"Lemon Pickers Needed,” read the ad in the newspaper.
Ms. Sally Mulligan of Coral Springs, Florida, saw it, and decided to apply for one of the jobs that most Americans are not willing to do. She submitted her application for a job in a Florida lemon grove, but seemed far too qualified for the job. She has a liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan, and a master’s degree from Michigan State University. For a number of years, she had worked as a social worker, and also as a school teacher.
The foreman studied her application, frowned, and said, "I see that you are well educated, and have an impressive resume. “However, I have to ask you, have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?” "Well, as a matter of fact, I have," she said. "I've been divorced three times, owned two Chryslers, voted twice for Obama, once for Hillary and most recently for Biden.”
She started work yesterday.
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So what is new?
Education can be likened to a pit where if one enters they might find treasures and delicious fruit. However, if one avoids their life most likely will continue to be full of barriers and misery.
Democrat Leaders Continue To Turn A Blind Eye To The Squad’s Glaring Antisemitism
Pelosi distances herself from the Squad while not actually condemning them or calling for their removal from Congress, as she does with Republicans who say offensive things.
By Jonathan S. Tobin
The Squad of congressional socialists recently came under new scrutiny as hypocrites when two of the original members of the left-wing club were revealed to be landlords.
Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, have supported legislation for a nationwide eviction moratorium that would further devastate the approximately 30 percent of property owners with low to moderate incomes due to the federal measure that has been illegally extended by President Joe Biden. Yet both Tlaib and Pressley received substantial rent payments in 2020. Tlaib received up to $50,000 last year from a tenant who occupies a Detroit home she owns.
While both were blasted by the press for this hypocrisy, the charmed lives Squad members continue to lead meant neither was particularly put out by this latest proof that congressional left-wingers believe socialism is for other people. Even more curiously, the national press continues to ignore a statement Tlaib made earlier this month that would have been enough to get a Republican expelled from Congress.
Speaking to an online conference of kindred spirits from the Democratic Socialists of America, the first Palestinian-American to sit in the House decided to go one step further in her ongoing demonization of Israel and Jews. Drawing a straight line between what she falsely characterized as oppression of Palestinians by Israel and the treatment of African Americans in the United States, the Michigan Democrat invoked a shadowy villainous conspiracy behind wrongdoing on two continents.
“They do it from Gaza to Detroit. The structure we’ve been living under right now is designed by those who exploit the rest of us, for their own profit. If you open the curtain and look behind the curtain, it’s the same people that make money — and yes they do — off of racism.”
There wasn’t much doubt who “they” are. She has claimed many times the dire straits of the people living in the independent Palestinian state in all but name governed by the Hamas terrorist group are solely the fault of Israel. That’s although the Jewish state withdrew every soldier, settler, and settlement from that territory in 2005.
But it’s equally true that Detroit, one of the nation’s most dysfunctional cities, has been governed by African-American Democrats for generations. So how can you link the two together?
It’s one of the oldest tropes in the antisemitic playbook and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” to claim that Jews are pulling the strings behind the oppression of poor people everywhere. But if you want to link the situation in Gaza to that of Detroit, the only way to do it is by floating a conspiracy involving those who support Israel and the same boogeymen blamed for the world’s ills from time immemorial: the Jews. Mentioning Gaza and Detroit in that manner is a dead giveaway that Tlaib was not so much dog-whistling to antisemites but bludgeoning them with a claim that the Jews are at fault for their problems.
Suffice it to say that by the left’s own standards — in which any negative reference to anything remotely connected to the Jews, whether it is criticizing leftist billionaire George Soros or even mentioning the Rothschilds, is proof of antisemitism — Tlaib is clearly guilty.
This is, after all, the same woman who has previously trafficked in antisemitic stereotypes and three months ago took part in a session of Israel-bashing on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Then, she and other members of the “Squad’ and their allies recirculated traditional canards about the Middle East conflict and rationalizations for Hamas in response to its firing of more than 4,000 rockets and missiles into Israel by the terrorist group. She’s also made it clear that she thinks the only just solution for the conflict in the Middle East is to erase the only Jewish state on the planet.
