It’s refreshing to see all this finally getting some notice. We have been covering this unsavory gang of pro-jihad Jew-haters, thugs and creeps for over twenty years. If Chikli wants more information, he can scroll through this archive.
“Chikli: CAIR leader praised October 7 massacre, called Gaza ‘concentration camp,’” Jerusalem Post, December 20, 2024:
Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry Minister Amichai Chikli escalated his campaign against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Thursday, exposing the organization’s alleged ties to Hamas and sharing a damning quote from its executive director, Nihad Awad, about the October 7 Hamas-led massacre in Israel.
In a series of posts on X, Chikli wrote: “The time has come to discuss @CAIRNational, its origins, and the hidden ideology behind its self-definition as a ‘human rights organization.’ Let’s begin.” He continued by linking CAIR’s establishment to the Palestine Committee, a Hamas-affiliated network in the US, and cited FBI wiretaps from a 1993 meeting in Philadelphia where plans to create CAIR were allegedly finalized.
Chikli directly quoted Awad’s remarks about the October 7 attack that left over 1,200 Israelis dead: “The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on October 7. And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege… walking free into their land, which they were not allowed to walk in.” Chikli labeled the statement as an endorsement of terrorism and a vivid illustration of CAIR’s true agenda.
The statement has drawn widespread condemnation…
The White House, in response, disavowed CAIR’s involvement in any federal programs, particularly its previous role in discussions surrounding combating antisemitism….
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The FBI used to fight terrorists. Now it aids and abets them.
People recently noticed the FBI awarding a diploma to a student from ‘Palestine’.
A little digging turned up the fact that the FBI had been promoting the man in question, Husham Abu-Aisha, on its social media for a while as the epitome of all that it idealizes.
Husham is a member of the Palestinian Authority’s forces, which are essentially terrorist operations that also conduct some policing. A member of a terrorist group’s forces getting training at the FBI raises serious questions.
In Trump’s first term, Jews were declared to be a minority group protected by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. And now, just weeks away from beginning his second term, Trump has laid down the law, in a speech he just gave at a rally against antisemitism in Washington. American universities that fail to combat antisemitism on their campuses should expect severe repercussions, including the loss of accreditation and of federal research contracts. More on Trump’s determination to stamp out campus antisemitism can be found here: “Trump to universities: Stamp out antisemitism or lose accreditation,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2024:
All American universities must end campus antisemitism or they will lose accreditation, President-elect Donald Trump promised during a rally against antisemitism in Washington.
To “defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America,” Trump said he would inform every college president that if they do not “end antisemitic propaganda,” they would lose accreditation and federal support.
He did not say they “may lose” accreditation. Trump said they will lose accreditation, and their share of the billions of dollars in federal support that universities receive. A double blow to their finances and reputation.
“We will not subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers, and we’re not going to do it – certainly [not] on American soil,” he said.
Trump added that once in the Oval Office, he would inform all educational institutions that if they permit violence or harassment against Jewish students, they will be “held accountable for violations of the civil rights law.”
“It’s very important – Jewish Americans must have equal protection under the law, and they’re going to get it,” he said. “At the same time, my administration will move swiftly to restore safety for Jewish students [on campuses] and Jewish people on American streets.”…
Those wet-behind-the-ears stormtroopers will no longer be allowed to harass and attack Jewish students. They won’t be able to march around the campus, entering lecture halls to disrupt classes taught by Jews and Israelis, or entering campus buildings in order to vandalize them, as they did on April 28 to Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, in an attempt to pressure the administration to divest from Israeli companies, and to cut institutional ties to Israeli academic institutions. If universities do not take forceful action against those who are fomenting a climate of antisemitism — something that very few of them did this past year — then they stand to lose their accreditation, which means their students would no longer have access to federal financial aid. In addition, earning a degree earned from an unaccredited school can also hold little value to employers and disqualify someone from attending graduate school. In addition, the federal government funds billions of dollars in research projects conducted at universities; that money could dry up if not enough is done to fight antisemitic acts on campus.
Many universities have shown themselves incapable of dealing with the surge in antisemitism on their campuses since October 7, 2023. Deploring antisemitic acts, declaring sympathy with Jewish students, promising solemnly to do better, is not enough. Nor are those slap-on-the-wrist punishments, where a handful of the worst offenders are suspended from campus for a term, and then that suspension is immediately lifted. Columbia University administrators considered caving to the demands of anti-Israel students, including agreeing to financial divestment from Israel-linked companies, as the just-released report from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce makes clear. And at Columbia, after dozens of marches by those screaming about “genocide in Gaza,” the harassing of Jewish students, the seizure of campus buildings, the setting up of tent encampments, a grand total of four students received temporary suspensions. “Harvard cut language condemning Oct. 7 attack as ‘violence,’ reference to hostages from statement on massacre, House GOP report shows,” by Josh Christenson, New York Post, October 31, 2024:
Harvard University President Claudine Gay and other administrators intentionally cut language condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of more than 1,200 civilians as “violence” and references to their Israeli hostages from an official statement after the brutal attack, a stunning House committee report revealed Thursday.
