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“Only about one-hundredth of 1 percent of in-person votes are rejected, whereas rejection rates of 1 percent are common with mail-in votes, and many states exceeded that during their primaries this year”

POLITICO Democrats Should Curb Their Enthusiasm for Mail-in Voting by Rich Lowry September 2, 2020 There’s a giant scheme afoot to disenfranchise voters in November—it’s called mail-in balloting. Mail-in voting has, like many things in our politics, taken on the … Continue reading

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“A Polish ex-Communist taught me a hard-earned lesson in the difference between bad and worse”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Vote for the Czar, It’s Important by Ruth Wisse August 31, 2020 …There were three parts to the lesson—two that she spelled out for me, and a third that I have since added on my own.The first … Continue reading

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Kosovo will establish an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the first Muslim-majority country to do so

JERUSALEM POST Kosovo, Serbia to formalize ties with Israel, open JLM embassy by Tovah Lazaroff September 6, 2020 Kosovo intends to establish diplomatic ties with Israel and both that Balkan-Muslim majority nation as well as Serbia plan to open embassies … Continue reading

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Bahrain joins Saudi Arabia, extending airspace access to Israel

ALGEMEINER New Bahrain Policy to Allow Flights Between Israel and UAE to Cross Its Airspace by Reuters September 4, 2020 Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom on Thursday … Continue reading

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“Israel finally has a prime minister willing to take the necessary action to put a stop to the Supreme Court’s power grab and so defeat the gravest threat Israel faces as a Jewish and democratic state”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) The Rat in Israeli Public Life by Caroline Glick September 4, 2020 …In Israel’s politicized justice system judges, prosecutors and police investigators have unchecked powers the likes of which no legal system in any … Continue reading

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“Americans of all races and political outlooks revile and attack Jews with unprecedented glee, while American Jews would rather talk about anything else”

TABLET MAG Wake Up America, and Smell the Anti-Semitism by Eve Barlow September 3, 2020 …It seems that American Jews don’t see anti-Semitism in America because they don’t want to, not because it isn’t real. They choose not to see … Continue reading

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Mandatory California high school curriculum would follow an “ethnic studies model curriculum” which accuses Jews of possessing “racial privilege”

WORLD ISRAEL NEWS California ethnic studies course accuses Jews of ‘racial privilege’ by Josh Plank September 2, 2020 The California legislature passed AB-331 on Monday, coming one step closer to becoming the first U.S. state to require all high school … Continue reading

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Charlie Hebdo: “Western democracies have paid dearly for the right to freedom of expression and, if not protected and exercised, it can disappear overnight”

GATESTONE “We Will Never Give Up”: Charlie Hebdo Republishes Mohammed Cartoons by Giulio Meotti September 2, 2020 Yesterday, one day before the opening of the trial for 14 defendants accused of involvement in a string of terrorist attacks in France, which included … Continue reading

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“As its Marxist pedigree makes clear, #BlackLivesMatter is committed to overthrowing our entire system”

CITY JOURNAL To Destroy America by Mike Gonzalez September 1, 2020 …Indeed, the leaders of the Black Lives Matter organizations fueling this summer’s disturbances were trained by self-described Marxist revolutionaries who have long used the plight of black Americans as … Continue reading

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“The only explanation for this travesty is that many Jews believe that the way to maintain their standing as liberals is to back #BLM”

JNS What are Jews who embrace the Black Lives Matter movement endorsing? by Jonathan Tobin August 31, 2020 To read the statement signed by more than 600 Jewish groups last week, in which they identified their denominations, synagogues and organizations … Continue reading

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