tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76581722024-03-14T16:57:46.968-04:00Phillips PhilesWelcome to the Phillips Philes, a modern day cornucopia. Please view and enjoy. <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_enwllKVe46g/STRlabLgcuI/AAAAAAAAAAg/uF-J5qmXNBc/s400/SuperReagan.jpg"> <img src="http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads26/super_trump_election_2016_mens_t_shirt_11490220292.jpg">William N. Phillips, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11408259249484909073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-60568573563636081892024-03-01T13:48:00.002-05:002024-03-14T14:20:41.142-04:00How Far Inland Can A Tsunami Travel On The East Coast USA? By Ken J.Source: <a href="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/natural-disaster/how-far-inland-would-a-300-foot-tsunami-go-on-the-east-coast/" target="_blank">https://modernsurvivalblog.com/natural-disaster/how-far-inland-would-a-300-foot-tsunami-go-on-the-east-coast/</a>
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10/17/2021<br><br>
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<p>How far inland can a tsunami travel? That’s a question you may be wondering, especially if you live near the coast. Read through all the caveats that I discuss below, before checking out the maps. There’s not one answer. Rather, there are lots of “it depends”.</p>
<p><span style="background-color: #faf4c3;">EAST COAST TERRAIN ELEVATION MAPS SHOWN BELOW</span></p>
<p>Awhile ago I wrote an article titled “300 Foot Tsunami And East Coast Destruction” (linked below) regarding the possibility of ‘La Palma’ or ‘El Hierro’ of the Canary Islands partially collapsing into the Eastern Atlantic following a major volcanic eruption there.</p>
<p>This event would likely lead to a mega tsunami that travels across the Atlantic and devastates the East Coast of the United States.</p>
<p>Opinions vary regarding the height of the tsunami and range from 60 feet, to 300 feet, and even higher than that as it rolls up the shoreline of the East Coast of the United States and elsewhere.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-canary-islands-la-palma-cumbre-vieja-mega-tsunami">Canary Islands – La Palma – Cumbre Vieja Mega-Tsunami?</h2>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I first published this article during 2013. Eight years later, 2021, a swarm of earthquakes are rattling the Canary Islands – sparking fears of a volcanic eruption. I recalled posting the following East Coast Terrain Elevation Maps with intent of providing some context for a “what if” scenario of a mega-tsunami. Like a tsunami initiated from a major submarine landslide at the Canary Islands, for example. </p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>There have been fears an eruption could cause a mega-tsunami. Steven Ward first <a href="https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> this theory in research from the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, two decades ago.</p></blockquote>
<p class="has-text-align-center">image via ZeroHedge via StanDeyo</p>
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<figcaption>USA: Waves 130-160 ft high, traveling up to 12 miles inland</figcaption>
<p>image source: Cumbre Vieja Volcano — Potential collapse and tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands, Steven N. Ward.<br>(height in meters)</p>
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<p><strong>Evolution of the La Palma landslide tsunami from 2 minutes (upper left) to 9 hours (lower right).</strong> </p>
<p>Red and blue contours cover elevated and depressed regions of the ocean respectively and the yellow dots and numbers sample the wave height, positive or negative, in meters. Note the strong influence of dispersion in spreading out an original impulse into a long series of waves of decreasing wavelength. See also that the peak amplitudes generally do not coincide with the first wave. </p>
<p><strong>Even after crossing the Atlantic, a lateral collapse of Cumbre Vieja volcano could impose a great sequence of waves of 10-25 meters height on the shores of the Americas.</strong> (research by Steven N. Ward).</p>
<p>(Cumbre Vieja is a volcanic ridge on the volcanic ocean island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.)</p>
<p><em>Okay, back to the original post. I must have had too much time on my hands back then… plotting several east coast elevation maps:</em></p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-how-far-inland-can-a-tsunami-go">How Far Inland Can A Tsunami Go?</h2>
<p><span style="background-color: #faf4c3;"> “IF” a 300 foot tsunami reached the East Coast, how far inland would it go?</span></p>
<p>Logically one might reason that the tsunami will travel inland until the elevation of the land is higher than the tsunami. While that sounds logical, there are variables…</p>
<p>Actually, the distance a tsunami will travel inland has more to do with the energy remaining as it hits the shore.</p>
<p>A tsunami will speed across the ocean at hundreds of miles an hour but at a relatively small height (because the ocean is DEEP).</p>
<p>It’s speed decreases as it approaches the shoreline (because the ground beneath it is getting shallower) but it’s energy begins to transfer to its monstrous HEIGHT.</p>
<p>When the speed of the wave approaches zero, the wave breaks, much of its energy is released, and it will not go too much further. A tsunami that reaches a height of 300 feet when it rears up at the shore (or any height), will lose energy as it travels inland.</p>
<p>It’s all about energy. Frequency (depending on the source of the tsunami) and Amplitude (shape of ocean floor, shoreline and up-slope factors).</p>
<p>It is conceivable that a given tsunami may rear up quickly (and very high) once it reaches the shore (depending on the shape of the ocean floor leading to the shore), and then ‘break’ and lose much of it’s energy in a relatively short distance. While another tsunami may be more compressed (in frequency) and be thrust forward very quickly while traveling a long distance inland (remember Japan?).</p>
<p>There are scientifically sound reasons for concern that at some point in time a mega tsunami could engulf the entire East Coast with a wave approximating 300 feet in height and sweep everything and everybody inland. The consequences of such an event are nearly unimaginable.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-tsunami-maps-east-coast-terrain">Tsunami Maps (East Coast Terrain)</h2>
<p>Out of curiosity and an interest in maps, I have custom built the following elevation maps based on high resolution data from USGS digital elevation maps of the United States, particularly the East Coast. I have modeled several layers of elevation of the East Coast to illustrate various height scenarios of tsunami versus geography as it travels inland.</p>
<p>Having said that, there are many variables and factors affecting how far a tsunami would travel inland. So if you live 20 miles inland along the Florida coast (for example) at an elevation of 50 feet doesn’t necessarily mean that a 300 foot tsunami (at the shore) will have enough remaining energy to travel all the way to your location.</p>
<p>There are some instances whereby such a tsunami would probably only travel several miles inland while there are other scenarios where it may roar up a river way or bay and devastate far inland.</p>
<p>Regardless of the factors, I felt that you may be curious to see following elevation graphics that I layered together which increment 75 feet all the way to 300 feet in height along the U.S. East Coast. I would guesstimate that if you live within 20 miles of the coast, you may be vulnerable to a Canary Island ‘event’. However this is simply my own estimation.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-which-american-cities-might-be-devastated-by-an-east-coast-mega-tsunami">Which American Cities Might Be Devastated by an East Coast Mega-Tsunami?</h3>
<p>Several observations regarding a 300 foot tsunami would be the probable devastation of the following major East Coast cities… Even a 75 foot tsunami !</p>
<p>CITY, (Current elevation above sea level, feet)</p>
<p>Portland, ME (~ 50′)<br>Boston, MA (~ 30′)<br>New Haven, CT (~ 50′)<br>Bridgeport, CT (~ 40′)<br>New York City, NY (~ 20′)<br>Jersey City, NJ (~ 30′)<br>Newark, NJ (~ 50′)<br>Atlantic City, NJ (~ 10′)<br>Wilmington, DE (~ 80′)<br>Philadelphia, PA (~ 40′)<br>Virginia Beach, VA (~ 10′)<br>Wilmington, NC (~ 20′)<br>Myrtle Beach, SC (~ 20′)<br>Charleston, SC (~ 10′)<br>Savannah, GA (~ 10′)<br>Daytona Beach, FL (less than 10′)<br>West Palm Beach, FL (less than 10′)<br>Fort Lauderdale, FL (less than 10′)<br>Miami, FL (less than 10′)</p>
<p>There are countless cities and towns in between these coastal cities. The Eastern Seaboard of the United States includes some of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. Over one third of the country (more than 100 million people) live along the East Coast. Evacuation would be virtually impossible for most (except for the astute who act quickly) due to only hours notice, probable doubt, and the subsequent immediate gridlock that would follow.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-elevation-maps">ELEVATION MAPS</h3>
<p><strong>THE MAPS BELOW SIMPLY SHOW ELEVATION.</strong></p>
<p>NOT the expected distance a 300 foot tsunami (or any height) would actually travel. With that said, the maps simply provide visualization and reference in this regard.</p>
<p> <strong>NOTE:</strong> An evacuation plan should include:<br><a href="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/preps/maps-and-direction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Road Atlas Map For Each State</strong></a></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/natural-disasters/how-far-inland-would-a-300-foot-tsunami-go-on-the-east-coast/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="536" height="700" src="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-northeast-coast-map.gif" alt="300 Foot Tsunami Northeast Coast United States Map" class="wp-image-25401" srcset="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-northeast-coast-map.gif 536w, https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-northeast-coast-map-153x200.gif 153w" sizes="(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px" /></a></figure>
<p><strong>Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York Coastal Elevation Map</strong></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/natural-disasters/how-far-inland-would-a-300-foot-tsunami-go-on-the-east-coast/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="536" height="700" src="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-chesapeake-bay-north-carolina-coast-map.gif" alt="300 Foot Tsunami Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina Coast Map" class="wp-image-25402" srcset="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-chesapeake-bay-north-carolina-coast-map.gif 536w, https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-chesapeake-bay-north-carolina-coast-map-153x200.gif 153w" sizes="(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px" /></a></figure>
<p><strong>Chesapeake Bay & North Carolina Coastal Elevation Map</strong></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/natural-disasters/how-far-inland-would-a-300-foot-tsunami-go-on-the-east-coast/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="536" height="368" src="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-north-south-carolina-coast-map.gif" alt="300 Foot Tsunami North and South Carolina Coast Map" class="wp-image-25403" srcset="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-north-south-carolina-coast-map.gif 536w, https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-north-south-carolina-coast-map-200x137.gif 200w" sizes="(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px" /></a></figure>
<p><strong>North and South Carolina Coastal Elevation Map</strong></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/natural-disasters/how-far-inland-would-a-300-foot-tsunami-go-on-the-east-coast/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="536" height="700" src="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-georgia-coast-map.gif" alt="300 Foot Tsunami Georgia Coast Map" class="wp-image-25404" srcset="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-georgia-coast-map.gif 536w, https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-georgia-coast-map-153x200.gif 153w" sizes="(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px" /></a></figure>
<p><strong>Georgia Coastal Elevation Map</strong></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/natural-disasters/how-far-inland-would-a-300-foot-tsunami-go-on-the-east-coast/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="536" height="700" src="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-florida-coast-map.gif" alt="300 Foot Tsunami Florida Coast Map" class="wp-image-25405" srcset="https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-florida-coast-map.gif 536w, https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/300-foot-tsunami-florida-coast-map-153x200.gif 153w" sizes="(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px" /></a></figure>
<p><strong>Florida Coastal Elevation Map</strong></p>
<p>Florida with its very low elevation would have particular problems with a tsunami moving in many miles inland!</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-26715286170439308282024-02-08T17:03:00.001-05:002024-02-08T17:07:58.373-05:00Levin: The Democrat Party's fetish for the 14th Amendment is a vile attack on our elections directed at one man: Donald Trump<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJX2Fqa_1T5Xx2GQM3KhJZ8nrFBT6Qsjfz_-xMaLLYwoiCCrx_nNUmzbFIMp86EE7AQZjW8FlRgVxLMfKEZf8qyLQlVr11B4csrPpmg3olCe28KNXVX_M6GTqJXelEOSuZnbsBWLfXZmRExA67e1mq634ZQTY7zHQcewciGYLE3_EWQAUYs52Wg/s1245/President%20Donald%20Trump%20waving.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJX2Fqa_1T5Xx2GQM3KhJZ8nrFBT6Qsjfz_-xMaLLYwoiCCrx_nNUmzbFIMp86EE7AQZjW8FlRgVxLMfKEZf8qyLQlVr11B4csrPpmg3olCe28KNXVX_M6GTqJXelEOSuZnbsBWLfXZmRExA67e1mq634ZQTY7zHQcewciGYLE3_EWQAUYs52Wg/s320/President%20Donald%20Trump%20waving.jpg"/></a></div><center>James Devaney/GC Images/Getty Images</center><br><br>
Source: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/levin-the-democrat-partys-fetish-for-the-14th-amendment-is-a-vile-attack-on-our-elections-directed-at-one-man-donald-trump" target="_blank">https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/levin-the-democrat-partys-fetish-for-the-14th-amendment-is-a-vile-attack-on-our-elections-directed-at-one-man-donald-trump</a><br><br>
SEPTEMBER 05, 2023<br><br>
<p>The modern Democrat Party has an unhealthy fetish for the 14th Amendment, one of the three post-Civil War constitutional amendments. Democrats are constantly and relentlessly trying to rewrite it to accommodate their political ends.</p>
<p>A few months ago, Joe Biden and his party insisted that Section 4 of the 14th Amendment granted the president power to unilaterally increase the debt ceiling, which would destroy Congress’s sole power under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to tax, spend, and borrow. Of course, Section 4 of the 14th Amendment does no such thing, and there is nothing in the history of the amendment that supports such an interpretation. Here’s the relevant language:</p>
<blockquote>The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.</blockquote>
<p>As I explain in my new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Democrat-Party-Hates-America/dp/150118315X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SPJLIN22VW3H&keywords=the+democrat+party+hates+america+levin&qid=1693918203&sprefix=the+democrat+party%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-1" target="_blank">“The Democrat Party Hates America,”</a> nobody was challenging the validity of the debt. Second, the language is specific to Civil War-related debt. Third, the language says nothing about fundamentally altering the way the federal government raises revenue or pays debt. Fourth, to repeat, the language and legislative history in no way support the proposition that the core power of Congress was replaced or repealed. Fifth, the language does not and was never intended to abolish separation of powers, which is core to our constitutional system. The proponents of this absurdity would have turned Biden into a bigger dictator than he already is. But none of this mattered to the proponents. They seek power at any cost.</p>
<p>If the Democrat Party, their media, and their academicians cannot rewrite the Constitution by interpretation, then they argue for abolishing it altogether and replacing it with a more “relevant” document — that is, a document that ensures their monopoly power and destroys our founding principles. After all, how many times have they told us that the Constitution was written by slaveholders, perpetuates racism and inequity, and is illegitimate?</p>
<p>The same kind of fraudulent approach is now before us with respect to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Here is the text that these constitutional saboteurs, in the name of the Constitution, are desperately and cravenly insisting prevents former President Donald Trump from effectively running for a second presidential term.</p>
<blockquote>No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.</blockquote>
<p>You need not be an aging retired judge, washed-up former law professor, or NeverTrumper academician to notice that the word “president” cannot be found in this text. So, why would the amendment’s drafters, adopters, and ratifiers all exclude the word “president” from the text but include virtually every other form of officeholder, federal and state, elected and appointed, in the text? Did they forget to add the word “president”? Or could the reason possibly be that they did not want to include the word “president” and, therefore, intentionally did not? Of course, there is nothing anywhere that even suggests the drafters, adopters, or ratifiers intended otherwise. It took two NeverTrumper law professors (members of the Federalist Society no less), joining the Democrat Party mob, over 125 pages to try to convince us that by omitting the word “president,” not only did the drafters, adopters, and ratifiers intend to include the president, but the proper interpretation of the amendment and its construction and application make it undeniable and clear.</p>
<p>In fact, so clear are these professors and their ilk that we are supposed to intuit the intention of the drafters, adopters, and ratifiers by, among other things, the words “as an officer of the United States.” Thus, this phrase, we are told, should be read to include the word “president.” Therefore, there was no need to single out by name the most powerful and important governmental official in the entire country. Consequently, the argument goes, of course the president was intended to be included in the amendment by general reference to “officer.” Any why not? After all, the local South Carolina county commissioner was not specifically mentioned either.</p>
<p>This is preposterous. For most people, the absurdity is self-evident. Indeed, if they intended to include the president, you’d think he would not only be mentioned but that he’d be at the top of the list of officials included in the text. In fact, they even mention “elector of President and Vice-President,” but not the president himself.</p>
<p>Moreover, what does the phrase “<i>shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against</i> [the United States]” mean? If you are going to bar the leading Republican candidate for the presidency from even appearing on a state ballot, thereby disenfranchising untold numbers of citizens who would like to vote for him, and potentially alter the course and outcome of a presidential election, there should be some definitive way to know what this phrase means and who gets to make that decision. Obviously, as the 14th Amendment is one of the so-called Civil War amendments, we know what was meant when the amendment was ratified — engaging in insurrection or rebellion on behalf of the Confederacy and against the Union, aka the Civil War. It wasn’t very difficult to figure out who did or did not engage in such activities or what was meant by insurrection or rebellion. They didn’t need law professors or members of the Democrat Party — the party of the Confederacy — to tell them. But did the drafters, adopters, and ratifiers intend Section 3 to apply beyond the death of the last Confederate?</p>
<p>Of course, there’s no evidence that it did, other than the wishful meanderings and self-serving declarations of the proponents. Strangely, however, if that was the true intention and purpose, the amendment doesn’t provide any guidance on how these decisions would be presented and resolved in the case of a presidential candidate or president. I say strangely because at the Constitutional Convention, the framers spent a great deal of time debating and working through the way we elect presidents. They came up with the Electoral College system. It didn’t take long until it was evident that even that process needed some adjustment. Hence, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution. If, in 1868, the drafters, adopters, and ratifiers of the 14th Amendment intended it not only to apply to a presidential candidate or president but knew it could upset the presidential election process, why did they say absolutely nothing about it?</p>
<p>For example, how is it determined whether a presidential candidate or president engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States when he has not been charged with, let alone convicted of, such offenses? You won’t find the answer in the 14th Amendment. That would seem to be an essential question in need of a definitive answer. Did the men behind Section 3 intend that a presidential candidate be barred from a state ballot based merely on accusations? And accusations from whom? The media? Democrat Party officials, operatives, and litigators? Academicians? NeverTrumpers? In fact, the second impeachment trial against President Trump fell well short of the number of senators needed to convict him for the events of January 6. As a result, he was not barred under Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution from “<b>hold[ing] and enjoy[ing] any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.</b>” If anything, there was a constitutional adjudication in Trump’s favor.</p>
<p>Indeed, on January 4, 48 hours before the so-called January 6 insurrection, President Trump offered to call up 10,000 National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol Building and Congress during the official Electoral College count. The Democrat speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the D.C. Democrat mayor refused the offer. These facts are intentionally ignored by the Biden regime’s special counsel, as they were by the Democrat Party’s so-called January 6 Committee. And they ignore it because a president clearly is not engaged in an insurrection or rebellion when he offers thousands of armed troops to do precisely the opposite.</p>
<p>Moreover, does any serious scholar believe that the post-Civil War Congress was so committed to preserving federalism that it would have written an amendment giving a single state the power to upend a federal presidential election? Would that Congress have believed when it was drafting and adopting Section 3 that it was granting power to a state official, say, a secretary of state or attorney general, to unilaterally bar a leading presidential candidate from the state’s ballot, thereby possibly affecting the outcome of a national election? Or, for that matter, even a state legislature? No way. Indeed, the post-Civil War Congresses were mostly hostile to states’ rights. Several Southern states remained occupied military territories until they capitulated to the demands of the federal government.</p>
<p>Putting aside all the issues raised previously, one can only imagine the Pandora’s box this would open. It was not opened by the drafters, adopters, and ratifiers of the 14th Amendment. It is being opened by the modern-day saboteurs of the Constitution.</p>
<p>This entire movement is a vile assault on the electoral process directed at a single individual: Donald Trump. There is absolutely no constitutional basis for it. However, if it somehow succeeds, the implications will live far beyond today. We are left not with the rule of law but the rule of men – and in this case, the rule of Democrat Party officials and operatives and their academic allies. The party of the Confederacy once again seeks to nullify the federal Constitution and the nation’s electoral system, disenfranchise tens of millions of voters nationwide, and push the country toward its breaking point, from which we may never recover.</p>
<p>It's worth remembering that the Democrat Party and its surrogates are a power-hungry lot. They are also driving other dangerously illegitimate and self-serving attacks on our voting system.</p>
<p>How many times have we heard from Democrat politicians, academics, media, and activists that the Electoral College should be abolished, that it is a racist system set up by white slaveholders to perpetuate racism, etc.? Of course, this is another anti-American lie. The purpose of the Electoral College is, among others, to ensure that all parts of the country have a say in the election of a president and vice president, not just the most populous areas, and to prevent mob rule by way of unchecked majoritarianism. Thus, the Electoral College is an institutional block on the Democrat Party’s efforts to monopolize our voting system, since the most densely populated areas of the nation are run by Democrats.</p>
<p>The Democrat Party is behind another unconstitutional scheme that seeks to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans, specifically Republican voters – the so-called National Popular Vote movement. It involves an interstate compact in which states agree in advance of actual voting to assign their Electoral College votes to the candidate who nationally receives the largest number of popular votes – even if that candidate loses the popular vote in their own state. The NPV is only triggered once enough states reach the 270 majority under the Electoral College system. So far, the states that have joined the compact hold 196 electoral votes. They’re getting close.</p>
<p>The Democrat Party is also relentlessly attempting to nationalize state voting systems to empower itself and destroy any meaningful opposition from the Republican Party. The Democrat Party dressed up this tyranny as a civil rights effort. It was introduced in the House by Nancy Pelosi as H.R. 1, the first bill to be considered by the new Democrat majority. It would have effectively eliminated state voter ID laws, make it virtually impossible to clean up voter registration lists, instituted online registration throughout the country, virtually eliminated protections against absentee ballot fraud, provided for taxpayer funding for congressional candidates, attacked political speech by individuals and groups, etc. Vladimir Lenin called it “democratic centralization.”</p>
<p>This is the party, and these are the people (with cover from some odd-thinking professors, et al.) who are organizing around a twisted fiction for banning Trump from the ballot and disenfranchising his would-be voters in advance of an election.</p>
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<br>Source: <a href="https://sites.rowan.edu/obituaries/2023/07-jul/michael_donovan.html" target="_blank">https://sites.rowan.edu/obituaries/2023/07-jul/michael_donovan.html</a><br><br>
<p>Mike retired from Rowan in 2018 after 46 years of service. Among his valued contributions, he created the RTF program and was instrumental in establishing the Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation in 2002. The $1 million gift established an endowed chair with Mike as its first recipient. Mike also served for many years as the advisor for Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM and was instrumental in its strong reputation and recognition as an award-winning college radio station. </p>
<p>A celebration of life will be held at a later date.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align:center;">In loving memory of<br>
<strong>Robert Michael Donovan</strong>
<p style="text-align: center;">November 05, 1947 - July 06, 2023</p></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">AKA – Shecky</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mount Dora,Florida</p>
<p>Born in Jersey City, Mike attended Jersey City State College (BA) and New York University (MA). He began his career at Glassboro State College which became Rowan University, and retired after 45 years in 2018 as Professor of the History and Business of Television.</p>
<p>During his tenure, he established the Radio/TV/Film program, assisted in growing the WGLS radio station to an award winning college station, and served as Director of Marketing for the National Association of Television Programming Executives.</p>
<p>Mike was appointed the Educational Director of The Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation, and went on to serve as The Endowed Chair of the King Foundation at Rowan.</p>
<p>He is survived by his loving wife Ann (Shoemaker) Donovan , sister Barbara (Donovan)Rose (Staten Island, NY), brother Patrick and sister-in-law Maureen (Ryan) Donovan (Jim Thorpe Pa.)and loving nieces ,nephews and step children.</p>
<p>In lieu of flowers, he requested donations be made to the <a href="https://secure.aspca.org/donate/ps-gn-p2?ms=MP_PMK_Googlenonbrand&initialms=MP_PMK_Googlenonbrand&pcode=WPSN7GO2PK02&lpcode=WPSN7GO1PK02&test&ds_rl=1066464&gad=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1uPrzLKCgAMVj9iGCh0NDw2WEAAYASAAEgKjgfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds">ASPCA</a> or <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/nsala/site/Donation2?df_id=7123&7123.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T&_ga=2.154507504.933356104.1688932214-126118430.1688932214&_conv_v=vi%3A1*sc%3A1*cs%3A1688932212*fs%3A1688932212*pv%3A1&_conv_s=si%3A1*sh%3A1688932212455-0.38767526553776577*pv%3A1">North Shore Animal League</a>.</p>
<p>A Celebration of Life will be announced in the future.</p>
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<h1>Foundation endows Rowan University chair for $1 million</h1>
Source: <a href="https://today.rowan.edu/news/2002/09/foundation-endows-rowan-university-chair-1-million.html" target="_blank">https://today.rowan.edu/news/2002/09/foundation-endows-rowan-university-chair-1-million.html</a><br><br>
September 19, 2002<br><br>
<p>Rowan University President Dr. Donald Farish announced today that the University had received a $1 million pledge from the Charles
& Lucille King Family Foundation to endow a professorial chair in Rowan’s Radio/TV/Film Department. Michael Donovan, a professor
of the Radio/TV/Film Department, has been named by the University to serve as the founding chair.</p>
<p>The Rowan University Foundation will manage the endowment as part of its investment portfolio. Under its current spending policy, the Foundation will allocate five percent of the fund value each year back to the department. Professor Donovan will oversee the
distribution of funds, using them for research activities, equipment and resources needed for students to excel in what Donovan describes as a “constantly changing industry.”</p>
<p>“Endowing a chair is one of the most effective ways a donor can impact the overall quality of a specific program,” said Farish.
