Barcelona "Klavta" Cuts ties with Israel but partners with Iran, China and Cuba

 

The mayor of Barcelona has severed her city's ties with Israel, accusing the Jewish state of "the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people". Ada Colau's decision puts an end to the 25-year twinning with Tel Aviv.

First there was the decision of the third largest city in the country, Valencia, to embrace the boycott of Israel by proclaiming itself an "Apartheid-Free Zone". The leader of the ruling Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias, called the Jewish State a "criminal and illegal country".

Then the city of Oviedo, capital of Asturias, canceled the concert of the Israeli Netanya Symphony Orchestra, citing "political reasons".

The Cadiz City Council had already canceled an Israeli film festival.

And in Benicassim, near Barcelona, the Jewish musician and reggae star Matthew Paul Miller, aka "Matisyahu", had refused to comply with the request of the music festival management who had tried to force him to produce a video or a written statement in which the singer was supposed to support an Arab-Palestinian state. His performance has been cancelled.

Then there is the first European autonomous region to officially boycott Israel. This is Navarre, where all the Spanish parties except the Popolari voted for the motion inviting Spain to "suspend its ties with Israel".

And the city of Pamplona has declared Israeli officials personae non gratae.

But in the meantime, the mayor of Madrid immediately offered to sign the twinning agreement with Tel Aviv. José Luis Martínez-Almeida, conservative mayor of the Spanish capital, rightly accused his Barcelona colleague of anti-Semitism.

The decision was also contested by El País, the Spanish left-wing newspaper, which writes: “A wrong decision by Ada Colau. In addition to fueling polarization by breaking the twinning with Tel Aviv, what the mayor of Barcelona has ruined is an agreement that also includes Gaza and its inhabitants. We are waiting for Ms. Colau to suspend the various agreements between the city of Barcelona and the cities of countries whose regimes violate human rights on a large scale. For example Shanghai or Shenzen, or the beautiful Isfahan”, in Iran.

El Mundo tells us more: “Barcelona is twinned with Dubai, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, an Islamist theocracy. With St. Petersburg and Istanbul. Also, with Havana, Ho Chi Min City and Shanghai”.

All liberals, except Israel, in the wonderful wokeworld.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's torn pants to be auctioned starting at $3,200

 

A pair of pants coming up for auction are being described as “holy” — and not just because they’re a little torn.

Rather, the pants once belonged to the late Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, an Israeli haredi Orthodox leader considered by his followers to be the leading Jewish authority of his generation. Kanievsky died last year at age 94, and now anyone can be the owner of his trousers – provided they can afford them. The starting bid is $3,200.

The bidding at the Prime Judaica auction house in the heavily haredi New Jersey city of Lakewood begins March 1. The item is listed in Hebrew as “Holy pants from the Prince of Torah, our leader Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky.”

Included on the auction house page is a letter written and signed by Gedalyahu Konigsberg, who identifies himself as a grandson of, and former aide to, Chaim Kanievsky.

“I, the undersigned, testify that these black pants… of the Shai Shaul company, with a rip on the bottom, were worn by my elder, the esteemed Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, of blessed righteous memory, for a long period of time,” reads the letter signed by Konigsberg. “I merited to see him wearing this with my own eyes.”

On the website of an online retailer, Shai Shaul pants run from roughly $13.50 to $16.25.

Letters and legal rulings written by Kanievsky have gone to auction for hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars and started going up for sale during his lifetime.

Three family members killed in Kiryas Joel housefire

 

Kalman Goldstein, his wife, and his seven-year-old daughter

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A fire overnight claimed the lives of three family members in the Hasidic town of Kiryas Joel in New York.

According to Kikar Hashabbat, Kalman Goldstein, his wife, and his seven-year-old daughter were killed after a fire broke out in their home as they slept overnight Wednesday.

Local firefighters worked for a long time to gain control of the blaze, and authorities are currently investigating its cause.

Kiryas Joel, officially named Palm Tree, is a town in Orange County, New York, about an hour north of New York City. The overwhelming majority of the town's residents belong to the Satmar Hassidic sect.

Desperate NYC merchants turn to K-9 units to sniff out shoplifters

 

Shoplifting has become so rampant that one of the Big Apple’s busiest commercial districts is turning to “man’s best friend” to sniff out thieves, The Post has learned.

The 34th Street Partnership — the trade group serving the neighborhood that includes Macy’s Herald Square, Penn Station and Madison Square Garden — is trying to take a bite out of crime by contracting with a firm that provides K-9 units.

The dogged pursuit was launched this month at the CVS at Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street in the heart of the district that has been plagued with thefts.

 “We’ve had a lot of complaints. A lot of shoplifting occurs in drugstores,” said Kevin Ward, the vice president of security for the 34th Street Partnership.

“We’re trying to address the issue.”

The program — which the trade group says costs in the “low-five figures monthly” — was a necessary investment amid a flood of shoplifting complaints and lax enforcement tied to the state’s soft-of-crime laws, according to Ward.

Clinton aide with Epstein ties ruled as a suicide Despite him Being found tied to tree and despite no gun at scene

 

The mysterious death of an aide to President Bill Clinton with ties to Jeffrey Epstein has been officially ruled a suicide – despite there being no sign of a weapon near the body.

