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To Save The Country, Destroy The Public Education System
By Derek Hunter
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I have my own theory why Texas police failed to do their job. First . there was no one present to tell them there was a bad guy killing children. Second, police have become so intimidated and threatened with law suits and jail they decided to wait till a superior told them what to do.
Liberals and progressives do not understand there are consequences as a result of their nonsense.
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Bill Barr Accuses Hillary Clinton of “Sedition” – The Former Attorney General Claims Russiagate Was a Grave Injustice
By Adam Casalino|
Bill Barr Accuses Hillary Clinton of “Sedition” – The Former Attorney General Claims Russiagate Was a Grave Injustice
What’s Happening:
Plenty of information about the “Russiagate” scheme has been coming out lately. That is largely thanks largely to the efforts of Special Counsel John Durham.
But he’s not the only person with something to say. Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, might be on the outs with 45. That hasn’t stopped him, though, from blasting the left over this “seditious” scheme.
“I thought we were heading into a constitutional crisis. I think whatever you think of Trump, the fact is that the whole Russiagate thing was a grave injustice. It appears to be a dirty political trick that was used first to hobble him and then potentially to drive him from office,” Barr told Beck.
“I believe it is seditious,” he added, clarifying that whether that could be proved in court as a crime is another issue.
Woah. Trump’s former attorney general blasted the people behind the Russian collusion hoax against the 45th president. He said that it was a “grave injustice” and even “seditious.”
Barr didn’t stop there. Repeating that it was a “grave injustice,” he explained that it “hurt he United States in many ways.”
That includes foreign policy, especially—it seems—with how we deal with Russia. If Democrats were running around claiming President Trump was colluding with Russia, then we really didn’t have much of a chance of maintaining a good relationship with that country.
Barr even suggested that the current war in Ukraine was in part affected by Russiagate.
Because Democrats damaged our relationship with Russia, it prevented us from interceding as the foreign government plotted its invasion.
Not only that, Barr had feared it would result in a “constitutional crisis.” If Americans really believed the elected president was a secret Russian spy—who knows what would happen?
Yet many did believe that Trump was a Putin puppet, because of the lies spread by the media and Democratic Party. Many of them still believe that to this day, despite those lies being debunked.
All of this should have any American demanding answers. Yet, sadly, Barr claims that proving this in court could be difficult.
Democrats are sleazy as eels. And they always seem to slip out of the consequences of their actions.
Let’s hope more evidence emerges, so that isn’t the case.
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Ordman's Good News Israel (edited.)
Israel is today celebrating the joining together of East and West Jerusalem 55 years ago. This week's newsletter is full of news of Israelis working together, and with friends overseas, to improve life for everyone.
In medical news, two teams of Israeli surgeons jointly conducted a unique heart valve replacement; meanwhile teams of Israelis and international scientists have made more major breakthroughs in medical research. International conferences have brought together thousands of Israeli and overseas delegates to tackle mental health issues, boost trade between Israel and Morocco, promote innovation and celebrate the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Even United Nations Ambassadors got together to sample Israeli food-tech products.
Israel is spending billions to integrate more disabled and ultra-orthodox into the workforce and also to relieve the financial burden on working parents. Israeli Jews, Arabs and non-Israelis are working together to aid Ukrainian refugees. And an Israeli orchestra of Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze joined together to make beautiful music, in Egypt. Finally, thousands showed their support for Israel by parading together through the center of New York City.
- Israeli Virtual Reality can save hundreds of thousands of lives.
- Israeli innovation features at four major international conferences.
- Onwards and upwards for Israel’s sustainable hi-tech startups.
- Billions of shekels for working parents and the disabled.
- Israeli vegan alternative to baby formula shortage.
- The first Israeli orchestra to perform in Egypt in 40 years.
- Fifth Avenue Manhattan erupts in a sea of Blue and White.
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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Neurological discovery. Researchers at Tel Aviv University found that a mutation in genes ADNP and SHANK3 causes conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, and neuro-degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. They also found that an experimental therapy Davunetide can counter the effects of the mutation.
https://www.
Gene therapy can treat AHDS. A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Gad Vatine of Ben Gurion University, discovered a thyroid hormone MCT8 mutation causes Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (AHDS). Sufferers cannot walk or talk. They developed a gene therapy AAV9-MCT8 to restore the hormone’s function.