The GOP-led House Education and Workforce Committee in a 122-page report found that the Ivy League university leaders made “an intentional decision” to water down their Oct. 9 statement that still failed to condemn Hamas’ attack, according to documents, some of which were obtained via subpoena.
“We denounce this act of terror,” reads an earlier draft of the statement that was jettisoned.
Then-Harvard Law School Dean John Manning, who has since become the school’s provost, successfully lobbied against adding more language that referenced the hundreds of hostages taken by Hamas.
“The violence hits all too close to home for many at Harvard,” states the earlier draft. “Some members of our community have lost family members and friends; some have been unable to reach loved ones, and others fear that their loved ones may have been taken hostage.”
On many campuses, including Harvard, Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Jewish students have reported a climate of widespread antisemitism that has been tolerated by administrators. Lawsuits accusing Harvard University of tolerating antisemitism and making it unbearable for Jewish students to study there are ongoing.
Now Trump has set down the law, threatening to take away both accreditation, which would means no student access to federal financial aid, and research funds, from colleges and universities that fail to deal adequately with antisemitism. A new sheriff is in town.
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The implication of this story was that she left him because he treated her badly. Now, where could he have gotten the idea that such behavior was justified?
The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127
Another hadith states: “Rifa`a divorced his wife whereupon `AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. `Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah’s Messenger came, Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!’” — Sahih Bukhari 7.77.5825
“Ex-wife of man who masterminded Trump assassination plot is an American lawyer who had converted to Islam,” by Emma James, Daily Mail, November 13, 2024:
The ex-wife of the mastermind behind the chilling terror plot to assassinate Donald Trump is an accomplished American lawyer who converted to Islam for him, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Gabriele Burner, 49, was married to Farhad Shakeri, 51, who allegedly admitted to being the ringleader of the now-foiled scheme involving three hitmen hired by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) to target Trump.
The couple had five children and were living in New York when Shakeri was convicted of robbery and kidnapping in 1994 and was handed a 21-year prison sentence.
Shakeri, who grew up in Virginia, was later deported from the US to his native Afghanistan after being offered a plea deal by authorities.
Burner, a white woman from New York, stood by her husband for several years, even moving to Afghanistan and then Dubai following his deportation.
Photos exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com show the couple posing together after his release from US custody.
Burner spent nine years working in the Special Litigation Unit of New York City’s Law Department, until her husband’s deportation.
The mother-of-five then became a legal advisory in the Afghan capital Kabul for three years.
Shakeri and his family then moved to Dubai in 2011, where Burner worked again as a legal consultant, before they ultimately split in 2015 after the birth of their youngest son.
She then moved with her children back to New York, setting up her own legal firm in Port Jefferson in Long Island.
In 2022 the lawyer rebranded her firm from Law Office of Gabriele Shakeri to Gabriele Burner, after eight years of practicing under her married name.
When approached by DailyMail.com Burner declined to comment.
But sources claim that his family was appalled by the way he treated her after she converted to Islam to be with him.
‘Gaby decided to bring her life back to America because of his behavior,’ they said. ‘She really gave her entire life to him.
‘She left him when they were in Dubai, and moved back to New York, because of his behavior. He just seemed to get worse.
The source said Shakeri’s younger brother lost all respect for him after he saw how he treated her.
‘He was very disappointed to see the girl, a white woman who had turned Muslim and spoke the language, and he just couldn’t look up to him anymore.’
The news comes after DailyMail.com revealed that Shakeri was brought up in Manassas, Virginia, from the age of nine along with his six siblings after their parents moved them from Afghanistan for a better life….
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Hamas is the terror group in Gaza that has been responsible for murdering thousands of Israeli civilians in acts of terror carried out by its members since 1987. For decades, it carried out terror attacks, using rockets, missiles, drones, suicide bombers, rifles, and knives, to kill Israelis. The apotheosis of its terror took place on October 7, 2023, when 3,800 Hamas members, accompanied by 2,200 ordinary Gazans who accompanied them so as to join in the fun, smashed into Israel, where they proceeded to rape, torture, decapitate, burn alive, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis and to kidnap 250 more. Since then, the IDF has been dismantling Hamas’ military forces. It has killed about 20,000 Hamas members — half the prewar strength of the terror group, and is now in the process of taking apart what remains of its forces, as they try to regroup in northern Gaza. The IDF has discovered and destroyed hundreds of miles of terror tunnels. It has found and seized, or in some cases destroyed, huge caches of weapons hidden everywhere — in apartment buildings, in schools, in mosques, in hospitals and, of course, in the network of tunnels, some 450 miles of them, underground.
