Day one above and to the right. Day 2 above.
Pictures taken by a friend and fellow memo reader.
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And so it goes: https://youtu.be/U7GL6QLLNtA
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Bibi sneaks ahead by one. (See 1 below.)
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Erick Erickson and Katie Pavlich dissect the Ukraine call.(See 2 and 2a below.)
And:
Worth re-posting. (See 2b below.)
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Trump and Pompeo want to avoid war with Iran. Is this wise? Time will tell. I do not think so but it is a worthy goal if it works and does not send a sign of weakness. (See 3 below.)
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American Campuses aflame with hate.
The key to the radical's game is to bring chaos to college campuses. As the saying goes: "Youth is wasted on the young."(See 4 below.)
https://pjmedia.com/faith/
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This from a dear friend and fellow memo reader about what a "scandal" is and who get's painted. (See 5 below.)
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Lindsey unloads. (See 6 below.)
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Why liberals lie to blacks. (See 7 below.)
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This from a dear friend and fellow memo reader about what a "scandal" is and who get's painted. (See 5 below.)
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Lindsey unloads. (See 6 below.)
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Why liberals lie to blacks. (See 7 below.)
And:
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Dick
1) Netanyahu 55, Gantz 54 as President Reuven Rivlin concludes consultations
By GREER FAY CASHMAN
Despite what was virtually a foregone conclusion, President Reuven Rivlin on Monday entered into a second round of consultations with the four remaining factions whose parties will represent the public in the incoming Knesset which, barring a third election, is set to be inaugurated next month.
First to meet with Rivlin on Monday was the delegation of United Torah Judaism.
Media interest had waned since the previous evening. The television crews and still photographers were still in attendance, but most of the reporters who had crowded the President's Residence on Sunday night were absent.
Rivlin told them that the nation had gone to sleep the previous night with 46 recommendations that Blue and White leader Benny Gantz be the next prime minister and 40 for Likud leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The number of supporters for Gantz was later reduced to 43 when three members of The Arab Joint List withdrew their recommendation.
UTJ support for Netanyahu had for the first time given the prime minister a lead for the first time, said Rivlin, who asked if the party would be willing to go with another candidate.
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said that he wanted to make it very clear that the only nominee for his faction is Netanyahu, who he said had fulfilled all the conditions of the agreement he had signed with them.
Both Litzman and MK Moshe Gafni complained bitterly over the inflammatory campaign that had been waged against the ultra-Orthodox community. It was one thing they said to speak out against ultra-Orthodox legislators but another to incite against a whole sector of society - something that is untenable in a Western democracy.
The Yemina delegation led by Ayelet Shaked and Moti Yogev was also adamant that it would not accept any nominee other than Netanyahu, but called on Gantz to meet with the prime minister in order to form a national unity government and thus avoid a third round of elections.
Shaked said that she had personal dreams and ideological dreams, but was aware that under the circumstances she has to face reality.
Labor-Gesher, headed by Amir Peretz and Orly Levy-Abekasis, focused on social issues - although Peretz, being a resident of Sderot, also referred to the security situation which he said was crucial.
Matters of social welfare are no less crucial, he said, underscoring that housing must become affordable as it was in the 1960s. Levy-Abekasis was incensed that the government taxes life-saving medications.
She said that her friend Sharon was diagnosed with cancer. The medication which could prolong her life was not in the health basket and costs NIS 15,000 per month. Sharon died two months ago. Her husband Ronen said he could understand that such a rare drug could cost so much, but it bothered him to pay a tax of NIS 2,500 on it each month.
The Democratic Union was determined to get rid of Netanyahu and therefore recommended Gantz.
First to meet with Rivlin on Monday was the delegation of United Torah Judaism.
Media interest had waned since the previous evening. The television crews and still photographers were still in attendance, but most of the reporters who had crowded the President's Residence on Sunday night were absent.
Rivlin told them that the nation had gone to sleep the previous night with 46 recommendations that Blue and White leader Benny Gantz be the next prime minister and 40 for Likud leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The number of supporters for Gantz was later reduced to 43 when three members of The Arab Joint List withdrew their recommendation.