Mark Middleton, 59, who served in the Clinton White House in the 1990s, was found dead on Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas on May 2, 2022, the Daily Mail reported.

Almost one year after Middleton’s death, a police report obtained by the outlet this week revealed that the Little Rock businessman was discovered with a gunshot wound to the chest and an extension cord tying his neck to a tree.

“I could see the male was obviously deceased,” Deputy Jeremy Lawson of the Perry County Sheriff’s Department wrote of his arrival at the grisly scene.

Hashem Sends His Goyim to Send Jews from Orlando a Message "Go Back to Israel!"

 

Thank you, high school dropout in a Hawaiian shirt, for reminding us that hatred of Jews and hatred of Israel always comes from exactly the same place pic.twitter.com/EeXKW8dHHE

— Itay Milner (@ItayMilner) February 22, 2023

Arab Say : “They Paid Me NIS 300 To Protest Outside The Knesset”

 

Thousands of Israelis protested against the judicial reform and the “end of democracy” outside the Knesset on Monday night.

However, various videos published on social media of protestors being interviewed showed that many of them had no idea of what the judicial reform entails. One teenage protester told Kan News that the laws dictate that “the government will decide who’s in the Knesset and whoever opposes the laws they propose will go to jail.”

Additionally, a video posted by Chareidi journalist Ariel Elharar showed that not all the participants in the protest were even “authentic” protesters.

Elharar wrote: “Yesterday at the offices of Refuah and Simcha [a chessed organization] in Jerusalem, the Arab janitor didn’t show up. When one of the employees asked him today why he didn’t come yesterday, he replied that he received NIS 300 to participate in the left-wing protest in front of the Knesset and shout: ‘We don’t want Netanyahu, we don’t want Ben-Gvir.'”

Someone responded to the post by commenting: “I was offered NIS 400 to go to the protest. Someone in Ra’anana asked me and someone else if we were going to the protest. I said ‘no’ and he said ‘come for NIS 400’ but I said ‘no.’ The guy next to me continued talking to him.”

The New Israel Fund, a US-based left-wing NGO, has admitted to financially backing anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel.

Video Shows Alligator Lunging At Woman And Her Dog In Florida

 

Terrifying video air by Inside Edtion, shows the moments before an alligator attacks an unsuspecting 85-year-old grandmother walking her dog by a lake.

Authorities say the woman, identified as Gloria Serge, “was walking her small dog along a retention pond in her community” when the alligator “pulled her into the water after attempting to take her dog,”

The horrifying drama occurred at a retirement community in Fort Pierce, Florida.

The victim’s frantic neighbor can be heard on a 911 call as the gator dragged Gloria Serge underwater.

The 11 feet-long gator was later captured and euthanized.

Jew-Haters Spew Vicious Rhetoric and Distribute Fliers Outside Broadway Show (VIDEO)

 

We are horrified to learn that white supremacists disrupted a Broadway show in NYC last night spewing their vile antisemitism and passing out ‘Goyim Defense League’ flyers vilifying the Jewish people. pic.twitter.com/ezL6EZXisX

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) February 22, 2023

  On Tuesday, vicious Neo-Nazi antisemites protested outside the Broadway revival of Parade—a musical about the true story of the false conviction and horrific murder of a Jewish man named Leo Frank HY”D in 1915.

The members of the “National Socialist Movement” shouted at patrons, carried signs with hateful rhetoric, and attempted to distribute hate-filled fliers to people in line for the show.

It was particularly gruesome considering that the musical is an indictment against antisemitism in its most despicable form.

The show depicts the life and tragic death of Mr. Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Georgia in the early 20th century. He was falsely convicted of murdering 13-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan and sentenced to life in prison. But Mr. Frank was subsequently lynched by an angry white mob.

After his death, it was revealed that Ms. Phagan was actually murdered by Jim Conley, another factory worker. Mr. Frank has been exonerated, and the ADL was founded in response to his tragic murder.

The far-right white supremacist group falsely and baselessly accused Mr. Frank of being guilty, in addition to other crimes.

Anti-semitic Hate Group, Shout Slurs Against Jews in Orlando

 

 A disgusting and disturbing video surfaced Wednesday on social media where Jon Minadeo leader of the anti-semitic hate group “Goyim defense league”, is seen harassing Jews in front of the Chabad house in Orlando at 7347 W Sand Lake Road.

The incident happened this past Friday where several members, and its leader of the GDL, stood in front of the Chabad house shouting “go Back to Israel” and “you belong in the oven”.

The Goyim Defense League is a loose network of individuals connected by their virulent antisemitism. The group includes five or six primary organizers/public figures, dozens of supporters and thousands of online followers.

GDL attracts a range of anti-Semites and white supremacists who are motivated and united by their hatred of Jews.

Thank you, high school dropout in a Hawaiian shirt, for reminding us that hatred of Jews and hatred of Israel always comes from exactly the same place pic.twitter.com/EeXKW8dHHE

— Itay Milner (@ItayMilner) February 22, 2023