Thursday, August 25, 2016

Preparing for the Campus Battle

Dry Bones, BDS, boycott, campus,Israel, Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism, students, camera, According to the Connecticut Jewish Ledger:
Amid rise in campus antisemitism, pro-Israel students prepare for challenging year ahead
By Sean Savage/JNS.org

For most students, the dog days of August are one final chance for summer traditions such as hitting the beach or visiting national parks with their family before heading back to campus. For dozens of pro-Israel college students, however, learning about ways combat increasing campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism was their focus during summer’s final weeks. Over 80 college students from nearly 70 campuses around the world attended the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America’s (CAMERA) student conference in Boston, Massachusetts August 7-10.

“Reports of intimidation on campus are becoming all too common across the globe,” said Aviva Slomich, CAMERA’s international campus director. “Unfortunately campus antisemitism seems to be on the rise, which explains why so many students are eager to learn the skills that are offered at CAMERA’s conference.” The program comes at a critical time for Jewish and pro-Israel students. A recent report by the AMCHA Initiative found an alarming spike in campus antisemitism during the first half of 2016. “Nearly 100 more incidents of antisemitism occurred on campus during the first six months of 2016 compared with the first six months of 2015,” according to the AMCHA Initiative’s mid-year study. Antisemitic activity was twice as likely to occur on campuses where BDS (the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign) was present, eight times more likely to occur on campuses with at least one active anti-Zionist student group such as SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine), and six times more likely to occur on campuses with one or more faculty boycotter, the report noted.

Now in its sixth year, the CAMERA conference seeks to help students learn necessary skills for dealing with anti-Israel activists on campus. The three-day event tackles a number of important issues for students, ranging from educational seminars on the BDS movement to learning about bias in the media. Additionally, the conference allows students to put the knowledge they gain from the seminars to practical use, such as learning about techniques on how to talk with extreme anti-Israel activists on campus and how to work within student government to fight BDS resolutions. “What we offer students is high-level intellectual training and emotional support to meet the challenges of the modern college campus,” said Gilad Skolnick, CAMERA’s campus program director. “Throughout the year we give students the resources to counter anti-Israel activity on campus, such as providing films, speakers, teach-ins, rallies all funded by CAMERA.”

Rezwan Ovo Haq, a University of Central Florida economics and political science student, told JNS.org that the CAMERA conference helped him set the foundation to combat anti-Israel activity on campus. “I thought that the CAMERA conference was phenomenal and it truly arms [us] with knowledge and information to combat anti-Israeli rhetoric and BDS on college campuses. I look forward to working with CAMERA during the upcoming school year,” he said.-more

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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

End of Season Sale: Pay Now Play Later?

Dry Bones,  Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary, Election, America, politics, Presidency, campaign, According to the Columbus Ohio Dispatch (quoting the Associated Press Report:
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton's family foundation will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if she is elected president, and will bring an end to its annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting regardless of the outcome of the November election.

Former President Bill Clinton made the announcement at an afternoon meeting with foundation staff members, according to participants who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity ahead of the formal announcement.

Bill Clinton said the foundation plans to continue its work, but intends to refocus its efforts in a process that will take up to a year to complete. The former president, who turns 70 on Friday, said he will resign from the board, and the foundation will only accept contributions from U.S. citizens and independent charities. -more

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Monday, August 22, 2016

Our Wayward Youth

Dry Bones,  Israel, Palestine, BDS, boycott, self-hating Jews, campus, anti-Zionist, antisemitism, They are not self-hating Jews. They don't hate themselves. They hate us!

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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Palestinian Kids: Back to School

Dry Bones,  Israel, Palestine, children, terror, terrorism, Poisoning the minds and souls of yet another generation of Arab children.

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Friday, August 19, 2016

Merged Reality

Dry Bones, High Tech, technology, Israel, startup, virtual reality, peace, Peace Process, For the story about the new Israeli "merged reality" goggles: http://www.timesofisrael.com/intels-new-merged-reality-headset-sports-made-in-israel-tech/

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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Boys and Girls

Dry Bones, transgender, PC, political correctness, The story is HERE

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Trump's Speech

Dry Bones, Trump, Donald, teleprompter, Presidential campaign, America, When I was a kid in America, my father would read Presidential speeches which were printed in full in the New York Times.

