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However, even after the enormous influx of illegals their population has declined. Wonder why?
Perhaps, Californians are living proof too much sun fries one's brains.
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I recently posted a video of Putin's various lavish digs and toys now let's see how England's opulent Monarch suffers. Frankly I prefer the simpler life at The Landings.
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Politicians, and most particularly dictators, need scapegoats, when things go awry. Perhaps had BIBI been in office this would not have occurred. BIBI enjoyed a closer relationship with Putin than Bennett.
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Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews
Like anti-Zionists, the Putinistas call their enemies Nazis in order to pose as heroic
Melanie Phillips Jewish News Syndicate
“Stop your cruel oppression of the Jews”: Theodore Roosevelt admonishes the Russian Czar; Emil Flohri, 1904
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia could claim to be “de-Nazifying” Ukraine when its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.
Lavrov replied: “I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. That [Zelensky is Jewish] means absolutely nothing. Wise Jewish people say that the most rabid anti-Semites are usually Jews.”
After Israeli politicians reacted with fury to the suggestion that the Jews were responsible for their own victimisation in the Holocaust, Russia’s foreign ministry doubled down by asserting that the uproar explained “to a large extent why the current Israeli government supports the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv.” In a phone conversation days later, Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for Lavrov’s remarks.
Lavrov’s preposterous attempt to make Jews and Nazis interchangeable was prompted by the fact that Zelensky’s Jewish identity exposes as a lie Russia’s claim to be de-Nazifying Ukraine.
However, the foreign minister’s comments contributed to fears that Russia is reviving Soviet-era antisemitism as a response to the crisis provoked by its aggression.
Israel was shocked by Lavrov’s remarks because it believed Putin to be well-disposed towards the Jewish people.
Jewish communities in Russia have been allowed to flourish. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has hosted special Hanukkah concerts at the Kremlin and menorah-lightings throughout Moscow, and Putin has met, talked, toured and posed with Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar on Jewish holidays and at other times.
But Israel ignored the fact that Putin has also frequently cited anti-Semitic Russian thinkers in his speeches, and in his attacks on Crimea and Ukraine has teamed up with antisemitic thugs such as the Night Wolves and the Wagner Group.
Ksenia Svetlova, director of the Israel-Middle East programme at Mitvim: The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policy, has observed that antisemitism in Russia always simmers just below the surface, particularly around the Russian Orthodox Church, and erupts in times of crisis.
After a horrific 2018 fire in a Kemerovo trade centre, for example, various Christian circles argued that the Jews were behind the tragedy as it coincided with a Jewish holiday.
Professor Michal Bilewicz, director of the Centre for Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw, has noted that Putin’s recent references to a “fifth column” and “traitors to the nation” have sinister echoes. They almost exactly replicate language used by the Soviets in the 1940s and 1950s preceding anti-Jewish purges, and by Polish Communist leader Władyslaw Gomułka in a 1967 speech that preceded his own regime’s purge of Jews.
Bilewicz writes: “The paradox of Putin’s rhetoric is that he accuses Ukraine of ‘Nazism’ while simultaneously using antisemitic tropes to stigmatise Russians who oppose his war and support Ukraine.”
This, he said, was reminiscent of the slur Zhidobanderovtsy, or “Kike-Banderites,” used by pro-Russian activists during Moscow’s 2014 war in the Donbas to link Jews and followers of Stepan Bandera.
This linkage was absurd because Bandera led a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist organisation that collaborated with the Nazis and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews. “Yet it made sense to the followers of conspiracy theories,” observes Bilewicz. “There is no logic in their thinking.”
In similarly nonsensical vein, Russia has also accused the Swedes of being Nazis — in response to Sweden preparing to join NATO because of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Ads have been appearing at Russian bus stops depicting various Swedish national heroes as Nazis with the slogan: “We are against Nazism, they are not.”
The word “we” is in the colour of the Russian flag and “they” in the colours of Sweden’s flag. Selective quotes appear next to each picture purporting to paint the figure as a Nazi. These include Astrid Lindgren, the children’s author who created the character Pippi Longstocking; Ingvar Kamprad who founded Ikea; and Sweden’s King Gustaf V.
