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The West is capitulating to China at a rapid pace. ‘A few days before the 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off in Beijing, China, on Feb. 4, Amnesty International released a bombshell report calling the only free democracy in the Middle East an “apartheid” state and igniting a global media firestorm.
Since then, the dominant image and lead story on Amnesty’s home page has been “Israel’s Apartheid Against Israel.”
This media diversion must have made one group very happy and one group very depressed. The happy group was surely China’s ruthless leaders, delighted to see the world focusing on Israel instead of China’s war crimes against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
The depressed group, obviously, were the Uyghurs themselves. Can you imagine how demoralized these poor people must be to see this unique chance at world exposure squandered?
But here’s the crazy part—Amnesty International is more than aware of these Chinese war crimes. It even released a report on June 10, 2021, titled “‘Like We Were Enemies in a War’: China’s Mass Internment, Torture, and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang.” And in an open letter to UN member states on Oct. 11, 2021, it called on the international community to “strongly condemn the ongoing serious human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) and pave the way for justice and accountability.”
But then, four months later, when the eyes of the world were fixed squarely on the Winter Games in China, when Amnesty could have lived up to its call to hold China “accountable,” what did it do?
It chose to focus on Israel.
Never mind that Amnesty’s report on “Apartheid Israel” has been universally condemned, with even the moderate Union for Reform Judaism rejecting it as “replete with discredited and inaccurate allegations, including a deeply wrong accusation of apartheid.”
The key point is this: While the world was distracted by Amnesty’s libelous attack on Israel, it failed to focus on one of the worst human crimes of the century.
WHILE THE WORLD WAS DISTRACTED BY AMNESTY’S LIBELOUS ATTACK ON ISRAEL, IT FAILED TO FOCUS ON ONE OF THE WORST HUMAN CRIMES OF THE CENTURY.
I have a feeling Amnesty is aware of its vulnerability. That must be why, beneath its loud “Israel’s Apartheid Against Israel” graphic that dominates its home page, you can see down below a secondary story dated Jan. 14, 2022, titled, “China: World must use Winter Olympics to demand human rights improvements.”
It’s as if Amnesty kept that piece somewhere on its home page so it can say, “Hey, just because we released that report on Israel at the start of the Beijing Games doesn’t mean we forgot about China!”
No can do.
Amnesty’s report bashing Israel just before the Beijing Games was bad enough for fueling rising antisemitism around the world and endangering the lives of Jews.
Now it must answer to an additional charge: that it failed at a unique moment to draw attention to the hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority men and women arbitrarily detained and subjected to mass internment, torture and persecution by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang.
Just when the world would have paid maximum attention, Amnesty gave the oppressors in China its own version of amnesty.’https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/344924/the-beijing-olympics-was-a-singular-chance-to-expose-chinas-war-crimes-instead-amnesty-international-chose-to-single-out-israel/
Never heard of Sally Rooney but undoubtedly many out there have. She is ‘An Irish author whose novels have topped the New York Times bestsellers list has prevented her most recent book from being translated into Hebrew, due to her support for a cultural boycott of Israel.
Sally Rooney allowed her two previous books, Conversations With Friends and Normal People, to be translated to Hebrew and published by Israeli press Modan, but she had a change of heart when it came to her third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Rooney’s agent turned down a bid from Modan to translate and publish the book, citing her pro-Palestinian stance, according to Hebrew language daily Haaretz.
“When Modan approached Rooney’s agent in an attempt to sign another translation deal, the agent announced that Rooney supports the cultural boycott movement [BDS] of Israel and therefore does not approve translation into Hebrew,” Haaretz reported.
During the May 2021 Gaza-Israel conflict Operation Guardian of the Walls, Rooney signed an open letter urging “an end to the support provided by global powers to Israel and its military; especially the United States,” and calling on countries to “cut trade, economic and cultural relations” with the Jewish State.
