The alliance between the “progressive” Left and Arab/Muslim antisemites is now a formidable portion of the Democratic Party — and electing Harris as the 47th U.S. president would make it even worse.

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Kamala Harris will be even more anti-Israel than Obama
Joshua Hoffman
July 26, 2024

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has apparently earned the support of enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, succeeding her current boss Joe Biden as the Democrats’ presidential nominee in time for the November election. This is terrible news for Jews in America, especially those who consider themselves both Democrats and Zionists. Like Obama, Harris represents the growing “progressive” faction of the Democratic Party — and I am not talking about the textbook definition of “progressive” which includes noble aims like combating poverty, reduce inequality, and provide social safety nets. Harris is close with “pro-Palestinian” progressives who have aligned with Earth’s most regressive, misogynistic, homophobic, antidemocratic, violent forces (Hamas). READ MORE

TWITTER Joel Pollak I heard Kamala Harris speak just hours after revisiting the sites of the October 7 terror attack, where unspeakable evil was unleashed by Palestinian terrorists.  She refuses to distinguish between the side that targets civilians and the side that tries to save them; between the side that revels in cruelty and the side that embraces humanity; between the side starts a war and the side that fights to end it. There is something more important here than an obvious attempt to pander to Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan, or to split the difference between the anti-Israel mobs and their antisemitic slogans and anti-American behavior. What we see here is a would-be leader without a moral core. Kamala Harris would be a disaster for Israel and the U.S. This really is the most important election of our lifetimes.

JNS Harris offers ‘platitudes about complexities’ but no call for ending Hamas, former US envoy says “I noted not a word from you in your speech regretting that your administration funded Hamas terror,” David Friedman wrote to the U.S. vice president.

JEWISH INSIDER Ernst accuses Harris of emboldening pro-Hamas demonstrators, Iran by skipping Netanyahu speech Ernst said at the Christians United for Israel summit outside Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that Harris’ absence “sent a very powerful message” to the anti-Israel “rioters” who vandalized Union Station during the speech. “It also sent a clear signal to Hamas’ backers in Tehran,” she continued, alleging that the Biden administration “does not have the backbone to stand up to the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party.”

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How Barack Obama ended normalcy in American politics

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He the People
Lee Smith
July 29, 2024

The people have spoken, and last week former President Barack Obama called Vice President Kamala Harris to tell her. His endorsement of her run for the presidency was captured in a short video documenting the candidate’s reaction. “Although you called for an open process,” said Obama, “and you know, Democrats have, have put in place an open process, it appears that people feel very strongly that you need to be our nominee.” But without a primary, without a popular referendum, without even the open convention that Obama was rumored to favor, how did the people make their will known, and strongly? Was it social media influencers? Mass rallies across the country? Media chronicling the excitement surrounding a Harris candidacy? No, it was nothing like that. Obama is the people. The people are Obama. READ MORE

GATESTONE Why Has the Biden Administration Donated Close to One Billion Dollars in “Aid” to Hamas since the October 7 Massacre? Biden and Blinken have “known for years” that the US aid is providing “material support” for Hamas’ “tunnels, rockets, weapon procurement, and command and control infrastructure,” among other terror structures, the lawsuit stated.

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Bibi: “Following our victory, with the help of regional partners, the demilitarization and deradicalization of Gaza can also lead to a future of security, prosperity and peace. That’s my vision for Gaza.”

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Netanyahu calls for ‘deradicalized’ Gaza, anti-Iran ‘Abraham Alliance’
July 25, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday laid out his vision for post-Hamas Gaza, calling for the enclave to be “demilitarized and deradicalized” in a manner similar to Germany and Japan after World War II. Speaking to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., he also called for the establishment of a Middle Eastern defense alliance to confront the threat posed to the region by Iran. “The day after we defeat Hamas, a new Gaza can emerge. My vision for that day is of a demilitarized and deradicalized Gaza,” said the Israeli premier. “Israel does not seek to resettle Gaza. But for the foreseeable future, we must retain overriding security control there to prevent the resurgence of terror, to ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel,” he added. READ MORE

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ARUTZ SHEVA Prime Minister’s Office: Netanyahu met Musk after Congress speech
Netanyahu’s office says he met with Elon Musk in Washington after his address to the US Congress. The two discussed opportunities and challenges in AI, and opportunities for technological cooperation with Israel.