In claiming to be fighting Nazis, Russia is trying to channel the Soviet Union’s undoubtedly heroic resistance to Nazi Germany. Ignoring the inconvenient fact that the Soviet Union had first allied with Nazi Germany and thus started World War II, its stand against Nazism is a key element in Russia’s mythic sense of itself.
As a result, it thinks that claiming to be standing once more against Nazism casts it again in a heroic light. For these purposes, it has turned Nazism into a synonym for unspecific evil.
Exactly the same perverse rationale fuels the anti-Zionist claim that Israelis are Nazis. For just as Russia seeks to rewrite its aggression against “Nazi” Ukraine as heroism, so anti-Zionists rewrite their exterminatory antisemitism as a heroic stand against “genocidal” Israel.
Crucial to this infernal inversion of victim and aggressor is the belief by both anti-Zionists and Putinistas that they embody virtue, and so by definition all who oppose them are evil. This mindset is a hallmark of totalitarian movements and has led to the oppression, persecution and mass murder of millions.
It was why Stalinism was supported by people in the west, who believed that they were thus supporting the creation of a more just world.
It was why so many “progressives” supported eugenics, the theory of manipulated breeding and racial improvement that derived from social Darwinism. Even though this ideology fuelled Hitler’s programme to eliminate those he deemed sub-human, it was promoted until the Holocaust by those who thought of themselves as working for the betterment of humanity.
It’s why those Muslims who hold that everything outside Islam is evil believe that when they blow Israelis or westerners to kingdom come they are doing holy work.
And it’s why the Palestinian Arabs tell themselves — in a demonstrably ludicrous denial of both history and reason — that they were the indigenous people of the land of Israel, that Jesus was a Palestinian, and that their murderous attempt to drive the Jewish people from its ancestral homeland is in fact an attempt to protect themselves from attack by the Jews.
This reversal of truth and lies, victim and aggressor, right and wrong is the hallmark of Soviet and Russian propaganda. It was no accident that the Arabs intent on destroying Israel developed modern anti-Zionism in cahoots with the Soviet Union.
The big anti-Zionist lie about Israel was created in the 1960s when the terrorist leader Yasser Arafat made common cause with the Soviet Union to rewrite history, demonise the Jewish state and thus subvert the west by twisting its collective mind and destroying its moral compass.
Israel’s difficulties with Russia are growing. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu recently cancelled a scheduled phone call with his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz, which was intended to discuss the co-operation and security co-ordination essential for Israeli airstrikes on Iranian targets in Syria.
Without that co-operation, Israel’s defence against Iran on its Syrian border will be undermined. More ominously still, Russia is further cosying up to Iran. And meanwhile, it is ratcheting up its verbal aggression against Israel.
A spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry claimed earlier this week that Israeli mercenaries were fighting alongside the neo-fascist Ukrainian Azov regiment. In fact, Israel has sent no mercenaries nor supplied arms to Ukraine — a cause of bitter complaint by Zelensky.
But last week, a group thought to have close links with the Kremlin posted a list of 20 Israelis claiming that they were fighting as mercenaries in Ukraine.
Most of those names belonged to Israeli security guards, consular officials and employees of the Jewish Agency for Israel. They had merely been sent to bolster Israeli embassy staff who had been evacuated to Poland in order to aid the return of Israelis stuck in Ukraine.
“He who sups with the devil,” it is said, “should have a long spoon”. Israel is only now realising that, in supping with Russia, its own spoon has been far too short.
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Slipping away?
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Republicans Just Won the Support of Traditional Democrat Voter Groups
New polls are indicating that Republicans have a solid lead for the upcoming midterm elections. Even those voter groups that are traditionally aligned with the Democratic party are inclining toward the GOP.
Latino and Young Voters Are Slipping Away from Democrats
For a long time, the Latino community supported Democrats. However, in a recent NPR and Marist poll, 52 % of Latino voters depicted that they would vote for Republicans compared to 39 % who sided with Democrats.
Not only this, but Democrats are also losing support among voters younger than 45. As per the same survey, 50 % of these voters said they would vote for Republicans, while 45 % of them said to vote for Democrats.
