HonestReporting Research Study: Comparing US Media Coverage of Hate Crimes Against Minorities, Including Jews
Today, HonestReporting released a research study that shows antisemitism is vastly under-reported in the media compared to hate crimes against other minority groups in the US.
HonestReporting CEO Daniel Pomerantz is slated to appear on the FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition podcast this afternoon (6 PM EST), when he will discuss HonestReporting's findings. We invite all of our subscribers to tune in.
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STEPHEN M FLATOW DOES NOT WASTE WORDS WHEN HE WRITES A COLUMN.
EVERY STORY HE WRITES FROM HIS HOME IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM IS AN IMPORTANT READ, BUT THIS ONE TODAY IS EXCEPTIONAL
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As I was reading the story “Arab Lives Matter,” I also kept thinking “Black Lives don’t seem either to matter in Chicago and Baltimore!”
In Minneapolis, a Black Life mattered when it was one individual by the name of George Floyd, killed by a white cop and a guy by the name of Al Sharpton could see profit out of his death.
In the West, if you can’t blame the Jews, don’t blame anybody
For Israel’s critics, Arab Lives Matter only when Israeli Jews can be blamed. When no Jews are involved, then suddenly Arab lives don’t matter at all, it seems.
By STEPHEN M. FLATOW :
Arabs in the Israeli city of Ramle are being terrorized.
In recent weeks, a young Arab man was shot dead near a Ramle mosque, an Arab was woman slain in front of her children, another Arab woman was murdered in a car bombing, a couple and their teenage daughter were gunned down in a drive-by shooting, and a young woman was shot and killed in the adjacent city of Lod.
Surely you heard about these killings. J Street and Americans for Peace Now, which are committed to the principle that Arab Lives Matter, are urging Congress to intervene. The State Department is demanding an explanation. The United Nations is preparing to convene an emergency session.
Oh, wait–no, they’re not. J Street and Americans for Peace Now haven’t said a word about all those murdered Arabs.
Neither have the State Department or the UN.
Reporters aren’t rushing to interview the victims’ families. Jewish ex-State Department officials aren’t scrambling to offer comments. Angry pundits aren’t dashing off furious op-eds.
Can you guess why not?
If J Street or the Washington think tank crowd thought that Israeli Jews – think Hilltop Youth – were to blame, you can bet they would be mounting the barricades. The problem for them is that Arabs are committing the murders.
You see, for Israel’s critics, Arab Lives Matter only when Israeli Jews can be blamed. When no Jews are involved, then suddenly Arab lives don’t matter at all, it seems.
Too bad for Ziad Mughrabi, just 28 and with his whole life ahead of him. They found his dead body near a mosque in Ramle’s mostly-Arab Jawarish neighborhood. Mughrabi was a nephew of a leader of the Jaroushi clan, which is involved in an ongoing rivalry with another Arab clan.
Just two weeks ago, Mrs. Suhaila Jaroushi, 36, was gunned down in front of her young children on a Ramle street, another apparent victim of the clan war. Last year, Yousef Jaroushi, 58, his 46 year-old wife, Nawal, and their 16 year-old daughter, Rayan, were all killed in a drive-by shooting shortly after moving from Ramle to an Israeli Arab town in the Galilee.
And last December, an Arab woman was murdered in a car bombing in Ramle. Police are still investigating that one. There are so many possibilities: family feuds, turf wars between mafia factions, and of course, the most infamous – “honor killings.” That’s when Muslim extremists murder their wives or daughters on suspicion that they somehow dishonored their family by, for example, leaving an abusive husband or wearing a short skirt.
Last week, the ex-husband and the brother of Ms. Lamis Abu Laban, 26, were arrested for shooting her to death in the city of Lod. She left behind three young children. Apparently she “dishonored” them by fleeing from her abusive husband.
In the past year, 16 women were murdered in Israel under such circumstances.
Last year, a total of 126 Arabs were killed in criminal incidents in Israel. You would think that 126 murders of Arabs would move J Street to issue at least one press release or would stir a Jewish ex-State Department official to send out one tweet. Just one! Because if Israeli Jews had been involved in any of those killings, those press releases and tweets would be clogging up our email boxes.
But they can’t blame the Jews. So, they don’t blame anybody. They say nothing.
It’s not just that the Jewish Left and the State Department don’t show any genuine human feeling for the victims. There’s also a callous political motive involved.