AXIOS Around half of Congress’ Democrats skip Netanyahu speech Roughly half of House and Senate Democrats skipped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, according to an Axios headcount. Roughly 100 House Democrats and 28 Senate Democrats were present in the chamber for the Israeli prime minister’s speech, meaning around half of both caucuses were absent. Most of the lawmakers who did attend the speech are on the more moderate, pro-Israel side of the party, including many swing-district lawmakers.

JPOST ‘Hamas is coming’: Protesters pull down US flag, vandalize DC landmarks “Hamas is coming,” was scrawled in red across the face of the the Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain at Union Station, alongside slogans, such as “free Gaza” and “all Zionists are bastards.”

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“Rightly or wrongly, key Arab leaders may interpret snub of Mr. Netanyahu as evidence that Ms. Harris sympathizes with the opponents of a Saudi treaty and that her Middle East policy will differ significantly from Mr. Biden’s”

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Tensions Between Bibi Netanyahu and Kamala Harris
Walter Russell Mead
July 23, 2024

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris won’t be there. Despite having become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, she decided that an earlier commitment to the Zeta Phi Beta sorority’s convention in Indianapolis mattered more than a speech by the leader of one of America’s closest allies at a time of conflict and crisis in a region involving vital U.S. interests. Ms. Harris is expected to meet Mr. Netanyahu during his visit to Washington, but the snub is unmistakable. It is fueling rumors of a rift between the Harris and Biden approaches to the Middle East. On March 4, NBC News reported that National Security Council officials “toned down” a draft of remarks Ms. Harris was to give on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. This week the Journal reported that other fissures could appear. READ MORE

POLITICO Dems GTFO after Bibi’s speech Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) were the only non-Republicans to hang around for a handshake with Netanyahu following the speech. Dozens of Democrats, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, left the chamber before the prime minister had even left the rostrum.

THE HILL Pelosi says Netanyahu gave ‘the worst’ speech to Congress from any foreign leader Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Wednesday as the “worst” in the body’s history, harshly criticizing the leader’s lack of progress toward a hostage deal with Hamas. 

JEWISH INSIDER Speaker Johnson: VP Harris will ‘pay a price’ politically for skipping Bibi speech House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress today as a “terrible symbolic gesture” and predicted that she would “pay a price for it politically.”

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The attack plan on the port of Hodeidah was long in the making, after over 220 Houthi attacks against Israel. The port is a major supply route for military and weapon supplies from Iran

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20 fighter jets, 1,000 miles away: This is how Israel hit the Houthis in Yemen
Lilach Shoval
July 21, 2024

The IAF attack in the Hodeidah area of Yemen was carried out by 20 fighter jets, some of which were refueled in mid-air, and at a distance of more than 1,700 kilometers (1,000 miles) from Israel – 200 kilometers farther than Tehran, as confirmed by the IDF. This operation was a cumulative response to the Houthi attacks via drones and missiles, which numbered at about 220 over the past nine months, most of which were intercepted and downed by the American Central Command and the air defense system. The Israeli attack was executed not just due to the Houthi drone strike in Tel Aviv, but also because it was the first time a Houthi attack crossed the airspace and caused casualties. In this case, Evgeny Frader, 50, was killed early Friday morning by said drone strike. READ MORE

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NATIONAL SECURITY JOURNAL Ilan Berman: How To Strike Back Against The Houthis But the Israeli retaliation also did something more: it highlighted a way to turn the tables on what has, until now, been an enormously successful campaign of economic blackmail along one of the world’s most vital waterways.

GATESTONE Harold Rhode: A Big Win for Israel Following Israel’s recent strike on Houthi targets in Yemen, White House National Security Communications Advisor John F. Kirby said: “We did not participate in today’s Israeli attack on Yemen and did not help Israel.” This is wonderful news. It shows to the Iranians, Arab states and others that Israel is an independent actor, not a “client state” of America. It also demonstrates that Israel is willing to go it alone against the advice or demands of the Americans. It shows the Sunni Arab countries that Israel is a reliable partner against the Iranian regime because Israel will do what it must to protect itself and stop Iran and its proxies.

