The Humanitarian Hoax of Political Correctness: Killing America With Kindness – hoax #29  

by Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY

The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy. Political correctness is a humanitarian hoax. It is a deceitful end-run around the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech. This is how it works.

The freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution award citizens the right to disagree without fear of reprisal. American civil society is predicated upon the freedom to express disagreement, and is diametrically opposed to the politically correct demand for avoidance of language that might be offensive and hurt someone’s feelings.

The freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution do not care about anyone’s feelings – political correctness does. Political correctness is a severe prohibition on free speech disguised as courtesy.
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May 6, 2019 | 4:28 pm | 2 Comments »

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Apparent ceasefire takes effect after violent flare-up kills 4 Israelis, 23 Palestinians  

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Israeli airstrike hits Gaza City, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 90 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, according to the Israeli military, triggering retaliatory airstrikes and tank fire.

Israeli airstrike hits Gaza City, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 90 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, according to the Israeli military, triggering retaliatory airstrikes and tank fire.

IDF says Gaza militants fired 600 rockets at Israel since Saturday. Scroll down for live updates

After a deadly flare-up that saw four Israelis and 23 Palestinians — including at least nine members of militant groups — killed since Saturday morning, officials involved in Egyptian-led ceasefire efforts have said the parties reached an agreement early Monday morning.

Egypt brokered an agreement to cease hostilities from 4:30 am (0130 GMT) local time, an official from the strip’s Islamist rulers Hamas and another from its allied group Islamic Jihad told AFP on condition of anonymity. An Egyptian official also confirmed the deal on condition of anonymity.

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May 6, 2019 | 9:10 am | 22 Comments »

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Bolton: US deploying bombers to Middle East in warning to Iran  

US national security adviser says move is response to ‘a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings’.

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The United States is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to send a clear message to Iran that any attack on US interests or its allies will be met with “unrelenting force”.

Amid rising tensions between Washington and Tehran, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Sunday that the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to the US Central Command region was a response “to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings”.

“The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or regular Iranian forces,” Bolton said in a statement.

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May 6, 2019 | 8:55 am | 1 Comment »

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When the clocks strike 13 (George Orwell was prescient))  

T. Belman in Memo to Kushner I recomend that we empty Gaza of most Gazans and then annex it. Gaza has 1.7 million arabs of which 1.4 are refugees.

By Tabitha Korol

“It was a cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”  Thus began George Orwell’s prophetic novel, 1984, written forty years earlier, preparing the reader for a dystopian future under socialism – a society of great suffering and injustice, and bereft of reason.  This symbol of the thirteenth stroke brings into question what transpired through all the previous twelve hours, when inhumanity triumphed over our society, destroying our time and history itself.

In Orwell’s tale, words were constantly being removed from the language and history repeatedly revised so that the citizens could no longer formulate thoughts.  The character, Winston Smith, explains, “He who controls the past, controls the future.  He who controls the present controls the past.”   We live in similar times, perhaps not as dramatically, but certainly equally disturbing.   We are witness to ongoing destruction of our vocabulary, disintegration of the family unit, isolation and disorientation of the individual, demolition of historic monuments, whitewashed history, and a tampering of time, all combining to extinguish and remake our society.  The focus of this diminished schooling and re-education is our young.

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May 6, 2019 | 8:31 am | 1 Comment »

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The Future of American Jewry is Orthodox  

T. Belman. If a Jew knows nothing about Judaism and doesn’t care about being Jewish, why should he care about Israel? Why should he stand with the Jewish people?

By Martin Ingall, AMERICAN THINKER

The liberal American Jewish population is shrinking dramatically while Orthodoxy continues to grow. The American Jewish future is Orthodox.

For many years Orthodox Jews recognized, if begrudgingly, that the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements had appeal for Jews who were religiously uneducated or did not affirm Jewish law, or whose agnosticism meant discomfort with traditional Judaism.  To its own discredit, Orthodox Judaism still has not committed itself to discovering more welcoming models without comprising its principles.