These days almost every media outlet trashed Trump's speech without actually covering it. So, if you're interested, here's what the candidate said:

In the 20th Century, the United States defeated Fascism, Nazism, and Communism. Now, a different threat challenges our world: Radical Islamic Terrorism. This summer, there has been an ISIS attack launched outside the war zones of the Middle East every 84 hours. Here, in America, we have seen one brutal attack after another. 13 were murdered, and 38 wounded, in the assault on Ft. Hood. The Boston Marathon Bombing wounded and maimed 264 people, 5 and ultimately left five dead – including 2 police officers. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, five unarmed marines were shot and killed at a military recruiting center. Last December, 14 innocent Americans were gunned down at an office party in San Bernardino, another 22 were injured. In June, 49 Americans were executed at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, and another 53 were injured. It was the worst mass shooting in our history, and the worst attack on the LGTBQ community in our history. In Europe, we have seen the same carnage and bloodshed inflicted upon our closest allies. In January of 2015, a French satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, was attacked for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. Twelve were killed, including two police officers, and 11 were wounded. Two days later, four were murdered in a Jewish Deli. In November of 2015, terrorists went on a shooting rampage in Paris that slaughtered 130 people, and wounded another 368. France is suffering gravely, and the tourism industry is being massively affected in a most negative way. In March of this year, terrorists detonated a bomb in the Brussels airport, killing 32 and injuring 340. This July, in the South of France, an Islamic terrorist turned his truck into an instrument of mass murder, plowing down and killing 85 men, women and children – and wounding another 308. Among the dead were 2 Americans – a Texas father, and his 11-year-old son. A few weeks ago, in Germany, a refugee armed with an ax wounded five people in a gruesome train attack.

Only days ago, an ISIS killer invaded a Christian church in Normandy France, forced an 85-year-old priest to his knees, and slit his throat before his congregation. Overseas, ISIS has carried out one unthinkable atrocity after another. Children slaughtered, girls sold into slavery, men and women burned alive. Crucifixions, beheadings and drownings. Ethnic minorities targeted for mass execution. Holy sites desecrated. Christians driven from their homes and hunted for extermination. ISIS rounding-up what it calls the “nation of the cross” in a campaign of genocide. We cannot let this evil continue.

Nor can we let the hateful ideology of Radical Islam – its oppression of women, gays, children, and nonbelievers – be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries. We will defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism, just as we have defeated every threat we have faced in every age before. But we will not defeat it with closed eyes, or silenced voices. Anyone who cannot name our enemy, is not fit to lead this country. Anyone who cannot condemn the hatred, oppression and violence of Radical Islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our President.

The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary Clinton Let’s look back at the Middle East at the very beginning of 2009, before the Obama-Clinton Administration took over. Libya was stable. Syria was under control. Egypt was ruled by a secular President and an ally of the United States. Iraq was experiencing a reduction in violence. The group that would become what we now call ISIS was close to being extinguished. Iran was being choked off by economic sanctions.

Fast-forward to today. What have the decisions of Obama-Clinton produced? Libya is in ruins, our ambassador and three other brave Americans are dead, and ISIS has gained a new base of operations. Syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war. ISIS controls large portions of territory. A refugee crisis now threatens Europe and the United States. In Egypt, terrorists have gained a foothold in the Sinai desert, near the Suez Canal, one of the most essential waterways in the world. Iraq is in chaos, and ISIS is on the loose.

ISIS has spread across the Middle East, and into the West. In 2014, ISIS was operating in some 7 nations. Today they are fully operational in 18 countries with aspiring branches in 6 more, for a total of 24 – and many believe it is even more than that. The situation is likely worse than the public knows: a new Congressional report reveals that the Administration has downplayed the growth of ISIS, with 40% of surveyed analysts saying they had experienced efforts to manipulate their findings. At the same time, ISIS is trying to infiltrate refugee flows into Europe and the United States. Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, is now flush with $150 billion in cash released by the United States – plus another $400 million in ransom. Worst of all, the Nuclear deal puts Iran, the number one state sponsor of Radical Islamic Terrorism, on a path to nuclear weapons. In short, the Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilized the Middle East, and put the nation of Iran – which chants ‘Death to America’ – in a dominant position of regional power and, in fact, aspiring to be a dominant world power. It all began in 2009 with what has become known as President Obama’s global ‘Apology Tour.’ -more

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Monday, August 15, 2016

Presidential Fear

Dry Bones, Trump, never Trump, press, TV, media, Democratic Party,Republicans, politics, never Hillary, crooked Hillary, Presidential campaign, America,May the least dangerous candidate win!

