Monday, August 9, 2021
Sunday, August 8, 2021
6/12/21– Shiur 326 – Lace Top Sheitels – Are They permissible?
bottom line - if you follow Rav Moshe it is nothing new and is permitted as hair covering
In addition Rav Moshe held it is the women's mitzva and since she clearly has halachic justification- husband can't tell her no
6/12/21– Shiur 326 – Lace Top Sheitels – Are They permissible?
What's the difference from these to other Sheitlach? Is there really a difference? Can you see the hair underneath? Is there a problem of Maaris Ayin? Is it going against the Torah's will?
with Rabbi Shmuel Felder - Poseik BMG Lakewood – 14:03
with Rabbi Gedaliah Oberlander - Rov, Heichal Menachem, Monsey NY – 17:24
with Hagaon Rav Reuven Feinstein - Rosh Yeshiva Staten Island – 23:48
with Rabbi Daniel Ahron Coren - Rov, Monsey NY – 29:15
with Dini Weinberg - Dinis Wigs – 53:41
Sheitel must make woman unattractive?
There is another campaign against Sheitel apparently by a group of Breslov Baalei tshuva. This full page add appeared in the latest Bina Magazine. It claims a sheitel must lessen attraction. I have not seen such a claim before it certainly is not in Rav Moshe's discussion of sheitel.
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Bowing to a tzadik
Kedushas Levi(Shoftim)
ספר קדושת לוי - פרשת שופטים
לא תקים לך מצבה. נראה לפרש על פי שאמרו רבותינו ז"ל (אבות ד,כא) התקן עצמך בפרוזדור כדי שתכנס לטרקלין, כי העולם הזה הוא הכנה לעולם הבא ומה שאדם אוכל ושותה הוא כדי להיות בריא וחזק לעבודת השם יתברך ולא להנאת עצמו חס ושלום. והנה מה שאדם אוכל ומתהנה בעולם הזה נקרא לך כמאמר חכמינו ז"ל (פסחים סח ע"ב) חציו לכם. וזהו הרמז לא תקים לך, פירוש תענוגי עולם הזה הנקרא לך. מצבה, פירוש מעמד ומצבה לקיום רק הכנה לעולם הבא:
לשמש או לירח אשר לא צויתי. עיין רש"י אשר לא צויתי לעבדם. וכן שינו הע"ב זקנים לתלמי המלך בהעתיקם התורה לו. והנראה, כי מצינו בתורה שהשתחוו לצדיק כגון עובדיה לאליהו, כי הצדיקים יש להם תורת ה' ומצינו שקרא הקדוש ברוך הוא ליעקב אבינו אל (מגילה יח.) רוצה לומר מחמת שקיים כל התורה היה בבחינת אל כמו כן כל הצדיקים מחמת ציווי התורה יש להם בחינה זו ומותר להשתחוות להם. אבל השמש והירח אשר אין להם ציווי תורתו הקדושה אסור להשתחוות להם. וזהו לשמש או לירח אשר לא צויתי, כלומר שאין להם הציווי שלי, היינו התורה שניתנה לישראל:
Anger over synagogue exemptions as cabinet OKs new Green Pass virus restrictions
Ministers gave the final go-ahead Thursday night to a plan that will significantly expand restrictions on gatherings under the Green Pass system meant to tamp down runaway coronavirus case numbers, despite misgivings over an 11th-hour decision to exempt places of worship.
Starting Sunday, gatherings of any size, indoors and out, will be limited to those who have been vaccinated, recovered from the virus, or who present a negative COVID test, under the Green Pass system, which will also extend to hotels, restaurants and gyms.
While the plan originally included synagogues and other houses of worship, the plan presented to ministers for a vote Thursday night exempted prayer services with fewer than 50 participants, drawing furious criticism from some cabinet members.
Friday, August 6, 2021
Thursday, August 5, 2021
You shouldn't miss this massive bombshell in Trump's ongoing election fraud lie
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/donald-trump-jeffrey-rosen-election-fraud-cnn/index.html
Unless you have been living on another planet for the past six months, you know by now that Donald Trump leaned on state and national officials in the final days of his presidency to force investigations into made-up claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 race.
