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UN “Peace Coordinator” Before And During Hamas Massacre

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The United Nations appointed Tor Wennesland to be Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process in December 2020. This is the gold standard for a job title that has nothing to do with reality. A more accurate title has long been UN Coordinator of Palestinian Appeals.

Wennesland often minimized Israelis deaths and Palestinian terror, curiously thinking that such action helped the peace process. He expressed sadness at the death of Palestinian Arab terrorists and has never rebuked Palestinian leadership for recruiting and drafting children to be terrorists, a flagrant crime against humanity.

Wennesland posted two statements right before and immediately after the gruesome October 7 slaughter of over 1,000 Israelis. A comparison is illustrative.

After Israelis in the West Bank attacked the city of Huwwara where Palestinian Arabs have killed many Israelis, he condemned the “attack by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property,” adding that he was “outraged by the continued incitement, provocations and lack of accountability for these violent crimes.” With one Palestinian dead, Wennesland demanded that “Israel must ensure that the [Palestinian Arab] civilian population is protected, and the [Israeli] perpetrators are held to account.”

Some hours later, over 1,000 Palestinian Arabs invaded Israel and butchered over 1,000 Israelis in a grisly unprovoked attack. Wennesland’s short statement said so much and so little.

“I vehemently condemn this morning’s multi-front assault against Israeli towns and cities near the Gaza Strip, and barrage of rockets reaching across central Israel by Hamas militants.

“These events have resulted in horrific scenes of violence and many Israeli fatalities and injuries, with many believed to be kidnapped inside the Strip. These are heinous attacks targeting civilians and must stop immediately. 

“I am deeply concerned for the well-being of all civilians. I am in close contact with all concerned to urge maximum restraint and call on all sides to protect civilians.

This is a dangerous precipice and I appeal to all to pull back from the brink.“

Matter1 Palestinians killed in response to attack1,000+ Israelis killed in unprovoked massacre
Condemnation“condemn”“vehemently condemn”
Attack“Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property”“horrific scenes of violence… heinous attacks targeting civilians and must stop immediately”
Outrage“continued incitement, provocations, and lack of accountability for these violent crimes“N/A
Concern“[Palestinian] civilians”“all civilians”
Action urged“hold perpetrators accountable““maximum restraint“

Comparing the two incidents is like comparing a parking ticket to a multi-vehicle crash, facts which were clearly known to Wennesland. Yet he could not call out the “continued incitement, provocations and lack of accountability” for Palestinian Arabs who butchered people. He voiced his concern about Palestinians when one Arab was killed but was suddenly concerned for “all civilians” when hundreds upon hundreds of Israelis were tortured.

Most tellingly, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace only called for Israelis to be held accountable, but urged Israel to show “maximum restraint” and not pursue an entire Palestinian terrorist infrastructure that launched a war.

The United Nations has never been concerned about Middle East Peace, only the formation of a Palestinian State – even at the very moment when Palestinian Arabs clearly demonstrated to the world that they most definitely do not deserve one.

ACTION ITEM

Write US Ambassador to United Nations “Demand all Israeli hostages be returned and members of Hamas hand themselves over to Israel for prosecution for their heinous attack on over 1,000 civilians.”

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The Problem With Antisemitism On College Campuses Stems From Where Jews And Arabs Focused Their Donations

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A number of high-level individuals have recently taken aim at their alma maters for the toxic environment that exists for Jewish and Zionist students on campus.

They are very late to the party.

Jewish Philanthropists Donating To Humanities

For many years, billionaires like Ron Perelman, Bill Ackman and Marc Rowan donated tens of millions of dollars for health care facilities, art centers, humanities and economic studies at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and others. Yet they seldom put any money into Israel or Jewish Studies programs at these institutions, assuming all was fine and the schools they attended decades earlier remained much the same.

Now, as noxious antisemitism has reached a boiling point as campuses host “Resistance” rallies in support of Palestinians slaughtering Jewish civilians, these philanthropists have suddenly recalled the Jewish and Zionist part of their humanity programs.

Marc Rowan called on alumni to stop donating to the University of Pennsylvania after the school hosted an anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic “literary festival.” He said that the heads of the university should step down for failing to stop the tidal wave of hatred at his beloved school.

Bill Ackman asked Harvard to publish the names of people who said they supported Hamas’s actions of “resistance,” so that financial firms would not hire them upon graduation.

