“Just as Pelosi and colleagues demonize law enforcement officers trying to restore order and safety in places like Portland, Seattle, and Chicago, the media and Netanyahu’s opponents in Knesset condemn the police for any effort to arrest demonstrators”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Riots and Protests from Portland to Jerusalem
by Caroline Glick
July 31, 2020

Over the past several years, public discourse in the United States has seen a lot of new lows. It saw another one this month when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to federal officers in Portland, Oregon as “stormtroopers,” that is, Nazi Brownshirts. In a tweet on July 18 and in subsequent remarks, Pelosi accused the federal forces deployed to Portland of “kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti.” Pelosi’s allegations would cause a political earthquake – if they were true. But they aren’t true. And the fact that she slandered federal officers as Nazis is a deeply disturbing testament to where the Democratic Party – of which she is the senior elected official – stands today and what its intentions are. READ MORE

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