Friday, May 3, 2024
Turkey suspends export and import operations with Israel
Turkey suspended all export and import operations with Israel due to what it described as its "aggression against Palestine in violation of international law and human rights," the Turkish Trade Ministry announced, according to the Anadolu news agency.
"Since the first day, our country has rushed to the aid of the people of Gaza, delivered tens of thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to the region by ships and planes, especially food, health and medical aid materials, evacuated thousands of patients and stood by our Palestinian brothers and sisters in these difficult days," the ministry said.
"However, the massacre, humanitarian catastrophe and physical destruction caused by Israel continued, and the Israeli government ignored international ceasefire efforts and prevented humanitarian aid," it added.
Turkey will strictly and decisively implement these new measures until the Israeli government allows the uninterrupted and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, it noted.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded to the Turkish move and said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “is breaking agreements by blocking ports for Israeli imports and exports. This is how a dictator behaves, disregarding the interests of the Turkish people and businessmen, and ignoring international trade agreements.”
“I have instructed the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to immediately engage with all relevant parties in the government to create alternatives for trade with Turkey, focusing on local production and imports from other countries.”
“Israel will emerge with a strong and daring economy. we win, and they lose,” said Katz.
Thursday’s move comes several weeks after Turkey restricted exports to Israel of 54 product categories.
At the time, Turkey said the reason for the move was Israel denying a Turkish request to join air drops of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Israel and Turkey formally announced in August of 2022 that they would normalize relations by returning the ambassadors and consuls, after years of tensions.
However, since the start of the war against Hamas in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has resumed his frequent verbal attacks on Israel.
In one speech, the Turkish President said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “committed one of the greatest atrocities of this century in Gaza and has already put his name down in history as the butcher of Gaza."
In March, Erdogan again lashed out at Israel and at Netanyahu, saying they are “like today’s Nazis.”
Foreign Minister Israel Katz later summoned the Turkish deputy ambassador for a reprimand in the wake of Erdogan's attacks on Netanyahu.
Secret Meeting Between The Rosh Yeshiva Of Slobodka And The IDF General
DIN: I happen to know and respect Rav Hirsch, but his refusal to negotiate with the IDF vis a vis drafting Yeshiva students, does not come from a good place. I cannot imagine Rav Hirsch giving in at all, as he is afraid for his very life. This is not about even surviving as Rosh Yeshiva of Slobodka, as he would be unceremoniously tossed out and derided, mocked and degraded, but this is mamash a question of life and death physically! What Satmar did to the Kloizenberger Rebbe, the Spinka Rebbe and Rav Moshe Feinstein z"l, would be child's play to what would happen to Rav Hirsch should he give in even a little bit!
The head of the IDF’s Personnel Directorate, Gen. Yaniv Asor, traveled to Bnei Brak before Pesach for a secret meeting with HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, the Rosh Yeshivah of Slabodka and one of the leaders of the Chareidi Litvak sector.
The meeting was held on the background of the Supreme Court and the Attorney-General’s demands on the government to recruit bnei yeshivos.
Sources close to HaRav Hirsch said that the Rosh Yeshivah stressed that he will not agree to any plan that does not allow all bochurim to learn Torah without interference from the IDF.
Senior IDF officials confirmed the meeting. The IDF responded to an inquiry from B’Chadrei Chareidim by stating: “The Personnel Directorate deals with a wide range of issues related to strengthening the competence of the IDF…including working to promote the integration of Chareidim in a variety of service paths while providing the opportunity to maintain their lifestyle and beliefs. The General met with many leaders in the Chareidi public in order to learn about the various aspects related to the issue and promote it successfully.”
On Wednesday, the government stated that it is working on a plan to recruit Chareidim in the immediate future in a response to the Supreme Court’s demand to clarify how it intends to comply with the law regarding the Chareidi draft.
Palestinian Goes To Auschwitz, Says Jews Should Return There
A shocking video posted on social media earlier this week has sparked widespread condemnation, showing a Palestinian man visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust Memorial Museum and calling for Jews to return to the site of the extermination camp.
In the footage, the man is seen walking through the memorial, exclaiming, “From these ghettos from which the Zionists came, I say Allah have mercy on all the Palestinians and our martyrs. Free Palestine.” He then ominously declares, “God-willing, we will be free from you [Jews], and you will all return to the concentration camps. Or to your countries. Any other place, as long as you leave our place because this is our land. You belong here [Auschwitz]. This is your place of origin. You left these camps and ghettos. Long live Palestine.”
This incident comes amid a surge in pro-Palestinian protests and antisemitic incidents worldwide, with Holocaust memorial sites becoming vulnerable targets for vandalism. In a recent incident, the Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, London, was covered by officials to prevent potential damage or antisemitic graffiti from pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
The World Holocaust Remembrance Center Yad Vashem condemned the incident, stating, “These are the real issues that are eating away at the moral fabric of our society. Holocaust memorials serve as solemn reminders of the unparalleled horrors perpetrated during one of the darkest chapters in human history.”
Meshiginar Biden Finally Opens His Trap and Condemns "Islamophobia"?