These billionaires, who made fortunes in the business world by investing intelligently and properly predicting the future, utterly failed to understand universities today.

Billions from Muslim Countries For Muslim Studies

The Saudi Arabian government, corporations and particular individuals gave $600 million to several universities between 2011 and 2017 according to The Project On Government Oversight. MIT alone took in $78 million. George Washington University, Columbia University, Tufts University, and the University of Southern California each took $1 million or more.

According to POGO, “the largest foreign funder by far is Qatar, the only country to give over $1 billion in the seven years covered by the Higher Education Act data.” Qatar is a principal funder of the political-terrorist group Hamas which committed the heinous massacre of over 1,000 people in Israel this week, which finally made the Jewish billionaires pay attention to the campus problem.

POGO added that “Harvard University received by far the most foreign money in the period, reporting just over $1 billion from over 60 countries. In addition to Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and Northwestern University are among the schools that reported receiving the most foreign gifts, each totaling over $300 million.”

Harvard students after Hamas’s jihadi massacre
Harvard editorial of 2022 supporting boycott of Israel

The foreign donations take several forms, each of which embeds foreign culture into the universities’ campuses, and ultimately into the country.

Some international money was used to establish university branches in foreign countries. These centers enable U.S. students to study abroad and become more familiar with autocratic regimes in a friendly college environment.

Arab states funded Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern studies departments on U.S. campuses like the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, who donated $2.5 million to the Harvard Divinity School to endow the Sheik Zayed Al Nahyan Professorship in Islamic Religious Studies. Within a short period of time, the Zayed Center became a noxious fountain of anti-Semitic screed complete with Holocaust denials and blood libels.

Significantly, millions of dollars from Arab countries have funded student scholarships for thousands of Muslim students to come to the U.S. to study. During the Obama Administration, tens of thousands of students from Arab countries were present at universities, a number which began to decline significantly under the Trump Administration.

The presence of thousands of foreign students and Muslim teachers taking over Middle Eastern Studies Departments created a toxic brew. Students were able to petition universities to open chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) with a faculty adviser, which were conveniently now present and paid for. The AMCHA Initiative showed that schools with five or more academic advisers favoring boycotting Israel “were 7.24 times more likely” to issue anti-Israel statements than schools with fewer than five advisors. Further, AMCHA Reports “analyzing antisemitic incidents in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 indicate a significant increase in actions which directly harm or threaten Jewish students, including physical and verbal assaults, destruction of property, harassment discrimination and suppression of speech, at schools with an SJP or similar anti-Zionist chapter.”

In short, Gulf states spent billions of dollars over decades at American universities building an anti-Zionist and antisemitic infrastructure, while Jewish philanthropists had ribbon cutting ceremonies on general intellectual matters. The Jewish billionaires are waking up too late to their poor investments, when the anti-Zionist and antisemitic culture on campuses is deeply ingrained and universities are highly addicted to the stable flow of Islamic money.

While Rowan and Ackman may make a lot of noise about getting alumni to stop donating to these schools, they should put at least as much effort to get universities to stop taking money from autocratic, anti-democratic regimes which are poisoning the minds of America’s future and making schools inhospitable for Jews.

ACTION ITEM

Donate to Yeshiva University, a proud Jewish and Zionist university

Donate to StandWithUs, as they fight for Jews on other college campuses

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The Scale And Barbarity Of The Hamas Massacre

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It is difficult for people to comprehend the trauma felt in Israel. It goes beyond numbers as reviewed here.

The 9/11 Comparison

The Murdered. On September 11, 2001, 2,977 American civilians were killed by radical jihadists affiliated with the al Qaeda terrorist group. By comparison, on October 7, 2023, an estimated 900 people were killed in Israel. Relative to each population, roughly 1 out of 100,000 Americans were killed on 9/11 while 9.6 out of 100,000 Israelis were killed.

After 9/11, there were basically no further casualties on American soil. In Israel, several hundred additional people have been killed, with each day almost the equivalent of a 9/11. The total scale of the massacre of Israelis easily surpasses 10 times 9/11.

The Killers. There were 19 hijackers of four airplanes on 9/11, a relatively small number. The massacre in Israel involved an estimated 1,500 Palestinian Arab terrorists, about 80 times as many bent on killing civilians.