The Palestinian Authority has been trying to patch things up with Hamas after years of enmity. Mahmoud Abbas did not denounce, but praised, the “valor” displayed by Hamas on October 7. He has spoken of the need to form a coalition government between Fatah and Hamas to jointly rule in Gaza “the day after.” Khaled Abu Toameh, the Israeli Arab analyst, denounces this attempt by Mahmoud Abbas to legitimize Hamas here: “Hamas Must Be Defeated, Not Legitimized,” by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute,
More than a year after the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to view the Iran-backed Islamist movement as a legitimate partner.
Last week, representatives of the PA’s ruling Fatah faction (headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas) and Hamas held talks in the Egyptian capital of Cairo to discuss establishing a joint administration to rule the Gaza Strip. An Egyptian source confirmed that the Fatah-Hamas discussions aim at to create a committee to manage the affairs of the Gaza Strip, in addition to pursuing efforts to reach a ceasefire there.
Another Egyptian security source was quoted as saying that the talks “aim to unify the Palestinian ranks and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people.” According to the source, the Fatah and Hamas negotiators “showed more flexibility and positivity towards establishing a committee to manage the affairs of the Gaza Strip.”
Tayseer Nasrallah, a senior Fatah official who participated in the talks with Hamas, expressed “optimism” that the talks with Hamas would lead to the formation of a committee for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. The talks, he said, “aim to unify visions regarding the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip” in the aftermath of the current Israel-Hamas war, which erupted after the October 7 attack that resulted in the murder of 1,200 Israelis and the injury of thousands. During the attack, many Israelis were beheaded, raped, tortured, and burned alive. In addition, more than 240 others were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 101 – alive and dead – remain in captivity.
Hamas, for its part, said: “We held a meeting with our brothers in the Fatah faction, and the atmosphere of the meeting was positive and frank.” The terrorist group added that the two sides discussed “the formation of a body to follow up on the affairs and needs of the Gaza Strip,” and noted that the meetings with Fatah will continue.
Last month, Fatah and Hamas representatives held similar talks in Cairo to discuss ways of ending the rivalry between the two parties and establishing a Palestinian unity government. Senior Hamas official Taher a-Nunu said that the purpose of the talks was to “achieve Palestinian national unity and strengthen security and political coordination between the two sides.” Unnamed Fatah officials were quoted as saying that their faction has agreed to the formation of a joint committee to manage the affairs of the Gaza Strip….
The main military component of the Palestinian Authority is the armed group Fatah, of which Mahmoud Abbas — along with being the PA’s president-for-life — is the head. He now sees a way to gain a foothold for Fatah in Gaza, from which it was bloodily expelled by the men of Hamas in 2007. He has been negotiating with Hamas for sharing rule in Gaza. He wants to share in the governance of Gaza, and Hamas wants to continue, by agreeing to share power with Fatah, to be seen as acceptable — its terrorism diluted, in a sense, by the presence of Fatah — by the United States.
The IDF is close to completely destroying Hamas as a military threat. But Hamas must also be destroyed as a political threat, lest, in a power-sharing arrangement with Fatah, it manages to reconstitute itself, is then resupplied with weapons from Iran and attracts new recruits from inside Gaza. It has to be not embraced, but shunned, by the Palestinian Authority. It should be accused by the PA of having caused the destruction of so much infrastructure in Gaza, and held responsible, too, for the killing of thousands of civilians, the result of its policy of deliberately embedding its fighters, and hiding its weapons, in civilian areas, including schools, mosques, hospitals, and apartment buildings. Mahmoud Abbas may be afraid of rejecting Hamas outright from a possible role in a coalition that would rule Gaza. He remembers how many hundreds of Fatah members were murdered by Hamas in 2007 — but Abbas is 88 years old, and his successor may not feel the same. After all, Hamas is a lot less powerful now than it was before October 7, 2023, and only one-third of Gazans still support it. Fatah’s hour may have come round at last, to hold itself out as the sole governing group that the Americans can accept. Hamas is detested by the rich Sunni states of the Gulf. They see Hamas, correctly, as the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and are well aware that the MB wants to overthrow their “decadent” monarchies. But if Gaza is to be rebuilt, most of the money will have to come from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, among Arab states, and possibly some money will come — but not while Trump is in office — from the Americans as well, and none of the three would welcome a continuing Hamas role in Gaza.
Mahmoud Abbas must stop voicing his approval of Hamas. His attempts to legitimize the terror group will further antagonize not only Israel — which will have the largest say in who governs Gaza once the fighting in the Strip has stopped — but also the United States, which has designated Hamas as a terror organization, and the two Arab countries, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, that are expected to contribute the most to rebuilding — s-l-o-w-l-y — Gaza. How willing will they be to fund projects if Hamas is still taking part in Gaza’s government? Everyone should just let Israel finish the job of defeating Hamas. It won’t be long now. The end is nigh.