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/
https://www.liebertpub.com/
Less than 100 serious Covid-19 cases. According to new data from Israel’s Health Ministry, the number of serious coronavirus cases in Israel has dipped below 100 for the first time since end Dec 2021. On 15th May there were only some 15,500 active Covid-19 infections in Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Rare heart valve transplant saves heart patient. (TY Yehoshua) Surgeons at Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital performed a “first time in Israel” aortic valve transplant to save a patient unsuitable for open-heart surgery. The hybrid team of catheterization specialists and cardiac surgeons used the carotid artery as the point of entry.
https://www.hadassah.org/
https://www.jpost.com/health-
How to avoid 400,000 US deaths a year. Excellent article about Israel’s DecideVR (see here previously) - the most advanced Virtual Reality simulator for reducing errors and saving lives in Intensive Care Units. It was developed by Prof Alex Mintz, Director of the Computerized Decision-Making Lab at Reichman University.
https://www.israel21c.org/
https://www.runi.ac.il/en/
https://www.decidevr-
Israel’s first mental health expo. Some 1,000 people registered to attend Israel’s first mental health expo. It was conducted entirely in English and tailored to the needs of English-speaking immigrants. Its aim was to give a sense of what’s available in Israel to help and treat people facing mental health challenges.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Medical incubator launches in the north. Israel’s MEDX Xelerator (see here previously) has partnered with the Portland Trust to launch an incubator branch in the Sakhnin Valley region in northern Israel. It will support health and medical startups in the Galilee and northern Arab and Jewish regions.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Saving Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Since March, volunteer doctors (Jews & Arabs) from the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, have been running the medical clinic at the Przemyśl Humanitarian Aid Center, near the Medyka border crossing in southeastern Poland. Also, at a refugee center in nearby Korczowa.
https://www.
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Safer schools. Israel’s Safe School Analytics is a content streaming platform that works with some 600 Israeli schools to combat and reduce bullying and cyberbullying. The company produces videos about online safety, empowerment, empathy, teamwork, and more. Israeli actress Gal Gadot and her husband are recent investors.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
Thousands of Gazans enter Israel to work. Israel opened the Erez crossing allowing 4,600 Palestinian Arabs workers from Gaza to enter Israel – the highest single day number at the border crossing in 15 years.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/
Impact for Good. The “Impact for Good” conference in Jerusalem on May 30 is a joint initiative of the Society for International Development (SID) Israel and the parliamentary lobby for Israel’s positive impact in the developing world. It focuses on how Israeli innovation and world Jewry can address global challenges.
https://www.nbn.org.il/events/
Jerusalem – city of innovation. 1000+ people attended the 2022 Arutz Sheva-Israel National News Jerusalem Conference in Manhattan. See all the ceremonies and speeches here, especially the discussion about Business Development in the city. https://www.
https://www.
Innovation conference in Casablanca. (TY WIN & ILTV) Israeli non-profit Startup Nation Central launched “Connect to Innovate” – an historic conference attended by 150 Israeli and Moroccan government and business leaders in Casablanca. 13 agreements were signed, especially in food tech & agriculture tech.
https://www.jns.org/israel-
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Israel at Davos. Israel’s President Herzog spoke at the World Economic Forum - "I call on all countries and nations from near and far to join these winds of change, partner with Israel, lead the future & make history! By working with all countries and nations in the region, we can build a future of peace, prosperity, and progress."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.
Israeli food tech at the UN. On Israel’s Independence Day, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan presented, to dozens of UN ambassadors, food produced by Israeli sustainable food tech. They included vegan milk, protein from chickpeas and cultivated meat.
https://www.jns.org/israels-
Ukrainian sings to help MDA relief efforts. Ukrainian-born singer Viktoria Leléka lives in Berlin and was able to help rescue all her family from Ukraine. Leléka made her first visit to Israel to perform with her band and Israel singer Ivri Lider in a concert that benefited Magen David Adom’s emergency efforts in Ukraine.
https://www.jns.org/ukrainian-
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Education for energy and sustainability. Israel’s Bar-Ilan University has inaugurated a Center for Energy and Sustainability and launched a Multidisciplinary School for Sustainability and the Environment. It plans to invest hundreds of millions of shekels in research and environmental projects in Israel and around the world.