But the story keeps getting worse -- as we learn more and more about the extremes that Trump-loyal officials were willing to go to in an attempt to overturn the election, with zero proof or evidence to do so.
Fact check: Joe Biden has condemned violent protests in the last three months
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-biden-condemn-violence-idUSKBN25V2O1
Tens of thousands of social media users are posting memes that claim that Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, has been silent for over three months on the issues of rioting and violence and has only just denounced them because of a dip in the polls. This claim is false: Joe Biden has denounced riots since protests after the death, just over three months ago, of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed after a white police officer knelt on his neck.
Trump Begs Federal Judge Not to Turn Over His Tax Returns to Congressional Investigators
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/donald-trump-taxes-judge
While the continued legal battle means Congress is unlikely to see Trump’s tax returns anytime soon, if ever, history, at the moment, is not on his side. Earlier this year, a Supreme Court ruling paved the way for Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to obtain his tax returns, a turn of events Trump responded to by screaming at whatever poor soul had to dictate his words: “These are attacks by Democrats willing to do anything to stop the almost 75 million people (the most votes, by far, ever gotten by a sitting president) who voted for me in the election—an election which many people, and experts, feel that I won.… In the meantime, murders and violent crime are up in New York City by record numbers, and nothing is done about it. Our elected officials don’t care. All they focus on is the persecution of President Donald J. Trump.”
A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
We’ve become so inured to Donald Trump’s proto-fascism that we barely blink an eye when we learn that he tried to manipulate the 2020 election. Yet the most recent revelation should frighten every American to their core.
On Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27 December telephone call from Trump to then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, in which Trump told Rosen: “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” The notes were taken by Richard Donoghue, Rosen’s deputy, who was also on the call.
For the first time in the history of the United States we did not have a peaceful transition of power. For the first time in American history, a president refused – still refuses – to concede, and continues to claim, with no basis in fact, that the election was “stolen” from him. For the first time in history, a president actively plotted a coup.
Black Lives Matter protesters make Palestinian struggle their own
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/16/black-lives-matter-palestinian-struggle-us-left
Black Lives Matter, the US-based movement, recently came out in support of Palestinians’ fight for liberation.
The Complicated History Behind BLM's Solidarity With The Pro-Palestinian Movement
Nonetheless, in the decades since then, support for Israel has remained strong among many Black people. "The number of African Americans in solidarity with Palestine still represented a minority," Kelley says. "It was never the majority."
Israelis traveling to US experiencing 'mass hysteria'
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israelis-traveling-to-us-experiencing-mass-hysteria-675813
Travelers are angry that Israel has adopted stricter laws than other countries, he said. “Why are they requiring a full seven-day quarantine? Why do they demand a third PCR test on day three after they arrive? Why are our health professionals the only ones in the world putting these draconian conditions on honest citizens? Why is the US allowing anyone to enter the country with a negative test and nothing else? Why is the UK succeeding in reducing its numbers without any quarantine?
Where is there left for Israelis to go? “The only destinations that have any interest at all for Israelis are places like Switzerland and Austria, which are not yet red, as well as Thailand for some long-term travelers,” Feldman said.
Black Lives Matter tweeted in support of Palestinians, not Hamas
After 11 days of military confrontation that left hundreds dead, Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire following a unanimous vote from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet to end the assault in the Gaza Strip.
Activist groups and politicians in the United States and abroad have been weighing in on the conflict, with more progressive Democrats urging the Biden administration to be tougher on Israel and Netanyahu. The official Black Lives Matter Twitter account showed support for Palestinians in a May 17 tweet.
"Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians," the tweet says. "We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation."
The Black Lives Matter tweet indicates the organization's support for Palestinians, not Hamas. Several websites have corrected their stories to reflect that fact.
One Facebook post shows a screenshot of a Daily Wire story with a headline that reads, "Black Lives Matter Declares 'Solidarity' With Hamas In Israel Conflict." The headline has since been updated to say "Palestinians" instead of "Hamas."
