Protests of Trump's Recognition of Jerusalem Marked by Calls For Violence Against Jews

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Rachel Frommer
December 11, 2017 4:20 pm

Protester: Israel's 'time is limited, and their time is up'

Protests over the weekend in the United States and Canada, conducted in response to President Donald Trump's recognition Wednesday of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, were marked by at least one assault of a Zionist counter-protester, calls for organized violence against Jews, and the stealing and burning of Israeli flags.

At a demonstration held outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Saturday, a 17-year-old Israeli-Jewish student from the nearby University of British Columbia (UBC), who stood silently on the side with an Israeli flag unfurled, said he was pushed to the ground by a middle-aged protester wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh, or headdress.

The student, who spoke with the Washington Free Beacon on condition of anonymity, said he was bending to rescue a cardboard likeness of an Israeli flag that had been set on fire by protesters, when he was shoved down and called a "piece of shit" by the unidentified demonstrator.

The cardboard flag, which bore a large red "X," was lit with a cigarette lighter within feet of the student, who had been encircled by about 10 protesters. They left him with "no exit strategy," he said, adding that one of the protesters also stole his own, real flag.

The defacing of the Israeli flag was "a lot more disturbing" than the personal threats or physical violence, he said.

"It is shocking that this could happen in country supposed to be all about plurality and multiculturalism," he said. "You don't burn another person's aspirations for a homeland."

The student added that he had not gone to downtown Vancouver to counter-protest, but to celebrate completing a difficult final exam. Palestinian resistance music playing on speakers drew him to the scene.

He explained that he happened to have an Israeli flag in his bag from the night before, when he had been counter-protesting Friday's much larger rally outside the gallery with a few UBC friends.

An Israeli flag was stolen from the Zionist group on Friday, as well. It was then stomped on and ripped apart, according to footage of the event.

One of the students initially holding the flag, Jake Reznik, said young children sitting on their parents' shoulders called him a "Nazi" and "genocider."

Noah David Alter, Reznik's fellow flag-bearer, said, "One woman told me if she sees me again, she'd knock my teeth out."

Alter said Vancouver police failed to intervene when the flag was stolen and destroyed.

"There was no way they didn't see what was going on," he said.

Meanwhile, a similar protest was underway at New York City's Times Square.

Activists chanted, "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Muhammed is returning," invoking Islamic prophet Muhammad's 7th century war against Jewish tribes. The battle has also been cited as inspiration by terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah.

Protesters in both cities called for another "intifada," or popular uprising, a term referring to periods of Palestinian suicide bombings and stabbings in Israel that took place from 1987 to 1993, and again in the early 2000s.

The Vancouver protests were organized in part by Tarek Ramadan, according to News 1130, a local imam who in July gave a sermon urging his congregants to send "money, weapons, expertise" to Palestinians fighting the Zionist "gang."

"[I]t is our duty, an individual duty, that we all share their Jihad and their struggle against the Zionists, by all means necessary—by all legal means and any Islamic means. We are not going to be shy or wishy-washy about it," Ramadan said, according to a transcript of the speech translated by Middle East and Arabic language media watchdog, MEMRI.

The Manhattan rally was organized by a coalition of pro-Palestinian groups, with leaders of the local anti-Israel movement encouraging the crowd to be "active" in the dismantlement of Israel.

Nerdeen Kiswani, head of the New York City chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine—the country's largest network of anti-Israel campus groups—warned, that Israel's "time is limited, and their time is up."

"It's up to all of us here, including everyone in the crowd, to keep this momentum going if we want to see Israel fall within our lifetime. And inshallah, it will fall within our lifetime," said Kiswani, who earlier this year celebrated a deadly truck ramming attack in Jerusalem as a "Fuck you" to "settlers."

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Pence Faces Down Arab Threats Ahead of First Official Trip To Israel

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Adam Kredo
December 11, 2017 12:20 pm

Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Israel next week to reaffirm President Donald Trump's declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, according to White House sources who said Pence will strongly support the new recognition despite violence in the region and diplomatic protests by regional officials.

