7 Marcheshvan 5784 22 October 2023 http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2023/10/time-is-running-out-to-board-ark.html
It may already be too late!!!
This is a follow-up to The Flood of Hamas. It alludes to The Flood of Violence (חָמָס) that accompanies The Flood of Antisemitism at the End of Days. See, Heaven’s messages are everywhere! HKB”H is screaming to His Children, “Choose life!!”
How can the Jews of the Diaspora not see this!?? Don’t be fooled by fear of what is happening in Eretz Yisrael. It’s not what it seems. (See the next post which should be ready later today, iy”H.) If you are already here, this is NOT the time to leave!!!
- “Yehudit: ‘…in America, antisemitism will rise to unimaginable heights.'”
- “Rav Sheinberger: ‘The whole world will flood and Eretz Israel will be like Noah’s ark, floating on top.'”
- Ovadia HaNavi (1:17): “On Mount Zion there will be refuge….”
- The Lubavitcher Rebbe (During the Gulf War): “There is no safer place in the world today than Eretz Yisrael. Heaven forbid that anyone living in Eretz Yisrael should think of leaving at this time. On the contrary, whoever is planning to visit Eretz Yisrael should go without fear and should let others know of his trip as well, for this will raise the confidence of the Jewish people throughout the world.
- SEE: Rav Yehuda Zev Leibowitz’s Third Prediction
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 Thousands of protesters demanding eradication of Israel clash with NYPD
 About 100,000 protesters join pro-Palestinian march through London
 Protests across Canada oppose Israel’s onslaught against Gaza
Today it is “thousands,” tomorrow it will be millions and nothing will stop them. Hashem yerachem!
Do you think what happened here cannot happen there???
Do you think you could possibly be safer outside the Land G-d gave us???
[EDD: Examples]
 Visegrád 24-tweet-23October2023-The Minneapolis City Council candidate Zach Metzger filmed this clip of himself and fellow anti-Israel protesters trying to chase down an elderly man trying to drive past their protest which was blocking a major street.
Andy Ngô-tweet-24October2023-
“Reproductive justice means free Palestine” Far-left protesters at the NYC Queers for Palestine direct action falsely link the long regional conflict to American social issues. Abortion is almost entirely banned in the Palestinian territories, even in cases of rape or incest. West Bank Palestinian women who seek the procedure will sometimes go to Israel. Photos courtesy of
 Andy Ngô-tweet-24October2023-Reproductive justice means free Palestine
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9November2023-Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht
Israel-tweet-9November2023-Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht
Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht, the November Pogrom of 1938, in which more than 100 synagogues and 7500 Jewish businesses were vandalized in Germany.
This horrific event was the culmination of years of incitement and antisemitic rhetoric against Jews.
In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen Jewish communities around the world face horrific antisemitism.
Antisemitism starts with words but it doesn’t end there.
More often than not it kills.
 Israel-tweet-9November2023-Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht
 85 years since Kristallnacht
Arye (ARO) Sharuz Shalicar-tweet-8November2023-NIE WIEDER ist JETZT!
NIE WIEDER ist JETZT!
Translated from Hebrew by 
NEVER AGAIN is NOW!
 Arye (ARO) Sharuz Shalicar-tweet-8November2023-NIE WIEDER ist JETZT!
Nov 9-10, 1938: “The Night of Broken Glass”, which in German was called Kristallnacht, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on…
Yaakov Bar Nahman Posted on 10November2023 https://breslev.com/366273/
“The Night of the Broken Glass”, which in German was called Kristallnacht, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November 1938. Kristallnacht was triggered by the assassination in Paris of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 91 Jews were murdered and 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps. 267 synagogues were destroyed, and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. This was done by the Brown Shirt Hitler Youth, the Gestapo, the SA, and the SS. Kristallnacht also served as a pretext and as a means for the wholesale confiscation of firearms from German Jews in order to assure their being left defenseless.
This woke up some Jews to the unfolding dangers, but not enough. So very many chose to remain blind and stayed, waiting for the storm to go away. History was to recount what an immense mistake that choice was.
While the fledgling Nazi party was growing in size and power, the concept of what Jewish life is really about became dried up, diluted, and all but lost. The Jewish community was crumbling. The Reform movement and the Enlightenment were taking their toll. Tens of thousands of Jews were losing all feeling of what being Jewish really is. Theirs was more like a drab, colorless, lifeless cardboard cutout rather than a living, vibrant spiritual life. It was devoid of anything that stimulates the heart and soul. When there is nothing to draw interest, nothing to love, nothing to respect; there is nothing to attract loyalty, there is no inner bond. Even the most basic level of a Jewish soul desires spirituality. If “at home” their lives were devoid of spirituality, they would seek some semblance of spirituality elsewhere.
Together, this resulted in myriads of German Jews leaving Judaism. By the onset of WW 2, there were 10,000 Catholic and Protestant priests and pastors in Germany from Jewish families!
They sought the spirituality that had been stolen from them and replaced by the dried up version of Judaism they were raised in.
Even among those who “remained Jewish”, many had adopted the attitude of, “Be a Jew at home and a human being outside”.
Is there any wonder that God let loose the Angel of Death with an ‘open license to kill wholesale’? This process and its horrific outcome was to become one of the most gruesome chapters in human history.
With the worsening socioeconomic situation in Germany, the increasing political radicalism, and the turning of Divine Providence against the Jews of Germany due to the vast number who abandoned Torah life and values, the stage was set for…
Holocaust.
Holocaust, the Greek word for sacrifice.
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As Holocaust survivors reflect on Oct. 7 and the ‘global pogrom’ during Israel’s war with Hamas, some Jewish communities avoid commemorating 85 years to the Night of Broken Glass
By Matt Lebovic 8November2023 https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-antisemitism-surging-diaspora-synagogues-are-afraid-to-mark-kristallnacht/
 On the morning after Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” local residents watch as the synagogue in Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, is destroyed by fire in 1938. (CNS photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
NEW YORK — Jewish communities from South America to Europe are canceling plans to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht pogrom Thursday night due to surging antisemitism following the Hamas massacres of October 7, The Times of Israel has learned.
That day, Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel by land, air and sea in a shock assault and killed some 1,400 people, mostly civilians, amid acts of horrible cruelty. Over 240 people are now in captivity in Gaza, including dozens of children. In the wake of the invasion, Israel declared war and vowed to destroy Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, where mounting casualties from the Israeli offensive have shifted public attention away from the October 7 massacres.
Thousands of synagogues had planned to participate in an annual Israel-based Kristallnacht initiative called “Light from the Synagogue,” with congregations and Jewish organizations invited to keep their lights on all night to mark the German pogrom in which 99 Jews were murdered and 30,000 men sent to concentration camps.
“When we first started to plan how to adapt this beautiful project to Brazil, we were aiming for an interreligious effort,” said Hana Nusbaum, a Holocaust educator based in Sao Paulo.
“However, due to the rise of antisemitism worldwide, we don’t think the synagogues and other Jewish institutions would be comfortable with a physical demonstration of support that highlights their locations,” Nusbaum told The Times of Israel.
Kristallnacht commemoration organizers in Los Angeles and New York City told The Times of Israel about “bolstered” security for synagogue gatherings set for Thursday evening. However, unlike Brazil, there were no reports that Kristallnacht gatherings were canceled in the US so far.
Marking this year’s wartime commemoration, the iconic March of the Living program released testimonies of Holocaust survivors who reflected on antisemitism following the Hamas massacres of October 7.
“I never thought in my life that something as terrible as now would happen again,” said Tirza HaLivni, who survived Kristallnacht and later moved to Israel.
 Kvutzat Yavneh’s synagogue during Kristallnacht commemoration ‘Light from the Synagogue’ (courtesy: Dalia Yohanan)
“On October 7, Hamas came and slaughtered children, young and old. I have to say honestly, all the lectures I give, and I give a lot, in Israel, in Germany and wherever I can, but I think back 85 years ago to how horrible it was, and here we are, experiencing it again,” said HaLivni.
Through March of the Living (MOTL), thousands of Israelis and Diaspora teens have toured Holocaust sites in Poland followed by visits to Israel. Many of the survivors solicited by MOTL this year were uncomfortable allowing the organization to use their full names, according to a MOTL press release.
“[They] feared for their own safety, were initially hesitant to speak out, [or] worried that revealing their identities could place them in immediate danger,” said the statement.
As for synagogues afraid to commemorate Kristallnacht this week, “Light from the Synagogue” organizer Dalia Yohanan said she was deeply upset by emails she received.
 In Graz, Austria, onlookers watch a smoldering synagogue the morning after Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938 (public domain)
“I nearly cried when I read how many synagogues are afraid to share their locations,” Yohanan told The Times of Israel.
“We thought those days would never come back,” said Yohanan, who lives on Kibbutz Tirat Tzvi.
Although it appears there have not been Kristallnacht cancellations in the US, that is not the case in Europe. In Groningen, the Netherlands, for example, an annual “silent march” for Kristallnacht was canceled due to fears that Palestinian supporters would find it provocative.
“We don’t want the march to be viewed as a demonstration because it is not,” said Geert Volders, director of the city’s Stichting Folkingestraat Synagogue.
Historians regard “The Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938, as a prelude to the Holocaust, as well as a “test run” for Hitler to gauge global reaction to his plans for Europe’s Jews.
‘Jews are not safe’
Outside the Jewish state, survivors are now reluctant to wear Jewish symbols, said Manya Wallenfels, a Polish-born survivor who lives in the US.
“I think twice before I wear my Star of David,” said Wallenfels. “It is a catastrophe what is happening today: not only Hamas but the antisemitism in the universities. Before, I went outside with a Magen David on my shirt, now I think twice about it,” said Wallenfels.
In Los Angeles, a Jewish man was attacked in public by a Palestinian activist and died several hours later. One California-based survivor interviewed by MOTL said “sleepless nights” became part of their lives again since October 7.
“The October 7 terror attack brought back so many memories of what I saw as a child,” said Maud Dahme, a survivor who lives in San Diego.
“When it all happened on October 7, I couldn’t believe it. I’ve had sleepless nights since and it just brought back so many memories. I don’t know how to cope,” said Dahme.
 Jewish man
murdered by Palestinian protestor A Jewish man falls to the ground after allegedly being struck with a megaphone by an anti-Israel protester in Los Angeles on November 5, 2023. (Screen capture/X)
Some survivors said the Hamas massacres shattered a relative sense of inner balance they toiled to achieve for decades.
“I am devastated to see how Jews are being attacked today. Jews are not safe,” said Nate Leipciger, a survivor who lives in Canada.
“I am very troubled by this and am struggling to retain my equilibrium,” said Leipciger, who was attacked on the street for being a Jew while growing up.
“My optimism is shattered. We must collectively feel the pain felt by parents whose child is abducted and threatened with death. Hamas’s barbarism is equal and almost exceeds what I experienced during the Shoah,” said Leipciger, most of whose family were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
“Hamas’s barbarism is equal and almost exceeds what I experienced during the Shoah
“It started with words and continued with actions. I am devastated to see how Jews are being attacked today. Jews are not safe. I saw where antisemitism can lead to and I am very concerned,” said Leipciger.
With hundreds of American synagogues set to go forward with Kristallnacht programs on Thursday, some have committed to keep their lights on all night, as per the Israel-based initiative.
For example, at Young Israel of Sharon, Massachusetts, a 90-minute “Light From the Synagogue” program will focus on “our light” having not been “extinguished” during the Holocaust or after the Hamas massacres.
According to Young Israel, many congregants in Sharon, located outside Boston, had not heard about the Kristallnacht event due to a strenuous news cycle. In gathering as many Jews as possible, the shul hopes to express “our continued presence and vibrancy,” said a flyer.
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By Carl Campanile
Published May 19, 2024, 11:46 a.m. ET https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/us-news/jewish-doctors-launch-group-to-combat-antisemitism-in-medicine-its-nazi-germany-all-over-again/
Jewish doctors alarmed by “rampant” antisemitism and even violence at health-care institutions in the US have launched their own national advocacy group to combat the hatred in medicine.
Thousands of medical professionals from across the country have joined the new American Jewish Medical Association to stand up for Jews, the group recently told The Post.
“It’s fundamentally scary for those of us who care about humanity. It’s Nazi Germany all over again,” said Manhattan plastic surgeon Yael Halaas, founder and president of the new group and a graduate of Columbia University and Cornell Medical School.
The hatred leveled against Jews after the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel hit home for Halaas, whose Jewish parents emigrated to the US from Cuba and Argentina.
Many members of her dad’s family were killed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
Medical schools particularly have become hostile environments for Jewish students, the organizers said.
Among the troubling incidents:
-George Washington University’s medical school hosted a faculty panel in December that declared the terrorists have a “right of resistance” against Israel.
 logo American Jewish Medical Association -Some medical professionals have praised the Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel and denied the fact that victims in Israel were sexually assaulted.
— A sign that read, “Free Palestine from Nazi Zionist Schwein” — the German word meaning “pig” — appeared in front of the cancer center at the University of California at San Francisco’s medical school.
— Anti-Israel protesters at rallies at Columbia University’s Medical School/Mailman School of Public Health have chanted “From the River to the Sea,” a phrase many interpret as calling for the elimination of Israel and celebrating suicide bombers who kill Israelis.
“The Jewish medical students are bullied into silence,” Halaas said. “They are being ostracized. It shouldn’t be controversial to say Israel is integral to Jewish identity.
“Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” she said.
The term “zionism” refers to the right of the Jewish state to exist.
Orthopedist Cary Schwartzbach, a Queens native who practices in Fairfax, Va., and a son of Holocaust survivors and treasurer of the new group, said, “Oct. 7 was a wake-up call.
“It opened the gates for antisemitism,” the doctor said.
“There’s a sense of hostilities against Jews. Antisemitism has made a lot of hospital residency programs uncomfortable for Jewish students,” he said.
“We need a voice. We need to protect ourselves. We need to protect medical school students.”
Larisa Geskin, an oncologist and director of the Comprehensive Skin Cancer Center at Columbia University’s Medical Center who emigrated from Latvia in the former Soviet Union when she was 20, said she was stunned by the antisemitism she’s personally witnessed on campus.
“There is rampant antisemitism in the medical community,” the 56-year-old doctor said.
 A portrait of Dr. Benjamin Harouni, a 28-year-old bearded Jewish dentist who was shot and killed in his office near San Diego in 3February2024
Dr. Benjamin Harouni, a Jewish dentist, was fatally shot by a disgruntled former patient. GoFundMe.com
“This is so familiar to me. In the Soviet Union antisemitism was rampant. I never thought I’d hear the same rhetoric in the United States that I heard in the Soviet Union,” she said.
Given how Jews have been abused throughout history, the doctors said it’s horrifying to hear propaganda painting Israelis as white oppressors.
“Jews are also a minority. We need protection like other minorities,” Geskin said.
“We see history repeating itself. We feel we have to say something. They were chanting `From the River to the Sea’ in my backyard. This is what is happening in the medical community.”
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The Democratic Party as a whole is officially Anti Israel
Dov Hikind-tweet-24July2024-Democratic Party officially Anti Israel
Fair to argue at this point that the Democratic Party as a whole is officially Anti Israel
New York Post-tweet-24July2024-Kamala Harris skipping Netanyahu’s speech
Today’s cover: Kamala Harris skipping Netanyahu’s speech to Congress to address sorority event instead
 Dov Hikind-tweet-24July2024-Democratic Party officially Anti Israel
Khaled Hassan-tweet-24July2024-Democratic party is boycotting Bibi
Correct me, if I am mistaken. It appears that neither Blinken, Biden, Harris, nor even the little weasel Jake Sullivan received Bibi and his delegation of Israeli former hostages and families of the hostages.
And, we’re now getting reports that pretty much everyone who matters at the Democratic party is boycotting Bibi’s speech?
Cool, cool. Just don’t blame us when we say this despicable, disgusting party is anti-Israel and anti-Jews. They’re literally refusing to receive an Israeli delegation with people who were taken hostage by Hamas.
Sinwar is absolutely delighted. Thank you, Democrats. You’ve made our enemies stronger.
To every single Jew in the US, this election is now a single-issue matter. Vote for Trump.
Paul-tweet-24July2024-60 Democrats boycotted Bibi’s speech to Congress in 2015
I’m not sure how it’s been so inextricably memory holed, but upwards of 60 Democrats boycotted Bibi’s speech to Congress in 2015. This isn’t a ‘current events’ issue; it’s systemic.
 Khaled Hassan-tweet-24July2024-Democratic party is boycotting Bibi
At the Democratic National Convention 2016
 Protester burn Israeli flag outside DNC, Byron Tau/ Wall Street Journal  Palestine sic flag at Democrat Convention, Social Media Protesters burn Israeli flags outside the DNC and DNC delegates wave Palestine sic flags inside the DNC
The long-time Jewish worship of the Democratic Party is based on the false premise, that U. S. President F.D. Roosevelt was pro-Jewish and saved the world by defeating the Nazis. He is also credited with ending the Great Depression, and that is another untruth.
- FDR was pushed into having the USA enter World War Two when American military was attacked and to save Britain and Europe. At no time was it a military, or diplomatic aim to stop the Nazi Holocaust of Jews.
- It was the economic needs of the American military that drastically improved the American economy, thereby bringing on the economic recovery and end of the Great Depression.
 Caroline Glick tweet 9August2020 No room for Jews in the Democrat Party unless they’re “as a Jew” Jews
At the Democratic National Convention 2024
Caroline Glick-tweet-8August2024-Hamas at the DNC 2024-No Jews Allowed
Surprise surprise. Hamas terror boosters get to march and demonstrate at the #DNC in Chicago. But pro-Israel demonstrators have been denied permits to hold either a demonstration or a march, at least anywhere near the Democratic Convention.
 Caroline Glick-tweet-8August2024-Hamas at the DNC 2024-No Jews Allowed
Preparing for Chicago Democratic National Convention riots
John Rich🇺🇸-tweet-17August2024-mostly peaceful DNC riots
I don’t recall seeing boarded up buildings in Milwaukee at the RNC. This will be a “mostly peaceful DNC.”
 John Rich🇺🇸-tweet-17August2024-mostly peaceful DNC riots
Shelley G-tweet-18August2024-Preview of the DNC
Preview of the DNC:
 Shelley G-tweet-18August2024-Preview of the DNC
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-18August2024-DNC2024-Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs
The menu on the main banquet of this week’s DNC: “Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs”. For those who don’t understand, the Dems want an agreement at all costs this week; Israel is under massive US pressure to give into Hamas at the price of our future and security. Hashem help us! (Click on the image to see it better and feel free to share it).
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-18August2024-DNC2024-Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs
 DNC2024-Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs
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What would happen if the Democrats Won?
EXPLOSIVE: Biden Advisor Caught on Camera: We’ll Make Israel Face Consequences in Second Term
21May2024 https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2284802/explosive-biden-advisor-caught-on-camera-well-make-israel-face-consequences-in-second-term.html
 Biden Advisor Caught on Camera
An explosive undercover sting video of a White House National Security Council advisor validates the deepest fears of Jews and other pro-Israel Americans: Joe Biden will throw the Jewish State under the bus in a second term – if he wins reelection.
The video purports to show Sterlin Waters, a policy advisor to the NSC saying that Biden cannot be as forcefully anti-Israel as he wants to be because of political considerations, specifically that he wants to win reelection.
“We can help you [Israel] in the way that we can, but you’re not going to continue to lie, and bomb, and kill all these kids without facing serious consequences. But that’s a second term decision,” Waters is seen and heard saying.
“If Biden won again he could be much more forthright about saying ‘no’ [to Israel],” he added.
Making things even more shocking, Waters works under the deputy national security adviser, who just so happens to an Orthodox Jewish woman – Chani “Anne” Neuberger. A Bais Yaakov graduate, Neuberger quickly rose through the government’s ranks to become the deputy national security advisor, with a specific focus on global and domestic cybersecurity issues.
EXPLOSIVE: Biden Advisor Caught on Camera: We’ll Make Israel Face Consequences in Second Term
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The Democratic Party is CHEATING
Lynzely-tweet-31October2024-KY voting machines can not vote for Trump
@KYAgCommish might want to look into the voting machines in KY!
 Lynzely-tweet-31October2024-KY voting machines can not vote for Trump
India counted 640 million votes in a single day, 18 days later California is still counting 15 million votes
DogeDesigner-tweet-24November2024-India counted 640 million votes in 1 day-California counting 15 million votes 18 days
India counted 640 million votes in a single day.
California is still counting 15 million votes… 18 days later.
 DogeDesigner-tweet-24November2024-India counted 640 million votes in 1 day-California counting 15 million votes 18 daysv
India’s elections aren’t just big – they’re massive
Statistic Mania-tweet-24November2024-India’s elections aren’t just big-they’re massive
🇮🇳 India’s elections aren’t just big – they’re massive!!! With over 900 million eligible voters, it’s a remarkable display of democracy in action on a scale unlike anywhere else in the world! 🗳️
 Statistic Mania-tweet-24November2024-India’s elections aren’t just big-they’re massive
States Harris won vs. ID requirement
Elon Musk-tweet-10November2024-States Harris Won vs. ID requirement
Must be a coincidence 🙄
 Elon Musk-tweet-10November2024-States Harris Won vs. ID requirement
WHEN I DIE do not Let Me Vote Democrat
Declaration of Memes-tweet-10November2024-WHEN I DIE do not Let Me Vote Democrat
Real 🤣
 Declaration of Memes-tweet-10November2024-WHEN I DIE do not Let Me Vote Democrat
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PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE REPUBLICANS THEIR BIGGEST WIN IN 36 YEARS!
Bo Loudon-tweet-10November2024-Trump won
🚨BREAKING: CBS NEWS JUST REPORTED PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE REPUBLICANS THEIR BIGGEST WIN IN 36 YEARS!
“With a final tally of 312 electoral votes, Republicans scored their biggest White House win in 36 years.”
 Bo Loudon-tweet-10November2024-Trump won
The Jewish vote SHOWED UP in key battleground states for President Donald J. Trump
RJC-tweet-7November2024-The Jewish vote SHOWED UP
From Arizona to Pennsylvania to Nevada, the Jewish vote SHOWED UP in key battleground states for President Donald J. Trump, helping to secure his historic victory as part of a winning coalition.
 RJC-tweet-7November2024-The Jewish vote SHOWED UP
Hashem alone crowns Kings, for the Monarchy is His.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Hashem alone crowns Kings for the Monarchy is His
DeepState USA impeached Trump twice, arrested him 4 times, took him off the ballot and even tried to kiII him twice. But he won by a landslide. Only Hashem can do that. Mazaltov, 47th POTUS, Donald Trump. May Hashem be with you.
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Hashem alone crowns Kings for the Monarchy is His
 Hashem alone crowns Kings, for the Monarchy is His
Trump at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Trump at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel
Kamala had a tearful complaint to Doug at dinner:
“Why didn’t you take me to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel???”
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Trump at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel
That’s what happens when you don’t allow them to cheat and steal an election.
Truth Justice-tweet-7November2024-not allowed to cheat and steal an election
That’s what happens when you don’t allow them to cheat and steal an election.
Total votes in 2020 – 155,508,985
Total votes in 2024 – 140,306,875
Where did 15,202,110 million voters go?
2012 Obama 66M 2016 Clinton 63M 2020 Biden 81M? 15 Million? 2024 Kamala: 67M
 Truth Justice-tweet-7November2024-not allowed to cheat and steal an election
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by Tyler Durden 13November2024 – https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-completes-trifecta-republicans-keep-control-us-house
Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives by the thinnest of margins, NBC News projected Wednesday, handing President-elect Donald Trump and his party all the levers of power in Washington.
 Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives-2024 cA Republican-controlled Congress will allow Trump to quickly fill out his Cabinet and other top administration roles and advance his agenda for at least the next two years.
Last week, Republicans flipped three Democratic Senate seats to win control of the upper chamber.
 Republicans will control the Senate 2024
NBC News lays out how Republicans won the House…
Democrats had believed they were in a good position to win back the majority they lost just two years ago. They needed a net gain of only four seats to flip control of the House given that Republicans now hold 220 seats to the Democrats’ 212 – one of the smallest majorities in modern history.
But the two parties basically have fought to a draw in the House, preserving a status quo that favored Republicans.
In New York, Democrats were able to knock off a trio of vulnerable freshman GOP incumbents: Rep. Brandon Williams in the Syracuse region, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito on Long Island, and Rep. Marc Molinaro, whose district includes parts of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. They were among the 18 GOP House districts that President Joe Biden carried in 2020.
Democratic challenger George Whitesides also ousted vulnerable GOP Rep. Mike Garcia in Southern California.
But Trump’s triumph – including wins in battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and Michigan where there were key House races – helped buoy GOP incumbents and new candidates in the places that mattered.
Two of the biggest GOP prizes came in the Keystone State.
Republicans unseated two vulnerable, veteran Democrats in neighboring districts in eastern Pennsylvania. GOP businessman Rob Bresnahan ousted six-term Rep. Matt Cartwright, a former member of leadership, in the 8th District, which Trump carried in 2020. In the neighboring 7th District based in Allentown, GOP state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie upset Democratic Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee.
Meanwhile, In the capital of Harrisburg, Democrats believed they had a good chance to knock off former Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, a Trump ally who played a role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. But the six-term incumbent beat back a strong challenge from former local TV anchor Janelle Stelson, who attacked Perry on everything from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and abortion rights to his votes on veterans issues.
Republicans also captured a Michigan seat that had been held by Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who successfully ran for an open Senate seat.
And GOP challenger Gabe Evans narrowly defeated freshman Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colo., by less than 1 percentage point in a heavily Hispanic district north of Denver.
There are still six uncalled races:
 6 uncalled races 2024
“It is a beautiful morning in Washington. It is a new day in America,” a celebratory Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said on the steps of the Capitol, flanked by his leadership team, as the House returned to Washington on Tuesday.
“The sun is shining, and that is a reflection about how we all feel.”
 Trump wins Electoral Vote 2024
So Trump takes the trifecta: A Popular (and Electoral) Vote victory for The White House, taking back the Senate, and holding The House.
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Real Jews voted for Trump
In the last 5 days, the Harris White House has:
1. Called for an arms embargo against Israel
2. Leaked Israel’s classified plans to strike Iranian military sites
3. Agreed that Israel is committing genocide
4. Refused, AGAIN, to meet with Jewish students fighting antisemitism
RJC-tweet-7November2024-The Jewish vote SHOWED UP
By Jon Levine
Published Oct. 19, 2024, 9:13 a.m. ET https://nypost.com/2024/10/19/us-news/jewish-support-for-democrats-lowest-since-reagan-era-poll/
Jewish support for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee is on track to be the lowest since the Ronald Reagan era — while the number of those backing Donald Trump is on the rise, according to a new poll from the Manhattan Institute.
If the election were held today, Kamala Harris would win the support of just 67% of Jewish voters, while former President Trump would take 31% of Jewish votes, the survey found. More than four out of five described themselves as “enthusiastic” about their choice.
Though Jewish voters on the whole remain overwhelmingly supportive of Democrats, that support has dipped noticeably over the years.
In 1992, 80% of Jewish voters supported Bill Clinton over George Bush Sr., though things have been trending slowly downward since. In 2020, Biden won the support of 68% of Jewish voters, while Trump had 30%. In 2016 Hillary Clinton won 71% of Jewish voters and Trump got 24%.
The poll follows others which show Jewish support for Democrats is cracking — a trend which has accelerated since Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas.
While Jews tended to favor Democrats on most issues, there was strong partisan agreement on Israel, with 86% saying they supported the Jewish state — and 62% of Jews saying they were concerned about antisemitism in the Democratic party.
“Security, Israel, and antisemitism” are Harris’s weakest issue relative to former President Donald Trump among Jewish voters, according to the poll.
Many are likely uncomfortable with the Democratic Party’s tolerance of voices that criticize Israel in extreme terms, such as labeling the country ‘genocidal,’” said Jesse Arm, Chief of Staff at the Manhattan Institute in an analysis of the findings.
“This is evidenced by the fact that Jews are almost universally supportive of Israel — a mere 5% of Jewish voters say they are not supporters of the Jewish state,” Arm added.
Harris’ remaining strength among Jews came from Reform and unaffiliated or nondenominational Jews who are historically more aligned to progressive causes than other Jews.
A third of Jews cited abortion as their biggest 2024 campaign issue in contrast to Americans at large who routinely cite the economy.
The poll was conducted between Oct. 5-9 and surveyed 658 Jewish voters across the United States.
Jews-In-Name-Only voted for Harris
 Adas Israel Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt (C-SPAN)
Alana Goodman
17August2024 https://freebeacon.com/elections/dc-rabbis-claim-that-sacred-texts-require-jews-to-vote-for-harris-ignites-fury-among-congregants/
An influential Washington, D.C., synagogue is facing backlash from furious congregants after its rabbi claimed Jews “need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris” in order to comply with “sacred texts.”
Adas Israel, whose membership has included Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan and the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is one of the oldest and largest synagogues in Washington, D.C. But members have become increasingly frustrated with the leadership’s “insulting” left-wing advocacy that has left congregants “dreading the upcoming high holidays,” the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The controversy came to a head at a Jewish Democratic Council of America event earlier this month, when Adas Israel Co-Senior Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt cited Jewish scripture as a basis for why Jews must vote for Harris.
“I could tell you that we need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris because as Jews our sacred texts tell us we need to build a world where we feed the hungry, where we care for the sick, where we love the stranger, where we guard and nurture this planet,” said Holtzblatt on the JDCA Zoom call with Harris supporters. “Those are her values. That is what her policies seek to achieve.”
Holtzblatt, who officiated Ginsburg’s funeral and has appeared on The Forward’s “Forward 50” list, is a vocal supporter of Harris and led a Passover seder at the vice president’s home last spring. She did not respond to a request for comment regarding which Jewish texts support her assertion that Jews “need to elect” Harris.
Holtzblatt’s comments drew criticism from some Adas Israel congregants, who said the synagogue’s political bias has become “insufferable.”
“[T]o be lectured that as Jews we are compelled to vote a certain way is frankly insulting,” wrote a longtime congregant in an email to Adas Israel’s rabbinical leaders. Two other Adas Israel congregants independently shared the exchange with the Free Beacon.
“[T]ying ‘our sacred texts’ to a political candidate in this way is, at best, simplistic. And easily rebutted with myriad other examples from scripture,” wrote the members. “The reality is that Adas has become borderline insufferable for anyone who doesn’t share what is assumed by leadership to be the universal point of view. It’s politics all day everyday; politics always from the same direction—no balance.”
Members are also reportedly irked by Adas Israel’s decision to have Hamilton director Lin-Manuel Miranda, a non-Jewish Democratic activist, headline the synagogue’s Yom Kippur programming in October.
“[T]here are many more Adas members than you might realize, who are put off as well (some of whom are BCC’d here),” wrote the congregants. “I have spoken with a number who are dreading the upcoming high holidays, headlined bizarrely by father and son Miranda (hawking his book no less!).”
Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter “Aleph” voted for Harris
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Target demographic.
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Caption: Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter “Aleph” voted for Harris
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Joe Biden’s longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel
By Joan Swirsky
10October2024 https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swirsky/241010
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
 Joe Biden, Menachem Begin Those words were spoken by Menachem Begin in June of 1982, directly to the Democrat senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, who had confronted the Israeli Prime Minister during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony by threatening to cut off aid to Israel.
That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22 warmongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only 35 years after the Holocaust savagely murdered––tortured and gassed to death––six million Jewish men, women, children, and infants, Senator Biden was once again terrorizing the Jews of the world with his menacing ultimatum.
Not a fluke, not a misstatement, not an error in judgment, but vintage Joe Biden, whose longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel has been exhaustively documented by, among others, Shmuel Klatzkin (Biden’s Hostility to Israel––read the whole article) and Janet Levy in AmericanThinker.com (Is a Vote for Joe Biden in the Interest of American Jews?).
EXAMPLES ABOUND
Levy reports a number of the Obama-Biden regime’s consistent anti-Israel policies:
- They interfered with the 2015 Israeli elections with the goal of defeating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- That year, the Obama-Biden State Department granted $350,000 to OneVoice, a radical anti-Israel organization that supports the terrorist group Hamas.
- They also fully supported the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement to destroy Israel economically.
- In 2016, Biden pressured Ukraine, an abstainer, to vote for UN Security Council measure 2334, which claimed that ancient and historic Jewish sites were “illegally occupied.”
- They approved the same UN measure, which condemned Israelis building settlements––emboldening the Palestinian Authority to call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea, Samaria, and the Jewish Quarter, reversing decades of U.S. vetoes against such moves.
Today, President Biden heartily endorses the Iran nuclear deal—which President Trump canceled––and has let Israel know that he adamantly opposes Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear sites. This is the same Iran whose stated mission for decades has been to eradicate “The Big Satan” (America) and to exterminate from the face of the earth “The Little Satan” (Israel).
And we all know how thunderously silent Mr. Biden was back when his violently racist fellow Democrats––Reps. Ihlan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)—and a long list of simpatico Jew-hating, Israel-loathing activists––spewed their undisguised anti-Semitic bile for all the world to hear.
 The truth about Israeli occupation of Arab land “Biden said he could never be silent on anti-Semitism,” Levy writes, “but raised no objections, as vice-president, to more than 60 White House visits by Al Sharpton, who [had] incited anti-Jewish riots in New York City in the 1990s.
LESSONS OF HISTORY
I was a very little girl––younger than six––when I first asked my parents why they were running frantically to meeting after meeting every evening, opening their checkbooks, delivering impassioned speeches, wringing their hands, and shedding copious tears.
