Jerusalem News (23 January 2017, 25 Tevet, 5777)
Contents:
1. NEW STUDY: EU IS A MAJOR FINANCIAL BACKER OF BDS ORGANIZATIONS
2. Â 'I want to stab a Jew,' young [Arab] girl tells her teacher father
3. Car Ramming Murder in Australia. Are Local Police in Denial?
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1. NEW STUDY: EU IS A MAJOR FINANCIAL BACKER OF BDS ORGANIZATIONS
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223711
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Extracts:
Despite its stated opposition to BDS campaigns against Israel, the European Union (EU) is a major financial backer of organizations that advocate for the country's economic isolation, according to a new research report published today by NGO Monitor.
NGO Monitor reviewed a number of recent EU regional funding programs designated for Israel, the Judea and Samaria, and Gaza, and found that 29 out of 100 EU grants administered through the frameworks reviewed, funnel funds to BDS organizations (€16.7 million out of €67.1 million - roughly 25%).
42 out of 180 EU grantees in total support BDS - either through participation in activities and events, signing of petitions and initiatives, and/or membership in explicit BDS platforms. Several organizations were the recipients of more than one grant.
Due to the lack of EU transparency, the extent of humanitarian aid funding, funding for other designated regions, and other frameworks is largely unknown. As a result, the precise overall amount of EU funding to BDS organizations cannot be determined.
Non-governmental organization (NGO) funding is a central component of EU foreign policy, claiming to promote peace, cooperation, and human rights. However, in contrast to the stated objectives, the EU funds a number of highly biased and politicized NGOs that exploit the rhetoric of human rights to promote anti-peace campaigns that oppose a two-state framework.
Previously, the EU announced their intention to sue Israel for destroying EU-funded illegal Arab buildings. The EU also criticized Israel's "Transparency Law," which requires NGOs to reveal who their foreign backers are, claiming the law would "curtail freedom of expression and association."
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2. 'I want to stab a Jew,' young girl tells her teacher father
http://www.timesofisrael.com/watch-i-want-to-stab-a-jew-young-girl-tells-her-teacher-father/?fb_comment_id=359858927471887_360083410782772#f176b51ded17b2a
A video posted by a Jordanian-Palestinian teacher on Facebook shows his young daughter holding a large knife and declaring, 'I want to stab a Jew,' the watchdog group MEMRI reported, amid an ongoing surge of stabbings and other terror attacks by Palestinians on Israelis.
Abdulhaleem Abuesha, a teacher in the Madaba refugee camp in Jordan, posted the clip on Friday. MEMRI translated and highlighted it on Tuesday.
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3. Car Ramming Murder in Australia. Are Local Police in Denial?
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(a) COMMUNITY MOURNS DEATH OF JEWISH GIRL, 10, KILLED IN AUSTRALIA CAR ATTACK
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 22 JANUARY 2017 15:26
 Extract:
The father of a 10-year-old Jewish Melbourne girl killed in a rampage by a crazed driver in the city's downtown is at the bedside of his wife and nine-year-old daughter who were critically injured in the incident.
Thalia Hakin was one five of people including a 3-month-old baby killed when Dimitri Gargasoulo, 26, drove a stolen car wildly in circles at a busy intersection in the Central Business District and then ploughed the car into pedestrians in a nearby street.
Car ploughs into Australia crowd and kills three, police rule out terror attack
Local media reports that about 20 people were injured in the incident. Tony Hakin, father of Thalia, reportedly has remained at the hospital bedsides of his wife, Naomi, and their daughter Maggie, 9.
Victorian police say the incident was not a terrorist attack.
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(b) Islamic Terrorist Attack Cover Up in Melbourne, Australia
By Shayne Heffernan on January 21, 2017
http://www.livetradingnews.com/islamic-terrorist-attack-cover-melbourne-australia-27406.html#.WIY09VN9670
Extracts:
A man shouting Allah Akbar deliberately drove into pedestrians, killing five and injuring more than 20, in the center of Australia's second largest city of Melbourne on Friday, but police said the incident was not terrorism-related, that is correct, it was not a terrorist act according to the Government, the Police and the Media in Australia.
A witness was interviewed and the witnesses said the man was shouting Allah Akbar, the reporter later deleted the video tweet at the request of Victoria Police, although Channel Seven News broadcast the witness interview.
Police eventually rammed the car and shot the 26-year-old driver in the arm, before dragging him from the vehicle and arresting him. Police said the man had a history of family violence and was wanted over a stabbing earlier in the day.
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(c) Room for Doubt
The name of the attacker appears to be from one of the Slavic lands.
The culprit appears to have been a homicidal maniac on a killing spree and it was just by chance that the victims he succeed in killing happened to be Jewish.
This is what the police think.
Shouting "Allah Akbar" may now be the fashion among many such people or the witness who heard it may have been mistaken.