The Methodology. The 9/11 operation was clinically cold: the hijackers crashed planes into buildings. In the 10/7 atrocities, 1,500 Hamas terrorists went town-to-town hacking and shooting families to death. They raped women and dragged them through the street by their hair. They burned people alive. The butchers decapitated dozens of babies. For hours, they scoured the horizon for Jews to slaughter by hand.

Broad Local Support. The al Qaeda terrorists were a band of radical jihadists in 2001. They weren’t elected to any office. Not so for Hamas, which was elected to 58% of Palestinian parliament in 2006 with the most antisemitic charter ever written. They continue to hold that majority of the government, and according to polls, Hamas would win presidential elections if held now.

Location. The horde of al Qaeda terrorists were on the other side of the globe for the U.S.A. Hamas is literally next door to Israel – with the majority in Gaza but many in the West Bank. These Palestinian terrorists could carry out attacks against Israel from their backyards whenever they want.

The Aftermath. All 19 hijackers on 9/11 were killed in the suicide operation. They took no prisoners. However, well over 1,000 of the Arab terrorists survived and returned to their safe haven in Gaza, taking roughly 150 hostages with them. The Palestinian jihadists continue to fight on, now surrounded by 25,000 fellow jihadi terrorists, ensconced among civilians.

International Support. Al Qaeda became public enemy number one around the world after 9/11. America enlisted many countries in a fight against global terror which focused on America’s enemy. Yet now, in the immediate aftermath of the sickening slaughter in Israel, people and countries call the terrorism “resistance” and the massacre a cause for “celebration.” Israel will have a very difficult time gathering and maintaining global support to finally terminate this noxious evil.

Existential Threat. At the end of the day, while the 9/11 attacks were evil, the United States did not suddenly become really vulnerable; it was not going to disappear. But Israel is surrounded by many parties who refuse to accept its existence since its founding. The Islamic Republic of Iran, now at the cusp of nuclear weapons capability, has threatened to wipe it off the map and is actively sponsoring terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel’s borders. Israel is highly vulnerable.

As people watch the news or consider the “pro-Palestinian resistance” protests taking place in cities and campuses, it is critical that they understand the current fear of Jews and Israelis: the collective post traumatic stress disorder which echoes the wails of parents and grandparents from the Holocaust and pogroms, has emerged again as the Satan of Gaza.

Even the most persecuted people in the world can be shocked by the barbarity of antisemites, and by the people who abandon them in their time of need.

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Israel: Security in a Small Country

Palestinian Propaganda Before The Gruesome Massacre

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During August and September 2023, Palestinian Arab propaganda was in full display on social media feeds. The messaging – targeted to Zionists – was clear that they believe all of Israel is “occupied Palestine” and that the physical presence of Jews in Jerusalem is a grave assault to their senses.

Israel is Occupied Palestine

Israeli cities like Acre, Jaffa, Nazareth, Jerusalem and Haifa were promoted as part-and-parcel of Palestine in ads popping up in social media feeds like Facebook.

The ads, some of which were made in 2022, were promoted from a variety of sources including Quds News Network, The Inside – Palestine, DOP (Days of Palestine), Olive Palestine, Palestine and others.

Jews in Jerusalem Going About Daily Life Is An Aggravated Assault To Arabs

The advertisements in Facebook also featured Jews in Jerusalem enjoying their holiest city. However, the narrative accompanying the text made the Jews seemingly appear as violent, even when it was clear that they were doing nothing.

All Jews are described as “settlers” whether they lived east of the 1949 Armistice Lines (E49) or not. It says that they “stormed al Aqsa Mosque” even when the pictures show that they were just walking around and not in the mosque. It even condemned some young boys dancing in the Old City of Jerusalem away from the Temple Mount as “a provocative march.”

Israel Will Be Destroyed. Soon

The messaging of the ads could not be clearer. The State of Israel is not only occupying historic Palestine; it is about to come to and end.

The majority of Palestinians believe this to be true. The June 2023 poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research noted that “two-thirds [of Palestinian Arabs] say Israel will not celebrate the centenary of its establishment [within 25 years], and the majority believes that the Palestinian people will be able in the future to recover Palestine and return its refugees to their homes.”

Palestinian Arabs believe that the War of Liberation has begun, and were telling Zionists that this day is approaching for the past few months.

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Know Your Enemies. This Is 1948 Redux

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The Jewish State and Jews around the world have woken up to the fact that they are in a war, hated for who they are, where they are and what they do. It took a monstrous massacre for the reality to awaken people to the situation, and having reached this point, it’s important to know more about the haters and their intents.

