בס׳ד

"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



12 Feb 2015

Jewishness

Gotnews reports, "One of the Chapel Hill shooting victim’s tweets reveal anti-Semitic, anti-white, anti-Israel, and anti-Zionist views."
http://linkis.com/gotnews.com/O5jpI

Bob Simon, the award-winning ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent who stoked controversy with a 2012 piece about Israel, died Wednesday night in a car crash in New York City, CBS said.
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/214621/bob-simon-stoked-israel-controversy-on--minutes/#ixzz3RVR7i48P

Below is an excerpt from a 1991 JTA article.

CBS News correspondent Bob Simon was worried that his Jewishness might cost him his life during the six weeks he and three colleagues were prisoners of the Iraqis while the Persian Gulf war raged.

“I thought my number was up when they started accusing me of being a member of Mossad,” the Israeli intelligence service, said Simon, who is normally based in Tel Aviv.

He said his captors “kept shouting ‘Yehudi, Yehudi’ at me.
http://www.jta.org/1991/03/06/archive/cbs-newsman-bob-simon-tells-of-ordeal-as-captured-jew

Bipartisan criticism of President Barack Obama's proposed authorization of force against ISIS mostly has to do with the use of U.S. troops and limits on the commander-in-chief. But one Republican lawmaker noticed something else that he calls quite troubling - omission of the word "Jews."

Freshman Lee Zeldin is the only Republican Jewish member of Congress, and says it immediately leapt off the page that the President's proposed resolution specifically singles out several ethnic groups threatened by ISIS: Iraqi Christians, Yezidis and Turkmens, but says nothing about Jews. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/11/politics/white-house-isis-jewish/

Austrian prosecutor: Call to kill Jews is legal criticism of Israel

A group of students at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South Africa are calling on all Jews to be deregistered from the college.
Read more: http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/south-african-university-student-council-demands-jews-be-expelled


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