There used to be many common values among Jews of all affiliations.  A love of Jewish culture, the bond of recent immigrants, clear support for Israel, common cause against anti-Semitism, a respect for ritual even if not practiced personally, and love of America for its liberty, acceptance and opportunity.  Little of this endures.
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May 6, 2019 | 1:02 am | 16 Comments »

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Islam: The Enemy of the Constitution  

By Amil Imani

Islam with its rule of Sharia presents an imminent threat to subvert and replace the Constitution that governs our lives.

Muslims are the only minorities in the world who will never submit to Western laws and in fact, they are the only minority who actively works around the clock to dismantle it. To Muslims, the highest US authority and document is considered a heresy. In a parallel attack, “Legal Islam “exploits every provision of the law in free societies to promote Islam and silence its critics through expensive legal shenanigans.

So, our Constitution and even State and local laws are essentially meaningless to a Muslim, and the Bill of Rights, once its usefulness as a means to perpetuate Islam in America is no longer necessary, will certainly be disparaged and ignored.

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May 5, 2019 | 6:03 pm | 1 Comment »

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Jordan’s King Sacks Intel Chief, Senior Officials Amid Plot Suspicions – Reports  

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Jordanian King Abdullah II delivers a speech at the parliament (file)

Jordanian King Abdullah II fired several senior officials, including the general intelligence chief over the past week following reports of a plot to destabilise the kingdom.

The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, citing anonymous sources, reported that several senior and influential Jordanian figures had conspired to hold a mass protest outside the royal palace in Amman to demonstrate a lack of public confidence in Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz and thereby create instability in the kingdom.

The Jordanian King replaced the director of the General Intelligence Department, General Adnan al-Jundi, who held one of the most influential positions in the country. The palace issued a statement stating that the king had decided to retire Jundi, replacing him with General Ahmed Husni, who has served in several senior intelligence posts.
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May 5, 2019 | 5:00 pm | 4 Comments »

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Live Updates Over 400 Gaza Rockets Fired at Israel; One Israeli Dead, Eight Palestinians Killed  

Rocket fire reaches Be’er Sheva ? Israel strikes 200 targets in Strip ? School cancelled across south ? Source denies cease-fire

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Iron Dome intercepts rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel, Ashkelon May 5, 2019.
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The conflict between Israel and Gaza factions entered its second day Sunday, after a night that saw the first Israeli fatality.

More than 400 rockets have so far been launched at Israel, as the Israeli army struck hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in the Strip.

One Israeli man and eight Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and her toddler were killed so far since tensions ratcheted up along the border on Friday. Three Israelis were wounded as rockets fell on the Israeli south on Saturday.

Schools were canceled across the south, and the Israeli army on Sunday said it expects the flare-up to continue in the coming days. Read more…

May 5, 2019 | 2:37 pm | 10 Comments »

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There is a provable case for “obstruction of Justice”…. Perpetrators are Andrew Weisman and Robert Meuller  

>Howard Laitin. The prosecutors offered Corsi  a plea deal in lieu of indicting him IF he  provided a  link to connect Roger Stone and Donald Trump to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The choice they gave Corsi was to plead guilty to one count with the prosecutors’ agreement they would seek no prison term, OR  to  reject their  deal and spend possibly $2 million that he did not have to defend himself in a federal criminal case  before a hostile Washington jury that he was sure to lose that would result in a 25-year prison term. Since Corsi was 72 years old at the time,  a prison term of that length would have meant he was likely to die in federal prison. THERE IS A PROVABLE CASE OF “OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE”…. THE PERPETRATORS ARE ANDREW WEISMANN AND ROBERT MUELLER

From:When prescience was a crime

By Jerome Corsi

Special counsel’s prosecutors became angry and abusive in my six sessions of interviews with them over a two-month period in September and October last year precisely because I failed to have the all-important link to connect Roger Stone and Donald Trump to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. There was, of course, no such link. (For more on this, see my new book “Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner to Mueller’s “Witch Hunt”.”)