UTJ support for Netanyahu had for the first time given the prime minister a lead for the first time, said Rivlin, who asked if the party would be willing to go with another candidate.
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said that he wanted to make it very clear that the only nominee for his faction is Netanyahu, who he said had fulfilled all the conditions of the agreement he had signed with them.
Both Litzman and MK Moshe Gafni complained bitterly over the inflammatory campaign that had been waged against the ultra-Orthodox community. It was one thing they said to speak out against ultra-Orthodox legislators but another to incite against a whole sector of society - something that is untenable in a Western democracy.
The Yemina delegation led by Ayelet Shaked and Moti Yogev was also adamant that it would not accept any nominee other than Netanyahu, but called on Gantz to meet with the prime minister in order to form a national unity government and thus avoid a third round of elections.
Shaked said that she had personal dreams and ideological dreams, but was aware that under the circumstances she has to face reality.
Labor-Gesher, headed by Amir Peretz and Orly Levy-Abekasis, focused on social issues - although Peretz, being a resident of Sderot, also referred to the security situation which he said was crucial.
Matters of social welfare are no less crucial, he said, underscoring that housing must become affordable as it was in the 1960s. Levy-Abekasis was incensed that the government taxes life-saving medications.
She said that her friend Sharon was diagnosed with cancer. The medication which could prolong her life was not in the health basket and costs NIS 15,000 per month. Sharon died two months ago. Her husband Ronen said he could understand that such a rare drug could cost so much, but it bothered him to pay a tax of NIS 2,500 on it each month.
The Democratic Union was determined to get rid of Netanyahu and therefore recommended Gantz.
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2)
Trump-Ukraine Story is
More Complicated Than
Partisans Want to
Acknowledge
Trump-Ukraine Story is
More Complicated Than
Partisans Want to
Acknowledge
By Erick Erickson
If the President did demand Ukrainian help against Joe Biden for political reasons, that would be deeply problematic and probably would be grounds for impeachment. But there is literally no evidence that this happened and the whistle blower did not actually have any knowledge of the situation about which he complained.At the same time, this does not let Joe Biden off the hook. For the past two years, progressives have been attacking the entire Trump family for emoluments and other assorted allegations of enriching themselves through power. They have thus far failed to prove anything and courts have thrown out the cases against the Trump family. But Biden's family undoubtedly enriched themselves while Joe Biden was Vice President.In fact, from the New York Times to Politico to ABC News and beyond, there appears to be direct links between Hunter Biden's pursuit of business and his father's portfolio and travels as Vice President.
The latest Trump allegations caused a rush of “impeach him now” articles to crop up over the weekend, but the story is more complex than those op-eds want to acknowledge.
First, we need to go back to this May 1, 2019, story from the New York Times. Here is how it opens.
It was a foreign policy role Joseph R. Biden Jr. enthusiastically embraced during his vice presidency: browbeating Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt government to clean up its act. And one of his most memorable performances came on a trip to Kiev in March 2016, when he threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, who had been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite. The pressure campaign worked. The prosecutor general, long a target of criticism from other Western nations and international lenders, was soon voted out by the Ukrainian Parliament. Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.
Here is a related story on how Biden’s family cashed in on his position. ABC News has reported on the questionable coincidences of Hunter Biden trying to secure business while his dad was Vice President.
There is also this story about a Ukrainian lending money to Joe Biden’s brother.
Now, if President Trump, as chief executive officer of the United States, wanted to make sure an American politician or businessman was not engaged in corruption with foreign countries, he absolutely has that right.
He is, after all, the chief executive.
The Wall Street Journal notes that there does not appear to be a quid pro quo in the President’s conversations with the Ukrainian President.
Mr. Trump in the call didn’t mention a provision of U.S. aid to Ukraine, said this person, who didn’t believe Mr. Trump offered the Ukrainian president any quid pro quo for his cooperation on any investigation.
