The Most Important Video of 2020 - Frontpagemag.com

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The Left calls for terror - on videotape.

Below is  The Most Important Video of 2020. It answers the crucial question: Did the Left call for domestic terror?

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Rich White Leftists Encourage Black People to Loot Their Neighborhoods - Daniel Greenfield

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by Daniel Greenfield

Learn why private property is just a social construct for only 21 bucks.

A hardcover copy of "In Defense of Looting" will run you 21 bucks at Amazon and 28 bucks at Barnes and Noble. That’s just how capitalism works for the distribution and sales of a product from one of the biggest publishing companies in the world that’s part of the Lagardère empire.

Why is the largest publishing company in France pushing what Publishers Weekly called, “a provocative, Marxist-informed defense of looting” to Americans? Because it makes money.
Learn why private property is just a social construct for only 21 bucks.

"In Defense of Looting" quickly ended up a major topic of conversation on social media. 

And that means Arnaud Lagardère, the head of the French empire that swallowed Little, Brown and Company, adds to his $220 million net worth and keeps the model he married, half his age, in the style she expects at his country estate. So what if a whole bunch of small businesses, many owned by immigrants and black people, get trashed and put out of business.

"In Defense of Looting" was published by Bold Type Books, a Lagardère subsidiary imprint in partnership with what used to be Nation Books. The Nation, a hard lefty magazine, is partly owned by Katrina vanden Heuvel, the daughter of an MCA heiress who was worth over $38 million when she jumped out of her apartment window.

And then there's Vicky Osterweil, the author of “In Defense of Looting”, who graduated magna cum laude from Cornell, where he tried to make his own movie, before moving to Brooklyn to live out the hipster dream of playing in a punk rock band while aspiring to become a novelist. 

Two years later he was being profiled in the New York Times attending an Upper East Side party. Such are the hobbies of the worthless dilettante brats of the New Left.

The son of a professor and a producer from a wealthy suburb of Boston, Willie, his original name joined the Park Slope Food Coop, and scribbled terrible movie reviews, “capitalism is built on the bones of the witch, her magic the first threat against capitalist rationalization”, followed by equally terrible leftist screeds for The Paris Review, Jacobin and The Nation. In 2011, he was in Barcelona, taking part in protests there as training for his work on Occupy Wall Street. 

Fast forward to the present, Willie had married Sophie Lewis, a British lesbian feminist who has two degrees from Oxford, had translated “Communism for Kids”, and had her own book “Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family”, which attacked the existence of the family. Willie, her new “wusband”, now appeared to be Vicky Osterweil. 

The happy young white couple both had major books with radical Marxist premises.

Sophia was calling for the elimination of the family and Vicky was defending looting. And the upscale couple was doing it in the name of destroying capitalism.

"Want to Dismantle Capitalism? Abolish the Family," The Nation headlined a review of her book.

All of this made marriage a little awkward, but there was nothing that couldn’t be overcome. 

A splashy Vice profile mentions that at their wedding, instead of vows, the happy couple gave speeches disavowing the institution of marriage and the biological family.

And then they headed to Boston where Willie's mother wanted a more traditional wedding.

You can disavow the institution of marriage, but you’re still going to get married. And you can write a book attacking the existence of the biological family, but when your ‘wusband’s mommy wants a traditional wedding she can invite her friends to, you drop the nonsense and go.

It’s unknown what Sophia’s parents, journalists who had given birth to her in Vienna and raised her in Switzerland and France, places that speak to her oppressed background, thought.

Sophia might be gay and Vicky might be transgender but they were a conventional enough couple living the hipster dream in a gentrified area of West Philly, and touting a gift certificate to an antique shop that they had received as a wedding present. The sort of thing you do when you’re trying to smash capitalism, and abolish the family along with private property.

Right after you get married and pick up something nice at the antique shop.

The Black Lives Matter riots and the looting trashed parts of West Philly, but it doesn't seem to have done much to disturb their idyllic world of community gardens, social justice yoga studios and punk hair salons. And even if it did, unlike their proprietors, Vicky and Sophia can move on.

The ugly truth about Marxist capitalism-smashing hipsters is that they are the least exposed to the consequences of their theories. When a third of Philly pharmacies were robbed in a coordinated campaign by gangs coming in from outside the city, it had a major impact on black senior citizens getting their prescriptions, but not on an upscale white hipster power couple.

Spending your twenties and thirties deconstructing everything is the luxury of the upper class. It’s the hobby of people who don’t really have jobs or a family depending on them for support. That’s why the deconstruction is fundamentally unserious. After writing a book calling for the abolition of the family, Vicky and Sophia got married. Vicky’s living in West Philly where the riots and the looting are going on, shopping for antiques, and writing a book in defense of looting.

As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness." 

A generation of upscale leftists is smashing up everything while knowing that they can retreat to the pricey suburbs that spawned them, to their country estates and condos, while the chaos and destruction happen to someone else. Tom might be calling himself Thomasina and Daisy might be calling herself a lesbian, but they’re still playing games and amusing themselves at other people’s expense in the vast carelessness of theoretical reasons for destroying it all.

