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By Lilas Demmou, Sara Calligaris, Guido Franco, Dennis Dlugosch, Müge Adalet McGowan and Sahra Sakha, OECD Economics Department A swift response of policy makers across OECD countries has helped businesses to bridge the short-term liquidity shortfalls due to the economic shock following the COVID-19 outbreak (Demmou et al., 2021a). However, many countries have entered a…
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By Lilas Demmou, Sara Calligaris, Guido Franco, Dennis Dlugosch, Müge Adalet McGowan and Sahra Sakha, OECD Economics Department
A swift response of policy makers across OECD countries has helped businesses to bridge the short-term liquidity shortfalls due to the economic shock following the COVID-19 outbreak (Demmou et al., 2021a). However, many countries have entered a second phase of the crisis and the shock is translating into an enduring risk of a wave of corporate insolvencies as well as in a significant increase in leverage, depressing investment and job creation for long. A recent OECD working paper (Demmou et al., 2021b) investigates the extent of these risks and outlines policy options to address them.
A large portion of firms are predicted to become distressed and will find it hard to service debt, with negative consequences on future investment
Using a simple accounting exercise, we evaluate quantitatively the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firms’ long-term viability under an “upside” and a “downside” scenario. According to our estimates, around 7% (9%) of otherwise viable companies are likely to become distressed (i.e. their net equity is predicted to be negative) in the upside (downside) scenario (Figure 1), and between 30% and 36% of firms would no more be profitable enough to cover their interest expenses. However, these percentages are heterogeneous across sectors and type of firms. Firms in industries that use intangible assets (such as intellectual property, data or software) intensively are significantly impacted but better positioned to bridge the crisis, while the Hospitality, Entertainment and Transport sectors are the most severely hit. Young, small and low productivity firms are predicted to suffer more compared to their old, large and high productivity counterparts.
The reduction in equity relative to a business-as-usual scenario has immediate consequences on firms’ leverage ratios: the ratio of total liabilities to total assets would increase by 6.7 p.p. in the upside scenario and 8 p.p. in the downside scenario for the median firm in the sample (Figure 2, Panel A). In turn, the increase in the level of indebtedness can push firms towards the so-called “debt overhang” risk. Based on an empirical investigation of the historical relationship between indebtedness and investment, our findings suggest that an increase in the debt to total assets ratio comparable to the one predicted by our accounting model could imply a decline of the ratio of investments to fixed assets by 2 p.p. (2.3 p.p.) in the upside (downside) scenario (Figure 2, Panel B).
Policies to support the corporate sector’s ability to weather the crisis and recover fast
Distress and debt overhang of non-financial corporations could threaten the recovery by compromising firms’ ability to invest, suggesting that governments should carefully design support packages in order to limit the increase in corporate indebtedness. Moreover, given the difficulty to screen ex-ante firm performances, policy makers face the additional challenge of finding the right balance between the risk of supporting potentially non-viable firms against the risk of forcing viable and productive firms into premature liquidation. In the current circumstances, the balance of risks should be tilted in favour of the former, as the risk to push-out of the market many viable firms is particularly high. To this end, governments may adopt the following cascading approach, regularly re-assessing and adapting support as the economic situation evolves:
Support measures should first aim at “flattening the curve of insolvencies” by ensuring that distressed firms have access to additional resources but avoiding the increase in debt that follows debt-based support. To mitigate debt overhang concerns, measures should increasingly include complementary non-debt financing instruments to recapitalise firms: a) equity and quasi-equity injections (e.g., preferred stocks, convertible loans); b) phasing in an allowance for corporate equity; c) debt-equity swaps to provide firms with the required liquidity, without increasing their leverage; d) state-contingent loan repayment (e.g. linked to business returns) in the form of future taxes; e) convert loans into grants.
If this strategy proves insufficient, policy makers could encourage timely debt restructuring to allow distressed firms to continue operating smoothly. This would help to coordinate creditors’ claims in a manner that is consistent with preserving the viability of the firm and its capacity to invest going forward. Relevant measures include establishing legal conditions favouring new financing for distressed firms, reforms to insolvency regimes including promoting pre-insolvency frameworks and specific procedures to facilitate the restructuring of SMEs.
These two steps aim to reduce the number of viable firms that would otherwise be liquidated. To deal with firms that would still be non-viable despite public support and debt restructuring, governments could improve the efficiency of liquidation procedures to unlock potentially productive resources. Providing the institutional conditions for a fresh start by removing barriers that might push debtors to delay liquidation, in particular by reforming the personal insolvency regime, remains a key challenge in several countries.
Further reading
Demmou L., G. Franco, S. Calligaris and D. Dlugosch, (2021a), “Liquidity shortfalls during the COVID-19 outbreak: assessment of risks and policy responses”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No 1647, OECD Publishing.
Demmou L., S. Calligaris, G. Franco, D. Dlugosch, M. Adalet McGowan and S. Sakha, (2021b), “Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: assessment of risks and policy responses”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No 1651, OECD Publishing.
http://www.oecd.org/economy/financial-fragilities-during-COVID-19/
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A recent OECD working paper (Demmou et al., 2021b) investigates the extent of these risks and outlines policy options to address them.\nA large portion of firms are predicted to become distressed and will find it hard to service debt, with negative consequences on future investment\nUsing a simple accounting exercise, we evaluate quantitatively the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firms’ long-term viability under an “upside” and a “downside” scenario. According to our estimates, around 7% (9%) of otherwise viable companies are likely to become distressed (i.e. their net equity is predicted to be negative) in the upside (downside) scenario (Figure 1), and between 30% and 36% of firms would no more be profitable enough to cover their interest expenses. However, these percentages are heterogeneous across sectors and type of firms. Firms in industries that use intangible assets (such as intellectual property, data or software) intensively are significantly impacted but better positioned to bridge the crisis, while the Hospitality, Entertainment and Transport sectors are the most severely hit. Young, small and low productivity firms are predicted to suffer more compared to their old, large and high productivity counterparts.\nThe reduction in equity relative to a business-as-usual scenario has immediate consequences on firms’ leverage ratios: the ratio of total liabilities to total assets would increase by 6.7 p.p. in the upside scenario and 8 p.p. in the downside scenario for the median firm in the sample (Figure 2, Panel A). In turn, the increase in the level of indebtedness can push firms towards the so-called “debt overhang” risk. Based on an empirical investigation of the historical relationship between indebtedness and investment, our findings suggest that an increase in the debt to total assets ratio comparable to the one predicted by our accounting model could imply a decline of the ratio of investments to fixed assets by 2 p.p. (2.3 p.p.) in the upside (downside) scenario (Figure 2, Panel B).\nPolicies to support the corporate sector’s ability to weather the crisis and recover fast\nDistress and debt overhang of non-financial corporations could threaten the recovery by compromising firms’ ability to invest, suggesting that governments should carefully design support packages in order to limit the increase in corporate indebtedness. Moreover, given the difficulty to screen ex-ante firm performances, policy makers face the additional challenge of finding the right balance between the risk of supporting potentially non-viable firms against the risk of forcing viable and productive firms into premature liquidation. In the current circumstances, the balance of risks should be tilted in favour of the former, as the risk to push-out of the market many viable firms is particularly high. To this end, governments may adopt the following cascading approach, regularly re-assessing and adapting support as the economic situation evolves:\nSupport measures should first aim at “flattening the curve of insolvencies” by ensuring that distressed firms have access to additional resources but avoiding the increase in debt that follows debt-based support. To mitigate debt overhang concerns, measures should increasingly include complementary non-debt financing instruments to recapitalise firms: a) equity and quasi-equity injections (e.g., preferred stocks, convertible loans); b) phasing in an allowance for corporate equity; c) debt-equity swaps to provide firms with the required liquidity, without increasing their leverage; d) state-contingent loan repayment (e.g. linked to business returns) in the form of future taxes; e) convert loans into grants.\nIf this strategy proves insufficient, policy makers could encourage timely debt restructuring to allow distressed firms to continue operating smoothly. This would help to coordinate creditors’ claims in a manner that is consistent with preserving the viability of the firm and its capacity to invest going forward. Relevant measures include establishing legal conditions favouring new financing for distressed firms, reforms to insolvency regimes including promoting pre-insolvency frameworks and specific procedures to facilitate the restructuring of SMEs.\nThese two steps aim to reduce the number of viable firms that would otherwise be liquidated. To deal with firms that would still be non-viable despite public support and debt restructuring, governments could improve the efficiency of liquidation procedures to unlock potentially productive resources. Providing the institutional conditions for a fresh start by removing barriers that might push debtors to delay liquidation, in particular by reforming the personal insolvency regime, remains a key challenge in several countries.\nFurther reading\nDemmou L., G. Franco, S. Calligaris and D. Dlugosch, (2021a), “Liquidity shortfalls during the COVID-19 outbreak: assessment of risks and policy responses”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No 1647, OECD Publishing.\nDemmou L., S. Calligaris, G. Franco, D. Dlugosch, M. Adalet McGowan and S. Sakha, (2021b), “Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: assessment of risks and policy responses”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No 1651, OECD Publishing.\nhttp://www.oecd.org/economy/financial-fragilities-during-COVID-19/",
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"By Lilas Demmou, Sara Calligaris, Guido Franco, Dennis Dlugosch, Müge Adalet McGowan and Sahra Sakha, OECD Economics Department A swift response of policy makers across OECD countries has helped businesses to bridge the short-term liquidity shortfalls due to the economic shock following the COVID-19 outbreak (Demmou et al., 2021a). However, many countries have entered a…"
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by Dennis Dlugosch and Rauf Gönenç Past OECD Economic Surveys of Turkey had underscored that Turkey’s transition towards more transparent and rule-based macroeconomic - fiscal, monetary and macrofinancial - and structural - product, labour and capital market- policy frameworks would better mobilise the potential of the economy and Turkish people and deliver stronger and more…
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by Dennis Dlugosch and Rauf Gönenç
Past OECD Economic Surveys of Turkey had underscored that Turkey’s transition towards more transparent and rule-based macroeconomic – fiscal, monetary and macrofinancial – and structural – product, labour and capital market- policy frameworks would better mobilise the potential of the economy and Turkish people and deliver stronger and more sustainable growth.
In the aftermatch of the COVID-19 shock, the 2021 Survey emphasises that the need to strengthen policy institutions and frameworks remains central to facilitate the recovery from the pandemic and to support the transition to a less volatile economy.
To support the economy during the pandemic, the government has some fiscal space to take necessary measures, at least in the short-term. However, so far, policymakers have relied almost entirely on quasi-fiscal channels like public bank lending and government credit guarantees (see Figure 1). This helped to minimise the immediate fiscal bill of the pandemic, but at the cost of transparency of the subsidy and its targeting to the businesses and households most in need. Further costs for public finances may also come in the form of contingent liabilities of a yet undetermined magnitude. The 2021 OECD Economic Survey recommends that future support related to the pandemic should be provided in a more transparent and coherent fiscal policy framework. Such a coherent policy framework should encompass fiscal, quasi-fiscal but also monetary and financial policies. The publication of a regular Fiscal Policy Report would contribute significantly to increase the transparency of all public financial liabilities.
The pandemic has amplified Turkey’s longstanding monetary policy challenges. Inflation had remained well above target for many years before the pandemic. The OECD Survey recommends to restore a strong institutional basis for monetary policy by restoring the independence of the Central Bank, including with the help of legislative measures reinforcing the inamovibility and extending the tenure of its management. Establishing an active communication system on various aspects of its foreign reserve position would address information needs of domestic and international investors for a more detailed net reserves gauages.
Despite significant progress in the prudential regulation of Turkish banks following good international practices since the 2000s, the economic implications of the COVID-19 shock are adding to pressures on credit quality, already weakened by the turning of the credit cycle in recent years. One concern relates to the large weight of banking and credit channels in financial intermediation, with a resulting significant increase in debt leverage in the business sector. Further, the role of government-owned financial institutions and capital allocation regulations considerably expanded. Related risks in the overall operation of the financial system increased with the Covid-19 shock, as government support was mainly provided through credit instruments further increasing firms’ and households’ indebtedness. Public banks gained a large weight in credit markets, and prudential leniency mesures delayed the reporting of bad loans and adjustments in bank balance sheets. The OECD Survey recommends to reinforce the institutional basis of macrofinancial policies, with policymakers communicating actively on how they evaluate and address the risks of deterioration in banks’ asset quality, publishing the results of the stress tests of individual banks and of the banking system as a whole, and involving the Turkish Competition Authority to ensure a level playing field between public and private banks, as well as between public and private borrowers in access to finance.
Strengthening Turkey’s macroeconomic policy institutions would increase policy credibility, reduce risk-premia, encourage long-term capital inflows and help to boost the recovery. As a result, improved domestic and international confidence, lower risk premia and thus lower long-term interest rates would provide a more favourable foundation for strong and sustainable growth. Building on the remarkably entrepreneurial and young population and a very dynamic business sector, a strong macroeconomic foundation would allow well-designed structural policies to lift employment rates of women and men, job quality, household incomes and well being. A priority should be to address informal and semi-informal practices, for example by reducing high employment costs and rigid employment rules but also to remove any remaining regulatory barriers to the upscaling of smaller firms. Increasing the provision and quality of early child education would allow for more inclusive employment opportunities. Improving the eco-system for equity financing, for example through incentives in the corporate tax system, would provide the business sector with additional means to grow in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Reference
OECD (2021), OECD Economic Surveys: Turkey 2021, OECD Publishing, Paris.
https://doi.org/10.1787/2cd09ab1-enCD
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This helped to minimise the immediate fiscal bill of the pandemic, but at the cost of transparency of the subsidy and its targeting to the businesses and households most in need. Further costs for public finances may also come in the form of contingent liabilities of a yet undetermined magnitude. The 2021 OECD Economic Survey recommends that future support related to the pandemic should be provided in a more transparent and coherent fiscal policy framework. Such a coherent policy framework should encompass fiscal, quasi-fiscal but also monetary and financial policies. The publication of a regular Fiscal Policy Report would contribute significantly to increase the transparency of all public financial liabilities.\nThe pandemic has amplified Turkey’s longstanding monetary policy challenges. Inflation had remained well above target for many years before the pandemic. The OECD Survey recommends to restore a strong institutional basis for monetary policy by restoring the independence of the Central Bank, including with the help of legislative measures reinforcing the inamovibility and extending the tenure of its management. Establishing an active communication system on various aspects of its foreign reserve position would address information needs of domestic and international investors for a more detailed net reserves gauages.\nDespite significant progress in the prudential regulation of Turkish banks following good international practices since the 2000s, the economic implications of the COVID-19 shock are adding to pressures on credit quality, already weakened by the turning of the credit cycle in recent years. One concern relates to the large weight of banking and credit channels in financial intermediation, with a resulting significant increase in debt leverage in the business sector. Further, the role of government-owned financial institutions and capital allocation regulations considerably expanded. Related risks in the overall operation of the financial system increased with the Covid-19 shock, as government support was mainly provided through credit instruments further increasing firms’ and households’ indebtedness. Public banks gained a large weight in credit markets, and prudential leniency mesures delayed the reporting of bad loans and adjustments in bank balance sheets. The OECD Survey recommends to reinforce the institutional basis of macrofinancial policies, with policymakers communicating actively on how they evaluate and address the risks of deterioration in banks’ asset quality, publishing the results of the stress tests of individual banks and of the banking system as a whole, and involving the Turkish Competition Authority to ensure a level playing field between public and private banks, as well as between public and private borrowers in access to finance.\nStrengthening Turkey’s macroeconomic policy institutions would increase policy credibility, reduce risk-premia, encourage long-term capital inflows and help to boost the recovery. As a result, improved domestic and international confidence, lower risk premia and thus lower long-term interest rates would provide a more favourable foundation for strong and sustainable growth. Building on the remarkably entrepreneurial and young population and a very dynamic business sector, a strong macroeconomic foundation would allow well-designed structural policies to lift employment rates of women and men, job quality, household incomes and well being. A priority should be to address informal and semi-informal practices, for example by reducing high employment costs and rigid employment rules but also to remove any remaining regulatory barriers to the upscaling of smaller firms. Increasing the provision and quality of early child education would allow for more inclusive employment opportunities. Improving the eco-system for equity financing, for example through incentives in the corporate tax system, would provide the business sector with additional means to grow in the aftermath of the pandemic.\nReference\nOECD (2021), OECD Economic Surveys: Turkey 2021, OECD Publishing, Paris.\nhttps://doi.org/10.1787/2cd09ab1-enCD",
"Upgrading Turkey’s macroeconomic policy institutions to boost the recovery after the COVID-19 shock",
"by Dennis Dlugosch and Rauf Gönenç Past OECD Economic Surveys of Turkey had underscored that Turkey’s transition towards more transparent and rule-based macroeconomic - fiscal, monetary and macrofinancial - and structural - product, labour and capital market- policy frameworks would better mobilise the potential of the economy and Turkish people and deliver stronger and more…"
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by Naomitsu Yashiro, OECD Economics Department In the context of the large economic contraction and debt build-up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Finland is formulating reforms to raise employment by 80 000 persons by 2029. Achieving this would raise the employment rate from the estimated 70.8% in 2020 to 73.7%…
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by Naomitsu Yashiro, OECD Economics Department
In the context of the large economic contraction and debt build-up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Finland is formulating reforms to raise employment by 80 000 persons by 2029. Achieving this would raise the employment rate from the estimated 70.8% in 2020 to 73.7% in 2029, reversing the labour market damage caused by COVID-19 and reducing, but not eliminating the structural budget deficit.
Before the pandemic, Finland’s employment rate was 73% in 2019, lagging behind the average of Scandinavian Nordics (76%).The largest contribution to the employment rate gap was made by the 60-64 year-old age group. Finland grants to older workers with sufficiently long working period unemployment benefit entitlements that are not only longer than those for younger workers but can also be extended from the age of 61 up to the statutory retirement age. This extension, often dubbed the unemployment tunnel, provides strong disincentives to continue working. It also induces employers to target older workers in redundancies, even though large employers are obliged to finance a part of the unemployment benefits claimed by their former employees who entered the tunnel. The risk of unemployment increases markedly as workers near the age at which they become eligible to the unemployment tunnel (Figure 1). Past reforms that raised the eligibility age in steps from 59 to 61 have pushed back the timing of the sharp rise in unemployment risks each time, effectively lengthening the working lives of older workers (Figure 1). The 2020 Economic Survey of Finland, published in 10 December 2020, recommended abolishing the unemployment tunnel. A week later, the government announced its decision to abolish the tunnel by 2025.
In Finland, inflow into disability benefits has often increased when access to other early retirement pathways was tightened by policy changes. Early retirement via disability benefits is facilitated by more lenient eligibility criteria for awarding disability benefits applied to individuals aged 60 and over, which include non-medical factors. The Survey recommends aligning the criteria between older and younger individuals, namely by not taking into account non-medical factors. This is important for avoiding the surge of inflow into disability benefits as the unemployment tunnel is being phased out.
In order to ensure that these supply-side reforms result in higher employment, additional policy efforts to place older workers in jobs are needed. Activation requirements for the older unemployed should be applied with the same vigour as for other unemployed persons. The capacity of the public employment service needs to be strengthened by focusing resources on providing essential services like face-to-face counselling while making more use of private providers expertise and digital technologies. Ample upskilling opportunities should be provided to workers with higher risks of jobs loss at old age, such as those with jobs exposed to automation risks (Yashiro et al., 2021). Although the participation in adult education in Finland is relatively high, old and unskilled workers participate much less, as in other OECD countries. Finland’s adult education is biased toward formal education at higher education institutions, making it less attractive to the low skilled. The government should bolster targeted trainings, referencing successful examples in other OECD countries, such as the Unionlearn scheme in the United Kingdom where Union Learning Representatives help workers identify their training needs and arrange learning opportunities within their companies.
Another population group contributing to Finland’s relatively low employment rate vis-à-vis its Scandinavian peers is young women (30 to 34). However, the lower employment rate among this group is mainly due to differences in the statistical treatment of maternity leave between Finland and Sweden. The work attendance rates, which measure the share of persons who were at work during the surveyed week, are about the same between the two countries. However, the attendance rates are still considerably lower in Finland among mothers of children aged up to three years old, owing to the generous social benefit granted for taking care of children at home instead of using childcare services provided by municipalities. Removing this financial disincentive would encourage return to work by young mothers, thereby avoiding their career development being hampered by a long absence from work, which would help reduce the large gender pay gap.
Further reading:
OECD (2020), OECD Economic Surveys: Finland 2020, OECD Publishing, Paris.
REFERENCE
Yashiro et al. (2021), “Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement: evidence from Finland”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, Forthcoming, OECD Publishing, Paris.
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"Boosting employment in post-COVID Finland",
"by Naomitsu Yashiro, OECD Economics Department In the context of the large economic contraction and debt build-up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Finland is formulating reforms to raise employment by 80 000 persons by 2029. Achieving this would raise the employment rate from the estimated 70.8% in 2020 to 73.7%…"
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by Paula Adamczyk, Priscilla Fialho, Antoine Goujard, OECD Economics Department The COVID-19 crisis has spotlighted Poland’s environmental challenges, notably the heavy air pollution at which the Polish population is exposed, as it makes individuals more vulnerable to acute respiratory illnesses and to the ongoing sanitary crisis. As the government prepares its recovery plan to revive…
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The COVID-19 crisis has spotlighted Poland’s environmental challenges, notably the heavy air pollution at which the Polish population is exposed, as it makes individuals more vulnerable to acute respiratory illnesses and to the ongoing sanitary crisis. As the government prepares its recovery plan to revive the economy in the aftermath of COVID-19, there is a unique opportunity to bring forward needed public investments into clean energy projects. “Green” investment projects would not only stimulate employment and aggregate demand, but also make growth more sustainable in the longer-term. The newly agreed “Next Generation EU” recovery plan will have dedicated funds to support the transition to climate neutrality and Poland should grasp the opportunity to enhance the resilience of its economy and society. The newly published 2020 OECD Economic Survey of Poland provides some advice on policies that could help supporting the transition to a greener and fairer economy.
Poland has made little progress to improve air quality. In many cities and regions, the level of atmospheric pollution remains well above the limits established in the European Union Air Quality Directive: an alarming 36 out of 50 most polluted European cities are located in Poland. The population exposure to fine particles is among the highest in the OECD (Figure 1), which causes a variety of adverse health outcomes and premature deaths (WHO, 2019).
CEEC is the average of Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Republics.
Source: OECD (2020), OECD Green Growth Indicators (database).
The residential sector is responsible for high air pollution and levels of energy consumption. The burning of poor-quality coal, wood, or even waste, in old boilers used to heat individual houses is the main contributor for the high level of particulate matter in the air. The incomplete combustion of solid fuel in low-efficiency stoves and lamps used for cooking and lighting also releases a significant amount of fine particles. Moreover, a large share of the existing residential and commercial buildings date back from before 1990 and have poor thermal insulation. As a result, space heating requires a significant amount of energy and there is a lot of heat loss through the building envelope. In fact, the energy intensity of space heating in Poland is one of the highest among European Union (EU) countries.
The transport sector is another key driver of air pollution. In 2018, the average vehicle age in Poland was 14 years, compared to 11 years in the European Union. That same year, 80% of passenger cars in Poland’s roads were more than 10 years old (European Commission, 2019). The average CO2 emissions from new passenger cars sold in Poland are among the highest in Europe. In 2019, only 0.5% of newly registered passenger cars were electric vehicles, compared to an average of 3.6% in the European Union (International Council on Clean Transportation, 2020). Polish authorities have set welcome and ambitious targets to increase the fleet of electric vehicles in the coming years. These targets should be met. In June this year, the government made efforts in that sense and introduced Poland’s first fiscal incentive programme for the purchase of cleaner cars.
Progress to decarbonise electricity production in Poland has also stalled over the past few years. Coal still accounts for around 78% of gross electricity generation, compared to about 25%, on average, in other Visegrád countries and the OECD. Furthermore, most Polish coal-fired power plants are over 25 years old. The industry lags behind in terms of production efficiency and in the adoption of new technologies that could reduce the emission of pollutants.Coal mining is another source of air pollution as it releases fine particles in the air, such as dust, soot and smoke, which can be carried to nearby towns by the wind. Despite all the environmental challenges implied, Poland is still one of the largest coal producer in the world. The authorities have recently agreed to phase out coal mining by 2049, but plan to continue subsidising coal production until then (European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, 2020).
Polish authorities need to step-up their efforts to improve air quality and reduce the health risks associated with ambient air pollution. The latest OECD Economic Survey of Poland establishes three policy priorities that can boost Poland’s transition to a greener economy and, in particular, bring the country on the path to meeting higher air quality standards:
Support building renovation to improve energy performance in the residential sector.
Two years ago, the government introduced a programme to offer means-tested financial grants and loans for the replacement of obsolete stoves and for thermal retrofits to single-family houses. However, the take-up rate has been far much lower than anticipated. Complex application procedures and low income-threshold for the highest grants have been pointed as possible reasons for the low take-up.
Polish authorities could consider extending nationwide the recently introduced anti-smog regulations in some regions (“voivodeships”) that aim at limiting the burning of fossil fuels in furnaces, as well as introducing fines for noncompliance. Continuing to simplify the administrative procedures associated with the loans and grants for replacing old heating and cooking equipment as well as easing access for low-income households would help to increase take-up. Expanding the use of smart meters would also contribute to reduce the energy consumption of the residential sector. Finally, improving the energy standards for new buildings (e.g. more stringent building energy codes, additional performance-based requirements or more demanding energy performance certificates) and imposing minimum requirements for the creation of reserve funds in multi-flat buildings dedicated to building renovation and thermal insulation, could significantly improve buildings’ energy efficiency.
Increase the effective tax carbon rate and the pricing of environmental externalities.
Tax rates on energy use in the residential sector and the electricity excise tax are low for international standards. Furthermore, there are several exemptions from energy taxes, such as from the tax on coal in the agricultural sector, from the tax on coal for households’ consumption, and from the coal and gas excise duties in some energy-intensive industries. Poland is also one of the very few OECD countries without a specific CO2-related vehicle tax and diesel is still taxed at a lower rate than petrol. Overall, this results in low carbon prices on road and non-road GHG emissions (Figure 2).
To encourage the takeup of greener technologies, the government should progressively phase out exemptions to energy taxes and gradually increase explicit carbon taxes, while using the generated revenues to support the transition of low-income households towards greener technologies and increase social adhesion.
Improve the regulatory environment surrounding the production and distribution of renewable energy.
Stringent regulation prevents the use of larger and more efficient turbines to generate electricity from onshore wind. The development of offshore wind, on the other hand, is held back by low energy transmission capacity, especially in the northern part of Poland. Frequent changes in regulations create a lot of uncertainty and reduce incentives for private investment in renewable energies.
A stable regulatory environment and further incentives to develop alternative sources of energy would help to reduce the reliance on coal for energy production. The renewable energy sector can quickly absorb capital investments and generate employment in both construction and manufacturing.
Further reading:
European Commission (2019), The Environmental Implementation Review 2019, Country Report – Poland, April 2019.
European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (2020), Poland Agrees to shut coal mines by 2049, EurActiv News, 26 September 2020.
European Environmental Agency (2019), Tax breaks and incentives make Europeans buy cleaner cars, 12 April 2018, Last modified 10 December 2019.
International Council on Clean Transportation (2020), Emerging electric passenger car markets in Europe: Can Poland lead the way? Working Paper 2020-19.
OECD (2020), OECD Economic Surveys: Poland 2020, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/1999060x
World Health Organization (2019), Health consequences of air pollution on populations, 15 November 2019.
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"by Paula Adamczyk, Priscilla Fialho, Antoine Goujard, OECD Economics Department\nThe COVID-19 crisis has spotlighted Poland’s environmental challenges, notably the heavy air pollution at which the Polish population is exposed, as it makes individuals more vulnerable to acute respiratory illnesses and to the ongoing sanitary crisis. As the government prepares its recovery plan to revive the economy in the aftermath of COVID-19, there is a unique opportunity to bring forward needed public investments into clean energy projects. “Green” investment projects would not only stimulate employment and aggregate demand, but also make growth more sustainable in the longer-term. The newly agreed “Next Generation EU” recovery plan will have dedicated funds to support the transition to climate neutrality and Poland should grasp the opportunity to enhance the resilience of its economy and society. The newly published 2020 OECD Economic Survey of Poland provides some advice on policies that could help supporting the transition to a greener and fairer economy.\nPoland has made little progress to improve air quality. In many cities and regions, the level of atmospheric pollution remains well above the limits established in the European Union Air Quality Directive: an alarming 36 out of 50 most polluted European cities are located in Poland. The population exposure to fine particles is among the highest in the OECD (Figure 1), which causes a variety of adverse health outcomes and premature deaths (WHO, 2019).\nCEEC is the average of Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Republics.\nSource: OECD (2020), OECD Green Growth Indicators (database).\nThe residential sector is responsible for high air pollution and levels of energy consumption. The burning of poor-quality coal, wood, or even waste, in old boilers used to heat individual houses is the main contributor for the high level of particulate matter in the air. The incomplete combustion of solid fuel in low-efficiency stoves and lamps used for cooking and lighting also releases a significant amount of fine particles. Moreover, a large share of the existing residential and commercial buildings date back from before 1990 and have poor thermal insulation. As a result, space heating requires a significant amount of energy and there is a lot of heat loss through the building envelope. In fact, the energy intensity of space heating in Poland is one of the highest among European Union (EU) countries.\nThe transport sector is another key driver of air pollution. In 2018, the average vehicle age in Poland was 14 years, compared to 11 years in the European Union. That same year, 80% of passenger cars in Poland’s roads were more than 10 years old (European Commission, 2019). The average CO2 emissions from new passenger cars sold in Poland are among the highest in Europe. In 2019, only 0.5% of newly registered passenger cars were electric vehicles, compared to an average of 3.6% in the European Union (International Council on Clean Transportation, 2020). Polish authorities have set welcome and ambitious targets to increase the fleet of electric vehicles in the coming years. These targets should be met. In June this year, the government made efforts in that sense and introduced Poland’s first fiscal incentive programme for the purchase of cleaner cars.\nProgress to decarbonise electricity production in Poland has also stalled over the past few years. Coal still accounts for around 78% of gross electricity generation, compared to about 25%, on average, in other Visegrád countries and the OECD. Furthermore, most Polish coal-fired power plants are over 25 years old. The industry lags behind in terms of production efficiency and in the adoption of new technologies that could reduce the emission of pollutants.Coal mining is another source of air pollution as it releases fine particles in the air, such as dust, soot and smoke, which can be carried to nearby towns by the wind. Despite all the environmental challenges implied, Poland is still one of the largest coal producer in the world. The authorities have recently agreed to phase out coal mining by 2049, but plan to continue subsidising coal production until then (European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, 2020).\nPolish authorities need to step-up their efforts to improve air quality and reduce the health risks associated with ambient air pollution. The latest OECD Economic Survey of Poland establishes three policy priorities that can boost Poland’s transition to a greener economy and, in particular, bring the country on the path to meeting higher air quality standards:\nSupport building renovation to improve energy performance in the residential sector.\nTwo years ago, the government introduced a programme to offer means-tested financial grants and loans for the replacement of obsolete stoves and for thermal retrofits to single-family houses. However, the take-up rate has been far much lower than anticipated. Complex application procedures and low income-threshold for the highest grants have been pointed as possible reasons for the low take-up.\nPolish authorities could consider extending nationwide the recently introduced anti-smog regulations in some regions (“voivodeships”) that aim at limiting the burning of fossil fuels in furnaces, as well as introducing fines for noncompliance. Continuing to simplify the administrative procedures associated with the loans and grants for replacing old heating and cooking equipment as well as easing access for low-income households would help to increase take-up. Expanding the use of smart meters would also contribute to reduce the energy consumption of the residential sector. Finally, improving the energy standards for new buildings (e.g. more stringent building energy codes, additional performance-based requirements or more demanding energy performance certificates) and imposing minimum requirements for the creation of reserve funds in multi-flat buildings dedicated to building renovation and thermal insulation, could significantly improve buildings’ energy efficiency.\nIncrease the effective tax carbon rate and the pricing of environmental externalities.\nTax rates on energy use in the residential sector and the electricity excise tax are low for international standards. Furthermore, there are several exemptions from energy taxes, such as from the tax on coal in the agricultural sector, from the tax on coal for households’ consumption, and from the coal and gas excise duties in some energy-intensive industries. Poland is also one of the very few OECD countries without a specific CO2-related vehicle tax and diesel is still taxed at a lower rate than petrol. Overall, this results in low carbon prices on road and non-road GHG emissions (Figure 2).\nTo encourage the takeup of greener technologies, the government should progressively phase out exemptions to energy taxes and gradually increase explicit carbon taxes, while using the generated revenues to support the transition of low-income households towards greener technologies and increase social adhesion.\nImprove the regulatory environment surrounding the production and distribution of renewable energy.\nStringent regulation prevents the use of larger and more efficient turbines to generate electricity from onshore wind. The development of offshore wind, on the other hand, is held back by low energy transmission capacity, especially in the northern part of Poland. Frequent changes in regulations create a lot of uncertainty and reduce incentives for private investment in renewable energies.\nA stable regulatory environment and further incentives to develop alternative sources of energy would help to reduce the reliance on coal for energy production. The renewable energy sector can quickly absorb capital investments and generate employment in both construction and manufacturing.\nFurther reading:\nEuropean Commission (2019), The Environmental Implementation Review 2019, Country Report – Poland, April 2019.\nEuropean Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (2020), Poland Agrees to shut coal mines by 2049, EurActiv News, 26 September 2020.\nEuropean Environmental Agency (2019), Tax breaks and incentives make Europeans buy cleaner cars, 12 April 2018, Last modified 10 December 2019.\nInternational Council on Clean Transportation (2020), Emerging electric passenger car markets in Europe: Can Poland lead the way? Working Paper 2020-19.\nOECD (2020), OECD Economic Surveys: Poland 2020, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/1999060x\nWorld Health Organization (2019), Health consequences of air pollution on populations, 15 November 2019.",
"“Every breath you take”: Reducing exposure to environmental health risks in Poland",
"by Paula Adamczyk, Priscilla Fialho, Antoine Goujard, OECD Economics Department The COVID-19 crisis has spotlighted Poland’s environmental challenges, notably the heavy air pollution at which the Polish population is exposed, as it makes individuals more vulnerable to acute respiratory illnesses and to the ongoing sanitary crisis. As the government prepares its recovery plan to revive…"
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By Mauro Pisu, Hélia Costa, Hyunjeong Hwang, OECD Economics Department While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses, big and small, around the world to shut down and fire or furlough workers, others thrived. Online platforms that allow people and firms to buy and sell product and services through the internet and without physical contact…
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By Mauro Pisu, Hélia Costa, Hyunjeong Hwang, OECD Economics Department
While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses, big and small, around the world to shut down and fire or furlough workers, others thrived. Online platforms that allow people and firms to buy and sell product and services through the internet and without physical contact boomed. A prime example is Amazon, whose revenues in the second quarter of 2020 increased by around 40% on a yearly basis while GDP plummeted worldwide. Likewise, transaction volumes and revenues of digital payment processing companies, such as Paypal and Square, jumped to new highs and their market capitalisation surpassed that of most retail and investment banks.
Understanding the shift of economic activities to online marketplace during the COVID-19 is important as there is no close parallel in recent history to draw insights from. On the one hand, online platforms might have helped to mitigate the negative economic impacts of COVID-19 by allowing firms and people to keep producing and working during lockdowns, thus strengthening resilience to shocks disrupting traditional economic activities. On the other hand, the shift towards online platforms may have helped to strengthen and consolidate their market share, heightening concerns about unfair competition, data privacy and non-standard forms of work. The shift could also outlast the COVID-19 shock as people and businesses build new habits.
A new OECD Policy Brief sheds light on the use of online platforms during the first half of 2020 using a new comprehensive dataset of about 1 400 online platforms active in OECD and G20 countries in nine activity areas. The analysis shows that, during lockdowns, businesses and people increasingly turned to online platforms to pursue economic activities. This was especially the case in activity areas requiring little or no physical proximity for product and service delivery (such as mobile payments, marketplace to consumers, professional services and restaurant delivery) (Figure 1). In these areas, online platform use, as proxied by Google Trends data, increased by about 20% in the first half of 2020. However, in activity areas requiring physical proximity (such as accommodation, restaurant booking and transport), platform activity declined markedly (by around 90% in the first half of 2020), reflecting the generalised economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The analysis also reveals that the increase in online-platform use varied across countries depending on pre-existing structural conditions and policies. The increase tended to be larger in more developed and technologically-advanced countries, those with easier access to infrastructure and connectivity, higher skill levels, and more widespread use of the Internet (Figure 2). These results highlight the varying degree of countries’ digital preparedness. When COVID-19 hit, some countries were better prepared than others and in these countries people and businesses may have found it easier to shift activities towards online platforms.
The COVID-19 shock has added urgency to policies aiming at accelerating the digitalisation of public and private sector activities. During the crisis many OECD and G20 countries implemented a range of such policies including, for instance, improving broadband connectivity, helping firms adopt online business models, promoting online payments, and enhancing digital skills (G20, 2020; OECD, 2020a; OECD, 2020b).
This new urgency is welcome but a coordinated approach is needed to exploit synergies across policy areas. For instance, to make the investment in digital infrastructure effective, complementary investment in skills is necessary. Moreover, policies to protect the privacy of personal data and strengthen cybersecurity can enhance trust in digital technologies and online platforms, accelerating their adoption. Designing or updating Industry 4.0 plans in view of the new challenges the COVID-19 has created would be a good way to build such a coordinated approach.
For more details see:
OECD (2020), “The role of online platforms in weathering the COVID-19 shock”, OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19), OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/2a3b8434-en.
References:
OECD (2020), Policy Options to Support Digitalisation of Business Models during COVID-19, Annex, http://www.oecd.org/sti/policy-options-to-support-digitalization-of-business-models-during-covid-19-annex.pdf
OECD (2020a), Keeping the Internet up and running in times of crisis, http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/keeping-the-internet-up-and-running-in-times-of-crisis-4017c4c9/ (accessed on 9 October 2020).
OECD (2020b), The potential of online learning for adults: Early lessons from the COVID-19 crisis, http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/the-potential-of-online-learning-for-adults-early-lessons-from-the-covid-19-crisis-ee040002/ (accessed on 9 October 2020).