This is important because buried in this CNN report on the subject comes this important nugget:
The whistleblower didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications, an official briefed on the matter told CNN. Instead, the whistleblower’s concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration’s determination that the complaint didn’t fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.
In other words, the whistle blower does not really know what happened, but those who do claim there is no quid pro quo.
We should go beyond this, however. If the President did demand Ukrainian help against Joe Biden for political reasons, that would be deeply problematic and probably would be grounds for impeachment. But there is literally no evidence that this happened and the whistle blower did not actually have any knowledge of the situation about which he complained.
At the same time, this does not let Joe Biden off the hook. For the past two years, progressives have been attacking the entire Trump family for emoluments and other assorted allegations of enriching themselves through power. They have thus far failed to prove anything and courts have thrown out the cases against the Trump family. But Biden’s family undoubtedly enriched themselves while Joe Biden was Vice President.
In fact, from the New York Times to Politico to ABC News and beyond, there appears to be direct links between Hunter Biden’s pursuit of business and his father’s portfolio and travels as Vice President.
If we presume enriching one’s self through government is wrong, the Biden family has a lot to answer for, not just the Trump family.
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Over the past four days, the media has been consumed with an allegation President Trump "bribed" or pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Hunter Biden's business dealings inside the country. The claim comes from a whistleblower, who filed a complaint with the Inspector General and said he or she heard, but did not directly witness, President Trump pressuring a Ukrainian official.
On campus anti-Semitism
2a)
Actually, It Was Joe Biden Who Bribed the Ukrainians to Fire a Prosecutor Looking Into His Son
By Katie Pavlich
From Fox News:
The whistleblower who sparked a mounting controversy over President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s president did not have “firsthand knowledge” of the conversation, a person familiar with the situation told Fox News -- even as the issue fuels impeachment calls from Democrats.
The source said that it is made clear in the complaint itself that the whistleblower did not have direct knowledge of the July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
But it turns out, it was former Vice President Joe Biden who actually admitted to doing what President Trump is currently being accused of.
It was a foreign policy role Joseph R. Biden Jr. enthusiastically embraced during his vice presidency: browbeating Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt government to clean up its act. And one of his most memorable performances came on a trip to Kiev in March 2016, when he threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, who had been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite.
The pressure campaign worked. The prosecutor general, long a target of criticism from other Western nations and international lenders, was soon voted out by the Ukrainian Parliament.
Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.
During remarks to reporters Sunday before leaving for the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, Trump said he did discuss Joe Biden during a recent call with Ukrainian President Zelensky and cautioned about reading too far into what was said.
"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, with largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place and largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine and Ukraine has got a lot of problems. The new president is saying that he's going to be able to rid the country of corruption, and I said that would be a great thing, we had a great conversation," Trump said. "We had a conversation on many things, in fact, I believe Ukraine put out a statement yesterday saying that we covered many different topics and it was a warm and friendly conversation. I backed Ukraine from the beginning, but I'm very upset that other countries aren't doing the same. Germany should be spending much more, France, all of the European Union should be spending money. Why are we spending money and they're not? Or at least they're spending very little by comparison, so I'm not happy about that."
The White House is now reportedly weighing the option of releasing the transcript of the call to clear
The White House is now reportedly weighing the option of releasing the transcript of the call to clear
"I may do it because it was a very interesting call," Trump said Monday afternoon about the potential release.
2b)THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS (This is why Pelosi is scared)
(EXTRAORDINARILY INFORMATIVE - What every American should know)
ONE MAN'S OPINION – The writer has a degree in Political Science, and is a card-carrying Libertarian.
I’ve been studying politics and political history for the past 30 years.
My specialty is U.S. Presidents. That said, I hope that the House of Representatives impeaches Trump.
Let me tell you what will happen next.
1. The House can pass articles of impeachment over the objections of the Republicans, and refer to the Senate for trial.
2. The Senate will conduct a trial. There will be a vote, and the Republicans will vote unanimously, along with a small number of Democrats, to not convict the President. Legally, it will all be over at that point.
