to Muslim Brotherhood-linked theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He holds a prominent position in Education City and his ideology emanates throughout — from the Al-Qaradawi Centre for Research and Modern Thought to the Sheikh Al-Qaradawi Scholarship and other similar programs. Al-Qaradawi is an extremist who has “called for the destruction of America and for the annihilation of the Jews.”[7]  He also calls for all “true believers” to finish the work of Hitler, i.e. to continue a Holocaust. 

According to Charles Asher Small and Glen Feder, al-Qaradawi is one of the most influential Sunni preachers in the world [and] has disseminated extremist ideas for many decades that form key parts of the ideological foundations for Salafi-jihadism, the proper name for the doctrine of violent Islamist militancy practiced by ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and similar groups. And Al-Qaradawi has had a regular perch to preach these ideas on Qatar’s state-controlled Al-Jazeera satellite channel.

Universities in the United States must fully disclose the extent of the funding they have accepted.  It is especially concerning that racist, extremist and antisemitic groups whose basic values contradict an open and liberal academic institution is meant to represent.

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