They told me what few American-Jewish parents ever told their children, so numb were they from disbelief and so eager to protect them from the ghastly truth, which was that adults and children just like them, just like us––six million of them––had been savagely murdered by Adolph Hitler and his “willing executioners” in Germany, Poland, all over Eastern Europe, and even in “civilized” countries like France, simply because they were Jewish.
Jews who managed to flee Europe and come to America before the Holocaust––like my own and my late husband Steve’s grandparents––and those who survived the killing camps and landed on our shores by sheer good fortune, thought they died and went to heaven on earth. For the first time in their lives––in fact, in Jewish history––they were free to breathe, to create, to pursue their dreams, to worship, and to raise their children without fear.
Yes, there were quotas in colleges and graduate schools, Holocaust denial, and today an upsurge in Jew hatred, but nothing stopped Jews from succeeding and excelling and contributing disproportionately to American society and to the world, just as the Jews in the state of Israel––only 76 years old––do today.
THE LEGACY OF PERSECUTION
But over 3,500 years of persecution exacts a heavy price. To understand, just think about the long-lasting toll the following events take:
- A one-minute gunshot,
- A two-hour bout of chemotherapy,
- A three-week recovery from open-heart surgery,
- A four-month lay-off,
- An almost three-year pandemic lockdown
- A five-year recession.
All of the above are life-changing, diminishing, often devastating, sometimes annihilating.
Yet Jews continued on, their survival instinct stronger than the most crushing circumstances of their long and besieged history of being haunted, hunted, and often destroyed in, among other cataclysmic events:
- The Crusades.
- The Inquisition.
- The expulsion from Spain.
- The Holocaust.
- And always, the diaspora.
- And now, October 7, 2023.
After the Holocaust, American Jews who followed politics––most did and still do today––were forced to ask themselves, and taught their children to ask: Is it good for the Jews? Meaning, will this or that candidate or statement or policy or law lead to another Holocaust?
After all, the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s enjoyed tremendous success––in business, academia, the arts and sciences, society in general. Unlike the United States today, every college and university did not feature violent anti-Jewish protests or professors who taught anti-Jewish propaganda. Until the rise of Hitler, there were no elected officials––as there are in the U.S. today––spewing Jew hatred, not only with no disapproval from the powers-that-be, but with total impunity.
Now, American Jews have to ask themselves: Is the presidential candidacy of Biden’s choice for VP, Kamala Harris, good for the Jews?
Writer Kenin M. Spivak, among dozens who affirm his thinking, cites numerous damning reasons why Harris is a terrible––and dangerous—choice, among them that she “has remained largely silent about the outbreak of anti-Semitism. She selected far-left advisors who oppose Israel’s Gaza operations, and she boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress.”
Not to omit that she was “open to” an arms embargo against Israel and, as Robert Spencer, a middle east expert, predicts: “If Kamala is elected president, the American gravy train to Tehran will likely continue running, enabling the mullahs to continue their jihad against Israel…”
But nothing covers the true horrors of a Harris presidency more comprehensively than this opus, whose author wishes to remain anonymous.
“Biden-Harris-Walz are and will be a disaster for Israel and for American Jews,” he writes. “As a lifelong Democrat it hurts me even more to admit that, this time around, given the prominence of the currently major issue for me, I believe I have to vote for the Orange Man.”
In short, a vote for Kalamity Harris and the truly regressive, Obama-clone platform she’s running on––including high taxes, a weakened military, an anti-fracking return-to-energy-dependence, open borders, confiscation of your guns, and a viciously contentious relationship with Israel––would be terrible for America and disastrous for the Jewish state.
If you’re a liberal American Jew determined to pull the lever or mail a write-in ballot for Kamala Harris—don’t!
Don’t be a Jew with trembling knees. Your very survival and that of your family are at stake!
Joan Swirsky is a New York based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
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Jewish Assimilation in America
JerusalemCats Comments: Doug Emhoff is Kamala Harris’ “Jewish” husband
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Doug Emhoff and family pose in front of their Christmas Tree.
Not a Menorah in sight. 🧐
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Peloni: The fact that any American Jew would submit to such requirements as meeting in secret to demonstrate their affiliation with an organization, whose brute squads are the cause for them to have to hide in the first place, demonstrates a serious pathology of the mind. This example of Stockholm Syndrome is very sad, very troubling, and yet, very revealing. I hope that the majority of American Jews take the fact of this matter to heart, and realize that the Democratic party, which they seem to believe defines them, has no interest in providing them with safety, liberty, nor equality, all of which are the basis for which govt is intended to exist, and for ALL Americans.
Jewish delegates at the DNC have to meet in hiding.
Daniel Greenfield | August 23, 2024 https://www.israpundit.org/63720619-2/
“As the highest-ranking Jewish official in American history, I want my grandkids and all grandkids to never, never face discrimination because of who they are,” Senator Schumer concluded his speech. “But Donald Trump. This is a guy who peddles antisemitic stereotypes.”
Meanwhile Jewish Democrats were literally hiding out at the DNC.
Most Jewish events at the DNC were held at undisclosed locations with organizers having to approve attendees and only then provide them with the secret location shortly beforehand.
Agudath Israel, a traditional religious and not particularly Zionist group, whose members wear black suits and hats, held an open event to discuss the antisemitism faced by Orthodox Jews, only to have masked activists show up and scream that they were going to destroy Israel. No one at the DNC condemned those responsible or held them accountable for their actions. Imagine the reaction if black or Asian attendees were systemically harassed in this way.
“After 50 years fighting antisemitism in America, I could not have imagined a time -Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC,” former ADL leader Abe Foxman tweeted.
Outside the DNC convention, men in Hamas bandanas flashed victory signs, waved Hamas flags, burned American and Israeli flags, and declared their support for the mass murder of Jews on Oct 7. Inside the DNC convention, President Joe Biden deviated from his prepared teleprompter remarks to declare that, “those protesters out in the street, they have a point.”
When the president says that those who want to kill and harass Jews have a point, is it any wonder that they operate with political impunity and support from the top echelons of the party.
While Schumer was attacking former President Trump, UCLA was appealing a decision by Judge Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointee, who had stepped in after the Democrat administration of UCLA and the Democrat members of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors had sided with Hamas supporters who had kept Jewish students from being able to attend classes.
“In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom,” Scarsi stated.
It’s unimaginable, abhorrent and wholly accepted by much of Schumer’s base.
If Schumer’s grandchildren from his daughter’s lesbian non-Jewish girlfriend decide they’re Jewish and need to be protected against discrimination, it won’t be his party protecting them.
While Jewish attendees were being hunted at the DNC, Doug Emhoff took to the floor to appeal to Jewish voters by once again recalling memories of his last Jewish experience attending his grandmother’s seder in the seventies, eating brisket and sitting on plastic slipcover cushions.
Emhoff assured attendees that Kamala goes to synagogue and he goes to church with her (with doubtless equal sincerity) and that she has “fought against antisemitism and all forms of hate.” He made no mention of the Hamas supporters calling for the murder of Jews outside, the Jewish DNC delegates hiding inside or a nation of six million Jews fighting for survival.
A nation his wife had repeatedly targeted with ugly rhetoric for trying to stop the terrorists.
Shut up and eat your damned brisket, was the message. Liberal Jews kvelling over Kamala’s brisket did not ask which church Emhoff attends and which temple Kamala visits. Kamala’s pastor is Amos Brown III who took her hand and urged her to do something to stop Israel. According to a Washington Post report, the radical black nationalist clergyman told her that the struggle of the ‘Palestinians’ is “our struggle as people of color who have been oppressed.”
Emhoff doesn’t belong to any particular temple or synagogue, but appears to be associated with IKAR headed by Sharon Brous: a member of the councils of anti-Israel groups like J Street, and the New Israel Fund. Brous has a long history of supporting antisemites, attacking Jews for opposing Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar, claiming that Jews “have spent years in hive mentality, pouncing on indications of anti-Semitism among Israel’s critics” and accused the Jewish State of a “52-year military occupation of millions of Palestinian people”.
Kamala’s church and Emhoff’s temple are radical leftist enterprises which both hate Israel.
Vice President Kamala is just the latest in a long line of politicians who send out ‘Court Jews’ to assure the Jewish community that they relate to their cultural values while denying their rights. Kamala conveniently married hers and then sent him out to convince the Jewish community of her fidelity to their most sacred value, not Torah, Judaism or Israel, but a pound of brisket.
And if Kamala can cook a brisket, who really needs a country, safety, self-respect or the ability to attend events at the DNC without being harassed by masked supporters of killing Jews?
Not a single Jewish Democrat stood up to Biden for suggesting that the mobs of Hamas supporters calling for the murder of Jews had “a point”. Nor did they criticize Kamala for her repeated defenses of terrorist protesters. Even the staged moment when DNC delegates called for bringing Jewish hostages home during a speech by the Polin family in imitation of a similar scene at the RNC convention did not change the fact of what was going on behind the cameras.
Rather than committing to an Israeli victory, the Biden administration has spent months pressuring Israel to stop fighting and give in to Hamas demands. Kamala had privately met with Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud who had told a pro-Hamas rally that Dearborn was “the city of resistance”. Gov. Tim Walz was never forced to apologize for his anti-Israel views, Gov Josh Shapiro however was compelled to retract his pro-Israel positions for Kamala’s VP search.
But apparently she cooks almost as good a brisket as the one Emhoff remembers his deceased grandmother making in the days before he abandoned her religion, tradition and values.
When even Jewish delegates at the DNC have to meet in secret, what once appeared to be a subtle choice between nuances of foreign policy in the Middle East has become as graphic as the mobs calling for the murder of Jews inside and outside the convention.
In an echo of Esau, Jews at the DNC had a choice between brisket and their birthright.
Elon Musk: Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic
Elon Musk-tweet-25July2024-Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic
People who have been lifelong Democrats refuse to accept the clear reality that the Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic.
This trend is accelerating, not slowing down.
Knock, knock. Hello, Captain Obvious here!
mark pincus-tweet-24July2024-How is this part of the Dem party
How is this part of the Dem party? Are Dem leaders denouncing?
Rashida Tlaib-tweet-24July2024-The apartheid government of Israel
I will never back down in speaking truth to power.
The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians will not be erased. Solidarity with all those outside of these walls in the streets protesting and exercising their right to dissent.
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Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote
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The @TheBabylonBee got it right: VP Harris has chosen Tim Walz as her running mate. It’s a dark day for American Jews. There was only one reason to have passed over Josh Shapiro: The Democrats would rather lose with antisemitic progressives than win with moderate normies.
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Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote
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Politics · 5August2024 · BabylonBee.com https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/democrats-worried-choosing-jewish-vice-president-may-cost-them-the-all-important-death-to-america-vote
 Hamas protests in Washington DC WASHINGTON, D.C. — After hearing Josh Shapiro might be Kamala Harris’s pick for Vice President, Democrats worry his name on the ticket might cost them the all-important “Death To America” vote.
“I think Josh is very qualified to be Harris’s VP pick,” Chuck Schumer told the press over the weekend. “I do worry he might discourage those wishing to obliterate the U.S. and wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. We really need those votes.”
The Harris team announced it is nearing a decision on who will join the current Vice President on the national ticket. Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro is rumored to be at the top of the list, but some worry his Jewish heritage and past as an IDF soldier might cost the dems votes from those wishing to make the streets run red with the blood of Jews if it’s the last thing they ever do.
“We really need those 15,000 votes from Dearborn, Michigan who want America to be eternally consumed by the fires of holy jihad,” Schumer said. “We’d hate to lose out on their support just because we have a guy on the ticket who probably thinks Jews should exist. It’s a real conundrum.”
At publishing time, Kamala announced she was also considering just choosing one of the 9/11 convicts currently staying at GITMO, a move sure to appease America’s more rabid antisemites.
Kamala passed on the Jew to get herself a terror-adjacent VP
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Kamala passed on the Jew to get herself a terror-adjacent VP
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Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor
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Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor. Let that sink in.
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Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammoud spoke at rally that broke out in ‘Death to Israel’ chants
 Dearborn mayor Abudullah Hammoud (X)
Chuck Ross
15October2024 https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/state-department-stands-by-adviser-who-spoke-at-pro-hezbollah-rally-where-jews-were-told-to-go-back-to-poland/
The State Department is standing by an adviser to the federal agency who spoke at an anti-Israel rally that saw chants of “Death to Israel,” praise for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and calls for Jews to be returned “back to Poland.”
Dearborn, Mich., mayor Abdullah Hammoud (D.), a member of the State Department’s Assembly of Local Leaders, spoke on Sept. 25 at a “Stand with Lebanon” rally in Dearborn to decry U.S. support for Israel against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Hammoud, who has emerged as a leading critic of Israel following October 7, touted his support for the anti-Israel divestment movement, and said, “We cannot condone any president that uplifts any administration that bombs every school decimating children to smithereens.”
Elected Dearborn mayor in 2021, Hammoud was introduced as the “greatest mayor in the United States” by Arab-American activist Osama Siblani. Siblani, whom the Harris campaign has met with to gain the support of Michigan’s Muslim voters, hailed Hezbollah’s Nasrallah during his speech as a “hero” and said of Israelis: “We will take you back to Poland.”
Chants of “death to Israel” broke out during Siblani’s remarks, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. Siblani responded, “Believe me, they will take care of the job,” an apparent reference to Hezbollah’s planned attack on Israel. Two days after the rally, Israeli forces assassinated Nasrallah in Beirut. Hammoud embraced Siblani as he took the stage, but did not address Siblani’s praise for Nasrallah or the “death to Israel” chants.
That could be of concern because of Hammoud’s involvement in a State Department panel that provides a venue for local officials “to share their views or concerns with foreign policy topics directly with the Department.” The agency does not appear to be taking any disciplinary action towards Hammoud.
“Mayor Hammoud is a member of the State Department’s Assembly of Local Leaders (ALL), as are 20 other local and state officials from around the country,” a State Department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon. “The Department of State has been consistently clear about the United States’ unwavering support to Israel’s security and our rejection of anti-Semitic rhetoric wherever it occurs. We defer to Mayor Hammoud and the City of Dearborn to speak to specifics around the event in question.”
The State Department appointed Hammoud to the post on Oct. 18, ignoring the Democrat’s history of anti-Israel sentiments and his criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel. Hammoud called Hamas’s attack on Israel “inevitable” because of Israel’s “decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza.” A day before his appointment to the State Department panel, Hammoud pushed Hamas’s false propaganda that Israel—”emboldened by a green light from the Biden administration”—killed hundreds of Palestinians in the bombing of Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza.
Hammoud has been embraced by some national media outlets over his public criticism of the administration’s alliance with Israel. The New York Times published an essay from Hammoud in February in which he proclaimed his city “feels betrayed” by the U.S. government’s support for what he called “genocide in Gaza.”
Dearborn, the largest Muslim-majority city in the country, has emerged as a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment in the wake of Oct. 7, leading one Wall Street Journal contributor to dub the city “America’s jihad capital.” In April, rallygoers at an event outside Dearborn city hall openly chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”
Hammoud’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
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Leaders of Satmar hasidic sect announce decision to vote for Donald Trump, due to concerns Kamala Harris poses a risk for Jews.
Israel National News / 28October2024, 12:34 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398215
 Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe
Grand Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum’s Satmar hasidic sect in New York has announced that it will officially support former US President Donald Trump’s candidacy for US president.
The decision follows a set of discussions by the Satmar leadership, due to concerns that US Vice President Kamala Harris may pose a threat to the “Jewish people” if she is elected president.
The support means tens of thousands of additional votes for Trump, in a neck-to-neck race.
Satmar will also provide free transportation to voting booths for early voting.
The second sect of Satmar hasidim who follow Grand Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, has not yet issued an official announcement, but it is expected that they, too, will support Trump.
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JerusalemCats Comments: You vowed ‘Never Again!’ Yet history is repeating itself. It’s time to leave.
 It won’t happen here. Peloni: There is no equitable basis for American Jews to support Kamala. Recall that just as Israel’s attackers are being financed and protected by Washington, Kamala’s elitist-controlled Washington, so too are the promulgators of antisemitic assaults on American Jews all across the US. And yet, the age old adage of the American Jews being more tightly tied to the Democratic party than to their own right arm remains in effect, even if it is less so today than ever before. While the lack of clarity in making such a choice raises many questions, it spells out a clear divide between American and Israeli Jews which Shaw describes quite well.American Jews, take heed! Israelis, right and left, overwhelmingly think Trump is the better president when it comes to Israel’s needs.
Barry Shaw
30October2024, 2:01 PM https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-us-election-and-the-us-israel-jewish-divide/
The assessment of the Jewish vote ahead of the US elections is disturbing.
According to polls, the vast majority of American Jews will be voting for Harris, which, according to an Israeli majority, would be very bad for Israel.
The Manhattan Institute has Harris leading Trump 67% to 31%.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America October poll has a 71% to 26% outcome in favor of Harris.
The voting preference of Orthodox Jews show a polar opposite result.
The Manhattan Institute saw Harris up 53 points among Reform Jews and Trump up 18 points among Orthodox Jews.
For an Israel that is overwhelmingly rooting for a Trump victory, it is deeply disturbing to discover that the majority of Americans Jews are voting against the best interests of the Jewish state in 2024 even though the majority of these voters say they support Israel 86% to 5% with 9% unsure.
The divide between American Jews over what is best for Israel, and it needs to be guided by Israel.
After all, we are the ones in the firing line. We are the ones doing the fighting to protect our loved ones and defend our country.
And here we come to the most troubling polls.
The one big opinion divide between US Jewish voters and Israelis is the poll that shows an 18% US Jewish majority say that Harris would manage Israel’s war better than Trump.
In Israel, opinion is radically different.
In an Israeli Channel 12 poll, 66% prefer Trump to only 17% for Harris, with 17% undecided.
Among Netanyahu voters 93% prefer Trump to Harris’s 1%.
The divide between Israeli and American Jews over what’s best for Israel is shockingly stark just days before the US election.
About the Author
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also the author of ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism,’ ‘1917. From Palestine to the Land of Israel, ‘BDS for IDIOTS,’ and his latest work ‘A Tale of Love and Destiny,’ the dramatic life of a Jewish heroine.
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What could a President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews?
Lizzy Savetsky-tweet-22July2024-President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews
What could a President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews? I am not here to tell anyone who to vote for or support. I am simply here to present some facts. As always, our future lies in G-d’s hands only.
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a promiscuously immoral snake
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26September2024-promiscuously immoral snake
What a circus the non-emuna world is. A crooked senile fox and an promiscuously immoral snake want to give the wounded wolves time to regroup and recover from what the lamb (who can morph into a lion) did to them. Bibi, don’t repeat the Gaza mistake – say no to a ceasefire!
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Kamala Harris does not care about murdered Israeli children
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Don’t Care
It’s been over 2 days and Kamala Harris still hasn’t condemned Hezbollah’s bombing of Israeli children.
Jewish Americans should ask themselves why this is.
 Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Don’t Care
Kamala Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
David M Friedman-tweet-23July2024-Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
The Vice President is supposed to preside over joint sessions of Congress. @KamalaHarris refusal to do so when the Prime Minister of Israel makes his first public address in the United States since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, tells you everything you need to know about where she stands on Israel.
All the far left Jewish groups trying to justify this incredible insult are convincing no one.
Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-bibi-netanyahu-speech-congress/
JerusalemCats-tweet-23July2024-She took an oath of office
@KamalaHarris is an official of the US Government. She took an oath of office. She is required to preform her duties. It does not matter if the person is Stalin or Satan, she is required to show up.
 David M Friedman-tweet-23July2024-Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
Kamala Harris no friend of Israel
David M Friedman-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris no friend of Israel
Well here you have it. @KamalaHarris offers her take on the war in Gaza. NO CONDEMNATION OF HAMAS! Just some platitudes about complexities, nuances, human suffering , peace and security. And a plea for a “two-state solution.”
Madame Vice President, there was a Palestinian state in Gaza – not a single Jew or Jewish soldier was there when this war began. In 2005 Israel evacuated all its soldiers and citizens from Gaza, handing full control of the territory to the Palestinians in the hope of peace. And the Palestinians in Gaza then elected Hamas.
Hamas received billions of dollars in international aid — aid that the Trump administration cut off but you and Joe Biden restored! It used those funds to build terror tunnels and shoot rockets at Israeli civilians. And on October 7, 2023, it committed the most barbaric and despicable acts of violence against Jews since the Holocaust.
I noted not a word from you in your speech regretting that your administration funded Hamas terror (directly, and through sanctions relief on Iran).
Your push for a Palestinian state at this time is tone-deaf and a betrayal of the Jewish lives lost and still missing from this heinous assault. It also conflicts with the recent vote of the Israeli Knesset which overwhelmingly rejected a Palestinian state.
You are no friend of Israel and you have exhibited a shocking lack of command of the relevant facts. Your insensitivity to Jewish suffering and failure to attribute good and evil where they belong, means you will never help to bring peace to this troubled region.
All those in the region who seek peace – Israelis, Arabs, Jews. Muslims and Christians – now know after hearing this speech that you are NOT the one to achieve it.
MSNBC-tweet-25July2024-Harris speaks after meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu
BREAKING: VP Harris speaks after meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu
Harris calling for an immediate cease-fire deal to free the hostages.
The VP saying she “will not be silent” about the suffering in Gaza, the “devastating” loss of life and the “dire” humanitarian crisis.
 David M Friedman-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris no friend of Israel
Israel has about six months to become militarily self-sufficient
William A. Jacobson-tweet-25July2024-Israel has about six months
Israel has about six months to become militarily self-sufficient, because if she wins she’s going to cut them off and weaponize the Security Council – she’s really hard core, don’t kid yourselves
 William A. Jacobson-tweet-25July2024-Israel has about six months
Kamala Harris election Propaganda
Jacob Helberg-tweet-23July2024-Kamala Harris election Propaganda
Over the next few weeks, you’re going to see a lot of propaganda about how great Kamala is for Israel. They’ll say you shouldn’t believe what you see and hear about her record.
You’re going to hear she just doesn’t like Bibi personally and it has nothing to do with how she feels about Israel, the country. In fact, her disdain for, and opposition to, Bibi is for Israel’s own good.
You’re going to hear she has a Jewish husband. Isn’t that great?
Her entire tenure as VP makes one thing abundantly clear:
She would not only be the most antagonistic US President towards Israel in US history, but she would also completely unravel the US-Israel alliance in everything but name. All she’ll do that all the while *saying* how much she loves Israel.
My heart breaks when I think of what Holocaust survivors went through to have a homeland.
Don’t fall for the spin. Trust your own eyes and ears.
Occam’s Razor.
Jake Wurzak-tweet-23July2024-If that were true
If that were true and she just didn’t like Bibi then she would have meet the hostage families on the tarmac.
Additionally, what have they done to get the American citizens out? There are still 8.
 Jacob Helberg-tweet-23July2024-Kamala Harris election Propaganda
Mr Reagan-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY
Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY
[EDD: From YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVspeqNnoWM]
Thanks to Elon Musk for the tweet!
Kamala Harris just posted her first 2024 presidential campaign ad.
It’s clean and professional. It’s very well done.
So, of course, I had to produce a parody.
 Mr Reagan-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY
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Kamala Harris Supports President Biden’s 44.6% Capital Gains and a 25% tax on unrealized gains Tax Proposal
Jaxon Gaines
20August2024 https://watcher.guru/news/kamala-harris-supports-president-bidens-44-6-capital-gains-tax-proposal
Vice President Kamala Harris has declared her support for President Joe Biden’s 44.6% capital gains tax proposal. The proposal would be the highest in history. It also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals (more than $100 million in wealth).
Watcher.Guru-tweet-20August2024-Kamala Harris backs President Biden’s capital gains tax proposal
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Kamala Harris backs President Biden’s 44.6% capital gains tax proposal, the highest in history.
The proposal also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals.
 Watcher.Guru-tweet-20August2024-Kamala Harris backs President Biden’s capital gains tax proposal
They will lower the threshold
kenny 1297-tweet-22August2024-They will lower the threshold
They will lower the threshold, i am from a previously 3rd country in asia. There was a time when only business owner and the wealthy paid tax. Then before u know it everyone making slightly above minimum wage pays it too, the politicians bullshit their way into getting it pass.
 kenny 1297-tweet-22August2024-They will lower the threshold
Harris’ campaign shared support for the tax proposal as the 2024 Democratic National Convention is underway. Harris spoke Monday at the event in Chicago along with President Biden. The democratic nominee has also proposed tax cuts beyond Biden’s budget. These include an exemption for tipped workers, a $6,000 tax credit for parents of newborns, and an expanded child tax credit that the Biden budget doesn’t extend beyond 2025.
Vice President Harris also proposed bumping the corporate tax rate to 28%, her campaign said Monday. The current corporate tax rate is 21%. This is down from 35% after Donald Trump signed the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which will expire after 2025.
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James Singer, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, said in a statement of Harris’s proposal that “unlike Donald Trump, whose extreme Project 2025 agenda would drive up the deficit, increase taxes on the middle class by $3,900, and send our economy spiraling into recession – her plan is a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.”
It is expected that passing these tax proposals will be extremely difficult if Kamala Harris is elected President. The current state of Congress, even if controlled by Democrats, will be very divided on the proposal.
Brian Beers-tweet-21August2024-Unrealized capital gains 101
Unrealized capital gains 101:
You bought 100 shares of Zoom stock in Jan 2020 for $75 per share
Ends year at $350 per share but you didn’t sell giving you an unrealized gain $27.5k
Under Kamala’s plan you owe $6,875 in taxes (25% of $27.5k)
But you didn’t sell so you don’t have the cash. you pay taxes out of savings
You continue to hold until August 2024. Finally sell for $60 per share
You LOST $1,500 on the stock PLUS you paid the taxes on the $27.5k of “gains” you never actually received since they evaporated
The initial tax proposal is only targeting $100M+ but that’s just the start. It opens the gates to lower the threshold whenever they choose
Before you know it every person who owns a stock is paying this tax
People stop buying stocks. Companies have less capital to invest into new products and develop technology
Economy tanks. Jobs lost
What a joyful future
 Brian Beers-tweet-21August2024-Unrealized capital gains 101
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Kamala Harris Prostitute Background
C-Reason🇺🇸-tweet-1August2024-Kamala Harris Prostitute
Huuummm … 🤔 … So, the Democrats are covering this up just like they did Obama’s drug use and gay lifestyle.
Is anyone surprised?
You better repost this before X suspends me for this.
 Kamala Harris Prostitute  C-Reason🇺🇸-tweet-1August2024-Kamala Harris Prostitute
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JD Vance vs. Kamala Harris Background
TheEXECUTlONER-tweet-26July2024-JD Vance vs Kamala Harris Background
I’ll take JD any day over clueless Kamala Harris
 TheEXECUTlONER-tweet-26July2024-JD Vance vs Kamala Harris Background
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This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter.
2024~TRUMPS BLONDE~2024-tweet-24July2024-This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter
This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter…
such a happy-looking, approachable, friendly child!
Looks like Crooks!😳
 2024~TRUMPS BLONDE~2024-tweet-24July2024-This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter
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Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel, pro-Iran official liaison to the Jewish community
Caroline Glick-tweet-19August2024-Harris’s Jewish community liaison
More on Harris’s Jewish community liaison Ilan Goldenberg’s legion ties to Iran’s Washington lobby.
Shelley G-tweet-12August2024-Ilan Goldenberg worked with NIAC
🚨BREAKING: HARRIS SELECTS FAR-LEFT PRO-KHAMENEI AGENT AS JEWISH OUTREACH DIRECTOR🚨
Ilan Goldenberg has a history of working with NIAC and other lobbies who advocate for the interests of the Islamic Republic. The Jewish community is the LAST thing he is concerned about.
Jacob N. Kornbluh-tweet-12August2024-New American Security
Harris campaign tapped Ilan Goldenberg, a Harris aide, as the campaign’s Jewish outreach director.
Goldenberg was previously director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and part of John Kerry’s peace team in 2014
 Caroline Glick-tweet-19August2024-Harris’s Jewish community liaison
By Ron Kampeas 12August2024 12:19 pm https://www.jta.org/2024/08/12/politics/harris-campaign-taps-israeli-born-former-peace-negotiator-ilan-goldenberg-as-liaison-to-jewish-community
 Ilan Goldenberg, pictured in 2019. (Screenshot)
Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has named Ilan Goldenberg, an Israeli-born former peace negotiator, as its liaison to the Jewish community, sources say.
Three people with close ties to the organized Jewish community and the Harris campaign confirmed the pick to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The campaign did not return a request for comment.
Goldenberg, who has served as Vice President Kamala Harris’ adviser on Middle East issues, has previously been an acerbic critic of both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian leadership. He formed close ties with the organized Jewish community during the failed 2013-2014 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, when he was a lead on the Obama administration’s negotiating team.
The pick comes as Harris refines her approach to discussing Israel on the campaign trail at a time when the Israel-Hamas war elevates the issue’s prominence. While Harris has expressed unwavering support for Israel, she has also been more critical than Biden of its military campaign in Gaza.
The Jewish liaison is the campaign’s representative to Jewish communities, answering questions about the candidate’s policies on Israel and other issues of Jewish concern and otherwise taking the lead in making the campaign’s case to Jewish voters, including by organizing events in Jewish communities.
Goldenberg, 46, was born in Jerusalem and grew up in New Jersey, where he attended Jewish day school and belonged with his family to a Conservative synagogue. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University and is fluent in Hebrew and Arabic. He’s spent decades working on Middle East affairs, both in government roles and at think tanks.
He renounced his Israeli citizenship to work in the U.S. government and worked on the Iran file at the Pentagon in President Barack Obama’s first term before switching to the peace process at the State Department in Obama’s second term. In 2020, before returning to government under the Biden administration, he advised Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.
After the failed talks in 2014, which were followed closely by a war in Gaza, Goldenberg authored a 22-page analysis indicting fundamental distrust between Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, then as now the Palestinian Authority president, as the chief cause of the collapse. “These guys can never do it together,” he told JTA at the time. “That’s for sure.”
After his time on the negotiating team, Goldenberg worked at the Center for a New American Security and was an advisor at the Israel Policy Forum, both of which support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. He was highly critical of the Trump administration’s Israel policy and, in 2018 and 2019, wrote essays urging more of a focus on diplomacy in Gaza to prevent an escalation of violence there. He also wrote an essay in 2019 imagining how a war with Iran would play out.
In a 2018 Haaretz essay titled “Will Israel Be Forced to Invade and Reoccupy Gaza?” Goldenberg wrote that the cycle of conflicts between Hamas and Israel could explode if regional players did not take steps to dial down tensions.
“With every crisis, the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens. There will come a moment when basic order collapses altogether, or Israel is forced to invade and retake Gaza,” he wrote. “The only way to avoid this terrible outcome in the long-term is a sustainable political arrangement that should include both a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that includes major economic opening of Gaza combined with a Palestinian reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas that slowly brings the Palestinian Authority back into Gaza.”
Goldenberg also wrote an essay in 2019 about donating a kidney to his father.
Caroline Glick-tweet-13August2024-Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel pro-Iran official
Kamala hired a Jewish anti-Israel, pro-Iran official to serve as her liaison to the Jewish community.
She hired a Muslim pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-pro-Israel Jews official to serve as her liaison to to the Muslim and Arab communities.
 Caroline Glick-tweet-13August2024-Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel pro-Iran official
Kamala’s Counsel Defended Hamas Supporters Harassing Jewish Students
Meet one of Kamala’s top lawyers: an Afghan immigrant who protected terrorists.
August 9, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
 Nasrina Bargzie
After 9/11, Nasrina Bargzie, an Afghan Muslim immigrant, was interviewed by law enforcement over troubling comments on the War on Terror reported by her friends.
Today she’s the Deputy Counsel to Vice President Kamala Harris.
After coming to America from a wealthy family in Kandahar, later a stronghold of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Nasrina Bargzie was raised in Concord, CA, one of the state’s hubs for Afghan migrants, and quickly got involved in anti-American and pro-terrorist activism.
In 2001, while attending college, she was interrogated by the FBI about comments she had made to her friends. It’s unknown what she said, but it was enough to scare her friends, in one of the most liberal parts of the country, to apparently report her to law enforcement.
Next year, she wrongly received a law school scholarship intended for women who had suffered persecution under the Taliban even though she had left long before they came to power.
“I would like to do something that would affect Afghanistan,” Nasrina told a local paper.
Berkeley Law School was a hub of anti-American and anti-Israel activities and by the time she graduated, Nasrina was prepared to embark on her career of attacking both countries.
She became a legal fellow at the ACLU and joined its lawfare machine to dismantle our national security defenses against Islamic terrorism. In 2008, she posted about “wearing orange”at the Today Show in solidarity with the Al Qaeda, Taliban and other terrorists being held at Gitmo.
Nasrina also complained that “murder charges” had yet to be filed against the heroic Marines who bravely fought for their lives against terrorists in the streets of Haditha during the Iraq War.
In 2011 she joined the Asian Law Caucus and went to war against Jewish students facing antisemitic harassment. In 2010, Jessica Felber, a Jewish student, had been assaulted by a leader of the Students for Justice in Palestine campus hate group, and filed suit against UC Berkeley for tolerating an atmosphere of hate by activists linked to terrorist organizations. .
Nasrina Bargzie accused Jewish students and organizations of “organized legal bullying” for suing universities. She ridiculed the idea that calling for the destruction of Israel was “threatening” and co-signed a petition claiming that the lawsuit by Jewish students was “threatening” the speech of Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine and the Berkeley Muslim Students Association.
Jewish students, she argued, were the “aggressors” and rejected the idea that there was anything “anti-semitic” about the campus hate groups and their ties to Islamic terrorism.
