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Volume 13, Issue 59:

“This newsletter is dedicated to Danny Danon, who has served a Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations since 2015. Today marks the last day of five years of an outstanding career as Israel’s United Nations Ambassador. He has worked tirelessly to change the strongly ingrained institutional bias against Israel. He worked so well with his colleagues that in 2016, Danny Danon became the first Israeli envoy to become elected to head a permanent committee in the U.N, the sixth committee, which deals with legal matters of international law. We know that this is not the end of Danny’s stellar career, and that we will be hearing from him the future. Satschem LiShalom, Danny”

---Sarah Stern, Founder and President of EMET
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** Painful Reckonings About Black Lives Matter ([link removed])
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** By Sarah Stern / July 6th, 2020 / Newsweek ([link removed])
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Recently in Washington, D.C., protestors in the Black Lives Matter movement marched through the streets, saying ([link removed]) "Israel, we, we know you. You murder children, too."

On Juneteenth (June 19), Linda Sarsour held a rally with her group Muslims4Abolition, advertised ([link removed]) as "open to all, minus cops and Zionists."

How did this happen? When the horrific murder of George Floyd at the knee of a police officer occurred, I had the immediate impulse to take to the streets, don a Black Lives Matter shirt and join in with the demonstrators.

I am far from the only Jew who felt that way. The Union for Reform Judaism put out a statement ([link removed]) that argued "Black Lives Matter" is a Jewish value. And this is not limited to Reform Jews; some Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn were so moved that they demonstrated ([link removed]) by chanting, "Black Lives Matter" and "Jews for justice".

The impulse towards social justice is extremely strong within the Jewish community. Ever since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., we Jews know what it is like to be a resented minority—whether in the Eastern lands, under the dhimmi laws, or in Europe, in the pogroms and inquisitions that culminated in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

We are constantly admonished in our teachings to always remember that we were slaves in Egypt. Empathy for the underdog is what led Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner to register Black people to vote in Mississippi in 1964—which ultimately resulted in their murder, along with their friend James Chaney, by the Ku Klux Klan. It is what led Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel to link arms with the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 and to march from Selma, Alabama for equal rights for Blacks.

And it is a beautiful impulse.

However, we have been told that if we want to participate in these demonstrations, we must check our Zionism at the door.

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Capitol Hill Webinar - Examining the Mysterious Spate of Attacks in Iran

Featuring two of the world's most prominent experts David Albright, Founder and President of the Institute for Science and International Security, and Efraim Inbar, Founder and President of Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security

As Iran has been racing towards nuclear breakout, a mysterious spate of attacks has occurred in 3 nuclear sites within the past several weeks, which are thought to have set their nuclear program back months, if not years. Who is behind this spate of attacks? And why do they think this is necessary?

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** Heard Around the Hill
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** Senate amendment seeks to ban use of US defense funding for Israeli annexation ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** U.S. Lawmakers Push Bipartisan Bill for $50 Million in Palestinian Aid, Coexistence Programs ([link removed]) - Haaretz
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** Israel
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** Outgoing Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon: Don’t threaten Israel on annexation ([link removed]) - Jewish Insider
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** Danon: Obama's decision to 'abandon' Israel was lowest moment of UN tenure ([link removed]) - Israel Hayom
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** Israel successfully launches Ofek 16 spy satellite into space ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Understanding the Collapse of Liberal Zionism ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Israel reached out to Hamas with new prisoner exchange proposal: report ([link removed]) - i24 News
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** Israel's Growing Ties with the Gulf Arab States ([link removed]) - Atlantic Council
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** Kochavi's helicopter malfunctions, almost crashes ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Mossad said to foil Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies in Europe, elsewhere ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** The day Abbas moved from rebuffing Trump to joining forces with terrorists ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** Israel's ex-UK ambassador Mark Regev warns of 'two-state illusion' ([link removed]) - BBC
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** Why did US report on Palestinian terrorism get the numbers wrong? ([link removed]) - Israel Hayom
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** Coalition in crisis - Judicial inquiry commission fails to pass vote ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Middle East
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** Edward Said, Prophet of Political Violence in America ([link removed]) - Newsweek
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** Mysterious Explosion and Fire Damage Iranian Nuclear Enrichment Facility ([link removed]) - New York Times
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** Iran signs military deal with Syria to boost air defenses, counter US 'pressure' ([link removed]) - Middle East Eye
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** Israeli Analysts Say Incident At Nuclear Facility A Message To Iran ([link removed]) - Radio Farda
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** Iran Admits Serious Damage to Natanz Nuclear Site, Setting Back Program ([link removed]) - New York Times
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** Damage to the Iran Centrifuge Assembly Center (ICAC) at Natanz Is Far More Severe and Extensive Than Previously Reported ([link removed]) - Institute for Science and International Security
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** Iran rocked by yet another unexplained explosion at power facilities, factories ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Turkey trial of Saudi suspects in Jamal Khashoggi murder begins ([link removed]) - Al Jazeera
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** U.N. expert deems U.S. drone strike on Iran's Soleimani an 'unlawful' killing ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Iranian Military-Owned Conglomerate Sets Up Shop in Venezuela ([link removed]) - Wall Street Journal
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** Iran threatens retaliation after what it calls possible cyber attack on nuclear site ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Stop buying Turkey’s F-35 parts, lawmakers tell DoD ([link removed]) - Defense News
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** Signs Iran’s regime is facing collapse ([link removed]) - Asia Times
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** Mossad breakthroughs in Assad army ([link removed]) - Zaman Al-wsl
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** Explosions, power outages reported near Tehran ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Anti-Semitism
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** Farrakhan betrays today's black slaves ([link removed]) - Israel Hayom
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** New Report Reveals Increased Campus Anti-Zionist Activism Linked to Rise in Harassment of Jewish Students ([link removed]) - The Algemeiner
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