Willie/Vicky originally wrote an article titled “In Defense of Looting” in 2014 during the Ferguson riots filled with 1619 Project style nonsense like "American police forces evolved out of fugitive slave patrols", while insisting that, "the idea of private property is just that: an idea."

Of course every idea is an idea. Including the sacrosanct nature of human life and liberty.

Dismissing fundamental concepts on which your existence depends as mere ideas is a privilege. Violence, disorder, and chaos can take away that privilege and show their value.

Leftists deconstruct everything until they realize how badly they need those ideas. But it takes far longer for them to be affected by the destruction than the poorer and more vulnerable people whose lives have been turned upside down for a sensational new talking point at one of Katrina vanden Heuvel’s fashionable parties. 

While countless small businesses have been destroyed, Amazon’s business model is booming. 

The massive corporation, where many lefties will be shopping for copies of “In Defense of Looting” doubled its quarterly profits. Amazon controls 38% of the e-commerce market and when Black Lives Matter looters burn their way through neighborhoods, more retail moves away and goes online. Small business owners decide that it’s better to be a third party seller for a massive corporation than to try and keep going during the lockdowns and race riots.

Amazon can make money from “In Defense of Looting” and from the actual looting.

The small businesses that Vicky Osterweil ridicules provide their owners with some measure of independence. The looters turn them into subjects of the same sort of massive corporate monopoly that Osterweil claims to hate, yet ultimately champions and makes his money from.

Osterweil preaches in defense of looting in the name of the black community. But the death of small businesses hits black communities hardest. Shopping online is a lot easier if you have a credit card or a checking account. Portions of the black community have neither. Wiping out street retail in urban areas not only guts neighborhoods, it turns retail into wealth privilege.

Upscale areas will still have street level retail once the Black Lives Matter riots die down. But the poorer black areas hardest hit by them won’t. The white leftists promoting looting will still have their quaint cafes, punk hair salons and social justice yoga studios that Vicky and Sophie rave about, they’ll also have local supermarkets like Whole Foods, owned by Amazon, groceries, restaurants, boutiques, coffee shops, and the rest of the hipster detritus of gentrification. 

That’s because they have the money and spend the money to make street retail profitable.

When the rioting is done, there will be burned out neighborhoods ripe for real estate speculators to move in, renovate, and peddle to the wealthy white hipsters who want to live there. 

Promote enough looting and you too can cash in when the market is right.

There is more than one kind of looting. There are the organized gangs smashing up Philly pharmacies and heading away in vans and trucks. There’s the Soros DA who lets crime happen. And there are the professional white activists who keep shouting Black Lives Matter while promoting the destruction of black neighborhoods to sell their books on Amazon.

While Vice lavishly promotes looting and Marxist deconstructionism as radical chic, its parent company is partly owned by Disney, a private equity firm, and Soros Fund Management. 

The street looting is paralleled by an even more massive looting at the top with hipster Marxist deconstructionists as ideological foot soldiers in the trashing of America. Some of the biggest social justice corporations in the country are funding the attacks on capitalism and the country.

Meanwhile in August, Soros Fund Management raised its stake in Amazon by 102%.


Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/rich-white-leftists-are-encouraging-black-people-daniel-greenfield/

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IAEA: Iran's enriched uranium at more than 10 times the limit - Elad Benari

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by Elad Benari

UN's nuclear watchdog says that Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium stands at more than ten times the limit set down in 2015 deal.

The UN's nuclear watchdog said on Friday that Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium now stands at more than ten times the limit set down in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, AFP reports.

The limit was set at 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of enriched uranium in a particular compound form, which is the equivalent of 202.8 kg of uranium.

Measured against the latter figure, Iran's stockpile now stands at over 2,105 kg, the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.

Meanwhile, the watchdog also said that Iran had granted its inspectors access to one of two sites where undeclared nuclear activity may have taken place in the early 2000s.

"Iran provided Agency inspectors access to the location to take environmental samples," the report seen by AFP said.

"The samples will be analyzed by laboratories that are part of the Agency's network," it added.

An inspection at the second site will take place "later in September 2020 on a date already agreed with Iran," the report said.

Last week, an agreement was reached between Iran and the IAEA to allow the agency's inspectors access to two requested locations inside Iran.

The agreement followed a recently released IAEA report in which the agency expressed "serious concern" that Iran has been blocking inspections at two sites where past nuclear activity may have occurred.

The agency has for months been pressing Tehran for information about the kind of activities being carried out at an undeclared site where the uranium particles were found.

While the IAEA has not identified the site in question, it is believed to be the Turquzabad facility which was identified by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his address before the UN General Assembly in 2018 as a "secret atomic warehouse."

Iran has gradually scaled back its compliance with the 2015 deal in response to US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement in May of 2018.


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Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/286620

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Invitations to Voter Fraud in 2020 - Joseph Klein

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by Joseph Klein

California is Exhibit A - while key battleground states are also at risk.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter identification law, the Court observed that “flagrant examples” of voter fraud “have been documented throughout this Nation’s history by respected historians and journalists.” As the National Commission on Federal Election Reform stated in its 2005 bipartisan report, the problem “is not the magnitude of voter fraud. In close or disputed elections, and there are many, a small amount of fraud could make the margin of difference.” The report noted that “[I]nvalid voter files, which contain ineligible, duplicate, fictional, or deceased voters, are an invitation to fraud.”

