Literary boycott of Israel – just another sordid violation of US Anti-Boycott Law  

Don’t boycotters realize they have become the useful dupes of the terrorist Hamas and Iranian regimes in their efforts to delegitimize and destroy the State of Israel and ethnically cleanse it of Jews?

BDS activists  iStock

The boycott movement against Israel is just another obnoxious chapter in the sordid history of economic, social and political warfare against the Jews.

BDS (an acronym, meaning Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) is the latest rhetorical term used to obfuscate its nefarious character. Don’t be misled by the attempts to sanitize it as some sort of social awareness program. It’s an insidiously malevolent and antisemitic scheme directed at delegitimizing Israel and undermining it as a haven and homeland for Jews.

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November 9, 2024 | 1:22 pm | 2 Comments »

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Rabbi Herzog: Details of a new Middle East with Trump  

Rabbi Jacob Herzog

Details of a new Middle East with Trump. First tweet. This is what will happen with Mohammed bin Zayed, President of the UAE.

The biggest loser is the UAE. Trump said it while Prince Tamim was beside him: “We told Qatar and the UAE to stop funding terrorism.” Trump knows that the UAE supported terrorist elements just like Qatar did. Trump will teach the UAE a lesson in manners.

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November 9, 2024 | 1:20 pm | Comments »

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Peace in the Middle East: The First Step  

Peloni:  Israel has stood as the sole defender of the West as Iran’s goal of global dominance has been facilitated by the West.  The West must completely reject and excise the cancerous reach of the Mullahs in a way which it has heretofore irresponsibly refused to do.

by Majid Rafizadeh • Gatestone Institute • November 9, 2024

Over the decades, Iran’s regime has embedded itself deeply within the region’s crises, stoking unrest and sponsoring terrorism. If the Middle East is to see any genuine peace and stability, a transformation of Iran’s regime is essential. Pictured: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force Amir Ali Hajizadeh look on as a Jihad missile is displayed at a parade in Tehran on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

  • Over the decades, Iran’s regime has embedded itself deeply within the region’s crises, stoking unrest and sponsoring terrorism. If the Middle East is to see any genuine peace and stability, a transformation of Iran’s regime is essential.

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November 9, 2024 | 12:42 pm | Comments »

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On Election Day, Biden-Harris regime quietly waived terrorism sanctions on Palestinian Authority  

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They can’t use the excuse that they need votes in Michigan anymore. It’s clear that these are socialist internationalists who hate Israel because its particularity clashes with their collectivism.

“On Election Day, Biden-Harris Admin Quietly Waived Terrorism Sanctions on Palestinian Government, Docs Show,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 7, 2024:

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November 9, 2024 | 12:22 pm | 1 Comment »

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DNA Contamination in Vaccines: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?  

Controversy over DNA contamination in vaccines has been making headlines lately. CHD Senior Research Scientist Karl Jablonowski explains what it is, how it happens, and why it raises health concerns.

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. |  The Defender | November 8, 2024

Legacy media fact-checkers and regulators across the world repeatedly claim that DNA contamination in vaccines — and particularly in the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines — poses no risk to vaccine recipients.

Some have gone so far as to claim that concerns raised about this issue by countless researchers are “baseless,” “misinformation” and “conspiracy theory.”

They concede that both older vaccines and the newer mRNA vaccines can contain residual DNA leftover from the manufacturing process — but say that remnant DNA is “expected and considered safe” and that there are regulatory steps in place to make sure it occurs only in limited quantities.

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November 9, 2024 | 11:03 am | Comments »

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It Begins – Qatar Tells Hamas Leadership They Need to Leave  

Peloni:  There has never been any mystery as to the influence which the US could wield over Qatar, and therefore over Hamas.  In fact, rather than having Qatar evict the Hamas leadership, these leaders should be held indefinitely pending the release of inocent civilian hostages of many countries, including America.  Now that they are no longer being granted refuge in US protected Qatar, the leaders of Hamas will be as touchable as was Haniyeh when he made short sojourn to Tehran, which is of course an encouraging thought to consider.

