“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
Again, those facts wouldn’t help Bernie fundraise, and so Bernie doesn’t care. But when the leader of the progressive movement in Congress is engaging in blatantly antisemitic rhetoric to try and get more wins, we should all care, and call it out because it is both dangerous and wrong. Mark Goldfeder
Mark Levin: Democrats accept anti-semitism
THE DIVISIONIST DEMOCRAT PARTY AND BLACK ANTI-SEMITICISM…. BUT BLACKS HATE EVERYONE PERIOD.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/black-lives-murder-most-violent_8.html
Only a minority of black people are anti-Semites, but those that are, are not lone wolves. They are not inventing the wheel. Rather, they are steeped in a significant cultural trend, a trend that persons of conscience will name, confront, analyze, and denounce.
Danusha Goska is the author of God through Binoculars: A Hitchhiker at a Monastery
Whose future, indeed? If we are to repel Black Lives Matter’s full-on assault on our values, institutions, and character, it will only be if all American patriots summon the kind of courageous, truth-telling resistance David Horowitz displays in his indispensable book I Can’t Breathe to expose and condemn the corrosive racial hoaxes perpetrated by BLM and the Democrat Party.
Black Lives Matter: Not Just Communist, But Viciously Anti-Semitic Too
Senators Demand Biden Pull Taxpayer Funding for Anti-Israel Initiative
State Department fueling 'new anti-Semitism,' lawmakers say
Senate Republican foreign policy leaders are demanding the Biden administration pull nearly $1 million in taxpayer funding for groups to investigate alleged human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip—an effort that the senators say is fueling a "new anti-Semitism."
The State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announced in March it will pay nonprofit groups up to $987,654 to "strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza," according to a grant notice first posted online in February. Groups angling for the grant money are instructed to investigate alleged crimes inside and outside of Israel to "collect, archive, and maintain human rights documentation to support justice and accountability and civil society-led advocacy efforts, which may include documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights."
The grant was seized upon by Israel's defenders on Capitol Hill as a prime example of the Biden administration's efforts to undermine the Jewish state and strengthen the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which wages economic warfare on Israel. Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and 11 other Republican lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to cancel the grant program and live up to its repeated pledges to combat the BDS movement.
"As a policy matter, it is wholly unacceptable for the State Department to fund NGOs to delegitimize and isolate Israel," the lawmakers write, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The State Department, the lawmakers allege, is using taxpayer dollars to promote a "new anti-Semitism" that is "driven by a global network of anti-Israel nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and human rights groups."
Senior Republicans on Capitol Hill who spoke to the Free Beacon say the grant is part of a larger effort by Biden administration officials to mainstream the BDS movement and undermine the U.S.-Israel alliance, even as terror attacks on the Jewish state spike. The State Department has already come under scrutiny from the GOP and pro-Israel groups for hiring several people who worked in the anti-Israel community and promoted the BDS movement.
The State Department also is facing an outside investigation from a legal watchdog group, which ordered the administration in March to turn over all documents and internal communications related to its decision to approve the nearly $1 million in funding, as the Free Beacon first reported.
Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Free Beacon that, despite its past rhetoric, the Biden administration is helping to foment anti-Israel scandals.
"The Biden administration spends enormous time and resources looking for excuses to criticize Israel, on everything from counterterrorism to international diplomacy," Cruz said. "Now they're spending $1 million in taxpayer money to manufacture even more excuses, and in the process funding the international campaign to delegitimize and wage economic warfare against Israel. The State Department should rescind this grant."
Cruz and his colleagues, including Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.), Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.), and Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), say the NGO grant clashes with the Biden administration's rhetorical commitments to fight anti-Semitism and the delegitimization of Israel.
In February, for instance, Secretary of State Antony Blinken penned a letter to the American Zionist Movement in which he committed to combating "efforts to delegitimize Israel" and to "counter[ing] attempts to isolate Israel in the international community." President Joe Biden also has said that he rejects the BDS movement and would use his position in the White House to combat it.
The GOP lawmakers are challenging the administration's commitment to Israel, saying the grant will help feed a network of "anti-Israel nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and human rights groups" that see it as their mission to topple the Western support for the Jewish state.
During the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, which famously devolved into an anti-Israel hate fest that the United States ultimately boycotted, many of the same NGOs poised to cash-in on the Biden administration's grant money signed onto a declaration calling Israel "a racist, apartheid state" that commits "crimes against humanity."
