BARBARA Opinion. Tradition. STREISAND AN ISRAELI ON TOUR FOR 'TERRIFYING' ILHAN OMAR PRIORITIES ANTISEMITISM A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 | 1 AV 5779 VOL. XLVI NO. 2416 Swiss Freeze ‘Israel Expands Scope of Strikes Against Funding in Wake of Iranian Assets in UNRWA Corruption Middle East’ Allegations BY ISRAEL HAYOM/JNS.org Israel has expanded its target bank to include Iranian assets all over the Middle East, London-based Arabic daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on Tuesday. The report quoted Western diplomats as saying that the Israel Air Force was responsible for the July 19 attack on a military base in Iraq, northeast of Baghdad, used by pro-Iranian militias. The diplomats said the attack was carried out by a F-35 stealth fighter. Sources also told the Arabic daily that the IAF was also responsible for a strike on Sunday against Camp Ashraf, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl in January 2018. Photo: Reuters / Suhaib Salem. Two Israeli F-35I Adir jets fly in formation. Photo: US Air Force/1st Lt. Erik D. Anthony. BY BEN COHEN reported that the country’s Foreign abuses of authority, for personal Ministry decided to suspend gain, to suppress legitimate some 50 miles from the Iranian border and 25 miles north Switzerland confirmed on funds following a phone consul- dissent, and to otherwise achieve of Baghdad. Tuesday that it was temporarily tation between leading officials their personal objectives.” Krähen- The strikes targeted a consignment of ballistic missiles freezing funding for UNRWA — the and Pierre Krähenbühl — a Swiss bühl was personally accused of from Iran, as well as “Iranian advisers,” the sources said. United Nations agency dedicated national who serves as UNRWA’s appointing a woman with whom Israel has not commented on either report. solely to Palestinian refugees and director-general, and whose own he was romantically involved Syria has claimed that Israel was behind a strike on their descendants — following actions were at the center the as an adviser. Despite facing a Tal al-Hara, a strategic hill in southern Syria, on July 24. the emergence of an internal reports’ criticisms. deficit of more than $200 million The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported at the report that accused the agency’s The report includedin UNRWA’s current budget, the time that the target was storage sites used by Hezbollah and top management of systematic accusations against UNRWA’s report charged that the pair had corruption and abuse. management of “nepotism, retali- frequently traveled together on Continued on Page A3 Swiss public broadcaster SRF ation, discrimination and other Continued on Page A3 Remembering ShabbatCalendar Parshat MATOT-MASEI Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 7:52pm | Shabbat Ends: 8:55pm פרשת מטות-מסעי Leon Klinghoffer P.O.B. 208 East 51st St, Suite 185 New York, NY 10022 page A8 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2018 The Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 Opinion. The Tour That Israel Should Arrange for Tlaib and Omar and its enemies is wrong. faculty of Haifa University. Here’s a suggested itinerary: Let them ask these people LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS & 1. The SodaStream factory. Moved from the how many of them want to JEROME M. MARCUS/ disputed territories because of vicious BDS live instead in the Judenrein JNS.org movement protests, where it employed state that the Palestinian more than 100 Arabs working alongside Authority wants to create. Jews — at wages far in excess of what Arabs 4. Ir David. Omar and Tlaib could earn in Jordan, Gaza, Egypt, or any should join with other Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Arab town in the territories themselves tourists walking on the Omar (D-MN) say that they are going to Israel — SodaStream insisted on continuing to road taken 2,000 years ago and “Palestine” in order “to learn” about the employ as many of its Arab workers as by Jews on their way to the region. Israel has granted the women permis- possible in its new factory inside the Green Second Temple. Then they US Reps Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alex- sion to enter the country, notwithstanding Line. Efforts by those boycotting Israel had should be asked to explain andria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) , July 15, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Erin Scott. the overwhelming evidence that their trip exactly one effect on these people: They how they can support the has only one purpose: to strengthen the hand helped to dis-employ dozens of Arabs who Palestinian Authority’s the Israeli Supreme Court. When he was a of people and organizations that share these are not