3. However, during the trial, and this is what no one is thinking about right now, the President's attorneys will have the right to subpoena and question ANYONE THAT THEY WANT.. That is different than the special counsel investigation, which was very one-sided. So, during the impeachment trial, we will be hearing testimony from James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Donna Brazille, Eric Holder,Loretta Lynch, Christopher Steele, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, and a whole host of other participants in this whole sordid affair and the ensuing cover up activities.
A lot of dirt will be dug up; a lot of truth will be unveiled. Finger pointing will occur. Deals will start being made, and suddenly, a lot of Democrats will start being charged and going to prison.
All this, because, remember, the President's team will now, for the first time, have the RIGHT to question all of these people under oath - and they will turn on each other. That’s already starting.
4. Lastly, one more thing will happen – the Senate will not convict the President. Nothing will happen to Trump.
Most Americans are clueless about political processes, the law, and the Constitution. Most Americans believe that being impeached results in removal from office. They don't understand that phase 2 is a trial in and by the Senate, where he has zero chance of conviction.
Remember, the Senate is controlled by Republicans; they will determine what testimony is allowed -- and "everything" will be allowed, including: DNC collusion with the Clinton campaign to fix the election in favor of Hillary, the creation of the Trump dossier, the cover up and destruction of emails that very likely included incriminating information.
They’ll incriminate each other for lying to the FISA court, for spying and wiretapping the Trump campaign, and for colluding with foreign political actors, especially George Soros.
After the Senate declines to convict the President, we will have an election, and Trump will win. It will be a backlash against Democrat petulance, temper tantrums, hypocrisy and dishonesty. Even minorities will vote for Trump, because, for the first time, they will see that Democrats
have spent 2+ years focused on maintaining their own power, and not doing anything at all about black murders in Chicago, homelessness, opioids, and other important issues that are actually killing people. And, we will spend the following four years listening to politicians and pundits claim that the whole impeachment was rigged somehow.
Why gun control? Because armed people will NOT willingly load themselves into railroad boxcars
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(EXTRAORDINARILY INFORMATIVE - What every American should know)
ONE MAN'S OPINION – The writer has a degree in Political Science, and is a card-carrying Libertarian.
I’ve been studying politics and political history for the past 30 years.
My specialty is U.S. Presidents. That said, I hope that the House of Representatives impeaches Trump.
Let me tell you what will happen next.
1. The House can pass articles of impeachment over the objections of the Republicans, and refer to the Senate for trial.
2. The Senate will conduct a trial. There will be a vote, and the Republicans will vote unanimously, along with a small number of Democrats, to not convict the President. Legally, it will all be over at that point.
3. However, during the trial, and this is what no one is thinking about right now, the President's attorneys will have the right to subpoena and question ANYONE THAT THEY WANT.. That is different than the special counsel investigation, which was very one-sided. So, during the impeachment trial, we will be hearing testimony from James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Donna Brazille, Eric Holder,Loretta Lynch, Christopher Steele, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, and a whole host of other participants in this whole sordid affair and the ensuing cover up activities.
A lot of dirt will be dug up; a lot of truth will be unveiled. Finger pointing will occur. Deals will start being made, and suddenly, a lot of Democrats will start being charged and going to prison.
All this, because, remember, the President's team will now, for the first time, have the RIGHT to question all of these people under oath - and they will turn on each other. That’s already starting.
4. Lastly, one more thing will happen – the Senate will not convict the President. Nothing will happen to Trump.
Most Americans are clueless about political processes, the law, and the Constitution. Most Americans believe that being impeached results in removal from office. They don't understand that phase 2 is a trial in and by the Senate, where he has zero chance of conviction.
Remember, the Senate is controlled by Republicans; they will determine what testimony is allowed -- and "everything" will be allowed, including: DNC collusion with the Clinton campaign to fix the election in favor of Hillary, the creation of the Trump dossier, the cover up and destruction of emails that very likely included incriminating information.
They’ll incriminate each other for lying to the FISA court, for spying and wiretapping the Trump campaign, and for colluding with foreign political actors, especially George Soros.