California, the nation’s leading sanctuary state for illegal aliens, has opened the door to unprecedented opportunities for such voter fraud – and that’s even before California’s use of universal mail-in voting that the state is putting into place this year for the general election. While California is virtually certain not to be a close contest between President Trump and Joe Biden, California’s broken voting system illustrates what can go wrong across the country where the margins of votes between the candidates may be very slim indeed.

A Facebook post in November 2018 stated that 449,000 Californians turned down jury duty claiming they were not citizens. The post went on to say that these non-citizens were on the voter registration list, reasoning that prospective jurors are often culled from voter registration lists.

Left leaning commentators have questioned the accuracy of this post, claiming that Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) records are the primary source for the state to identify prospective jurors. Registrars of voter data are used as a secondary source, they argue. Such criticisms miss the forest for the trees when it comes to California and other states where DMV and voter registration databases are electronically linked. Voter registration data are transferred from DMVs to state voter registration systems. Even if DMV records are the primary source for these states to identify prospective jurors, it doesn't matter because there is a significant overlap with the voter registration data systems. The DMV driver licensing process is used to generate automatic registration data that feed the voter registration data systems.

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles automatically registers people to vote. California allows illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses. Add them to California's population of legal immigrants who can obtain driver licenses – none of whom are eligible to vote in federal elections - and there is a large pool of non-U.S. citizens who may be registered to vote anyway. This is an invitation to fraud. California officials have admitted, for example, that they had to investigate whether ineligible individuals who were erroneously registered to vote by the Department of Motor Vehicles cast ballots in the June 2018 primary.

California is not an isolated case of a state linking DMV with voter registration. At least 36 states “currently or will soon have fully or substantially electronic voter registration at DMVs,” according to a 2019 report by the Brennan Center for Justice. These include the battle ground states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. 

Colorado, like California, permits illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses. Minnesota and Michigan are considering such legislation. 

States that do not allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses but have electronic links between DMV and voter registration systems still have a problem with legal immigrants who can obtain driver licenses. These non-U.S. citizens may become automatically registered to vote even though they  are not eligible to vote in federal elections. This has happened in Pennsylvania, for example. The door is then open for these non-U.S. citizens who are legally in this country to vote illegally.

The problem with ineligible voters is much larger than just automatic voter registration at the DMV. Some states have failed to comply with federal law mandating them to maintain accurate voter rolls and remove inactive voter registrations from their records. 

On January 3, 2019, California and Los Angeles County settled a case brought by the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, requiring them to purge as many as 1.5 million inactive voter registrations across the state in compliance with federal law. L.A. County alone allegedly had a voter registration rate of 112 percent of its adult citizen population.

California was not the only state settling with Judicial Watch over the issue of voter registration records. Ohio, a key battle ground state, also settled. 

Judicial Watch has also brought a lawsuit this year against Pennsylvania for failing to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible voters from their rolls as required by federal law. Judicial Watch alleged that Pennsylvania has over 800,000 “inactive” registrations on its voter rolls. 

Pennsylvania, like Ohio, is a key battleground state. President Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by 0.7 percentage points (44,292 votes). Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wondered whether Pennsylvania state and local officials, many of whom are Democrats, “want to be able to steal elections.” 

Judicial Watch also filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties for failing to clean their voter rolls. North Carolina is also a battleground state.

“In June 2019, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) released data,” Judicial Watch said in its press release announcing the lawsuit, “showing that voter registration rates in a significant proportion of North Carolina’s 100 counties are close to, at or above 100% of their age-eligible citizenry – statistics considered by the courts to be a strong indication that a jurisdiction is not taking the steps required by law to remove ineligible registrants." Judicial Watch President Fitton said that “Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections, and Judicial Watch must insist that North Carolina follows federal law to clean up its voting rolls.”

On top of out-of-date and inaccurate voter registration rolls within a single state, there is no comprehensive coordination among all the states to eliminate duplicate voter registrations in more than one state. Such multistate voter registration duplications, according to the National Commission on Election Reform, “are a source of potential fraud.” 

Imagine the potential for fraud in this year’s general election, particularly in the states where ballots are being mailed directly to all voters. At least nine states fall into that category. 

In addition to California sending out ballots automatically to all voters for the first time, Nevada – a battleground state – is also doing so for the first time in a rushed fashion. In 34 additional states, absentee voting is allowed for all voters – no excuse required. 

Absentee ballot applications are being sent to all voters for the first time in at least 8 states. Three of them - Iowa, New Mexico and Wisconsin - are battleground states. 

According to a New York Times analysis, “At least three-quarters of all American voters will be eligible to receive a ballot in the mail for the 2020 election — the most in U.S. history.” Who knows how many of those receiving ballots in the mail are ineligible to vote but will send in their ballots anyway to be counted?

Back in 2005, the National Commission on Federal Election Reform warned that voting by mail is “likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections.” That was at a time when voting by mail was still in its early stages across the country.