The article “The Center of Intersectionality looks a lot like Adolf Hitler” listed many vile antisemites including: the Democratic Socialists of America, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ilhan Omar, New York City Council member Shahana Hanif, Linda Sarsour and Zahra Billoo of the Council of American-Islamic Relations. There are many others like the Mapping Project in Massachusetts which is part of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement, which wants to make it easier to target Jewish organizations throughout the state, and so listed them and their addresses. Organizations included those that promote “normalization” and peace, as well as synagogues.

After the brutal massacre of hundreds of Israelis on October 7, 2023, one would imagine that even everyday antisemites would distance themselves from the carnage and attempt to not appear as Nazis bent on Jewish blood.

Alas, the bilestorm is upon us, and those celebrating the murder of Jews are out in the open. Jews should take note and be prepared in both the near- and intermediate-term.

Immediately after the atrocities became public, The United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) threw its full weight behind Palestinian Arabs. It published a statement about the “recent unprovoked and continuous attacks by Israel on Palestinian towns, cities, and refugee camps have resulted in tragic loss of Palestinian lives. We condemn Israel’s targeted and indiscriminate killing of civilians, including innocent children, women, and the elderly, and we denounce the inhumane siege imposed on the nearly 2 million inhabitants of Gaza, a clear violation of international law and an implied declaration of open war on the Palestinians which oblige them to be in constant self-defense.” Members of USCMO are:

Also on the heels of the slaughter of Jews, ANSWER Coalition promoted pro-Palestinian actions around the country “to stand with the Palestinian people’s struggle!” Joining as sponsors were:

  • The Palestinian Youth Movement
  • Al-Awda – The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition
  • Within Our Lifetime
  • Samidoun
  • CUNY School of Law Students for Justice in Palestine
  • Decolonize This Place
  • Existence Is Resistance
  • CUNY for Palestine
  • Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America
  • Yalies for Palestine
  • Semilla Collective
  • Greater New Haven Peace Council
  • Wesleyan Students for Justice in Palestine
  • Party for Socialism and Liberation
  • Witness Palestine Rochester
  • ANSWER Coalition
  • Bard College SJP
  • Students for Justice in Palestine – Butler University
  • Jewish Voice for Peace – Indiana
  • Party for Socialism and Liberation – Indianapolis
  • SJP @ UC Davis
  • AMP Chicago
  • … and many more

The Democratic Socialists of America and Students for Justice In Palestine were in full force around the country backing the wanton killing of Jews. AMCHA Initiative has long tracked how the presence of SJP on college campuses results in antisemitic incidents jumping by five times.

The head of NYU Law Student Bar Association sent out a broad email about “my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinian in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination.” Ryna went on to say Israel’s blockade of the terrorist enclave “made resistance necessary. I will not condemn resistance.” That such a person can be a lawyer and approve of the wanton slaughter of non-combatants en masse is terrifying. This person, Ryna Workman, should be rejected from all employment.

Ryna has company. Harvard University posted a letter signed by 30 groups supporting Hamas’s butchery. After billionaire investor Bill Ackman, an alum of the school, asked that the school release the names of the individuals behind the letter, someone posted their names.

Columbia University’s Student for Justice in Palestine produced a vile antisemite named Naye Idriss who gave a speech in Times Square in New York City the day after the massacre of Jews and called for more massacres to a reception of cheers.

Idriss was likely fueled in her hatred of the Jewish State from Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi who said that Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs “will necessarily, inevitably bring a violent reaction (51:40). Another professor, Joseph Massad mocked how Jews fled on foot from their “colonies” (since he views all of Israel as an illegal colony) in the massacre. He didn’t mention a single slaughtered Jew but went on to lament Arab dead, which he hoped would be the “start of the Palestinian War of Liberation.”

Of course, this generation’s Nazis is the popular Palestinian political-terrorist group Hamas which carried out the slaughter. Its 1988 foundational charter is replete with antisemitism and the call to kill Jews and destroy the Jewish State, seemingly to the joy of Palestinian Arabs who voted the party into 58% of parliament in 2006. Its leadership calls on Muslims around the world to engage in a global intifada to support their annihilation of Israel.