Rooney, who has been called the voice of the Millennial generation, often imbues her characters with left-wing political views and writes about issues related to identical politics and social justice activism.’https://worldisraelnews.com/bestselling-irish-author-dont-translate-my-book-to-hebrew/?utm_source=newsletters_worldisraelnews_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Bennett+Claims+Ultra-Orthodox+Have+Too+Much+Power%3B+Israel+Slams+Ben+%26+Jerry%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Ignorance+and+Hypocrisy%E2%80%99%3B+Microsoft%3A+Iran+Hacked+Israel+and+US%3B+Samaria+Outpost+Legalized%3F&utm_campaign=20211012_m165088786_Bennett+Claims+Ultra-Orthodox+Have+Too+Much+Power%3B+Israel+Slams+Ben+%26+Jerry%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Ignorance+and+Hypocrisy%E2%80%99%3B+Microsoft%3A+Iran+Hacked+Israel+and+US%3B+Samaria+Outpost+Legalized%3F&utm_term=_0D_0A_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09Read+Now_0D_0A_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09
The present state of Israel is not a lover of the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ, but the God of Heaven and earth is not done with Israel. Be warned, Those who fight Israel are also fighting the LORD!
‘Why Is Israel Experiencing Record Covid Cases — With 3 Doses of The Vaccine?’https://rumble.com/vmjy97-why-is-israel-experiencing-record-covid-cases-with-3-doses-of-the-vaccine.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Ron+Paul+Liberty+Report&ep=2
There is an agenda here and the LORD is not taken by surprise. This is all leading to a one world religion and government that will control the lives of all those who are living on this earth. Conspiracy theory? Wait and you will see it unfold right in front of your eyes! These so-called democracies have sold themselves and their citizens out supposedly to keep them safe from the Wuhan Flu and climate change! Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
‘Israel has been at the top of the game since the coronavirus pandemic began. The country has taken every possible step and has been applauded for being able to keep Covid under control.
While the world struggles to complete two doses of vaccination for all eligible students, Israel’s coronavirus czar, Salman Zarka, has hinted towards a fourth dose of Covid vaccine.’https://www.wionews.com/world/new-normal-israels-health-expert-says-fourth-shot-of-covid-vaccine-needed-410904
‘I have a bigger Stack planned on the Pfizer trial results.
But Israel has gone back to being more transparent, and the new data are now too bad not to highlight.
A reminder – Israel and the United Kingdom were the two major countries that vaccinated earliest and most aggressively. And they are much better at providing data than the United States – they provide updates every day, which limits their opportunities to manipulate it.
Israel is now segmenting the number of serious cases by vaccinated and unvaccinated and by age on its primary data dashboard, available here:
You can use Google translate and check it for yourself. It’s actually pretty straightforward.
So here’s the chart of new serious cases each day:
As you can see, new serious cases have risen 10-fold since the beginning of July – from roughly five a day to about 40 over the last week. The overall number of patients has soared too – from 30 to more than 200.
But how many of those people are vaccinated?
The vast majority. Israel has broken out the data in various ways at various times, but throughout July most new patients were not vaccinated.
In an effort to play down that reality, Israel has begun to provide data comparing RATES of serious illness in older people who were not vaccinated and those who were. And those show that as of now, unvaccinated people are still becoming seriously ill significantly more frequently than those who aren’t.
But that comparison hides a very big problem.
Israel did an excellent job convincing people over 60 to be vaccinated. Only about 1 person in 15 in that age range didn’t receive at least one dose. Fewer than 1 in 10 is not fully vaccinated.
Why should you care? Because the tiny fraction of older people who are unvaccinated in Israel at this point are almost certainly materially different than the vast majority who are. As far as I know, the Israel government hasn’t broken out the differences. But given the pressure to vaccinate, a significant number of those older unvaccinated people are likely simply too sick to tolerate the vaccine – especially those over 80, where overall vaccination rates are even higher.
But if they are too sick to tolerate the vaccine, they are obviously at much higher risk from Covid than the vaccinate. In other words, ability (and propensity) to be vaccinated is likely a marker for overall health. Researchers know this is true of the influenza vaccine – once they adjust for the fact that older people who get the vaccine are healthier to start than than those who don’t, the advantage the vaccine seems to offer mostly disappears.