The 2020 general election will encounter unprecedented risks of fraud and of contested elections. It’s inevitable considering the widespread reliance on universal mail-in voting and the festering problem of inaccurate, out of date voter registration rolls. Hold on tight. We’re likely to be in for a rough ride. 

Joseph Klein

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/invitations-voter-fraud-2020-joseph-klein/

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Iran: "American Soil is Now Within the Range of Iranian Bombs" - Majid Rafizadeh

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by Majid Rafizadeh

For Iran's ruling mullahs, compromises and appeasement means weakness. The more the international community gives the mullahs, the more the regime apparently feels empowered to pursue its malign behavior.

• One day after the United Nations Security Council voted in favor of lifting the arms embargo on Iran, for instance, the ruling mullahs unveiled a ballistic missile that reportedly can reach the United States.
• The report [by Iran's state-controlled Afkar News] boasted about the damage that the Iranian regime could inflict on the US: "By sending a military satellite into space, Iran now has shown that it can target all American territory; the Iranian parliament had previously warned [the US] that an electromagnetic nuclear attack on the United States would likely kill 90 percent of Americans."
• The report also threatened the EU, which voted in favor of lifting the arms embargo against Iran: "The same type of ballistic missile technology used to launch the satellite could carry nuclear, chemical or even biological weapons to wipe Israel off the map, hit US bases and allies in the region and US facilities, and target NATO even in the far west of Europe."
• For Iran's ruling mullahs, compromises and appeasement means weakness. The more the international community gives the mullahs, the more the regime apparently feels empowered to pursue its malign behavior.

Iran has unveiled a ballistic missile that reportedly can reach the United States. The headline of a report by Iran's state-controlled Afkar News read, "American Soil Is Now Within the Range of Iranian Bombs". Pictured: A ballistic missile on display during a military parade marking the annual National Army Day in Tehran, on April 18, 2019. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Those who advocate pursuing a policy of appeasement toward the ruling mullahs as a means of changing the Iranian regime's behavior fail to understand that the more the international community will give the mullahs, the more Tehran will become belligerent and emboldened. One day after the United Nations Security Council voted in favor of lifting the arms embargo on Iran, for instance, the ruling mullahs unveiled a ballistic missile that reportedly can reach the United States.

The headline of a report by Iran's state-controlled Afkar News read in Farsi, "American Soil Is Now Within the Range of Iranian Bombs". The report boasted about the damage that the Iranian regime could inflict on the US:

"By sending a military satellite into space, Iran now has shown that it can target all American territory; the Iranian parliament had previously warned [the US] that an electromagnetic nuclear attack on the United States would likely kill 90 percent of Americans."

The report also threatened the EU, which voted in favor of lifting the arms embargo against Iran:

"The same type of ballistic missile technology used to launch the satellite could carry nuclear, chemical or even biological weapons to wipe Israel off the map, hit US bases and allies in the region and US facilities, and target NATO even in the far west of Europe."

The Trump administration attempted to re-impose international sanctions on Iran after the UN rejected extending the arms embargo. Those are the four rounds of UN sanctions that were in place before the Obama administration and the Iranian regime supposedly reached the JCPOA nuclear deal, which Tehran never signed. When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted to trigger the snapback, however, 13 of the 15 countries that are members of the Security Council wrote letters expressing their opposition to the US proposal and to the re-imposition of international sanctions against Iran. The opponents included longtime transatlantic allies and partners of the US, including France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium.

This is not the first time that the Iranian regime has become more aggressive after the international community pursued policies of appeasement with the mullahs. Recall when, upon the JCPOA's agreement, former President Barack Obama pointed out that he was "confident" that the lifting of sanctions and the nuclear deal would "meet the national security needs of the United States and our allies"? It was even outlined in the JCPOA preamble that all signatories -- which, again, Iran was not -- "anticipate that full implementation of this JCPOA will positively contribute to regional and international peace and security." What, though, was the outcome?

The international community witnessed a greater propensity for Yemeni Houthi rockets launched at civilian targets, the deployment of Hezbollah foot-soldiers in Syria, and increasing attacks by the Iranian-funded Hamas into southern Israel. With billions of dollars of revenue pouring into the pockets of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Tehran did not change its behavior for the better. Instead, it became more empowered and emboldened to pursue its revolutionary ideals of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. Iran became, according to the US Department of State, "the world's worst state sponsor of terrorism."

At the peak of these appeasement policies towards the mullahs during the Obama Administration, Iran was emboldened to publicly harass the US Navy, detained US sailors and imprisoned American citizens. Khamenei also repeatedly threatened "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" and made incendiary remarks about wiping Israel from the face of earth "in less than 8 minutes."

As the international community gave the regime more, Iran intensified test-firing its ballistic missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, an act in clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231:

"Paragraph 3 of Annex B of resolution 2231 (2015) calls upon Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology."

After each act of appeasement towards the ruling mullahs, the regime also ratcheted up its domestic repression and human rights violations as well. According to Human Rights Watch, after the JCPOA "nuclear deal" and after sanctions were lifted, Iran escalated the imprisonment and executions of human rights and political activists. The regime became "the top executioner of women and holds the record on per capita executions in the world" and, according to Amnesty International, the world's leading executioner of juveniles.

