Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Michael Oren on America and Israel in Turmoil Dec 31, 2019 Audio tape 27 minutes
Michael Oren on America and Israel in Turmoil
Dec 31, 2019 Audio tape 27 minutes
Gil Hoffman interviews former deputy minister, Knesset Member and ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, author of two books on the US-Israel relationship, Ally and Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present.
Gil and Michael speak about the similarities between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a time when Oren says Israeli society is stronger than America's but the US has stronger institutions than the Jewish state.
They also address the increasing anti-Semitism in the US and what should be done about it by America, US Jews and Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj6C4pw-xLY&feature=youtu.be
Sunday, December 29, 2019
The Hill’s annual Top Lobbyists list.....2019
The Hill's Top Lobbyists 2019 12-14-19
Welcome to The Hill’s annual Top Lobbyists list.
2019 was a frenetic year for K Street, with a number of high-profile fights on legislative and regulatory issues, even as Washington was riveted by impeachment drama and a contentious 2020 presidential election took shape.
In a busy and testing year for the influence world, these are the people who wielded their clout and knowledge most effectively on behalf of their clients.
Not all of those honored on this list are formally registered as lobbyists. The list highlights the broad range of talents needed to succeed in the influence industry. But the people below are all at the top of their game — and the ones the nation’s biggest companies, labor unions and associations turn to when they want their voices heard in the nation’s capital.
The ranks of Washington’s policy experts and influencers run deep, but these are the players who stand out for delivering results for their clients in the halls of Congress and the administration.
Corporate
Gina Adams and Lance Mangum, FedEx Corp.
Jane Adams, Johnson & Johnson
Tricia Purdy, UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Ali Amirhooshmand, Magic Leap Inc.
Bryan Anderson, Southern Co.
Bill Barloon, Sprint Corp.
Wayne Berman, The Blackstone Group Inc.
Karan Bhatia, Google LLC
Abigail Blunt, The Kraft Heinz Co.
Dwayne Carson and Justine Handelman, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Maria Cino, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Mo Cowan, General Electric Co.
Sarah Fanning, The Travelers Companies Inc.
Terri Fariello, United Airlines Inc.
Fred Ferguson, Vista Outdoor Inc.
Bob Filippone, Merck & Co.
Tucker Foote and Tom Gannon, Mastercard Inc.
Maggie Gage, MetLife Inc.
Matt Gelman and Fred Humphries, Microsoft Corp.
Ken Glueck, Oracle Corp.
Bruce Harris, Walmart Inc.
Rich Haselwood, Reynolds American Inc.
James Hayes, Tenable Inc.
Robert Helm and Betsy Schmid, General Dynamics Corp.
Brian Hendricks, Nokia Corp.
Brian Henneberry, Koch Companies Public Sector LLC
Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Univision Communications Inc.
Guy Hicks, Airbus Group Inc.
Ed Hill, Bank of America Corp.
Robert Hoffman, Accenture
Jessica Hogle, PG&E Corp.
Brian Huseman and Steve Hartell, Amazon.com Inc.
Alethia Jackson, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
Robert Jones, Pfizer Inc.
Lesley A. Kalan, Northrop Grumman Corp.
Joel Kaplan, Facebook Inc.
Timothy Keating, Boeing Co.
Heather Kennedy, The Home Depot Inc.
Michael Kennedy, VMware Inc.
Will Kinzel, MillerCoors
Laura Lane, Dontai Smalls and Mike Kiely, United Parcel Service Inc.
Melissa Lavinson, Pepco Holdings
Chris Leahy, Intuit Inc.
Curt Magleby, Ford Motor Co.
Meagan McCanna, Airbnb Inc.
Tim McKone and Susan Santana, AT&T Inc.
Jake Menefee, Marathon Petroleum Corp.
Jeanne Mitchell, Exxon Mobil Corp.
Mara Motherway, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Michael Moran, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Majida Mourad, Tellurian Inc.
Gregg Sheiowitz, Zurich North America
Chandler Morse, Workday Inc.
Christopher Padilla, IBM Corp.
Dean Pappas and Steve English, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
Michael Paese and Michael Thompson, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Adam Peterman, Marie Sylla-Dixon and Michelle Persaud, T-Mobile US Inc.
Mike Parrish, Bayer US
David Quinalty, Waymo LLC
Robert Rangel, Lockheed Martin Corp.
Louis Renjel, Duke Energy Corp.
Isaac Reyes, Target Corp.
Mitch Rose, Comcast Corp.
Norberto Salinas and Lisa Malloy, Intel Corp.
Brian Smith, Regions Bank
Matt Stanton, Constellation Brands Inc.
Lynn Starr, Ericsson
Cindy Jimenez Turner, United Technologies Corp.
Omar Vargas, 3M
Jonathan Weisgall, Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.
Candi Wolff, Citigroup Inc.
Molly Wilkinson and Nate Gatten, American Airlines Inc.
Cherie Wilson and Richard Lopez, General Motors Co.
Heather Wingate, Delta Air Lines Inc.
Corie Wright, Netflix Inc.
Marcela Zamora, Verizon Communications Inc.
Associations
Craig Albright, BSA | The Software Alliance
Todd Askew, American Medical Association
Dana Atkins, Military Officers Association of America
Greg Baer and Anthony Cimino, Bank Policy Institute
Mark Baker, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Meredith Attwell Baker, CTIA
Michael Beckerman, Internet Association
Kenneth Bentsen Jr., Jamie Wall and Mark Schuermann, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
B. Dan Berger, Brad Thaler and Carrie HuntCarrie HuntThe Hill's Top Lobbyists 2019 The difference between banks and credit unions could not be clearer Updated Glass-Steagall would make banks put people before profits MORE, National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions
Joshua Bolten, Business Roundtable
Manuel Bonilla, American Society of Anesthesiologists
John Bozzella, Global Automakers
Neil Bradley and Jack Howard, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Kevin Burke and Annie Russo, Airports Council International — North America
Steve Caldeira, Household & Commercial Products Association
Nicholas E. Calio and Christine Burgeson, Airlines for America
Chase Cannon and Matt Willette, American Optometric Association
Robert Cresanti and Matthew Haller, International Franchise Association
Geoff Cooper, Renewable Fuels Association
Greg Crist, AdvaMed
Chester “Chip” Davis Jr., Association for Accessible Medicines
Jeffrey D. DeBoer, The Real Estate Roundtable
Roger Dow and Tori Barnes, U.S. Travel Association
Juanita Duggan, National Federation of Independent Business
Kip Eideberg, Association of Equipment Manufacturers
Eric Fanning, Aerospace Industries Association
Jennifer Fisher and Chris Tampio, American Dental Association
Geoff Freeman and Bryan Zumwalt, Grocery Manufacturers Association
David French, National Retail Federation
Lee Fuller, Independent Petroleum Association of America
Coley George, NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots
Marco Giamberardino, National Electrical Contractors Association
Elizabeth Goodman and Matt Eyles, America’s Health Insurance Plans
Christine LoCascio, Kelly Poulsen, and Jessie Brady, Distilled Spirits Council
Jimi Grande, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
Dan Grattan, Mortgage Bankers Association
James Greenwood, Biotechnology Innovation Organization
Karen Harbert and George Lowe, American Gas Association
Jason Hartke, Alliance to Save Energy
Michael Herson, American Defense International
Jerry Howard, National Association of Home Builders
Richard Hunt, Consumer Bankers Association
Chip Kahn, Federation of American Hospitals
Bradley Karbowsky, United Association of Plumbers & Fitters of US & Canada
Kori Blalock Keller, National Association of Letter Carriers
Heather O’Beirne Kelly and Karen Studwell, American Psychological Association
Maria Korsnick, Nuclear Energy Institute
Thomas Kuhn and Brian Wolff, Edison Electric Institute
Garrett Levin, Digital Media Association
Linda Lipsen, American Association for Justice
Gail MacKinnon and Patrick Kilcur, Motion Picture Association
Kyle Makarios, United Brotherhood of Carpenters
Shannon McGahn, National Association of Realtors
Nancy McLernon, Organization for International Investment
Linda Moore, TechNet
Bill Miller and Chris Cylke, American Gaming Association
Susan Neely, American Council of Life Insurers
Rob Nichols and James Ballentine, American Bankers Association
Rich Nolan, National Mining Association
Jim Nussle and Ryan Donovan, Credit Union National Association
Jason Ouimet, National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action
Jason Oxman and Shannon Taylor, Information Technology Industry Council
Mark Parkinson, American Health Care Association
Bob Pease and Katie Marisic, Brewers Association
Stanley Pierre-Louis, Entertainment Software Association
Richard Pollack, American Hospital Association
Michael Powell, NCTA — The Internet & Television Association
Craig Purser and Laurie Knight, National Beer Wholesalers Association
Rebeca Romero Rainey and Paul Merski, Independent Community Bankers of America
Bree Raum, American Wind Energy Association
Morgan Reed, ACT: The App Association
Nichole Francis Reynolds, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
Jim Riley, National Waste and Recycling Association
Dan Roehl and Matt Walker, National Restaurant Association
Chip Rogers, American Hotel & Lodging Association
Patricia Rojas-Ungar, Outdoor Industry Association
John Rother, National Coalition on Health Care
Cinnamon Rogers, Computing Technology Industry Association
Bob Rusbuldt and Charles Symington, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America
Jennifer Safavian, Retail Industry Leaders Association
Stephen Sandherr, Associated General Contractors of America
J.C. Scott, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association
Gary Shapiro, Consumer Technology Association
Emily Skor, Growth Energy
Gordon Smith, National Association of Broadcasters
Mike Sommers, American Petroleum Institute
Jonathan Spalter, USTelecom
Kristen Swearingen, Associated Builders and Contractors
Scott Talbott, Electronic Transactions Association
Jeff Tassey, Electronic Payments Coalition
Mary Kay Thatcher, Syngenta
Jay Timmons and Aric Newhouse, National Association of Manufacturers
Chet Thompson, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers
Stephen Ubl and Lori Reilly, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Dirk Van Dongen, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors
Andrew Walmsley, R.J. Karney and Scott Bennett, American Farm Bureau Federation
Kirsten Wegner, Modern Markets Initiative
Ryan Weston, Sugar Cane League
Jerry White, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Nathaniel Wienecke and J. Stephen Zielezienski, American Property Casualty Insurance Association
Hired Guns
Josh Ackil and Matt Tanielian, Franklin Square Group
Kai Anderson, Barry Rhoads and Jordan Bernstein, Cassidy and Associates
Cristina Antelo, Ferox Strategies
Brian Ballard, Ballard Partners
Andy Barbour, Smith-Free Group
Haley Barbour, Loren Monroe, Remy Brim and Erskine Wells, BGR Group
Jim Barnette, Doug Kantor and Darryl Nirenberg, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Doyle Bartlett and Chris McCannell, GrayRobinson
Bethany Bassett, Rasky Partners
Jennifer Bell, Chamber Hill Strategies
Bob Bissen, Cannae Policy Group
Kirk Blalock and Kirsten Chadwick, Fierce Government Relations
John Blount, Ervin Hill Strategy
Dan Boston, Health Policy Source
Chuck Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies
Paul Brathwaite, Federal Street Strategies
David Castagnetti, Dean Rosen and David Thomas, Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas
Rob Chamberlin and Sam Whitehorn, Elevate
Rob Collins and Mike Ference, S-3 Group
Justin Daly, Daly Consulting Group
Tom Daschle and Nathan Daschle, The Daschle Group
Licy Do Canto, BCW
Michael Drobac, Robert Wasinger and Mona Mohib, McGuireWoods Consulting
Ken Duberstein and David Schiappa, The Duberstein Group
Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino, D&P Creative Strategies
Martin Edwards, Ice Miller Strategies
Missy Edwards, Missy Edwards Strategies
Steve Eichenauer and Patrick O’Neill, Public Strategies Washington Inc.