But claiming that the same people who are preventing Palestinians from getting rid of the sole Jewish state on the planet are also exploiting “regular Americans” was tying it all up in a conspiratorial bow.
The reaction from liberals, who frequently pretend hate and antisemitism only comes from the right, ranged from anger to confusion. The Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt has been operating from the partisan playbook of the party that he served in two administrations in recent years, but even he considered it “appalling.”
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, who has also been a consistent demonizer of Trump, has a hard time understanding why people he so desperately wants to think well of like Tlaib are antisemites. He ignored that Tlaib’s thinking exemplifies a century-long tradition of Palestinian thinking as well as the kind of conspiracy-mongering about Jewish power that has been employed by elements on the far left going back to Karl Marx himself. Instead, he claimed she was mimicking Trump, whom he claimed had unfairly criticized Tlaib and fellow Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnnesota, for their antisemitism and knee-jerk anti-American stands on foreign policy.
But the real question is what her party is willing to do to establish that it won’t tolerate the kind of open Jew-hatred that Tlaib spouts. The answer to that question is nothing.
Let’s remember that among the first tasks taken up by the current Congress when it convened earlier this year was to punish Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene for her past embrace of a variety of QAnon conspiracy theories. Democrats decided to make an example of her by denying Taylor-Greene the right to sit on House committees.
How then can House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, both of whom continue to proclaim their friendship and support for Jews and Israel, let Tlaib off the hook? The answer is the same they’ve given in the past for refusing to seriously discipline Omar. As “women of color,” they are given a standing free pass to engage in antisemitism.
In June, Omar made a specious and outrageous analogy between terrorist groups like Hamas and the Taliban and Israel and the United States, for which she gave one of her trademark “clarifications” that did not come close to a retraction or an apology.
Omar has accused American Jews of buying Congress with her notorious “it’s all about the Benjamins” line about the role played by the AIPAC pro-Israel lobby. That didn’t prevent her from being embraced by the House leadership as well as being feted as a celebrity by the late-night television comedians whose shows constitute a daily in-kind contribution to the Democratic Party.
According to Omar and her defenders, telling the truth about her antisemitism and hatred for Israel was “putting her life at risk.” The left-wing J Street lobby claimed that in simply noting the facts, AIPAC was “declaring war on progressive Democrats” and making false accusations against “women of color.” Pelosi and Hoyer chimed in saying that speaking out against Omar or Tlaib was “deeply cynical and inflammatory.”
The problem here is not just that the Squad has been lying about Israel and helping incite antisemitic violence against Jews as well as seeking to promote a conspiracy about Jewish influence. It’s that their fellow Democrats are still more offended by attempts to hold them accountable than they are by their antisemitism.
Democrats respond with talk of the far right’s antisemitism and gaslighting involving partisan talking points falsely linking Trump to such extremists or changing the subject to the so-called “insurrection.” But that is no answer to the fact that members of the House who are treated like rock stars by their party base and its pop culture and mainstream media cheering sections are becoming more brazen in their promotion of Jew-hatred.
We know that Democratic Socialists and other members of the left-wing base of the party that currently controls both the White House and Congress are increasingly embracing anti-Zionist positions, making it politically dangerous for mainstream Democrats to confront them. Liberal acquiescence to critical race theory, and a Black Lives Matter movement that falsely labels Israel and the Jews as oppressors who are guilty of white privilege, makes it hard for party moderates to respond effectively to this problem.
House Democratic leaders Pelosi and Hoyer have at times tried to get away with distancing themselves from these haters while not actually condemning them or calling for their removal from Congress, as they do for Republicans who say offensive things. The talk about defending “women of color” and other attempts at distracting us from the reality of what now amounts to an informal pro-antisemitism caucus in the House won’t cut it anymore.