Drawing attention to intra-Arab violence reminds people about uncomfortable differences between life in Israel and life in Arab societies. The phenomenon of “honor killings” and other casual violence in Israeli Arab society – and
Palestinian Arab society – is a reminder of the kind of neighbor Israel would have if a Palestinian Arab state is ever set up next door. Those guns which are casually fired in celebrations at Arab weddings would have many new targets.
And that’s something which the J Streeters don’t want people thinking about.
Such cynicism is contemptible – and, frankly, kind of racist as well. It treats Arab deaths as unworthy of comment or concern unless they can be used to further a political agenda. What a tragedy!
Stephen M. Flatow is an attorney and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He is the author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror and an oleh hadash (new immigrant).
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There’s Apartheid in the Holy Land, but Not in Israel
Palestinian law makes selling land to Jews a crime punishable by death, often without trial.
By Eugene Kontorovich
The report by Amnesty International accusing Israel of apartheid—a likely preview of similar moves at the United Nations and the International Criminal Court—has been widely debunked, including in these pages. Yet what is remarkable about its 200 pages of distortions is the evidence of real apartheid-like policies that Amnesty leaves out. There are reasons to be concerned about the emergence of apartheid in the Holy Land—but not the ones Amnesty cites.
The defining characteristic of apartheid—what distinguishes it from generic racial discrimination—is the rigid separation of groups in public spaces and positions of power. This is the apart in apartheid.
Thus, a sign of apartheid could be a government policy that bans real-estate sales or transactions to the disfavored group. Apartheid is suggested by policies that carve out massive zones where the disfavored group cannot live or work, create ethnically homogenous zones, and restrict the disfavored group to ghettos. One might consider it apartheid if a government enforced a policy of extrajudicial execution of members of a disfavored group.
All these policies are practiced in the West Bank and Gaza—by the Palestinian Authority government against Jews. What makes the “Israel apartheid” meme particularly despicable is that is not just a lie, it is an inversion of the truth. In all areas controlled by Israel, Jews and Arabs mix openly. Yet the Palestinian Authority has for decades ruled over Gaza and about half the West Bank—and all the areas under its jurisdiction are Jew-free.
There isn’t a single Jewish community living anywhere under Palestinian control. This isn’t because of Jewish preferences. Jewish communities exist across the world; they would certainly exist 10 minutes from Jerusalem if it weren’t for the Palestinian Authority’s policies of excluding Jews and inciting violence and prejudice against them.
Palestinian law makes selling land to Jews a crime punishable by death, often without trial. Nor does the authority recognize any Jewish titles to private property. Last year a Palestinian religious official said on Palestinian TV that “this land is a pure right of its Muslim owners, the people of Palestine.” A senior Palestinian Authority figure said in an official publication, “Whoever sells real estate to the enemy . . . is considered a traitor to the religion, the homeland, and the people, and all those who commit this must be punished.”
In Israel, by contrast, Arabs enjoy full property rights, enforced by the courts against Jews. Perversely, Amnesty cites as an example of Israeli apartheid a series of legal proceedings in which Jewish property owners in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah seek (thus far unsuccessfully) to evict squatters who happen to be Arab. In Amnesty’s alternate universe, Jews enforcing their property rights is apartheid; Jews being denied the right to own property isn’t. The South African government used death squads against blacks. The Palestinian government pays terrorists for killing Jews—the more people killed, the bigger the bounty. It regularly imprisons the few brave Palestinians who speak out against its policies.
In all the territories controlled by the Palestinian government, Jews are prevented from worshipping at their holy sites, despite explicit provisions in the Oslo Accords requiring the Palestinian Authority to protect such worship. When Jews manage to visit such shrines, they must come in the middle of the night under armed guard. And even in areas under Israeli control, like the Temple Mount—Jews’ holiest site—the Palestinian Authority prevents public Jewish prayer by threatening mass violence if Jews “defile” it with their “filthy feet,” in the words of President Mahmoud Abbas.
All this is part of a larger vision. The Palestinian Constitution defines Palestine as an exclusively “Arab nation,” with Islam the official religion and Arabic the sole official language. At the same time, Palestinian officials and educators deny any Jewish history or connection to Israel. In Israel, on the other hand, though it is the only Jewish-majority country in the world, Judaism isn’t the official religion. Both Hebrew and Arabic enjoy official status. Yet Amnesty claims that merely identifying as a “nation state” of a particular people is an apartheid practice—but only when it comes to Israel.