able to reach the new location. claim to Jerusalem and its absurd assertion trial court judge, Karra presided over the women’s desire to attack Israel, the nation- 2. The Hamas tunnels. Let Israel help Tlaib — adopted by the great history scholars criminal trial of former president of Israel state of the Jewish people. and Omar “learn” by seeing firsthand what at the United Nations — that Jerusalem Moshe Katsav — and convicted him. (Israel But just because Israel has let them in Hamas has done with millions of dollars has no historical connection to the Jewish doesn’t have trial by jury.) Tlaib and Omar doesn’t mean its leaders have to sit passively it poached from international aid sent to people. When Yasser Arafat tried that one can be invited to wonder when was the last by while Tlaib and Omar use the country as a Gaza, which was instead spent constructing on Bill Clinton, the Democratic US presi- time a Jew presided over a criminal trial of backdrop for their personally designed adver- tunnels designed for use by Hamas dent remembered enough of the gospels an Arab in any country in the world, much tisements for Hamas and Hezbollah; their “fighters” — men trained not to confront he’d learned in Sunday school to know that less when a Jew was given, and exercised, accusations of apartheid, genocide, and all enemy combatants, but to invade towns if Jesus had preached outside the Jewish the power to send an Arab former president other things repugnant; and their program to inside Israel proper and murder civilians Temple in Jerusalem, it was ridiculous to of any Arab country to jail. eliminate Jewish self-determination. in cold blood. While they’re at it, they might argue that there had never been a Jewish 6. The Rami Levi Supermarket in Gush On the contrary, as any fair-minded want to visit the thousands of dunams of Temple in Jerusalem. Ir David is located in Etzion, where Arabs and Jews work and person knows, none of the things these scorched Israeli farmland caused by the a neighborhood that Arabs call “Silwan” — a shop together, and where every aisle clerk women claim to believe about Israel is actually weekly “peaceful protests” along Gaza’s name they gave the place after they drove and cashier earns the same salary, regard- correct. So Israel has this one potent weapon border with Israel. out its original residents: Yemeni Jews who less of religion. And the Malcha Mall in on its side: the truth. Israel should use it with 3. The city of Haifa. Tlaib and Omar should built some of the first homes outside the Jerusalem itself, where Arabs and Jews shop these two hate-filled politicians. Israel should be brought to Haifa, where the population walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, which and eat together every single day. Here, invite these American officials to the places of Israeli citizens is more than 50 percent these Jews called Shiloach. Tlaib and Omar can see Jewish apartheid that make it absolutely clear that everything Arab. Let them talk to Arabs in the Haifa 5. While they’re in Jerusalem they can meet as it really is — that is to say, as it isn’t at all. important they claim to believe about Israel city council and meet with Arabs on the with George Karra, an Arab justice on Continued on Page A9 ‘Is BDS Anti-Semitic?’ The New York Times Inquires campaign, indicating that the campaign to those, including a significant number of the remains marginal. And, far from being a politically liberal Jews, who are frustrated Algemeiner Journal IRA STOLL recent phenomenon as the phrase “a matter of by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, BOSTON months” indicates, the effort to boycott Israel, and the blockade and frequent bloodshed in (USPS 927800) is published weekly and Jews, dates back to before Israel even Gaza.” That was a clumsily worded sentence (except for the week of Passover existed. Laws forbidding American compa- that could have used an editor. It can be and Succos) nies from cooperating with such boycotts interpreted two different ways. One way is Subscription rate $40 per year The New York Times devotes a full page were passed in 1976 and 1977, a fact the Times accurate: it is true that a significant number Algemeiner Journal in its Sunday newspaper to a deeply flawed almost invariably ignores in its coverage of politically liberal Jews are frustrated by attempting to hype the boycott as some sort of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. 508 Montgomery Street look at the movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel. innovative, new, or recent development. Even some politically conservative Jews are Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 Given all the advance work that usually In a section headed, “Who Is Behind It?” frustrated by it.