“The gift will enable Professor Donovan and his successors to implement initiatives usually offered only in the nation’s top
communication programs. Our students are going to benefit greatly from this donation and what Mr. Donovan will be able to do with
it.”</p>
<p>Donovan has earned a national reputation for his work in Radio/TV/Film education. In addition to teaching for more than 30
years at Rowan, for the past 20 years Donovan has been a marketing consultant and education coordinator for the National Association
of Television Program Executives, the largest television programming trade association in the world. He also teaches seminars on the American commercial broadcast industry to media professionals from developing nations for the United States Telecommunications Training Institute in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>“We became familiar with Rowan University through Professor Donovan’s initiatives outside of Rowan,” said Eugene Kokot, trustee
and secretary of the King Family Foundation. “We believe that the College of Communication has an excellent understanding of the
broadcast industry’s needs and will use the money in the students’ best interest.”</p>
<p>“The Foundation is delighted that Rowan has selected Professor Donovan as the first to hold the endowed chair,” Kokot added.</p>
<p>The King Family Foundation’s pledge came after nearly a year of talks with Rowan University Foundation’s Executive Director Dr.
Philip Tumminia. “The Foundation has a long history of supporting students studying television and film production at some of the
most prestigious universities in the country,” Tumminia said. “We had hoped that if the trustees learned about the transformation
taking place here at Rowan and the progress being made in the College of Communication, they would agree that we were a good
investment. We are honored that the trustees would hold our communication program in such high regard as to make such a generous gift.”</p>
<p>The Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation, a New Jersey-based non-profit organization, was established in 1989 by
Diana King in honor of her parents whose early efforts in film and television program distribution led to the creation of King World
Productions, Inc. Chief among the Foundation’s educational pursuits is its undergraduate scholarship program that provides scholarships to outstanding students pursuing degrees in television and film production.</p><br>
<h1>Rowan's Donovan to be honoredby Broadcast Education Association</h1>
Source: <a href="https://today.rowan.edu/news/2006/03/rowans-donovan-be-honored-broadcast-education-association.html" target="_blank">https://today.rowan.edu/news/2006/03/rowans-donovan-be-honored-broadcast-education-association.html</a><br><br>
March 29, 2006<br><br>
<p>Rowan University faculty member Mike Donovan of Glassboro will be honored for his outstanding contributions to electronic media education when he receives the 2006 Distinguished Education Service Award from the Washington, D.C.-based Broadcast Education Association (BEA). </p>
<p>Donovan, a professor in the Radio/Television/Film (RTF) Department in the College of Communication at Rowan, will receive the award April 27 during the BEA's 51st annual convention in Las Vegas. </p>
<p>The BEA, which boasts more than 1,400 members, is the professional association for professors, industry professionals and graduate students interested in teaching and research in electronic media and multimedia enterprises. </p>
<p>The Distinguished Education Service Award is presented to an electronic media educator or industry person "who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the American system of electronic media education" through a singular achievement or continuing service, according to the BEA web site. </p>
<p>A Rowan faculty member since 1972, Donovan was one of the founding members of the University's RTF Department. He teaches courses in the business, regulation, economics and history of the electronic media industry. </p>
<p>In 2002, he was named to the King Chair, an endowed professorial chair at Rowan established through a $1 million gift from the Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation. </p>
<p>Active on numerous committees at Rowan, Donovan served as the advisor to Rowan Radio, WGLS 89.7-FM, for many years and is the co-author of the Student Operations Manual, which has been recognized as a model for student radio stations. He also established the Radio/TV Association, a student organization for media majors. </p>
<p>For two decades, he was a marketing consultant and educational coordinator for the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), the largest television programming professional trade association in the world.</p>
<p>Additionally, he established and supervised a host of educational initiatives through the NATPE Educational Foundation.</p>
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<h1>Investiture at Rowan to celebrate endowed RTF chair</h1>
Source: <a href="https://today.rowan.edu/news/2008/09/investiture-rowan-celebrate-endowed-rtf-chair.html" target="_blank">https://today.rowan.edu/news/2008/09/investiture-rowan-celebrate-endowed-rtf-chair.html</a><br><br>
September 17, 2008<br><br>
<p>Rowan University will hold its first-ever formal Investiture ceremony to celebrate the University's endowed chair in the College
of Communication on Thursday, Sept. 25, at 4 p.m. in the Eynon Ballroom of the Chamberlain Student Center.</p>
<p>The ceremony will formally recognize Michael Donovan as the Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation Chair in Radio/Television/Film (RTF). Diana King, trustee, president and chair of The Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation, will join with the Rowan community to mark the celebration of the chair, which was established through a $1 million endowment in 2002.</p>
<p>All members of the Rowan community--faculty, students and staff--are invited to attend the Investiture ceremony.</p>
<p>"Gifts like the endowed chair from the King Family Foundation help us hire top faculty, support research activities, promote
faculty development and, most importantly, provide unique learning opportunities for our students," said Rowan President Donald
Farish.</p>
<p>"The Investiture not only celebrates the King family's legacy as pioneers in the television industry. It also gives us the
opportunity to recognize the profound impact their gift has had on Rowan students."</p>
<p>King World Productions, founded by Charles King in the 1930s, grew, through the stewardship of the King family, into the world's
leading syndicator of first-run television programming. The company's success with programming such as "Wheel of Fortune,"
"Jeopardy!" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" catapulted King World to leadership in the industry.</p>
<p>One of six children of Charles and Lucille King, Diana King established the New Jersey-based Charles & Lucille King Family
Foundation to support individuals, institutions and organizations committed to educational excellence and professional
development.</p>
<p>Donovan, a nationally recognized teacher and scholar who joined Rowan in 1972, was one of the founding members of the RTF
department, where he teaches courses in the business, regulation, economics and history of the electronic media industry. For 20
years, Donovan served as a marketing consultant and educational coordinator for the National Association of Television Program
Executives, the largest television programming professional trade association in the world.</p>
<p>In 2006, he received the Distinguished Education Service Award from
the Broadcast Education Association.</p>
<p>Donovan serves as educational director of the Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation, coordinating and screening applications for the foundation's undergraduate scholarship program.</p>
<p>In addition to supporting research activities, promoting faculty development and providing technologies that have enhanced
educational experiences for RTF students, funds from the King Family Foundation Endowed Chair also have gone toward the
establishment of a visiting professorship in RTF for David Bianculli, a nationally prominent television critic.</p>
<p>Bianculli, former TV critic for the <em>New York Daily News</em>, is a longtime contributor to National Public Radio's "Fresh Air"
program.</p>
<p>Diana King, who received an honorary degree from Rowan in 2002, established The Charles & Lucille King Foundation in 1988.</p><br><br>
<h1 class="entry-title">Hogan, Donovan To Be Inducted Into The WGLS-FM Hall Of Fame</h1>
Source: <a href="https://rowanradio.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/hogan-donovan-to-be-inducted-into-the-wgls-fm-hall-of-fame/" target="_blank">https://rowanradio.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/hogan-donovan-to-be-inducted-into-the-wgls-fm-hall-of-fame/</a><br><br>
March 6, 2018<br><br>
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<p>Rowan Radio General Manager Emeritus Frank J. Hogan and Rowan University professor Michael Donovan will be inducted into the <a href="https://wgls.rowan.edu/halloffame.html">WGLS-FM Hall of Fame</a> at Rowan Radio’s annual banquet on <a href="http://alumni.rowan.edu/WGLS2018">Thursday, April 12</a> at Scotland Run Golf Club in Williamstown, New Jersey.</p>
<p>Hogan served as WGLS-FM General Manager from 1991 to 2013. Under his leadership, WGLS-FM reached unprecedented heights on and off-the-air including winning College Radio Station of the Year; and receiving over 200 regional and national awards for excellence in programming.</p>
<p><span id="more-4558"></span>Along with his work at Rowan Radio, Hogan also lent his time to teaching. He developed and taught the radio component of Rowan University’s Radio, Television & Film program.</p>
<p>A Philadelphia radio veteran in the 70s and 80s as a disc jockey and engineer, Hogan’s ties to Rowan University date back to 1977 when he designed new radio studios for WGLS-FM at then-Glassboro State College. He would go on to help facilitate Rowan Radio’s move into its current home at Bozorth Hall in the mid-90s as well.</p>
<p>Hogan will join his wife Alisa in the WGLS-FM Hall of Fame. She was inducted in 2014 at the station’s 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary banquet.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Donovan, who began working at Glassboro State College in 1972, was WGLS-FM’s advisor for 10 years beginning in the early 70s. He played a key role in saving the station’s license in the late 70s and helped bring Hogan to Glassboro State College originally in 1977. Donovan oversaw many technological advancements for the station including power increases and a switch from a mono to stereo signal.</p>
<p>Besides his work with WGLS-FM, Donovan had a significant impact in the classroom. He created the Radio, TV, & Film program within the College of Communication and Creative Arts, which is still a mainstay at Rowan University.</p>
<p>Donovan and Hogan will become the 43<sup>rd</sup> and 44<sup>th</sup> members of the WGLS-FM Hall of Fame.</p>
<p>Established in 2005, the WGLS-FM Hall of Fame recognizes Glassboro State/Rowan University alumni and individuals that contributed to the station’s success.</p>
<p>You can register for the WGLS-FM Hall of Fame Banquet <a href="http://alumni.rowan.edu/WGLS2018">here</a>.</p>
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<h1>Hogan and Donovan to enter WGLS-FM Hall of Fame By Matt Kass</h1>
Source: <a href="https://www.thewhitonline.com/2018/03/news/hogan-and-donovan-to-enter-wgls-fm-hall-of-fame/" target="_blank">https://www.thewhitonline.com/2018/03/news/hogan-and-donovan-to-enter-wgls-fm-hall-of-fame/</a><br><br>
March 9, 2018<br><br>
<p class="m_3105548711790940136yiv0070341431MsoNormal">Rowan Radio WGLS-FM will soon be adding two new members to the station’s Hall of Fame. General Manager Emeritus Frank J. Hogan and Rowan University professor Michael Donovan will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at Rowan Radio’s annual banquet on <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_1858273534"><span class="aQJ">Thursday, April 12</span></span> at Scotland Run Golf Club in Williamstown, New Jersey.</p>
<p>For Derek Jones, current station director at WGLS-FM, Hogan and Donovan are part of a long legacy of success at the station. In an email response, Jones reiterated just how much the two meant to WGLS-FM.</p>
<p>“One of the biggest challenges of being station manager is following the legacy of excellence Frank [Hogan] and Mike [Donovan] helped establish,” Jones said. “It’s an awesome feeling to walk into the station every day and see the amount of awards and the success we’ve enjoyed over the years. Yet there is a constant challenge to keep that tradition going because you don’t want to let either one of them down. They set the standard and those who work at WGLS-FM have to live up to it.”</p>
<p class="m_3105548711790940136yiv0070341431MsoNormal">Hogan served as WGLS-FM General Manager from 1991 to 2013. Under his leadership, WGLS-FM won College Radio Station of the Year; and received over 200 regional and national awards for excellence in programming. Along with his work at Rowan Radio, Hogan developed and taught the radio component of Rowan University’s Radio, Television & Film program.</p>
<p class="m_3105548711790940136yiv0070341431MsoNormal">Hogan’s ties to Rowan University date back to 1977 when he designed new radio studios for WGLS-FM at then-Glassboro State College. He would go on to help facilitate Rowan Radio’s move into its current home at Bozorth Hall in the mid-90s as well. Hogan will join his wife Alisa in the WGLS-FM Hall of Fame. She was inducted in 2014 at the station’s 50th-anniversary banquet.</p>
<p class="m_3105548711790940136yiv0070341431MsoNormal">Donovan began working at Glassboro State College in 1972 and was WGLS-FM’s advisor for 10 years beginning in the late 1970s. He played a key role in saving the station’s license in the late ’70s and helped bring Hogan to Glassboro State College in 1977. Donovan also oversaw many technological advancements for the station including power increases and a switch from a mono to stereo signal.</p>
<p class="m_3105548711790940136yiv0070341431MsoNormal">Besides his work with WGLS-FM, Donovan had a significant impact in the classroom. He created the radio, television and film program within the College of Communication and Creative Arts, which is still a mainstay at Rowan University.</p>
<p>For Jones, having the opportunity to induct Hogan and Donovan is something that he cherishes.</p>
<p>“Inducting them into the Hall of Fame will be a wonderful experience,” Jones said. “I’ve been able to work at the station and teach at Rowan University because of the wisdom and advice they gave me over the years. That evening will be an opportunity to say thank you for all of their hard work and dedication.”</p>
<p class="m_3105548711790940136yiv0070341431MsoNormal">Donovan and Hogan will become the 43<sup>rd</sup> and 44<sup>th</sup> members of the WGLS-FM Hall of Fame. Established in 2005, the WGLS-FM Hall of Fame recognizes Glassboro State/Rowan University alumni and individuals who contributed to the station’s success.</p>
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<p>Frank J. Hogan served as WGLS-FM General Manager from 1991 to 2013. Under his leadership, WGLS-FM reached unprecedented heights on and off-the-air, was named College Radio Station of the Year by the National Association of College Broadcasters, and received more than 200 regional and national awards for excellence in programming. He would go on to help facilitate Rowan Radio’s move into its current home in Bozorth Hall in the mid-1990s. Along with his work at the station, Hogan developed and taught the radio component of Rowan’s Radio, Television & Film (RTF) program.</p>
<p>Mike Donovan began working at GSC in 1972 and was WGLS-FM’s advisor for over 10 years. During the early 1970s, the station's license was nearly surrendered to the FCC due to operational concerns. Donovan interceded to ensure the station stayed on the air. He oversaw many technological advancements for the station, including power increases and a switch from a mono to stereo broadcast signal. In 1977, he helped bring Hogan to GSC. Donovan also has had a significant impact in the classroom and was a founder of the RTF program within the College of Communication & Creative Arts.</p>
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May 16, 2018<br><br>
<p>Retirement lunch for Mike Donovan. 46 years teaching at Rowan and most responsible for starting the RTF Department. So long Mike and enjoy your retirement!</p>
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July 6, 2023<br><br>
<p>Sad news to report from WGLS-FM General Manager Emeritus Frank J Hogan.</p>
<p>Mike Donovan, WGLS-FM station advisor from 1973 to 1988 and long-time Rowan University professor, passed away on Thursday morning.</p>
<p>A 2018 inductee of the WGLS-FM Hall of Fame, Donovan began at then-Glassboro State College in 1972 as a professor. As WGLS-FM struggled to find its footing in early 70s and faced possibly losing its license, Donovan became station advisor in 1973 and helped save the station. He continued in that role until 1988.</p>
<p>Donovan was responsible for numerous technological improvements at WGLS-FM and helped facilitate its move into Savitz Library. Also, he co-authored the WGLS-FM Station Manual, which is still in existence today.</p>
<p>Donovan brought in Philadelphia radio veteran Frank Hogan to Glassboro in the 70s as a consultant to assist with the station’s move to a stereo signal. Hogan would go on to eventually become WGLS-FM General Manager in 1991.</p>
<p>Donovan’s impact greatly exceeded the walls of WGLS-FM. He created the Radio, TV, & Film program within the Ric Edelman College of Communication and Creative Arts, which is still a mainstay at Rowan University.</p>
<p>“Without Mike Donovan, there may not be a WGLS-FM, as we know it. He was an advocate, influential figure, and friend to not only Rowan Radio but to Rowan University as well,” said WGLS-FM Station Manager Derek Jones.</p>
<p>“He impacted the lives of students as a brilliant teacher and as an advisor. Truly, Mike Donovan was a pillar for Rowan University’s Radio/Television/Film program. He will be missed.”</p>
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January 11, 2024<br><br>
<p>Jeff Weber along with Jim and Carol Servino made initial donations to establish the R. Michael Donovan Scholarship at Rowan University.</p>
<p>The goal of the R. Michael Donovan Scholarship is to honor and reward a rising senior Radio-TV-Film major for superior achievement while a student at Rowan.</p>
<p>If you'd like to join in and help fund the scholarship so it becomes self-sustaining, just click on the following link that will take you right to his scholarship fund.</p>
<p>Feel free to share this link with others who might be interested in contributing.</p>
<p><a href="https://go.rowan.edu/DonovanScholarship" target="_blank">https://go.rowan.edu/DonovanScholarship</a></p>
<p>From Jim Servino: </p>
<p>"For those of us who had experiences with Mike Donovan at GSC/Rowan either as a professor or through his involvement with WGLS as our faculty advisor, we came to know him as someone who would talk with anyone and keep you entertained during the conversation. And this was from someone who wasn't much older than we were.</p>
<p>With Mike's passing this year, Jeff Weber and I were reminiscing about how many of us students really value our time at WGLS and how we were able to leverage those experiences in successful careers both in and out of the radio business. We felt one way to thank him and honor his memory is to establish a scholarship in his name to help students financially as they pursue their Bachelor of Arts in Radio, Television & Film degrees."</p>
<p>You can make a one-time or multi-year donation by using the link. Thank you in advance for considering this.</p>
<p>We invite you to join us in making a gift to support the creation of an endowed scholarship in Mike Donovan’s name. In the event that the $25,000 minimum to establish an endowed scholarship is not secured by December 26, 2026, all funds raised will instead be awarded as annual scholarships in Mike Donovan’s name."</p>
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<p>October 29, 1930</p>
<p>Cinnaminson, NJ - Sept. 11, 2020. Husband of Joan Karp. Mother of Laura (Paul) Bovitz, Andrea (Rob) Varone and David (Marsha Messina) Karp. Grandfather of D.J. Karp, Benjamin Varone, Alyssa Bovitz, Adam Varone and Drew Karp. Brother of the late Rita Ebner. Graveside services will be Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020 beginning 1:00 pm at Crescent Memorial Park (Sec. Temple Sinai), Pennsauken, NJ. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.</p>
<p><b>Published by Courier Post from Sep. 11 to Sep. 12, 2020.</b></p>
<br>Source: <a href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/courierpostonline/name/stanley-karp-obituary?id=8487610" target="_blank">https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/courierpostonline/name/stanley-karp-obituary?id=8487610</a><br><br>
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<h1>Letters To The Editor Children Overfed Violence</h1>
Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160102204901/http://articles.philly.com/1986-10-13/news/26058629_1_television-violence-average-american-child-watches-american-television">https://web.archive.org/web/20160102204901/http://articles.philly.com/1986-10-13/news/26058629_1_television-violence-average-american-child-watches-american-television</a>
<br><br>Posted: <span class="pubdate">October 13, 1986</span><br><br>
<p>As a pediatrician dedicated to the health and safety of children, I am concerned about the increasing amount of violence shown on television. Next to the family, television is one of the major influences in a child's development, and it can serve a very positive, educational role. Unfortunately, television also can serve a negative role, such as exposing children to excessive amounts of violence.</p><p>In the past six years, the amount of violence shown on American television has doubled; children are bearing the brunt of this increase. Research shows that children's television programs are six times as violent as adults' shows. During one hour of cartoon-watching, children are exposed to about 20 acts of violence. In the course of a year, the average American child watches approximately 12,000 violent episodes. Dozens of studies have shown that children and adolescents can imitate the violence they see on television.</p><p>Sen. Paul Simon (D., Ill.) has introduced legislation that would provide an exemption from the antitrust laws to allow the television networks, independent stations and the cable industry to work together to reduce television violence. The legislation also would order the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a definitive study of television violence. Senate Bills 2322 and 2323, supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, warrant senators' approval.</p><p>Stanley Karp</p><p>Cinnaminson, N.J.</p><br>
<h1>A Heads-up Approach To Bike Safety</h1>
Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151231224819/http://articles.philly.com/1990-06-27/news/25912382_1_bicycle-helmets-bicycle-safety-bicycle-accidents">https://web.archive.org/web/20151231224819/http://articles.philly.com/1990-06-27/news/25912382_1_bicycle-helmets-bicycle-safety-bicycle-accidents</a>
<h4 class="byline">By Louise Harbach, Special to The Inquirer</h4>Posted: <span class="pubdate">June 27, 1990</span><br><br>