Hamas’s backers include:

  • The Islamic Republic of Iran gives it and other terrorist groups in Gaza $100 million annually
  • Turkey, another Islamic, non-Arab country provides Hamas political support
  • Qatar hosts Hamas’s leadership and funnels money to it
  • Eugene Puryear, part of the Party for Socialism and Liberation organized rallies for Hamas and said “Palestinians are right to stand up against occupation.”

ADL has tracked many of the recent pro-Hamas protests which backed the massacre and called for the destruction of Israel. Chants included “Zionism has got to go!” and “Zionism is genocide!”, “You need to stop being apologetic about Palestinian liberation“, “Resistance is not terrorism.” Regarding the massacre of Jews, speakers said “make no mistake, we are in celebration.”

While Jews grieve and pray, they seemingly have not internalized that the pro-Palestinian community does not view this as a battle like 2008, 2012, 2014 or 2021. They don’t think it’s like the Second Intifada in which they rejected two states for two people.

Your enemies believe the war to end the Jewish State has begun. It’s 1948 Redux.

And they have called for the world to join them in their efforts to end Israel and prosecute its supporters in a “global intifada.”

Israel’s fight in Gaza is not about the terrorist group Hamas; it is about terminating Hamas’s jihadi dream of destroying the Jewish State.

Almost every Palestinian Arab is already an antisemite and this war will not make them hate Jews any less. However, it must teach them that Israel is here to stay.

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How To Help Israel Now

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People around the globe are looking for ways to help Israel during this terrible time. Below are a few ways: Donate, Lobby, Support students, Rally, Pray. Stay informed.

Donation Dos and Don’ts

There are many organizations based in Israel which can be helpful and, unfortunately, many well-intentioned people who pour time and resources into bad ideas and scams.

DON’T give money or buy military supplies in the diaspora. It sounds illogical but there are several reasons.

The Israeli government has supplies which are consistent with how soldiers are trained and how it maintains equipment. It cannot accept and manage an odd helmet here and two night vision goggles there. It mucks up the military order.

It’s also illegal in most countries to send military supplies abroad.

DO send items. Socks, underwear, canned goods and the like are welcome and can be distributed to displaced people, soldiers, volunteers and others.

DONATIONS are welcome – to known entities. Beware of organizations which popped up overnight which might sound good but have no proven ability to direct 100% of the donations to people in need. Some good organizations in Israel include:

There are also organizations supporting college students who will be facing a barrage of anti-Israel attacks. Donate to organizations which help these students combat the amplified antisemitism and anti-Zionism that is growing every day:

Organizations which track and translate Palestinian media to flag their calls for violence and antisemitism:

There are occasional one-offs who can help, such as The Jerusalem Great Synagogue which has set up The Emergency Fund supervised by Malcolm Hoenlein. The fund originally had roots in assisting lone soldiers in Israel and is now serving as a base to dynamically change the destination of contributions based on current need which Malcolm identifies and then gets approved by the donor before distribution.

The American Friends of The Jerusalem Great Synagogue is a United States tax
exempt 501c3 charitable organization. Federal ID number: 23-7013128
Acct# – 096073694365
Acct Name: AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM GREAT 
SYNAGOGUE INC
Acct Address: 3145 Coney island Avenue Brooklyn NY 11235
Bank Name: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA
SWIFT Code: CHASUS33
Routing#: 021000021
Address: 270 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Phone Number: (866) 865-1388

The Importance of Lobbying

Israel is going to need persistent support, especially as the war continues and the number of Arab casualties rises. Politicians care about and track the calls and emails that come to their offices. Contact your local representatives, even if only sharing one or two sentences. Feel free to use any article on the FirstOneThrough site with politicians to amplify your voice.

Write the White House 

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Sen. Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
Sen. James Risch (R-ID) Ranking Minority Member of Senate Foreign Relations
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX10) Chairman
Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ4)
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC2)
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA10)
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA48)
Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO2)
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL18)
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO4)
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN2)
Rep. Mark Green (R-TN7)
Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY6)
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX13)
Rep. Young Kim (R-CA40)
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL27)
Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI4)
Rep. Amata Radewagen (R-AS-AL)
Rep. French Hill (R-AR2)
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH8)
Rep. Jim Baird (R-IN4)
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL6)
Rep. Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-NJ7)
Rep. Michael Lawler (R-NY17)
Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL7)
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA6)
Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-TX1)
Rep. John James (R-MI10)
Rep. Keith Self (R-TX3)
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY5) Ranking Member
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA30)
Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA11)
Rep. William Keating (D-MA9)
Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA6)
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX20)
Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV1)
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA36)
Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA7)
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN3)
Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX32)
Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ3)
Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA51)
Rep. Kathy Manning (D-NC6)
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL20)
Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ4)
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA4)
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL23)
Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL1)
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA37)
Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA21)
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO6)
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL10)

Support Students

Universities have become hotbeds of radicalism among socialists and Islamic extremists. The war will likely make campuses extremely hostile for anyone clearly Jewish, such as Orthodox men wearing kippahs.

