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Thursday, March 3, 2016
 
TODAY'S CONTENT

COME TO ISRAEL WITH AFSI JUNE 1-8 (with link to full description)





 
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Congress: Israel-Arab peace deal must include Jewish refugees
By David Rosenberg
First Publish: 3/3/2016, 2:40 PM
 


Yemenite Jews flee their homes


A bipartisan coalition of 14 congressional lawmakers have cosponsored a bill intended to rectify the losses suffered by Jewish refugees who fled their homes across the Middle East following the establishment of the State of Israel.

According to a statement released on Wednesday by the office of New York Democratic congressman Eliot Engel, the Displaced Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries and Iran Act would require the President "to ensure resolution for Jewish refugees displaced from Arab countries and Iran."

The President would be required to include provisions for Jewish Middle East refugees in any future Arab-Israeli negotiated settlement.

A joint statement released by the bill's sponsors recognized the hardships faced by the ancient Jewish communities across the Middle East and North Africa, and the oppression they suffered under local Arab governments.

"The Arab governments subjected hundreds of thousands of Jews to displacement, political marginalization, or property confiscation with no compensation."
"The Displaced Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries and Iran Act ensures that the interests of all refugees displaced as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict are fairly considered in any final settlement of Arab-Israeli peace."

 


Rabbi Rabbis For Human Rights Hide this from US Donors!

Over the past several months we have written about Arab land grabs, including stories about the Ultra-left groups that aid the "Palestinians" in killing Arabs for selling land to Jews.  Ezra Nawi ,working with B'Tselem, a far left Israeli organization with backing from the New Israel Fund, is one of the main culprits.  
 
New footage shows Ezra Nawi  and a whole network of others, including some from Rabbis for Human Rights, also a New Israel Fund beneficiary, coaching and inciting Arab takeover of Jewish State land.
 
We praise the NGO Ad Kan for work in exposing this travesty.


Gil Ronen - Arutz Sheva
First Publish: 3/3/2016, 8:18 PM

The latest video released by nationalist NGO Ad Kan features hidden camera footage that outlines a sophisticated method used by what Ad Kan calls "anti-Israeli organizations" for taking over state land. The footage was shot by the group's activists who infiltrated the ultra-leftist groups that operate in Judea and Samaria over a three year period.
 
The land involved was allocated in the past to some of the Arabs who live in Judea and Samaria for cultivation purposes only. The land does not belong to these Arabs, and reverts to full state ownership if they fail to cultivate the land for several years.
A group called Ta'ayush seeks to transfer these plots to full Arab ownership, according to Ad Kan. Prof. Amiel Vardi, Head of the Classical Studies Department in Hebrew University and one of the heads of Ta'ayush, explained on hidden camera that Ta'ayush's activists find the plots of land and then consult the legal department of Rabbis for Human Rights, which tells them what legal documents they need to obtain in order to claim the land.
 
Arabs are then solicited to file lawsuits demanding ownership of the land. In one case documented, the Arab insists that he has already sold the land, but Ta'ayush's Ezra Nawi tells him to "forget the word 'sale'... If you sold it, nobody knows."
'Provocations for proof'
 
In another Ad Kan video, a Ta'ayush activist is seen explaining: "We work very closely in some of the cases here with the legal department of Rabbis for Human Rights... There are several instances in which we work in cooperation... where we are like the field agents for Rabbis [for Human Rights]..."
The activist makes clear that Rabbis for Human Rights enjoy large scale support from US donors who would not support Ta'ayush and therefore must not know that the two groups are connected: "[They have] a huge amount of donors from Jewish congregations in the US," he says. "That's why their connection to us is, like... delicate... 


 
Calendar
AFSI Calendar of Events

for  additional details on events below,
and for  a complete schedule of Israel events


Sunday, March 6, 5:00 PM - AFSI Co-Sponsors
Join Our Soldiers Speak at its annual Regional Conference, NY
At the Paley Center For Media
25 West 52nd St. NYC
For RSVP and ticket purchase: www.oursoldiersspeak.org/regional or  call 516-672-6662 or email oss@oursoldiersspeak.org
 


Monday, March 7, 12:30 - 2 PM
The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) invites you to a New York Chapter Event Co-sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition:
 "America Makes a U-Turn in the Middle East". Featuring: Tony Badran
1155 Avenue of the Americas, NYC
$10 for EMET Insider Members, $20 for non-members
Payment collected at the door; space is limited, RSVP required (HERE).
Lunch served; dietary laws observed; b ring photo I.D. to pass through security.
Questions to Deanne: dheffernan@emetonline.org
Note: Republicans & Democrats welcome!

Tuesday, March 8, 6:00 PM
Dr. Vladimir Khanin - Chief Scientist, 
Ministry of Immigrant Absorption of the State of Israel
At the ISGAP Center 165 E 65 St. NYC; www.isgap.org

March 10-17
New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
See  www.nysephardifilmfestival.org/ for details.

Saturday, March 12, 8:30 PM
Charlie Bernhaut presents "Yossele's World"
West Side Institutional Synagogue
120 W. 76th St. NYC, between Columbus & Amsterdam
This three-track power-point presentation is sure to dazzle. Free admission.

Sunday, March 13, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Breakfast with Danny Ayalon
At Bnai Tikvah, 1001 Finnegans, Lane North Brunswick, NJ 08902
http://bnaitikvah.org/event/ayalonbreakfast/?instance_id=13948

Sunday, March 13, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Conference on Global Anti-Semitism
At Kean University, NJ;  Hosted by the Jewish Faculty and Staff Association
An incredible line-up of speakers.
Click HERE for more info and to register.

Monday, March 14, 12:00 PM
Benny Morris speaking on "The War of 1948: New Perspectives"
ISGAP Center 8th Floor 165 E. 56th Street, NYC

Tuesday, March 15, 5:30 PM
Friends of the IDF Annual Gala
Waldorf Astoria 301 Park Ave. NYC

Wednesday, March 16, 7:30 PM
Save the date! - Rochester, NY
AFSI Rochester Chapter presents: Daniel Luria from Ateret Cohanim 
Topic: Reclaiming Yerushalayim.Thursday March 2
LIGHT OF ISRAEL 
1675 MONROE  AVE.  
ROCHESTER NY 14618


Thursday, March 17
Save the date! - New York City
AFSI presents: Daniel Luria from Ateret Cohanim 
Topic: Reclaiming Yerushalayim.
 7:30 - 9pm - Congregation Ohab Tzedek - 118 West 95th Street, NYC


Wednesday, March 23, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Yossi Kuperwasser, JCPA, speaking on: "Similarities and Differences Between Antisemitism and the Contemporary Delegitimization of the Democratic Nation State of the Jewish People"
Location TBD; see www.isgap.org for info



Monday, March 28, 8 PM
The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University presents:
"Where do we go from here? The U.S.-Israel relationship after Obama"
614 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia U.
RSVP: iijs@columbia.edu; walk-ins ok

Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 PM (VIP entry 6:15 PM) - Boca Raton, Florida
An evening with Mosab Hassan Yousef: "Son of Hamas"; 
and honoring Dr. Jeffrey Zipper
Temple Beth El of Boca Raton 333 SW 4th Ave. Boca Raton, FL 33432


Thursday, March 31, 6:00 PM
Benjamin Weinthal, European Affairs Correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD); speaking on:
"Europe's Economic War on Israel: 
The Role of Antisemitism in BDS and Product Labels"
At the ISGAP Center 165 E 56 St. NYC;  www.isgap.org

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