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Palestinian factions agree to end division in pact brokered by China

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China brokers Palestinian unity deal, but doubts persist
Laurie Chen and Nidal Al-Mughrabi
July 23, 2024

Palestinian rivals including Hamas and Fatah agreed to form a unity government at talks hosted by China, Beijing said on Tuesday, a deal meant to deliver a post-war Gaza administration but quickly rejected by Israel as it seeks to crush Hamas. Analysts said the agreement would prove hard to implement, with complications including the deep enmity between Palestinian factions and Western opposition to Hamas having any role in governance. No timetable was declared for implementation. The Beijing Declaration was signed at the closing ceremony of a reconciliation dialogue among 14 Palestinian factions held in China’s capital from July 21-23, according to the readout. READ MORE

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A new letter from seven unions representing millions of workers, including the SEIU and United Auto Workers, criticizes ‘Israel’s refusal to minimize civilian harm’ and its ‘vicious response’ to Oct. 7 terrorism

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Major labor unions call on Biden to halt military aid to Israel
Gabby Deutch
July 23, 2024

Several major labor unions on Tuesday called on President Joe Biden to halt all military aid to Israel, in a joint letter sent to the president the day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday. “We believe that immediately cutting U.S. military aid to the Israeli government is necessary to bring about a peaceful resolution to this conflict,” reads the letter, which was signed by seven unions representing millions of American workers…The missive to the president comes amid a push from the UAW to protest Netanyahu’s speech by organizing a “labor contingent” to a major anti-Israel protest planned for Capitol Hill on Wednesday. READ MORE

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VP Kamala Harris “studied the Rafah maps” so that she could lecture Israel on military strategy

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Potential Harris presidency could turn the screws on Israel
David Isaac
July 22, 2024

…Later in March, Harris opposed Israel’s plan to invade Rafah, the last stronghold of Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip, although not doing so would have enabled the terror group to survive. “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” she told ABC News. “Let me tell you something. I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to go, and we’re looking at about 1.5 million people in Rafah who are there because they were told to go there, most of them,” she said. Harris’s assessment turned out to be wrong, as 900,000 Gazans evacuated Rafah within one week from the time Israel issued its first evacuation order for the city on May 6. READ MORE

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Hamza Howidy, who left the Strip shortly before Oct. 7, describes life under repressive Islamist regime, slams Western pro-Hamas protesters: ‘They support terrorists with good PR’

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Now in Germany, a Gazan dissident tries to set record straight on Hamas’s brutal regime
Gianlucca Pacchiani
July 23, 2024

In 2019, Gazan activists Hamza Howidy and Amin Abed organized and participated in demonstrations against the harsh living conditions in the impoverished Strip. They were both arrested by Hamas and placed in the same prison cell. Every day, they were subjected to beatings and torture. Last August, Howidy, 26, managed to leave Gaza after another round of protests and another detention. Abed, 35, stayed behind, unable to afford the exorbitant exit fees from the enclave, and unwilling to let his beloved Gaza collapse further under the weight of Hamas’s mismanagement and repression. Even after October 7, Abed refused to remain silent in the face of the devastation that the terror group brought upon Gaza. READ MORE

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As of today, there are 2300 AI companies operating in Israel that make up 25% of the entire Israeli hi-tech industry

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Why Israel Is Poised To Lead the AI Revolution
Hila Rom
July 23, 2024

The AI INDEX REPORT for 2024, recently published by Stanford University presents comprehensive research measuring global trends in AI. The report revealed that Israel is ranked number 1 in the world in AI talent concentration, which can certainly explain its increasingly growing number of AI startups and the recent decision of Ilya Sutskever (OpenAi founder and former chief scientist) to build his new AI company and R&D center in Israel. In addition to its unmatched talent pool, Israel has unique local catalysts that have positioned it to stand at the forefront the AI revolution. READ MORE

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