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WATCH: An extraordinary young man stands alone in front of UK Parliament defending Israel on October 7th

Gotta say, this was quite a clear and original thinker. A self proclaimed Quebec separatist, a group for whom I have increasing sympathy and would be an Ontario separatist were it not that both the Quebec and Ontario governments are as communist and anti-liberty as the Federal government is now, gave a wonderfully lucid explanation for why this CEJEP student came over to Ottawa on the 7th to stand this ground.

WATCH: CEGEP student from Quebec stands alone on Parliament Hill Oct 7 to defend Jewish people

RAIR has the write up here.

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The Case Against Kamala Harris: A Definitive Guide For Jewish and Pro-Israel Voters

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The Case Against Kamala Harris: A Definitive Guide For Jewish and Pro-Israel Voters

For the past month, I’ve been posting regularly about Kamala Harris and the danger she poses to Israel and Jewish safety. Many partisan Democrats react forcefully and defensively to this information, denying it or downplaying its significance. I will not be able to convince partisans who have made up their minds. But for those receptive to new information, I present here some of the top reasons why Kamala Harris poses a threat to Jewish safety and Israel.

—> Snubbing Netanyahu’s Speech in Congress: One of her first actions as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was to boycott Netanyahu’s address before a Joint Session of Congress. Israel, engaged in an Iranian-led, multi-front war for its survival, suffered the worst attack in its history on Oct. 7. Rather than standing by America’s closest Middle Eastern ally, Kamala specifically snubbed Israel’s Prime Minister to placate the emerging anti-Israel bloc of the Democratic Party. When Kamala did meet with Netanyahu, she greeted him with a frosty press conference and spread unsubstantiated claims about starvation in Gaza.

—> Maher Bitar as DNI: According to a recent article, there are indications that Kamala would appoint Maher Bitar as DNI should she win the presidency. Maher Bitar was a leader Students for Justice in Palestine at Georgetown University and a proponent of the BDS movement. Students for Justice in Palestine is the group responsible for many of the pro-Hamas riots targeting Jewish students across the country.

—> Phil Gordon as National Security Advisor/Secretary of State: According to the Wall Street Journal, Kamala Harris Intends to replace Antony Blinken with Phil Gordon, an ally of Ben Rhodes and a far-left activist who worked with the pro-Khamenei lobby NIAC. Phil Gordon, now serving as Kamala’s National Security Advisor, has a long history of seeking to advance the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is currently under a congressional investigation due to his ties to the regime. Philip Gordon has also written numerous pro-Islamic Republic op-eds and even a book advocating for a rapprochement with the Ayatollah.

—> Ilan Goldenberg: Kamala Harris recently announced that she selected Ilan Goldenberg as her campaign’s Director of Jewish Outreach. Ilan Goldenberg has a history of working with NIAC and other lobbies who advocate for the interests of the Islamic Republic. Goldenberg currently is responsible for crafting the extensive sanctions that the Biden-Harris Administration is imposing on Jewish Israelis (while simultaneously relieving sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran). Ilan’s close friends on Facebook include radical anti-Israel activists such as Khamenei agent Trita Parsi, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Ben Rhodes, Matt Duss and Shadi Hamid. Ilan has also retweeted noted antisemite Ilhan Omar.

—> Voted against anti-BDS Legislation and Aid to Israel as Senator: In 2019 Kamala joined socialist Bernie Sanders in voting against the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act (S.1). The bill pledged security assistance to Israel and clarified that state and local governments have the right to counter boycotts of Israel.

—> Defended Ilhan Omar’s Antisemitism: When Ilhan Omar tweeted that support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins,” Kamala Harris rushed to her defense. She also implied that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, saying, “Like some of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus, I am concerned that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk… I also believe there is a difference between criticism of policy or political leaders, and anti-Semitism.”

—> Said Israel Must Not Invade Rafah: When Israel took Rafah, the IDF discovered numerous tunnels through which Hamas imports weapons from Egypt. Despite this critical step in securing Israel’s security, Kamala threatened consequences if Israel decided to invade Rafah. She warned of US consequences if Israel ignores the Biden administration’s “red line” and barrels into the southern Gazan city of Rafah. She said, “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake.” She continued, “I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to go,” she said, referring to Palestinian civilians taking refuge in Rafah. https://nypost.com/2024/03/24/us-news/kamala-delivers-sharp-warning-to-israel-operation-in-rafah-would-be-huge-mistake/…

—> Top rating by NIAC: Kamala (and Tim Walz) received a 100% approval rating by NIAC, the pro-Khamenei lobby that advances the Islamic Republic’s interests in Washington D.C. NIAC was founded by rabid antisemite Trita Parsi.

—> Radical Islamic Terrorism Doesn’t Exist: Speaking before an audience, Kamala insisted that we should have the courage to not use the term radical Islamic terrorism. I wonder how she would characterize the acts of ISIS, Hamas and Al-Qaeda?

—> Praised Pro-Hamas Rioters: As pro-Hamas riots swept the country and protesters harassed Jewish students across the country amid a storm of unprecedented antisemitism, Kamala came out in support of them. Kamala Harris said anti-Israel student protesters ‘Are Showing Exactly What the Human Emotion Should Be’.