Apartheid is not merely a term of opprobrium, it is a crime created by and defined in international treaties. As a legal matter, while Ramallah’s treatment of Jews is discriminatory and violates human rights, it is impossible to say it formally qualifies as apartheid. The standard for apartheid has been set so high by the international community, that thus far only South Africa has been deemed a clear case. But by the standards implicit in Amnesty’s report, the Palestinian government is guilty.
Mr. Kontorovich is a professor at George Mason University Scalia Law School, and a scholar at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem think tank.
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This racist has utter contempt for society. Meanwhile she tries to appear she is above the fray. Democrats pass laws and then disobey the very laws they pass. They are hypocrites who believe they can apologize their way out of their actions.
Stacey Abrams Still Attempting to Do Damage Control After Caught Maskless at Elementary School
By Landon Mion
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In his new book, "The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros." author Matt Palumbo details Soros’ extensive targeting of local elections to destroy law and order in America and much more. He is Newt's latest podcast guest.
When politics replaces heroes
By Salena Zito
PITTSBURGH — Just moments after the press reported there had been no fatalities in the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge, the tragic event instantly turned into a political spectacle.
“Shame on the Republican lawmakers who didn't support the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law," tweeted Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. "Pennsylvanian lives are on the line. It's long past time for the political games to come to an end."
The tweet was misinformed at best, a lie at worst. The Fern Hollow Bridge was not on the list of projects due to be funded by the new infrastructure bill. But as they say, never let facts get in the way of a political opportunity.
Averted tragedies, ideally, make us feel better about who we are, rather than causing us to reach for the quickest way to divide people. But Wolf opted for the latter in his social media thread. He praised fellow Democrats Joe Bidenand Bob Casey, who were both coincidentally in Pittsburgh that day for an event, for supporting the infrastructure bill and then made a scant four-word “first responders arrived quickly” mention for those who deserved the real praise.
If we had better leadership, those “first responders who arrived quickly” would have probably been the only thing Wolf mentioned; he would have spoken with civic pride about the five officers who arrived on the scene in the pitch black, the hiss of a ruptured natural gas line, and the smell that goes with it surrounding them. They did what they were trained to do by sliding down the ice-covered ravine to rescue those who were trapped on the collapsed bridge in their vehicles.
He would have sung the praises of Pittsburgh paramedic Jon Atkinson, who helped first responders who were having trouble getting victims out of the ravine by offering up the bed of his four-wheel-drive pickup truck when the other rescue vehicles could not get out of the steep gully.
Instead, the day became one of politics for politicians. Yet the people I spoke to that day didn’t want to talk politics. The people who used that bridge every day to take their children back and forth to school understandably had different priorities. They must have also been rattled. They may have been spared a terrifying fate only because of a two-hour snow delay.
They had only two things on their mind. They praised the work of the first responders, whose quick actions likely saved lives, and they groused about how the government had once again failed to do what it promised — to keep them safe.
It wasn’t a right thing or a left thing; it was their reality. That 447-foot bridge had carried their family members, friends, and neighbors from one side to the other every day. Now it was in a heap at the bottom of a ravine.
We are living in a time in which our cultural curators (those in power in government, academia, institutions, corporations, and entertainment) are upside down in understanding what matters in most of the country.
Here is a hint: Politics is not our oxygen. Political swipes will never replace praising our heroes.
But because of that endless focus on division and
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Based on the flood of people, criminals and drugs Biden should be impeached and this is not a political statement. I would seek the same were the president a Republican.
Biden has turned America into a Mafia nation. He is condoning drugs, prostitution, criminal behaviour and slave trading. Despicable and the for the mass media who are no better for ignoring.
Biden is wrong: Republicans stand for everything America needs now
By Nikki Haley
President Joe Biden claims the Republican Party doesn’t stand for anything. That’s quite a statement coming from someone who spent his first year in office floundering on the job.
“Name me one thing they’re for,” Biden says. In fact, Republicans stand for everything America needs — especially right now.
Where Biden and his fellow Democrats are attacking our national principles, sapping our national will and dimming our national future, Republicans are advancing a positive vision that can unite our country. We will undo his damage and unleash a new era of American strength and pride.
Biden is right about one thing: Republicans stand opposed to his agenda. So do most Americans.
Our country doesn’t want an entire generation of kids to lose their education and their futures. We don’t want skyrocketing inflation, stemming from trillions of dollars in wasteful spending, that steals from our wallets. We don’t want an economy that’s stuck in reverse and a government that’s taking away our freedom. We don’t want more crime on our streets and more dead police officers.