Both of these voting groups are traditionally aligned with Democrats, so their withdrawal is likely to be a major setback for the party.
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Dov Fischer, always refreshing:
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DAILY FOLIOS AND CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
The SCOTUS Leak: As My Thoughts Focus Differently From Others
It won’t change much, despite confirming our dim views of the Left’s respect for constitutional norms.
By DOV FISCHER
Amid all the hyperventilating over the SCOTUS leak, I am hearing and reading analyses I believe are wrong in some cases, miss salient points, and miss the leak’s real ramifications.
We live in a 24-hour news cycle where cable news and other outlets aim to draw constant maximum viewers, clicks, likes, and retweets. Therefore, every event becomes catapulted into Armageddon. Consider: The final decision in the Mississippi abortion-law case is coming out next month anyway. If the Court plans to strike down Roe v. Wade, and if that was going to cause a seismic change in November voting, it was going to happen in another month anyway.
I cannot fathom why all analysts believe the leak will change November voting. The leak will not impact November. Period.
Second, things seem to be earth-shattering, but time passes, and new things take their place. One million illegal immigrants pouring into the country, out-of-control crime in inner cities, first- and second-graders coming home from school talking about penises and vaginas. Gasoline at $8 a gallon by November. Inflation by then over 10 percent, with meat, poultry, and fish at over 20 percent. Maybe Putin drops a small nuke. An Iran deal that funds massive terror. Maybe China invades Taiwan. Biden’s Handshake Ghost and The Rabbit lead an insurrection.
The notion that a leak of a draft court opinion one month before its issue will change American voting five months later is absurd.
Next — This leak, presumably by a left-wing SCOTUS judicial clerk, will backfire on the Left. It will not galvanize legislation to pack the Court with 15 justices. Likewise, it will not galvanize legislation to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land. To enact any law, the legislation must gain 60 Senate votes. The Senate is split 50-50. Similarly, there are not 51 Senate votes to overturn the filibuster. Joe Manchin won’t do it. He already came under a tidal wave of pressure when Biden tried pumping more trillions into an 8.5 percent inflation economy. The filibuster rule will stand; therefore, no legislation will be enacted by virtue of the leak.
Next — SCOTUS justices are people, too, just like the rest of us. In Shakespearean terms:
I am a SCOTUS justice. Hath not a Justice eyes? Hath not a Justice hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer, as a non-Justice is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
If that leak aimed to induce justices to change their votes on the abortion case, consider this:
The Left subjected Clarence Thomas to the most demeaning racist shaming imaginable in 1991. He publicly was accused of passing along a pubic hair to a woman to gain her sexual favors. He endured a virtual public lynching. Do you think he ever will forget that? I guarantee you he never will. Now, three decades later, the same lynchers and the same Joe Biden remain on the scene, attempting to intimidate him again. In a way, he has been waiting for this day these past 30 years. He will dig in. He is determined that the Left never will get away with that again. It is payback time.
Does anyone here besides me remember what Brett Kavanaugh went through four years ago? Christine Perjury Ford? Avenatti? The lineup of lynchers who conducted that Inquisition in the presence of his daughters and wife and a nation? The cross-examining over whether or not he ever drinks beer? He never will forget that. I guarantee it. Now, the same Left lynchers are attempting to intimidate him again. He and his wife have been waiting a quadrennium for this day. He will dig in. It is payback time.
Amy Coney Barrett just went through brutal anti-Catholic confirmation hearings. Barrett was persecuted, albeit more mildly than were Thomas and Kavanaugh because she is of the fairer sex — which is fundamentally unfair. She, too, is determined that the Left never will get away with that again. It is payback time.
Alito — an Italian Catholic conservative in the Scalia model. No one pushes him around. When Obama used a State of the Union (SOTU) address to stare down and criticize the SCOTUS justices to their faces, Alito responded elegantly by not saying a word — and then never attending another Obama SOTU address. Here, too, it is payback time.
With Gorsuch inherently conservative and pro-life, surrounded by the above four justices for whom this leak now is deeply personal, Gorsuch will be a team player for life.