Here’s How Fox News Spread A False Narrative Black Lives Matter Is Standing With Hamas
Topline
A Tuesday article from Fox News has kicked off a budding
online misinformation campaign buoying the false claim that activist
group Black Lives Matter has come out in support of Gaza’s militant
Hamas leaders amid the ongoing conflict with Israel.
Fox News Host Who Called BLM 'Poison’ Says Pro-Trump Mob Made Up Of ‘Solid Americans’
Topline
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson was one of several popular conservative
media pundits who condemned the violence that took place Wednesday, but
he also expressed sympathy for many of the "deeply frustrated"
Trump supporters who engaged in a siege on the U.S. Capitol, explaining
that "millions of Americans sincerely believe the last election was
fake," striking a sharp contrast to how Carlson and others have
characterized protesters affiliated with the Black Lives Matters
movement.
Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in what photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations.
The image was actually a mashup of photos from different days, taken by different photographers — it was done by splicing a Getty Images photo of an armed man, who had been at the protest zone June 10, with other images from May 30 of smashed windows in downtown Seattle. Another altered image combined the gunman photo with yet another image, making it appear as though he was standing in front of a sign declaring “You are now entering Free Cap Hill.”
Charges against hundreds of NYC rioters, looters have been dropped
https://nypost.com/2021/06/20/hundreds-of-nyc-rioters-looters-have-charges-dropped/
Hundreds of alleged looters and rioters busted last year in protests over George Floyd’s murder by police have had their charges dropped, according to NYPD data — figures ripped as “disgusting” by a local business owner.
Sources in the DA’s offices insisted that in many of the cases, the evidence was not strong enough to secure a conviction. The offices are also swamped with a backlog of cases created by the courts’ prolonged closure during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Simple question - aside from the personal feelings of one victim and claims of one former policeman - why is no evidence being reported that charges were dropped in spite of having solid evidence of criminal behavior ?
Most charges against George Floyd protesters dropped, analysis shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/17/george-floyd-protesters-charges-citations-analysis
Some prosecutors and law enforcement observers say departments carried out mass arrests as crowd control tactic
In most instances, Detroit officers who wrote
tickets were not at the protests and didn’t actually witness the alleged
crimes, said the National Lawyers Guild and Detroit Justice Center
attorney Rubina Mustafa. Instead of continuing to attempt to prosecute
with shoddy evidence, the city earlier this year dropped
nearly 300 more citations, but has still pursued dozens of charges
against protest organizers. All told, 93% of Detroit cases have been
dropped.
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
8 times Biden, Obama and others condemned Black Lives Matter violence
Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, a staunch Trump ally, said Wednesday in defending the president against impeachment that Republicans were consistent and condemned all violence from anyone.
“It’s all about politics,” he claimed.
The idea that Democrats did not criticize the violent elements of the BLM and social justice movement last summer is false.
Comparison between Capitol siege, BLM protests is denounced
Black activists are coming out strongly against a growing narrative among conservatives that equates the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol with last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests of racial injustice.
Republican lawmakers defending President Donald Trump made the comparison again Wednesday while building their case against impeachment and accused Democrats of being hypocrites with selective outrage. Their comments mark the latest effort by Trump and the GOP to misrepresent the Black Lives Matter movement as an extremist, violent faction tied to anarchists.
“You can moan and groan, but he was far more explicit about his calls for peace than some of the BLM and left-wing rioters were this summer when we saw violence sweep across this nation,” Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said in defending Trump before the House voted 232-197 to impeach the president for inciting an insurrection.
But the two events were fundamentally different. One was an intentional, direct attack on a hallowed democratic institution, with the goal of overturning a fair and free election. The other was a coast-to-coast protest movement demanding an end to systemic racism that occasionally, but not frequently, turned violent.
Favorite to Win NYC Comptroller’s Race, Brad Lander Turns on Israel
Brad Lander, who was once targeted in NYC for his strong defense of Israel, has joined the same den of radical leftists, in the name of power and acceptance of his peers.