<p>Debbie Flamini never thought much about bicycle safety until a friend, a pediatric nurse, bought bicycle helmets for her own children.</p><p>That's when Flamini bought helmets for her three children: Kristen, 9, Joey, 6, and Ryan, 3.</p><p>"If the nurse was concerned enough about the dangers of bicycle accidents to buy helmets for her children, we thought we had better buy them for ours," said Flamini, of Riverside. "Now they wear them all the time and don't think anything of it."</p><p>The Flaminis, though, were just about the only children wearing helmets at a bicycle safety day Saturday at Rancocas Hospital in Willingboro.</p><p>Too few children wear helmets, said Stanley Karp, a Cinnaminson pediatrician, "and we're seeing the results in emergency rooms at hospitals."</p><p>Karp, who is on staff at Rancocas Hospital, estimates that bicycle accidents send more than 400,000 people each year to emergency rooms.</p><p>"The majority of those who are injured in bicycle-related accidents are children, and more than one-third of those injuries are head injuries," he added. "We could decrease the number of head injuries dramatically if more children - and adults - wear bicycle helmets."</p><p>But getting children to wear helmets and getting parents to realize the importance of buying helmets and make children wear them aren't easy, which is why Karp organized a bicycle safety day.</p><p>He estimates that 2 percent of children nationwide wear helmets and said he thought the statistic would remain low until more parents insisted that their children wore helmets.</p><p>More than 250 children attended the event, which included entertainment, bicycle inspections by police officers from Willingboro and Burlington Townships, an obstacle course to test riding skills, talks by professional cyclists and discounted sales of bicycle helmets.</p><p>"Unfortunately, wearing a helmet isn't cool with youngsters today, so we've got to have children start wearing helmets as soon as they learn to ride a two-wheeler," said Karp, who has seen many bicycle injuries in 27 years of practice in Burlington County.</p><p>Like most parents who attended the event with their children, Brenda Gunnell of Willingboro wasn't aware of the danger of brain injury from bicycle accidents, she said.</p><p>"You've really got to be careful," Gunnell said as her daughters, Quinta Winter, 10, and Nina Gunnell, 7, waited in line to have their bicycles inspected.</p><p>Also in line to have her light-green bicycle inspected was Kelly Webb, 7, of Cherry Hill, who went to the event at the suggestion of her father, Doug Webb, a personnel director at the hospital.</p><p>"Kelly doesn't have a helmet," he said, "but we're learning quickly how important it is to have her wear one."</p><br>
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Source: <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/11/09/high_stakes_and_a_simple_choice_150037.html" target="_blank">https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/11/09/high_stakes_and_a_simple_choice_150037.html</a>
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November 09, 2023<br>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">I am 94 years old and like many of you, I am exhausted by politics and saddened by what I see happening to America. I had hoped it was time for me to move to the sidelines and let younger generations continue the fight to preserve America’s founding freedoms and values. But, like so many of us, I realized that I could not let myself walk away; the stakes are just too high.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">We cannot let the America we see today be what we leave to our children and grandchildren. Many of our once-great cities have devolved into lawlessness with random violent attacks on innocent people, rampant looting, and large-scale homeless encampments. There are rarely consequences for the wrongdoers because George Soros-elected prosecutors across America refuse to prosecute them.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Moreover, our southern border is unprotected, and millions of people we know nothing about pour into our nation to receive care and benefits that we cannot afford to provide to our struggling military veterans. Worse, many of the border crossers may be gang members who commit violent crimes here. Schoolchildren across America cannot read, write, or do basic math, while our educational leaders tell us that they know better than parents how to raise our children. Working men and women are struggling to provide for their families and must raid their retirement funds just to feed, clothe, and take care of their children. These are just a few of the problems America is facing after three years of bad government policies. They cannot be our legacy.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">This should not be a partisan issue. This should be an issue for all Americans – Democrats, Republicans, and Independents – that I hope to reach with this op-ed. You enjoy the freedoms and values on which the nation was founded. Sadly, I see these freedoms and values being eroded today as government gets bigger and weaponized against its political opponents.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">I wrote this op-ed because of my love for America, not for any financial gain or advantage. I have been retired for 30 years and spend my time engaged in philanthropic causes, with which I have committed to share 90% of my net worth. I was born here and can give testimony about The American Dream. I lost my job and was broke when I was 48 years old. A dear friend of mine suggested that my misfortune presented a great opportunity to build a small business based upon an idea I had shared with him. Only in America, the land of opportunity, could being without a job and broke be a great opportunity. In 1978, my partners and I built four hardware stores, and this small business grew and is known as The Home Depot. We could only have done this in America because of America’s system of free enterprise and pro-jobs growth government policies. The state of America today, especially record inflation, government over-regulation, and the problems of the last three years, would prevent my partners and I from succeeding as we have.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Part of our legacy must be passing on to future generations of Americans our founding freedoms and values, including The American Dream. We must change the current trajectory of the nation and solve the problems created in the last three years. We must also reject calls from some politicians to replace our free market system with big government socialism. Most of them seem to have never had a job outside of government. All they know is making government bigger and more intrusive in the lives of its citizens.<span> </span></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">I wrote above that I wanted to sit on the sidelines of politics, but the stakes were too high for me just to walk away. The stakes are America’s path forward. Do we want to continue the perilous trajectory we are now on? I do not because it would be disastrous for all Americans except the political elite.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">For Democrats, the choice is simple. If you feel that you are better off now than you were three years ago, you should vote for Joe Biden or whoever is the Democrat candidate. For Republicans, the choice is also simple. <span> </span>Let’s face it: Donald Trump is going to win the nomination. You should be doing all you can to ensure his winning the general election.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">I understand the frustration of some of my Republican friends who do not like or are offended by things Donald Trump does and says. I, too, have been frustrated at times, but we cannot let his brash style be the reason we walk away from his otherwise excellent stewardship of the United States during his first term in office. Now is the time for unity to save The American Dream for future generations.<span> </span><div id="taboola-mid-article-desktop-tablet"></div><div id="taboola-mid-article-mobile"></div></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>For these reasons, I endorse Donald J. Trump as the nominee of the Republican Party and as our next President.</strong> I endorse him not only because he has the best chance of winning the general election but because he is the best person to take on and dismantle the administrative state that is strangling America. The new war in the Middle East will present great challenges for the free world for some time, especially in keeping other terrorist groups or nations out of the conflict. This will require a president with the judgment, strength, decisiveness, and courage that Donald Trump displayed in his first term when he ordered the strike that killed the Iranian terrorist Gen. Qasem Soleimani and dissuaded Russia from invading Ukraine. Many, including myself, believe that Hamas would not have unleashed its barbarism and cruelty on Israel if Donald Trump was our president today. The reason is America’s enemies respect and, more importantly, fear Donald Trump’s judgment, strength, decisiveness, and courage. It is critical that America’s next leader have these attributes in the face of Hamas murdering innocent babies, old people, including Holocaust survivors, entire families; burning alive innocent people; raping women and young girls; and other unspeakable acts.</p>
<p>I urge my fellow Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to put their love for America above all else. I urge the Republican National Committee to end the Republican debates that only benefit ad makers and political consultants. They are unproductive and embarrassing. </p><p><em>Bernie Marcus is the co-founder of Job Creators Network, a philanthropist, and the retired co-founder of The Home Depot. </em></p>
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<br>November 22, 2023
<p>Just before his passing, Rush Limbaugh delivers one of the most accurate and compelling accounts of the true Thanksgiving story that you've ever heard... Be grateful.</p>
<p>Did you know they were socialists with a central bank and tons of debt?</p>
<p>“The first winter in the new world was an act of survival that you and I cannot possibly relate to or understand</p>
<p>Of paramount importance to [the Pilgrims] was living freely and worshiping God according to the dictates of their own conscience and their own beliefs. That’s what they were denied the freedom to do in England.</p>
<p>One of the most important legacies of the early settlers is that they experimented with socialism in the 1620’s and it did not work. Private property rights, personal responsibility saved the Plymouth colony from extinction and laid the economic foundation for the free and prosperous nation that we all enjoy today.”</p>
<br>-Rush Limbaugh
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<br>Please see my below letter to the President of Harvard University sent today:
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<br>November 4, 2023
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<br>Dear President Gay,
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<p>I am writing this letter to you regretfully. Never did I think I would have to write a letter to the president of my alma mater about the impact of her actions and inactions on the health and safety of its student body in order to help catalyze necessary change. For the past four weeks since the horrors of October 7th, I have been in dialogue with members of the corporation board, other alumni, as well as students and faculty sharing and comparing our concerns about the growing number of antisemitic incidents on campus, as we wait for you and the University to act. Four weeks after the barbaric terrorist acts of October 7th, I have lost confidence that you and the University will do what is required.</p>
<p>Last Wednesday, I spent seven hours on campus meeting with Jewish, Israeli, and non-Jewish students and faculty at the Law School, at HBS and in a 90-minute town hall in Aldrich 112 with 230 Jewish college students (coincidentally, one for each hostage held by Hamas), research staff, and faculty from the University at large, organized by Harvard Chabad. Over the course of the day, it became clear that the situation at Harvard is dire and getting worse, much worse than I had realized.</p>
<p>Jewish students are being bullied, physically intimidated, spat on, and in several widely-disseminated videos of one such incident, physically assaulted. Student Slack message boards are replete with antisemitic statements, memes, and images. On-campus protesters on the Widener Library steps and elsewhere shout “Intifada! Intifada! Intifada! From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free!” as they knowingly call for violent insurrection and use eliminationist language seeking the destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.</p>
<p>When you explained in your October 12th video address that Harvard “embraces a commitment to free expression,” you sent a clear message that the eliminationist and antisemitic statements of the protesters are permissible on campus. Putting aside the legal limitations on free speech that include restrictions on fighting words and true threats, “where speakers direct a threat to a person or group of persons with the intent of placing the victim in fear of bodily harm or death,” if Harvard indeed had a strong track record of protecting free speech, many would have taken your support for free speech more seriously. Unfortunately, Harvard has not embraced a serious commitment to free speech, particularly so in recent years.</p>
<p>In The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Annual College Free Speech Rankings, Harvard has consistently finished in the bottom quartile in each of the past four years, with its ranking deteriorating each year. On September 23rd, just two weeks prior to October 7th, FIRE announced that Harvard achieved its lowest free speech ranking ever for the 2023 academic year, ranking last out of 254 universities, with a rating of 0.00, the only university with an “abysmal” speech climate. See: <a href="https://thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-fires-college-free-speech-rankingsfor" target="_blank">https://thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-fires-college-free-speech-rankingsfor</a> the results of the survey where FIRE cites multiple examples of incidents on the Harvard campus where students and faculty were denied their First Amendment rights. Therefore, when you cite Harvard’s “commitment to free expression,” in supporting the protesters, it rings false and hypocritical to the university at large and the Jewish community in particular.</p>
<p>Many Jewish students have also recently become afraid to express their concerns. Many have also felt the need to remove their mezuzahs, yarmulkes, Stars of David, and other overt evidence of their religion and heritage on campus and in Cambridge to avoid being exposed to discrimination, bullying or worse.</p>
<p>I am incredibly saddened to say that Harvard has also become a place where Jewish students are concerned about the threat of physical violence (which likely has a corresponding impact on their mental health) while among other insults, they are forced to sit next to classmates who openly and comfortably post, under their actual names, antisemitic statements and imagery on the student-wide Slack message system with no consequences for their actions.</p>
<p>And it is not just the Jewish students and faculty that are up in arms. While on campus, I heard a constant refrain from non-Jewish members of the Harvard community:</p>
<blockquote>Why are Claudine and the administration doing nothing about this?</blockquote>
<h3><b>Harvard’s Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging</b></h3>
<p>I have heard from many members of the Harvard community that Harvard’s Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (“OEDIB”) is an important contributing factor to the problem. I was surprised to learn from students and faculty that the OEDIB does not support Jewish, Asian and non-LGBTQIA White students. I had never read the OEDIB DEI statement until today when I wrote this letter. The DEI statement makes clear that Harvard’s conception of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging does not include Jews (at least those that are not in one of the other welcomed DEI groups). According to Harvard’s DEI statement:</p>
<blockquote>"We actively seek and welcome people of color, women, persons with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTQIA, and those who are at the intersections of these identities, from across the spectrum of disciplines and methods to join us."</blockquote>
<p>In other words, Jews and others who are not on the above list are not welcome to join. When antisemitism is widely prevalent on campus, and the DEI office – which “views diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging as the pathway to achieving inclusive excellence and fostering a campus culture where everyone can thrive” – does not welcome Jewish students, we have a serious problem. It is abundantly clear that the campus culture that is being fostered at Harvard today is not one where everyone is included, feels a sense of belonging, welcomes diversity, or is a place where “everyone can thrive.”</p>
<h3><b>Equity on Campus</b></h3>
<p>The issue of equity, or the lack thereof, was another issue about which I heard constant complaints, i.e., the so-called “double standard.” One member of the faculty rhetorically asked:</p>
<blockquote>"What would Claudine do if 34 Harvard student organizations put out a statement on May 25th, 2020 that ‘George Floyd had it coming,’" noting that you have yet to condemn the student organization letter which holds Israel “solely responsible” for the heinous and barbaric acts of a terrorist organization.</blockquote>
<p>Other faculty, alumni and students asked other rhetorical questions including:</p>
<blockquote>"How would Harvard respond if a trans student attempted to walk by an anti-LGBTQIA demonstration on the HBS campus and was subject to the same abuse that the Jewish HBS student experienced at the Free Palestine demonstration on October 18th?"</blockquote>
<blockquote>"How would you respond to a Harvard white supremacist protest where students shouted 'Tulsa! Tulsa! Tulsa! From the Atlantic to the Pacific, America should be free of Black people.'"</blockquote>
<blockquote>Would Harvard even permit the above demonstrations to take place on campus?</blockquote>
<p>Despite the outburst of antisemitic activities and protests on campus, the first initiative that Harvard took to protect students was the establishment on October 24th of a task force to “support students experiencing doxxing, harassment, and online security issues following backlash against students allegedly affiliated with a statement that held Israel ‘entirely responsible’ for violence in the Israel-Hamas conflict.” The creation of this task force sent a very strong message that the University was not just ignoring the antisemitic incidents and threats to Jewish student safety on campus, but rather it was taking sides in the conflict by only supporting students who held Israel responsible for Hamas’ vile acts.</p>
<p>In summary, your failure to condemn the barbaric acts of October 7th opened the door for a wave of anti-Israel attacks on campus that have led to a growing number of antisemitic protests and actions. Your subsequent two statements about October 7th to the University attempting to address the failings of your first letter were not taken seriously as many perceived those statements as being driven by pressure from the alumni community rather than reflecting a sincere and authentic understanding of the issues, and real empathy for Israel and the Jewish community.</p>
<p>The failure of your communications to the public and the University coupled with the fact that the first tangible action by the University was to protect those who blamed Israel has created a belief among the Jewish and Israeli community at Harvard that they are not deemed welcome nor worthy of protection by the University.</p>
<h3><b>“Narrow Casting”</b></h3>
<p>Finally, your announcement on Friday October 27th about launching a task force to address antisemitism and your statement that “Antisemitism has no place at Harvard” was welcomed by members of the Jewish community in attendance, but students who participated in my Thursday town hall were either unaware of that announcement or alternatively questioned your commitment to address antisemitism.</p>
<p>At my town hall, it was noted that your antisemitism speech was made only to Jewish students and parents at a Hillel Shabbat dinner, and a transcript of your remarks was only given to and published in the Forward, a niche Jewish publication with a tiny subscriber base. Two members of the Harvard faculty described this as “narrow casting” to an affinity group rather than you making a serious public commitment to address antisemitism. One research fellow stated, and many in the room agreed, that they would only believe that you were committed to stamp out antisemitism at Harvard if you stood up in front of the entire Harvard community and made that commitment, and you then implemented tangible and decisive actions consistent with that commitment.</p>
<p>While the members of the Jewish community I met with at Harvard were happy to hear from an alum who was willing to listen, many students questioned why you have not sat down with students so that you can hear their concerns first-hand.</p>
<h3><b>Antisemitism at Harvard Prior to October 7th</b></h3>
<p>In the transcript of your speech published in the Forward, you said about antisemitism at Harvard: “For years, this university has done too little to confront its continuing presence. No longer.”</p>
<p>Your remarks imply that antisemitism has been a serious issue at Harvard that has gone unaddressed for years. I have been an active alum for 35 years having attended the college and HBS, taught numerous classes on campus each year, have participated in many fireside chats with large student audiences, mentor current students and recent graduates on a regular basis, and have been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at the business school for many years. During this period, I have neither experienced nor have I become aware of any antisemitic incidents at Harvard until beginning four weeks ago.</p>
<p>When I asked my daughter today about her experience with antisemitism at Harvard (she graduated in 2020), she described antisemitism when she was at Harvard as “non-existent.” While I am sure it is possible if not likely that there have been some antisemitic incidents at Harvard over the last 35 years, the reality is that Harvard has been an extremely comfortable place to be Jewish and/or Israeli, up until the last four weeks.</p>
<p>In truth, the outburst at antisemitism at Harvard is a recent one and is largely due to your actions and inactions and that of the administration and the University at large in failing to appropriately address blatant antisemitism on campus.</p>
<h3><b>How Can You Solve the Problem?</b></h3>
<p>What I find particularly upsetting about recent events on campus is that the problem is not so difficult to address. I do not believe that antisemitism is widespread among the student body and faculty at Harvard. Rather, I believe that a small minority of students, faculty, and staff are antisemitic and the administration’s inaction in confronting the problem head on have emboldened this antisemitic subset of the community to escalate their antisemitic actions because there have been no consequences for doing so.</p>