In addition to donating to organizations like StandWithUs, contact your alma mater and let them know that antisemitism and support for Hamas are completely unacceptable. Contact fellow alumni who share your passion for the subject to create bulk power initiatives to confront any biases that might arise on campus.

Rally

There are many rallies taking place to support Israel. Go to your local synagogue or community center website or national organizations such as UJA putting one together October 10 at 5pm at the United Nations. People need to feel the bonds of community and discuss ways of supporting each other and the Jewish State at this difficult time.

Pray

Some people like to go to synagogue and pray. Some recite chapters of Tehillim / Psalms to pray for the wounded, hostages and families directly impacted. Others join global WhatsApp groups to show a global unity reciting prayers and Psalms together.

The prayers should help all of our positive actions have the desired effect of returning the hostages safely, healing the sick and injured, and deliver appropriate punishment to the evil perpetrators who inflicted such barbarity.

Stay Informed

There are many websites like Arutz Sheva and Jerusalem Post which will have the latest news, many of which will likely get targeted by Jihadists. The Palestinian Authority posts its propaganda at Wafa. For analysis which incorporates the various news feeds, historical context, actions of the United Nations and more, subscribe to the FirstOneThrough blog below.

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Waiting For Bad News

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Social media sites like Facebook have enabled features for people to post whether they are safe when a particular crisis hits. It is meant as a quick tool to alert friends and families in real-time that one has escaped tragedy.

When war strikes Israel – especially on a holiday – Jews around the world await the pain of loss.

The popular Palestinian Arab political-terrorist group Hamas launched a massive attack against Israel while Jews celebrated the end of their holidays celebrating the Torah. This year, the two-day religious observance of Shemini Azeret/ Simchat Torah in the diaspora outside of Israel, coincided with the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Hamas deployed thousands of missiles and militants into Israel to mark the day in a new war.

As horrible news leaked into synagogues about the war in Israel over the holiday, many Orthodox Jews had to wait until Sunday night to learn about the status of friends and family inside the Jewish holy land, as they do not use any electronic devices over the holiday.

A friend’s son serving in the army killed.

A friend’s cousin taken hostage.

A friend’s best friend killed.

A friend’s child’s roommate killed.

Each frantic call and review of social media was one of trauma.

There are few Jews in the world. While there are 8 billion people who are at most six degrees of separation from any other person, the 15 million Jews are at most two degrees of separation for one another. When hundreds of Jews are murdered, everyone is touched. Everyone mourns.

The Hamas website, which operated openly for years proclaiming its war against the Jewish State, was blocked as it posted videos of its grisly operation killing and kidnapping civilians. Its effort to let Jews know that they are never safe was viewed as too cruel to be given air at this time.

Palestinians pose with the Palestinian flag on an Israeli tank that was destroyed in an attack launched by Hamas on October 7. Behind the tank, the fence separating Gaza from Israel can be seen as destroyed, allowing more inflitrations. Photo: Hani Alsahaer/Anadolu Agency)

But information slowly dribbles in. And it continues to be horrific.

In addition to the over 700 dead are over 100 who have been taken captive, spread throughout the terrorist enclave of Gaza. Children as young as three. Wheelchair-bound Holocaust survivors.

The scale of the loss of life is difficult to comprehend. The number of hostages taken means that the current dangerous situation will be present for a long time.

There is no hashtag for Jews to mark themselves safe, nor an emoji to relay the deep pain at the loss of life and trauma felt for friends trapped at the center of evil.

As Jews around the world wait for bad news, they assess the actions each can take to seize the day from the implacable foe.

ACTION ITEM

Write White House “Support Israel. Cut all funding to Palestinians immediately.”

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The United States Is “Morally, Historically, and Politically Wrong” About Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount

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The antisemites of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan continued their evil ways in condemning Jews visiting their holiest location on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, even during the Jewish pilgrimage holiday of Sukkot. The Jordanian foreign minister “denounced the continuous break-ins by Israeli settlers [meaning Jews] at Al Aqsa Mosque” and “that the 144-dunum Al Aqsa Mosque is solely an Islamic holy site” and is completely off-limits to Jews.