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"By Mauro Pisu, Hélia Costa, Hyunjeong Hwang, OECD Economics Department\nWhile the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses, big and small, around the world to shut down and fire or furlough workers, others thrived. Online platforms that allow people and firms to buy and sell product and services through the internet and without physical contact boomed. A prime example is Amazon, whose revenues in the second quarter of 2020 increased by around 40% on a yearly basis while GDP plummeted worldwide. Likewise, transaction volumes and revenues of digital payment processing companies, such as Paypal and Square, jumped to new highs and their market capitalisation surpassed that of most retail and investment banks.\nUnderstanding the shift of economic activities to online marketplace during the COVID-19 is important as there is no close parallel in recent history to draw insights from. On the one hand, online platforms might have helped to mitigate the negative economic impacts of COVID-19 by allowing firms and people to keep producing and working during lockdowns, thus strengthening resilience to shocks disrupting traditional economic activities. On the other hand, the shift towards online platforms may have helped to strengthen and consolidate their market share, heightening concerns about unfair competition, data privacy and non-standard forms of work. The shift could also outlast the COVID-19 shock as people and businesses build new habits.\nA new OECD Policy Brief sheds light on the use of online platforms during the first half of 2020 using a new comprehensive dataset of about 1 400 online platforms active in OECD and G20 countries in nine activity areas. The analysis shows that, during lockdowns, businesses and people increasingly turned to online platforms to pursue economic activities. This was especially the case in activity areas requiring little or no physical proximity for product and service delivery (such as mobile payments, marketplace to consumers, professional services and restaurant delivery) (Figure 1). In these areas, online platform use, as proxied by Google Trends data, increased by about 20% in the first half of 2020. However, in activity areas requiring physical proximity (such as accommodation, restaurant booking and transport), platform activity declined markedly (by around 90% in the first half of 2020), reflecting the generalised economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.\nThe analysis also reveals that the increase in online-platform use varied across countries depending on pre-existing structural conditions and policies. The increase tended to be larger in more developed and technologically-advanced countries, those with easier access to infrastructure and connectivity, higher skill levels, and more widespread use of the Internet (Figure 2). These results highlight the varying degree of countries’ digital preparedness. When COVID-19 hit, some countries were better prepared than others and in these countries people and businesses may have found it easier to shift activities towards online platforms.\nThe COVID-19 shock has added urgency to policies aiming at accelerating the digitalisation of public and private sector activities. During the crisis many OECD and G20 countries implemented a range of such policies including, for instance, improving broadband connectivity, helping firms adopt online business models, promoting online payments, and enhancing digital skills (G20, 2020; OECD, 2020a; OECD, 2020b).\nThis new urgency is welcome but a coordinated approach is needed to exploit synergies across policy areas. For instance, to make the investment in digital infrastructure effective, complementary investment in skills is necessary. Moreover, policies to protect the privacy of personal data and strengthen cybersecurity can enhance trust in digital technologies and online platforms, accelerating their adoption. Designing or updating Industry 4.0 plans in view of the new challenges the COVID-19 has created would be a good way to build such a coordinated approach.\nFor more details see:\nOECD (2020), “The role of online platforms in weathering the COVID-19 shock”, OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19), OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/2a3b8434-en.\nReferences:\nOECD (2020), Policy Options to Support Digitalisation of Business Models during COVID-19, Annex, http://www.oecd.org/sti/policy-options-to-support-digitalization-of-business-models-during-covid-19-annex.pdf\nOECD (2020a), Keeping the Internet up and running in times of crisis, http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/keeping-the-internet-up-and-running-in-times-of-crisis-4017c4c9/ (accessed on 9 October 2020).\nOECD (2020b), The potential of online learning for adults: Early lessons from the COVID-19 crisis, http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/the-potential-of-online-learning-for-adults-early-lessons-from-the-covid-19-crisis-ee040002/ (accessed on 9 October 2020).",
"The role of online platforms in weathering the COVID-19 shock",
"By Mauro Pisu, Hélia Costa, Hyunjeong Hwang, OECD Economics Department While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses, big and small, around the world to shut down and fire or furlough workers, others thrived. Online platforms that allow people and firms to buy and sell product and services through the internet and without physical contact…"
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By Miguel R. Gorman, OECD Washington Center, Patrick Lenain, OECD Economics Department, Carl Romer, Howard University and Ben Westmore, OECD Economics Department The inauguration of President Biden on January 20 in Washington, D.C, marked the launch of an ambitious policy agenda for the four-year mandate. As he made clear during his inaugural address, President Biden…
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By Miguel R. Gorman, OECD Washington Center, Patrick Lenain, OECD Economics Department, Carl Romer, Howard University and Ben Westmore, OECD Economics Department
The inauguration of President Biden on January 20 in Washington, D.C, marked the launch of an ambitious policy agenda for the four-year mandate. As he made clear during his inaugural address, President Biden has broad policy priorities in terms of health, jobs, income, climate and equity. If approved by Congress and fully implemented by his administration, these policies will boost the economic recovery in the short term and, in the medium term, will improve the wellbeing of Americans.
US economic situation in early 2021
The US economy has rebounded quickly since the second quarter of 2020, when workers in many states were ordered to stay at home and many businesses were ordered to shut their doors. GDP is now expected by the consensus of economists to have contracted by only 2.5% in 2020 (Q4 over Q4), a much less severe fall than feared initially. After jumping to 13% in May, the unemployment rate quickly dropped below 7% by the end of the year. Boosted by the large fiscal stimulus and monetary support, consumer demand has revived, putting the economy on a pathway toward recovery.
However, these average numbers do not tell the whole story: the pandemic has not impacted all Americans equally. While high-wage workers experienced the recession during only a few weeks and are now in near-normal employment conditions, others have been hit by job losses and are facing weak demand for their labour (Figure 1). Low-wage workers are still unemployed in sectors operating well below capacity such as hospitality, travel, tourism and entertainment. For them, unemployment benefits are essential to make ends meet.
Source: Chetty et al (2020), Opportunity Insights. Change in employment rates (not seasonally adjusted), indexed to January 4-31, 2020. This series is based on payroll data from Paychex and Intuit, worker-level data on employment and earnings from Earnin, and timesheet data from Kronos. The dotted line in the low-wage series is a prediction of employment rates based on Kronos data.
Combatting COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased the existing gaps in income and wealth separating those living in poverty from the well-offs. Job losses have also been disproportionately concentrated in Black and Latino communities, with women particularly hard hit. The pandemic has also highlighted the inadequacies of the health system, where many remain uninsured and even more are under-insured and unable to obtain adequate healthcare when needed.
With COVID-19 contagions and deaths still at record levels (Figure 2), a key priority of the Biden-Harris Administration will be to reduce the spread of the virus and high death tolls. Investment in contact tracing capacity will likely be increased via the US Public Health Jobs Corps, which will hire and deploy 100,000 public health workers. The new administration has also vowed to take a more active role in vaccine distribution, given much of the responsibility to date has been shouldered by state governments, without clear coordination. In the meantime, President Biden has halted the US withdrawal from the World Health Organisation.
Source: Refinitiv.
Fiscal stimulus
The new administration is also prioritising additional fiscal measures to support the economic recovery. The fiscal package of US$900 billion agreed at the end of 2020 is helpful, but insufficient, providing only modest support to the economy beyond Q1 2021. A new package worth US$1.9 trillion (9% of GDP) has been outlined, with spending largely distributed this year. The proposed fiscal package would include another direct cash payment to all Americans (US$1,400 per person), in addition to the previous two payments; it would expand emergency paid leave and unemployment programs, while increasing the minimum wage to US$15; it would extend a 15% increase of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; it would expand tax credits for children and child care and reducing health insurance premiums; it would offer grants and investment capital to small businesses; finally, as in some other OECD countries, it would provide funding to help victims of domestic violence. Some of these new initiatives, as well as those designed to contain the pandemic, would entail additional federal funding to state and local governments.
Making growth more inclusive and less carbon-intensive
President Biden has said that longer-term reforms will make growth more inclusive and less carbon intensive (Figure 3). This may include automatic unemployment insurance stabilizers and tax increases for high-income earners and corporations. In addition, significant increase in infrastructure spending could be legislated as well as investment to decarbonise the economy and mitigate climate change. Such pledges accord with the recommendations outlined in the 2020 OECD Economic Survey of the United States. President Biden re-joined the Paris Climate Agreement on the first day of his presidency and intends to introduce more stringent fuel efficiency standards and bolster the climate policies of federal agencies.
Source: OECD.
Working with international partners
President Biden has signalled he would approach international cooperation in a different way, with the objective to “repair alliances and engage with the world once again”. A renewed US commitment to work with international partners to address shared challenges will likely lead to a more ambitious agenda notably on COVID-19, global recovery, climate change, swelling debts in developing countries, trade imbalances, and international corporate taxation.
A bipartisan approach to the reform agenda?
Although President Biden enters office with a united government, his slim majority in both chambers of Congress may make it difficult to enact some aspects of his policy agenda. A simple majority is needed for legislation attached to the budget process (i.e. budget reconciliation legislation) and nominations to executive branch positions and judicial vacancies also only require a simple majority. However, changes not related to the budget, such as related to climate, immigration, minimum wages and labour regulations could be difficult to legislate if the filibuster remains in place (as it means legislation will need 60 votes to pass the Senate compared with the 51 effective votes Democrats currently hold). Similarly, the introduction of a public health insurance option may face resistance. A bi-partisan approach would be essential for all these policies.
The President has already started to act through Executive Orders. He has announced that he will reinstate environmental regulations. Furthermore, new measures including new appliance and building efficiency standards and changes to make federal government procurement more climate-friendly may be introduced via this pathway. Even so, it is possible that Executive Orders will face challenges in the courts.
What does this mean for the economy?
Overall, the stated policies of the incoming administration would – if implemented — likely boost economic growth in the short-term and make growth more inclusive and less carbon intensive in the medium-term. A well-timed fiscal stimulus would help avoid the recovery losing momentum in early 2021; instead of expanding by about 3½ percent (y-o-y) next year, as projected by the OECD, GDP growth could be notably stronger if much of the proposed stimulus is approved. The immigration and health care policies of the new administration are likely to increase potential labour resources, supporting growth and public finances. While stricter environmental standards may inhibit firm growth, this is typically not the case for more productive firms. Furthermore, such standards have the capacity to drive innovation in environmentally friendly technologies.
Further Reading
OECD information on the United States
OECD Economic Survey of the United States
OECD Economic Outlook, Country Note USA, December 2020
OECD Washington Center
President Biden’s Inaugural Address
President Biden’s American Rescue Plan
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"By Miguel R. Gorman, OECD Washington Center, Patrick Lenain, OECD Economics Department, Carl Romer, Howard University and Ben Westmore, OECD Economics Department\nThe inauguration of President Biden on January 20 in Washington, D.C, marked the launch of an ambitious policy agenda for the four-year mandate. As he made clear during his inaugural address, President Biden has broad policy priorities in terms of health, jobs, income, climate and equity. If approved by Congress and fully implemented by his administration, these policies will boost the economic recovery in the short term and, in the medium term, will improve the wellbeing of Americans.\nUS economic situation in early 2021\nThe US economy has rebounded quickly since the second quarter of 2020, when workers in many states were ordered to stay at home and many businesses were ordered to shut their doors. GDP is now expected by the consensus of economists to have contracted by only 2.5% in 2020 (Q4 over Q4), a much less severe fall than feared initially. After jumping to 13% in May, the unemployment rate quickly dropped below 7% by the end of the year. Boosted by the large fiscal stimulus and monetary support, consumer demand has revived, putting the economy on a pathway toward recovery.\nHowever, these average numbers do not tell the whole story: the pandemic has not impacted all Americans equally. While high-wage workers experienced the recession during only a few weeks and are now in near-normal employment conditions, others have been hit by job losses and are facing weak demand for their labour (Figure 1). Low-wage workers are still unemployed in sectors operating well below capacity such as hospitality, travel, tourism and entertainment. For them, unemployment benefits are essential to make ends meet.\nSource: Chetty et al (2020), Opportunity Insights. Change in employment rates (not seasonally adjusted), indexed to January 4-31, 2020. This series is based on payroll data from Paychex and Intuit, worker-level data on employment and earnings from Earnin, and timesheet data from Kronos. The dotted line in the low-wage series is a prediction of employment rates based on Kronos data.\nCombatting COVID-19\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has further increased the existing gaps in income and wealth separating those living in poverty from the well-offs. Job losses have also been disproportionately concentrated in Black and Latino communities, with women particularly hard hit. The pandemic has also highlighted the inadequacies of the health system, where many remain uninsured and even more are under-insured and unable to obtain adequate healthcare when needed.\nWith COVID-19 contagions and deaths still at record levels (Figure 2), a key priority of the Biden-Harris Administration will be to reduce the spread of the virus and high death tolls. Investment in contact tracing capacity will likely be increased via the US Public Health Jobs Corps, which will hire and deploy 100,000 public health workers. The new administration has also vowed to take a more active role in vaccine distribution, given much of the responsibility to date has been shouldered by state governments, without clear coordination. In the meantime, President Biden has halted the US withdrawal from the World Health Organisation.\nSource: Refinitiv.\nFiscal stimulus\nThe new administration is also prioritising additional fiscal measures to support the economic recovery. The fiscal package of US$900 billion agreed at the end of 2020 is helpful, but insufficient, providing only modest support to the economy beyond Q1 2021. A new package worth US$1.9 trillion (9% of GDP) has been outlined, with spending largely distributed this year. The proposed fiscal package would include another direct cash payment to all Americans (US$1,400 per person), in addition to the previous two payments; it would expand emergency paid leave and unemployment programs, while increasing the minimum wage to US$15; it would extend a 15% increase of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; it would expand tax credits for children and child care and reducing health insurance premiums; it would offer grants and investment capital to small businesses; finally, as in some other OECD countries, it would provide funding to help victims of domestic violence. Some of these new initiatives, as well as those designed to contain the pandemic, would entail additional federal funding to state and local governments.\nMaking growth more inclusive and less carbon-intensive\nPresident Biden has said that longer-term reforms will make growth more inclusive and less carbon intensive (Figure 3). This may include automatic unemployment insurance stabilizers and tax increases for high-income earners and corporations. In addition, significant increase in infrastructure spending could be legislated as well as investment to decarbonise the economy and mitigate climate change. Such pledges accord with the recommendations outlined in the 2020 OECD Economic Survey of the United States. President Biden re-joined the Paris Climate Agreement on the first day of his presidency and intends to introduce more stringent fuel efficiency standards and bolster the climate policies of federal agencies.\nSource: OECD.\nWorking with international partners\nPresident Biden has signalled he would approach international cooperation in a different way, with the objective to “repair alliances and engage with the world once again”. A renewed US commitment to work with international partners to address shared challenges will likely lead to a more ambitious agenda notably on COVID-19, global recovery, climate change, swelling debts in developing countries, trade imbalances, and international corporate taxation.\nA bipartisan approach to the reform agenda?\nAlthough President Biden enters office with a united government, his slim majority in both chambers of Congress may make it difficult to enact some aspects of his policy agenda. A simple majority is needed for legislation attached to the budget process (i.e. budget reconciliation legislation) and nominations to executive branch positions and judicial vacancies also only require a simple majority. However, changes not related to the budget, such as related to climate, immigration, minimum wages and labour regulations could be difficult to legislate if the filibuster remains in place (as it means legislation will need 60 votes to pass the Senate compared with the 51 effective votes Democrats currently hold). Similarly, the introduction of a public health insurance option may face resistance. A bi-partisan approach would be essential for all these policies.\nThe President has already started to act through Executive Orders. He has announced that he will reinstate environmental regulations. Furthermore, new measures including new appliance and building efficiency standards and changes to make federal government procurement more climate-friendly may be introduced via this pathway. Even so, it is possible that Executive Orders will face challenges in the courts.\nWhat does this mean for the economy?\nOverall, the stated policies of the incoming administration would – if implemented — likely boost economic growth in the short-term and make growth more inclusive and less carbon intensive in the medium-term. A well-timed fiscal stimulus would help avoid the recovery losing momentum in early 2021; instead of expanding by about 3½ percent (y-o-y) next year, as projected by the OECD, GDP growth could be notably stronger if much of the proposed stimulus is approved. The immigration and health care policies of the new administration are likely to increase potential labour resources, supporting growth and public finances. While stricter environmental standards may inhibit firm growth, this is typically not the case for more productive firms. Furthermore, such standards have the capacity to drive innovation in environmentally friendly technologies.\nFurther Reading\nOECD information on the United States\nOECD Economic Survey of the United States\nOECD Economic Outlook, Country Note USA, December 2020\nOECD Washington Center\nPresident Biden’s Inaugural Address\nPresident Biden’s American Rescue Plan",
"President Biden’s policy priorities and their impact on the economic outlook",
"By Miguel R. Gorman, OECD Washington Center, Patrick Lenain, OECD Economics Department, Carl Romer, Howard University and Ben Westmore, OECD Economics Department The inauguration of President Biden on January 20 in Washington, D.C, marked the launch of an ambitious policy agenda for the four-year mandate. As he made clear during his inaugural address, President Biden…"
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President explains simplifying measures in response to Covid-19
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In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Isani Cayetano about trying to simplify the various measures put in place to combat Covid-19.
See his response below.
FULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES
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https://btia.org/president-explains-simplifying-measures-in-response-to-covid-19/
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| 2020-12-31T00:00:00 |
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"President explains simplifying measures in response to Covid-19"
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President Talks CDC advisories, Gold Standard Certification and more
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In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar about the recent advisories issued by the CDC as well as the issues surrounding the Gold Standard Certification.
See his response below.
FULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES
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https://btia.org/president-talks-gold-standard-certification-and-more/
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| 2020-12-01T00:00:00 |
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"In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar about the recent advisories issued by the CDC as well as the issues surrounding the Gold Standard Certification.\nSee his response below.\nFULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES",
"President Talks CDC advisories, Gold Standard Certification and more"
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President discusses CDC’s Expanded Requirements
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Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it will require a negative COVID-19 test from all passengers arriving in the United States, as of January 26th, 2021. This will have severe impacts on Belize’s tourism sector.
In response to this new requirement, the Belize Tourism Board (BTB), after consultation with the Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness hereby confirms that testing will be expanded and made available to all passengers departing Belize for the U.S.
Further details including cost and testing locations across the country are being determined. All individuals who plan to visit Belize can therefore proceed with their travel plans.
The Belize Tourism Board recognizes that US travelers account for approximately 70% of visitors to Belize. We will continue to be guided by health protocols to welcome all visitors and ensure a safe experience from arrival to departure.
President Stewart Krohn of the Belize Tourism Industry Association (BTIA) spoke on the matter below.
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"Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it will require a negative COVID-19 test from all passengers arriving in the United States, as of January 26th, 2021. This will have severe impacts on Belize’s tourism sector.\nIn response to this new requirement, the Belize Tourism Board (BTB), after consultation with the Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness hereby confirms that testing will be expanded and made available to all passengers departing Belize for the U.S.\nFurther details including cost and testing locations across the country are being determined. All individuals who plan to visit Belize can therefore proceed with their travel plans.\nThe Belize Tourism Board recognizes that US travelers account for approximately 70% of visitors to Belize. We will continue to be guided by health protocols to welcome all visitors and ensure a safe experience from arrival to departure.\nPresident Stewart Krohn of the Belize Tourism Industry Association (BTIA) spoke on the matter below.",
"President discusses CDC’s Expanded Requirements"
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President Explains Position on Enforcing Bans and Tighter Restrictions
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In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar about BTIA’s position on the enforcement of bans and tighter restrictions on persons from countries where there is a high concern of Covid -19.
See his response below.
FULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES
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https://btia.org/president-explains-position-on-enforcing-bans-and-tighter-restrictions/
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"In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar about BTIA’s position on the enforcement of bans and tighter restrictions on persons from countries where there is a high concern of Covid -19.\nSee his response below.\nFULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES",
"President Explains Position on Enforcing Bans and Tighter Restrictions"
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President Aims Focus at the Easing of Visitor Entry Requirements
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In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar what he believes needs to be addressed as soon as possible as the industry heads into the peak season.
See his response below.
FULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES
Thumbnail Photo Credit: Tropic Air Belize
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"In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar what he believes needs to be addressed as soon as possible as the industry heads into the peak season.\nSee his response below.\nFULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES\nThumbnail Photo Credit: Tropic Air Belize",
"President Aims Focus at the Easing of Visitor Entry Requirements"
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President Addresses Local Tourism
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In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar to expand on the push to get Belizeans to travel this year and aid in providing some business to the tourism sector.
See his response below.
FULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES
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"In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar to expand on the push to get Belizeans to travel this year and aid in providing some business to the tourism sector.\nSee his response below.\nFULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES",
"President Addresses Local Tourism"
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President Communicates Ensuring Safety but Still Allowing Room for Economic Recovery
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In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar to communicate his message in terms of finding the balance between ensuring safety but still allowing room for economic recovery.
See his response below.
FULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES
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https://btia.org/president-communicates-ensuring-safety-and-allowing-room-for-economic-recovery/
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"In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar to communicate his message in terms of finding the balance between ensuring safety but still allowing room for economic recovery.\nSee his response below.\nFULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES",
"President Communicates Ensuring Safety but Still Allowing Room for Economic Recovery"
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President Discusses Unemployment Situation due to Covid-19
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In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar to talk about the unemployment situation seen from the tourism fallout.
See his response below.
FULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES
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https://btia.org/president-discusses-unemployment-situation-due-to-covid-19/
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| 2020-12-31T00:00:00 |
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"In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar to talk about the unemployment situation seen from the tourism fallout.\nSee his response below.\nFULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES",
"President Discusses Unemployment Situation due to Covid-19"
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President Addresses the Tourism High Season
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In his interview on 7 News Belize, President Stewart Krohn was asked about the current outrun of visitors in what should be the high season of the tourism Industry. See his response below.
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https://btia.org/president-addresses-the-tourism-high-season/
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| 2021-01-14T00:00:00 |
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"In his interview on 7 News Belize, President Stewart Krohn was asked about the current outrun of visitors in what should be the high season of the tourism Industry. See his response below.",
"President Addresses the Tourism High Season"
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President describes access to Loans and Grants
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In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar to give an update on the Finance area in terms of access to Tourism loans and grants.
See his response below.
FULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES
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https://btia.org/president-describes-access-to-loans-and-grants/
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| 2020-12-30T00:00:00 |
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"In his appearance on Open Your Eyes, President Stewart Krohn was asked by Host Marleni Cuellar to give an update on the Finance area in terms of access to Tourism loans and grants.\nSee his response below.\nFULL CREDITS TO OPEN YOUR EYES",
"President describes access to Loans and Grants"
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Limbaugh, Levin, and Glick abandon Twitter: 'The Left’s fascist purge is here'
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“I have suspended my own Twitter account in protest against Twitter’s fascism,” said Mark Levin.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Caroline Glick, and John Bongino are leaving Twitter voluntarily following the social media platform’s banning of President Donald Trump and many of his supporters on Friday.
Limbaugh completely deactivated his Twitter account. If any of Limbaugh’s 88.6 million followers visit his Twitter profile, they now see the simple message, “This account doesn’t exist.”
“I have suspended my own Twitter account in protest against Twitter’s fascism. I ask all my followers to join me now on Parler and Rumble,” tweeted Levin.
“The Left’s fascist purge is here,” he said on Parler.
“I joined Twitter because of President Trump. If he’s unacceptable to Twitter, Twitter is unacceptable to me. I’ll let you know when I’m set up at #Parler,” tweeted Glick.
“This will be my final post on this anti-American platform. The greatest threats to liberty are the destructive tech tyrants who have acted as publishers in their ongoing wars on conservatives & free speech,” tweeted Bongino, who is a Parler investor.
“If you’re still under the misguided, absurd belief that we live in a free country, then please seek help,” he said on Parler.
“We worked tirelessly at Parler to build an alternative to the Twitter and Facebook data pillagers and this successful enterprise was just severely damaged by the totalitarians at Apple and Google,” Bongino said, referring to Apple and Google’s recent removal of the Parler app from their app stores.
In addition, Amazon has announced that they are kicking Parler off their web-hosting service.
“Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch,” said Parler CEO John Matze.
“Amazon, Google and Apple purposefully did this as a coordinated effort knowing our options would be limited and knowing this would inflict the most damage right as President Trump was banned from the tech companies,” he said.
“They will NOT win! We are the world’s last hope for free speech and free information. What they are doing is unprecedented, unfounded and absolutely disgusting. Shameful,” said Matze.
“Where has everyone been @marklevinshow?” investigative journalist Laura Loomer asked on Parler.
Loomer, who refers to herself as “the most banned woman in the world,” was banned from Twitter in 2018. She has also been banned by Facebook, Instagram, Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Medium, TeeSpring, and Chase Bank.
“I filed a tortious interference lawsuit against Twitter years ago. I have also sued Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and last week I filed a petition with the Supreme Court to hear my anti-Trust case which was dismissed by the DC circuit court of appeals,” Loomer said.
Loomer said that Levin declined to have her come on his program to talk about her lawsuits, as did Fox News.
“Fox News has played a huge part in keeping conservatives censored. It’s inexcusable and a little too late now,” she said.
On Friday, Twitter permanently banned hundreds, if not thousands, of Trump supporters including Ali Alexander, Michael Coudrey, Gen. Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood, before banning the president himself.
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"“I have suspended my own Twitter account in protest against Twitter’s fascism,” said Mark Levin.\nBy Josh Plank, World Israel News\nConservative commentators Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Caroline Glick, and John Bongino are leaving Twitter voluntarily following the social media platform’s banning of President Donald Trump and many of his supporters on Friday.\nLimbaugh completely deactivated his Twitter account. If any of Limbaugh’s 88.6 million followers visit his Twitter profile, they now see the simple message, “This account doesn’t exist.”\n“I have suspended my own Twitter account in protest against Twitter’s fascism. I ask all my followers to join me now on Parler and Rumble,” tweeted Levin.\n“The Left’s fascist purge is here,” he said on Parler.\n“I joined Twitter because of President Trump. If he’s unacceptable to Twitter, Twitter is unacceptable to me. I’ll let you know when I’m set up at #Parler,” tweeted Glick.\n“This will be my final post on this anti-American platform. The greatest threats to liberty are the destructive tech tyrants who have acted as publishers in their ongoing wars on conservatives & free speech,” tweeted Bongino, who is a Parler investor.\n“If you’re still under the misguided, absurd belief that we live in a free country, then please seek help,” he said on Parler.\n“We worked tirelessly at Parler to build an alternative to the Twitter and Facebook data pillagers and this successful enterprise was just severely damaged by the totalitarians at Apple and Google,” Bongino said, referring to Apple and Google’s recent removal of the Parler app from their app stores.\nIn addition, Amazon has announced that they are kicking Parler off their web-hosting service.\n“Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch,” said Parler CEO John Matze.\n“Amazon, Google and Apple purposefully did this as a coordinated effort knowing our options would be limited and knowing this would inflict the most damage right as President Trump was banned from the tech companies,” he said.\n“They will NOT win! We are the world’s last hope for free speech and free information. What they are doing is unprecedented, unfounded and absolutely disgusting. Shameful,” said Matze.\n“Where has everyone been @marklevinshow?” investigative journalist Laura Loomer asked on Parler.\nLoomer, who refers to herself as “the most banned woman in the world,” was banned from Twitter in 2018. She has also been banned by Facebook, Instagram, Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Medium, TeeSpring, and Chase Bank.\n“I filed a tortious interference lawsuit against Twitter years ago. I have also sued Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and last week I filed a petition with the Supreme Court to hear my anti-Trust case which was dismissed by the DC circuit court of appeals,” Loomer said.\nLoomer said that Levin declined to have her come on his program to talk about her lawsuits, as did Fox News.\n“Fox News has played a huge part in keeping conservatives censored. It’s inexcusable and a little too late now,” she said.\nOn Friday, Twitter permanently banned hundreds, if not thousands, of Trump supporters including Ali Alexander, Michael Coudrey, Gen. Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood, before banning the president himself.",
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'Hang Mike Pence!' shouted mob at Capitol
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"'Hang Mike Pence!' shouted mob at Capitol"
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David Marcus of The Federalist tells Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that while Twitter quickly censors Trump supporters over the alleged danger of violence, it leaves up on its platform threats to Trump’s life and the police.
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Netanyahu scores own goal in election campaign gaffe
Netanyahu’s tweet of a sunrise backfired.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly didn’t expect that he was handing a small propaganda victory to his political opponents in the upcoming election when he tweeted the photo of a sunrise on Thursday morning.
Netanyahu tweeted the picture with the words: “Stunning sunrise photographed a few days ago in the Dagan neighborhood in Efrat – good morning!”
זריחה מהממת שצולמה לפני מספר ימים בשכונת הדגן באפרת – בוקר טוב! קרדיט: שמואל לנדאו@odedrevivi pic.twitter.com/C0hr9X20tL — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 28, 2021
The trouble is the leading opposition party, Yesh Atid, has been using a shining sun in its campaign.
The party’s members immediately retweeted the prime minister’s tweet, and even changed their profile descriptions to an orange sun.
Yair Lapid, leader of Yesh Atid, also added an orange sun emblem to his Twitter feed and retweeted the prime minister’s tweet:
Netanyahu’s tweet itself was a retweet from Oded Revivi, mayor of Efrat. Netanyahu’s retweet was undoubtedly a way to show support for the settlements ahead of the March 23 elections.
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"Netanyahu scores own goal in election campaign gaffe\nNetanyahu’s tweet of a sunrise backfired.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly didn’t expect that he was handing a small propaganda victory to his political opponents in the upcoming election when he tweeted the photo of a sunrise on Thursday morning.\nNetanyahu tweeted the picture with the words: “Stunning sunrise photographed a few days ago in the Dagan neighborhood in Efrat – good morning!”\nזריחה מהממת שצולמה לפני מספר ימים בשכונת הדגן באפרת – בוקר טוב! קרדיט: שמואל לנדאו@odedrevivi pic.twitter.com/C0hr9X20tL — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 28, 2021\nThe trouble is the leading opposition party, Yesh Atid, has been using a shining sun in its campaign.\nThe party’s members immediately retweeted the prime minister’s tweet, and even changed their profile descriptions to an orange sun.\nYair Lapid, leader of Yesh Atid, also added an orange sun emblem to his Twitter feed and retweeted the prime minister’s tweet:\nNetanyahu’s tweet itself was a retweet from Oded Revivi, mayor of Efrat. Netanyahu’s retweet was undoubtedly a way to show support for the settlements ahead of the March 23 elections.",
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The inscription was deciphered by Dr. Leah Di Segni of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and it refers to “Blessed Maria, who lived an immaculate life.”
By World Israel News Staff
Who was Maria, who died on 9 February some 1,400 years ago and whose burial stone has now been discovered in a park in the Negev?
A stone bearing an inscription in Greek from the end of the Byzantine period was discovered last weekend in the confines of the Nitzana National Park in the Negev.
The flat, round stone, c. 25 cm. in diameter, was used as a tombstone in one of the cemeteries surrounding the ancient settlement. The stone was found by a “Project 500” worker from the Israel Parks and Nature Authority while cleaning and preparing nature paths in the Nitzana National Park.
The stone was left at the head of the path when it was noticed by David Palmach, the director of the Nitzana Educational Village, who realized that it bore an inscription. Palmach photographed and collected it to prevent its being looted. He also contacted the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the inscription is being transferred to the National Treasuries Dept.
The inscription was deciphered by Dr. Leah Di Segni of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and it refers to “Blessed Maria, who lived an immaculate life” and died on February 9th. The stone dates from the late sixth–early seventh centuries CE.
According to Tali Erickson-Gini of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “Nitzana is renowned as a key site in research into the transition between the Byzantine and the Early Islamic periods. During the fifth and sixth centuries CE, Nitzana acted as a center for the villages and settlements in the vicinity. Among other things, it had a military fortress as well as churches, a monastery and a road station that served Christian pilgrims traveling to Santa Katarina, which believers regarded as the site of Mount Sinai.”
According to Dr. Erickson-Gini, Nitzana was founded in as early as the third century BCE as a Nabatean road station on a major trade route and the place was inhabited intermittently for about 1,300 years, until it was abandoned in the 10th century CE and its name was forgotten.
Archaeological excavations at the site in the 1930s unearthed a papyrus archive, and the name ‘Nessana’ was rediscovered. The burial-stone find, naming the deceased as Maria, joins other stones commemorating Christians buried in the churches and cemeteries around Nitzana that have been unearthed in excavations by the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, among others.
Israel Antiquities Authority Southern District archaeologist Pablo Betzer says, “Unlike other ancient towns in the Negev, very little is known about the burial grounds around Nitzana. The find of any inscription such as this may improve our definition of the cemeteries’ boundaries, thus helping to reconstruct the boundaries of the settlement itself, which have not yet been ascertained.”
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"The inscription was deciphered by Dr. Leah Di Segni of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and it refers to “Blessed Maria, who lived an immaculate life.”\nBy World Israel News Staff\nWho was Maria, who died on 9 February some 1,400 years ago and whose burial stone has now been discovered in a park in the Negev?\nA stone bearing an inscription in Greek from the end of the Byzantine period was discovered last weekend in the confines of the Nitzana National Park in the Negev.\nThe flat, round stone, c. 25 cm. in diameter, was used as a tombstone in one of the cemeteries surrounding the ancient settlement. The stone was found by a “Project 500” worker from the Israel Parks and Nature Authority while cleaning and preparing nature paths in the Nitzana National Park.\nThe stone was left at the head of the path when it was noticed by David Palmach, the director of the Nitzana Educational Village, who realized that it bore an inscription. Palmach photographed and collected it to prevent its being looted. He also contacted the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the inscription is being transferred to the National Treasuries Dept.\nThe inscription was deciphered by Dr. Leah Di Segni of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and it refers to “Blessed Maria, who lived an immaculate life” and died on February 9th. The stone dates from the late sixth–early seventh centuries CE.\nAccording to Tali Erickson-Gini of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “Nitzana is renowned as a key site in research into the transition between the Byzantine and the Early Islamic periods. During the fifth and sixth centuries CE, Nitzana acted as a center for the villages and settlements in the vicinity. Among other things, it had a military fortress as well as churches, a monastery and a road station that served Christian pilgrims traveling to Santa Katarina, which believers regarded as the site of Mount Sinai.”\nAccording to Dr. Erickson-Gini, Nitzana was founded in as early as the third century BCE as a Nabatean road station on a major trade route and the place was inhabited intermittently for about 1,300 years, until it was abandoned in the 10th century CE and its name was forgotten.\nArchaeological excavations at the site in the 1930s unearthed a papyrus archive, and the name ‘Nessana’ was rediscovered. The burial-stone find, naming the deceased as Maria, joins other stones commemorating Christians buried in the churches and cemeteries around Nitzana that have been unearthed in excavations by the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, among others.\nIsrael Antiquities Authority Southern District archaeologist Pablo Betzer says, “Unlike other ancient towns in the Negev, very little is known about the burial grounds around Nitzana. The find of any inscription such as this may improve our definition of the cemeteries’ boundaries, thus helping to reconstruct the boundaries of the settlement itself, which have not yet been ascertained.”",
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“I’m confident that by the end of the month, we’ll be back up,” Matze said.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
“Hello world, is this thing on?”
That was the message from Parler CEO John Matze that appeared online Jan. 17 on what is only a static website at this point. Parler also recovered the company’s data.
Matze told Fox News on Sunday, “I’m confident that by the end of the month, we’ll be back up.”
“When you go into Parler.com it doesn’t go into the void now, it hits a server, and it returns just one piece of information,” he said.
Along with the “hello, world” message, Matze wrote:
“Now seems like the right time to remind you all — both lovers and haters — why we started this platform. We believe privacy is paramount and free speech essential, especially on social media. Our aim has always been to provide a nonpartisan public square where individuals can enjoy and exercise their rights to both.
“We will resolve any challenge before us and plan to welcome all of you back soon. We will not let civil discourse perish!”
Parler appears to be hosted by domain registrar and web hosting company Epik.
Epik issued a statement on Jan. 11 coming down on the side of Parler after it lost its web host, saying, “While we could easily expound on the responsibilities of major media owners, and the impact their editorial malfeasance creates, when it comes to Parler, it is clear that there is an artificial standard that many now want to apply.”
On Jan. 10, Parler lost its web-hosting platform when Amazon Web Services (AWS) abruptly pulled the plug on the Twitter-like social media app, which has become popular with conservatives.
AWS said Parler was failing to moderate violent content on its site. Critics have noted that Parler seemed to be unfairly singled out given the amount of questionable content AWS does not police.
Also cutting off Parler were Apple and Google, the avenues by which people could download the app to their cellphones.
Matze said the tech giants were motivated by a desire to squelch conservative voices and to squash an up-and-coming tech challenger.
“This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place,” Matze wrote on Parler. “We were too successful too fast.”
Matze said he and his family left their home and went into hiding due to death threats resulting from his company’s “highly charged” dispute with AWS.
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"“I’m confident that by the end of the month, we’ll be back up,” Matze said.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\n“Hello world, is this thing on?”\nThat was the message from Parler CEO John Matze that appeared online Jan. 17 on what is only a static website at this point. Parler also recovered the company’s data.\nMatze told Fox News on Sunday, “I’m confident that by the end of the month, we’ll be back up.”\n“When you go into Parler.com it doesn’t go into the void now, it hits a server, and it returns just one piece of information,” he said.\nAlong with the “hello, world” message, Matze wrote:\n“Now seems like the right time to remind you all — both lovers and haters — why we started this platform. We believe privacy is paramount and free speech essential, especially on social media. Our aim has always been to provide a nonpartisan public square where individuals can enjoy and exercise their rights to both.\n“We will resolve any challenge before us and plan to welcome all of you back soon. We will not let civil discourse perish!”\nParler appears to be hosted by domain registrar and web hosting company Epik.\nEpik issued a statement on Jan. 11 coming down on the side of Parler after it lost its web host, saying, “While we could easily expound on the responsibilities of major media owners, and the impact their editorial malfeasance creates, when it comes to Parler, it is clear that there is an artificial standard that many now want to apply.”\nOn Jan. 10, Parler lost its web-hosting platform when Amazon Web Services (AWS) abruptly pulled the plug on the Twitter-like social media app, which has become popular with conservatives.\nAWS said Parler was failing to moderate violent content on its site. Critics have noted that Parler seemed to be unfairly singled out given the amount of questionable content AWS does not police.\nAlso cutting off Parler were Apple and Google, the avenues by which people could download the app to their cellphones.\nMatze said the tech giants were motivated by a desire to squelch conservative voices and to squash an up-and-coming tech challenger.\n“This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place,” Matze wrote on Parler. “We were too successful too fast.”\nMatze said he and his family left their home and went into hiding due to death threats resulting from his company’s “highly charged” dispute with AWS.",
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Biden nominated an apparent racist and anti-Semite to run the Department of Justice’s powerful Civil Rights Division.