Sundance | November 8, 2024

Following the election of President Donald J Trump, an interesting report surfaces today about Qatar, Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood) and Egypt.

Qatar is asking Hamas leadership to leave the country:

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November 9, 2024 | 12:10 am | 2 Comments »

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‘We were ambushed’: Three missing in Amsterdam pogrom, potential hostage situation  

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sent two emergency flights to evacuate Israelis from the city.

By SHIR PERETSMATHILDA HELLER

NOVEMBER 8, 2024 02:30  Updated: NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Amsterdam Police announced they are investigating a potential hostage situation following violent attacks against Maccabi Tel Aviv fans following a soccer match between Maccabi and Ajax on Thursday evening.

Local authorities and Israel’s Foreign Ministry have reported that ten Israelis have been injured so far in the pogrom, with consul members currently searching hospitals. Three people have been reported missing.

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November 8, 2024 | 12:08 pm | 4 Comments »

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Anti-Israel actions taken by the Biden Administration in the Wake of Oct. 7th Massacre  

Eugene Kontorovich tweeted the following:

Here is how Trump can begin to fix the mess Biden-Harris made of the Middle East, and America’s relationship with its strongest ally there. Biden’s policies prolonged the war; reversing them will restore stability…

Here is a list, in no order, of some of concrete ways the Biden-Harris Administration has undermined Israel and encouraged the Iranian Axis, even in the months after Oct. 7th – and how the Trump Administration can swiftly rectify it.

1) Making BDS government policy by creating a sanctions program aimed at Jews living in Judea and Samaria. https://www.wsj.com/articles/gaza-cant-be-peaceful-without-jews-germany-day-after-hamas-e13583f3

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November 8, 2024 | 10:52 am | 3 Comments »

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Trump will not restrain Israel: the clock is now ticking for Iran and its proxies  

The terrorists’ window of opportunity will close when Trump is inaugurated

Seth J. Frantzman | November 6, 2024

A banner depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei next to a ballistic missile in Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran (Getty Images)

In the wake of the US election results, the clock is ticking for Iran and Iranian-backed terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. The days between now and the President-elect Trump’s inauguration in January will be essential to watch as countries linked to Iran and the Iranian-backed terrorist groups begin to consider their options and how the US election may shift the outcomes they are expecting. They have got used to terrorising the Middle East and destabilising the world. The US election could cause them to de-escalate and declare ceasefires in the long term.

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November 8, 2024 | 9:10 am | 32 Comments »

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$5 million of pure genius  

Peloni:  Always an insightful perspective to be gained from Pandavar.  Pay particular attention to the second to last paragraph.  

In the same way the Abraham Accords broke the taboo on marginalising the Palestinian Arabs, so Netanyahu’s $5 million offer will break the taboo on abandoning the struggle.

ANJULI PANDAVAR |

The ummah united will never be divided, insha-Allah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to be planning to offer anyone who is currently holding any of the 101 Israeli hostages still held in Gaza five million dollars for each hostage they release. Officials are supposedly working on publishing the official offer on various platforms in order to convince those holding the hostages to release them, promising that in return they will receive five million dollars for each hostage, as well as freedom of passage for the purpose of exile to a third country. (Arutz7)

There are several dimensions to this offer that are unlikely to be discussed in the public domain.

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November 8, 2024 | 8:56 am | 3 Comments »

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Trump and Ukraine: What Russia Wants, What Trump Could Do  

Peloni:  A key want from Russia is to finally have a pan-European security arrangement which includes rather than isolates Russia.  The problem with this is, and always has been, that NATO as the existing European security arrangement, is a US dominated organization, and US fears of Russia having more relevance than America in a European security arrangement has maintained this anti-Soviet organization in place some thirty years after the Russians themselves laid to rest the Soviet Union.  It will be interesting to see how Trump squares this knot, but there is an ever increasing benefit to be had with strengthening, or at least creating, ties with Russia rather than continuing to press them further into China’s pocket, so to speak.