Did Trump Tell Supporters To Storm US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-tell-supporters-storm/
Claim
U.S. President Donald Trump did tell supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, to gather at the U.S. Capitol and try to convince members of Congress to delay the constitutional process that would affirm Biden's presidency.
Trump did not explicitly tell people to "storm" or "breach" or "break into" the Capitol.
It was a subjective call on whether Trump's use of phrases "you
have to show strength" and "demand that Congress do the right thing"
were meant to condone violence and crimes among right-wing extremists
without explicitly encouraging it.
‘Mostly peaceful’ Jan. 6 claim mostly true — and beside the point | COMMENTARY
Those last two findings are crucial because the violence was motivated
by these false beliefs. It’s amazing how easily Republicans can see how
the rhetoric of BLM activists can create a permission structure for
violence, but they become utterly blind to the same point when it comes
to violence at the seat of our government.
Turns Out Mo Brooks Was Wearing Body Armor to Trump’s Very Peaceful Jan. 6 Rally
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/mo-brooks-body-armor-jan-6-rally.html
Then, to prove his point about preparation, he revealed a new detail to me: that because of a tip he’d received about potential violence, he’d been wearing body armor at the very same Ellipse speech in which he encouraged rally attendees to “start taking down names and kicking ass.”
“I was warned on Monday that there might be risks associated with the next few days,” he said. “And as a consequence of those warnings, I did not go to my condo. Instead, I slept on the floor of my office. And when I gave my speech at the Ellipse, I was wearing body armor.
“That’s why I was wearing that nice little windbreaker,” he told me with a grin. “To cover up the body armor.”
Did Trump Say to 'Peacefully and Patriotically' March to the Capitol?
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-trump-say-peacefully-patriotically-march-capitol-1561718
The official impeachment resolution points to the moments before the joint session of Congress to certify the election results, Trump reiterated "false claims that 'we won this election and we won it in a landslide'" and "willfully made statements that, in context, encourages and foreseeably resulted in lawless action at the Capitol." These statements include: "if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore."
Trump's team glosses over his Jan. 6 tirade
Donald Trump’s legal team thoroughly distorted his remarks from the rally that prefaced the storming of the Capitol last month, seizing on the one instance when Trump spoke of peaceful protest in his “fight like hell” tirade of anger and grievance.
Trump attorney Michael van der Veen accused House Democratic impeachment managers of showing selectively edited scenes of the violence and Trump’s words Jan. 6.
Yet he ignored the incendiary substance and tenor of that staging speech as well as the president’s words of affection for the attackers later, while they were still hunting for lawmakers and sacking their offices. He ignored the fact, too, that all of Trump’s provocations that day and for weeks beforehand had the lie of a stolen election at their core.
Beit Shemesh synagogue demolished - with Torah scroll still inside
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/311146
The haredi community in Beit Shemesh has slammed the city's municipality for demolishing a synagogue while the Torah scroll was still inside it, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
According to the residents, the municipal workers did not even bother to remove the holy books before demolishing the synagogue.
The synagogue, housed in a caravan built four years ago, serves the
community of "Hanikhei Hayeshivot" in Ramah C. Early on Tuesday morning,
municipal workers arrived at the site and completely demolished it.
‘Breakthrough’ Infections Do Not Mean COVID Vaccines Are Failing
Endless news cycles and viral social media warn of “breakthrough
infections” in people already vaccinated for COVID-19. These reports
leave the mistaken impression that protections afforded by the vaccines
are not working—and they can fuel reticence among the millions of people
in the U.S. who have yet to get a shot. But such infections are not
only known to occur after COVID vaccination. They frequently happen
following inoculation against influenza, measles and many other
diseases.
Pro-Israel Democrat Shontel Brown Defeats Progressive Nina Turner in Ohio Democratic Primary
Voters in Ohio's solidly blue 11th district opted for Brown, a pro-Israel leader in the Ohio party apparatus with strong ties to the Democratic establishment, over Turner, an outspoken progressive who came to national prominence as a Bernie Sanders surrogate.