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
The New York Times demonstrated the depths to which cancel culture has sunk when it played a role last month in helping to destroy the life of a young woman for an offensive remark she made when she was 15 years old.
The newspaper devoted space on the front page of a Sunday edition to tell the story of how a biracial young man saw a three-second video posted on Snapchat in which a white classmate used a racist slur. Rather than call out the offender at the time for using the “N”-word when celebrating getting her learner’s permit to drive, the teenager saved the video and decided to hold onto it until its release could do the most damage.
That moment arrived when the girl announced last spring that she had been accepted at the University of Tennessee and would have a spot on its cheerleading team. That happened right after the death of George Floyd at the end of May.
The girl posted her support for the Black Lives Matter movement on her Instagram account. But rather than realizing that the video from three years earlier was an unfortunate aberration, her classmate pounced. He denounced her and released the by now three-year-old three-second video that quickly went viral. In the ensuing furor, she became the object of widespread condemnation. Following a public outcry from alumni, the university rescinded her acceptance.
Months later, the Times revived the controversy and gave her denouncer another chance to trash the girl. He not only expressed no remorse about the consequences of what he had done, but boasted of “teaching her a lesson.”
Readers of the Times were left to conclude that in post-BLM America there is not only no statute of limitations for expressions of racism, and that consequences are also in order even for indiscretions committed by those who could not be held legally responsible for their actions in a court of law.
But while the Times was prepared to assist in the shaming of a white teenager for a slur, it appears that they have a very different standard when it comes to racism committed by a future government official.
Kristen Clarke nominated
Last week, President-elect Joe Biden picked Kristen Clarke for the crucial post of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. His choice of Clarke, a prominent African-American attorney and head of the left-wing advocacy group Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, was widely applauded by Democrats.
It meant that the Department of Justice’s powerful Civil Rights Division would be put in the hands of someone dedicated to supporting racial quota hiring and admissions policies. Clarke, a graduate of Harvard University, has been a prominent critic of the efforts by Asian-Americans to challenge that school’s policies that penalize them for their race because students from other more favored minority groups with lower grades and test scores are admitted instead of them. Indeed, Clarke was quoted in a 2019 Times story about the case.
But it was not until this week that it was discovered that Clarke had her own history of racism and anti-Semitism to explain.
In 1994, when a Harvard undergraduate, she wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson in which she declared her support for theories that claimed African-Americans were superior to whites, including the bizarre assertion that the amount of melanin a person had would account for differences in cognitive abilities.
According to Clarke, who was then president of Harvard’s Black Students Association, “Melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities—something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.”
Anti-Semite invite
Nor was that the only evidence of her prejudice. A month later, in her capacity as head of the Black Students Association, she invited Wellesley Professor Tony Martin to speak at Harvard. Martin was a rabid anti-Semite and Holocaust denier who had published a book called The Jewish Onslaught in which he attacked both Jews and Judaism. Clarke defended him in the Crimson saying, “Professor Martin is an intelligent, well-versed black intellectual who bases his information [i.e., his anti-Semitic slurs] on indisputable fact.”
Yet the same person who was spouting racism and supporting anti-Semitism is now about to be handed the keys to a government agency that is supposed to enforce civil-rights laws.
As of this writing, there is no available published evidence that Clarke has ever apologized for her behavior or renounced her views. Indeed, she appears to have gone on to a glittering career in legal advocacy including a stint as the head of civil-rights enforcement for the office of New York State’s Attorney General without having been asked to account for her past.
Indeed, in a gentler age before the Internet and social media, what future government leaders uttered, believed or did while in college were not put under a microscope. But as we saw with the Times story about a girl and her three-second video slur, if even an ordinary 15-year-old with nothing else newsworthy about her is considered fair game for shaming at the hands of the country’s leading newspaper, surely that must also be true for a nominee for a top job at the DOJ.
What other nominees for high office did when they were young has also been held against them during their confirmation hearings in recent years.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was publicly pilloried as a rapist because of uncorroborated accusations about something that may or may not have happened when he was in high school. In his case, his Democratic critics, including Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, were not only unprepared to treat him as innocent until proven guilty but also didn’t think his age at the time of the alleged incident mattered.
In another example, liberal opponents of Judge Naomi Rao’s nomination for the U.S. Court of Appeals asserted that she should not be confirmed in that position because of a supposedly controversial article she wrote while an undergraduate at Yale University about drinking and sexual misconduct, in which she asserted that women should be held accountable for what happens when they are drunk no less than men.
The fact that the woman that Biden thinks should be the government’s watchdog on racism was herself a published racist should have been taken into consideration when tapping her for the post. But so far, Clarke’s past doesn’t seem to be an issue for the incoming administration.
Democratic politicians who have praised Clarke’s nomination like Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Corey Booker (D-N.J.) haven’t rescinded their endorsements. And the Times, which roasted a teenager only weeks ago for far less, has not printed a word about the accusations in the days since the news about her hate speech became public.
Equally unsurprising, the ADL, whose job is supposedly to speak up against anti-Semitism, and which has found the time to involve itself in the battle over the impeachment of President Donald Trump, has also been silent.
Withdraw nomination
If Clarke were to publicly apologize for her racism and anti-Semitism, and if both parties were to agree that in the future they would no longer hold nominees accountable for their behavior in college and high school when considering confirmations, then it might be possible to give her a pass. But not only is such a ceasefire highly unlikely, her current illiberal views about racial quotas are impossible to separate from the racist mindset she demonstrated while she was a student leader at one of the most elite universities in the country.
If Biden wishes to be taken seriously as a foe of anti-Semitism and an opponent of racism — no matter from where it emanates — he must withdraw Clarke’s nomination. Putting a known racist and Jew-hater in charge of civil rights should not even be up for debate in a sane country. But if Clarke is confirmed, it will be an indication America has crossed a line towards legitimizing hate that should never be approached.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate.
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That happened right after the death of George Floyd at the end of May.\nThe girl posted her support for the Black Lives Matter movement on her Instagram account. But rather than realizing that the video from three years earlier was an unfortunate aberration, her classmate pounced. He denounced her and released the by now three-year-old three-second video that quickly went viral. In the ensuing furor, she became the object of widespread condemnation. Following a public outcry from alumni, the university rescinded her acceptance.\nMonths later, the Times revived the controversy and gave her denouncer another chance to trash the girl. He not only expressed no remorse about the consequences of what he had done, but boasted of “teaching her a lesson.”\nReaders of the Times were left to conclude that in post-BLM America there is not only no statute of limitations for expressions of racism, and that consequences are also in order even for indiscretions committed by those who could not be held legally responsible for their actions in a court of law.\nBut while the Times was prepared to assist in the shaming of a white teenager for a slur, it appears that they have a very different standard when it comes to racism committed by a future government official.\nKristen Clarke nominated\nLast week, President-elect Joe Biden picked Kristen Clarke for the crucial post of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. His choice of Clarke, a prominent African-American attorney and head of the left-wing advocacy group Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, was widely applauded by Democrats.\nIt meant that the Department of Justice’s powerful Civil Rights Division would be put in the hands of someone dedicated to supporting racial quota hiring and admissions policies. Clarke, a graduate of Harvard University, has been a prominent critic of the efforts by Asian-Americans to challenge that school’s policies that penalize them for their race because students from other more favored minority groups with lower grades and test scores are admitted instead of them. Indeed, Clarke was quoted in a 2019 Times story about the case.\nBut it was not until this week that it was discovered that Clarke had her own history of racism and anti-Semitism to explain.\nIn 1994, when a Harvard undergraduate, she wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson in which she declared her support for theories that claimed African-Americans were superior to whites, including the bizarre assertion that the amount of melanin a person had would account for differences in cognitive abilities.\nAccording to Clarke, who was then president of Harvard’s Black Students Association, “Melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities—something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.”\nAnti-Semite invite\nNor was that the only evidence of her prejudice. A month later, in her capacity as head of the Black Students Association, she invited Wellesley Professor Tony Martin to speak at Harvard. Martin was a rabid anti-Semite and Holocaust denier who had published a book called The Jewish Onslaught in which he attacked both Jews and Judaism. Clarke defended him in the Crimson saying, “Professor Martin is an intelligent, well-versed black intellectual who bases his information [i.e., his anti-Semitic slurs] on indisputable fact.”\nYet the same person who was spouting racism and supporting anti-Semitism is now about to be handed the keys to a government agency that is supposed to enforce civil-rights laws.\nAs of this writing, there is no available published evidence that Clarke has ever apologized for her behavior or renounced her views. Indeed, she appears to have gone on to a glittering career in legal advocacy including a stint as the head of civil-rights enforcement for the office of New York State’s Attorney General without having been asked to account for her past.\nIndeed, in a gentler age before the Internet and social media, what future government leaders uttered, believed or did while in college were not put under a microscope. But as we saw with the Times story about a girl and her three-second video slur, if even an ordinary 15-year-old with nothing else newsworthy about her is considered fair game for shaming at the hands of the country’s leading newspaper, surely that must also be true for a nominee for a top job at the DOJ.\nWhat other nominees for high office did when they were young has also been held against them during their confirmation hearings in recent years.\nU.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was publicly pilloried as a rapist because of uncorroborated accusations about something that may or may not have happened when he was in high school. In his case, his Democratic critics, including Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, were not only unprepared to treat him as innocent until proven guilty but also didn’t think his age at the time of the alleged incident mattered.\nIn another example, liberal opponents of Judge Naomi Rao’s nomination for the U.S. Court of Appeals asserted that she should not be confirmed in that position because of a supposedly controversial article she wrote while an undergraduate at Yale University about drinking and sexual misconduct, in which she asserted that women should be held accountable for what happens when they are drunk no less than men.\nThe fact that the woman that Biden thinks should be the government’s watchdog on racism was herself a published racist should have been taken into consideration when tapping her for the post. But so far, Clarke’s past doesn’t seem to be an issue for the incoming administration.\nDemocratic politicians who have praised Clarke’s nomination like Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Corey Booker (D-N.J.) haven’t rescinded their endorsements. And the Times, which roasted a teenager only weeks ago for far less, has not printed a word about the accusations in the days since the news about her hate speech became public.\nEqually unsurprising, the ADL, whose job is supposedly to speak up against anti-Semitism, and which has found the time to involve itself in the battle over the impeachment of President Donald Trump, has also been silent.\nWithdraw nomination\nIf Clarke were to publicly apologize for her racism and anti-Semitism, and if both parties were to agree that in the future they would no longer hold nominees accountable for their behavior in college and high school when considering confirmations, then it might be possible to give her a pass. But not only is such a ceasefire highly unlikely, her current illiberal views about racial quotas are impossible to separate from the racist mindset she demonstrated while she was a student leader at one of the most elite universities in the country.\nIf Biden wishes to be taken seriously as a foe of anti-Semitism and an opponent of racism — no matter from where it emanates — he must withdraw Clarke’s nomination. Putting a known racist and Jew-hater in charge of civil rights should not even be up for debate in a sane country. But if Clarke is confirmed, it will be an indication America has crossed a line towards legitimizing hate that should never be approached.\nJonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate.",
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Arab Israelis seen at a voting station during the Municipal Elections, Oct. 30, 2018, in Kafr Qasim. (Flash90/Roy Alima)
Over one-third of Israelis say they expect that the March 2021 elections will not change the political situation in Israel.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
As the Jewish state hurtles towards its fourth round of general elections in two years, many Israelis are feeling election fatigue.
The lack of motivation to participate in the democratic process is felt especially acutely in Israel’s Arab community.
According to a poll from the Israel Democracy Institute, just 39% of Arab citizens of Israel said they are planning to vote in the upcoming March 2021 elections.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched several outreach initiatives to win Arab votes for the Likud party.
“Just as I broke the Palestinian veto on relations with the Arab states, so I am breaking the Arab parties’ veto with the Arab citizens of Israel,” he reportedly said in a Likud internal meeting.
“I believe in [Zionist leader Ze’ev] Jabotinsky’s doctrine that all rights need to be given to every citizen in the State of Israel,” Netanyahu allegedly said. “We’re reaching out to Arab voters — vote for us.”
Netanyahu recently visited the Arab municipalities of Umm El-Fahm and Tira, and local media reported that Likud has reserved a slot on its list for an Israeli Arab educator, Nail Zoabi.
Jewish Israelis were more likely than Arab Israelis to say they plan on voting, with 69% saying they’re sure they’ll head to the polls.
Even with the announcement of several new parties poised to become powerhouses on their respective ends of the political spectrum, including the New Hope party headed by Likud breakaway Gideon Saar on the right and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai’s ‘The Israelis’ party on the left, many Israelis are skeptical about the chances of this election breaking the country’s long-standing political stalemate.
Over one-third, or 34.5% of Israelis said they believe it does not matter which party they vote for – they expect that the March 2021 elections will not change the political situation in Israel.
Fifty-six percent of Israelis – the majority polled – expressed pessimism about the future of democracy in Israel. Forty-seven percent of Israelis said they would not vote for the same party they voted for in the March 2020 elections just one year ago.
Israelis gave the government high scores for 2020’s peace and normalization agreements, with 57% saying the government did an excellent or good job with foreign policy.
However, just 24% said the government did a good job managing the coronavirus pandemic. 12% said the government had done a good job of uniting various social sectors, and 12% said the government had strengthened people’s trust in their leaders.
The survey polled 763 Israeli adults, with those surveyed accurately representing the Jewish state’s demographics. 612 of the participants answered questions in Hebrew and 151 answered in Arabic.
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Then Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Iran nuclear program, Oct. 3, 2013. (AP/Molly Riley)
Sherman played a key role in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Another sign the Biden administration intends to return to the JCPOA.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday announced that Wendy Sherman, one of the key negotiators of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, will become deputy secretary of state – another indication that the Biden Administration is putting an emphasis on reversing President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the controversial agreement.
Sherman served in the Obama administration under then Secretary of State John Kerry as the under secretary for political affairs, and was the lead American negotiator in the talks leading to the nuclear deal that was vigorously opposed at the time by Israel.
Sherman opposed the Trump administration’s May 2018 exit of the agreement. She said withdrawing made things worse. In May 2019, in an interview with PBS NewsHour, she appeared to side with Iran against the U.S., saying that “I wish the Trump administration were as measured in its approach” as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
After leaving politics when Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016, she became the director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Sherman is also a senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a Washington-based private firm run by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that according to its website advises “the world’s leading commercial and financial organizations.”
While her boss Kerry was pursuing his failed attempt at speed-brokering a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, Sherman was assigned to be the chief negotiator in the bid to get Iran to stop what was widely perceived to be their program to build nuclear weapons.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fiercely opposed the Iran Nuclear Deal, citing its many shortcomings and the fact that when the deal expired in 2030 it left Iran free to enrich uranium to weapons grade material with no restrictions.
One of the larger holes in the agreement dealt with inspections of Iran’s nuclear sites by the UN’s watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which Iran had repeatedly blocked from accessing suspected nuclear sites to confirm the Iranians were not violating international laws.
Obama national security advisor Ben Rhodes claimed the agreement had “an incredibly intrusive inspections regime,” but Sherman’s negotiating team agreed to an Iranian demand that the Islamic Republic be given a 24-day heads up to prepare for any “surprise” inspections.
Charles Duelfer, former special advisor to the Director of the CIA for weapons of mass destruction called the concession on surprise inspections one of the “fatal flaws” in the Iran nuclear deal. Given Iran’s long history of stonewalling IAEA inspectors, Israel was outraged by the concession while Sherman told reporters in July, 2015 that 24-days was for her a “very, very short time.”
Sherman may also have a credibility problem in dealing with the Israeli government if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins the upcoming March elections. In September of 2019 Sherman tweeted that the “Israel PM [is] out for himself.”
It’s not known yet if Sherman will have any input on the Israel-Palestinian issue, but last September she offered qualified congratulations on the Abraham Accords, which saw Israel sign breakthrough peace agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. (It later inked deals with Sudan and Morocco.)
Sherman tweeted she was “glad for the agreements between Israel and the UAE and Israel and Bahrain but neither @realDonaldTrump nor @IsraeliPM mentioned the Palestinians…”
However, on the same day as Sherman’s tweet Trump said he expected the Palestinians “will come to the table, 100 percent,” while Netanyahu praised Trump’s “realistic vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”
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The two met Monday evening in the Oval Office and had a “good conversation,” according to a senior administration official.
By Associated Press
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appear to have come to a détente after nearly a week of silence, anger and finger-pointing.
The two met Monday evening in the Oval Office and had a “good conversation,” according to a senior administration official.
It was their first time speaking since last Wednesday, when Trump incited his supporters to storm the Capitol building as Pence was presiding over certification of November’s election results. Pence and his family were forced into hiding.
During their conversation, the official said, Trump and Pence pledged to continue to work for “the remainder of their term” — a seeming acknowledgement that the vice president will not pursue efforts to try to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office with nine days left in his term.
On Friday, the Trump-Pence relationship was described as “pretty raw right now,” by one top GOP congressional aide, who detailed multiple phone calls in which Trump berated Pence and tried to pressure the vice president to use powers he does not possess to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Pence, for his part, was left feeling “hurt” and “upset” by the episode, according to people close to him. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
Pence’s decision to publicly defy Trump was a first for the notoriously deferential vice president, who has been unflinchingly loyal to Trump since joining the GOP ticket in 2016.
Pence has spent his tenure defending the president’s actions, trying to soothe anxious world leaders put off by Trump’s caustic rhetoric, and carefully avoiding the president’s ire.
Under normal circumstances, the vote-tallying procedure that began on Wednesday would have been a mere formality. But after losing court case after court case, and with no further options at hand, Trump and his allies zeroed in on the congressional tally as their last chance to try to challenge the race’s outcome.
In a bizarre interpretation of the law, they argued that the vice president had the unilateral power to reject Electoral College votes supporting Biden. The Constitution makes clear that only Congress has that power.
The effort effectively turned Pence into a scapegoat who could be blamed for Trump’s loss if the vice president refused to go along with the plan. Trump and his lawyers spent days engaged in an aggressive pressure campaign to force Pence to bend to their will in a series of phone calls and in-person meetings, including one that stretched for hours on Tuesday.
When Pence, who consulted with his own legal team, constitutional scholars and the Senate parliamentarian, informed Trump on Wednesday morning that he would not be going along with the effort, the president “blew a gasket,” in the words of one person briefed on the conversation.
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Iran flexing its military muscles in advance of expected negotiations with the Biden administration on its rogue nuclear program.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Iran launched a major military exercise Tuesday on its southern coast with a top general delivering subtle threats against the U.S. presence in the area, saying the goals of the maneuvers include testing Iran’s ability against “enemy naval targets.”
The multi-day exercise was under the command of Army Chief Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi and Ground Force’s Commander Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, who told Iran’s Fars News agency that the “infiltration operations on the surface and subsurface and moving towards enemy naval targets are among other programs of the maneuver.”
The U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet patrols the international waters off Iran, and the Iranians at one point built a mockup of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier that it used in war games last July to simulate an attack on American ships.
In 2019, Mousavi threatened that Iran would both destroy Israel and overthrow the United States.
“Everyone will witness the demise of the Zionist regime. That day is not far away,” Mousavi said at the time in comments reported by Iran’s Tasnim news agency. “The resistance front will overthrow America and the imperialist regime,” he added, with “resistance front” referring to Iran’s allies and proxy militias around the world.
The major military drill launched a day before the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden, who promised to bring the U.S. back into the Iran nuclear deal that President Donald Trump pulled out of in 2018 while reimposing harsh economic sanctions on Tehran.
During the election campaign Biden wrote an op-ed saying he would offer Iran “a credible path back to diplomacy,” and recently raised concerns when he appointed former top Iran negotiator Wendy Sherman as deputy Secretary of State.
While Trump had broad support from Republicans to ratchet up pressure on Iran, a large number of Democrats have been clamoring for Biden to immediately rejoin the nuclear deal even after Iran brazenly violated the terms earlier this month by announcing it was now enriching uranium to 20% purity.
“Bipartisanship on Iran policy remains dangerously weak, and it perfectly encapsulates the challenges and opportunities that President-elect Joe Biden will inherit when he takes office on Jan. 20,” former Sen. Joe Lieberman wrote earlier this month in an NBC op-ed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly urged America to keep up the pressure on Iran, telling visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin earlier this month that America must “prevent Iran from continuing its campaign of aggression and terror throughout the region” and prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms.
“If we just go back to the JCPOA, what will happen and may already be happening is that many other countries in the Middle East will rush to arm themselves with nuclear weapons. That is a nightmare and that is folly. It should not happen,” Netanyahu said.
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"Iran flexing its military muscles in advance of expected negotiations with the Biden administration on its rogue nuclear program.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nIran launched a major military exercise Tuesday on its southern coast with a top general delivering subtle threats against the U.S. presence in the area, saying the goals of the maneuvers include testing Iran’s ability against “enemy naval targets.”\nThe multi-day exercise was under the command of Army Chief Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi and Ground Force’s Commander Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, who told Iran’s Fars News agency that the “infiltration operations on the surface and subsurface and moving towards enemy naval targets are among other programs of the maneuver.”\nThe U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet patrols the international waters off Iran, and the Iranians at one point built a mockup of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier that it used in war games last July to simulate an attack on American ships.\nIn 2019, Mousavi threatened that Iran would both destroy Israel and overthrow the United States.\n“Everyone will witness the demise of the Zionist regime. That day is not far away,” Mousavi said at the time in comments reported by Iran’s Tasnim news agency. “The resistance front will overthrow America and the imperialist regime,” he added, with “resistance front” referring to Iran’s allies and proxy militias around the world.\nThe major military drill launched a day before the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden, who promised to bring the U.S. back into the Iran nuclear deal that President Donald Trump pulled out of in 2018 while reimposing harsh economic sanctions on Tehran.\nDuring the election campaign Biden wrote an op-ed saying he would offer Iran “a credible path back to diplomacy,” and recently raised concerns when he appointed former top Iran negotiator Wendy Sherman as deputy Secretary of State.\nWhile Trump had broad support from Republicans to ratchet up pressure on Iran, a large number of Democrats have been clamoring for Biden to immediately rejoin the nuclear deal even after Iran brazenly violated the terms earlier this month by announcing it was now enriching uranium to 20% purity.\n“Bipartisanship on Iran policy remains dangerously weak, and it perfectly encapsulates the challenges and opportunities that President-elect Joe Biden will inherit when he takes office on Jan. 20,” former Sen. Joe Lieberman wrote earlier this month in an NBC op-ed.\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly urged America to keep up the pressure on Iran, telling visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin earlier this month that America must “prevent Iran from continuing its campaign of aggression and terror throughout the region” and prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms.\n“If we just go back to the JCPOA, what will happen and may already be happening is that many other countries in the Middle East will rush to arm themselves with nuclear weapons. That is a nightmare and that is folly. It should not happen,” Netanyahu said.",
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Tens of thousands come to participate in the Tel Aviv marathon, but with coronavirus marathon organizers have invited runners to compete virtually this year. The winner receives a free trip to next year’s marathon.
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Mossad chief Yossi Cohen expected to discuss Iran’s nuclear program with President Joe Biden and incoming CIA director William Burns
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency will be heading to Washington next month to outline Israel’s concerns about Iran’s nuclear program to American leaders, Channel 12 reported Saturday.
Yossi Cohen, who is closely trusted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is expected to meet with President Joe Biden and incoming CIA director William Burns and will present both of them with a list of issues surrounding Biden’s stated goal to return the U.S. to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Israel had vehemently opposed.
President Donald Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018 and slapped harsh economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its continuing military involvement across the region and support of terrorism.
During the election campaign, Biden said he would work to return to the deal but was unclear as to whther he would make any new demands of Iran, which recently began enriching uranium to 20% purity. This step by the Iranians is seen as moving closer to having a stock that could be quickly enriched to weapons grade in order to produce atomic bombs.
Cohen will lead a delegation of officials from Israel’s foreign and defense ministries who will be bringing the latest Israeli intelligence on Iran’s nuclear ambitions in order to influence the American decision makers.
For Israel to support a U.S. return to a renewed nuclear deal with Iran, government sources told Channel 12, there are six demands, starting with an Iranian commitment to halt uranium enrichment and stop making more centrifuges. Another demand is for Iran to comply fully with inspections by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency and allow inspectors into all of its nuclear facilities.
Under the 2015 nuclear deal, the U.S. negotiators agreed to an Iranian demand that allows Iran to delay “surprise” nuclear inspections for 24 days, a decision harshly criticized by opponents to the deal as allowing Iran to effectively hide any nuclear work they are doing.
Israel also wants Iran to stop attacking Israeli targets abroad and to be blocked from supporting terror groups, especially Hezbollah in Lebanon, which parrots Iran’s calls for the destruction of Israel.
Israel is also demanding Iran withdraw its forces and stop interfering militarily in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Middle East security analyst Raz Zimmt of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University said there was little chance the Israeli demands would be accepted by the Biden administration, let alone Iran.
“I doubt the credibility of this report, but if it’s really true, there’s no need for Yossi Cohen to travel to the U.S.. Israel could just ask the new administration to go back to Pompeo’s 12 demands (and good luck with that!),” Zimmt tweeted, referring to Pompeo’s May 21, 2018 speech that offered Iran a series of dramatic potential U.S. concessions if it agreed to make “major changes” to the nuclear deal.
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"Mossad chief Yossi Cohen expected to discuss Iran’s nuclear program with President Joe Biden and incoming CIA director William Burns\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nThe director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency will be heading to Washington next month to outline Israel’s concerns about Iran’s nuclear program to American leaders, Channel 12 reported Saturday.\nYossi Cohen, who is closely trusted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is expected to meet with President Joe Biden and incoming CIA director William Burns and will present both of them with a list of issues surrounding Biden’s stated goal to return the U.S. to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Israel had vehemently opposed.\nPresident Donald Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018 and slapped harsh economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its continuing military involvement across the region and support of terrorism.\nDuring the election campaign, Biden said he would work to return to the deal but was unclear as to whther he would make any new demands of Iran, which recently began enriching uranium to 20% purity. This step by the Iranians is seen as moving closer to having a stock that could be quickly enriched to weapons grade in order to produce atomic bombs.\nCohen will lead a delegation of officials from Israel’s foreign and defense ministries who will be bringing the latest Israeli intelligence on Iran’s nuclear ambitions in order to influence the American decision makers.\nFor Israel to support a U.S. return to a renewed nuclear deal with Iran, government sources told Channel 12, there are six demands, starting with an Iranian commitment to halt uranium enrichment and stop making more centrifuges. Another demand is for Iran to comply fully with inspections by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency and allow inspectors into all of its nuclear facilities.\nUnder the 2015 nuclear deal, the U.S. negotiators agreed to an Iranian demand that allows Iran to delay “surprise” nuclear inspections for 24 days, a decision harshly criticized by opponents to the deal as allowing Iran to effectively hide any nuclear work they are doing.\nIsrael also wants Iran to stop attacking Israeli targets abroad and to be blocked from supporting terror groups, especially Hezbollah in Lebanon, which parrots Iran’s calls for the destruction of Israel.\nIsrael is also demanding Iran withdraw its forces and stop interfering militarily in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.\nMiddle East security analyst Raz Zimmt of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University said there was little chance the Israeli demands would be accepted by the Biden administration, let alone Iran.\n“I doubt the credibility of this report, but if it’s really true, there’s no need for Yossi Cohen to travel to the U.S.. Israel could just ask the new administration to go back to Pompeo’s 12 demands (and good luck with that!),” Zimmt tweeted, referring to Pompeo’s May 21, 2018 speech that offered Iran a series of dramatic potential U.S. concessions if it agreed to make “major changes” to the nuclear deal.",
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We’ve lost our way and haven’t taught our kids very well.
By Jackson Richman, JNS
Barry Moore, a Republican, was sworn in as a member of the 117th Congress on Jan. 3 after he defeated Democrat Phyllis Harvey-Hall on Nov. 3 in the U.S. House of Representatives election in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Martha Roby.
Previously, Moore, 54, who is married with three children, served in the Alabama House of Representatives. Before that, he founded a waste-hauling firm.
His support for Israel is driven by his Christian and conservative beliefs.
JNS talked with Moore by phone on Dec. 17. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Q: What’s your overall stance on the U.S.-Israel relationship?
A: For a long time, even in the Alabama legislature, I’ve been a strong supporter of Israel, and I’ll continue to be. The Bible is very clear—those who bless Israel will be blessed. That’s one of the things that’s fundamental to my faith.
Q: Do your Christian beliefs fully inspire your support for Israel?
A: I don’t think so. That is fundamental to my faith. We always want to see justice around the world, and any time a race or a party or a people are mistreated, it’s incumbent upon us to do the right thing and help those folks.
Q: What else inspires your support for Israel?
A: Just being a conservative. I think the conservatives I know, they stand with Israel, and they believe that President Trump has done a fantastic job of overarching support of Israel. It’s just one of those things as a conservative Republican—most of us support Israel and will continue to fight for its rights and freedoms.
Q: Have you ever been to Israel?
A: I’ve never been. I hope to go soon. I’ve never had the opportunity.
We have family members that have done some work in Israel. My wife’s first cousin has done a great deal of work in Israel over the years and works as a liaison from time to time. He would bring certain dignitaries from Israel, and they would speak at different churches around the country. He’s also lobbied for Israel’s rights in the U.S. Capitol.
Q: Regarding Iran, what’s your reaction to what U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has said about re-entering America into the nuclear deal if Tehran returns to compliance?
A: I think President Trump was smart to get us out of the Iran deal. I don’t think it was good for the country—certainly, not good for Israel and any of Israel’s allies. I hope that Biden will use the leverage that the Trump administration has built and not go back into the poorly formed agreement that they risk Israel’s security.
Q: What about the Iran nuclear deal did you not like?
A: Iran can’t be trusted. Iran poses a severe threat of peace and stability, and if we go back into the deal, we pull the leverage off the table.
Q: What’s your reaction to the rise in anti-Semitism at home and abroad?
A: It’s very troubling to me. It has to do a little with our nation and the moral decline in our country. I’m from the Bible Belt, and we truly believe that Israel is G-d’s chosen people. We’ve lost our way and haven’t taught our kids very well. Just the education system and not educating people on the Holocaust and what happened in World War II and what Hitler did to those people. It’s a combination of poor education and moral decline in our country that has allowed these generations to allow some abuses. Jewish people face a lot of enemies. The left in this country don’t seem to care for the Jewish people. President Trump signed an executive order combating anti-Semitism in December 2019, and I think we need to see that [kind of] leadership.
Q: What’s your stance on the BDS movement?
A: That’s just part of an anti-Semitic movement. It’s a way to try to get people to divest and to punish Israel, and to boycott and to use it as leverage. It’s one of those things I’m totally against. We need to stand against that sort of thing.
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The lawsuit also alleges Giuliani’s statements about Dominion and the election being stolen helped lead to the breach on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
By Associated Press
Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who led the former president’s efforts to question the validity of the 2020 election.
The lawsuit seeks more than $1.3 billion in damages for the voting machine company, a target for conservatives who said it was part of a massive election fraud scheme, blaming it for Trump’s loss and alleging that its systems were easily manipulated.
Dominion’s lawsuit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, is among the first major signs of fallout for the former president’s allies and the ultimately unsuccessful effort to question the results of the 2020 election.
“For Dominion — whose business is producing and providing voting systems for elections — there are no accusations that could do more to damage Dominion’s business or to impugn Dominion’s integrity, ethics, honesty, and financial integrity,” the lawsuit says.
“Giuliani’s statements were calculated to — and did in fact — provoke outrage and cause Dominion enormous harm.”
The suit is based on statements Giuliani made on Twitter, in conservative media and during legislative hearings where the former mayor of New York claimed the voting machine company conspired to flip votes to President Joe Biden.
Dominion provided machines for the state of Georgia, the critical battleground that Biden won and which gave Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.
“Dominion brings this action to set the record straight, to vindicate the company’s rights under civil law, to recover compensatory and punitive damages, and to stand up for itself, its employees, and the electoral process,” the lawsuit read.
Giuliani did not respond to a reporter’s message seeking comment.
During an episode of Giuliani’s podcast, he charged that “Dominion had stolen the election ‘technologically,’” the lawsuit alleges, and warned listeners that cybercriminals could steal the titles to their homes online.
Dominion has also sued Powell, who claimed that the company was created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late leader Hugo Chavez and that it has the ability to switch votes.
The lawsuit also alleges Giuliani’s statements about Dominion and the election being stolen helped lead to the breach on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
“Having been deceived by Giuliani and his allies into thinking that they were not criminals — but patriots ‘Defend(ing) the Republic’ from Dominion and its co-conspirators — they then bragged about their involvement in the crime on social media,” the lawsuit states.
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Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives, has become the target of Silicon Valley in the wake of last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol.
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Defense Minister Gantz approves new settlement construction but also permits Palestinian building in Area C.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday authorized Palestinian construction in areas controlled by Israel as well as building in Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, earning condemnation from the European Union and a pro-Israel organization.
The Planning and Building Subcommittee of the Civil Administration that manages land in Judea and Samaria approved construction plans that included an apparent agreement between Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the premier would not intervene in the decision to allow the Palestinian construction in Area C that is under total Israeli control, Globes reported.
The approval included a total of 792 housing units in eight settlements, as well as several Palestinian towns and villages in the Jerusalem area. One of the settlements is Tal Menashe, where the late Esther Horgan was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist last month, while two others are Jewish outposts that are not yet registered as settlements, but have already expanded or established permanent housing without previous permits.
Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Gantz’s Blue and White have been arguing over whether to legalize 46 settlements that were set up without government permission, with proceedings apparently frozen due to the Knesset dissolving last month and the country going to new elections.
The decision to approve the settlement housing brought an angry condemnation from the European Union, which issued a statement claiming the move was “contrary to international law and further undermines the prospects of a viable two-state solution.”
“At this critical juncture for peace in the Middle East, these moves are also counterproductive in light of the positive developments of normalization agreements between Israel and a number of Arab States,” the EU statement said.
“We call upon the Government of Israel to reverse these decisions on settlements and show leadership to rebuild trust and confidence between the parties, which is necessary for an eventual resumption of meaningful Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.”
Gantz’s approval of Palestinian construction elicited a strong rebuke from Regavim, a pro-Israel organization that monitors illegal Palestinian construction. Regavim slammed Gantz “for ‘whitewashing’ of illegal Palestinian construction in Area C,” saying the decision was made without cabinet approval.
“Gantz ignored Israeli interests as outlined by the government,” Regavim tweeted. “Essentially, he has facilitated the methodical, organized, PA-orchestrated takeover of parts of Israel’s ancestral homeland – parts that are under Israeli jurisdiction, according to international law.”
The approvals came as settlement representatives continued a hunger strike in front of the the Knesset in Jerusalem demanding the government approve their communities so they can be formally connected to utilities.
In the ongoing battle for facts on the ground, both Israelis and Palestinians have bypassed the convoluted approval process for construction, albeit for different reasons. Frustrated with delays or construction freezes often imposed for diplomatic reasons, some settlements have simply launched construction without approval.
The Palestinians as a policy generally refuse to cooperate with the Israeli authorities who by previous agreement are responsible for construction in Area C that comprises roughly 60% of Judea and Samaria that is under total Israeli control. Area A comprises 20% and is under total Palestinian control, while the two sides share security responsibilities for Area B.
The committee approved Palestinian construction that did not receive prior approval for security and other reasons. According to Regavim, the Palestinian construction includes hundreds of unlicensed buildings in the village of Hizma north of Jerusalem, and the villages of Wallaja and Beit Jala on the outskirts of Bethlehem.
Gantz did not respond to requests from Likud Minister of Settlement Affairs Tzahi Hanegbi to delay these approvals until the cabinet is approved. Hanegbi and right-wing groups have warned that the extensive illegal Palestinian construction in Israeli-controlled areas is designed to connect a ring of towns controlled by the Palestinian Authority. They claim the plans submitted for approval are laundering the illegal Palestinian construction and were budgeted by the Palestinian Authority for that purpose.
Political sources say that the issue is being discussed by Netanyahu and Gantz and that “international factors” are also involved in pressuring Israel to authorize building permits for Palestinian towns in Area C, Globes reported.
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference on the day after violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
The House action could start as soon as Monday as Democrats attempt to pressure Trump to step aside.
By AP and World Israel News Staff
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke constitutional authority to force him out, warning that Trump is a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol.
The House action could start as soon as Monday as Democrats attempt to pressure Trump to step aside. A Republican senator, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, joined Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in calling for Trump to “resign and go away as soon as possible.”
A stunning end to Trump’s final 10 days in office was underway as mainly Democratic lawmakers warned of the damage the president could still do before Joe Biden was inaugurated Jan. 20. Trump, holed up at the White House, was increasingly isolated after a mob rioted in the Capitol in support of his claims of election fraud.
“We will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat,” Pelosi said in a letter late Sunday to colleagues.
“The horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.”
On Monday, Pelosi’s leadership team will seek a vote on a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence and Cabinet officials to invoke the 25th Amendment, with a full House vote expected on Tuesday.
After that, Pence and the Cabinet would have 24 hours to act before the House would move toward impeachment.
During an interview on “60 Minutes” aired Sunday, Pelosi invoked the Watergate era when Republicans in the Senate told President Richard Nixon, “It’s over.”
“That’s what has to happen now,” she said.
With impeachment planning intensifying, Toomey said he doubted impeachment could be done before Biden is inaugurated, even though a growing number of lawmakers say that step is necessary to ensure Trump can never hold elected office again.
“I think the president has disqualified himself from ever, certainly, serving in office again,” Toomey said. “I don’t think he is electable in any way.”
Murkowski, long exasperated with the president, told the Anchorage Daily News on Friday that Trump simply “needs to get out.” A third, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., did not go that far, but on Sunday he warned Trump to be “very careful” in his final days in office.
Others were leery of impeachment. Rep. Nancy Mace, (R-S.C.), told NBC News “snap impeachment” might be like “pouring gasoline on the fire.”
Sen. Roy Blunt, (R-Mo.), said Trump should finish out the final 10 days of his term.
Sen. Lindsey Grahan, R-SC., also said Trump should be allowed to finish. Having spoken to him at length after the Capitol riot, he said Trump was now focused on highlighting his contributions as president. He has urged President-elect Joe Biden to tell House Democrats to back off impeachment as it will only further divide America.
