Tuesday, 14 May 2013


IsraPundit


Double Standards at University of California  

by Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
A troubling double standard appears to exist when it comes harassment at the publicly funded University of California. The University has taken strong action against harassment, physical assault, terrorization and targeting individuals on the basis of their ethnic origin or religion — except when the person under assault is Jewish, and the perpetrator is a member of an antisemitic or jihadi front group. Then UC administrators have no time to answer emails pleading for protection.
President Yudof and the UC chancellors treat accusations of harassment of women as a violation of state law. Harassment of black students is vigorously condemned, as it should be: “We will not tolerate racism in any form, and we will not hesitate to act to eradicate it whenever and wherever it arises.” In 2010, the university saw no free speech impediments to shutting down a student TV station and revoking its university funding because a racial slur was uttered. When Berkeley Republicans held a “diversity bake sale” they were threatened with loss of funding.

IRS Targets Conservative and Jewish Groups  

Laura: Tea party groups and Jewish groups supportive of Israel were specifically targeted by the IRS for auditing. This is perhaps the most corrupt and tyrannical administration in this nation’s history. I saw a report on FOX about this scandal and strangely they failed to mention about the Jewish groups included. Is that because FOX is pro-fakestinian?

IRS Inquisition Update

Along with targeting tea-party groups, the IRS may also have given extra-special attention to the tax-exempt status of some Jewish groups for political reasons.From the Jewish Press:

The passionately pro-Israel organization Z STREET filed a lawsuit against the IRS, claiming it had been told by an IRS agent that because the organization was “connected to Israel,” its application for tax-exempt status would receive additional scrutiny. This admission was made in response to a query about the lengthy reveiw of Z STREET’s tax exempt status application. In addition, the IRS agent told a Z STREET representative that the applications of some of those Israel-related organizations have been assigned to “a special unit in the D.C. office to determine whether the organization’s activities contradict the Administration’s public policies.” . . . And at least one purely religious Jewish organization, one not focused on Israel, was the recipient of bizarre and highly inappropriate questions about Israel. Those questions also came from the same non-profit division of the IRS at issue for inappropriately targeting politically conservative groups. The IRS required that Jewish organization to state “whether supports the existence of the land of Israel,” and also demanded the organization “escribe religious belief system toward the land of Israel.”
More bureaucratic snafus?

THE SOLDIERS OF MODERN ISRAEL (Part 1)  

by Steve Kramer (www.encounteringisrael.com)
THE ARABS’ UNDECLARED WAR against the Jews had already started when Natan Alterman, the influential Israeli poet, journalist, playwright and translator, penned his most famous poem, indelibly inscribing the image of Israel’s soldiers in the Israeli psyche. Below is the conclusion of his poem, “The Silver Platter,” which was published by Davar newspaper, December 19, 1947:
    Then a nation in tears and amazement will ask: “Who are you?” And they will answer quietly, “We Are the silver platter on which the Jewish state was given.”
    Thus they will say and fall back in shadows
    And the rest will be told In the chronicles of Israel

Israel’s Medical Startups Can Regrow Bones  

JERUSALEM — Doctor Shai Meretzki can regrow bones.
Not that that makes him special; the medical technology to do it has been available for years. But Meretzki can take excess body fat, extract mesenchymal stem cells from it, and grow custom-made bone, outside the patient’s body. It even comes complete with the patient’s own blood vessels, and once grafted, it will grow the patient’s own bone marrow.
That is what’s unique, and it all started when Meretzki was studying biotechnology and chemical engineering at Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, about 15 years ago. What if it were possible, he thought, to grow cells in three dimensions rather than the traditional two-dimension method?
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Two Religious Girls Box-Kick Their Way to World Champions (video)  

The IDF gets a new weapon next year. Meet Baltimore-born Nili Block and Mumbai convert Sarah Avraham, both of them religious and the new world champs in Thailand-style kick-boxing.

Two religious teenagers, one a convert from India and the other born in Baltimore, have won the world championship in Thailand-style kick-boxing for their weight class.
Officially known as Muay Thai, the combat sport is known as “the art of eight weapons” because of the use of fists, elbows, knees, shins and feet.
One might expect that world champs in the kick-boxing sport would be huge gorillas from the Amazon, but two winners in the girls’ championships held in Thailand recently are none other than two religious girls from Israel.
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Double Standards at University of California  