If Tlaib isn’t given the same treatment dished out to Taylor-Green, then there is no way to argue that the House Majority hasn’t established a standard that gives a permission slip to antisemitism from the left.
Jonathan S. Tobin is a senior contributor to The Federalist, editor in chief of JNS.org, and a columnist for the New York Post. Follow him on Twitter at @jonathans_tobin.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org, a senior contributor for The Federalist and a columnist for the New York Post, Newsweek and Haaretz. He can be reached via e-mail at: jtobin@jns.org.
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The Mainstreaming of anti-Semitism in the Media
Farley Weiss(JNS)
In an article in The Daily Beast on Aug. 12, entertainment reporter Tirhakah Love bashed actress Mayim Bialik, one of the stars of the hit sit-com “The Big Bang Theory” and recently tapped host of the program “Jeopardy!”
In the piece, Love attacked Bialik, an Orthodox Jew, for her 2014 donation towards bulletproof vests for the “genocidal” Israel Defense Forces.
Love went even further, deriding Bialik for encouraging women to dress modestly, and called into question her selection as “Jeopardy!” host. But Bialik, who has a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, not only is a perfect choice for the trivia show, but is an audience favorite.
Love’s assault, then, had nothing to do with Bialik’s credentials or skills Instead, it focused on her being a religious Jew who supports Israel. This is anti-Semitism, plain and simple.
On Aug. 13, the day after the article appeared, Love was asked by a Twitter follower to “define Zionism.”
Love replied in a tweet, “[It’s] a faux ethno-religious liberation movement that is staunchly imperialistic as it’s an extension of British colonialism and an articulation of white supremacy.”
In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) formulated the “working definition of anti-Semitism,” which since then has been widely adopted around the world, including by the U.S. State Department.
According to the IHRA, manifestations of anti-Semitism “might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity, [though] criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as anti-Semitic. Anti-Semitism … is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.”
By this measure, Love’s description of Zionism as an “articulation of white supremacy” perfectly meets the IHRA criteria for being anti-Semitic.
The question must then be raised: What action has The Daily Beast taken against Love? The answer, as of today, is “none.” The article is still on the publication’s website, and Love is still on its staff.
The only tweak was made in response to outrage expressed by members of the Jewish community: The Daily Beast replaced the word “genocidal” with a quote from an April 2021 Human Rights Watch report falsely stating that some of Israel’s actions “amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”
In other words, the publication traded one blood libel for another.
In so doing, The Daily Beast is either promoting anti-Semitism or, at the very least, is complicit in its spread.
This isn’t the first time that The Daily Beast has been on the wrong side of anti-Semitism. In a March 2019 article, contributing editor Justin Baragona berated comments I made during a Fox Business Network interview with Stuart Varney. In response to a question by Varney about whether U.S. House Reps Ilan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) had said anything about Hamas’s firing rockets on Israel, I said, “I haven’t heard anything from [them], and I think that we shouldn’t hold our breath to hear anything from them. They don’t seem to side with Israel; they seem to side with the terrorists.”
In May, when Hamas launched more than 4,000 rockets at innocent Israeli citizens during “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” Omar, Tlaib and several of their colleagues not only failed to condemn Hamas; they condemned Israel—on the House floor. Omar even lamented that it was unfair for Israel to possess the Iron Dome missile-defense system, while Hamas did not have access to it.
Hamas, a terrorist entity under U.S. law, calls in its charter for the death of all Jews. My remarks to Varney two years earlier that the two Congresswomen “seem to side with the terrorists,” thus, was actually prescient.
The legitimization of anti-Semitism has led to violence against the Jewish community across America. This includes physical attacks in Los Angeles and New York.
It’s extremely dangerous when nothing is done about well-known publications like The Daily Beast employing anti-Semites and publishing anti-Semitic diatribes, such as Love’s against Bialik. It’s horrifying that this has become commonplace.
