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The “missing witness” from the Biden corruption investigation, Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft, has laid out his bribery allegations against the president’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run, perhaps for the rest of his life.
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After Muslim backlash, Stockholm mulls passing a law to protect religious scriptures.
By Etgar Lefkovits, JNS
The head of the Swedish Jewish community has come out against an outright ban on burning holy books even as a majority of Swedes favor such legislation.
The remarks were made as the Swedish government is considering changing the law to allow police to stop Koran burnings in public, in the wake of the damage to the country’s internal security triggered by such recent action.
In reaction to the Koran vandalism, an activist is planning to burn a Torah book and a Christian Bible outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm.
“Many people outside Sweden have difficulty in understanding why this is allowed at all,” said Aron Verstandig, chairman of the Council of Swedish Jewish Communities. “In Sweden, we have a very wide freedom of expression and demonstration. That’s good, not least for those of us who belong to a minority. It gives us strong protection to state our views even when they conflict with the opinion of the majority.”
He opined that while such actions against scriptures are both “abominable” and proscribed by Jewish law, the reintroduction of “ancient bans” was not the way forward, and he instead proposed criminalizing the hate speech that often happens concomitantly.
The World Jewish Congress condemned the burning. In a statement on Twitter, the organization wrote:
“We join the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities in condemning the heinous act of burning religious books and express our solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters. The burning of religious texts is an unmistakable act of hate and a fundamental attack against all who adhere to any faith. These visible displays of incitement marginalize religious minorities and sow division across society.”
We join the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities in condemning the heinous act of burning religious books and express our solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters.
The burning of religious texts is an unmistakable act of hate and a fundamental attack against… https://t.co/uRRPc2j74f
— World Jewish Congress (@WorldJewishCong) July 5, 2023
The arson, which has been widely condemned, pits the wide-ranging freedom of speech against respect for religious minorities and public safety in the highly secular Scandinavian country. Many are concerned that the actions of a few could throw the country into the sort of turmoil that befell neighboring Denmark following caricatures published depicting the Prophet Muhammed.
A majority of Swedes support a ban on the public burning of religious texts such as the Koran or the Bible, according to a new survey conducted on behalf of national television broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT).
Fifty-three percent of respondents said that burning holy scriptures of any religion in public should be prohibited, while 34% answered that it should be allowed, and 13% were undecided.
The request to burn the Torah and the Christian Bible outside the embassy on July 15, and a separate request to set another Koran on fire, are still under review by police.
Previous police rejections of such petitions had been overturned by the courts.
Sweden’s Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer said Thursday that the government is considering whether the law needs to be changed to allow the police to deny such requests.
“We have to ask ourselves whether the current order is good or whether there is reason to reconsider it,” Strömmer told the Aftonbladet newpaper.
The burning of a Koran outside the Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque, commonly known as the Stockholm Mosque or the Stockholm Grand Mosque, sparked a backlash across the Islamic world.
The security threats coupled with a delicate diplomatic dance with Sweden awaiting Turkey’s approval to join NATO led to the government’s announcement that it was considering changing the law.
Strömmer noted that Sweden had become a “prioritized target” for attacks.
“We can see that the Koran burning last week has generated threats to our internal security,” he said.
World Israel News contributed to this report.
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Given that India would prefer to deal with the disputes with its neighbours bilaterally, how can its partners help? Apart from direct mediation, friendly partners can assist through a variety of ways, depending on the willingness of the parties. These involve backchannel talks, support at international forums, and the facilitation of meetings between disputing parties, writes Valdai Club expert Nivedita Kapoor
Reports that hundreds of combat and cyber specialists threatened not to report for duty if judicial reform legislation passes are not true, say investigative reports.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Reports about the threats made by hundreds of elite combat and cyber specialists not to report for duty if judicial reform legislation passes is fake news, according to recent investigative reports in the Hebrew press.
The Srugim website reported Saturday night that protest leaders announced in an “accurate” update of the current situation that “about 700 of our people completely stopped volunteering and having contact with the [IDF] system already in March,” specifically referring to special ops and offensive cyber forces.
These soldiers were joined by 250 already-retired comrades, they added, “mean[ing] we are now about 950 people, an unprecedented number considering the size of our units.” Journalist Ben Caspit of Maariv and Radio 103FM duly posted their “news” on his Twitter feed.
The only problem, said the article, is that the IDF told Srugim that this refusal is unknown to them.
In a Maariv report Friday, Galei Israel broadcaster Gadi Taub also blamed reporters for spreading fake news just because they are personally against the judicial reforms and want to help the cause.
One example he gave is an article in late June about 150 reservists from the air force’s special Shaldag forces who reportedly announced that they would stop volunteering for duty as long as reform legislation continues, The story was found to have several holes.
The Makor Rishon news site reported the same day as the story “broke” that “IDF officials clarify that the letter allegedly sent by reservists in the Shaldag unit did not reach any command officer in the IDF, but was distributed only in the media. In addition, an army official clarifies that most of the signatories are no longer on the reserve lists, some of them for a long time.”
In April, then-retiring IDF spokesman Ran Kochav said in a radio interview that he did not know of “a single case of refusal, certainly not in the regular army. Even the many reservists who expressed indignation about the protest issues essentially spoke hypothetically – ‘if [the legislation] passes,’ and ‘if it happens.’”
Taub went back to the first press report of a collective threat of insubordination, where an entire elite team, named “Urim,” was reported as saying that “after nearly 30 years” of serving together, they would stop because “we will not serve a dictatorship.” The report left unclear to whom this notice was sent, and Taub now contacted the writer, Nadav Eyal, for the details. Eyal said that the unit commander had received their message and threatened to sue him for libel if Taub “continued to develop the issue.”
Taub wondered at his “hysteria,” he wrote, adding that he then found out that “no statement was given to the unit, and Eyal’s new claim that ‘the unit commander received a message and knows who they are’ is also misleading. The Shaldag commander read about the refusal of the Urim Team in the newspaper, and he did not like what he read. In fact, he froze the reserve service of those behind the statement.”
As Taub’s article pointed out, it was the fear of widespread insubordination that would endanger the country’s security, which led Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pause the reform legislation and agree to negotiate for months with the Opposition under the auspices of the president. The talks have since broken down, and at least one aspect of the reform is expected to come to a vote in the Knesset Monday.
The IDF has just sent out a letter to its commanders presenting the rules regarding any refusal to serve, whether the reservists are volunteers or not. It says that only an individual who has been summoned to reserve duty and has specified that he won’t come due to the judicial reforms will be considered insubordinate.
It emphasizes that publicizing a group or individual letter for merely saying that the undersigned will refuse to serve in the future is not considered insubordination, and such declarations, including online posts or those made during demonstrations, will be ignored from a disciplinary point of view.
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