Brown thanked her "Jewish brothers and sisters" during her victory remarks, adding how her 2018 trip to Israel gave her insight into the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Nina Turner Learns the Hard Way That Democrats Like Joe Biden
Turner lost a special primary election for Congress in Cleveland on Tuesday to rival Shontel Brown, a county councilwoman, by a margin of 50-45 percent. The seat was vacated when Marcia Fudge resigned from Congress to become Biden’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. It seemed like a lock for Turner, a former state senator who raised the most money and went on TV the earliest. But then the campaign turned into an intra-Democratic proxy fight between the party’s left wing and “normie Democrats.”
Palestinian-American convicted of deadly West Bank terror attack
https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-american-convicted-for-deadly-west-bank-terror-attack/
A military court on Tuesday convicted a Palestinian man with US citizenship of murder, for shooting dead a Jewish student in the West Bank.
The court “convicted the terrorist Muntasir Shalabi, based on his confession, of the crime of intentional manslaughter — equivalent to the offense of murder,” the Israel Defense Forces said.
In addition, Shalabi was convicted of “several counts of attempted intentional manslaughter, and possession of a weapon and obstruction of justice,” according to a military statement.
בית שמש: העירייה הרסה בית כנסת עם ספר התורה בפנים
https://www.kikar.co.il/398162.html
בית הכנסת של קהילת חניכי הישיבות בעיר בית שמש נהרס בשעת בוקר מוקדמת על ידי העירייה, וזאת יותר מארבע שנים להקמת המקום • המתפללים זועמים: ר התורה היה בפנים
President Biden Calls on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Resign After Sexual Harassment Report
https://time.com/6087311/andrew-cuomo-resign-sexual-harassment-biden/
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure Tuesday to resign, including from President Joe Biden and other onetime Democratic allies, after an investigation found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and worked to retaliate against one of his accusers.
“I
think he should resign,” Biden told reporters Tuesday, echoing House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and New York’s U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten
Gillibrand, all Democrats.
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, state attorney general report says
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/03/politics/andrew-cuomo-new-york-report/index.html
The New York attorney general's investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo found that Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
Capitol riots: Did Trump's words at rally incite violence?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437
On 6 January, thousands of Trump supporters gathered at a "Save America" rally organised to challenge the result of last November's presidential election.
They listened as Mr Trump spoke to them on the National Mall, near the White House in Washington DC.
In a 70-minute address, Mr Trump exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians had met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The attack began moments after he took the applause.
Those words have now played a central part in his second impeachment, which lawmakers voted in favour of last month.
So what did he say? Here are five key quotes, followed by some legal analysis from Professor Garrett Epps of the University of Baltimore.
Donald Trump is the accelerant
https://www.vox.com/21506029/trump-violence-tweets-racist-hate-speech
A comprehensive timeline of Trump encouraging hate groups and political violence.
Following 'Post' op-ed, CNN apologizes to Dore Gold for misquote
"On last week's show, I asked King Abdullah about the concept that there
would be no stand-alone Palestine state in the future that but instead
his nation, Jordan, would become the de-facto Palestine state," said
Zakaria "I said the idea had been recently mentioned by long time
Israeli diplomat, Dore Gold. I was wrong. Many have talked about that
concept, but not ambassador Gold. I apologize for that error."
Less than 1% of fully vaccinated people experience a breakthrough Covid-19 infection, analysis finds
Less than 1% of fully vaccinated people experienced a breakthrough infection, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of official state data.
The federal government only reports data on breakthrough infections that result in hospitalization or death.
According to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than 0.004% of people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 experienced a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization, and less than 0.001% have died from the disease. That’s about 6,600 severe breakthrough cases out of more than 163 million fully vaccinated people.
But the KFF analysis shows that breakthrough infections of any kind are also extremely rare.
Fact check: Kamala Harris said she supports protests, not ‘riots’, in Late Show clip
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-kamala-harris-late-show-rio-idUSKBN27E34P
Social media users have been sharing a video of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris saying that anti-racism protests will not and should not stop, claiming that it shows she supports Black Lives Matter riots.