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The morally obtuse, the dimwits, the historically ignorant, the antisemites are all out in force again this fall on campuses from sea to shining sea. But there are signs of university administrators becoming fed up, and determined to crack down on those who actually harass and physically attack Jewish students, vandalize university buildings, and call for the destruction of the only Jewish state and the expulsion, or killing, of its Jewish population. One of the students who has been firmly dealt with is one Prahlad Iyengar, a doctoral student at MIT who published a manifesto calling for “violence” by anti-Israel demonstrators. For his pains, he has been banned from the campus. That could lead to his expulsion. More on his case, and on other campus follies, can be found here: “‘Time to Begin Wreaking Havoc’: MIT Student Calls for Violence to Oppose Israel, ‘Escalate for Palestine,’” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, November 6, 2024:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has reportedly banished from campus a student who penned an article which argued that violence is a legitimate method of effecting political change and, moreover, advancing the pro-Palestinian movement.
First reported on Tuesday by the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA), an anti-Israel group associated with National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), the school’s decision — as of yet unconfirmed by MIT officials — stands to reverse an impression that MIT lacks the resolve to punish students who use the campus to break university rules while holding raucous demonstrations against the world’s lone Jewish state.
Titled “On Pacifism,” the article — published in the MIT student publication Written Revolution and flanked by images of members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist group — argued that activists have failed to stop Israel’s war against Hamas and sunder the US-Israel relationship because of “our own decision to embrace nonviolence as our primary vehicle of change.”
All those chants calling for an end to the Jewish state, all those takeovers and vandalizing of university buildings, all the bullying of Jewish students, have not been enough to change policy in Washington. What is required to have an impact, this MIT student says, is real “violence.” We’ve “achieved nothing” because that “genocidal war in Gaza” goes on. Only when we use violence — only when we start to beat up Jewish students, pro-Israel faculty, and campus police — will we get results. He doesn’t explain exactly how such violence will convince others to go along with a pro-Hamas policy. We are left to guess.
The author, PhD candidate Prahlad Iyengar, continued, “One year into a horrific genocide, it is time for the movement to begin wreaking havoc, or else, as we’ve seen, business will indeed go on as usual … As people of conscience in the world, we have a duty to Palestine and to all the globally oppressed. We have a mandate to exact a cost from the institutions that have contributed to the growth and proliferation of colonialism, racism, and all oppressive systems. We have a duty to escalate for Palestine, and as I hope I’ve argued, the traditional pacifist strategies aren’t working because they are ‘designed into’ the system we fight against.”
In a statement distributed by the CAA, Iyengar accused MIT of weaponizing the disciplinary system to persecute him….
“Weaponizing the disciplinary system” just “to persecute him”? What a blend of conceit and persecution complex. MIT has only decided that someone who calls for violence on campus is a physical threat to both students and faculty, and the university has a perfect right to remove him from that campus. Nothing has been “weaponized.” Nor is Prahlad Iyengar being selected for “persecution.’”
Apparently Prahlad Iyengar also thinks that history teaches that “protest movements throughout history” have only succeeded when they abandoned nonviolence as a tactic. What can he be thinking of? Not Mahatma Gandhi’s peaceful protests against the British rulers of India that won that country’s independence. Not the civil rights movement in America led by Martin Luther King, that insisted on nonviolence. Not Nelson Mandela’s campaign to end apartheid in South Africa. Does Iyengar not realize how it was precisely the tactic of non-violence that was responsible for the success of all of those movements?
The pro-Hamas student group Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA) is now calling on students to harass David Randall, an associate dean, until he “relents and revokes” Iyengar’s punishment. There is the threat. There is the violence. By calling so pointedly for Randall to be targeted for harassment — you can use your imagine as to what that harassment could include, from threatening phone calls day and night, hacking of his computer, garbage strewn on his lawn, vandalizing his walls with slogans about “Free Palestine” and “Stop the Genocide,” even screaming at him whenever he appears on campus outside his office — his life can be made most unpleasant. One hopes that because it called for harassing an associate dean for performing his duties, the CAA at MIT will be permanently shut down.
In September, during Columbia University’s convocation ceremony, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a group which recently split due to racial tensions between Arabs and non-Arabs, distributed literature calling on students to join the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s movement to destroy Israel.
How amusing it was to see Palestinian students feeling discriminated against by their “non-Arab brothers,” who apparently would not let them arrogate to themselves all the leadership roles in the pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University.
