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Big Four Accounting Firms Break Ties with Palestinian NGOs Designated as Terror Groups by Israel | United with Israel

PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young break ties with two blacklisted Palestinian NGOs.

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Antisemitism at the Toronto District School Board has led to a backlash that the Board undoubtedly did not expect. It was high time that the largest school Board in Canada, and the fourth largest in North America, faced accountability regarding its use of public funds to promote a pro-Palestinian agenda as part of its “equity” and “diversity” program. The Board’s actions go back to Operation Guardian of the Walls in May, and climaxed with the targeting of a Jewish school board trustee who was taken to the woodshed by the Board for pointing out a disturbing incident of antisemitism displayed by the TDSB’s equity advisor.

The backlash has been unprecedented, involving virtually every Jewish group and supporter of democracy in the Toronto area, and includes a rare statement by the Toronto Board of Rabbis. It ultimately resulted in a victory, in a groundbreaking, precedent-setting vote put to the TDSB Trustees to strike down an antisemitic motion. The battle was intense, and demonstrated what collective determination for the good could accomplish.

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The BDS-supporting Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East subsequently launched a campaign of support for Cole, claiming that “Free Palestine” is about human rights, not hate.” This point was later addressed by the TDSB in a letter to a concerned citizen about the repeated incitement by pro-Palestinian groups to “free Palestine from the River to the Sea.”

Fast forward to the second week in November to a pro-Palestinian high school student classroom walkout and demonstration at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Toronto. Over 200 students rallied to “Free Palestine”. The demonstration was organized in support of Desmond Cole and Javier Davila (discussed further down). Students reportedly chanted “anti-Israel slogans” and carried signs with the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” In a letter forwarded to be by email, the TDSB attempted to address a complaint about a disturbing pattern of Antisemitism within its domain….
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The words “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” do not mean “different things to different people.” They are an open incitement for Palestinians to destroy Israel. This quest manifests itself in, among other things, the Pay-for Slay program, which pays Palestinians to kill Jews, as well as in the launching of rockets against Israeli citizens and the celebration of martyrdom, which is actively promoted in Palestinian culture. PA TV also routinely indoctrinates and encourages Palestinian adults and children alike to murder Jews.

The pro-Palestinian agenda is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, and its offshoots like Hamas. For the Muslim Brotherhood, “Jihad is the way.“ Many Islamic authorities state that it is the highest calling and duty for Muslims everywhere to take up the cause of jihad.

The Muslim Brotherhood vision has for quite some time spread on campuses throughout North America.

More followed at the TDSB: In mid-July, B’nai Brith Canada expressed outrage over “the apparent reinstatement without discipline of a Toronto school employee who sent materials to teachers justifying the murder of Israeli civilians.” B’nai Brith noted:

(full article online)

Groundbreaking Win Against Palestinian Anti-Semitic Propaganda | Frontpage Mag

Antisemitism at the Toronto District School Board has led to a backlash that the Board undoubtedly did not expect. It was high time that the largest school

www.frontpagemag.com

 

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Her talk begins, “I want to recognize I am also on stolen and unceded indigenous territory here in North Carolina,” and went on to refer to the United States and Israel as “twin settler colonies.”

Broderick promoted the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) during the panel, and earlier in 2021, she signed a letter affirming her commitment to promote BDS “in the classroom and on campus.”

And UNC still chose her to teach a course on Israel and the Palestinians.

In a series of conspiratorially bizarre statements, she refers to ABC News as part of the “allegedly secular media,” and asserts that there are efforts “seeking to criminalize teaching about Palestine from a pro-Palestinian perspective or a truthful perspective.”

In this new video, Broderick shared, “All in all, the University [UNC] received thousands of emails about me demanding I be fired and they came from all echelons of society. But honestly, what was more troubling than the mobilization of the Hasbara network, was how the university wanted me to respond to their baseless accusations.”

Broderick’s presentation was steeped in antisemitism — on what the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes as “The myth of excessive Jewish power.” She repeatedly complains that UNC — the same university that chose her to teach a course on Israel — is “playing into a Zionist playbook,” and that the university expected her to function under “Israel’s rules.”

She argues that it is crucial to “dismantle the power that Hasbara and other pro-colonial causes have historically had over universities.” She states that the pro-Israel media was able to “dominate the airwaves.”

After concluding her presentation, the moderator — Jamila Ghaddar — immediately responded, “Thank you so much Kylie for that thorough presentation of this violent attack you faced.”

In Broderick’s upside-down academic world, espousing blatant antisemitism is normative, and those who call out her hatred and extreme anti-Israel bias are somehow violent.

