Jerusalem News
(July 14, 2020, 22 Tammuz, 5780)
Contents:
1. 'Kill the Jews': Columnist calls out silence of elites on Black Lives Matter
2. China Turns Tables on Trump Administration in Massive Iran Deal
3. 'Obama threw us to the wolves,' says Israeli UN ambassador as tenure winds down
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1. 'Kill the Jews': Columnist calls out silence of elites on Black Lives Matter
https://www.worldtribune.com/kill-the-jews-columnist-calls-out-silence-of-elites-on-black-lives-matter/
By World Tribune on July 10, 2020
Forwarded by Steven Collins
Extracts:
Black Lives Matter rioters on May 30 rampaged through Fairfax, the oldest Jewish community in Los Angeles. During the Shavuot festival, the rioters looted most of the Jewish businesses on Fairfax Avenue. Five synagogues and three Jewish schools in the community largely populated ultra-Orthodox Jews were vandalized.
Allyson Rowen Taylor, a co-founder of StandWithUs, an organization which supports Israel and fights anti-Semitism through education, shared an account in which the rioters chanted, 'F**k the police and kill the Jews,' as Daniel Greenfield reported at Frontpage,
The Beth El synagogue was vandalized during BLM riots in Los Angeles on May 30. / Twitter
Aryeh Rosenfeld, whose store was looted, told The Jerusalem Post that when he came to defend his store there were people driving through the streets screaming 'effing Jews' at the Jewish store owners.
In his report for Frontpage, Greenfield revealed that the Jews were not incidental victims in a larger night of 'anti-racist' rioting by Black Lives Matter, noting that BLM in Los Angeles is led by outspoken anti-Semites with intimate ties to the virulently anti-Semitic Nation of Islam.
Glick noted that, over the past several years both the BLM-L.A. head Melina Abdullah and her daughter Thandiwe Abdullah, who is the co-founder of the BLM Youth Vanguard, have racked up long records of anti-Semitic rants and fawning praise for Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan. Farrakhan, who has praised Hitler, recently called Jews 'termites' and obsessively rails against Judaism and Jews.
The Black Lives Matter charter states: 'The U.S. justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.'
According to the BLM charter, U.S. military aid to Israel is the foundation of America's problems.
The charter accuses Israel of being an 'apartheid state,' and supports the anti-Semitic boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign against Israel. It calls for local, state and federal action against Israel.
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2. China Turns Tables on Trump Administration in Massive Iran Deal
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/china-turns-tables-on-trump-administration-in-massive-iran-deal/2020/07/13/
By David Israel
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21 Tammuz 5780 - July 13, 2020
Extracts:
The new, 25-year deal between China and Iran reported extensively by Iran's news agencies is certain to create at least two new facts on the ground that will affect the entire globe and most profoundly the Middle East: 1. China has moved in to counterbalance three years of American economic war against Tehran which resulted in the Islamic Republic being on the brink of an economic and political collapse; and 2. China has moved in to become the third major player with deep roots in the region.
A somewhat testy response from Arab News suggested 'the deal appears to be a colonial agreement, in which the ruling mullahs are granting a foreign country significant rights over Iran's resources.'
China will invest close to $400 billion in Iran's ailing economy in the first five years of the deal: $280 billion in oil, gas and petrochemicals, and $120 billion in transport and manufacturing.
In return, China will get priority in bidding on any new project in Iran connected to oil, gas, petrochemicals, transport and manufacturing or, in short, absolutely everything. And in every one of these projects, China will be guaranteed a 12% discount and may delay payments for two years. Also, China is free to pay in any currency it wishes, which, as experts have put it, could drive up its economic power in these projects by 30% and more.
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3. 'Obama threw us to the wolves,' says Israeli UN ambassador as tenure winds down
Accusations regarding the former American president's alleged hostility toward Israel reemerged in recent comments by both Israel's outgoing ambassador to the UN and legal expert Alan Dershowitz.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/obama-threw-us-to-the-wolves-says-israeli-un-ambassador-as-tenure-winds-down/
By Ezra Stone, United with Israel
Extracts:
Danny Danon recently commented on the highlights and low points of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations (UN), an international body with a lengthy history of antipathy toward the Jewish state.
According to a JNS report this week, Danon identified the 'lowest moment in the last five years' at the UN as 'the moment the U.S. decided to abandon Israel' at Security Council during the Obama administration.
Danon's comments referred to an episode that occurred immediately prior to former President Barack Obama's exit from office when the U.S. abstained from speaking out against Resolution 2334, which vilified Israel for maintaining Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and even portions of Jerusalem, Israel's capital.
The U.S. had previously blocked similar attempts to pursue Israel ,and its refusal to do so on this occasion was identified as the factor that led to the resolution's passage. Such biased actions by the UN play a major role in the legal sleight of hand used by anti-Israel activists to promote the myth that Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria are 'illegal.'
JNS further reported that Danon believes the Obama administration actively lobbied in the background to push Resolution 2334, which vilified Israel for Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and even portions of Jerusalem, Israel's capital.
Danon's comments echo recent statements by attorney Alan Dershowitz, an expert in international law and Harvard professor who said in June, 'President Barack Obama committed a personal act of revenge against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, whom he despised, when he pushed the UN Security Council Resolution 2334 in an effort to tie the hands of the incoming U.S. president,' Arutz 7 reported.