For Iran's ruling mullahs, compromises and appeasement means weakness. The more the international community gives the mullahs, the more the regime apparently feels empowered to pursue its malign behavior.

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Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US foreign policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16437/iran-us-bomb-target

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Fitzgerald Video: California Schools - 'Become a Leftist or Drop Out' - Sean Fitzgerald

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by Sean Fitzgerald

The push to make leftist activism a requirement for graduation in the state of California.

Frontpagemag Editor's note: Below is Sean Fitzgerald's new video, California Schools - 'Become A Leftist Or Drop Out', where Sean reveals the push to make leftist activism a requirement for graduation in the state of California.  

The video was created in conjunction with the Freedom Center's Stop K-12 Indoctrination campaign. To read our pamphlet on this issue, "Leftist Indoctrination in Our K-12 Public Schools," click here or order your own copy here.

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Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/fitzgerald-video-california-schools-become-leftist-sean-fitzgerald/

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Democrats Destroy America, Blame Trump - Veronika Kyrylenko

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by Veronika Kyrylenko

The Democrat-organized protests that ran amok are now badly backfiring. Democrats are trying to save themselves the only way they know how.

Three hot summer months following the killing of George Floyd, whose name is challenging to remember, for top Democrats, have mutilated the faces of many once beautiful American cities. A call for racial justice has been supported by the vast majority of Americans. The national protests demanding "Justice for Floyd," however, very quickly deteriorated into chaos and anarchy that inevitably led to the murder of Americans, which was celebrated by the domestic terrorists from Antifa, who march to their goal — "no USA at all" — over the dead American bodies. Chicago that has not had a Republican mayor since 1927, sets a murder rate anti-record in one single day. New York, once a symbolic city of freedom, limitless opportunities, and American Dream that mesmerized and inspired the world, witnesses a mass exodus of people and businesses due to crime, high taxes, and shutdowns. Defunded police departments and vilified police officers — a "rotten cancer," per the radical left — that have suffered assaults and murders is a rapidly thinning blue line that protects law-abiding citizens. In turn, the law-abiding citizens executing their Second Amendment rights in times when a call to 911 goes to a voicemail face felony charges, like the St. Louis couple and Kyle Rittenhouse. 

America is being destroyed from within, as once warned by Abraham Lincoln, at a fast pace and in cold blood. The mayhem that swept across blue-city America has been narrated by the Democrats and leftist elite as "peaceful protests" this whole time, until very recently. The Democrats praised the "young people across the country, who put themselves out on the line to make a difference," donated money to BLM and similar organizations, bailed out of jail criminals (as did the Democrat [vice] presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, and the staff of that old man who drags her down did); called the violence a myth; and viciously vilified, censored, shamed, and harassed all those on the other side. All we've seen was nothing but a wonderful and much needed purifying pyre that was supposed to burn down a rotten, racism-ridden America that was supposed to reborn into a land of tolerance and racial justice. The leftists promise that if we destroy our home (shyly withholding the fact that some of its residents will be buried under the ruins), the reeking and smoking pile of burned concrete on its place will in fact be a lavish mansion.

During the four days of the Democratic National Convention, not a single word was said to condemn the violence. Instead, a gloomy and ominous atmosphere of anti-Americanism prevailed. America was again and again called racist, unjust, misogynist, and a dangerous place. Not a word was said to pin violence on Trump — because the old narrative was still in place that there was no violence.

But the Democrats either miscalculated or completely ignored the basic human feeling of self-preservation. They also went too far in their "black lives matter" hypocrisy. Outrage over the death of one black man has already cost hundreds of black lives and livelihoods across the country. The leftist notion voiced by CNN's Don Lemon that they focus their concerns exclusively on those black lives that are taken by the police, and if you care about other black lives, then "go ahead and start your own movement" did not age well as the major protest-ridden cities saw a sharp spike in homicides and other felonies. The public support for the protests began to dip, and the violent crime became a major issue on the verge of the November election.

In that tricky situation, the Democrats who try to balance between backing up protests and condemning violence have quickly flip-flopped and found a focal point, as expected, in blaming Donald Trump. "Remember: every example of violence Donald Trump decries has happened on his watch. Under his leadership. During his presidency," – appeared on Joe Biden's Tweeter. After weeks of being accused by Trump of supporting destructive protests, Biden and other Democratic leaders have finally made a point to denounce the destruction in Kenosha, Wis. "Burning down communities is not protest, it's needless violence," Biden said. "Violence that endangers lives. Violence that guts businesses and shutters businesses that serve the community. That's wrong."

As reported by the Hill, that sentiment was echoed by other Democratic leaders, including former president Barack Obama, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), and Oregon governor Kate Brown (D), who has dealt with months of protests in Portland. "I condemn violence in Portland ... [a]nd I challenge Donald Trump to do the same," Biden added recently, as numerous media outlets suggest ongoing protests gone out of control boost Trump's chances of reelection.