Kylie Broderick has made it very clear that she views the college classroom as her own private playground — a place where she feels free to indoctrinate students against Israel with no consequences. She disregards and disrespects other views. This extremely biased, antisemitic agenda has no place in academia.

(full article online)

Antisemitic Professor Who Was Kept on at UNC Spreads More Jew Hatred Than Ever - Algemeiner.com

This semester, Kylie Broderick taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, despite her publicly promoting the view that Israel should not exist, declaring that Palestinians are the only legitimate side in the conflict, and urging...

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(Islam and the Arabs colonized a lot of territory outside of Arabia all the way to North Africa. No BDS movement against them. BDS = A one sided Islamic endeavor to destroy Israel and any country which attempts to be on the right side of history. And many in those countries are dumped by the "Israel is a colonizer, Apartheid "regime" nonsense )

SJP, which has 180 chapters and organizes protests, BDS resolutions and “disseminates propaganda” through social media and other outlets—is by far the “most active” anti-Israel group on university campuses in the United States and Canada. Also very active in spreading anti-Israel and anti-Zionist sentiment on campus, the report said, is the group Jewish Voice for Peace.

Seventeen colleges brought BDS measures up for a vote by the student government in 2020-21, and 11 have passed them, adding to the ongoing rise of anti-Israel activism on campuses.

The report noted that some of the most strident anti-Israel activists called for Israel to be dismantled or denied its right to exist; expressed support for violent resistance to Israel; and called for Zionists and pro-Israel students to be excluded from campus life.

Among anti-Semitic tropes the ADL found repeated by anti-Israel college activists were those alleging Jewish or Zionist power and control over the media and political affairs. “Such language,” the report said, “can create a corrosive climate for many Jewish students on campus.”


(full article online)

ADL report: Anti-Israel student groups top drivers of anti-Semitism on campus

Seventeen colleges brought BDS measures up for a vote by the student government in 2020-21, and 11 have passed them.

www.jns.org

 

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Meanwhile, attention and outrage increased within the Jewish community, primarily among the left-leaning pro-Israel groups targeted in the speech.

“This is textbook vile, anti-Semitic, conspiracy-laden garbage attacking the mainstream U.S. Jewish community. It sounds like something you would expect from white supremacists,” tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL’s CEO. [CAIR] must condemn their staffer [Zahra Billoo] for this awful, unapologetic bigotry. And any org that claims to fight for social justice should cut ties with anyone who spouts such hate.”

Eric Fingerhut, CEO and president of the Jewish Federations of North America, said “the extremist, fringe nature of these positions are clear in the unapologetic use of anti-Semitic tropes in describing the Jewish community and direct calls for enmity with Jewish Federations, the ADL, and Hillel—organizations that, together with others, represent the vast majority of the U.S. Jewish community. We call on people of all faiths to reject these outrageous statements, which we will not allow to undermine our long history of cooperation and friendship with the American Muslim community.”

It wasn’t Billoo’s first time attracting the ire of the Jewish community. She was previously ousted from her short stint on the board of the progressive Women’s March for tweets that were widely condemned as anti-Semitic.

“As someone who has been repeatedly attacked by the execrable Zahra Billoo for almost 15 years, and as recently as her notorious American Muslims for Palestine talk two weeks ago, I am amused that the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Federations, Hillels and ‘Zionist synagogues’ (as she dubbed them) only become upset with her when she called them out as ‘polite Zionists.’ ” Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, told JNS in an email. “Glad you woke up, guys, and welcome to the club.”

(full article online )

CAIR backs leader after ‘virulently anti-Semitic’ speech attacking mainstream Jewish entities

“As someone who has been repeatedly attacked by Zahra Billoo for almost 15 years, I am amused that the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Federations, Hillels and ‘Zionist synagogues’ only become upset with her when she called them out as ‘polite Zionists,’ ” said Daniel Pipes, president of the...

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South African Government Faces Call to Apologize to Miss South Africa After Top 3 Finish

The South African government is being urged to apologize to Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane after she made the top three of Miss Universe.

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Miss USA Vows to Come Back to 'Wonderful' Israel

Miss USA Elle Smith, who reached the top 10 on Monday's Miss Universe pageant in Eilat, called Israel "wonderful" and vowed to be back.

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Mondoweiss publishes a pro-BDS article by Donna Nevel who is frustrated that South Florida Jewish newspapers. won't publish her anti-Israel op-eds.

Seventy-three years ago this week, on December 11, 1948, U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194 made clear that Palestinians had the right to return to their homes and lands from which they had been expelled. Resolution 194 stated that “refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date.”

Let's summarize the reasons why there is no "right to return."