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| Biden Condemning Israel for Attacking Haifa |
After days of painstaking silence, President Biden has finally spoken out about the violent protests which have terrorized college campuses.
In his first public remarks on this week’s protests, Biden criticized much of the unrest over the Israel-Hamas war erupting at colleges across the country, saying “none of this is a peaceful protest.”
“Destroying property is not a peaceful protest,” Biden said. “It is against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations, none of this is a peaceful protest.”
However Biden seemed to equate hatred of Jews and hatred of Palestinians. In fact, he mentioned Arabs, Palestinians, and Muslims.
Alan Dershowitz slammed Biden, tweeting: “Why can’t President Biden simply denounce antisemitism without pandering to Muslims and Arabs. This is what he said: “There is place for hate speech or violence of any kind whether it’s antisemitism,Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab American or Palestinian American.””
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Hamas Students at Columbia Held 3 Janitors Hostage ..
NEW: Columbia protester tells Fox News reporter to get out of her face after he asks multiple questions including why they held three janitors hostage.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 30, 2024
Reporter: “Do you feel like it was right to hold 3 of the janitor workers hostage inside of the building?”
Protester: “I think… pic.twitter.com/ACzZqFIMN4
Jewish Student Runs for his Life in UCLA ... Security Watches and Does Absolutely Nothing
This is why we need a Jewish Army ...
Universities Make Concessions to Pro-Hamas Demonstrators
At least two elite American universities have made concrete concessions to anti-Israel protesters who set up illegal “encampments” on school property, chanted antisemitic slogans, and vowed not to leave unless administrators agreed to adopt the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state.
For the past two weeks, college students have been amassing in the hundreds at a growing number of schools, taking over sections of campuses by setting up “Gaza Solidarity Encampments” and refusing to leave unless administrators condemn and boycott Israel. Footage of the protests has shown demonstrators chanting in support of Hamas, calling for the destruction of Israel, and even threatening to harm members of the Jewish community on campus. In many cases, activists have also lambasted the US and Western civilization more broadly.
The protests initially erupted across the US but have since spread to university campuses around the world, primarily in the West.
According to an announcement issued by Northwestern University in Illinois after hours of negotiations with the protesters, the school has agreed to establish a new scholarship for Palestinian undergraduates, contact potential employers of students who caused recent campus disruptions to insist on their being hired, and create a segregated dormitory hall to be occupied exclusively by Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students. Northwestern University — where a mob shouted “Kill the Jews!” as part of the ongoing protests — has also agreed to form a new investment committee in which anti-Zionists students and faculty may wield an outsized voice.
On Tuesday, meanwhile, Brown University in Rhode Island announced that it will hold a vote on divesting from companies linked to Israel in exchange for the students disassembling their encampment and abstaining from holding more protests until the school’s commencement on May 26, according to the Brown Daily Herald. The student newspaper added, however, that the university will not “at this time” drop criminal charges filed against 41 students who illegally occupied an administrative building in December.
A German soldier looted postcards from doomed Lublin Yeshiva in Poland. 80 years later, his granddaughter brought them back
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| Karla McCabe speaks at a ceremony where she returned postcards that her Nazi soldier grandfather looted from the Lublin yeshiva, |
Before World War II, Lublin was a vibrant center of Jewish culture in Poland dating back to the 16th century. A large share of the city was always Jewish, roughly one-third — or 40,000 people — when the Nazis invaded. The Lublin Yeshiva opened in 1930, led by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, and lasted only nine years. In its brief life it became one of the world’s largest Jewish religious schools and boasted a library of between 15,000 and 40,000 religious books, among them some of the earliest manuscripts in print.
The Nazis turned Lublin into a center of mass extermination, killing 99% of its Jews and eradicating symbols of Jewish culture. Although the broad yellow structure of the yeshiva remained, used as an office by the German army, its vast library disappeared. The destruction was so effective, leaving so few traces of the yeshiva’s documentation, that even how its books vanished has remained a subject of speculation. For decades, a popular theory said they went up in flames at a Nazi book burning.
Lauren Boebert Tries to Tear Down Palestinian flag Draped over George Washington Statue "This Sh_T Needs to Come Down"
VIDEO: Cong @laurenboebert attempts to rip down Palestinian flag that was draped over George Washington statue on the GWU campus. pic.twitter.com/w7lAxcROKP
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) May 1, 2024
Boebert visited the college campus with her fellow GOP politicians, James Comer, Byron Donalds, and Anna Paulina Luna.
But the hostile reception didn't deter Boebert from making her stance known to protesters.
"This is America, and that shit needs to come down," Boebert told protesters as she tried to remove a Palestinian flag that was draped over a statue of George Washington.
"It's not your property," a man told Boebert.
Boebert later threatened to cut the university's funding if the protesters weren't stopped.
"If they don't want to do something to address this? Well, then kiss your federal funding goodbye," Boebert said while using a loudhailer.
Boebert isn't the only GOP politician who has tangled with pro-Palestinian protesters on American college campuses.