Why were Mr. Mueller’s prosecutors so convinced they would lock and load their Russian collusion case with my testimony? Perhaps because in July and August 2016, when I was in Italy with my wife and family celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary, I figured out on my own that Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks had possession of the stolen emails from John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. I also speculated Mr. Assange would make these emails public in a serial, drip-by-drip fashion as that year’s October Surprise. When I came to these conclusions, I began communicating by email and phone regarding my suspicions.
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May 5, 2019 | 10:35 am | 2 Comments »

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UK Voters Exact Retribution for Dodging Brexit  

Tories have told Prime Minister May “to set a departure date next week.”

By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun | May 4, 2019

Brexit delayed is Brexit denied. Such logic fueled local elections in Britain, as voters exacted retribution for politicians’ refusal to discharge the people’s desire to exit the European Union and redeem UK independence. Hundreds of ballot papers were spoiled as variations of one word, embodying Britons’ one true choice, were scrawled across them. “Brexit.”

After the worst showing for Tories since John Major’s premiership — 1,334 seats lost and control of 44 English councils — Breitbart London reports that senior Tories have told Prime Minister May “to set a departure date next week.”

If she refuses, Conservatives’ backbench organization, the 1922 Committee, “could decide to change party rules to allow another no-confidence vote this year.” (A similar vote in December failed and, according to current party rules, 12 months must pass before holding another leadership challenge.)
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May 5, 2019 | 8:35 am | 3 Comments »

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300 ROCKETS FIRED FROM GAZA, IDF ATTACKS 100+ TARGETS IN RESPONSE  

Elderly woman severely wounded • IDF hits more than 120 targets in Gaza • Schools closed Sunday throughout the South

BY Anna Ahronheim, JPOST

Yael Nisinbaum reacts after house near the Gaza border was struck by a rocket on May 4, 2019

Israel appeared to be on the verge of a prolonged escalation of its conflict with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad after close to 300 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israeli communities on Saturday, striking several homes and leaving one elderly woman severely wounded by shrapnel.

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May 5, 2019 | 4:48 am | 2 Comments »

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Williams College Pro-Israel Group Denied Recognition  

T. Belman. This is what we are up against, lies, lies and more lies.  The exclusion policy was justified because “the pro-Israel lobby in the United States is both extremely well funded and politically influential. Thus, both practically and discursively, the state of Israel does not need a student group defending its ‘right to exist’ on this campus any more than we need to ‘defend’ the rights of wealthy, straight white men.” Talk about a bias. It’s not a matter of their need so much as it is a matter of our freedom of speech.  They are not the gate-keeper.

BY Aaron Bandler, JEWISH JOURNAL

A pro-Israel student group at Williams College, the private liberal arts college in Williamstown, MA, will not be recognized as a student club on campus.

In an April 23 meeting the Williams College Council voted 13-8 with one abstention against the Williams Initiative for Israel (WIFI), denying the group the required Registered Student Organization (RSO).

According to the college’s website, student groups are “not allowed to meet under the College name or receive/use College funding or resources” until they receive RSO status.
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May 4, 2019 | 7:27 am | 1 Comment »

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Liberal Media: Antisemitism’s sugar daddy.  

By Valerie Sobel

(On the heels of a Monday night protest in front of The New York Times headquarters in Manhattan, protesting NYT’s promotion of insidious antisemitism in a form of a cartoon.)

Liberal media’s Jew-hatred, blatant or obscured, occupies predominant lobe space in both the conscious and subconscious psyche of the general public. This is a result of systematic education of the populace: sometimes in the form of overtly racist hate-filled cartoons (New York Times’ April 25th, International edition), sometimes in the form of demonization of the only Jewish State on earth when it dares to defend itself.

