WEEKLY QUOTES
“That is ridiculous.” Ambassador Tom Nides shooting down claims that the U.S.-brokered deal on gas and maritime borders between Israel and Lebanon was a surrender to Hezbollah. He also rejected arguments by his predecessor, David Friedman, who tweeted that dividends from the dispute maritime gas fields would go “100% to Lebanon and 0% to Israel. I have enormous respect for David [Friedman] and I’m not in any way criticizing him. However, it’s wrong. In fact, former Prime Minister Netanyahu also supported a very similar deal a few years ago.” (JTA, Oct. 7, 2022)
“It’s worth noticing, that, unfortunately, Israel chose to stand silent during eight years of ongoing Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilians of Donbas, to turn a blind eye to the recent murderous Ukrainian attack on a refugee convoy in the Kharkov region, monstrous murders of civilians by Neo-nazi Azovs in Kupyansk and other Ukrainian cities, [the] vicious murder of a Russian journalist Darya Dugina, [the] recent Ukrainian terror attack on the Crimean Bridge as well as other numerous horrific and unpunished crimes of the Kyiv regime.” – statement issued by the Russian embassy hours after Prime Minister Yair Lapid voiced his “strong” denunciation of the barrage of fatal bombardments across Ukraine. The Israeli leader said these targeted “the civilian population in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine.” (Times of Israel, Oct. 10, 2022)
“As you know, I am a huge Zionist. I am a huge supporter of Israel. And I know that we can take the UK-Israel relationship from strength to strength…. In this world – where we are facing threats from authoritarian regimes who don’t believe in freedom and democracy – two free democracies, the UK and Israel, need to stand shoulder to shoulder and we will be even closer in the future.” – newly appointed UK Prime Minister Liz Truss in an address at the Conservative Friends of Israel reception during the Tory conference in Birmingham. (Christians United for Israel, Oct. 4, 2022)
“Being a visibly Orthodox Jew in the past decade has meant constant public ridicule and abuse. Today, Hasidic Jews are cast as illiterate and impoverished, but soon enough we’ll be in the role of wealthy slumlords again.” — Mendy Gopin in a letter to the editor. (WSJ, Sept. 20, 2022)
“As an act of strategic self-sabotage, [Biden’s suppression of America’s oil industry] is matched only by Germany’s determination over two decades to make itself vulnerable to Russian natural gas. Amid a war in Europe, a global energy crisis, and a risk of global recession, a serious U.S. Administration would do everything in its power to encourage more domestic energy production. This Administration would rather make America more dependent on the ‘constructive steps’ of dictators.” – Editorial. (WSJ, Oct. 8, 2022)
“It is time to recognize that spending money on the climate has become such a consuming obsession of The Democratic Party that it is putting at risk the recovery of the U.S. economy and national security. For the Democrats, saving the planet is World War III. No issue or reality, including Mr. Putin’s threat to use tactical nukes in Ukraine, will deter them from demoting every other priority to achieve their climate goals. . . If you’re Vladimir Putin, connect the dots: Your most potent weapon isn’t a battlefield nuke. It’s Bidenomics.” – WSJ columnist David Henninger. (Yahoo Finance, Oct. 5, 2022)
“Mr. Putin’s armies are in headlong retreat . . . his support at home looks threatened. But the threat he poses to vital American interests must not be underestimated, and the threat that he will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine is real.” – columnist Walter Russell Mead. (WSJ, Oct. 3, 2022)
“Importantly, there was this: ‘Above all, while defining our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations, which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating defeat or a nuclear war.’ Choosing that path would be evidence of a ‘collective death-wish for the world.’ That is why U.S. forces are ‘disciplined in self-restraint’ and our diplomats instructed to avoid unnecessary irritants and purely rhetorical hostility.’” — Pres. John F. Kennedy, in a June, 1963 speech, reflecting on the recent Cuban missile-crisis, cited by columnist Peggy Noonan. (WSJ, Sept. 29, 2022)
“And this is the part I love: “They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn’t America.” … It is not a partisan issue. It is, as I have tried to explain, fundamental to American democracy. To be sure, you may have to draw upon “the granite of New Hampshire, in your muscles and your brains” to withstand the immense pressure to bow to conformity. But I expect nothing less.” — Judge Silberman, a senior judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in a speech delivered Sept. 20 at Dartmouth College, his undergraduate alma mater. (WSJ, Sept. 30, 2022)
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.” – Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (Substack, Oct. 11, 2022)