Pence's office had extended an invitation to meet with Palestinian officials while in the region, but the Palestinian Authority rejected the offer, according to the White House. The vice president also extended meeting invitations to Egypt's Coptic Christian Pope and Grand Imam, but both were turned down, according to administration officials.

Pence is remaining defiant in the face of ongoing protests and diplomatic fallout following Trump's declaration, and will speak in front of Israel's Knesset, or parliament, where he will "strongly reiterate his commitment to Israel and support the acknowledgement of Jerusalem as Israel capital," according to one senior White House official briefed on the matter.

Pence, on his first trip to the Middle East since taking office, will seek to bolster the administration's new policy and reiterate its commitment to the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians amid violent protests across the region in response to Trump's recognition of Jerusalem.

Pence will be the first U.S. official to address Israel's parliament since Trump directed the State Department to begin moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Pence "will speak at the Knesset early next week as one of the first stops on his week long middle east trip," said one White House official. "Expect him to strongly reiterate his commitment to Israel and support and acknowledgment of Jerusalem as its capital."

The administration maintains that, despite objections from Arab leaders, the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital will not impede the peace process. Officials have maintained that American policy will not be held hostage by threats of regional violence.

Senior White House officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon said the rejections of Pence's offers to meet show a lack of commitment to renewing the peace process and pushing forward with regional objectives.

"While most of the world community is criticizing the administration's decision, it's the administration that was willing to meet and talk with the Palestinians—they were the ones unwilling to have constructive dialogue," said one senior official briefed on the situation.

Pence remains optimistic about the trip despite some tension.

After Palestinian leaders rejected Pence's offer to meet while he is in the region, the vice president's office issued a scathing response blaming Palestinian leaders for walking away from the bargaining table at a key juncture.

"The president has asked Vice President Pence to go to the region to reaffirm our commitment to work with partners throughout the Middle East to defeat radicalism that threatens the hopes and dreams of future generations," Alyssa Farah, Pence's press secretary, said over the weekend.

"It's unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region, but the administration remains undeterred in its efforts to help achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians and our peace team remains hard at work putting together a plan," Farah said.

Pence will still hold meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Other administration insiders briefed on Pence's trip said the White House has been making, and will continue to make, good faith outreach efforts to Palestinian and Arab leaders in pursuit of the peace process.

"Everyone in the Middle East knows the Trump administration is serious about advancing a realistic peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians," said one veteran Middle East expert who regularly advises Congress and the Trump administration on Israeli-Palestinian peace process issues.

"The reason they know it is because they're all involved in it. The president's team has been carefully but systematically moving forward a regional approach, and America's allies there have all bought in," the source said. "The only people pretending there's a genuine crisis are the Palestinians and Trump's critics back here in D.C."

Thank You Mr Kredo and freebeacon.

Nikki Haley Stands Tall At U.N. Slams U.N. For Its Hatred of Israel

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Hank Berrien December 8, 2017

Speaking at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley refused to back down from the United States’ commitment to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, asserting, ““We must recognize that the prospect of peace is advanced, not set back,” by President Trump’s move to do so. She said bluntly, “I understand the concerns that members have in calling this session. Change is hard.” She added that the United States was more committed to peace “than we’ve ever been before — and we believe we might be closer to that goal than ever before.”

The declaration from Trump affirms that “all parties are honest with each other” as “for nearly 70 years, Jerusalem has been the capital of the State of Israel” regardless of U.S. recognition, Haley said. She said the recognition was based on “common sense.”

Haley pointed out that people using Washington’s actions as an excuse for violence were “only showing” they had no desire for peace. She cited past Israeli-Palestinian agreements that had been signed on the White House lawn, and said that if a new agreement arose, there would be “a good likelihood” it will be signed at the White House “because the United States has credibility of both sides.”

Haley also lauded the Jewish People’s attachment to Jerusalem “through 3,000 years of exile,” calling Jews “patient.”