Sen. Marco Rubio, (R-Fla.) said that instead of coming together, Democrats want to “talk about ridiculous things like ‘Let’s impeach a president’” with just days left in office.
House Democrats are boring ahead. They are expected to introduce articles of impeachment on Monday. The strategy would be to condemn the president’s actions swiftly but delay an impeachment trial in the Senate for 100 days. That would allow President-elect Joe Biden to focus on other priorities as soon as he is inaugurated Jan. 20.
Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat and a top Biden ally, laid out the ideas Sunday as the country came to grips with the siege at the Capitol by Trump loyalists.
“Let’s give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running,” Clyburn said.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, (R-Ky.) has said an impeachment trial could not begin under the current calendar before Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz has been vocal against the impeachment process, saying it’s not possible to impeach a normal citizen, which is what Trump would be after he leaves office.
The Democratic effort to stamp Trump’s presidential record — for the second time — with the indelible mark of impeachment had advanced rapidly since the riot.
Rep. David Cicilline, (D-R.I.) a leader of the House effort to draft impeachment articles accusing Trump of inciting insurrection, said Sunday that his group had 200-plus co-sponsors.
The articles, if passed by the House, could then be transmitted to the Senate for a trial, with senators acting as jurors to acquit or convict Trump. If convicted, Trump would be removed from office and succeeded by the vice president. It would be the first time a U.S. president had been impeached twice.
Potentially complicating Pelosi’s decision about impeachment was what it meant for Biden and the beginning of his presidency. While reiterating that he had long viewed Trump as unfit for office, Biden on Friday sidestepped a question about impeachment, saying what Congress did “is for them to decide.”
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Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in calling for Trump to “resign and go away as soon as possible.”\nA stunning end to Trump’s final 10 days in office was underway as mainly Democratic lawmakers warned of the damage the president could still do before Joe Biden was inaugurated Jan. 20. Trump, holed up at the White House, was increasingly isolated after a mob rioted in the Capitol in support of his claims of election fraud.\n“We will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat,” Pelosi said in a letter late Sunday to colleagues.\n“The horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.”\nOn Monday, Pelosi’s leadership team will seek a vote on a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence and Cabinet officials to invoke the 25th Amendment, with a full House vote expected on Tuesday.\nAfter that, Pence and the Cabinet would have 24 hours to act before the House would move toward impeachment.\nDuring an interview on “60 Minutes” aired Sunday, Pelosi invoked the Watergate era when Republicans in the Senate told President Richard Nixon, “It’s over.”\n“That’s what has to happen now,” she said.\nWith impeachment planning intensifying, Toomey said he doubted impeachment could be done before Biden is inaugurated, even though a growing number of lawmakers say that step is necessary to ensure Trump can never hold elected office again.\n“I think the president has disqualified himself from ever, certainly, serving in office again,” Toomey said. “I don’t think he is electable in any way.”\nMurkowski, long exasperated with the president, told the Anchorage Daily News on Friday that Trump simply “needs to get out.” A third, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., did not go that far, but on Sunday he warned Trump to be “very careful” in his final days in office.\nOthers were leery of impeachment. Rep. Nancy Mace, (R-S.C.), told NBC News “snap impeachment” might be like “pouring gasoline on the fire.”\nSen. Roy Blunt, (R-Mo.), said Trump should finish out the final 10 days of his term.\nSen. Lindsey Grahan, R-SC., also said Trump should be allowed to finish. Having spoken to him at length after the Capitol riot, he said Trump was now focused on highlighting his contributions as president. He has urged President-elect Joe Biden to tell House Democrats to back off impeachment as it will only further divide America.\nSen. Marco Rubio, (R-Fla.) said that instead of coming together, Democrats want to “talk about ridiculous things like ‘Let’s impeach a president’” with just days left in office.\nHouse Democrats are boring ahead. They are expected to introduce articles of impeachment on Monday. The strategy would be to condemn the president’s actions swiftly but delay an impeachment trial in the Senate for 100 days. That would allow President-elect Joe Biden to focus on other priorities as soon as he is inaugurated Jan. 20.\nRep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat and a top Biden ally, laid out the ideas Sunday as the country came to grips with the siege at the Capitol by Trump loyalists.\n“Let’s give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running,” Clyburn said.\nSenate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, (R-Ky.) has said an impeachment trial could not begin under the current calendar before Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.\nAttorney Alan Dershowitz has been vocal against the impeachment process, saying it’s not possible to impeach a normal citizen, which is what Trump would be after he leaves office.\nThe Democratic effort to stamp Trump’s presidential record — for the second time — with the indelible mark of impeachment had advanced rapidly since the riot.\nRep. David Cicilline, (D-R.I.) a leader of the House effort to draft impeachment articles accusing Trump of inciting insurrection, said Sunday that his group had 200-plus co-sponsors.\nThe articles, if passed by the House, could then be transmitted to the Senate for a trial, with senators acting as jurors to acquit or convict Trump. If convicted, Trump would be removed from office and succeeded by the vice president. It would be the first time a U.S. president had been impeached twice.\nPotentially complicating Pelosi’s decision about impeachment was what it meant for Biden and the beginning of his presidency. While reiterating that he had long viewed Trump as unfit for office, Biden on Friday sidestepped a question about impeachment, saying what Congress did “is for them to decide.”",
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After ultra-Orthodox rioters torch bus, attack police, Chief Rabbi says they desecrate God and do not represent the majority.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The Chief Rabbi of Israel in an exceptional public statement Monday lashed out at ultra-Orthodox Jewish rioters, saying there was no justification for their violence that was a blasphemy against God.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef issued a video statement after rioters in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak attacked police Sunday evening who were attempting to enforce coronavirus health restrictions, burning a passenger bus in Bnei Brak and damaging a light rail passenger train in Jerusalem.
“I have heard with great pain and shock about the severe violence and the blasphemy that has taken place in recent days in several places around the country,” Rabbi Yosef said. “This is violent behavior of a handful of youths who are detached from Torah, decency, and good character.”
“Certainly there is no justification for such serious acts,” he stressed. “Those who do such acts in the name of Torah are desecrating God’s Name in public …This minority stains the image of the entire haredi population, the vast majority of whom are very far from behaviors such as these.”
Several extremist sects in ultra-orthodox communities around the country ordered their followers to ignore coronavirus lockdown restrictions which closed schools and prohibited indoor gatherings greater than five people – forcing synagogues to hold daily prayers outside.
Over the past weeks there have been repeated clashes with ultra-Orthodox groups who refuse to abide by the restrictions, even as coronavirus infections rates soar in those communities, in part due to the violations of health guidelines.
“I expect all Israeli citizens to adhere to the guidelines, and this includes all sectors, including the ultra-Orthodox sector,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted Sunday. “I must point out that most of the ultra-Orthodox sector adheres to the guidelines, but there are exceptions, and exceptions that work in an unacceptable way.”
The police said they will not be dissuaded from carrying out their mission.
“For several months now, Israeli police officers have been enforcing corona regulations for public health,” police said in a statement. “This is a complex and unappreciated task, but we will continue to carry it out on an equal basis throughout the country, out of a sense of mission for the public.”
“In recent weeks we have witnessed severe, unbridled and dangerous violence directed at police officers by a group of extremists,” the statement said, adding that several police officers had been injured and rioters were even recruiting children to thwart the enforcement.
“Violence of any kind will not deter the Israel Police from continuing to carry out its role, as required of it. Violence against police officers or civilians will encounter determined and uncompromising enforcement,” the police said.
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Home of Esther Horgan's killer slated for demolition, IDF says
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Mother of six Esther Horgan (l) was killed near her village of Tal Menashe by Muhammad Cabha (r). (Courtesy/Shin Bet)
Muhammad Cabha, 40, admitted to killing Horgan on Dec. 20.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The Israeli Army intends to demolish two floors where the terrorist lived who murdered Esther Horgan, the IDF said on Wednesday.
Muhammad Cabha, 40, admitted to killing Horgan on Dec. 20. He had decided six weeks previously to kill a Jew in retaliation for the loss of a friend who had died in an Israeli prison. Cabha has previously served time for terrorist-related activity.
Cabha searched for a location to carry out his despicable act, settling on a break in the security fence between Israel and Palestinian Authority areas. When he later saw Horgan running alone on her morning jog in the vicinity, he attacked her, killing her by smashing her head with a rock.
Her body was found in the early hours of Dec. 21 after her family reported her missing and a search had been launched.
Horgan worked as an artist and marriage counselor. She was a mother of six. She was buried on Dec. 22.
Demolishing terrorists’ homes is meant as a deterrent to future attackers but there are questions about its efficacy and its legality. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports the practice and has worked to speed up the time it takes from the terror act to the actual demolition of the terrorist’s home.
There has been pushback from Israel’s Supreme Court, however. Most recently last August, the court overturned an IDF decision to demolish the home of Nazmi Abu Bakr, who killed Sgt. First Class Amit Ben-Yigal by throwing a stone down at him from a building. The court’s move was unpopular with the general public.
The criticism led Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to instruct prosecutors to urge the court to hold another hearing on the issue. The court rejected the motion.
It’s not yet known if a challenge will be brought against the IDF’s decision in the Horgan case.
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Known activist John Sullivan claimed he was inside in order to “document” the event, but was overheard egging rioters on.
By World Israel News Staff
A left-wing activist who said last week that he followed a pro-Trump mob into the Capitol in order to “document” the siege was arrested by police and charged with three offenses for taking an active role in the events, Fox News reported Friday.
In video he himself provided to the FBI, John Earle Sullivan from Utah can allegedly be heard encouraging people to break into the Capitol. He also posted the videos on his social media accounts under the pseudonym Jayden X.
Last week Sullivan, the founder of a Utah-based left-wing group called Insurgence USA, told Fox News he entered the Capitol building to “document” the event in order to dispute “this narrative going around” that Antifa instigators had played a role in the riot.
Instead, Sullivan appears to have incriminated himself. The Department of Justice charged him with knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds, and interfering with law enforcement officers during the commission of civil disorder.
Sullivan denied ties to Antifa, but in recent interviews Insurgence USA advertised an event called “Kick These Fascists out of DC” on Jan. 6 around the same time as a pro-Trump rally near the National Mall that preceded the Capitol chaos, Fox reported.
Inside the building, he is heard telling rioters, “We got to get this s— burned,” and “it’s our house m————,” according to an FBI affidavit.
Sullivan told Rolling Stone last week that he was putting on an act to build rapport with the protesters, saying, “I had to relate to these people and build trust in the short amount of time I had there to get where I need to go … to the front of the crowd to see the dynamic between the police and the protesters, because nobody wants to see the backs of peoples’ heads from a far-off distance.”
It was Sullivan’s video on Twitter that showed the moment a Capitol police officer fatally shot Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt during the riot, and FBI investigators used the video to confirm Sullivan’s location inside the building.
Sullivan was still in custody Thursday and could not be reached for comment, Fox reported.
“We are fully committed to hold those who engaged in criminal acts accountable,” Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said at an FBI briefing Thursday. “Security preparations for the presidential inauguration and peaceful transfer of power continue, and we will have absolutely no tolerance whatsoever for any attempts to disrupt any aspect of the inauguration or associated events leading up to, on, and following January 20.”
In a statement Thursday, the Department of Justice said 34 people have been arrested so far “for their alleged criminal conduct during the attack on the Capitol Building,” and the FBI has opened approximately 200 subject case files.
Aside from Sullivan, the other 34 arrested included retired firefighter Robert Sanford of Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, who was charged with assault after being seen in a video allegedly throwing a fire extinguisher that hit three Capitol police officers. Although Sanford’s attorney said his client wasn’t involved in any right-wing extremist groups, prosecutors said a Proud Boys shirt was found in his home, CBS News reported.
The man filmed carrying a Confederate flag in the Capitol was arrested Thursday morning in Delaware, ABC News reported. Kevin Seefried was charged with illegally entering the building as well as violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and depredation of government property.
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Yemina insiders said that Smotrich demanded four slots for his faction in Yemina’s future slate, while Bennett insisted on only two.
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Israel’s New Right Party leader Naftali Bennett and National Union head Bezalel Smotrich officially parted ways on Monday, after a week of reported tensions between the two over the Yemina alliance’s direction ahead of the March 23 elections.
Yemina insiders said that Smotrich demanded four slots for his faction in Yemina’s future slate, while Bennett insisted on only two.
Announcing the split, Smotrich said he and Bennett were “going our separate ways,” adding that Bennett was focused on the economy while he was set on “uniting the religious-Zionist sector, and chiefly to be the ideological right-wing voice in the Knesset.”
The New Right sufficed with a tweet saying, “Smotrich has chosen to split the right. We wish him the best of luck going forward.”
Yemina was formed ahead of the April 2019 elections as a faction comprising the New Right, Jewish Home and National Union parties. After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to invite Bennett to join the coalition following the September 2020 elections, Yemina headed for the opposition, at which point Jewish Home broke with it, joining the coalition.
Recent polls, however, predict that Jewish Home will be unable to pass the prerequisite four-seat electoral threshold. Last week, party leader Rafi Peretz announced he was exiting politics.
While it is unclear who will lead the party or even if it plans to vie for the next Knesset, Bennett is said to be in negotiations with its members to join him, either as New Right members or as a faction in Yemina.
A poll published by Radio 103 FM on Monday gave the National Union, running on its own, four seats — the minimal number of seats necessary to pass the electoral threshold. Yemina, without the hawkish Smotrich, was projected to win 17 seats, positioning it as the second-largest faction in parliament.
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“While social media has proved a useful vehicle for sharing information quickly, I have concluded that it does more harm than good to individuals and society alike,” he writes.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) says he’s taking indefinite leave from social media, in part because he saw how Jews in Israel celebrated their Sabbath. He made his announcement in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Jan. 11.
“We were inspired by seeing our Jewish brethren in Israel celebrate Shabbat, which reminded us of the Sundays we grew up with in the 1970s and ’80s,” he writes. “Ever since, one-seventh of our time has been immeasurably better, and Sunday dinner is a highlight of our week.”
Roy says his decision to cut his internet ties is about building stronger ties with his family and community.
He writes, “I’m doing so not to make a political statement, but in the hope that America can return to kitchen tables, churches, taverns, coffee shops, dance halls (it’s a Texas thing) — whatever it takes to look others in the eye and rebuild our communities and humanity.”
Roy’s message may find more resonance at this time than at others as the country is passing through a tense political period following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Questions have also risen about how much power Big Tech wields as social media giants delete citizen’s accounts, including President Donald Trump’s, and for actions against a pugnacious start-up, Parler.
Roy did not address Big Tech’s actions following the riot, but he discussed the negative impact social media has had on public discourse.
“While social media has proved a useful vehicle for sharing information quickly, I have concluded that it does more harm than good to individuals and society alike,” he writes.
“It tempts us to be reactive and feeds the worst of our human tendency to respond in anger rather than to stop and think before communicating,” he adds.
He suggests it brings out the worst in people and dehumanizes them.
“It reduces the value of communication to statements graded by ‘likes’ or being ‘ratioed,’ and other mechanisms that don’t reflect real human response or quality of thought,” he said.
“It has politicized communication to an unhealthy level, widened divisions rather than bridge them, and fed the temptation to call for censorship of views we find disagreeable.”
“Of all God’s earthly creations, man is the only one with rational speech, but we used to have a better way to communicate with each other. Let us dine together. Let us look each other in the eye. Let us sit down and talk again,” Roy concludes.
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An orthodox Jew and a boy pass two police officers in Antwerp, Belgium, May 25, 2014, days after deadly attack on Jewish Museum in Brussels. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
Jewish boy attacked by assailant in Belgian city of Antwerp days after mayor’s warning of “wave of anti-Semitism.”
By The Algemeiner
Police in the Belgian city of Antwerp reportedly arrested a man on Wednesday night for physically assaulting a 13-year-old Haredi Jewish boy outside his home.
The assailant approached the boy on the corner of the Belgiëlei and Haringrodestraat streets in Antwerp, the Orthodox journal Hamodia reported. The paper said that the boy screamed when the assailant grabbed him by the throat, causing his father to immediately rush outside.
The attacker then turned his attention to the boy’s father, grabbing him by his peyos (sidelocks) and pulling him down to the ground. At that point, members of the Antwerp Shmira Jewish community response team “engaged the attacker and neutralized him, restraining him until police arrived,” Hamodia said.
The attack came two days after Antwerp Mayor Bart De Wever asserted that the city’s large orthodox Jewish community risked a “wave of anti-Semitism” because of the alleged non-compliance with COVID-19 social distancing and testing requirements by many of its members.
De Wever’s remark caused offense to some in the Jewish community, who charged the mayor with singling out Jews alone.
“As a member of the community, I can no longer remain silent and am writing this letter to you,” Simon Stern — a member of the Antwerp community — declared in an open letter to De Wever.
“Our community is on average no less compliant with the measures than the rest of the population,” Stern pointed out.
Stern argued that De Wever’s references to “Jewish schools” and the city’s “Jewish quarter” were simply fueling the coronavirus-related anti-Semitism that has surfaced in Belgium and other European nations.
“Instead of participating in it yourself, you should condemn it decisively,” Stern told De Wever. “And you should certainly not blame the community for anti-Semitism. You are a wise politician and we expect better from you.”
On Wednesday, De Wever was photographed at a COVID-19 testing center alongside Chief Rabbi Aron Schiff of Machsike Hadass, the umbrella organization representing Antwerp’s Orthodox Jews. Their joint appearance followed De Wever’s criticism of the Jewish community for allegedly not responding to a mailed call to 6,500 residents of Antwerp’s Jewish quarter to test for the virus over the weekend.
After being tested himself, Rabbi Schiff told journalists that “the health of the people always comes first.”
“Even on the Sabbath, the day of rest, you have to save a human life if the need arises,” Schiff said.
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Want to leave the country with a negative result in hand? It’s just a few clicks away.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
An investigation by Kan News Sunday has revealed that a fake negative Covid-19 test result is just a few clicks away on your phone or computer, and cheap at that.
Finding a bot on Telegram called “Corona test results,” the reporter sent a false name, date of birth, passport and ID numbers, and paid a £ 25 fee (about 110 shekels) to a bitcoin wallet. A fake clearance arrived just a few minutes later, supposedly from Poriyah Hospital in Tiberias. A receipt duly followed from a company called Elastic-fantastic.
Many countries now require that people entering their borders need to have proof dated within 72 hours of travel that they are not infected by the coronavirus. The demand for this basic level of protection has led criminal minds to figure out how to profit off those who need to travel, don’t like waiting in line or for results that can take a day to arrive, or, in the worst case scenario, may be positive for the disease.
The Israeli police arrested four people in September on suspicion of running a similar operation, but that may only be the tip of the iceberg. A Kan investigator found someone to put together a fake test result, in this case for a fictitious Israeli returning from Dubai.
In that case, the counterfeiter said that he would need a real corona certificate in order to do a mock-up.
It was an even simpler task if the traveler was ill, with a positive test in hand, she was told.
“That’s the easiest,” the criminal told the reporter. “Send me the form and I’ll change it to be negative… As it is, this test is as reliable as sh**.”
When she expressed nervousness about the fake form passing muster in the airport, he told her that the airport authorities “wouldn’t check the form because you are an Israeli citizen.”
Former senior police investigator Dr. Susie Ben Baruch told Kan News that once the special “green passports” allowing people to travel because they have had the vaccine become commonplace, a way must be found to detect counterfeits.
“We have to sit down immediately and solve the problem of how this green passport will contain some kind of sign to show that it’s fake or real, like there are in our banknotes, like we have in our ID cards,” she said.
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Police are conducting searches for the suspect. A criminal motive is suspected.
By World Israel News Staff
Two young men in their 20s were shot in heavily Arab Jaffa on Sunday. One is in critical condition, the other is listed as moderate.
Police are conducting searches for the suspect. A criminal motive is suspected.
Magen David Adom medic Yosef Kurdi said of the critically wounded man, “The wounded man was lying on the sidewalk near the building with gunshot wounds to his body.
“We provided him with primary medical care that included bandages and stopped bleeding, we quickly put him in an intensive care unit and evacuated him to the hospital in critical condition.”
A 70-year-old man nearby suffered from shock and received medical treatment.
Violence in Jaffa is not an unknown phenomenon, with most related to crime. In June of last year, a 20-year-old man was shot to death while a 12-year-old bystander was critically wounded by a gunman on a motorcycle who fled the scene.
Last July, four young Jews were surrounded by Arab rioters in Jaffa. They said they narrowly escaped a lynching.
There has been a rise in violent crime among Israel’s Arab population with illegal firearms easy to come by. In a particularly brazen shooting, two Arab men were shot on Highway 6 while being escorted by police to a safe location.
In Nov. 2018, Israel formed a special volunteer police unit to help enforce law and order in largely Arab sectors of Jerusalem.
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In initial rollout of vaccine, Mayor Bill de Blasio skips over hard-hit ultra-Orthodox communities.
By Shmuel Klatzkin, American Spectator
The Declaration of Independence avoided word games. The source of real political power is “Nature and Nature’s God,” thereby uniting a deist like Jefferson with a Unitarian like Adams and a believer in Providence like Washington. The point was simply that the ultimate sovereignty belongs to the deepest reality, not to a privileged person, class of persons, or government.
Thus, America’s Founders made the case that any and every human government is answerable to something above. King George or the British Parliament can make all the decrees and pass all the laws that they want – they cannot take away certain rights, because that power is reserved only to the supreme reality.
They are, as the Declaration declares, “unalienable.” All citizens are alike, and there is no one set by nature to be the dispenser of political rights save the being of the reality that is higher than our own. Those in government and those out are alike in possession of these rights.
It is for this same reason that when the Bill of Rights was drawn up, the freedom of each person to relate to that higher reality in his or her way was set out at the beginning.
It is no wonder, then, the devotees of infinitely expanding government run afoul of the First Amendment. Unlimited human power over others does not reflect the great reality that sustains us. Those who try to expand their power without limit set themselves up as an exclusive god, a being fundamentally different than those who are the subjects of the ruler or ruling class’s power.
The more of an ideologue the big-government believer is, the more he or she will resent those who are loyal to something greater than their government, and who, if push comes to shove, will listen to Nature’s God and not Hizzoner the Mayor.
Belligerence against NYC’s Orthodox
New York’s latest mayor has already acquired quite a reputation for belligerence against his city’s Jewish community. Take this April, when a Jewish funeral was held that swiftly attracted a crowd of thousands. The funeral had been coordinated with the city’s police department, and the police were actively involved that day by design. When the numbers turned out to be far larger than safety permitted, the police did not, in their normal way, divert and limit access, as they do every year on New Year’s Eve and on other occasions.
The mayor turned out at the scene and did not lead it to a happy conclusion. Knowing that a failure had occurred, and believing as a matter of policy that in any given conflict, government (his government, that is) is right, the mayor’s only contribution to the situation was to tweet out a public censure that seemed to blame the entire Jewish community for the latest of his failures at city administration.
In the heat of the moment, Hizzoner had been intemperate and did not specify that he really meant to censure only a certain segment of the city’s Jewish population — the so-called “ultra-Orthodox,” those people who so publicly and proudly live a life in which their prime allegiance is to God (as they understand Him, without seeking de Blasio’s approval), and don’t care at all if such thinking has grown unfashionable among other powerful segments of society.
Liel Leibovitz’s lead article in Tablet last week skewered de Blasio (once again) for his latest outrage. The mayor was even easier to roast than he was in April, for he had doubled down and backed his words with hateful actions, as Leibovitz describes and as I will outline below.
In April, the mayor had dressed his hatefulness in the patronizing language of Big Nanny government. He so publicly objected to these Jewish communities because they were helping the spread of the virus.
Who can object to trying to keep people safe, right?
One can object when the same actions done by others closer to the mayor’s worldview and politics receive no censure at all from de Blasio. He departed at that moment from principle to carve exceptions based on his own political preference. He allowed a massive outdoor rally against racism in June, arguing that it was simply in another league and categorically more important than the desire of devout religionists to pray together.
Hypocritical defense
He could not defend the rally as a lesser health risk. Rather, the rally was simply more important from the perspective of his private set of values than the risk of the virus. In other words, health concerns are secondary to first principles — as long as they are his first principles. That’s de Blasio’s religion, and in his kingdom, he establishes his religion as law. Who should care what a bunch of white guys in wigs said about not establishing a religion by the powers of government?
What’s worse than that?
What’s happening now is worse. As Leibovitz points out, the mayor has set into action a plan for distribution of the new vaccine. He has announced that the distribution is not random, but rather he is targeting the areas at greatest danger first — by the numbers, science driven.
Except when it comes to the people he is stuck on, like Brer Rabbit punching the tar baby.
The dense neighborhoods of Brooklyn where so many of the most publicly devout Jews live are among the hardest hit by the virus in the city, by the numbers. Living a life in which community is highly valued, where people gather together twice a day every day in small synagogues to pray, the virus ran rampant when it initially broke out in the city late last winter. And for all that people wear their masks and do what they can, dense populations throughout history have always been places where plagues have thriven best.
So of course, those neighborhoods have the statistics that would give them near-top priority for the vaccine. Because when it comes to medicine, we treat the illness and leave blame, if it must be fixed, till later.
But not for Comrade Bill the mayor. He has passed over the Boro Park and Crown Heights and Williamsburg where most of those kinds of Jews he has targeted are to be found.
(Perhaps one may be leery of the vaccine and might consider this passing-over a blessing. Well and good. I certainly agree that there can be a providential silver lining in bad things. The point is, Bill should not be forcing that decision on them. The point is, his principles have proven secondary to his antipathy.)
If one really believed that Hizzoner was moved by science and principles of public health, as he says he is, then his passing over those neighborhoods would be mysterious.
But there is no mystery here. Bill is using government power to enforce his beliefs and to mete out just punishment to those who heretically believe something is more worthy of allegiance than government – and aren’t afraid of consequences. Aha, a test of faith, and Bill responds with an act of faith, or, as they used to say in Spanish during the time of the Inquisition, an auto-da-fé.
Let the fire rage through their community. It is serving the highest value in de Blasio’s religion, the one he’d like to enforce and will as long as he has the power to do so.
Look out for other Comrade Bills in your own neighborhood, in your state, and barring a miracle, in our federal government. They may not be cleverer than Bill in going about their business, and their targets may not be just Chassidic Jews. But they always think their day is coming, and the blood these sharks smell in the sea of power may be your own.
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King George or the British Parliament can make all the decrees and pass all the laws that they want – they cannot take away certain rights, because that power is reserved only to the supreme reality.\nThey are, as the Declaration declares, “unalienable.” All citizens are alike, and there is no one set by nature to be the dispenser of political rights save the being of the reality that is higher than our own. Those in government and those out are alike in possession of these rights.\nIt is for this same reason that when the Bill of Rights was drawn up, the freedom of each person to relate to that higher reality in his or her way was set out at the beginning.\nIt is no wonder, then, the devotees of infinitely expanding government run afoul of the First Amendment. Unlimited human power over others does not reflect the great reality that sustains us. Those who try to expand their power without limit set themselves up as an exclusive god, a being fundamentally different than those who are the subjects of the ruler or ruling class’s power.\nThe more of an ideologue the big-government believer is, the more he or she will resent those who are loyal to something greater than their government, and who, if push comes to shove, will listen to Nature’s God and not Hizzoner the Mayor.\nBelligerence against NYC’s Orthodox\nNew York’s latest mayor has already acquired quite a reputation for belligerence against his city’s Jewish community. Take this April, when a Jewish funeral was held that swiftly attracted a crowd of thousands. The funeral had been coordinated with the city’s police department, and the police were actively involved that day by design. When the numbers turned out to be far larger than safety permitted, the police did not, in their normal way, divert and limit access, as they do every year on New Year’s Eve and on other occasions.\nThe mayor turned out at the scene and did not lead it to a happy conclusion. Knowing that a failure had occurred, and believing as a matter of policy that in any given conflict, government (his government, that is) is right, the mayor’s only contribution to the situation was to tweet out a public censure that seemed to blame the entire Jewish community for the latest of his failures at city administration.\nIn the heat of the moment, Hizzoner had been intemperate and did not specify that he really meant to censure only a certain segment of the city’s Jewish population — the so-called “ultra-Orthodox,” those people who so publicly and proudly live a life in which their prime allegiance is to God (as they understand Him, without seeking de Blasio’s approval), and don’t care at all if such thinking has grown unfashionable among other powerful segments of society.\nLiel Leibovitz’s lead article in Tablet last week skewered de Blasio (once again) for his latest outrage. The mayor was even easier to roast than he was in April, for he had doubled down and backed his words with hateful actions, as Leibovitz describes and as I will outline below.\nIn April, the mayor had dressed his hatefulness in the patronizing language of Big Nanny government. He so publicly objected to these Jewish communities because they were helping the spread of the virus.\nWho can object to trying to keep people safe, right?\nOne can object when the same actions done by others closer to the mayor’s worldview and politics receive no censure at all from de Blasio. He departed at that moment from principle to carve exceptions based on his own political preference. He allowed a massive outdoor rally against racism in June, arguing that it was simply in another league and categorically more important than the desire of devout religionists to pray together.\nHypocritical defense\nHe could not defend the rally as a lesser health risk. Rather, the rally was simply more important from the perspective of his private set of values than the risk of the virus. In other words, health concerns are secondary to first principles — as long as they are his first principles. That’s de Blasio’s religion, and in his kingdom, he establishes his religion as law. Who should care what a bunch of white guys in wigs said about not establishing a religion by the powers of government?\nWhat’s worse than that?\nWhat’s happening now is worse. As Leibovitz points out, the mayor has set into action a plan for distribution of the new vaccine. He has announced that the distribution is not random, but rather he is targeting the areas at greatest danger first — by the numbers, science driven.\nExcept when it comes to the people he is stuck on, like Brer Rabbit punching the tar baby.\nThe dense neighborhoods of Brooklyn where so many of the most publicly devout Jews live are among the hardest hit by the virus in the city, by the numbers. Living a life in which community is highly valued, where people gather together twice a day every day in small synagogues to pray, the virus ran rampant when it initially broke out in the city late last winter. And for all that people wear their masks and do what they can, dense populations throughout history have always been places where plagues have thriven best.\nSo of course, those neighborhoods have the statistics that would give them near-top priority for the vaccine. Because when it comes to medicine, we treat the illness and leave blame, if it must be fixed, till later.\nBut not for Comrade Bill the mayor. He has passed over the Boro Park and Crown Heights and Williamsburg where most of those kinds of Jews he has targeted are to be found.\n(Perhaps one may be leery of the vaccine and might consider this passing-over a blessing. Well and good. I certainly agree that there can be a providential silver lining in bad things. The point is, Bill should not be forcing that decision on them. The point is, his principles have proven secondary to his antipathy.)\nIf one really believed that Hizzoner was moved by science and principles of public health, as he says he is, then his passing over those neighborhoods would be mysterious.\nBut there is no mystery here. Bill is using government power to enforce his beliefs and to mete out just punishment to those who heretically believe something is more worthy of allegiance than government – and aren’t afraid of consequences. Aha, a test of faith, and Bill responds with an act of faith, or, as they used to say in Spanish during the time of the Inquisition, an auto-da-fé.\nLet the fire rage through their community. It is serving the highest value in de Blasio’s religion, the one he’d like to enforce and will as long as he has the power to do so.\nLook out for other Comrade Bills in your own neighborhood, in your state, and barring a miracle, in our federal government. They may not be cleverer than Bill in going about their business, and their targets may not be just Chassidic Jews. But they always think their day is coming, and the blood these sharks smell in the sea of power may be your own.",
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Citing invasion of privacy, Facebook axes post asking for info on those aged 60 and up who haven’t received the coronavirus vaccination.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Facebook on Monday removed a post by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it violated the social media giant’s privacy policies.
Netanyahu had posted a call for the public to provide details about people over the age of 60 who have not yet been vaccinated against the coronavirus so that he can convince them to get the vaccine shot, Kan News reported. The post was distributed via the prime minister’s chat bot, which was also blocked by the social network.
“In accordance with our privacy policy, we do not allow sharing content or requesting medical information from people,” Facebook Israel said in a statement. “Following the violation of these rules, we removed the post and temporarily suspended the chat bot in the messenger that shared this content.”
The non-governmental watchdog organization Privacy Israel said the initial complaint was filed by a university professor and a private citizen.
“Thanks to the publication of Anat Ben-David and an application of Shachar Ben Meir – Facebook blocked (again) Benjamin Netanyahu’s chatbot. This time about users being asked to provide details about their unvaccinated relatives – which is contrary to Facebook’s privacy policy,” the organization tweeted.
“The plight and innocence of the people who want to protect their loved ones is clear, but you should not share personal, medical data, and the political positions of your parents and grandparents online, visible to all, and certainly without their consent, certainly during an election period,” tweeted Ben Meir, an associate professor of Communications at Israel’s Open University.
A statement issued by Netanyahu’s Likud Party said the posting was intended for the public good.
“The goal was to encourage Israelis over the age of 60 to get vaccinated to save their lives after Prime Minister Netanyahu brought vaccines to every Israeli citizen,” the Likud statement said. “We call on everyone to get vaccinated so that we can open up the economy and be the first in the world to emerge from the corona.”
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Erdan ended the letter by warning that “Israel would take all necessary measures to protect its citizens and sovereignty” against Iran.
By Aryeh Savir, TPS
The UN Security Council must address “Iran’s rogue activities,” including the transfer of weapons to terrorist organizations, systematic violations of the nuclear agreement, and its repeated calls for Israel’s destruction, Israel’s Ambassador to the Gilad Erdan demanded in a recent letter on Thursday.
Erdan’s letter is part of Israel’s diplomatic effort against Iran at the UN and within the diplomatic community.
As part of this campaign, he presented last week a “5-point plan” to combat global terrorism to the Security Council, which included calling for condemnations against countries that fund terrorist organizations.
In his letter, Erdan highlighted Iran’s efforts to enrich uranium to 20%, in clear violation of the nuclear agreement and “another step that clearly demonstrates its ambitions to develop a nuclear program for military purposes.”
The letter also mentions a recent bill proposed by the Iranian Parliament calling for the destruction of Israel by the year 2041.
In a rally in Tehran in June 2017, Iran unveiled a clock in the city’s Palestine Square counting down the days to what it says will be the destruction of Israel in 2040.
The timeframe appears to come from comments made in 2015 by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who vowed there will be “nothing” left of Israel by the year 2040.
In September 2015, Khamenei proclaimed, “You [Israelis] will not see the coming 25 years and, God willing, there will not be something named the Zionist regime in next 25 years.”
In May 2020, Khamenei’s official website featured a poster depicting people celebrating on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after apparently capturing it from Israel.
“Palestine Will Be Free. The final solution: Resistance until Referendum,” the poster’s text declared.
The text is reminiscent of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” a euphemism used by Nazi Germany’s leaders referring to the mass murder of world Jewry.
Erdan pointed out in his letter that “it is no secret that Iran has become the largest proliferator of ballistic and other missile technologies to Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Gaza, delivering these capabilities into the hands of non-state and terrorist actors and destabilizing the region.”
“Israel has repeatedly warned of Iran’s unceasing malign activities and highlighted these violations through numerous calls to the international community and letters to the United Nations bodies, providing concrete, verified and documented evidence of the Iranian regime’s reckless and illicit behavior in the Middle East and beyond,” he added
Erdan called on the Security Council to “immediately impose an arms and missile embargo on the regime in Tehran and apply maximum pressure against it.”
Erdan ended the letter by warning that “Israel would take all necessary measures to protect its citizens and sovereignty” against Iran.
Tensions in the Middle East are high and Israel and the U.S. are on alert for the possibility of an attack by Iran around the anniversary of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s death, and in retaliation for the bombing in the Natanz nuclear plant and the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent Iranian nuclear and weapons, both attributed to Israel.
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"Erdan ended the letter by warning that “Israel would take all necessary measures to protect its citizens and sovereignty” against Iran.\nBy Aryeh Savir, TPS\nThe UN Security Council must address “Iran’s rogue activities,” including the transfer of weapons to terrorist organizations, systematic violations of the nuclear agreement, and its repeated calls for Israel’s destruction, Israel’s Ambassador to the Gilad Erdan demanded in a recent letter on Thursday.\nErdan’s letter is part of Israel’s diplomatic effort against Iran at the UN and within the diplomatic community.\nAs part of this campaign, he presented last week a “5-point plan” to combat global terrorism to the Security Council, which included calling for condemnations against countries that fund terrorist organizations.\nIn his letter, Erdan highlighted Iran’s efforts to enrich uranium to 20%, in clear violation of the nuclear agreement and “another step that clearly demonstrates its ambitions to develop a nuclear program for military purposes.”\nThe letter also mentions a recent bill proposed by the Iranian Parliament calling for the destruction of Israel by the year 2041.\nIn a rally in Tehran in June 2017, Iran unveiled a clock in the city’s Palestine Square counting down the days to what it says will be the destruction of Israel in 2040.\nThe timeframe appears to come from comments made in 2015 by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who vowed there will be “nothing” left of Israel by the year 2040.\nIn September 2015, Khamenei proclaimed, “You [Israelis] will not see the coming 25 years and, God willing, there will not be something named the Zionist regime in next 25 years.”\nIn May 2020, Khamenei’s official website featured a poster depicting people celebrating on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after apparently capturing it from Israel.\n“Palestine Will Be Free. The final solution: Resistance until Referendum,” the poster’s text declared.\nThe text is reminiscent of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” a euphemism used by Nazi Germany’s leaders referring to the mass murder of world Jewry.\nErdan pointed out in his letter that “it is no secret that Iran has become the largest proliferator of ballistic and other missile technologies to Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Gaza, delivering these capabilities into the hands of non-state and terrorist actors and destabilizing the region.”\n“Israel has repeatedly warned of Iran’s unceasing malign activities and highlighted these violations through numerous calls to the international community and letters to the United Nations bodies, providing concrete, verified and documented evidence of the Iranian regime’s reckless and illicit behavior in the Middle East and beyond,” he added\nErdan called on the Security Council to “immediately impose an arms and missile embargo on the regime in Tehran and apply maximum pressure against it.”\nErdan ended the letter by warning that “Israel would take all necessary measures to protect its citizens and sovereignty” against Iran.\nTensions in the Middle East are high and Israel and the U.S. are on alert for the possibility of an attack by Iran around the anniversary of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s death, and in retaliation for the bombing in the Natanz nuclear plant and the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent Iranian nuclear and weapons, both attributed to Israel.",
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Tunisian President Kais Saied caught in video posted to social media blaming the country’s financial woes on “Jewish thieves.”
