Maher Leaving Wokeism. Condemn Mapping Project And More. Parker, Stars. More Article Links. Sot It Goes. Trump/Hillary.

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Bill Maher is getting more rational as he departs from "wokeism." https://youtu.be/Ebg2YnBj9II

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Condemning the ‘mapping project isn’t enough

Opposition to the targeting of Jews by mainstream Democrats was a rejection of anti-Zionist extremism. But the real problem is this effort’s roots in critical race theory and intersectionality.

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

(June 14, 2022 / JNS) On the face of it, the “Mapping Project” undertaken by Boston BDS was a disaster for the anti-Semitic movement. In recent years, many on the political left had begun drifting from the sort of harsh critiques of Israel championed by groups like J Street towards the openly anti-Zionist stance of Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. But the colorful map published by the group that targeted the entire Jewish community was enough to shock even many of those on the left-wing of the Democratic Party into condemning the project.

Indeed, the Massachusetts Democratic Party seemed to speak almost with one voice denouncing the map. It wasn’t just moderates with pro-Israel records like Rep. Jake Auchincloss, who represents a heavily Jewish Boston suburb. Even Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a charter member of the leftist congressional “Squad,” issued a statement against the map. With Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, who are both firmly on the left of their party’s Senate caucus, joining the pushback against the project, it seemed to be an object lesson in how not to win friends and influence people.

It further symbolizes not just how ill-conceived this stunt was, but how far the BDS movement is from going fully mainstream. If BDS has lost the Democrats in one of the deepest blue regions of the country, then they are still a long way away from achieving their goal of completing the project of converting the Democratic Party into a bastion of opposition to the Jewish state.

But as much as this development is to be welcomed, those in the pro-Israel movement who have been increasingly concerned by the way anti-Israel sentiments have gained increasing acceptance among left-wing Democrats shouldn’t stop worrying. By the same token, pro-Israel Democrats, who have been working overtime in recent years trying to put a positive spin on the way their party has become a haven for Israel-haters, should also not be declaring victory. BDS may have suffered a defeat in Boston this month, but it is far from beaten, let alone appropriately stigmatized as an expression of Jew-hatred.

While Boston BDS went so far as to force liberal and even left-wing Democrats to oppose them, the ideological foundation for the mainstreaming of anti-Zionism in the Democratic Party is still intact. So long as ideas like critical race theory (CRT) and intersectionality are not only accepted by liberal Democrats but ardently defended as a legitimate and even necessary expression of anti-racism and America’s irredeemable racism, then BDS supporters know they are far from defeated. These concepts that are essential underpinnings of BDS are also part and parcel of the arsenal of the Black Lives Matter movement. Since BLM remains not only popular on the left but a sacred cow that no Democrat dares to criticize, friends of Israel shouldn’t be surprised about the way mainstream progressive Democrats are not only still welcoming supporters of BDS into their ranks but parroting many of their attacks on Israel’s policy and legitimacy.

It’s important to note that the critical comments from Democrats about the Mapping Project were not directed at the purpose of the project itself, but merely about the means they chose to pursue. By creating a map that included virtually every Jewish institution in the state including synagogues, schools and social-service organizations with left-wing groups that are critical or even hostile to Israel along with those that are ardently Zionist, BDS activists opened themselves up to charges that all they had done was to create a Jewish enemies list. At a time of rising anti-Semitism from both the left and the right, it seemed an invitation not only to hound Jews out of the public square but also to encourage violence against them.

It was that aspect of the map that drove even Pressley, who is close with BDS advocates like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), to say that she understood the danger of threats to communal safety.

But almost all of the broad-based condemnations of the map stopped short of drawing a direct line from BDS, which seeks to legitimize boycotts of Israel, Israelis, and companies and institutions that do business with the Jewish state to this sort of open anti-Semitism. The impression these statements left with the public was not that the BDS movement is itself inherently anti-Semitic, which it is, but that the map was merely an example of over-the-top activism that could incite violence.

While the map is certainly an example of extremism, it is also a product of the same ideology that produced the BLM critique of America, such as that illustrated by The New York Times’ fallacious “1619 Project.” It is, in effect, a textbook example of intersectional thinking that falsely analogizes the Palestinian war to destroy Israel with the struggle for civil rights in the United States. It links all struggles of so-called “indigenous people”—a designation that pointedly and libelously claims that Jews are not indigenous to the land of Israel—together as examples of imperialism. It not only labels all Jews living in Israel—both inside the Green Line in cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa, as well as the most remote settlements in Judea and Samaria—as practicing colonialism. It treats the existence of the United States as similarly illegitimate.

It may be more open in its willingness to label anyone remotely connected to Israel—as is the case with the entire Jewish community other than anti-Zionists—as criminally complicit with the effort to defend the Jewish state and to an America that they see as a bastion of racism. But there is no real difference between this map, and the labeling of Jews and Israel as examples of “white privilege” that is the engine of oppression that is part of CRT indoctrination and intersectional propaganda heard elsewhere.

