Dr. Patrick Slattery’s News Roundup
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From The Daily Mail
Number of migrants entering Britain breaks all records in humiliating blow to Cameron
- PM made ‘no ifs, no buts’ pledge to reduce number to ‘tens of thousands’
- Figures don’t include illegal immigrants in UK estimated to number 1.1m
- Thousands of migrants flood across Hungarian border into central Europe
- Former defence minister tells David Cameron to get a grip on immigration
The true scale of the immigration crisis facing this country was laid bare last night as damning figures revealed net migration had surged to a record 330,000 – a rise of 40 per cent in one year.
It is a humiliating blow to David Cameron after his ‘no ifs, no buts’ pledge to reduce the number to ‘tens of thousands’.
Incredibly, yesterday’s figures do not include illegal immigrants in the UK, estimated at 1.1 million.
The devastating statistics came as thousands of migrants yesterday flooded across the Hungarian border into central Europe.
Many will now head to Calais to join those trying to sneak into Britain. In other developments:
- Britain’s foreign-born population has passed 8 million for the first time – meaning one person in every eight is from overseas; and a record 269,000 EU citizens arrived as our economy boomed.
- Net migration from outside the EU also increased significantly, rising to 196,000.
- The bodies of up to 50 refugees, including children, were found in a parked lorry in Austria near the Hungarian border.
- The number of Romanians and Bulgarians, who have been allowed full freedom of movement and access to work since January 2014, moving to the UK hit 53,000 – almost double the 28,000 a year earlier.
- A migrant boy, aged just 13, was found wandering on the M5 yesterday after apparently spending days in the back of a lorry.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
15% of West Bank settlers are Americans, new research finds
(JTA) — Fifteen percent of West Bank settlers are American citizens.
According to an Oxford University professor, approximately 60,000 American Jews live in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Thursday.
“This provides hard evidence that this constituency is strikingly over-represented, both within the settler population itself and within the total population of Jewish American immigrants in Israel,” Sara Yael Hirschhorn, the author of the forthcoming book “City on a Hilltop: Jewish-American Settlers in the Occupied Territories Since 1967,” said during a presentation at Jerusalem’s Limmud conference, Haaretz reported.
The book will be published by Harvard University Press next year.
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From The Times of Israel
500,000 sign petition to end Israel’s Gaza blockade
Arab countries that didn’t follow up on reconstruction pledges cited, but Israel mostly blamed for Strip’s condition
More than half a million people have signed a petition to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza, within one day after it was posted. Israel says it maintains the blockade to prevent Gaza’s Hamas rulers from importing weaponry.
The petition, posted Wednesday on political activism website Avaaz, calls for an end to the blockade in order to enable the reconstruction of Gaza. Some 2,200 Palestinians and 73 Israelis died in the war, which also destroyed 18,000 homes. None has been rebuilt yet, with money going only to repairing damaged homes. (Almost half of the Gaza fatalities were combatants and Israel blames Hamas for all civilian fatalities, since it emplaced its war machine in residential areas.)
Construction has moved slowly because pledged donations have been slow in arriving, and, according to international aid organizations, because of delays due to Israel and Egypt closing off Gaza’s borders. But the petition lays the blame principally on Israel.
“Palestinian political parties have failed to reconcile and prioritize reconstruction, and Egypt’s closure of its border has further limited supplies entering Gaza,” the petition says. “The principal obstacle to reconstruction is Israel’s blockade.”
The petition, which has been signed by human rights organizations including Oxfam, calls on the international community to pressure Israel to end the blockade.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
U.S. sanctions chief visits Israel to discuss Iran deal, terrorism
(JTA) — A senior U.S. official in charge of implementing sanctions is traveling to Israel to discuss the nuclear deal reached between Iran and world powers, the U.S. Department of Treasury said.
Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Szubin is scheduled to stay in Israel from Friday through Monday, the Treasury Department said in a statement sent out Thursday. In an interview with the New York Times, Szubin pledged to intensify sanctions against Iranian terror involvement and Hezbollah.
“Intensifying those sanctions and ensuring that they bite ever deeper is a core part of my mission,” he said. “We plan to enforce them with all the toughness that people have come to expect from the U.S. Treasury.”
It will be his first visit in Israel since the Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran (JCPOS), was reached in July between Iran, the United States and five other world powers: China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
50 Jews move into predominantly Arab Jerusalem neighborhood
(JTA) — Approximately 50 Israeli Jews, accompanied by police, moved into a five-story building in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem.
Activists from Ateret Cohanim, a right-wing group, moved into the building in the Silwan section of Jerusalem on Thursday morning, claiming the property had belonged to Jews before Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, when east Jerusalem came under Jordanian control,The Associated Press reported.
Roughly 50,000 Palestinians and several hundred Jews currently live in Silwan, according to the AP.
Palestinian residents of the building, which Ateret Cohanim members purchased, claim they were unfairly evicted or illegally bullied into leaving.
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From Ynet News
In Jerusalem’s culture war, secular residents make gains
Capital’s secular community is making headway in longstanding conflict with Orthodox communities over freedom to open establishments on Shabbat.