As for Chief Justice Roberts, a Bush gift, and the three Clinton-Obama justices, they do not matter. It is 5-4 without Roberts and 6-3 with him.
Next — A personal observation drawn from my own life experience as a federal judicial clerk. I hold very strong views. I also try to be a man of integrity. From September 1993 to September 1994, I had the honor and opportunity of a lifetime to clerk for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. That role was almost identical to clerking on the Supreme Court. The Sixth Circuit covers appeals from district courts in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Appellate judges each get three clerks, and I served alongside Kae and Dan. Each of us was assigned one-third of the judge’s caseload. We read the appellate briefs, the oppositions urging affirming the lower court rulings, and the appellate replies. We studied pertinent trial transcript portions and the cases cited by the two sides in advancing their arguments, and we analyzed it all in “bench memos” we drafted for Judge Boggs, laying out what we understood. We then would meet with Judge Boggs in his chambers (his office) and discuss our memos and thoughts as to how the appeal might best be decided — and we would learn from him. Recall: We clerks were fresh out of law school, while Judge Boggs had been sitting for a decade. In 2003, he would become Chief Judge of the Circuit. He is so profoundly wise — he selected me to clerk, right? — and we learned so much from him. Things we had not considered struck him immediately. I cannot begin to describe how much I learned from him, lessons that have stood me well throughout my subsequent legal and rabbinic careers.
OK. The day of oral arguments would arrive. Attorneys would present in the Cincinnati federal courthouse before the three-judge panel. Afterwards, the judges would meet privately, sharing views and how they would vote. Now that they had voted 3-0 or 2-1, they would agree on which panel judge would be responsible for authoring which opinion. Each judge typically would be assigned to author one third of the week’s opinions. For each opinion he would author, Judge Boggs would assign whichever clerk among us had worked on that case to draft a first version. He would explain the majority’s reasoning, and we would draft away, often working from those earlier bench memos we had presented, now revising with critical changes better reflecting the panel’s thinking. Judge Boggs then would subject those revised drafts to strict scrutiny until he was satisfied.
Next, he would circulate the refined drafts to the other panel judges for their input, After all, a majority opinion of 3-0 or 2-1 speaks as well for at least one other panel judge, if not both. So they have to sign off, too. Likewise, when a different judge would author an opinion in which Judge Boggs joined, it would be circulated to our chambers. He would review it carefully before giving his name to it. I often would be assigned to read it, too, as a second pair of eyes since I was among his pupils. I still remember the draft from another chambers in which the initial text proffered that someone had “cussed out” someone else. The language needed to be more elegant: he had “cursed” him.
Sometimes the drafts would circulate longer, with extra rounds 0f fine-tuning. Only when all the judges were satisfied would the final opinion be issued. It was understood throughout that we clerks were sworn to secrecy. Not only did Judge Boggs rely on that confidentiality, but so did the other judges. My readers know me well. I am animated especially by matters of Jewish concern. One appeal out of Ohio during my tenure concerned the matter of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. He eventually was deported. Amid the judges’ back and forth, one of them expressed certain views that I deemed profoundly anti-Semitic. I shared my umbrage with Judge Boggs. I would have loved to expose publicly that this federal appellate judge had a “Jew issue.” But I held my peace. I knew I was sworn to confidentiality. That was the tradeoff: in return, I was positioned in the inner circle to try influencing a judge’s thinking, could learn from him, could experience the inner workings of the court. But I could not divulge. Even here I offer no clue about the judge I have in mind — not his or her gender, not the state where he or she sat in chambers, nada.
The Babylonian Talmud says at Sanhedrin 97a that Messiah will arrive in an era when people are “dog-faced.” The Rabbis explain: just as a dog urinates in public, shameless as people walk by, so there will be “dog-faced” times when lowlifes lack shame. Is ours that generation: Cardi B and “WAP,” people marching publicly to celebrate homosexuality or killing fetuses, inculcating and infecting children of tender age with thoughts of gender dysphoria and racial disunity, the perversion of transgenderism treated as a civil right? People cuss — uh, curse — shamelessly, even on TV. People smash and grab in broad daylight, justifying stealing televisions by shouting, “Black Lives Matter.” They defy First Responders, throwing garbage at cops and at firefighters. They tear down monuments to great heroes: Columbus, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt.
