We are voluntary members of the “commonwealth of Israel”, defending the rights of God-fearing gentiles among Jewish diaspora communities and also in Israel/Palestine. As our welfare depends on the safety and dignity of Jews in exile, and on their right to return and establish a Jewish state in their historic homeland of Palestine/Israel, we hold their safety, dignity, and rights as dear as our own. From the river to the sea, The holy land is not for free. Anyone who wishes to contend is invited to respond in a Israel palestine debate. The Gerim Defense League is a separate organization from the RCIF, which is sharing space on their website, as we prototype www.gerimdefenseleague.org. This is a work-in-progress.
Fear God and keep his commands, this applies to all humankind Noachide Covenant: the seven commandments, the Adamic blessing as the "very good" τελος / purpose / final cause of human nature
Arab convert, victim of intentional manslaughter by IDF reservist, post-humously granted citizenship after IDF apology.
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But by making and publicly insisting on all these false replacement theories, holocaust museums are miseducating the general public, squandering an opportunity to make allies and friends by sharing “light to the nations” and teaching them the Noahide covenant, failing to refute the false premises of racist anti-semitism, and actively promoting or enabling anti-Judaism. Moreover, America does not replace Canaan as the promised land, and Israel is not a colony of the American democratic party. It should not be pressured to function as such. See also: antisemitism and antiJudaism - legacies of imperial christianity. (Nirenberg, 2014)
Consistent with this declaration, we propose these rewrites.
The signatories of all these documents are failing to come to terms with each other or with their opposition - the anti-semites themselves. Equivocation is inevitable when you let the anti-semites define the terms, and these competing definitions are worse than a red herring: they stipulate with the anti-semites that Judaism has been replaced. We call on all the signatories to either repent and return to Torah Judaism, or else assimilate to mainstream culture, consider themselves mere semites, “cut off from the covenant”, and cease their efforts at redefining Judaism according to their crafty rationalizations in order to satisfy their wandering desires and ignore their prophets. They are promoting anti-semitism, by choosing to deny the covenant and promote enlightenment rationalism in a manner that many find contemptible. If they are held in contempt, they have no-one to blame but themselves, and their complaints are petulant.
http://www.ahavaizedek.org is the doppelganger congregation of http://www.nevehshalom.org
reverse chronological order
| Institution or Person responsible | Date and Time | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
D.A. Mike Schmidt et al acknowledge “Crime Victim's remembrance week” (after having spending the previous two hours neglecting to comment on the County Budget priorities or any other significant item of business before the Board, and instead operating on his cell phone/minicomputer) Comm. Stegman acknowledges “Administrative Assistant's appreciation week” Comm. Meieran acknowledges “Vietnamese American remembrance day”
Proposal for Campus Sukkot 2024.
accused of selectively enforcing its anti-discrimination policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment, ignoring their pleas for protection, and hiring professors who advocated anti-Jewish violence and spread antisemitic propaganda.
“the plaintiffs have reasonably argued that Harvard's response to incidents on campus was insufficient and that the facts, as presented, show that Harvard failed its Jewish students,” ruled the US District Court Judge Richard Stearns.
He also added that he was, “dubious that Harvard could claim that some of the pro-Palestinian or anti-Jewish activities were protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.”
Harvard's motion to dismiss denied: Judge Stearns added that the plaintiffs can also pursue two other claims: that Harvard breached a contractual obligation to enforce its non-discrimination policies, and treated students unfairly by failing to enforce those policies “evenhandedly.”
Class action filed against Columbia occupiers, including the congressional Progressive "squad"
“The Gaza Encampment was extreme and outrageous conduct. It was illegal. It violated university rules. Its occupants harassed, followed, physically blocked, intimidated, and bullied Jewish students,” the lawsuit states, adding that the disruption to studies caused “real damage” to Columbia's 36,000 students.
“In a civilized community, one does not call for the obliteration of a major metropolitan area, praise terrorists, or threaten death and destruction upon our classmates and their families, friends, and coreligionists,” the litigation states.
Attention Deputy Consul Zamir and Israeli Hasbara
2:25:31 Oregon was second state to recognize Arab-American heritage month in a 2021 Oregon law.
2:57:04 Denies history, falsely accuses Israel for starting the war: “More relevant than ever as Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment have resurged after the Oct. 7th 2023 War in Gaza”. In fact, Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment resurged after the Oct. 7th 2023 War against Israel launched by Muslim Arabs from Gaza, and a worldwide intifada and public influence campaign to drop support for Israel and let it perish at their hands, with dishonest representations that deny history and blame the victim, as in the present case. The “War in Gaza” began either on 8th October with aerial bombing, or 27th October when Israel invaded to redeem its hostages and remove Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from power. The County's Proclamation should acknowledge the historical facts, or at least it should present falsehoods.
WashCo's proclamation of April as Arab-American heritage month is acceptable. MultCo's is not.
Mayor Wheeler's response to calls for permanent ceasefire in Gaza 4/17/2024 33:08
Libraries should Recognize Passover and the Asian heritage month of Nisan
After uproar, Portland teachers’ union removes pro-Palestinian lesson plans from website
These groups have made opposition to Judaism and to Israel their purpose of existence
Locally active groups focused on other issues, who have taken anti-zionist stances, while immersed in the systemically anti-Jewish ideologies of Enlightenment rationalism or Marxist historic materialism. Instead of taking account of their American privelege, they scapegoat Israel and project onto it the distinctly American sins of settler colonialism and systemic racism. Vis a vis the Palestine issue, most take their direction from the PFLP, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and from Samidoun, the international Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network of the PFLP, which are Marxist-Leninist terror groups. Since the 2020 protests, Samidoun affiliated groups have adopted the “police abolitionist” position, hijacking the protests, chanting “death to Israel” and “death to America” in the Portland plaza on July 1st at the “Palestinian Day of Rage”, promoting riots, crime, and terrorism. They discredited and set back a decade or more the righteous cause of police reform and accountability, and the rioting effectively resulting increased funding for police departments across America. Samidoun was designated a terrorist organization by Israel in 2021, by Germany in October 2023, and by the Netherlands, Canada, and the US in October 2024. Samidoun is based in Vancouver Canada.