Nasrina Bargzie was so desperate that she presented a request to the UN Human Rights Commission, a group often stocked with Islamic terrorist states, to intervene and stop the Department of Education from investigating “allegations of anti-Semitism on several campuses”.
The appeal to the UN was made on behalf of her Asian Law Caucus, CAIR, a group with a long history of supporting Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups, the National Lawyers Guild, a group with a Communist origin which has been complicit in antisemitic violence, and American Muslims for Palestine which has been sued over accusations of its ties to Hamas.
Hatem Bazian, the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine and the godfather of campus antisemitism, would later thank Nasrina and others, for “being constantly engaged in everything related to Palestine”. Alongside her was Zahra Billoo, the local head of CAIR, with whom Nasrina Bargzie had co-signed the letter, who would defend Hezbollah and Hamas.
Nasrina would work together with Biloo and CAIR, whose leader praised the Oct 7 attacks, on their next major project. While Nasrina had claimed that the antisemitic harassment of Jews on campuses was just “freedom of expression”, when ads against Islamic terrorism were taken out on San Francisco buses, Nasrina and CAIR rallied to fight against freedom of expression.
After the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) took out ads addressing the roots of Islamic terror, Nasrina Bargzie claimed that “the ads are offensive and terrible” and admitted that “people just started calling and texting me… ‘What are we gonna do about this?’”
CAIR and Bargzie convinced local Democrats, including DA George Gascon, to condemn the ads which called for support for Israel and spoke out against Islamic terrorism.
Fresh from that victory, Bargzie and CAIR worked to protect Muslims accused of terrorism by restricting the police department’s relationship with the FBI. It was then that Bargzie revealed that she had been interrogated by the FBI and “was asked by the agent about her family history and background.” Information about those questions and history has not been forthcoming.
Members of the Bargzie family have told different stories about why they came to America, after traveling from Afghanistan to Pakistan. According to a Glamour magazine profile of Kamala’s staffers, “my father and uncle were prisoners of war who disappeared.”, and she told the San Diego Union Tribune that he was “executed.” However according to her younger sister Humah, also an activist and a lawyer, “He said ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ when he left the house, but he never came back.” His disappearance, she told another magazine, “for the most part, remains a mystery.” Did Nasrina lie about what happened to her father? And did her family?
What happened to Abdul-Khaliq Bargzie, a wealthy landowner from Kandahar, remains a mystery, but he may have been aligned with the Jihadist Islamist Mujahideen. Whatever the truth may be, Nasrina blamed the Communists rather than Islamists for his disappearance, and this may have strongly affected her activism for Islamist terrorists and terrorist supporters.
Despite having grown up in America, Nasrina Bargzie maintained close ties with her homeland, serving as president of the Afghan-American Bar Association, along with other Afghan groups, donating money back to her country and writing of her love for the ‘Pashto’ language.
By 2019, she was described as representing “seventeen different Afghan human rights organizations.” Despite that, or perhaps because of it, she joined the Biden-Harris team, vetting incoming hires. And then she entered an administration already full of staffers with foreign allegiances, ties to foreign governments and even terrorist sympathizers.
In 2021, Nasrina became Kamala’s Deputy Counsel and then in 2022, as many members of the vice presidential team fled, she rose to the position of Deputy Counsel. She’s been named one of the “fabulous four”: the four employees most loyal to Kamala who stayed on. And as a corollary, she’s one of the four whom Kamala favors and is the most likely to promote.
Nasrina came out of some of the same legal and political circles as Kamala Harris. She worked for the ACLU at the same time as Kamala’s sister Maya held a prominent role at the local ACLU. Maya also worked closely with CAIR and played a key role in Kamala’s presidential campaign.
No one in the FBI seems to have asked about Nasrina Bargzie’s original comments or the family history that troubled the government at the time. Nor has there been any mention of her work with pro-terror groups such as CAIR or her appearance on a panel with MPAC’s Salam Al Marayati who has defended Islamic terrorists. But the implications of a woman who has spent much of her career undermining our national security, attacking Jews and defending terrorist sympathizers is troubling for Americans, for Jews, Christians and for all people of goodwill.
Nasrina Bargzie resents America despite everything it has done for her. After benefiting from the Refugee Resettlement program, she blamed America for having created the refugees. In a Kamala Harris administration, she would be equipped to continue degrading our counterterrorism efforts, making life easier for Islamic terrorists and harder for Americans.
Occupying a prominent position in a Kamala administration, one of her top lawyers would be able to continue her campaign against American Jews and for the Hamas supporters attacking them.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Up to 79% of antisemitic harassment is never divulged, according to experts who weigh in on ‘obstacles’ that deter Jewish victims – especially youth – from speaking out
By Matt Lebovic 21 November 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/antisemitic-incidents-surged-globally-since-oct-7-but-most-arent-reported-heres-why/
 Illstrative: A hand-drawn swastika is seen on the front of Union Station near the Capitol in Washington, January 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) NEW YORK — John Michael Graves, 25, was walking out of his Moishe House residence in Seattle when he spotted half a dozen antisemitic flyers “plastered” onto poles near the unmarked building’s gate.
“I ripped them down. It’s not clear how they even knew it was a Moishe House,” said Graves, referring to a cooperative group home for Jewish young adults. The flyers read “F–k You Israel” with crossed-out Jewish stars and were affixed onto street poles during the afternoon of October 24.
“It really hit me in the gut,” Graves told The Times of Israel. But he and his fellow residents did not report the incident to the Moishe House movement, which says it reaches 70,000 Jews in 27 countries, including six locations in Israel.
“We were scared and — it sounds ironic now — because this is going in a newspaper and more attention is being drawn to ourselves — I didn’t want to make it a bigger deal than it was,” said Graves. He is one of four residents in his Moishe House, which are generally populated by a mix of young professionals and grad students.
“We are programmed to think it’s just some flyer, not an active death threat,” said Graves, who added that Moishe House has been an “incredible” resource for himself and other residents regarding the Israel-Hamas war.
“When I saw the posters, I felt my hand grabbing at my Jewish star necklace,” said Madison Holt, 23, another resident of Moishe House in Seattle.
 John Michael Graves. (Courtesy) “I couldn’t decide if I wanted to hide my necklace or not. I have always felt safe living here, but this definitely was a wake-up call for how things have changed since October 7,” Holt told The Times of Israel.
Since the unprecedented Hamas massacres of 1,200 people in Israel last month and the taking of some 240 hostages, the Moishe House movement has provided new resources to its “community builders” around the world, including access to emotional support services, said Graves.
Now, six weeks after the eruption of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, world opinion has shifted away from recognizing and mourning these atrocities.
The reluctance of Graves and Holt to report this incident of antisemitism is part of a widespread phenomenon, experts told The Times of Israel. Nearly four in five Jews who experience antisemitic harassment do not report it to law enforcement or media, according to American Jewish Committee statistics.
 Moishe House resident Madison Holt. (Courtesy) “Varying degrees of trauma” are behind the lack of reporting, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) spokesperson Jake Hyman told The Times of Israel.
“Some people may report right away, while others may want to pretend it never happened, which would be understandable,” said Hyman.
An important development for universities, said Hyman, is the new “Campus Antisemitism Legal Line” (CALL) for any student, family, faculty, or staff member to “report incidents of antisemitic discrimination, intimidation, harassment, vandalism, or violence that may necessitate legal action,” said Hyman.
Intake reports will be handled by lawyers working pro bono to represent victims “who choose to move forward with specific cases,” said Hyman.
“CALL will also provide referrals to social services, mental health counseling services, and other relevant support services in their area,” said the ADL spokesperson.
Not in my name
Experts told The Times of Israel that many high school pupils and college students are afraid to document harassment because it’s “nearly impossible to report anonymously if one wants an investigation with actual results and repercussions,” said Yael Lerman, executive director of the Saidoff Legal Department at StandWithUs, a pro-Israel educational organization. (This reporter works for StandWithUs as the director of its Holocaust Education Center.)
“Students who file discrimination or bias complaints under their name nearly inevitably become targets for ongoing harassment or social media by individuals, by anti-Israel student groups, and even in-person,” Lerman told The Times of Israel.
 Several copies of this flyer were posted onto poles adjacent to a Moishe House building in Seattle, Washington, October 24, 2023. (John Michael Graves) The non-reporting of antisemitism extends beyond student bodies, said Lerman.
“Many Jewish professionals on campus are not reporting antisemitic incidents because they are scared by what they see,” said Lerman, an attorney who leads a StandWithUs-cultivated network of lawyers willing to defend victims of antisemitism on campus, for free.
“They delete evidence and hope that by not dealing with it, it will go away. The idea of holding antisemites accountable through the criminal justice system instead of remaining scared hasn’t taken hold yet in a broad enough way,” said Lerman.
With social media and evolving technologies, students and staff alike are “afraid of being doxed and targeted for more harassment by being willing to come forward as witnessing antisemitic attacks,” Lerman said.
Feelings of shame
The Israeli American Council (IAC) pointed to “shame” as one reason why so many American Jews do not report on antisemitism.
“We know this because when we do receive reports [of antisemitic incidents], many times students and parents will indicate that they have experienced several other incidents before deciding to report,” said Karen Bar-On, the IAC’s vice president of activism.
“Also, when we discuss the topic with community members or provide antisemitism training to educators and students through our school or community events, they will bring up cases they have experienced while admitting they have not reported them,” Bar-On told The Times of Israel.
Founded in 2007, the IAC represents more than 800,000 Israelis and their families living in the US. Bar-On echoed attorney Lerman in asking Jews to reconsider the importance of reporting antisemitic harassment, as opposed to brushing it off.
“First and foremost, we need to let people know how to report and constantly remind them what resources are at their service,” said Bar-On. “More importantly, community members must understand the importance of reporting and standing up to each and every incident they experience, no matter how ‘minor’ they may feel it is,” she said.
 Abraham Foxman, national director emeritus for the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the Israeli American Council’s eighth annual summit in Austin, Texas, on January 20, 2023. (David Finkel photography) According to data collected by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in 2021, 79% of American Jews “targeted by antisemitic remarks did not report these incidents,” said Aaron Bregman, AJC’s director of high school affairs.
“Many high school students who face antisemitism, discrimination, or bias choose not to report these incidents, fearing social retaliation and potential isolation,” said Bregman.
Another factor involved in underreporting is that students “may not be certain whether they have experienced discrimination and may underestimate the severity of the issue,” said Bregman, adding, “Some students may also struggle to recognize and define antisemitic actions, hindering their ability to report accurately.”
Bregman told The Times of Israel that “uncertainty” around discrimination “often stems from a perception that [Jewish students’] experiences do not compare to the discrimination faced by their peers,” he said.
Several experts pointed to “microaggressions” as key to understanding the underreporting phenomenon. One long-time student services director at Ivy League universities said that far too many professors “challenge observant Jewish students about missing class during Jewish holidays,” she told The Times of Israel.
Additionally, students may assume they have documented an incident when, procedurally, they haven’t.
“Students think they have reported something when they comment on it in an institutional survey, but that reporting doesn’t get shared with the systems that track or even do anything about antisemitism on campus,” said the former Hillel professional, who asked to remain anonymous due to her position in academia.
Disbelief that anything will be done
Across the Atlantic, in Britain, a “large proportion” of antisemitic incidents in public schools and university campuses are never reported, said Dave Rich of the Community Service Trust, which has recorded and responded to antisemitism since 1984.
“The most likely reasons for not reporting are that they don’t feel anything will be done, or they don’t know how to report,” Rich told The Times of Israel.
 Hamas supporters at a march in London, November 11, 2023. (Metropolitan Police) Within Europe, the European Union has conducted research into antisemitism in 2012 and 2018. Findings demonstrated that “most antisemitic harassment was not reported to anyone,” said Rich.
“We don’t have specific data for non-reporting of campus or school-related antisemitism, but this gives some indication of what we might be looking at,” said Rich.
With private Catholic universities in the US now opening their doors to enroll harassed Jewish students, the public is still only seeing the “tip of the iceberg” regarding antisemitism, experts believe. Without a significant increase in victims reporting on incidents of harassment, discrimination against Jews may continue to fly mostly under the radar.
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JerusalemCats Comments: This sums it up!
All About the Facts
This biting musical parody, featuring the talented Latma team, will have you laughing out loud. Parody about the European Union, the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority and the lies they tell and the lies they believe during the Peace Negotiations and News Reports..
Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
By Michael Oren 26October2023 https://www.israpundit.org/michael-oren-a-war-against-the-jews/ Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/this-isnt-a-war-against-israel
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews. When the Jew will hide behind stones and trees, the stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslims, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’?” —The Hamas Charter
“The conventional war of conquest was to be waged parallel to, and was also to camouflage, the ideological war against the Jews.” —Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933–1945
It wasn’t the rallies with “Keep the World Clean” posters and chants of “gas the Jews.” Nor was it the glorification of Hamas paragliders by the Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter or, in New York and London, the tearing down of posters with the faces of Israeli children held hostage by Hamas. Not even the off-the-charts uptick in antisemitic incidents in Germany (240 percent), the United States (nearly 400 percent), and London (1,353 percent) convinced me.
It was, rather, one of those realizations that so many generations of Jews before me have experienced. A realization that they, like me, surely tried to push out of their minds until the reality became unmistakeable.
This war is not simply between Hamas terrorists and Israelis. It is a war against the Jews.
The insight began with the international media’s coverage of the conflict. Again, it wasn’t the press’s insistence on calling mass murderers “militants” or citing Hamas and its “Health Ministry” as a reliable source. For close to fifty years—as a student activist, a diplomat, a soldier, a government and military spokesman, and above all, as a historian—I’ve grappled with the media’s bias against Israel. I’ve long known that the terrorists are “militants” solely because their victims are Jews, and only in a conflict with Israel are terrorists considered credible.
Instead, it was the media’s predictable switch from an Israel-empathetic to an Israel-demonizing narrative as the image of Palestinian suffering supplanted that of Israelis beheaded, dismembered, and burnt. It was the gnawing awareness that dead Jews buy us only so much sympathy.
In fact, there is probably a formula. Six million dead in the Holocaust procured us roughly 25 years of grace before the Europeans refused to refuel the U.S. planes bringing lifesaving munitions to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Fourteen hundred butchered Jews bought us a little less than two weeks’ worth of positive coverage.
Europeans, it’s long been said, never forgave the Jews for the Holocaust. Their guilt was collective and their antisemitism no longer socially acceptable. What a relief many of them felt when it became de rigueur to call Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians Nazi-like. Similarly, haters of Israelis can’t forgive them for being massacred by Hamas terrorists on October 7, and were relieved when, on October 17, they could go back to vilifying the “colonial apartheid state.”
October 17—that was the date of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital incident. Hamas claimed that an Israeli bomb hit the hospital and killed 500 civilians. Again, there was nothing new about Hamas blaming Israel for atrocities that never happened and counting as dead the many who didn’t die. What was unprecedented was the speed at which the world accepted this triple lie—not a hospital but its parking lot was struck by a Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli bomb, killing far fewer than 500. Nevertheless, reflexively, the world imputed evil to Israel.
Within hours of the al-Ahli bombing, both Israel and the United States revealed the truth behind it. Still, almost no one in the media apologized. A full week after the explosion, The New York Times was still bringing in “experts” to intimate Israel’s guilt. After all, the paper was subtly telling us, Israel is perfectly capable of bombing hospitals and, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, possibly bombed this one as well.
What was previously an inkling became, October 17, an epiphany. It marked the moment when I finally peered behind the headlines and recognized their ancient, vicious, core.
For many centuries, the term “innocent Jew” was an oxymoron. Jews were guilty by birth, by belief, and by ancestry. There is a religious tenet of Judaism, reenacted each year at Passover, that all Jews were present at the exodus from Egypt and when God gave the laws to Moses at Sinai. Twisting this is a Christian belief that all Jews were present at, and responsible for, the crucifixion. More than Pilate, more than Judas—a name not chosen randomly—the Jews were damned for deicide.
But killing God is only one of the sins for which Israelis—read: Jews—are being demonized in this war. Behind the reports of the deliberate Israeli bombing of Palestinian neighborhoods—reports that meticulously stress the number of children killed—lies the 144,000 children mythically massacred by the Judean King Herod.
Though understandably feeling vengeful toward Hamas and their allies in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis do not want innocent Palestinians to die. Hamas, however, places its bunkers, rocket launchers, and headquarters in civilian areas. Though Israel warns these noncombatants to evacuate, Hamas tries to prevent their flight, sometimes at gunpoint. The goal is twofold: to kill as many Israelis as possible, and to kill Palestinians to win the sympathy of the world and so that Israel can be denounced internationally for war crimes.
Hamas’s strategy is clear. Yet much of the press prefers to ignore it. Instead, it repeatedly accuses Israel of seeking to inflict the maximum number of civilian deaths and especially of children. In the media’s rendering, Israel is the new Herod butchering Palestinian innocents.
Forgotten are the thousands of Gazans who followed Hamas terrorists through the ruptured fence into Israel where they joined in the mutilations and raping. Forgotten are the Gazans who beat and spat at a nineteen-year-old Israeli woman who was raped and paraded through their streets. Gone were Gazans who gave out candy and celebrated the slaughter of 1,400 civilians who were truly innocent.
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There were 289 reported hate crimes against Jews in California in 2023, a 52% increase from 2022, according to the hate crimes statistics released by the State of California earlier this month.
Anti-Jewish hate crimes accounted for over 73% of all anti-religious hate crime.
Since 2014, the numbers of hate crimes against Jews has increased dramatically and consistently. While anti-Muslim hate crimes increased in 2023, they have remained fairly steady over the years.
 Hate Crimes against Jews-Muslims- California 2014-2023
Anti-Jewish hate crimes account for nearly the entire increase in all anti-religious hate crimes between 2022 and 2023. In fact, the total number of all hate crimes in California decreased slightly in 2023, with the most drastic increases against Jews (+100) and LGBTQ+ (+70)
The dramatic increase in antisemitic hate crimes in 2023, which were already high out of proportion to the number of Jews in those areas beforehand, has been seen in most places that have released hate crime statistics so far.
And 2024 looks like it will be not just worse, but far worse.
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Here is a chart from the Chicago Police Department showing hate crimes against Jews by year:
 Hate Crimes against Jews-Chicago 2012-2024
There were 6 hate crimes against Jews in 2020, 8 in 2021, 39 in 2022, 50 in 2023 and 55 in 2024.
But the year is only half over.
In 2023, there were a total of 81 hate crimes attacking religion, and 61% of them were anti-Jewish. This year, there have been 62 hate crimes against religions so far, and 89% of those have been anti-Jewish.
By contrast, there have been 4 anti-Muslim hate crimes so far this year in Chicago.
There are roughly the same number of Jews and Muslims in Chicago (between 300,000 and 400,000.)
How long will it take for local and national leaders to understand that anti-Jewish bigotry is fundamentally different from all other types, and requires different methods to fight them?
The assassination attempt on Trump on Saturday shows that some people take demonization rhetoric seriously enough to kill on behalf of their twisted idas of morality. . If Trump is evil personified, then killing him makes as much sense as assassinating Hitler in 1938. But the same deranged hate rhetoric is being hurled against Jews every day – after all, the majority of Jews are accused of supporting genocide, the worst possible crime. It is not out of the question that a similarly deranged person with a gun will believe that shooting up a synagogue or a random Jew in the street is a righteous, necessary act for the good of mankind.
This has already happened many times to Jews in the US. Usually the shooters are either Muslim or far Right, but the Right feeds on the anti-Israel propaganda of the Left – the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer has graphics from The Guardian and quotes Haaretz.
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by Ben Cohen 31January2024 https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/01/31/there-is-no-antisemitism-here-south-african-justice-minister-claims-despite-631-percent-increase-in-attacks-on-jews/
The claim of South Africa’s Justice Minister that there is no antisemitism targeting the country’s Jewish community drew a forthright response from Jewish leaders on Wednesday, who also accused the South African government of “creating an environment that emboldens antisemites.”
In an interview with the BBC’s “Hard Talk” program on Monday, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola flatly denied that antisemitism — which has soared in South Africa in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel and the Israeli government’s military response — was a problem.
When presenter Stephen Sackur quoted South African Jewish leader Howard Sackstein saying that he was “staring at my suitcase contemplating whether it’s time to leave the only home I’ve ever known,” underlining as well his fear that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) government had been “captured by radical Islamists,” Lamola dismissed these concerns outright, going on to attack the “Zionist state.”
“It’s a very unfortunate statement not backed by any facts, it’s a figment of his own imagination,” Lamola said.
Lamola added that the case charging Israel with “genocide” brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa was “not against the Jews as a people, it’s against the Zionist State of Israel,” which was “maiming and killing the Palestinians as a group in Gaza,” he said.
The ICJ’s ruling last week essentially rejected South Africa’s argument, with no immediate order issued to Israel to halt the war, only the demand that assistance must be provided to improve humanitarian conditions and measures taken to prevent acts or incitement against the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention.
When Sackur pointed out that there had been a precipitous rise in antisemitic attacks in South Africa since Oct. 7, Lamola fired back, “there’s no such…there is no antisemitism in South Africa against the Jewish people.”
A statement from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on Wednesday highlighted that between October and December of last year, in the weeks following the Hamas assault, 139 antisemitic incidents were recorded, compared with 19 in the same period of 2022 — an increase of 631 percent.
The statement pointed out that there had also been as “a sharp increase in physical attacks against Jewish persons or property, something which had occurred only rarely in previous years. There were six cases of physical assault, whereas the annual average had been only one in the preceding decade.”
Among the violent incidents recorded were two cases of assault outside a Johannesburg synagogue, an attack on a Johannesburg rabbi, and a Jewish community member being repeatedly struck over the head with a pole at a pro-Hamas rally in Cape Town. Vandalism included damage and desecration to Jewish cemeteries in Pretoria and Durban.
During the incident in Cape Town, the targeted individual was surrounded by dozens of violent protestors who bellowed “Viva Hamas” and “Murderers,” telling him “Hitler did not kill all of you guys, just so that we could all see exactly why he did it.”
South Africa’s Jewish community “has prided itself on the relatively low levels of antisemitism compared to other Jewish Diaspora communities,” the SAJBD remarked. “However our government has created an environment where antisemitism can flourish with Minister Lamola’s comments being an example. We call on Minister Lamola and the ANC Government to stop dismissing antisemitism and to stop creating an environment that emboldens antisemites.”
A report on South African antisemitism submitted by the SAJBD to the US State Department and shared with The Algemeiner described how South African Jews increasingly face opprobrium and hatred in their daily lives.
“A ‘naming and shaming’ process has been adopted, where people are encouraged to shun those characterized as ‘genocidal baby killers’ and the like,” the report noted.
In one of several hateful emails sent to members of the community, a Jewish doctor in Cape Town was virulently abused by a former patient who accused him of financial dishonesty.
“I don’t expect anything from a Jewish c*** like you; it’s true what they say about you Jews, it’s ******* huge noses ***** greedy,” the email ranted. It ended, “my sexy rat-eyed y*d, we are coming for you. Hail [sic] HITLER.”
Lamola’s denial of South Africa’s antisemitism problem followed his assertion last week that the ICJ case brought against Israel meant that Nelson Mandela, the late South African President who led the ANC in its struggle against apartheid, “will be smiling in his grave.”
ANC leaders have repeatedly invoked Mandela in a political campaign against Israel that has intensified over the last decade. However, Mandela was a supporter of the two-state solution, declaring in a 1993 address to the Jewish community, “As a movement we recognize the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism just as we recognize the legitimacy of Zionism as a Jewish nationalism. We insist on the right of the state of Israel to exist within secure borders but with equal vigor support the Palestinian right to national self-determination.”
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“I am a historian (like Khalidi), interested in the origins of ideas and arguments. It turns out that Khalidi’s premier talking point has a very specific genesis.”
Posted by Mike LaChance 28October2023
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/some-of-the-people-defending-hamas-are-using-the-same-argument-the-nazis-tried-after-the-holocaust/
Martin Kramer notes that Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University is using the same justification that the Nazis used during the Nuremberg tribunals.
From his blog:
The Nazi case for Hamas
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor at Columbia University, is no fool. He started out as a spokesperson for the PLO in Beirut in the 1970s, and he’s been at it ever since. A New Yorker by birth, he knows something about perceptions of the conflict in America. And he knows that terrorism has set back the Palestinian cause time and again. That’s why he’s spent much of his career trying to anesthetize America to terrorism, divert attention from it, or minimize it.
The horrific massacre of Israeli men, women, and children committed by Hamas on October 7 has made his mission much harder. “The current sentiment,” he told an Arab interviewer (in Arabic),
politically, popularly, and in the media, is overwhelmingly negative. This contrasts sharply with the past decade, which saw growing support for Palestinian political rights and strong opposition to Israeli policies…. They’re capitalizing on the deaths of Israeli civilians during the Al-Aqsa Storm operation…. Having lived in the U.S., particularly New York, for over half my life, I’ve never seen such an onslaught of lies and crude propaganda that are actually making an impact.
Khalidi recommends a number of talking points to his followers. He’s dropped some in reaction to new and awful evidence, but one remains constant. Here is how Khalidi has made it, on two separate occasions:
There are ways of making war, which advanced technological societies employ, which involve the killing of huge numbers of civilians, who are never somehow counted in the calculus. Oh, that’s collateral damage. Oh, we didn’t mean to do it. If a pilot does it from 1,000 feet, and kills fifty people, or some somebody with a gun comes in and murders fifty people, there is a difference, obviously, but in the last analysis, if this is a violation of the rules of war on the one hand, it’s a violation of the rules of war on the other hand… One kind of killing of civilians—only that kind—is called terrorism and another kind of systematic killing of civilians, with much higher death counts, is simply ignored.
Sound familiar? It should.
The ‘Dresden defense’
I am a historian (like Khalidi), interested in the origins of ideas and arguments. It turns out that Khalidi’s premier talking point has a very specific genesis.
It figured in the case for the defense in the Einsatzgruppen Trial, conducted by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal from late 1947 to the spring of 1948. The Einsatzgruppen were the paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany, which carried out mass murder by shooting in Nazi-occupied Europe. They destroyed well over a million Jews, and two million people all told. After the war, their surviving senior commanders were put on trial at Nuremberg, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The chief defendant, SS-Gruppenführer Otto Ohlendorf, had been commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which carried out mass murders in Moldova, southern Ukraine, and the Caucasus. An economist and father of five, he had supervised the killing of 90,000 Jews. Ohlendorf imagined that he had a moral conscience. The killers under his command, he told a U.S. Army prosecutor, were prohibited from using infants for target practice, or smashing their heads against trees.
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By John F. Di Leo
October 18, 2023 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/when_gaza_has_money_hamas_has_rockets.html
Whether you grew up watching reality law enforcement programs or fictional mafia movies, there’s one thing everyone knows: When a known hit man murders a stranger, the odds are at least ten to one that he was paid to do it. Find the person who paid him, and you’ve identified the real responsible party.
This doesn’t just go for individual crimes, either. The same principle applies on the grand scale.
On Oct. 7, 2023, a horde of Islamofascist terrorists known as Hamas launched simultaneous, carefully coordinated attacks on Israel.
Hundreds of rockets were fired into civilian communities in Israel. Crowds of terrorists charged across the border and attacked private residences, shooting up apartments and houses, raping and beating innocent individuals and families. Squads sought out the partygoers at a music festival, slaughtering the unarmed with abandon. Hamas killed or injured thousands that day – mostly unarmed, unsuspecting civilians.
Israel is responding, as Israel must. But on the world stage, Israel doesn’t have the ability to go much further back, to deal with the sources, as we can in regular domestic law enforcement.
Israel can attack the nearby perpetrators, the bloodthirsty demons of Hamas who gave the orders and managed the attacks. But Israel is limited in what it can do beyond the Holy Land.
They can study, publicize their findings, try to shame the guilty on the world stage, but their reach is limited.
In much the same way as that hit man we identified can be caught by local police, but we need the FBI to capture the mafiosi who hired him, Israel can root out the Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, but Israel is limited in its ability to go after the global villains who fund and direct Hamas.
Someone is buying Hamas all these missiles. Someone provides them with training and gear, intelligence and equipment, rifles and grenades. And these people who ship them money and weaponry, fully intending that the recipients will use them against innocent Israeli civilians, are just as guilty as the homicidal maniacs pulling the trigger.
Who?
It’s not even a secret.
The group that has been chanting “Death to Israel” for decades, the group that has taught their children and their allies to shout “From the river to the sea,” confirming in no uncertain terms that their genocidal goal is to wipe the nation of Israel off the face of the earth, is a client state of Iran.
Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, and ever since local elections were held in 2006, the people of the Gaza Strip have chosen the terrorists of Hamas to rule them.
The Gaza Strip is located on a stretch of seashore on the Mediterranean. Has its government sought international investors to build a modern economy to support its people? Have they taken advantage of their 24 miles of potentially beautiful coastline to build resorts, or have they attempted to build manufacturing centers to provide careers and prosperity for their two million residents?
Time and time again, when Israel and others have tried to support the building of plants, factories, and logistics centers in the Gaza Strip, Hamas terrorism has necessitated Israel closing the borders and revoking import/export privileges. It’s impossible to have a manufacturing sector without public utilities, but Hamas sabotage has destroyed such facilities. It’s impossible to manufacture goods without raw materials, but Israel has had to close down maritime traffic to Gaza because Gaza’s suppliers keep filling “humanitarian aid” shipments full of armaments.
Whether from Egypt, Turkey, Iran or Lebanon, Israelis have learned the hard way that allowing goods into the Gaza Strip means endangering the innocent civilians of Israel. So Israel has had to crack down, again and again.
The events of October 7 prove the case. Hamas is not allowed to maintain a military; they get billions of dollars in aid from their foreign allies, money that could and should be targeted to improving the lot of their people, the so-called “palestinians,” of whom nearly half are children and teenagers. But despite this very real need for humanitarian support and economic development, Hamas puts its energy, its funding, and its rhetoric into its single-minded war cry: “Death to Israel.”
And where exactly does Gaza’s funding come from?
The governments of Iran and Qatar are major donors, plus a global network of expats who either identify with the Gazans (a mixture of arab ethnicities, but primarily Egyptian) or with Hamas’ very public goal of destroying Israel and emptying it of Jews.
The history books tell us that Hamas was originally an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian terrorist organization. Today, however, Hamas is usually considered more directly a client of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, itself the Lebanese branch of the Iranian council of mullahs – an oligarchy that has ruled Iran with a bloody iron fist for almost 45 years now.
So it is that when Hamas moves a muscle, one can safely assume that Iran is the one pulling the strings.
The issue of Hamas’ funding sources has attracted a bit more attention than usual, in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. Israel has announced that it’s blocking whatever sources it can find with proof of the money going to weaponry. They have blocked bank accounts at Barclays and huge cryptocurrency accounts that have long been a way for investors to move money in violation of sanctions, crypto being more easily hidden from view than real currency or investments.
But these are the obvious sources – terrorist supporting rogue states and fellow islamofascist extremists. The really big money in Gaza comes from sources that many would assume are peacemakers.
The United Nations, in fact, is arguably the biggest single funding source for Hamas, having directed well over five billion dollars in spending to the Gaza Strip in the past decade. Such money isn’t provided without strings, of course, but money is fungible. If one source covers food and water, that frees up the money from other charities to be spent on rockets and rifles.
Perhaps most shocking to Americans is the amount of U.S. taxpayer dollars that are sent to Hamas. Outside of an attempt by the Trump administration to block U.S. taxes from going to Hamas from 2017 through 2020, the Obama and Biden regimes have diverted tens of millions, again and again, whenever they could find an excuse. Never for arms, directly, of course; but money is fungible.
One of the first visual images confronted by an economics student is the idea of “expending resources on guns or butter.” The larger a percentage of your income you have to spend on butter, the less you can afford to spend on guns, and vice versa.
As long as the United States, the United Nations, and other allegedly peaceful countries provide funds to Gaza, and as long as Hamas continues to direct Gaza’s treasury, it’s as if we peaceful westerners ourselves were the ones buying Hamas the weapons.
People who’ve been paying attention will recall the midnight flights of billions of dollars in currency that the Obama regime illegally sent to Tehran, a vision refreshed by the Biden regime’s gift of releasing billions in foreign funds to Tehran a few short weeks ago.
When Iran has money, their client terror states have rockets.
The courageous and talented Israeli Defense Forces can work on ridding Gaza of its homicidal anti-semitic population, but what can we do, here, a world away?
Well, at the very least, we can stand up on election day, and fire the American politicians who keep paying these hit men with our money. The Democratic Party has been funding these vermin for far too long.
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation professional and consultant. A onetime Milwaukee County Republican Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review since 2009. His book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I and II).
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Israel’s Ballistic & Cruise Missiles
Israel War Room-tweet-13April2024-Israel’s Ballistic & Cruise Missiles
DON’T.
 Israel War Room-tweet-13April2024-Israel’s Ballistic & Cruise Missiles  Israel’s Ballistic and Cruise Missiles
JerusalemCats-tweet-28April2024-For the ICC
This map is for the International Criminal Court in the Hague. They will love the sound of the Air Raid Siren.
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You vowed ‘Never Again’
1945 Jews could not defend themselves (Top image: Jews in Nazi Concentration Camp behind Barbed wire Fence) Today they can, because of Israel (Bottom Image: Women in the Israel Defense Force)
Jews, Do you think that the Goyim will protect you?
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It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH
Tikkun HaKlali – Hebrew, English, and Transliteration
From the Passover Haggadah:
According to the instructions of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the wine cup is now raised and the Matzot are covered.
This is what has stood by our fathers and us! For not just one alone has risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand!