So the comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated isn’t useful.
What is useful is examining the trend among serious illness in older vaccinated people.
And it is terrible. The rate of cases has risen 12-fold IN A MONTH. On July 4th, fewer than 1 older vaccinated person in 100,000 became seriously ill. Today the rate is 10 in 100,000.
Remember – comparing unvaccinated and vaccinated at this point hardly matters. THE DARK GREEN LINE IS THE ONE THAT COUNTS:
And though we cannot be sure what will happen next, it is worth noting that rates of serious illness among the vaccinated are now as high as they were among the unvaccinated only TWO WEEKS AGO. Perhaps that’s why the Israeli government is now predicting a further quadrupling of new serious cases by the end of August:
A quadrupling would represent 800 serious cases, approaching the peak of the winter surge (which was itself probably FUELED by a spike in cases following the first vaccine dose) – and far more than at this time last year.
And remember, Israel CANNOT BLAME THE UNVACCINATED FOR THIS SPIKE – around 85 percent of adults over 30 are fully vaccinated. That’s well above the range experts said would provide herd immunity.
And yet instead of pulling back and at least considering a pause on vaccinations as it digests the disaster of the last month, Israel is going the other way – pushing a third dose on the elderly. Meanwhile the cry to mandate or quasi-mandate vaccinations in the United States is only getting louder.
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What on earth is going on?’https://alexberenson.substack.com/
The “UNRWA is fully controlled by Hamas,” warns a senior researcher at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies.”
The following article will not surprise most conservatives as they have probably experinced the wrath of Facebook and the other Marxist big tech social media outlets! Now, Marxist left leaning ‘Facebook removed a popular pro-Israel Christian prayer page on May 18; the founder of the page claims that they were the targets of a cyberterrorism campaign.
The Jerusalem Prayer Team (JPT) page, which led followers in daily prayers for Israel’s safety during the recent conflict with Hamas, had 77 million Facebook followers prior to being shut down. Dr. Mike Evans, who heads the page as well as the Friends of Zion Association, has claimed that “a Jordanian-based cyber-terrorist organization flooded our page with comments like ‘Jews are pigs,’ we’ve never seen anything like it in our lives,” Arutz Sheva reported. Other comments included Adolf Hitler pictures and quotes. The organization allegedly behind the comments then reported those comments to Facebook, Evans claimed.
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) reported that various YouTube channels and Facebook pages were urging people to target the page in order to get Facebook to remove it, with some claiming that Facebook was “forcing people to like” the page, per CBN.
“It was a very clever, deceptive plan by Islamic radicals,” Evans told CBN.
According to CBN, when JPT appealed the verdict, Facebook responded by saying: “We can’t review appeals at this time due to a shortage of reviewers caused by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Since you are unable to access the page, this means that appealing is no longer an option.” Evans also claimed that he can no longer access his personal Facebook page.
“America is a democracy, in the United States you are innocent until proven otherwise,” Evans said. “What did we do? What was our crime?”
A spokesperson from Facebook told the New York Post, “We removed Jerusalem Prayer Team’s Facebook Page for violating our rules against spam and inauthentic behavior.” The Journal’s request for comment to Facebook’s press team was not returned.
Writer Jazz Shaw wrote in a May 19 post for the conservative website Hot Air, “Facebook and Twitter have been on a hot streak ever since Hamas resumed its rocket attacks on Israel. Anyone who wants to publicly vent their hatred of Israel, accusing them of ‘war crimes’ or whatever the flavor of the week might be is welcome to do so. That’s just an exercise in ‘free speech,’ you see. But if you’re defending Israel–or perhaps even just praying for the safety of the Jews–your page is engaging in ‘inauthentic behavior’ so you’re violating their terms of service.”’https://jewishjournal.com/news/337681/facebook-takes-down-christian-pro-israel-page/
We’ll see if this will stay on Facebook!
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