How Joe can challenge Trump to follow Joe's lead in condemning violence is truly mind-blowing. Trump and his administration, along with House Republicans, constantly call for the local Democrat governments to stop crime in their cities. Trump's daily pleas to the Democrat mayors and governors to allow the National Guard to restore law and order fall on deaf ears. In late July, the mayors of 15 major cities, including Chicago, Portland, D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Baltimore, rejected deployment of federal forces.

Following their propaganda guru Joseph Goebbels, who claimed that "if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it," the Democrats all of a sudden have noticed that the unrest is causing people lots of trouble, and Joe Biden is on his back foot on it. Not surprisingly, Democrats refuse to take responsibility and call out the Democrats in charge of the riot-tormented cities. Thus, Joe Biden's deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, blames President Trump for "[t]rying to incite violence this entire summer." Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) blasted the president's scheduled visit to Kenosha, Wis.: "I think his visit has one purpose and one purpose only, that is to agitate things and make things [worse]," she said. House intelligence chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) echoed Bass's sentiment: "The president is willfully fanning the flames of this fire[.] ... [H]e sees this violence and his ability to agitate more of it as useful to this campaign. What it does to the country, the loss of life, he doesn't care." It's like saying Trump doesn't care about the economy — his main and most valuable achievement — and then blaming him for "running economy into the ground," as Kamala Harris stated — all while the Democrats did everything to obstruct the business reopening in their states.

The Democrat-organized protests that ran amok are now badly backfiring. There is excessive evidence of how left-wing thugs destroy everything around themselves. They are very inclusive, we must give them that — they rarely discriminate against their victims based on skin color or political affiliation. It is not Trump's America they are destroying. It is the people's America. What will be built in its place is described in the Biden-Sander manifesto, a far-left statement of doctrine Karl Marx would applaud.

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Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/democrats_destroy_america_blame_trump_.html

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The Real Palestinian Tragedy - Khaled Abu Toameh

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by Khaled Abu Toameh

Puzzlingly, Palestinian leaders have plenty of time to castigate the UAE, but no time at all to comment on the systematic abuse and killing of Palestinians in Syria and Iraq.

• Unlike their leaders, however, the Palestinians living in Syria and Iraq do not appear to be worried about the Israel-UAE accord. These Palestinians have more existential concerns -- such as providing shelter for their children and safe drinking water for their families. They are disturbed about the homes they have lost, and they are in a state of anguish about fate of their missing sons.
• The Palestinian families complained that the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations, including the United Nations, have refused to assist them in their search for their beloved ones.
• Palestinian writer Nabil Al-Sahli said that the 4,000 Palestinians who remain in Iraq are facing an "ongoing tragedy." He said that according to some studies, at least 20,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Iraq to 40 countries around the world because of the "massacres" committed against them by sectarian militias.
• By extreme contrast [to Syria and Iraq], the UAE and other Gulf states have long opened their doors to Palestinians and provided them with jobs and high living standards. Puzzlingly, Palestinian leaders have plenty of time to castigate the UAE, but no time at all to comment on the systematic abuse and killing of Palestinians in Syria and Iraq. For the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the true tragedy is when an Arab expresses willingness to make peace with Israel.

In Syria, since the beginning of the civil war there in 2011, 4,048 Palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded. Tens of thousands of others have fled their homes, some to other areas in Syria and others to neighboring Arab countries and Europe. Pictured: The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, near Damascus, on May 22, 2018, days after Syrian government forces regained control over the camp. (Photo by Louai Beshara/AFP via Getty Images)

Palestinian leaders are so committed to condemning the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for its normalization agreement with Israel that they have no time left to notice the horrific suffering of their people in some Arab countries, particularly Syria and Iraq. Specifically, these leaders seem unperturbed that in some in Arab countries, Palestinians are mysteriously disappearing.

Unlike their leaders, however, Palestinians living in Syria and Iraq do not appear to be worried about the Israel-UAE accord. These Palestinians have more existential concerns -- such as providing shelter for their children and safe drinking water for their families. They are disturbed about the homes they have lost, and they are in a state of anguish about fate of their missing sons.

In the past two weeks, leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have focused their attention mainly on the Israel-UAE deal and how to persuade other Arab states from following in the UAE's footsteps.

Peace between Israel and the UAE, nevertheless, seems to be the last thing on the mind of the Palestinians residing in Syria.

In Syria, since the beginning of the civil war there in 2011, 4,048 Palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded. Tens of thousands of others have fled their homes, some to other areas in Syria and others to neighboring Arab countries and Europe.

In addition, 1,797 Palestinians have been detained by the Syrian authorities and are being held in harsh conditions, while another 333 have gone missing and their families know nothing about their fate.

While Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, at the behest of their leaders, were burning flags of the UAE and pictures of Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Zayed, hundreds of displaced Palestinian families were reported to be living in "dire humanitarian conditions" in tents in northern Syria.

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS) said that many of the families were forced to flee the tents because of the lack of basic services. "They face the intense summer heat, amid a lack of water," the group said. "Sometimes the camps lack drinking water for many days."

Last week, AGPS said it has documented the cases of 333 Palestinians (including 37 women) missing in Syria since the beginning of the civil war.

"Activists accused the pro-Syrian security agencies groups of carrying out kidnappings and arrests, either on the grounds that the missing person was wanted by the Syrian security forces, or for the sake of bargaining with the kidnapped person's relatives and demanding a ransom for his or her release."