Steve Elmendorf and Jimmy Ryan, Subject Matter
Holly Fechner, Bill Wichterman and Muftiah McCartin, Covington & Burling LLP
John Feehery, EFB Advocacy
Mitchell Feuer and John Anderson, Rich Feuer Anderson
Camden Fine, Calvert Advisors LLC
Shannon Finley, Warren Tryon and Ann Jablon, Capitol Counsel
Jeff Forbes and Dan Tate Jr., Forbes Tate Partners
Jim Flood, Crowell & Moring
Omar Franco and Bert Gómez, Becker
Elizabeth Frazee, TwinLogic Strategies
Kimberley Fritts, Cogent Strategies
Noe Garcia and Charles Cooper, Signal Group Consulting
Sam Geduldig, John Stipicevic and Mike Catanzaro, CGCN Group
Chris Giblin, Moses Mercado and Karissa Willhite, Ogilvy Government Relations
Rich Gold, Kathryn Lehman, David Whitestone and Scott Mason, Holland & Knight
Gregg Hartley and Andy Blunt, Husch Blackwell Strategies
Ralph Hellmann and David Lugar, Lugar Hellmann Group
Michael Herson, American Defense International
Mike Hettinger, Hettinger Strategy Group
Susan Hirschmann and Matthew Hoekstra, Williams & Jensen
Josh Holly, Holly Strategies
Mike House and Ivan Zapien, Hogan Lovells
Erik Huey, Platinum Advisors
Joel Johnson, The Glover Park Group
Travis Johnson, 1607 Strategies
Matt Keelen, The Keelen Group
Kevin Kelly, Clark Hill
Ken Kies, The Federal Policy Group
Israel “Izzy” Klein and Matt Johnson, Klein/Johnson Group
Lisa Kountoupes, Lori Denham and Julie Hershey Carr, KDCR partners LLC
Chris Lamond and Andy Rosenberg, Thorn Run Partners
Marc Lampkin, Al Mottur and Greta Joynes, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Bryan Lanza, Mercury
Blanche Lincoln, Lincoln Policy Group
Robert Livingston, The Livingston Group LLC
Esteban López-Rosado, LGA Strategies
Trent Lott, John Breaux and Jack KingstonJohon (Jack) Heddens KingstonThe Hill's Top Lobbyists 2019 Hundreds apply to fill Isakson's Senate seat in Georgia Nancy Pelosi is ready for this fight MORE, Squire Patton Boggs
Patrick Martin, Cozen O’Connor
Frank McCarthy, McCarthy Advanced Consulting
Mike Merola, Winning Strategies Washington
Jeff Miller, Miller Strategies
Kyle Nevins, Steve Stombres and Jonathan Slemrod, Harbinger Strategies
Don Nickles and Stacey Hughes, The Nickles Group
Larry O’Brien, The OB-C Group
Tom O’Donnell, Gephardt Government Affairs
Kevin O’Neill, Eugenia Pierson and Dana Weekes, Arnold & Porter
Manuel Ortiz, VantageKnight
Scott Pastrick and Charlie Black, Prime Policy Group
Ilisa Halpern Paul and Jodie Curtis, District Policy Group
Jeff Peck, Andrew McKechnie and Drew Cantor, Peck Madigan Jones
Steven Phillips, DLA Piper
Jim Pitts and Chris Cox, Navigators Global
Heather Podesta, Invariant
Brian Pomper, Hunter Bates, Scott Parven, Arshi Siddiqui and Geoff Verhoff, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Lendell Porterfield, Dwight Fettig and Dawn Sears, Porterfield, Fettig & Sears LLC
Thomas Quinn, Venable LLP
Robert Raben and Estuardo Rodríguez, The Raben Group
Bob Rapoza, Rapoza Associates
Oscar Ramirez and Dana Thompson, Fulcrum Public Affairs
Mark Rayder, Alston & Bird
Vin Roberti, Steven Irizarry and Drew Cole, Roberti Global
Chuck Rocha, Solidarity Strategies
Jerr Rosenbaum, Tim Hannegan and Jennifer Poersch, Hannegan Landau Poersch & Rosenbaum Advocacy
Emanuel Rouvelas, Darrell Conner and Bart Gordon, K&L Gates
John Russell and Sander Lurie, Dentons
Scott Segal and Dee Martin, Bracewell
Rhod Shaw and Jason Schendle, Alpine Group
Michaela Sims, Sims Strategies
Marsha Simon, Simon & Co
Mike Smith and Jim Richards, Cornerstone Government Affairs
Tracy Spicer, Avenue Solutions
David Tamasi, Chartwell Strategy Group
Linda Tarplin, Tarplin, Downs & Young LLC
Carl Thorsen and Alec French, Thorsen French Advocacy
David Urban and Manus Cooney, American Continental Group
Mark Van de Water, Baker Donelson
Bob Van Heuvelen, VH Strategies
Stu Van Scoyoc, Jennifer LaTourette and Steve Palmer, Van Scoyoc Associates
Stewart Verdery, Kate Mills and Andrew Howell, Monument Advocacy
Jack Victory and Rick Shelby, Capitol Hill Consulting Group
Alex Vogel, The Vogel Group
Chris Wall, The Policy Group
Henry WaxmanHenry Arnold WaxmanThe Hill's Top Lobbyists 2019 Lawmakers come together to honor Cummings: 'One of the greats in our country's history' Lessons from Congress' last big battle on climate MORE, Waxman Strategies
Scott Weaver, Wiley Rein LLP
Jonathan Yarowsky and Rob Lehman, WilmerHale
Grassroots
Brandon Arnold and Pete Sepp, National Taxpayers Union
Lauren Augustine, Student Veterans of America
Matt Bennett, Third Way
Michael Breen, Human Rights First
Garrett Bess, Heritage Action for America
John Bowman and Alexandra Adams, Natural Resources Defense Council
Jeremy Butler, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Thomas M. Conway, United Steelworkers
Ken Cook, Environmental Working Group
Steve Ellis and Autumn Hanna, Taxpayers for Common Sense
Susie Feliz, National Urban League
Marvin Feuer, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Karen Hobert Flynn and Aaron Scherb, Common Cause
Joe Franco, LeadingAge
Lily Eskelsen García, National Education Association
Vanita Gupta, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Joshua Habursky, Grassroots Professional Network
Mary Kay Henry, Service Employees International Union
Craig Holman and Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen
Marty Irby, Animal Wellness Action
Frederick Isasi, Families USA
Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund
Nancy LeaMond, AARP
Joanne Lin, Philippe Nassif and Daniel Balson, Amnesty International USA
Liz Lopez, YWCA USA
Tom McClusky, March for Life Education & Defense Fund
Meredith McGehee, Issue One
Bill McKibben, Natalie Mebane and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, 350.org
Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Eric Mitchell, Adtalem Global Education
Abby Tinsley, National Wildlife Federation
Janet Murguía, UnidosUS
Katie Murtha, Environment America and U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Matthew Myers, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Brendan Mysliwiec, Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity
Melinda Pierce, Sierra Club
Andrew Roth, David McIntosh and Scott Parkinson, Club for Growth
Lee Saunders, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
Thomas Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste
Christopher Shelton, Communications Workers of America
Tiernan Sittenfeld and Sara Chieffo, League of Conservation Voters
Richard Trumka and Bill Samuel, AFL-CIO
Heather Valentine, Bread for the World
Fred Wertheimer, Democracy 21
Dylan Williams, J Street
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The following have published opinion pieces on thehill.com in 2019: Lauren Augustine, Haley Barbour, Tori Barnes, Michael Beckerman, Neil Bradley, Tom Daschle, Juanita Duggan, Geoff Freeman, Lisa Gilbert, James Greenwood, Vanita Gupta, Mary Kay Henry, Karen Hobart Flynn, Craig Holman, Carrie Hunt, Jack Kingston, Fred Krupp, Nancy LeaMond, Tom McClusky, Meredith McGehee, Bill McKibben, Linda Moore, Philippe Nassif, Susan Neely, Rob Nichols, Grover Norquist, Jason Oxman, Christopher Padilla, Mark Parkinson, Tim Phillips, Chip Rogers, John Rother, Thomas Schatz, Christopher Shelton, Jonathan Spalter, Robert Wasinger , Kirsten Wegner, Fred Wertheimer
We Should Investigate Why The New York Times Is Wrong All the Time Matt Vespa Townhall
We Should Investigate Why The New York Times Is Wrong All the Time
Matt Vespa Townhall
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/12/25/ny-post-columnist-we-should-investigate-why-the-new-york-times-is-wrong-all-the-time-n2558526?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/26/2019&bcid=9930c656b2212929c884960baf64bc5a&recip=26163198
Someone mentioned this on social media. In fact, many have when it comes to The New York Times and others caught peddling fake news. I mean it’s become abysmal since the 2016 election. Granted, a blind squirrel finds a nut. The publication can dole out some solid pieces—not doubt. The Upshot is a decent section, but the batting average isn’t good. And yes, it’s a liberal paper. I’m sure you all know this but there are some folks out there who think the NYT, MSNBC, and CNN are impartial sources of news. You almost have the chuckle a bit. Yet, when you get egg on your face for the 10,000thtime, maybe there needs to be an internal review. That’s what The New York Post’sMichael Goodwin suggested due to the paper’s serial failures while adding that Trump is Teflon. He will not be taken down by the snowflake brigade that infests so many newsrooms. He also added that if Democrats thought their liberal media allies will be able to drum up support for impeachment, they were sadly mistaken (via NY Post):
Backed by a press corps eager to get Trump, Pelosi felt confident to authorize the flimsy effort to remove the president from office. She assumed media bullhorns would push the public into her camp and that would win her Republican votes for a bipartisan takedown.