Associated Press, 08.26.15, 17:27
Crowds of angry ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, wearing long beards, black and white garb and large black hats, protested in the streets of Jerusalem earlier this month against a new cinema opening its doors on the Sabbath.
The demonstration was meant to be a show of strength in a long-running dispute over the role of strict Jewish law in the cultural life of Jerusalem. But in many ways, it was also a sign of desperation after a series of gains by the city’s secular community in recent years.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish group seeks review of British city’s West Bank goods ban
(JTA) — A British Jewish group asked the country’s high court to review a municipality’s decision last year to support a boycott of products from the West Bank.
Jonathan Neumann, director of Jewish Human Rights Watch — a group devoted to monitoring efforts to boycott Israel — earlier this month filed with the High Court of Justice of England and Wales a request for judicial review of a nonbinding motion passed by the City Council of Leicester supporting a boycott of products from the West Bank.
The motion, passed in November and submitted by council member Mohammed Dawood, calls for boycotting such products “in so far as it is legal,” citing Israel’s “continuing to ignore and breach international law” and “continuing its occupation of Palestinian territories.”
But Neumann said the motion was anti-Semitic, because it was a boycott of goods produced by Jews.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Op-Ed: What President Obama should say to American Jews on Iran
WASHINGTON (JTA) — On Friday, President Barack Obama will address American Jews in an effort to win their support for the nuclear deal with Iran. Here is what he should say:
My fellow Americans:
I understand your anxiety about the nuclear agreement my administration signed with Iran.
In the last century, most of the Jews of Europe — one-third of all Jews in the world — were murdered by a country whose leader had promised to murder them.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Why some public school parents are switching to Jewish day schools
(JTA) – When Ali Martell’s eldest daughter reached school age, Martell and her husband both assumed she’d go to a Jewish day school, as they had.
And for a while, she did. But after the couple’s two younger children started school, too, the Martells began to feel overburdened by tuition. They couldn’t afford to send their kids to the summer camp of their choice, replace their aging minivan or go to Israel for a cousin’s bar mitzvah. So three years ago, they pulled their kids out of their Toronto Jewish day school and enrolled them in public school.
But this fall, Martell’s kids are all going back to Jewish day schools.
“My husband I were both happy that we had a bit of financial flexibility, but we were really missing the Jewish day school system,” Martell told JTA. “We just didn’t feel connected to the community like the way our kids were when we were in Jewish day schools.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Princeton University to erect an eruv
(JTA) — Princeton University will install an eruv around its campus and part of its surrounding town.
Rev. Dr. Alison L. Boden, Princeton’s dean of religious life, and Rabbi Julie Roth, the school’s Jewish chaplain and Hillel director, announced in an email to the campus community on Tuesday that the eruv will be completed in two to three weeks. It will encompass “much of the campus and some of the surrounding community,” Boden and Roth said.
The eruv, or ritual boundary that allows observant Jews to perform certain activities in the public domain during Shabbat, was first proposed by Roth and David Wolkenfeld, a former Orthodox rabbi at Princeton’s Center for Jewish Life, five years ago.
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From The Times of Israel
Secret file reveals Haganah feared Eichmann infiltration post-WWII
Pre-state intel officers had Nazi on watch list to British Mandate Palestine; rare archive up for sale by Israeli auction house
A recently discovered document shows that a secret network of pre-state Jewish intelligence leaders were on alert for a possible Adolf Eichmann escape to British Mandate Palestine following World War II.
It would not have been Eichmann’s first time in the Holy Land. In 1937 he had toured Palestine before he was quickly expelled by the British, with the aim of discussing a large-scale Jewish immigration with Arab leaders.
On the taped-together yellowed document, dated October 20, 1947, it is written that because of Eichmann’s “vast experience” while working in the Nazis’ Jewish department, the Shay pre-state military intelligence division of the Haganah feared he would attempt to infiltrate Israel and pass himself off as a Jew.
Eichmann, who had headed the Nazi’s SD Scientific Museum of Jewish Affairs, was the Gestapo’s self-proclaimed “Jewish expert.” The document cites his knowledge of Hebrew and Yiddish, and his organizational skills as a high-level Nazi officer.
The eight-page “Alertness Pamphlet” is an internal Haganah watch list of criminals. Each page is filled with portraits of suspects, their written physical descriptions, why they are on the list, and what should be done with them when found.
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From The Times of Israel
Kirk Douglas donating $80 million in new gifts
Famed Jewish actor and wife Anne’s newest beneficiaries include Jewish charities, a synagogue and the ADL
Actor Kirk Douglas and his wife Anne announced plans to donate $80 million in new gifts to an array of charitable causes.
In a Hollywood Reporter interview published Monday, Douglas, 98, said major beneficiaries will include Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The two already have donated millions of dollars through their Douglas Charitable Foundation.
While most of the beneficiaries are secular organizations, the couple also is donating to the Sinai Temple of Los Angeles, which houses the Kirk and Anne Douglas Childhood Center.
Douglas is Jewish and the father of Hollywood actor Michael Douglas, who this year won the $1 million Genesis Prize, which is marketed as the “Jewish Nobel.”
In the interview, Douglas recalled his modest childhood as the son of Russian immigrants.
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