<p>Actions speak much louder than words. Members of the Harvard community have heard some words, but experienced no actions of substance to address antisemitism on campus. I would therefore recommend the following steps which I believe will dramatically reduce if not eliminate antisemitic acts at Harvard immediately.</p>
<p>First, the students involved in harassing and allegedly physically assaulting the HBS student on October 18th should be immediately suspended. I understand that the University is waiting for the outcome of a police department review of the situation to take action, but this makes no sense. It is clear from the multiple videos available of the incident that the conduct of the protesters involved does not meet the standards for student conduct outlined in the Harvard College Student Handbook, in particular Harvard’s anti-bullying policies outlined in the Report & Recommendation from the Anti-Bullying Working Group adopted on September 1, 2023. <a href="https://communitymisconductpolicies.harvard.edu/reports-and-draft-policies" target="_blank">https://communitymisconductpolicies.harvard.edu/reports-and-draft-policies</a> These standards alone are enough to invoke Disciplinary Probation until such time as the police department investigation is completed. Harvard student disciplinary actions should not be outsourced to the police department.</p>
<p>Taking decisive action now will put all Harvard students, faculty and staff on notice that the University takes violations of Harvard’s code of conduct seriously, and will bring great comfort to the Jewish community at Harvard that appropriate actions to reduce threats to their safety are being implemented.</p>
<p>Second, the protesters who have been chanting Intifada and other eliminationist statements should be subject to disciplinary action. There are multiple videos available of the various protests that would enable the University to identify the individuals involved who can then be referred to the Administrative Board where appropriate disciplinary action can be determined and acted upon.</p>
<p>Third, the University should review the student Slack message boards to identify those students who have made antisemitic statements or shared antisemitic imagery. These students should also be referred to the Administration Board for appropriate disciplinary action.</p>
<p>Fourth, the University should publicly reach out to students in an effort to obtain other examples of antisemitic acts that should also be carefully investigated, and for which appropriate disciplinary steps should be taken.</p>
<p>Because Harvard students are notoriously focused on their job and career prospects post-graduation, disciplinary actions by the administration for failure to meet the University’s standards for appropriate conduct that become part of a student’s permanent record should serve as an effective deterrent to overt antisemitic acts on campus. No law firm, corporation or graduate program will hire or admit an antisemitic or racist student. I note that the recent letter to the deans of law schools around the country signed by many of the top law firms in the U.S. has, I am told, already begun to have an effect in reducing antisemitic acts at the Law School.</p>
<p>Fifth, the University should form a task force to review the appropriateness of the activities of the OEDIB and whether its practice of excluding certain minority communities on campus, including Asian and Jewish students, is appropriate, which in fact may be contributing to discrimination against these groups on campus.</p>
<p>Sixth, the results of the antisemitism task force should be made public as promptly as possible so that we can better understand the sources of antisemitism at Harvard. Harvard’s admissions practices should be reassessed to ascertain why the university is admitting racist students, and should consider revisions to the application process to enable the University to better screen the character of candidates for admission.</p>
<p>Seventh, as Harvard president, you should make clear that Harvard supports free speech on campus, but that certain kinds of hate speech as well as fighting words and incitement to violence are not consistent with Harvard’s values or considered appropriate conduct for members of the Harvard community. In connection with your commitment to free speech, Harvard should form a task force to understand the constraints on free speech at Harvard that have led to it ranking last on FIRE’s annual college survey, so the issues that have led to Harvard’s last-place ranking can be addressed.</p>
<h3><b>Violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964</b></h3>
<p>On September 28, 2023, the Biden Administration issued a clarifying release stating that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits certain forms of antisemitism, Islamophobia and related discrimination as part of its National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism released in May 2023 <a href="https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf" target="_blank">https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf</a> Title VI of the Civil Rights Act requires universities to provide all students, including students who are or are perceived to be Jewish, a school environment free from discrimination. The consequences for a university’s failure to meet the requirements of Title VI include the cancellation of federal funding.</p>
<p>Harvard has failed in recent weeks to meet its Title VI obligations which threatens a major source of the University’s funding. When coupled with numerous Jewish and non-Jewish alumni that have publicly and privately shared these same concerns, important sources of Harvard’s revenues are at risk. While the University should not need a financial incentive to eliminate discrimination on campus, Harvard’s recent failure to create a safe and non-discriminatory environment for Jewish students threatens the University’s funding for research, scholarships, and more.</p>
<h3><b>Your Historic Opportunity</b></h3>
<p>You have been president of Harvard, one of the most important institutions in the world, for four months at one of the most challenging times in its history. As Harvard’s leader, your words and actions are followed closely. As a result, the steps you take to address antisemitism at Harvard will be recognized around the world, and can contribute greatly as an example to other institutions seeking to eliminate antisemitism in all of its forms.</p>
<p>History has taught us that when the sparks and initial flames of antisemitism emerge, we must promptly put out the flames before a conflagration begins. It is therefore critically important you act with alacrity in addressing these issues. I encourage you to act boldly and promptly to eliminate this scourge at Harvard.</p>
<p>I also call upon you to complete the commitment you made at inauguration when you stated that “Knowledge is our purpose. We serve that purpose best when we commit to open inquiry and freedom of expression as foundational values of the academic community.” Harvard must create an environment where free speech is encouraged and accepted. At the same time, the Harvard community at large must understand the difference between speech protected by the First Amendment and speech that incites violence or seeks the elimination of any group. Such speech does not advance knowledge nor does it belong on campus regardless of whether or not it is protected by the First Amendment.</p>
<p>Successfully addressing antisemitism at Harvard and creating an environment with true freedom of expression will become a critically important part of your legacy as the Harvard community works together to address these challenges at a difficult time in world history.</p>
<p>I would be delighted to help in any way that I can to enable you to succeed in this mission and as Harvard’s president. Please let me know what more I can do to help.</p>
<br>Sincerely,
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<br>William A. Ackman
<br>A.B. 1988, MBA 1992
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<br>cc: The Harvard Corporation Board;
<br>Penny Pritzker, Chairman
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Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1731532031048245631?s=20" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1731532031048245631?s=20</a>
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<br>December 3, 2023
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<br>Dear President Gay,
<p>Since my letter to you of November 4th to which you did not reply or even acknowledge, I have received substantial feedback and input from senior members of the Harvard faculty about a number of the issues I raised in my letter concerning free speech, antisemitism, and the impact of the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (OEDIB) at Harvard. I thought to share this feedback with you now as it may inform your testimony and potential questions you may receive from the Congress on Tuesday.</p>
<h3><b>Free Speech at Harvard</b></h3>
<p>In several of your communications since October 7th, you have emphasized Harvard’s commitment to free speech as the reason why the university has continued to permit eliminationist and threatening language on campus – i.e., calls for Intifada (suicide bombings, knifings, etc. of Israeli civilians) and the elimination of the state of Israel “From the River to the Sea.” You explained your tolerance for these protests on October 13th: “[O]ur university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous.”</p>
<p>In my letter to you, however, I noted that In The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Free Speech Rankings, Harvard has consistently finished in the bottom quartile in each of the past four years. I note that Harvard’s ranking has deteriorated each year, receiving its lowest free speech ranking ever for the 2023 academic year, last out of 254 universities with a rating of 0.00, the only university with an “abysmal” speech climate.</p>
<p>After sending my letter, I reached out to the faculty to reconcile your free speech absolutist commitment with Harvard having the lowest free speech ranking of any university. The faculty had a lot to say on this issue, as well as on antisemitism and the OEDIB. Notably, they were willing to share their views so long as I committed to keep their identities confidential. I have quoted their remarks below:</p>
<h3><b>On Free Speech</b></h3>
<p>“Years ago, Harvard stopped being a place where all perspectives were welcome.”</p>
<p>“Harvard is a place where loud, hate-filled protests appear to be encouraged, but where faculty and students can’t share points of view that are inconsistent with the accepted narrative on campus.”</p>
<p>“Harvard became a place where if you toed the party line, there was applause. If you disagree, you are drowned out. The gatekeepers of speech continue to further narrow what they deem acceptable speech.”</p>
<p>“The primary problem with speech at Harvard is that if you say the wrong thing, you will be cancelled, which leads to self-censorship. The result is what you actually think is not what you say.”</p>
<p>“Saying anything that doesn’t highlight the importance of slavery and colonialism as animating forces of history is not acceptable speech. Lived experience and ideology become the dominant forces of conversation. All of the courses follow the same playbook ideology. Ideology poses as coursework.”</p>
<h3><b>On Antisemitism, Support for Hamas, and the Protests Against Israel</b></h3>
<p>When I asked members of the faculty about the causes behind the Israeli/Gaza protests and the tolerance for antisemitism on campus, they explained:</p>
<p>“Whiteness at Harvard is deemed fundamentally oppressive. Indigenous peoples are presented as in need of justice and reparations. Jews are presented as white people. It is therefore ok to hate Israel and Jews as they are deemed to be oppressors.”</p>
<p>I asked: “Why are the protests only about Israel versus other conflicts in the Middle East and around the globe where Palestinians and other civilians were killed?”</p>
<p>“Israel is the rare case where we have a hot conflict between people that are deemed ‘white’ versus people of color.”</p>
<h3><b>The Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (ODEIB)</b></h3>
<p>“The primary animating force of the ODEIB is racism-colonialism and the denial of indigenous rights. The ODEIB is a home for people who are perceived to have been victimized.”</p>
<p>“The ODEIB was meant to include Asians, but it does not. It is focused on communities that experienced colonialism.”</p>
<p>“Recency matters. India is not included because they got autonomy 70 years ago.”</p>
<p>“The ODEIB is at the service of black students, to a lesser extent brown students, and to a lesser extent LGBTQ students.”</p>
<p>“It’s about whiteness versus people of color.”</p>
<p>“The DEI framework prioritizes people on the oppressed side of the narrative.”</p>
<h3><b>Hiring Practices at Harvard</b></h3>
<p>One topic which emerged when I spoke to the faculty was the issue of hiring at Harvard, an issue about which the faculty clearly has a lot of consternation.</p>
<p>When I asked why Harvard’s faculty has shifted sharply leftward in recent years, they explained:</p>
<p>“Each department decides whom they want, and the university can accept or reject the candidate. Left-leaning faculty appoint other left-wing faculty because they get to decide whom to hire and promote. It’s a bit like the Twitter algorithm which continues to feed you the points of view you want to hear. Eventually, each department reaches the tipping point.”</p>
<p>One senior member of the faculty shared that it is made abundantly clear that they cannot hire new faculty members unless they meet ODEIB requirements. That is, the candidate has to be a woman, person of color, or have LGBTQ+ status. Straight white males are “off the table.” Asians and those of South Asian (i.e., India) heritage are similarly disadvantaged in the process as they are deemed successful, overachieving minorities.</p>
<p>A number of the faculty bemoaned that in many cases they cannot hire the substantially more qualified person if he is a white or Asian straight male as the proposed candidate “has to be a woman or BIPOC person.” I was told that behind closed doors, it is common to hear: “I clearly don’t think this is the strongest candidate, but we can see where the train is headed. I therefore have no choice but to vote for the [lesser-qualified candidate.]”</p>
<p>It is made clear to the faculty that Harvard’s discriminatory approach to hiring should never be acknowledged or written about in an email. One professor said that he has been continually amazed that no one has brought a lawsuit as these practices are clearly illegal.</p>
<p>One faculty member explained that it is not just the administration that has been putting forth these requirements, but that external organizations like The Chronicle of Higher Education (TCHE) do “investigative reporting” where they do racial and gender audits of university departments. TCHE publicly scolds university departments that don’t meet their diversity requirements further reinforcing Harvard’s requirement for ODEIB-preferred candidates.</p>
<p>On all of the above issues, I know you will not rely on my survey of the faculty. I therefore encourage you to commission a highly credible, third-party firm to do an anonymous survey of the Harvard faculty. I am confident it will confirm and reinforce all that I have outlined above.</p>
<h3><b>Discrimination at Harvard Is Not Limited to Antisemitism</b></h3>
<p>The problems at Harvard are clearly not just about Jews and Israel. It is abundantly clear that straight white males are discriminated against in recruitment and advancement at Harvard. That is also apparently true to a somewhat lesser extent for men who are Asians or of Indian origin. The ODEIB is an important culprit in this discrimination on campus as it sees the world in a framework of oppressors and the oppressed, where the oppressor class includes white males, Asians, Jews and other people perceived to be successful and powerful.</p>
<p>While Harvard claims that it is committed to free expression, in practice free expression appears to only happen “behind closed doors” or among faculty and students speaking anonymously.</p>
<p>Conservative voices are squelched and often outright cancelled on campus. Tyler J. VanderWeele and Carole K. Hooven are two recent examples.</p>
<p>In March of this year, Mr. VanderWeele, the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology, a practicing Catholic, was effectively excommunicated from Harvard (saved only by his tenure) when it was discovered he had signed an amicus brief in 2015 which affirmed his view that the definition of marriage was between a man and a woman, and when he surfaced his pro-life views. See: <a href="https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590113323000226" target="_blank">https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590113323000226</a> </p>
<p>Earlier this year, Ms. Hooven, an evolutionary biologist was cancelled and eventually forced to resign because she stated that one’s sex was biological and binary on Fox and Friends. See: <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02467-5" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02467-5</a> </p>
<p>I am saddened that the Harvard I love has lost its way. I am embarrassed for not having been aware and previously taken the time to investigate these issues until antisemitism exploded on campus. I should have paid more attention as it did not take a forensic analysis to surface and better understand these issues.</p>
<p>Discrimination at Harvard is not just illegal, but it is extremely damaging to our nation’s competitiveness, which is critically important in a world with growing geopolitical conflict and turmoil. Harvard should be an institution for our best and brightest, taught by our best and brightest who are in search of Veritas and excellence. Russia, China, and our other competitor nations are not selecting their scientific and educational leaders using Harvard’s diversity, equity and inclusion metrics.</p>
<p>President Gay, beginning with your testimony to Congress on Tuesday, you can begin to address the antisemitism that has exploded on campus during your presidency, the seeds for which began years before you became President. But as I hope you recognize, the issues at Harvard are much more expansive than antisemitism. Antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine for other discriminatory practices at Harvard.</p>
<p>As President you have both the opportunity and the responsibility for addressing these critically important issues. It won’t be easy for you as I have been told that your recent “pivot on antisemitism” is already making the radical left wing of the faculty highly skeptical of you.</p>
<p>When 34 Harvard student organizations came out in support of Hamas’ barbaric terrorism, it was a wake up call for me. I hope that having to face the Congress on Tuesday will be a wake-up call for you.</p>
<br>Sincerely,
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<br>William A. Ackman, A.B. 1988, MBA 1992
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<br>Cc: Ms. Penny Pritzker, Chairman,
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<p>East Room</p>
<p>4:26 P.M. EST</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. And a friend of mine, Tim Scott, from South Carolina — a senator — where are you, Tim? You’re — there he is. And I said, “You know what, Tim? You have a big vote coming up. I think you want to go back to the Senate.” So I will tell you, without, Tim, this wouldn’t have happened. Tim Scott, thank you very much. We love you. Go back to the Senate and vote. (Laughs.) (Applause.) Thanks, Tim.</p>
<p>Melania and I are delighted to welcome so many friends and families to this incredible house, the White House, to celebrate this, really, sacred season and a very special time. To everyone here today: Happy Hanukkah. (Applause.)</p>
<p>We’re delighted to be joined by Vice President Mike Pence and his incredible wife Karen. (Applause.) And if you’d both come up. Mike? Wherever you may be. Come on up, Karen. Please, come up.</p>
<p>Also, as you know, Ivanka and Jared have worked very, very hard in this whole — (applause) — endeavor and many other endeavors, I will tell you. They’re doing an incredible job, and I’m very proud that the Jewish faith is a cherished part of our family. Very proud of it. (Applause.)</p>
<p>I’d like to recognize Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Secretary Betsy DeVos; Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen — hi, Jeff; as well as Senators Tim Scott, who just left, and he’s a fantastic guy, and James Lankford. Where’s James? Where is James? James come up here, will you please, James? Did he have to go for the vote too? All right, tell him we mentioned his name. A lot of these people are voting on some very important things right now. I’m saying, “You know what? Get out and vote,” right?</p>
<p>And we have Representatives Doug Collins, Josh Gottheimer, David Kustoff, Elaine Luria, Max Rose, and Lee Zeldin, all here. Where are they? (Applause.) Raise your hands. Are you here? Come on up, if you want, fellas. Even the Democrat can come up. What the hell. (Laughter.) Come on up. Come on up. What a job they’re doing. Come on up. Nice to see you all. Hi. Good. Hi, Doug. That’s great. Hi, Lee. Good job, Lee. Wow. What a lawyer. I’d hire you anytime, Lee.</p>
<p>I also want to bring a friend of mine up. He’s a tremendous success in so many other businesses, but they only know him because he signs Tom Brady’s check every week. (Laughter.) And he’s a really — he’s a champ, he’s a winner. His wife, Myra, passed away a longer time ago than we think, Bob. That was a big — that was a big, tough time for you, and for me too, and for Melania. I just want to tell you, you’ve been a special friend of Israel. Nobody closer to Israel than Bob Kraft.</p>
<p>So, Bob, please come up. Please come up. (Applause.)</p>
<p>And, as usual, his team is mired in first place. Have you ever been in second place? Not too often. You know what I’d like you to do, Bob, while you’re here — because we could all learn from Bob; he’s a champ, he’s a winner — if you could say a few words about Israel. Please.</p>
<p>MR. KRAFT: Thank you. (Applause.) Well, thank you, Mr. President. I’m honored to be here at this time, at this event, because this is really a bipartisan issue. And I know previous administrations had tried to do something in this area. And we know that college campuses are a place where you bridge-build and you include people and have education, and not be something that is exclusive and drives people away and generates hatred.</p>
<p>So, I’m so proud that, at this time, we’re doing something that is so bipartisan. And my wife, a blessed memory, would be smiling now because she loved America first, and Israel, and wanted to build bridges between the two places and have <em>tikkun olam</em>. And I think this, more than anything, is going to help do that. So thank you very much. (Applause.)</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Bob. Thank you. Thank you very much, Bob.</p>
<p>I also want to extend my appreciation to Israel’s Ambassador, a man who’s become a friend of mine, and terrific guy: Ron Dermer. Where’s Ron? (Applause.) Thank you, Ron, very much.</p>