University administrators who until now have been doing far too little, and sometimes nothing, about the pro-Hamas bullyboys who last year storm-trooped their way across campuses, yelling at, surrounding and holding briefly captive, and even assaulting, Jewish students, vandalizing university buildings, scribbling their antisemitic slogans on walls, calling for “violence” as the only way to get their messages across, are now encountering a new atmosphere, an unwillingness by those in Washington who supply universities with so much support to tolerate their inaction. The MIT doctoral student Prahlad Iyengar has now been banned from campus — a harbinger, one hopes, of punishments to come. Let’s hope that his banning is followed up by his permanent expulsion from MIT. And may other pro-Hamas students, and not only at MIT, begin to worry that with Trump’s return to office, and with the massive and devastating report on antisemitism on campuses that has been compiled by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and just been released, there will be no more tolerance for those who spread their hatred of Jews and of Israel on campuses. Pull down your tent encampments, put away your bullhorns, roll up your Palestinian flags, and return to your studies, all you Hamas supporters — that is, if you care to graduate.
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In Michigan, Donald Trump went on November 1 to Dearborn, Michigan to court Arab voters. He has apparently enrolled in this outreach effort his daughter Tiffany’s father-in-law, Lebanese-American Massad Boulos. Could it be that when he says he wants Israel to hurry up and “finish the job,” he means that he wants Israel to end the fighting now, both with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon? Israel still has to deal with the thousands of Hamas combatants who have managed to regroup in northern Gaza, as well as obtain the release of the hostages who are still alive. In Lebanon, it will still take a few months to end the threat from a much tougher foe, Hezbollah. One hopes Trump doesn’t mean to hasten the IDF to end hostilities before its goals have been achieved, but he needs to make this perfectly clear.
More about both Trump, and Bill Clinton, speaking in Michigan, can be found here: “Role reversal: Trump stumps for Arab votes, Bill Clinton speaks truth to state with large Arab pop.,” by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, November 3, 2024:
Even in a US election campaign full of surprises – remember President Joe Biden bowing out mid-campaign in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris – last week’s role reversals in Michigan had some observers scratching their heads.
One of those head-scratching moments was when former president Donald Trump showed up on Friday for a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Arab-majority city in America in a state with an estimated 200,000 Arab voters.
The significance of the Muslim vote in Michigan is greatly exaggerated. There are 8.45 million registered voters in the state. Only 200,000 of them are Muslim. But you would hardly know that from the breathless reports about the power of the Muslim vote. That’s exactly what Muslims in America want the world to think.
Why was this a head-scratching moment? It is one thing for Trump to go to the grave of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as he did in October, and make a play for Jewish voters, even though he knows that historically, Jewish voters have favored his opponents by wide margins and vote heavily for Democrats.
But there was still a certain logic to it: after all, he is unapologetically pro-Israel, and when he was president, he took a number of extremely significant steps that helped Israel….
Trump did more for Israel than any President in history. He moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem. He recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights,signing on March 25, 2019 a proclamation stating that “the United States recognizes that the Golan Heights are part of the State of Israel.” He withdrew from the Iran deal and reimposed sanctions on Israel’s most dangerous enemy, Iran. Trump cut the annual US aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) – $500 million – claiming that its purpose had been to facilitate a peace process, but since the Palestinians refused to negotiate, it no longer made sense to fund them. Trump closed the PLO office in Washington. In addition, he cut the annual US contributions to UNRWA, claiming that the agency was corrupt and perpetuated the Palestinian refugee problem, and in its schools, was indoctrinating pupils with hostility to Israel and to Jews. Most important, perhaps, was Trump’s rejection of Obama’s claim that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal and the main obstacle to peace. He was especially offended by a resolution initiated by Obama at the UN Security Council in December 2016, when Trump was already president-elect. The UN resolution (2334) stated that Israel’s settlement activity constituted a “flagrant violation” of international law and had “no legal validity.” On November 18, 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law.”
What was as surprising for some as Trump’s whistle-stop in Dearborn was a speech former president Bill Clinton, a Kamala Harris surrogate, gave two days earlier at a church in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, a three-hour drive away.
What was surprising, or rather, counterintuitive, was that in the heart of Michigan, with both candidates chasing after the Arab and Muslim vote, Clinton gave a vigorous defense of Israel’s war in Gaza.
What was striking about Bill Clinton’s speech?
Two things were striking about Clinton’s nine-minute discussion about Israel in the speech that went viral among Jews and pro-Israel supporters and triggered angry blowback by anti-Israel activists and pro-Palestinian organizations.
The first was Clinton’s honesty. He stood up and essentially put to lie the narrative of Palestinian victimhood popular among some progressive and pro-Palestinian supporters in Michigan.
Clinton said that when he was president, Yasser Arafat was offered a state on 96% of the West Bank and Gaza, could choose from inside Israel where he wanted to take the remaining four percent, and was offered a capital in east Jerusalem, including control of two of the four quarters in the Old City.