"The declaration has served as the basis for anti-Semitic campaigns by NGOs calling for economic warfare and rationalizing actual warfare against Israeli Jews," the senators write. "For decades these NGOs and campaigns have been significantly funded by European governments and the European Union. The United States has traditionally condemned such campaigns."
But the State Department's grant, which is designed to solicit reports of alleged Israeli crimes, indicates the Biden administration is aligned with the anti-Israel NGO community. The grant also was posted just months after the Biden administration rejoined the United Nations Human Rights Council, which has historically targeted Israel and was boycotted by the Trump administration for its anti-Semitic bias.
"The similarities in rhetoric, logic, and implication between the State Department notice and the NGO Forum Declaration are striking and disturbing," the lawmakers say.
Biden's new press secretary has a problem with Jews
By Edward Davis
Karine Jean-Pierre makes history this week as the first woman "of color" and the first open lesbian to become the official spokesperson for the leader of the free world.
Unfortunately, another characteristic that sets her apart from previous White House press secretaries is her malicious radical activism, which reached its low point when she made fictitious allegations against a moderate, bipartisan pro-Israel organization.
Dershowitz: Biden ‘Should Come Out as Strongly as Possible Against the Squad’s Bigotry, Anti-Semitism and Racism’
By Craig Bannister | May 19, 2022 | 3:32pm EDT
“A racist is a racist and a bigot is a bigot. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a bigot of the Left or a bigot of the Right,” iconic liberal Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz says, calling on President Joe Biden to do something that takes true courage: condemn the bigotry of the Left.
In his Tuesday podcast, The Dershow, the iconic liberal civil rights lawyer and Constitutional Scholar says that Pres. Biden did a very good thing by visiting Buffalo, New York, to speak after the recent mass shooting that took place there in a predominantly Black community.
But, that was the easy thing to do, Dershowitz says:
“It was too easy; it’s too easy. It’s too easy to go into a grieving community and to condemn the killer, to condemn the things that led him to kill, and to praise the victims. He should do it and he did it.
“It’s too easy. It’s too easy.”
Biden needs to take the next – and more difficult – step, by going to other cities and calling on Black leaders to denounce Black-on-Asian and Black-on-Jewish crime, Dershowitz says:
“Now, what he has to do – let some time pass, he doesn’t have to do it tomorrow – now, he has to go to Brooklyn and he has to go to Los Angeles.
“And he has to talk to Black community leaders and others in the Black community and say, ‘White supremacy is wrong; we all know that (clap, clap, clap, clap) but, African-Americans must stop – I’m talking about individuals, I’m not talking about any group – must stop attacking Asian-Americans, must stop attacking Jewish Americans.’ Today, there has been Black-on-Asian crime in Los Angeles and in New York and in other places, and Black-on-Jewish crime in Los Angeles and New York and other places.”
In particular, Biden should also call out radical Democrats in Congress, like those who call themselves “The Squad,” who represent “bigotry, anti-Semitism and racism,” Dershowitz says:
“For example, there’s now some kind of a law being proposed by the Squad in Congress, a group of bigoted anti-Semites running under the label of Democrats, that would, basically, attack the origins of Israel, saying that it’s the cause of the whole problem.
“President Biden has to attack that. That’s bigotry; that’s a blood libel.”
“So, I hope that the president, who has done the right thing, will continue to do the right thing and go to Brooklyn and go to Los Angeles and go to other communities where there has been Black-on-Asian and Black-on-Jewish crime and come out as strongly as possible against that, come out as strongly as possible against The Squad’s bigotry, anti-Semitism and racism.”
“Unless and until you do that, you’re just a selective condemner of bigotry and racism,” Dershowitz tells Biden.
It requires courage to publicly condemn racism from all sides, Dershowitz said:
“Now, that’s going to take courage, for the president of the United States to go to a community and look them in the eye and say, ‘You heard what I said in Buffalo, now I’m going to say it to you: White supremacy is poison, Black supremacy is poison. Black prejudice is poison. Any prejudice is poison. Stop it!’”
Biden should educate himself on the true nature of courage, by reading former Democrat President John F. Kennedy’s book, “Profiles in Courage,” Deshowitz says:
“Read ‘Profiles in Courage,’ by John F. Kennedy, and you’ll understand what it means to have courage.
“What it means is endangering your votes, endangering your base, endangering your future, doing the right thing because it’s the right thing – not because you can.”