After the Senate declines to convict the President, we will have an election, and Trump will win. It will be a backlash against Democrat petulance, temper tantrums, hypocrisy and dishonesty. Even minorities will vote for Trump, because, for the first time, they will see that Democrats
have spent 2+ years focused on maintaining their own power, and not doing anything at all about black murders in Chicago, homelessness, opioids, and other important issues that are actually killing people. And, we will spend the following four years listening to politicians and pundits claim that the whole impeachment was rigged somehow.
Why gun control? Because armed people will NOT willingly load themselves into railroad boxcars
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3) Pompeo: U.S. mission is to avoid war with Iran
By REUTERS
The United States aims to avoid war with Iran and the additional troops ordered to be deployed in the Gulf region are for "deterrence and defense," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.
Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Pompeo added that he was confident U.S. President Donald Trump would take action if such deterrence measures fail and that this was well understood by the Iranian leadership.
"Our mission set is to avoid war," Pompeo said. "You saw what Secretary Esper announced on Friday, we are putting additional forces in the region for the purpose of deterrence and defense," he said.
Pompeo said Washington was taking measures to deter Tehran, but he added that Trump would take necessary action if Tehran failed to change its behavior. "If that deterrence should continue to fail, I am also confident that President Trump would continue to take the actions that are necessary," he said.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have further escalated after an attack last weekend on Saudi oil facilities that initially disrupted half of the oil production from the kingdom, the world's largest oil exporter, and was blamed on Tehran by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
U.S. has slapped more sanctions on Iran, penalizing the Iranian Central Bank while the Pentagon said it was sending U.S. troops to bolster Saudi Arabia's air and missile defenses after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom's oil facilities.
Iran denied involvement in the attack. Yemen's Houthi movement, an Iran-aligned group fighting a Saudi-led alliance in Yemen's civil war, has claimed responsibility.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking to CNN, said the attack on Saudi oil facilities was an attack on the world economic system. He said the United States expects that any country attached to the U.S. dollar system will abide by the sanctions on Iran.
Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and ramped up sanctions to strangle its oil exports, a mainstay of the Iranian economy.
The move dismantled part of former U.S. President Barack Obama's legacy and upset U.S. allies who were party to the agreement, which was designed to restrict Tehran's pathway to a nuclear bomb in exchange for sanctions relief.
In recent weeks, Trump had weighed the possibility of easing sanctions on Iran and suggested he could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is due to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week. Rouhani has said that Iran, which denies seeking nuclear weapons, would not talk to the United States until Washington lifted sanctions.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, France's foreign minister, said on Sunday that his country's main aim at the General Assembly meeting is to de-escalate tensions between the United States and Iran, and that a meeting between Trump and Rouhani was not the top priority.
"The meeting between President Trump and President Rouhani is not the No.1 subject. The priority subject is whether we can restart a de-escalation path with the different actors," Le Drian told reporters.
France has led a European effort to try and defuse tensions between Washington and Tehran but those efforts have stalled, with Iran reducing its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and the United States refusing to ease sanctions that have strangled Iran's economy.
Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Pompeo added that he was confident U.S. President Donald Trump would take action if such deterrence measures fail and that this was well understood by the Iranian leadership.
"Our mission set is to avoid war," Pompeo said. "You saw what Secretary Esper announced on Friday, we are putting additional forces in the region for the purpose of deterrence and defense," he said.
Pompeo said Washington was taking measures to deter Tehran, but he added that Trump would take necessary action if Tehran failed to change its behavior. "If that deterrence should continue to fail, I am also confident that President Trump would continue to take the actions that are necessary," he said.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have further escalated after an attack last weekend on Saudi oil facilities that initially disrupted half of the oil production from the kingdom, the world's largest oil exporter, and was blamed on Tehran by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
U.S. has slapped more sanctions on Iran, penalizing the Iranian Central Bank while the Pentagon said it was sending U.S. troops to bolster Saudi Arabia's air and missile defenses after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom's oil facilities.