“It’s worth noticing, that, unfortunately, Israel chose to stand silent during eight years of ongoing Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilians of Donbas, to turn a blind eye to the recent murderous Ukrainian attack on a refugee convoy in the Kharkov region, monstrous murders of civilians by Neo-nazi Azovs in Kupyansk and other Ukrainian cities, [the] vicious murder of a Russian journalist Darya Dugina, [the] recent Ukrainian terror attack on the Crimean Bridge as well as other numerous horrific and unpunished crimes of the Kyiv regime.” – statement issued by the Russian embassy hours after Prime Minister Yair Lapid voiced his “strong” denunciation of the barrage of fatal bombardments across Ukraine. The Israeli leader said these targeted “the civilian population in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine.” (Times of Israel, Oct. 10, 2022)
“As you know, I am a huge Zionist. I am a huge supporter of Israel. And I know that we can take the UK-Israel relationship from strength to strength…. In this world – where we are facing threats from authoritarian regimes who don’t believe in freedom and democracy – two free democracies, the UK and Israel, need to stand shoulder to shoulder and we will be even closer in the future.” – newly appointed UK Prime Minister Liz Truss in an address at the Conservative Friends of Israel reception during the Tory conference in Birmingham. (Christians United for Israel, Oct. 4, 2022)
“Being a visibly Orthodox Jew in the past decade has meant constant public ridicule and abuse. Today, Hasidic Jews are cast as illiterate and impoverished, but soon enough we’ll be in the role of wealthy slumlords again.” — Mendy Gopin in a letter to the editor. (WSJ, Sept. 20, 2022)
“As an act of strategic self-sabotage, [Biden’s suppression of America’s oil industry] is matched only by Germany’s determination over two decades to make itself vulnerable to Russian natural gas. Amid a war in Europe, a global energy crisis, and a risk of global recession, a serious U.S. Administration would do everything in its power to encourage more domestic energy production. This Administration would rather make America more dependent on the ‘constructive steps’ of dictators.” – Editorial. (WSJ, Oct. 8, 2022)
“It is time to recognize that spending money on the climate has become such a consuming obsession of The Democratic Party that it is putting at risk the recovery of the U.S. economy and national security. For the Democrats, saving the planet is World War III. No issue or reality, including Mr. Putin’s threat to use tactical nukes in Ukraine, will deter them from demoting every other priority to achieve their climate goals. . . If you’re Vladimir Putin, connect the dots: Your most potent weapon isn’t a battlefield nuke. It’s Bidenomics.” – WSJ columnist David Henninger. (Yahoo Finance, Oct. 5, 2022)
“Mr. Putin’s armies are in headlong retreat . . . his support at home looks threatened. But the threat he poses to vital American interests must not be underestimated, and the threat that he will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine is real.” – columnist Walter Russell Mead. (WSJ, Oct. 3, 2022)
“Importantly, there was this: ‘Above all, while defining our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations, which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating defeat or a nuclear war.’ Choosing that path would be evidence of a ‘collective death-wish for the world.’ That is why U.S. forces are ‘disciplined in self-restraint’ and our diplomats instructed to avoid unnecessary irritants and purely rhetorical hostility.’” — Pres. John F. Kennedy, in a June, 1963 speech, reflecting on the recent Cuban missile-crisis, cited by columnist Peggy Noonan. (WSJ, Sept. 29, 2022)
“And this is the part I love: “They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn’t America.” … It is not a partisan issue. It is, as I have tried to explain, fundamental to American democracy. To be sure, you may have to draw upon “the granite of New Hampshire, in your muscles and your brains” to withstand the immense pressure to bow to conformity. But I expect nothing less.” — Judge Silberman, a senior judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in a speech delivered Sept. 20 at Dartmouth College, his undergraduate alma mater. (WSJ, Sept. 30, 2022)
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.” – Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (Substack, Oct. 11, 2022)
SHORT TAKES
LEBANON, ISRAEL CLINCH MARITIME BORDER DEAL (Jerusalem) — Lebanon and Israel have reached a historic agreement demarcating a disputed maritime border between them after years of U.S.- mediated negotiations. While limited in scope, a finalized deal would mark a significant compromise between neighbors with a history of war and hostility, opening the way for offshore energy exploration and easing a source of recent tensions. (National Post, Oct. 11, 2022)