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The Tunisian president came under fire Wednesday after a video posted to social media showed him accusing “Jewish thieves” of deepening social tensions in his country, the Jewish news website Juif.org reported.
President Kais Saied recently met with residents of the impoverished Al-Tadamon neighborhood of the capital city Tunis, discussing the current economic challenges facing the country that have sparked a movement of renewed protest.
While meeting with residents out in the streets, Saied was filmed as he blamed Tunisia’s misfortunes on “Jewish thieves.”
A recording of the visit to Al-Tadamon, including the president’s comments, was uploaded to his Facebook account and the clip of his comments on the Jews was circulated on Twitter.
Saied’s comments were condemned by the Conference of European Rabbis, which warned that Tunisian Jews could be targeted as a result of Saied’s verbal attacks.
“The Conference of European Rabbis wishes to express its deep concern over the serious and public remarks made this morning by Tunisian President Kais Saied, accusing the Jews of being responsible for the instability in the country,” the organization said in a statement, urging him “to withdraw his remarks, which pose an immediate threat to the physical and moral integrity of Tunisian Jewish citizens.”
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldshmidt, president of the CER, tweeted later Wednesday that Saied had indeed taken the comments back.
“The President of Tunisia a few minutes ago called up the chief rabbi of Djerba, Rabbi Haim Bitan, and apologized for his diatribe against the Jews, faulting them for the unrest in the country,” Goldshmidt tweeted.
Earlier, Goldshmidt said the CER considers the Tunisian government “to be the guarantor of the security of Tunisian Jews. Such allegations threaten the integrity of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities.”
Jews have lived in Tunisia for at least 2,000 years, with the Jewish population hitting about 100,000 around the time of the Second World War. Rampant anti-Semitism after the war led to most of the Jews leaving to Israel and France, with only about 1,500 remaining today.
Tunisia also hosted the Palestine Liberation Organization, the main Palestinian terror group, that fled to Tunis in 1982 following the Israel invasion of Lebanon, with the PLO remaining there until it recognized Israel and signed the Oslo Accords in 1993.
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Foreign contributions to the University of Pennsylvania tripled since the Penn Biden Center’s soft opening in March 2017, rising from $31 million in 2016 to over $100 million in 2019.
By Alana Goodman, Washington Free Beacon
A good-government watchdog is calling on secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken to disclose any foreign-funding sources for the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center, where Blinken served as director, as part of his Senate confirmation vetting process.
The National Legal and Policy Center (NPLC) is arguing that any foreign money that made its way into the Penn Biden Center could pose a conflict of interest for Blinken, who served as the center’s director from 2017 to 2019 and received a more than $79,000 salary, according to his financial-disclosure records. The watchdog group said the university also saw a significant spike in contributions from China after the Penn Biden Center opened in 2017, raising questions about whether the funding had any connection to the policy center.
While President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to tighten ethics standards for his incoming administration, the Penn Biden Center’s lack of financial candor raises questions about the Biden cabinet’s commitment to transparency as Blinken testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday afternoon.
“The Penn Biden Center is the poster child for revolving-door conflicts of interest,” said Tom Anderson, director of the NPLC’s Government Integrity Project. “It’s time they disclose their donors and allow the American people the opportunity to evaluate whether any lines have been crossed.”
The Penn Biden Center was founded by Joe Biden at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Biden’s other policy-research institute at the University of Delaware has faced similar criticism over a lack of transparency and has no plans to disclose its donors after the president-elect takes office. Both organizations have served as cabinets-in-waiting, employing former Biden advisers who are now expected to join his administration.
Stephen MacCarthy, a spokesman for the University of Pennsylvania, told the Washington Free Beacon that the Penn Biden Center “is funded entirely with University funds” and doesn’t engage in fundraising.
“The University has never solicited any gifts for the Center. Since its inception in 2017 there have been three unsolicited gifts (from two donors) which combined total $1,100. Both donors are Americans,” said MacCarthy.
MacCarthy declined to discuss additional details of the center’s funding, or the sudden spike in donations from China, on the record.
Foreign contributions to the University of Pennsylvania tripled since the Penn Biden Center’s soft opening in March 2017, rising from $31 million in 2016 to over $100 million in 2019. The largest foreign contributor was China, which significantly increased its gifts to the university after the Penn Biden Center opened.
The University of Pennsylvania took in around $61 million in gifts and contracts from China between 2017 and 2019, according to records from the Department of Education. This was a substantial uptick from the prior four years, when the university received $19 million from China.
Many of the Chinese contributions were listed as coming from “anonymous” sources, according to the university’s disclosure records. Between March 2017 and the end of 2019, the university received a total of $22 million in anonymous gifts from China—a spike from less than $5 million during the preceding four years.
Blinken’s work outside of the Penn Biden Center also involved China and university funding.
Blinken cofounded the consulting firm WestExec, which helped U.S. universities raise money from China without running afoul of Pentagon grant requirements, the Free Beacon reported last month. WestExec scrubbed the details of this work from its website over the summer.
Anderson said his group is preparing to file a supplement to a Department of Justice complaint filed against the University of Pennsylvania last year.
The NLPC’s complaint asked the DOJ to look into whether the University of Pennsylvania or the Penn Biden Center violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act by accepting foreign funding in exchange for promoting the interests of foreign governments. Anderson said the new complaint will include Blinken’s work assisting universities that receive funding from China.
Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters that the committee will likely vote on Blinken’s confirmation on Monday.
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"Foreign contributions to the University of Pennsylvania tripled since the Penn Biden Center’s soft opening in March 2017, rising from $31 million in 2016 to over $100 million in 2019.\nBy Alana Goodman, Washington Free Beacon\nA good-government watchdog is calling on secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken to disclose any foreign-funding sources for the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center, where Blinken served as director, as part of his Senate confirmation vetting process.\nThe National Legal and Policy Center (NPLC) is arguing that any foreign money that made its way into the Penn Biden Center could pose a conflict of interest for Blinken, who served as the center’s director from 2017 to 2019 and received a more than $79,000 salary, according to his financial-disclosure records. The watchdog group said the university also saw a significant spike in contributions from China after the Penn Biden Center opened in 2017, raising questions about whether the funding had any connection to the policy center.\nWhile President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to tighten ethics standards for his incoming administration, the Penn Biden Center’s lack of financial candor raises questions about the Biden cabinet’s commitment to transparency as Blinken testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday afternoon.\n“The Penn Biden Center is the poster child for revolving-door conflicts of interest,” said Tom Anderson, director of the NPLC’s Government Integrity Project. “It’s time they disclose their donors and allow the American people the opportunity to evaluate whether any lines have been crossed.”\nThe Penn Biden Center was founded by Joe Biden at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Biden’s other policy-research institute at the University of Delaware has faced similar criticism over a lack of transparency and has no plans to disclose its donors after the president-elect takes office. Both organizations have served as cabinets-in-waiting, employing former Biden advisers who are now expected to join his administration.\nStephen MacCarthy, a spokesman for the University of Pennsylvania, told the Washington Free Beacon that the Penn Biden Center “is funded entirely with University funds” and doesn’t engage in fundraising.\n“The University has never solicited any gifts for the Center. Since its inception in 2017 there have been three unsolicited gifts (from two donors) which combined total $1,100. Both donors are Americans,” said MacCarthy.\nMacCarthy declined to discuss additional details of the center’s funding, or the sudden spike in donations from China, on the record.\nForeign contributions to the University of Pennsylvania tripled since the Penn Biden Center’s soft opening in March 2017, rising from $31 million in 2016 to over $100 million in 2019. The largest foreign contributor was China, which significantly increased its gifts to the university after the Penn Biden Center opened.\nThe University of Pennsylvania took in around $61 million in gifts and contracts from China between 2017 and 2019, according to records from the Department of Education. This was a substantial uptick from the prior four years, when the university received $19 million from China.\nMany of the Chinese contributions were listed as coming from “anonymous” sources, according to the university’s disclosure records. Between March 2017 and the end of 2019, the university received a total of $22 million in anonymous gifts from China—a spike from less than $5 million during the preceding four years.\nBlinken’s work outside of the Penn Biden Center also involved China and university funding.\nBlinken cofounded the consulting firm WestExec, which helped U.S. universities raise money from China without running afoul of Pentagon grant requirements, the Free Beacon reported last month. WestExec scrubbed the details of this work from its website over the summer.\nAnderson said his group is preparing to file a supplement to a Department of Justice complaint filed against the University of Pennsylvania last year.\nThe NLPC’s complaint asked the DOJ to look into whether the University of Pennsylvania or the Penn Biden Center violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act by accepting foreign funding in exchange for promoting the interests of foreign governments. Anderson said the new complaint will include Blinken’s work assisting universities that receive funding from China.\nSen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters that the committee will likely vote on Blinken’s confirmation on Monday.",
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Besides political considerations, Iran has also been much weakened by the American assassination of Qassem Soleimani a year ago, they said.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Three top former Mossad intelligence officials said Sunday that an Iranian retaliation for the assassination of one of its top generals a year ago is unlikely to occur before the January 20 inauguration of Joe Biden as the new president of the United States. It is also not an easy task to accomplish, they said in a report published Monday in The Jerusalem Post.
Sunday marked the first anniversary of the American drone strike that killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in a car outside Baghdad’s airport. Iran immediately vowed revenge, but so far the most harm it has managed to cause is the injury of about a dozen American soldiers in a missile attack by terror proxies on two bases in Iraq two weeks after Soleimani’s death.
Former national security council head Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland told the Jerusalem Press Club that although Iran certainly feels it has to retaliate, it has “no interest today in resuming a large-scale confrontation with anyone, especially not with the U.S. in the next two weeks before the transition of the presidency. So I don’t think anything dramatic will happen in the next few days or hours just because it is the anniversary of the death.”
Eiland is today a senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), which published an analysis shortly after the disputed American elections in November regarding Tehran’s intentions with a possible Biden administration. It pointed to the short time between the inauguration and Iran’s own presidential elections in June, noting that President Hassan Rouhani would like to improve the economic condition of the country to boost his chances before the elections.
The report said that Rouhani has stated that he will do whatever it takes to remove the sanctions imposed on Iran. An attack on American interests or on those of its closest ally in the region would seemingly be counter-productive to attaining that goal.
Shabtai Shavit, who served in the Mossad most of his life before heading the agency some 30 years ago, cited the mullahs’ patience and the weakness of Soleimani’s replacement as reasons for Iran’s reticence in acting to commemorate one of the top men in their regime.
“The Iranians’ patience is never-ending,” he told the daily. In addition, the deputy chosen to step into Soleimani’s shoes, Esmail Ghaani, “isn’t at a level even close to the same capabilities and importance and managerial ability.”
Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Yatom, who ran the Mossad between 1999 and 2001, agreed that the Quds Force, which is responsible for much of the mayhem in the world caused by Iran’s terror proxies, has been much weakened by the assassination.
It was “a harsh blow to both morale and actual operations…the Quds Force is still licking its wounds,” he said.
The inability to hit either Israeli or American targets in any significant way for a full year proves the debilitation of both the IRGC and the Quds Force, he added.
Meanwhile, in a Lebanese event Sunday memorializing the assassination, the head of one of Iran’s most important proxies scoffed at the idea that Iran could not, or would not, retaliate by itself.
“Iran is a strong country…. If it will want to attack, it doesn’t need to rely on others,” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said, adding, “Iran does not need its proxies, its friends and allies. It will respond in the right place and time and however it wants.”
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It was not immediately clear which posts by Lindell on Twitter triggered the suspension of his account.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a familiar face to Americans as he does his own advertising for his innovative pillows, has been permanently banned from Twitter.
Lindell, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, continued to post about election fraud and say that Trump clearly won the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Twitter decided to ban Lindell, who founded bedding company My Pillow, due to “repeated violations” of its civic integrity policy, a spokesperson said in a statement.
The policy was implemented last September and is targeted at fighting disinformation, but appears to be imposed inconsistently and, critics say, in a way that overwhelmingly targets conservatives.
It was not immediately clear which posts by Lindell on Twitter triggered the suspension of his account.
Lindell, a Trump supporter, has continued to insist that the presidential election was rigged even after President Joe Biden’s administration began.
The issue again underscores social media’s power and issues of free speech. Prior to blocking Lindell’s account, Twitter locked several of his tweets “due to a risk of violence.” However, Lindell didn’t call for violence in any of the tweets.
In one, he said:
Here are the pages of the machine voter fraud evidence that came out last week and the media including Twitter has tried to bury it! This is an attack on our country! pic.twitter.com/FhpNgNSda7
— Mike Lindell (@realMikeLindell) January 16, 2021
Since Twitter banned former President Donald Trump, it has also banned over 70,000 QAnon accounts. QAnon is a pro-Trump conspiracy theory.
Many Trump supporters tried to move to another Twitter-like platform, Parler, which was abruptly kneecapped by Google, Amazon and Apple. Parler says it will return after building up its own infrastructure.
The free speech debate surrounding these moves have formed more or less along political lines, with liberal politicians and left-wing sites like VOX supporting the ban, saying “Deplatforming is effective at rousting extremists from mainstream internet spaces.”
Conservatives warn of the “unchecked power” of social media. Politicians like Nikki Haley, former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor, compared Twitter’s Trump ban to the “silencing” that goes on in China.
Even some politicians worldwide, who are not part of the Right, have expressed their concern, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with the latter vowing to form an international group to fight such censorship.
“I don’t like censorship,” Obrador said, speaking of the then still temporary blocking of Trump’s accounts just after the Capitol riots. “I don’t like anyone to be censored and for them to have their right taken away to send a message on Twitter or on Facebook.”
AP contributed to this report.
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"It was not immediately clear which posts by Lindell on Twitter triggered the suspension of his account.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\nMy Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a familiar face to Americans as he does his own advertising for his innovative pillows, has been permanently banned from Twitter.\nLindell, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, continued to post about election fraud and say that Trump clearly won the 2020 U.S. presidential election.\nTwitter decided to ban Lindell, who founded bedding company My Pillow, due to “repeated violations” of its civic integrity policy, a spokesperson said in a statement.\nThe policy was implemented last September and is targeted at fighting disinformation, but appears to be imposed inconsistently and, critics say, in a way that overwhelmingly targets conservatives.\nIt was not immediately clear which posts by Lindell on Twitter triggered the suspension of his account.\nLindell, a Trump supporter, has continued to insist that the presidential election was rigged even after President Joe Biden’s administration began.\nThe issue again underscores social media’s power and issues of free speech. Prior to blocking Lindell’s account, Twitter locked several of his tweets “due to a risk of violence.” However, Lindell didn’t call for violence in any of the tweets.\nIn one, he said:\nHere are the pages of the machine voter fraud evidence that came out last week and the media including Twitter has tried to bury it! This is an attack on our country! pic.twitter.com/FhpNgNSda7\n— Mike Lindell (@realMikeLindell) January 16, 2021\nSince Twitter banned former President Donald Trump, it has also banned over 70,000 QAnon accounts. QAnon is a pro-Trump conspiracy theory.\nMany Trump supporters tried to move to another Twitter-like platform, Parler, which was abruptly kneecapped by Google, Amazon and Apple. Parler says it will return after building up its own infrastructure.\nThe free speech debate surrounding these moves have formed more or less along political lines, with liberal politicians and left-wing sites like VOX supporting the ban, saying “Deplatforming is effective at rousting extremists from mainstream internet spaces.”\nConservatives warn of the “unchecked power” of social media. Politicians like Nikki Haley, former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor, compared Twitter’s Trump ban to the “silencing” that goes on in China.\nEven some politicians worldwide, who are not part of the Right, have expressed their concern, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with the latter vowing to form an international group to fight such censorship.\n“I don’t like censorship,” Obrador said, speaking of the then still temporary blocking of Trump’s accounts just after the Capitol riots. “I don’t like anyone to be censored and for them to have their right taken away to send a message on Twitter or on Facebook.”\nAP contributed to this report.",
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"Peace is made only with defeated enemies," reads the billboard of the Israel Victory Project. (Courtesy of the Middle East Forum)
Mayor Ron Huldai “must refrain from exercising executive power in a manner that purports to dictate values and instill in citizens his personal ideology,” says Justice Alex Stein.
By JNS
Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday condemned Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai for ordering the removal last year of billboards put up in the city as part of a campaign by the Middle East Forum’s (MEF) Israel Victory Project.
In the run-up to Israel’s March 2020 election, the MEF ran several giant billboards in prominent Tel Aviv locations. They depicted Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on their knees, waving a white flag, and bore the words “Peace is only made with defeated enemies.”
Within hours, Huldai, who recently established a new party to compete in Israel’s upcoming elections, ordered the billboards torn down because they “incited violence.” He and his spokesman even compared them to Nazi imagery.
The Supreme Court on Sunday rejected Huldai’s action as unjustified, ruling that he had exceeded his authority in repressing the MEF’s freedom of speech. The justices ruled that MEF may resubmit the billboards if it chooses to do so and that the mayor must reconsider his former stance “given the difficulties of that position.”
Justice Alex Stein wrote that Huldai “must refrain from exercising executive power in a manner that purports to dictate values and instill in citizens his personal ideology.”
The billboards were part of the Israel Victory Project’s campaign to convince Israelis that the only way to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the attendant global hostility to Israel, is to force the Palestinians to give up their century-long campaign of rejectionism.
Nave Dromi, director of MEF’s Israel Office, noted that “Ron Huldai’s impetuous, desperate and illegal step reveals the weakness of his position.”
Daniel Pipes, MEF president, added that “MEF plans to repost the IVP billboards—just in time for new national elections and for Ron Huldai’s participation in them.”
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"\"Peace is made only with defeated enemies,\" reads the billboard of the Israel Victory Project. (Courtesy of the Middle East Forum)\nMayor Ron Huldai “must refrain from exercising executive power in a manner that purports to dictate values and instill in citizens his personal ideology,” says Justice Alex Stein.\nBy JNS\nIsrael’s Supreme Court on Sunday condemned Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai for ordering the removal last year of billboards put up in the city as part of a campaign by the Middle East Forum’s (MEF) Israel Victory Project.\nIn the run-up to Israel’s March 2020 election, the MEF ran several giant billboards in prominent Tel Aviv locations. They depicted Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on their knees, waving a white flag, and bore the words “Peace is only made with defeated enemies.”\nWithin hours, Huldai, who recently established a new party to compete in Israel’s upcoming elections, ordered the billboards torn down because they “incited violence.” He and his spokesman even compared them to Nazi imagery.\nThe Supreme Court on Sunday rejected Huldai’s action as unjustified, ruling that he had exceeded his authority in repressing the MEF’s freedom of speech. The justices ruled that MEF may resubmit the billboards if it chooses to do so and that the mayor must reconsider his former stance “given the difficulties of that position.”\nJustice Alex Stein wrote that Huldai “must refrain from exercising executive power in a manner that purports to dictate values and instill in citizens his personal ideology.”\nThe billboards were part of the Israel Victory Project’s campaign to convince Israelis that the only way to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the attendant global hostility to Israel, is to force the Palestinians to give up their century-long campaign of rejectionism.\nNave Dromi, director of MEF’s Israel Office, noted that “Ron Huldai’s impetuous, desperate and illegal step reveals the weakness of his position.”\nDaniel Pipes, MEF president, added that “MEF plans to repost the IVP billboards—just in time for new national elections and for Ron Huldai’s participation in them.”",
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Munich Olympics official who negotiated with Palestinian terrorists dies at 91
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One of the Palestinian Black September terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in the Munich Massacre, Sept. 5, 1972. (AP/Kurt Strumpf)
Walther Tröger took part in failed negotiations with Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches and a German police officer in 1972.
By Algemeiner Staff
The International Olympic Committee announced yesterday the death of Walther Tröger, a former Mayor of the Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich games who took part in failed negotiations with Palestinian terrorists.
On Sept. 5, eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took hostage nine athletes on the Israeli Olympic team, after killing two others. The hostages were held for more than 20 hours, during which the terrorists demanded the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. The Black Septemberists killed all of the Israeli hostages and a West German police officer during a failed rescue attempt.
Tröger recalled the tragic events in a 1987 interview with UPI, during which he spent hours dealing with the terrorists and police. “’I deeply regret what happened to my friends from Israel,” he told the outlet. “I have been in the war and I have seen death. But I will never forget what happened in Munich.”
Tröger told UPI that his presence was demanded at the negotiations by the hostage-takers, and that the lead terrorist held a live grenade in his hands during their talks.
“No event anywhere in the world is safe now — whether it is an Olympics or a Papal visit,” he said in the 1987 interview. “At least Munich taught us to be alert. But it was a terrible lesson to learn.’
In a disastrous, heavily-criticized operation, Munich police tried to ambush the group at a nearby airfield. All of the Israeli athletes were killed, along with a West German police officer and five of the terrorists.
Tröger, who also led Germany’s National Olympic Committee and later served as the IOC Sports Director, was 91.
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"One of the Palestinian Black September terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in the Munich Massacre, Sept. 5, 1972. (AP/Kurt Strumpf)\nWalther Tröger took part in failed negotiations with Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches and a German police officer in 1972.\nBy Algemeiner Staff\nThe International Olympic Committee announced yesterday the death of Walther Tröger, a former Mayor of the Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich games who took part in failed negotiations with Palestinian terrorists.\nOn Sept. 5, eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took hostage nine athletes on the Israeli Olympic team, after killing two others. The hostages were held for more than 20 hours, during which the terrorists demanded the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. The Black Septemberists killed all of the Israeli hostages and a West German police officer during a failed rescue attempt.\nTröger recalled the tragic events in a 1987 interview with UPI, during which he spent hours dealing with the terrorists and police. “’I deeply regret what happened to my friends from Israel,” he told the outlet. “I have been in the war and I have seen death. But I will never forget what happened in Munich.”\nTröger told UPI that his presence was demanded at the negotiations by the hostage-takers, and that the lead terrorist held a live grenade in his hands during their talks.\n“No event anywhere in the world is safe now — whether it is an Olympics or a Papal visit,” he said in the 1987 interview. “At least Munich taught us to be alert. But it was a terrible lesson to learn.’\nIn a disastrous, heavily-criticized operation, Munich police tried to ambush the group at a nearby airfield. All of the Israeli athletes were killed, along with a West German police officer and five of the terrorists.\nTröger, who also led Germany’s National Olympic Committee and later served as the IOC Sports Director, was 91.",
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a face mask in line with public health restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, stands inside the court room as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, Sunday, May 24, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)
The Jerusalem District Court said the hearing scheduled for Wednesday would be postponed indefinitely because of nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
By Associated Press
Israel has postponed the next hearing in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial because of a tightened coronavirus lockdown that began Friday.
The Jerusalem District Court said the hearing scheduled for Wednesday would be postponed indefinitely because of the number of people required to attend in person.
Netanyahu has been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust connected to three long-running investigations. He has denied any wrongdoing and says he is the victim of a “witch hunt” by hostile media, law enforcement and judicial officials.
In recent months he has faced weekly protests calling on him to resign over the allegations and the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
Israel has seen a recent surge in cases despite unleashing one of the world’s fastest vaccination campaigns. The country has given the first of two vaccine doses to nearly 20% of its population, and Netanyahu said Thursday that it has secured enough vaccines to inoculate the whole adult population by the end of March.
Netanyahu has placed the vaccination drive at the center of his campaign for re-election that month, when Israel will hold its fourth nationwide vote in less than two years. In the meantime, he has called on Israelis to make “one last big effort” to halt transmission by adhering to the tightened restrictions.
Most schools and businesses were closed starting Friday, with people required to remain within 1,000 meters (yards) from home except for essential needs. Public gatherings are heavily restricted and public transportation is limited. The restrictions are to last for at least two weeks.
Thousands of police will be deployed to enforce them, with roadblocks set up on major thoroughfares. Israel is in its third national lockdown since the start of the pandemic.
Deputy Police Commissioner Ziv Sagiv called on people to stay home, saying police would operate in “every possible way” to enforce the restrictions.
Israel has reported 474,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, including 3,565 deaths. It currently has more than 60,000 active cases, and officials had warned that without the tightened lockdown its medical facilities could be overwhelmed.
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Iran: 'Strong evidence' Israel behind assassination of nuclear scientist
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Military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in Tehran, Nov. 30, 2020. (AP/Iranian Defense Ministry)
Iran renews threat to stage revenge attack, says Israeli attack was supported by the U.S.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami said Wednesday the Islamic Republic has “serious evidence” that Israel was involved in the November 2020 assassination of Iran’s nuclear mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and warned Iran would exact revenge, the Fars News agency reported.
Hatami sent a letter to 60 other defense ministers in different countries accusing Israel of playing a role “in the assassination of Dr. Fakhrizadeh.”
“Iran possesses strong evidence that the Zionist regime was involved in the assassination. The Zionist intelligence services have a dark history of assassinating Iranian scientists,” Hatami wrote in the letter.
“Silence on this terrorist act will result in its repetition and insecurity in the world,” Hatami said, adding that Iran “preserves the right to respond to the assassination.”
The previously unheard of Fakhrizadeh, whose identity was kept secret by Iran, was killed in November in an apparent high-tech assassination by a remote-controlled machine gun that Iran blamed on Israel.
Iran’s state-run Press TV reported unnamed sources told the station that the remains of the weapon used in the attack “show that it was made in Israel.”
The Fars report also said that “Israel is not able to carry out such dangerous operations without the prior information and support of the United States.”
“Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was carried out by using electronic equipment and no one was present on the scene,” said Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, “but some clues are available, and the identity and records of the designer of the operation has been discovered by us.”
“Certainly … the Zionist regime and Mossad are the criminal mastermind of this incident,” Shamkhani added.
A previous Fars report claimed Israel’s Mossad spy agency gained access to Fakhrizadeh’s name via a UN list which referred to him as a senior scientist of Iran’s Defense Ministry’s Physics Research Center.
Following the killing, the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said “revenge for the terror attack is already on the country’s agenda.”
“The enemies of the Iranian nation … should also know that such crimes will not undermine the resolve of the Iranians to continue this glorious and power-generating path, and harsh revenge and punishment is on agenda for them,” Salami said.
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"Military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in Tehran, Nov. 30, 2020. (AP/Iranian Defense Ministry)\nIran renews threat to stage revenge attack, says Israeli attack was supported by the U.S.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nIran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami said Wednesday the Islamic Republic has “serious evidence” that Israel was involved in the November 2020 assassination of Iran’s nuclear mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and warned Iran would exact revenge, the Fars News agency reported.\nHatami sent a letter to 60 other defense ministers in different countries accusing Israel of playing a role “in the assassination of Dr. Fakhrizadeh.”\n“Iran possesses strong evidence that the Zionist regime was involved in the assassination. The Zionist intelligence services have a dark history of assassinating Iranian scientists,” Hatami wrote in the letter.\n“Silence on this terrorist act will result in its repetition and insecurity in the world,” Hatami said, adding that Iran “preserves the right to respond to the assassination.”\nThe previously unheard of Fakhrizadeh, whose identity was kept secret by Iran, was killed in November in an apparent high-tech assassination by a remote-controlled machine gun that Iran blamed on Israel.\nIran’s state-run Press TV reported unnamed sources told the station that the remains of the weapon used in the attack “show that it was made in Israel.”\nThe Fars report also said that “Israel is not able to carry out such dangerous operations without the prior information and support of the United States.”\n“Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was carried out by using electronic equipment and no one was present on the scene,” said Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, “but some clues are available, and the identity and records of the designer of the operation has been discovered by us.”\n“Certainly … the Zionist regime and Mossad are the criminal mastermind of this incident,” Shamkhani added.\nA previous Fars report claimed Israel’s Mossad spy agency gained access to Fakhrizadeh’s name via a UN list which referred to him as a senior scientist of Iran’s Defense Ministry’s Physics Research Center.\nFollowing the killing, the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said “revenge for the terror attack is already on the country’s agenda.”\n“The enemies of the Iranian nation … should also know that such crimes will not undermine the resolve of the Iranians to continue this glorious and power-generating path, and harsh revenge and punishment is on agenda for them,” Salami said.",
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Cohanim says she could not have imagined something like the Abraham Accords before she entered the Trump administration.
By Joseph Wolkin, World Israel News
Ellie Cohanim understands anti-Semitism. She grew up in Tehran where Jews were accepted as equal members of society until the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
As tensions grew in Iran, her family was one of many which fled to America, where she blossomed into a first-class journalist. Cohanim worked her way up to become senior vice president of the Jewish Broadcasting Service.
In 2019, she was named the Deputy Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism.
In her year-and-a-half at the post, Cohanim succeeded, together with Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism Elan Carr, in contributing to a number of ground-breaking accomplishments.
Cohanim spoke with World Israel News about the ongoing fight against anti-Semitism and offered a little advice for the incoming president.
Q: What’s the latest news out of the office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism?
“We had a virtual MOU signing with a NGO in Morocco named Association Mimouna. The memorandum is to combat anti-Semitism, as well as the delegitimization of Israel.
“It’s truly a ground-breaking agreement. The organization was started by a group of Muslim college students in Morocco, who at the time, became interested in the history of Jews in Morocco. They created a student club and they explored Jewish history. The history of Jews in Morocco actually dates back to antiquity. In 1492, during the Inquisition when Jews needed to flee Spain, Morocco became a haven and there was an influx of Jews.
“Over the years, most of the Jews ended up leaving, so much so that these college students had not met any Jews. Since their founding, they created the first Arabic language Holocaust curriculum. They were also the first Arab country to take a student delegation to Israel in 2018.
“It’s a changed Middle East and North Africa that exists today. It’s really a different region with tremendous thanks to people like King Mohammed VI, President Donald Trump and the vision of peace and prosperity that he held for the region.
“The warm embrace I’ve been observing myself between Israelis and Jews with Arabs and Muslims is something we’ve all dreamt about. We thought our children and grandchildren would one day experience peace, and it is quite the historic moment that we’re seeing this warm embrace of Jews and Israelis by their Arab neighbors today in our lifetime.”
Q: When you entered this position, did you imagine something as important and life-changing as the Abraham Accords?
“Before I joined the administration, I did not. My imagination did not stretch that far. I have to say that once I joined the administration, I quickly gained new guidance from the incredible people we were so fortunate to work with in the administration like senior advisor Jared Kushner and Avi Berkowitz [assistant to the president and special representative for international negotiations]. This team truly moved mountains and did what everyone said was impossible.”
Q: Did you ever think you’d personally have the opportunity to work with a sitting president and fight against anti-Semitism on such a large scale?
“I was tapped for the position and when I was approached, I felt instantly that it’s truly an honor and a privilege. This was the honor and privilege of a lifetime — to serve under this administration and to have the opportunity to give back to the country that gave me refuge as a child.”
Q: How did your childhood upbringing help you succeed in this role?
“I was born in Iran and, as a young child, we saw the Islamic Revolution of 1979 unfold before us. The Persian Jews are one of the most ancient Jewish communities in the world, dating back to the story of Purim with Queen Esther. You’re talking about one of the most ancient peoples in the world.
“In 1979, you had this radical Islamic regime come in and take control. My family and the majority of Jews felt we were at risk and under threat, and we fled our ancient home. That personal history has given me a perspective that’s been with me since my childhood in the sense that I understood that anti-Semitism is a threat you can never underestimate.
“Societies can flip overnight. Iran, under the Shah prior to 1979, was a very hospitable place for the Jews. There were formal relationships between Iran and Israel. This was a country that was looked upon as a golden beacon of the Middle East. I understand that we have to be committed to fighting and combating hatred against Jews and understand that in many parts of the world today there are Jewish populations that find themselves in a vulnerable place.”
Q: What is your greatest achievement as part of this administration?
“My personal greatest achievements have been to negotiate and close two MOUs with the Arab world. The first was with Bahrain’s King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence in October. The second was last week’s signing with Association Mimouna. For someone who is from the Middle East, there is no greater accomplishment than to help. In some way, this is a rectification of history because most of the individuals in the Middle East and North Africa carry in them a desire for peace and a better world. We’ve come together to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. We’re building a better future that all children deserve.”
Q: The work of the Special Envoy has been so impactful that it’s been elevated to an ambassador level. What does that mean to you?
“It’s a very important move because what we are seeing is — what the statistics show — is anti-Semitism is rising, unfortunately. The position that the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism has to serve as the voice of the United States of America and bring the power of the United States in combating anti-Semitism is a deeply important mission. We know there’s a lot of work to be done. Elevating this position to an ambassadorship is the right thing to do.”
Q: What advice do you have for the upcoming administration of Joe Biden to fight against anti-Semitism?
“The first piece of advice I would give the Biden administration is starting with the Middle East and North Africa. The Trump administration is leaving the region as a changed region. It’s a new paradigm, where you’re seeing Muslims and Jews as friendly neighbors with warm relations, diplomatic ties and business ties.
“The Biden administration would be well-served to continue on that effort of the Abraham Accords and to create more peace deals and normalization between the Arab countries and the Jewish State of Israel. What we have observed already is that with the normalization of ties with Israel comes a correlating decrease of anti-Semitism in the region.
“Understanding that so much of the hatred against Jews is fueled from the hatred in the Middle East, it’s really one of the key ways the Biden administration can advance the fight against anti-Semitism. Continue our efforts and successes in creating peace in the Middle East.
“The second piece of advice is that the issue of anti-Semitism should not be politicized. There are too many voices that are only concerned when there is an anti-Semitism incident or attack. They focus on where on the political spectrum does the perpetrator fall. Then, they turn this fact into a political football. This leaves Jews more vulnerable. Anti-Semitism should not be politicized. Let’s focus on policies that will work and will combat anti-Semitism no matter the politics.”
Q: Over the past few years, people call President Trump an anti-Semite, a Nazi and even compare him to Hitler. How hateful is that for you to hear and see personally based on your position?
“I can tell you that President Trump is going to go down in history as the most philo-Semitic U.S. president.
“The reason why is the policies that he set and the historic moves the president made, those facts speak for themselves. Whether it is the president recognizing that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish state, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan Heights as being under Israeli sovereignty, the understanding that the settlements in the West Bank are not against international law, stepping up against the United Nations and their incredible bias against Israel, these are the steps that President Trump took.
“He also issued an executive order combating anti-Semitism in December 2019. What kind of anti-Semite would do that? This offers Title VI protection to American Jews. No president had done it and the United States Congress was not able to pass legislation that the executive order did. President Donald Trump’s track record speaks for itself.”
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"Cohanim says she could not have imagined something like the Abraham Accords before she entered the Trump administration.\nBy Joseph Wolkin, World Israel News\nEllie Cohanim understands anti-Semitism. She grew up in Tehran where Jews were accepted as equal members of society until the 1979 Iranian Revolution.\nAs tensions grew in Iran, her family was one of many which fled to America, where she blossomed into a first-class journalist. Cohanim worked her way up to become senior vice president of the Jewish Broadcasting Service.\nIn 2019, she was named the Deputy Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism.\nIn her year-and-a-half at the post, Cohanim succeeded, together with Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism Elan Carr, in contributing to a number of ground-breaking accomplishments.\nCohanim spoke with World Israel News about the ongoing fight against anti-Semitism and offered a little advice for the incoming president.\nQ: What’s the latest news out of the office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism?\n“We had a virtual MOU signing with a NGO in Morocco named Association Mimouna. The memorandum is to combat anti-Semitism, as well as the delegitimization of Israel.\n“It’s truly a ground-breaking agreement. The organization was started by a group of Muslim college students in Morocco, who at the time, became interested in the history of Jews in Morocco. They created a student club and they explored Jewish history. The history of Jews in Morocco actually dates back to antiquity. In 1492, during the Inquisition when Jews needed to flee Spain, Morocco became a haven and there was an influx of Jews.\n“Over the years, most of the Jews ended up leaving, so much so that these college students had not met any Jews. Since their founding, they created the first Arabic language Holocaust curriculum. They were also the first Arab country to take a student delegation to Israel in 2018.\n“It’s a changed Middle East and North Africa that exists today. It’s really a different region with tremendous thanks to people like King Mohammed VI, President Donald Trump and the vision of peace and prosperity that he held for the region.\n“The warm embrace I’ve been observing myself between Israelis and Jews with Arabs and Muslims is something we’ve all dreamt about. We thought our children and grandchildren would one day experience peace, and it is quite the historic moment that we’re seeing this warm embrace of Jews and Israelis by their Arab neighbors today in our lifetime.”\nQ: When you entered this position, did you imagine something as important and life-changing as the Abraham Accords?\n“Before I joined the administration, I did not. My imagination did not stretch that far. I have to say that once I joined the administration, I quickly gained new guidance from the incredible people we were so fortunate to work with in the administration like senior advisor Jared Kushner and Avi Berkowitz [assistant to the president and special representative for international negotiations]. This team truly moved mountains and did what everyone said was impossible.”\nQ: Did you ever think you’d personally have the opportunity to work with a sitting president and fight against anti-Semitism on such a large scale?\n“I was tapped for the position and when I was approached, I felt instantly that it’s truly an honor and a privilege. This was the honor and privilege of a lifetime — to serve under this administration and to have the opportunity to give back to the country that gave me refuge as a child.”\nQ: How did your childhood upbringing help you succeed in this role?\n“I was born in Iran and, as a young child, we saw the Islamic Revolution of 1979 unfold before us. The Persian Jews are one of the most ancient Jewish communities in the world, dating back to the story of Purim with Queen Esther. You’re talking about one of the most ancient peoples in the world.\n“In 1979, you had this radical Islamic regime come in and take control. My family and the majority of Jews felt we were at risk and under threat, and we fled our ancient home. That personal history has given me a perspective that’s been with me since my childhood in the sense that I understood that anti-Semitism is a threat you can never underestimate.\n“Societies can flip overnight. Iran, under the Shah prior to 1979, was a very hospitable place for the Jews. There were formal relationships between Iran and Israel. This was a country that was looked upon as a golden beacon of the Middle East. I understand that we have to be committed to fighting and combating hatred against Jews and understand that in many parts of the world today there are Jewish populations that find themselves in a vulnerable place.”\nQ: What is your greatest achievement as part of this administration?\n“My personal greatest achievements have been to negotiate and close two MOUs with the Arab world. The first was with Bahrain’s King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence in October. The second was last week’s signing with Association Mimouna. For someone who is from the Middle East, there is no greater accomplishment than to help. In some way, this is a rectification of history because most of the individuals in the Middle East and North Africa carry in them a desire for peace and a better world. We’ve come together to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. We’re building a better future that all children deserve.”\nQ: The work of the Special Envoy has been so impactful that it’s been elevated to an ambassador level. What does that mean to you?\n“It’s a very important move because what we are seeing is — what the statistics show — is anti-Semitism is rising, unfortunately. The position that the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism has to serve as the voice of the United States of America and bring the power of the United States in combating anti-Semitism is a deeply important mission. We know there’s a lot of work to be done. Elevating this position to an ambassadorship is the right thing to do.”\nQ: What advice do you have for the upcoming administration of Joe Biden to fight against anti-Semitism?\n“The first piece of advice I would give the Biden administration is starting with the Middle East and North Africa. The Trump administration is leaving the region as a changed region. It’s a new paradigm, where you’re seeing Muslims and Jews as friendly neighbors with warm relations, diplomatic ties and business ties.\n“The Biden administration would be well-served to continue on that effort of the Abraham Accords and to create more peace deals and normalization between the Arab countries and the Jewish State of Israel. What we have observed already is that with the normalization of ties with Israel comes a correlating decrease of anti-Semitism in the region.\n“Understanding that so much of the hatred against Jews is fueled from the hatred in the Middle East, it’s really one of the key ways the Biden administration can advance the fight against anti-Semitism. Continue our efforts and successes in creating peace in the Middle East.\n“The second piece of advice is that the issue of anti-Semitism should not be politicized. There are too many voices that are only concerned when there is an anti-Semitism incident or attack. They focus on where on the political spectrum does the perpetrator fall. Then, they turn this fact into a political football. This leaves Jews more vulnerable. Anti-Semitism should not be politicized. Let’s focus on policies that will work and will combat anti-Semitism no matter the politics.”\nQ: Over the past few years, people call President Trump an anti-Semite, a Nazi and even compare him to Hitler. How hateful is that for you to hear and see personally based on your position?\n“I can tell you that President Trump is going to go down in history as the most philo-Semitic U.S. president.\n“The reason why is the policies that he set and the historic moves the president made, those facts speak for themselves. Whether it is the president recognizing that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish state, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan Heights as being under Israeli sovereignty, the understanding that the settlements in the West Bank are not against international law, stepping up against the United Nations and their incredible bias against Israel, these are the steps that President Trump took.\n“He also issued an executive order combating anti-Semitism in December 2019. What kind of anti-Semite would do that? This offers Title VI protection to American Jews. No president had done it and the United States Congress was not able to pass legislation that the executive order did. President Donald Trump’s track record speaks for itself.”",
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President Donald Trump bade farewell as his term came to an end, saying “four years ago we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens.”