“And they said no,” the former president declared.
Part of the reason, Clinton said, was that “Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians; they wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable. Well, I got news for them: They [the Jews] were there first before their [the Muslims’] faith existed. They were there in the times of King David, and the southernmost tribes had Judea and Samaria.”…
Here’s what I think: If Trump becomes president for a second time, he would again be as supportive of Israel as he was the first time. Muslims who are counting on Trump to be less favorable to Israel will be greatly disappointed. And Clinton — well, that speech he delivered to an audience of Muslims and Arabs was most welcome. It’s too bad it took three decades — since the disastrous Oslo Accords that he helped to fashion — for the scales to fall from his eyes.
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Israel has but a small window of opportunity left to end the most critical jihad threats against it. Should Harris win the U.S. presidential election next week, she will stymie Israel’s efforts even more than Biden. Should Trump win, he has already expressed his expectation that Israel will wrap up the Gaza war and thereby secure his support for Israel into the future against its jihadist enemies.
Under a Trump administration, Israel will at least have support, and thus freer rein to act against Hamas and Hizballah. The Biden administration buys Israel’s enemies time via its ongoing interference and betrayals. See also HERE and HERE.
“Trump told Netanyahu he wants Gaza war over by time he enters office — sources,” by Jacob Magid, Times of Israel, October 30, 2024:
Former US president Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office if he wins the election, two sources familiar with the matter revealed to The Times of Israel this week.
The message was first conveyed when the Republican presidential nominee hosted the Israeli premier at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort in July, according to a former Trump administration official and an Israeli official.
While Trump has publicly confirmed having told Netanyahu that he wants Israel to win the war quickly, the sources speaking to The Times of Israel are the first to reveal that a timeline was attached to that request.
The former US official stressed that Trump wasn’t specific in his appeal to Netanyahu and could well back “residual” IDF activity in Gaza, so long as Jerusalem has officially ended the war.…
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“Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.”
A woke educational system politicizes everything, it also produces functional illiterates who only know how to be outraged at the things they’re told to be outraged at. (This is often mislabeled as teaching ‘critical thinking’.)
The consequences of replacing Shakespeare with Amanda Gorman are more than just wokeness, but a student body that even in Ivy League schools can’t read.
Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
Why are those students even there would be a question. But the answer is pretty obvious. Quite a few of those students are there for reasons other than merit. But beyond that they’re the products of public school systems that pursue every possible gimmick and fad except actually teaching basic skills.
This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
“My jaw dropped,” Dames told me. The anecdote helped explain the change he was seeing in his students: It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.
Why read books when you can go with teacher to a protest rally instead?
Twenty years ago, Dames’s classes had no problem engaging in sophisticated discussions of Pride and Prejudice one week and Crime and Punishment the next. Now his students tell him up front that the reading load feels impossible. It’s not just the frenetic pace; they struggle to attend to small details while keeping track of the overall plot.
And they also need their “mental health days”. And their “self-care”. And why should they be expected to do anything anyway?
Private schools, which produce a disproportionate share of elite college students, seem to have been slower to shift away from reading complete volumes—leading to what Dames describes as a disconcerting reading-skills gap among incoming freshmen.
If only we paid public school teachers like NBA players…
In the face of this, the educational system is doing what it always does, lowering its standards.
Faced with this predicament, many college professors feel they have no choice but to assign less reading and lower their expectations. Victoria Kahn, who has taught literature at UC Berkeley since 1997, used to assign 200 pages each week. Now she assigns less than half of that. “I don’t do the whole Iliad. I assign books of The Iliad. I hope that some of them will read the whole thing,” Kahn told me. “It’s not like I can say, ‘Okay, over the next three weeks, I expect you to read The Iliad,’ because they’re not going to do it.”
Andrew Delbanco, a longtime American-studies professor at Columbia, now teaches a seminar on short works of American prose instead of a survey course on literature. The Melville segment used to include Moby-Dick; now his students make do with Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, and “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” There are some benefits—short works allow more time to focus on “the intricacies and subtleties of language,” Delbanco told me—and he has made peace with the change. “One has to adjust to the times,” he said.
Indeed.
And with some more adjustments, the curriculum will be reduced to toxic masculinity, studies, the 1619 Project and How to Support Hamas.
The public school system is a radioactive mess that does nothing but eat endless money and fund Democrat organizers while radicalizing and tainting young minds.
College today is mostly worthless.
Policy should follow those realities. We need schools, we do not need a public school system. And at this point widespread use of college should be reserved for specialties, not for a liberal arts that is dying off anyway.
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In April 2024, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel. And Biden offered Iran sanctions relief.
In April 2024, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel. And the Biden-Harris administration offered Iran sanctions relief.