These are dog-faced times when a Nancy Pelosi tears up a presidential SOTU address, a Brett Kavanaugh is subjected to what he faced, a Kamala rises to vice president because she was a consort with the right man. And now when someone violates a solemn code of conduct expected of people associated internally with SCOTUS. If justices cannot securely circulate early preliminary drafts of proposed opinions for others’ comments and buy-in, how can they obtain input and views?
Perhaps a SCOTUS clerk shared it with a friend, who sent it to Politico. Perhaps the clerk himself or herself did it. That person must be uncovered and ideally treated like a fetus on abortion day.
To attend any or all of Rav Fischer’s weekly 90-minute live Zoom classes on the Weekly Torah Portion, the Biblical Prophets, the Mishnah, Rambam Mishneh Torah, or Advanced Judaic Texts, send an email to shulstuff@yioc.org (Please note that Rav Fischer’s classes will be on hiatus during May and June).
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No the trial won't tell us but Hillary is a born loser and losers hate to lose and corrupt ones will do anything to try and win:
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Hillary Clinton and the Durham Inquiry
The trial that begins in 12 days won’t tell us why she launched the Russia collusion hoax.
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
One question that won’t come up in a trial that starts later this month of a Democratic Party lawyer is the same question that arose in the wake of Nixon’s Watergate crimes, committed on his way to a landslide victory. Why, when Hillary Clinton was expected to trounce Donald Trump in 2016, did she devote campaign resources, always in short supply, to a risky, unnecessary and possibly illegal effort to smear Mr. Trump with the Russia-collusion slur?
This effort involved not only the so-called Alfa Bank allegation at issue in the upcoming trial, but the Steele dossier allegations that are the subject of separate proceedings by U.S. special counsel John Durham.
The reach of the Clinton effort was not trivial, extending through an important law firm used by both the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party, to a high-priced Washington opposition-research firm, to a firm in London run by a former British spy, to a former Brookings Institution expert, to a longtime tech entrepreneur, to internet researchers working on government contracts at a variety of universities and private firms.
It was an eccentric and extracurricular effort that could only have been set in motion by Mrs. Clinton herself. Why was it? The available answer seems to be an abiding paranoia on Mrs. Clinton’s part that an unrelated problem, her email case from her time as secretary of state, might yet pop up to snatch the prize from her grasp. On July 28, 2016, as we learned only years later, CIA chief John Brennan had rushed over to brief the White House that Russian intelligence itself had gotten wind that Mrs. Clinton was cooking up the Russia-collusion hoax to distract from her email controversy.
Of course, the story ends in a five-star irony: The email case did resurface in a way even a paranoid Mrs. Clinton could never have anticipated, thanks to FBI chief James Comey and the underage sexting adventures of disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner. Like the rest of us, Mrs. Clinton also only learned much later that Mr. Comey’s many strange actions in her case had been influenced by fake Russian intelligence that (in the untold story of 2016) he kept secret from his own bosses at the Justice Department.
Then again, these actions could have cost her the race only in conjunction with her own errors, like spending last-minute money running up her vote in states that weren’t in play, or tying up many of her key aides during the final months of the race on the Trump hoax project.
Mrs. Clinton doubled down after the election, for which even some conservatives have been prepared to forgive her because of the abject nature of her humiliation. America would have benefited from her being a bigger person. In the deeper cowardice that suffuses our press, unrecognized also is just how much the drip-drip-drip exposure of the collusion hoax over the succeeding three years would make it plausible to susceptible Americans that the same “deep state” stole the 2020 election from Mr. Trump.
In this context, the trial that begins on May 16 will seem anticlimactic and inconsequential. It’s not a crime to invent fabulous lies to defeat a presidential rival or undermine his presidency, but it might be a crime to lie to federal law-enforcement agents to advance these smears.
Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI to instigate an investigation into fanciful evidence about computer links between Russia’s Alfa bank, the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. The idea was that the existence of an FBI investigation could then be used to peddle the same claims to the press and electorate.