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION EXPANDS PENALTIES FOR COMPLYING WITH ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL (Washington) – The Biden administration will enhance penalties for compliance with the decades-old Arab League boycott of Israel, at a moment when some longtime participants have opted out and others are doubling down. Matthew Axelrod, the assistant commerce secretary for export enforcement said that those complying with the boycott will now be required to admit wrongdoing before settling with the U.S. government, and that they will be subject to penalties if their foreign subsidiaries comply with the boycott. Companies until now did not have to acknowledge participating in the boycott when they settled charges. (JTA, Oct. 7, 2022)
TOP UK CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP URGES UK PRIME MINISTER NOT TO MOVE ISRAEL EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM (London) — A senior Catholic cleric has called on British Prime Minister Liz Truss not to move the UK Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, insisting that such an action “would be seriously damaging to any possibility of lasting peace in the region and to the international reputation of the United Kingdom.” In a letter to Truss, Cardinal Vincent Nichols — who serves as the Archbishop of Westminster and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales — cited The Vatican’s opposition to recognizing Jerusalem as the unified capital of the State of Israel. (Algemeiner, Oct. 7, 2022)
IRAN RACING TO EXPAND ENRICHMENT AT UNDERGROUND PLANT, IAEA REPORT SHOWS (Vienna) — Iran is rapidly expanding its ability to enrich uranium with advanced centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz and now intends to go further than previously planned, according to a confidential U.N. nuclear watchdog report. While indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal have stalled, Tehran has brought onstream an ever- larger number of advanced centrifuges the deal bans it from using to produce enriched uranium. Iran has also quickly completed the installation of seven cascades that were either not finished or at a very early stage of installation on Aug. 31, Monday’s ad hoc report showed. End-August marked the last visit by inspectors mentioned in the IAEA’s most recent quarterly report. (Nasdaq, Oct. 10, 2022)
DUTCH PARLIAMENT ASKED TO APPROVE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM (The Netherlands) — The parliament in the Netherlands has been asked to approve a comprehensive plan to combat antisemitism drawn up by the country’s government-appointed coordinator to combat the rise in Jew-hatred. The 17-page plan was submitted to the legislature by Dilan Yeşilgoz-Zegerius, the Dutch Minister of Justice, on behalf of Eddo Verdoner — a former Jewish communal official who was appointed as National Coordinator for Combating Anti-Semitism in April 2021. (Algemeiner, Oct. 7, 2022)
IN LANDMARK RULING, SPANISH TOP COURT SAYS ISRAEL BOYCOTTS ARE ALWAYS DISCRIMINATORY (Madrid) — Over the past several years, dozens of Spanish courts rejected Israel boycotts by nonprofits, municipalities and other groups. Now, the country’s top court has ruled that the movement to boycott Israel represents “discrimination” that “infringes on basic rights.” Separately, the Spanish parliament passed legislation that bars public funding for organizations that “promote antisemitism.” The law uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which cites as examples of antisemitism some forms of Israel criticism. The ruling by the Supreme Court of Spain, which was issued Sept. 20, was about an appeal that a pro-Palestinian nonprofit, Associacion Interpueblos, filed contesting a lower court’s 2020 ruling that called a specific action to boycott Israel discriminatory. (JTA, Oct. 6, 2022)
KANYE WEST SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER, INSTAGRAM OVER ANTISEMITIC POSTS (LA) — American rapper Kanye West has had his Twitter and Instagram acco
TEEN’S MOTHER DISPUTES IRAN, SAYS SHE DIED OF BLOWS TO HEAD (Tehran) — The mother of a 16-year-old Iranian girl has disputed official claims that her daughter fell to her death from a high building, saying the teen was killed by blows to the head as part of the crackdown on anti-hijab protests roiling the country. Nasreen Shakarami also said authorities kept her daughter Nina’s death a secret for nine days and then snatched the body from a morgue to bury her in a remote area, against the family’s wishes. The bereaved mother spoke in a video message to Radio Farda, the Persian-language arm of the U.S.- funded station Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Nika Shakarami has become the latest icon of the protests, seen as the gravest threat to Iran’s ruling elites in years. (VIN, Oct. 7, 2022)
AS IRAN PROTESTS INTENSIFY, US SANCTIONS INTERIOR MINISTER WANTED FOR BOMBING OF JEWISH CENTER IN ARGENTINA (Washington) — The U.S. announced sanctions against seven senior Iranian officials in response to the repression of escalating protests against the Islamist regime. The group includes Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, who is also the subject of a “red notice” — an international arrest warrant — issued by the international law enforcement agency Interpol for his alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Argentina. Also, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Iran’s Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi, and Iran’s Minister of Communications, Eisa Zarepour, along with five other “senior leaders of Iran’s security apparatus for the continued violence against peaceful protesters and the shutdown of Iran’s Internet access.” (Algemeiner, Oct. 6, 2022)
