ADL partners with leading anti-Semite Al Sharpton to score political points

FREE BEACON
The ADL’s Disgrace
Editorial Board
June 29, 2020

…We never thought we’d see [Al] Sharpton embraced by Jews, but that’s what’s transpiring now as the Anti-Defamation League strays onto the Reverend’s turf—leading a boycott campaign against one of the most successful Jewish-owned businesses in the world. Its CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, has tapped Sharpton as a partner in a political project to police objectionable speech that both are trying to cast as a modern civil rights issue…The Greenblatt-Sharpton campaign is a left-wing power grab disguised as a civil rights mission. READ MORE

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AIPAC Action Requested: Urge Your Representative to Not Sign Letter Proposing Cutting Aid to Israel

AIPAC Action Alert

A one-sided, anti-Israel letter being circulated in the House by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)—cosigned by Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Betty McCollum (D-MN):

      • Directly threatens the U.S.-Israel relationship
      • Supports conditioning and cutting America’s security assistance commitment to Israel
      • Would damage American interests, risk the security of Israel and make a two-state solution less likely

Urge your representative to oppose cutting aid to Israel and not sign this letter. Take action by clicking here to send your letter.

JEWISH INSIDER Four progressive congresswomen circulate letter threatening to condition aid to Israel over annexation Four Democratic members of Congress are said to be circulating a letter among their House colleagues warning of the political implications that could result from Israel’s planned annexation of portions of the West Bank. The letter is being circulated by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Betty McCollum (D-MN). The letter suggests that annexation, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said could begin as soon as this week, would “lay the groundwork for Israel becoming an apartheid state.”

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Textbook Intersectionality: Palestinian Day Of Rage Anti Israel protests across US linked to George Floyd, Defunding Police & Annexation

BREITBART
Pro-Palestinian Groups in U.S. Call for ‘Day of Rage’ Rallies Against Israel
by Deborah Danan
June 28, 2020

North American-based Pro-Palestinian groups have called on the public to join “Day of Rage” rallies across the U.S. on Wednesday, the day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has earmarked for beginning the process of annexation of parts of the West Bank. Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and American Muslims for Palestine have organized protests in Chicago, San Diego, Brooklyn, Los Angeles and San Francisco. READ MORE

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Do Jewish lives matter?

ELDER OF ZIYON
Defunding police = Jewish lives don’t matter
June 25, 2020

…What are the threats against Jews and Jewish institutions  in America today? They come from the far-Right, as we’ve seen in synagogue shootings like Pittsburgh. They come from black antisemites, as we saw in Brooklyn and Jersey City. They come from rioters who take advantage of “social justice” movements to wreak havoc, as we saw in Los Angeles…. Defunding the police and redirecting the money into community programs will not cure antisemitism. And if “social justice” ideas drive where the money is spent, it could have the effect of increasing antisemitism – like brainwashing people to believe that Israel trains cops to attack blacks, a factor in the Jersey City terror attack. READ MORE

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UN chief ‘shocked and disturbed’ by video of car sex act in Israel

JERUSALEM POST
UN vehicle ‘car sex act’ in Tel Aviv is just latest UN sex abuse scandal
by Seth J. Frantsman
June 28, 2020

The UN has moved unusually quickly to condemn a video that appeared last week showing several UN members, two of them male, with one woman riding on top of one of the men in the back seat, in what appears to be a sexual position. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric issued a statement on Friday confirming the video and suggesting it was a vehicle linked to the UN Truce Supervision Organization…The website The New Humanitarian was key to bringing the video to light. READ MORE

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“It seems reasonable to ask if a family that allows its children to attend UMASS Amherst is guilty of parental malpractice”

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Are Pro-Israel Dissenters Safe at UMASS Amherst?
by Dexter Van Zile
June 25, 2020

Parents might want to think twice about letting their kids attend UMASS Amherst in September. Maybe a gap year is a good idea, especially if their child has political beliefs that run counter to those that dominate the campus at UMASS Amherst. Why? Judging from a $27 million lawsuit being prepared against UMASS Amherst, the school may not be a safe place for learning, free inquiry, and ideological nonconformism…There’s evidence the school is not such a good place for students who disagree with the anti-Israel, anti-American, and anti-Western narrative that has taken root in higher education in the United States. READ MORE

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Border Police push back on charges that Ahmad Erekat was killed without cause; in 2nd video family says is months old, Erekat vows he is ‘no snitch’ for Israel

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Amid questions over shooting, police release video of driver ramming checkpoint
by Alexander Fulbright and Aaron Boxerman
June 24, 2020

Border Police on Wednesday released security footage from a suspected car-ramming attack in the West Bank, seeking to push back against accusations that Israeli forces shot and killed the assailant without reason. In the video from Tuesday’s incident, a car driven by Ahmad Moustafa Erekat can be seen approaching a checkpoint in Abu Dis, before abruptly accelerating and turning toward a group of police. The car then rams into a female officer — who is knocked into the air — before colliding with a booth and coming to a stop. As the driver gets out of the vehicle, he appears to begin running from the police officers, but quickly falls to the ground after being shot. READ MORE

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“Israeli lobby group, led by IDF commanders, pens open letter to Trump thanking him for his support of Israel, and backing sovereignty plan”

ARUTZ SHEVA
Israeli generals to Trump:’We trust you to back Netanyahu’s sovereignty plan’
by Staff
June 23, 2020

A group of Israeli generals penned a letter to President Donald Trump thanking him for his support of Israel, and endorsing his administration’s willingness to recognize Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s bid to apply Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria. The open letter was signed by 18 Israeli generals, and was drafted by the Habithonistim – Protectors of Israel organization. US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman presented the letter to President Trump. The letter was also published in The Hill newspaper in Washington DC Tuesday. Dear Mr. President; “We write to you in the name of more than a thousand senior military officers and combat soldiers from the Israel Defense Force reserves…” READ MORE

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For #BlackLivesMatter “antisemitism isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. Hatred of Israel and the Jews is part of its DNA”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The Silent American Jews
by Caroline Glick
June 26, 2020

The media’s refusal to cover the [Los Angeles anti-Jewish] pogrom makes clear that most US media outlets have accepted the limits on freedom of speech dictated by the left. Identity politics now dominate the left in America. BLM controls identity politics. BLM [Black Lives Matter] considers Jews oppressors, not victims. So attacking them is not an act of bigotry. Jews – particularly Israeli Jews, Zionist Jews and Jews who dress in ways that identify them as Jews – are fair game. After all, if Zionism is Nazism and apartheid, then Israelis, Zionist Jews and “Jewy” Jews are racists. The graffiti on Beth El synagogue in Fairfax told the tale. “F**k Israel, Free Palestine,” they wrote. READ MORE

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Twitter launches inquiry against Grenell for exposing lethal homophobia

JERUSALEM POST
US envoy urges condemnation of Muslim Brotherhood’s call to kill gays
by Benjamin Weinthal
June 27, 2020

The former US ambassador to Germany and high-profile member of the Trump administration on Friday urged that all American agencies and officials condemn a Muslim Brotherhood member for declaring that homosexuals should be murdered. Richard Grenell tweeted that “Every US government agency and official must speak clearly that this is unacceptable.” Egyptian TV host Hala Samir said on June 16 in a monologue on her show on Watan TV (Turkey-based Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood) that  “Ibn Abbas quoted the Prophet Muhammad as saying: ‘If you find men engaged in a homosexual act – kill the active one as well as the passive one.’ Don’t start asking: ‘Are you active or passive?’ Just kill both.” READ MORE

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