https://www.jns.org/bar-ilan-
Israel is buzzing! To coincide with World Bee Day on May 20, here is the latest news on the Beehome from Israel’s Beewise that is reversing the decline of one of the most important species on the planet. Each Beehome houses 2 million bees and some one hundred of these high-tech hives are already functioning in Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Transforming the desert. How is it possible that the deserts of Israel are producing high-quality produce for global export? Watch as Moshav Hatzeva’s CEO Nadav Eylon explains how Israelis use hi-tech to harness the land’s rich farming potential. Israel is also exporting the technology and knowhow to the rest of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
More startups doing good work. Microsoft for Startups Israel has selected 15 startups for the third round of its AI For Good Accelerator Program (see here previously). Trellis, Strasa.tech, BioShade, QRGenetics, Hexa3D, Agrinoze, BeeFreeAgro, GeoX, HAAT, Maolac, Emnotion, Neolithics, Viridian, OtailO and Brightmerge.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Accelerator is out of this world. Starburst Aerospace has just launched its ASTRA Israel-focused accelerator with three startups that develop innovative technologies for space applications. They are Tehiru (sustainable propulsion), CrystalEn (electronics & energy storage), and CSpace (nanosatellite telescopes).
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://starburst.aero/news/
Brain Science in Space. Ben Gurion University is hosting a Zoom webinar entitled “BGU’s Brain Science Launches into Space” on June 8th. BGU’s Dr. Oren Shriki will discuss his neuro-wellness monitoring experiment that Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe tested on his mission to the International Space Station.
https://americansforbgu.zoom.
AI user interface for Dell laptops. The WizeEye low-power user sensing AI technology from Israel’s Emza (see here previously) has now been installed in Dell Latitude, Inspiron, and Precision laptops. Features include dimming the screen when no one is looking at it; and blurring display of sensitive data if a user is unauthorized.
https://www.israel21c.org/
All-robotic assembly for hi-tech wheels. Israel’s REE Automotive (see here previously) is to build a 130,000 sq ft UK manufacturing center for its revolutionary wheel chassis for electric vehicles. It features a commercial assembly line operated by autonomous robots and will supply REE’s European customers.
https://nocamels.com/2022/05/
DNA protection for vehicles. Enigmatos is another Israeli startup that stops cyber-attacks on a vehicle’s computer systems. Enigmatos creates a “deep car identity profile” of a vehicle and recognizes any changes to that “DNA”. It is working with Israeli mobile operator Pelephone and is already protecting vehicle fleets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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All round vision. (TY UWI) A detailed description of the innovative technology of Israel’s Addon Optics (see here previously) that can produce multifocal spectacles in just six minutes at a fraction of the cost of traditional manufacturing processes. https://www.israel21c.org/
Prize-winning neuroscientist. Professor Haim Sompolinsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the first Israeli to win the prestigious Gruber Neuroscience Prize. He shares the $500,000 prize with 3 other scientists. Prof Sompolinsky’s research helps scientists understand the behavior of complex neural circuits in the brain.
https://www.
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Employment incentives. (TY JNS) 600,000+ Israeli working parents will benefit from increased tax credits worth nearly NIS 2,800 for each child – some NIS 2.1 billion in total. An additional NIS 500 million will be distributed to low-income working families.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
NIS 2 billion for the disabled. The Israeli government is allocating 2 billion shekels to help integrate the disabled into the wider community. It will finance a range of new services including assistance from social workers, guidance in running a household, stenographic and translation services into sign language and more.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-
Funds to train haredim in hi-tech. The Israeli government is investing NIS 10 million to fund up to 70 percent of the cost of new innovative high-tech training and placement programs designed to encourage Israel’s haredi population to join the high-tech industry. https://www.
1,600+ European funded Israeli projects. Israeli companies and researchers received 1,666 grants totaling over $1.35 billion from Europe’s Horizon 2020 seven-year research and innovation program. Startups mentioned in the article include Optima Design, Triox Nano, Vectorious, NanoPack, and the SniffPhone.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Re-charging deal for more Israeli buses. Israel’s Electreon (see here previously) has signed a $1.9 million agreement with Israel’s fourth-largest bus operator Electra Afikim, to supply its wireless, dynamic charging infrastructure to simultaneously charge 30 buses. Electreon already signed with Israel’s Dan Buses (see here).
https://nocamels.com/2022/05/
Investing in mobile ultrasound. GE Healthcare is to invest up to $50 million in mobile ultrasound products of Israel’s Pulsenmore (see here previously). GE will also distribute Pulsenmore’s home pregnancy monitors. Pulsenmore is now developing monitors for chronic heart failure, end-stage renal disease and more.
