The group’s new platform, and this false accusation, united American Jewish organizations and individuals—usually at odds—in outrage

BY YAIR ROSENBERG, TABLET
AUGUST 05, 2016

On Monday, an alliance of groups affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement unveiled their first official platform. The 40,000-word manifesto contained many recommendations, including concrete policy proposals, for rectifying the wrongs perpetrated against America’s African-American citizens in the past and present. Unfortunately, the platform also contained a vicious bigoted slur against the Jewish state, which the document’s foreign policy section accused of perpetrating “genocide” against Palestinians. (The platform also labeled Israel an “apartheid state” and joined with the BDS movement in calling for the total academic, cultural, and economic boycott of the country—a demand made for no other state.)

Needless to say, this did not go over well with Jewish groups—including some of Black Lives Matter’s hitherto staunch progressive allies. The rabbinic human rights organization T’ruah, which previously distributed original prayers for Black Lives Matter, and has run anti-occupation educational trips to Israel and the Palestinian territories for years, released a measured yet pointed response:
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Candace Owens is in a class by herself. She is the greatest truth-teller on the scene today. Very powerful.

She publishes this rant even though she knows or suspects it will hurt her BLEXIT CAMPAIGN.

WHAT A GREAT RANT.

These guys are very informed and articulate. A pleasure to listen to.

If coronavirus restrictions on religious services are enforced while anti-racism mass protests are allowed, are the lockdowns still valid? And has the rule of law vanished?

By Jonathan S. Tobin

The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that religious services were not exempt from government restrictions on free assembly in a pandemic. Only a few days later, what might have seemed like fair interpretation of the law may no longer seem quite so reasonable.

The government’s failure to cope with many of the mass protests and riots that followed the murder of an African-American man by a Minneapolis policeman has further undermined faith in the rule of law that had been rocked by the COVID-19 outbreak. The result is that the already shaky credibility of our elected leaders to navigate both of these crises seems to have evaporated.

The 5-4 ruling issued in the case of South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, stated that California’s rules prohibiting religious services during the coronavirus pandemic were not unconstitutional.

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By Dr. James M. Dorsey, BESA June 5, 2020C

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel resides at the cusp of the widening US-Chinese divide, as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent visit to Israel attests. Pompeo’s visit was for the express purpose of reminding Jerusalem that its dealings with Beijing jeopardize its relationship with Washington.

Israel knew the drill even before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boarded his flight to Tel Aviv in mid-May, four days after the death of his father. It was Pompeo’s first and only overseas trip since March.Echoing a US warning two decades ago that Israeli dealings with China jeopardized the country’s relationship with the US, Pompeo’s trip solidified Israel’s position at the cusp of the widening US-Chinese divide.

Two decades ago the issue was the potential sale to China of Israeli Phalcon airborne warning and control systems (AWACS). Israel backed out of the deal after the US threatened to withdraw American support for the Jewish state.

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By Hana Levi Julian, JEWISH EXPRESS

Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels patrol in Brooklyn. Dec. 29, 2019

The 66-year-old founder of the Guardian Angels organization, Curtis Sliwa and a newly-joined member of the group were both attacked and injured this week while “on the job” protecting stores from George Floyd rioters and looters after the start of the 8 pm curfew.

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One of the Guardian Angels guarding the @footlocker was struck in the face by a looter wielding a hammer.

Sliwa is a longtime law and order advocate whose top goal is to defend the community while maintaining order together with the members of his Guardian Angels team. They’re easy to spot with their red berets and jackets and although they all look like bikers, none of them are armed. They’ve patrolled the worst neighborhoods of the city and helped those in need since 1979, today in more than 130 cities across the United States and in places around the world as well.

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A site belonging to the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center is located in Masyaf and has been targeted by Israeli airstrikes in the past

JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 5, 2020

F-35 warplanes doing a flyover in 2018 in Israel. (photo credit: REUTERS)<

At least nine people were killed in alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted Syrian defense factories near the city of Masyaf in northwest Syria on Thursday night, according to Syrian reports.

Four of the dead were Syrian nationals, but it is unclear if they were Syrian soldiers or working for the Iranian forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The death toll is expected to rise due to the presence and condition of people wounded in the attacks, as well as reports of additional deaths.

Air defense systems were activated in Masyaf, west of Hama and loud explosions were heard in the region during the airstrikes. The official Syrian news agency SANA reported that a number of the incoming missiles were dropped.
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Snopes says the Manual is a hoax.  I believe them.

Antifa-Manual

David Nussbaum. This show has a number of excellent segments but IMHO the best occurs with a response to Mattis’ deplorable column in The Atlantic yesterday where Mattis, inter alia, called on members of the military to disobey illegal orders from the President. There is an absolutely brilliant rational and factual deconstruction of Mattis’ points by an individual who I did not know before. It lasts for about 4 minutes. It is located to the left of the middle of the program. If you move the red dot to the –47.5 point, you can watch this Mattis feature.  For some reason, the direction of the location is reversed so that the absolute value of the number reduces as you move the cursor to the right. Well worth it.

COMPARE WHAT I WROTE YESTERDAY WITH WHAT ROOT IS SAYING TODAY.

T. Belman. Antifa is not a grassroots movement. It is no different from the Nazi Brownshirts or Mussolini’s Blackshirts or Obama’s/Soros’ Occupy Wall Steet and ACORN. The focus should be on the people or political forces that instigate them or finance them or support them. The Left and not just the extreme left are complicit. The Democratic Party and the mainstream media supports these anarchist movements and shields them. You could see this in Charlottesville when Antifa came to our attention.

By Wayne Allyn Root, GATEWAY PUNDIT

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Mr. President, you’ve taken step one: Declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. That was a brilliant move. Now it’s time for step number two: Cut the head off the snake. We’ve got to move to aggressively cut off the funding of domestic terrorism.

Those who provide funding are terrorists themselves. Who is providing the funding? There are many suspects. Suspect number one is globalist billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundation. It starts there.

Is Soros guilty? That’s way above my pay grade. That’s why we need a global investigation. And indictments and a trial.

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It’s no surprise tempers are running short, but we can save this historic opportunity without making major changes to what the Trump administration has proposed.

By Moshe Koppel, ISRAEL HAYOM

Israel now has a historic opportunity to apply Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and settlements in Judea and Samaria. There are two purposes in applying Israeli law there: 1) to regulate and normalize life through unified, modern laws and to allow for long-term planning and 2) to make it clear that Israel is here for eternity.

According to the Trump plan, the application of Israeli law to some of the territory entails a construction freeze and the start of a process that could theoretically end with a Palestinian state. The plan is very good for Israel, but two steps must be taken to ensure that the blessing doesn’t turn into a curse.

The first step is for Israel and the US to sign a memorandum of understanding in which the US will promise to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state until the Palestinians fulfill all eight of the conditions of the Trump plan, which they will most likely never do. It is important to remember that Trump won’t always be president. Agreement on a map brings us closer to a Palestinian state without the conditions being fulfilled if a less friendly president moves into the White House. A signed memorandum might not bind the hands of another president, but American tradition would make it very hard for that president to ignore it. The memorandum must also include a US commitment to respond appropriately in the case of irreversible Palestinian violations of the plan, either on the ground or in the International Criminal Court.
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