The conditions of Palestinians in neighboring Iraq are also bad, even if not as bad as the unfortunate Palestinians living in Syria. In Iraq, too, Palestinians seem to be disappearing in mysterious circumstances.

Last week, several Palestinian families living in Iraq appealed to Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to reveal the fate of their sons who have been detained for many years without anyone knowing their place of detention or the circumstances of their incarceration. Some of the Palestinians have been in detention since 2005.

"We, the families of Palestinian detainees in Iraq who have been detained for many years, do not know anything about our sons' whereabouts," the families wrote in their letter to Kadhimi.

"We have visited many security departments and centers, but have not found any trace of them. We call on you to see the state of their families and the grief of their mothers, some of whom have died from mourning their sons. We ask you to kindly help us in this matter to find out what happened to our sons, and kindly to agree to meet with a number of families of these missing Palestinians to learn about their cause."

The Palestinian families complained that the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations, including the United Nations, have refused to assist them in their search for their beloved ones.

Mohammed Abu Omar, a Palestinian resident of Iraq, said that two members of his family have been missing since they were detained by the Iraqi security forces in 2005. "Two days after the arrest, we were asked to pay a $50,000 ransom," Abu Omar said. "We paid half the amount, so they released one of them and promised to release the second, who has since disappeared."

Palestinian writer Nabil Al-Sahli said that the 4,000 Palestinians who remain in Iraq are facing an "ongoing tragedy." He said that according to some studies, at least 20,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Iraq to 40 countries around the world because of the "massacres" committed against them by sectarian militias.

Al-Sahli said he expected the suffering of the Palestinians in Iraq to increase after the approval of the new Iraqi law that strips Palestinian refugees of their rights and classifies them as foreigners. The new law, enacted in 2018, replaced a 2001 law issued by Saddam Hussein that requires Iraq to treat Palestinians as equals to Iraqis, with all privileges and citizenship rights.

"Considering the popularity of the Palestinian cause, it is somewhat surprising that the plight of Palestinian refugees in Iraq is so severely under-reported," according to a study by The New Arab, a Qatar-funded website.

"After suffering more than a decade and a half of abuses, Palestinians who have been living in Iraq since the creation of Israel in 1948 are now seeking to leave their adoptive home to escape the torments they suffer on a daily basis."

The New Arab report pointed out that Palestinians have effectively been stripped of their identity and travel documents by successive Iraqi governments.

"Having been maligned as being 'Baathist loyalists', 'Saddam's favourites' and simply 'Sunnis', Palestinian refugees were heavily targeted by sectarian Shia militias in the wake of Saddam Hussein's regime. In 2003 alone, 344 Palestinian families were forcibly expelled from their homes by militias."

Palestinian leaders who are now accusing the UAE of "stabbing the Palestinians in the back" because it seeks to make peace with Israel might take note that Arab countries such as Iraq and Syria are not only stabbing the Palestinians in the back, but killing and wounding them, forcing them out of their homes, and making their sons "disappear".

By extreme contrast, the UAE and other Gulf states have long opened their doors to Palestinians and provided them with jobs and high living standards. Puzzlingly, Palestinian leaders have plenty of time to castigate the UAE, but no time at all to comment on the systematic abuse and killing of Palestinians in Syria and Iraq. For the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the true tragedy is when an Arab expresses willingness to make peace with Israel.

Palestinians in Syria and Iraq will continue to fear for their lives so long as their leaders prefer to derail peace agreements between Israel and the Arab countries rather than to rail against the persecution and killing of Palestinians in Arab states.

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Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem, is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at Gatestone Institute.

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16456/palestinian-tragedy

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Pure hypocrisy: Anti-Semitic Islamist Group CAIR decries Anti-Jewish Nation of Islam - Len Getz

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by Len Getz

They are banking on the willful blindness of their Jewish supporters

CAIR-Philadelphia Director Jacob Bender, pictured left, with CAIR-National Director Nihad Awad (at podium).

In a rare move, the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) joined a chorus of criticism aimed at a local black Muslim leader who posted anti-Semitic tropes to his social media. Rodney Muhammad, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a local Nation of Islam leader, shared an insulting image of a Jewish caricature on Twitter, with a caption explaining: "To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

"We need to unequivocally reject Anti-Semitism," CAIR-Philadelphia wrote in response on Facebook.

Rodney Muhammad's social media post echoes classic anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish world domination.

But less than 24 hours later, CAIR-Philadelphia Executive Director Jacob Bender – a Jewish American – co-wrote an article that contains an even more shameful anti-Semitic assault, falsely accusing American Jews of using the Holocaust to deflect criticism of Israel.

Even though the article was primarily about a spat between Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and Rep. Ted Yoho – a topic which has nothing to do with Israel -- Bender's anti-Semitism is so entrenched that he couldn't resist using the opportunity to make a grotesque accusation against American Jews. Bender wrote that Jewish Americans "will argue that slavery is dwarfed by the Holocaust," and engage in "counting the corpses competition."