It is those ideas that helped motivate 83 House Democrats to sign a joint letter last month demanding that the United States oppose the demolition of an illegal encampment in the West Bank that has been upheld by the Israeli Supreme Court. Weeks before, 57 members of the Democrats’ Progressive Caucus signed a similar letter demanding an “independent” investigation into the death of a Palestinian journalist who was killed in the crossfire during an Israeli counter-terrorism operation in Jenin.

Both efforts illustrate the way increasingly large numbers of Democrats are taking up Palestinian propaganda attacks against Israel. These letters, promoted by anti-Israel groups, show how the same ideological arguments that back up CRT and intersectionality have resonance on the political left when applied to Israel.

If pro-Israel Democrats want to go on the offensive against anti-Semitic BDS groups, they shouldn’t be satisfied with a few statements condemning one map. Instead, they should be joining with centrists and conservatives in attacking the ideas that make such efforts possible. But so long as that means confronting both the BLM movement, and the way CRT and intersectionality grant a permission slip for anti-Semitism, then most liberals and left-wingers want nothing to do with it. And as long as that is true, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism will continue to make inroads on the political left and the Democratic Party.

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My friend Star, stars again:
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US Inflation Starts in Washington, not Moscow

President Joe Biden spoke at the Port of Los Angeles the other day and addressed the issue foremost on the minds of Americans today — inflation.

And in the spirit of a tried and true liberal, he blamed everyone in the world for a problem that he is responsible for.

Apparently, our president believes that Vladimir Putin is running America.

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Check out this Article from AmericanThinker https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/06/the_lessons_of_savannah_and_blm.html

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 Oil Companies Abandoning Their Oil Fields… 

Stanford economists are predicting what will happen next will shake the markets to their core.

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More links to interesting articles:

• Tucker Carlson: Biden has made things a lot worse -
• Candace Owens: Democrats should be forced to live with the Kamala they created -
• Ben & Jerry’s employees required to view anti-Israel lectures on Israeli-Palestinian conflict - WIN
• 21 countries defend Israel against UN Commission of Inquiry, scathing first report - JNS
• Caroline Glick: 'Time to help the Iranian people overthrow the regime' - GLICK
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• And so it goes

  Fatah applauds Arab hitting religious Jew: “May your  hands be blessed, hero Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Jun 15, 2022 Read on our website     Abbas’ Fatah party posted a video on Facebook of an Arab hitting a religious  Jew in Jerusalem. Text on the video, which was produced by the digital media  department of the Fatah-run Awdah TV station, said:  ”May your hands be blessed.”  But this was not enough for Fatah. In its post on Facebook, Fatah expressed  its admiration of the attacker, addressing him as “hero”:  Posted text: “May your hands be blessed, hero.”  [Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, June 14, 2022]  Palestinian Media Watch has exposed the extensive PA/Fatah support of  violence, terror, and terrorist murderers, as well as Fatah’s use of Facebook  to disseminate its terror supporting ideology.  + The truth is...Donald Trump was arguably the most egotistical, arrogant bastard to ever sit as president of the US. There were a few others, like John, Abe, and Teddy, but history has tamed their legacy.                 Trump lacked compassion and sympathy.  Although he was overly sensitive to criticism, he was openly critical of others.  He was a self-centered pragmatist.  He was uncontrolled and non-compliant.  He did things his way.  He was often boldly busy doing his work, instead of the work favored by half the nation.  He praised the art of negotiation but did not compromise.                 He was terrible to work for and micromanaged almost everything and everybody. He was unprepared, apolitical, and unconnected.  He had to scrounge for appointees, and still made errors.  He was called almost every castigating word in the book and blamed for things that were not of his doing.  He drew hate and betrayal.  He had few friends, some enemies, but many followers.  He reveled in retaliation and denunciation.   He was assertive and pragmatic.  He said and did things that were offensive, disruptive, and obnoxious.  (AUTHOR, unknown )                 So, what did he accomplish for, “We the People”?                 Now watch the one-minute video! AND IF YOU DIDN'T GET IT ALL,,, PLEASE LISTEN TO THE SHORT VIDEO AGAIN AND AGAIN........                 God Bless America+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 Eat your heart out Hillary you pathetic whining woman.

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Israel worst like Trump, except for all the other's

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Israel is the world's worst country - except for all the others - opinion

Israel has stopped the Western clock that was ticking during the 1950’s. We continue to embody the key values that drove an optimistic post-WWII West, particularly in the United States.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF

 

Winston Churchill famously used this form of left-handed praise in describing democracy as a system of governance. It also seems like an apt way to approach and extol Israel’s virtues because it implicitly recognizes the existence of the widespread problems, challenges and dysfunctions here.