Jared Essig publicly recognizing Jewish high holidays and sukkot at 09.26.24 Regular meeting of Multnomah County Board of Commissioners 11.46 Recognizing the new moon of the harvest month, and Proclaiming Oct. 3rd as the universal New Year's Day (Rosh haShana), day of trumpet blasts (Yom Teruah) and Day of Judgement (Yom haDin). God is the source of all good, and to him thanks are due. Thanksgiving will be held this year on Oct 17th, the full moon and 14th of Tishrei.
Now, O kings be wise, accept instruction o ye rulers of the earth (county commissioners, city councilors, university chancellors and officers of the faculty senate) Serve the LORD with fear, rejoice with trembling. (Psalm 2). The God of nature has through nature itself, rendered judgment through nature itself on our crops and gleanings. The fear of heaven comes more naturally to farmers and shepherds than it does to bourgeois liberal like us, who are insulated from the changing seasons by our technology, wealth, and power. Therefore cultivate fear, and prepare yourselves to receive the judgment on the coming year. Take a searching and fearless moral inventory, an audit, an annual budget review. Take an accounting of your soul. Recognize Tishrei as a universal heritage harvest month, in Multnomah County and everywhere (calling on libraries, public schools, and universities, and students and faculty unions, and other cities and states to make an equivalent or similar recognition)
The Noahide Deception, by so-called "Rabbi" Mordechai (Mark) Griffin The first few pages of Mr. Griffin's book are available in the Amazon's preview, and they reveal him to be either ignorant or dishonest on the following counts:
From the books preface: In the last few years, a movement has developed among certain Jewish sects in which they encourage non-Jews to become Noahides while discouraging them from formal conversion. The movement suggests that it has its roots in antiquity and its mission founded from Mt. Sinai. However, this is not the case. Nevertheless, the Noahide movement has continued to gain popularity and has been successful at deceiving a great many disillusioned gentiles into entering a life that is, to say the least, less than fulfilling. Even worse, entirely spiritually useless. In this work, Rabbi Mordecai Griffin seeks to expose the falsehood of the Noahide movement and encourage the reader to seek the true Divine path intended for the non-Jews of the world which is conversion.
After hearing Rav Weisman's preliminary research of this man, and then doing my own, I observe that he is apparently a convert to Judaism, who has not fully learned halacha or proper character traits before presuming to teach Torah, and he seems to have started a novel religious cult. His example of interpretive and moral error makes me grateful that I didn't give into the temptation to follow that path myself. Although this was apparently common in antiquity, it's rare to find an actual example in our day and age. So this specimen affords an unique opportunity to analyze the phenomenon of Judaizing denounced by the apostle Paul, and also by the sages of the Talmud.
The book of Galatians was written precisely to refute Judaizers like him, and to discourage other God-fearing gentiles from believing the false teaching that conversion to Judaism is necessary for salvation or for authentic faith. It is important that in interpreting Paul's epistle, and in refuting Mr. Griffin today, we do not blame Jews or Judaism for the bad example of these misguided teachers and cult leaders, some of whom may end up exploiting their followers.
I neither endorse nor denounce Paul's epistle in its entirety, but reference him for these two reasons: 1) to demonstrate that Christianity has profoundly mis-interpreted Paul as an attack on Judaism, although he merely attacks the (mostly) gentile religious cultists, and instead defends Judaism (even non-messianic Judaism) from those among his own followers who presumed to “boast against the root”. 2) Even if Paul's reproofs are found to be excessively judgemental or hyperbolic or lacking the appropriate context, nevertheless some reproof or correction along the lines given by him, can and should be given to Judaizers like Mr. Griffin who misunderstand or misappropriate Torah for the sake of self-promotion.
Collins Dictionary "Place Names in the Bible" reports that Judaea and Samaria were “divisions of ancient Palestine”. While this is accurate after 135 C.E., it is false and prejudicial to anachronistically project this backward on a list of “Biblical place names”, especially while ommitting the most salient fact - that Judaea and Samaria were “divisions of ancient Israel”, according to unanimous opinion of all the authors of the new testament books. https://catholic-resources.org/Bible/NT_Geography.htm is similarly dishonest, in imposing the anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism of Christianity, backward onto the New Testment, when the New Testament does not support those doctrines and in many ways explicitly refutes them. This same pattern is found throughout christian and post-christian reference books on “the Holy Land”. List of biblical places includes Palestine, even though that toponym does not occur in the bible, but anachronistically refers to the same landmass as “Israel”
* America was founded on Christian anti-zionism. “A City on a Hill cannot be hidden.” * Harvard student Shabbos Kestenbaum speaks at 2024 RNC. We endorse in part, and we condemn in part. We are “grateful”, not proud, that God formed us according to his will, and Mr. Kestenbaum should be too. “Humility comes before honor, but pride comes before a fall”. Not all Jewish values are American, and not all American values are Jewish.
Venezuela's Maduro accuses international zionism for protests after disputed election. Jean-luc Melenchthon of La France Insoumise fails to denounce Maduro.