We don’t want a country that’s ashamed of itself and afraid to stand up for itself. And we don’t want a president who’s not so much leading from behind as sleeping from behind.
No, Americans wish to see our country emerge stronger from the crisis after crisis that Joe Biden has worsened, created or both.
Every American wants our country’s children to succeed and have the best shot at the best life. That’s why Republicans fight for our kids’ education. We refuse to let the COVID generation become a lost generation, a serious risk after so many lockdowns and so much politics in the classroom.
We stand for keeping classrooms open and empowering families to choose the school that’s best for them. And we stand for ending critical-race-theory curricula and anything else that imparts discrimination and instructs kids that some of them are oppressors and others victims simply because of their skin color.
Every American wants an economy where store shelves are stocked, where paychecks get bigger and go further, where work beats welfare and where small businesses can become big deals. That’s why Republicans stand for capitalism, the only system that can repair the economy.
We know that free citizens are smarter than central planners and that families know better than politicians how to spend their money. And we know that our experiment in self-government is infinitely better than the current experiment in socialist government.
Every American wants to walk down the street without fear. That’s why Republicans stand for public safety and strong borders. We support police — not call to defund them. We believe in enforcing the law — not ignoring it. And we want to stop the flow of drugs and violence into our country from outside our borders
Every American wants to preserve the peace and prevent a war. That’s why Republicans stand for American strength. The men and women who serve in our military (including my husband, Michael) need a massive investment to keep them 10 steps ahead of anyone who wants to hurt us.
Our enemies, especially Russia and Communist China, need to be held accountable for their actions and crimes. And our allies need to know that America has their back — because after the fall of Afghanistan, they’re not sure we do.
Finally, and most important, every American wants America to survive. That’s why Republicans are fighting to defend our nation’s founding principles. We know our country isn’t perfect, but we also know the principles at the heart of our country are perfect.
Now is no time to swap liberty, opportunity, free speech and the rule of law for tyranny, censorship and the raw exercise of power. Now is the time to apply our principles to make our country freer, better and fairer for all.
And take it from me, the first female governor of South Carolina and the first minority female governor in the United States: America is not a racist country.
What does the Republican Party stand for? Everything that makes America the best country in the world — everything that can make America even better. The real question is why Joe Biden and the Democratic Party don’t.
Nikki Haley served as governor of South Carolina (2011-17) and US ambassador to the United Nations (2017-19).
Part of a series in which The Post has invited senior Republicans to answer President Biden’s claim the GOP doesn’t stand for anything.
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Live by the sword die by it. Perhaps it is a different situation when it becomes personal and interferes with your life. Shakedown Al is upset.
Al Sharpton calls on Mayor Adams to curb brazen NYC thefts: ‘They are locking up my toothpaste’
BY Craig McCarthy
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MORE LAW SKIRTING BY OUR CORRUPT PRESIDENT? WHEN WILL HE BE "UNMASKED?"
Biden Says No Union, No Contract
A new White House plan would steer federal funds toward Big Labor.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as President Joe Biden, left, and Marty Walsh, U.S. secretary of labor, right, listen during an event at Ironworkers Local 5 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Feb. 4.
Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg News
Joe Biden promised to be “the most pro-union President you’ve ever seen” before he took office, and he’s spent a year struggling to show it. Now he’s announced a new pro-union agenda, including plans to skirt the law by steering federal funds toward Big Labor.
On Monday the White House released recommendations from its Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. The body, led by Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, was formed last April to “advance worker organizing and collective bargaining” among public and private employers. Its first report includes nearly 70 proposed policy changes.
The boldest discourage federal agencies from issuing contracts and grants to employers that don’t show “strong labor standards.” For example, the report asks the Administration to create a “job quality matrix” to evaluate employers seeking federal funds. Once the metrics are adopted, federal agencies would use them to screen award recipients.
The kicker is that for the Biden Administration, a quality job means a union job. The report suggests that federal assistance “cannot be used to deny workers the right to organize,” but that’s already true. In practice, the new policy could let the government discriminate against a company that has fought an effort to organize its workforce.
A bias toward unions in awarding contracts would run up against federal law. Companies have a First Amendment right to resist organization, and agencies can’t hold that stance against them when disbursing funds. A federal judge in 2016 upheld this standard to block an executive order by President Obama, which would have required federal grantees to disclose any alleged labor violations publicly.