Arab Palestinian attacks on Jews since 1517
Each of the soldiers in the bottom pic is the grandson of a man in the top pic. @GameOnJD@ScotsFyre @PolitiBunny pic.twitter.com/hooJ57HZaT
— יוסף חיים לוין (@Rabbi224) May 2, 2019
יוסף חיים לוין @Rabbi224 Tweet-03May2019 Each of the soldiers in the bottom pic is the grandson of a man in the top pic. @GameOnJD @ScotsFyre @PolitiBunny
Stephen Uzzell-tweet-15September2022-The Israeli soldiers in the bottom photo are the granddaughters of the four women at the front of the line at the Nazi concentration camp.
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It won’t happen here.
Hillel Fuld-tweet-12August2024-It won’t happen here
“It won’t happen here. You’re being an alarmist. This time is different. This isn’t <Insert any country that persecuted the Jews.>. You really need to stop trying to scare people.”
That’s what my grandmother would have said in Germany if someone had told her to get out now!
Hillel Fuld-tweet-12August2024-It won’t happen here
It won’t happen here.
USA This is it. No one is coming to help us.
Elon Musk-tweet-31October2024-This is it-No one is coming to help us
This is it
Rothmus-tweet-31October2024-No one is coming to help us
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Elon Musk-tweet-31October2024-This is it-No one is coming to help us
This is the USA sign-No one is coming to help us
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We are here to fight
Uri Israel-tweet-30October2024-We are here to fight
For centuries, they slaughtered us without remorse or consequence, tore down our home, took our land, ravaged our people, stole our children, and tried forcing their beliefs down our throats. No one stood in their way, and they walked away untouched every time.
But those days are over—they can’t break us physically anymore
We have our land back and are more than capable of defending ourselves now, so they’re trying their hardest to break our spirit instead. They twist the story, spit lies, and spew their twisted propaganda, hoping to poison minds.
It may fool some, but plenty have seen right through their pathetic games.
We’re here to fight, because #neveragain means we’ll be damned if we ever let them strip us of our land, our pride, and our future again.
#AmYisraelChai
Uri Israel-tweet-30October2024-We are here to fight
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You vowed ‘Never Again’
Mike LaChance
@MikeLaChance33
Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) explains the meaning of #NeverAgain #Israel
Mike LaChance-tweet-11October2023-Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) explains the meaning of Never Again
Living Lchaim-tweet-5November2023-Never again is now.
Yehuda Dov Galpert is a 96 year old Holocaust survivor who, after losing all his siblings in the war and witnessing his father’s death just weeks before liberation, resettled in New York and build a family with children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
He has a message for the soldiers fighting for our nation in Eretz Yisroel that he would like to be publicized.
Never again is now.
Living Lchaim-tweet-5November2023-Never again is now
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-9November2023-the survivors of the Holocaust statement
“Never have we, the survivors of the Holocaust felt the need to make a collective statement … until now.”
Incredibly powerful front page of the @australian!
On the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht and in the wake of the Oct 7 Hamas massacre, over 100 Holocaust survivors write joint letter.
“Never did we think that we would witness a re-enactment of the senseless and virulent hatred of Jews that we faced in Europe. The actions of Hamas are so familiar, so barbaric, yet instead of condemning this, the response across the globe is a shameful spike in antisemitism.
Our memories and our experiences in ghettos, concentration camps and in hiding – seeing our families and communities vanish – compel us to raise our voices and implore humanity to reject hatred, bigotry and violence.
We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
We ask you to stand with us.”
Read full letter here: https://origin.go.theaustralian.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Holocaust-letter.pdf
Click to download PDF file Holocaust-letter
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-9November2023-the survivors of the Holocaust statement
Sia Kordestani-tweet-20November2023-Ivanhorod 1942-Kibbutz Alumim 2023
Left: Nazi executing a Jewish woman with her child in Ivanhorod, 1942.
Right: CCTV screenshot of Hamas Nazi executing a young Jewish woman cowering, pleading for her life, in Kibbutz Alumim, 2023. Video below.
Never Again Means Destroy Hamas.
Sia Kordestani-tweet-20November2023-Ivanhorod 1942-Kibbutz Alumim 2023
Im Tirtzu-tweet-24April2024-All Jews please make Aliyah asap
All Jews please make Aliyah asap 💔💔💔
Im Tirtzu-tweet-24April2024-All Jews please make Aliyah asap
This is not Berlin 1939, it’s Columbus, Ohio, USA, November 2024.
AP-tweet-17November2024-This is not Berlin 1939 it’s Columbus Ohio USA November 2024
This is not Berlin 1939, it’s Columbus, Ohio, USA, Nov. 2024.
AP-tweet-17November2024-This is not Berlin 1939, it’s Columbus Ohio USA November 2024
Behind free Palestine rallies is Iran
Emily Schrader-tweet-4February2024-behind free Palestine rallies is Iran
Just in case you’re wondering who and what is behind these pro-terror “free Palestine” rallies, here is a tip.
These were handed out in London today.
Emily Schrader-tweet-4February2024-behind free Palestine rallies is Iran
Elad Simchayoff-tweet-14October2023-Germany, 2023: You vowed “Never Again”
Germany. 2023.
You vowed “Never Again”, and yet houses of Jews are being marked.
I’ve spoken to the person who took the photo yesterday in Berlin. it’s authentic and police is involved. There are other such incidents as well.
Elad Simchayoff-tweet-14October2023-Germany, 2023: You vowed “Never Again”
Yoni Freedhoff, MD-tweet-26October2023-We all knew it was bad
it’s 1948
Caroline Glick-tweet-5May2024-Biden told Hamas he will guarantee Israeli capitulation
Biden told Hamas he will guarantee Israeli capitulation. He has reportedly stopped weapons shipments to Israel to force us to surrender.
It’s the Eve of Yom HaShoah.
What percentage of the American public signed on to Biden’s decision to support and facilitate another Holocaust?
JerusalemCat-tweet-it’s 1948
Time to really turn to Hashem, start like it’s 1948 and build our Army and Industry trusting no one but Hashem. That means EVERYTHING is built locally. Next tell the Students in the West, We are proud of your bravery. Come Home NOW to Israel. For Your People, For Yourself.
Caroline Glick-tweet-5May2024-Biden told Hamas he will guarantee Israeli capitulation
Jewish man: my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco
StopAntisemitism-tweet-11January2024-Jewish man-my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco
Jewish man: my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco
Audience members behind him: making pig noises
Are we in Germany 1939 all over again?
StopAntisemitism-tweet-11January2024-Jewish man-my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco
Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-12October2023-We understand that two Jewish schools in London — Torah Vodaas Primary School in Edgware and Ateres Beis Yaakov Primary School in Colindale — have closed until Monday owing to fears surrounding antisemitism.
Canary Mission-tweet-1January2024-Google search trends offer a window to society
If Google search trends offer a window to society, this is BAD. Since Oct. 7, there was an 1800% increase in Google searches for “kill Jews.” The terms “intifada revolution,” “From the river to the sea” and “Glory to our martyrs” jumped over 10,000%. https://www.mideastjournal.org/post/antisemitic-google-searches
Canary Mission-tweet-1January2024-Google search trends offer a window to society
The Mossad Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-20October2023-Official Palestinian Authority document released today to all Palestinian mosques. In it contains a line calling on all Muslims to kill the Jews.
The Mossad Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-20October2023-Official Palestinian Authority document released today to all Palestinian mosques. In it contains a line calling on all Muslims to kill the Jews.
Elder of Ziyon-tweet-9October2023-difference between Nazis and Palestinians
Of course there is a difference between Nazis and Palestinians.
Nazis murdered Jewish women and children as one kills rats – something necessary to do but distasteful. They dehumanized them so people could exterminate them without guilt. It was an assembly line of murder and disposal of bodies.
For Palestinians, murdering Jews and celebrating those murders is their highest aspiration. Slaughtering babies is a source of honor and joy. Raping Jewish women is a badge of honor They will write songs and poems and make films celebrating the massacres in coming years. The vast majority of Palestinians are proud, not disgusted, by the orgy of violence on Saturday.
And if Palestinians had the means to kill 7 million Israeli Jews instead of 1000, they would eagerly do it. And they wouldn’t even try to hide it from the world as the Germans did.
Elder of Ziyon-tweet-9October2023-difference between Nazis and Palestinians
“Never Again” is now!
Dr. Eli David-tweet-30November2023-Never Again is now
Two released Israeli children hostages were “marked” by Hamas, so that if they flee, they would be identified. This was done by intentionally burning their legs to leave marks.
“Never Again” is now!
Dr. Eli David-tweet-30November2023-Never Again is now
“Never Again” is now!
Israel Defense Forces-tweet18October2023-The BBC claims to be impartial and independent… But we were unable to verify those claims
Garbage For Your Body – Garbage For Your Mind MSM is the mouthpiece of leftist elite. – Nothing but garbage
Reuters-tweet-18October2023-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited a marked rise in antisemitism in Canada
Caroline Glick-tweet-20October2023-New York is under jihadist occupation.
Columbia is jihadist. NYU is jihadist. And Jewish women on the NYC subway get beat up because they are Jewish.
Dumisani Washington-tweet-14October2023-Imagine being a Jewish man or woman living outside of Israel
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It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH
With emuna and prayer, Aliyah to Israel will be the best thing for you, your family and your children. Get the facts before saying no I can’t do it. Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH www. nbn.org.il. Just compare the costs of a Jewish Education for your children, US vs. Israel. Think about who they will marry in the US vs. Israel
Brooke Goldstein-tweet-25October2023-
I’m wondering if all the so-called progressive “Jewish” organizations and reform rabbis are still asking you to post Black Lives Matter and support all the social Justice woke causes now that it’s undeniable they are pro-Hamas. If you’re a member of a reform congregation or a donor to one of those progressive “Jewish” groups time to ask for an accounting. How did they enable these antisemites? By marching lockstep behind them. By abandoning Jewish pride for Jewish appeasement.
Igor Kaplun-tweet-26October2023-
You bet they are. @ADL , for example, recently posted to condemn white supremacy. Is that the most pressing problem right now?!
Brooke Goldstein-tweet-25October2023-abandoning Jewish pride for Jewish appeasements
Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-14October2023-If the authorities will not act to uphold the law, we will
• Celebration of the Hamas terrorist atrocity
• Genocidal “From the river” chants
• War cries to Jews that “the army of Mohammed is returning”
Where were the hundreds of @metpoliceuk
deployed along the march?
If the authorities will not act to uphold the law, we will.
Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-14October2023-Celebration of the Hamas terrorist atrocity
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תהילים פרק קמ Psalms 140 Protection from Hamas.
פרק קמ
א לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד:
ב חַלְּצֵ֣נִי יְ֭הוָה מֵאָדָ֣ם רָ֑ע מֵאִ֖ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵֽנִי:
ג אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָשְׁב֣וּ רָע֣וֹת בְּלֵ֑ב כָּל-י֝֗וֹם יָג֥וּרוּ מִלְחָמֽוֹת:
ד שָֽׁנֲנ֣וּ לְשׁוֹנָם֮ כְּֽמוֹ-נָ֫חָ֥שׁ חֲמַ֥ת עַכְשׁ֑וּב תַּ֖חַת שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ סֶֽלָה:
ה שָׁמְרֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה | מִ֘ידֵ֤י רָשָׁ֗ע מֵאִ֣ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵ֑נִי אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָ֝שְׁב֗וּ לִדְח֥וֹת פְּעָמָֽי:
ו טָֽמְנֽוּ-גֵאִ֨ים | פַּ֡ח לִ֗י וַחֲבָלִ֗ים פָּ֣רְשׂוּ רֶ֭שֶׁת לְיַד-מַעְגָּ֑ל מֹקְשִׁ֖ים שָֽׁתוּ-לִ֣י סֶֽלָה:
ז אָמַ֣רְתִּי לַ֭יהוָה אֵ֣לִי אָ֑תָּה הַאֲזִ֥ינָה יְ֝הוָ֗ה ק֣וֹל תַּחֲנוּנָֽי:
ח (יְהוִֹ֣ה) אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲ֭דֹנָי עֹ֣ז יְשׁוּעָתִ֑י סַכֹּ֥תָה לְ֝רֹאשִׁ֗י בְּי֣וֹם נָֽשֶׁק:
ט אַל-תִּתֵּ֣ן יְ֭הוָה מַאֲוַיֵּ֣י רָשָׁ֑ע זְמָמ֥וֹ אַל-תָּ֝פֵ֗ק יָר֥וּמוּ סֶֽלָה:
י רֹ֥אשׁ מְסִבָּ֑י עֲמַ֖ל שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ (יכסומו) יְכַסֵּֽמוֹ:
יא (ימיטו) יִמּ֥וֹטוּ עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם גֶּֽחָ֫לִ֥ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יַפִּלֵ֑ם בְּ֝מַהֲמֹר֗וֹת בַּֽל-יָקֽוּמוּ:
יב אִ֥ישׁ לָשׁוֹן֮ בַּל-יִכּ֪וֹן בָּ֫אָ֥רֶץ אִישׁ-חָמָ֥ס רָ֑ע יְ֝צוּדֶ֗נּוּ לְמַדְחֵפֹֽת:
יג (ידעת) יָדַ֗עְתִּי כִּֽי-יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה יְ֭הוָה דִּ֣ין עָנִ֑י מִ֝שְׁפַּ֗ט אֶבְיֹנִֽים:
יד אַ֣ךְ צַ֭דִּיקִים יוֹד֣וּ לִשְׁמֶ֑ךָ יֵשְׁב֥וּ יְ֝שָׁרִ֗ים אֶת-פָּנֶֽיךָ:
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Jews in chul – we need your prayers
5November2023 https://www.thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/jews-in-chul-we-need-your-prayers/
I literally just got sent this from two people at once, at exactly the same time.
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NYC is 6 hours behind Eretz Yisrael.
The times of the hardest fighting in Israel are happening between 5-11 pm New York time.
Please, if you are reading this and you can do ANYTHING, however small, to get a bunch of people together in your network to start saying tehillim for the soldiers fighting in Gaza through the night, please do that right now.
As soon as you finish reading this – use the horrible tech for a good purpose, for once.
Just cut and paste the message from the Deputy Commander of the Givati Brigade, and get some tehillim organised for these times in your networks.
Get the shuls involved.
The schools involved.
And of course, say some yourself.
BH, we are seeing open miracles here that it’s not 1,000 dead soldiers a day, like our enemies are hoping for.
But even one more dead soldier is too much.
It’s a whole world.
And it’s a world that our tehillim – you and me, and our friends, neighbours and families – can protect.
So yalla!
And may we just hear good news.
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State Department Issues Rare Worldwide Caution Travel Alert
“Pro-Palestine” rallies have infested the West.
Posted by Mary Chastain, 19October2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/state-department-issues-rare-worldwide-caution-travel-alert/
Pro-Palestine London Rally
The State Department has issued a worldwide caution travel alert.
The caution states: “Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution.”
Worldwide Caution
Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution. U.S. citizens should:
OSINTdefender-tweet-19October2023-The U.S. State Department was released an Extremely Rare “Worldwide Travel Alert” stating that American Citizens should Exercise Increased Caution around the World due to Increasing Tensions in various Countries.
The timing comes as we witness massive anti-Jew protests in the West, with Israeli and U.S. embassies accosted in Lebanon and Jordan.
The State Department already issued a “Do Not Travel” alert to Lebanon:
Citizens should not travel to Gaza. The department asked citizens to reconsider travel to Israel and the West Bank.
I say anti-Jew because the hate we see on display goes beyond Israel’s borders. None of the rallies are pro-Palestine or anti-Israel as advertised. The protests always have people yelling about murdering Jews or phrases calling for the extermination of Jews, like “from the river to the sea.”
Andy Ngô-tweet-15October2023-Wait, wait, oh Jews. The army of Muhammed is coming back
Drew Pavlou-tweet-15October2023- Melbourne Palestine rally anti-Semitic chants
Schtev-tweet-15October2023-a call for genocide of the Jews
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Israel raises travel alert for Western Europe, other regions
Great Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and Russia are among the countries where the travel warning was raised to level 2.
Israel’s National Security Council raised its travel warning for countries around the world on Dec. 4, 2023. Credit: NSC.
https://www.jns.org/israel-raises-travel-alert-for-western-europe-other-regions/(December 4, 2023 / JNS) Israel’s National Security Council on Monday raised its travel alert levels for Western Europe, South America, Australia and Russia.
The update comes amid increased terror threats against Israelis traveling abroad nearly two months into Israel’s war with Hamas, dubbed “Operation Swords of Iron,” which was launched after the bloody massacre of Oct. 7. The last NSC security update was on Nov. 3.
“Since the beginning of the war, increased efforts have been detected on the part of Iran and its proxies, as well as on the part of Hamas and elements of global jihad, to attack Israeli and Jewish targets around the world,” according to the NSC statement.
The statement also highlighted “a continuous and significant increase in incitement, attempted attacks and widespread manifestations of anti-Semitism in many countries.”
Great Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and Russia are among the countries where the travel warning was raised to level 2, recommending increased precautions. Several countries in Africa (including South Africa and Eritrea) and countries in Central Asia (including Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan) have been elevated to level 3, recommending reconsidering non-essential travel.
The NSC generally recommends that Israelis reconsider the necessity of traveling at this time and if the public does go abroad to make informed decisions based on the recommended precautions.
Travelers are encouraged to postpone trips to countries with warnings, with an emphasis on Arab and Middle Eastern countries, the North Caucasus, countries surrounding Iran and a number of Muslim countries in Asia.
The NSC also recommends travelers check whether any anti-Israel protests are planned at their destinations, even in countries without travel warnings, and to stay away from these demonstrations.
Israelis should maintain vigilance while abroad and pay attention to their surroundings, the NSC emphasized. Citizens of Israel should also avoid the outward display of Jewish and Israeli symbols and large gatherings of Jewish and Israeli officials.
Finally, the NSC recommends that travelers make sure to learn the phone numbers of local emergency services and of the local Israeli diplomatic representation if there are any.
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Assosication of Americans and Canadians in Israel The AACI Max & Gianna Glassman Family Center
8 HaRav Kook Street
Jerusalem
Tel: 02-566-1181 Fax: 02-5661186
email: info@aaci.org.il
Change in Travel Rules to Israel
Visitors to Israel from visa-exempt countries are required to obtain an ETA-IL(Electronic Travel Authorization)
Israel @ War – May 30, 2024 – 22 Iyar 5784 newsletter
The rules for travel to Israel have changed. Starting from August 2024, visitors from visa-exempt countries are required to obtain an ETA-IL(Electronic Travel Authorization) to enter the state of Israel. An approved ETA-IL, indicates that you are allowed to travel to Israel and stay for up to 90 days per visit. All travelers to Israel must have a valid visa or ETA-IL approval before they start their journey. If you are eligible, obtaining an ETA-IL is a simpler and faster process. Learn more: https://israel-entry.piba.gov.
Please be aware: The period during which Israelis may exit and enter Israel with their valid foreign passport, has been extended by PIBA until 31.12.2024
https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/passport_zr_new
Unit: אגף בכיר דוברות, תקשורת והסברה
Publish Date 22.03.2022 Updated date 21.12.2023
The period during which Israelis may exit and enter Israel with their valid foreign passport, has been extended by PIBA until 31December2024
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South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-13March-2024-South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship
There is seemingly no end to #SouthAfrica’s downfall into irrelevance and Jew-hatred.
‘When You Come Home, We’re Going to Arrest You’ |
South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship, Foreign Minister Says
IDF soldiers holding dual Israeli-South African citizenship will be subject to immediate arrest, the country’s foreign minister said. The Israeli army is preparing for other that may follow suit
Jonathan Lis and Yaniv Kubovich
13March2024 1:42 pm IST https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-13/ty-article/.premium/south-africa-to-arrest-israeli-soldiers-holding-dual-citizenship-foreign-minister-says/0000018e-36e3-d0ac-a1cf-3ef7f8650000
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-13March-2024-South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship
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Jews, Get a Gun
Uri Pilichowski-tweet-30October2023-
Jews, Get a Gun
The Jews of Germany never thought Germans would kill them.
The Jews of The Tree of Life Synagogue never thought an American would kill them
The Jews of the South never thought the Palestinians of Gaza would break through the fence and kill them.
They were all wrong.
Antisemites, whether they are Arabs, white supremacist, or any other hater, they are coming to kill the Jews. They might not be able to kill all of us but they’re going to kill some of us. 1,400 of us were just killed because they were Jews.
Whether you live in Israel, America, Europe or some small city in Russia you’ve never heard of before, they’re coming to kill you, me, all of us. Those with the means to protect themselves will hopefully survive the next attack, those without the means to protect themselves have little chance of being spared.
Many people that had a gun in their homes in the South were able to protect themselves when Palestinian terrorists came to their town and house. Those without a gun had little chance.
Guns are muktzeh on Shabbat. I’ve carried a gun for the past five years on Shabbat, both within the Eruv and outside of it. In the back of my mind I doubted whether I was doing the right thing by carrying my gun on Shabbat. After the “Simchat Torah Massacre” I am no longer in doubt.
Ask yourself this question, if antisemites came into your home and you have a gun, you can save yourself and your family, if you don’t have a gun your last thoughts will be regretting not having bought a gun for whatever excuse you’re telling yourself now for not buying a gun.
Don’t be irresponsible. Buy a gun, take lessons and be ready for when the Jew haters come for you.
Uri Pilichowski-tweet-30October2023-Jews, Get a Gun
The Persian Jewess-tweet-21January2024-The latest trend for Girls Night-The Gun Range
The latest trend for “Girls Night” among my #Jewish mom friends is heading to the gun range to learn how to fire a Glock for self defense.
I’ve spent my whole life believing my kids would be safer WITHOUT a gun in our home.
But ever since protesters spilled into my neighborhood justifying RAPING TEENAGERS as a form of resistance and glorifying BURNING BABIES IN OVENS, my whole world view has shifted.
#NeverAgainIsNow
#BelieveIsraeliWomen
#BringThemHomeNow
The Persian Jewess-tweet-21January2024-The latest trend for Girls Night-The Gun Range
Mossad Commentary-tweet-13November2023-Israel
Mossad Commentary-tweet-13November2023-Israel
Nioh Berg-tweet-29October2024-Womaan Praying in tartan skirt with M16 Gold Boots
Nothing infuriates them more than this.
Nioh Berg-tweet-29October2024-Womaan Praying in tartan skirt with M16 Gold Boots
Vivid-tweet-19June2024-Only in Israel
Only in Israel. 💙
Vivid-tweet-19June2024-Only in Israel
Hillel Fuld-tweet-14March2024-Jews are able to fight back
Not something you’d see very often 6 months ago, but a pretty normal thing you’d see now.
I know that it’s inconvenient that the Jews are able to fight back but you’re just gonna have to get used to it.
💪✡️🇮🇱🙏
Hillel Fuld-tweet-14March2024-Jews are able to fight back
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Does the Z in Gen Z stand for ‘zombies’?
The cruelty of the 18-24 demographic against Jews, and Gazans too, is the ultimate failure of free thought and it will destroy society
Molly Livingstone 21December2023,
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/does-the-z-in-gen-z-stand-for-zombies/
Do you ever think that the Z in Gen Z stands for zombies? ‘Cause I kind of do. Or at least the ones who are pro-Hamas on college campuses, protesting Jewish-owned stores in malls or parading through the streets calling for genocide.
They come together in large groups. All of them are followers. They also don’t moan as much as they scream. However, like a zombie who has been dead and brought back to go after the living world, these Gen Zombies march to the same beat.
After a quick visit to the US and watching them do their thing, styled in their khaffiyas, masked with actual masks, it was clear that they were not only hiding their faces, but the truth. And boy, are these kids angry. I believe the therapy term is “projection.” And for those of us on the outside, it is quite clear that they are projecting the concept of oppression based on social media propaganda and assumptions.
If we think of the zombies like AI, without the I part, then we can see the basic algorithm to their angry madness. There is an oppressor and an oppressed. In America, that was clear for the Black Lives Matter campaign. The copy-paste takes a Western issue in American culture and inflicts it on a Middle Eastern conflict far away from home and definitely far away from reality.
In their version, the Palestinians are the oppressed and the Jews are the oppressor. And it is that simple. They literally see black and white. Which makes it all the more ironic, since that is somehow making this a race issue, and in fact being racists. Anyone who lives in Israel or understands Jewish culture is aware that Jews come in all colors and backgrounds, many kicked out of Arab countries over the last hundreds of years, and Arabs are not all dark-skinned.
The protesters claim a lot of crazy stuff. As I mentioned earlier, they are all followers, so they speak the same messages, one tweet at a time. In my brief encounter I heard the chant:
“Jews are doing genocide…from the river to the sea…,” you know the rest of that statement. Again we hear the zombies’ hypocritical anger. When I saw one of them holding a sign with “Free Palestine,” I made the silly mistake of engaging. In a calm voice, I said, “Yes, free Palestine…free them from Hamas.” My cute quip was quickly met with a barking-like noise from the zombie. Like one of those little lap dogs, which you always know to stay far away from….those dogs are nuts.
Before this war, I was convinced that climate change was humanity’s biggest mistake and would ultimately lead to our demise. Post-October 7th, it is the Gen Zombies who have taken over as #1 in that department. Their cruelty towards Jews and, frankly, to Gazans, is the destruction of society and the ultimate failure of free thought. They have gone from ridding the world of labels, to ridding the world of Jews. They prefer to decimate the world of the only democracy in the Middle East, so that a terrorist organization can run a dictatorship in Palestine.
We said never again.
The zombies say never, say never.
We celebrate life.
The zombies haven’t lived it.
We see the conflict as complicated and stale.
The zombies see it as a commercial between cat videos.
We mourn our dead.
The zombies are already dead.
My words are harsh. Controversial. But they expose the truth that we keep looking for. As Israelis, we are dumbfounded by this generation’s choice to justify raping women, murdering innocent children and kidnapping elderly. I want to go back to when zombies only existed in myths and movies. When the next generation focused on non-binary issues and saving the trees. Where their free thought provoked change, rather than repeating history.
While we bury another fallen soldier, we continue to fight for our freedom, for democracy, for our lives. It breaks us; we will need a ton of therapy, but we are not zombies. We are not the walking dead. While our fallen return to the earth, they become the seeds of change, growing a nation of compassionate strong leaders. The zombies will follow each other to the ends of the earth, before they can end us.
About the Author
Larry David once said, ‘I’m not an inventor. I’m an improver. I improve things that are broken.’ Whether it’s improvisation, comedy sketch, or stand up, Molly Livingstone is improving life in Israel one chuckle at a time, with an honest and hilarious view of the Holy Land.
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Why is anyone surprised that a Jew hater is being promoted in the NYC Dept of Education?
Promoting antisemitic Public School Supervisors has been going on for years. Op-ed.
Cindy Grosz / 25December2023 / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382544
Why is anyone surprised that a Jew hater employed by the New York City Department of Education was not only retained, but is heading to a new job with more responsibility and better benefits.
Last week, Hillcrest High School principal Scott Milczewski, leader in the school where a violent riot broke out attacking a Jewish teacher for attending a pro-Israel rally, announced that he is leaving the Jamaica school for a new job in the city Department of Education bureaucracy.
“It is with mixed emotions that I inform you that I have been offered, and accepted, the position of Director of Teacher Development and Evaluation within the Division of Teaching and Learning,” he wrote in a letter circulated among students, staff and parents.
Milczewski is just the latest in the line of “questionable” administrators that were able to overcome public calls for discipline and termination.
In 2016, I introduced the public to Rushell White, then principal of MS (middle school) 226. Not only did she attack a Jewish teacher, David Possner in a mural displayed on school property, she offended the Hindu community of students as well. Multiple staff members at that time reported to the New York City Department of Education complaints of her “Jew hate” that were well documented and reported by the Parent Advocates organization.
The former teacher’s union chapter leader Zev Angelou of MS 226 was subpoenaed to testify at the 3020-a ( a teacher termination hearing paid for by the Department of Education) of another teacher bullied by White, Clairesa Clay, and his description of the principal included words such as “bully” “pathological liar.”
Today, years later, Rushell White is a Deputy Superintendent overseeing 28,000 students, over 6,000 teachers and staff members, 47 principals and about 56,000 families.
I reported that Queens public school teacher, Lawrence Brenner, was told in 2009 by a controversial principal that “you white teachers are ruining little black children,” and was consistently harassed until Brenner, Jewish, was terminated in a hearing based on questionable evidence submitted by the principal, Antonio K’Tori.
After the firing of Brenner and multiple complaints about PS 15, the school supervised by K’Tori, another teacher sued the NYCDOE and K’Tori for alleged sex harassment in 2014 and that teacher was awarded $500,000. K’Tori was the principal in charge of Simon Watts, the elementary school teacher who was convicted of sexually abusing five of his students and was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. Civil cases are ongoing by the students and one student, Neveah Thompson won $16 million dollars in 2021 in a civil suit judgment against the city.
But it was Brenner and not not K’Tori who was deemed incompetent to teach.
Why was K’Tori even employed in 2009? The Department of Education had removed K’tori from a Jamaica, Queens, NY school on September 10, 2004. He had been officially charged with a list of infractions including circumventing the school’s lottery system by accepting student applications, purchasing goods from unauthorized vendors and attempting to block special education classes. He was suspended without pay.
Brooklyn middle school principal, Principal Amanda Bueno told staffers in May, 2021, at MS 136 in Brooklyn, “If you have been watching the news in absolute horror, you are not alone.”
She urged teachers and administrators to demand government sanctions against Israel in an email on a school business address.Today, she is a head coach for the Department of Education, overseeing classroom instruction and model lessons.
I’m not surprised and you shouldn’t be either. You should be upset that your hard-earned tax dollars pay for this.
You should be angered by the failing test scores for years under the leadership of these people that the New York City Department of Education hires, maintains and supports with comfortable retirement packages and benefits. It should make you sick to realize this practice of education supervisors promoting antisemitism, racism and discrimination has been rewarded.
Don’t blame COVID. Don’t blame January 6th. Blame a system of biased evaluations for teacher and supervisor tenure, unions that are tied to politicians and a biased media.
For years, politicians representing the communities that these principals oversee schools in have had reading and math scores averaging 30 percent passing based on published reports.
The connection has to be exposed.
There are allegations of funds being stolen and indictments have been handed down.This is just the tip of the iceberg and not limited to New York.
Donald Trump was right in 2016 when he said the Department of Education needs to be diminished and/or eliminated.
And the result? Today we see young men and women protesting about a land they seemed to know few, if any, facts about after about 20 years of indoctrination in schools that are educationally useless.
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Israeli Labor Party leader bemoans abandonment by global left
“I fail to see how shouting jihad and calling for a mass murder of Jews is pro-Palestinian,” said Merav Michaeli.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-labor-party-leader-bemoans-abandonment-by-global-left/
(November 14, 2023 / JNS) Merav Michaeli, the head of Israel’s opposition Labor Party, slammed the global political left in an article published on Tuesday for being “complicit” in Hamas’s crimes against humanity.
Speaking to Politico on the sidelines of the Party of European Socialists conference in Spain late last week, Michaeli said she thinks “something very bad is happening on the left.”
“It became very, very clear in this attack that people who consider themselves to be democratic, progressive, are supporting a totalitarian terror regime that oppresses women [and] the LGBTQ+ community,” she claimed.
“It’s important for me to emphasize to them that when you do not very strongly go against Hamas and what it does in Gaza, including to its own people, you are complicit,” continued the Labor leader.
“I fail to see how shouting jihad and calling for a mass murder of Jews is pro-Palestinian,” she said.
According to Michaeli, calling for a ceasefire now is “giving permission to Hamas to continue rearming itself, continue stealing food, water, medicine and fuel from its own people, and yes, rebasing itself.”
At last week’s meeting in Málaga, delegates from France, Ireland and Belgium called for a ceasefire in the fighting against the Gaza-based terror group.
Still, Michaeli reassured that the Jewish state still has some “very strong allies” on the center-left, adding that “the more you go to the left, the more there’s a big mix-up.”
Thunberg skews climate message
More than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and thousands wounded in the Oct. 7 murderous attacks by Hamas operatives on southern Israel. In addition, terrorists took some 240 people hostage.
Earlier this week, a Dutchman confronted Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg at a left-wing protest in Amsterdam after she attempted to connect the climate movement with the Palestinians.
“I have come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view,” the man said before being escorted off the stage.
Thunberg, who was wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh worn by Hamas terrorists, subsequently led the crowd in a chant of “No climate justice on occupied land.”
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As Liberal Jews Feel abandoned by the Left
What’s next?
By ADAM MILSTEIN 10JANUARY2024 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-781583
Liberal Jews – Abandoned by the left (photo credit: COURTESY ADAM MILSTEIN)
All Jews agree on one thing…that all Jews never agree. At any Jewish gathering around the world, you’ll hear heated debates on food, religion, culture, and everything in between. Politics are no different, but the debate is louder.
James Baker once said “F*** the Jews, they don’t vote for us.” While perhaps untrue, Baker’s sentiment reflected a historical American Jewish political truism – the Jewish community votes Democrat. Since the early 1990’s, a growing number of Jews have shifted rightward, but the majority of the Jewish-American community reside in the “liberal” camp.
After the October 7th terrorist attack, prior to Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, the true sentiment of the left towards Jews was exposed. Protests on college campuses, airports, freeways, bridges, outside synagogues, and Holocaust museums forced Jewish Americans to face a stark reality. Leftist and their Muslim allies were exposed not only as anti-Israel but as plainly anti-Jewish groups. Mobilizing under a guise of liberation (“From the River to the Sea”), and civil rights (“justice” in Palestine), one thing became increasingly clear – for a large coalition of leftists and Muslims in America, Jews have no right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland and deserve no safety anywhere.