Alice Walker Disinvited From Book Festival
Can you guess what the organizers discovered?
Thu Apr 7, 2022
Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple, has been disinvited from a book festival when the organizers discovered her long history of antisemitic remarks about Jews and Israel, the Jewish state that she often compares to Nazi Germany. A report on the reasons for her being uninvited is here: “California Book Festival Rescinds Invitation to Author Alice Walker Over Past Antisemitic Comments,” by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, March 29, 2022:
A book festival in California has disinvited Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet Alice Walker from its event due to the author’s history of making antisemitic remarks about Jews and Israel, The Jewish News of Northern California reported on Friday.
Walker, 78, was scheduled to interview writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, at the latter’s request, at the headlining event of the annual Bay Area Book Festival, which will take place May 7-8 in downtown Berkeley and is set to feature over 250 authors. The festival is the main project of the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy, a California non-profit organization.
Organizers cancelled Walker’s participation in the festival on Thursday after being informed about her past hateful comments, according to The Jewish News of Northern California. Jeffers subsequently pulled out of the festival in response, the festival’s publicist Julia Drake told the outlet.…
Walker, who was the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Color Purple” in 1983, has repeatedly compared Israel to Nazi Germany and is an avid supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. In 2011, she claimed, “I think Israel is the greatest terrorist in that part of the world. And I think in general, the United States and Israel are great terrorist organizations themselves.” That same year she said Israel is “as frightening to many of us as Germany used to be.” Walker has also made antisemitic claims about Jews and Israel in her poetry.
Walker has been obsessed with Jews and Israel for years. She frequently compares Israel to Nazi Germany, and attacks the Talmud as an evil and racist document. In 2018, she promoted a book by British antisemite and conspiracy theorist David Icke, And the Truth Shall Set You Free, during an interview with The New York Times. In the book, Icke claims that Jews control the world and quotes frequently from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Icke, whose work Alice Walker so admires, describes the Talmud as “among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,” and claimed that Jewish organizations are secretly behind various racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.
Walker’s interview of the writer Honorée Fannone Jeffers was to have been the headline event at the Bay Area Book Festival. Jeffers, as the writer being honored in this fashion, had insisted that Walker be her interviewer. Jeffers must have known, when she chose her, Walker’s history of antisemitism, her repeated denunciations of Jews, Judaism, and Israel. She would have known Walker’s work, including the very long 2017 poem Walker wrote in which she called Israeli rule “demonic to the core,” and suggested that to understand “the inspiration for so much evil,” one must “study The Talmud” and “its poison.” Jeffers apparently was not bothered by any of this; she wanted Walker and no one else to interview her. And when Walker was disinvited because of her history of antisemitism Jeffers, in a sign of solidarity with Walker, refused to appear at the Book Festival.
Walker’s hatred of Israel is extraordinary. She told an Israeli publisher in 2012 that she does not allow The Color Purple to be translated into Hebrew because “Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.”
The organizers of the Bay Area Book Festival had apparently not known the extent of her demented antisemitism, when they chose her to interview Honorée Fannone Jeffers at the headline event, did not know the full extent of her hatred of Israel – “demonic to the core” — the Jewish state that she compares to Nazi Germany, nor her deep hatred of Judaism, and that Talmud whose “poison” she denounces. But when it was brought to their attention, the organizers of the Bay Area Book Festival did the right thing, and at once disinvited the disgraceful Alice Walker. It is heartening that there was no wobbling on the issue, once the evidence of her malignant obsession was presented, no attempt to explain away or hide her spittle-flecked hatred. She won’t be an honored guest; she won’t be anything at all, at the Bay Area Book Festival. That’s as it should be.
Shocking poll reveals Blacks see their White neighbors very negatively
The incessant media and progressive political campaign to claim that something called white supremacy is a major threat to Americans, especially African Americans, has been chillingly effective. A Washington Post-Ipsos poll reveals that three quarters of Blacks are worried that they or someone they love will be attacked by a white person. And nearly as many, 70 percent, believe that half or more of all White people “hold white supremacist beliefs.”
Here is a screengrab of the relevant questions on the poll:
Two-thirds of Black people believe that white supremacy is a bigger threat today than 5 years ago, and 73 percent believe “restrictions on voting rights” are a “major threat.”
My own perspective is that these views are wildly unrealistic, that white supremacy is a distinctly crackpot phenomenon limited to a tiny percentage of the populace. Crime statistics show that interracial crime is overwhelmingly comprised of Black attacks on Whites and Asians, as opposed to attacks on Blacks.