Trump may be more than willing to trade with the Russians on NATO in exchange for less punitive demands on Ukraine.

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Nov 07, 2024

Mr. Zelensky (left) and Mr. Trump in New York at Trump Tower.7

There are a growing number of reports on what the forthcoming Trump administration will do domestically and what policy approach it will have globally.  There have been a number of comments, some of them coming from administration wannabes, on what President-elect Trump should do about Ukraine.

Trump promised during the campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine pretty quickly once he took office.  He has hinted he would do this by engaging Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky.  Beyond that we have a guessing game.

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November 8, 2024 | 8:39 am | 5 Comments »

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‘Historic’: Federal Court Says AstraZeneca Not Immune From Liability in Case Involving Woman Injured by COVID Vaccine During Clinical Trial  

Peloni: Congratulations to Brianne Dressen!  Her steadfast pursuit of justice in this matter has laid an important path for others to pursue just compensation after being injured during the drug trials testing.  Of course, this victory has been achieved in spite of the PREP Act liability protections rather than overturning them, but it remains as an important victory, nonetheless.  The PREP Act needs to be overturned, and those who have been injured must be awarded the care, support and clear recognition of their injuries.  It is impossible to believe how many have been abandoned to such a fate of incapacitation due to this single piece of legislation.

Federal Judge Robert J. Shelby said the PREP Act’s liability shield does not extend to breach-of-contract claims. He said the basis of Brianne Dressen’s claim “is a broken promise, not a countermeasure.”

A federal court ruled Monday that a lawsuit filed by a woman injured by AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine during a U.S. clinical trial can continue. The court rejected the drugmaker’s claim that a federal liability shield protects it from breach-of-contract claims.

Brianne Dressen sued AstraZeneca in May, alleging she was injured and became disabled by the company’s vaccine in 2020 when she participated in the company’s clinical trial.

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November 8, 2024 | 12:20 am | 1 Comment »

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Knesset passes controversial law to allow expelling terrorists’ family members  

MK Hanoch Milwidsky, a sponsor of the bill, speaks at the plenum hall of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, on May 27, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

The Israeli Knesset approved a law to allow the Interior Minster to deport the family members of Israeli citizens involved in carrying out terror attacks early on Thursday morning.

The law has been controversial since its submission to the Knesset earlier this year. It was subjected to a filibuster late Wednesday evening, which ran into the early hours of Thursday morning.

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Is Brandeis University being ‘Palestinized?’  

There are signs that leaders of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies are regurgitating parts of an anti-Israel narrative that has been poisoning the academic world.

Moshe Phillips | November 5, 2024

The Undergraduate Admissions Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Credit: Leo Felici via Wikimedia Commons.

Why is the Israel Studies Center at Brandeis University describing the Hamas war against Israel merely as the “suffering of Israelis and Palestinians?” Why is the center boasting that it “brings Palestinian scholars” to campus? Why is it calling the biblical heartland of Israel “the Palestinian Territories”?

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November 7, 2024 | 2:54 pm | 2 Comments »

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Newly Deciphered Ancient Babylonian Map Supports Bible  

Peloni:  Fascinating: an ancient map reveals location of Noah’s ark.

Points to Noah’s Ark Spot, Archeologists Say

Talia Wise | CBN | November 1, 2024

Scientists have finally deciphered an ancient Babylonian artifact and say its inscription points to the location of Noah’s Ark.

It has taken years to uncover the meaning of a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi.

“This is the oldest map of the world, in the world,” said Dr. Irving Finkel, a British Museum curator and cuneiform expert.

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November 7, 2024 | 9:25 am | 1 Comment »

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