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| | <ref>Dillon Hosier (@DillonHosier) Tweeted: Moments ago: A group of "pro-Palestine" attacked a table of Persian Jews at Sushi Fumi in Los Angeles, just outside of #weho city. #westhollywood / #LA #Antisemitism masked as #FreePalestine https://t.co/jjdWNqESLO https://twitter.com/DillonHosier/status/1394911594698608642?s=20. [May 18, 2021] | | <ref>Dillon Hosier (@DillonHosier) Tweeted: Moments ago: A group of "pro-Palestine" attacked a table of Persian Jews at Sushi Fumi in Los Angeles, just outside of #weho city. #westhollywood / #LA #Antisemitism masked as #FreePalestine https://t.co/jjdWNqESLO https://twitter.com/DillonHosier/status/1394911594698608642?s=20. [May 18, 2021] |
| | Yuna Leibzon (@YunaLeibzon) Tweeted: Shocking pictures from Los Angeles: A group of Arabs stop near a restaurant, ask who is inside a Jew and start beating a man vigorously before fleeing. https://twitter.com/YunaLeibzon/status/1394998791707766785?s=20. [May 19, 2021]</ref> Notably arrested was an Arab man from Brooklyn, Waseem Awawdeh.<ref>'Jewish man beaten during wild NYC protests afraid to wear yarmulke.' By Reuven Fenton and Amanda Woods. May 21, 2021. https://nypost.com/2021/05/21/jewish-man-beaten-during-wild-midtown-protests-afraid-to-wear-yarmulke/ ''Waseem Awawdeh has been hit with multiple charges, including a hate crime. | | Yuna Leibzon (@YunaLeibzon) Tweeted: Shocking pictures from Los Angeles: A group of Arabs stop near a restaurant, ask who is inside a Jew and start beating a man vigorously before fleeing. https://twitter.com/YunaLeibzon/status/1394998791707766785?s=20. [May 19, 2021]</ref> Notably arrested was an Arab man from Brooklyn, Waseem Awawdeh.<ref>'Jewish man beaten during wild NYC protests afraid to wear yarmulke.' By Reuven Fenton and Amanda Woods. May 21, 2021. https://nypost.com/2021/05/21/jewish-man-beaten-during-wild-midtown-protests-afraid-to-wear-yarmulke/ ''Waseem Awawdeh has been hit with multiple charges, including a hate crime. |
| − | In the attack, captured on video, Borgen was knocked to the ground by a group of five or six men who allegedly made anti-Semitic statements, punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and struck him with crutches... "I tried to get away, and the next thing I knew, I was surrounded by a whole crowd of people who proceeded to kick me, punch me, beat me down," he recalled. "I felt a liquid being poured on my face and at first I thought I was getting urinated on, but it tuned out I was getting maced and pepper sprayed. My face was on fire. That pain was worse than the concussion and all this other stuff that followed."''</ref><ref>New York Police Charge Pro-Palestinian Protester With Hate Crime.' Waseem Awawdeh is accused of beating a Jewish man during protest near Times Square.' By Ben Chapman. Updated May 21, 2021. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-police-investigate-beating-of-jewish-man-during-pro-palestinian-march-11621610628 ''"Yesterday was an attack on this man simply because he is Jewish," Ms. Halberstam said. Jewish people were targeted in 63 hate crimes between Jan. 1 and May 16, up from 60 during the same time in 2020, according to the NYPD figures. Hate crimes against Jews accounted for the second-largest number of such crimes this year, after those targeting Asians..''</ref> Waseem said, after being arrested, that he would do it again, to which [[Newsmax]]'s Logan Ratick Tweeted: ''Because he grew up brainwashed to hate a specific group of people.''<ref>Logan Ratick (@Logan_Ratick) Tweeted: Because he grew up brainwashed to hate a specific group of people https://twitter.com/Logan_Ratick/status/1396266906546548740?s=20</ref> Days later, another Arab from NY was arrested in thst beating, Faisal Elezzi.<ref>NYPD arrests suspect in beating of Jewish man in Times Square. May 24, 2021. ''Faisal Elezzi was arrested and charged in connection to the violent beatdown of a Jewish man near Times Square. The suspects spewed anti-Semitic statements while pepper spraying, punching and kicking Borgen, police have said. Police said the group also used crutches to beat the victim.'' | + | In the attack, captured on video, Borgen was knocked to the ground by a group of five or six men who allegedly made anti-Semitic statements, punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and struck him with crutches... "I tried to get away, and the next thing I knew, I was surrounded by a whole crowd of people who proceeded to kick me, punch me, beat me down," he recalled. "I felt a liquid being poured on my face and at first I thought I was getting urinated on, but it tuned out I was getting maced and pepper sprayed. My face was on fire. That pain was worse than the concussion and all this other stuff that followed."''</ref><ref>New York Police Charge Pro-Palestinian Protester With Hate Crime.' Waseem Awawdeh is accused of beating a Jewish man during protest near Times Square.' By Ben Chapman. Updated May 21, 2021. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-police-investigate-beating-of-jewish-man-during-pro-palestinian-march-11621610628 ''"Yesterday was an attack on this man simply because he is Jewish," Ms. Halberstam said. Jewish people were targeted in 63 hate crimes between Jan. 1 and May 16, up from 60 during the same time in 2020, according to the NYPD figures. Hate crimes against Jews accounted for the second-largest number of such crimes this year, after those targeting Asians..''