Anti-Semitism should have no place in America, certainly not in Congress. Nor should it be tolerated in The Daily Beast.
Only by speaking out against the spouting of anti-Semitism on Capitol Hill, and the printing of anti-Semitic garbage in mainstream media outlets, can we hope to reverse the rise of the phenomenon in America and around the world.
Farley Weiss, former president of the National Council of Young Israel, is an intellectual property attorney for the law firm of Weiss & Moy. The views expressed are the author’s, and not necessarily representative of NCYI.
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The anti-Semitic uneducated Jew
The difference between the Orthodox community and the secularist (and increasingly anti-Zionist) Jewish left can be summed up in one word: education—meaning, the Jewish sort.
By Rabbi Yaakov Menken
America has long been a welcoming home for minority religious groups, observant Jews being a notable example. In addition to synagogues, day schools and yeshivahs, growing demand is such that most sizable Jewish communities support at least one kosher grocery store with larger ones having multiple supermarkets carrying exclusively kosher foods.
Shoppers will find baked goods, produce, soda and so on, as they would in a Kroger or Publix supermarket, or Whole Foods Market, except that all items are kosher. But here’s what they will no longer find: Ben & Jerry’s. In response to the company’s announcement last month that selling ice-cream to Jews in Judea is “inconsistent” with its “values,” there isn’t a kosher supermarket or grocery store in the country willing to carry its products.
The Orthodox community clearly does not regard this corporate decision as a mere political matter. Few would go out of their way to boycott ice-cream if this were, in fact, solely about a geopolitical conflict, let alone one occurring thousands of miles away. What the Orthodox community instead perceives, rightly so, is a manifestation of the millennia-old hatred that we now term anti-Semitism.
Revealingly, a plethora of increasingly influential left-wing Jewish organizations disagree. The views of Moriah Richman, who is part of the national communications team for J Street U, are emblematic. She claims that Ben & Jerry’s actions are “principled and commendable,” a brave stand to combat “the systemic injustice of occupation.”
J Street is far from alone in adopting a stance foreign to that of the Orthodox community. Dozens of proudly progressive Jewish groups signed a letter claiming that AIPAC falsely accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of supporting hate. The more than 1,500 observant rabbis of Coalition for Jewish Values, for which I serve as managing director, attest that there was nothing false whatsoever about AIPAC’s “accusation.”
How, then, do we explain this split in the Jewish community? Why do self-proclaimed “progressive” Jews defend Ben & Jerry’s policy and Omar’s rhetoric when practically all observant Jewish Americans, like the vast majority of Israelis, consider them anti-Semitic?
The difference between the Orthodox community and the secularist (and increasingly anti-Zionist) Jewish left can be summed up in one word: education—meaning, the Jewish sort. What the leaders and members of groups like J Street, IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace share in common is an unwillingness to seriously engage with Jewish history, Jewish ideas and Jewish texts. In short, they have little connection to anything authentically Jewish.
No one imagines that a person can gain expertise in, for example, medicine, mathematics or literature by accident of birth. Yet these progressive groups lay claim to Jewish wisdom—and, specifically, “Jewish morality”—simply because many of their members were born to Jewish parents. This is, in essence, a racialist appeal for credibility.
“Anti-Semitism” is a German euphemism for a much, much older form of hatred. In every generation, it has found a new, socially acceptable facade. To combat it honestly and effectively, one must be educated in its underlying signs and symptoms. For thousands of years, observant rabbis have educated themselves to pierce the veil and identify the hate festering beneath. No one is born with this knowledge or the ability that attends it.
Here, however, is a brief primer: Anti-Semitism has always begun from the false belief in a vast Jewish conspiracy to steal, defraud and harm. The same bigoted myth of Jewish control of banks found in the fabricated The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Hitler’s Mein Kampf is at the core of accusations that Jews are “occupiers” for moving back into the vicinity of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and the Old City of Jerusalem where King Solomon built the Temple, after they were ethnically cleansed from these holy sites by Arab mobs and the Jordanian army in the early 20th century. Anti-Semitism today involves, as it always has, a hateful inversion of reality.