She certainly got the media support, but the public and the GOP aren’t following. Indeed, the harder that Reps. Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler push and the louder the anti-Trump media scream, the more the public resists impeachment over the Ukraine piffle.
That was true even before last week’s sensational revelations that the FBI was both corrupt and incompetent in the Russia collusion probe. The report and testimony by Michael Horowitz, the inspector general of the Justice Department, further undermined impeachment by revealing the rampant misconduct in the earlier case.
[…]
Thankfully, the accountability fallout from the Russia misconduct has started, with Attorney General Bill Barr suggesting possible prosecutions of FBI agents and perhaps others.
But what of the media? After all, The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and the broadcast networks were spectacularly wrong in their coverage.
[…]
Pulitzers and other journalism prizes lionized some reports that are now as discredited as the Steele dossier. Yet the news organizations still protect the secret sources who misled them and act as if they themselves did nothing wrong.
One glaring example. The Times reported last May that the FBI sent a female investigator “posing as research assistant” to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016. The woman, who called herself Azra Turk, met with George Papadopoulos in a London bar.
[…]
The Times’ story also says Turk and another informant, Stefan Halper, “failed to glean any information of value” from several meetings with Papadopoulos, but that is not true, according to the inspector general. He says one of the FBI’s most significant “inaccuracies and omissions” was the failure to tell FISA judges that Papadopoulos repeatedly denied to Halper and Turk that the campaign was collaborating with Russia or WikiLeaks.
Did the Times reporters know about that exculpatory information, or did their FBI sources lie to them? Either way, the paper now knows its May story was wrong on key points, yet it remains uncorrected.
[…]
Days after the 2016 election, the Times issued an apology of sorts to subscribers for failing to realize that Trump could win. “Did Donald Trump’s sheer unconventionality lead us and other news outlets to underestimate his support among American voters?” the publisher and editor wrote.
[…]
So now it’s time for a second apology — a sincere one. And an honest inquiry into how the paper continues to get the big stories so wrong.
I mean the list of how many times the liberal media has stepped on a rake when covering this administration could stretch from New York to San Francisco. It’s got to the point where even voters who lean Democratic in swing states refuse to believe what’s being printed about the president. It’s that bad.
It’s also the cumulative effect. The partisan blitzes Democrats and the liberal media have tried to execute against the Trump White House have given the game away. Democratic voters think Trump is Satan. Republicans are finally happy we have a growing economy and a president who doesn’t play by the liberal media’s rules. He punches back and the Left doesn’t know what to do. Meanwhile, Independents are moving closer to the MAGA camp in the face of a hyper-left wing 2020 agenda and an impeachment push that’s total garbage. The allegation is that there was a quid pro quo scheme between Trump and Ukraine over military aid. Trump threatened to withhold it unless there was a corruption probe into Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden. The charges stemming from this are obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, two charges you’d expect from a Democratic majority infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome. This push has done nothing but boost Trump’s approval ratings and pushing swing state voters away from Democrats.
Yet, the Russian collusion narrative, which suffered two shots to the head, is the holy grail for all of this nonsense. First, the report submitted by ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller killed the narrative and debunked the Trump dossier, from which this whole meth-addled narrative about Trump-Russia collusion was born. It was fake. For starters, the dossier was a Clinton-funded opposition research project that was cited as credible evidence in securing of a FISA spy warrant against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign official. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote a memo saying how the FBI committed no wrongdoing in the process. Well, the Department of Justice Inspector General shredded that partisan nonsense up, noting 17 times the FBI omitted or outright omitted exculpatory information when applying for this spy warrant. Schiff is wrong, but that’s not shocking. He’s been lying for years. His memo was a work of fiction. He knew about the Trump-Ukraine nonsense prior to it becoming public knowledge. It all stemmed from a so-called whistleblower complaint. The so-called whistleblower, who is also a reported CIA agent and a registered Democrat that had worked with a 2020 candidate, approached his staff. Schiff knew the contents and prepared to weaponized it prior to leading the official impeachment march. Yet, another reason not to believe the Democrats with their rule of law and institutional integrity talking point when it comes to this top-notch political theater engulfing Washington.
Based on how the FBI-FISA story blew up, it quite clear why the liberal media keeps getting buckshot to the face. They take whatever Democrats give them as gospel, which is quite dangerous when you’re dealing with the mentally ill.
Making Journalism Great Again By J.B. Shurk American Thinker 12-28-19
Making Journalism Great Again
By J.B. Shurk American Thinker 12-28-19
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/making_journalism_great_again.html
A new year is upon us, and I am keenly aware of the Fourth Estate’s four New Year’s Resolutions for 2020: (1) get Trump; (2) get Trump’s friends and family; (3) ridicule anyone who has voted or would consider voting for Trump; and (4) protect the Democratic Party from scandal. If the “free” press can do this while impersonating the virtuous hero withstanding onslaught from the impenitent pretender in the White House, then all the better. There is nothing they like more than playing Saint George to Trump’s dragon.
They’ll need to dig deeper if they expect any of us to take them seriously ever again. This isn’t a “one-too-many Christmas cookies requiring a jump on the Peoloton” kind of resolution year. This is a full-blown “been drinking Christmas cocktails since November 9, 2016, and desperately need an intervention” moment for the press. Journalists keep leaning on the imaginary crutch that their blown credibility stems from one lone man in the country calling them out for their fake news from his Twitter account. Chris Wallace has gone so far as to claim that there has never been a more dangerous time for the First Amendment than when the President of the United States exercises his free speech. To save the press, we must regulate who is allowed to speak. Finally, a license journalists can get behind!
If the ones with journalism degrees did some investigative reporting, they’d discover that we backcountry folk simply find their prose unconvincing. They don’t have to visit Sharyl Attkisson’s long list of media malfeasance in the Trump Era, although that would be a good start for a journalist on the road to recovery. What might be illuminating for the select congregation of the Fourth Estate, however, is if they sat down, red felt-tip marker in hand, and reread the front pages of the New York Times and Washington Post for every day from this last year, circling each headline that is not entirely, one hundred percent accurate. If they did so, they might be amazed at how much red ink covers the graffiti of record. It’s an astonishing exercise. You would think that the reporters writing the stories were, like meteorologists, predicting tomorrow’s news, rather than recording for posterity known facts and affairs. It is said that gross inaccuracy should be tolerated in the news business because reporters, even when very wrong, manage to reveal important unknown events when allowed to “chase a story” like a detective unearthing a clue. When you flip through a year’s worth of pages now bleeding scarlet red dye, though, it is not courage but shame that comes to mind. How many red-encircled headlines should be endured before reaching the conclusion that this is not “news” but speculative fiction or straight-up propaganda?
Is there a certain percentage of inaccuracy that we could all agree is impermissible? Would coastal newspapers still feel haughty if they had to print disclaimers below the fold stating that forty percent or more of what you are about to read might later be proven to be false? Is it possible to peddle so much false information but still take umbrage at being called “fake”?