NY GOVERNOR PICTURED WITH ANTISEMITE WHO SHARED VIDEO CLAIMING JEWS ARE ‘SATANIC’ (NY) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul was photographed alongside a Democratic Party fundraiser Maher Abdelqader who has a history of sharing antisemitic social media posts. According to Fox, the photos were taken at the Harvard Club fundraiser event in New York City last month and posted on his Twitter account. Abdelqader – vice president of the New York City-based AI Engineers – removed the photos after Fox questioned Hochul’s campaign. Fox reported that Abelqader previously shared a video claiming that Jews are “satanic,” control the media, and questioned whether six million Jews really died in the Holocaust. He also advocated for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign while promoting posts that claimed Jews are not really from Israel. (WIN, Oct. 8, 2022)
CUNY COMMITS $1M TO TACKLE ANTISEMITISM AFTER RISE IN HATE CRIMES (NYC) — Following a slew of complaints and criticism of how it handled a rise in antisemitism on its campuses, CUNY will spend nearly $1 million to address the issues including an online portal to track hate crimes on the system’s 25 campuses. The commitment came after pressure from Republican City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov and others. CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez wrote Vernikov on Sept. 28 listing eight points detailing the university system’s plan to cut down on anti-Jewish attacks. Rodríguez reveals in the letter that CUNY is allocating $750,000 in new funding to counter “antisemitism and other forms of religious or ethnic bigotry.” (NY Post, Oct. 3, 2022)
RUSSIA MISSILE STRIKES IN ZAPORIZHZHIA KILL 13 (Moscow) — A Russian missile attack struck an apartment block and other residential buildings in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people and wounding 89 others. Rail services and partial road traffic meanwhile resumed a day after a powerful blast damaged a bridge linking Russia to Crimea that is a key supply route to Moscow’s forces battling in southern Ukraine and an imposing symbol of its annexation of the peninsula. The pre-dawn strikes on
U.S. FORCES KILL SENIOR ISIS LEADERS IN SYRIA, OFFICIALS SAY (Washington) — U.S. Special Operations forces carried out two major strikes against the Islamic State in northern Syria, killing three senior figures responsible for arming and recruiting fighters and plotting attacks, according to American and Syrian Kurdish officials. Taken together, the nighttime assaults dealt the Islamic State its most punishing blow since a risky predawn raid in northwest Syria in early February by American commandos resulted in the death of the terrorist group’s overall leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. (NY Times, Oct. 6, 2022)
DOCTOR TESTIFIES TO CONGRESS THAT MEN CAN GET PREGNANT (Washington) –A House committee on abortion heard Dr. Bhavik Kumar, medical director for primary and trans-care at Planned Parenthood (Gulf Coast), state that “men can have pregnancies, especially trans men. When questioned on this by Republican Andrew Clyde, Dr. Kumar replied that “Somebody with a uterus may have the capability of becoming pregnant, whether they’re a woman or a man”. Clyde demurred, noting that any high school class teaches that men and women have different chromosomes, and that “men cannot get pregnant, no matter how they define themselves”. He asked why Democrats had brought in someone whose title is director of trans-care to testify at an abortion hearing, when “only biological women can become pregnant?” (Washington Times, Sept.29, 2022)
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION EXPANDS PENALTIES FOR COMPLYING WITH ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL (Washington) – The Biden administration will enhance penalties for compliance with the decades-old Arab League boycott of Israel, at a moment when some longtime participants have opted out and others are doubling down. Matthew Axelrod, the assistant commerce secretary for export enforcement said that those complying with the boycott will now be required to admit wrongdoing before settling with the U.S. government, and that they will be subject to penalties if their foreign subsidiaries comply with the boycott. Companies until now did not have to acknowledge participating in the boycott when they settled charges. (JTA, Oct. 7, 2022)
TOP UK CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP URGES UK PRIME MINISTER NOT TO MOVE ISRAEL EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM (London) — A senior Catholic cleric has called on British Prime Minister Liz Truss not to move the UK Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, insisting that such an action “would be seriously damaging to any possibility of lasting peace in the region and to the international reputation of the United Kingdom.” In a letter to Truss, Cardinal Vincent Nichols — who serves as the Archbishop of Westminster and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales — cited The Vatican’s opposition to recognizing Jerusalem as the unified capital of the State of Israel. (Algemeiner, Oct. 7, 2022)
