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Jewish Leaders Congratulate New Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz WHITE Opinion. Tradition. SUPREMACIST ON UNESCO, THE REVEALS TRUMP DID THE TRACE JEWISH RIGHT THING OF G-D HERITAGE A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017 | 30 TISHREI 5778 VOL. XLV NO. 2327 Jewish Leaders Iran’s IRGC Playing Central Congratulate New Role in Assault Austrian Chancellor on Kurdish City Sebastian Kurz of Kirkuk BY BEN COHEN Iran opened a new front in its bid for regional domina- tion on Monday, as Iraqi government forces and Shia militias backed by the Tehran regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched an attack on the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, in the wake of last month’s Kurdish independence referendum. Th ousands of people began fl eeing Kirkuk as Iraqi troops and Shia fi ghters entered the majority-Kurdish city, An election rally held by Austria’s far- right FPO party. Photo: File. Kurdish Peshmerga fi ghters at a checkpoint near Kirkuk. Photo: Screenshot. BY BEN COHEN Party (OVP,) whose 31-year-old elections in Austria because of the which lies outside the area controlled by the Kurdistan head, Sebastian Kurz, is now set to refugee crisis and the opposition Regional Government (KRG) but whose residents neverthe- become Europe’s youngest leader. to political Islam,” said EJC vice- Jewish leaders have less participated in the September 25 referendum. Kurz’s party won 30.2 percent of president Dr. Ariel Muzicant. “For expressed alarm at the prospect Th e Peshmerga General Command — the central the vote, with the FPO winning the Jewish community, it is also a of a governing coalition in Austria military authority for Kurdish fi ghters — lambasted the 26.9 percent. major problem that the FPO will, dominated by the far-right, attack as “a fl agrant declaration of war against the nation of Offi cials of the European with high probability, be in the following Sunday’s strong showing Kurdistan.” Jewish Congress (EJC) off ered next government.” in national elections by the ultra- “Th is attack, waged by the Iraqi government, Hashd their congratulations to Kurz, but Muzicant criticized those nationalist Freedom Party (FPO). al-Shaabi and forces associated with the Headquarters of urged him not to form a govern- politicians abroad — “including Th e FPO was narrowly beaten the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force, is in retali- ment with the FPO. some from Israel” — who believe in the poll by the mainstream ation against the people of Kurdistan who have asked for “Th e right and the far-right that the FPO’s overtures to the conservative Austrian People’s Continued on Page A3 have won the parliamentary Continued on Page A4 Antisemitism ShabbatCalendar Parshat NOACH Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 5:50pm | Shabbat Ends: 6:47pm פרשת נח and Weinstein's Disgrace P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2016 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017 Opinion. Trump Did the Right Thing by Walking Away From UNESCO — for Now UNESCO-sponsored projects focused on Mount and the Western Wall — referring to literacy, vocational training, equal access to them only by their Muslin names — UNESCO ALAN DERSHOWITZ basic education and preservation of human chief Irina Bokov (whose intentions and BOSTON rights and historical sites are indeed praise- motivations are themselves often curious) worthy. However, in practice, the 195-member questioned the text of the Arab-sponsored body — with its automatic anti-Israel majority resolution on Jerusalem. that exists in every institution of the UN — has This egregious distortion of history is not become a springboard for Jew hatred and the particularly surprising when considering the This article was first published by Gates- rewriting of history. antisemitic political culture that has come to tone Institute. To be sure, UNESCO is far from the only underpin UNESCO, particularly since 2011, The State Department announced on UN agency to regularly single out Israel for when it became the first UN agency to admit The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Thursday that the United States would be reproach. Yet, its anti-Israel adoptions have the Palestinians as a full member. Hillel Neuer Photo: File. withdrawing from the UN agency UNESCO, been abhorrent even by the low standards of the watchdog organization, UN Watch, cultural body. Under President Ronald Reagan citing financial reasons, the need for reform established by the broader multilateral insti- noted that between 2009-2014 the cultural in 1984, the United States walked away from and the body’s “continuing anti-Israel bias.” tution. Consider a resolution introduced in body adopted 46 resolutions against Israel, UNESCO owing to financial mismanagement President Donald Trump’s decision May, which denied Israel — and the Jewish yet