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BREAKING NEWS:
8:20 pm Sunday: Palestinian terrorists from Gaza captured while attempting to infiltrate Israel across the Gaza border fence.
6:58 pm Sunday: Frantic scene on Jerusalem Light Rail. Passengers panic when someone yells “Terrorist!”. Police combing the area.
1:42 pm Sunday: Palestinian terrorists attack Israelis on Road 443 with “rocks”.
12:02 am Sunday: Israeli security guardhouse in Silwan hit by rifle fire. Bullet grazes one guard.
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9:00 pm Israel time, Sunday, August 23 2015
**The daily Palestinian terror report . . .
There were 32 reported Palestinian terror attacks on Saturday. A representative sample:
At 10:58 am, dozens of masked Palestinians attacked IDF forces and Border Guards near Esh Kodesh in the Binyamin area with “rocks” and Molotov cocktails. Fires were set all around the area.
Throughout the day there were ongoing “rock” and Molotov cocktail attacks in Issawiya–and “rock” assaults at the Maccabim Checkpoint and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
In the evening, at 8:46 pm, there were Palestinian attacks near Jalazun, and at 9:50 pm the IDF Pharmacy position in Hebron was struck by Molotov cocktails.
At this hour, it is not known how many Israelis were physically wounded and how many more were treated for trauma yesterday.
**You will recall the saga of Matisyahu . . .
Invited to the Spanish reggae Sunsplash festival, then disinvited from the festival because he refused to sign a declaration supporting a Palestinian state, then reinvited to the festival with an apology from the festival organizers.
Last night, the courageous Matisyahu appeared on stage and sang “If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem” in front of sea of Palestinian protesters and flags. You can watch by clicking here.
Your humble servant has only one thing to say: BRAVO MATISYAHU!!
TODAY’S BLOG:
The new happy face of J Street University: Amna Farooqi, a Pakistani-American Muslim who happens to despise Israel.
It has long been reported here on israelstreet and elsewhere that J Street, the supposedly “Jewish organization” that grovels at the feet of President Obama and his minions, is neither pro-Israel nor pro-peace as its mantra maintains.
In this context, it is no surprise that J Street has been lovingly embraced by President Obama and held up as a shining example of how all Jews should react to his presidency. At the moment, J Street is waging a pro-Obama campaign against Israel by spending millions of dollars to pass the Iranian Nuclear Appeasement Agreement in the U.S. Congress.
But let’s shift our focus on J Street today.
The announcement six days ago on the J Street website was bland and seemingly unremarkable:
“J Street U, the student arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement, today announced the election of its sixth national student board.
The National Board, which directs the student arm of J Street, was elected by the organization’s leaders at the annual Summer Leadership Institute this week. It is comprised of the president and six other elected representatives, each of whom represents a geographic region. The board members make decisions as a group and work collaboratively to guide strategy for the organization.
Amna Farooqi, a senior at the University of Maryland, was elected President of the J Street U National Student Board. She has previously served as Southeast Representative on the National Board, and as Student Co-Chair for the 2013 J Street National Conference. She spent the spring 2014 semester in Jerusalem, studying Hebrew and Political Science at Hebrew University. This past summer she lived in Jerusalem and interned with J Street U’s Israel program.”
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What this announcement doesn’t say is that Farooqi is a Pakistani-American Muslim who comes from a family, according to her, that has “pro-Palestinian sympathies.”
What this announcement doesn’t say is that Farooqi articulated her and the J Street U agenda at a gathering this year: “We are not here to talk about the pro-Israel conversation on campus. We are here to talk about the occupation.”*
Of course, it comes as no surprise that J Street founder and president Jeremy Ben-Ami is ecstatic about Farooqi’s ascension to the presidency of J Street U. After all Ben Ami has long been kept in business by huge donations from abroad–many of which come from Muslim donors.
In a widely reported interview, Ben-Ami said that he was thrilled by Farooqi’s election because he “hopes it serves as a symbol and a signal about future inclusiveness.” He went on to say that he is appalled by some nasty online rhetoric over the Farooqi choice and added that he believes the majority of Jewish organizations will react positively.
As they undoubtedly will.
“Inclusiveness” is the magic word in U.S. and European religious circles these days. As mainstream congregations continue their steep decline in numbers, each of them feel the desperate need to reach out to anyone they can to join their ranks.
And how do they do this? By being “inclusive.”
Nowhere has this been more true than in reform Jewish synagogues in the United States. Riddled by intermarriage on a grand scale, some of those synagogues actually now have more non-Jews than Jews among their congregants.
Unfortunately but not surprisingly, the same Jews and non-Jews who attend these congregations are among the leaders in the fight to make the pro-Israel community “more inclusive.”
To accomplish this, they have formed organizations which tout “civil discourse” with those who strive to delegitimize Israel.
So what if someone is a member of J St? So what if they somewhat or fully support BDS? So what if someone believes that Israel should disappear as a country and Jews should live under Muslim governance*? According to the “inclusionists”, all of these people are welcome because they can still be “pro-Israel”.
Nothing is more important than inclusiveness. And few things are more evil.
*That Jews should live as dhimmis was a viewpoint articulated at the most recent J St convention.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.