"[W]ithin the American Jewish community, untold resources have been utilized in maintaining the priority of the Holocaust, where the Nazi Genocide is often employed as a weapon to delegitimize criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands and relabeling this criticism as anti-Semitism," he added.

The similarity between Rodney Muhammad's anti-Semitism and Bender statement is glaring. Both fallaciously accuse Jews of possessing overwhelming power, which they freely exploit to oppress, intimidate, and stamp out worldwide criticism of Jews and Israel.

Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes notes that Bender's assault on American Jews is "what you'd expect" from CAIR. For years, the Forum has documented and exposed anti-Semitism from the self-described Muslim civil advocacy organization.

While Bender makes it appear as if his only gripe with Israel is out of concern for the "human rights" of the Palestinian Arabs, he has gone on record as a CAIR leader expressing full support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement (BDS) which it's founder Omar Barghouti fully admits was founded to wipe Israel off the map.

Under the guise of Jewish-Muslim Rapprochment following the Chabad synagogue attack outside San Diego, Bender collectively slandered American Jews for not supporting the "BDS movement against Israel." In fact, Bender admits that he opposes the very existence of Israel, calling the idea of the Jewish state "a mythology about 'a people without a land for a land without people.'" To him, Israel resembles 1964 Mississippi and refers to the creation of the Jewish state as the Nakba, meaning "catastrophe."

As with Muhammad, Bender is echoing classic anti-Semitic tropes. According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an organization consisting of leading educators and academics from 34 member countries, examples of anti-Semitism include: "Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor"; and, "Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel." Thus, it is hard to take Bender's criticism of Muhammad seriously.

Bender's statement is in line with numerous other examples of CAIR's anti-Semitism. The organization urged supporters to lobby against the "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2019," legislation directing the Department of Education to adopt the same IHRA definition of anti-Semitism that the State Department embraced in 2016.

CAIR leaders have consistently claimed that Jews control the U.S. government, such as when CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad told a Muslim Students Association audience to consider the Jewish origin of many Clinton administration officials. In addition, the Muslim civil advocacy organization sought to widely distribute a version of the Koran approved by radical Wahhabi clerics, even though a Los Angeles school district banned it from local schools for being anti-Semitic.

The same bigotry exists at CAIR-Philadelphia, which has a history of downplaying anti-Semitism from local Islamists. When the Philadelphia branch of the Muslim American Society (MAS) uploaded a video of children singing, "We will chop off their heads and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque," Bender said the incident "was not an example of radicalization." MAS is a fellow Islamist organization tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, and it is difficult to imagine Bender giving similar latitude to, say, a white supremacist group.

When Imam Abdelimohsen Abouhaab delivered three anti-Semitic sermons at the Al Aqsa Mosque in North Philadelphia, not only was CAIR-Philadelphia silent about it, but it rewarded the mosque leader by hosting him at its upcoming banquet.

While CAIR has no issue denouncing anti-Jewish hate by white supremacists or the Nation of Islam – a black separatist, pseudo-Islamic religious movement – its members are reluctant to condemn the same offenses from Arab or South Asian Sunni Muslims. In a rare occurrence in 2018, CAIR-New Jersey denounced statements from an American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) official who repeated the classic anti-Semitic trope that Ashkenazi Jews are not ethnically Jewish. However, after experiencing pushback from AMP and its Islamist supporters, CAIR corrected its previous statement and insisted it "did not condemn" its close ally AMP.

It is easy to guess why CAIR would give a free pass to AMP, an allied Islamist organization which hails from the same pan-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood network as CAIR, while holding a Nation of Islam leader accountable for offenses that Bender and his colleagues commit with regularity. As with many African American Muslims, Nation of Islam members have been pushed to the social and political fringes by immigrant Islamist organizations. Economic disparities have been a source of ongoing tension between these co-religionists, and many American mosques are divided along lines of class and race.

CAIR consistently gives fellow Islamist organizations a free pass when it comes to anti-Semitism. So why does it hold the leader of a black Muslim group to a separate standard?

These divisions, as well as CAIR's undeniable hypocrisy when it comes to anti-Jewish bigotry, places the civil rights group in a poor position to lecture fellow Muslims about anti-Semitism.

Indeed, just five days after Muhammad's anti-Semitic tweet, the preacher's Nation of Islam congregation posted a message to Facebook accusing "Jewish scholars and Rabbis" of "using the Black Man and Woman as scapegoats for their own economic and political advancement." Another recent post blamed the August 23 police shooting of a black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on joint training between American and Israeli law enforcement.

More than a month after state leaders such as Governor Tom Wolf and Attorney General Josh Shapiro joined the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia in calling for Muhammad's resignation, the national NAACP announced plans to replace the chapter's current leadership. This is a great first step in recognizing the systemic anti-Semitism that permeates some local community organizations. However, Philadelphia leaders must be consistent in denouncing anti-Semitism, and they can start by taking a stand against CAIR for its own atrocious history of anti-Jewish hate.


Leonard Getz, CPA, is the Pennsylvania Counter-Islamist Grid Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum and a freelance writer. He is the author of the book "From Broadway to the Bowery"

Source: https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/61481/pure-hypocrisy-anti-semitic-islamist-cair-decries

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