House Speaker Mike Johnson was booed and heckled by students when he visited Columbia University last month. Johnson called for the resignation of the university's president, Minouche Shafik, after the Ivy League institution was rocked by protests over Israel's war in Gaza.
On Tuesday evening, officers from the New York Police Department entered the university in riot gear and detained dozens of protesters.
Johnson's and Boebert's calls to crack down on protesters expose a growing rift between the GOP and American colleges over their handling of protests on campus.
"The rise of antisemitism in America and especially on college campuses is abhorrent and disgusting," Boebert wrote in an X post on Wednesday.
Matt Gaetz Slams ‘Ridiculous’ Anti-Semitism Bill Passed by the House ‘Without Regard for the Constitution’
DIN: Matt Gaetz brings up an interesting point.
He says in his tweet that “The Gospel itself would meet the definition of antisemitism under the terms of this bill,”
I have news for Matt, the Gospel is in fact antisemitic and the cause of much of the death and chaos in the world!
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) slammed an anti-Semitism bill approved by the House on Wednesday, claiming it has no “regard for the Constitution.”
On Wednesday, lawmakers in the House passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act by a vote of 320-91. The legislation, which was introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), will be sent to the Senate for a vote.
Although the bill was passed with bipartisan support, a small group of progressive Democrats and hardline Republicans opposed it by claiming it would interfere with free speech.
Gaetz told his followers on X, formerly Twitter, that he voted “no” against the legislation because it is a “ridiculous hate speech bill.”
“Antisemitism is wrong, but this legislation is written without regard for the Constitution, common sense, or even the common understanding of the meaning of words,” he wrote.
“The Gospel itself would meet the definition of antisemitism under the terms of this bill,” he added. The bill says the definition of antisemitism includes ‘contemporary examples of antisemitism’ identified by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). One of those examples includes: ‘…claims of Jews killing Jesus…'”
Gaetz concluded, “The Bible is clear. There is no myth or controversy on this. Therefore, I will not support this bill.”
The House passed the legislation amidst nationwide pro-Palestine protests across dozens of college campuses in recent days, leading to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators. Democrats and Republicans have denounced the protesters for the use of pro-Hamas chants.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Chabad infiltrates Pro-Hamas Rallies
During clashes between anti-Israel protesters and pro-Israel counter-protesters on Tuesday night at UCLA in California, one flag held by a counter-protester caught the eye of many.
The bright yellow flag was not that of Israel nor of the PLO, and not even the flag of the Hezbollah organization, which is similar in color. Rather the flag flown by the pro-Israel counter-protester was the yellow "Moshiach" (messiah) flag of the Chabad Hassidic movement.
A video that has gone viral on the internet shows a CBS News reporter's reaction to the fl the flag, which he had never seen in the past.
"The first I've seen of this, I've never seen this flag before, or this logo. I don't know if that's what this group is. We've been trying to get a clear view of what that says," the reporter pondered aloud to the viewers.
Many on social media were surprised that the reporter was unfamiliar with the flag, being that members of the Chabad movement fly it across the world, including the US.
'US troops at Gaza pier will fire back if Fired Upon
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that American troops may be fired at by terrorists in the Gaza Strip as they work to build a pier off the Gaza coast to facilitate the provision of more humanitarian aid into the Strip and would be allowed to return fire in the event of such attacks.
Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee yesterday (Tuesday), Austin said that it is "possible" that the American servicemen working on the pier could be attacked while in the course of their duties.
“Typically, all of the deployed service members carry guns, and they have the ability to protect themselves if challenged," he told the lawmakers.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) asked, "So if someone from land, and Gaza, shoots at our service members who are on the $320 million pier that we’re building, you’re telling me our service members can shoot back?"
Austin responded, "They have the right to return fire to protect themselves."
The Defense Secretary reiterated that American troops would not have "boots on the ground" in Gaza despite being present at the pier.
Senior Hamas Khalil al-Hayya has threatened to attack any foreign forces stationed in the area of the pier. “We categorically reject any non-Palestinian presence in Gaza, whether at sea or on land, and we will deal with any military force present in these places, Israeli or otherwise … as an occupying power," al-Hayya said.
Terrorists in Gaza have already attacked the pier. Last Wednesday, US officials confirmed that terrorists had fired mortars at the pier, damaging equipment and injuring one person.
Rep. Gaetz called the Secretary's remarks a "very telling moment."
“Shots from Gaza, on our service members, and then the response – our armed service members shooting live fire into Gaza – that is a possible outcome here so that we can become the Port Authority and run this pier,“ Gaetz said.
Cops toss away Palestinian flag and raise the stars and stripes,in iconic moment after quelling City College pro-terror protest
#HAPPENINGNOW: An incredible scene and proud moment as we have assisted @CityCollegeNY in restoring order on campus, culminating in raising Old Glory once again on their campus flagpole. 🇺🇸@NYPDPC @NYPD1stDep @NYPDChiefOfDept @NYPDChiefPatrol @NYPDnews pic.twitter.com/XZWFmvXcUs
— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 1, 2024
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