Harris condemned violent protests on Aug. 27 after multiple nights of looting and two violent deaths.
She
said, “It’s no wonder people are taking to the streets and I support
them. We must always defend peaceful protest and peaceful protestors. We
should not confuse them with those looting and committing acts of
violence, including the shooter who was arrested for murder. And make no
mistake, we will not let these vigilantes and extremists derail the
path to justice.” ( here )
Did Kamala Harris Bail Out ‘Violent Rioters’ During George Floyd Protests?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-protesters-bail/
Claim
Harris expressed support for a nonprofit called the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), which pays criminal bail and immigration bonds, and encouraged her supporters to donate to it during the protests over Floyd's death in the summer of 2020.
However, Harris did not donate money to the nonprofit before, after, or during the protests, according to its records. Additionally, no evidence shows people who received bail or bond assistance from MFF for arrests during the demonstrations committed more crimes after their initial detainment.
Graham Twists Facts on Harris Support for Protesters
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/02/graham-twists-facts-on-harris-support-for-protesters/
Last year, before she was vice president, Kamala Harris used her social media accounts to encourage donations to a Minnesota nonprofit “to help post bail” for individuals arrested in the state while protesting the death of George Floyd.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham twisted those facts to claim “she actually bailed out rioters,” one of whom, he said, “went back to the streets and broke somebody’s head open.”
We found no evidence that happened.
Update, Feb. 17: After this story was published, Graham’s office responded. A spokesperson emailed us links to news articles and videos that said Harris “supported,” “talked up” and “promoted” MFF. One of the articles the spokesperson emailed also said that Lionel Timms had been bailed out by MFF before he was charged with committing a second physical assault. As we noted, Timms’ prior arrest was unrelated to either a protest or riot.
Monday, August 2, 2021
Fact-check: Fox News and Republican lawmakers push new false flag conspiracy that FBI orchestrated US Capitol attack
Fox News, right-wing websites and Republican lawmakers are promoting a new false flag conspiracy that the FBI orchestrated the deadly assault on the US Capitol.
Fact check: Democrats have condemned violence linked to BLM, anti-fascist protests
The claim: 'Not a single' Democrat has condemned violence linked to BLM and antifa
A meme posted to Facebook claims that Democrats have turned a blind eye on violent protests.
“Not
a single Democrat has condemned nor called for an end of the BLM and
ANTIFA caused violence,” the post reads. “They are aiding and abetting
mass violence across the country.”
Multiple high-profile Democrats have spoken out against violence at Black Lives Matter protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May.
On May 31, the fifth night of demonstrations, former Vice President Joe Biden, the party’s presumptive nominee, wrote in a statement that protesting police brutality is “right and necessary” and the “American response."
“But burning down communities and needless destruction is not,” Biden wrote. “Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not.”
93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds
https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/
The vast majority of Black Lives Matter protests—more than 93%—have been peaceful, according to a new report published Thursday by a nonprofit that researches political violence and protests across the world.
The
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) analyzed more
than 7,750 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in all 50 states and
Washington D.C. that took place in the wake of George Floyd’s death between May 26 and August 22.
Washington gives $135 million to UNRWA after agency condemns anti-Israel hate
The Biden administration paid $135 million (€ 114 million) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Saturday after an agreement was signed last week, which for the first time, condemns anti-Israel hatred.
Dems have abandoned all principle by telegraphing approval of some rioting
https://nypost.com/2021/04/19/dems-abandoned-all-principle-by-signaling-approval-of-some-rioting/
Are some riots good and others unacceptable? Surely not. Those who destroy property and commit assaults, whether against law enforcers or civilians, ought to be punished, no matter the cause they claim to support.
But today’s liberals reject this fair, universal standard. Some riots deserve legal protection, they insist, while others must be harshly repressed. It all depends on the politics of the rioters.
Some, such as the excitable Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), are cheering the prospect of another round of Black Lives Matter riots, er, “peaceful protests,” if the Derek Chauvin trial doesn’t go their way. They’re also up in arms about a new Florida law that strengthens punishment for those who take to the streets to commit violence.