lhttps://en.globes.co.il/en/
From TV medical drama to startup. Israeli Emily Levi discovered the reason for her chronic pain while watching the TV drama Greys Anatomy. It inspired her to launch her own medical startup Prolo Cure which uses prolotherapy (injections into a joint) to treat chronic pain.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
At the heart of a $2 billion revenue company. US digital printing giant Shutterfly acquired Haifa-based Photoccino, its 8 employees, and AI photographic algorithm in 2012. The Haifa operation now has 150 Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze employees and contributes much of Shutterfly’s $2.3 billion annual revenue.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
No baby formula, try something Else. (TY Nevet) The safe, pure, plant-based baby food products of Israel’s Else Nutrition (see here previously) are reshaping the industry. It is filling a market gap caused by the shortage of baby formula, and a desperate need for products free of heavy metals.
https://www.ibtimes.com/
Investment in Israeli startups to 29/5/22: Semperis raised $200 million; StarkWare raised $100 million; Rivery raised $30 million; NeuraLight raised $25 million; Circles raised $16.5 million; buywith raised $9.5 million; Red Access raised $6 million;
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT`
Cool places to see art in Jerusalem. Good article featuring several creative arts experiences and shops that should attract many of the visitors returning to Jerusalem’s Old City. They include The Jerusalem Scribe, Chabad Street, the Museum of Psalms, Hadaya, the Cardo Charm, Guitart, and Rina.
https://www.israel21c.org/
https://thejerusalemscribe.
Sweet music in Egypt. Firqat Alnoor, an Israeli orchestra of Jewish, Muslim, Druze, and Christian musicians from across Israel, performed in Cairo – the first Israeli orchestra to perform in Egypt in 40 years. Under conductor Ariel Cohen, a Haredi Jew, the orchestra played classical Arabic and Middle Eastern music.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
Israel’s largest food festival. “Tel Aviv Eats” is Israel’s largest food festival, showcasing top restaurants, chefs, and live performances. Admission was free, with dishes ranging from gourmet to street food at a maximum price of 40 shekels each. Tourists and locals came to enjoy the excitement and the food.
https://video.i24news.tv/
Dylan at 80 – a Bohemian Zionist. Interesting article celebrating the 80th birthday of singer/songwriter Bob Dylan – born Robert Zimmerman. It describes his 1983 song “Neighborhood Bully” as a Zionist anthem. “He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth, took sickness and disease and turned it into health.”
https://www.jns.org/opinion/
TV series is a massive hit. (TY UWI) The popular 10-part Israeli TV series “The Girl from Oslo” has become the fourth most-watched series internationally on Netflix, soon after its April 11 debut. It ranked in the top 10 in 36 countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
https://www.israel21c.org/
EuroLeague goes Israeli for a piece of the action. Europe’s top basketball league, EuroLeague, has selected Israel’s MindFly to install its live AI-powered bodycams on league players. Fans will, for first time, be able to watch, hear, and experience a first-person point of view (FPV) that captures everything the players do on court.
https://www.israel21c.org/ai-
https://www.mindfly.live/
THE JEWISH STATE
Untold positive PR. Latest news about Marcella Rosen and her Untold News team which is launching a media campaign oriented toward college students. It will highlight positive stories about Israel to counter negative sentiment on campus. The previous campaign “Israel Is On It” attracted 3.5 million regular viewers.
https://www.jpost.com/
20,000 new European immigrants. (TY TPS) In the last 3 months, Israel’s Ministry of Immigration and Absorption has welcomed 20,000 Olim (new immigrants) from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. They include 678 Holocaust survivors who have been housed in sheltered accommodation throughout Israel.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
Israel parade in New York City. (TY JNS) The Celebrate Israel Parade on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue took place for the first time since 2019. Tens of thousands of spectators and participants included UN Ambassadors and diplomats from Australia, Bhutan, Nauru, Bulgaria, Guatemala, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Brazil.
https://www.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
See Jerusalem more clearly. (TY Sharon) There was much to see in the streets and buildings of Israel’s capital last week. Blue skies, flowers, Austrian diplomats, the Knesset, the Jerusalem Bird Observatory, the first Mental Health Expo, the Kraft Family Sports Campus, the International Writers’ Festival, and more.
http://rjstreets.com/2022/05/
Anniversary of Operation Solomon. During May 24-25, 1991, over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in 36 hours aboard 34 Israeli aircraft including Hercules C130s and Boeing 747s.
https://www.