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While speaking at an outdoor press conference, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was accosted by a heckler who told him “you need to get out of office,” accusing him of being a “racist, anti-Semite.” Schumer is Jewish.
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Belichick backed off due to the riot by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol building last week.
By World Israel News Staff
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick was set to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced earlier this week. Now Belichick says he doesn’t want it, at least not from President Donald Trump.
The medal, one of the nation’s highest civilian honors, was to be given to Belichick, the only coach to win six Super Bowl titles, at a ceremony on Thursday.
Belichick backed off due to the riot by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol building last week.
“Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honor represents and admiration for prior recipients,” Belichick said in a statement.
“Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award. Above all, I am an American citizen with great reverence for our nation’s values, freedom and democracy.”
Trump and Belichick have known each other for several years. Trump, before his campaign victory in 2016, reading a letter of praise from Belichick at a New Hampshire rally. Belichick said afterward he was not a political person and that he had “a friendship and loyalty to Donald.”
Trump has been marginalized and abandoned by a number of staff following the riot, including three cabinet-level officials, most recently Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned last week.
House Democrats are moving forward with impeaching Trump, a controversial move which some Republicans warn will further divide the country.
The New England Patriots are owned by Robert Kraft, who bought them for $172 million in 1994. Kraft received the 2019 Genesis Prize, dubbed “the Jewish Nobel” by Time Magazine.
AP contributed to this report.
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Russia tells Israel: Stop bombing Iran targets in Syria, we'll take care of it
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Russia’s foreign minister said his country doesn’t want Syria used “as a platform for the Iranian-Israeli strife.”
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Russia called on Israel Monday to let it know about threats to its security from Syria and allow Russia to defuse the situation instead of using Syria as a battlefield, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.
Speaking to reporters in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia had previously told Israel that they are willing to intervene on Israel’s behalf rather than have Israel strike at Iranian military targets in Syria.
“If Israel is really forced to respond to threats to Israeli security coming from the Syrian territory, we have told our Israeli colleagues many times: If you see such threats, please give us the information,” Lavrov said. Russia has a strong military presence in Syria helping to prop up Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad.
“So, our dear Israeli colleagues, if you have facts that your state is facing threats from the Syrian territory, report the facts urgently and we will take every measure to neutralize the threat,” Lavrov said, adding that Russia doesn’t want Syrian territory to be used as a base for attacks on Israel or “as a platform for the Iranian-Israeli strife.”
For the past several years, Israel has warned both Syria and Iran that it would not tolerate any Iranian military presence in Syria that threatens the Jewish State.
Iranian political and military leaders have repeatedly stated that their goal is the “total annihilation” of Israel. Iran has been heavily arming Hezbollah in Lebanon through Syria and has sent forces to Syria to join Iranian-backed militias fighting for Assad.
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has previously warned that any Israeli action in Syria “can’t pass without a reaction.”
“The Zionist entity will regret its actions. We will respond sooner or later with the resistance in Syria and Lebanon,” Velayati said in December of 2019.
Over the past several years, Israel has struck at Iranian military targets in Syria on many occasions, but does not comment on most of the attacks that foreign sources attribute to the IDF. The most recent attack last week attributed to Israel targeted weapons storage sites in Syria said to belong to Iran or its proxy militias.
The Turkish think tank Jusoor For Studies, which specializes in Middle East and Syrian issues, claimed in an article on its website that Syrian and Israeli officials met last month at the Russian air force base in Hmeimim, Syria, to discuss several issues, including Israel’s demand for Iran to pull out its militias from Syria.
According to Jusoor For Studies, but not yet confirmed by any other source, the meeting was brokered by the commander of the Russian forces in Syria, Alexander Tchaikov, and Israel was represented by former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and Iranian-born Israeli arms dealer Ari Ben-Menashe.
While Israel wants Iranian forces out of Syria, Assad reportedly made several demands, including Syria’s return to the Arab League, getting financial aid to pay off Assad’s debt to Iran, financial assistance for Syria’s destroyed economy and dropping international sanctions against Syria and Assad.
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“Iran is attempting to take advantage of the transition in the United States and in Israel to alter the balance of power. Israel and the U.S. will not allow this.”
By Yaakov Lapin, JNS
Media reports carried news of intensive airstrikes against Iranian-linked targets in eastern Syria early on Wednesday, attributed to the Israeli Air Force. The alleged strikes in the Deir al-Zour and Albu Kamal areas were the latest in a long series of reported Israeli attacks that are designed to thwart the Islamic Republic’s attempts at building a war machine in Syria.
The airstrikes nevertheless stood out in light of the extraordinary comments made by a senior American intelligence official, who told the Associated Press that the bombings were enabled by intelligence provided to Israel by the United States.
There appears to be no reason to doubt this version of events, marking what would seem to be an unusual acknowledgment of the close level of cooperation between the American and Israeli defense establishments in combating the Iranian presence in Syria.
Strikingly, the same official said that the targeted warehouses also served as a “pipeline for components that support Iran’s nuclear program,” though no further details were immediately available.
A second reason that makes the strikes stand out is the unconfirmed report by a Syrian opposition war-monitoring group that at least 57 fighters were killed, including 14 Syrian regime soldiers, in addition to Iranian-backed militia members, as well as dozens more wounded.
Although uncorroborated, the claim represents a far higher casualty count than those that usually follow such strikes.
The attack is part of an unmistakable increase in airstrikes that have been hitting Iranian targets across Syria, marking the fourth known such incident in the past three weeks.
Those incidents include a reported missile attack on Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center, also known by its French acronym CERS, north of Damascus. CERS is a facility that is responsible for developing and manufacturing advanced missiles and chemical weapons, and is likely used by both Iran and Syria’s Bashar Assad regime to develop and produce weapons systems, some of which is also destined for Hezbollah’s missile depots in Lebanon.
CERS was also bombed in 2018 and 2019. The area surrounding CERS doubles up as a base for Iranian personnel and Iran-controlled militias in Syria. The other recent attacks have hit reported weapons-production facilities and military bases in southern and western Syria.
In attempting to understand why the uptick in alleged preventative Israeli attacks has occurred now, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon offered this explanation: “Iran is attempting to take advantage of the transition in the United States and in Israel to alter the balance of power. Israel and the U.S. will not allow this. We will act resolutely and as needed.”
According to this explanation, Iran is trying to exploit political instability in Israel, which is on its way to its fourth elections in less than two years. That is coupled with the fact that the Trump administration is about to be replaced by the Biden administration, all while Tehran attempts to scale up its efforts to build a military foothold in Syria.
Ebb and flow of Tehran’s efforts over the years
It is also important to place the latest incidents in the wider context: Israel has struck thousands of Iranian targets in Syria in recent years, according to comments made in 2019 by former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot.
The centerpiece of Eizenkot’s legacy is a low-profile, yet highly effective, campaign of preventative airstrikes to severely dent Iran’s “Syria project” and to roll back Tehran’s attempt to turn Syria into an extension of the attack front that it built in Lebanon, where Iran has helped Hezbollah take hold of some 130,000 rockets and missiles, and point them at Israeli cities and strategic targets.
In its annual summary for 2020, the IDF stated that “approximately 50 targets were struck on the Syrian front” in the past year, as well as more than 1,400 battle-formation Israeli Air Force sorties over unspecified areas.
These figures reveal a central feature of Israel’s campaign in Syria: It is fueled by the intelligence of Iran’s activities, and the increase and decrease of Israel’s campaign is a direct reflection of the ebb and flow of Iran’s own efforts over the years.
The campaign against Iran in Syria has been raging for several years, and often, it is the same sites that are hit over and over again.
For example, in March 2020, reports said that unidentified aircraft struck a target in Albu Kamal, the town on the border with Iraq, where Iran had been constructing its Imam Ali military base for the deployment and storage of missiles and fighters. A total of 26 fighters were allegedly killed in that attack.
The Iranians had apparently been building a tunnel for hiding weapons at the Imam Ali Base, which replaced an older tunnel also attacked in the past.
In June 2020, reports also said that 12 people were killed in an airstrike on an Iran-linked target in Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, which sits five kilometers (about 3 miles) from the Iraqi border.
Deir Ezzor and Albu Kamal are areas that are earmarked by Iran for the construction of a land corridor that would allow Tehran to move weapons, battle formations, and other resources into Syria from Iraq. If the corridor is completed, Iran would have land access all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, connecting Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon along a single network of roads.
Israel has no intention of letting that happen, just as it did not allow Iran to fly cargo planes of advanced missiles into Damascus airport with impunity.
Tensions high between U.S. forces, Iran in Gulf
Iran’s efforts are being masterminded by its overseas subversion and terrorism unit, the Quds Force, headed by Esmail Ghaani, who replaced the infamous Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani after his assassination in Baghdad in January 2020 in a U.S. drone strike.
Ghaani appears to be working hard to try and fill Soleimani’s shoes, though with little apparent success to show for it so far.
Soleimani’s grand vision was to create air smuggling routes, a land corridor, and naval smuggling routes to flood Syria and Lebanon with precision-guided weapons, bases, missile factories, and militias, and Israel kept that vision firmly in check, just as it is doing with Ghaani’s efforts.
Russia, for its part, has no interest in allowing Iran to take over Syria, having earmarked the country for its own long-term military presence and economic reconstruction programs. Still, Moscow is also keen to avoid witnessing an escalation that can threaten the Assad regime, which it spent years protecting from demise together with Iran.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere in the region is particularly explosive and unstable, due to Iran’s determination to seek vengeance for the killing of its chief nuclear-weapons scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whom Iran blames Israel for assassinating in November, as well as Hezbollah’s own repeated threats to take revenge for the death of one of its operatives, who was killed in an airstrike on an Iranian target in Syria in July.
Military tensions between U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf and Iran also remain high with the possibility of miscalculation is very real.
None of these factors, however, are sufficient to deter Israel from enforcing its red lines in Syria and doing whatever is necessary to keep Iran from fulfilling its dangerous “Syria project.”
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"“Iran is attempting to take advantage of the transition in the United States and in Israel to alter the balance of power. Israel and the U.S. will not allow this.”\nBy Yaakov Lapin, JNS\nMedia reports carried news of intensive airstrikes against Iranian-linked targets in eastern Syria early on Wednesday, attributed to the Israeli Air Force. The alleged strikes in the Deir al-Zour and Albu Kamal areas were the latest in a long series of reported Israeli attacks that are designed to thwart the Islamic Republic’s attempts at building a war machine in Syria.\nThe airstrikes nevertheless stood out in light of the extraordinary comments made by a senior American intelligence official, who told the Associated Press that the bombings were enabled by intelligence provided to Israel by the United States.\nThere appears to be no reason to doubt this version of events, marking what would seem to be an unusual acknowledgment of the close level of cooperation between the American and Israeli defense establishments in combating the Iranian presence in Syria.\nStrikingly, the same official said that the targeted warehouses also served as a “pipeline for components that support Iran’s nuclear program,” though no further details were immediately available.\nA second reason that makes the strikes stand out is the unconfirmed report by a Syrian opposition war-monitoring group that at least 57 fighters were killed, including 14 Syrian regime soldiers, in addition to Iranian-backed militia members, as well as dozens more wounded.\nAlthough uncorroborated, the claim represents a far higher casualty count than those that usually follow such strikes.\nThe attack is part of an unmistakable increase in airstrikes that have been hitting Iranian targets across Syria, marking the fourth known such incident in the past three weeks.\nThose incidents include a reported missile attack on Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center, also known by its French acronym CERS, north of Damascus. CERS is a facility that is responsible for developing and manufacturing advanced missiles and chemical weapons, and is likely used by both Iran and Syria’s Bashar Assad regime to develop and produce weapons systems, some of which is also destined for Hezbollah’s missile depots in Lebanon.\nCERS was also bombed in 2018 and 2019. The area surrounding CERS doubles up as a base for Iranian personnel and Iran-controlled militias in Syria. The other recent attacks have hit reported weapons-production facilities and military bases in southern and western Syria.\nIn attempting to understand why the uptick in alleged preventative Israeli attacks has occurred now, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon offered this explanation: “Iran is attempting to take advantage of the transition in the United States and in Israel to alter the balance of power. Israel and the U.S. will not allow this. We will act resolutely and as needed.”\nAccording to this explanation, Iran is trying to exploit political instability in Israel, which is on its way to its fourth elections in less than two years. That is coupled with the fact that the Trump administration is about to be replaced by the Biden administration, all while Tehran attempts to scale up its efforts to build a military foothold in Syria.\nEbb and flow of Tehran’s efforts over the years\nIt is also important to place the latest incidents in the wider context: Israel has struck thousands of Iranian targets in Syria in recent years, according to comments made in 2019 by former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot.\nThe centerpiece of Eizenkot’s legacy is a low-profile, yet highly effective, campaign of preventative airstrikes to severely dent Iran’s “Syria project” and to roll back Tehran’s attempt to turn Syria into an extension of the attack front that it built in Lebanon, where Iran has helped Hezbollah take hold of some 130,000 rockets and missiles, and point them at Israeli cities and strategic targets.\nIn its annual summary for 2020, the IDF stated that “approximately 50 targets were struck on the Syrian front” in the past year, as well as more than 1,400 battle-formation Israeli Air Force sorties over unspecified areas.\nThese figures reveal a central feature of Israel’s campaign in Syria: It is fueled by the intelligence of Iran’s activities, and the increase and decrease of Israel’s campaign is a direct reflection of the ebb and flow of Iran’s own efforts over the years.\nThe campaign against Iran in Syria has been raging for several years, and often, it is the same sites that are hit over and over again.\nFor example, in March 2020, reports said that unidentified aircraft struck a target in Albu Kamal, the town on the border with Iraq, where Iran had been constructing its Imam Ali military base for the deployment and storage of missiles and fighters. A total of 26 fighters were allegedly killed in that attack.\nThe Iranians had apparently been building a tunnel for hiding weapons at the Imam Ali Base, which replaced an older tunnel also attacked in the past.\nIn June 2020, reports also said that 12 people were killed in an airstrike on an Iran-linked target in Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, which sits five kilometers (about 3 miles) from the Iraqi border.\nDeir Ezzor and Albu Kamal are areas that are earmarked by Iran for the construction of a land corridor that would allow Tehran to move weapons, battle formations, and other resources into Syria from Iraq. If the corridor is completed, Iran would have land access all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, connecting Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon along a single network of roads.\nIsrael has no intention of letting that happen, just as it did not allow Iran to fly cargo planes of advanced missiles into Damascus airport with impunity.\nTensions high between U.S. forces, Iran in Gulf\nIran’s efforts are being masterminded by its overseas subversion and terrorism unit, the Quds Force, headed by Esmail Ghaani, who replaced the infamous Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani after his assassination in Baghdad in January 2020 in a U.S. drone strike.\nGhaani appears to be working hard to try and fill Soleimani’s shoes, though with little apparent success to show for it so far.\nSoleimani’s grand vision was to create air smuggling routes, a land corridor, and naval smuggling routes to flood Syria and Lebanon with precision-guided weapons, bases, missile factories, and militias, and Israel kept that vision firmly in check, just as it is doing with Ghaani’s efforts.\nRussia, for its part, has no interest in allowing Iran to take over Syria, having earmarked the country for its own long-term military presence and economic reconstruction programs. Still, Moscow is also keen to avoid witnessing an escalation that can threaten the Assad regime, which it spent years protecting from demise together with Iran.\nMeanwhile, the atmosphere in the region is particularly explosive and unstable, due to Iran’s determination to seek vengeance for the killing of its chief nuclear-weapons scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whom Iran blames Israel for assassinating in November, as well as Hezbollah’s own repeated threats to take revenge for the death of one of its operatives, who was killed in an airstrike on an Iranian target in Syria in July.\nMilitary tensions between U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf and Iran also remain high with the possibility of miscalculation is very real.\nNone of these factors, however, are sufficient to deter Israel from enforcing its red lines in Syria and doing whatever is necessary to keep Iran from fulfilling its dangerous “Syria project.”",
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President Donald Trump receives a menorah from Sheldon Adelson (l) and his wife Miriam Adelson at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Fla., Dec. 7, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
As President Trump leaves the White House, we must remember that we, as Israelis, as Americans and as proud Jews owe him our gratitude.
By Miriam Adelson, JNS
Gratitude is literally written into our Jewish identity.
In the Book of Genesis, when our foremother Leah gives birth to her last son, she says: “‘This time I will give thanks to the Lord’; therefore she called his name, Yehuda.” It is because of Yehuda that we Jews are named “yehudim” in Hebrew. And it is in the spirit of Yehuda that we give thanks for kinship, for friendship, for courage, for the triumph of truth.
U.S. President Donald Trump represents all of these things.
And today, as he departs the White House, he deserves our gratitude — as proud Israelis, as proud Americans and as proud Jews, no matter our politics.
Where his predecessors faltered, this president delivered, by finally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal and beloved capital and moving the U.S. embassy there.
Where his predecessors shut their eyes to reality, this president demonstrated strategic vision, by recognizing the Golan Heights as Israel’s sovereign territory and declaring that there is nothing wrong — and everything right — about Jews living anywhere in the ancient Jewish homeland.
President Trump showed global leadership in the face of evil, by withdrawing from the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran and increasing sanctions against it.
And he always — always — backed Israel and the Jewish people.
President Trump knew that America stands tallest when it stands with its true friends and allies. He knew that Israel’s interests are U.S. interests and that when one of these nations becomes great again, so too does the other. He knew that the Red, White, and Blue looked terrific flying alongside the Blue and White: Stars and Stripes alongside the Star of David.
We owe President Trump our sincere and heartfelt thanks — without apology or hesitation.
That’s what it means to have a common cause and a shared destiny.
Our enemies’ weapons do not discriminate among Israelis. And our friends — our real friends — do not discriminate between the “right” or “wrong” time to support Israel, or the “right” or “wrong” Israeli government to engage with.
We must embrace such friends. We must embrace President Trump. The gratitude we owe him is above partisan politics. It is a duty that we must feel in our souls, which speaks to the very heart of our existence.
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, dear friend and ally. You will be missed. In Zion, you will always have a home away from home.
God bless you, and God bless the great United States.
Dr. Adelson is the publisher of Israel Hayom, where this article first appeared.
The paper writes, “As she is in mourning for her late husband, Sheldon Adelson, we have, with her permission, printed the above article – an updated version of a speech she delivered alongside President Trump at a Dec. 11, 2019 gala of the Israel American Council.”
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"President Donald Trump receives a menorah from Sheldon Adelson (l) and his wife Miriam Adelson at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Fla., Dec. 7, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky)\nAs President Trump leaves the White House, we must remember that we, as Israelis, as Americans and as proud Jews owe him our gratitude.\nBy Miriam Adelson, JNS\nGratitude is literally written into our Jewish identity.\nIn the Book of Genesis, when our foremother Leah gives birth to her last son, she says: “‘This time I will give thanks to the Lord’; therefore she called his name, Yehuda.” It is because of Yehuda that we Jews are named “yehudim” in Hebrew. And it is in the spirit of Yehuda that we give thanks for kinship, for friendship, for courage, for the triumph of truth.\nU.S. President Donald Trump represents all of these things.\nAnd today, as he departs the White House, he deserves our gratitude — as proud Israelis, as proud Americans and as proud Jews, no matter our politics.\nWhere his predecessors faltered, this president delivered, by finally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal and beloved capital and moving the U.S. embassy there.\nWhere his predecessors shut their eyes to reality, this president demonstrated strategic vision, by recognizing the Golan Heights as Israel’s sovereign territory and declaring that there is nothing wrong — and everything right — about Jews living anywhere in the ancient Jewish homeland.\nPresident Trump showed global leadership in the face of evil, by withdrawing from the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran and increasing sanctions against it.\nAnd he always — always — backed Israel and the Jewish people.\nPresident Trump knew that America stands tallest when it stands with its true friends and allies. He knew that Israel’s interests are U.S. interests and that when one of these nations becomes great again, so too does the other. He knew that the Red, White, and Blue looked terrific flying alongside the Blue and White: Stars and Stripes alongside the Star of David.\nWe owe President Trump our sincere and heartfelt thanks — without apology or hesitation.\nThat’s what it means to have a common cause and a shared destiny.\nOur enemies’ weapons do not discriminate among Israelis. And our friends — our real friends — do not discriminate between the “right” or “wrong” time to support Israel, or the “right” or “wrong” Israeli government to engage with.\nWe must embrace such friends. We must embrace President Trump. The gratitude we owe him is above partisan politics. It is a duty that we must feel in our souls, which speaks to the very heart of our existence.\nThank you, Mr. President. Thank you, dear friend and ally. You will be missed. In Zion, you will always have a home away from home.\nGod bless you, and God bless the great United States.\nDr. Adelson is the publisher of Israel Hayom, where this article first appeared.\nThe paper writes, “As she is in mourning for her late husband, Sheldon Adelson, we have, with her permission, printed the above article – an updated version of a speech she delivered alongside President Trump at a Dec. 11, 2019 gala of the Israel American Council.”",
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On his first day, Biden will take a series of executive actions — on the pandemic, climate, immigration and more — in an attempt to undo the heart of Trump’s agenda.
By Associated Press
Joe Biden swears the oath of office at noon Wednesday to become the 46th president of the United States, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation.
The very ceremony in which presidential power is transferred, a hallowed American democratic tradition, will serve as a jarring reminder of the challenges Biden faces: Security forces evocative of those in a war zone, and devoid of crowds because of the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
Stay home, Americans were exhorted, to prevent further spread of a surging virus. Biden will look out over a capital city dotted with empty storefronts that attest to the pandemic’s deep economic toll and where summer protests laid bare the nation’s renewed reckoning over claims of racial injustice.
He will not be applauded — or likely even acknowledged — by his predecessor.
Donald Trump planned to depart Washington on Wednesday morning ahead of the inauguration rather than accompany his successor to the Capitol.
On his first day, Biden will take a series of executive actions — on the pandemic, climate, immigration and more — in an attempt to undo the heart of Trump’s agenda.
Despite security warnings, Biden declined to move the ceremony indoors and instead will address a small, socially distant crowd on the West Front of the Capitol. Some of the traditional trappings of the quadrennial ceremony will remain.
Once at the Capitol, Biden will be administered the oath by Chief Justice John Roberts; Harris will be sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The theme of Biden’s approximately 30-minute speech will be “America United,” and aides said it would be a call to set aside differences during a moment of national trial.
Biden will then oversee a “Pass in Review,” a military tradition that honors the peaceful transfer of power to a new commander in chief. Then, Biden, Harris and their spouses will be joined by a bipartisan trio of former presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Ceremony.
Later, Biden will join the end of a slimmed-down inaugural parade as he moves into the White House. Because of the pandemic, much of this year’s parade will be a virtual affair featuring performances from around the nation.
Trump will be the first president in more than a century to skip the inauguration of his successor. He planned his own farewell celebration at nearby Joint Base Andrews before boarding Air Force One for the final time as president for the flight to his Florida estate.
Trump will nonetheless shadow Biden’s first days in office.
Trump’s second impeachment trial could start as early as this week. That could test the ability of the Senate, poised to come under Democratic control, to balance impeachment proceedings with confirmation hearings and votes on Biden’s Cabinet choices.
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A new administration led by men and women with long records of unbridled hostility towards Israel and support for its enemies is taking the reins.
By Caroline Glick, JNS
In an interview with The New York Times last month, President-elect Joe Biden restated his intention to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Israel opposes this plan because the 2015 deal ensures Iran will become a nuclear-armed state.
Media reports over the past few weeks have detailed some of Israel’s plans to convince the incoming administration to reconsider its position. Among other things, the government intends to use documents from Iran’s nuclear archive, that Mossad agents spirited out of Tehran in 2018, to show Biden and his advisers that the 2015 deal was based on the incorrect assumption that Iran’s nuclear program was defensive and civilian.
The archive proves incontrovertibly that Iran’s nuclear program was conceived with the aim of and has always been about making nuclear bombs, not medical isotopes, and that the purpose of that nuclear arsenal is not to defend against its enemies, but to obliterate them.
Although Israel’s case is rock solid, it is unlikely to convince the Biden team to change course. Even without the benefit of the archive, there was massive evidence five years ago that Iran’s actions and intentions in relation to its illicit nuclear program were aggressive.
Israel shared that evidence with the Obama administration, and Barack Obama and his advisers didn’t care. They drove forward and demonized Israeli leaders and their American supporters as warmongers.
The same people who dismissed Israel’s evidence then are now leading Biden’s national security team.
William Burns – a bad sign
On Tuesday, Biden announced he was appointing William Burns to serve as CIA director. The announcement followed Biden’s decision to appoint Jake Sullivan to serve as his national security adviser.
Obama appointed Burns and Sullivan to hold secret nuclear talks with Iran behind the backs of U.S. allies Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Those talks led to the deal which provided Iran with an open path to a nuclear arsenal by 2025. It permitted the regime to enrich uranium. It didn’t touch Iran’s ballistic missile program. It gave Iran the power to decide which nuclear sites United Nations inspectors could enter. And it gave Iran a direct payoff of $150 billion dollars, including $1.7 billion in cash.
Biden appointed Wendy Sherman, who served as the chief negotiator of the open nuclear talks with Iran, to serve as his deputy secretary of state.
Burns was a reasonable choice to lead secret talks with Iran because he had a long track record of treating Iran well and Israel poorly. During George W. Bush’s administration, Burns served as assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs.
According to officials who worked with him in that position, Burns advocated against sanctioning Syria and Iran. He undermined sanctions against Yemen. He also tried to prevent Israel’s development of the Arrow missile defense system, by claiming falsely that it violated the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
Then there are the Palestinians. In September 2000, the Palestinians launched a massive terror onslaught against Israel that lasted for four years. Every day, Israelis were subjected to acts of murderous terrorism that ranged from roadside stonings, shootings and bombings to mass shootings to suicide bombings, to mortar and missile assaults.
The Palestinians launched their terror war after rejecting Israel’s offer of peace and statehood at the Camp David Peace Summit in July 2000. Yet in 2001, Burns was instrumental in convincing then-president Bush to become the first president to support Palestinian statehood.
Burns’ support for the Palestinians is widely shared among members of Biden’s incoming team. On Wednesday, Biden announced he is appointing Obama’s former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power to serve as administrator of USAID.
Power – another Obama retread
Power played a central role in conceiving and passing U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 in December 2016 which referred to Israeli communities and installations beyond the 1949 armistice lines in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria as “a flagrant violation of international law.”
As USAID administrator, Power will be responsible for providing U.S. financial support to the endemically corrupt and terror-supporting Palestinian Authority and to international organizations that facilitate Hamas’s terror regime in Gaza.
According to sources in contact with Biden’s transition team, Biden intends to appoint Obama’s ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, to oversee the Abraham Accords.
The sources raised the concern that Biden’s goal in making the appointment is to restore the Palestinian veto over the normalization of relations between Israel and Arab states. Shapiro, who took the unprecedented step of remaining in Israel and active in public affairs after he left office, is expected to remain in Israel to take on this function.
In anticipation of the incoming administration’s restoration of Obama’s policies towards Israel and the Palestinians, on Tuesday, the foreign ministers of Germany, France Britain, Egypt and Jordan called on the Biden and his team to lead negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians towards the so-called “two-state solution,” replete with an Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines. The foreign ministers also called on Israel “to completely end all settlement activities including in East Jerusalem.”
The leftist political group J Street issued a call for Biden to officially abandon the Trump administration’s peace plan. It also asked the new administration to end scientific cooperation with Israeli institutions located beyond the 1949 armistice lines, to open a diplomatic legation in Jerusalem to serve the Palestinians, and to pledge to open a U.S. embassy to “Palestine” in Israel’s capital upon the conclusion of a peace deal.
Reversing Trump on anti-Semitism
Efforts by Biden’s supporters to blot out the actions and achievements of the outgoing administration extend to the fight against anti-Semitism. One of the most significant achievements that Israel and Diaspora Jewry have accomplished in recent years in the fight against anti-Semitism has been the adoption by governments throughout the world of the definition of anti-Semitism conceived by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
The Trump administration and key governments in Europe have made the IHRA definition the basis for criminal prosecution of anti-Semites and protection of their Jewish communities.
The IHRA definition, adopted in 2016 defines anti-Semitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
The definition includes examples of anti-Semitism which are integral to the definition itself. Among the examples of anti-Semitism, the IHRA definition lists, “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor.”
In other words, anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism.
Ahead of Biden’s inauguration next week, American Jewish groups aligned with the dominant progressive wing of the Democrat Party began lobbying the incoming administration to abandon the IHRA definition as the basis for identifying and defending against anti-Semitism in America.
Americans for Peace Now, the New Israel Fund, J Street, Habonim Dror North America, Hashomer Hatzair World Movement, the Jewish Labor Movement, T’ruah, Partners for Progressive Israel and Reconstructing Judaism released a joint statement this week opposing the use of the IHRA definition specifically because it rightly identifies anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism.
In so doing, these groups are asking the new administration to deny American Jews civil rights protection from anti-Semitic assaults when those assaults are couched in rhetoric that opposes Israel’s right to exist.
Anti-Semite at Justice?
The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is the government body responsible for fighting anti-Semitism. This week Biden appointed Kristen Clark, an African American attorney and advocate, to serve as head of the division. Following her appointment, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson reported Clark’s troubling past promotion of both racial bigotry and Jew-hatred.
Carlson reported that as the head of the Black Studies Association at Harvard in 1994, Clark published a letter to the Harvard Crimson where she argued that blacks are biologically superior to whites.
A month later, Clark hosted an outspoken anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist to speak at Harvard. Professor Tony Martin, then at Wellesley College, had just self-published a tome titled, “The Jewish Onslaught“ in which he laid out a conspiracy theory about “the ongoing Jewish onslaught against black people.” Martin peddled his gutter anti-Semitism to Harvard students at his lecture.
When Clark was criticized for bringing Martin to campus, she told the Crimson, “Professor Martin is an intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact.”
If confirmed by the Senate, Clark will be responsible for prosecuting anti-Semites who attack Jews, among other things by harassing them for supporting Israel.
Israel was able to withstand unrelenting pressure and hostility from Washington during the Obama years in part because of massive support for the Jewish state in Congress. Israel was also able to stand strong because its supporters in the media and around the country were willing to stand up to the administration when it undermined Israel strategically—as it did with the nuclear deal with Iran.
Situation is worse than Obama’s time
But as Biden takes office, Democrats are no longer willing to stand up to the progressive wing of the party, which is deeply hostile to Israel and its American Jewish supporters. The 2020 Democrat primaries saw some of Israel’s most stalwart congressional allies booted out of office by progressives openly hostile to Israel.
Republicans, for their part, are fending off witch hunts.
Over the past week, the public atmosphere in the United States has become one of unprecedented fear. The move by social media companies to deplatform President Donald Trump happened as media outlets and powerful political operatives are calling for Trump administration officials to be blacklisted and his supporters to be “deprogrammed.”
Deutsche Bank and Signature Bank shut down Trump’s accounts. Republican lawmakers who questioned the Electoral College results in disputed states are being defunded by major corporations and targeted for censure by their Democrat opponents and the media.
The social media free speech platform Parler was rapidly expanding as millions of conservatives fled the onerous and frightening censorship of their views by social media giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google. Last weekend Parler was destroyed by Apple, Google and Amazon who acted in open collusion to remove it from the Internet.
A new administration led by men and women with long records of unbridled hostility towards Israel and support for its enemies is taking the reins, with their party in full control of Congress, their ideological allies in full control of social media, and amid a cancel culture that punishes dissenting voices.
Americans who support Israel are less free today to voice their opposition to policies that harm Israel and embolden anti-Semites in America. And Israel itself is subjected to obsessive demonization by the dominant wing of the Democrat Party.
Thanks in large part to Trump’s extraordinary friendship, Israel is much more powerful than it was when Obama left office, but it is still vulnerable. Whether it has the power to persuade Biden and his advisers to change course remains to be seen. But what power Israel does have will have to be used to protect itself from the coming storm in its relations with the United States.