More often, the unconscious bias training is in the form of slanderous loathing of PM Bibi Netanyahu, guising itself under “fair criticism” and “balanced reporting”. More often than that, front page news coverage affectionately calls Hamas militants strapped with explosives on Israeli borders…”protesters” or even “Palestinian civilians”. Just look up any past Israeli-Palestinian conflict reportage by BBC or The Guardian in any given year. The guys with masked faces and grenade belts are the oppressed, protesting civilians denied all human rights, while guys that shoot tear gas in the air to defend their borders and prevent deaths of the guys with grenades are the murderous aggressor-occupiers. If that’s not systematic distortion of truth to create antisemitic context, then nothing is.

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May 4, 2019 | 6:02 am | 3 Comments »

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Kushner tight-lipped on Trump Middle East peace plan  

Senior U.S. adviser acknowledges it might not be “smart money bet” to gamble on success of White House’s long-awaited blueprint for Middle East peace but insists it is a very detailed, fresh approach that hopefully will stimulate discussion and lead to breakthroughs in resolving decades-old conflict.

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Kushner tight-lipped on Trump Middle East peace plan

U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law acknowledged Thursday that it might not be a “smart money bet” to gamble on the success of the White House’s long-awaited blueprint for Middle East peace. But he insisted that it is a very detailed, fresh approach that hopefully will stimulate discussion and lead to breakthroughs in resolving the decades-old conflict.

Jared Kushner remained tight-lipped about the guts of the plan. He described it as an “in-depth operational document” not anchored to previous, failed negotiations, high-level political concepts or stale arguments. Read more…

May 3, 2019 | 4:12 pm | 3 Comments »

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Let millenials lead the war on Antisemitism  

An incredible 66% of American young adults have no knowledge of Auschwitz whatsoever. A rallying and defiant call to millennials around the world to commemorate the Holocaust and help put an end to Antisemitism.

By Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, INN

With each passing year, the Holocaust is becoming less familiar and less relevant to youth around the world.  To some, it’s a confusing collection of dreadful details, one of many horrific periods in human history.  To so many others, it is – sadly – completely devoid of meaning.

In recent weeks, the Claims Conference released data indicating that one third of Americans believe that only 2 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, a far cry from the actual figure of 6 million who were slaughtered by the Nazis and their collaborators.  Additionally, more than 45% of the survey respondents were unable to name even one of the 40 Eastern European ghettos and concentration camps established by the Nazis during the Second World War.  Among millennials, that number increases dramatically, with an incredible 66% of American young adults having no knowledge of Auschwitz whatsoever.

What this means is that for every passionate student of history who is carrying the torch of Holocaust memory, there are two for whom the Holocaust means nothing at all.
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May 3, 2019 | 4:03 pm | 2 Comments »

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Why Does Islamist Anti-Semitism Receive a Pass?  

By Hesham Shehab, AMERICAN THINKER

In the wake of the shooting at the San Diego-area synagogue in California on Saturday, April 27 that left one worshiper dead and two wounded, and the ongoing outcry against an Anti-Semitic cartoon published in the New York Times, we are reminded that anti-Semitism exists on all sides of the political spectrum, and can yield deadly results.

While these acts of anti-Semitism are rightfully publicly decried, and the organizations that traffic in them condemned, much of the growing tide of anti-Semitism in the West has a basis in Islamist anti-Semitism, promoted by hate preachers utilizing the West’s famous tolerance to promote vile conspiracy theories against the Jews.
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May 3, 2019 | 3:56 pm | 3 Comments »

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Instagram Story Aims to Engage New Generation with Holocaust  

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JERUSALEM (AP) — For seven decades, survivor testimony has been the centerpiece of Holocaust commemoration.

The file picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms including Martha Weiss who was ten years-old, 6th from right, at the time behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp. The German â?¦

But with the world’s community of aging survivors rapidly shrinking and global understanding of the genocide that killed 6 million Jews declining, advocates of Holocaust remembrance are seeking new and creative ways to share witnesses’ stories with younger generations.

Much as Anne Frank’s diary gripped the older generations, an Instagram account based on a true 13-year-old Jewish victim’s journal, called Eva.Stories, is generating buzz among the young.
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