Liberal Jews’ residence among American leftists is now in peril.
The Shock
Historically and for good reason, Jews have been fixated on the antisemitism from the far right as our greatest threat. This focus on antisemitism’s political affiliation left us vulnerable. We have virtually ignored the growing warning signs of antisemitism from the Islamo-leftist camp. After all, Jews were an integral part of the left. In the name of Tzedek (Justice), we’ve marched with every marginalized community throughout American history. Yet, on October 7th, 2023, we marched alone. As our women had blood dripping down their legs, women’s rights groups didn’t express any outrage. They stood silent. As our children were identified by their ashes, children’s rights organizations were nowhere to be found. And as our civilians were brutalized, all human, civil, and LGBTQ+ rights didn’t march, didn’t organize, and didn’t protest. On the contrary – they stood with the attackers.
In the wake of October 7th, American Jews were left speechless. The wakeup call has been loud. The Jewish political home, the American left, turns a blind eye to war crimes and to the sexual mutilation of women, children and men when the victims are Jews. It has become evidently clear that in leftist spaces, the American Jew is dehumanized as a mere “oppressor”, an “Occupier”, a “Colonialist”, “White privileged”, and “Apartheid” supporter. Compassion for the deep trauma Jews sustained was nowhere to be found.
One must wonder, if killing Jews and raping women in Israel is ‘just’ and legitimate under the guise of a victim using ‘resistance by any means necessary’, what prevents our enemies from committing the same crimes in America? And where can liberal Jews find a political home?
The Evolution
Jewish-Americans, motivated by our people’s values, traditions and history, gravitated to the political left in America. With an emphasis on Tikkun Olam, American Jews embraced a critical role in social justice movements throughout history. Our commitment to ‘repair the world’ found common cause with social movements on the left, solidifying the Jewish liberal alignment.
We memorialize female ancestors like Deborah, who personified courage as the “woman of torches”. And we lionize Esther who taught of female strength and resilience and Ruth who embodied integrity and diligence. Guided by these matriarchs, Jews across the nation fought for women’s rights and Jewish women like Betty Friedan and Bella Abzug led the feminist movement.
Our scripture mandates us to advocate for the marginalized – “what is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor” (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a). Embedded in Jewish tradition is the notion that all man is “created in the image of God” (Genesis 1:27). Just as Abraham didn’t turn anyone from his tent, Jews fought for the rights of Black Americans. Jews helped establish the NAACP in 1909. And in 1965, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel embodied the Jewish community’s collective support for civil rights as he marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma.
In 1967, Rabbis joined Cesar Chavez and urged Kosher communities to only support union grapes as the non-union grapes were forbidden as Oshek. The Jewish community continued its activism throughout the 2020 marches for Black lives and then again in 2021 to stop Asian hate.
Jewish Americans have served as indispensable allies, leaders, and activists on issues of human dignity, civil rights, and progress throughout American history. This allyship with the left was presumed to be reciprocal. October 7th changed everything.
The Reality Check
In recent years, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement carved out large pieces within the left’s agenda. Many liberal Jews have supported these developments believing that they’re the next phase of a long tradition of liberal activism. They were mistaken, no allyship with CRT, DEI, and BLM will protect them. Jews who tirelessly fight for acceptance and admittance in the intersectionality coalition will remain disappointed. We are not welcome.
Enamored with the seemingly laudable goals of DEI: to promote the representation, participation, and fair treatment of historically marginalized groups, liberal Jews ignored DEI promoters, and CRT advocates, as they advanced a radical agenda to fundamentally undermine American values. For years they have been promoting equality of outcome over equality of opportunity, collective identity (race, gender, etc.) over individual character, censorship of opposing viewpoints over freedom of speech, and a “victimhood Olympics” culture that crudely bifurcates society into oppressors and oppressed.
Liberal Jews failed to recognize how CRT and DEI initiatives, and intersectional theory would be weaponized against them. And today, we see how Jewish students are maliciously portrayed as wanton oppressors and colonialist abettors. American universities who fully adopted these doctrines are now hotbeds of antisemitism due to embedded leftist orthodoxy.
The Next Steps
So, where do liberal Jews go from here?
The “October 8th Jew” as Bret Stephens coined it, recognizes their home as a centrist. The October 8th Jew knows that the extreme left, like the extreme right before it, is no political home. The October 8th Jew is united in the mission to fight enemies of America, who always come first for the Jews. “Never again” must be backed by action and Jewish unity.
First, no more blind voting for Democrats or Republican for the sake of historical precedent. All Jews, including liberal Jews, must adopt a litmus test for candidates and support only those determined to fight antisemitism and support the U.S.-Israel alliance.
Second, pull support from organizations and academic institutions that promote the erasure of Jewish suffering and tacitly endorse Jew-hatred.
And finally, unite and support American organizations that protect and promote equality and inclusion rather than division and an ideology that aims to destroy Jewish life and American values.
Adam Milstein is an Israeli-American “Venture Philanthropist.” He can be reached at adam@milsteinff.org, on Twitter @AdamMilstein, and on Facebook www.facebook.com/AdamMilsteinCP.
This op-ed is published in partnership with a coalition of organizations that fight antisemitism across the world. Read the previous article by Dan Diker.
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Make Never Again – Never Again
“Never again” happened again – a holocaust not in Europe but in Eretz Yisrael. How can that be?! What did we really mean by “never again”?
David Ben Horin Posted on 26November2023 https://breslev.com/4074472/
Make Never Again – Never Again by David Ben Horin
How can we make sure that the clarion call “Never again!” is permanent?
Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman said, “The Jews in Europe declared war on Hashem. Now, He has declared war on them. That’s why He’s sending His armies against them.” (Parshat Noach, 5783 by Rabbi Avigdor Miller) [Editor’s Note: Further examples of what prompted Hashem’s war can be found in Rabbi Miller’s book A Divine Madness.]
To guarantee that there won’t be another Kristallnacht, Auschwitz, or Gaza, we must swallow the hard truth:
Holocaust #1
Throughout the 1930s, every European Jewish town had socialists, communists, and nationalists actively rebelling against the Rabbis. We asked to be Soviets. We asked to be Germans. We asked to be protected by the head of the Communist Party and the leader of Germany. They rebelled against the Torah. They told Hashem that they wanted nothing to do with Him.
So, on Kristallnacht, God gave us what we wanted.
Holocaust #2
For all of 5783, every motzei Shabbat, we gathered to tell our Father that He isn’t welcome on His Land. We did it with immorality, injustice, and violence. These are the three abominations that Hashem calls in the Torah “hamas” (המס). For an entire year we told God that we prefer Sodomite flags, locking up the religious, and beating up people for praying on Yom Kippur rather than loyalty to Him and His Torah.
We asked for “hamas”, and Hashem gave us Hamas.
All those demonstrations for “democracy” were nothing more than a cover for the real reason: They didn’t want the religious assuming power. The current government is the first one in the history of Israel to be 50% religious. So, for the first time in modern Israeli history, there were massive demonstrations against a democratically elected leadership.
In truth, the protests were against God and His Torah – our Torah. The preparations for these weekly rebellions were made during Shabbat. In essence, we told God that we preferred “hamas” to His holy day.
So, on Shabbat-Simchat Torah, He let us have it.
What’s the Message?
Our generation will have to live with the trauma of Oct 7. We will go about our lives fearing that it can happen again anywhere and anytime.
What our parent’s generation went through – the dread that another Holocaust might whisk them away to a horrible death – is what we are going through right now.
For 75 years, when we shouted, “Never Again!” the world said “Amen.”
Today, when we say, “Never Again!”, the world says something else.
Only Hashem can protect us. We have to embrace Him.
We didn’t in 1933.
We didn’t in 2023.
We must stop saying “Never Again!” to Hashem and His Torah! We must return to Hashem right now. We must actively petition our government to return Torah to Israel. We must tell God that we want Him in our country. We must tell Hashem that we want our country to be forever His country.
God will destroy our enemy nations:
Hashem will never let anyone harm His people. He will never let a foreigner harass His nation – as long as we declare ourselves His nation by serving Him according to His law. This is how “never again” will truly be – never again.
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David Ben Horin lives in Afula with his family, millions of sunflowers, and Matilda, our local camel. David‘s Israeli startup, 300 Marketing Solutions, is a lean marketing agency for startups and small businesses that creates and promotes SEO-optimized ROI-driven to the right audience on LinkedIn to make your business the star of the show.
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Rising Antisemitism
Unbridled hatred for the Jewish people is being unleashed around the world. We say in the Nishmat prayer on Shabbat, “In all times of trouble and distress, we have no king, helper, supporter but You“. Only Hashem can protect His children.
Kalever Rebbe | Posted on 22November2023 | https://breslev.com/4073465/?_atscid=2_92797_86200982_4969218_0_Tawxttjaeucshh8uw
Rising Antisemitism by Kalever Rebbe
“Do not delay me, since the Lord has made my way prosper.” (Bereishit 24:56)
Antisemitism Unleashed
An unbridled hatred for the Jewish people is being unleashed around the world. Each of these haters can simply grab a knife or other weapon and attack a Jew. There are also masses of well-armed terrorists who want to destroy the Jewish people.
With the rising hatred and thirst for violence, it would be natural for there to have been many more attacks, chas v’shalom, against the Jews. Truthfully, there are many individuals who are constantly planning to attack us. They even make all the preparations. Hashem, however, foils their sinister plots and protects the Jews.
We are completely unaware of the countless times the Jewish people were in grave danger and Hashem saved us.
Foiled Plots
During the days of the Chozeh from Lublin, zt”l, there was one minister who passionately hated the Jews in his town, and he wanted to kill the local Rabbi.
The minister knew that the Rabbi woke up very early in the morning and that he would walk to shul in the dark. So, he devised a plan. One night, he asked his servant to dig a deep pit on the path that the rabbi would walk in the following morning, figuring that, in the darkness, the rabbi would not see the pit and would fall in, plummeting to the bottom.
However, Hashem intervened. That same night, a prestigious and wise guest visited the rabbi. They were engrossed in a deep Torah conversation as the hours ticked by. Finally, they retired for the evening far later than the rabbi was accustomed to. The following morning, the rabbi woke up a little later than usual and walked to shul while it was light. Seeing the pit, he simply walked around the dangerous obstacle.
When the minister learned the details about what had happened, he said: “Now I must praise the greatness of the Jews’ God! He is the Omnipresence that controls the events of this world. His Divine Providence protects His beloved children, the Jewish people. He saves them from dangers that they don’t even know about!”
When the Chozeh, zt”l, heard this story, he said: “The pasuk in Tehillim (117:1-2) says, ‘Praise the Lord, all gentiles, laud Him, all nations. For His kindness has overwhelmed us!’ Why do the non-Jews praise Hashem for the kindness that has “overwhelmed” the Jews, and not the Jews themselves? After hearing this story, I know the answer. When the pasuk describes this chessed, this kindness, it is referring to the Jews being saved from being harmed by the non-Jews. Only the non-Jews know how many of their wicked plots were foiled by Hashem and how many times Hashem has saved us, while those for whom these miracles occurred do not know that they happened.”
Hidden Miracles
During Nishmat – which we pray on Shabbat morning – we say: “in all times of trouble and distress, we have no king, helper, supporter but You“.
R’ Nosson Dovid from Shidlovtza, zt”l, explained that you need to divide this phrase into two ideas. First, we say that we understand that “in all times [there is] trouble and distress”, we are constantly at risk of being harmed at the hands of those who want to annihilate us, even when it isn’t publicized that we were living in “a time of trouble.” And therefore – we continue to say – we understand and acknowledge that “we have no king, helper, support but You”, because no other king can protect his people from the hidden dangers that surround them.
In fact, there is another more subtle miracle. Even when the non-Jewish governments and law enforcement officers uncover and, therefore, foil a terrorist attack, that is also a miracle; it goes against the natural order of the world. Those nations of the world don’t like the Jewish people. However, when they intervene on our behalf, saving the Jewish people from an attack, it is solely because Hashem inspires their hearts to help the Jews. As the pasuk says (Mishlei 21:1), “A king’s heart is like rivulets of water in the Lord’s hand; wherever He wishes, He turns it”.
On a Short Leash
R’ Yitzchak from Volozhin related that when he went to Nicholas, the Russian Czar, to lobby for the Jews, he noticed that in the palace there were large dogs that were natural predators. Whenever someone entered the chambers to meet with the Czar, the dogs would approach the visitor and gently lick their feet.
He asked one of the dog’s trainers, “How did you teach these animals to forgo their natural predatory behaviors?”
The caretaker explained that when the dog was chained to a leash, he felt that he was not free to do as he pleases. Therefore, the animal can control its natural tendencies. If the dog were unleashed, it would attack and devour the person.
The Gaon from Volozhin then explained, that the same can be said regarding how the Kingdom of Heaven oversees the Jewish people. The natural tendency of the world’s non-Jewish kings is to devour the Jewish people. The Jews are described as being a lamb surrounded by seventy wolves. When we see one of these nations acting benevolently towards the Jewish people and serving their interests, it is because those kings have been shackled and leashed by Hashem. If Hashem were to unleash them, they would immediately begin issuing harsh and evil decrees against the Jews.
Don’t be Afraid
This helps us understand the episode in Parshat Chayei Sarah that described the shidduch between Yitzchak and Rivkah:
Betuel was a king that ruled over an evil nation that despised Avraham Avinu. They wanted to kill his servant, Eliezer. Therefore, he poisoned Eliezer’s food. However, an angel came and switched the bowls of food. And, as the Midrash elaborates, Betuel ate the poisoned food instead and died. Eliezer was saved.
Immediately afterwards, her brother Lavan and her mother tried to postpone Rivkah’s journey to Avraham’s house. They feared that she would be harmed by the Jew-haters. However, Eliezer reassured them saying, “Do not delay me… ” Don’t worry about the Jew-haters, because you just witnessed that “the Lord has made my way prosper” – Hashem is the one who has made my journey successful. I naturally should not have been saved from that danger. I didn’t even know that there was a plot to poison me. Therefore, you don’t need to be worried about the Jew-haters, because Hashem will always protect His people.
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The Kalever Rebbe is the seventh Rebbe of the Kaalov Chasidic dynasty, begun by his ancestor who was born to his previously childless parents after receiving a blessing from the Baal Shem Tov zy”a, and later learned under the Maggid of Mezeritch zt”l. The Rebbe has been involved in outreach for more than 30 years and writes weekly emails on understanding current issues through the Torah. Sign up at www.kaalov.org.
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Why is There Antisemitism?
Why do they hate Jews? Why does “equality and justice for all” and women’s rights and more apply to everyone – except Jews?
Rachel Avrahami | Posted on 22December2023 | https://breslev.com/4079704/
Why is There Antisemitism by Rachel Avrahamiv
As I touched on in my previous article The Shocking Truth, the antisemitism that has reared its ugly head around the world in response to the current war in Gaza has reached previously unheard-of levels.
If you haven’t figured it out already, you can’t convince these people. They don’t want the truth; they don’t care about the truth!
Of course, there are some clueless people out there, but the stark reality of the genocide of Oct. 7 pushes people to choose sides. In fact, Rabbi Arush said that is one of the purposes of this war! Those that were not sure before where truth and good lies, and which side is evil, saw it plain and clear before their eyes. If at this point, they still don’t get it – they aren’t going to get it.
I’ve said since the beginning of the war that as we prove without a shadow of a doubt that Hamas broke international law a hundred different ways, the antisemites won’t care and won’t change their minds – their rationalizations will just get more and more ludicrous.
And that’s what we’ve indeed seen so far. Just when I think I’ve seen it all, I see a comment that Jews aren’t descendants from Abraham, or that Jews are an “invented race.” Or a recent post that Jesus was Palestinian which was made fun of by the official Israel feed… All those terror tunnels – 1,500 that the IDF has uncovered thus far – the IDF built those in 1982! Or the videos were faked! Oh, and the videos from Oct. 7 were faked too, just to justify the “Israeli colonizers” to go after another “Gaza genocide.”
For sure these outrageous claims by antisemites are classic psychopathic gaslighting. But this is still the sad reality – a good chunk of this world is living in total delusions against God, and His people.
The million-dollar question is: WHY?
Someone asked Rabbi Arush on a recent Q&A video why so many people aren’t changing their minds after seeing the videos of Oct. 7. He answered simply: “They are against God, who is Truth. They don’t want the truth. The problem is inside them, so no matter how much truth you show them, it won’t help, the lies will come right back to them.”
That’s exactly it: Jews represent God. God is holy, and each and every Jew is holy!
We represent truth, and goodness. We are God’s nation, God’s people. We learn and teach the Torah, which is God’s Eternal wisdom and truth. Jewish law is God’s law!
And they don’t want that. The same liberalism that promotes equality, also promotes the freedom to do anything you want, so long as it doesn’t hurt someone else. But the reality of God negates that, because if there is a God who created you – then not only do you have a purpose in life, but you must now also follow His rules.
The reality is that the rules and regulations and laws of the Torah actually serve to reign in the lusts of the body and confusions of the mind. Torah laws give a human a fighting chance to reach up to Godliness, which is our purpose in life – instead of wallowing in muck. Without keeping Torah, a person isn’t free – they are a slave to their bodies, instead of the body serving the soul.
Of course, they don’t understand that – they want the freedom to commit every abomination and immoral act in the book, without consequences, without morality, without conscience. The very existence of even one single Jew in the world negates that, even if that Jew never says a word to anyone.
(PS The Kalever Rebbe also discusses this topic in his article The “Progressive” Culture? – I highly recommend you check it out!)
The Hidden Message
I would like to posit that there is an even deeper message behind this irrational refusal to care about facts, truth, and reality.
Rabbi Arush’s teachings are based on spiritual laws. Just like there are physical laws like gravity, so too, there are spiritual laws.
One of the laws that Hashem uses to run the world is called midda k’neged midda – measure for measure, tit-for-tat. For instance, someone who has mercy on others – Hashem has mercy on him – and the opposite, G-d forbid.
One aspect of this is that we can understand His messages because He does to us what we are doing to others, in order for us to understand our mistakes and repent.
Hence, if antisemites are stubbornly refusing to recognize the truth – then it must be that in some way, the Jewish people are also stubbornly refusing to recognize the truth! Both on a communal, and individual, level.
Just take a minute to contemplate that, with all of its ramifications.
And I challenge you to decide to do one thing differently because of it.
That being said, thank G-d! One of the miracles of the last couple months is that Jews now are starting to get it, starting to realize that if they hate us for being Jews–maybe we should go find out what being Jewish really is?
Because they want to kill us no matter what we wear, with or without a kippah, regardless of our political or religious opinions.
Update: If you still aren’t convinced of just how clear and present the danger is to Jews in America, journalist Ami Horowitz spoke to 35 random students on a left-leaning campus. 80% of them supported killing Jews around the world, specifically hitting soft targets like schools and synagogues. 50% were willing to put money towards the cause. Not one pushed back. Watch for yourself.
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Rachel Avrahami grew up in Los Angeles, CA, USA in a far-off valley where she was one of only a handful of Jews in a public high school of thousands. She found Hashem in the urban jungle of the university. Rachel was privileged to read one of the first copies of The Garden of Emuna in English, and the rest, as they say, is history. She made Aliyah and immediately began working at Breslev Israel.
Rachel is now the Editor of Breslev Israel’s English website. She welcomes questions, comments, articles, and personal stories to her email: rachel.avrahami@breslev.co.il.
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Dear world: I don’t care
I don’t care if you’re out on the street, waving your flag and chanting your slogans. We won’t die silently the way you want us to
An Israeli soldier on patrol in the southern city of Sderot
Avi Lewis 30October2023, 12:43 PM https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dear-world-i-dont-care/
I don’t care that you sympathize with Hamas.
I know you wouldn’t tolerate any of the things they did to us if they would’ve done it to you.
I don’t care that you’re outraged by Israel’s response to the massacre more than the massacre itself.
I know you would do everything to eliminate such pure evil if you experienced it yourself.
I don’t care that this doesn’t fit neatly into your carefully constructed narrative of ‘Israel as aggressor’ and ‘Palestinian as victim.’
The truth hurts sometimes, but hey, don’t let facts get in the way of your feelings.
I don’t care if you think we are at fault, that we had it coming, that Hamas’ actions’ didn’t occur in a vacuum (or to deny they ever happened).
If you feel that the poster of a kidnapped child hurts your cause, maybe yours is a lost cause.
I don’t care about your calls for a premature ceasefire, about your demand that we provide them with electricity, that we stop fighting for ‘humanitarian reasons.’
What of a humanitarian gesture to release our 230+ hostages – elderly, children, babies – snatched from their cribs?
I don’t care that you’ve rallied for Palestine as part of your march for LGBTQ rights, trans rights, workers rights, socialism, climate change, intersectionality, Black Lives Matter, fighting Islamaphobia and ‘all forms of racism.’
Your gullibility would be laughable if it wasn’t so hypocritical. None of those things exist under Hamas.
I don’t care that you ‘love Jewish people – just hate Israel’, that you have some friends that are Jewish, that maybe you’re ethnically Jewish yourself – and therefore you’re entitled to levy every libel in the playbook against us.
Words matter. They lead to actions. When a lie is repeated often enough it’s accepted as truth. You are laying the groundwork for more attacks against us.
I don’t care that you wave the flag of ‘human rights’, that you’ve become overnight experts in international law, that you shout fancy slogans you don’t understand such as proportionality, occupation and apartheid.
Your humanity is selective. In your mind, human rights don’t apply to us because we are undeserving. You didn’t speak up when our women and children were horribly assaulted.
I don’t care if you think we are colonialists, imperialists and settlers and that we should just go back to where we came from.
We are back to where we came from.
I don’t care if you believe in a one-state solution, a two-state solution, a federation, an internationalized Jerusalem or any other theory drawn up in your ivory tower.
We won’t readily hold out our necks and endanger our lives in order to satisfy your thought experiments and placate your conscience from afar.
I don’t care if you consider yourself anti-Zionist but not antisemitic.
We’ve seen enough Jews around the world attacked over the last 3 weeks under the guise of ‘anti-Zionism’.
I don’t care that you think we are too powerful, too technologically advanced, too sophisticated.
If we didn’t build ourselves up to this point we’d get eaten alive by Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Iran and Palestinian terrorism.
I don’t care that you blame us for 1948 refugees, for the fact that they have no state, for the keys that they wave in their fantasy of ‘right of return.’
Three weeks ago we got a glimpse of what that ‘return’ looks like and what it means for our children.
I don’t care if you think we aren’t real Jews, that Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism, that Jews are a religion and not a nationality and so we deserve no state.
Your denials have zero impact on the strength of our ideals and the self-affirmation of our identity.
I don’t care that you accuse us of flaunting the myriad UN resolutions, inquiries and statements.
They reflect more on the institutional decay of the UN than on us.
I don’t care about your media coverage, the lies, the equivocation, the acceptance of Hamas talking points and statistics.
Your echo chamber is just another weapon in their strategic arsenal.
I don’t care that you accused us of bombing the Al Ahli hospital.
It was only a matter of time before you found a symbol for Israel’s wickedness. The subsequent retractions were a fig leaf once the truth emerged that Islamic Jihad was responsible and that the hospital is still standing.
I don’t care that you see us as a criminal state, a terror state, usurpers, baby killers, Christ-killers, Khaybar Jews or any other depravity that exists in your mind.
Your libels lay the groundwork for our dehumanization. Rings a bell. We will fight it.
I don’t care that you’ve inverted the truth by accusing us of genocide.
If positions were reversed and Hamas held the power we do now, you’d see what a genocide looks like.
I don’t care that you’re angry, boiling and outraged.
I don’t care that you’re glued to your TV screens and Telegram channels.
I don’t care that you’re mad.
I don’t care if you’re out on the street, waving your flag and chanting your slogans.
We won’t die silently the way you want us to.
For the first time in 2,000 years we are organized, we are motivated and we will defend ourselves.
We fight for light over darkness,
Morality over evil.
Not that it matters to you – but we will stick to the rules and hold the high moral ground not because you expect it from us, but because they are a value for us.
We will do so ethically and thoughtfully, for we are the People of the Book.
Our power and strength are a necessity because the alternative for us is:
Be’eri, Kfar Aza, Pittsburgh, Toulouse, Farhud, Hebron, Birkenau, Belzec, Babi Yar, Kristalnacht, Kielce and Kishinev.
Do you think for a moment that we would return to that reality just to make you feel a little better?
You are deeply mistaken…
World,
For so, so long, I really, deeply cared.
I cared about fitting in;
I cared about what you think;
I cared about being a model citizen;
I cared about setting a personal example of how a tiny people in a tough neighborhood could still be a Light unto the Nations.
How the world’s oldest minority – now a majority here – could treat its own internal minorities par excellence amidst the complicated and messy reality of ethnic conflict;
How we could painfully dismember parts of our homeland and offer them on the platter of peace to Palestinians that want neither peace nor some parts (they want all of it);
How we could dazzle you with USB sticks, drip irrigation, operating system kernels, Nobel Prize winners, swallowable medical cameras, deep tech, quantum mechanics, generative AI and cures for disease.
But now I’m finally accepting that you don’t care.
You never did.
You don’t see and you don’t hear.
And because I cared about what you think so much, that so deeply hurts.
But you don’t have my best interests at heart.
You take issue with my base identity, with what I represent.
Don’t expect me to wait for your approval this time.
It doesn’t matter what I do, you’re not going to change.
It doesn’t matter how I act, because your issue is with who I am.
Now I’m going to block out your noise and do what it takes to win this war.
Today
Finally
I no longer care
About the Author
Avi was formerly a news writer at the Times of Israel. Originally from Australia, he served in the IDF and today works in Israel’s thriving Hi Tech sector in Tel Aviv. He lives near Modi’in with wife and 3 kids
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JerusalemCats Comments: So You think your safe outside of the Land of Israel?
NYC On “High Alert” For “Lone Wolves” After Hamas Attack On Israel
by Tyler Durden, 11October2023 – https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyc-high-alert-lone-wolves-after-hamas-attacked-israel
New York City was placed on “high alert” Tuesday by New York Mayor Eric Adams, who told law-abiding residents not to “underestimate” the threat from lone-wolf terrorists who have been radicalized by Hamas.
New York Mayor Eric Adams
“We cannot let our guards down,” said Adams.
The announcement comes as Israel prepares to turn parts of the Gaza Strip into “rubble” following the terrorist attack.
Adams’ comments come days after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel over the weekend, in which more than 1,800 people have been killed on both sides.
Making matters worse for NYC’s Jewish population, which, outside of Israel is the largest in the world, has been disastrous border policies pushed by Democrats which have allowed a steady stream of illegal migrants to enter the country – most of whom are unvetted.
Meanwhile, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.’s Democratic Socialists of America party led pro-Palestinian rallies in Times Square after the Hamas attack.
Democratic Socialists of America party led pro-Palestinian rallies in Times Square 8October2023 – Photo by Stuart Meissner
Perhaps the FBI will be forced to do its job instead of targeting enemies of the Democrat party?
FBI New York-tweet-10October2023
UPDATE:
NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Large Riots Between Pro-Hamas Rioters and Police
Richard Goldberg-tweet-26December2023-NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Large Riots Between Pro-Hamas Rioters and Police
Pro-Hamas, not Pro-Palestine
Rioters, not Protesters
Large Riot, not Large Protest
R A W S A L E R T S -tweet-25December2023
🚨#BREAKING: NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Fights Between Pro-Palestine Protesters and Police at a Large Protest
📌#Manhattan l #NewYork
Currently, the New York Police Department has requested a Level Three mobilization for a large protest that is taking place in Midtown Manhattan, where Pro-Palestine protesters are reportedly engaging in fights with the police. Numerous altercations have broken out between the two resulting in reported injuries to multiple officers. The extent of the injuries is currently unknown at this time. Police have also Reportedly made multiple arrests
Richard Goldberg-tweet-26December2023-NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Large Riots Between Pro-Hamas Rioters and Police
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New York City supports Hamas terror
Ritchie Torres-tweet-15October2023-A NYC club known as The End is holding an “Intifada Fundraver,” glorifying the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Rabbi S Litvin-tweet-11March2024-open call to murder Jewish babies
This is in New York City.
It’s an open call to murder Jewish babies.
We have seen this before.
Pro-Hamas = Pro-Holocaust
Rabbi S Litvin-tweet-11March2024-open call to murder Jewish babies
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NYPD told Eli Wiesel’s Son to Hide Israeli flag at Protest
Told to Hide Israeli flag at Protest, Eli Wiesel’s Son Complies
19December2023 | Ticker, Virtual Jerusalem |
https://virtualjerusalem.com/told-to-hide-israeli-flag-at-protest-eli-wiesels-son-complies/
Elisha Weisel had an Israeli flag draped around his back and Hamas Terrorist
Elisha Wiesel’s Stand Against Antisemitism: A Voice in Turbulent Times, Upholding Father’s Legacy in Tense New York City Confrontation
Elisha Wiesel, son of the late Elie Wiesel, a renowned Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, recently found himself in a tense situation during a protest in New York City. At this event, organized by Within Our Lifetime, Wiesel was advised by NYPD to remove his Israeli flag amidst a crowd of about 500 Hamas supporters, citing safety concerns. This incident has brought Wiesel’s activism and his stance against antisemitism into the spotlight.
Wiesel, continuing his father’s legacy, has become a significant voice advocating against antisemitism and for the state of Israel. Reflecting on the incident, Wiesel expressed his experience via Twitter: “500 Hamas supporters shouting slogans surrounded us. I put on an Israeli flag I carry with me. The cowards hid behind their masks. NYPD insisted I remove the flag as the situation was getting dangerous”.
Elisha Wiesel-tweet-18December2023-Elisha Weisel and Hamas Terrorist
Video of the Penn Station incident. 500 Hamas supporters shouting slogans surrounded us. I put on an Israeli flag I carry with me. The cowards hid behind their masks. NYPD insisted I remove the flag as situation was getting dangerous.
Elisha Wiesel-tweet-18December2023-Elisha Weisel and Hamas Terrorist
In his advocacy, Wiesel has often emphasized the importance of Israel as a safeguard against potential future atrocities against the Jewish people. He has said, “My father saw Israel as the only guarantee against a second Holocaust” and stressed that “hate is a stain that is hard to wash out”. His views echo the sentiments of his father, who was not only a witness to the horrors of the Holocaust but also a passionate supporter of Israel.
Wiesel’s public addresses have highlighted the continual threats posed by antisemitism and the need for vigilance. He has remarked on the historical and current situation in Gaza, stating, “When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, the hope truly was that with the help of the U.S., the European Union, and the U.N. and Russia, Gaza would become a thriving demilitarized country, powered by tourism, economically tied, to Israel, a new chance”.
Elisha Wiesel’s involvement in these recent events and his subsequent remarks are a testament to his commitment to combating antisemitism and supporting Israel. His actions and words resonate with the enduring legacy of his father and highlight the ongoing relevance of these issues in today’s world.
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Canadian Jews time to Pack your Bags and make Aliyah
Canary Mission-tweet-5March2024-Hamas supporters block Montreal’s Holocaust Museum
“Settlers, settlers, go back home!” “We’re going to kill all your kids!” Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters blocked the entrance to an event by IDF reservists at Montreal’s Holocaust Museum. In Nazi Germany, the Jews were also told to “go back home” (ironically, to Israel). https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-790305
Canary Mission-tweet-5March2024-Hamas supporters block Montreal’s Holocaust Museum
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Hamas in Toronto
Ariella-tweet-5March2024-open call for violence against Jews in Toronto
Good morning Toronto!
Just another day with an open call for violence against Jews.
What is it that people think globalize the intifada means?
Ahuvah Berger-Burcat-tweet-6March2024-If you support this poster
If you post this, or support this poster – then don’t come crying when you fuck around and find out.
Xin Yang-tweet-Hamas Poster in Toronto
Outside the courthouse on University Ave
JerusalemCats-tweet-7March2024-Israel will hunt down these Hamas supporters
Israel will spare no expense in hunting down these Hamas supporters that are putting up these Posters calling to kill the Jews. There are consequences for your actions. You will get to visit Yasser Arafat and Osama Bin Laden. Remember the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre aftermath.
Ariella-tweet-5March2024-open call for violence against Jews in Toronto
Ahuvah Berger-Burcat-tweet-6March2024-If you support this poster
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Being Jewish in 2024 – Canada
Oli London-tweet-15May2024-Israeli teenager visciously assaulted outside her school for being Jewish.
Israeli teenager visciously assaulted outside her school for being Jewish.
Shaked Tsurkan, an Israeli girl attending a high school in New Brunswick, Canada was assaulted from behind by an older Muslim student.
The assault came after the teenager was subjected to months of bullying for being Israeli.
The teenager was left with cuts, bruises and black eyes.
The assailant, who the victim identified as an older Muslim student, was suspended for a week from school for carrying out the attack.
Source: @TheCJN
Moy Miz--tweet-15May2024-Being Jewish in 2024 – Canada
Being Jewish in 2024 (microcosm)
The Jewish girl gets assaulted from behind, the adult does nothing, the friend just watches, many film (media) for the likes and finally the adult yells at her for trying to defend herself.
Moy Miz-tweet-15May2024-Being Jewish in 2024-Canada
dahlia kurtz-tweet-24April2024-Hamas running public daycare in Ontario
A Jewish mum just dropped off her toddler at a public daycare in Ontario.
The daycare supervisor was wearing a keffiyeh.
Imagine dropping your Jewish 3-year-old off at public school, and the person responsible for their care was wearing a Swastika.
That’s what just happened.