One defense Mr. Sussmann won’t be offering in his approaching trial is that the proffered evidence was accurate, perhaps to preclude CIA testimony that the info not only was false but doctored.
A judge has also ruled as inadmissible a Hillary Clinton tweet touting the Alfa bank allegation on grounds that her tweet amounts to “hearsay.” This is like saying a bag of money is “hearsay” in a bank robbery, when obtaining the bag of money was the whole purpose of the robbery.
Never mind. Mr. Durham, the special counsel, hardly needs a conviction to have served his country by exposing the truth. In a funny way, the saga testifies to the robustness of our democracy. In every time and every season, voters are obliged to weed through a great deal of demagoguery and lies, as they have had to weed through Mrs. Clinton’s lies about Mr. Trump and Mr. Trump’s lies about the election.
Despite or perhaps even because of these effects, and despite the parroting of many pundits, our democracy would appear to be in ruddy good health by many measures, with high engagement, with important and deeply felt differences being mediated through a political process. And it all unfolds as voters sort through an unending deluge of lies.
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Out of the pan into the flames:
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Biden Taps Anti-Israel Activist, CNN Spouse as White House Press Sec
By Adam Kredo
The White House announced on Thursday that Karine Jean-Pierre, a veteran anti-Israel activist who is married to CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux, will replace outgoing press secretary Jen Psaki, raising potential ethical quandaries.
The announcement drew celebratory headlines in the mainstream press: Jean Pierre is the first black woman and openly gay person to serve in the role.
But her relationship with CNN reporter raises ethical questions about her new role. The White House did not respond to a request for comment about whether Jean Pierre would recuse herself in dealing with CNN. Malveaux's colleagues include Valerie Jarrett's daughter, CNN justice correspondent Laura Jarrett, and Israel ambassador Tom Nides's wife, Virginia Moseley, who serves as CNN's senior vice president of news gathering.
Jean-Pierre’s anti-Israel past—which includes a stint as senior adviser and national spokeswoman for MoveOn.org, a far-left anti-Israel group that advocates for boycotts of the Jewish state—is raising red flags in the pro-Israel community. The selection of an Israel critic is also likely to further strain ties with the pro-Israel community and Israeli government, which already is strongly opposed to the Biden administration’s efforts to ink a new nuclear deal with Iran.
Jean-Pierre has been open about her animosity towards the Jewish state. She has accused Israel of committing "war crimes" and has backed efforts to boycott the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the United States' most prominent pro-Israel lobbying shop, cheering Democrats in 2019 for boycotting the group's annual gathering in Washington, D.C., for "boldly [chose] to prioritize diplomacy and human rights over the power of a lobbying organization." AIPAC, she claimed, helped the Trump administration "sabotage" the Iran nuclear deal and also "supported the group that's credited with inspiring President Trump to enact the Muslim Ban and has been known to spread anti-Muslim racism." She accused the group without evidence of trafficking in "severely racist, Islamophobic rhetoric."
Ellie Cohanim, who served as the State Department's deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism during the Trump administration, told the Free Beacon that Jean-Pierre's promotion sends the wrong signal during a time of rising anti-Semitism.
""Joe Biden’s promotion of Jean-Pierre signals to all would-be Israel haters that their efforts will be rewarded with White House appointments and promotions!" Cohanim said. "At a time of rising anti-Semitism in America, Biden’s promotion of Jean-Pierre is exactly the wrong signal to send."
"Promoting Jean-Pierre further proves the point that the Democrat party has become a breeding ground of anti-Israel hostility that goes right up to the White House," Cohanim added.
"As a child of Holocaust survivors and as an American Jew, I am both appalled and frightened that Biden has chosen as his principal deputy press secretary, Ms. Jean-Pierre, who has shown essentially antisemitic hostility toward Israel and is willing to lie about and vilify Israel and Jews to promote her ugly Israelophobic agenda," Mort Klein, CEO of the Zionist Organization on America, said in a statement.