Iran denied involvement in the attack. Yemen's Houthi movement, an Iran-aligned group fighting a Saudi-led alliance in Yemen's civil war, has claimed responsibility.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking to CNN, said the attack on Saudi oil facilities was an attack on the world economic system. He said the United States expects that any country attached to the U.S. dollar system will abide by the sanctions on Iran.
Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and ramped up sanctions to strangle its oil exports, a mainstay of the Iranian economy.
The move dismantled part of former U.S. President Barack Obama's legacy and upset U.S. allies who were party to the agreement, which was designed to restrict Tehran's pathway to a nuclear bomb in exchange for sanctions relief.
In recent weeks, Trump had weighed the possibility of easing sanctions on Iran and suggested he could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is due to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week. Rouhani has said that Iran, which denies seeking nuclear weapons, would not talk to the United States until Washington lifted sanctions.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, France's foreign minister, said on Sunday that his country's main aim at the General Assembly meeting is to de-escalate tensions between the United States and Iran, and that a meeting between Trump and Rouhani was not the top priority.
"The meeting between President Trump and President Rouhani is not the No.1 subject. The priority subject is whether we can restart a de-escalation path with the different actors," Le Drian told reporters.
France has led a European effort to try and defuse tensions between Washington and Tehran but those efforts have stalled, with Iran reducing its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and the United States refusing to ease sanctions that have strangled Iran's economy.
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4) Anti-Semitic Harassment at U.S.
Campuses Hits Historic Levels
By Adam Kredo23 Elul 5779
Photo Credit: Courtesy, University of Texas Hillel and ADL
On campus anti-Semitism
{Originally posted to the Washington Free Beacon website}
Anti-Semitic harassment on college campuses aimed at pro-Israel students jumped by 70 percent in the past year, the highest levels ever seen, according to a new study showing that the endorsement of anti-Israel causes by students and professors has created an unsafe environment for Jewish students.
Harassment of students who expressed pro-Israel ideologies jumped 70 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to a new report by the AMCHA Initiative, a campus organization that monitors anti-Semitism on more than 400 college campuses and that has recorded some 2,500 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. since 2015.
AMCHA found in its latest report that while examples of classical anti-Semitism decreased overall, there has been a major spike in students being targeted for hate speech and violence due to their open support for the state of Israel.
The findings jibe with anecdotal evidence seen across the country of Jewish and pro-Israel students experiencing violence and harassment from those associated with the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which aims to wage economic warfare on Israel. The BDS movement has put major resources into its campus activities and it appears to be bearing fruit across the United States.
Hostility toward Israel’s supporters on campus “reached near-historic levels” during the past year, according to the report.
“Antisemitic acts involving the singling out of Jewish and pro-Israel students and groups for personal vilification more than doubled,” including a 147 percent increase in incidents of the students being linked to “white supremacy,” according to the findings. “Attempts to exclude” Jewish and pro-Israel students “from campus activities more than doubled, with expression calling for the total boycott or exclusion of pro-Israel students from campus life nearly tripling.”
The findings are a sign that hatred toward Jews and pro-Israel students is primarily coming from activists aligned with the BDS movement, rather than classic anti-Semitic motivators such as white supremacist ideologies.
“While acts of classical antisemitism in the U.S. reached near-historic levels in 2018 and included the deadliest attack against Jews in American history, the nation’s colleges and universities revealed a somewhat different but nonetheless troubling story,” according to AMCHA’s study. “On campuses across the country, harassment motivated by classical antisemitism actually decreased, and significantly so. At the same time, however, the number of Israel-related acts of harassment increased significantly.”
Anti-Semitic expression and acts on campus continue to rise to historic levels, according to the study.
Israel-related anti-Semitic expression increased significantly in amount and blatant eliminationist intent, the report found.
“Expression demonizing and delegitimizing Israel,” for example, “increased by 32%, with expression accusing Israel or Zionism of ‘white supremacy’ more than doubling,” according to the report.
“Expression promoting or condoning terrorism against Israel increased by 67%” during the past year.