<p>As we gather this afternoon, our thoughts turn to the grieving families in New Jersey. Yesterday, two wicked murderers opened fire at a kosher supermarket and killed four innocent souls, including a brave police officer who faced down the shooter and very bravely faced the shooter down.</p>
<p>With one heart, America weeps for the lives lost. With one voice, we vow to crush the monstrous evil of anti-Semitism whenever and wherever it appears. And we’re working very hard on that. (Applause.) And I can tell you that — that we have a lot of people in government working very, very hard on that, and we appreciate their work. It’s not easy.</p>
<p>Joining us on stage for this event are two great Jewish-American patriots: Army veteran Oscar Stewart and Border Patrol Agent Jonathan Morales. (Applause.) As many of you remember, both of these heroes were at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue when a killer opened fire.</p>
<p>And, by the way, Robert Jeffress, I see you right here. And what a tremendous faith leader you are and a tremendous man you are. Pastor, thank you for being here so much, also. We appreciate it. We have so many people and so many great faith leaders here, and I want to thank you all for being here. It’s fantastic. This is a great, great day. (Applause.) We appreciate it very much, Robert. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>They raced towards the gunfire and saved countless American lives. Oscar and Jonathan, thank you both for responding to the worst evil with the best of American valor.</p>
<p>This afternoon, we celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah. More than 2,000 years ago, a ruthless tyrant persecuted the Jewish people and desecrated the Temple of Jerusalem. But a group of Jewish patriots defeated a powerful army, rededicated the temple, and won back their right to worship God in freedom.</p>
<p>Recently, I received a remarkable letter from a 12-year-old boy named Austin Polonsky, from San Francisco, California. In the letter, Austin summed up the meaning of Hanukkah. He said, “On Hanukkah…it is a tradition to light the menorah and place it by the window. We do this to exemplify how we are not afraid to show who we are or what we believe in.”</p>
<p>In Austin’s letter, <s>we</s> [he] asked if he could celebrate Hanukkah with my family at the White House. And this year, we are thrilled to let you know that Austin is with us today. Where is Austin? Where is Austin? (Applause.) Come on up here, Austin. Come on up here, Austin. Good-looking guy. Good. Come on, Austin. Don’t be shy. It’s only Bob Kraft. (Laughter.)</p>
<p>You want to say a few words? Huh?</p>
<p>MR. POLONSKY: Uh, sure.</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Do you want to say — come on, Austin. Come on, Austin. Let’s get with it, Austin.</p>
<p>MR. POLONSKY: Thank you for having me at the White House today. It was very unexpected. My mom pulled me out of school when the White House called, and I was in the middle of lunch. (Laughter.) Probably one of the first times I was ever speechless. (Laughter.) Yeah. Thank you for having me here.</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead. You can — (laughter and applause.) That’s — that’s a good — good job, Austin. (Applause.) Come here. Thank you, Austin. Great job. Thank you.</p>
<p>He didn’t know he was going to do that. You did a good job, huh? — (laughter) — considering we got you by surprise a little bit, right? Thank you. Stay with the First Lady. (Laughter.)</p>
<p>Do you know Bob Kraft and everybody onstage, right?</p>
<p>MR. KRAFT: A Trump yarmulke.</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Is that a Trump yarmulke? Oh, it’s a Trump yarmulke. Wow, I like that. (Laughter.) Can I have that, Austin? I want that.</p>
<p>Across our country, Jewish Americans strengthen, sustain, and inspire our nation. As President, I will always celebrate and honor the Jewish people, and I will always stand with our treasured friend and ally, the State of Israel — that, I can tell you. (Applause.)</p>
<p>So, two years ago, I recognized the true capital of Israel, and we opened the American Embassy in Jerusalem. (Applause.) And we got it built. They were thinking anywhere, for one billion to two billion dollars. I did it for $350,000. You know that. (Applause.) We got a building that was in beautiful shape, in the best location — best location there is. And we got it done. We got it done. We had it opened in four months, and it’s right now opened.</p>
<p>And, I don’t know, maybe someday they’ll build a more expensive version of it, but it can’t get much better. Right, Robert? I think — and Ron can tell you, it can’t get much better than what we have. We have the best location. They were going out. They wanted me to sign an order for anywhere from $1 billion to $2 billion, and they were going to look for a piece of land, but they said land in Jerusalem is very rare and very expensive. I said, “Do you think we have a piece?”</p>
<p>And David Friedman, our great ambassador, did a fantastic job. (Applause.) You did a fantastic job. I said, “David, they want to spend $2 billion.” I said, “Go check it out. Let me see. Call me back.” And he said, “Sir, I think we can do it for about $250,000, maybe $300,000.” So we’ll save $1 billion. And we have a better location than any location we could have gotten, Ron, right?</p>
<p>And it’s been open now for a long time. So, it was great. And we used all Jerusalem stone. Friends of mine like Jerusalem stone. Over here, it costs a fortune. Over there, it wasn’t so expensive. (Laughter.)</p>
<p>I’ve also recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. That was another big one. (Applause.) And I said to Bob, “So…” — Bob Kraft — I said, “So what was bigger, Bob? What we did for Israel in terms of Jerusalem and moving the embassy to Jerusalem, becoming the capital of Israel? Or the Golan Heights, which you’ve been looking to do?” For 52 years, they’ve been having meetings on the Golan Heights. Nothing happened until I came along.</p>
<p>I said, “Bob Kraft, which is bigger? Which is more important to the Jewish people?” He said, “Neither.” I said, “What does that mean?” He said, “What you did by terminating the Iran nuclear deal is bigger than both.” (Applause.) I think that’s true. (Applause.) I think that’s true, Jeff. You know? Could be true. I said, “I sort of agree with that.”</p>
<p>But today, we’re taking another historic action. In just a few moments, I’ll sign an executive order to combat anti-Semitism. This action makes clear — (applause) — that Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act — which prohibits the federal funding of universities and other institutions that engage in discrimination — applies to institutions that traffic in anti-Semitic hate. (Applause.)</p>
<p>So this is a very powerful document that we’re signing today. And it’s been a very big story over the last number of days, when they heard. As you know, they had almost universal support in Congress, and yet they didn’t get it done. And this has gone on for years and years. They’ve almost had universal support, but there was always a roadblock.</p>
<p>But this year, there’s no roadblock because I’m doing it myself. It’s much easier. (Applause.) And we have support from many in Congress. This is our message to universities: If you want to accept the tremendous amount of federal dollars that you get every year, you must reject anti-Semitism. It’s very simple. (Applause.)</p>
<p>My administration will never tolerate the suppression, persecution, or silencing of the Jewish people. We have also taken a firm stand against the so-called Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS. You know that very well. (Applause.)</p>
<p>And, I have to tell you, Jared Kushner and Ivanka, they’ve been talking to me about this for three years now, maybe longer than that. But I go back about three years where it’s something that I could do about it, you know. In this position, we can do things about it. Before that, not — not quite as much. I’d be just like you: successful, doing nicely, but not for this. But they’ve been talking — from the beginning of the administration, they’ve been bringing this up. And we forcefully condemn this anti-Semitic campaign against the State of Israel and its citizens.</p>
<p>We are profoundly honored to be joined this afternoon by Rosalee Glass, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, the darkest chapter of human history. After the war, Rosalee came to America and started a drapery manufacturing business. Now she has written a book, starred in an award-winning film, and is going strong at the age of 102. (Applause.) Where is Rosalee? Where is — hi. You’re looking good. Thank you, Rosalee. Thank you for being here. It’s an honor. And you do — you really fill our hearts with open joy, Rosalee. So many people. And we know of your story.</p>
<p>In honor of Rosalee and the millions of Jews who suffered unthinkable persecution, we renew our pledge now and always: Never again. Never again. (Applause.)</p>
<p>Today, we thank God for the Jewish people, whose love and loyalty, brilliance and bravery, resilience and resolve, spirit and strength bless America and the world.</p>
<p>Before I sign the executive order, I’d like to ask Oscar to say a few words, and Jonathan will light the menorah. Thank you all very much. Thank you.</p>
<p>Oscar, please. (Applause.) Thank you, Oscar.</p>
<p>MR. STEWART: Thank you, Mr. President. Oh, boy, this is a great moment.</p>
<p>So what I want to say is: In Scripture, it teaches us that when the Jewish armies went to fight and to conquer the land of Israel from the Canaanites, it says the generals would speak to their men and say, “Leave, if you’re afraid.” I always wondered why it says this — that if you’re afraid, to leave — because God was fighting for them. So I came up with some of my own: It’s because you had no faith in God.</p>
<p>Well, today I stand with a group of people who have tremendous faith in God. And we are all of different faiths and we’re all here with one — with one thing in mind, and that is to end hate. And I am so proud to be standing here the day that this was signed. This is a momentous moment in my life.</p>
<p>And I want to thank the President and the First Lady for everything that they’ve done for Israel, but more important for what they’ve done for America. (Applause.) America is a nation of many, many people, and we need to remember whatever God you pray to, whatever religion you practice, we are all Americans and we need to love each other, and that will conquer hate. (Applause.)</p>
<p>Once again, thank you very much, Mr. President. I’m deeply honored.</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Fantastic job. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.</p>
<p>And, by the way, I see Alan Dershowitz. Come on up here for a second, Alan. Wow. (Applause.)</p>
<p>And I’d like to ask my friends, the pastors, to come up here. You know, Robert — and I have to say this to the other pastors, some of whom have been very kind — all of them have been very kind: We’ve never had such evangelical Christian support.</p>
<p>Jeff, come on up. Jeff. Come on up here, Jeff. (Applause.) You’re the one that’s doing such a good job legally to make sure all of this happens. But Robert Jeffress — I didn’t know him, but he — I watched him. And I’d watch him on different shows, and I’d say, “I like that guy. Man, he talks really great about me. And I like people that talk well about me.” (Laughter.)</p>
<p>And he was saying, “You know, he may not be the greatest Christian I’ve ever seen. He may not know the Bible quite as well as the rest of us. In fact, he may not know it very well at all.” (Laughter.) “But that guy is a real leader. And he’s going to a job.” And I appreciated that statement. I don’t know if I should have, but I did. (Laughter.) And I think we have led because I think we’ve made more progress toward faith leaders. We got rid of the Johnson Amendment, which was a disaster.</p>
<p>So I’d like to ask if — Robert, if you could say a couple of words, and if I could also ask Alan Dershowitz to say, and then we’re going to sign a very important document. Okay? Robert, please. (Applause.) Thank you.</p>
<p>PASTOR JEFFRESS: It is true, I believe President Trump is the most pro-faith President in history — (applause) — when you look at what he has done for people of all faiths.<br />
And, Mr. President, you know, Jewish and Christian believers alike believe what God said to Abraham in Genesis 12 — that God would bless those who bless Israel and He would curse those who curse Israel.</p>
<p>And I want to thank you, Mr. President, for being the kind of President who has the courage to stand up and be, when it comes to Israel, on the right side of history. But most importantly, you’re on the right side of God. And that’s why you are not going to fail, and we’re going to stand behind you 100 percent. (Applause.) Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Jared.</p>
<p>MR. DERSHOWITZ: Great. For 65 of my 81 years I have spent at universities all over the country and all over the world, there is no more important event in those 65 years to turn universities away from being bastions of hatred and discrimination than this executive order being signed today. (Applause.) It is a game changer. It will go down in history as one of the most important events in the 2,000-year battle against anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Thank you, Mr. President. You did a great, great job. The people who helped you do this did a great, great job. And you will be remembered by history for all time for having signed this very important order. Thank you. (Applause.)</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Okay, should we do it?</p>
<p>AUDIENCE: Yeah!</p>
<p>(The executive order is signed.) (Applause.)</p>
<p>MR. KUSHNER: I just want to thank President Trump for all of his leadership on behalf of America. What we’ve seen the President accomplish over the last three years have been extraordinary.</p>
<p>When President Trump decided to run, there were a lot of people who weren’t sure what somebody who had never done anything in politics before would do. And I would say that all of our expectations have been greatly exceeded. (Applause.)</p>
<p>The plans that the team has put in place under the President’s leadership have produced economic miracles for this country. And I am confident that the best is to come. But what I believe is even more important is the President’s commitment to keeping all Americans safe, to keeping America free, to keeping America respectful of people of all faiths and religions. And the work that the President has done to ensure that is something that will have an impact for generations to come.</p>
<p>So I just want to thank you for your amazing leadership and for all that you do to protect so many people.</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.</p>
<p>MR. KUSHNER: Thank you.</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: And we’ll light the menorah. (Applause.) Will you do that?</p>
<p>MR. KUSHNER: I think Jonathan is going to do that.</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: How about that? We’ll light the menorah. Please.</p>
<p>MR. KUSHNER: Jonathan. I think you’re going to light —</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead, Jonathan.</p>
<p>(Border Patrol Agent Jonathan Morales lights the menorah.)</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: So, everyone, thank you very much. Again, Happy Hanukkah. This has been a great day. Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>END</p><br><br>
<h3>Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism</h3><br>
Source: <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism/" target="_blank">https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism/</a><br><br>
<p>By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:</p>
<p><u>Section</u> <u>1</u>. <u>Policy</u>. My Administration is committed to combating the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and around the world. Anti-Semitic incidents have increased since 2013, and students, in particular, continue to face anti Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses.</p>
<p>Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), 42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq., prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance. While Title VI does not cover discrimination based on religion, individuals who face discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin do not lose protection under Title VI for also being a member of a group that shares common religious practices. Discrimination against Jews may give rise to a Title VI violation when the discrimination is based on an individual’s race, color, or national origin.</p>
<p>It shall be the policy of the executive branch to enforce Title VI against prohibited forms of discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism as vigorously as against all other forms of discrimination prohibited by Title VI.</p>
<p><u>Sec</u>. <u>2</u>. <u>Ensuring Robust Enforcement of Title VI</u>. (a) In enforcing Title VI, and identifying evidence of discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, all executive departments and agencies (agencies) charged with enforcing Title VI shall consider the following:</p>
<p>(i) the non-legally binding working definition of anti Semitism adopted on May 26, 2016, by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which states, “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities”; and</p>
<p>(ii) the “Contemporary Examples of Anti-Semitism” identified by the IHRA, to the extent that any examples might be useful as evidence of discriminatory intent.</p>
<p>(b) In considering the materials described in subsections (a)(i) and (a)(ii) of this section, agencies shall not diminish or infringe upon any right protected under Federal law or under the First Amendment. As with all other Title VI complaints, the inquiry into whether a particular act constitutes discrimination prohibited by Title VI will require a detailed analysis of the allegations.</p>
<p><u>Sec</u>. <u>3</u>. <u>Additional Authorities Prohibiting Anti-Semitic Discrimination</u>. Within 120 days of the date of this order, the head of each agency charged with enforcing Title VI shall submit a report to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, identifying additional nondiscrimination authorities within its enforcement authority with respect to which the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism could be considered.</p>
<p><u>Sec</u>. <u>4</u>. <u>Rule of Construction</u>. Nothing in this order shall be construed to alter the evidentiary requirements pursuant to which an agency makes a determination that conduct, including harassment, amounts to actionable discrimination, or to diminish or infringe upon the rights protected under any other provision of law.</p>
<p><u>Sec</u>. <u>5</u>. <u>General Provisions</u>. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:</p>
<p>(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or</p>
<p>(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.</p>
<p>(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.</p>
<p>(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> DONALD J. TRUMP</p>
<p>THE WHITE HOUSE,<br />
December 11, 2019.</p>
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<h3>FACT SHEET: President Donald J. Trump Is Committed to Combating the Rise of Anti-Semitism</h3><br>
Source: <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-committed-combating-rise-anti-semitism/" target="_blank">https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-committed-combating-rise-anti-semitism/</a><br><br>
Issued on: December 11, 2019<br><br>
<p><strong>COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM: President Donald J. Trump is issuing an Executive Order to further the fight against the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>President Trump’s order makes it clear that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to anti-Semitic discrimination based on race, color, or national origin.</li>
<li>When enforcing Title VI against covered anti-Semitic discrimination, agencies will consider the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism as well as the IHRA’s contemporary examples.</li>
<li>The President is also directing Federal agencies to identify other ways the Government can use nondiscrimination authorities to address anti-Semitism.</li>
<li>This action further demonstrates the unwavering commitment of President Trump and his Administration to combating all forms of anti-Semitism.</li>
</ul>
<div><strong>CONFRONTING RISING HATE: In recent years, Americans have witnessed a disturbing rise of anti-Semitic incidents and rhetoric across the country.</strong></div>
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<li>In the past few years, there has been a disturbing trend of rising anti-Semitism in the United States.</li>
<li>Anti-Semitic incidents have increased in America since 2013, particularly in schools and on college campuses.</li>
<li>These incidents include horrific acts of violence against Jewish Americans and synagogues in the United States.</li>
<li>Earlier this year, 18 Democrat Members of Congress cosponsored legislation in support of the anti-Semitic “Boycott, Divest, Sanctions” (BDS) movement.
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<li>In their resolution, these Congressmen and Congresswomen shockingly compared support for Israel to support for Nazi Germany.</li>
</ul>
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<div><strong>TAKING ACTION: President Trump and his Administration have repeatedly taken action to combat hate and support the Jewish community.</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>During this year’s State of the Union Address, President Trump promised to “never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism, or those who spread its venomous creed.”</li>
<li>Since January 2017, the Civil Rights division at the Department of Justice (DOJ) has obtained 14 convictions in cases involving attacks or threats against places of worship.
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<li>The Division has also obtained 11 convictions in cases involving hate crimes against individuals because of their religious beliefs.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>DOJ has launched a new, comprehensive website providing a centralized portal for law enforcement, media, advocacy groups and others to access hate crime resources.</li>
<li>DOJ’s Community Relations Service has facilitated 17 forums since September 2018 focused on protecting places of worship and preventing hate crimes.</li>
<li>The President signed the JUST Act, strengthening Holocaust restitution efforts.</li>
<li>The Trump Administration removed the last known Nazi criminal from the United States.</li>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-53762137261417201662023-10-25T13:57:00.004-04:002023-11-02T16:45:43.883-04:00Email trail shows how anti-Israel zealots took over a mild-mannered scholarly organization By Jesse M. Fried and Steven Davidoff SolomonSource: <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/email-trail-shows-how-anti-israel-zealots-took-over-a-mild-mannered-scholarly-organization" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/email-trail-shows-how-anti-israel-zealots-took-over-a-mild-mannered-scholarly-organization</a><br><br>
Washington Examiner<br>
March 25, 2018<br>
<p>In December 2013, the American Studies Association adopted a boycott of Israel. The organization, which says it “promote[s] the development and dissemination of interdisciplinary research on U.S. culture and history in a global context,” banned ties to Israeli educational institutions.