This false narrative was inserted by Muslim and Arab nations into the United Nations which has subsequently used it for decades.

United Nations map showing the 1949 Armistice Lines between Israel and Jordan through Jerusalem and highlighting the “principal holy places”

As seen in the United Nations’ map above, the The Temple Mount (in red dotted lines) is not marked correctly as a Jewish holy site. The “Haram esh-Sharif (Mosque of Omar and Mosque of Aksa” is only listed as a Moslem holy place, a deliberate insult to global Jewry.

The United States has sometimes taken offense at the erasure of Jewish heritage in Jerusalem. In response to a United Nations vote on Jerusalem in December 2021, Ambassador Richard Erdman, Area Advisor for Near Eastern Affairs issued a statement: “I want to highlight one specific issue of serious concern, which is the reference to the holy sites in the Jerusalem text. The text only references “Haram al-Sharif,” rather than “Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount,” which is agreed terminology that recognizes the shared and diverse history of the holy site. The omission of this inclusive terminology is of real and sincere concern. It is morally, historically, and politically wrong for the members of this body to support language that denies both the Jewish and Muslim connections to the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif.“

Yet despite condemning the lack of LANGUAGE showing Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, the United States supports antisemitic ACTIONS against Jews praying at their holiest site.

On September 28, 2023, Linda Thomas-Greenfield said “I also want to reiterate that the United States firmly supports the preservation of the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites in Jerusalem [banning Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount]. And we oppose actions that depart from the historic status quo, or otherwise disturb the sanctity of these sites. Such action is unacceptable.”

It is a disgrace that the United States can acknowledge the centrality of the Temple Mount to Jews and Judaism, while simultaneously supporting banning Jews from praying at the site. The United States is aligning with antisemites on the wrong side of history, supporting outright discrimination in a Muslim religious war against Jews.

Why is the Biden Administration so determined to spread anger, division and hate? Why is it supporting policies in which Jews are targeted for attack at their holy site? To gain support against the Iranian nuclear weapons program or lowering the price of gas a few cents?

It is past time for decent governments to support an honest telling of history and abolish the inequity Jews continue to face in Jerusalem.

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It is a disgrace that the US can acknowledge the centrality of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for jews yet support banning Jewish prayer at their holiest site.

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The UN Continues To Grossly Minimize Palestinian Terror

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Tor Wennesland, the Arab puppet who works under the title United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, gave his highly biased remarks to the UN Security Council on September 27. It showcased his protection of the increasingly dangerous Palestinian terrorist society.

During the reporting period June 15 to September 19, Palestinian Arabs in the “West Bank” killed ten Israelis, while Israeli “settlers” in the region killed two Palestinians. The whopping FIVE TIMES more murders by Arabs did not seem to register, as Wennesland voiced “I am disturbed by the high levels of settler-related violence,” but never specifically called out the more frequent and lethal Arab violence.

As alarming, for the seventh time this year, Palestinians in the West Bank launched rockets at Israelis, with the latest one towards the Israeli town of Ram On located near the 1949 Armistice Lines. Wennesland grossly minimized the attack saying Palestinians “attempted and failed to launch an improvised rocket”, making the grotesque attempt at mass murder sound like a harmless childish prank.

The rocket attacks were launched by yet another new Palestinian terror group called al-Ayyash, joining the Lion’s Den and Jenin Battalion which formed over the past two years. The number of guns and advanced weaponry now being deployed by the various terrorist groups is making 2023 the most deadly year for Israelis in several years.

Still, the UN did not condemn Palestinian actions nor call for a crack down on incitement and terror. Instead, it asked countries for donations to send to these same Palestinians, and urged for evictions of all Jewish civilians from their homes in the West Bank.

It’s working.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said “the sharp rise in violence by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinians is also deeply alarming,” but didn’t similarly call out the greater number of Palestinian Arab murderers. She then added that the United States supports the antisemitic policies and desires of the Palestinian Authority to ban Jews from living in the “West Bank” and from praying at their holiest location on the Jewish Temple Mount. For good measure, she added that the U.S. is “pleased to announce nearly $73 million in additional contributions to UNRWA.”