"Americans should be deeply concerned that this outrageous, incomprehensible anti-Israel, pro-terrorist and pro-Iran appointment indicates the dangerous direction the Biden administration is going to take against America’s greatest ally Israel and U.S.-Israel relations," Klein said.
One veteran pro-Israel community leader expressed shock that the president decided to hire Jean-Pierre.
"Jewish Americans will get slapped in the face every time they turn on the television and see someone standing at the podium who has said such vile things about Israel," said the source, who would only speak candidly on background. "Just days after the [Anti-Defamation League] boldly declared anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, the forces of radical left anti-Semitism got a boost from the President of the United States."
MoveOn, the far-left group that Jean-Pierre worked for from April 2016 until August 2020, also pressed Democratic lawmakers to boycott AIPAC’s annual conference, as well as the organization itself. "[Democratic] candidates should be prepared for push back regarding their involvement with AIPAC," a MoveOn spokeswoman told Politico in 2020.
MoveOn also has championed anti-Israel leaders in Congress, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), who were the organization’s first endorsements in the 2020 election cycle.
The group also ran interference for Omar and Tlaib when they were accused of making anti-Semitic statements and stoking hatred of Jews. Democrats, the group said in 2019, "must stand strong in solidarity with Reps. Tlaib, Omar—stand up to Israel right-wing government for doing Trump's racist, political dirty work."
And when far-left activist Linda Sarsour was criticized for anti-Semitism, MoveOn came to her defense, tweeting that she "is a leader in the fight for justice for all of us." MoveOn also defended Angela Davis, the notorious communist activist, as a "civil rights leader" after an award was revoked due to her anti-Semitic past.
Biden praised Jean-Pierre as a "talent" in a statement on the new hire.
"Karine not only brings the experience, talent and integrity needed for this difficult job, but she will continue to lead the way in communicating about the work of the Biden-Harris administration on behalf of the American people," the president said in a statement. "Jill and I have known and respected Karine a long time and she will be a strong voice speaking for me and this administration."
Meanwhile:
James Golden (AKA Snerdley) goes all out (edited.)
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ALERT: Herschel is Leading
By Mr. Snerdley emails@patriotpriority.com
Patriot
To say Georgia is going to the major battleground election this year is putting it mildly.
It’s going to be bloody!
This was the state that was front and center when the Democrats stole the election from President Trump in 2020.
And in 2022, this is going to be the state where Democrats lose their stranglehold on Black Americans.
From helping Herschel Walker ascend to the Senate to stopping Leftist Stacey Abrams from winning the Governor’s race, we have an action plan that will break the chains the Democrats have over Black voters and show them that the GOP is the true party of equality and prosperity.
My name is James Golden, but you may know me as Mr. Snerdley, former call screener and producer for the late great radio legend Rush Limbaugh. I worked for Rush for almost 30 years, and I learned a lot sitting beside a great man like him every day.
I helped form New Journey PAC to show Black Americans the truth about the Democrat Party. For years, Democrats and their Leftist media allies have indoctrinated Black voters to think the GOP is racist and the Democrat Party is their only ally.
And our efforts are working! We are seeing more and more Black Americans ditch their Democrat masters and vote for the Party of Lincoln.
Georgia has the chance to be the tipping point to turn the steady stream of Black Americans turning to the GOP into a massive flood of new voters – but only if we have the resources to fully implement our Georgia turnout program.
I mean it when I say Georgia is going to be front and center in 2022. We’re going to have a Senate race where both the Democrat and Republican are going to be black candidates and we need to keep Herschel Walker leading in the polls until he wins the race in November.
What better way to get Black voters engaged… especially when race no longer is a determining back. I know shocking… they’re going to be judged on the content of their character!
And then add the hot mess that Stacey Abrams brings to the Governor race… you can see why we must go ALL IN to engage Black Georgia voters and show them that the GOP is the TRUE party of equality.
That’s why I need you to dig deep. Georgia is the lynchpin to any hope of a Red Wave this November. But we got to start now if we have any chance to bring Georgia to the red column.
Whatever amount you can give, send it immediately. Georgia is too big a prize to lose and we have a chance to send the Democrats packing… but only if you donate today.
For a New Journey,
James Golden, AKA Bo Snerdley
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