But these results are perhaps not sur[rising, considering how the media have persuaded large numbers of Blacks and Whites that huge numbers of unarmed Black people are killed by police every year when the actual number is under 20 usually.
Unsurprisingly, the people who natter on about “disinformation” have nothing to say about the ruinous effect of racial fear-mongering on the subject of purported widespread White racism.
Hat tip: Clarice Feldman
Morally bankrupt Bernie Sanders fundraises with antisemitism
Bernie Sanders has spent the primary election season engaging in antisemitic dog whistles and endangering American Jews at a time when attacks on Jewish people are spiking across the country. It is unacceptable, and we must call him out for it.
Sanders has a long history of making incendiary, ill-informed comments about Israel, casually accusing the Jewish State of horrible crimes, and then attempting to walk back or tone down the worst of his lies when people take him seriously. It is a technique he has passed on to some of his most famous acolytes, the notoriously fact-flippant anti-Israel (and often antisemitic) Squad. He also proudly associates with rabid antisemites who call Zionists white nationalists, engage in Holocaust inversion, and accuse American Jews of dual loyalty.
But Sanders does not just hate Israel. Now, he is actively targeting mainstream American Jews, including members of the Democrat party, using vile antisemitic tropes. In speeches and in tweets Sanders has publicly attacked AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, for the crime of participating in the political process by supporting candidates whose positions align with policies they endorse, and opposing candidates whose positions do not. Perhaps AIPAC has been successful because the vast majority of American voters agree with their stance; the most recent Gallup poll found that 71% of the public say they have a very favorable or mostly favorable view of Israel.
But Sanders does not believe in math, and so he has been telling tales of shadowy rich Jews who secretly pull strings to “buy elections and control this democracy” that could have come straight from the Protocols of the Elders of Zions. He does this amidst a historic rise in antisemitic attacks across the United States, and he does this knowing full well that his rhetoric directly furthers that violence. He should be utterly ashamed.
As if classic antisemitic stereotypes were not bad enough, Sanders also took the time to smear AIPAC and its supporters by calling them racist, sexist, and anti-progressive- despite their long demonstrable history of supporting women, people of color, and progressives. In fact, in the current Congress, AIPAC supports the majority of both the Black Caucus and the Hispanic Caucus, as well as 43 members of the Progressive Caucus. In this very election season, AIPAC supported, among others, Valerie Foushee, a progressive woman of color who won her State Senate race in North Carolina, and Shontel Brown, a progressive woman of color (and Progressive Caucus member) representing Ohio’s 11th district. But of course, none of these facts matter to Sanders because they do not help further his despicable narrative. And judging by the hundreds of openly antisemitic comments supporting his tweets, none of them will matter to his audience either as they eagerly accept the cover he provides them to express their vile hate.
For the record, supporting Israel is not just a Jewish issue, nor does it require dual loyalty. Americans support Israel for a number of reasons, including but not limited to our values. For example, our shared security interests include but are not limited to preventing nuclear proliferation, combating terrorism, containing Iranian, Turkish, and Russian expansionism, and promoting the rule of democracy. Israeli-developed technology protects our citizens and troops at home and abroad. Israel is our closest ally in the Middle East and our only reliable source of intelligence and cyber defense. All of these things make support for Israel crucial to American interests. In addition, Israel is our 23rd largest trading partner, and Israeli inventions power our laptops, devices, and medical equipment. Regardless, no matter why some Americans choose to support Israel, Sanders has no right to engage in antisemitism.
It is also quite rich to hear these speeches about from a man who is fine hosting strategy calls with an Iranian-American advocacy group whose political action committee lobbies on behalf of the murderous (and antisemitic) Iranian regime- just one day after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack at US. Army personnel in Iraq. And of course, there are numerous Super PACS that support people Sanders likes, but he does not single any of those out for critique.
Finally, Sanders’s blind support for the “Palestinian cause” is not actually progressive, either. The Palestinians do not have freedom of speech, press, or religion. Their leaders arrest and sometimes kill gays, women are subject to abuse and honor killings, and the Palestinian Authority literally pays its civilians to murder innocent Israelis and Americans. Israel is a functioning democracy with the same kinds of problems that every functioning democracy has, but any objective person lining up the two would have to admit that Israel is far more progressive than the Palestinians.