Yet the Biden Administration wants to dodge that precedent by claiming that resistance to unions is a material factor in companies’ fitness. The report says union shops are favorable because collective-bargaining agreements “promote stability and minimize disruption of services and goods procured.” Never mind that the explicit goal of the proposals is “increasing worker organizing.” The Administration wants you to believe unionized firms are always the best contractors.
The policy change could be used against nonunion companies like Amazon and Walmart, along with countless small and midsize employers. It could also steer federal money toward Democratic-leaning states, many of which lack right-to-work laws and have more unionized companies.
This is a backdoor way of rewarding Big Labor, after pro-union legislation faltered in Congress. The House last March passed the PRO Act, which would have banned right to work in all 50 states and restricted companies from speaking against unions. But Democrats such as Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema denied the bill a Senate majority.
President Biden is free to sing union praises, and the parts of his agenda that concern federal workers fall within his authority. But voters, and perhaps the courts, should draw the line at bias in government funding. Shutting nonunion companies out of grants and contracts would reward Democrats’ labor allies at the expense of taxpayers.
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WHEN YOU BE HEADNG IN THE WRONG DIRECTION YOU CAN BE BEHEADED. VILOENCE IS JUST PART OF THE ARAB/MUSLEM CULTURE. WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?.
Iranian husband beheads teenage wife, authorities say, shocking the country
A teenage girl who has been identified as "Mona" and "Ghazal" by Iranian media was allegedly killed and beheaded by her husband in western Iran's Khuzestan province last week.
Tehran, Iran (CNN) — The beheading of a 17-year-old girl, allegedly by her husband, in western Iran's Khuzestan province last week has once again raised concern over the country's laws around murder and gender-based violence.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) referred to the alleged murder as an "honor killing."
A video began circulating showing the husband, Sajjad Heydari, walking in the provincial capital of Ahvaz while smiling and carrying his wife's severed head, IRNA reported. Local authorities have confirmed that widely shared images that purport to be Heydari are from the same incident, a source with knowledge of the statements told CNN.
The video, seen by CNN, showed Heydari holding a knife in one hand and the girl's head in another.
CNN has not been able to reach Heydari or his family, and it is unclear whether he has an attorney. In an interview published in Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency, Sajjad's mother is quoted as saying her son had threatened to kill his wife previously, and was responsible for her killing.
The girl, who has been identified as "Mona" by IRNA, and as "Ghazal" by Fars -- who reportedly spoke with the husband's family -- had fled to Turkey four months before being persuaded to return to Iran by her father, according to an interview with the girl's mother-in-law, published on Fars.
The girl was 12 years old at the time of her marriage to Heydari, according to IRNA.
In an interview with the girl's father, published Tuesday in Fars, he is quoted as saying that he had obtained a legal certificate allowing his daughter to be married. The minimum age of marriage in Iran is 13 for girls and 15 for boys. CNN has been unable to confirm Sajjad Heydari's age.
She returned from Turkey on Friday, according to Fars, and was killed soon after.
Heydari was arrested, along with his brother, who allegedly helped him commit the crime, prosecutor Abbas Hosseini Pouya told Fars.
"The accused will definitely be dealt with severely," Pouya told Fars.
Those who published and shared the video may also face arrest, Pouya said.
The incident has prompted Iran's government to push forward a review of a draft law that aims to protect women against domestic violence, Ensieh Khazali, the vice president for Women's and Family Affairs, a cabinet-level position, said in a tweet, according to IRNA.
"The judiciary is determined to inflict the most severe punishment on (the killer and a suspected accomplice) in accordance with the law," Khazali said.
For years, Iranian women's rights activists have campaigned for such a law to prevent "violence against women and prosecute their abusers," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in 2020.
The draft law has "a number of positive provisions" HRW said, including the creation of restraining orders and the formation of a committee to "draft strategies and coordinate government responses to violence against women."
The law would also require prejudicial mediation in domestic disputes that involve a father or a husband.
But the law still "falls short of international standards," HRW said, adding that it "does not criminalize some forms of gender-based violence, such as marital rape and child marriage."
Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI), said that "the beheaded child bride...might be alive today if Iran's government had enacted laws against the cruel practice of child marriage, and protections against domestic violence."
The crime comes only two years after another high profile "honor killing," in which a 14-year-old was allegedly killed by her father with a sickle after she ran away from her family home in northern Iran's Talesh County with a 29-year-old man.
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