UN General Assembly Resolution 194, paragraph 11 states:
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Does Resolution 194 gives a legal basis for the “right of return”?

Firstly, this is a General Assembly resolution, and as such is not international law. It includes many other paragraphs, such as protection and free access to holy places (which Jordan did not respect.)

Secondly, notice that the wording does not use the word “right.” This was a deliberate decision made as the resolution was being drafted– because no such right exists.

Thirdly, the Arabs rejected the resolution at the time. It is a little disingenuous to have them claim that what they strenuously opposed then is international law now.

Fourthly, as Israel argued at the time, the paragraph gives conditions for any return – the Arabs would have to agree to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors, and that has never happened.

Fifthly, the original British draft of the resolution specified Arab refugees. That language was removed, meaning that it refers to both Jewish and Arab refugees being able to return to their homes. That is one reason every Arab nation rejected it. Yet no one who supports “return” says Jews have the right to return to the places they lived across the Green Line.

Finally, according to the International Court of Justice, “international law leaves it to each State to lay down the rules governing the grant of its own nationality.”[1]

Yet even without these points, the document cannot be interpreted to support the mass return of Arabs to Israel. And the proof comes from the UN itself.

In 1950, the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, which was created by this very same resolution, issued a working paper on interpreting paragraph 11 of UNGA 194.

When interpreting the phrase “to their homes” in “The General Assembly . . . resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date,” the UNCCP wrote [emphasis mine]:

There is no doubt that in using this term the General Assembly meant the home of each refugee, i.e. his house or lodging and not his homeland. This is indicated by the fact that two amendments using the term "the areas from which they have come" were rejected. Furthermore by implication it would appear that if the refugees not returning are to be compensated for their property, those returning would reoccupy their homes and be compensated only for losses and damages.[2]

This means that even for the people who insist that UNGA 194 gives the descendants of Palestinian refugees the “right of return,” they still cannot just move to Israel en masse. Even in 1950, the most generous reading of UNGA 194 said that it only is for those whose original house was still intact. Everyone else would, according to 194, be entitled only to compensation - if 194 had legal validity to begin with. (Israel had offered allowing up to 100,000 Arabs to return to their homes in the 1950s but the Arabs rejected the offer.)

The people claiming that UNGA 194 gives the right for millions of descendants of refugees the right to overrun Israel demographically have no legal leg to stand on.

There is a bigger point, though. The demand for "return" was never based on legality of morality or justice. It was always intended to destroy Israel.

(full article online)

No, there is no "right to return" for Palestinians

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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Antisemitism at the Toronto District School Board has led to a backlash that the Board undoubtedly did not expect. It was high time that the largest school Board in Canada, and the fourth largest in North America, faced accountability regarding its use of public funds to promote a pro-Palestinian agenda as part of its “equity” and “diversity” program. The Board’s actions go back to Operation Guardian of the Walls in May, and climaxed with the targeting of a Jewish school board trustee who was taken to the woodshed by the Board for pointing out a disturbing incident of antisemitism displayed by the TDSB’s equity advisor.

The backlash has been unprecedented, involving virtually every Jewish group and supporter of democracy in the Toronto area, and includes a rare statement by the Toronto Board of Rabbis. It ultimately resulted in a victory, in a groundbreaking, precedent-setting vote put to the TDSB Trustees to strike down an antisemitic motion. The battle was intense, and demonstrated what collective determination for the good could accomplish.

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The BDS-supporting Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East subsequently launched a campaign of support for Cole, claiming that “Free Palestine” is about human rights, not hate.” This point was later addressed by the TDSB in a letter to a concerned citizen about the repeated incitement by pro-Palestinian groups to “free Palestine from the River to the Sea.”

Fast forward to the second week in November to a pro-Palestinian high school student classroom walkout and demonstration at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Toronto. Over 200 students rallied to “Free Palestine”. The demonstration was organized in support of Desmond Cole and Javier Davila (discussed further down). Students reportedly chanted “anti-Israel slogans” and carried signs with the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” In a letter forwarded to be by email, the TDSB attempted to address a complaint about a disturbing pattern of Antisemitism within its domain….
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The words “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” do not mean “different things to different people.” They are an open incitement for Palestinians to destroy Israel. This quest manifests itself in, among other things, the Pay-for Slay program, which pays Palestinians to kill Jews, as well as in the launching of rockets against Israeli citizens and the celebration of martyrdom, which is actively promoted in Palestinian culture. PA TV also routinely indoctrinates and encourages Palestinian adults and children alike to murder Jews.

The pro-Palestinian agenda is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, and its offshoots like Hamas. For the Muslim Brotherhood, “Jihad is the way.“ Many Islamic authorities state that it is the highest calling and duty for Muslims everywhere to take up the cause of jihad.