I suggest four different resolutions for the press this year: (1) Headlines should accurately encapsulate facts that form the crux of any given story. It does me no good if your headline is describing the third sentence of paragraph six or scraps the newsy part for a misleading editorial in headline form. Headlines matter. Sometimes they are all a busy person has time to read. Sensational headlines not backed up by the sentences that follow are straight-up lies. (2) Anonymous sources are bunk. Testimonial evidence is only as powerful as the perceived credibility of the witness. Most of the time, we see your anonymous sources as successfully using you to push a story, rather than the other way around. Anonymous sources should be exceptional aberrations, not the norm. If you can’t allow us to evaluate someone’s reputation for truthfulness or motivation for falsehood, that person better be providing life-and-death information while behind enemy lines. Otherwise, they are pushing a narrative, you are their willing mark, and we are an audience being manipulated, not informed. (3) When you ignore this and use anonymous sources anyway, stop giving your secret quote-givers special nonsensical titles. When you say “high-ranking Pentagon official,” I know you want me to think “admiral,” “general,” or “Secretary of Defense,” but most of the time you mean somebody who ranks slightly higher than fifty percent of the millions of employees who work somewhere in our vast national security apparatus. “Current or former White House aide” should mean one of the five people actually in the Oval Office during the meeting in question, not some disgruntled out-of-power political operative who last relished White House privileges in 1996. (4) Expert sources matter, too. Strangely, you think we see a “Dr” before a name or “PhD” after it as some holy affixation giving that person authority. We don’t. You may think all scientists are the same, but we know that engineers and chemists are not equal to gender-study sociologists and peddlers of Marxist revisionist history. If you pass off an ethnographer as an expert in the effects of carbon dioxide emissions, you are lying. If you use Howard Zinn as your expert on American history, you are lying, too.
The coasts are fond of telling us that “democracy dies in darkness.” Here in the Great Middle, though, we have long known the more important truth: “Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
Friday, December 27, 2019
Israeli Intelligence Continues to Help Thwart Terrorist Attacks Abroad Steven Emerson
Israeli Intelligence Continues to Help Thwart Terrorist Attacks Abroad
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Thursday, December 26, 2019
Why is JNS and Jonathan Tobin so much better for Israelis and American Jews than is David Suissa and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles? [Possibly the answer is provided by VAJA.]
From: carol greenwald
I just returned from the UK where I gave three talks on Trump at the Limmud conference, the largest gathering of British Jews. I was on a panel with a managing editor of the LA Jewish Journal, Kelly Hartog. She was horrible. She read a litany of "sins" against Trump. She was the most unbalanced individual. If she is at the Journal, there is little hope.
From: L Marshall Howard
I had great hopes for David Suissa… but so far he has been a disappointment.
Bigger disappointments are Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff. Chuck Schumer was granted a dispensation by Obama as long as he did not organize an opposition. His vote was not needed.
On the other hand Adam Schiff was given 100% of the intelligence relating to Iran. We obtained it through France. Adam Schiff knew what he was doing when he joined the Rhodes operation to create an echo chamber. The New York Times had a full article in which Rhodes bragged about how he shanghaied the media and employed organization such as Plowshares to saturate the media with editorials in favor of the JCPOA. Adam Schiff knew that vast areas of Iran would not be subject to any inspections and those that were subject to inspection would require advance notification and permission for any inspections. Adam Schiff also knew that they would not be any snapback sanctions for Iranian violations given the complex mechanism of finding them guilty. The saddest part is that Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, etc. are providing ammunition to the anti-Semites who believe that the anti- Trump efforts are a Jewish plot. This is at the same time that Adam Schiff’s left-wing supporters in the Democratic Party are claiming that the US foreign policy establishment is controlled by Jews and that Israel is a criminal nation.
Currently, my mentor ******, who is Jewish, is actively trying to provide information to David Suissa in the hope that David Suissa will present a more balanced approach in the various Jewish publications that he oversees. The rest of us are all concerned that David Suissa is identified by name as “vulnerable" [useful idiot ] by VAJA ( Vezarat-e Ettela'at Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran) , the primary intelligence agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran
From: Shirley Lewis
This should be on the cover of next week's Jewish Journal if the JJ was truly serving the Jewish community and not the Democratic Party:
Jihad-Rep. Rashida Tlaib wears terrorist symbol on the House floor while opposing existence of Jewish state
The Jewish Journal is a Democratic Party front. It does not care if the working class has job opportunities or if their wages go up. The Democratic Party won't even vote for the new Canada/Mexico/US trade deal that is favorable to US workers. THE greatest social justice program ever invented is an economy pumping on all cylinders. Democrats prefer a stifled economy (a la during the Obama era( and open borders which guarantee suppressed wage growth. Jewish Democrats, including the JJ, promotes that anyone that wants border security to help increase US worker wage growth is a racist. Jewish Democrats, including the JJ, promotes that if you believe everyone who comes to US should be vetted like our parents were is a racist. There is NO genocide going on in Mexico and Latin America but we are supposed to pretend that those crossing illegally are escaping genocide are be treated like potential Holocaust victims. Anti-Semitsm both on and off campus is the cancer, but the Jewish Journal allows the Jewish Dem group to call Trump the cancer. See link below with photo of Democrat Tlaib wearing the call to kill-Jews kaffiya on the floor of the House of Representatives. Think Jewish Democrats of the Jewish Journal really cares. Maby we'll get a "tisk-tisk”.
In addition, the Jewish Journal covers up:
The depth and breath of anti-Semitism on US campusesThe do-nothing-real about the nonstop assaults on Jews in Brooklyn by the big, well-funded Jewish groups.
The do-nothing at all about the US imams that are preaching Jewish genocide from their pulpits.
What the big name Muslim organizations really are: CAIR, MPAC and ISNA.
The depth and breadth of anti-Semitism in mainstream media despite the fact that CAMERA does all the research, would be so easy to pick up.
The depth and breadth of incitement to hate and violence by the fake "moderate/peace partner" Abbas/PA/Fatah/PLO despite PMW doing all the research, sould be so easy to pick up.
Friday, December 20, 2019
NYT, WaPo Publishing Chinese Propaganda for Cash Ben Marquis
NYT, WaPo Publishing Chinese Propaganda for Cash
Ben Marquis
It can seem at times like the establishment media has an underlying bias against the ideals of American exceptionalism and independent dominance on the world stage, and now a potential reason for that may have been discovered.
An investigative review has revealed that several major media outlets have been, for quite some time, running paid advertisements disguised as regular news articles that are nothing more than propaganda put forward by the Chinese Communist Party, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
That pro-China propaganda is paid for and promulgated by a communist state-run media outlet known as China Daily and its paid-for ads, both online and in print, appear in American establishment media outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
It is legal for foreign entities and governments to pay for advertising in the United States, provided it is fully disclosed as such. The problem here is that it doesn’t appear that necessary disclosure was occurring.
Based upon an expert review of the ads and federal filings, it appears that China Daily may have run afoul of the Foreign Agents Registration Act on a routine basis by failing to adequately and fully disclose the paid advertising it had purchased in the American newspapers.
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China Daily formally filed as a foreign agent in 1983, according to the Free Beacon, but declined to disclose to the Justice Department any advertising relationship with U.S. media outlets until 2012. Even then it continued to fail to fully comply with FARA by not providing a full breakdown of its spending activities and by withholding copies of paid advertisements, among other potential violations.
As per a review conducted by the Free Beacon and FARA experts of China Daily’s ads — both physical copies submitted to the DOJ as well as online copies that weren’t submitted — the Chinese propaganda pusher is believed to have purchased and run more than 700 online ads and more than 500 print ads in the major U.S. media outlets since 2012.
All of those propaganda pieces, which are cleverly disguised to appear as normal news or commentary articles, tend to frame China and the communist government in the most positive light possible while downplaying the things that China is often criticized over — such as its oppression of Tibet, the imprisoning of Muslim minorities in concentration camps in Xinjiang and the brutal crackdown on pro-freedom protesters in Hong Kong, among other things.
According to graph charts prepared by the Free Beacon, it appears the vast majority of the online ads by China Daily appeared on The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times’ websites, while a solid majority of the print ads appeared in the pages of The Washington Post and, to a lesser extent, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and British outlet Financial Times.
Do you believe some in the liberal media hold anti-American sentiments?
The fact that the U.S. media outlets have been running these propaganda ads on behalf of China’s communist government hasn’t sat well with Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican member of the House Armed Service Committee and longtime critic of China Daily. He essentially accused the American outlets of selling out their credibility for ad revenue.
“These outlets claim to support democracy, but they’ve participated in a cover-up for an ongoing communist-run genocide,” Banks told the Free Beacon. “It’s disgusting.”
China Daily declined to provide comment for the Free Beacon’s report. Spokespeople for the three major U.S. media outlets did provide various comments in defense of the practice, but all three declined to specify how much revenue had been gained by the ads sold for propaganda articles.
However, one advertising firm that has published ads in all three outlets, and requested anonymity so as not to disrupt current deals with the three, told the Free Beacon that full-page ads typically cost between $65,000 to $120,000 apiece, suggesting there are millions of dollars in revenue that are at play.
That would coincide with what financial details could be gleaned from China Daily’s FARA disclosures, which while not specific, did show that the media outlet had been infused with $11.8 million from the Chinese government over just the past year alone.
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Odds are, these U.S. media outlets running Chinese government propaganda are not unwitting dupes and while the outlets may claim that selling the ad space for propaganda has no impact on how they report when it comes to stories about China, that is just as difficult to believe.
The Western Journal has reached out to all four named outlets — The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times — for comment but has not yet received a response. We will update this article if and when we do.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
General Flynn Uncovered Massive Clinton Scandal Linked to Terrorist Funding – Was Immediately Targeted by Obama Deep State
General Flynn Uncovered Massive Clinton Scandal Linked to Terrorist Funding – Was Immediately Targeted by Obama Deep State
Jack Hammer
Posting note: this item was presented as pure speculation, it is unvented and unevaluated. However, so many strange things have happened in the intelligence community that we decided to post this item which may be 100% correct or it may be 100% fiction
On November 10, 2017, we reported how the Wall Street Journal had received information from anonymous sources who said that General Flynn and his son Michael were involved in a plot to kidnap Muslim cleric and return him to Turkey.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn’s alleged role in a plan to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric living in the U.S. and deliver him to Turkey in return for millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the investigation.
(Of course in the aftermath of Obama it is now customary and expected for FBI, DOJ and other government officials to leak true and false stories to the left wing media as long as they attack or discredit President Trump or anyone who voted for him. These corrupt and criminal leaks will never be investigated or addressed in court with the Deep State in charge of the US government.)
