Sunday, July 5, 2020
Disunity on display as US riven by divisions marks independence
https://www.timesofisrael.com/disunity-on-display-as-us-riven-by-divisions-marks-independence/
Demonstrators chanting “Black Lives Matter” exchanged words with
activists waving pro-Trump signs outside a fortified White House as
America’s Independence Day was marked Saturday in Washington and
elsewhere by confrontations and disunity.
In Seattle, one woman was killed and another was seriously hurt
when a speeding car barreled into a Black Lives Matter protest. In
Baltimore, protesters yanked a statue of Christopher Columbus free and
threw it into the city’s harbor, and in Washington, US President Donald
Trump railed against protesters as the Independence Day holiday put some
of the nation’s deepest divisions on display.
Incitement? Hatred? Look no further than Israeli campuses
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/282961
Here in our snug little corner of the Middle East, we often cry foul
about the plethora of anti-Israel injustices occurring at universities
worldwide, and for good reason. These wrongdoings have been steadily rising
for years, and continue to threaten Jewish and Zionist students.
However, a bastion of misinformation and terrorist sympathizers exists
right here in our own backyard that doesn’t face nearly the opposition
it should: Israeli universities.
Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and
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‘Almost hard to believe’: Joe Biden attacks antisemitism on the left in US and UK
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-biden-antisemitism-us-uk-israel-trump-palestine-a9524056.html
Joe Biden has issued criticism against those whose condemnation of Israeli politics veered towards antisemitism.
“Criticism of Israel’s
policy is not antisemitism,” the presumptive Democratic nominee for
president told donors on Tuesday. “But too often that criticism from the
left morphs into antisemitism.”
From Left to Right, Jewish Groups Condemn ‘Repellent’ Black Lives Matter Claim of Israeli ‘Genocide’
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/from-left-to-right-jewish-groups-condemn-repellent-black-lives-matter-claim-of-israeli-genocide
On Monday, an alliance of groups affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement unveiled their first official platform. The 40,000-word manifesto contained
many recommendations, including concrete policy proposals, for
rectifying the wrongs perpetrated against America’s African-American
citizens in the past and present. Unfortunately, the platform also
contained a vicious bigoted slur against the Jewish state, which the
document’s foreign policy section accused
of perpetrating “genocide” against Palestinians. (The platform also
labeled Israel an “apartheid state” and joined with the BDS movement in
calling for the total academic, cultural, and economic boycott of the
country—a demand made for no other state.)
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Coronavirus burning through Haredi, Arab areas of Jerusalem
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/coronavirus-burning-through-haredi-arab-areas-of-jerusalem-633876
Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) areas of Jerusalem are becoming hot spots for the coronavirus, reminiscent of the first wave, a new report shows.According
to a report released Friday by the Coronavirus National Information and
Knowledge Center, which is overseen by the IDF Intelligence Corps in
cooperation with the Health Ministry, most of the new infections in
Jerusalem in the past week are concentrated in haredi neighborhoods.
Some 37% of Jerusalem’s coronavirus patients are in the following
neighborhoods: Ramot, Kiryat Sanz-Belz, Geula, Neve Yaakov, Mea
She’arim, Tel Arza, Mahanayim, Ramot Bet, Har Nof, Habukharim, Makor
Baruch, Kiryat Mattersdorf, Givat Hamivtar and Sanhedria Murhevet.
COVID trials halted for hydroxychloroquine after failure to reduce death
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/hydroxychloroquine-hiv-drugs-covid-trials-halted-fail-to-reduce-death-633869
WHO said the decision to halt the trials does not affect other studies where the drugs are used for non-hospitalized patients or as a prophylaxis.
Michael Cohen caught at New York City restaurant — and it could land him back in prison
https://www.foxnews.com/us/michael-cohen-new-york-restaurant-prison
Michael Cohen could soon be back to chowing down in a prison cafeteria.
The recently sprung jailbird was caught by The Post dining out on Manhattan’s Upper East Side — and the meal may cost him his freedom, legal experts said Friday.
But on Friday, Levine defended Cohen’s evening out, saying that Cohen
“is currently on furlough” and that he “did not violate any of the
terms and conditions of his release … and any assertion or suggestion to
the contrary would be wholly inaccurate and untrue.”
The BOP form
for furlough applications requires that an inmate provide a furlough
address and acknowledge by signature that “I am authorized to be only in
the area of the destination shown above and at ordinary stopovers or
points on a direct route to or from that destination.”
Trump, in fiery Mount Rushmore address, decries rise of 'far-left fascism,' calls on Americans to rise up
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-in-fiery-mount-rushmore-address-decries-rise-of-far-left-fascism-calls-on-americans-to-rise-up
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Speaking after the legendary U.S. Navy Blue Angels roared overhead, President Trump ushered in the July 4th weekend Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota with a full-throated condemnation of "far-left fascism" and a defense of "Judeo-Christian principles."
"This
monument will never be desecrated," Trump declared to cheers and
applause. "These heroes will never be defaced. Their legacy will never,
ever be destroyed. Their achievements will never be forgotten. And Mount
Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers
and to our freedom."
"We are the country of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and
Frederick Douglass," Trump said. "We are the land of Wild Bill Hickock
and Buffalo Bill Cody. We are the nation that gave rise to the Wright
Brothers, the Tuskegee Airmen — Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Jesse
Owens, George Patton — General George Patton — the great Louie
Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Elvis Presley, and Mohammad Ali. And only
America could have produced them all. No other place."
President Trump Pushes Racial Division, Flouts Coronavirus Rules at Mt. Rushmore Speech
https://time.com/5862857/trump-mt-rushmore-speech-fourth-of-july/
At the foot of Mount Rushmore and on the eve of Independence Day,
President Donald Trump dug deeper into America’s divisions by accusing
protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a
“merciless campaign to wipe out our history.”
The president, in remarks Friday night at the South
Dakota landmark, offered a discordant tone to an electorate battered by
a pandemic and seared by the recent high-profile killings of Black
people. He zeroed in on the desecration by some demonstrators of
monuments and statues across the country that honor those who have
benefited from slavery, including some past presidents.
The discord was heightened as the Trump campaign confirmed during the
president’s speech that Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraiser for the
campaign and the girlfriend of Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr., had
tested positive for the coronavirus while in South Dakota. Both
Guilfoyle and Trump Jr., who serves as a top surrogate for the
president, are isolating themselves and have canceled public events,
according to Sergio Gor, chief of staff to the Trump campaign’s finance
committee.
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