Researchers also discovered a “dramatic increase in student and faculty acknowledgment of anti-Zionist intent,” as both student and faculty supporters of the BDS movement become more emboldened in their advocacy.
Words and acts “promoting or condoning the elimination of Israel more than doubled,” according to the study. It also found a “three-fold increase from 2017 to 2018 of incidents involving individuals or groups openly acknowledging their opposition to Zionism.”
Moreover, “expression by BDS supporters acknowledging that the goal of BDS is to bring about or facilitate the elimination of Israel” increased from one incident in 2017 to 32 in 2018.
Much of this rise has been attributed to the willingness of college faculty members to lend their voices to the BDS and anti-Israel movement.
This includes academic boycott of Israel, which was linked to 86 percent of the anti-Semitic harassment, and a dramatic increase in faculty members promoting BDS and anti-Israel activism.
“Academic BDS is primarily a faculty-driven boycott, whose rise in prominence and popularity on campuses across the country is linked to the increased participation of faculty in the anti-Zionist rhetoric and behavior associated with it,” according to AMCHA.
“Events sponsored by academic departments that contained the demonization or delegitimization of Israel increased by 85%,” the study found.
“Taken together, these results suggest that the significant increase in acts of Israel-related harassment seen in 2018 may have been a direct consequence of the increased promotion and implementation of academic BDS,” according to the researchers.
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, AMCHA’s director and a member of the research team, said that it is becoming clear that college faculty members are now directly contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism on campus.
“Academic BDS is more dangerous than people realize,” Rossman-Benjamin said in a statement. “Not only does implementation curtail students’ educational rights and opportunities, its promotion on campus, particularly by faculty who give it academic legitimacy, is inciting an alarming increase in harassment against Israel’s presumed supporters, first and foremost Jewish students. Administrators must take the necessary steps now to stop these unacceptable acts of intolerance.”
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5) Dick,
The reason there is no scandal with Biden is the same reason the Media reported no scandal with the IRS suppressing conservative groups, no scandal with Hillary’s server, no scandal with Barry’s many lavish trips with friends and family, no scandal with Fusion working for Ukraine (only Manafort working with Ukraine), no scandal with Trayvon portrayed as 6 years younger and the victim, no scandal with Michael Brown being a thug and the aggressor, but portrayed as innocent school child, no scandal with Eric Holder and Fast and Furious, no scandal with Huma’s hard drive and top secret emails, no scandal with the murder of Seth Rich, no scandal with Hillary laundering $ with Perkins Coie, no scandal with a book proving the Parkland School shooter was shielded from law enforcement by Progressive rules, and so much more.
You see real headline scandals are reserved only for Trump, as any news of scandal by his political opponents is nicely downplayed or suppressed entirely.
Imagine if Trump had had a hand in any of these “nonstories”. Do you think they would instead demand impeachment hearings?
Huh?
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6) Lindsey Graham
SLAPS Biden Down To Size
The Buzz News
The left should be terrified after what Graham just shined the spotlight on…
Recently on Fox News channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Demanded the Justice Department launch an investigation into “all things Ukraine,” and added specifically that the “Biden-Ukraine connection” must be a part of the investigation.
Graham stated, “Joe Biden said everybody has looked at this and found nothing. Who is everybody? Nobody’s looked at the Ukraine and the Bidens, nobody’s looked at the role that Ukraine played in 2016 election. Do you think the media in America would really look at it and report on it if there was something bad for the Bidens or they unduly interfered in the 2016 election?”
“So here’s what I’m calling for, I’m calling for somebody in the Justice Department to look at all things Ukraine, we’ve looked at all things Russia and Trump — his family, everything about his family, every transaction between the Trump campaign and Russia, now it’s time to see whether or not the Ukrainians released information regarding Manafort, who was Trump’s campaign manager,” he added. “What relationships if any, did the Biden world have with the Ukraine, what role if any, did the Ukraine play in 2016 election. So nobody’s looked at this, but somebody should, so I’m hoping that the Department of Justice will look at the Biden-Ukraine connection like we looked at the Trump-Russia connection.”
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