In addition, Haley took no prisoners when it came to the traditional hatred the UN has displayed for Israel, saying that the organization always targets Israel for criticism and has “done much more damage for the prospects of peace than to advance it.”


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And the TOP COMMENT award on the U.N. and its ridiculous 'Peace Process' nonsense goes to:

KJinWTexas • 3 hours ago

Way to go, Nikki! If the Palestinians wanted peace, there'd be peace. If Israel wanted war, Palestine would not exist.

Now That's what you call a 'Realist'.

And if you want more on Ambassador Haley, use the dailywire link. 4 more reports following this article on President Trump's magnificent pick to rub the U.N.s stinking nose in what it's dumped on Israel's carpet.

There's A Giant Hole In Palestine's Jerusalem Narrative

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Saagar EnjetiReporter
10:13 AM 12/07/2017

President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and begin procedures to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem has engendered immense criticism that it will destabilize any existing peace between Israel and Palestine.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned of “dangerous consequences” for any peace process as a result of the decision, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to cut off relations with Israel, and Saudi Arabia issued a similar public denunciation of the president’s decision.

The president’s critics say he has alienated the Palestinians and the Arab world in one fell stroke, dealing a death knell to any future peace processes between Israel and Palestine and may even be responsible for violence. Abbas’s political party called for three “days of rage” and riots are expected in the West Bank.

The only problem, however, is that no substantive peace process is in the works or has existed in recent years. U.S. law has dictated since 1995 that the U.S. Embassy must be moved to Jerusalem and every President since Bill Clinton has pledged to follow through on the move. “If the movement of an American Embassy that was signaled more than 20 years ago is enough to scuttle peace talks, then maybe the basis for peace doesn’t yet exist,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board poignantly observed.

Palestinian political leaders’ call for riots may also be a consequence of long-held U.S. reluctance to move the embassy and recognize the capital, Eli Lake of Bloomberg explains.

“Palestinians are fed a steady stream of propaganda about the danger to Jerusalem,” Lake declared, adding “that’s the real danger of sticking to the policy of Jerusalem neutrality. It feeds a Palestinian illusion: With enough patience and rage, one day the Jews will be evicted from their eternal capital. That’s not going to happen.”

Even many of the protests from Arab nations may but little more than bluster, Shadi Hamid of the Atlantic observes.

“Most Arab countries won’t care much about Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,” Hamid declares, pointing out the strong relationship between Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman and the Trump administration. “If Saudi officials, including the crown prince himself, were particularly concerned with Jerusalem’s status, they would presumably have used their privileged status as a top Trump ally and lobbied the administration to hold off on such a needlessly toxic move.”

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Top House Dem Praises Trump's Jerusalem Move Hours After He Voted To Impeach Him

Dems Define Courage of their Convictions

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Henry RodgersPolitical Reporter
9:38 AM 12/07/2017

A top Democrat praised President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel the same day he voted to impeach Trump on the House floor.

The top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, New York Rep. Eliot Engel, praised Trump’s decision Wednesday, calling the move “long overdue” in a statement just hours after he and 57 other Democrats in the House voted to impeach Trump. This effort got shut down immediately in a sweeping 364-58 vote.

“This decision is long overdue and helps correct a decades-long indignity.” Engel said. “I support the decision to recognize Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Israel and to move the U.S. embassy there.”

“It recognizes where Israel’s government — the parliament and the prime minister — is based, as well as the ancient and unbreakable connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem,” he added.

The statement came hours after Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green and five other House Democrats, introduced articles of impeachment against the president in November and listed a number of reasons they believe Trump should be impeached. Although House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer told their Democratic colleagues in the House to stop pushing articles of impeachment against Trump before the vote took place, Engel still voted to impeach the president. (RELATED: House Overwhelmingly Rejects Trump Impeachment Vote)

Engel followed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s move in supporting Trump’s move to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital Wednesday, directing the State Department to begin the process of relocating the embassy that will take several years.