Since economics are at the root of the imagined crimes of Jews, they provide the first “reprisal” as well. This is why Jews were herded into ghettos and prohibited from owning property outside them during the Middle Ages. It is also why the first Nazi edict, in 1932, was a boycott of Jewish businesses, which the Arab League then adopted as a boycott of Palestinian goods in 1945. (In 1945, “Palestinians” referred exclusively to Jews.)
Proponents of the anti-Semitic Ben & Jerry’s boycott, subsumed under the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” movement, believe that reprising this ancient animus and Nazi tactic will eventually force Israel to abandon its defensive posture. Omar Barghouti, the founder of BDS, has declared that “no Palestinian … will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.” BDS’s goal is to deny Jews self-determination. As a result, BDS, contrary to its stated purpose, drives Israel away from the negotiating table not only because it demands Jews compromise their safety and the safety of their children, but because it is redolent with Jew-hatred.
In other words, none of this is complicated, but it requires adequate grounding in the nature of anti-Semitism and the way that it mutates to hide in plain sight.
Those without a substantive Jewish education cannot understand this. Nor can they speak for Jewish morality; their words are liable to do more harm than good. As the late Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said, “Most anti-Semites do not think of themselves as anti-Semites.” This is all the more true when the anti-Semites are of Jewish ancestry.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken is managing director of Coalition for Jewish Values.
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‘The Squad’ keeps inciting Jew-hatred, and their party keeps accepting it
Many of the same progressives who defend “The Squad” keep telling us that “silence is violence” and “silence is complicity.” They're right. If only they would take their own words to heart.
By Micha Danzig
Scapegoating Jews for the problems in a society has always been a central feature of Jew-hatred.
Since well before the German agitator Wilhelm Marr first utilized the phrase “anti-Semitism” in the late 19th century (to make Jew-hatred sound race-based, scientific and academic), the formula for justifying anti-Semitism and inciting Jew-hatred has been to find what people hate, fear or are most upset about, and attach it to the Jewish people. Call it the “Jew-hatred incitement formula.”
In the Middle Ages, the Jews were blamed for the spread of the Bubonic Plague. They were accused of poisoning wells and breeding spiders and vermin to spread the disease among non-Jews. This led to ethnic cleansing and widespread attacks against Jews.
In Czarist Russia, deprivation and economic hardship were regularly blamed on Jews, often with deadly consequences. So common was the scapegoating of Jews that between 1880 and 1920, pogroms (riots aimed at massacring Jews) exploded over and over again. And while hard data about the numbers of casualties is hard to come by conservative estimates are that more than 100,000 Jews were murdered during this period, with at least three times as many being wounded.
Hitler and the Nazis took full advantage of the history of anti-Semitism in Europe, as well as of the Jew-hatred incitement formula, by blaming Jews for the Great Depression, Germany’s loss in World War I, the shortcomings of capitalism, and, with no concern for the apparent contradiction, the spread of communism.
Now, in the 21st century, the Holocaust has become distant history for many people, and the Jew-hatred incitement formula is once again being utilized as a political tool by Jew-haters, including, sadly, many members of the U.S. Congress.
Considering also the historic obsession with focusing hate on Israel, the only Jewish country, it should surprise no one that some of these representatives would use this formula to incite hatred of Israel. What should be surprising is that so many of their fellow Democrats have turned a blind eye to the anti-Semitism coming from members of their own party.
On May 13, in a speech before Congress, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) compared the Israeli army to “violent white supremacists.”
Not the Chinese Army, which rounds up Uyghur Muslims in the dark of night and takes them to slave-labor “re-education” camps. Not the Iranian security police, who literally hang homosexuals. Not the Pakistani army, which regularly beats and oppresses the Baloch people. No other countries were referenced by Pressley as a parallel to the horror and stain of Jim Crow racism—only the one Jewish state is shoehorned into that mendacious comparison.
