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Expansion of BRICS Has a Clear Message–Global South Is All Set to Drive the Global Agenda
The imminent expansion of the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) bloc could be a game changer. Albeit a slow starter, the group-set up in 2001, is now gaining momentum with several countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and UAE set to join the group. The expansion reflects a clear shift in power play as the Global South now gains a credible voice on the world stage
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WATCH: Ukraine’s chief rabbi comes under fire from Russia forces
The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Rabbi Moshe Azman, comes under Russian fire while filming video statement.
We are now in Kherson, we’re trying to evacuate people … miraculously survived. Details later pic.twitter.com/oHcKcTcw0h
— Chief Rabbi Of Ukraine Moshe Azman (@RabbiUkraine) June 8, 2023
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A Gitmo terror lawyer who threw stones at Israel goes to the White House
Ramzi Kassem repped an Al Qaeda terrorist; now he’s setting immigration policy for Biden.
By Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine
“This is not a battle of good versus evil,” Ramzi Kassem wrote in an op-ed that appeared on September 17, 2001. “The perpetrators were probably not driven to their actions by some intrinsic evil or inherent hatred of the good United States.”
He went on to argue that the Al Qaeda attack a week earlier was the result of the “resentment these terrorists felt towards the United States” as a result of “our country’s policies.”
Two decades later, Kassem, now a CUNY law professor and prominent terror lawyer, claimed in a Washington Post op-ed that, “since 9/11, the government has consistently used the law to enable, operationalize and justify the violence it has deployed against Muslims.”
And that, “the legacy of 9/11 ought to be recounted primarily through the stories of Muslims the world over who have largely paid the price of American power and prosperity.”
Next year, Ramzi Kassem was named by the Biden administration as a Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council.
A Syrian national who grew up in Lebanon, Iraq and other Islamic terror states, arriving in this country to attend college and spread terrorist propaganda before becoming a terror lawyer, Kassem seems like a national security risk rather than a White House Policy Council adviser.
Ramzi Kassem had boasted of having “held the record for the longest delayed security clearance in the Guantánamo setting”, but even that does not seem to have dissuaded the Biden administration from bringing him on board.
While some leave behind the extremist views of their college years, Ramzi Kassem instead built a career around them, becoming a noted terrorist lawyer whose Gitmo inmate clients included .
Ahmed al-Darbi, an Al Qaeda terrorist and the brother-in-law of one of the hijackers who flew a plane into the Pentagon, and who was himself a key figure in the bombing of an oil tanker.
Some lawyers represent paying clients, but Kassem, like many terror lawyers, worked pro-bono, and his advocacy echoed his pre-existing support for Islamic terrorism.
In his columns, as in his activism, Ramzi Kassem repeatedly justified terrorism as a reaction to its victims. “Terrorism is but one of many reactions to oppression and dispossession and not their cause.”
While at Columbia University, Kassem co-founded Turath, an association of Muslim students, and then Qanun at Columbia Law. A fellow student described these hateful groups as having brought “under the guidance of Mr. Kassem… speakers to this campus that support violence against American and Israeli civilians… defended the genocidal program of Hamas.”
The Columbia letter noted that, “one speaker, disavowed by many of America’s pro-Palestinian activists, prior to being invited to Columbia, had said that Jews exist only to ‘dip their matzahs in the blood of Palestinian children.’”
This antisemitic blood libel didn’t seem to have interfered with Kassem’s career prospects.
Kassem’s college obsession with Jews extended even to condemning Columbia’s dining hall for serving “Israeli Wrap” sandwiches and demanding that the name be changed to the “more inclusive” Middle-Eastern Wrap. But not all of Kassem’s hostility to Jews was non-violent.
In his own columns for the university paper, Kassem boasted of throwing stones at Israel.
“On a sunny day in early August, I headed down to the Lebanese-Israeli border at Fatima’s Gate with busloads of Palestinian adolescents from the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, and we threw some stones,” he described. “Lebanese civilians, young and old, were playfully going through the motions… Having lived through my fair share of Israeli bombardments, raids, and sieges, I figured I might as well partake in the festivities.”