If the UN’s vision of a peace process absolves Arabs of crimes against humanity while endorsing the ethnic cleansing of half a million Jews from their biblical homeland, the entire global body is clearly morally defective. It should be stripped of all funding and shuttered outright, not just its specialized projects for Palestinians.

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For The Sins Of 5783…

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For the sin of negotiating with terrorists;

For the sin of not criticizing an ally because I was desperate for their support on other matters;

For the sin of staying in organizations that despise me and my values;

For the sin of not clearly condemning Holocaust deniers;

For the sin of not doing more to oust radical anti-Zionist politicians; 

For the sin of not doing more to oust radical anti-Semitic politicians;

For the sin of ignoring vile of antisemitism fostered by minority groups; 

For the sin of allowing a noxious political party to grow and gain power;

For the sin of not writing Congress to condemn the United Nations ignoring the use of children as soldiers

For the sin of not writing to the media which falsely portrays Palestinians as seeking peace rather than the fact they are longing to murder Jews;

For the sin of donating to groups that foster terrorism against Jews;

For the sin of not lobbying to shut down UNRWA;

For the sin of not internalizing the ‘Settler Intifada‘ resisting Arab terrorism in the proportionate manner suggested by the UN;

For the sin of not speaking truthfully about counter-terrorism;

For the sin of ignoring the growing threat from a ‘Global Intifada’;

For the sin of giving platforms to anti-Semites;

For the sin of visiting countries that continue to vote against Israel;

For the sin of equating Muslims and al Aqsa Mosque with Jews and the Jewish Temple Mount;

For the sin of not loudly calling out antisemitism in all of its manifestations;

For the sin of paying for antisemitic media;

For the sin of not protesting the ban on Jews praying on the Temple Mount; 

For the sin of excluding Jews from diversity programs and victims of preference;

For the sin of fratricide, killing and excommunicating a fellow Jew;

For the sin of ignoring the horrible spike of Palestinians killing Israelis;

For the sin of allowing violence to reap rewards;

For the sin of treating racism and antisemitism differently;

For the sin of not putting oneself in Israel’s shoes;

For the sin of ignoring the ties between antisemitism and anti-Zionism;

For the sin of fumbling activities of Israel and the diaspora;

For the sin of collaborating with The New York Times in attacking Hasidic schools;

For the sin of equating Jewish connection with Israel to migrants entering the U.S.;

For the sin of equating the fear of Jews going to pray and Muslims going to pray;

For these things related to the Jewish world, please pardon us

For letting my shaymos pile up unceremoniously;

For swiping a machzor from the shul and not returning it on time;

For missing tashlich because of the rain;

For enjoying warm vacation weather and beach, instead of feeling like I left Egypt on Passover;

For eating in a non-kosher restaurant with clients eating only lettuce and telling them I wasn’t hungry, rather than state I only eat kosher;

For swearing off any additional COVID shots without a bli neder, when I have no idea about the future

For these sins related to my faith, please pardon us

For being so slow in Whatsapp tehillim groups, and repeating a chapter already claimed, disrupting the flow;

For comparing my state-of-hair to those my age;

For telling people I no longer drink alcohol, while they are enjoying a drink;

For the sin of posting too many pictures on vacation;

For rubber necking transgender people;

For abruptly ceasing casual shabbat shalom kisses in synagogue without explaining the reason;

For taking off extra days from the office when getting covid the third time;

For not helping enough people in their job searches;

For speculating why a couple I only know casually filed for divorce;

For not including everyone, especially the younger people, in shabbat lunch conversations;

For these sins related to community, please pardon us

For typing @everyone on Facebook;

For connecting to people I don’t know on LinkedIn;

For trolling people whose political views I disagree with;

For posting pictures on Instagram with a fish face;

For these sins related to social media, please pardon us

For lying to my spouse about my weight;

For checking out my ex’s social media;

For never kissing my mother-in-law;

For spending time in bed on my cellphone rather than with my spouse;

For these sins related to family, please pardon us

For playing with the latest AI in a non-PG way;

For putting halavah in the refrigerator;

For binge-snacking when the spouse leaves the room;

For not exercising enough;

For wasting money buying the latest iPhone;

For standing in a line outside to buy… anything;

For talking to too many people, for talking to too few;

For doing too much, for doing too little;

For all these things, please pardon us

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Notable Quotes:

“In this world so distrustful of information, lesson plans are built on emotions, and nothing rings the register and feels so familiar as the touchstone of Jew bashing.“