And yet, in the real world of rampant imperfection, we are inevitably grading on a curve. And it is in that relative realm, in surveying the realistic assessment of what Israel is, stands for and provides, that Churchill’s mode of evaluation and appreciation seems very pertinent.

As grateful as I am for our decision to make aliyah, I am not writing to extol the sweetness of living here. I am writing because I am convinced that Israel has figured some critical matters out that have enabled it to avoid some of the worst pitfalls now besetting the West. In doing so, Israel has not only helped itself, but also offers a roadmap and a model for other nations, should they be so inclined, to restore and reclaim the footing that many of them have forfeited. 

To put it simply, in some profound way, Israel, to its great credit, has stopped the Western clock that was ticking during the 1950’s. We continue to embody the key values that drove an optimistic post-WWII West, particularly in the United States.

What were those values and traits? 

Patriotism borne out of an appreciation of one’s country as a just, humane and worthwhile endeavor; a belief in God and a God-centered universe; and a rock-solid belief in the importance of family, not only the nuclear family, but also the extended one. Above all, and perhaps the product of these values, there was hope, optimism and a belief that the future would be somehow even better than the present.

Perhaps the animating impetus for perpetuating these values in Israel is the continuing awareness of how unusual and unique this place is. The only Jewish state in the world and the only nation to be reborn in a form not unrecognizable from its antecedents after a hiatus of some 1,900 years. A place whose founding cannot be explained logically or rationally, which leaves room for a sense that Divine intervention might have played a role in our creation. The only nation on earth that has been surrounded by adversaries since its inception, yet has managed to persevere, thrive and now, in some cases, even turn that adversity into co-existence.

TO THE extent that we continue to be aware of this reality, it is a logical deduction that we need to continue to maintain our security; but we do not let that need diminish our humanity, nor the desire to bury swords into ploughshares. And the idea of a role played by the Divine means that our millennia-long covenant and connection with the Divine must be alive, well and certainly worth nurturing.

By the way, who was that covenant with? A people, and a people is formed of families. The continuity of a people depends very heavily on the continuity and integrity of the families that constitute it. 

One might say, why haven’t we followed in the paths of other Western nations, who also might have had similar beliefs, which they have either sidelined, diminished or outright discarded? The Pilgrims saw themselves as the new Israelites, endowed with a mission, de Tocqueville saw an engaged and thoroughly self-assured society of ordinary people taking responsibility for their often fraught and tenuous lives.

In the 1950’s, we had American exceptionalism. In the rear-view mirror of a damning retrospection, exceptionalism is now regarded as arrogance and superiority. Other than the far-Left and professional anti-Zionists, very few people in Israel will accuse the country of arrogance and superiority.

Which perhaps leads to an understanding of why we are (thankfully) the odd man out in the West. And that is because there is still, with all our achievements, with all our successes and developments, the underlying fear that its all quite tenuous. It can end, as it has in Jewish history before. There is no guarantee of continuity and no assurance of permanence as a state.

The Ever-Dying People has become perhaps the Ever-Endangered Nation. 

No one in Denmark is worried that their country does not have the right to exist. No one in Sweden feels that they have to explain that their long-time persecution of their Norwegian neighbors somehow calls into question their bona fides as a nation.

WHAT HAPPENED to the West was too much success. Success that took the what-ifs out of life, that eliminated the possibility of things not working out.

What generations of increasingly affluent Western parents have done to their children is shield them from life’s vicissitudes, making sure that they live in a world of safe spaces, free of microaggressions and of course, always getting a trophy.

A young adult here who knows that he or she is going to be required to serve the country, most likely in an army that still focuses on the likelihood of combat, is not raised nor is thinking that way. 

The question is whether this existential uncertainty is a blessing or a curse. I would argue, given what I see here and abroad, that this anxiety, which has become part of the DNA of the Jewish people, has the effect of keeping us in the moment, of not taking things for granted and enabling a healthy appreciation of not only what we have, but also what might otherwise be. 

The two prooftexts for my belief are the following: Israel regularly ranks as one of the happiest nations on earth, and that ranking does not even include the ultimate proof text of my conviction: we have by far the highest birth rate among western nations.

The birth rate says it all: we like it enough here to feel that bringing children into the world is a gift – to the people, to their families, and most of all to the newborns themselves. Yes, the new ones will have to be vigilant, but they will grow up in a place that they will be proud of, that will be proud of them, and that will see them as links in a covenantal chain of an amazing, and yes, an eternal People.

All of this points to a conclusion that yes, we have manifest problems, oodles of nuttiness and a conga line of issues. But at the end of the day, we also have something unique, yet replicable: a basic belief that life here is somehow precious and oh so worthwhile. And that sure isn’t so bad, let alone the worst.

The writer is chairman of the board of Im Tirtzu and a director of B’yadenu and the Israel Independence Fund. 

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