@Sflecce @brianlilley
dahlia kurtz-tweet-24April2024-Hamas running public daycare in Ontario
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A GENERAL WARNING TO THE JEWISH PUBLIC and A Purim Lesson for Simchat Torah
1 Marcheshvan 5784 15October2023 http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-general-warning-to-jewish-public.html
Rosh Chodesh Bet
A GENERAL WARNING TO THE JEWISH PUBLIC
Every Christian and missionary organization is hoping to capitalize on the crisis situation in Israel in order to push their man-god idolatry onto Jews. I wish I had the room here to name all the names and show you how much money they have already collected in “donations” to “help Israel.” [One prominent group actually living in Shomron is trying to raise 29 million dollars]. But anyway we don’t want to give them the publicity.
They are talking amongst themselves about the great opportunity this presents to give gifts to Jews in the name of their man-god while they are feeling most vulnerable and hope they will think kindly toward that false religion as a result.
It is forbidden to accept these gifts, even in the name of pikuach nefesh. The supplies on offer are also being provided by Jewish sources, so if you feel the need of them, you must go to a fellow Jew for those items and take nothing from the Christians. It would be a chillul Hashem because they report back to their followers how the Jews do not take care of each other and how it is left to them to do it as an act of Christian kindness.
Their “love and kindness” is a poison. It’s a sham and a spiritual crime deserving of the death penalty al pi halachah. HKB”H can provide all your needs through acceptable avenues. If He doesn’t provide it, you don’t need it.
A Purim Lesson for Simchat Torah
Since the murderous bloody massacre of our people on Shabbat-Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah, I’ve seen a particular phrase used over and over in shocked awe: “They [Hamas] killed men and women as well as babies and old people.”
That echoed in my mind.
“…to destroy, kill, and cause to perish all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, on one day….” (Megillat Esther)
“…in every province, wherever the king’s orders and his edict reached, there was great mourning for the Jews, and fasting and weeping and lamenting; sackcloth and ashes were put on the most prominent.” (Megillat Esther
“…the Jews be ready for that day, to avenge themselves upon their enemies.” (Megillat Esther)
This is the Jewish response to this kind of threat. Sadly, the warning has come too late for so many.
With hopes and prayers for better days and good news…
~ CHODESH TOV ~
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We are letting them do it to us again
Hillel Fuld-tweet-25April2024-We are letting them do it to us again
Dear European Jews in the 30s,
I owe you an apology. For the last 40 years, I’ve accused you of being blind, and quite frankly, stupid!
I’ve said it thousands of times.
“Why didn’t they get out? How did they not see the writing on the wall? Were they that comfortable and assimilated that they really believed it’d be ok? And even if they believed that, when Germany started legislating against Jews, how was THAT not enough of a sign to get out??”
For years, I thought you were weak. I thought you were led to the gas chambers like sheep to the slaughter.
For years, I thought that your mistakes could never be repeated again. I thought we, the Jewish nation, would surely see the writing on the wall.
I said Never Again and deep down, I thought it would never happen again, because WE, the Jewish people would never let it happen again.
“We are not as weak as they were”, I told myself.
And now I have to say, I’m sorry. I didn’t understand you until about a month or two ago when I realized that I was wrong about you.
More precisely, I was wrong about us.
It could happen again. The Jewish people WOULD let it happen again. We ARE letting it happen again.
Antisemites in the United States congress? Yep.
Pop stars declaring their love for Hitler? Uh huh
Banning Jews from entering educational institutions? Sadly that happened too.
Jews being assaulted and beaten in the streets? Yep, so that’s now a thing.
Mass antisemitic marches across America? We are there…
Jews women being raped and murdered just because they are a Jew? Can’t believe I’m saying this but yea, that too.
So, my European ancestors, and I’m talking to you, Grandma, I’m sorry. You weren’t weak and we aren’t strong.
We are letting them do it to us again and we are again not reading the writing on the wall.
I always believed that if I, we experienced what you experienced, we’d get the hell out immediately.
I was wrong. My brothers and sisters are continuing to be sitting ducks waiting for the next attack, the next vandalism of a synagogue, the next hate crime, the next blood thirsty antisemitic march, the next murder.
It’s 2024 and we haven’t learned the lesson that Germany was not our home. Poland was not our home. Austria was not our home.
Today, America is not our home. South Africa is not our home. The UK is not our home. Australia is not our home.
We only have one home and that is Israel. Is everything perfect in Israel? 100% not. But in Israel, your people protect you and if God forbid bad things happen, and they happen, (you don’t have to tell me, my brother was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist), your government, your army, your people will retaliate and ensure it never happens again.
No one is protecting you at Harvard. Or MIT. Or Columbia. You’re on your own there and this isn’t going to end well.
So, my European ancestors, I’m sorry I judged you. You weren’t weak. You weren’t blind. You weren’t dumb.
You were Jews who refused to internalize that other nations don’t behave like us and just because we’d never try to annihilate a nation doesn’t mean they won’t.
To my brothers and sisters in 2024, please, I beg of you, internalize the lesson of history. It’s happening right before your eyes. Don’t wait till it’s too late.
Leave. Get out. Come home.
We are waiting for you with open hours. You worry about us in Israel? I get it. That’s kind. But here, our fate is in our hands (And Hashem’s) and we know what we need to do.
No one there has your back. We have your back here.
So come home. Help us help you.
Allow us to welcome you at Ben Gurion Airport with chants of Am Yisrael Chai instead of staying there to hear chants of Globalize the Intifada and From the River to the Sea.
This is your home and we want you here with us. We need you here with us.
If you won’t come home for you, come home for us. We love you and want you here safe in our embrace.
Come home. It will be the best thing you ever did!
We are waiting. I am waiting! 🇮🇱🙏✡️
Hillel Fuld-tweet-25April2024-We are letting them do it to us again-3
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TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO BOARD THE ARK!!!
7 Marcheshvan 5784 22 October 2023 http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2023/10/time-is-running-out-to-board-ark.html
It may already be too late!!!
This is a follow-up to The Flood of Hamas. It alludes to The Flood of Violence (חָמָס) that accompanies The Flood of Antisemitism at the End of Days. See, Heaven’s messages are everywhere! HKB”H is screaming to His Children, “Choose life!!”
How can the Jews of the Diaspora not see this!?? Don’t be fooled by fear of what is happening in Eretz Yisrael. It’s not what it seems. (See the next post which should be ready later today, iy”H.) If you are already here, this is NOT the time to leave!!!
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Thousands of protesters demanding eradication of Israel clash with NYPD
About 100,000 protesters join pro-Palestinian march through London
Protests across Canada oppose Israel’s onslaught against Gaza
Today it is “thousands,” tomorrow it will be millions and nothing will stop them. Hashem yerachem!
Do you think what happened here cannot happen there???
Do you think you could possibly be safer outside the Land G-d gave us???
[EDD: Examples]
Visegrád 24-tweet-23October2023-The Minneapolis City Council candidate Zach Metzger filmed this clip of himself and fellow anti-Israel protesters trying to chase down an elderly man trying to drive past their protest which was blocking a major street.
Andy Ngô-tweet-24October2023-
“Reproductive justice means free Palestine” Far-left protesters at the NYC Queers for Palestine direct action falsely link the long regional conflict to American social issues. Abortion is almost entirely banned in the Palestinian territories, even in cases of rape or incest. West Bank Palestinian women who seek the procedure will sometimes go to Israel. Photos courtesy of
Andy Ngô-tweet-24October2023-Reproductive justice means free Palestine
Hamas to Nazi “I’ll Take it From Here” grabbing holocaust survivor
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9November2023-Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht
Israel-tweet-9November2023-Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht
Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht, the November Pogrom of 1938, in which more than 100 synagogues and 7500 Jewish businesses were vandalized in Germany.
This horrific event was the culmination of years of incitement and antisemitic rhetoric against Jews.
In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen Jewish communities around the world face horrific antisemitism.
Antisemitism starts with words but it doesn’t end there.
More often than not it kills.
Israel-tweet-9November2023-Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht
85 years since Kristallnacht
Arye (ARO) Sharuz Shalicar-tweet-8November2023-NIE WIEDER ist JETZT!
Arye (ARO) Sharuz Shalicar-tweet-8November2023-NIE WIEDER ist JETZT!
The Night of the Broken Glass
Nov 9-10, 1938: “The Night of Broken Glass”, which in German was called Kristallnacht, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on…
Yaakov Bar Nahman Posted on 10November2023 https://breslev.com/366273/
“The Night of the Broken Glass”, which in German was called Kristallnacht, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November 1938. Kristallnacht was triggered by the assassination in Paris of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 91 Jews were murdered and 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps. 267 synagogues were destroyed, and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. This was done by the Brown Shirt Hitler Youth, the Gestapo, the SA, and the SS. Kristallnacht also served as a pretext and as a means for the wholesale confiscation of firearms from German Jews in order to assure their being left defenseless.
This woke up some Jews to the unfolding dangers, but not enough. So very many chose to remain blind and stayed, waiting for the storm to go away. History was to recount what an immense mistake that choice was.
While the fledgling Nazi party was growing in size and power, the concept of what Jewish life is really about became dried up, diluted, and all but lost. The Jewish community was crumbling. The Reform movement and the Enlightenment were taking their toll. Tens of thousands of Jews were losing all feeling of what being Jewish really is. Theirs was more like a drab, colorless, lifeless cardboard cutout rather than a living, vibrant spiritual life. It was devoid of anything that stimulates the heart and soul. When there is nothing to draw interest, nothing to love, nothing to respect; there is nothing to attract loyalty, there is no inner bond. Even the most basic level of a Jewish soul desires spirituality. If “at home” their lives were devoid of spirituality, they would seek some semblance of spirituality elsewhere.
Together, this resulted in myriads of German Jews leaving Judaism. By the onset of WW 2, there were 10,000 Catholic and Protestant priests and pastors in Germany from Jewish families!
They sought the spirituality that had been stolen from them and replaced by the dried up version of Judaism they were raised in.
Even among those who “remained Jewish”, many had adopted the attitude of, “Be a Jew at home and a human being outside”.
Is there any wonder that God let loose the Angel of Death with an ‘open license to kill wholesale’? This process and its horrific outcome was to become one of the most gruesome chapters in human history.
With the worsening socioeconomic situation in Germany, the increasing political radicalism, and the turning of Divine Providence against the Jews of Germany due to the vast number who abandoned Torah life and values, the stage was set for…
Holocaust.
Holocaust, the Greek word for sacrifice.
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With antisemitism surging, Diaspora synagogues are ‘afraid’ to mark Kristallnacht
As Holocaust survivors reflect on Oct. 7 and the ‘global pogrom’ during Israel’s war with Hamas, some Jewish communities avoid commemorating 85 years to the Night of Broken Glass
By Matt Lebovic 8November2023 https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-antisemitism-surging-diaspora-synagogues-are-afraid-to-mark-kristallnacht/
On the morning after Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” local residents watch as the synagogue in Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, is destroyed by fire in 1938. (CNS photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
NEW YORK — Jewish communities from South America to Europe are canceling plans to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht pogrom Thursday night due to surging antisemitism following the Hamas massacres of October 7, The Times of Israel has learned.
That day, Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel by land, air and sea in a shock assault and killed some 1,400 people, mostly civilians, amid acts of horrible cruelty. Over 240 people are now in captivity in Gaza, including dozens of children. In the wake of the invasion, Israel declared war and vowed to destroy Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, where mounting casualties from the Israeli offensive have shifted public attention away from the October 7 massacres.
Thousands of synagogues had planned to participate in an annual Israel-based Kristallnacht initiative called “Light from the Synagogue,” with congregations and Jewish organizations invited to keep their lights on all night to mark the German pogrom in which 99 Jews were murdered and 30,000 men sent to concentration camps.
“When we first started to plan how to adapt this beautiful project to Brazil, we were aiming for an interreligious effort,” said Hana Nusbaum, a Holocaust educator based in Sao Paulo.
“However, due to the rise of antisemitism worldwide, we don’t think the synagogues and other Jewish institutions would be comfortable with a physical demonstration of support that highlights their locations,” Nusbaum told The Times of Israel.
Kristallnacht commemoration organizers in Los Angeles and New York City told The Times of Israel about “bolstered” security for synagogue gatherings set for Thursday evening. However, unlike Brazil, there were no reports that Kristallnacht gatherings were canceled in the US so far.
Marking this year’s wartime commemoration, the iconic March of the Living program released testimonies of Holocaust survivors who reflected on antisemitism following the Hamas massacres of October 7.
“I never thought in my life that something as terrible as now would happen again,” said Tirza HaLivni, who survived Kristallnacht and later moved to Israel.
Kvutzat Yavneh’s synagogue during Kristallnacht commemoration ‘Light from the Synagogue’ (courtesy: Dalia Yohanan)
“On October 7, Hamas came and slaughtered children, young and old. I have to say honestly, all the lectures I give, and I give a lot, in Israel, in Germany and wherever I can, but I think back 85 years ago to how horrible it was, and here we are, experiencing it again,” said HaLivni.
Through March of the Living (MOTL), thousands of Israelis and Diaspora teens have toured Holocaust sites in Poland followed by visits to Israel. Many of the survivors solicited by MOTL this year were uncomfortable allowing the organization to use their full names, according to a MOTL press release.
“[They] feared for their own safety, were initially hesitant to speak out, [or] worried that revealing their identities could place them in immediate danger,” said the statement.
As for synagogues afraid to commemorate Kristallnacht this week, “Light from the Synagogue” organizer Dalia Yohanan said she was deeply upset by emails she received.
In Graz, Austria, onlookers watch a smoldering synagogue the morning after Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938 (public domain)
“I nearly cried when I read how many synagogues are afraid to share their locations,” Yohanan told The Times of Israel.
“We thought those days would never come back,” said Yohanan, who lives on Kibbutz Tirat Tzvi.
Although it appears there have not been Kristallnacht cancellations in the US, that is not the case in Europe. In Groningen, the Netherlands, for example, an annual “silent march” for Kristallnacht was canceled due to fears that Palestinian supporters would find it provocative.
“We don’t want the march to be viewed as a demonstration because it is not,” said Geert Volders, director of the city’s Stichting Folkingestraat Synagogue.
Historians regard “The Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938, as a prelude to the Holocaust, as well as a “test run” for Hitler to gauge global reaction to his plans for Europe’s Jews.
‘Jews are not safe’
Outside the Jewish state, survivors are now reluctant to wear Jewish symbols, said Manya Wallenfels, a Polish-born survivor who lives in the US.
“I think twice before I wear my Star of David,” said Wallenfels. “It is a catastrophe what is happening today: not only Hamas but the antisemitism in the universities. Before, I went outside with a Magen David on my shirt, now I think twice about it,” said Wallenfels.
In Los Angeles, a Jewish man was attacked in public by a Palestinian activist and died several hours later. One California-based survivor interviewed by MOTL said “sleepless nights” became part of their lives again since October 7.
“The October 7 terror attack brought back so many memories of what I saw as a child,” said Maud Dahme, a survivor who lives in San Diego.
“When it all happened on October 7, I couldn’t believe it. I’ve had sleepless nights since and it just brought back so many memories. I don’t know how to cope,” said Dahme.
Jewish man
murdered by Palestinian protestor
A Jewish man falls to the ground after allegedly being struck with a megaphone by an anti-Israel protester in Los Angeles on November 5, 2023. (Screen capture/X)
Some survivors said the Hamas massacres shattered a relative sense of inner balance they toiled to achieve for decades.
“I am devastated to see how Jews are being attacked today. Jews are not safe,” said Nate Leipciger, a survivor who lives in Canada.
“I am very troubled by this and am struggling to retain my equilibrium,” said Leipciger, who was attacked on the street for being a Jew while growing up.
“My optimism is shattered. We must collectively feel the pain felt by parents whose child is abducted and threatened with death. Hamas’s barbarism is equal and almost exceeds what I experienced during the Shoah,” said Leipciger, most of whose family were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
“It started with words and continued with actions. I am devastated to see how Jews are being attacked today. Jews are not safe. I saw where antisemitism can lead to and I am very concerned,” said Leipciger.
With hundreds of American synagogues set to go forward with Kristallnacht programs on Thursday, some have committed to keep their lights on all night, as per the Israel-based initiative.
For example, at Young Israel of Sharon, Massachusetts, a 90-minute “Light From the Synagogue” program will focus on “our light” having not been “extinguished” during the Holocaust or after the Hamas massacres.
According to Young Israel, many congregants in Sharon, located outside Boston, had not heard about the Kristallnacht event due to a strenuous news cycle. In gathering as many Jews as possible, the shul hopes to express “our continued presence and vibrancy,” said a flyer.
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Jewish doctors launch group to combat antisemitism in medicine: ‘It’s Nazi Germany all over again’
By Carl Campanile
Published May 19, 2024, 11:46 a.m. ET https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/us-news/jewish-doctors-launch-group-to-combat-antisemitism-in-medicine-its-nazi-germany-all-over-again/
Jewish doctors alarmed by “rampant” antisemitism and even violence at health-care institutions in the US have launched their own national advocacy group to combat the hatred in medicine.
Thousands of medical professionals from across the country have joined the new American Jewish Medical Association to stand up for Jews, the group recently told The Post.
“It’s fundamentally scary for those of us who care about humanity. It’s Nazi Germany all over again,” said Manhattan plastic surgeon Yael Halaas, founder and president of the new group and a graduate of Columbia University and Cornell Medical School.
The hatred leveled against Jews after the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel hit home for Halaas, whose Jewish parents emigrated to the US from Cuba and Argentina.
Many members of her dad’s family were killed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
Medical schools particularly have become hostile environments for Jewish students, the organizers said.
Among the troubling incidents:
-George Washington University’s medical school hosted a faculty panel in December that declared the terrorists have a “right of resistance” against Israel.
logo American Jewish Medical Association
-Some medical professionals have praised the Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel and denied the fact that victims in Israel were sexually assaulted.
— A sign that read, “Free Palestine from Nazi Zionist Schwein” — the German word meaning “pig” — appeared in front of the cancer center at the University of California at San Francisco’s medical school.
— Anti-Israel protesters at rallies at Columbia University’s Medical School/Mailman School of Public Health have chanted “From the River to the Sea,” a phrase many interpret as calling for the elimination of Israel and celebrating suicide bombers who kill Israelis.
“The Jewish medical students are bullied into silence,” Halaas said. “They are being ostracized. It shouldn’t be controversial to say Israel is integral to Jewish identity.
“Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” she said.
The term “zionism” refers to the right of the Jewish state to exist.
Orthopedist Cary Schwartzbach, a Queens native who practices in Fairfax, Va., and a son of Holocaust survivors and treasurer of the new group, said, “Oct. 7 was a wake-up call.
“It opened the gates for antisemitism,” the doctor said.
“There’s a sense of hostilities against Jews. Antisemitism has made a lot of hospital residency programs uncomfortable for Jewish students,” he said.
“We need a voice. We need to protect ourselves. We need to protect medical school students.”
Larisa Geskin, an oncologist and director of the Comprehensive Skin Cancer Center at Columbia University’s Medical Center who emigrated from Latvia in the former Soviet Union when she was 20, said she was stunned by the antisemitism she’s personally witnessed on campus.
“There is rampant antisemitism in the medical community,” the 56-year-old doctor said.
A portrait of Dr. Benjamin Harouni, a 28-year-old bearded Jewish dentist who was shot and killed in his office near San Diego in 3February2024
Dr. Benjamin Harouni, a Jewish dentist, was fatally shot by a disgruntled former patient. GoFundMe.com
“This is so familiar to me. In the Soviet Union antisemitism was rampant. I never thought I’d hear the same rhetoric in the United States that I heard in the Soviet Union,” she said.
Given how Jews have been abused throughout history, the doctors said it’s horrifying to hear propaganda painting Israelis as white oppressors.
“Jews are also a minority. We need protection like other minorities,” Geskin said.
“We see history repeating itself. We feel we have to say something. They were chanting `From the River to the Sea’ in my backyard. This is what is happening in the medical community.”
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The Democratic Party as a whole is officially Anti Israel
Dov Hikind-tweet-24July2024-Democratic Party officially Anti Israel
Fair to argue at this point that the Democratic Party as a whole is officially Anti Israel
New York Post-tweet-24July2024-Kamala Harris skipping Netanyahu’s speech
Today’s cover: Kamala Harris skipping Netanyahu’s speech to Congress to address sorority event instead
Dov Hikind-tweet-24July2024-Democratic Party officially Anti Israel
Khaled Hassan-tweet-24July2024-Democratic party is boycotting Bibi
Correct me, if I am mistaken. It appears that neither Blinken, Biden, Harris, nor even the little weasel Jake Sullivan received Bibi and his delegation of Israeli former hostages and families of the hostages.
And, we’re now getting reports that pretty much everyone who matters at the Democratic party is boycotting Bibi’s speech?
Cool, cool. Just don’t blame us when we say this despicable, disgusting party is anti-Israel and anti-Jews. They’re literally refusing to receive an Israeli delegation with people who were taken hostage by Hamas.
Sinwar is absolutely delighted. Thank you, Democrats. You’ve made our enemies stronger.
To every single Jew in the US, this election is now a single-issue matter. Vote for Trump.
Paul-tweet-24July2024-60 Democrats boycotted Bibi’s speech to Congress in 2015
I’m not sure how it’s been so inextricably memory holed, but upwards of 60 Democrats boycotted Bibi’s speech to Congress in 2015. This isn’t a ‘current events’ issue; it’s systemic.
Khaled Hassan-tweet-24July2024-Democratic party is boycotting Bibi
At the Democratic National Convention 2016
Protester burn Israeli flag outside DNC, Byron Tau/ Wall Street Journal
Palestine sic flag at Democrat Convention, Social Media
Protesters burn Israeli flags outside the DNC and DNC delegates wave Palestine sic flags inside the DNC
The long-time Jewish worship of the Democratic Party is based on the false premise, that U. S. President F.D. Roosevelt was pro-Jewish and saved the world by defeating the Nazis. He is also credited with ending the Great Depression, and that is another untruth.
Caroline Glick tweet 9August2020 No room for Jews in the Democrat Party unless they’re “as a Jew” Jews
At the Democratic National Convention 2024
Caroline Glick-tweet-8August2024-Hamas at the DNC 2024-No Jews Allowed
Surprise surprise. Hamas terror boosters get to march and demonstrate at the #DNC in Chicago. But pro-Israel demonstrators have been denied permits to hold either a demonstration or a march, at least anywhere near the Democratic Convention.
Caroline Glick-tweet-8August2024-Hamas at the DNC 2024-No Jews Allowed
Preparing for Chicago Democratic National Convention riots
John Rich🇺🇸-tweet-17August2024-mostly peaceful DNC riots
I don’t recall seeing boarded up buildings in Milwaukee at the RNC. This will be a “mostly peaceful DNC.”
John Rich🇺🇸-tweet-17August2024-mostly peaceful DNC riots
Shelley G-tweet-18August2024-Preview of the DNC
Preview of the DNC:
Shelley G-tweet-18August2024-Preview of the DNC
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-18August2024-DNC2024-Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs
The menu on the main banquet of this week’s DNC: “Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs”. For those who don’t understand, the Dems want an agreement at all costs this week; Israel is under massive US pressure to give into Hamas at the price of our future and security. Hashem help us! (Click on the image to see it better and feel free to share it).
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DNC2024-Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs
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What would happen if the Democrats Won?
EXPLOSIVE: Biden Advisor Caught on Camera: We’ll Make Israel Face Consequences in Second Term
21May2024 https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2284802/explosive-biden-advisor-caught-on-camera-well-make-israel-face-consequences-in-second-term.html
Biden Advisor Caught on Camera
An explosive undercover sting video of a White House National Security Council advisor validates the deepest fears of Jews and other pro-Israel Americans: Joe Biden will throw the Jewish State under the bus in a second term – if he wins reelection.
The video purports to show Sterlin Waters, a policy advisor to the NSC saying that Biden cannot be as forcefully anti-Israel as he wants to be because of political considerations, specifically that he wants to win reelection.
“We can help you [Israel] in the way that we can, but you’re not going to continue to lie, and bomb, and kill all these kids without facing serious consequences. But that’s a second term decision,” Waters is seen and heard saying.
“If Biden won again he could be much more forthright about saying ‘no’ [to Israel],” he added.
Making things even more shocking, Waters works under the deputy national security adviser, who just so happens to an Orthodox Jewish woman – Chani “Anne” Neuberger. A Bais Yaakov graduate, Neuberger quickly rose through the government’s ranks to become the deputy national security advisor, with a specific focus on global and domestic cybersecurity issues.
EXPLOSIVE: Biden Advisor Caught on Camera: We’ll Make Israel Face Consequences in Second Term
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The Democratic Party is CHEATING
Lynzely-tweet-31October2024-KY voting machines can not vote for Trump
@KYAgCommish might want to look into the voting machines in KY!
Lynzely-tweet-31October2024-KY voting machines can not vote for Trump
India counted 640 million votes in a single day, 18 days later California is still counting 15 million votes
DogeDesigner-tweet-24November2024-India counted 640 million votes in 1 day-California counting 15 million votes 18 days
India counted 640 million votes in a single day.
California is still counting 15 million votes… 18 days later.
DogeDesigner-tweet-24November2024-India counted 640 million votes in 1 day-California counting 15 million votes 18 daysv
India’s elections aren’t just big – they’re massive
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🇮🇳 India’s elections aren’t just big – they’re massive!!! With over 900 million eligible voters, it’s a remarkable display of democracy in action on a scale unlike anywhere else in the world! 🗳️
Statistic Mania-tweet-24November2024-India’s elections aren’t just big-they’re massive
States Harris won vs. ID requirement
Elon Musk-tweet-10November2024-States Harris Won vs. ID requirement
Must be a coincidence 🙄
Elon Musk-tweet-10November2024-States Harris Won vs. ID requirement
WHEN I DIE do not Let Me Vote Democrat
Declaration of Memes-tweet-10November2024-WHEN I DIE do not Let Me Vote Democrat
Real 🤣
Declaration of Memes-tweet-10November2024-WHEN I DIE do not Let Me Vote Democrat
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PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE REPUBLICANS THEIR BIGGEST WIN IN 36 YEARS!
Bo Loudon-tweet-10November2024-Trump won
🚨BREAKING: CBS NEWS JUST REPORTED PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE REPUBLICANS THEIR BIGGEST WIN IN 36 YEARS!
“With a final tally of 312 electoral votes, Republicans scored their biggest White House win in 36 years.”
Bo Loudon-tweet-10November2024-Trump won
The Jewish vote SHOWED UP in key battleground states for President Donald J. Trump
RJC-tweet-7November2024-The Jewish vote SHOWED UP
From Arizona to Pennsylvania to Nevada, the Jewish vote SHOWED UP in key battleground states for President Donald J. Trump, helping to secure his historic victory as part of a winning coalition.
RJC-tweet-7November2024-The Jewish vote SHOWED UP
Hashem alone crowns Kings, for the Monarchy is His.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Hashem alone crowns Kings for the Monarchy is His
DeepState USA impeached Trump twice, arrested him 4 times, took him off the ballot and even tried to kiII him twice. But he won by a landslide. Only Hashem can do that. Mazaltov, 47th POTUS, Donald Trump. May Hashem be with you.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Hashem alone crowns Kings for the Monarchy is His
Hashem alone crowns Kings, for the Monarchy is His
Trump at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Trump at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel
Kamala had a tearful complaint to Doug at dinner:
“Why didn’t you take me to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel???”
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Trump at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel
That’s what happens when you don’t allow them to cheat and steal an election.
Truth Justice-tweet-7November2024-not allowed to cheat and steal an election
That’s what happens when you don’t allow them to cheat and steal an election.
Total votes in 2020 – 155,508,985
Total votes in 2024 – 140,306,875
Where did 15,202,110 million voters go?
2012 Obama 66M 2016 Clinton 63M 2020 Biden 81M? 15 Million? 2024 Kamala: 67M
Truth Justice-tweet-7November2024-not allowed to cheat and steal an election
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Trump Completes Trifecta: Republicans Keep Control Of US House [wins Senate]
by Tyler Durden 13November2024 – https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-completes-trifecta-republicans-keep-control-us-house
Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives by the thinnest of margins, NBC News projected Wednesday, handing President-elect Donald Trump and his party all the levers of power in Washington.
Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives-2024
cA Republican-controlled Congress will allow Trump to quickly fill out his Cabinet and other top administration roles and advance his agenda for at least the next two years.
Last week, Republicans flipped three Democratic Senate seats to win control of the upper chamber.
Republicans will control the Senate 2024
NBC News lays out how Republicans won the House…
Democrats had believed they were in a good position to win back the majority they lost just two years ago. They needed a net gain of only four seats to flip control of the House given that Republicans now hold 220 seats to the Democrats’ 212 – one of the smallest majorities in modern history.
But the two parties basically have fought to a draw in the House, preserving a status quo that favored Republicans.
In New York, Democrats were able to knock off a trio of vulnerable freshman GOP incumbents: Rep. Brandon Williams in the Syracuse region, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito on Long Island, and Rep. Marc Molinaro, whose district includes parts of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. They were among the 18 GOP House districts that President Joe Biden carried in 2020.
Democratic challenger George Whitesides also ousted vulnerable GOP Rep. Mike Garcia in Southern California.
But Trump’s triumph – including wins in battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and Michigan where there were key House races – helped buoy GOP incumbents and new candidates in the places that mattered.
Two of the biggest GOP prizes came in the Keystone State.
Republicans unseated two vulnerable, veteran Democrats in neighboring districts in eastern Pennsylvania. GOP businessman Rob Bresnahan ousted six-term Rep. Matt Cartwright, a former member of leadership, in the 8th District, which Trump carried in 2020. In the neighboring 7th District based in Allentown, GOP state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie upset Democratic Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee.
Meanwhile, In the capital of Harrisburg, Democrats believed they had a good chance to knock off former Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, a Trump ally who played a role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. But the six-term incumbent beat back a strong challenge from former local TV anchor Janelle Stelson, who attacked Perry on everything from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and abortion rights to his votes on veterans issues.
Republicans also captured a Michigan seat that had been held by Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who successfully ran for an open Senate seat.
And GOP challenger Gabe Evans narrowly defeated freshman Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colo., by less than 1 percentage point in a heavily Hispanic district north of Denver.
There are still six uncalled races:
6 uncalled races 2024
“It is a beautiful morning in Washington. It is a new day in America,” a celebratory Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said on the steps of the Capitol, flanked by his leadership team, as the House returned to Washington on Tuesday.
“The sun is shining, and that is a reflection about how we all feel.”
Trump wins Electoral Vote 2024
So Trump takes the trifecta: A Popular (and Electoral) Vote victory for The White House, taking back the Senate, and holding The House.
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Real Jews voted for Trump
In the last 5 days, the Harris White House has:
1. Called for an arms embargo against Israel
2. Leaked Israel’s classified plans to strike Iranian military sites
3. Agreed that Israel is committing genocide
4. Refused, AGAIN, to meet with Jewish students fighting antisemitism
RJC-tweet-7November2024-The Jewish vote SHOWED UP
Jewish support for Democrats lowest since Reagan era: poll
By Jon Levine
Published Oct. 19, 2024, 9:13 a.m. ET https://nypost.com/2024/10/19/us-news/jewish-support-for-democrats-lowest-since-reagan-era-poll/
Jewish support for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee is on track to be the lowest since the Ronald Reagan era — while the number of those backing Donald Trump is on the rise, according to a new poll from the Manhattan Institute.
If the election were held today, Kamala Harris would win the support of just 67% of Jewish voters, while former President Trump would take 31% of Jewish votes, the survey found. More than four out of five described themselves as “enthusiastic” about their choice.
Though Jewish voters on the whole remain overwhelmingly supportive of Democrats, that support has dipped noticeably over the years.
In 1992, 80% of Jewish voters supported Bill Clinton over George Bush Sr., though things have been trending slowly downward since. In 2020, Biden won the support of 68% of Jewish voters, while Trump had 30%. In 2016 Hillary Clinton won 71% of Jewish voters and Trump got 24%.
The poll follows others which show Jewish support for Democrats is cracking — a trend which has accelerated since Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas.
While Jews tended to favor Democrats on most issues, there was strong partisan agreement on Israel, with 86% saying they supported the Jewish state — and 62% of Jews saying they were concerned about antisemitism in the Democratic party.
“Security, Israel, and antisemitism” are Harris’s weakest issue relative to former President Donald Trump among Jewish voters, according to the poll.
Many are likely uncomfortable with the Democratic Party’s tolerance of voices that criticize Israel in extreme terms, such as labeling the country ‘genocidal,’” said Jesse Arm, Chief of Staff at the Manhattan Institute in an analysis of the findings.
“This is evidenced by the fact that Jews are almost universally supportive of Israel — a mere 5% of Jewish voters say they are not supporters of the Jewish state,” Arm added.
Harris’ remaining strength among Jews came from Reform and unaffiliated or nondenominational Jews who are historically more aligned to progressive causes than other Jews.
A third of Jews cited abortion as their biggest 2024 campaign issue in contrast to Americans at large who routinely cite the economy.
The poll was conducted between Oct. 5-9 and surveyed 658 Jewish voters across the United States.
Jews-In-Name-Only voted for Harris
DC Rabbi’s Claim That ‘Sacred Texts’ Require Jews To Vote for Harris Ignites Fury Among Congregants
Adas Israel Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt (C-SPAN)
Alana Goodman
17August2024 https://freebeacon.com/elections/dc-rabbis-claim-that-sacred-texts-require-jews-to-vote-for-harris-ignites-fury-among-congregants/
An influential Washington, D.C., synagogue is facing backlash from furious congregants after its rabbi claimed Jews “need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris” in order to comply with “sacred texts.”