—> Daughter Raised Money for Hamas-Linked UNRWA: Ella Emhoff raised over eight million dollars for UNRWA after revelations of its involvement with Hamas were published. At least 19 UNRWA staff members participated in the Oct 7 massacre of Israeli civilians. Thousands of its staff members are linked to Hamas or Islamic Jihad. https://nypost.com/2024/07/27/us-news/vice-president-harris-stepdaughter-joining-in-race-on-instagram/… https://x.com/ShelleyGldschmt/status/1826793641828122919…

—> Daughter Repudiates Jewish Identity: Despite the schmaltzy talk of Doug Emhoff as “first mensch” and his stories about brisket and plastic-covered couches in Brooklyn, Kamala Harris’ daughter, Ella Emhoff, is no fan of being Jewish. She said she is not Jewish and does not want to talk about when reached out to by the media back in 2020.

—> Husband’s Law Firm Represented Qatar, PLO: Jewish Democrats gush over Doug Emhoff, the potential first “first mensch”. But how supportive of the Jewish community and Israel is Doug actually? Doug Emhoff’s law firm, DLA Piper, had controversial clients such as Qatar and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Naturally, these connections draw scrutiny and raise concerns about potential foreign malign influence.

—> Silent On Unprecedented Wave of Campus Antisemitism From Her Position

—> Supports Disastrous JCPOA: The JCPOA was one of the greatest foreign policy blunders in American history. It enriched the Islamic Republic to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, enabling it to fund its proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis while also failing to adequately monitor and prevent the regime’s uranium enrichment.

—> Radical, Antisemitic Pastor Who Calls Israel an Apartheid State: Kamala’s pastor, Amos Brown, longtime pastor of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church, has a history of radical, anti-American statements and viewpoints, as well as political alliances that are antisemitic, yet he is what Kamala Harris calls “an inspiration to me always.”

—> Met With Pro-Hamas Dearborn Mayor 

—> Election Rhetoric In Support of Israel’s Defense =/= Allowing Israel to Win: What exactly does Kamala mean by saying she supports Israel’s defense? Does she have in mind what happened in April, when the Islamic Republic launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel? Just because Israel was able to avert the missiles, does that mean the threat is over? Will Kamala, like Biden, tell Israel to “take the win” the next time it is attacked? How useful is a bulletproof vest when the shooter is still on the loose?

—> Supports BLM and Progressive Causes That Portray Jews as White Oppressors

—> Raised Money to Bail Out Anti-Israel BLM Rioters: During her 2020 campaign for president, Harris supported the bail fund that helped violent criminals get out of prison. As of Monday night, the website was running and accepting payments.

—> Kamala’s Open Borders Allow Antisemites and Terrorists to Flood Into the Country: The Department of Homeland Security has identified over 400 immigrants from Central Asia and elsewhere who crossed into the U.S. in the past three years as “subjects of concern” because they were brought by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network.

—> Refuses to Hold Accountable Pro-Hamas Rioters: In one of her first speeches as presumptive presidential nominee, Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump for promising to deport foreign students who engage in pro-Hamas protests. She describes harassing Jewish students and defending a proscribed terrorist organization as “free speech.”

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72 Percent of the Youngest Voters Support Israel

Information on the latest poll of American attitudes on Israel, Hamas, and Gaza can be found here: “Vast Majority of American Voters Back Israel in War Again Hamas, New Poll Reveals,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, February 28, 2024:

A heavy majority of respondents — 78 percent — agreed that Hamas needed to be removed from governing Gaza. Asked about who should administer the territory after the war, 34 percent answered Israel, while 39 percent expressed support for a new authority created by Arab states. Only 28 percent believed that the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) should govern in a post-war scenario.

Nearly four out of five Americans polled believe that Hamas should be removed altogether from any future position of authority in Gaza. As for alternatives, more than one-third wanted Israel to administer Gaza (which the Israelis do not want to do; they only want to ensure that Hamas does not make a comeback in the Strip). Nearly 40 percent want the Arab states — meaning the rich Arab states that will be largely responsible for the reconstruction in Gaza that will take years — to appoint a new authority in Gaza, neither Hamas nor the PA, but a group of technocrats whom the Arab donor states can keep a close eye on, making sure that there is no repetition of the colossal corruption that has been such a feature of Hamas rule in Gaza, where just three of its leaders — Khaled Meshaal, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mousa abu Marzouk — managed to steal for themselves a total of $11 billion. And Americans are suspicious, too, of the Palestinian Authority, because it has been a despotism ruled by the corrupt Mahmoud Abbas, who with his sons Tarek and Yasser has acquired a family fortune of $400 million. Abbas is in the nineteenth year of his four-year-term. When dissidents against his rule acquire a following, he does not hesitate to murder them, as he ordered the murder of the late Nizar Banat. Only 28 percent of those polled saw any role at all for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war ends.