Regardless, the story may have been placed with the WSJ to entice General Flynn to later plead guilty to lying to the FBI. Of course, what Flynn supposedly lied about has never been leaked through the mainstream liberal media.
But based on a report at Neonrevolt, there is much more to this story.
In November 2017,
The primary bone of contention between the U.S. and Turkey is Fethullah Gülen, a shady Islamic mullah residing in Pennsylvania whom former President Clinton once called his “friend” in a well circulated video.
Flynn then shared a video of President Clinton claiming that the shady mullah is a friend of the US –
full story video
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BREAKING: General Flynn Uncovered Massive Clinton Scandal Linked to Terrorist Funding – Was Immediately Targeted by Obama Deep State
On November 10, 2017, we reported how the Wall Street Journal had received information from anonymous sources who said that General Flynn and his son Michael were involved in a plot to kidnap Muslim cleric and return him to Turkey.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn’s alleged role in a plan to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric living in the U.S. and deliver him to Turkey in return for millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the investigation.
(Of course in the aftermath of Obama it is now customary and expected for FBI, DOJ and other government officials to leak true and false stories to the left wing media as long as they attack or discredit President Trump or anyone who voted for him. These corrupt and criminal leaks will never be investigated or addressed in court with the Deep State in charge of the US government.)
Regardless, the story may have been placed with the WSJ to entice General Flynn to later plead guilty to lying to the FBI. Of course, what Flynn supposedly lied about has never been leaked through the mainstream liberal media.
But based on a report at Neonrevolt, there is much more to this story.
In November 2017, General Flynn wrote an op-ed for the Hill. In the piece Flynn wrote –
The primary bone of contention between the U.S. and Turkey is Fethullah Gülen, a shady Islamic mullah residing in Pennsylvania whom former President Clinton once called his “friend” in a well circulated video.
Flynn then shared a video of President Clinton claiming that the shady mullah is a friend of the US –
Flynn then shared –
Gülen portrays himself as a moderate, but he is in fact a radical Islamist. He has publicly boasted about his “soldiers” waiting for his orders to do whatever he directs them to do. If he were in reality a moderate, he would not be in exile, nor would he excite the animus of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government.
Flynn then compared Gulen to leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and “Turkey’s Osama Bin Laden”. He discussed how Gulen brought into the US numerous individuals to run his charter schools he set up –
To add insult to injury, American taxpayers are helping finance Gülen’s 160 charter schools in the United States. These schools have been granted more H1-B visas than Google. It is inconceivable that our visa officers have approved thousands of visas for English teachers whose English is incomprehensible. A CBS “60 Minutes” program documented a conversation with one such imported English teacher from Turkey. Several lawsuits, including some in Ohio and Texas, point to irregularities in the operation of these schools.
Flynn then dropped this bomb about the Clinton Foundation’s relationship with this terrorist –
However, funding seems to be no problem for Gülen’s network. Hired attorneys work to keep the lucrative government source of income for Gülen and his network going. Influential charities such as Cosmos Foundation continue their support for Gulen’s charter schools.
Incidentally, Cosmos Foundation is a major donor to Clinton Foundation. No wonder Bill Clinton calls Mullah Gülen “his friend.” It is now no secret that Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s close aide and confidante, worked for 12 years as the associate editor for a journal published by the London-based Institute of Minority Muslim Affairs. This institute has promoted the thoughts of radical Muslim thinkers such as Qutb, al Bana and others.
Neonrevolt notes a New York Times article that discusses the terrorist organization in the US led by Gulen. What is happening is this –
The taxpayers fund the school system
The school abuses the H1-B visa program to import “teachers.”
The “teachers” get paid by taxpayers.
The “teachers” then donate 40% of their paychecks BACK to the Gulen Movement.
And Gulen goes and donates a chunk of this change back to the Clinton Foundation… while also trying to subvert and overthrow the Turkish government.
Neonrevolt then notes some statistics on the corruption in the US related to the Gulen group.
Gulenists’ contributions to congressional campaigns have been known for some time, as Buzzfeed reported last year. Texas Reps. Sheila Jackson-Lee, and Henry Cuellar, both Democrats, are among the biggest benefactors of Gulen contributions.
USA Today reported last month that the House ethics committee has investigated more than 200 trips taken by members of Congress since 2008 that were secretly funded by Gulen groups.
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Clinton has been the biggest recipient of Gulenist donations of any presidential candidate this cycle, federal election records show.
This all leads up to today –
General Flynn as we all know now was targeted by Obama and the Clintons for some reason. He knew too much and he was working with Trump, but maybe his oped was what scared them the most. He had to be taken down and so he was targeted.
He lost his job with the Trump team due to shady actions by the Deep State and then was targeted by the Mueller team. He eventually pled guilty to a crime of lying to the FBI. Since this time he has been working with the Mueller team as was put in place as part of his agreement.
What we know now is that based on Flynn’s current trial date, set in August, his cooperation with the government should come to an end soon. What is also in the works is that Flynn is supposed to be the key witness in the court case related to his business partner.
The DOJ’s website shares this about the case –
According to allegations in the indictment, the two men were involved in a conspiracy to covertly influence U.S. politicians and public opinion against a Turkish citizen living in the United States whose extradition had been requested by the Government of Turkey. The plot included using a company founded by Rafiekian and a person referred to as “Person A” in the indictment. The company, referred to as “Company A” in the indictment, provided services based upon Person A’s national security expertise.
According to Neonrevolt, person A is General Flynn and Company A is his company. The individual that reportedly hired the Flynn group was a man by the name of Ekim Alptekin, who is connected with a consortium of Deep State spies –
How was Alptekin connected to the authors of Spygate? It depends on who you think they are, but he’s a Dutch citizen of Turkish origin with an array of connections that include Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud, George Soros, and senior U.S. officials, some of the connections through Soros’s European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), which has appeared as a hub for other Spygate connections in Europe. Halper is not a member, but shows up for ECFR events.
Obviously Turkey didn’t like Gulen and therefore they wanted him out of the US. It is suggested that when Flynn testifies about his activities with his former partner related to Turkey, that he will actually be forced to out the Clinton Foundation and Obama in their activities with the terrorist in Pennsylvania. The whole operation by the Deep State will come back and slap them in their faces.
Is Flynn playing the long game? For the sake of America, let’s hope so. God bless General Michael Flynn.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Jew Hate Joan Swirsky
Jew Hate
Jew Hate
Joan Swirsky
Joan Swirsky
There is nothing new about the fanatical hatred of Jews that we see playing out in today’s world––literally a pandemic of anti-Semitism which echoes the fear and loathing that gave rise to the over-4,000-year history of the Inquisition, the Crusades, centuries of pogroms, the expulsion of Jews from country after country, and the Holocaust of the 20th century in which six-million Jews were savagely incinerated in the crematoria of Hitler’s Germany as the entire world––including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt––looked on and did nothing!
Plus ça change and all that. But it’s not exactly true that things have remained the same. Today, the staggering power of technology makes the spread of Jew Hate all the more rapid, powerful and lethal.
In America, while blacks, Muslims, feminists, single mothers, immigrants, the global-warming fetishists, college graduates in debt for their exorbitant-but-meaningless “educations” and minorities of every stripe all bleat endlessly about being victims of this or that indignity, slight, “unfairness,” historical insult or crime, the Annual Report on Hate Crimes released by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that, by far, it is the world’s tiny population of Jews––15 million in a world of nearly eight billion––who experience the most bias, hatred, assaults, blatant racism and hate crimes.
I purposefully have not included the 2018 statistics from the global study on anti-Semitism by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), whose director, Jonathan Greenblatt, worked for three far-left regimes––the Clinton administration, the Obama fiasco, and the George Soros-funded Aspen Institute, and who has been accused by the founder and president of Americans for Peace & Tolerance, Dr. Charles Jacobs, of actively deceiving the American Jewish community about polling around the world that shows Islamic Jew hatred tops all others by a significantly wide margin.
“To stay anchored in the left,” explains Dr. Jacobs, “the ADL has had no choice but to bury its findings about Muslim anti-Semitism…prioritizing the protection of American Muslims over the protection of American Jews.”
Writer Isi Liebler elaborates at length on this premise, calling the ADL “a radical extension of the Democratic Party” that refuses to fight the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement––declared anti-Semitic by the American government––because the ADL actively supports the Marxist anti-Semitic group Black Lives Matter, which “incorporates anti-Israel passages in its platform and campaigns against anti-boycott legislation.”
HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE
But we don’t need skewed polls from the ADL to know what is happening to innocent Jews both here and abroad.
All you have to do is to read the daily exposés on Jew hatred around the world and in America that Pamela Geller has been documenting for almost 20 years at https://gellerreport.com. ––definitely subscribe to this powerful site. Here, a small sample of typical headlines:
- Gang of five men attack Jewish teens walking on Brooklyn street.
- Blind Hate Against Israel Displayed at Times Square Rally.
- Swastika found near Coney Island Jewish Community Center.
- ‘Ugly And Racist’ Graffiti Found At Holocaust Museum In Glen Cove (Long Island).
- Jewish Student Arrested During Shabbat Services after Protesting Anti-Semitism at Amherst College.
- Attacks on Jews by Blacks in New York SKYROCKET, and the Media Ignores Because Attackers Are Not White.
- NJ shooting of Jews — bystanders blame Jewish victims.
And in other venues:
- Panel: Judge who shared ‘get the f**k over the Holocaust’ link not anti-Semitic.
- European Court of “Justice” condemns Israeli winemakers in Judea and
Samaria but not Iran for nuclear violations.