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<p>The Israel boycott resolution was first approved by ASA’s leadership, known as the National Council. Then, due to low voter turnout, it was ratified by a mere 20 percent of the organization’s members.
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<p>Four distinguished ASA members have since sued the group and certain ASA leaders, claiming that the small turnout invalidated the vote’s result under the ASA’s bylaws and the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act. The members also claimed that the boycott violated laws barring a nonprofit from acting outside its chartered purpose.
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<p>Even apart from these legal defects, the boycott is an embarrassment. It runs afoul of the principle of academic freedom; its adoption was immediately and harshly criticized by the distinguished 62-member Association of American Universities. And the exclusive focus on Israel smacks of anti-Semitism. The ASA has never boycotted any other country, either before or since.
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<p>But here’s the really interesting part: During the course of the litigation, lawyers for the plaintiffs uncovered information suggesting that the ASA’s anti-Israel boycott did not arise organically from within the organization. Rather, it resulted from a carefully planned hostile takeover by outside activists eager to use the ASA and its money to advance their hateful agenda.
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<p>Emails uncovered during the litigation point to a coordinated action led by organizers of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, working alongside Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the worldwide anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
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<p>One of the biggest ironies of the BDS movement is that Barghouti himself studied at Tel Aviv University — an institution he is trying to convince others to boycott — after growing up in Qatar and Egypt and later moving to Israel. He now chooses to live in Israel with his family while calling on the world to boycott his neighbors.
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<p>An important player in the effort to hijack the ASA seems to have been Jasbir Puar, an associate professor at Rutgers University. Her book claims that Israel deliberately maims Palestinians in order to control them. Puar has also reportedly peddled vicious lies about Israel stealing Palestinians’ organs for research, echoing the blood libels used to whip up hatred of Jews in the Middle Ages.
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<p>Emails disclosed in the ASA case show that Puar, after joining the ASA’s nominating committee, began to stack ASA’s leadership with USACBI supporters. Professor Sunaina Maira, a defendant in the case, wrote in late 2012: “Jasbir is nominating me and Alex Lubin for the Council and she suggests populating it with as many [boycott] supporters as possible.” Puar appeared to confirm the strategy in an email from the same time period: “I think we should prepare for the longer-term struggle by populating elected positions with as [many] supporters as possible.”
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<p>By the end of Puar’s term on the nominating committee in 2013, seven of the ASA’s 12 National Council members were USACBI supporters. “In my conversations with Jasbir, it’s clear that the intent of her nominations was...to build momentum for BDS,” wrote Lubin in late 2012.
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<p>The emails suggest that secrecy was a key component of this strategy to take over the ASA. As individual defendants were seeking election to leadership positions in late 2012, they discussed over email the need to hide their boycott agenda from ASA’s voters. “I feel it might be more strategic not to present ourselves as a pro-boycott slate,” Maira wrote. “I would definitely suggest not specifying BDS, but emphasizing support for academic freedom, etc,” wrote David Lloyd, a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.
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<p>Only one of those involved in the discussions, New York University professor Nikhil Singh, cautioned against such subterfuge, warning that a secretive attempt to win election and then surprise everyone with a boycott “may well backfire, because it will lack legitimacy.” Singh’s caution went unheeded. Only one USACBI supporter running for an ASA office revealed his support for an Israel boycott, and he lost. The others, who hid their support, won.
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<p>BDS leader Barghouti, who seems to have no prior connection to the ASA, appears to have personally guided USACBI efforts from his base in Israel. In the run-up to the boycott vote, the defendants secretly submitted materials for circulation to the membership to Barghouti and other USACBI leaders for their approval. Other emails reveal suggestions by ASA leaders that the boycott’s scope, and when an Israeli institution could be “unboycotted,” should both be determined by USACBI, not the ASA itself.
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<p>After USACBI supporters took control of ASA’s National Council, they moved forward with their boycott plans. To ensure things went their way, the defendants manipulated the vote, refusing to give opponents equal time to make their case, rushing to recruit pro-BDS graduate students into the ASA, and then freezing membership rolls to block opponents of the resolution.
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<p>All of this cost the ASA real money, discovery documents suggest. To pay for resolution-related expenses, and to offset revenue shortfalls resulting from reputational damage, defendants appear to have improperly invaded the ASA’s trust fund and removed about $300,000. In early March, the court permitted plaintiffs to amend their complaint to add a variety of new claims, including breach of fiduciary duty for misappropriation of assets.
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<p>The new evidence serves as a warning to other groups beset by Israel-boycott proposals: they are pushed by activists who happily sacrifice these organizations’ reputations and finances to bash Israel. It also suggests that anti-Israel efforts in academia do not reflect a vast popular movement.
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<p>Nor are these efforts a sign of shifting intellectual climate towards Israel in universities. Instead, if the ASA case is representative, BDS in academia is driven by a small group of Israel haters who manipulate and lie their way into positions of power, knowing their cause actually has little support on campus.
</p><p><i>Jesse Fried is a professor at Harvard Law School. Steven Davidoff Solomon is a professor at Berkeley Law. Both authors advised the plaintiffs’ counsel in the lawsuit against the American Studies Association.</i></p>
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<h3>Publish the Names of Students and Professors Who Support Hamas Lynching and Rapes By Alan Dershowitz</h3><br>
Source: <a href="https://dersh.substack.com/p/publish-the-names-of-students-and" target="_blank">https://dersh.substack.com/p/publish-the-names-of-students-and</a><br><br>
OCT 11, 2023<br><br>
<p>Student groups at many elite universities -- including Harvard, Yale and Columbia, CUNY -- have come out in support of Hamas at a time when its terrorists have raped, murdered and kidnapped women, toddlers, the elderly and other civilians, and have reportedly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/40-babies-some-beheaded-found-israel-soldiers-hamas-attacked-village" target="_blank">beheaded babies</a>. The immoral groups that support such atrocities are composed of both students and faculty members. Many of these individuals hide behind their organizations' names and refuse to identify themselves. They do not want to be held accountable in the court of public opinion for their own despicable views.</p>
<p>The open marketplace of ideas, which I support, allows students to hold and express these views, but it also requires transparency so that the rest of us can judge them, hold them accountable and debate them.</p>
<p>There are, of course, rare occasions where anonymity is essential. For example, during the civil rights period of the 1960's, identifying members of civil rights groups endangered their lives. There is, however, no such fear here. Groups that oppose Hamas have not been known to advocate violence against those who support it. To the contrary, it is pro-Israel advocates who have been threatened with and suffered from violence.</p>
<p>The students who anonymously vote to support Hamas' recent attacks need not be fearful of anything but disdain and criticism. They should be willing to subject themselves to the marketplace of ideas. They should not resort to cowardly hiding behind the names of prominent organizations such as "Amnesty International at Harvard" -- one of the groups that said they "hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all" the massacres and rapes. They should be prepared to defend these immoral views.</p>
<p>Some students who belong to these organizations argue that they do not personally support Hamas' recent barbarities. They are free to say so and to dissociate themselves from the groups they voluntarily joined. Silence in this context is acquiescence. So is hiding behind anonymity.</p>
<p>Fellow students, future employers, and others should be able to judge their friends and potential employees by the views they have expressed. Teachers should not grade students based on their views. That is why anonymous grading is widely employed at universities.</p>
<p>As a university professor for 50 years, I would not grade down a student because she supported Hamas atrocities. Nor would I befriend or employ such a student. Freedom of speech is not freedom from being held accountable for one's speech. It is interesting that most of the counter-petitions protesting Hamas's activities contain the names of students and faculty, but that is far less true of petitions that support Hamas's atrocities. That is understandable because there is no reasonable defense for what Hamas has done. Those who support Hamas should be ashamed and shamed, and those who oppose Hamas should be praised. That, too, is part of the marketplace of ideas.</p>
<p>Today, too many students are judged by their "identity." Identity politics has replaced meritocracy. Being judged by one's support or opposition to Hamas barbarity is more justifiable.</p>
<p>Let the student newspapers, many of which are rabidly anti-Israel, publish the names of all students and faculty members who belong to groups that support and oppose Hamas. Hypothetically, if a club were formed at any of these universities that advocated rape or the lynching of African Americans, the newspapers would most assuredly publish the names of everyone associated with such a despicable group. Why is this different? Rape has become a weapon of war for Hamas, along with lynching, mutilation, mass murder and kidnapping. Expressing support for these acts, while constitutionally protected, is wrong. The answer to wrong speech isn't censorship; it is right speech, and transparency.</p>
<p>So let the names be published. Let the despicable students and faculty members who support Hamas stand up and defend their indefensible views, and let the marketplace of ideas decide who is right and who is wrong.</p><br><br>
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<h3>Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students By Steven Davidoff Solomon: Would your clients want an attorney who condones hatred and monstrous crimes?</h3><br>
Source: <a href="https://archive.ph/7Ruos" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/7Ruos</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-hire-my-anti-semitic-law-students-protests-colleges-universities-jews-palestine-6ad86ad5" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-hire-my-anti-semitic-law-students-protests-colleges-universities-jews-palestine-6ad86ad5</a><br>
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Wall Street Journal<br><br>
October 15, 2023<br><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV4cmTSN42jhqY9r3ibraFaWaJJoyOJKrWJJnXxu9wuvL7q9WfX3kp0RV6AJndFIXY7nyfYzs6_dI9Ez3YenSfDzCCNDvJKsS8U2ihHpJEe6PJjb3XeKxwpHPZ8Si1e4WG8sc9IkrZzEJOZoHVCyTtQR4An3J5DjOnFeT6WbjaIwlI3gXSmyjE3Q/s540/Columbia%20Students%20Protest%2010-12-2023.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV4cmTSN42jhqY9r3ibraFaWaJJoyOJKrWJJnXxu9wuvL7q9WfX3kp0RV6AJndFIXY7nyfYzs6_dI9Ez3YenSfDzCCNDvJKsS8U2ihHpJEe6PJjb3XeKxwpHPZ8Si1e4WG8sc9IkrZzEJOZoHVCyTtQR4An3J5DjOnFeT6WbjaIwlI3gXSmyjE3Q/s320/Columbia%20Students%20Protest%2010-12-2023.jpg"/></a></div>Columbia students participate in a rally in support of Palestine at the university in New York, Oct. 12. <br>PHOTO: SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES<br><br>
<p>I teach corporate law at the University of California, Berkeley, and I’m an adviser to the Jewish law students association. My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers.</p>
<p>But if you don’t want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don’t hire some of my students. Anti-Semitic conduct is nothing new on university campuses, including here at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Last year, Berkeley’s Law Students for Justice in Palestine asked other student groups to adopt a bylaw that banned supporters of Israel from speaking at events. It excluded any speaker who “expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.” Nine student groups adopted the bylaw. Signers included the Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, the Queer Caucus and the Women of Berkeley Law.</p>
<p>The bylaw caused an uproar. It was rightly criticized for creating “Jew-free” zones. Our dean—a diehard liberal—admirably condemned it but said free-speech principles tied his hands. The campus groups had the legal right to pick or exclude speakers based on their views. The bylaw remains, and 11 other groups subsequently adopted it.</p>
<p>You don’t need an advanced degree to see why this bylaw is wrong. For millennia, Jews have prayed, “next year in Jerusalem,” capturing how central the idea of a homeland is to Jewish identity. By excluding Jews from their homeland—after Jews have already endured thousands of years of persecution—these organizations are engaging in anti-Semitism and dehumanizing Jews. They didn’t include Jewish law students in the conversation when circulating the bylaw. They also singled out Jews for wanting what we all should have—a homeland and haven from persecution.</p>
<p>The student conduct at Berkeley is part of the broader attitude against Jews on university campuses that made last week’s massacre possible. It is shameful and has been tolerated for too long.</p>
<p>It’s time for the adults to take over, and that includes law firms looking for graduates to hire. The law firm Winston & Strawn revoked an employment offer for a student at New York University law school who wrote an open letter that pointedly refused to condemn Hamas’s attack. The letter denounced Israel instead and asserted that its “regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary.” The NYU law school dean had issued a tepid response to the massacres, but after the student’s anti-Israel screed caused an uproar, he made a second, more forceful statement condemning Hamas’s attack.</p>
<p>Legal employers in the recruiting process should do what Winston & Strawn did: treat these law students like the adults they are. If a student endorses hate, dehumanization or anti-Semitism, don’t hire him. When students face consequences for their actions, they straighten up.</p>
<p>If you are a legal employer, when you interview students from Berkeley, Harvard, NYU or any other law school this year, ask them what organizations they belong to. Ask if they support discriminatory bylaws or other acts and resolutions blaming Jews and Israelis for the Hamas massacre. If a student endorses hatred, it isn’t only your right but your duty not to hire him. Do you want your clients represented by someone who condones these monstrous crimes?</p>
<i>Mr. Solomon is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. <br>Appeared in the October 16, 2023, print edition as 'Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students'.</i>
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<h3>Harvard must condemn pro-Hamas students — and reckon with its history of antisemitism By Alan Dershowitz</h3><br>
Source: <a href="https://dersh.substack.com/p/harvard-must-condemn-pro-hamas-students" target="_blank">https://dersh.substack.com/p/harvard-must-condemn-pro-hamas-students</a><br><br>
OCT 18, 2023<br><br>
<p>There’s an ongoing debate on university campuses about whether and how to respond to students who support, defend or even praise what <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/17/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-and-latest-news/" target="_blank">Hamas terrorists deliberately did to innocent Israeli children</a>, the elderly and other civilians.</p>
<p>On the one hand, there are free-speech and academic-freedom considerations.</p>
<p>As Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, put it in refusing to condemn the more than 30 student groups who blamed Israel alone for the Hamas horrors: <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/harvard-students-take-back-support-for-hamas/" target="_blank">“Harvard embraces a commitment to free expression.”</a></p>
<p>That would be acceptable if the university had a strict and consistent policy of never taking positions on issues that do not directly involve the university.</p>
<p>The University of Chicago has that policy. <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/thirty-one-harvard-organizations-blame-israel-for-hamas-attack/" target="_blank">Harvard does not</a>.</p>
<p>Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers reminded the current administration the school has forfeited that prerogative — to “pursue a policy of neutrality” — by speaking out on other issues such as the killing of George Floyd.</p>
<p>The testing question would be: What, if anything, would Harvard’s president have said if a group of Harvard clubs blamed the lethal firebombing of a black church on the burned black children or the NAACP?</p>
<p>What if they blamed the shooting-up of a gay bar on the lifestyles of the murdered gays?</p>
<p>Or the lynching of blacks on their “uppity” attitudes?</p>
<p>We know what the reaction of university administrators would have been.</p>
<p>At the very least, they would have exercised their own freedom of expression to condemn these groups in the strongest terms.</p>
<p>So we have two direct questions for President Gay (whom we respect):</p>
<ul>1) Would you have refused to condemn student groups that took these despicable positions, citing their freedom of expression?</ul>
<ul>2) If you would have condemned such groups (as we’re confident you would have), how do you distinguish these groups from those you refuse to condemn?</ul>
<p>Is supporting the mass murder of Jews any less deserving of condemnation than supporting those who burn churches, shoot gays or lynch blacks?</p>
<p>How then can you justify not condemning the Harvard groups?</p>
<p>Is it because you would be criticized for condemning pro-Hamas students but praised for condemning anti-black and anti-gay bigots?</p>
<p>That is not a principled basis for making a distinction. What then is the basis?</p>
<p>Certainly not Harvard’s sordid history, which is rife with racism and antisemitism.</p>
<p>For generations, Harvard excluded or limited the number of black and Jewish students. In the 1930s it honored German Nazis.</p>
<p>As recently as 1964, when one of us (Alan) arrived there, it discriminated against Jews in the selection of presidents and deans.</p>
<p>It welcomed recruitment on campus by corporations and law firms that openly discriminated against Jews.</p>
<p>To its credit, Harvard has tried to reckon with its history of anti-black racism.</p>
<p>It must now reckon with its history of antisemitism and its current application of double standards in tolerating Jew-hatred among elements of its student body, faculty and administrators.</p>
<p>It is no excuse to say the current Jew-hatred is directed at the nation-state of the Jewish people rather than at Jews as a group.</p>
<p>Hamas lynched, raped, beheaded and kidnapped Jews who lived in Israel.</p>
<p>It has murdered non-Israeli Jews in other parts of the world, and its charter is filled with anti-Jewish canards borrowed from the notorious antisemitic forgery “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”</p>
<p>Hamas is a Jew-hating antisemitic terrorist group, and students who support it by shifting the blame from them to the Jews of Israel are complicit in Hamas Jew-hatred and must be held accountable.</p>
<p>Nor is it an excuse or justification that the offending groups comprise young students, some of whom claim they didn’t realize what they signed.</p>
<p>They knew they were signing an anti-Israel petition at a time Israeli Jews were being slaughtered.</p>
<p>The fact some may have signed it without reading it only goes to show the knee-jerk hatred of some students toward anything involving Israel or Jews.</p>
<p>They would never have signed a petition critical of gays or blacks without studying it carefully.</p>
<p>Harvard treats its students — both 18-year-old freshmen and 25-year-old graduate students — as adults, holding them responsible for what they write and sign. It does not excuse plagiarism even if negligent.</p>
<p>There is no basis for an exception here.</p>
<p>Students who supported this and similar petitions should be called out and criticized.</p>
<p>If they want to retract their signatures, they should do so publicly and apologize.</p>
<p>Silence is complicity.</p>
<p>Freedom of expression precludes the power to punish immoral speech.</p>
<p>It includes the right to condemn such speech.</p>
<i>Alan Dershowitz is professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and the author of “Get Trump,” “Guilt by Accusation” and “The Price of Principle.” Andrew Stein, a Democrat, served as New York City Council president, 1986-94.</i>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-4775638503599919802023-10-25T13:06:00.001-04:002023-10-25T13:06:19.605-04:00President Biden's extraordinary hostility to Israel By Morton A. KleinSource: <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/president-bidens-extraordinary-hostility-to-israel/" target="_blank">https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/president-bidens-extraordinary-hostility-to-israel/</a> and <a href="https://zoa.org/2023/10/10448560-president-bidens-extraordinary-hostility-to-israel-israel-hayoms-mort-klein-op-ed/" target="_blank">https://zoa.org/2023/10/10448560-president-bidens-extraordinary-hostility-to-israel-israel-hayoms-mort-klein-op-ed/</a><br><br>
October 5, 2023<br>
<h3>Let's not be fooled. Extolling "ironclad friendship" between America are simply meaningless and phony words when Biden is enriching the Iranian terror regime with billions of dollars in funds and sanctions relief; pressing Israel to cede her sovereignty and security to a Palestinian terror state on "Auschwitz lines" that would render Israel indefensible.</h3>
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<p>President Joe Biden and his administration have been pursuing the same hostile-to-Israel policies promoted by the Obama-Biden administration.</p>
<p>Let's not be fooled. Extolling "ironclad friendship" between America are simply meaningless and phony words when Biden is enriching the Iranian terror regime with billions of dollars in funds and sanctions relief; pressing Israel to cede her sovereignty and security to a Palestinian terror state on "<a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F07%2F10446098-bidens-policies-voiced-at-israeli-and-palestinian-mtgs-demanding-israel-return-to-67-auschwitz-lines-end-checkpoints-open-jerusalem-arab-consulate-and-more-s%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460311364%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gMmwtsQ1ILZLAGni1kcxGY5maVAq6Z6ypN5Xl0RUf0I%3D&reserved=0">Auschwitz lines</a>" that would render Israel indefensible; and sending <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F07%2F10446098-bidens-policies-voiced-at-israeli-and-palestinian-mtgs-demanding-israel-return-to-67-auschwitz-lines-end-checkpoints-open-jerusalem-arab-consulate-and-more-s%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UaBwzZe5hpVvDDbqPR7lptTKPHQfJ2wk2YbHm95%2BC%2F8%3D&reserved=0">over $1.5 billion</a> to Hamas-allied UNRWA and to the Palestinian regime thereby freeing up funds for the Palestinian Authority to continue paying Arabs lifetime pensions to murder Jews and Americans.</p>