Adas Israel, whose membership has included Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan and the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is one of the oldest and largest synagogues in Washington, D.C. But members have become increasingly frustrated with the leadership’s “insulting” left-wing advocacy that has left congregants “dreading the upcoming high holidays,” the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The controversy came to a head at a Jewish Democratic Council of America event earlier this month, when Adas Israel Co-Senior Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt cited Jewish scripture as a basis for why Jews must vote for Harris.
“I could tell you that we need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris because as Jews our sacred texts tell us we need to build a world where we feed the hungry, where we care for the sick, where we love the stranger, where we guard and nurture this planet,” said Holtzblatt on the JDCA Zoom call with Harris supporters. “Those are her values. That is what her policies seek to achieve.”
Holtzblatt, who officiated Ginsburg’s funeral and has appeared on The Forward’s “Forward 50” list, is a vocal supporter of Harris and led a Passover seder at the vice president’s home last spring. She did not respond to a request for comment regarding which Jewish texts support her assertion that Jews “need to elect” Harris.
Holtzblatt’s comments drew criticism from some Adas Israel congregants, who said the synagogue’s political bias has become “insufferable.”
“[T]o be lectured that as Jews we are compelled to vote a certain way is frankly insulting,” wrote a longtime congregant in an email to Adas Israel’s rabbinical leaders. Two other Adas Israel congregants independently shared the exchange with the Free Beacon.
“[T]ying ‘our sacred texts’ to a political candidate in this way is, at best, simplistic. And easily rebutted with myriad other examples from scripture,” wrote the members. “The reality is that Adas has become borderline insufferable for anyone who doesn’t share what is assumed by leadership to be the universal point of view. It’s politics all day everyday; politics always from the same direction—no balance.”
Members are also reportedly irked by Adas Israel’s decision to have Hamilton director Lin-Manuel Miranda, a non-Jewish Democratic activist, headline the synagogue’s Yom Kippur programming in October.
“[T]here are many more Adas members than you might realize, who are put off as well (some of whom are BCC’d here),” wrote the congregants. “I have spoken with a number who are dreading the upcoming high holidays, headlined bizarrely by father and son Miranda (hawking his book no less!).”
Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter “Aleph” voted for Harris
SEE: A Portrait of Jewish Americans 2013 Israel is not America
Elder of Ziyon-tweet-25November2024-jino demographic
Target demographic.
Caption:Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter “Aleph” voted for Harris
Elder of Ziyon-tweet-25November2024-jino demographic
Caption: Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter “Aleph” voted for Harris
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Joe Biden’s longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel
Heads up, liberal Jews––Don’t be Jews with trembling knees
By Joan Swirsky
10October2024 https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swirsky/241010
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Joe Biden, Menachem Begin
Those words were spoken by Menachem Begin in June of 1982, directly to the Democrat senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, who had confronted the Israeli Prime Minister during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony by threatening to cut off aid to Israel.
That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22 warmongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only 35 years after the Holocaust savagely murdered––tortured and gassed to death––six million Jewish men, women, children, and infants, Senator Biden was once again terrorizing the Jews of the world with his menacing ultimatum.
Not a fluke, not a misstatement, not an error in judgment, but vintage Joe Biden, whose longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel has been exhaustively documented by, among others, Shmuel Klatzkin (Biden’s Hostility to Israel––read the whole article) and Janet Levy in AmericanThinker.com (Is a Vote for Joe Biden in the Interest of American Jews?).
EXAMPLES ABOUND
Levy reports a number of the Obama-Biden regime’s consistent anti-Israel policies:
Today, President Biden heartily endorses the Iran nuclear deal—which President Trump canceled––and has let Israel know that he adamantly opposes Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear sites. This is the same Iran whose stated mission for decades has been to eradicate “The Big Satan” (America) and to exterminate from the face of the earth “The Little Satan” (Israel).
And we all know how thunderously silent Mr. Biden was back when his violently racist fellow Democrats––Reps. Ihlan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)—and a long list of simpatico Jew-hating, Israel-loathing activists––spewed their undisguised anti-Semitic bile for all the world to hear.
The truth about Israeli occupation of Arab land
“Biden said he could never be silent on anti-Semitism,” Levy writes, “but raised no objections, as vice-president, to more than 60 White House visits by Al Sharpton, who [had] incited anti-Jewish riots in New York City in the 1990s.
LESSONS OF HISTORY
I was a very little girl––younger than six––when I first asked my parents why they were running frantically to meeting after meeting every evening, opening their checkbooks, delivering impassioned speeches, wringing their hands, and shedding copious tears.
They told me what few American-Jewish parents ever told their children, so numb were they from disbelief and so eager to protect them from the ghastly truth, which was that adults and children just like them, just like us––six million of them––had been savagely murdered by Adolph Hitler and his “willing executioners” in Germany, Poland, all over Eastern Europe, and even in “civilized” countries like France, simply because they were Jewish.
Jews who managed to flee Europe and come to America before the Holocaust––like my own and my late husband Steve’s grandparents––and those who survived the killing camps and landed on our shores by sheer good fortune, thought they died and went to heaven on earth. For the first time in their lives––in fact, in Jewish history––they were free to breathe, to create, to pursue their dreams, to worship, and to raise their children without fear.
Yes, there were quotas in colleges and graduate schools, Holocaust denial, and today an upsurge in Jew hatred, but nothing stopped Jews from succeeding and excelling and contributing disproportionately to American society and to the world, just as the Jews in the state of Israel––only 76 years old––do today.
THE LEGACY OF PERSECUTION
But over 3,500 years of persecution exacts a heavy price. To understand, just think about the long-lasting toll the following events take:
All of the above are life-changing, diminishing, often devastating, sometimes annihilating.
Yet Jews continued on, their survival instinct stronger than the most crushing circumstances of their long and besieged history of being haunted, hunted, and often destroyed in, among other cataclysmic events:
After the Holocaust, American Jews who followed politics––most did and still do today––were forced to ask themselves, and taught their children to ask: Is it good for the Jews? Meaning, will this or that candidate or statement or policy or law lead to another Holocaust?
After all, the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s enjoyed tremendous success––in business, academia, the arts and sciences, society in general. Unlike the United States today, every college and university did not feature violent anti-Jewish protests or professors who taught anti-Jewish propaganda. Until the rise of Hitler, there were no elected officials––as there are in the U.S. today––spewing Jew hatred, not only with no disapproval from the powers-that-be, but with total impunity.
Now, American Jews have to ask themselves: Is the presidential candidacy of Biden’s choice for VP, Kamala Harris, good for the Jews?
Writer Kenin M. Spivak, among dozens who affirm his thinking, cites numerous damning reasons why Harris is a terrible––and dangerous—choice, among them that she “has remained largely silent about the outbreak of anti-Semitism. She selected far-left advisors who oppose Israel’s Gaza operations, and she boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress.”
Not to omit that she was “open to” an arms embargo against Israel and, as Robert Spencer, a middle east expert, predicts: “If Kamala is elected president, the American gravy train to Tehran will likely continue running, enabling the mullahs to continue their jihad against Israel…”
But nothing covers the true horrors of a Harris presidency more comprehensively than this opus, whose author wishes to remain anonymous.
“Biden-Harris-Walz are and will be a disaster for Israel and for American Jews,” he writes. “As a lifelong Democrat it hurts me even more to admit that, this time around, given the prominence of the currently major issue for me, I believe I have to vote for the Orange Man.”
In short, a vote for Kalamity Harris and the truly regressive, Obama-clone platform she’s running on––including high taxes, a weakened military, an anti-fracking return-to-energy-dependence, open borders, confiscation of your guns, and a viciously contentious relationship with Israel––would be terrible for America and disastrous for the Jewish state.
If you’re a liberal American Jew determined to pull the lever or mail a write-in ballot for Kamala Harris—don’t!
Don’t be a Jew with trembling knees. Your very survival and that of your family are at stake!
Joan Swirsky is a New York based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
© 2024 Joan Swirsky – All Rights Reserved
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Jewish Assimilation in America
JerusalemCats Comments: Doug Emhoff is Kamala Harris’ “Jewish” husband
The Persian Jewess-tweet-29November2024-Jewish Assimilation in America
Doug Emhoff and family pose in front of their Christmas Tree.
Not a Menorah in sight. 🧐
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Fear and Brisket for Jews at the DNC
Jewish delegates at the DNC have to meet in hiding.
Daniel Greenfield | August 23, 2024 https://www.israpundit.org/63720619-2/
“As the highest-ranking Jewish official in American history, I want my grandkids and all grandkids to never, never face discrimination because of who they are,” Senator Schumer concluded his speech. “But Donald Trump. This is a guy who peddles antisemitic stereotypes.”
Meanwhile Jewish Democrats were literally hiding out at the DNC.
Most Jewish events at the DNC were held at undisclosed locations with organizers having to approve attendees and only then provide them with the secret location shortly beforehand.
Agudath Israel, a traditional religious and not particularly Zionist group, whose members wear black suits and hats, held an open event to discuss the antisemitism faced by Orthodox Jews, only to have masked activists show up and scream that they were going to destroy Israel. No one at the DNC condemned those responsible or held them accountable for their actions. Imagine the reaction if black or Asian attendees were systemically harassed in this way.
“After 50 years fighting antisemitism in America, I could not have imagined a time -Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC,” former ADL leader Abe Foxman tweeted.
Outside the DNC convention, men in Hamas bandanas flashed victory signs, waved Hamas flags, burned American and Israeli flags, and declared their support for the mass murder of Jews on Oct 7. Inside the DNC convention, President Joe Biden deviated from his prepared teleprompter remarks to declare that, “those protesters out in the street, they have a point.”
When the president says that those who want to kill and harass Jews have a point, is it any wonder that they operate with political impunity and support from the top echelons of the party.
While Schumer was attacking former President Trump, UCLA was appealing a decision by Judge Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointee, who had stepped in after the Democrat administration of UCLA and the Democrat members of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors had sided with Hamas supporters who had kept Jewish students from being able to attend classes.
“In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom,” Scarsi stated.
It’s unimaginable, abhorrent and wholly accepted by much of Schumer’s base.
If Schumer’s grandchildren from his daughter’s lesbian non-Jewish girlfriend decide they’re Jewish and need to be protected against discrimination, it won’t be his party protecting them.
While Jewish attendees were being hunted at the DNC, Doug Emhoff took to the floor to appeal to Jewish voters by once again recalling memories of his last Jewish experience attending his grandmother’s seder in the seventies, eating brisket and sitting on plastic slipcover cushions.
Emhoff assured attendees that Kamala goes to synagogue and he goes to church with her (with doubtless equal sincerity) and that she has “fought against antisemitism and all forms of hate.” He made no mention of the Hamas supporters calling for the murder of Jews outside, the Jewish DNC delegates hiding inside or a nation of six million Jews fighting for survival.
A nation his wife had repeatedly targeted with ugly rhetoric for trying to stop the terrorists.
Shut up and eat your damned brisket, was the message. Liberal Jews kvelling over Kamala’s brisket did not ask which church Emhoff attends and which temple Kamala visits. Kamala’s pastor is Amos Brown III who took her hand and urged her to do something to stop Israel. According to a Washington Post report, the radical black nationalist clergyman told her that the struggle of the ‘Palestinians’ is “our struggle as people of color who have been oppressed.”
Emhoff doesn’t belong to any particular temple or synagogue, but appears to be associated with IKAR headed by Sharon Brous: a member of the councils of anti-Israel groups like J Street, and the New Israel Fund. Brous has a long history of supporting antisemites, attacking Jews for opposing Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar, claiming that Jews “have spent years in hive mentality, pouncing on indications of anti-Semitism among Israel’s critics” and accused the Jewish State of a “52-year military occupation of millions of Palestinian people”.
Kamala’s church and Emhoff’s temple are radical leftist enterprises which both hate Israel.
Vice President Kamala is just the latest in a long line of politicians who send out ‘Court Jews’ to assure the Jewish community that they relate to their cultural values while denying their rights. Kamala conveniently married hers and then sent him out to convince the Jewish community of her fidelity to their most sacred value, not Torah, Judaism or Israel, but a pound of brisket.
And if Kamala can cook a brisket, who really needs a country, safety, self-respect or the ability to attend events at the DNC without being harassed by masked supporters of killing Jews?
Not a single Jewish Democrat stood up to Biden for suggesting that the mobs of Hamas supporters calling for the murder of Jews had “a point”. Nor did they criticize Kamala for her repeated defenses of terrorist protesters. Even the staged moment when DNC delegates called for bringing Jewish hostages home during a speech by the Polin family in imitation of a similar scene at the RNC convention did not change the fact of what was going on behind the cameras.
Rather than committing to an Israeli victory, the Biden administration has spent months pressuring Israel to stop fighting and give in to Hamas demands. Kamala had privately met with Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud who had told a pro-Hamas rally that Dearborn was “the city of resistance”. Gov. Tim Walz was never forced to apologize for his anti-Israel views, Gov Josh Shapiro however was compelled to retract his pro-Israel positions for Kamala’s VP search.
But apparently she cooks almost as good a brisket as the one Emhoff remembers his deceased grandmother making in the days before he abandoned her religion, tradition and values.
When even Jewish delegates at the DNC have to meet in secret, what once appeared to be a subtle choice between nuances of foreign policy in the Middle East has become as graphic as the mobs calling for the murder of Jews inside and outside the convention.
In an echo of Esau, Jews at the DNC had a choice between brisket and their birthright.
Elon Musk: Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic
Elon Musk-tweet-25July2024-Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic
People who have been lifelong Democrats refuse to accept the clear reality that the Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic.
This trend is accelerating, not slowing down.
Knock, knock. Hello, Captain Obvious here!
mark pincus-tweet-24July2024-How is this part of the Dem party
How is this part of the Dem party? Are Dem leaders denouncing?
Rashida Tlaib-tweet-24July2024-The apartheid government of Israel
I will never back down in speaking truth to power.
The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians will not be erased. Solidarity with all those outside of these walls in the streets protesting and exercising their right to dissent.
Elon Musk-tweet-25July2024-Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic
strongmark pincusstrong-tweet-24July2024-How is this part of the Dem party
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Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote
Batya Ungar-Sargon-tweet-6August2024-dark day for American Jews
The @TheBabylonBee got it right: VP Harris has chosen Tim Walz as her running mate. It’s a dark day for American Jews. There was only one reason to have passed over Josh Shapiro: The Democrats would rather lose with antisemitic progressives than win with moderate normies.
The Babylon Bee-tweet-5August2024-Death To America Vote
Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote
Batya Ungar-Sargon-tweet-6August2024-dark day for American Jews
Kamala passed on the Jew to get herself a terror-adjacent VP
Marina Medvin-tweet-11August2024-Kamala passed on the Jew
Kamala passed on the Jew to get herself a terror-adjacent VP
Marina Medvin-tweet-11August2024-Kamala passed on the Jew
Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor
Ian Miles Cheong-tweet-24July2024-Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor
Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor. Let that sink in.
Ian Miles Cheong-tweet-24July2024-Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor
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State Department Stands By Adviser Who Spoke at Pro-Hezbollah Rally Where Jews Were Told To ‘Go Back to Poland’
Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammoud spoke at rally that broke out in ‘Death to Israel’ chants
Dearborn mayor Abudullah Hammoud (X)
Chuck Ross
15October2024 https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/state-department-stands-by-adviser-who-spoke-at-pro-hezbollah-rally-where-jews-were-told-to-go-back-to-poland/
The State Department is standing by an adviser to the federal agency who spoke at an anti-Israel rally that saw chants of “Death to Israel,” praise for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and calls for Jews to be returned “back to Poland.”
Dearborn, Mich., mayor Abdullah Hammoud (D.), a member of the State Department’s Assembly of Local Leaders, spoke on Sept. 25 at a “Stand with Lebanon” rally in Dearborn to decry U.S. support for Israel against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Hammoud, who has emerged as a leading critic of Israel following October 7, touted his support for the anti-Israel divestment movement, and said, “We cannot condone any president that uplifts any administration that bombs every school decimating children to smithereens.”
Elected Dearborn mayor in 2021, Hammoud was introduced as the “greatest mayor in the United States” by Arab-American activist Osama Siblani. Siblani, whom the Harris campaign has met with to gain the support of Michigan’s Muslim voters, hailed Hezbollah’s Nasrallah during his speech as a “hero” and said of Israelis: “We will take you back to Poland.”
Chants of “death to Israel” broke out during Siblani’s remarks, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. Siblani responded, “Believe me, they will take care of the job,” an apparent reference to Hezbollah’s planned attack on Israel. Two days after the rally, Israeli forces assassinated Nasrallah in Beirut. Hammoud embraced Siblani as he took the stage, but did not address Siblani’s praise for Nasrallah or the “death to Israel” chants.
That could be of concern because of Hammoud’s involvement in a State Department panel that provides a venue for local officials “to share their views or concerns with foreign policy topics directly with the Department.” The agency does not appear to be taking any disciplinary action towards Hammoud.
“Mayor Hammoud is a member of the State Department’s Assembly of Local Leaders (ALL), as are 20 other local and state officials from around the country,” a State Department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon. “The Department of State has been consistently clear about the United States’ unwavering support to Israel’s security and our rejection of anti-Semitic rhetoric wherever it occurs. We defer to Mayor Hammoud and the City of Dearborn to speak to specifics around the event in question.”
The State Department appointed Hammoud to the post on Oct. 18, ignoring the Democrat’s history of anti-Israel sentiments and his criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel. Hammoud called Hamas’s attack on Israel “inevitable” because of Israel’s “decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza.” A day before his appointment to the State Department panel, Hammoud pushed Hamas’s false propaganda that Israel—”emboldened by a green light from the Biden administration”—killed hundreds of Palestinians in the bombing of Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza.
Hammoud has been embraced by some national media outlets over his public criticism of the administration’s alliance with Israel. The New York Times published an essay from Hammoud in February in which he proclaimed his city “feels betrayed” by the U.S. government’s support for what he called “genocide in Gaza.”
Dearborn, the largest Muslim-majority city in the country, has emerged as a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment in the wake of Oct. 7, leading one Wall Street Journal contributor to dub the city “America’s jihad capital.” In April, rallygoers at an event outside Dearborn city hall openly chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”
Hammoud’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
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‘Harris is bad for Jews’: Satmar hasidim to support Trump’s candidacy
Leaders of Satmar hasidic sect announce decision to vote for Donald Trump, due to concerns Kamala Harris poses a risk for Jews.
Israel National News / 28October2024, 12:34 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398215
Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe
Grand Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum’s Satmar hasidic sect in New York has announced that it will officially support former US President Donald Trump’s candidacy for US president.
The decision follows a set of discussions by the Satmar leadership, due to concerns that US Vice President Kamala Harris may pose a threat to the “Jewish people” if she is elected president.
The support means tens of thousands of additional votes for Trump, in a neck-to-neck race.
Satmar will also provide free transportation to voting booths for early voting.
The second sect of Satmar hasidim who follow Grand Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, has not yet issued an official announcement, but it is expected that they, too, will support Trump.
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JerusalemCats Comments: You vowed ‘Never Again!’ Yet history is repeating itself. It’s time to leave.
It won’t happen here.
Peloni: There is no equitable basis for American Jews to support Kamala. Recall that just as Israel’s attackers are being financed and protected by Washington, Kamala’s elitist-controlled Washington, so too are the promulgators of antisemitic assaults on American Jews all across the US. And yet, the age old adage of the American Jews being more tightly tied to the Democratic party than to their own right arm remains in effect, even if it is less so today than ever before. While the lack of clarity in making such a choice raises many questions, it spells out a clear divide between American and Israeli Jews which Shaw describes quite well.American Jews, take heed! Israelis, right and left, overwhelmingly think Trump is the better president when it comes to Israel’s needs.
The US Election and the US-Israel Jewish Divide
Barry Shaw
30October2024, 2:01 PM https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-us-election-and-the-us-israel-jewish-divide/
The assessment of the Jewish vote ahead of the US elections is disturbing.
According to polls, the vast majority of American Jews will be voting for Harris, which, according to an Israeli majority, would be very bad for Israel.
The Manhattan Institute has Harris leading Trump 67% to 31%.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America October poll has a 71% to 26% outcome in favor of Harris.
The voting preference of Orthodox Jews show a polar opposite result.
The Manhattan Institute saw Harris up 53 points among Reform Jews and Trump up 18 points among Orthodox Jews.
For an Israel that is overwhelmingly rooting for a Trump victory, it is deeply disturbing to discover that the majority of Americans Jews are voting against the best interests of the Jewish state in 2024 even though the majority of these voters say they support Israel 86% to 5% with 9% unsure.
The divide between American Jews over what is best for Israel, and it needs to be guided by Israel.
After all, we are the ones in the firing line. We are the ones doing the fighting to protect our loved ones and defend our country.
And here we come to the most troubling polls.
The one big opinion divide between US Jewish voters and Israelis is the poll that shows an 18% US Jewish majority say that Harris would manage Israel’s war better than Trump.
In Israel, opinion is radically different.
In an Israeli Channel 12 poll, 66% prefer Trump to only 17% for Harris, with 17% undecided.
Among Netanyahu voters 93% prefer Trump to Harris’s 1%.
The divide between Israeli and American Jews over what’s best for Israel is shockingly stark just days before the US election.
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What could a President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews?
Lizzy Savetsky-tweet-22July2024-President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews
What could a President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews? I am not here to tell anyone who to vote for or support. I am simply here to present some facts. As always, our future lies in G-d’s hands only.
Lizzy Savetsky-tweet-22July2024-President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews
a promiscuously immoral snake
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26September2024-promiscuously immoral snake
What a circus the non-emuna world is. A crooked senile fox and an promiscuously immoral snake want to give the wounded wolves time to regroup and recover from what the lamb (who can morph into a lion) did to them. Bibi, don’t repeat the Gaza mistake – say no to a ceasefire!
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26September2024-promiscuously immoral snake
Kamala Harris does not care about murdered Israeli children
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Don’t Care
It’s been over 2 days and Kamala Harris still hasn’t condemned Hezbollah’s bombing of Israeli children.
Jewish Americans should ask themselves why this is.
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Don’t Care
Kamala Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
David M Friedman-tweet-23July2024-Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
The Vice President is supposed to preside over joint sessions of Congress. @KamalaHarris refusal to do so when the Prime Minister of Israel makes his first public address in the United States since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, tells you everything you need to know about where she stands on Israel.
All the far left Jewish groups trying to justify this incredible insult are convincing no one.
Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-bibi-netanyahu-speech-congress/
JerusalemCats-tweet-23July2024-She took an oath of office
@KamalaHarris is an official of the US Government. She took an oath of office. She is required to preform her duties. It does not matter if the person is Stalin or Satan, she is required to show up.
David M Friedman-tweet-23July2024-Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
Kamala Harris no friend of Israel
David M Friedman-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris no friend of Israel
Well here you have it. @KamalaHarris offers her take on the war in Gaza. NO CONDEMNATION OF HAMAS! Just some platitudes about complexities, nuances, human suffering , peace and security. And a plea for a “two-state solution.”
Madame Vice President, there was a Palestinian state in Gaza – not a single Jew or Jewish soldier was there when this war began. In 2005 Israel evacuated all its soldiers and citizens from Gaza, handing full control of the territory to the Palestinians in the hope of peace. And the Palestinians in Gaza then elected Hamas.
Hamas received billions of dollars in international aid — aid that the Trump administration cut off but you and Joe Biden restored! It used those funds to build terror tunnels and shoot rockets at Israeli civilians. And on October 7, 2023, it committed the most barbaric and despicable acts of violence against Jews since the Holocaust.
I noted not a word from you in your speech regretting that your administration funded Hamas terror (directly, and through sanctions relief on Iran).
Your push for a Palestinian state at this time is tone-deaf and a betrayal of the Jewish lives lost and still missing from this heinous assault. It also conflicts with the recent vote of the Israeli Knesset which overwhelmingly rejected a Palestinian state.
You are no friend of Israel and you have exhibited a shocking lack of command of the relevant facts. Your insensitivity to Jewish suffering and failure to attribute good and evil where they belong, means you will never help to bring peace to this troubled region.
All those in the region who seek peace – Israelis, Arabs, Jews. Muslims and Christians – now know after hearing this speech that you are NOT the one to achieve it.
MSNBC-tweet-25July2024-Harris speaks after meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu
BREAKING: VP Harris speaks after meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu
Harris calling for an immediate cease-fire deal to free the hostages.
The VP saying she “will not be silent” about the suffering in Gaza, the “devastating” loss of life and the “dire” humanitarian crisis.
David M Friedman-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris no friend of Israel
Israel has about six months to become militarily self-sufficient
William A. Jacobson-tweet-25July2024-Israel has about six months
Israel has about six months to become militarily self-sufficient, because if she wins she’s going to cut them off and weaponize the Security Council – she’s really hard core, don’t kid yourselves
William A. Jacobson-tweet-25July2024-Israel has about six months
Kamala Harris election Propaganda
Jacob Helberg-tweet-23July2024-Kamala Harris election Propaganda
Over the next few weeks, you’re going to see a lot of propaganda about how great Kamala is for Israel. They’ll say you shouldn’t believe what you see and hear about her record.
You’re going to hear she just doesn’t like Bibi personally and it has nothing to do with how she feels about Israel, the country. In fact, her disdain for, and opposition to, Bibi is for Israel’s own good.
You’re going to hear she has a Jewish husband. Isn’t that great?
Her entire tenure as VP makes one thing abundantly clear:
She would not only be the most antagonistic US President towards Israel in US history, but she would also completely unravel the US-Israel alliance in everything but name. All she’ll do that all the while *saying* how much she loves Israel.
My heart breaks when I think of what Holocaust survivors went through to have a homeland.
Don’t fall for the spin. Trust your own eyes and ears.
Occam’s Razor.
Jake Wurzak-tweet-23July2024-If that were true
If that were true and she just didn’t like Bibi then she would have meet the hostage families on the tarmac.
Additionally, what have they done to get the American citizens out? There are still 8.
Jacob Helberg-tweet-23July2024-Kamala Harris election Propaganda
Mr Reagan-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY
Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY
[EDD: From YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVspeqNnoWM]
Thanks to Elon Musk for the tweet!
Kamala Harris just posted her first 2024 presidential campaign ad.
It’s clean and professional. It’s very well done.
So, of course, I had to produce a parody.
Mr Reagan-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY
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Kamala Harris Supports President Biden’s 44.6% Capital Gains and a 25% tax on unrealized gains Tax Proposal
Kamala Harris Supports President Biden’s 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Proposal
Jaxon Gaines
20August2024 https://watcher.guru/news/kamala-harris-supports-president-bidens-44-6-capital-gains-tax-proposal
Vice President Kamala Harris has declared her support for President Joe Biden’s 44.6% capital gains tax proposal. The proposal would be the highest in history. It also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals (more than $100 million in wealth).
Watcher.Guru-tweet-20August2024-Kamala Harris backs President Biden’s capital gains tax proposal
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Kamala Harris backs President Biden’s 44.6% capital gains tax proposal, the highest in history.
The proposal also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals.
Watcher.Guru-tweet-20August2024-Kamala Harris backs President Biden’s capital gains tax proposal
kenny 1297-tweet-22August2024-They will lower the threshold
Harris’ campaign shared support for the tax proposal as the 2024 Democratic National Convention is underway. Harris spoke Monday at the event in Chicago along with President Biden. The democratic nominee has also proposed tax cuts beyond Biden’s budget. These include an exemption for tipped workers, a $6,000 tax credit for parents of newborns, and an expanded child tax credit that the Biden budget doesn’t extend beyond 2025.
Vice President Harris also proposed bumping the corporate tax rate to 28%, her campaign said Monday. The current corporate tax rate is 21%. This is down from 35% after Donald Trump signed the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which will expire after 2025.
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James Singer, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, said in a statement of Harris’s proposal that “unlike Donald Trump, whose extreme Project 2025 agenda would drive up the deficit, increase taxes on the middle class by $3,900, and send our economy spiraling into recession – her plan is a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.”
It is expected that passing these tax proposals will be extremely difficult if Kamala Harris is elected President. The current state of Congress, even if controlled by Democrats, will be very divided on the proposal.
Brian Beers-tweet-21August2024-Unrealized capital gains 101
Unrealized capital gains 101:
You bought 100 shares of Zoom stock in Jan 2020 for $75 per share
Ends year at $350 per share but you didn’t sell giving you an unrealized gain $27.5k
Under Kamala’s plan you owe $6,875 in taxes (25% of $27.5k)
But you didn’t sell so you don’t have the cash. you pay taxes out of savings
You continue to hold until August 2024. Finally sell for $60 per share
You LOST $1,500 on the stock PLUS you paid the taxes on the $27.5k of “gains” you never actually received since they evaporated
The initial tax proposal is only targeting $100M+ but that’s just the start. It opens the gates to lower the threshold whenever they choose
Before you know it every person who owns a stock is paying this tax
People stop buying stocks. Companies have less capital to invest into new products and develop technology
Economy tanks. Jobs lost
What a joyful future
Brian Beers-tweet-21August2024-Unrealized capital gains 101
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Kamala Harris Prostitute Background
C-Reason🇺🇸-tweet-1August2024-Kamala Harris Prostitute
Huuummm … 🤔 … So, the Democrats are covering this up just like they did Obama’s drug use and gay lifestyle.
Is anyone surprised?
You better repost this before X suspends me for this.
Kamala Harris Prostitute
C-Reason🇺🇸-tweet-1August2024-Kamala Harris Prostitute
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JD Vance vs. Kamala Harris Background
TheEXECUTlONER-tweet-26July2024-JD Vance vs Kamala Harris Background
I’ll take JD any day over clueless Kamala Harris
TheEXECUTlONER-tweet-26July2024-JD Vance vs Kamala Harris Background
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This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter.
2024~TRUMPS BLONDE~2024-tweet-24July2024-This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter
This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter…
such a happy-looking, approachable, friendly child!
Looks like Crooks!😳
2024~TRUMPS BLONDE~2024-tweet-24July2024-This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter
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Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel, pro-Iran official liaison to the Jewish community
Caroline Glick-tweet-19August2024-Harris’s Jewish community liaison
More on Harris’s Jewish community liaison Ilan Goldenberg’s legion ties to Iran’s Washington lobby.
Shelley G-tweet-12August2024-Ilan Goldenberg worked with NIAC
🚨BREAKING: HARRIS SELECTS FAR-LEFT PRO-KHAMENEI AGENT AS JEWISH OUTREACH DIRECTOR🚨
Ilan Goldenberg has a history of working with NIAC and other lobbies who advocate for the interests of the Islamic Republic. The Jewish community is the LAST thing he is concerned about.
Jacob N. Kornbluh-tweet-12August2024-New American Security
Harris campaign tapped Ilan Goldenberg, a Harris aide, as the campaign’s Jewish outreach director.
Goldenberg was previously director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and part of John Kerry’s peace team in 2014
Caroline Glick-tweet-19August2024-Harris’s Jewish community liaison
Harris campaign taps Israeli-born former peace negotiator Ilan Goldenberg as liaison to Jewish community
By Ron Kampeas 12August2024 12:19 pm https://www.jta.org/2024/08/12/politics/harris-campaign-taps-israeli-born-former-peace-negotiator-ilan-goldenberg-as-liaison-to-jewish-community
Ilan Goldenberg, pictured in 2019. (Screenshot)
Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has named Ilan Goldenberg, an Israeli-born former peace negotiator, as its liaison to the Jewish community, sources say.
Three people with close ties to the organized Jewish community and the Harris campaign confirmed the pick to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The campaign did not return a request for comment.
Goldenberg, who has served as Vice President Kamala Harris’ adviser on Middle East issues, has previously been an acerbic critic of both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian leadership. He formed close ties with the organized Jewish community during the failed 2013-2014 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, when he was a lead on the Obama administration’s negotiating team.
The pick comes as Harris refines her approach to discussing Israel on the campaign trail at a time when the Israel-Hamas war elevates the issue’s prominence. While Harris has expressed unwavering support for Israel, she has also been more critical than Biden of its military campaign in Gaza.
The Jewish liaison is the campaign’s representative to Jewish communities, answering questions about the candidate’s policies on Israel and other issues of Jewish concern and otherwise taking the lead in making the campaign’s case to Jewish voters, including by organizing events in Jewish communities.
Goldenberg, 46, was born in Jerusalem and grew up in New Jersey, where he attended Jewish day school and belonged with his family to a Conservative synagogue. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University and is fluent in Hebrew and Arabic. He’s spent decades working on Middle East affairs, both in government roles and at think tanks.
He renounced his Israeli citizenship to work in the U.S. government and worked on the Iran file at the Pentagon in President Barack Obama’s first term before switching to the peace process at the State Department in Obama’s second term. In 2020, before returning to government under the Biden administration, he advised Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.
After the failed talks in 2014, which were followed closely by a war in Gaza, Goldenberg authored a 22-page analysis indicting fundamental distrust between Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, then as now the Palestinian Authority president, as the chief cause of the collapse. “These guys can never do it together,” he told JTA at the time. “That’s for sure.”
After his time on the negotiating team, Goldenberg worked at the Center for a New American Security and was an advisor at the Israel Policy Forum, both of which support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. He was highly critical of the Trump administration’s Israel policy and, in 2018 and 2019, wrote essays urging more of a focus on diplomacy in Gaza to prevent an escalation of violence there. He also wrote an essay in 2019 imagining how a war with Iran would play out.
In a 2018 Haaretz essay titled “Will Israel Be Forced to Invade and Reoccupy Gaza?” Goldenberg wrote that the cycle of conflicts between Hamas and Israel could explode if regional players did not take steps to dial down tensions.