- The esteemed Gatestone Institute‘s Denis MacEoin writes about A “Guide” to the Israeli-“Palestinian” Conflict by the United Church of Christ which leaves “no room in it for a Jewish, Israeli or moderate Christian voice; just hatred of Israel…”
- The European Union openly declares war on the Jews.
- Amnesty International Teams with Radicals to Blast Israel.
- Shock as Merkel Donates Half a Billion Dollars in Aid to Palestinian President, Paying Terrorists to Kill Jews.
- Jewish cemetery in France vandalized, over 100 graves desecrated.
December 17, 2018 in eastern France. Getty Images
ON CAMPUSES
Again, the headlines say it all:
- Tenured Columbia Professor Endorses Terrorism.
- Students at Oberlin College erect a memorial to “Palestinian” Islamic Jihad terrorists.
- Columbia ranked as worst college in US for Jewish students.
- Brown University committee on corporate responsibility votes in favor of BDS.
The 40 worst colleges for Jewish students, according to the Algeimener.com online newspaper, include, among others at which rampant anti-Semitism flourishes––largely with impunity: Vassar College, U of Chicago, U of California LA, U of Washington (Seattle), New York University, Oberlin College, U of California Berkeley, Brown U, Brooklyn College, U of California Irvine, San Diego State U, Stanford U, Northwestern U, U of Michigan Ann Arbor, Tufts U, U of California Santa Cruz, Hunter College (NY), U of Mass Amherst, Rutgers U, U of California Davis, Ohio State U, Wesleyan U, U of North Carolina, Harvard U, U of Texas Austin, Swarthmore College, Georgetown U, Syracuse U, U of Wisconsin Madison.
* According to author, editor and blogger Ruth S. King in Tenured Cowards, “The craven indifference of academic elites to the anti-Semitism that threatens Jewish students…is reminiscent of the purges of Jewish professors and students in the darkening days following Kristallnacht in November of 1938”
Today, she continues, professors “…worry about every minority right except for the right of Jews to live in safety everywhere, including on their own campuses. These cowards, particularly Jewish professors––who preen and strut in narcissistic self-hatred––have turned their back on Jews and Israel. They will be the first to be shocked when the rising tide of international anti-Semitism comes lapping at their heels, and their cronies and friends abandon them as they have abandoned principles and decency.”
Among the vilest and most anti-Semitic groups at Harvard, Columbia and campuses across the country is Students for Justice in Palestine. By the way, will someone please tell me where on any map or Atlas in the entire world Palestine exists?
Yoo Hoo, Jewish alumni! Are you still donating to these schools? Paying them to “educate” your children. Well…stop! Let them know that their desire to extinguish Jews and annihilate Israel is the reason they will not receive another cent from you! Money Talks!
Clearly, the Arab strategy over the past many decades of spending multimillions of dollars endowing hundreds if not thousands of Chairs at colleges and universities throughout America––and especially in the D.C. area and other seats of powers, has given them total control over their preferred anti-Jewish and anti-Israel curricula, the better to contaminate the minds of students and influence America’s foreign policy vis-à-vis the historically anti-Semitic U.S. State Department.
For the first time since Israel was founded in 1948, we have a State Department under Sec. of State Mike Pompeo that is not blatantly anti-Semitic! Moreover, President Trump has just issued an Executive Order that deems discrimination against Jews on U.S. campuses to be a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and mandates that both colleges and universities lose federal funding if they fail to combat discrimination against Jewish students.
Of course, leftists everywhere––with Democrats leading the pack––object, which is absolutely no surprise as the Democrat Party is now the Official Party of Jew Hatred.
Do sane, moderate Democrats still exist? Yes they do, and to them I say Get Out Now! Leave your Party until it is purged of its racists, which you can help to accomplish at the ballot box.*
MEDIA MAGGOTS
According to author and columnist Ben Shapiro, “Media coverage of Israel has long been skewed in favor of Israel’s enemies. Jews…are targeted by those perceived as higher on the scale of privilege. It’s the reason Rev. Al Sharpton has a show on MSNBC, the reason Democratic politicians continue to play footsie with Louis Farrakhan, the reason the New York Times ignores hate crimes in its own city…”
Social Media too––Facebook, Twitter, etc.––are hotbeds of Jew-hating fanatics, many with made-up names, cowards who routinely engage in blood libels, vicious stereotypes, and lies and rants that I, personally, interpret as jealous screeds. These are the people who lie in bed at night obsessing about Jews, blaming their own lack of success on Jews, and projecting onto Jews their own worse character traits and failings.
As ace journalist Ashley Lutz scrupulously documented in a Business Insider report, in 1983 there were 50 media companies, but today only six organizations are responsible for 90 percent of all the “news” we read, watch and listen to! They include:
- GE (Comcast, NBC, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, et al).
- NewsCorp (Fox, Wall St. Journal, NY Post, et al).
- Disney (ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Miramax, Marvel Studios, et al)
- Viacom (MTV, Nick Jr., BET, CMT, Paramount Pictures, et al)
- Time Warner (CNN, HBO, TIME, Warner Bros., et al)
- CBS (Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, NFL.com, Jeopardy, 60 Minutes, et al)
Make no mistake, the CEOs of these multibillion-dollar businesses are all leftist globalists––not a conservative among them. The last was Rupert Murdoch (Fox, Wall St. Journal, NY Post, et al) who gave control of his empire to his leftist sons Lachlan and James, hence the distinctly leftward tilt of Fox and the WSJ.
And shame on them for their positive coverage of raving anti-Semites like Cong. Ihlan Omar (D-MN), Cong. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Cong. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Cong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and all the others who avidly support both the BDS movement to destroy Israel economically and the denial of foreign aid to America’s staunchest ally in the Middle East.
DEMOCRATS
As you read above, the Democrat Party has now––under the, ahem, leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)––become the de facto party of Jew Hate, proven by the fact that with every vicious anti-Jewish, Israel-loathing statement of the above Democrats (Omar, Tlaib, Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez, et al), there has been NOT ONE WORD of objection, but rather Speaker Pelosi appointed Rep. Omar to the Foreign Affairs Committee, where she could learn every secret of the United States and pass it along to her like-minded Jew haters both here and abroad.
As Professor Abraham H. Miller has aptly noted, “Given a choice between preserving their Jewish identity or embracing the ideology of the left, many Jews would prefer to be Democrats than Jews.”
Writer Victor Rosenthal correctly posits that “the secret to educating anti-Semites so that they will stop being anti-Semites remains undiscovered.” He goes on to suggest that “Jews should secure their institutions and arm themselves to the extent that the law permits. Self-defense training should be part of all Jewish education. Nobody is respected for being a victim.”
There are simply too many examples of the betrayal of Israel and Jews everywhere by the current anti-Semitic Democrats in the U.S. Congress to cite. Suffice a few more headlines:
- Democrats to Israel: Go to Hell.
- Dem Presidential Hopefuls (Sanders and Warren) Meet With Terrorist-Run Pay-To-Slay Group.
- In rebuke to Trump and Netanyahu, 107 Democrats pass resolution supporting 2 states (essentially cutting Israel in half).
- Jews who are leading us away from peace.
- Progressive Democrats Get it Wrong About Israel, Again.
- 154 Nations [in the rancid United Nations] Reject Israel’s Biblical Connection to the Temple Mount.
- US Presidential Candidates, Anti-Israel Groups to Share Views at Far-Left J Street Conference––where, indeed, more than one of them recommended cutting or withholding aid to Israel.
In my view, these despicable anti-Semites resemble the “just-following-orders” Germans who Daniel Goldhagen aptly described in the title of his 1996 book, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.”
Today, the Jew haters in America––who get away with their murderous attacks under the cover of “free speech”––and the vast number of Muslim and Arab Jew haters who have predicated their entire lives on killing Jews and eliminating the State of Israel, now take their marching orders from Democrat leaders, leftwing newspapers, cowardly professors, and the megalomaniacal anti-Semitic billionaires who support them.
It is no wonder that the estimable Daniel Greenfield wrote: “There is no future for Jews on the left except as collaborators in anti-Semitism.”
WHAT TO DO
It is clear that the Jewish organizations that once strongly advocated for Jewish issues and fought anti-Semitism aggressively no longer do so unless they involve politically correct issues that won’t inspire the vindictive wrath––and financial support––of Jewish Democrats. These include: the UJA-Federation, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Hillel chapters on college campuses and the Reform movement.
So don’t count on these organizations and don’t send them another dollar!
The good news is that, along with wide support from political conservatives, most Republicans, and the Christian Evangelical community, other Jewish advocacy organizations and publications are working tirelessly to combat the relentless assaults of the Jew- and Israel-haters among us.
They include:
AFSI (Americans for a Safe Israel)
1751 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10128
www.AFSI.org
Tel: 1-212-828-2424
Mark Langfan, Chairman
Americans for Peace & Tolerance
5 Main Street, Suite 118
Watertown, MA 02472
https://www.peaceandtolerance.org
Founder: Charles Jacobs
American Jewish Congress
745 5th Ave., 30th Floor
New York NY 10151
https://www.ajcongress.org
President, Jack Rosen
CAMERA–Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis
PO Box 35040
Boston MA 02135-0001
Andrea Levin, Founder
Campus Watch (a project of the Middle East Forum) monitors bias on American campuses, issues reports, and takes strong action where indicated.
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/
E-mail: info@meforum.org
Tel: 1-215-546-5406
Canary Mission
www.canarymission.org
Canary Mission documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.