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PM Benjamin Netanyahu Praises President Trump's 'Historic Decision' On Jerusalem

Concerned About Anti-Israel Bias, Republicans Introduce Another Bill Targeting U.N. Funding

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By Patrick Goodenough | January 19, 2017 | 4:18 AM EST

(CNSNews.com) – Republican lawmakers on Wednesday introduced yet another bill targeting United Nations funding, this time including a special focus on the U.N. Human Rights Council’s heavily anti-Israel agenda.

The bill introduced by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) aims to combat what they describe as “systematic bias and targeting of the Jewish state of Israel at the United Nations.”

It calls specifically for U.S. funding to be withheld until the president certifies that no U.N. agency or affiliated agency grants official status or recognition to any organization promoting or condoning anti-Semitism.

American taxpayers account for 22 percent of the regular budget of the U.N., plus almost 29 percent of the separate peacekeeping budget. The U.S. additionally provides billions of dollars more each year in “voluntary contributions” to a spread of U.N. agencies, ranging from the International Atomic Energy Agency to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

Under the new legislation, the Geneva-based Human Rights Council would be deprived of U.S. funding until it drops a permanent agenda item focusing on Israel and the Palestinian territories.

As CNSNews.com has reported, Israel is the only country out of 192 U.N. member-states that is the subject of a permanent item on the HRC’s agenda.

The item’s existence means that Israel is routinely condemned at every regular month-long HRC session – three times a year – irrespective of what crises and conflicts may be occurring anywhere else in the world.

When the HRC in 2011 held a review of its first five years in operation, the Obama administration sought to have the Israel agenda item removed. Although the move was unsuccessful, the administration chose not to vote against the final review report that left the item intact.

The Rubio-Cotton legislation says that until the secretary of state can certify that the Israel-centric item has been removed from the HRC agenda, the U.S. will be neither able to fund, nor run for a seat on, the council.

Also in the crosshairs is UNRWA, which has been dogged over recent years by allegations about associations with Hamas, and staff members’ posting of anti-Semitic messages on social media.

Established after the 1948 war launched by Arab nations against the newly-declared state of Israel, UNRWA is the only U.N. agency to deal exclusively with one group of refugees. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is responsible for refugees from all other parts of the world.

The U.S. has long been UNRWA’s largest bilateral donor, providing it with $380.5 million in 2015. Since 1950, American taxpayers have accounted for more $4 billion in contributions to UNRWA.
In their bill, Rubio and Cotton make future U.S. funding for UNRWA contingent on the secretary of state certifying that no UNRWA official, employee, consultant, contractor (etc.) is a member of Hamas or any other U.S.-designated terrorist group; or has “propagated, disseminated, or incited anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic rhetoric or propaganda.”

Further, the secretary must certify that no UNRWA school, hospital or other facility is being used by Hamas or affiliated terror groups for operations, training, recruitment or fundraising

It also calls for independent audits to ensure no UNRWA resources are being diverted to Hamas or other terror groups.

“This bill simply puts into law what should be common sense,” Cotton said Wednesday. “Americans’ tax dollars should not fund anti-Semitic activities or nefarious efforts to undermine the legitimacy of Israel.”

“For too long, the world's worst actors have used the United Nations as a forum to point an accusatory finger at Israel and deflect from their own failings,” Cotton added. “That will stop only when America leads, stands on principle, and uses its considerable leverage to force true reform at the United Nations.”

Rubio said it was time the U.N. was “held accountable for targeting and singling out Israel while countries that actually threaten international peace and security – like Russia and China – go unchallenged.”

Other pieces of legislation already introduced in Congress this month seek to prohibit either assessed or voluntary U.S. funding for the U.N. – or both – or to tie future such funding to specific actions by the world body or to funding reports by the administration.

One, introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) last week, would cut off all U.S. funding to the U.S. until last month’s U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel is repealed.

Another bill, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), calls for an outright U.S. withdrawal from the U.N.

The Pew Research Center reported last fall that only 43 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of the U.N., compared to 80 percent of Democrats – the largest margin between the two measured by Pew in the 27 years it has polled the issue.


Thank You Mr Goodenough and CNS. 

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