The poll also examined voter attitudes towards the wider region, with 80 percent agreeing that US forces in the Middle East are facing attacks from local terrorist groupsUS President Joe Biden’s policy towards Iran has also attracted significant criticism, with 54 percent answering that the US response to attacks launched by Iranian-backed terrorist organizations in Yemen, Syria and Iraq had been “too weak.” Pressed further on whether Biden’s Iran policy had been “successful,” 61 percent answered negatively….

More than half of those polled think that Biden has been “too weak” in responding to attacks by Iran-backed terrorists in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. It is obvious that the attacks on the Houthis have had no effect in slowing down, much less in ending, attacks by the Houthis on commercial shipping near and in the Red Sea. The Houthis have even launched drone attacks on American warships. Those polled want a more muscular policy toward Iran’s proxies. which makes one wonder if they would be willing to support a preemptive strike on Iran, as it creeps ever closer to being able to make a nuclear bomb. That question, however, was not asked.

Among 18-24 year olds, support for Israel stood at 72 percent, and at 66 percent among voters aged 25-34. More than 90 percent of voters over 55 declared their support for Israel.

The loss of support for Israel among the young has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, 72 percent of the youngest voters, 18-24 year olds, support Israel, and the figure dips just a little, to 66 percent, among those 25 to 34. Too many people have assumed that those noisy campus pro-Hamas protesters who garner such media attention reflect the views of a great many young people; it turns out that they do not.

However, a majority of 18-24 year olds — 53 percent — expressed backing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza irrespective of whether the hostages are released, while the majority of older voters remained opposed. Among the over 55s, more than 80 percent said they were opposed to a ceasefire absent the release of the hostages….

This is the only response that is a bit worrisome. A slight majority — 53 percent — of the youngest voters support an immediate ceasefire, whether Hamas releases the hostages or not. Clearly the freeing of the hostages does not loom as large in the minds of the young as it does among the older people polled, A reflection, perhaps, of the wisdom that some say comes with age?

More than half of the young voters, in the 18-34 age groups, want Israel to continue its ground invasion, which means, since the poll was taken on February 20-21, they support an attack on Hamas operatives in Rafah.

The younger voters are still on Israel’s side. The two key figures are these: Of the 18-24 age group, 72 percent support Israel, and of the 25-34 age group, 66 percent support Israel. And that is despite the malign coverage in so much of the media.

AUTHOR

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Sweden Deporting 80,000 Muslim Migrants

AFP reports that Sweden’s Interior Minister plans to eject tens of thousands of largely Muslim  asylees and migrants from conflicts throughout the Ummah that flooded the Nordic country in 2015, “Sweden plans to expel up to 80,000 asylum-seekers: says Interior minister:”

Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said Wednesday,”We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000,” the minister was quoted as saying by Swedish media, adding that the government had asked the police and authorities in charge of migrants to organize their expulsion.

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Ygeman said the expulsions, normally carried out using commercial flights, would have to be done using specially chartered aircraft, given the large numbers, staggered over several years.

Sweden, which is home to 9.8 million people, is one of the European Union countries that has taken in the largest number of refugees in relation to its population. Sweden accepted more than 160,000 asylum seekers last year.

But the number of migrant arrivals has dropped dramatically since Sweden enacted systematic photo ID checks on travellers on January 4.

Swedish officials on Tuesday called for greater security at overcrowded asylum centres a day after the fatal stabbing of an employee at a refugee centre for unaccompanied youths.

The alleged attacker was a young male residing at a centre for youngsters aged 14 to 17 in Molndal near Gothenburg on Sweden’s west coast.

The employee was 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher, according to Swedish media reports, whose family was originally from Lebanon. A motive for the attack was not immediately clear.

Her death has led to questions about overcrowded conditions inside some centres, with too few adults and employees to take care of children, many traumatised by war.

Kent Ekeroth inför EU-valet 2014

Kent Ekeroth, Jewish deputy in Sweden Democrats Party.

Sweden’s Social Democratic government has finally confronted the realities of why it has foolishly let in 160,000 asylum seekers who represent a clear and present danger to this country of less than 10 million with a sizable Muslim minority of 700,000.. We have a special guest on this Sunday, January 31, 2015,  Lisa Benson Show, Kent Ekeroth, a Jewish pro-Israel deputy in the opposition Sweden Democrats. For an expression of his  views about support for Israel, see this Times of Israel Interview  with Ekeroth in October 2014, “In pro-Palestine Sweden, far-right Jewish lawmaker embraces Israel.”  You may have seen our NER/Iconoclast posts with videos of Ekeroth’s debate with Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom about the latter’s accusations against Israel for “extra judicial killings”.

See:“Israel PM Netanyahu Slams Swedish Foreign Minister Wallstrom over Extrajudicial Killings Accusations.” Ekeroth should have lots to say about what prompted the Social Democrats to expel 80,000 Asylees and more about Sweden and other countries like German and Austria in the broken Schengen border less system who welcomed this horde of Muslim refugees and migrants with no ability to vett them.

Our other returning guest is Counter terrorism expert, Dr. Sebastian Gorka who will comment on problems of vetting Muslim refugee resettlement in both  Europe and the US. Listen in Sunday at 3:00 p.m. EST to The Lisa Benson Show and find out what the media is not telling you.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in the New English Review.