Coalition for Jewish Values
2833 Smith Avenue, Suite 225
Baltimore, MD 21209
1-301-727-2700
Office-at-CJValues.org
Combat Anti-Semitism
www.combatantisemitism.org
info@combatantisemitism.org
Email: sacha@combatantisemitism.org
Tel: +1- 646 417 4046
EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth)
PO Box 66366
Washington, DC 20035
https://emetonline.org
Sarah Stern, Founder
HonestReporting.com
165 East 56th Street, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10022-2709
Tel: 1-847-745-8284
E-mail: action@honestreporting.com
NCJA (National Conference of Jewish Affairs)
90 Washington Valley Road, Suite 1261
Bedminster, NJ 07921
www.conservativehq.com
Attn: Rabbi Aryeh Spero
The Exodus Movement, founded by Elizabeth Pipko for “proud Jewish Americans who reject the hypocrisy, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism of the rising far-left.”
Elizabeth Pipko, founder and president of The Exodus Movement.
The Exodus Movement
740 South Mill Avenue, #200
Tempe, AZ 85281
www.theexodusmovement.com
Elizabeth Pipko, Founder
https://theexodusmovement.com
The Lawfare Project
633 3rd Avenue, Fl 21
New York, NY 10017-8157
https://www.thelawfareproject.org/
Brooke Goldstein, Founder/Director
PRIMER- Promoting Responsibility in Middle East ReportingP.O. Box 0591
West Hartford, CT 06137-0591
http://primerct.org/index.php?content=index&title=PRIMER-Connecticut
info@primerct.org
Founder: Alan Stein
President, Mark Fishman
http://www.jewishledger.com/2014/07/primer-israel-advocacy-in-good-times-and-bad/
Stop Anti-Semitism,org
https://www.stopantisemitism.org/
Features Anti-Semite of the Month and Anti-Semite of the Year
Contact: Liora Rez at Liora@stopantisemitism.org.
Understanding the Threat
Provides tools to leaders, police and citizens to identify and dismantle jihadi/terrorist networks in their local communities.
P.O. Box 190772
Dallas, TX 75219
www.UnderstandingtheThreat.com
Founder: John Guandolo
ZOA (Zionist Organization of America)
633 Third Avenue, Suite 31-B
New York, NY 10017
https://zoa.org
Morton Klein, President
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Joan Swirsky
There is nothing new about the fanatical hatred of Jews that we see playing out in today’s world––literally a pandemic of anti-Semitism which echoes the fear and loathing that gave rise to the over-4,000-year history of the Inquisition, the Crusades, centuries of pogroms, the expulsion of Jews from country after country, and the Holocaust of the 20th century in which six-million Jews were savagely incinerated in the crematoria of Hitler’s Germany as the entire world––including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt––looked on and did nothing!
Plus ça change and all that. But it’s not exactly true that things have remained the same. Today, the staggering power of technology makes the spread of Jew Hate all the more rapid, powerful and lethal.
In America, while blacks, Muslims, feminists, single mothers, immigrants, the global-warming fetishists, college graduates in debt for their exorbitant-but-meaningless “educations” and minorities of every stripe all bleat endlessly about being victims of this or that indignity, slight, “unfairness,” historical insult or crime, the Annual Report on Hate Crimes released by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that, by far, it is the world’s tiny population of Jews––15 million in a world of nearly eight billion––who experience the most bias, hatred, assaults, blatant racism and hate crimes.
I purposefully have not included the 2018 statistics from the global study on anti-Semitism by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), whose director, Jonathan Greenblatt, worked for three far-left regimes––the Clinton administration, the Obama fiasco, and the George Soros-funded Aspen Institute, and who has been accused by the founder and president of Americans for Peace & Tolerance, Dr. Charles Jacobs, of actively deceiving the American Jewish community about polling around the world that shows Islamic Jew hatred tops all others by a significantly wide margin.
“To stay anchored in the left,” explains Dr. Jacobs, “the ADL has had no choice but to bury its findings about Muslim anti-Semitism…prioritizing the protection of American Muslims over the protection of American Jews.”
Writer Isi Liebler elaborates at length on this premise, calling the ADL “a radical extension of the Democratic Party” that refuses to fight the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement––declared anti-Semitic by the American government––because the ADL actively supports the Marxist anti-Semitic group Black Lives Matter, which “incorporates anti-Israel passages in its platform and campaigns against anti-boycott legislation.”
HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE
But we don’t need skewed polls from the ADL to know what is happening to innocent Jews both here and abroad.
All you have to do is to read the daily exposés on Jew hatred around the world and in America that Pamela Geller has been documenting for almost 20 years at https://gellerreport.com. ––definitely subscribe to this powerful site. Here, a small sample of typical headlines:
- Gang of five men attack Jewish teens walking on Brooklyn street.
- Blind Hate Against Israel Displayed at Times Square Rally.
- Swastika found near Coney Island Jewish Community Center.
- ‘Ugly And Racist’ Graffiti Found At Holocaust Museum In Glen Cove (Long Island).
- Jewish Student Arrested During Shabbat Services after Protesting Anti-Semitism at Amherst College.
- Attacks on Jews by Blacks in New York SKYROCKET, and the Media Ignores Because Attackers Are Not White.
- NJ shooting of Jews — bystanders blame Jewish victims.
And in other venues:
- Panel: Judge who shared ‘get the f**k over the Holocaust’ link not anti-Semitic.
- European Court of “Justice” condemns Israeli winemakers in Judea and
Samaria but not Iran for nuclear violations. - The esteemed Gatestone Institute‘s Denis MacEoin writes about A “Guide” to the Israeli-“Palestinian” Conflict by the United Church of Christ which leaves “no room in it for a Jewish, Israeli or moderate Christian voice; just hatred of Israel…”
- The European Union openly declares war on the Jews.
- Amnesty International Teams with Radicals to Blast Israel.
- Shock as Merkel Donates Half a Billion Dollars in Aid to Palestinian President, Paying Terrorists to Kill Jews.
- Jewish cemetery in France vandalized, over 100 graves desecrated.
December 17, 2018 in eastern France. Getty Images
ON CAMPUSES
Again, the headlines say it all:
- Tenured Columbia Professor Endorses Terrorism.
- Students at Oberlin College erect a memorial to “Palestinian” Islamic Jihad terrorists.
- Columbia ranked as worst college in US for Jewish students.
- Brown University committee on corporate responsibility votes in favor of BDS.
The 40 worst colleges for Jewish students, according to the Algeimener.com online newspaper, include, among others at which rampant anti-Semitism flourishes––largely with impunity: Vassar College, U of Chicago, U of California LA, U of Washington (Seattle), New York University, Oberlin College, U of California Berkeley, Brown U, Brooklyn College, U of California Irvine, San Diego State U, Stanford U, Northwestern U, U of Michigan Ann Arbor, Tufts U, U of California Santa Cruz, Hunter College (NY), U of Mass Amherst, Rutgers U, U of California Davis, Ohio State U, Wesleyan U, U of North Carolina, Harvard U, U of Texas Austin, Swarthmore College, Georgetown U, Syracuse U, U of Wisconsin Madison.
* According to author, editor and blogger Ruth S. King in Tenured Cowards, “The craven indifference of academic elites to the anti-Semitism that threatens Jewish students…is reminiscent of the purges of Jewish professors and students in the darkening days following Kristallnacht in November of 1938”
Today, she continues, professors “…worry about every minority right except for the right of Jews to live in safety everywhere, including on their own campuses. These cowards, particularly Jewish professors––who preen and strut in narcissistic self-hatred––have turned their back on Jews and Israel. They will be the first to be shocked when the rising tide of international anti-Semitism comes lapping at their heels, and their cronies and friends abandon them as they have abandoned principles and decency.”
Among the vilest and most anti-Semitic groups at Harvard, Columbia and campuses across the country is Students for Justice in Palestine. By the way, will someone please tell me where on any map or Atlas in the entire world Palestine exists?
Yoo Hoo, Jewish alumni! Are you still donating to these schools? Paying them to “educate” your children. Well…stop! Let them know that their desire to extinguish Jews and annihilate Israel is the reason they will not receive another cent from you! Money Talks!
Clearly, the Arab strategy over the past many decades of spending multimillions of dollars endowing hundreds if not thousands of Chairs at colleges and universities throughout America––and especially in the D.C. area and other seats of powers, has given them total control over their preferred anti-Jewish and anti-Israel curricula, the better to contaminate the minds of students and influence America’s foreign policy vis-à-vis the historically anti-Semitic U.S. State Department.
For the first time since Israel was founded in 1948, we have a State Department under Sec. of State Mike Pompeo that is not blatantly anti-Semitic! Moreover, President Trump has just issued an Executive Order that deems discrimination against Jews on U.S. campuses to be a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and mandates that both colleges and universities lose federal funding if they fail to combat discrimination against Jewish students.
Of course, leftists everywhere––with Democrats leading the pack––object, which is absolutely no surprise as the Democrat Party is now the Official Party of Jew Hatred.
Do sane, moderate Democrats still exist? Yes they do, and to them I say Get Out Now! Leave your Party until it is purged of its racists, which you can help to accomplish at the ballot box.*
MEDIA MAGGOTS
According to author and columnist Ben Shapiro, “Media coverage of Israel has long been skewed in favor of Israel’s enemies. Jews…are targeted by those perceived as higher on the scale of privilege. It’s the reason Rev. Al Sharpton has a show on MSNBC, the reason Democratic politicians continue to play footsie with Louis Farrakhan, the reason the New York Times ignores hate crimes in its own city…”
Social Media too––Facebook, Twitter, etc.––are hotbeds of Jew-hating fanatics, many with made-up names, cowards who routinely engage in blood libels, vicious stereotypes, and lies and rants that I, personally, interpret as jealous screeds. These are the people who lie in bed at night obsessing about Jews, blaming their own lack of success on Jews, and projecting onto Jews their own worse character traits and failings.
As ace journalist Ashley Lutz scrupulously documented in a Business Insider report, in 1983 there were 50 media companies, but today only six organizations are responsible for 90 percent of all the “news” we read, watch and listen to! They include:
- GE (Comcast, NBC, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, et al).