Again, those facts wouldn’t help Bernie fundraise, and so Bernie doesn’t care. But when the leader of the progressive movement in Congress is engaging in blatantly antisemitic rhetoric to try and get more wins, we should all care, and call it out because it is both dangerous and wrong.
Dr. Mark Goldfeder, Esq. is an international lawyer and Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center
City on the Brink
REVIEW: 'In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism'
Germany is now known as the site of the most horrific anti-Semitic slaughter in history, the Holocaust. But well before Hitler's rise, as Michael Brenner shows in his new book, In Hitler's Munich, there was a long history of Jewish communal life in Germany, as well as a long history of anti-Semitism. There was even a Jewish premier of Bavaria in the years after World War I, the journalist and revolutionary Kurt Eisner. Eisner was assassinated by an anti-Semite, Count Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley. Arco-Valley, as he is more commonly known, had Jewish ancestry—a reminder of the complicated nature of German-Jewish relationships even before the rise of Nazism.
German Jews were not only heavily involved in politics. They were also prominent in business, academia, and German literature. Brenner also makes the interesting counterfactual claim that if somehow Eisner had not been assassinated and had helped navigate Germany to a successful post-World War I democratic status, the history books of today might have seen Germany in a similar light as France, which also had Jewish politicians involved in its post-World War I journey to a relatively secure democratic state.
And yet, as Brenner explains, the Eisner assassination was far from the only anti-Semitic flashpoint of those years. He also explores Germany's equivalent of the Dreyfus trial: the accusation and unjust conviction of the German-Jewish journalist Felix Fechenbach for treason. As in the Dreyfus affair, the case against Fechenbach had anti-Semitic origins and ended with a pardon. Another warning sign was Adolf Hitler's beer hall putsch, in which Hitler and his goons briefly tried to take control of the government. The revolt was put down in short order, but Hitler got a laughably short sentence from a Bavarian court that was notoriously lenient toward Aryan and anti-Semitic malefactors.
Brenner's book is not for beginners. In fact, he tells the reader multiple times that incidents he discusses, including Hitler's rise, are told in greater detail elsewhere, allowing him to gloss over some well-known events while focusing on the specifics of his thesis. This could potentially be off-putting to the general interest reader, who may not have the depth of knowledge about the subject that Brenner has or assumes his readers have.
Brenner, however, is not interested in just a straight-up history of a fascinating but depressing period that led to the creation of one of the most murderous regimes in history. The book is really asking a fundamental question, or perhaps a series of fundamental questions, about history, destiny, and human agency.
One question is about whether things had to play out the way they did. By focusing on the flashpoints, Brenner shows that there were a number of ways in which things went wrong but did not have to. If the incidents he discusses had happened in a slightly different way, Germany's history, and the world's, might have unfolded very differently.
A second question regards the Jews themselves. Things were bad for the Jews in Germany in some ways, but good in other ways. The Jews had a long history there and had success in many important fields. In addition, some of the surrounding nations, such as Russia and Poland, were often far worse to their Jewish populations. The Jews had reasons to think that Germany, while not perfect, might have been the best option for them at the time. And yet, with the Brenner assassination and the Fechenbach trial, and Jews beaten on the streets of Munich in random fashion—a phenomenon that unfortunately happens all too often in America today—most German Jews decided that staying in Germany was a viable option. Tragically, of course, this was very much not the case.
A third question driving Brenner is a societal one. After World War I and the fall of the Kaiser's government, Germany could have gone in a liberal democratic direction, and indeed tried to for a while. It ended in failure, with Hitler's ascension to the chancellorship with only 43.9 percent of the vote in 1933. Once in office, Hitler seized the reins of power and too many Germans were willing to go along with it, leading to disastrous results for the country and the entire world.
Could such a thing happen today? Could it happen here? We of course must hope that our institutions are stronger and that such a thing is not possible in the United States. That said, we also never thought we'd see another land war in Europe, and believed that free speech would always be considered to be a value on all sides of the political debate.
It was not that long ago when President Ronald Reagan would say unifying things like "liberty binds us together." And yet today too many people in political life do not value liberty, and are instead seeking order or equity or something else. Brenner's book is a reminder of the importance of strong institutions, the value of liberty and, for Jews, the need to always have a passport ready and a suitcase packed.
In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism
by Michael Brenner
Princeton University Press, 392 pp., $35
Tevi Troy is a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former senior White House aide. His latest book is Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump.
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