https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/irrefutable-testimony-berland-touched-married-women-under-clothes-rabbi-631498
Monday, June 15, 2020
Confederate Statues Were Built To Further A 'White Supremacist Future'
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future
Groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans defend the monuments,
arguing they are an important part of history. One of the leaders of
that group, Carl V. Jones, wrote a letter on Aug. 14
condemning the violence and "bigotry" displayed in Charlottesville, but
he also denounced "the hatred being leveled against our glorious
ancestors by radical leftists who seek to erase our history."
Yet many historians say the argument about preserving Southern
history doesn't hold up when you consider the timing of when the
"beautiful" statues, as Trump called them, went up.
"Most of
the people who were involved in erecting the monuments were not
necessarily erecting a monument to the past," said Jane Dailey, an
associate professor of history at the University of Chicago."But were
rather, erecting them toward a white supremacist future."
"These statues were meant to create legitimate garb for white
supremacy," Grossman said. "Why would you put a statue of Robert E. Lee
or Stonewall Jackson in 1948 in Baltimore?"
2020 Becomes the Dementia Campaign
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/07/2020-dementia-campaign-123106
In fact, a kind of ghoulish gallows
humor about the issue is widespread in political circles in both
parties, in part because people simply don’t see much alternative. My
colleague Marc Caputo said on Twitter
that a Democratic operative with presidential campaign experience
described the likely 2020 race like this: “the nice old guy with
Alzheimer’s against the mean old man with dementia.”
Trump's latest target on Twitter: Comcast
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/13/media/comcast-president-trump-abuse-of-power/index.html
President Trump on Saturday told his Twitter and Facebook followers to drop Comcast -- an egregious use of his presidential platform to hurt an American business.
For
the most part, people just shrugged. Comcast executives barely batted
any eyelashes. The company didn't bother to comment. And Google searches
for "Comcast customer service" trended lower than in recent days.
Still,
the president's missive was yet another example of his yearslong effort
to punish media companies for news coverage he doesn't like.
Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/13/media/seattle-fox-news-autonomous-zone-protest/index.html
Among the photos that Fox News published
on its homepage was one that showed a protester running past a burning
vehicle and building with the headline "CRAZY TOWN" blaring across the
website. The image, which accompanied a story about the situation in
Seattle, was in fact taken from the unrest last month in Minnesota.
In other photos that showed the scene in Seattle, Fox News digitally added an image of a man armed with an assault rifle.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
As President Trump Condemns 'Antifa,' Protest Records Show Scant Evidence
https://time.com/5849592/antifa-far-right-violent-trump-protesters/
The Associated Press analyzed court records, employment histories,
social media posts and other sources of information for 217 people
arrested last weekend in Minneapolis and the District of Columbia, two
cities at the epicenter of the protests across the United States.
Rather than outside agitators, more than 85% of
those arrested by police were local residents. Of those charged with
such offenses as curfew violations, rioting and failure to obey law
enforcement, only a handful appeared to have any affiliation with
organized groups.
Vandalism and theft aren’t helping
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/4/21278048/civil-disobedience-looting-vandalism
Nobody leading real movements for change is suggesting
that people engage in indiscriminate acts of destruction. In fact, there
are many examples of protesters intervening to stop looters and vandals (many of whom are white)
whom they realize only serve to discredit their work. Nationwide,
protesters are challenging the multiple, interlocking injustices faced
by African Americans. Right now you’re either helping or exacerbating
the problems — and it’s clear where the vandals stand.
'Trump’s Re-Election Chances Are Going Down in Flames.' How Trump's Divisive Rhetoric Could Hurt Republicans in November
https://time.com/5846311/trump-protests-republican-fallout/
While some Republicans caution it is still too early to predict the
party’s demise, others say the writing is on the wall. “Trump’s
re-election chances are going down in flames with that Autozone
building, police precinct building and burning police cars,” says Dan
Eberhart, a Republican donor and Trump supporter. “It’s hard to see how
these riots don’t boost Joe Biden’s claim to be the Alka-Seltzer America
needs to sooth its stomach right now.”
Trump's Attacks on Antifa Are Attacks on Jews
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-attacks-on-antifa-are-attacks-on-jews-1.8902330
To start with, Trump’s statement about
Antifa is absurd on multiple levels. It isn’t clear he has the legal
authority to do so. And Antifa isn’t an organization, but a philosophy
that guides anti-fascist street organizing. Who is its leader? What is
its structure? Where is it based? How do you become a member? These
questions have no answers because there are none. But no matter: it's
certainly filler for Trump’s campaigning.
Soros Conspiracy Theories and The Protests: A Gateway to Antisemitism
https://www.adl.org/blog/soros-conspiracy-theories-and-the-protests-a-gateway-to-antisemitism
Although the vast majority of Soros-related conspiracy theories do
not mention his Jewish heritage, the concern remains that they can serve
as a gateway to the antisemitic subculture that blames Jews for the
riots. This type of content can be found on mainstream platforms; a
Twitter user wrote, “George Soros is paying for this he is a Jew America
bows to the Jew [sic],” while another tweeted, “Antifa are on the
payroll of the Jewish financier George Soros who often uses these paid
thugs to intimidate any opposition towards the status quo that he and
his Zionist allies have set up to control us.” Yet another claimed,
“Soros is every bit the subversive, parasitic conspirator these people
make him out to be. The problem they always neglect to mention is the
fact that he’s a Jew.”
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