The untold story of Judea. This is the story of how a couple with six children, sold their home and most of their possessions to build the Arugot Farm - the flagship of Jewish settlement today in the land of Judea. And to coincide with the release of the video, a 2100-year-old Jewish farmstead has just been uncovered in Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Who’s to blame for young American and Democrat coolness towards Israel?
Despite the impulse to blame Netanyahu and the usual targets of left-wing scorn, the real answer is the growing popularity of theories like intersectionality that sanction anti-Semitism.
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(May 27, 2022 / JNS) It turns out that most Americans have no idea what the controversy over the anti-Semitic BDS movement is about. That was one of the main takeaways from a new Pew Research Institute survey released this week that measured American attitudes towards both Israel and the Palestinians.
It may come as a surprise to the combatants in the battles over BDS that are unfolding on college campuses and elsewhere, but a whopping 84% of those polled by Pew said they had either heard “not much” or “nothing at all” about the topic. With just 15% saying that they knew “some” or “a lot” about the topic, it turns out that only 6% of Americans knew enough to say they opposed it while 5% supported a movement that engages in discrimination against Israelis and Jews.
Still, BDS has strong backing in the left-wing of the Democratic Party, which buys into intersectional ideology that analogizes the war on Israel’s existence to the struggle for civil rights in the United States. That faction and its charismatic leaders in the congressional “Squad” have influence far beyond their actual numbers in popular culture and over the broader progressive movement that has helped shape the policies of the administration of President Joe Biden. Seen from this perspective, the debate about BDS may be more significant than the numbers indicate, especially when one considers other findings in the Pew survey.
The other data points of note in the poll consist of numbers indicating that while Israel remains broadly popular among Americans, there are two demographic groups where support is weak and growing weaker: young people and Democrats.
Pew shows that 67% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Israel and its people. Some 52% say the same about Palestinians. When the question shifts to views about the Israeli government and that of the Palestinians, the gap between the two is larger.
Pew’s question about the Palestinians was vague since there are currently two Palestinian governments—the Islamist terrorists of Hamas who rule the Gaza Strip as an independent state in all but name, and the corrupt and tyrannical Fatah Party that autonomously runs the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. While 48% of Americans had favorable views of the politicians who democratically rule Israel, just 28%—although most may not have had any idea about what it was that they were endorsing—said they had a favorable opinion of the Palestinian government(s).
More disturbing is the fact that younger Americans have less favorable attitudes towards Israel while giving more support to Palestinians than their elders. About 56% of those under 30 have a favorable view of Israel while 78% of those over 65 feel the same. At the same time, 61% of those under 30 have a favorable opinion of the Palestinians with 47% of those over 65 feeling the same.
Of those under 30, some 27% have a favorable view of the Israeli government, while an equal 26% of the same age group think well of Fatah and Hamas. Contrast those numbers with the 65-and-older crowd, 57% who back the Israeli government with only 19% thinking well of the Palestinian government.
When one considers those most inclined to like Israel and to think ill of the Palestinians will be departing the stage in the next few decades while those whose views are more likely to be the opposite attain positions of influence and power, that’s a potential demographic catastrophe for the pro-Israel movement.
Those troubling numbers are both compounded and, to some extent, explained by breaking down attitudes by partisan affiliation. Of those who identify as Republicans, 66% have a favorable view of Israel’s government with only 18% viewing the Palestinian government(s) favorably. Among Democrats, 37% view the Palestinian government(s) favorably while 34% view Israel’s democratic government with favor.
As decades of surveys from Gallup have illustrated, the partisan split on Israel is nothing new. Their tracking polls dating to the 1990s show that Republicans are far more likely to be strongly supportive of Israel than Democrats, although the decline among the latter has accelerated in the last decade.
Those Americans who grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust and Israel’s existential battles for survival in 1948, 1967 and 1973 are likely to sympathize with the Jewish state. Those who came of age in the last 40 years—when Israel has increasingly been falsely depicted as an oppressor of an “indigenous people” or even as an “apartheid state”—are more likely to think ill of it and view Palestinians as deserving of sympathy.
There are two questions to be asked about this. Why did it happen and what, if anything, is to be done about it?
As for blame, the Jewish left has a ready answer. They believe it is the fault of Israeli policies, the “occupation,” settlements, and, above all, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His public fights with former President Barack Obama over the peace process and the Iran nuclear deal did help exacerbate the partisan split.