<p>These policies threaten Israel's existence and Jewish and American lives.</p>
<p>And that isn't all. The Biden administration took scores of additional actions that are hostile to Israel and/or Jews. Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and others wrote about these actions as they occurred. Here are a few highlights:</p>
<ul>
<li>Biden pressured Israel to <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F10%2F10446399-surrendering-israels-maritime-waters-gas-fields-under-bidens-pressure-is-illegal-and-gives-terrorist-hezbollah-billions%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3G8wkXMuYHBDDLcViXC3Uvkp9hYtHslsKYIBYlw7dzg%3D&reserved=0">surrender</a> 330 square miles of natural-gas-rich maritime territory to Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, thereby enriching Hezbollah with billions of dollars of revenue, and diminishing Israeli maritime security and resources. Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman decried that this deal gave 100% to Lebanon, and <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jns.org%2Fdavid-friedman-on-gas-deal-no-one-imagined-100-to-lebanon-and-0-to-israel%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uJbNmG%2Fiw0fCNRqgHuhROsdcN4y9osjMi1L1iuFaq3o%3D&reserved=0">0% to Israel</a>.</li>
<li>Biden's combating antisemitism strategy downgraded the excellent IHRA definition of antisemitism by <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2023%2F05%2F10447756-zoa-criticizes-biden-antisemitism-strategys-embrace-of-dangerous-nexus-antisemitism-definition-not-calling-out-islamists-other-antisemites%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IvYIusDDc3mVbDNatX%2BU%2Ft%2BW0fY1vnegkp3sIjfxCAs%3D&reserved=0">embrac</a>ing the dangerous NEXUS and JDA definitions that permit antisemitism masked as hatred for the Jewish state and Zionism. Biden's antisemitism strategy also failed to address major sources of antisemitism other than white supremacy; diluted antisemitism's uniqueness by lumping antisemitism together with "Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny"; and sought to incorporate other hatreds to dilute Holocaust education.</li>
<li>Biden reinstituted Obama's anti-Jewish <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2023%2F06%2F10447975-zoa-joins-sen-cruz-in-condemning-bds-like-biden-admin-boycott-funding-science-research-past-49-line-incl-ariel-u%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=diEsu6hkqf1QBe%2FB3Ero7Sny3zZ%2FE0ANwVdnF9I%2FTbM%3D&reserved=0">boycott</a> of joint US-Israeli science and technology research, cooperation, and projects over the artificial 1949 ceasefire lines. The boycott discriminates against primarily Jewish institutions such as Ariel University. By contrast, Palestinian Arab institutions over the ceasefire lines are receiving US assistance. The US Office of Palestinian Affairs just <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpalestinianaffairs.state.gov%2Fu-s-office-of-palestinian-affairs-launches-joint-doctorate-degree-with-al-quds-open-university-and-georgia-state-university%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WUr5V6sVRfK%2FXq5CgPZlKZDR%2FNTRbDGGhNcubBPKViI%3D&reserved=0">announced</a> a joint doctoral degree program with"Al Quds" University, located in Jerusalem and throughout the "West Bank."</li>
<li>Biden has been <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Fbreaking-news%2Farticle-760914&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tXp8cgH%2BgPN6YljZ3oYL9C78KJ7Kd19bzRJ8jLiDwfk%3D&reserved=0">using</a> a potential game-changing Saudi-Israeli deal to demand Israeli concessions to the Palestinian Authority terror regime, including that a Palestinian state solution must be kept open.</li>
<li>Biden's State Department <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2023%2F03%2F10446979-zoa-condemns-u-s-state-dept-funding-anti-israel-protest-organizers-in-israel%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rySXjXesyPY2YhBaVQtwNrPw6ihlBvw5akH1EH%2ByARU%3D&reserved=0">sent</a> US taxpayer funds to a partisan, main organizer of the divisive anti-Netanyahu, anti-judicial reform demonstrations that endangered security by closing down major roads and the airport. Biden and his ambassador to Israel Nides also pressured Israel's government and publicly spoke against the needed judicial reforms that Israelis voted for, thereby undermining Israeli democracy.</li>
<li>Biden repeatedly <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2021%2F10%2F10444169-zoa-praises-former-secy-of-state-pompeo-saying-moving-palest-consulate-to-jerusalem-is-illegal-a-mistake%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6wLwAZh4RCrFFWk8PPE5FC6uCGzVeuIrKe5p55LkEZI%3D&reserved=0">pressured</a> Israel to allow the US to re-open an illegal consulate for Palestinian Arabs in western Jerusalem, undermining Israeli sovereignty over her capital. The US State Department <em>denied </em>reports that the US had given up this effort and instead stated that the Biden administration is <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F06%2F10445864-biden-administration-turns-good-news-to-bad-just-clarified-that-it-remains-committed-to-opening-illegal-palestinian-consulate-in-jerusalem%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=c05ydLP%2FJPG%2BRMe3dL2GNUwiVBBRvaU7hN8xIppif3M%3D&reserved=0">still "committed</a>" to opening an (illegal) "Palestinian" consulate in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Biden opened a US Office of Palestinian Affairs ("OPA") in Jerusalem, which undermines Israel's sovereignty. A few days ago, OPA <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FUSPalAffairs%2Fstatus%2F1708098492634214644&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EfTStVyuepTC0leYioKQcXyxCG2zPc0Gp1PrURn0sEg%3D&reserved=0">applauded</a> UNRWA giving $3.6 million to terrorist hotbed Jenin.</li>
<li>In his joint press conference with Palestinian Authority president/dictator Mahmoud Abbas, Biden <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F07%2F10446098-bidens-policies-voiced-at-israeli-and-palestinian-mtgs-demanding-israel-return-to-67-auschwitz-lines-end-checkpoints-open-jerusalem-arab-consulate-and-more-s%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UaBwzZe5hpVvDDbqPR7lptTKPHQfJ2wk2YbHm95%2BC%2F8%3D&reserved=0">called </a>ordinary Israeli checkpoints, which are necessary for security, "indignities" against Palestinians.</li>
<li>Biden undermined Israel's security and sovereignty by calling for the Palestinian Authority to share control of the Israel-Jordanian crossings; and by pressuring Israel to allow <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F07%2F10446098-bidens-policies-voiced-at-israeli-and-palestinian-mtgs-demanding-israel-return-to-67-auschwitz-lines-end-checkpoints-open-jerusalem-arab-consulate-and-more-s%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UaBwzZe5hpVvDDbqPR7lptTKPHQfJ2wk2YbHm95%2BC%2F8%3D&reserved=0">more access</a> for Israel for Palestinians from Gaza.</li>
<li>Biden rejoined the Israel-bashing UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), initially as an <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fusun.usmission.gov%2Fstatement-on-u-s-reengagement-with-the-un-human-rights-council%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Z3DmfVINgQWWVCEX68GQkDHuhxibitMpv4IhX%2BjhDnI%3D&reserved=0">observer</a> and then <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fbriefing-room%2Fstatements-releases%2F2021%2F10%2F14%2Fstatement-by-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-on-the-united-states-election-to-the-human-rights-council-hrc%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FQzU%2FHfwt%2BW3mwcXPcQM1zwVtzils6KUewuIsbMdmHw%3D&reserved=0">"proudly" as a full member</a>.<sup> </sup> The Trump administration had quit the UNHRC because the UNHRC persistently attacks human-rights-loving Israel, and fails to act against real human rights violators.</li>
<li>Biden pressured Israel to legalize <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F07%2F10446098-bidens-policies-voiced-at-israeli-and-palestinian-mtgs-demanding-israel-return-to-67-auschwitz-lines-end-checkpoints-open-jerusalem-arab-consulate-and-more-s%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UaBwzZe5hpVvDDbqPR7lptTKPHQfJ2wk2YbHm95%2BC%2F8%3D&reserved=0">massive illegal Arab building</a> in Area C – the area of Judea-Samaria lawfully under full Israeli administrative control.</li>
<li>Biden repeatedly praised antisemites and Israel-bashers Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. On May 18, 2021, Biden <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fbriefing-room%2Fspeeches-remarks%2F2021%2F05%2F18%2Fremarks-by-president-biden-on-a-future-made-in-america%2F%23%3A~%3Atext%3DI%2520tell%2520you%2520what%252C%2520Rashida%2Care%2520on%2520the%2520West%2520Bank&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=NqaWDWUPinsSN19Kb86%2Feg%2B5I8fw4ttQ3rlracLcC94%3D&reserved=0">told</a> Tlaib: "I admire your intellect, I admire your passion, and I admire your concern for so many other people. And it's my feelings from my heart, I pray that your grandmom and family are well. You're a fighter. And, God, thank you for being a fighter."<sup> </sup>On April 3, 2023, Biden <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fbriefing-room%2Fspeeches-remarks%2F2023%2F04%2F03%2Fremarks-by-president-biden-on-investing-in-america-2%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460467655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bPZ0tfW6oN6d2Cjb2DXPKFzCseX8kdbLADNR%2FGXQvYs%3D&reserved=0">said</a> "Congressman [sic] Omar, I want to thank you for being here. You never stop working to level the playing field for everybody. . . . And on May 1, 2023, at the White House Eid al-Fitr party, Biden publicly <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jns.org%2Fyou-look-beautiful-tonight-biden-tells-omar-tlaib-at-white-house-eid-al-fitr%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460623816%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yddquXCOA7RcGTrLV7k1u6Ve89vbLcLD6ZJEUKCuqpg%3D&reserved=0">told</a> Jewhating Israel-bashers Omar and Tlaib that they looked beautiful.</li>
<li>The Biden administration backtracked on US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. In a <em>CNN</em> interview on February 8, 2021, Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked if the Biden administration would continue to "see the Golan Heights as part of Israel." Blinken only endorsed Israel's presence in the Golan for the time being, due to the Golan's importance to Israel's security, and <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fblinken-supports-israel-holding-golan-but-backs-off-recognizing-sovereignty%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460623816%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=09dWSYPA720FEMoRg4%2FK5IvAvf1wHrIraPAxXSGbJDU%3D&reserved=0">said</a> that the Biden administration would look at this again if the situation in Syria were to change.</li>
<li>During a webinar with "Americans for Peace Now" (a radical group that supports BDS over the green line), Biden's former US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F05%2F10445805-zoa-quoted-in-bidens-israel-ambassador-tells-bds-group-he-wants-jews-out-of-jerusalem-frontpagemag%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460623816%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EOFxf90adndRxMW8TaO5Fhh%2BC3LrHaNspvAjOAO7p%2F4%3D&reserved=0">bragged</a> that his pressure stopped Jewish building in E-1, and wished he could stop all Jewish building in "East Jerusalem" (which includes the Jewish quarter) and Judea/Samaria. Nides also euphemistically called the Palestinian Authority's "pay to slay" payments to terrorists to murder Jews "martyr payments." Nides further declared: "' These martyr payments . . . have caused an enormous amount of problems because it gives the 'haters' an excuse not to support the PA based on the argument that it is 'paying for people who killed Jews.'" (Nides' thus stated that the terrorists and the PA are not the problem, but rather the problem is the people who oppose the PA's "pay to slay" payments.)</li>
<li>Biden insulted Israel's prime minister by still not meeting with him at the White House, and by instead meeting opposition party leaders. During Biden's recent <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fbriefing-room%2Fstatements-releases%2F2023%2F09%2F20%2Freadout-of-president-joe-bidens-meeting-with-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-of-israel%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460623816%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=x9VuD%2BYcwvqI4t%2F8ShgoYBWm7x9uUzwkAhvXsRVtRuY%3D&reserved=0">meeting</a> with Netanyahu at the United Nations on September 20, 2023, Biden again pushed for a Palestinian Arab (terror) state; again pressured Israel to not make what Biden refers to as "unilateral measures" (meaning Jews building homes in the Jewish homeland); and again opposed and interfered with Israel's needed internal judicial reforms.</li>
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<p>In addition, over thirty Biden appointees and nominees to top posts affecting Jews and the Jewish state have alarming antisemitic or hostile-to-Israel backgrounds. Many were also Obama-Biden administration officials. ZOA's "<a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2022%2F10%2F10446399-surrendering-israels-maritime-waters-gas-fields-under-bidens-pressure-is-illegal-and-gives-terrorist-hezbollah-billions%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460623816%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wDHglzBESh9J4qTQYU8U26G4a3Hl8ZrEM2uvP88oaMI%3D&reserved=0">Biden Appointments Watch</a>" webpage illuminates their backgrounds. A few examples:</p>
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<li>US Special Envoy to the Palestinians Hady Amr stated that he supports BDS and was "inspired" by the Intifada terror wars against Israel.</li>
<li> White House Office of Legislative Affairs Deputy Director Reema Dodin has supported suicide bombings.</li>
<li>National Security Council Senior Director for Intelligence Maher Bitar organized an anti-Israel conference and ran a session on how to demonize Israel.</li>
<li>US Commission on Int'l Religious Freedom appointee Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum retweeted her wife's praise for antisemite Linda Sarsour and said Kaddish for Hamas terrorists killed while trying to murder Jews, causing pro-Israel members of her LGBT synagogue to leave.</li>
<li>National Security Advisor Avril Haines falsely condemned Israel for terrorism and incitement.</li>
<li>US Envoy to Iran Robert Malley (lead Iran negotiator; now under investigation for mishandling classified information) is an Iran apologist who opposes sanctions on Iran.</li>
<li>ExtremistUS AID Middle East assistant administrator nominee (and senior advisor to State Dept. sanctions coordinator) Tamara Cofman Wittes condemned the Abraham Accords as a "Naksa." ("Naksa" is the Arabic for "setback" or "catastrophe": Palestinian Arabs use this term to describe Arabs' failure to annihilate Israel in 1967.)</li>
<li>And Biden's nominee for the next US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, who served as Obama's chief-of-staff and Treasury Secretary: <a href="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoa.org%2F2023%2F08%2F10448242-dont-let-jack-lew-become-u-s-ambassador-to-israel-zoas-mort-kleins-jerusalem-post-op-ed%2F&data=05%7C01%7CErezL%40IsraelHayom.co.il%7Ca730d7f96065427f0e5f08dbc5603fdd%7C34fa2d1adf1d4d6dad2efef77ad377e0%7C0%7C0%7C638320789460623816%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Gf%2BCIYYBWEwMiysggzK%2FAh8pYaGWZEs8hgEzUyG5XIQ%3D&reserved=0">lied</a> that the Iran deal contained "incredibly robust" inspections and would guarantee that Iran "never" obtained a nuclear bomb, to promote the deal to the Jewish community; was the treasury secretary during Obama's transfer of $1.7 billion of cash to Iran; and publicly defended the worst-ever anti-Israel UN Security Council Resolution 2334. Res. 2334 labels the Jewish people's holiest sites including the Western Wall and Temple Mount, Hadassah Hospital, and Jewish Quarter as "occupied Arab land"; and says that the Jewish presence (and homes) in these historic Jewish lands has "no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation of international law." Res. 2334 also promotes Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).</li>
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<p>With friends like these...</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-75547502504923772782023-10-09T16:40:00.000-04:002023-10-09T16:40:13.170-04:00The ADL Is Not Jewish and No Longer Speaks for Jews: Under Jonathan Greenblatt, they’ve lost focus, attacking conservatives instead of fighting anti-Semitism. By Dov FischerSource: <a href="https://spectator.org/adl-jonathan-greenblatt-left/" target="_blank">https://spectator.org/adl-jonathan-greenblatt-left/</a><br><br>
April 16, 2021<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8eUf7ZN_IbVtkd7Yjw21oaGEZl3U1VidpFnDTJRvttVjgdkXA0-b2agFjUkaVyTdPolwfVylmHT0jNXebOLMLxTTcTWgBtxSyxJmPRyagPTPdaFE2gXR5xz1G-uZXCVsjGw63SP5oQKwX9tIXEGBRhaqFHLzS9g6KO-eSdJsEMZuL53NHZlKwFA/s2048/Jonathan%20Greenblatt.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8eUf7ZN_IbVtkd7Yjw21oaGEZl3U1VidpFnDTJRvttVjgdkXA0-b2agFjUkaVyTdPolwfVylmHT0jNXebOLMLxTTcTWgBtxSyxJmPRyagPTPdaFE2gXR5xz1G-uZXCVsjGw63SP5oQKwX9tIXEGBRhaqFHLzS9g6KO-eSdJsEMZuL53NHZlKwFA/s320/Jonathan%20Greenblatt.jpg"/></a></div>ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at 2017 National Council of La Raza Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)<br><br><br>
<p>Imagine that a group of prominent Catholic “human-rights activists” issues statements condemning the pope and the Vatican for their stands opposing gay marriage and abortion on demand. Actually, it happens all the time. Probably the two most powerful Catholics in America, who also double as two of the most powerful people in America — <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/archbishop-hammers-biden-calling-devout-catholic/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Joe Biden</a> and <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2021/01/19/nancy-pelosi-im-more-catholic-than-most-pro-life-americans-because-i-have-five-kids/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1">Nancy Pelosi</a>, both of whom go out of their ways <a href="https://spectator.org/when-devout-catholics-grimaced-over-pelosis-as-a-catholic-hypocrisy/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2">regularly to tell us</a> that they are devout Catholics — are two of the leading movers in the Western world for supporting gay marriage, all kinds of transgender theories and practices, and legalizing not only abortion on demand but even <em>post-birth </em>terminating of newborns whose parents did not intend to have them. And did we mention other prominent Catholics like, say, the Honorable Gov. Andrew Cuomo, he of <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/new-york-gov-cuomo-signs-law-bill-legalizing-late-term-abortion" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">abortion on demand</a> for fetuses, COVID by his demand in <a href="https://spectator.org/where-is-cuomos-apology-for-killing-10000-people-covid-19-nursing-homes/?fbclid=IwAR0ErGJqSwJw8hfTyXGCXFK-wAbDvHGbMsn2ehE7rS27ba6AG7oRDVMLFKs" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4">nursing homes</a>, and women by his command whenever? What — does that guy think he lives in a <a href="https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/these-people-and-their-fing-tree-houses-andrew-cuomo-chafed-at-campaigning-on-sukkot" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5">tree house</a> where no one sees him?</p>
<p>What is a Jew like me — a fairly educated Orthodox rabbi who studied comparative religion during my undergraduate years at Columbia University, during an era when they taught real stuff — supposed to think about the authentic Catholic position on issues like these? Well, first I read my <em>American Spectator</em> colleague <a href="https://spectator.org/author/gneumayr/">George Neumayr</a>. I know he is real. I consider the extended conversations during private audiences I have enjoyed with the present and previous Catholic bishops of the Orange County, California, diocese where I live. I am reasonable. I know <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/us-catholic-bishop-biden-not-real-catholic" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6">what’s what</a>. And I commiserate because, as a Jew whose entire life has been rooted in authentic Jewish teachings, I know the frustration when impostors gain access to a complicitly fake Left mainstream media who willingly play the game to replace the authentic with the pale imitation.</p>
<p>Back in the mid-to-late 19th and very early 20th century, a huge rush of immigration was apace in America — from China, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Eastern Europe. Whereas there had been 250,000 Jews in America by 1880, an influx to the United States of 3.25 million Jews from Eastern Europe between 1881 and 1914 changed the complexion of American Jewry. We changed from a mostly westernized, non-religious or Reform Judaism-based German-descending community, centered significantly amid such Midwestern German Protestant populations as Cincinnati, into an East European community of New York–based immigrants who spoke little English, knew little of the West, and came with deep-rooted Orthodox Jewish religious practices or with no religion at all. When those 3.25 million arrived during those three frantic decades between the assassination of Tsar Alexander II and the start of World War I, they were greeted by the Jewish social welfare agencies that were just being created by the now-established German Jews who had preceded them here.</p>
<p>It was a strange love-hate thing. In those days, America did not heap benefits on destitute newcomers. Therefore, on the one hand, the established German Jewish agencies in America truly wanted to help their fellow Jews avoid starvation. They also did not want newspaper headlines about millions of newly arriving Jews draining the economy. On a deeper level, the landed and assimilated German-American Jews desperately raced to rid the immigrants of their religious beliefs and values that made them seem so “different.” The German Jews worried that the sudden appearance in America of millions of Orthodox Jews, with strange religious practices and wearing <a href="https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ef53bf1d590398ff19344e5410573517-c" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7">quaint clothes</a> and sporting ancient hairstyles, would incentivize anti-Semitism to a degree hitherto unknown here. So they worked feverishly to assimilate the East European arrivals. Julia Richman, the superintendent of the New York City public schools in the Lower East Side, gave teachers orders to grab any child heard speaking Yiddish in the school hallways and to wash the child’s mouth out with soap. Minnie Lewis stood on street corners, offering children free cookies if they would let her cut their <a href="https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=Awr9DWsJgnlgcTAA4AuJzbkF;_ylu=c2VjA3NlYXJjaARzbGsDYnV0dG9u;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNjI4NTcEX3IDMgRhY3RuA2NsawRjc3JjcHZpZANYQ2pGZHpFd0xqSkZ3UUxzWGtYZE5RQlNNall3TUFBQUFBQVFlX1ViBGZyA3lteXktdARmcjIDc2EtZ3AEZ3ByaWQDWGpWeDlCVmlTR2lxLjQwYW9FdWhoQQRuX3N1Z2cDNgRvcmlnaW4DaW1hZ2VzLnNlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMEcXN0cmwDMTUEcXVlcnkDc2h1bGVtJTIwbGVtbWVyBHRfc3RtcAMxNjE4NTc1ODkw?p=shulem+lemmer&fr=ymyy-t&fr2=sb-top-images.search&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt#id=23&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.israellycool.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fshulem-lemmer.jpg&action=click" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="8">extended sideburns</a>. Efforts were made to convert the young immigrant generation from their parents’ religious Orthodoxy to Reform Judaism, a theology akin to Unitarianism, where pork is eaten and intermarriage is boasted.</p>