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

TISHA BE'AV

Dry Bones, Fast, Holy Day, Tisha Be'Av, Jerusalem Temple, Judaism, Jews, Jewish Culture, politics, Tisha Be'Av ( "the ninth of Av") is an annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the anniversary of the destruction of both the First Temple by the Babylonians and the Second Temple by the Romans in Jerusalem. Tisha Be'Av 2016 begins in the evening of Saturday, August 13 and ends in the evening of Sunday, August 14

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Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Meet the Press

Dry Bones, Trump, never Trump, press, TV, media, Democratic Party,politics, Presidential campaign, America,Remember when the press was supposed to be impartial?

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Monday, August 08, 2016

The Gift of Jewish Continuity!

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Sunday, August 07, 2016

Join the Battle

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Thursday, August 04, 2016

Iranian Ransom

Dry Bones,Obama, ransom, $400 million, Iran, hostages, mullahs,According to USA Today:
"WASHINGTON — Revelations that a plane carrying $400 million in cash arrived in Iran as the Islamic regime released U.S. hostages prove that President Obama engaged in a cash-for-hostages deal, congressional Republicans charged Wednesday.

That detail, reported in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, reignited a months-old debate about the Iran nuclear deal.

"This report makes plain what the administration can no longer deny: this was a ransom payment to Iran for U.S. hostages," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. said in a letter to the State and Justice Departments.

"Iran sent American hostages back on the same day it received the cash. Sounds a lot like a ransom payment to me," said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

And House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. — while hedging his criticism by noting that the newspaper report is unconfirmed — said the report "would also mark another chapter in the ongoing saga of misleading the American people to sell this dangerous nuclear deal.""-more

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Pope Francis

Dry Bones,Pope, Pope Francis,Islamic terror, Jihad, France, Political Correctness,According to breitbart:
"In a brief address aboard the papal plane en route to Krakow for World Youth Day, Pope Francis expressed his conviction that the world is at war, but it is not a religious war, since every religion wants peace."-more

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Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Q & A on American Culture

Dry Bones, Obama, Hillary,PC, America, politics, Presidential Campaign, Political Correctness Democrats, racism, sexism,Political correctness makes idiots of us all!

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Monday, August 01, 2016

A Blue State of Mind

Dry Bones, Obama, Pollard, Jonathan Pollard, parole, Dennis Ross, Jews, Democratic Party,According to HaModia:
Ross Urges Obama to Rescind Pollard’s Parole Restrictions
By Avraham Weissman
NEW YORK - In a dramatic development, Dennis B. Ross, who served in key positions in five consecutive U.S. Administrations, has written a letter to President Obama urging him to rescind Jonathan Pollard’s harsh parole restrictions. Most recently, Ross served as a member of President Obama’s National Security Council, serving as a Special Assistant to the President with overall responsibility for the Central Region, which includes the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia. Ross is currently a Counselor and Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Pollard, who was released on parole in November after serving thirty years of an unprecedented life sentence in prison for passing classified information to Israel, a close U.S. ally, is battling unusually harsh restrictions, which include a 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. curfew and the unfettered monitoring and inspection of his computers, in addition to those of any employer who chooses to hire him.

Pollard is also currently required to wear a GPS monitoring system that consists of a non-removable transmitter installed on his wrist, and a receiver that is plugged into an outlet in his residence. Whenever he moves outside the range of the receiver, the transmitter — which is three inches long and two inches wide — acts as a GPS tracker and monitors his location. Were Pollard to step out of his tiny studio apartment to daven with a minyan or get some fresh air on Shabbos or Yom Tov, the battery would begin to drain, forcing him to choose between violating Shabbos or facing re-arrest." -more

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