The Muslim Brotherhood vision has for quite some time spread on campuses throughout North America.

More followed at the TDSB: In mid-July, B’nai Brith Canada expressed outrage over “the apparent reinstatement without discipline of a Toronto school employee who sent materials to teachers justifying the murder of Israeli civilians.” B’nai Brith noted:

(full article online)

Groundbreaking Win Against Palestinian Anti-Semitic Propaganda | Frontpage Mag

Antisemitism at the Toronto District School Board has led to a backlash that the Board undoubtedly did not expect. It was high time that the largest school

www.frontpagemag.com

So, where is this so called Antisemitism?

 

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So, where is this so called Antisemitism?

Free Palestine = Destroy Israel = Antisemitism

 

[Rigby5]

So, where is this so called Antisemitism?

What is to contradictory is that the word "Semitic" means "of an Arab language group", so "anti-Semitic" does not mean "anti-Jewish".
It means "anti-Arab".
Jews are committing an immoral cultural appropriation by not only stealing the words, but using them by being contradictory in calling Arabs "anti-Semitic", which is impossible. Arabs can't be anti-Arab.
The problem comes from ignorance.
Most Jews do not even realize that the original Hebrew tribes were Arab.

 

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Free Palestine = Destroy Israel = Antisemitism

Nonsense.
Freeing Palestine does not require destroying Israel if Israel simply withdraws to a 2 state solution.
I personally perfer destroying Israel, because there has been no country in the world more guilty of illegal and immoral war crimes.
But destroying Israel is not even remotely anti-Jewish, much less anti-Semitic.
Israel is the most anti-Jewish country in the world.
Judaism requires Jews to stay out of the Mideast entirely, waiting for the coming of the Messiah.
Jews are not supposed to even go to the Mideast, much less invade and try to claim a country there.
Zionists in Israel are the most anti-Jews in the whole world.

 

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What is to contradictory is that the word "Semitic" means "of an Arab language group", so "anti-Semitic" does not mean "anti-Jewish".
It means "anti-Arab".
Jews are committing an immoral cultural appropriation by not only stealing the words, but using them by being contradictory in calling Arabs "anti-Semitic", which is impossible. Arabs can't be anti-Arab.
The problem comes from ignorance.
Most Jews do not even realize that the original Hebrew tribes were Arab.

You do know that Semitic does not mean what it says it means.

Stop changing and lying about things to make you happy.

I will not even give the history as to why it is not anti semitism and not Judeophobia.

You know the history very well.

 

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There likely was no greater war crimes than the massacres of innocent Arab villages by Zionists from 1946 to 1950 or so.
It was not war, but heavily armed Zionists deliberately gunning down innocent native Arab women and children at close range.
There are hundreds of Arab villages that just totally disappeared, and it is estimated tens of thousands of unarmed Arab woman and children were massacred.
At Dier Yassin, we have reports from near by Jews who tried to stop the massacre, who revealed that the Arabs were murdered in their homes, by Zionists throwing explosive grenades into Arab homes, and then bayoneting survivors.

That has nothing to do with the thread's topic.

Thank you so much for your Jew hatred rant.

 

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Nonsense.
Freeing Palestine does not require destroying Israel if Israel simply withdraws to a 2 state solution.
I personally perfer destroying Israel, because there has been no country in the world more guilty of illegal and immoral war crimes.
But destroying Israel is not even remotely anti-Jewish, much less anti-Semitic.
Israel is the most anti-Jewish country in the world.
Judaism requires Jews to stay out of the Mideast entirely, waiting for the coming of the Messiah.
Jews are not supposed to even go to the Mideast, much less invade and try to claim a country there.
Zionists in Israel are the most anti-Jews in the whole world.

"Jews are not supposed to even go to the Mideast, much less invade and try to claim a country there."


Seek psychiatric help based on that rant alone.

 

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[Rigby5]

You do know that Semitic does not mean what it says it means.

Stop changing and lying about things to make you happy.

I will not even give the history as to why it is not anti semitism and not Judeophobia.

You know the history very well.

Wrong.
The use of the word "anti-Semitic" as a code word around 1880 or so, did not just mean anti-Jew.
It also meant anti-Arab, anti-Moslem, and anti all other cultures and religions that were not German and Christian.
Their intent was really better characterised as anti-Mideastern.

But a Zionists calling an Arab "anti-Semitic" for being against illegal policies by Israel, is just disgusting, irrational, and lies.
The original Hebrew tribes were Arab, and the original Hebrew invasion of Palestine was criminal, just as the Jewish invasion of Palestine in the 1940s was as well.