Is U.S. foreign policy on autopilot? On Wednesday we learned the Biden Administration is imposing sanctions on another Israeli while reissuing a sanctions waiver that lets Iran access more than $10 billion in frozen funds. Its priorities reflect a policy that long ago was overtaken by events.
The billions in sanctions relief provided by the Obama-Biden and Biden-Harris administrations allowed Iran to build up Islamic terrorist networks around the region, including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen (which we’ve been battling for nine months) along with its ballistic missile program (and the rockets of its allied terror groups), and begin the wars we’ve been seeing over the last year.
In September 2023, before the Oct 7 attacks, the Biden-Harris administration conducted a disastrous hostage deal with Iran that included $6 billion in sanctions relief. And there then were the $1.7 billion in cash pallets illegally smuggled to Iran by Obama.
The total amounts estimated over the years have varied but have gone as high as $150 billion.
The nuclear program was only part of the picture when it came to Iran. The other parts included Iran’s international terrorism and its drug exports and ballistic missile program.
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A senior Biden-Harris official was reportedly infuriated last week after Israel ignored his advice and launched a series of attacks against Hezbollah.
The Biden-Harris administration has become increasingly concerned that a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah is set to erupt, as the two have been locked in a conflict that has grown in both scope and severity over the Israeli-Lebanese border in recent weeks. Biden senior adviser Amos Hochstein in recent months has been serving as an envoy to mediators in the Middle East to try to keep tensions low between Israel and Hezbollah while also negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, who have been at war for nearly a year, according to Axios.
Hochstein traveled to Israel last week to warn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against a war with Hezbollah, citing concerns that it would only upset an already chaotic Middle East. One day after Hochstein’s message to Netanyahu, Israel remotely detonated explosives planted inside thousands of personal communication devices being carried by Hezbollah operatives.
Hochstein was left furious because he wasn’t told of the plan in advance and felt that Israel had ignored his advice, U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Axios….
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Many other cities all over Europe are not far behind. The objective on the part of the European elites is to sow chaos they can exploit to justify the imposition of authoritarian regimes, which will, of course, be favorable toward Sharia.
by Christopher Tomlinson, National Pulse, September 24, 2024:
President Donald J. Trump recently stated that migrants had destroyed the cities of London and Paris. He’s right.
“Look what’s happened in London, look what’s happening in Paris,” Trump said to the crowd while endorsing a plan that could see large-scale deportations of illegals that have come into the United States under the Biden-Harris regime.
Trump correctly asserts that mass migration, particularly illegal migration, has radically transformed both of these once-gleaming international destinations.
TOUR DE FARCE.
Paris has become a hub for illegals, and tent encampments are not uncommon, full of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of illegals and asylum seekers. Of those, some are underage Moroccans who engage in petty theft and drug-related crime. In 2018, Paris police arrested 1552 Moroccan migrant minors but only managed to deport six of them.
Underage Africans have also been forced to work as “soldiers” for drug gangs in Paris and elsewhere in Europe.
Migrants are vastly overrepresented in crime in Paris. In 2023, 30 out of 97 rapes on the streets of the capital were actually solved. Among those arrested, 77 percent were foreigners. Even President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that around half of the crime in Paris is committed by foreigners….
LONDON FALLING.
The effect of mass migration on London is even more stark than in Paris. Census data shows that native white British people now make up just 36.8 percent of the city’s population; by contrast, white British made up just over 97 percent of the city’s population in 1961….
Mass migration has also brought crimes not seen previously in the British capital, like acid attacks, with 107 such incidents seen in 2022. Machete assaults have also become more common, though they are included in statistics on overall knife crime….
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This is how charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia” are weaponized against those who oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women. There is nothing “racist” or “Islamophobic” about this cartoon. It doesn’t mention Tlaib’s race or her religion. It merely makes fun of her for her unapologetic and open support of the jihad against Israel, which allies her with jihad terror groups including Hizballah. For Tlaib and others like her, however, charging “racism” and “Islamophobia” is the all-purpose response to any criticism, no matter how mild.
“Rashida Tlaib condemns racist and Islamophobic cartoon depicting her with exploding pager,” Express Tribune, September 21, 2024:
US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has condemned a political cartoon published by the National Review that portrays her with an exploding pager, calling it racist and Islamophobic.
The cartoon, created by Henry Payne, references recent explosions in Lebanon where pagers used by Hezbollah members reportedly detonated, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries.
Israel has been accused of being responsible for the explosions, though it has not officially claimed responsibility.
Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress and a fierce critic of Israel’s military actions, said the cartoon would incite further hate and violence against Arab and Muslim communities.
“Our community is already in so much pain,” Tlaib wrote on social media, adding that such depictions normalize racism and put lives at risk.
The cartoon showed a woman labeled as “Rep. Tlaib” sitting next to a pager that explodes while she comments, “ODD. MY PAGER JUST EXPLODED.”