Perhaps Pressley was inspired by fellow “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who just two days earlier, in a speech delivered in front of the State Department decrying Israel’s response to Hamas rocket fire, claimed: “What they are doing to the Palestinians is what they are doing to our Black brothers and sisters here.”
Who are “they” in this statement? And how is it that Tlaib can claim that the Israeli response to Hamas firing rockets on Israel is connected to the struggles of black people in the United States?
The answer is that no one in the Democratic leadership challenged her effort to attach the one Jewish state to the more than 400 years of racism in America.
Later, on Aug. 1, in a speech at the 2021 Democratic Socialist of America National Convention, Tlaib took her use of the Jew-hatred incitement formula to the next level when she said:
“We also need to recognize, as I think about my family and Palestine that continue to live under military occupation and how that really interacts with this beautiful black city that I grew up in. … [Y]ou know, I always tell people cutting people off from water is violence, from Gaza to Detroit. And it’s a way to control people, to oppress people. And it’s those structures that we continue to fight against.”
It wasn’t enough that Tlaib attached legitimate water concerns in Michigan to fraudulent claims about Israel denying water to Palestinian Arabs—she took her speech to the Democratic Socialists yet another step further:
“I know that you all understand the structure that we’ve been living under right now is designed by those that exploit the rest of us for their own profit. I don’t care if it’s the issue around global human rights and our fight to free Palestine or to pushing back against those that don’t believe in the minimum wage or those that believe that people have a right to healthcare and so much more. And I tell people, those same people, that if you open the curtain and look behind the curtain, it’s the same people that make money and, yes, they do, off of racism, off of these broken policies. There is someone there making money, and you saw it!”
Appropriately, Tlaib gave this trope-laden speech in Detroit, where Henry Ford laid the groundwork with his infamous “International Jew” pamphlets, scapegoating Jews and deploying classic anti-Semitic tropes.
Three days later, on Aug. 4, another Squad member, Cori Bush, took the anti-Semitic baton from Tlaib, and in a speech before Congress invoked the Jew-hatred incitement formula to blame American aid to Israel for the crime, homelessness and poverty in her hometown of St. Louis. Not the $2 trillion the United States spent in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, including over $90 billion for the now-defunct Afghan Army. Not the $3 billion per year on average that the United States has provided to Egypt and Jordan since 1979. Not the near $35 billion that the United States spent just between 2016 and 2019 on maintaining its military presence in Japan and South Korea. Nor anything else in the annual federal expenditure of over $5 trillion.
According to Bush, out of the more than $5 trillion per year that the U.S. federal government spends, the only part responsible for the crime, homelessness and poverty in her congressional district is the part that goes toward America’s military aid package for Israel.
The irony is that unlike our aid packages to other countries, almost every dime of the U.S. aid package with Israel is spent in the U.S. on American-made products and benefits the United States in numerous other ways, including shared technological innovations. Blaming the less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the annual budget used in connection with the one Jewish state for domestic problems like homelessness, crime and poverty is a blatant use of the Jew-hatred incitement formula.
As with Pressley’s and Tlaib’s use of the formula, not a single Democratic leader stepped forward to rebuke, let alone formerly censure or sanction, Bush for her overt anti-Semitism. Instead, most of the Democratic Party leadership is silent in the face of this incitement to Jew-hatred.
When another Squad member, Rep Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), received well-deserved criticism for her use of anti-Semitic tropes—her “all about the Benjamins” or multiple “dual loyalty” claims, and her recent comparison of Israel to the Taliban (though she has been remarkably quiet about the Taliban lately)—the Democratic leadership in Congress quickly backed down from any effort to censure Omar for hate speech (in contrast with how the Republican leadership responded to Marjorie Taylor Green’s use of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories).
Even worse, Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi actually supported the dangerous deflection promoted by other Squad members like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Bush, that people were criticizing Omar because of her gender, faith and ethnicity rather than her inflammatory words.