Caroline Glick is an award-winning columnist and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.” This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
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"A new administration led by men and women with long records of unbridled hostility towards Israel and support for its enemies is taking the reins.\nBy Caroline Glick, JNS\nIn an interview with The New York Times last month, President-elect Joe Biden restated his intention to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Israel opposes this plan because the 2015 deal ensures Iran will become a nuclear-armed state.\nMedia reports over the past few weeks have detailed some of Israel’s plans to convince the incoming administration to reconsider its position. Among other things, the government intends to use documents from Iran’s nuclear archive, that Mossad agents spirited out of Tehran in 2018, to show Biden and his advisers that the 2015 deal was based on the incorrect assumption that Iran’s nuclear program was defensive and civilian.\nThe archive proves incontrovertibly that Iran’s nuclear program was conceived with the aim of and has always been about making nuclear bombs, not medical isotopes, and that the purpose of that nuclear arsenal is not to defend against its enemies, but to obliterate them.\nAlthough Israel’s case is rock solid, it is unlikely to convince the Biden team to change course. Even without the benefit of the archive, there was massive evidence five years ago that Iran’s actions and intentions in relation to its illicit nuclear program were aggressive.\nIsrael shared that evidence with the Obama administration, and Barack Obama and his advisers didn’t care. They drove forward and demonized Israeli leaders and their American supporters as warmongers.\nThe same people who dismissed Israel’s evidence then are now leading Biden’s national security team.\nWilliam Burns – a bad sign\nOn Tuesday, Biden announced he was appointing William Burns to serve as CIA director. The announcement followed Biden’s decision to appoint Jake Sullivan to serve as his national security adviser.\nObama appointed Burns and Sullivan to hold secret nuclear talks with Iran behind the backs of U.S. allies Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.\nThose talks led to the deal which provided Iran with an open path to a nuclear arsenal by 2025. It permitted the regime to enrich uranium. It didn’t touch Iran’s ballistic missile program. It gave Iran the power to decide which nuclear sites United Nations inspectors could enter. And it gave Iran a direct payoff of $150 billion dollars, including $1.7 billion in cash.\nBiden appointed Wendy Sherman, who served as the chief negotiator of the open nuclear talks with Iran, to serve as his deputy secretary of state.\nBurns was a reasonable choice to lead secret talks with Iran because he had a long track record of treating Iran well and Israel poorly. During George W. Bush’s administration, Burns served as assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs.\nAccording to officials who worked with him in that position, Burns advocated against sanctioning Syria and Iran. He undermined sanctions against Yemen. He also tried to prevent Israel’s development of the Arrow missile defense system, by claiming falsely that it violated the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).\nThen there are the Palestinians. In September 2000, the Palestinians launched a massive terror onslaught against Israel that lasted for four years. Every day, Israelis were subjected to acts of murderous terrorism that ranged from roadside stonings, shootings and bombings to mass shootings to suicide bombings, to mortar and missile assaults.\nThe Palestinians launched their terror war after rejecting Israel’s offer of peace and statehood at the Camp David Peace Summit in July 2000. Yet in 2001, Burns was instrumental in convincing then-president Bush to become the first president to support Palestinian statehood.\nBurns’ support for the Palestinians is widely shared among members of Biden’s incoming team. On Wednesday, Biden announced he is appointing Obama’s former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power to serve as administrator of USAID.\nPower – another Obama retread\nPower played a central role in conceiving and passing U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 in December 2016 which referred to Israeli communities and installations beyond the 1949 armistice lines in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria as “a flagrant violation of international law.”\nAs USAID administrator, Power will be responsible for providing U.S. financial support to the endemically corrupt and terror-supporting Palestinian Authority and to international organizations that facilitate Hamas’s terror regime in Gaza.\nAccording to sources in contact with Biden’s transition team, Biden intends to appoint Obama’s ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, to oversee the Abraham Accords.\nThe sources raised the concern that Biden’s goal in making the appointment is to restore the Palestinian veto over the normalization of relations between Israel and Arab states. Shapiro, who took the unprecedented step of remaining in Israel and active in public affairs after he left office, is expected to remain in Israel to take on this function.\nIn anticipation of the incoming administration’s restoration of Obama’s policies towards Israel and the Palestinians, on Tuesday, the foreign ministers of Germany, France Britain, Egypt and Jordan called on the Biden and his team to lead negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians towards the so-called “two-state solution,” replete with an Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines. The foreign ministers also called on Israel “to completely end all settlement activities including in East Jerusalem.”\nThe leftist political group J Street issued a call for Biden to officially abandon the Trump administration’s peace plan. It also asked the new administration to end scientific cooperation with Israeli institutions located beyond the 1949 armistice lines, to open a diplomatic legation in Jerusalem to serve the Palestinians, and to pledge to open a U.S. embassy to “Palestine” in Israel’s capital upon the conclusion of a peace deal.\nReversing Trump on anti-Semitism\nEfforts by Biden’s supporters to blot out the actions and achievements of the outgoing administration extend to the fight against anti-Semitism. One of the most significant achievements that Israel and Diaspora Jewry have accomplished in recent years in the fight against anti-Semitism has been the adoption by governments throughout the world of the definition of anti-Semitism conceived by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.\nThe Trump administration and key governments in Europe have made the IHRA definition the basis for criminal prosecution of anti-Semites and protection of their Jewish communities.\nThe IHRA definition, adopted in 2016 defines anti-Semitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”\nThe definition includes examples of anti-Semitism which are integral to the definition itself. Among the examples of anti-Semitism, the IHRA definition lists, “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor.”\nIn other words, anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism.\nAhead of Biden’s inauguration next week, American Jewish groups aligned with the dominant progressive wing of the Democrat Party began lobbying the incoming administration to abandon the IHRA definition as the basis for identifying and defending against anti-Semitism in America.\nAmericans for Peace Now, the New Israel Fund, J Street, Habonim Dror North America, Hashomer Hatzair World Movement, the Jewish Labor Movement, T’ruah, Partners for Progressive Israel and Reconstructing Judaism released a joint statement this week opposing the use of the IHRA definition specifically because it rightly identifies anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism.\nIn so doing, these groups are asking the new administration to deny American Jews civil rights protection from anti-Semitic assaults when those assaults are couched in rhetoric that opposes Israel’s right to exist.\nAnti-Semite at Justice?\nThe U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is the government body responsible for fighting anti-Semitism. This week Biden appointed Kristen Clark, an African American attorney and advocate, to serve as head of the division. Following her appointment, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson reported Clark’s troubling past promotion of both racial bigotry and Jew-hatred.\nCarlson reported that as the head of the Black Studies Association at Harvard in 1994, Clark published a letter to the Harvard Crimson where she argued that blacks are biologically superior to whites.\nA month later, Clark hosted an outspoken anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist to speak at Harvard. Professor Tony Martin, then at Wellesley College, had just self-published a tome titled, “The Jewish Onslaught“ in which he laid out a conspiracy theory about “the ongoing Jewish onslaught against black people.” Martin peddled his gutter anti-Semitism to Harvard students at his lecture.\nWhen Clark was criticized for bringing Martin to campus, she told the Crimson, “Professor Martin is an intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact.”\nIf confirmed by the Senate, Clark will be responsible for prosecuting anti-Semites who attack Jews, among other things by harassing them for supporting Israel.\nIsrael was able to withstand unrelenting pressure and hostility from Washington during the Obama years in part because of massive support for the Jewish state in Congress. Israel was also able to stand strong because its supporters in the media and around the country were willing to stand up to the administration when it undermined Israel strategically—as it did with the nuclear deal with Iran.\nSituation is worse than Obama’s time\nBut as Biden takes office, Democrats are no longer willing to stand up to the progressive wing of the party, which is deeply hostile to Israel and its American Jewish supporters. The 2020 Democrat primaries saw some of Israel’s most stalwart congressional allies booted out of office by progressives openly hostile to Israel.\nRepublicans, for their part, are fending off witch hunts.\nOver the past week, the public atmosphere in the United States has become one of unprecedented fear. The move by social media companies to deplatform President Donald Trump happened as media outlets and powerful political operatives are calling for Trump administration officials to be blacklisted and his supporters to be “deprogrammed.”\nDeutsche Bank and Signature Bank shut down Trump’s accounts. Republican lawmakers who questioned the Electoral College results in disputed states are being defunded by major corporations and targeted for censure by their Democrat opponents and the media.\nThe social media free speech platform Parler was rapidly expanding as millions of conservatives fled the onerous and frightening censorship of their views by social media giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google. Last weekend Parler was destroyed by Apple, Google and Amazon who acted in open collusion to remove it from the Internet.\nA new administration led by men and women with long records of unbridled hostility towards Israel and support for its enemies is taking the reins, with their party in full control of Congress, their ideological allies in full control of social media, and amid a cancel culture that punishes dissenting voices.\nAmericans who support Israel are less free today to voice their opposition to policies that harm Israel and embolden anti-Semites in America. And Israel itself is subjected to obsessive demonization by the dominant wing of the Democrat Party.\nThanks in large part to Trump’s extraordinary friendship, Israel is much more powerful than it was when Obama left office, but it is still vulnerable. Whether it has the power to persuade Biden and his advisers to change course remains to be seen. But what power Israel does have will have to be used to protect itself from the coming storm in its relations with the United States.\nCaroline Glick is an award-winning columnist and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.” This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.",
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Only 20% of respondents disagreed, while 57% said they could neither agree nor disagree.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) on Sunday published its 2020 Antisemitism Barometer, an annual report on the prevalence of anti-Semitism in Britain, revealing some disturbing British attitudes towards Israel.
CAA commissioned King’s College London to survey British adults’ attitudes towards Jews in 2020. The survey consisted of 12 questions with which respondents could either agree, disagree, or neither agree nor disagree.
The survey found that over 10% of respondents agreed with four or more anti-Semitic statements, a result the CAA called “a very concerning reflection of the entrenchment of anti-Jewish racism among a segment of the British public.”
“The most popular anti-Semitic statement was that ‘Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews,’ with which 23% of British adults agreed. That view is anti-Semitic under the International Definition of Antisemitism adopted by the Government,” the report said.
On this same question, only 20% of respondents disagreed, while 57% said they could neither agree nor disagree.
While only 4% of respondents said that they were not open to having Jewish friends, 11% said that they were not comfortable spending time with people who openly support Israel.
“Other studies have noted that the overwhelming majority of British Jews support Israel. This suggests that many British people are not as comfortable with Jews as they like to think, or perhaps that they are willing to tolerate Jews only as long as they keep their opinions quiet,” the report said.
Only 31% of respondents said that they were comfortable spending time with people who openly support Israel, while 58% would neither agree nor disagree.
Just over half of the respondents agreed that “Israel has a right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people,” while 50% agreed that “Israel is right to defend itself against those who want to destroy it.”
“It is notable that almost half of respondents (43%) neither agree nor disagree that Israel — the world’s only Jewish state — is right to defend itself against those who want to destroy it. The implication is that, for these respondents, it is possible that Israel may be wrong to defend itself, and that those who want to destroy it may be justified in doing so,” the report said.
According to CAA’s report, 41% of British Jews have considered leaving the UK in the past two years due to anti-Semitism.
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Without referring to Iran by name, Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that “some regional powers are interfering in the affairs of the Arab region.”
By World Israel News Staff and AP
The secretary-general of the 22-member Arab League Aboul Gheit referred without name to Iran in an address before the the United Nations Security Council at the beginning of the week.
Aboul Gheit said that “some regional powers are interfering in the affairs of the Arab region” by adversely affecting “the security of international maritime navigation routes which are a lifeline for international trade,” a reference to freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf and Iran’s mounting aggression in and around the waterway.
“It has also become apparent that this interference perpetuates existing conflicts and further complicates them,” he said, without directly citing Iran’s support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, and for terror groups in the region, such as Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and the Houthis in Yemen.
Aboul Gheit said the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing conflicts and crises have created “a dangerous mix that has taken a heavy toll on the peoples of the region,” pointing to 10 years of civil war in Syria, Yemen’s war entering its seventh year and “entrenched divisions in Libya.”
Aboul Gheit also expressed hope Monday that the Biden administration will change U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies and focus on the so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, an approach that has so far failed to solve the decades-old conflict.
During the Trump administration, Israel signed peace agreements with four Muslim-majority states, the first deals of their kind in a quarter century.
According to Aboul Gheit, the two-state approach “has been marginalized by the main mediator in the peace process,” a reference to the United States.
This “encouraged the Israeli government” to permit Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria to grow, a step the Arab League and the Palestinian Authority (PA) oppose.
He spoke a day after Israeli authorities advanced plans to build nearly 800 homes in Jewish communities, in a last-minute surge of approvals before Trump leaves office Wednesday and Joe Biden is inaugurated. Palestinian leaders predictably denounced the Israeli action.
The Palestinians claim all of Judea and Samaria as part of a future independent state. They claim that letting Jews live in Judea and Samaria blocks their dream of independence.
“We look forward to the new American administration rectifying policies and processes that are not useful and engage in a fruitful political process with the support of influential regional and international parties,” he said.
On Syria, Aboul Gheit said five countries are interfering militarily and the “security situation remains tumultuous and precarious, especially in the northwest, northeast and south.” This not only undermines prospects of a political settlement but also has equally serious humanitarian repercussions, with 90% of Syrians living in poverty, he said.
“I am convinced that a genuine solution would start with a minimal level of international consensus, which is still lacking,” and would require some regional parties to reduce their involvement in Syria, Aboul Gheit said. “Those regional parties continue to view Syria land as spoils of war or use it to settle scores”
In Yemen, the Arab League chief said the situation “is as dangerous, especially the humanitarian situation,” with some Yemenis on the bring of starvation.
He strongly backed efforts by U.N. special envoy Martin Griffiths to get agreement between the Houthis and the internationally recognized government on a joint declaration calling for a cease-fire and confidence-building measures.
He said the Saudi-negotiated agreement on a new Cabinet “is a positive sign that the fragmentation and division are coming to an end,” which “paves the way for negotiations on a comprehensive solution.”
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“This is an issue that’s incredibly consequential, incredibly rare historically and very precedent-setting,” said Sen. John Thune, the second-ranking Republican in Congress.
By Associated Press
President Donald Trump’s challenge of President-elect Joe Biden legitimacy is becoming a defining moment for the Republican Party before next week’s joint session of Congress to confirm the Electoral College results.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is urging Republicans not to try to overturn the election, but not everyone is heeding him. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri vows to join House Republicans in objecting to the state tallies.
On the other side of the party’s split, GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska claims such challenges are a “dangerous ploy” threatening the nation’s civic norms.
Caught in the middle is Vice President Mike Pence, who faces growing pressure and a lawsuit from Trump’s allies over his ceremonial role in presiding over the session Wednesday.
Biden is set to be inaugurated Jan. 20 after winning the Electoral College vote 306-232.
“I will not be participating in a project to overturn the election,” Sasse wrote in a lengthy social media post.
Sasse, a potential 2024 presidential contender, said he was “urging my colleagues also to reject this dangerous ploy.”
Trump attributes his defeat to widespread voter fraud, despite the consensus of election officials that there wasn’t any. Of the roughly 50 lawsuits the president and his allies have filed challenging election results, nearly all have been dismissed or dropped. He’s also lost twice at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The president has pushed Republican senators to pursue his charges even though the Electoral College has already cemented Biden’s victory and all that’s left is Congress’ formal recognition of the count before the new president is sworn in.
“We are letting people vote their conscience,” Sen. John Thune, the second-ranking Republican, told reporters at the Capitol.
Thune’s remarks as the GOP whip in charge of rounding up votes show that Republican leadership is not putting its muscle behind Trump’s demands, but allowing senators to choose their course.
He noted the gravity of questioning the election outcome.
“This is an issue that’s incredibly consequential, incredibly rare historically and very precedent-setting,” he said. “This is a big vote. They are thinking about it.”
Pence will be carefully watched as he presides over what is typically a routine vote count in Congress but is now heading toward a prolonged showdown that could extend into Wednesday night, depending on how many challenges Hawley and others mount.
The vice president is being sued by a group of Republicans who want Pence to have the power to overturn the election results by doing away with an 1887 law that spells out how Congress handles the vote count.
Trump’s own Justice Department may have complicated what is already a highly improbable effort to upend the ritualistic count Jan. 6. It asked a federal judge to dismiss the last-gasp lawsuit from Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and a group of Republican electors from Arizona who are seeking to force Pence to step outside mere ceremony and shape the outcome of the vote.
In a court filing in Texas, the department said they have “have sued the wrong defendant” and Pence should not be the target of the legal action.
“A suit to establish that the Vice President has discretion over the count, filed against the Vice President, is a walking legal contradiction,” the department argues.
A judge in Texas dismissed the Gohmert lawsuit Friday night. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, wrote that the plaintiffs “allege an injury that is not fairly traceable” to Pence, “and is unlikely to be redressed by the requested relief.”
To ward off a dramatic unraveling, McConnell convened a conference call with Republican senators Thursday specifically to address the coming joint session and logistics of tallying the vote, according to several Republicans granted anonymity to discuss the private call.
The Republican leader pointedly called on Hawley to answer questions about his challenge to Biden’s victory, according to two of the Republicans.
But there was no response because Hawley was a no-show, the Republicans said.
His office did not respond to a request for comment.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who has acknowledged Biden’s victory and defended his state’s elections systems as valid and accurate, spoke up on the call, objecting to those challenging Pennsylvania’s results and making clear he disagrees with Hawley’s plan to contest the result, his office said in a statement.
McConnell had previously warned GOP senators not to participate in raising objections, saying it would be a terrible vote for colleagues.
Several Republicans have indicated they are under pressure from constituents back home to show they are fighting for Trump in his campaign to stay in office.
Hawley became the first GOP senator this week to announce he will raise objections when Congress meets to affirm Biden’s victory in the election, forcing House and Senate votes that are likely to delay — but in no way alter — the final certification of Biden’s win.
Other Republican senators are expected to join Hawley, wary of ceding the spotlight to him as they too try to emerge as leaders in a post-Trump era.
A number of Republicans in the Democratic-majority House have already said they will object on Trump’s behalf. They only needed a single senator to go along with them to force votes in both chambers.
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Ben Sasse of Nebraska claims such challenges are a “dangerous ploy” threatening the nation’s civic norms.\nCaught in the middle is Vice President Mike Pence, who faces growing pressure and a lawsuit from Trump’s allies over his ceremonial role in presiding over the session Wednesday.\nBiden is set to be inaugurated Jan. 20 after winning the Electoral College vote 306-232.\n“I will not be participating in a project to overturn the election,” Sasse wrote in a lengthy social media post.\nSasse, a potential 2024 presidential contender, said he was “urging my colleagues also to reject this dangerous ploy.”\nTrump attributes his defeat to widespread voter fraud, despite the consensus of election officials that there wasn’t any. Of the roughly 50 lawsuits the president and his allies have filed challenging election results, nearly all have been dismissed or dropped. He’s also lost twice at the U.S. Supreme Court.\nThe president has pushed Republican senators to pursue his charges even though the Electoral College has already cemented Biden’s victory and all that’s left is Congress’ formal recognition of the count before the new president is sworn in.\n“We are letting people vote their conscience,” Sen. John Thune, the second-ranking Republican, told reporters at the Capitol.\nThune’s remarks as the GOP whip in charge of rounding up votes show that Republican leadership is not putting its muscle behind Trump’s demands, but allowing senators to choose their course.\nHe noted the gravity of questioning the election outcome.\n“This is an issue that’s incredibly consequential, incredibly rare historically and very precedent-setting,” he said. “This is a big vote. They are thinking about it.”\nPence will be carefully watched as he presides over what is typically a routine vote count in Congress but is now heading toward a prolonged showdown that could extend into Wednesday night, depending on how many challenges Hawley and others mount.\nThe vice president is being sued by a group of Republicans who want Pence to have the power to overturn the election results by doing away with an 1887 law that spells out how Congress handles the vote count.\nTrump’s own Justice Department may have complicated what is already a highly improbable effort to upend the ritualistic count Jan. 6. It asked a federal judge to dismiss the last-gasp lawsuit from Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and a group of Republican electors from Arizona who are seeking to force Pence to step outside mere ceremony and shape the outcome of the vote.\nIn a court filing in Texas, the department said they have “have sued the wrong defendant” and Pence should not be the target of the legal action.\n“A suit to establish that the Vice President has discretion over the count, filed against the Vice President, is a walking legal contradiction,” the department argues.\nA judge in Texas dismissed the Gohmert lawsuit Friday night. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, wrote that the plaintiffs “allege an injury that is not fairly traceable” to Pence, “and is unlikely to be redressed by the requested relief.”\nTo ward off a dramatic unraveling, McConnell convened a conference call with Republican senators Thursday specifically to address the coming joint session and logistics of tallying the vote, according to several Republicans granted anonymity to discuss the private call.\nThe Republican leader pointedly called on Hawley to answer questions about his challenge to Biden’s victory, according to two of the Republicans.\nBut there was no response because Hawley was a no-show, the Republicans said.\nHis office did not respond to a request for comment.\nSen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who has acknowledged Biden’s victory and defended his state’s elections systems as valid and accurate, spoke up on the call, objecting to those challenging Pennsylvania’s results and making clear he disagrees with Hawley’s plan to contest the result, his office said in a statement.\nMcConnell had previously warned GOP senators not to participate in raising objections, saying it would be a terrible vote for colleagues.\nSeveral Republicans have indicated they are under pressure from constituents back home to show they are fighting for Trump in his campaign to stay in office.\nHawley became the first GOP senator this week to announce he will raise objections when Congress meets to affirm Biden’s victory in the election, forcing House and Senate votes that are likely to delay — but in no way alter — the final certification of Biden’s win.\nOther Republican senators are expected to join Hawley, wary of ceding the spotlight to him as they too try to emerge as leaders in a post-Trump era.\nA number of Republicans in the Democratic-majority House have already said they will object on Trump’s behalf. They only needed a single senator to go along with them to force votes in both chambers.",
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“Acts of emboldened anti-Semitism must end,” said Jack Kliger, president and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
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A Confederate flag was discovered tied to the front door of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City early Friday morning.
The museum, located in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan, said that it has filed a police report and is working with authorities to identify those who carried out the vandalism.
“This is an atrocious attack on our community and on our institution and must be met with the swift and forceful response by law enforcement,” Jack Kliger, president and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust said in a statement.
“The Confederate flag is a potent symbol of white supremacy, as evidenced by the events at the U.S. Capitol this week,” he continued.
“Such hate has now arrived at our doorstep, just steps away from a train car which once transported Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. These horrific acts of emboldened anti-Semitism must end now,” Kliger added.
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United Arab Emirates closed a last-second deal with the Trump administration for up to 50 F-35 stealth fighters and advanced drones.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Only an hour before President Joe Biden was sworn into office, the outgoing Trump administration completed a deal to sell up to 50 F-35 joint strike fighter aircraft and 18 MQ-9 Reaper drones to the United Arab Emirates, Defense News reported Thursday.
The major arms sale to the Gulf nation that recently signed a peace treaty with Israel was signed only an hour before the presidential inauguration ceremony, the news outlet said, quoting Reuters.
A source with knowledge of the situation told Defense News that American and Emirati officials signed a letter of agreement Wednesday to formalize the deal that was packaged with the Abraham Accords under which the UAE and neighboring Bahrain established diplomatic relations with Israel.
Israel is the only country in the area flying the advanced stealth attack jet. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense officials at first strenuously objected to the sale, which they said would adversely impact Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region.
However, Defense Minister Benny Gantz later flew to Washington to meet with senior U.S. defense officials and received guarantees that the U.S. would compensate Israel in order to maintain its military advantage.
The agreement outlines the cost of the planes and the delivery schedule, the report said, but a hard delivery date was not released other than 2027 as the possible timeframe for the UAE to receive its first jet.
The arms deal is estimated to be worth about $23 billion, including $10.4 billion for 50 F-35A fighters, almost $3 billion for 18 MQ-9B drones and $10 billion in munitions for the aircraft as well as air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles and bombs.
It’s unclear whether the Biden administration will cancel the deal, the report said. The Senate rejected a Democratic move to block the sale last month due to the Republican majority. However, following the election of two Democratic senators in Georgia earlier this month, the Senate has reached a 50-50 split with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote.
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Anne Neuberger, a recent Biden pick who is Jewish, has been called out for supporting AIPAC.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
In what would have seemed unthinkable only a short time ago given the bipartisan support for Israel, a Biden pick’s suitability for a cybersecurity post is being questioned because she donated to AIPAC, America’s largest pro-Israel lobbying group.
Anne Neuberger, the National Security Agency’s cybersecurity director, was announced as the new deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology by the Biden administration in mid-January. Accounts at the time depicted her as eminently suitable for the job, having served also as head of the “Russia Small Group,” which handled Russian cybersecurity threats.
Through a family foundation, Neuberger, who is Jewish, donated $500,000 to AIPAC. The news was first reported by the far left journal Mother Jones. The article seems to suggest there is a conflict of interest, and by doing so indirectly raises a dual loyalty charge against Neuberger.
NBC, which ran with the Mother Jones story, subsequently apologized for the shabby reporting involved.
After fielding protests from readers, it said:
“After a number of readers raised issues with this article, NBC News conducted a review and has determined that it fell short of our reporting standards. In order to warrant publication, it needed on-the-record quotes from critics, rather than anonymous ones. The article should have also included more views from those who believe that donations to AIPAC do not represent a conflict. And it did not give Neuberger adequate time to respond to our reporting. NBC News is leaving the article on our website in the interest of full transparency with our readers.”
It would represent a sea change if support for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a nonpartisan group promoting strong U.S.-Israel ties, is considered a disqualification from office.
AIPAC’s annual conference, a nonpartisan affair, routinely features a slew of both Democratic and Republican politicians, who all agree on the “unbreakable” bond between the two countries.
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MEMRI reports that Iranian political commentators Mohammad Marandi and Foad Izadi, who are considered experts on American politics, struggled to conceal their glee as they covered the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6.
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Palestinians receive Qatari cash aid of $100 from the post office in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 27, 2019. (Flash90/Abed Rahim Khatib)
Qatar to send another payment of $10 million to the Gaza Strip.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
An infusion of Qatari cash, $10 million, is expected to arrive in the Gaza Strip in the coming week, the Lebanese newspaper al-Ahbar reported.
Qatar’s envoy to Gaza, Mohamed Al Emadi, will arrive with the cash. He has overseen the distribution of a grant from Qatar to the coastal enclave adding into the hundreds of millions. Al Emadi will inspect the projects in the Gaza Strip that Qatar is funding.
Qatar has been supplying money to the Gaza Strip for several years. In Nov. 2018, Qatar sent its first cash infusion – $15 million – with Israel’s approval.
That payment caused a backlash in Israel when pictures of three large suitcases filled with cash were splashed across Israeli newspapers. Israel’s government has since asked that the money be sent in a less dramatic way so as not to arouse public disapproval. Israel has agreed to the cash transfer in order to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
In March 2020, Qatar promised $150 million in cash to be delivered in six monthly installments.
As that grant reached its conclusion, Qatar announced in Oct. 2020 it would continue the cash transfers. The new grant runs through 2021.
The money ostensibly goes to 60,000 needy families in the Gaza Strip. Each one is given $100.
However, it’s not clear how much is going to humanitarian aid. In a Feb. 2020 study published by the BESA Center, Prof. Hillel Frisch found that Hamas is getting the lion’s share of the funds and that as much as 80% of it is unaccounted for.
Terror attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israel have continued despite the cash payments.
Qatar recently said it wouldn’t join the Abraham Accords in opening diplomatic relations with Israel. Qatar is sticking to the old Arab formula that a solution to the Palestinian problem must be found first.
Four other Muslim countries have broken with that paradigm: UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
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The uranium metal Iran is developing can be used for a nuclear bomb, and its production is specifically prohibited under the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Germany, France and Britain pressed Iran on Saturday to back off the latest planned violation of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, saying that Tehran has “no credible civilian use” for uranium metal.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday Iran had informed it that it had begun installing equipment for the production of uranium metal. It said Tehran maintains its plans to conduct research and development on uranium metal production are part of its “declared aim to design an improved type of fuel.”
Uranium metal can be used for a nuclear bomb, however, and research on its production is specifically prohibited under the nuclear deal — the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — that Tehran signed with Germany, France, Britain, China, Russia and the United States in 2015.
Since the unilateral American withdrawal from the deal in 2018, the other members have been working to preserve the accord. Iran has been using its violations of the deal to put pressure on the other signatories to provide more incentives to Iran to offset crippling American sanctions re-imposed after the U.S. pullout.
A joint statement from the German, French and British foreign ministries said they are “deeply concerned” by the latest Iranian announcement.
“Iran has no credible civilian use for uranium metal,” it said. “The production of uranium metal has potentially grave military implications.”
“We strongly urge Iran to halt this activity, and return to compliance with its JCPoA commitments without further delay if it is serious about preserving the deal,” the statement added.
The ultimate goal of the deal is to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, something Iran insists it does not want to do, despite credible evidence to the contrary.
President-elect Joe Biden, who was vice president when the deal was signed during the Obama administration, has said he hopes to return the U.S. to the deal.
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If the Biden administration reverses Trump’s policy penalizing Jew-hatred on college campuses, it may be open season on pro-Israel kids for BDS advocates.
By Jonathan Tobin, JNS
Following the U.S. Capitol riot, there has been a renewed emphasis on the threat from white-supremacist hate groups from the Biden administration, much of the media as well as the organized Jewish community. The anti-Semitic imagery seen at the rally organized by former President Donald Trump as well as in the mob storming Congress was frightening. No one should discount the fact that although their numbers are few, such violent right-wing extremists are dangerous.
If there was any complacency about such threats, the deadly attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, Calif., in 2018 and 2019 should have dispelled that notion. Jewish institutions should remain on alert, as they have been for years, and law enforcement should also be better prepared to act to prevent criminal behavior from such persons and groups.
But it’s equally true that just as a riot by a despicable mob was rhetorically inflated into an “insurrection” more as a way of expressing revulsion against Trump and partisan fury against his supporters than anything else, building these extremists up as being more than a marginal sub-sector of American society is just as dubious.
While we obsess about what the far-right is up to on college campuses around the country, the ordinary work of fighting the example of anti-Semitism that has the most impact on Jews on a day-to-day level continues.
The BDS movement continues to lose ground internationally as the four normalization agreements with Arab and Muslim countries concluded last year further undermine a movement that was already a terrible flop with respect to its efforts to damage Israel’s economy. But the impact of the hate spread by groups promoting boycotts of Israel and its supporters within the academy continues to be felt even as most students are studying remotely during the pandemic.
In that context, the most important questions about fighting anti-Semitism aren’t solely focused on white supremacists. Instead, the key variable is whether the federal government will continue—as it did under Trump but hadn’t under his predecessor, President Barack Obama—to protect Jewish students on campuses where anti-Semitic incitement is encouraged or tolerated.
As a feature published in The New York Times last week detailed, Jewish kids are still being bombarded with anti-Zionist propaganda and either shunned or marginalized if they aren’t willing to bend to the intellectual fashion of the day. As even Columbia University Professor Todd Gitlin, himself a leftist stalwart, acknowledged, “Hatred of Israel became a bellwether for the orthodox left,” meaning that acceptance of the delegitimization of Israel has become a litmus test for social acceptability. We are not unreasonably focused on right-wing lunatics with guns, but it is on college campuses that the most frequent interactions with anti-Semites occur for most American Jews.
Yet as the Times article made clear, in much of the mainstream media, the narrative about the fight against campus anti-Semitism is often flipped to portray the victims as the victimizers and the hate groups as an oppressed minority. When Jews band together to respond to the anti-Semitic invective of the BDS movement, those preaching hate against Jews and Israel cry foul, saying their right to free speech is being impinged upon by Zionist bullies.
A lot of the debate on this issue now is focused on how the reliance on technology for remote learning forced upon schools by the coronavirus pandemic has altered the playing field. Hosting veteran terrorists like Palestinian Leila Khaled at university symposiums on panels alongside others who promote hatred for Israel and Jews has become more difficult. Platforms like Zoom have found themselves in the cross-hairs of both outraged Jewish activists and the potential for being prosecuted for violating federal laws against facilitating terrorists.
The same people who complain are equally furious about activism from groups that seek to expose anti-Semites in academic settings. As the Times reports, the ability of groups like Canary Mission or cell-phone apps like Act.IL are especially frustrating because they have allowed the general public to better understand the anti-Jewish hate that has flourished at some universities. That’s a shock to elites who have heretofore felt invulnerable to public criticism for their attacks on Jewish targets.
In this same context, the pushback from left-wingers against the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s definition of anti-Semitism, which has been accepted by the U.S. government and that of many other countries, is especially telling. The definition rightly declares that, among other things, judging Israel by a double standard and demonizing the one Jewish state on the planet and its backers is anti-Semitic. That means the BDS movement can’t continue to disingenuously claim to be merely expressing support for Palestinian or human rights when they engage in such conduct.
Protecting Jews like other minorities on campus?
The key to this discussion isn’t so much whether some university administrations will wink at violations of the IHRA definition by BDS advocates or condemn them. Rather, it is whether the U.S. Department of Education will continue to enforce the law in such a way as to threaten schools where hate is tolerated with penalties involving cuts in federal funds.
That’s what happened while Trump appointees Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and department civil-rights chief Kenneth Marcus were in charge. It remains to be seen whether Biden’s appointees will be just as vigilant about policing anti-Semitism on campuses as they might be if it were African-Americans, Hispanics or other protected minority groups whose rights were being violated the way BDS threatens Jews. While liberal Jews routinely denounce Trump as an anti-Semite, they ignore the fact that whatever his other faults, this was an issue that he took a particular interest in, as even the recent Times feature conceded.
There are many within the Democrats’ left-wing base that have embraced intersectionality, critical race theory and its myths about Israel being an “apartheid state,” or the Palestinian war on its existence as akin to the U.S. civil-rights movement. But other mainstream liberals have also accepted the false arguments that ignore the evidence that BDS groups are anti-Semitic by virtue of their ideology and also engage in regular acts of Jew-hatred.
The government must not only understand that anti-Semitism exists on the left as well as the right. It must also realize that the former operates under respectable academic titles instead of being part of easily exposed and marginalized extremist groups as is the case with right-wingers.
It is imperative that Biden’s Department of Education continue Trump’s policies of fighting anti-Semitism and enforcing the law in such a manner as to ensure that Jew-hatred is neither legitimized nor tolerated on college campuses. If not, all of the hot air we have been hearing from Biden’s supporters about fighting hate will be exposed as empty partisan rhetoric.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
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Jewish institutions should remain on alert, as they have been for years, and law enforcement should also be better prepared to act to prevent criminal behavior from such persons and groups.\nBut it’s equally true that just as a riot by a despicable mob was rhetorically inflated into an “insurrection” more as a way of expressing revulsion against Trump and partisan fury against his supporters than anything else, building these extremists up as being more than a marginal sub-sector of American society is just as dubious.\nWhile we obsess about what the far-right is up to on college campuses around the country, the ordinary work of fighting the example of anti-Semitism that has the most impact on Jews on a day-to-day level continues.\nThe BDS movement continues to lose ground internationally as the four normalization agreements with Arab and Muslim countries concluded last year further undermine a movement that was already a terrible flop with respect to its efforts to damage Israel’s economy. But the impact of the hate spread by groups promoting boycotts of Israel and its supporters within the academy continues to be felt even as most students are studying remotely during the pandemic.\nIn that context, the most important questions about fighting anti-Semitism aren’t solely focused on white supremacists. Instead, the key variable is whether the federal government will continue—as it did under Trump but hadn’t under his predecessor, President Barack Obama—to protect Jewish students on campuses where anti-Semitic incitement is encouraged or tolerated.\nAs a feature published in The New York Times last week detailed, Jewish kids are still being bombarded with anti-Zionist propaganda and either shunned or marginalized if they aren’t willing to bend to the intellectual fashion of the day. As even Columbia University Professor Todd Gitlin, himself a leftist stalwart, acknowledged, “Hatred of Israel became a bellwether for the orthodox left,” meaning that acceptance of the delegitimization of Israel has become a litmus test for social acceptability. We are not unreasonably focused on right-wing lunatics with guns, but it is on college campuses that the most frequent interactions with anti-Semites occur for most American Jews.\nYet as the Times article made clear, in much of the mainstream media, the narrative about the fight against campus anti-Semitism is often flipped to portray the victims as the victimizers and the hate groups as an oppressed minority. When Jews band together to respond to the anti-Semitic invective of the BDS movement, those preaching hate against Jews and Israel cry foul, saying their right to free speech is being impinged upon by Zionist bullies.\nA lot of the debate on this issue now is focused on how the reliance on technology for remote learning forced upon schools by the coronavirus pandemic has altered the playing field. Hosting veteran terrorists like Palestinian Leila Khaled at university symposiums on panels alongside others who promote hatred for Israel and Jews has become more difficult. Platforms like Zoom have found themselves in the cross-hairs of both outraged Jewish activists and the potential for being prosecuted for violating federal laws against facilitating terrorists.\nThe same people who complain are equally furious about activism from groups that seek to expose anti-Semites in academic settings. As the Times reports, the ability of groups like Canary Mission or cell-phone apps like Act.IL are especially frustrating because they have allowed the general public to better understand the anti-Jewish hate that has flourished at some universities. That’s a shock to elites who have heretofore felt invulnerable to public criticism for their attacks on Jewish targets.\nIn this same context, the pushback from left-wingers against the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s definition of anti-Semitism, which has been accepted by the U.S. government and that of many other countries, is especially telling. The definition rightly declares that, among other things, judging Israel by a double standard and demonizing the one Jewish state on the planet and its backers is anti-Semitic. That means the BDS movement can’t continue to disingenuously claim to be merely expressing support for Palestinian or human rights when they engage in such conduct.\nProtecting Jews like other minorities on campus?\nThe key to this discussion isn’t so much whether some university administrations will wink at violations of the IHRA definition by BDS advocates or condemn them. Rather, it is whether the U.S. Department of Education will continue to enforce the law in such a way as to threaten schools where hate is tolerated with penalties involving cuts in federal funds.\nThat’s what happened while Trump appointees Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and department civil-rights chief Kenneth Marcus were in charge. It remains to be seen whether Biden’s appointees will be just as vigilant about policing anti-Semitism on campuses as they might be if it were African-Americans, Hispanics or other protected minority groups whose rights were being violated the way BDS threatens Jews. While liberal Jews routinely denounce Trump as an anti-Semite, they ignore the fact that whatever his other faults, this was an issue that he took a particular interest in, as even the recent Times feature conceded.\nThere are many within the Democrats’ left-wing base that have embraced intersectionality, critical race theory and its myths about Israel being an “apartheid state,” or the Palestinian war on its existence as akin to the U.S. civil-rights movement. But other mainstream liberals have also accepted the false arguments that ignore the evidence that BDS groups are anti-Semitic by virtue of their ideology and also engage in regular acts of Jew-hatred.\nThe government must not only understand that anti-Semitism exists on the left as well as the right. It must also realize that the former operates under respectable academic titles instead of being part of easily exposed and marginalized extremist groups as is the case with right-wingers.\nIt is imperative that Biden’s Department of Education continue Trump’s policies of fighting anti-Semitism and enforcing the law in such a manner as to ensure that Jew-hatred is neither legitimized nor tolerated on college campuses. If not, all of the hot air we have been hearing from Biden’s supporters about fighting hate will be exposed as empty partisan rhetoric.\nJonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.",
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The new lockdown will begin on Thursday night and will last two weeks.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
After hours of debate, Israel’s cabinet agreed on Tuesday evening to implement a full lockdown to counter skyrocketing pandemic numbers following a governmental meeting in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for such a measure.
“We are in the midst of a global pandemic that is spreading at top speed with the British mutation. It has reached Israel and is claiming many lives,” Netanyahu said.
“We need to impose a full lockdown immediately. We are in a cabinet meeting and I have no doubt that the cabinet will approve this and that the Knesset needs to pass it immediately,” he said. “This is the saving of lives, nothing less.”
The new lockdown will begin on Thursday night and will last two weeks.
Israel is currently under a lockdown, but it has been criticized as too loose and as a result ineffective. On Monday, 8,308 Israelis were diagnosed with the virus. It’s the highest number of daily cases since Sept. 30, 2020, when 9,065 cases were reported.
The main difference between this lockdown and the current one is that educational institutions will be closed, outside of special needs and at-risk youth. The new lockdown will continue certain restrictions from the current one, i.e. residents can’t depart more than 1 kilometer from their homes.
Other restrictions include:
All professional sporting events will be canceled.
Only absolutely essential workplaces will be open.
All trade closed, outside of those deemed essential.
Public transportation will operate at 50%.
Gatherings are forbidden outside of 5 people indoors, 10 people outdoors.
No meetings in homes outside one’s own.
The Knesset will need to pass the recommendations in order for the lockdown to go into effect.
For those who wish to see the lockdown implemented, there are some worrying signs. Protests apparently are not included among restricted activities.
Interior Minister Amir Ohana called for a ban on protests during the meeting. Defense Minister Benny Gantz disagreed: “I think we should not demonstrate at this time, but we should not ban it.” It doesn’t appear from reports that a decision was reached.
Months-long protests against Netanyahu that take place in front of his official residence, usually on weekends and numbering in the hundreds and even more, and which enjoy the protection of anti-Netanyahu politicians who wish to see them continue, have been an ongoing sore point in the government’s efforts to control the pandemic.
Aside from the danger for spreading the contagion itself, the protests have had a knock-on effect, discouraging other sectors of the public from obeying lockdown restrictions, pointing to the protests as evidence that there’s a double-standard at play.
The lockdown is taking place despite what is universally agreed has been a stellar rollout of the vaccination effort. Israel is ranked No. 1 in the world in vaccinations. Most of its at-risk population has received the first dose of the vaccine and 1/10th of its total population.
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Former UN ambassador chastises Trump’s behavior, but says the president also deserves credit for his achievements.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said President Donald Trump’s behavior since the November election has been “deeply disappointing,” but also said the president and Republican legislators deserved credit for the many achievements during his term in office, Fox News reported Friday.
“President Trump has not always chosen the right words. He was wrong with his words in Charlottesville, and I told him so at the time,” Haley said Thursday at a Republican National Committee dinner in Florida. “He was badly wrong with his words yesterday. And it wasn’t just his words. His actions since Election Day will be judged harshly by history.”
“It’s deeply disappointing. And it’s a real shame, because I am one who believes our country made some truly extraordinary gains in the last four years. President Trump and Republicans deserve great credit for that,” Haley said, adding “we should not shy away from our accomplishments.”