IRAN RACING TO EXPAND ENRICHMENT AT UNDERGROUND PLANT, IAEA REPORT SHOWS (Vienna) — Iran is rapidly expanding its ability to enrich uranium with advanced centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz and now intends to go further than previously planned, according to a confidential U.N. nuclear watchdog report. While indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal have stalled, Tehran has brought onstream an ever- larger number of advanced centrifuges the deal bans it from using to produce enriched uranium. Iran has also quickly completed the installation of seven cascades that were either not finished or at a very early stage of installation on Aug. 31, Monday’s ad hoc report showed. End-August marked the last visit by inspectors mentioned in the IAEA’s most recent quarterly report. (Nasdaq, Oct. 10, 2022)
DUTCH PARLIAMENT ASKED TO APPROVE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM (The Netherlands) — The parliament in the Netherlands has been asked to approve a comprehensive plan to combat antisemitism drawn up by the country’s government-appointed coordinator to combat the rise in Jew-hatred. The 17-page plan was submitted to the legislature by Dilan Yeşilgoz-Zegerius, the Dutch Minister of Justice, on behalf of Eddo Verdoner — a former Jewish communal official who was appointed as National Coordinator for Combating Anti-Semitism in April 2021. (Algemeiner, Oct. 7, 2022)
IN LANDMARK RULING, SPANISH TOP COURT SAYS ISRAEL BOYCOTTS ARE ALWAYS DISCRIMINATORY (Madrid) — Over the past several years, dozens of Spanish courts rejected Israel boycotts by nonprofits, municipalities and other groups. Now, the country’s top court has ruled that the movement to boycott Israel represents “discrimination” that “infringes on basic rights.” Separately, the Spanish parliament passed legislation that bars public funding for organizations that “promote antisemitism.” The law uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which cites as examples of antisemitism some forms of Israel criticism. The ruling by the Supreme Court of Spain, which was issued Sept. 20, was about an appeal that a pro-Palestinian nonprofit, Associacion Interpueblos, filed contesting a lower court’s 2020 ruling that called a specific action to boycott Israel discriminatory. (JTA, Oct. 6, 2022)
KANYE WEST SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER, INSTAGRAM OVER ANTISEMITIC POSTS (LA) — American rapper Kanye West has had his Twitter and Instagram acco
TEEN’S MOTHER DISPUTES IRAN, SAYS SHE DIED OF BLOWS TO HEAD (Tehran) — The mother of a 16-year-old Iranian girl has disputed official claims that her daughter fell to her death from a high building, saying the teen was killed by blows to the head as part of the crackdown on anti-hijab protests roiling the country. Nasreen Shakarami also said authorities kept her daughter Nina’s death a secret for nine days and then snatched the body from a morgue to bury her in a remote area, against the family’s wishes. The bereaved mother spoke in a video message to Radio Farda, the Persian-language arm of the U.S.- funded station Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Nika Shakarami has become the latest icon of the protests, seen as the gravest threat to Iran’s ruling elites in years. (VIN, Oct. 7, 2022)
AS IRAN PROTESTS INTENSIFY, US SANCTIONS INTERIOR MINISTER WANTED FOR BOMBING OF JEWISH CENTER IN ARGENTINA (Washington) — The U.S. announced sanctions against seven senior Iranian officials in response to the repression of escalating protests against the Islamist regime. The group includes Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, who is also the subject of a “red notice” — an international arrest warrant — issued by the international law enforcement agency Interpol for his alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Argentina. Also, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Iran’s Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi, and Iran’s Minister of Communications, Eisa Zarepour, along with five other “senior leaders of Iran’s security apparatus for the continued violence against peaceful protesters and the shutdown of Iran’s Internet access.” (Algemeiner, Oct. 6, 2022)
NY GOVERNOR PICTURED WITH ANTISEMITE WHO SHARED VIDEO CLAIMING JEWS ARE ‘SATANIC’ (NY) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul was photographed alongside a Democratic Party fundraiser Maher Abdelqader who has a history of sharing antisemitic social media posts. According to Fox, the photos were taken at the Harvard Club fundraiser event in New York City last month and posted on his Twitter account. Abdelqader – vice president of the New York City-based AI Engineers – removed the photos after Fox questioned Hochul’s campaign. Fox reported that Abelqader previously shared a video claiming that Jews are “satanic,” control the media, and questioned whether six million Jews really died in the Holocaust. He also advocated for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign while promoting posts that claimed Jews are not really from Israel. (WIN, Oct. 8, 2022)