Payne’s title for the cartoon, “Tlaib Pager Hamas,” sparked outrage online, with many social media users condemning it as offensive. Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud called the cartoon “disgusting” and criticized the normalization of anti-Arab bigotry….
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In a powerfully significant post on X by Donald Trump Jr. that should put America on alert if Donald Trump wins the election:
Radical leftists are the greatest perpetrators of violence, despite the establishment left making out the right to be a threat. The left is infamous for lip service about opposing “hatred” and incitement, yet it is leftists who perpetuate division, hatred and violence:
Musk also “wonderedin a tweet why ‘no one is even trying to assassinate’ Biden and Harris — a post that Musk later said was a joke and deleted.” Answer: the right isn’t inherently violent.
Even after the second attempt on Trump’s life, left-leaning NBC slammed Trump, saying “Trump and his allies are fanning political flames.”
58-year old Ryan Routh, who has an “extensive criminal history dating back to the 1990s,” was taken into custody for the second attempt on Trump’s life. His son, Oran Routh, stated that his father hates Trump as “every reasonable person does.“
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I was wondering, not exactly idly, where American foreign aid now is sent, and found online a list of the ten countries that receive the most aid from Washington. Here is that list.
In 2023, the United States spent nearly $61 billion on foreign aid. Fully half of that budget has gone to just ten countries:
Ukraine ($16.4 billion)
Israel ($3.3 billion)
Ethiopia ($1.95 billion)
Jordan ($1.65 billion)
Egypt ($1.43 billion)
Afghanistan ($1.19 billion)
Somalia ($1.13 billion)
Yemen ($1.05 billion)
Congo ($987 million)
Syria ($896 million)
Now I have no objection to aid for Ukraine, as it fights to push Putin’s troops out of the country. This unusually large sum — $16.4 billion, and much more so far in 2024 — far outstrips the amounts for the other recipients of aid. This aid only started to be given in 2020, after Russia invaded Ukraine, and it will not continue at anything like that level once that Ukraine-Russia war is over.
As for #2 on the list, I certainly do not object to the sums given to Israel, which for the fourth time in its young life is having to fight for its very existence (the previous wars were in 1948, 1967, and 1973) as it faces a seven-front war, with Hamas in Gaza, with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with the Houthis in Lebanon, with Assad’s army in Syria, with assorted terrorist groups — Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — in Judea and Samaria, with the Shi’a militia, Kata’ib Hezbollah, in Iraq, and looming behind them all, pulling the strings of these various proxies, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Nor do I begrudge Ethiopia its aid, for that Christian country has endured several years of severe drought and internal conflict, including the war involving the Ethiopian central government and the northernmost region of Tigray. Ethiopia has once again become engaged in violent internal conflict, this time involving militia groups from the regions of Amhara and Oromia. And Ethiopia has long had a close relationship with the United States for many decades, beginning under the reign of Haile Selassie. The amount we provide is to help the government restore peace; as with the aid given to Ukraine, it isn’t intended to be a long-term commitment.
But. beyond that, I wonder. Of the seven remaining countries on the list of the top ten recipients, all but one are Muslim countries. Why are we transferring wealth to Muslim countries when the Arab states of the Gulf have trillions of dollars in their sovereign funds? Why do we not insist that the rich Arabs should be helping their brethren, instead of assuming that we should support Muslim states that, precisely because they are Muslim, cannot possibly be our friends (as the Qur’an directs them not to be; see suras 3:28 and 5:51)? Saudi Arabia has more than $1 trillion in its sovereign wealth fund. The UAE has even more: $1.7 trillion. In the first half of 2024 the sovereign wealth funds of five Gulf Arab states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain — invested $39 billion. Surely they can spare $8 billion to provide to other Arab states, which is roughly the total the United States now gives to the seven Muslim states on the list above.
For reasons that deserve to be pondered, Anwar Sadat got the American aid ball rolling for Egypt with his “prince-of-peace” impersonation. And that money has continued ever since, despite the litany of human rights abuses in that country. Egypt need not be continuously bribed to keep the peace with Israel. What keeps the peace between Israel and Egypt is the IDF. If Egypt needs money, the Gulf states, whose monarchs share El-Sisi’s fear and hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood, should be happy to help.
Jordan, similarly, need not be given large sums by the Americans. The Hashemite king need only hold out his hand in Eleemosynary Position #1, and the Emirates and Saudis will be glad to help out a fellow monarch, especially one who doesn’t want to be overthrown by the two-thirds of his population that is Palestinian. That would be a dangerous example for the monarchs in the Gulf. King Abdullah, like the Saudi Crown Prince and the Emirati rulers, is prepared to repress the Muslim Brotherhood. He, too, needs no American bribe to keep the peace with Israel. The IDF maintains that peace.
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