PBS
Viral: Antisemitism In Four Mutations
June 2020
By virtually every yardstick, antisemitism in the US and Europe is rising and worsening in ways not seen since the 1930s. It comes in the forms of vandalism, social media abuse, assault and murder. Like a virus, it mutates and evolves across cultures, borders and ideologies, making it all but impossible to stop.
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JEWISH WORLD REVIEW
Collective Guilt Is a Catastrophic Mistake
by Laura Hollis
June 4, 2020
During my lifetime, the national conversation about race has gradually moved from culpability for individual behavior to culpability for ideology to collective culpability without regard to behavior or ideology. This transition is significant. It is deliberate. And it is dangerous. Focusing on “discrimination,” as our laws have done for decades, places the emphasis on conduct , which can be clearly identified and prohibited. Individuals (or groups) who engage in that prohibited conduct can be penalized. Punishing an attitude of racism, however, is more problematic. It is one thing to condemn it. But how do you penalize or sanction it, apart from the conduct that reflects it? READ MORE
JERUSALEM POST Ruthie Blum: Right from Wrong: Ellen DeGeneres, George Floyd and Iyad al-Halak SADLY, LOVE, peace and communication are far from the minds of the looters who have been destroying storefronts and stealing anything they can lay their hands on, including from mom-and-pop shops owned by black people. But then, those involved in the rape of US cities do not care about the man in whose name they claim to be smashing windows and beating innocent people to a bloody pulp.
TIMES OF ISRAEL
LA Jews reeling after local institutions looted and burned in Floyd protests
by Tom Tugend
June 3, 2020
Graffiti on the walls of a synagogue read “Free Palestine” and “f*** Israel.” A statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis, was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans. Along with the synagogues, Jewish-owned buildings and stores were defaced, in several cases also with anti-Semitic graffiti. The businesses were looted, too. This city’s Fairfax district was hit particularly hard…Some 600,000 Jews are believed to live in Los Angeles, which would make the city the second largest Jewish city in the world, after New York but ahead of Tel Aviv. READ MORE
ARUTZ SHEVA
Health Ministry official: Israel is on the verge of another outbreak
by Staff
June 4, 2020
A senior Health Ministry official warned on Wednesday that Israel is on the verge of a second wave that will lead to a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus, Channel 13 News reported on Wednesday. The official said that it is not possible to link all the infections across the country to the recent spread of the virus in high schools. He added, “The hospitals have difficult cases the likes of which we haven’t seen in two months.” The Ministry of Education said earlier on Wednesday that 51 schools have been shut down after 261 cases of coronavirus infection were discovered among their students and teaching staff. READ MORE
JNS
Iran ‘opened a Pandora’s box’ in cyber attack on Israeli water system
by Yaakov Lappin
June 2, 2020
The Iranian cyber attack in early April on an Israeli water-treatment facility, designed to get computers to add too much chlorine to the Israeli water supply, represents a new phase in Iranian aggression, a former Israeli defense official has said…According to international media reports, Israel retaliated by paralyzing Iran’s key seaport—the Shahid Rajaee port in the city of Bandar Abbas, which is a strategic hub for Iranian sea imports, exports and trafficking of illicit weapons. “It is not possible to know whether Israel’s reported response will deter Iran, which to a certain extent has opened a “Pandora’s box’ in a cyber attack designed to harm civilians,” said [Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov] Amidror. READ MORE
ELDER OF ZIYON
The anti-Israel “human rights lawyer” who tried to firebomb an NYPD police car
June 1, 2020
She’s wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh. She’s holding a Molotov cocktail. And she’s ready to firebomb – a NYPD police car…But Urooj Rahman is not just a lawyer. She’s a human rights lawyer. And she’s not just wearing a keffiyeh for fashion. She’s an anti-Israel activist. She spent a summer interning for an anti-Israel NGO and she wrote an article for Fordham’s human rights newsletter accusing Israel of “apartheid.” As we have seen countless times, anti-Israel activism and support for terror is often hidden under a veneer of “human rights.” READ MORE
NEWSWEEK
Six Days and the Forever War
by Frank Sobchak, Colonel, US Army (ret)
June 2, 2020
This June marks the 53rd anniversary of Israel’s lightning victory in the 1967 Six Day War, when the Israel Defense Forces defeated the combined militaries of several of its neighbors. Israel’s decisive military victory is often studied by the armed forces of other nations, and many have applied its lessons in other conflicts. This year also marks the 18th year of constant conflict for the U.S. in what was originally named the global war on terrorism. The juxtaposition of these two conflicts brings pause to military strategists and raises the question of whether Israel’s success in 1967 could ever be repeated, there or elsewhere. READ MORE
NEW YORK TIMES
Rabbis to Return to German Military Amid Growing Anti-Semitism
by Melissa Eddy
May 30, 2020
Germany will allow rabbis to return to the chaplaincy of its military for the first time since they were kicked out under the Nazis in the 1930s, as officials struggle to curb a rise in anti-Semitic attacks in society as a whole. Lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved an agreement drawn up last year between the government in Berlin and the country’s Central Council of Jews. It stipulated that up to 10 rabbis would provide spiritual support to the estimated 300 Jewish soldiers serving the country in missions abroad. READ MORE
JEWISH CHRONICLE
NGO links George Floyd death to ‘racist’ training by Israeli military
by Staff
May 31, 2020
An American pro-boycott umbrella group has linked the death of a black man in police custody in Minneapolis to Israel, claiming that the IDF trains US officers in ‘racist’ tactics. Commenting on the death of George Floyd after he was pinned to the ground by a white police officer last week, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) tweeted to its 51,000 followers on Thursday: “The Israeli military trains US police in racist and repressive policing tactics, which systematically targets black and brown bodies.”…Former Knesset member Einat Wilf wrote in response to the USCPR tweet: “Ah yes, of course. Because there is absolutely nothing in American history to explain police brutality against black men”READ MORE
WCCO RADIO NEWSROOM Should knee to the neck maneuver be banned for police? Is it taught in police circles? Maria Haberfeld, a former sergeant with the Israel Defense Forces, said she has “never seen” a restraining technique like this in all her years of studying, teaching, and writing about use of force by police departments in the US and abroad.
CLARION PROJECT
Ilhan Omar, ‘Heartbroken’ Over Past Antisemitic Slurs, Makes More
by Meira Svirsky
May 27, 2020
In a recent interview, U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar claims she has “moved past” the controversy her previous use of antisemitic slurs caused. Not so fast…She now claims her “expression of those things was hurtful to people” and that “has really broken my heart.” Yet, in the same interview, she invokes the same antisemitic trope: that Jewish money wields untold power and influence over American politics, and specifically over President Trump. This time, there was no clever allusion to “the Benjamins;” she made the slur outright. READ MORE
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