only one on Syria and none on Iran, Sudan, and “hostility toward the basic institutions of a to leave UNESCO — the United Nations people’s — legal and historic ties to the city North Korea, or any of the other known viola- free society.” It was only in 2002 that President Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi- of Jerusalem, including its holiest sites. It tors of human rights around the world. In George W. Bush rejoined the body, stating zation — as of December 31, 2018, was an called the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron fact, a representative of the regime of Syrian that the United States wanted to “participate appropriate foreign policy decision that will — considered the resting place of the Jewish dictator and mass murderer Bashar al-Assad fully in its mission to advance human rights, hopefully prompt a much-needed rethink of Patriarchs and Matriarchs — and Rachel’s sits on a UNESCO human rights committee. tolerance and learning.” But this vision was the United Nations, its purpose and practices. Tomb near Bethlehem “Palestinian sites.” Neuer further highlights this double upturned when President Barack Obama It will also send a strong message to the Pales- Shamefully, this vote was deliberately held on standard: “UNESCO paid tribute to mass halted funding to the UN body in 2011 (US tinians that statehood cannot be achieved on Israel’s Independence Day. Only two months murderer Che Guevara, elected Syria to its funding at the time accounted for one-fifth the basis of UN resolutions alone, and that the later, the cultural body convened in Krakow, human rights committee, and created prizes of UNESCO’s budget) when Palestine was only way forward is to engage in direct negoti- Poland — a city soaked in Jewish blood — and named after the dictators of Bahrain and accepted as a full member. This original level ations with Israel where mutual sacrifices will declared the city of Hebron, holy to Jews, an Equatorial Guinea, whose ruler Obiang says of financial support has not been restored be required. endangered Palestinian heritage site. God empowered him to kill whomever he and the cultural body has since missed out on In the aftermath of World War II, the Even for some of the harshest critics of wants. UNESCO has a noble founding mission, close to $600 million of American funding. intended goal of the Paris-based UN body was Israel, this historical ignorance is sometimes but that has been completely hijacked by the The United States is also the greatest a noble one: to promote basic freedoms and too much to swallow. In October 2016, for world’s worst tyrannies and supporters of terror.” contributor to the overall United Nation security through international collaboration example, when UNESCO passed a resolution This is not the first time that the United on education, science and cultural projects. denying Israel’s connection to the Temple States has pulled out of the hypocritical UN Continued on Page A4 While US Is Silent, Belgium and Norway Act Against Palestinian Incitement One of the terrorists, Hussain Fayadh, attacks [and] will not allow itself to be associated the later explained to a Lebanese television with the names of terrorists in any way.” Algemeiner Journal STEPHEN M.FLATOW/ station what happened next: “Sister Dalal Norway does not want to be associated JNS.ORG al-Mughrabi had a conversation with the with Mughrabi, either. (USPS 927800) is published weekly American journalist. Before killing her, Dalal Earlier this year, the PA decided to name (except for the week of Passover asked: ‘How did you enter Palestine?’ [Rubin] a women’s center in the town of Burqa after and Succos) answered: ‘They gave me a visa.’ Dalal said: Mughrabi. The Norwegian government, Subscription rate $40 per year ‘Did you get your visa from me, or from Israel? which had contributed $10,000 to the center, Algemeiner Journal European countries are not exactly I have the right to this land. Why didn’t you demanded — and received — a full refund. known for their love of Israel. Yet recent actions come to me?’ Then Dalal opened fire on her.” The US, however, has taken no such steps 508 Montgomery Street As Gail lay dying on the beach, Mughrabi to restrict the aid that it provides to the PA. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 taken by the governments of Norway and Belgium suggest that, in at least one important and her comrades strolled over to the nearby The Trump administration gave the PA Periodicals Postage respect, those two nations have gone much Coastal Road. An Israeli bus approached; they $344 million this year. Congress tried to pass Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. further than the US in confronting the problem hijacked it. During the ensuing mayhem, they legislation (the Taylor Force Act) to take and at additional mailing offices of Palestinian incitement against Israel.
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