Netanyahu’s positions were firmly backed by the majority of Israelis and were grounded in facts rather than wishful thinking about the Palestinians or Iran. But the open dispute allowed Democrats like Obama to exploit these debates and to make them a partisan litmus test rather than an expression of prejudice.
As Gallup’s numbers show, those trends were set in place long before Netanyahu and Obama were engaging in public quarrels. Moreover, Israel’s continued presence in the West Bank has everything to do with repeated Palestinian rejections of Israeli offers of statehood and peace, and little to do with the policies of right-wing governments. Since, to this day, both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas reject the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders are drawn, the continued “occupation” is their fault—not Netanyahu or the coalition led by Naftali Bennett that includes an Arab party that succeeded him a year ago.
The failure of American media, mainstream politicians and the foreign-policy establishment to accept these facts as most Israelis have done is why so many have accepted the false narrative about Palestinian victimization that has impacted public opinion.
Israel’s polling problems can also be traced to the popularity of left-wing ideologies like critical race theory and intersectionality that have largely conquered college campuses and have now recently migrated to the public square. If you view Israelis and Jews as possessors of “white privilege”—though the majority of Jewish Israelis are people of color who trace their origins to former homes in the Middle East and North Africa—and think of Palestinian Arabs, rather than Jews as the indigenous people in the country, then you are likely to ignore the facts of the conflict or about the character of the movements that lead the Palestinians.
It’s hardly surprising that these views are to be found more among young Americans and Democrats than among older ones or Republicans.
As to what to do about it, the notion that policy shifts regarding the Palestinians or Iran will make Israel more popular is a myth. The idea was discredited by what happened after it embraced the Oslo process that involved territorial surrenders, as well as by the aftermath of the complete withdrawal of every Israeli soldier, settler or settlement from Gaza by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2005.
Those efforts led to more terrorism and allowed the Palestinians to continue to dream of Israel’s destruction. Rather than illustrating Israel’s desire for peace or the Palestinian disinterest in it, it had the opposite effect. Each concession only strengthened the false narrative that Israel was a thief returning stolen property to the rightful owners and gave new life to an anti-Zionist movement whose goal is the elimination of the only Jewish state on the planet.
That demonstrates that what Israel needs is a more aggressive information policy grounded in arguments for Jewish rights and the truth about the nature of its opponents, not anodyne sentiments about a desire for peace or even attempts to distract the public from the conflict by talking about Israel’s beauty or the value of its high-tech industry.
Israel will never convince “progressives” that believe it has no right to exist anymore than Palestinians will persuade the 30% of Americans who told Pew that they believe God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people to forsake them. Instead, it must battle for those in the middle, pointing out that the toxic theories of the left are a permission slip for anti-Semitism and not advocacy for human rights. Any other approach will only ensure that the troubling trends among young people and Democrats will continue to get worse.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
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On Iran, Biden’s Minimum Pressure Campaign Comes Home To Roost
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Is their a learning message here? Will banning guns solve this matter or is that simply another cry from those who want to destroy our nation by raising issues that lend themselves to radical and divisive measure that tare at the fabric of our society.
The radical socialist elements in our nation purposely choose inflammatory and basically unsolvable issues knowing they can always stir things up which end by pitting one American against another.
There is no way you will ever keep guns out of the hands of the criminal element. Societies that have taken guns from honest citizens generally turn into dictatorships and innocents suffer.
Guns have always been part of America's culture, not so in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Poland,etc. and even where it has been somewhat a part of the culture the citizens are not prone to be overly volatile. Think Britain, Israel the Caribbean, Japan, Australia, New Zealand etc.
America's biggest problem is not guns. Rather it is a large segment of our population that are uneducated, unhappy, do not benefit from being party of our society, are angry, grow up in households where stress and poverty is ever present, see no future and join crime prone gangs as a way of belonging to some form of structure.
If there was a legal way we could draft them into a boot camp environment that might go a long way toward resolving many of their crime/gang related issues.
There is another part of our society that has serious mental//homeless issues in addition to experiencing much of what I have just enumerated above. This is a more difficult problem to solve because it requires reforming the mind.
Mental adjustments are extraordinarily difficult. We used to incarcerate the mentally ill and let them rot but medical solutions became available that offered palliative options but demanded personal disciplines of those which proved unreliable and or/lacking.
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