Haley has cited Trump’s judicial appointments and his economic and energy policies, as well as his administration’s pushback against Iran, China and ISIS, along with his role in securing peace deals between the Arab world and Israel.
Haley called the storming of the Capitol Building on Wednesday “a sad day for America,” saying “such violence is unacceptable and un-American.”
“If we are the party of personal responsibility, we need to take personal responsibility,” Haley said. “We can and should talk about our major differences. But we must stop turning the American people against each other – and this Republican Party must lead the way.”
The popular right-wing politician served for six years as governor of South Carolina before accepted Trump’s request to become UN ambassador. She resigned her position in 2018 without giving any reason and re-entered private life, but has maintained a public presence campaigning for Republican candidates last year and promoting her non-profit advocacy group Stand for America, that says it promotes “public policies that strengthen America’s economy, culture, and national security.”
Haley is widely speculated to be contemplating a run for the presidency and is using her time to position herself for bid for the White House in 2024.
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Yeshiva students v. Israeli police in coronavirus clashes over seminary closures
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Police arrest ultra-orthodox Jewish students protesting the mandatory closure of yeshivas due to the coronavirus lockdown in Ashdod, Jan. 11, 2021. (Flash90)
Police arrest protesters objecting to religious school closures under Israel’s latest coronavirus lockdown.
By World Israel News Staff
Clashes erupted Monday between hundreds of haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, yeshiva students and police in the southern port city of Ashdod after students attacked city inspectors who came to shut down the educational institutions that remained open in violation of a national coronavirus lockdown, Kan News reported.
Police arrested at least 11 people and three policemen were lightly injured when hundreds of the haredi students blocked roads and refused orders to disperse.
Police were called to the scene after city inspectors, who had arrived in the neighborhood to close a religious school that was open contrary to health regulations, were attacked as well as some policemen who were hit with rocks and sticks.
Health orders last Thursday closed schools for two weeks as Israel battles the third wave of coronavirus infections, but dozens of religious schools in cities with haredi communities remained open despite high infection rates among ultra-Orthodox schoolchildren.
The Bnei Torah Movement that runs the yeshiva in Ashdod issued a statement condemning the police, Ynet reported.
“The ultra-Orthodox public throughout the country is appalled to hear about the criminal attempt by the Ashdod police to shut down the Grodno Yeshiva and evict hundreds of yeshiva students,” the statement said, warning that unless the police backed off the entire haredi sector would be called on to back up the protesters.
“A discussion is taking place at the residence of Torah scholars at this time about the possibility of calling on the [Haredi] public from all over the country to come to Ashdod en masse and physically prevent the horrific and terrible injustice, which is the closure of the yeshiva,” the statement added.
While the majority of mainstream Orthodox Jews have been complying with health regulations, there has been a constant battle between authorities and the more radical haredi sects that claim Torah study is more important.
Police have been called in previously to deal with schools and synagogues in some sections of Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and other cities that refuse to comply with government orders to halt in-school classes.
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"Police arrest ultra-orthodox Jewish students protesting the mandatory closure of yeshivas due to the coronavirus lockdown in Ashdod, Jan. 11, 2021. (Flash90)\nPolice arrest protesters objecting to religious school closures under Israel’s latest coronavirus lockdown.\nBy World Israel News Staff\nClashes erupted Monday between hundreds of haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, yeshiva students and police in the southern port city of Ashdod after students attacked city inspectors who came to shut down the educational institutions that remained open in violation of a national coronavirus lockdown, Kan News reported.\nPolice arrested at least 11 people and three policemen were lightly injured when hundreds of the haredi students blocked roads and refused orders to disperse.\nPolice were called to the scene after city inspectors, who had arrived in the neighborhood to close a religious school that was open contrary to health regulations, were attacked as well as some policemen who were hit with rocks and sticks.\nHealth orders last Thursday closed schools for two weeks as Israel battles the third wave of coronavirus infections, but dozens of religious schools in cities with haredi communities remained open despite high infection rates among ultra-Orthodox schoolchildren.\nThe Bnei Torah Movement that runs the yeshiva in Ashdod issued a statement condemning the police, Ynet reported.\n“The ultra-Orthodox public throughout the country is appalled to hear about the criminal attempt by the Ashdod police to shut down the Grodno Yeshiva and evict hundreds of yeshiva students,” the statement said, warning that unless the police backed off the entire haredi sector would be called on to back up the protesters.\n“A discussion is taking place at the residence of Torah scholars at this time about the possibility of calling on the [Haredi] public from all over the country to come to Ashdod en masse and physically prevent the horrific and terrible injustice, which is the closure of the yeshiva,” the statement added.\nWhile the majority of mainstream Orthodox Jews have been complying with health regulations, there has been a constant battle between authorities and the more radical haredi sects that claim Torah study is more important.\nPolice have been called in previously to deal with schools and synagogues in some sections of Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and other cities that refuse to comply with government orders to halt in-school classes.",
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News site N12 reported on Tuesday that Netanyahu’s request “aroused great anger in the Foreign Ministry and among legal officials.”
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing pressure from settlement leaders, some of whom began a hunger strike in front of his Jerusalem office earlier this month, pushed for the normalization of a handful of settlements in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday.
In the end, the matter did not come before the government after the prime minister encountered pushback within his coalition and from others.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party rejected the move, saying “No politically irresponsible proposal will come up at the cabinet meeting in such a sensitive period.”
News site N12 reported on Tuesday that Netanyahu’s request “aroused great anger in the Foreign Ministry and among legal officials” as it comes just as a new U.S. administration is taking over.
“It is unbelievable that they are trying to pass such a significant decision, with far-reaching consequences that could complicate Israel at the international level and with the new Biden administration, without holding an orderly discussion,” sources told N12.
And despite Netanyahu’s pressure, Israel’s National Security Council refused to sign on to the move, saying that the Cabinet Secretariat is the one required to do so, N12 reports.
Under Netanyahu’s plan, five or six settlements would have their status “normalized.” Doing so would allow those settlements to connect to Israel’s water and electricity grid.
However, the handful of settlements Netanyahu has agree to help is small beer in the eyes of settlement leaders, who are calling for a change in status to 46 settlements, housing some 25,000 Jews.
The hunger strike has brought media attention to their situation, especially after two of the hunger strikers collapsed and had to be rushed to hospital.
One of them, Itai Zar, said “The electricity is terrible. The water is terrible. We are tired. Enough! What has that got to do with politics?”
“I just want to live like a human being, I went to synagogue on Saturday night because there was no water… There are 25,000 people here… It could be arranged in a second to give us electricity and water,” he said.
The settlement leaders laid the fault at the feet of the prime minister, whom they normally support.
On Tuesday, one of the most prominent, Yesha Council chairman David Elhayani, announced he was not voting for Netanyahu in the March 23 election and would throw his support behind former Likud MK Gideon Saar, who has formed a new party.
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The lifting of the embargo by Saudi Arabia paves the way for Qatar’s ruler to attend a summit of Gulf leaders Tuesday that will be held in the kingdom’s desert city of Al-Ula.
By AP and World Israel News Staff
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday that Saudi Arabia will open its air and land borders with Qatar in the first steps toward ending a diplomatic crisis that has deeply divided regional U.S. allies since 2017.
The state-run Kuwait News Agency reported the announcement, saying that Saudi Arabia would open its borders with Qatar starting Monday evening.
Qatar’s only land border has been mostly closed since mid-2017, when Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain launched a blockade against the tiny Gulf state, accusing it of supporting Islamist groups in the region and of having warm ties with Iran.
Kuwait has been mediating between Qatar and the four Arab states. On Monday, Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammad Al Sabah reportedly traveled to Qatar to deliver a message to Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
The lifting of the embargo by Saudi Arabia paves the way for Qatar’s ruler to attend a summit of Gulf leaders Tuesday that will be held in the kingdom’s desert city of Al-Ula. The summit would traditionally be chaired by the Saudi monarch, King Salman, though his son and heir, the crown prince, may instead lead the meeting.
Kuwait’s foreign minister said in a statement carried on state TV that the Kuwaiti emir had spoken with Qatar’s emir and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. The conversations “emphasized that everyone was keen on reunification,” and would gather in Al-Ula to sign a statement that promises to “usher in a bright page of brotherly relations.”
The Gulf Cooperation Council summit will be “inclusive,” leading the states toward “reunification and solidarity in facing the challenges of our region,” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying in remarks carried by the Saudi state-run news agency.
The decision by the close U.S. allies comes in the final days of the Trump administration’s time in office. Trump’s advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar in early December in a final attempt to secure a diplomatic breakthrough.
A senior White House official told Israel Hayom on Monday that the deal has ramifications for a Saudi-Israel agreement.
“Without the reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, it would certainly not be possible to achieve normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel,” he said. He said, however, that it would be difficult in the short term to conclude an agreement between the Kingdom and the Jewish State in the short time remaining to the current administration.
The decision to end the Saudi blockade of Qatar also comes just ahead of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s swearing in. Saudi Arabia may be seeking to clear contentious files that could prove stumbling blocs to building warm ties with the Biden administration, which is expected to take a firmer stance toward the kingdom’s policies than Trump’s four years in office.
There was no immediate comment by the UAE, Egypt or Bahrain on the announcement. However, in recent days Emirati and Egyptian statements have been made welcoming Saudi efforts to resolving the dispute.
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While COVID-19 has the potential to evolve rapidly, “the good news is that it is very easy to create this vaccine,” said Tel Aviv University doctors, adding that these inoculations are far more effective than flu vaccinations.
By Yaakov Lappin, JNS
In the coming years, pharmaceutical corporations will likely need to launch updated versions of their coronavirus vaccines every year or two years, though this task should not present any special challenges for them, leading Israeli virus experts from Tel Aviv University said.
In addition, a two-dose vaccine is “highly likely” to offer good protection against the current variants in circulation in the world, they concluded.
As Dr. Adi Stern of the School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology at Tel Aviv University’s George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences—speaking during a webinar organized last week hosted by American Friends of Tel Aviv University titled ‘Coronavirus Vaccines vs. Mutations: Who Will Win the Race?’—said, “Unfortunately, my guess is that we might be in a situation we will need new updated vaccines every year or two.”
Basing her assessment partly on “what we know from the flu,” which also receives annual vaccination updates, Stern said that the coronavirus, for its part, also has potential to evolve rapidly and to change.
“But the good news is that it is very easy to create this [updated] vaccine,” she stressed. In comparison with existing flu viruses, the new coronavirus vaccines are far more effective, she added.
“It will make our personal safety much higher if we get vaccinated probably every second year, though that is only a guess at this stage,” said Stern.
Dr. Ella Sklan of the university’s Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology Department explained that the basic idea behind vaccines is “to expose immune system to foreign antigens [substances recognized as threats] so when they encounter pathogens [an infectious agent], they will elicit a stronger response.”
Since the spike protein is the most abundant protein on the surface of the virus, she said, and is also the part of the virus that binds to receptors on human cells, immune systems tend to see and develop antibodies against the spike proteins. This is why most vaccines use spike proteins as the antigen.
Sklan said that as of last week, there were 43 vaccine candidates in the first phase of clinical trials, 21 in the second phase and 20 vaccines in phase 3. Phase 3 trials involve tens of thousands of people.
She stressed that trials test the efficiency in preventing disease and an ability to prevent infection, noting that these “are not the same thing.” Follow-up testing is now underway to check the ability of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to prevent infection, even if such infections are without symptoms in immunized individuals.
New preliminary data from health-care providers in Israel indicate that the Pfizer vaccine reduces infection by a significant degree, and the figures could increase further over time. “We know the vaccine prevents disease, and the preliminary evidence on reducing infection is encouraging,” said Sklan.
There are eight vaccines in early limited use at this time, and two—Pfizer and Moderna—that have been approved for full use.
About Those Mutations
In explaining how such dramatic progress on vaccine development was achieved in a mere 10 months, Sklan stressed that all of the regulatory stages were performed, and that there were no shortcuts, but that some stages of the process were performed in parallel.
“In the follow-up to phase 1, phase 2 already started. The same is true in the follow-up to stage 2; phase 3 already started because of the urgency,” she explained. “Companies began production of vaccines at risk—had their vaccine not been approved, they would have lost a lot of money. You can rest assured that it’s safe.”
The RNA molecules in the vaccines are highly unstable, which is why they must be kept at minus 70 degrees in the Pfizer vaccine and minus 20 degrees for Moderna. The molecules break down quickly—within eight hours—in the body after injection.
Stern noted that the SARS-Cov-2 virus is 50 percent identical to the coronavirus that causes the common cold.
“What are mutations? It’s when a mistake happens when a genome is copied,” explained Stern. “That mistake is called a mutation. This occurs all the time in all viruses. It happens in every second transmission.”
Most mutations are meaningless and merely a natural part of the virus’s life cycle, she said. Nevertheless, highly rare mutations can give the virus an adaptive edge, making it better at “making more viruses.” On its own, a mutation is not likely to make the virus more virulent, but it can become more transmissible—meaning it becomes “more likely to survive in our body,” she said.
Increase transmissibility is bad news, and so societies must add layers to social distancing. But while some of the spike mutations may allow a degree of evasion from antibodies, said Stern, “it’s highly likely that a two-dose vaccine will protect from both” the British and South African vaccines.
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Wise Faculty of Life Sciences—speaking during a webinar organized last week hosted by American Friends of Tel Aviv University titled ‘Coronavirus Vaccines vs. Mutations: Who Will Win the Race?’—said, “Unfortunately, my guess is that we might be in a situation we will need new updated vaccines every year or two.”\nBasing her assessment partly on “what we know from the flu,” which also receives annual vaccination updates, Stern said that the coronavirus, for its part, also has potential to evolve rapidly and to change.\n“But the good news is that it is very easy to create this [updated] vaccine,” she stressed. In comparison with existing flu viruses, the new coronavirus vaccines are far more effective, she added.\n“It will make our personal safety much higher if we get vaccinated probably every second year, though that is only a guess at this stage,” said Stern.\nDr. Ella Sklan of the university’s Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology Department explained that the basic idea behind vaccines is “to expose immune system to foreign antigens [substances recognized as threats] so when they encounter pathogens [an infectious agent], they will elicit a stronger response.”\nSince the spike protein is the most abundant protein on the surface of the virus, she said, and is also the part of the virus that binds to receptors on human cells, immune systems tend to see and develop antibodies against the spike proteins. This is why most vaccines use spike proteins as the antigen.\nSklan said that as of last week, there were 43 vaccine candidates in the first phase of clinical trials, 21 in the second phase and 20 vaccines in phase 3. Phase 3 trials involve tens of thousands of people.\nShe stressed that trials test the efficiency in preventing disease and an ability to prevent infection, noting that these “are not the same thing.” Follow-up testing is now underway to check the ability of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to prevent infection, even if such infections are without symptoms in immunized individuals.\nNew preliminary data from health-care providers in Israel indicate that the Pfizer vaccine reduces infection by a significant degree, and the figures could increase further over time. “We know the vaccine prevents disease, and the preliminary evidence on reducing infection is encouraging,” said Sklan.\nThere are eight vaccines in early limited use at this time, and two—Pfizer and Moderna—that have been approved for full use.\nAbout Those Mutations\nIn explaining how such dramatic progress on vaccine development was achieved in a mere 10 months, Sklan stressed that all of the regulatory stages were performed, and that there were no shortcuts, but that some stages of the process were performed in parallel.\n“In the follow-up to phase 1, phase 2 already started. The same is true in the follow-up to stage 2; phase 3 already started because of the urgency,” she explained. “Companies began production of vaccines at risk—had their vaccine not been approved, they would have lost a lot of money. You can rest assured that it’s safe.”\nThe RNA molecules in the vaccines are highly unstable, which is why they must be kept at minus 70 degrees in the Pfizer vaccine and minus 20 degrees for Moderna. The molecules break down quickly—within eight hours—in the body after injection.\nStern noted that the SARS-Cov-2 virus is 50 percent identical to the coronavirus that causes the common cold.\n“What are mutations? It’s when a mistake happens when a genome is copied,” explained Stern. “That mistake is called a mutation. This occurs all the time in all viruses. It happens in every second transmission.”\nMost mutations are meaningless and merely a natural part of the virus’s life cycle, she said. Nevertheless, highly rare mutations can give the virus an adaptive edge, making it better at “making more viruses.” On its own, a mutation is not likely to make the virus more virulent, but it can become more transmissible—meaning it becomes “more likely to survive in our body,” she said.\nIncrease transmissibility is bad news, and so societies must add layers to social distancing. But while some of the spike mutations may allow a degree of evasion from antibodies, said Stern, “it’s highly likely that a two-dose vaccine will protect from both” the British and South African vaccines.",
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Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) (r) is placing an Israeli flag outside her office next to that of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) (117th Congress Official Photo/AP/Carlos Osorio)
“I think it’ll be very helpful as she walks past it every day,” said Florida freshman Republican Kathryn Cammack.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Florida Republican Kathryn “Kat” Cammack, 32, who became the youngest Republican woman in the House of Representatives in January, found herself placed next door to Israel-hating Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib when office spaces were assigned.
“She [Tlaib] has some very strong opinions about Israel, and I have some very strong opinions about Israel, so I have made a pledge that I’m going to be planting the flag of Israel outside my door right next to the American flag,” WCJB TV reports Cammack said.
“I think it’ll be very helpful as she walks past it every day,” Cammack said.
Student group Gators for Israel sent her a package which includes an Israeli flag for display, Cammack says.
Tlaib likes to boast of her Palestinian Arab descent. For Tlaib, that heritage appears to comprise mainly of a hatred for Israel. She supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
When the House voted overwhelmingly to pass a bipartisan resolution condemning the boycott-Israel movement, 398-to-17, Tlaib was one of the handful of representatives to condemn the resolution, launching into a violent defense of it. But Rep. Ted Deutch, Democrat of Florida, represented the majority view when he said “BDS doesn’t seek social justice. It seeks a world in which the state of Israel doesn’t exist.”
In early December, Republican Rep. Guy Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania said Tlaib should be stripped of her committee assignments for participating in an American Muslims for Palestine conference, which featured terror supporters.
“Rep. Tlaib’s participation in this conference, coupled with her recently deleted retweet of a slogan calling for the elimination of Israel, are just the latest examples of a deeply disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism that has been on display since she was elected. Yet Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats refuse to condemn her heinous behavior,” he said.
A week prior to the conference, Tlaib promoted a tweet on her Twitter account which read, “From the river to sea, Palestine will be free,” a slogan associated with the destruction of the Jewish State. Tlaib later deleted the tweet.
The Israeli flag that Cammack plans to display may be a form of karma for Tlaib, as she, or someone in her office, displayed a map featuring Israel with the word “Palestine” and an arrow on a post-it note pointing to it.
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CEO of social media app Gab: ‘What we’re seeing right now is the rise of communism, plain and simple’
“I had very close relationships inside of Facebook, Twitter, and Google,” he said. “So I got to see really the evils of their business model up close and personal for many years.”
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Following the ban of President Donald Trump and thousands of his supporters from Twitter and Facebook, Gab CEO Andrew Torba said that people all over the world are terrified of big tech censorship, causing them to flee the social media giants in favor of free speech alternatives like Gab and Parler.
“We’ve never seen this type of growth in the company’s history,” said Torba in an interview with Pennsylvania’s WBRE-TV, which was posted on his Gab account Tuesday.
Torba said that Gab has gained up to 600,000-700,000 new community members daily since last week’s Capitol protests. He said the spike in membership is “unprecedented” since the company’s founding in 2016. According to Torba, 40 million people have visited the site this week alone.
Torba said that people all over the world are terrified with “what these big tech Silicon Valley oligarchs are doing.”
”They’re seeking a place to speak freely,” he said.
“Free speech has never been more important. The free flow of information has never been more important,” said Torba.
“What we’re seeing in America right now is the rise of communism, plain and simple. If you study history, you can see many parallels between different communist regimes that have risen up throughout history to what is happening right here in the United States of America, right now today,” he said.
Torba said this “communist uprising” is headed by billionaire elites who think that they own and run the U.S. He said that any critics are silenced, including the president and the 75 million Americans who support him.
As happened with the Parler app recently, the Gab app has been removed from both the Apple and Google app stores since 2017.
The company has also been banned from Visa, Stripe, PayPal, and other payment services. It has been forced to turn to the use of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which Torba calls “free speech money.”
Amazon also kicked Gab off its web-hosting service, as it recently did to Parler.
“All in all, we’ve been banned from probably 25-30 different service providers that you need to just exist on the internet and run a website,” Torba said.
In response, Gab bought its own servers. “We own them. We cannot be banned from them. That’s how you’re going to take back control of the internet,” Torba said.
“We will build the free speech internet that is grounded in American law and First Amendment free speech protections for everyone around the world, if we have to do it from the ground up,” he said.
Before starting Gab, Torba was involved with a digital advertising company in Silicon Valley.
“I had very close relationships inside of Facebook, Twitter, and Google,” he said. “So I got to see really the evils of their business model up close and personal for many years.”
Fed up with the rise of censorship on the social media platforms, Torba decided to start his own.
“The left and Silicon Valley and the media like to say if you don’t like what big tech is doing, go build your own. So that’s exactly what I did,” Torba said.
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A racing pigeon sits on a rooftop, Jan. 13, 2021, in Melbourne, Australia, The racing pigeon, first spotted in late Dec. 2020, appears to have made an extraordinary 8,000-mile Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to Australia. (AP/Channel 9)
The exhausted bird that arrived in his Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 had disappeared from a race in the U.S. state of Oregon on Oct. 29.
By Associated Press
A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it.
Kevin Celli-Bird said Thursday he discovered the exhausted bird that arrived in his Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 had disappeared from a race in the U.S. state of Oregon on Oct. 29.
Experts suspect the pigeon that Celli-Bird has named Joe, after the U.S. president-elect, hitched a ride on a cargo ship to cross the Pacific.
Joe’s feat has attracted the attention of the Australian media but also of the notoriously strict Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service.
Celli-Bird said quarantine authorities called him on Thursday to ask him to catch the bird.
“They say if it is from America, then they’re concerned about bird diseases,” he said. “They wanted to know if I could help them out. I said, ’To be honest, I can’t catch it. I can get within 500 mil (millimeters or 20 inches) of it and then it moves.’”
He said quarantine authorities were now considering contracting a professional bird catcher.
The Agriculture Department, which is responsible for biosecurity, said the pigeon was “not permitted to remain in Australia” because it “could compromise Australia’s food security and our wild bird populations.”
“It poses a direct biosecurity risk to Australian bird life and our poultry industry,” a department statement said.
In 2015, the government threatened to euthanize two Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, after they were smuggled into the country by Hollywood star Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Faced with a 50-hour deadline to leave Australia, the dogs made it out in a chartered jet.
Pigeons are an unusual sight in Celli-Bird’s backyard in suburban Officer, where Australian native doves are far more common.
“It rocked up at our place on Boxing Day. I’ve got a fountain in the backyard and it was having a drink and a wash. He was pretty emaciated so I crushed up a dry biscuit and left it out there for him,” Celli-Bird said.
“Next day, he rocked back up at our water feature, so I wandered out to have a look at him because he was fairly weak and he didn’t seem that afraid of me and I saw he had a blue band on his leg. Obviously he belongs to someone, so I managed to catch him,” he added.
Celli-Bird, who says he has no interest in birds “apart from my last name,” said he could no longer catch the pigeon with his bare hands since it had regained its strength.
He said the Oklahoma-based American Racing Pigeon Union had confirmed that Joe was registered to an owner in Montgomery, Alabama.
Celli-Bird said he had attempted to contact the owner, but had so far been unable to get through.
The bird spends every day in the backyard, sometimes sitting side-by-side with a native dove on a pergola. Celli-Bird has been feeding it pigeon food from within days of its arrival.
“I think that he just decided that since I’ve given him some food and he’s got a spot to drink, that’s home,” he said.
Australian National Pigeon Association secretary Brad Turner said he had heard of cases of Chinese racing pigeons reaching the Australian west coast aboard cargo ships, a far shorter voyage.
Turner said there were genuine fears pigeons from the United States could carry exotic diseases and he agreed Joe should be destroyed.
“While it sounds harsh to the normal person — they’d hear that and go: ‘this is cruel,’ and everything else — I’d think you’d find that A.Q.I.S. and those sort of people would give their wholehearted support for the idea,” Turner said, referring to the quarantine service.
It is claimed that the greatest long-distance flight recorded by a pigeon is one that started at Arras in France and ended in Saigon, Vietnam, back in 1931, according to pigeonpedia.com. The distance was 11,600 kilometers (7,200 miles) and took 24 days.
There are some known instances of long-distance flights but whether these are one-offs performed by the marathon runners of the pigeon world or they are feats that could be achieved by the average pigeon is not known.
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A billboard at the site of last year's U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Jan. 2, 2021. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)
Javad Zarif warns President Trump after making wild accusation he has intel that Israel wants to provoke the U.S. into a war with Iran.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Iran’s Foreign Minister upped the ante Saturday in his war of words with Washington, warning President Donald Trump with a claim that Israel was going to attack Americans in order to create a fake reason to start a war.
“New intelligence from Iraq indicate that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americans — putting an outgoing Trump in a bind with a fake casus belli,” Javad Zarif tweeted.
“Be careful of a trap, @realDonaldTrump. Any fireworks will backfire badly, particularly against your same BFFs,” Zarif said, using the popular social media acronym for “best friends forever” about the close U.S. Israel relationship.
The rhetoric from Iran increased in advance of Sunday’s first anniversary of the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. air strike ordered by Trump on January 3, 2020. Known for advancing Iran’s military interests in the region including its support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon. Trump labeled Soleimani the world’s number one terrorist.
Iran has threatened to avenge Soleimani’s death, as well as the death of its top nuclear scientist who was killed in November in what Tehran claimed was an Israeli attack.
After the U.S. made a show of force last week by flying B-52 bombers to the region, Zarif on Thursday also tweeted that Iran had “Intelligence from Iraq indicate plot to FABRICATE pretext for war.”
“Instead of fighting Covid in US, @realDonaldTrump & cohorts waste billions to fly B52s & send armadas to OUR region.” Zarif said. “Iran doesn’t seek war but will OPENLY & DIRECTLY defend its people, security & vital interests.”
Two weeks ago several rockets were fired at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad by suspected pro-Iranian militias, prompting Trump to tweet a warning to Tehran, saying “…Some friendly health advice to Iran: If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible. Think it over.”
In an apparent bid to ease some of the tension in the region, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Thursday that the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was ordered to immediately return to its home part after being stationed off the coast of Somalia and nearby Yemen, where Iran is supporting the rebel Houthi faction in the ongoing civil war there.
The U.S. maintains a massive amount of firepower in the region, with several air force bases in Gulf Arab countries and two aircraft carrier task forces – the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower – in international waters near Iran.
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Among Biden’s nominees is an Obama point person who led negotiations leading to the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, President Donald Trump labeled the “worst deal ever negotiated.”
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President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday filled out his State Department team with a group of former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration.
Biden will nominate Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state and Victoria Nuland as undersecretary of state for political affairs — the second- and third-highest ranking posts, respectively. They were among the 11 officials announced to serve under the incoming secretary of state, Antony Blinken.
Sherman led the Obama administration’s negotiations leading to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, from which Trump withdrew, and had engaged in talks over ballistic missiles with North Korea during President Bill Clinton’s second term. Nuland served as assistant secretary of state for European Affairs during the Ukraine crisis..
The team “embodies my core belief that America is strongest when it works with our allies,” Biden said in a statement. He said he was confident “they will use their diplomatic experience and skill to restore America’s global and moral leadership. America is back.”
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—longtime Biden Senate aide Brian McKeon, to be deputy secretary of state for management. That deputy position has been vacant for some time and McKeon and Sherman are expected to share duties as the department’s No. 3 official.
—former senior diplomats Bonnie Jenkins and Uzra Zeya, to be under secretary of state for arms control and undersecretary of state of democracy and human rights, respectively.
—Derek Chollet, a familiar Democratic foreign policy hand, to be State Department counselor.
—former U.N. official Salman Ahmed, who also served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, as director of policy planning.
—Suzy George, who was a senior aide to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, will be Blinken’s chief of staff.
—Ned Price, a former Obama NSC staffer and career CIA official who resigned in protest in the early days of the Trump administration, will serve as the public face of the department, taking on the role of spokesman.
—Jalina Porter, communications director for Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., who is leaving Congress to work in the White House, will be Price’s deputy.
Price and Porter intend to return to the practice of holding daily State Department press briefings, officials said. Those briefings had been eliminated under the Trump administration.
Jeffrey Prescott, a former national security aide when Biden was vice president, is Biden’s pick to be deputy ambassador to the United Nations. He would serve under U.N. envoy-designate Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Sherman, McKeon, Nuland, Jenkins and Zeya will require Senate confirmation to their posts while the others will not.
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Cohen told Hebrew media that the Sudanese government would be willing to accept some 6,000 Sudanese citizens currently living in the Jewish State.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
After an historic visit as part of an Israeli delegation to Sudan, Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen told Hebrew media that the Sudanese government would be willing to repatriate some 6,000 Sudanese citizens currently living in the Jewish state.
“Unequivocally, [the Sudanese government] is willing to take back the Sudanese migrants. It also pays off financially for them,” Cohen told Israel Hayom on Wednesday.
Nearly all the Sudanese are concentrated in the south Tel Aviv neighborhood of Neve Sha’anan, near the central bus station. Israeli residents of the area have long pleaded with the government to deport the migrants, complaining of spikes in serious crime, including rapes, assaults and robberies, and a decrease in their quality of life.
Before the October 2020 announcement of a normalization agreement between Sudan and Israel, the legal status of Sudanese migrants in Israel has been unclear.
Although the Israeli government does not recognize the vast majority of Sudanese as refugees, the lack of diplomatic relations between the two nations meant that Israel was unable to return Sudanese citizens to Sudan.
Because deportation was impossible, the Sudanese have been given de facto residency and employment rights, with many being paid in cash for work in the restaurant and hospitality industries.
Cohen said the two countries were planning job training programs for Sudanese migrants before their deportation, and that Israel would commit to an economic development project in Sudan in order to ease the transition.
“They [the Sudanese government] expressed a desire to move forward quickly in all areas,” he added.
But Cohen’s remarks directly contradict statements from the Interior Ministry’s Director General, Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef.
Mor-Yosef said in an early January press conference that the peace agreement with Sudan did not mean that the Israeli government would move to repatriate Sudanese migrants.
“There was some expectation here that if there were an agreement with Sudan, then there would be planes at the airport and they’d all get on and go back to Sudan,” Mor-Yosef said. “Well, they won’t go and they won’t be sent.”
The situation in Sudan is “unpredictable, and what looks like quiet now can be loud tomorrow,” he added. “There’s no plan to return these people against their will; at this stage, that’s not on the table.”
In an interview with World Israel News, Jonathan Yakubowicz of the NGO Israeli Immigration Policy Center expressed cautious optimism about Cohen’s statements.
“We’re for a plan that sends people back in a constructive manner, including job training,” he said. “But I’m skeptical about how realistic this is…[I doubt] this is a carrot with no stick.
“I don’t see many of them returning, even after a job course or training,” he told WIN.
“Israel has to immediately state that there is no legal impediment to sending them back to Sudan, even if they don’t plan on [returning] people immediately,” Yakubowicz said. “It’s highly important in order to set a legal precedent.”
“Regretfully, for now, we’re not seeing that change. The courts are continuing to give residency rights [to Sudanese] because the state is unwilling to say it [that there’s no legal impediment to deportation].”
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The terrorist, wielding a meat cleaver, was shot by Israeli forces.
By World Israel News Staff
A terrorist attempted an attack with a meat cleaver on Tuesday at the Gush Etzion Junction near Jerusalem and southwest of Bethlehem. The attacker was killed by security forces, the IDF reports.
The terrorist was holding the meat cleaver and was shot. No Israeli forces were hurt in the incident.
Tensions have been high in Judea and Samaria in recent weeks.
An 30-year-old Israeli woman was seriously injured in a rock-throwing attack on Jan. 3.
On Dec. 16, a pregnant woman was wounded in a stoning attack on Route 60 in the Binyamin Region in Samaria.
On Dec. 20, Esther Horgan, 52, was murdered when she went for a morning jog hear her town of Tal Menashe in Samaria. The suspect, Muhammad Cabha, 40, from the town of Tura al-Gharbiyyeh, near Jenin, was caught by Israeli security forces. Also arrested were others who helped him hide from the authorities.
Cabha smashed Horgan’s skull in with a rock. He said it was in revenge for a friend of his who died in prison. Cabha had served time previously.
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Yair Lapid copying Netanyahu’s outreach to Israeli Arabs goes one step further and says he’d accept Arab parties in his government.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Opposition leader Yair Lapid said Saturday he is willing to have Israel’s Arab party, the Joint List, sit in a government in order to ensure that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ousted from power.
“I am the one who led the move that said, ‘There is no problem to form a government with the support of the Joint List,'” Lapid, leader of the center-left Yesh Atid party, told Channel 12 news.
Asked if he was prepared to lead a government where Arab parties were members, Lapid replied, “Yes, of course.”
“I hope we will reach the situation were we [Yesh Atid] have good relations with the Joint [List],” Lapid said.
“I said publicly that we have to form a government with the support of the Joint List already in the third round [of elections in 2020],” Lapid said.
Lapid had called after the March, 2020 election for the Blue and White to form a unity government with the support of the Joint List that would have forced Netanyahu into the opposition. “It is a pity that we did not form one,” he said.
Blue and White received pushback from members of its own party and other opposition politicians to forming a government together with the Joint List at the time, ruling out a possible coalition deal.
The Joint List is the third-largest faction in the Knesset with 15 seats. It is made up of four Arab parties: Balad, Hadash, Ta’al, and the United Arab List, or Ra’am. A closer look at the parties’ platforms makes it clear why Blue and White ran into obstacles when it flirted with the idea of a Joint List coalition.
Balad opposes the idea of a Jewish State, advocating a “state of all its citizens.” Hadash is made up of the Israel communist party and other leftist groups. Ta’al’s leader Ahmed Tibi has referred to Israel as a racist country and accused the IDF of war crimes, and the United Arab List is the southern branch of the Islamic Movement.
In January 2009, Israel’s Central Elections Committee voted by a large majority to ban Ta’al, Ra’am, and Balad from running for elections, citing their support for terrorist groups and their call for an end to Jewish majority rule in Israel. The decision to ban them was overruled by the Supreme Court.
Lapid also said during the Channel 12 interview that he’s ready to work with Gideon Saar, a former Netanyahu confidante who broke off recently from Likud to form a new party.
“I work well with Gideon [Saar],” Lapid said.
“I have made two major political moves with Gideon in recent years… so we know how to work together,” Lapid said, mentioning their support for the election of Reuven Rivlin as Israel’s president and their no-confidence vote last month to bring down the government and force the fourth elections in Israel in the past two years.
It is not clear which of the two, Lapid or Saar, would lead a government should they succeed. A Channel 12 poll released Jan. 12 shows that 33% of Israeli voters still prefer Netanyahu to head the government, when Saar gets only 13% and Lapid 12%. Ten percent responded they didn’t know and 14% said none of the current party leaders were suitable.
Lapid’s party entered politics in 2013 when it gained 19 seats and became the second largest party in parliament. It currently has 18 seats.
Last year, Lapid merged with the Israeli Resilience party of former IDF commander Benny Gantz and the Telem party headed by another former IDF chief Moshe Yaalon to form the Blue and White coalition that together with Gantz as leader won 33 seats and almost managed to topple Netanyahu in the March, 2020 election.
Lapid sounded less enthusiastic about a possible re-connection with Gantz, who currently stands to win only five seats, saying that his door was open, but making it clear already last month that Gantz would be subservient to Lapid.
“If Gantz wants to come to me, he knows my phone number – let him call,” Lapid said.
The election takes place on March 23.
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Two-thirds of all stonings and Molotov cocktail attacks in Judea and Samaria are not included in the army’s year-end summation.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
The IDF severely underreported the number of terrorist incidents in Judea and Samaria in its summation for 2020, Maariv reported Saturday night.
According to the IDF, there were 1,500 stone-throwing and 229 Molotov cocktail attacks by Palestinians in Judea and Samaria in the past year. However, a closer look at the data showed that the army was only counting attempts to maim and kill civilians in cars and settlements. Attacks on soldiers, the separation fence and IDF bases were purposefully not included.
According to reporter Kalman Liebskind, when he asked the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit for the full count, the numbers skyrocketed to 3,951 stone-throwings and the flinging of 698 Molotov cocktails. This means that fully 62% and 67% respectively of these attacks were not entered into the final report.
The Spokesman’s Unit did not give a reason for excluding two-thirds of the attacks except to say that “someone” had changed the criteria for reporting the numbers to the public two years ago, and it has simply stayed that way ever since. Liebskind added that as a result of his inquiries, the army stated said that “Starting in 2021, the data will be published in a manner that will include throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at IDF forces.”
Liebskind, who credited website Hakol Hayehudi with pointing out the discrepancy, then commented that this was the same answer the IDF gave two years ago when the website revealed the doctored numbers when they had first appeared.
The question remains, he said, why the IDF is not being forthright with the public as to the number of terror attacks suffered by residents and soldiers in Judea and Samaria.
A parallel article in the weekend edition of the newspaper Besheva noted disparate numbers of attacks even in the civilian sector, as recorded by Hatzalah Without Borders, the first-aid organization that helps all residents of Judea and Samaria.
In its own year-end report, Hatzalah noted 1,884 incidents of Arabs attacking cars with rocks, 26% more than what the IDF said. The discrepancy in the Molotov cocktail category is much more severe, as they recorded 495 such incidents on the roads, which is more than twice the official number.
The Hatzalah report pointed out that in actuality, even its numbers should be higher, because a stone- or cocktail-throwing incident was only counted once, even if more than one car was targeted by the perpetrators at the time.
Hatzalah Without Borders also counted some 50 incidents of paint-filled bottles and plastic bags thrown at cars, which could easily cause drivers to swerve and lose control of their cars as well, although “by miracle, in such cases buses and vehicles were not involved in serious accidents.”
This equals an average of some 6.5 attacks per day on the roads of the region. It was only a matter of luck that the number of injured was a low 154 people, including 71 civilians, and 668 vehicles were damaged.
Considering that such attacks are legally considered attempted murder, it may be surprising to learn that in 2019-2020, only 419 cases were opened against stone-throwers, and 262 against those who threw flame-bursting bottles. The IDF gave out these numbers after the Lavi organization that fights for proper administration and civil rights requested the data under Israel’s Freedom of Information Act.
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