- NewsCorp (Fox, Wall St. Journal, NY Post, et al).
- Disney (ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Miramax, Marvel Studios, et al)
- Viacom (MTV, Nick Jr., BET, CMT, Paramount Pictures, et al)
- Time Warner (CNN, HBO, TIME, Warner Bros., et al)
- CBS (Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, NFL.com, Jeopardy, 60 Minutes, et al)
Make no mistake, the CEOs of these multibillion-dollar businesses are all leftist globalists––not a conservative among them. The last was Rupert Murdoch (Fox, Wall St. Journal, NY Post, et al) who gave control of his empire to his leftist sons Lachlan and James, hence the distinctly leftward tilt of Fox and the WSJ.
And shame on them for their positive coverage of raving anti-Semites like Cong. Ihlan Omar (D-MN), Cong. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Cong. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Cong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and all the others who avidly support both the BDS movement to destroy Israel economically and the denial of foreign aid to America’s staunchest ally in the Middle East.
DEMOCRATS
As you read above, the Democrat Party has now––under the, ahem, leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)––become the de facto party of Jew Hate, proven by the fact that with every vicious anti-Jewish, Israel-loathing statement of the above Democrats (Omar, Tlaib, Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez, et al), there has been NOT ONE WORD of objection, but rather Speaker Pelosi appointed Rep. Omar to the Foreign Affairs Committee, where she could learn every secret of the United States and pass it along to her like-minded Jew haters both here and abroad.
As you read above, the Democrat Party has now––under the, ahem, leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)––become the de facto party of Jew Hate, proven by the fact that with every vicious anti-Jewish, Israel-loathing statement of the above Democrats (Omar, Tlaib, Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez, et al), there has been NOT ONE WORD of objection, but rather Speaker Pelosi appointed Rep. Omar to the Foreign Affairs Committee, where she could learn every secret of the United States and pass it along to her like-minded Jew haters both here and abroad.
As Professor Abraham H. Miller has aptly noted, “Given a choice between preserving their Jewish identity or embracing the ideology of the left, many Jews would prefer to be Democrats than Jews.”
Writer Victor Rosenthal correctly posits that “the secret to educating anti-Semites so that they will stop being anti-Semites remains undiscovered.” He goes on to suggest that “Jews should secure their institutions and arm themselves to the extent that the law permits. Self-defense training should be part of all Jewish education. Nobody is respected for being a victim.”
There are simply too many examples of the betrayal of Israel and Jews everywhere by the current anti-Semitic Democrats in the U.S. Congress to cite. Suffice a few more headlines:
- Democrats to Israel: Go to Hell.
- Dem Presidential Hopefuls (Sanders and Warren) Meet With Terrorist-Run Pay-To-Slay Group.
- In rebuke to Trump and Netanyahu, 107 Democrats pass resolution supporting 2 states (essentially cutting Israel in half).
- Jews who are leading us away from peace.
- Progressive Democrats Get it Wrong About Israel, Again.
- 154 Nations [in the rancid United Nations] Reject Israel’s Biblical Connection to the Temple Mount.
- US Presidential Candidates, Anti-Israel Groups to Share Views at Far-Left J Street Conference––where, indeed, more than one of them recommended cutting or withholding aid to Israel.
In my view, these despicable anti-Semites resemble the “just-following-orders” Germans who Daniel Goldhagen aptly described in the title of his 1996 book, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.”
Today, the Jew haters in America––who get away with their murderous attacks under the cover of “free speech”––and the vast number of Muslim and Arab Jew haters who have predicated their entire lives on killing Jews and eliminating the State of Israel, now take their marching orders from Democrat leaders, leftwing newspapers, cowardly professors, and the megalomaniacal anti-Semitic billionaires who support them.
It is no wonder that the estimable Daniel Greenfield wrote: “There is no future for Jews on the left except as collaborators in anti-Semitism.”
WHAT TO DO
It is clear that the Jewish organizations that once strongly advocated for Jewish issues and fought anti-Semitism aggressively no longer do so unless they involve politically correct issues that won’t inspire the vindictive wrath––and financial support––of Jewish Democrats. These include: the UJA-Federation, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Hillel chapters on college campuses and the Reform movement.
So don’t count on these organizations and don’t send them another dollar!
The good news is that, along with wide support from political conservatives, most Republicans, and the Christian Evangelical community, other Jewish advocacy organizations and publications are working tirelessly to combat the relentless assaults of the Jew- and Israel-haters among us.
They include:
AFSI (Americans for a Safe Israel)
1751 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10128
www.AFSI.org
Tel: 1-212-828-2424
Mark Langfan, Chairman
1751 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10128
www.AFSI.org
Tel: 1-212-828-2424
Mark Langfan, Chairman
Americans for Peace & Tolerance
5 Main Street, Suite 118
Watertown, MA 02472
https://www.peaceandtolerance.org
Founder: Charles Jacobs
5 Main Street, Suite 118
Watertown, MA 02472
https://www.peaceandtolerance.org
Founder: Charles Jacobs
American Jewish Congress
745 5th Ave., 30th Floor
New York NY 10151
https://www.ajcongress.org
President, Jack Rosen
745 5th Ave., 30th Floor
New York NY 10151
https://www.ajcongress.org
President, Jack Rosen
CAMERA–Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis
PO Box 35040
Boston MA 02135-0001
Andrea Levin, Founder
PO Box 35040
Boston MA 02135-0001
Andrea Levin, Founder
Campus Watch (a project of the Middle East Forum) monitors bias on American campuses, issues reports, and takes strong action where indicated.
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/
E-mail: info@meforum.org
Tel: 1-215-546-5406
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/
E-mail: info@meforum.org
Tel: 1-215-546-5406
Canary Mission
www.canarymission.org
Canary Mission documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.
www.canarymission.org
Canary Mission documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.
Coalition for Jewish Values
2833 Smith Avenue, Suite 225
Baltimore, MD 21209
1-301-727-2700
Office-at-CJValues.org
2833 Smith Avenue, Suite 225
Baltimore, MD 21209
1-301-727-2700
Office-at-CJValues.org
Combat Anti-Semitism
www.combatantisemitism.org
info@combatantisemitism.org
Email: sacha@combatantisemitism.org
Tel: +1- 646 417 4046
www.combatantisemitism.org
info@combatantisemitism.org
Email: sacha@combatantisemitism.org
Tel: +1- 646 417 4046
EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth)
PO Box 66366
Washington, DC 20035
https://emetonline.org
Sarah Stern, Founder
PO Box 66366
Washington, DC 20035
https://emetonline.org
Sarah Stern, Founder
HonestReporting.com
165 East 56th Street, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10022-2709
Tel: 1-847-745-8284
E-mail: action@honestreporting.com
165 East 56th Street, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10022-2709
Tel: 1-847-745-8284
E-mail: action@honestreporting.com
NCJA (National Conference of Jewish Affairs)
90 Washington Valley Road, Suite 1261
Bedminster, NJ 07921
www.conservativehq.com
Attn: Rabbi Aryeh Spero
90 Washington Valley Road, Suite 1261
Bedminster, NJ 07921
www.conservativehq.com
Attn: Rabbi Aryeh Spero
The Exodus Movement, founded by Elizabeth Pipko for “proud Jewish Americans who reject the hypocrisy, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism of the rising far-left.”
Elizabeth Pipko, founder and president of The Exodus Movement.
The Exodus Movement
740 South Mill Avenue, #200
Tempe, AZ 85281
www.theexodusmovement.com
Elizabeth Pipko, Founder
https://theexodusmovement.com
740 South Mill Avenue, #200
Tempe, AZ 85281
www.theexodusmovement.com
Elizabeth Pipko, Founder
https://theexodusmovement.com
The Lawfare Project
633 3rd Avenue, Fl 21
New York, NY 10017-8157
https://www.thelawfareproject.org/
Brooke Goldstein, Founder/Director
633 3rd Avenue, Fl 21
New York, NY 10017-8157
https://www.thelawfareproject.org/
Brooke Goldstein, Founder/Director
PRIMER- Promoting Responsibility in Middle East ReportingP.O. Box 0591
West Hartford, CT 06137-0591
http://primerct.org/index.php?content=index&title=PRIMER-Connecticut
West Hartford, CT 06137-0591
http://primerct.org/index.php?content=index&title=PRIMER-Connecticut
info@primerct.org
Founder: Alan Stein
Founder: Alan Stein
President, Mark Fishman
http://www.jewishledger.com/2014/07/primer-israel-advocacy-in-good-times-and-bad/
http://www.jewishledger.com/2014/07/primer-israel-advocacy-in-good-times-and-bad/
Stop Anti-Semitism,org
https://www.stopantisemitism.org/
Features Anti-Semite of the Month and Anti-Semite of the Year
Contact: Liora Rez at Liora@stopantisemitism.org.
https://www.stopantisemitism.org/
Features Anti-Semite of the Month and Anti-Semite of the Year
Contact: Liora Rez at Liora@stopantisemitism.org.
Understanding the Threat
Provides tools to leaders, police and citizens to identify and dismantle jihadi/terrorist networks in their local communities.
P.O. Box 190772
Dallas, TX 75219
www.UnderstandingtheThreat.com
Founder: John Guandolo
Provides tools to leaders, police and citizens to identify and dismantle jihadi/terrorist networks in their local communities.
P.O. Box 190772
Dallas, TX 75219
www.UnderstandingtheThreat.com
Founder: John Guandolo
ZOA (Zionist Organization of America)
633 Third Avenue, Suite 31-B
New York, NY 10017
https://zoa.org
Morton Klein, President
633 Third Avenue, Suite 31-B
New York, NY 10017
https://zoa.org
Morton Klein, President
© 2019 Joan Swirsky – All Rights Reserved
E-Mail Joan Swirsky: joanswirsky@gmail.com
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