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Jewish Congress launches campaign against ‘antisemitism’ (aka support for Palestinian rights)

Alison Weir January 22, 2020 deir yassin, European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, nancy pelosi, reuven rivlin, Tony Blair, Viatcheslav Kantor, Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, World Holocaust Forum

By Alison Weir. The European Jewish Congress has launched a worldwide social media campaign against “antisemitism” (which, in EJC eyes, includes opposition to Israeli human rights abuses). The man behind the campaign, EJC President Moshe Kantor, is a Russian-Israeli oligarch known for “unscrupulous business dealings” who says BDS is antisemitic, calls for severe punishment of “intolerance,” and is the founder of numerous international entities.

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Israel’s Fingerprints Are All Over the Assassination of Qasem Soleimani

[email protected] January 11, 2020 analysis, assassination, iraq protests, Mossad, Netanyahu, qasem soleimani, war with iran

Although there has been no official confirmation or denial of the Israeli role in the US operation, it is only logical to assume indirect or even direct Israeli involvement in the assassination.

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Timeline of US-Iran conflict: 1953 through Present

[email protected] January 7, 2020 Iran, Iran US relations, Soleimani

In the interest of understanding recent events, we have quickly put together a partial timeline of US-Iran relations, beginning in 1953 through the present.

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Israel is systematically poisoning one million Palestinian children

[email protected] January 3, 2020 analysis, epidemic, fourth geneva convention, Gaza, gaza blockade, genocide, Great March of Return, humanitarian crisis, resistance, water crisis

Gaza has become “uninhabitable,” not because of ecological disaster or Palestinian poor stewardship of the land, but because Israel chooses to destroy it by every means – poisoning, starvation, disease, poverty, medical neglect, and invasion – while the world stands silent.

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Maccabee Task Force covertly funded 3,200 pro-Israel events on US campuses

[email protected] December 26, 2019 adelson, BDS, history, Israeli settlers, maccabee

David Brog announced that his organization secretly funded over 3,200 pro-Israel events on 112 campuses in 2019, and brought over 2,300 student leaders on “transformative trips to Israel.” He writes: “You will never see our name on the events we sponsor…”

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Israeli Anti-BDS Ministry Secretly Buys Media Coverage

[email protected] December 20, 2019 activist, Adam Milstein, anti-bds legislation, BDS, boycott Israel, gilad erdan, Media, media bias, Sheldon Adelson

An Israeli ministry dedicated nearly $2 million to a covert media campaign against the BDS movement that portrayed the human rights based campaign as supposedly “antisemitic”… The fund targets both Israeli and foreign NGOs and media outlets. In return for payments, it slips its content into their social media, digital and print networks…

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No season of goodwill for Christians in the blockaded Gaza Strip

[email protected] December 18, 2019 Bethlehem, blockade, Christians, Christmas, collective punishment, Gaza, international law, religion, religious freedom

Israel announces it will not allow Gaza’s Christians to visit Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year

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Anti-Semitism Envoy Elan Carr puts Israel (not Jews) front and center

[email protected] December 17, 2019 ADL, Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, colonialism, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, jewish voice for peace, jvp, neturei karta, racism, settler colonialism, special envoy anti semitism, us department of education, zionism

Trump’s anti-Semitism envoy boldly equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, & considers Israel “a central tenet” of Judaism – despite the many voices within the global Jewish community, including within Israel itself, critical of Israel. Carr demands: Every law enforcement office and every prosecutorial agency must force everybody who has even a hint of antisemitism to undergo a tolerance program.

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Congress has introduced 50 pieces of legislation about Israel in 2019

[email protected] December 16, 2019 alan lowenthal, Alcee Hastings, analysis, annexation, antisemitism, BDS, ben cardin, Betty McCollum, boycott divest sanction, brad schneider, brad sherman, brian mast, Carolyn Maloney, christopher coons, christopher murphy, christopher smith, Congress, david cicilline, deadly exchange, doug collins, Elan Carr, ferguson, gerald connolly, gregory steube, h.con.res.50, h.j.res.37, h.r.1372, h.r.1459, h.r.1795, h.r.1820, H.R.1837, H.R.1850, h.r.221, h.r.2280, h.r.2343, h.r.2407, h.r.2488, h.r.28, h.r.3104, h.r.3186, H.R.336, h.r.3723, h.r.397, h.r.4009, h.r.4156, h.r.4411, h.r.5063, h.r.914, h.r.943, h.res.12, h.res.138, h.res.183, h.res.241, H.Res.246, h.res.258, h.res.302, h.res.310, h.res.314, h.res.324, h.res.326, h.res.348, h.res.496, h.res.518, h.res.72, h.res.727, holocaust education, houthi, Ilhan Omar, iron dome, jacky rosen, james lankford, james mcgovern, jamie raskin, jeff merkley, joe wilson, john boozman, josh gottheimer, lee zeldin, legislation, lois frankel, louie gohmert, marco rubio, mark meadows, michael mccaul, mike gallagher, mike levin, Mikie Sherrill, Mitch McConnell, never again, nita lowey, no way to treat a child, raul ruiz, ro khanna, robert menenzez, S.1, s.1039, s.1102, s.2132, s.2680, s.567, s.852, s.919, s.con.res.21, s.j.res.40, s.res.120, s.res.121, s.res.153, s.res.171, s.res.234, s.res.243, settlement, ted budd, ted cruz, ted deutch, ted lieu, terrorism, tim scott, Tom Cotton, tom malinowsku, tom udall, two-state solution, will hurd, Yemen

While America struggles with crises in health care, hunger, and homelessness, Congress has found the time to entertain over four dozen bills and resolutions that cater to a wealthy, heavily-armed state: Israel.

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“Alternative facts” abound in Trump’s Israeli-American Council speech

[email protected] December 12, 2019 alternative facts, analysis, annexation, anti-Semitism, barack obama, BDS, Elan Carr, embassy move, golan heights, ihra definition of anti-semitism, illegal settlements, Iran nuclear deal, Israel-centric Definition of anti-Semitism, unhrc

In his recent, anti-Semitism-tainted speech, President Trump offered a buffet of falsehoods: sins of omission, sins of commission, white lies, and whoppers.

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