CUNY COMMITS $1M TO TACKLE ANTISEMITISM AFTER RISE IN HATE CRIMES (NYC) — Following a slew of complaints and criticism of how it handled a rise in antisemitism on its campuses, CUNY will spend nearly $1 million to address the issues including an online portal to track hate crimes on the system’s 25 campuses. The commitment came after pressure from Republican City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov and others. CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez wrote Vernikov on Sept. 28 listing eight points detailing the university system’s plan to cut down on anti-Jewish attacks. Rodríguez reveals in the letter that CUNY is allocating $750,000 in new funding to counter “antisemitism and other forms of religious or ethnic bigotry.” (NY Post, Oct. 3, 2022)
RUSSIA MISSILE STRIKES IN ZAPORIZHZHIA KILL 13 (Moscow) — A Russian missile attack struck an apartment block and other residential buildings in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people and wounding 89 others. Rail services and partial road traffic meanwhile resumed a day after a powerful blast damaged a bridge linking Russia to Crimea that is a key supply route to Moscow’s forces battling in southern Ukraine and an imposing symbol of its annexation of the peninsula. The pre-dawn strikes on
U.S. FORCES KILL SENIOR ISIS LEADERS IN SYRIA, OFFICIALS SAY (Washington) — U.S. Special Operations forces carried out two major strikes against the Islamic State in northern Syria, killing three senior figures responsible for arming and recruiting fighters and plotting attacks, according to American and Syrian Kurdish officials. Taken together, the nighttime assaults dealt the Islamic State its most punishing blow since a risky predawn raid in northwest Syria in early February by American commandos resulted in the death of the terrorist group’s overall leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. (NY Times, Oct. 6, 2022)
DOCTOR TESTIFIES TO CONGRESS THAT MEN CAN GET PREGNANT (Washington) –A House committee on abortion heard Dr. Bhavik Kumar, medical director for primary and trans-care at Planned Parenthood (Gulf Coast), state that “men can have pregnancies, especially trans men. When questioned on this by Republican Andrew Clyde, Dr. Kumar replied that “Somebody with a uterus may have the capability of becoming pregnant, whether they’re a woman or a man”. Clyde demurred, noting that any high school class teaches that men and women have different chromosomes, and that “men cannot get pregnant, no matter how they define themselves”. He asked why Democrats had brought in someone whose title is director of trans-care to testify at an abortion hearing, when “only biological women can become pregnant?” (Washington Times, Sept.29, 2022)
POILIEVRE DEMANDS TRUDEAU STOP VACCINE MANDATE FOR CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (Ottawa) — The Canadian Armed Forces aren’t likely to drastically alter their vaccine mandate, despite demands from Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre called for the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for members of the CAF to be dropped, calling it “obviously unscientific and contradictory” to keep the mandate in place while dropping border requirements. (Post Millennial, Sept. 30, 2022)
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
Protests in Iran, a Gas Deal with Lebanon, and Record-Breaking Baseball: Amb. Ron Dermer, Diplomatically Incorrect, Oct. 7, 2022
‘Historic Surrender’: Lebanon Deal Marks First Time Israel Cedes Territory Without Support of Knesset: World Israel News, Oct. 11, 2022 — In an announcement Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Yair said Israel and Lebanon had settled a “historic” deal that will “inject billions into Israel’s economy” and resolve a long-running maritime border dispute.
WATCH: Zionists Plotting to Steal Prince Harry’s Inheritance, Says Former Iran Envoy: World Israel News, Oct. 6, 2022 — Iran’s former ambassador to Mexico and Australia Mohammad-Hassan Ghadiri-Abyaneh said UK political parties, royal family, and economy are controlled by Jews and Zionists plotting to steal British wealth.
‘Historic Surrender’: Lebanon Deal Marks First Time Israel Cedes Territory Without Support of Knesset: World Israel News, Oct. 11, 2022 — In an announcement Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Yair said Israel and Lebanon had settled a “historic” deal that will “inject billions into Israel’s economy” and resolve a long-running maritime border dispute.
WATCH: Zionists Plotting to Steal Prince Harry’s Inheritance, Says Former Iran Envoy: World Israel News, Oct. 6, 2022 — Iran’s former ambassador to Mexico and Australia Mohammad-Hassan Ghadiri-Abyaneh said UK political parties, royal family, and economy are controlled by Jews and Zionists plotting to steal British wealth.