A troubling double standard appears to exist when it comes harassment at the publicly funded University of California. The University has taken strong action against harassment, physical assault, terrorization and targeting individuals on the basis of their ethnic origin or religion — except when the person under assault is Jewish, and the perpetrator is a member of an antisemitic or jihadi front group.  Then UC administrators have no time to answer emails pleading for protection.  
President Yudoff and the UC chancellors treat accusations of harassment of women as a violation of state law.  Harassment of black students is vigorously condemned, as it should be: “We will not tolerate racism in any form, and we will not hesitate to act to eradicate it whenever and wherever it arises.”  In 2010, the university saw no free speech impediments to shutting down a student TV station and revoking its university funding because a racial slur was uttered.  When Berkeley Republicans held a “diversity bake sale” they were threatened with loss of funding. 
Republicans are too dangerous to be allowed free speech, but anti-Jewish groups?  No problem with abuse there.  (Read more…)

Revealed: Netanyahu’s secret talks with the Palestinians  

This dialogue and the language Bibi uses in talking of negotiations, and the freeze and other concessions Bibi has agreed to, have convinced me that he is ready to start negotiations on Palestinian terms and to make an Olmert-like offer. Ted Belman
More than two years ago, the Times of Israel reports here for the first time, top PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo held a series of meetings with the PM’s peace envoy, Yitzhak Molcho, and ultimately met at length with Netanyahu himself, to discuss new negotiations. The prime minister seemed ready to restart talks on the basis of pre-1967 lines, but then discontinued the contacts
RAMALLAH — Israel and the Palestinian Authority tried to conduct backchannel negotiations, or at least initiate them, in late 2010 and early 2011 in a series of secret meetings between the prime minister’s envoy, attorney Yitzhak Molcho, and the head of PLO Executive Committee, Yasser Abed Rabbo. Abed Rabbo revealed these contacts in an interview with this correspondent here last week. 

War or referendum  

Livni and Liberman were also against referendum. Too bad. I don’t trust the politicians to decide. It is imperative that the people have the last say. Ted Belman
Op-ed: For some reason, Lapid prefers that a pile of politicians decide where Israel’s permanent borders should be set
Yair Lapid now knows that he can’t please all of the people all of the time. That’s what happens when decision-making replaces storytelling. That’s what happens when an unaccountable columnist becomes a scrutinized finance minister that needs to submit a prioritized budget. In a budget that called for cuts, Lapid had the choice of confronting corrupt union leaders or humiliating unemployed housewives and hard working middle class. He chose the latter, leaving the brunt of the new budget to be borne by ‘Riki Cohen’ and people of her social standing.
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Partition plan for Jerusalem  

‘E. J’lem building plan delayed for political sensitivity’
Tenders to build 1,500 units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of east Jerusalem have been delayed by at least three weeks, despite Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s announcement last week that there was no change in policy on settlement building in the area, Army Radio reported Monday.
Hagai Segal, YNET NEWS 
The prime minister gave Jerusalem an odd gift on its holiday: A construction freeze. On the 46th anniversary of the city’s liberation by a Labor government, a Likud government is freezing it. Levi Eshkol liberated, Benjamin Netanyahu is freezing. He hardly built any homes in Jerusalem during his previous term, and now he is not building any at all. The new housing minister revealed this week that he is not being authorized to add even one apartment to the capital. The prime minister summoned him a few days ago and handed him a freezing order for all construction beyond the Green Line. 
To his credit, Netanyahu did not attend the Jerusalem Day ceremonies this year, so we were spared the traditional dissonance between his tough talk and lack of action. Praising a united Jerusalem while dividing it is extremely hypocritical. Netanyahu is forbidding Jews from building in Pisgat Ze’ev but does nothing to prevent Arabs from building in Shufat, Beit Hanina and the Temple Mount.  has run out of land reserves in its western part long ago. It is no coincidence that the most talked about building project in Jerusalem over the past decade has been the Holyland apartment complex. Despite its immense size, the project did not solve the housing shortage in the city or thwart the threats of withdrawal it faces.  

Israel must clamp down on violence  

Incidents of such attacks are steadily increasing. Many people have been injured by rocks thrown by Arabs, even killed.
Bennett is pushing for a law change that would allow more aggressive defense.
This is a serious matter. The only reason there is order in society is because citizens voluntarily follow the law. The moment they don’t the system breaks down and there is anarchy.
It is imperative that Israel show much less tolerance to violent protestsw, lest the tipping point be reached.

French court postpones verdict in al-Dura libel trial  

Defense Minister formed secret investigative committee that concluded Al-Dura had not been hurt and the video was staged.
Media analyst Philippe Karsenty was sued by France 2 after he accused network of staging footage in iconic Second Intifada shooting
It is good to see that the GOI is finally backing Karsenty in this case. It took them long enough. Ted Belman
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF April 3, 2013,
 

The verdict in the libel case against French media analyst and critic Philippe Karsenty, sued by France 2 for accusing the network’s Jerusalem bureau chief Charles Enderlin of fabricating parts of a segment showing the reported death of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura from IDF fire in Gaza in September 2000, has been postponed to May 22.
The Paris Court of Appeal was expected to rule on the case on Wednesday but decided to postpone the verdict to study the matter further.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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