The math is clear. Not only is there a Jew-hatred incitement formula, but also there is a different formula for how Jew-haters are treated depending on whether their hate speech comes from the perceived left or right.
While David Duke is universally and rightly vilified for his Jew-hatred, Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Jewish remarks and conspiracy theories get a pass from many members of Congress and other so-called progressives, who refuse to criticize or distance themselves from him. A Republican congresswoman who promotes dangerous conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds is sanctioned almost immediately, while Squad members continue to get a pass for regularly employing anti-Semitic tropes and using the age-old Jew-hatred incitement formula to blame Israel and the Jews for problems including unclean water, homelessness, racism in America, police brutality and poverty.
The problem is that whether incitement comes from the left or the right, it always leads to violence against Jews. The political ideology of the person engaging in anti-Semitism should have no bearing on our response to it. When people believe Jews are the cause of their problems, violence against Jews will follow.
We often hear from many of the same progressives who defend the Squad that “silence is violence” or “silence is complicity.” They’re right. If only they would take their own words to heart when it comes to their own silence in the face of the consistent use of the Jew-hatred incitement formula. Hopefully, they will do so before the cancer of this incitement spreads any further.
Micha Danzig served in the Israeli army and is a former police officer with the NYPD. He is currently an attorney and is very active with numerous Jewish and pro-Israel organizations, including Stand With Us, T.E.A.M. and the FIDF.
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My number three editor daughter has just reviewed a book that my Canadian computer guru set up all the printing as he did for my two books:
WITHOUT BORDERS
By Clyde Kwok
124 pp. MGI Media. 2021.
Dr. Clyde Kwok (1937 Shanghai–) taught mechanical engineering at Concordia University in Montreal (1969–92), and is currently the chairman of Wingho Auto, which sells and services vintage, new, and racing cars. A Probe 16, known as the Durango 95 when featured in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, was once part of his collection. Kwok has balanced his passion for aerodynamics and futurism with a dedicated study of the ancient discipline of Chinese calligraphy and seal carving. His new book Without Borders is an artistic and literary homage to his teacher Chuan Weng, a master seal cutter. The title references how "beauty, art, and life philosophy [transcend] race [and] international boundaries" (cover). The book is comprised of fifty-six images; cinnabar seal imprints are magnified to highlight their details. Kwok pairs each image (inky landscapes and minimal abstractions) with a literary quotation (a Chinese proverb or Western maxim). On Heavenly Principles IV, "it is easier to move a mountain than to change the character of a person" (Chinese proverb, 80). On Preparation, Benjamin Franklin conjures the fictional Mike Brady: "by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail" (108). Happiness, greed, forbearance, honorable behavior, good and evil, modesty, destiny. How does Kwok reconcile the past with the future? "The further you are able to look into the past, the more you are able to adjust for the future" (Remembering the Past, 70). Without Borders, in visuals and verse, is a paean to an essential philosophy. —Lisa Thaler, 26 August 2021
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Biden figures/hopes the sooner he washes his hands of the Afghanistan disaster he birthed the sooner Americans will forget what he did as the casualty rate mounts:
And:
Update #1: There are now reports that U.S. military personnel are among the casualties.
Update #2: There’s been a second explosion at the airport.
Breaking Now: What was feared has happened.
A suicide bomber has detonated at an entrance gate to the Kabul airport being used by Americans and Afghan refugees to flee Afghanistan.
The explosion was followed by multiple reports of gunfire.
There are unconfirmed reports of multiple deaths and casualties, although so far the Pentagon has not supplied any information.
Several intelligence sources believe the attack was carried out by ISIS as ISIS is a sworn enemy of both the United States and the Taliban.
An alert has just gone out to Americans in Afghanistan to leave any of the other gates at the airport and to not travel to the airport.
This is a breaking news report and we will have more as the day unfolds and we learn more from sources on the ground in Afghanistan.
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