</ref> Waseem said, after being arrested, that he would do it again, to which [[Newsmax]]'s Logan Ratick Tweeted: ''Because he grew up brainwashed to hate a specific group of people.''<ref>Logan Ratick (@Logan_Ratick) Tweeted: Because he grew up brainwashed to hate a specific group of people https://twitter.com/Logan_Ratick/status/1396266906546548740?s=20</ref> Days later, another Arab from NY was arrested in that beating, Faisal Elezzi.<ref>NYPD arrests suspect in beating of Jewish man in Times Square. May 24, 2021. ''Faisal Elezzi was arrested and charged in connection to the violent beatdown of a Jewish man near Times Square. The suspects spewed anti-Semitic statements while pepper spraying, punching and kicking Borgen, police have said. Police said the group also used crutches to beat the victim.'' |
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| − | Biden implied that all Hispanics, including those who were born in the United States or are residents legally, are illegal aliens. In speaking about Hispanics, Biden shows no respect for the Spanish language and uses the leftist derogatory language, 'Latinx' to refer to people with an Hispanic background.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/tucker-what-biden-said-about-latinos-yesterday-is-actually-a-slur/</ref> | + | |
| | + | Under Biden, anti-Israelism intensified. |
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| | + | (That prejudice which is bigotry masked in "politics." |
| | + | <ref>Nevet Basker, [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/not-about-israel/ It’s Not About Israel], TOI, July 11, 2021. [https://www.broaderview.org/notes/not-about-israel/] |
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| | + | Anti-Israel rhetoric and discriminatory initiatives are not really about Israel at all. They are certainly not about the Palestinians. They are not about justice or morality. They are in fact about American Jews and our place in American society. |
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| | + | We have seen in recent months a large increase in bigoted, discriminatory, and slanderous statements that about Israel’s alleged misdeeds. The anti-Israel campaign hijacks unsuspecting organizations—a city council in Raleigh, North Carolina; a teachers’ union in Seattle, the student government at Yale—to use as political shields for their campaign of hate. The campaign pretends to target Israeli crimes—some real, some exaggerated, some completely fictional—but it has no effect on Israeli policies and actions. The Israeli government really doesn’t care—and likely hasn’t even noticed—that Swarthmore College students called to boycott Sabra hummus (made in Virginia), a call the college president rejected. |
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| | + | Nor does the anti-Israel campaign help Palestinians. It was silent when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, and Lebanon. It has nothing to say about the Egyptian blockade of Gaza or the murder of a dissident by the Palestinian Authority security forces. Anti-Israel activists didn’t protest Assad’s forces gassing Palestinians in Syria, or Hamas using Gaza civilians as human shields for rocket attacks on Israel. They remain mum regarding apartheid in Lebanon, which denies citizenship and civil rights to Palestinians, and don’t critique the UN agency that rejects resettlement of Palestinian refugees and condemns them to eternal dispossession. They didn’t care that the Palestinian Authority rejected COVID-19 vaccines from Israel. (The vaccines were sent to South Korea instead.) And they are oblivious to the harm their campaign against Israeli companies causes Palestinians, as when a Soda Stream factory relocated in response to the boycotters’ pressure, laying off hundreds of workers from the West Bank. (The pressure continued anyway.) |
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| | + | So if the campaign doesn’t hurt Israel and doesn’t help Palestinians, what is its point? The point is to condemn Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. (Grumbles about “ethno-nationalism” fall flat when applied only to Israel and not to other nation-states like, say, Norway and Japan.) Affinity and connection to the land and the people of Israel are core to Jewish religious tradition, ethnic identity, and cultural heritage. The right of self-determination and political independence is granted to indigenous peoples everywhere, challenged only with regards the Jewish people. So an attack on Israel is, in fact, an attack on Jews everywhere. Singling out the Jewish state and the Jewish people is an expression of prejudice; prejudice against Jews is so ancient and so prevalent that it has its own word, “antisemitism,” or Jew-hatred. |
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| | + | Scapegoating Jews is nothing new...</blockquote></ref>) |
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| | + | Biden implied that all Hispanics, including those who were born in the United States or are residents legally, are illegal "aliens." In speaking about Hispanics, Biden shows no respect for the Spanish language and uses the leftist derogatory language, 'Latinx' to refer to people with an Hispanic background.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/tucker-what-biden-said-about-latinos-yesterday-is-actually-a-slur/</ref> |
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