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."
Thursday, August 5, 2021
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
In a speech on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump told supporters to storm the U.S.
Capitol to delay the constitutional process that would affirm Joe
Biden’s presidency.
What's True
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.
What's False
Trump did not explicitly tell people to "storm" or "breach" or "break into" the Capitol.
What's Undetermined
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.
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