Even more violent acts of antisemitic murder found a ready defense.
“Some Palestinians resort to terrorism for many of the same reasons that people from various backgrounds have in the past: namely, despair and much endured suffering,” Kassem argued. “One must ask oneself how and why a human being was pushed to the limit and saw no way out of a situation short of blowing himself or herself up.”
These defenses of Islamic terrorism came within the larger context of calls to eliminate Israel and accusations of ethnic cleansing, while blaming Islamic violence against Jews, even before the creation of Israel, on its Jewish victims.
Kassem was named a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, a project of a foundation by Soros’ brother, notorious for its cultivation of political extremists hostile to America and its values, and worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights, a former Communist organization.
After law school, Ramzi Kassem founded Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) at CUNY to provide free legal aid to Muslims accused of terrorism.
The City University of New York had become notorious for its antisemitic atmosphere and Kassem signed on to a letter in defense of antisemitic Islamist activism alongside known hate groups and terrorist support organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine, Al-Awda, Within Our Lifetime, and Samidoun: designated by Israel as a terrorist organization.
The letter accused Jews of using antisemitism to “repress activism and harass and threaten Palestinian students and Muslim students”.
Across the decades, Kassem’s college advocacy against Jews had come full circle from student to professor. And his war against this country has taken him from Gitmo to Washington D.C.
The Biden administration chose to elevate a vocal advocate for Islamic terrorists as a Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council at a time when there are grave concerns about the penetration of terrorists through the unguarded southern border.
The Biden administration claims that it wants to protect the homeland and that it supports Israel. Putting Ramzi Kassem on its Domestic Policy Council shows those assertions to be lies. Its Policy Council includes a man who advocated for Gitmo terrorists and threw rocks at Israel.
Ramzi Kassem’s presence on driving the immigration agenda at the White House Domestic Policy Council is hard evidence that the Biden administration is putting the rights of Muslim terrorists ahead of the safety and welfare of Americans.
The White House Domestic Policy Council coordinates and develops the Biden agenda. Including a vocal activist against national security will have consequences. And the Biden administration will not be able to play innocent when one of the Islamic terrorists it allows into the country kills Americans.
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Knesset Speaker presents Morocco with world’s smallest Koran made with nanotech
Amid warming ties between Israel and Morocco, Knesset Speaker presents his Moroccan counterpart with miniature Koran created with Israeli technology.
By Pesach Benson, TPS
In a historic visit to Morocco, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana presented his Moroccan counterpart with the world’s smallest Koran on Thursday, created with Israeli nanotechnology. The visit is the first by a Knesset speaker to the parliament of a Muslim country.
“I had the privilege of being a minister in the government that signed the peace agreements and now – a significant breakthrough at the parliamentary level,” Ohana said. “On this occasion, I will give my Moroccan counterpart the smallest Koran in the world with nanotechnology, something that expresses the connection between the old and the new, between history and progress, while respecting tradition and the past.”
The Koran was presented to Moroccan Parliament President Rachid Talbi El Alami inside a glass case.
Despite the Koran having a word count of 77,880, the entire book is contained on a chip measuring 4.7 millimeters high and 500 microns thick. For comparison, the average human hair is around 70 microns thick. The chip was created by TANAOR, an Israeli jewelry company. Experts from Tel Aviv University’s Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology tested the nanoplates using a special electron microscope.
Ohana, of the ruling Likud party, is the son of Moroccan immigrants who moved to Israel in the 1950s.
He is also scheduled to meet with MP Nor-Edin Elhrouchi, the chair of the Morocco-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group; and other members of the House of Representatives.
The speaker and his host are due to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of inter-parliamentary cooperation. Ohana is also slated to meet with senior government officials and leaders of the Jewish community.
Israel and Morocco normalized relations in December 2020 as part of the US-brokered Abraham Accords.
An estimated one million Israelis are either from Morocco or are of Moroccan descent. Approximately 3,000 Jews currently live in the North African country.