“With every crisis, the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens. There will come a moment when basic order collapses altogether, or Israel is forced to invade and retake Gaza,” he wrote. “The only way to avoid this terrible outcome in the long-term is a sustainable political arrangement that should include both a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that includes major economic opening of Gaza combined with a Palestinian reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas that slowly brings the Palestinian Authority back into Gaza.”
Goldenberg also wrote an essay in 2019 about donating a kidney to his father.
Caroline Glick-tweet-13August2024-Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel pro-Iran official
Kamala hired a Jewish anti-Israel, pro-Iran official to serve as her liaison to the Jewish community.
She hired a Muslim pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-pro-Israel Jews official to serve as her liaison to to the Muslim and Arab communities.
Caroline Glick-tweet-13August2024-Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel pro-Iran official
Kamala’s Counsel Defended Hamas Supporters Harassing Jewish Students
Meet one of Kamala’s top lawyers: an Afghan immigrant who protected terrorists.
August 9, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
Nasrina Bargzie
After 9/11, Nasrina Bargzie, an Afghan Muslim immigrant, was interviewed by law enforcement over troubling comments on the War on Terror reported by her friends.
Today she’s the Deputy Counsel to Vice President Kamala Harris.
After coming to America from a wealthy family in Kandahar, later a stronghold of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Nasrina Bargzie was raised in Concord, CA, one of the state’s hubs for Afghan migrants, and quickly got involved in anti-American and pro-terrorist activism.
In 2001, while attending college, she was interrogated by the FBI about comments she had made to her friends. It’s unknown what she said, but it was enough to scare her friends, in one of the most liberal parts of the country, to apparently report her to law enforcement.
Next year, she wrongly received a law school scholarship intended for women who had suffered persecution under the Taliban even though she had left long before they came to power.
“I would like to do something that would affect Afghanistan,” Nasrina told a local paper.
Berkeley Law School was a hub of anti-American and anti-Israel activities and by the time she graduated, Nasrina was prepared to embark on her career of attacking both countries.
She became a legal fellow at the ACLU and joined its lawfare machine to dismantle our national security defenses against Islamic terrorism. In 2008, she posted about “wearing orange”at the Today Show in solidarity with the Al Qaeda, Taliban and other terrorists being held at Gitmo.
Nasrina also complained that “murder charges” had yet to be filed against the heroic Marines who bravely fought for their lives against terrorists in the streets of Haditha during the Iraq War.
In 2011 she joined the Asian Law Caucus and went to war against Jewish students facing antisemitic harassment. In 2010, Jessica Felber, a Jewish student, had been assaulted by a leader of the Students for Justice in Palestine campus hate group, and filed suit against UC Berkeley for tolerating an atmosphere of hate by activists linked to terrorist organizations. .
Nasrina Bargzie accused Jewish students and organizations of “organized legal bullying” for suing universities. She ridiculed the idea that calling for the destruction of Israel was “threatening” and co-signed a petition claiming that the lawsuit by Jewish students was “threatening” the speech of Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine and the Berkeley Muslim Students Association.
Jewish students, she argued, were the “aggressors” and rejected the idea that there was anything “anti-semitic” about the campus hate groups and their ties to Islamic terrorism.
Nasrina Bargzie was so desperate that she presented a request to the UN Human Rights Commission, a group often stocked with Islamic terrorist states, to intervene and stop the Department of Education from investigating “allegations of anti-Semitism on several campuses”.
The appeal to the UN was made on behalf of her Asian Law Caucus, CAIR, a group with a long history of supporting Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups, the National Lawyers Guild, a group with a Communist origin which has been complicit in antisemitic violence, and American Muslims for Palestine which has been sued over accusations of its ties to Hamas.
Hatem Bazian, the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine and the godfather of campus antisemitism, would later thank Nasrina and others, for “being constantly engaged in everything related to Palestine”. Alongside her was Zahra Billoo, the local head of CAIR, with whom Nasrina Bargzie had co-signed the letter, who would defend Hezbollah and Hamas.
Nasrina would work together with Biloo and CAIR, whose leader praised the Oct 7 attacks, on their next major project. While Nasrina had claimed that the antisemitic harassment of Jews on campuses was just “freedom of expression”, when ads against Islamic terrorism were taken out on San Francisco buses, Nasrina and CAIR rallied to fight against freedom of expression.
After the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) took out ads addressing the roots of Islamic terror, Nasrina Bargzie claimed that “the ads are offensive and terrible” and admitted that “people just started calling and texting me… ‘What are we gonna do about this?’”
CAIR and Bargzie convinced local Democrats, including DA George Gascon, to condemn the ads which called for support for Israel and spoke out against Islamic terrorism.
Fresh from that victory, Bargzie and CAIR worked to protect Muslims accused of terrorism by restricting the police department’s relationship with the FBI. It was then that Bargzie revealed that she had been interrogated by the FBI and “was asked by the agent about her family history and background.” Information about those questions and history has not been forthcoming.
Members of the Bargzie family have told different stories about why they came to America, after traveling from Afghanistan to Pakistan. According to a Glamour magazine profile of Kamala’s staffers, “my father and uncle were prisoners of war who disappeared.”, and she told the San Diego Union Tribune that he was “executed.” However according to her younger sister Humah, also an activist and a lawyer, “He said ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ when he left the house, but he never came back.” His disappearance, she told another magazine, “for the most part, remains a mystery.” Did Nasrina lie about what happened to her father? And did her family?
What happened to Abdul-Khaliq Bargzie, a wealthy landowner from Kandahar, remains a mystery, but he may have been aligned with the Jihadist Islamist Mujahideen. Whatever the truth may be, Nasrina blamed the Communists rather than Islamists for his disappearance, and this may have strongly affected her activism for Islamist terrorists and terrorist supporters.
Despite having grown up in America, Nasrina Bargzie maintained close ties with her homeland, serving as president of the Afghan-American Bar Association, along with other Afghan groups, donating money back to her country and writing of her love for the ‘Pashto’ language.
By 2019, she was described as representing “seventeen different Afghan human rights organizations.” Despite that, or perhaps because of it, she joined the Biden-Harris team, vetting incoming hires. And then she entered an administration already full of staffers with foreign allegiances, ties to foreign governments and even terrorist sympathizers.
In 2021, Nasrina became Kamala’s Deputy Counsel and then in 2022, as many members of the vice presidential team fled, she rose to the position of Deputy Counsel. She’s been named one of the “fabulous four”: the four employees most loyal to Kamala who stayed on. And as a corollary, she’s one of the four whom Kamala favors and is the most likely to promote.
Nasrina came out of some of the same legal and political circles as Kamala Harris. She worked for the ACLU at the same time as Kamala’s sister Maya held a prominent role at the local ACLU. Maya also worked closely with CAIR and played a key role in Kamala’s presidential campaign.
No one in the FBI seems to have asked about Nasrina Bargzie’s original comments or the family history that troubled the government at the time. Nor has there been any mention of her work with pro-terror groups such as CAIR or her appearance on a panel with MPAC’s Salam Al Marayati who has defended Islamic terrorists. But the implications of a woman who has spent much of her career undermining our national security, attacking Jews and defending terrorist sympathizers is troubling for Americans, for Jews, Christians and for all people of goodwill.
Nasrina Bargzie resents America despite everything it has done for her. After benefiting from the Refugee Resettlement program, she blamed America for having created the refugees. In a Kamala Harris administration, she would be equipped to continue degrading our counterterrorism efforts, making life easier for Islamic terrorists and harder for Americans.
Occupying a prominent position in a Kamala administration, one of her top lawyers would be able to continue her campaign against American Jews and for the Hamas supporters attacking them.
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Antisemitic incidents surged globally since Oct. 7 but most aren’t reported. Here’s why
Up to 79% of antisemitic harassment is never divulged, according to experts who weigh in on ‘obstacles’ that deter Jewish victims – especially youth – from speaking out
By Matt Lebovic 21 November 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/antisemitic-incidents-surged-globally-since-oct-7-but-most-arent-reported-heres-why/
Illstrative: A hand-drawn swastika is seen on the front of Union Station near the Capitol in Washington, January 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
NEW YORK — John Michael Graves, 25, was walking out of his Moishe House residence in Seattle when he spotted half a dozen antisemitic flyers “plastered” onto poles near the unmarked building’s gate.
“I ripped them down. It’s not clear how they even knew it was a Moishe House,” said Graves, referring to a cooperative group home for Jewish young adults. The flyers read “F–k You Israel” with crossed-out Jewish stars and were affixed onto street poles during the afternoon of October 24.
“It really hit me in the gut,” Graves told The Times of Israel. But he and his fellow residents did not report the incident to the Moishe House movement, which says it reaches 70,000 Jews in 27 countries, including six locations in Israel.
“We were scared and — it sounds ironic now — because this is going in a newspaper and more attention is being drawn to ourselves — I didn’t want to make it a bigger deal than it was,” said Graves. He is one of four residents in his Moishe House, which are generally populated by a mix of young professionals and grad students.
“We are programmed to think it’s just some flyer, not an active death threat,” said Graves, who added that Moishe House has been an “incredible” resource for himself and other residents regarding the Israel-Hamas war.
“When I saw the posters, I felt my hand grabbing at my Jewish star necklace,” said Madison Holt, 23, another resident of Moishe House in Seattle.
John Michael Graves. (Courtesy)
“I couldn’t decide if I wanted to hide my necklace or not. I have always felt safe living here, but this definitely was a wake-up call for how things have changed since October 7,” Holt told The Times of Israel.
Since the unprecedented Hamas massacres of 1,200 people in Israel last month and the taking of some 240 hostages, the Moishe House movement has provided new resources to its “community builders” around the world, including access to emotional support services, said Graves.
Now, six weeks after the eruption of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, world opinion has shifted away from recognizing and mourning these atrocities.
The reluctance of Graves and Holt to report this incident of antisemitism is part of a widespread phenomenon, experts told The Times of Israel. Nearly four in five Jews who experience antisemitic harassment do not report it to law enforcement or media, according to American Jewish Committee statistics.
Moishe House resident Madison Holt. (Courtesy)
“Varying degrees of trauma” are behind the lack of reporting, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) spokesperson Jake Hyman told The Times of Israel.
“Some people may report right away, while others may want to pretend it never happened, which would be understandable,” said Hyman.
An important development for universities, said Hyman, is the new “Campus Antisemitism Legal Line” (CALL) for any student, family, faculty, or staff member to “report incidents of antisemitic discrimination, intimidation, harassment, vandalism, or violence that may necessitate legal action,” said Hyman.
Intake reports will be handled by lawyers working pro bono to represent victims “who choose to move forward with specific cases,” said Hyman.
“CALL will also provide referrals to social services, mental health counseling services, and other relevant support services in their area,” said the ADL spokesperson.
Not in my name
Experts told The Times of Israel that many high school pupils and college students are afraid to document harassment because it’s “nearly impossible to report anonymously if one wants an investigation with actual results and repercussions,” said Yael Lerman, executive director of the Saidoff Legal Department at StandWithUs, a pro-Israel educational organization. (This reporter works for StandWithUs as the director of its Holocaust Education Center.)
“Students who file discrimination or bias complaints under their name nearly inevitably become targets for ongoing harassment or social media by individuals, by anti-Israel student groups, and even in-person,” Lerman told The Times of Israel.
Several copies of this flyer were posted onto poles adjacent to a Moishe House building in Seattle, Washington, October 24, 2023. (John Michael Graves)
The non-reporting of antisemitism extends beyond student bodies, said Lerman.
“Many Jewish professionals on campus are not reporting antisemitic incidents because they are scared by what they see,” said Lerman, an attorney who leads a StandWithUs-cultivated network of lawyers willing to defend victims of antisemitism on campus, for free.
“They delete evidence and hope that by not dealing with it, it will go away. The idea of holding antisemites accountable through the criminal justice system instead of remaining scared hasn’t taken hold yet in a broad enough way,” said Lerman.
With social media and evolving technologies, students and staff alike are “afraid of being doxed and targeted for more harassment by being willing to come forward as witnessing antisemitic attacks,” Lerman said.
Feelings of shame
The Israeli American Council (IAC) pointed to “shame” as one reason why so many American Jews do not report on antisemitism.
“We know this because when we do receive reports [of antisemitic incidents], many times students and parents will indicate that they have experienced several other incidents before deciding to report,” said Karen Bar-On, the IAC’s vice president of activism.
“Also, when we discuss the topic with community members or provide antisemitism training to educators and students through our school or community events, they will bring up cases they have experienced while admitting they have not reported them,” Bar-On told The Times of Israel.
Founded in 2007, the IAC represents more than 800,000 Israelis and their families living in the US. Bar-On echoed attorney Lerman in asking Jews to reconsider the importance of reporting antisemitic harassment, as opposed to brushing it off.
“First and foremost, we need to let people know how to report and constantly remind them what resources are at their service,” said Bar-On. “More importantly, community members must understand the importance of reporting and standing up to each and every incident they experience, no matter how ‘minor’ they may feel it is,” she said.
Abraham Foxman, national director emeritus for the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the Israeli American Council’s eighth annual summit in Austin, Texas, on January 20, 2023. (David Finkel photography)
According to data collected by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in 2021, 79% of American Jews “targeted by antisemitic remarks did not report these incidents,” said Aaron Bregman, AJC’s director of high school affairs.
“Many high school students who face antisemitism, discrimination, or bias choose not to report these incidents, fearing social retaliation and potential isolation,” said Bregman.
Another factor involved in underreporting is that students “may not be certain whether they have experienced discrimination and may underestimate the severity of the issue,” said Bregman, adding, “Some students may also struggle to recognize and define antisemitic actions, hindering their ability to report accurately.”
Bregman told The Times of Israel that “uncertainty” around discrimination “often stems from a perception that [Jewish students’] experiences do not compare to the discrimination faced by their peers,” he said.
Several experts pointed to “microaggressions” as key to understanding the underreporting phenomenon. One long-time student services director at Ivy League universities said that far too many professors “challenge observant Jewish students about missing class during Jewish holidays,” she told The Times of Israel.
Additionally, students may assume they have documented an incident when, procedurally, they haven’t.
“Students think they have reported something when they comment on it in an institutional survey, but that reporting doesn’t get shared with the systems that track or even do anything about antisemitism on campus,” said the former Hillel professional, who asked to remain anonymous due to her position in academia.
Disbelief that anything will be done
Across the Atlantic, in Britain, a “large proportion” of antisemitic incidents in public schools and university campuses are never reported, said Dave Rich of the Community Service Trust, which has recorded and responded to antisemitism since 1984.
“The most likely reasons for not reporting are that they don’t feel anything will be done, or they don’t know how to report,” Rich told The Times of Israel.
Hamas supporters at a march in London, November 11, 2023. (Metropolitan Police)
Within Europe, the European Union has conducted research into antisemitism in 2012 and 2018. Findings demonstrated that “most antisemitic harassment was not reported to anyone,” said Rich.
“We don’t have specific data for non-reporting of campus or school-related antisemitism, but this gives some indication of what we might be looking at,” said Rich.
With private Catholic universities in the US now opening their doors to enroll harassed Jewish students, the public is still only seeing the “tip of the iceberg” regarding antisemitism, experts believe. Without a significant increase in victims reporting on incidents of harassment, discrimination against Jews may continue to fly mostly under the radar.
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Michael Oren: A War Against the Jews
Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
By Michael Oren 26October2023 https://www.israpundit.org/michael-oren-a-war-against-the-jews/ Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/this-isnt-a-war-against-israel
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews. When the Jew will hide behind stones and trees, the stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslims, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’?” —The Hamas Charter
“The conventional war of conquest was to be waged parallel to, and was also to camouflage, the ideological war against the Jews.” —Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933–1945
It wasn’t the rallies with “Keep the World Clean” posters and chants of “gas the Jews.” Nor was it the glorification of Hamas paragliders by the Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter or, in New York and London, the tearing down of posters with the faces of Israeli children held hostage by Hamas. Not even the off-the-charts uptick in antisemitic incidents in Germany (240 percent), the United States (nearly 400 percent), and London (1,353 percent) convinced me.
It was, rather, one of those realizations that so many generations of Jews before me have experienced. A realization that they, like me, surely tried to push out of their minds until the reality became unmistakeable.
This war is not simply between Hamas terrorists and Israelis. It is a war against the Jews.
The insight began with the international media’s coverage of the conflict. Again, it wasn’t the press’s insistence on calling mass murderers “militants” or citing Hamas and its “Health Ministry” as a reliable source. For close to fifty years—as a student activist, a diplomat, a soldier, a government and military spokesman, and above all, as a historian—I’ve grappled with the media’s bias against Israel. I’ve long known that the terrorists are “militants” solely because their victims are Jews, and only in a conflict with Israel are terrorists considered credible.
Instead, it was the media’s predictable switch from an Israel-empathetic to an Israel-demonizing narrative as the image of Palestinian suffering supplanted that of Israelis beheaded, dismembered, and burnt. It was the gnawing awareness that dead Jews buy us only so much sympathy.
In fact, there is probably a formula. Six million dead in the Holocaust procured us roughly 25 years of grace before the Europeans refused to refuel the U.S. planes bringing lifesaving munitions to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Fourteen hundred butchered Jews bought us a little less than two weeks’ worth of positive coverage.
Europeans, it’s long been said, never forgave the Jews for the Holocaust. Their guilt was collective and their antisemitism no longer socially acceptable. What a relief many of them felt when it became de rigueur to call Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians Nazi-like. Similarly, haters of Israelis can’t forgive them for being massacred by Hamas terrorists on October 7, and were relieved when, on October 17, they could go back to vilifying the “colonial apartheid state.”
October 17—that was the date of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital incident. Hamas claimed that an Israeli bomb hit the hospital and killed 500 civilians. Again, there was nothing new about Hamas blaming Israel for atrocities that never happened and counting as dead the many who didn’t die. What was unprecedented was the speed at which the world accepted this triple lie—not a hospital but its parking lot was struck by a Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli bomb, killing far fewer than 500. Nevertheless, reflexively, the world imputed evil to Israel.
Within hours of the al-Ahli bombing, both Israel and the United States revealed the truth behind it. Still, almost no one in the media apologized. A full week after the explosion, The New York Times was still bringing in “experts” to intimate Israel’s guilt. After all, the paper was subtly telling us, Israel is perfectly capable of bombing hospitals and, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, possibly bombed this one as well.
What was previously an inkling became, October 17, an epiphany. It marked the moment when I finally peered behind the headlines and recognized their ancient, vicious, core.
For many centuries, the term “innocent Jew” was an oxymoron. Jews were guilty by birth, by belief, and by ancestry. There is a religious tenet of Judaism, reenacted each year at Passover, that all Jews were present at the exodus from Egypt and when God gave the laws to Moses at Sinai. Twisting this is a Christian belief that all Jews were present at, and responsible for, the crucifixion. More than Pilate, more than Judas—a name not chosen randomly—the Jews were damned for deicide.
But killing God is only one of the sins for which Israelis—read: Jews—are being demonized in this war. Behind the reports of the deliberate Israeli bombing of Palestinian neighborhoods—reports that meticulously stress the number of children killed—lies the 144,000 children mythically massacred by the Judean King Herod.
Though understandably feeling vengeful toward Hamas and their allies in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis do not want innocent Palestinians to die. Hamas, however, places its bunkers, rocket launchers, and headquarters in civilian areas. Though Israel warns these noncombatants to evacuate, Hamas tries to prevent their flight, sometimes at gunpoint. The goal is twofold: to kill as many Israelis as possible, and to kill Palestinians to win the sympathy of the world and so that Israel can be denounced internationally for war crimes.
Hamas’s strategy is clear. Yet much of the press prefers to ignore it. Instead, it repeatedly accuses Israel of seeking to inflict the maximum number of civilian deaths and especially of children. In the media’s rendering, Israel is the new Herod butchering Palestinian innocents.
Forgotten are the thousands of Gazans who followed Hamas terrorists through the ruptured fence into Israel where they joined in the mutilations and raping. Forgotten are the Gazans who beat and spat at a nineteen-year-old Israeli woman who was raped and paraded through their streets. Gone were Gazans who gave out candy and celebrated the slaughter of 1,400 civilians who were truly innocent.
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Anti-Jewish hate crimes hits a new record in California
14July2024 Elder of Ziyon
There were 289 reported hate crimes against Jews in California in 2023, a 52% increase from 2022, according to the hate crimes statistics released by the State of California earlier this month.
Anti-Jewish hate crimes accounted for over 73% of all anti-religious hate crime.
Since 2014, the numbers of hate crimes against Jews has increased dramatically and consistently. While anti-Muslim hate crimes increased in 2023, they have remained fairly steady over the years.
Hate Crimes against Jews-Muslims- California 2014-2023
Anti-Jewish hate crimes account for nearly the entire increase in all anti-religious hate crimes between 2022 and 2023. In fact, the total number of all hate crimes in California decreased slightly in 2023, with the most drastic increases against Jews (+100) and LGBTQ+ (+70)
The dramatic increase in antisemitic hate crimes in 2023, which were already high out of proportion to the number of Jews in those areas beforehand, has been seen in most places that have released hate crime statistics so far.
And 2024 looks like it will be not just worse, but far worse.
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Anti-Jewish hate crime is also soaring in Chicago
15July2024 Elder of Ziyon
Here is a chart from the Chicago Police Department showing hate crimes against Jews by year:
Hate Crimes against Jews-Chicago 2012-2024
There were 6 hate crimes against Jews in 2020, 8 in 2021, 39 in 2022, 50 in 2023 and 55 in 2024.
But the year is only half over.
In 2023, there were a total of 81 hate crimes attacking religion, and 61% of them were anti-Jewish. This year, there have been 62 hate crimes against religions so far, and 89% of those have been anti-Jewish.
By contrast, there have been 4 anti-Muslim hate crimes so far this year in Chicago.
There are roughly the same number of Jews and Muslims in Chicago (between 300,000 and 400,000.)
How long will it take for local and national leaders to understand that anti-Jewish bigotry is fundamentally different from all other types, and requires different methods to fight them?
The assassination attempt on Trump on Saturday shows that some people take demonization rhetoric seriously enough to kill on behalf of their twisted idas of morality. . If Trump is evil personified, then killing him makes as much sense as assassinating Hitler in 1938. But the same deranged hate rhetoric is being hurled against Jews every day – after all, the majority of Jews are accused of supporting genocide, the worst possible crime. It is not out of the question that a similarly deranged person with a gun will believe that shooting up a synagogue or a random Jew in the street is a righteous, necessary act for the good of mankind.
This has already happened many times to Jews in the US. Usually the shooters are either Muslim or far Right, but the Right feeds on the anti-Israel propaganda of the Left – the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer has graphics from The Guardian and quotes Haaretz.
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‘There is No Antisemitism Here,’ South African Justice Minister Claims, Despite 631 Percent Increase in Attacks on Jews
by Ben Cohen 31January2024 https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/01/31/there-is-no-antisemitism-here-south-african-justice-minister-claims-despite-631-percent-increase-in-attacks-on-jews/
The claim of South Africa’s Justice Minister that there is no antisemitism targeting the country’s Jewish community drew a forthright response from Jewish leaders on Wednesday, who also accused the South African government of “creating an environment that emboldens antisemites.”
In an interview with the BBC’s “Hard Talk” program on Monday, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola flatly denied that antisemitism — which has soared in South Africa in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel and the Israeli government’s military response — was a problem.
When presenter Stephen Sackur quoted South African Jewish leader Howard Sackstein saying that he was “staring at my suitcase contemplating whether it’s time to leave the only home I’ve ever known,” underlining as well his fear that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) government had been “captured by radical Islamists,” Lamola dismissed these concerns outright, going on to attack the “Zionist state.”
“It’s a very unfortunate statement not backed by any facts, it’s a figment of his own imagination,” Lamola said.
Lamola added that the case charging Israel with “genocide” brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa was “not against the Jews as a people, it’s against the Zionist State of Israel,” which was “maiming and killing the Palestinians as a group in Gaza,” he said.
The ICJ’s ruling last week essentially rejected South Africa’s argument, with no immediate order issued to Israel to halt the war, only the demand that assistance must be provided to improve humanitarian conditions and measures taken to prevent acts or incitement against the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention.
When Sackur pointed out that there had been a precipitous rise in antisemitic attacks in South Africa since Oct. 7, Lamola fired back, “there’s no such…there is no antisemitism in South Africa against the Jewish people.”
A statement from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on Wednesday highlighted that between October and December of last year, in the weeks following the Hamas assault, 139 antisemitic incidents were recorded, compared with 19 in the same period of 2022 — an increase of 631 percent.
The statement pointed out that there had also been as “a sharp increase in physical attacks against Jewish persons or property, something which had occurred only rarely in previous years. There were six cases of physical assault, whereas the annual average had been only one in the preceding decade.”
Among the violent incidents recorded were two cases of assault outside a Johannesburg synagogue, an attack on a Johannesburg rabbi, and a Jewish community member being repeatedly struck over the head with a pole at a pro-Hamas rally in Cape Town. Vandalism included damage and desecration to Jewish cemeteries in Pretoria and Durban.
During the incident in Cape Town, the targeted individual was surrounded by dozens of violent protestors who bellowed “Viva Hamas” and “Murderers,” telling him “Hitler did not kill all of you guys, just so that we could all see exactly why he did it.”
South Africa’s Jewish community “has prided itself on the relatively low levels of antisemitism compared to other Jewish Diaspora communities,” the SAJBD remarked. “However our government has created an environment where antisemitism can flourish with Minister Lamola’s comments being an example. We call on Minister Lamola and the ANC Government to stop dismissing antisemitism and to stop creating an environment that emboldens antisemites.”
A report on South African antisemitism submitted by the SAJBD to the US State Department and shared with The Algemeiner described how South African Jews increasingly face opprobrium and hatred in their daily lives.
“A ‘naming and shaming’ process has been adopted, where people are encouraged to shun those characterized as ‘genocidal baby killers’ and the like,” the report noted.
In one of several hateful emails sent to members of the community, a Jewish doctor in Cape Town was virulently abused by a former patient who accused him of financial dishonesty.
“I don’t expect anything from a Jewish c*** like you; it’s true what they say about you Jews, it’s ******* huge noses ***** greedy,” the email ranted. It ended, “my sexy rat-eyed y*d, we are coming for you. Hail [sic] HITLER.”
Lamola’s denial of South Africa’s antisemitism problem followed his assertion last week that the ICJ case brought against Israel meant that Nelson Mandela, the late South African President who led the ANC in its struggle against apartheid, “will be smiling in his grave.”
ANC leaders have repeatedly invoked Mandela in a political campaign against Israel that has intensified over the last decade. However, Mandela was a supporter of the two-state solution, declaring in a 1993 address to the Jewish community, “As a movement we recognize the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism just as we recognize the legitimacy of Zionism as a Jewish nationalism. We insist on the right of the state of Israel to exist within secure borders but with equal vigor support the Palestinian right to national self-determination.”
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Some of the People Defending Hamas Are Using the Same Argument the Nazis Tried After the Holocaust
“I am a historian (like Khalidi), interested in the origins of ideas and arguments. It turns out that Khalidi’s premier talking point has a very specific genesis.”
Posted by Mike LaChance 28October2023
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/some-of-the-people-defending-hamas-are-using-the-same-argument-the-nazis-tried-after-the-holocaust/
Martin Kramer notes that Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University is using the same justification that the Nazis used during the Nuremberg tribunals.
From his blog:
Sound familiar? It should.
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When Gaza has Money, Hamas has Rockets
By John F. Di Leo
October 18, 2023 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/when_gaza_has_money_hamas_has_rockets.html
Whether you grew up watching reality law enforcement programs or fictional mafia movies, there’s one thing everyone knows: When a known hit man murders a stranger, the odds are at least ten to one that he was paid to do it. Find the person who paid him, and you’ve identified the real responsible party.
This doesn’t just go for individual crimes, either. The same principle applies on the grand scale.
On Oct. 7, 2023, a horde of Islamofascist terrorists known as Hamas launched simultaneous, carefully coordinated attacks on Israel.
Hundreds of rockets were fired into civilian communities in Israel. Crowds of terrorists charged across the border and attacked private residences, shooting up apartments and houses, raping and beating innocent individuals and families. Squads sought out the partygoers at a music festival, slaughtering the unarmed with abandon. Hamas killed or injured thousands that day – mostly unarmed, unsuspecting civilians.
Israel is responding, as Israel must. But on the world stage, Israel doesn’t have the ability to go much further back, to deal with the sources, as we can in regular domestic law enforcement.
Israel can attack the nearby perpetrators, the bloodthirsty demons of Hamas who gave the orders and managed the attacks. But Israel is limited in what it can do beyond the Holy Land.
They can study, publicize their findings, try to shame the guilty on the world stage, but their reach is limited.
In much the same way as that hit man we identified can be caught by local police, but we need the FBI to capture the mafiosi who hired him, Israel can root out the Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, but Israel is limited in its ability to go after the global villains who fund and direct Hamas.
Someone is buying Hamas all these missiles. Someone provides them with training and gear, intelligence and equipment, rifles and grenades. And these people who ship them money and weaponry, fully intending that the recipients will use them against innocent Israeli civilians, are just as guilty as the homicidal maniacs pulling the trigger.
Who?
It’s not even a secret.
The group that has been chanting “Death to Israel” for decades, the group that has taught their children and their allies to shout “From the river to the sea,” confirming in no uncertain terms that their genocidal goal is to wipe the nation of Israel off the face of the earth, is a client state of Iran.
Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, and ever since local elections were held in 2006, the people of the Gaza Strip have chosen the terrorists of Hamas to rule them.
The Gaza Strip is located on a stretch of seashore on the Mediterranean. Has its government sought international investors to build a modern economy to support its people? Have they taken advantage of their 24 miles of potentially beautiful coastline to build resorts, or have they attempted to build manufacturing centers to provide careers and prosperity for their two million residents?
Time and time again, when Israel and others have tried to support the building of plants, factories, and logistics centers in the Gaza Strip, Hamas terrorism has necessitated Israel closing the borders and revoking import/export privileges. It’s impossible to have a manufacturing sector without public utilities, but Hamas sabotage has destroyed such facilities. It’s impossible to manufacture goods without raw materials, but Israel has had to close down maritime traffic to Gaza because Gaza’s suppliers keep filling “humanitarian aid” shipments full of armaments.
Whether from Egypt, Turkey, Iran or Lebanon, Israelis have learned the hard way that allowing goods into the Gaza Strip means endangering the innocent civilians of Israel. So Israel has had to crack down, again and again.
The events of October 7 prove the case. Hamas is not allowed to maintain a military; they get billions of dollars in aid from their foreign allies, money that could and should be targeted to improving the lot of their people, the so-called “palestinians,” of whom nearly half are children and teenagers. But despite this very real need for humanitarian support and economic development, Hamas puts its energy, its funding, and its rhetoric into its single-minded war cry: “Death to Israel.”
And where exactly does Gaza’s funding come from?
The governments of Iran and Qatar are major donors, plus a global network of expats who either identify with the Gazans (a mixture of arab ethnicities, but primarily Egyptian) or with Hamas’ very public goal of destroying Israel and emptying it of Jews.
The history books tell us that Hamas was originally an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian terrorist organization. Today, however, Hamas is usually considered more directly a client of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, itself the Lebanese branch of the Iranian council of mullahs – an oligarchy that has ruled Iran with a bloody iron fist for almost 45 years now.
So it is that when Hamas moves a muscle, one can safely assume that Iran is the one pulling the strings.
The issue of Hamas’ funding sources has attracted a bit more attention than usual, in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. Israel has announced that it’s blocking whatever sources it can find with proof of the money going to weaponry. They have blocked bank accounts at Barclays and huge cryptocurrency accounts that have long been a way for investors to move money in violation of sanctions, crypto being more easily hidden from view than real currency or investments.
But these are the obvious sources – terrorist supporting rogue states and fellow islamofascist extremists. The really big money in Gaza comes from sources that many would assume are peacemakers.
The United Nations, in fact, is arguably the biggest single funding source for Hamas, having directed well over five billion dollars in spending to the Gaza Strip in the past decade. Such money isn’t provided without strings, of course, but money is fungible. If one source covers food and water, that frees up the money from other charities to be spent on rockets and rifles.
Perhaps most shocking to Americans is the amount of U.S. taxpayer dollars that are sent to Hamas. Outside of an attempt by the Trump administration to block U.S. taxes from going to Hamas from 2017 through 2020, the Obama and Biden regimes have diverted tens of millions, again and again, whenever they could find an excuse. Never for arms, directly, of course; but money is fungible.
One of the first visual images confronted by an economics student is the idea of “expending resources on guns or butter.” The larger a percentage of your income you have to spend on butter, the less you can afford to spend on guns, and vice versa.
As long as the United States, the United Nations, and other allegedly peaceful countries provide funds to Gaza, and as long as Hamas continues to direct Gaza’s treasury, it’s as if we peaceful westerners ourselves were the ones buying Hamas the weapons.
People who’ve been paying attention will recall the midnight flights of billions of dollars in currency that the Obama regime illegally sent to Tehran, a vision refreshed by the Biden regime’s gift of releasing billions in foreign funds to Tehran a few short weeks ago.
When Iran has money, their client terror states have rockets.
The courageous and talented Israeli Defense Forces can work on ridding Gaza of its homicidal anti-semitic population, but what can we do, here, a world away?
Well, at the very least, we can stand up on election day, and fire the American politicians who keep paying these hit men with our money. The Democratic Party has been funding these vermin for far too long.
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation professional and consultant. A onetime Milwaukee County Republican Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review since 2009. His book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I and II).
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