On May 28, Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev signed three agreements with her Moroccan counterpart, Mohamed Abdeljalil in Rabat. One of the agreements allows Israeli tourists in Morocco to use their Israeli driver licenses.
More than 200,000 Israelis visited Morocco in 2022, as coronavirus travel restrictions came to an end.
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Roger Waters again dons his faux Nazi uniform – this time during London performances
Amid heavy criticism for his Nazi act in mock SS uniform during recent show in Berlin, Roger Waters repeats the performance during shows in London.
By World Israel News Staff
Former Pink Floyd bassist and anti-Israel activist Roger Waters drew criticism this week after he donned Nazi-like uniforms for shows in Britain.
Waters is currently under investigation in Germany, after he performed at a show in Berlin last month brandishing a plastic machine gun while dressed in an outfit modeled after the uniforms wore by Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS units.
During the Berlin performance, Waters compared Holocaust victim Anne Frank to Shireen Abu Akleh, an Arab-American journalist who was fatally wounded in a crossfire between Israeli troops and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Jenin.
Despite the controversy sparked by both his comments and his Nazi-inspired attire, Rogers brought the act back at two shows in Britain this week, drawing criticism from British lawmakers.
Waters had dropped the act from a performance in Birmingham last week, only to bring it back – completed with the faux Waffen SS uniform -at a pair of shows in London Tuesday and Wednesday.
Michael Gove, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and a secretary of state, chided Rogers for “falling short” of the level of behavior expected from a public figure.
MP Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party and head of the Opposition, condemned Rogers’ performance.
Labour, he said, “stands with the Jewish community and fully condemns Roger Waters.”
“Many people will think of Roger Waters as famous for being a member of one of the most important bands in history, but he is now more synonymous with spreading deeply troubling antisemitism, and that is why I believe this show should not be allowed to go ahead.”
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Selected Articles: 15-Minutes Lockdown. “Immobilize the Greater Part of Humanity”
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The same people who today forbid us to use private cars, previously effectively limited and eliminated public transport. Bus and train lines subjected to commercialisation …
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Report: Biden allegedly received $5 million from executive of Ukrainian energy company
Testimony to FBI deemed by the bureau as “highly credible” claims then-Vice President Biden was paid millions by senior official from Burisma, the same company which included Hunter Biden on its board.
By World Israel News Staff
An FBI document labelled by the Bureau as “highly credible” claims that President Joe Biden received millions of dollars from a Ukrainian energy executive while Biden was serving as Vice President, Fox News reported Thursday.
Sources familiar with the FBI document say that it includes a June 30th, 2020 interview with a “highly credible” confidential source, who shared with FBI agents details of multiple meetings with a senior official from Burisma – the Ukrainian natural gas firm which retained Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as a member of its board.
In the 2020 interview the confidential source – who according to Fox News has supplied the FBI with information since 2010 and has been paid some $200,000 – claimed that Biden was paid $5 million by the Burisma executive in question.
The confidential source said that the Burisma executive had sought out advice on how to gain U.S. oil rights in 2015 and 2016, while Biden was serving as Vice President in the Obama administration.
The Burisma executive said that the company had to “pay the Bidens” because Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin had launched a probe of the firm – a move that would make entry into the U.S. energy market difficult.
When the confidential source suggested Burisma “pay the Bidens $50,000 each,” the executive responded that the prices is “not $50,000,” but “$5 million.”
“Five million dollars for one Biden, five million dollars for the other Biden,” the executive is quoted as saying, according to the report.
The payments were made “through so many different bank accounts” that it would impossible to “unravel this for at least 10 years.”
Thursday’s report is the most detailed allegation yet against Joe Biden in connection with his efforts to have prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired.
Biden has publicly acknowledged that he successfully pressured Ukraine to fire Shokin, who was conducting a probe of Burisma Holdings, by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Kyiv if Shokin remained in his position.
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion’,” Biden said at a Council on Foreign Relations event in 2018, recalling a conversation with then President Petro Poroshenko. “‘I’m going to be leaving here in,’ I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’”
“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
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