<p>It really was quite love-hate. The German Jews built Jewish hospitals like Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City because Jewish doctors still were being barred from practicing elsewhere. And yet those same Jews then initially barred the children of East European immigrants from practicing at Mount Sinai. While German Jews who had business sense went into investing and finance, they tried persuading the East European immigrants to move to <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/vineland" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="9">Vineland</a>, New Jersey, and to the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Farmers-Catskills-Survival-Relativism/dp/0813013437" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="10">Catskill Mountains</a> beyond New York’s boroughs to be farmers. That would get tens of thousands of East European Jews out of view, out of sight, out of mind — and also might counter the stereotype of Jews as financiers once the immigrants succeeded as farmers. To be sure, the German Jews did not send their <em>own</em> kids to farm in Vineland and in the Catskills. And the projects failed miserably. The immigrant Jews in Vineland ended up getting Ph.D.s in agricultural science and publishing magazines about farming, while the ones in the Catskills ended up turning their farmhouses into small restaurants, then bigger ones, and then into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossinger%27s_Catskill_Resort_Hotel" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="11">resort hotels</a> where other Jews, denied other job or career opportunities because of discrimination, became <a href="http://www.haruth.com/jhumor/catskill_humor.htm" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="12">stand-up comedians</a>.</p>
<p>And so it went. To get the East Europeans out of sight, the German Jewish agencies even shipped ten thousand more of the immigrants from New York to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Movement">Galveston</a>, Texas. When other American men’s fraternities barred the wave of Jews who came in from Germany, they formed B’nai B’rith fraternal lodges. And then, initially, those lodges barred East European Jews. Many, though not all, historians believe the very epithet “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kike" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="13">kike</a>” first gained currency in the German-American community. <em>Yep, dem’s my peeps.</em></p>
<p>But when Jews came under anti-Semitic attack, that was a time to pull together. Jew-haters do not distinguish between East European Jews and German Jews, Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews. They just hate blindly and irrationally. The stereotypes are crazy and contradictory. Disgruntled tenants will complain about the <em>Jewish</em> landlord, and disgruntled landlords about the <em>Jewish</em> tenant. Haters among the communists, as typified by the worst Jew-hater of them all, Karl Marx, accused all Jews of being capitalists who live for <em>mammon</em>, a Hebrew word for money. (Marx did not regard himself as Jewish and hated Jews. His father had converted to Protestantism.) Haters among capitalists meanwhile accused all Jews of being communists. How confusing it must have been for such haters in the 1970s, as Jews emerged as the single most anti-Soviet demographic in America.</p>
<p>As Jews arrived in larger numbers, new forms of anti-Semitism emerged. Some were the subtle <em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039416/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="15">Gentleman’s Agreement</a></em> version that kept Jews out of hotels and country clubs into the 1960s. Thus did the Republican Party lose a Jewish constituency that initially had backed it, just as Republicans likewise lost the Irish, Italian, and other ethnic Catholic classes for a century until Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter fostered some reorienting. When, amid the Great Depression, one famous “restricted” Beverly Hills country club decided that, with so many of their white-shoe Christian members going bankrupt, they needed finally to allow Hollywood Jews in as dues-paying members, Groucho Marx famously said that he would not join any club that wanted him as a member. Many think he was being cleverly witty Groucho, but he was not joking; he knew why they suddenly wanted him, and he wanted no part of that. He had no problem joining the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcrest_Country_Club_(Los_Angeles)" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="16">Hillcrest</a> country club that Jews established as their alternative.</p>
<p>In 1913 Atlanta, Georgia, anti-Semitism took a dramatic new turn. It was the Georgia of Tom Watson and the KKK. A young girl was found strangled in the basement of a local pencil factory. Without evidence to justify the accusations, just suspicions and unsubstantiated claims, a public hate campaign spurred by Watson, amid other factors, led to the arrest of the factory manager, a New York Jew who had moved down there to assume the job. After arriving, he had become president of the Atlanta B’nai B’rith. That Jew, Leo Frank, was put on a show trial and was convicted amid mob violence outside the courtroom. He was sentenced to death. The governor, John Slaton, whose name had been bandied about as potential vice-presidential material, heroically brought his rising political career to an abrupt end by commuting Frank’s sentence. His life and family threatened, Slaton had to leave Georgia for 10 years. Meanwhile, armed Jew-haters invaded the jail where Frank was being held, kidnapped him, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank#Abduction_and_lynching_of_Frank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="17">lynched him</a> in August 1915 in Marietta, Georgia.</p>
<p>Thus emerged the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith. America’s Jews desperately needed a defense organization, and B’nai B’rith, the fraternal order, was their biggest group, so best situated to act. They formed the ADL. ADL emerged to defend German Jews in America, and they defended East European Jews because, when anti-Semitism arises, haters do not distinguish. For the next century, ADL became identified with Jewish legal defense.</p>
<p><em>But this no longer is the case</em>. As Jew-hatred of the Marietta, Georgia, sort abated in America, ADL increasingly lost sight of its fundamental purpose. Expanding its mission to focus on opposing other forms of hate, ADL became more of a general all-purpose human-rights organization. That can be a good thing if implemented <em>fairly</em>. Unfortunately, ADL’s demise as a <em>Jewish</em> organization was cemented in July 2015, ironically almost 100 years to the day of the Leo Frank lynching, when the organization named Jonathan Greenblatt to be its new national director. Greenblatt, a hardened “progressive,” had just served as special assistant to the president in the Obama White House. He is an Obama acolyte through and through. From the day that he arrived, he converted the ADL into a markedly left-focused organization. Under Greenblatt, ADL has focused almost exclusively on combating right-wing hate and also attacking conservative non-haters among Republicans, Fox News anchors, and the like — while giving virtually free passes to the Left.</p>
<p>For example, ADL presented data on anti-Semitism during the Trump presidency that defied reality. In one egregious case, they reported a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents during Trump’s first year when <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/03/08/the-great-anti-semitism-panic-of-2017/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="18">other data</a> showed a <a href="https://reason.com/2018/10/30/anti-semitism-trump-adl-julia-ioffe/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="19">decrease</a>. Notably, in blaming Trump’s emergence, they included in their tally some 150 bomb threats made to American Jewish institutions by a mentally disturbed <em>Israeli</em> <em>Jewish</em> teen who <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/israeli-teen-convicted-of-making-thousands-of-bomb-threats-against-us-jews/a-44441026" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="20">ultimately was convicted</a> by a Tel Aviv court of phoning in <em>thousands</em> of such threats from overseas.</p>
<p>The demise of ADL as a Jewish organization and its conversion into a mouthpiece for Obama acolytes has been mourned for the past five years. Seth Mandel has written about it in <em><a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-shame-of-the-anti-defamation-league/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="21">Commentary</a></em>. Liel Leibovitz, another leading American Jewish commentator, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-brett-kavanaugh-bad-for-the-jews-1532387026" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="22">wrote about it</a> in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>. Investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272511/adl-took-175-million-funder-alt-left-anti-semitism-daniel-greenfield" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="23">exposed further details</a> in David Horowitz’s FrontPage Mag. Likewise Andrew Harrod in <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/03/the-anti-defamation-league-has-become-a-fraud-as-leftist-biases-overwhelm-its-core-mission" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="24">Jihad Watch</a> and the Orthodox Jewish online source <a href="http://matzav.com/outrage-adl-mourns-deaths-of-hamas-terrorists-as-horrific-tragedy/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="25">Matzav</a>. Most recently, Jonathan Tobin has <a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/whatever-happened-to-the-adl/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="26">written</a> about ADL’s pronouncedly left bias and “<a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/dont-buy-a-narrative-about-hate-that-fuels-unreasonable-fear/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="27">overhyped statistics</a>” in several articles in JNS, a national Jewish news service.</span><span style="font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit"></p>
<p>In an era of white supremacist hate and an extraordinary outbreak of rabidly anti-Jewish hate on the left, especially on college campuses with the <a href="https://spectator.org/bds-uc-irvine-student-government/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="28">Nazi-like BDS movement to boycott</a> only the one country in the world with a Jewish majority, and even among Democrats in Congress like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and others, it is regrettable that the Jewish community has <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/connormcnulty/2021/04/14/second-jewish-group-condemns-adls-condemnation-of-tucker-carlson-n2587934" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="29">lost a defense organization</a> to the politics of unbridled progressivism. But that is the reality of the day. Just as devout Catholics endeavor to persuade non-Catholics that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are not who and what they say they are, so it now has had to fall on the <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/548429-1500-rabbis-accuse-adl-of-grossly-misplaced" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="30">Coalition for Jewish Values</a>, representing <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/orthodox-rabbis-defend-tucker-carlson-from-charges-of-anti-semitism-by-anti-defamation-league/ar-BB1fEUm7" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="31">1,500 American</a> traditional rabbis, to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jewish-leaders-carlsons-defense-adl-resignation" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="32">speak out</a> against Greenblatt’s and ADL’s latest outrage, the totally unwarranted and unjustified attack on Tucker Carlson for his condemning Biden’s effort to import millions of new voters to “replace” the landed electorate by imbalancing future American elections. As Jeffrey Lord has <a href="https://spectator.org/tucker-carlson-replacement-theory/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="33">explained thoroughly</a> in <em>The American Spectator</em>, Carlson is absolutely correct. Voter “replacement” is <em>exactly, precisely </em>what the Biden–Pelosi–Schumer Democrats now are endeavoring to do, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s nine seats next in their sights.</p>
<p>One looks at the conservative red California that once dependably elected governors like Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, and Pete Wilson. Or at Nevada and Arizona, dependably Republican until supplanted by the coordinated Democrat effort to open the borders and then to convince the likes of even a Reagan, and certainly Bushes, to grant mass amnesties and rapid “paths leading to citizenship” — i.e., paths leading to voting for the party that promises unlimited government payouts and services. <em>Of course we now are watching, before our very eyes, a concerted effort to replace the electorate that was electing Republicans. </em>And look where newcomers are being sent, all those unaccompanied children who are wrapped up by Biden’s administration in <a href="https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a237c9bfc22df2f2b950d59cd8fb3494" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="34">aluminum foil</a> and placed initially in <a href="https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-458329310-e1561400162897.jpg" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="35">Obama–Biden cages</a> — places like <a href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/migrant-shelter-nearing-capacity-at-san-diego-convention-center/2567783/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="36">San Diego</a>, one of the last redoubts of conservatism in California, and Texas, the red state with the most electoral college votes. Understandably, North Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has <a href="https://www.blackhillsfox.com/2021/04/15/call-me-when-youre-an-american-governor-noem-takes-to-twitter-for-controversial-immigration-statements/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="37">spoken out</a> forcefully, telling Biden that she will not let her state be next.</p>
<p>How can anyone objective not see what is happening? The reason that Biden insists that the chaos at the border is <em>not</em> a “crisis” is plain to see: it is planned chaos, aimed at overrunning the system to leave no choice but to move millions of future Democrat voters ultimately into states where they can turn those tides as they have in the American Southwest. Along with aiming to add two new guaranteed Democrat states, thus four new Democrat U.S. senators, and packing the U.S. Supreme Court, it marks a concerted Democrat effort to turn the entire country into a California with one-party rule.</p>
<p>Yes, white supremacist haters in Charlottesville spoke of “replacement” theory, and they falsely and wrongly targeted the slogan with bigotry. But because a white supremacist says that it gets warm in the summer and cold in the winter does not mean that Tucker Carlson is racist for observing the same. If white supremacists oppose tax increases, that does not make it racism for normal people to oppose tax increases, too. If white supremacists protest being banned by Facebook or Twitter, that does not make Dennis Prager an anti-Semite when he blasts YouTube for taking down some of his fabulous five-minute Prager University segments, like their absurd censoring of his segment on the Ten Commandments on grounds that it violated YouTube standards by speaking of murder (“Thou Shalt — <em>uh</em> … — <em>Not</em> Murder”).</p>
<p>Jonathan Greenblatt’s and ADL’s attack on Tucker Carlson must be deplored by all fair-minded Americans. And, as 1,500 Orthodox rabbis have made clear — and has been reported across online news media but suppressed uniformly by the Left mainstream media — ADL does not speak for Jews and no longer even is a Jewish organization.</p><br><br>
<h3>The ADL Is Undermining The Battle Against Anti-Semitism By Jonathan S. Tobin</h3>
Source: <a href="https://jewishleadershipproject.org/the-adl-is-undermining-the-battle-against-anti-semitism/" target="_blank">https://jewishleadershipproject.org/the-adl-is-undermining-the-battle-against-anti-semitism/</a><br><br>
<a href="https://whiterosemagazine.com/the-adl-is-undermining-the-battle-against-anti-semitism/">White Rose Magazine</a><br><br>
June 10, 2022<br><br>
<p><strong>ARE</strong> donors to the Anti-Defamation League aware of what they are funding?</p>
<p>Do they know that the organization created to fight prejudice and attacks against Jews is on the record supporting an ideology that grants a permission slip to anti-Semitism?</p>
<p>Do they know that the group still considered to be the gold standard for monitoring hate crimes is promoting the notion that Jews should be divided along racial lines—an explicit acceptance of radical theories that categorize Jews and the State of Israel as a function of “white privilege”?</p>
<p>Do they know that the organization committed to support Israel has, in recent years, often joined with those sniping at it and hired vicious critics of the Jewish state as staff members, like <a href="https://spme.org/anti-semitism/tema-smith-and-the-adl-controversy-explained/27152/">Tema Smith</a>?</p>
<p>Do they know that a group that prided itself on nonpartisanship and building bipartisan coalitions against anti-Semitism has cast those principles to the winds and become part of America’s political tribal wars?</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><strong>Do</strong> they know that the organization committed to support Israel has, in recent years, often joined with those sniping at it and hired vicious critics of the Jewish state as staff members?</p></blockquote>
<p>Do they know that the organization that always considered defense of civil liberties essential to its mission has now joined hands with Big Tech companies to promote censorship of ideas and organizations?</p>
<p>Perhaps many of those still pouring money into the ADL’s coffers are aware of all this and are supportive of the sea change in the organization. The abandonment of core principles and its job of defending Jews places the ADL on the same side of those it is pledged to fight. This is one more casualty of the shift in culture that has produced toxic divisions tearing apart the fabric of American society.</p>
<p>Most of the many American Jewish organizations and institutions founded in the early 20th century have long since become obsolete. The Jewish hospitals created to find places for unhired Jewish doctors and the Jewish country clubs established to compete with the exclusionary non-Jewish facilities have long since become secular once those barriers evaporated.</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><strong>The</strong> abandonment of core principles and its job of defending Jews places the ADL on the same side of those it is pledged to fight.</p></blockquote>
<p>Many national organizations that once were considered essential platforms for speaking up for a beleaguered community are now mere shadows of themselves as they struggle to find a purpose as their constituencies changed or disappeared altogether.</p>
<p>But there is still one national Jewish institution that not only still has a job but arguably is faced with an even more daunting task and bigger responsibilities than it did when it opened its doors: the Anti-Defamation League.</p>
<p>Outraged over the anti-Semitic hate that fueled both the wrongful murder conviction of Atlanta businessman Leo Frank and his subsequent lynching in 1915, the B’nai B’rith organization established the ADL to deal specifically with the plague of anti-Semitism. The daunting challenges of a century ago—in the form of hate sponsored by auto magnate Henry Ford or populist preachers directly invoking age-old stereotypes about Jewish “aliens and power brokers”—have evolved to reach even wider audiences on the Internet. The delegitimization of the Jews and the Jewish state is louder than ever, and now has become a feature of the increasingly influential left-wing of the Democratic Party, which has embraced radical notions like intersectionality and critical race theory, opening the door to anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>That makes the ADL, which has become not only independent of its initial sponsor, but an organizational powerhouse with a massive fundraising machine, more important than ever. Its infrastructure of regional offices and large staff perform the task of monitoring acts of anti-Semitism at a time when attacks on Jews are not only on the rise but essentially mainstreamed under the guise of “criticism” of Israel. As open calls for Israel’s destruction and the stigmatizing of its supporters as racists and oppressors have become commonplace, an effective Jewish defense organization with the clout of the ADL ought to be a vital tool in combating this problem.</p>
<p>But the ADL is failing.</p>
<p>That failure can’t be measured financially since it is raising more money than ever before. Nor is it a communication problem, as the ADL retains its status as a go-to source for comments about Jewish issues as well as the ultimate arbiter in determining what constitutes anti-Semitism.</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><strong>As</strong> open calls for Israel’s destruction and the stigmatizing of its supporters as racists and oppressors have become commonplace, an effective Jewish defense organization with the clout of the ADL ought to be a vital tool in combating this problem.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yet, its failure is palpable.</p>
<p>Ever since its current CEO Jonathan Greenblatt succeeded longtime head Abe Foxman in 2015, the former Clinton and Obama administration staffer has largely discarded the group’s non-partisan stance. Greenblatt has effectively turned it into just one more partisan advocacy group supporting Democratic Party talking points on a variety of issues, including those that have little or nothing to do with the defense of Jewish interests. As his grip on the organization solidified, the ADL also became an ally of ideologically driven Big Tech firms seeking to enforce censorship on the Internet. In this way, the ADL has fallen far short of the needs of an increasingly embattled Jewish community.</p>
<p>As worrisome as those actions are, in the past two years the problem has grown even worse. The ADL’s prioritization of its ties with left-wing allies has also led to decisions that not only undermine its core mission, such as the sanctioning of partisan weaponizing of the issue of anti-Semitism, but its willingness to endorse ideas that enable anti-Semitism and the delegitimization of Jews and Israel has, incredibly, placed it in the position of actually aiding and abetting the very forces it was created to oppose. As a result, it is not simply an example of failing Jewish leadership, but it is a group that now must be considered increasingly part of the problem rather than the solution to the dilemmas faced by American Jewry. </p>
<p>The organization that Greenblatt inherited from Foxman, the ADL’s venerable leader who worked for the group for 50 years and led it for 28, was politically liberal on many issues but still scrupulously non-partisan. Moreover, though it had long since branched out into the business of educating communities on the dangers of all sorts of prejudice, it was still focused on its primary mission of combating anti-Semitism, including that which is directed at the Jewish state.</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><strong>The</strong> ADL’s prioritization of its ties with left-wing allies has led to decisions that not only undermine its core mission, but has, incredibly, placed it in the position of actually aiding and abetting the very forces it was created to oppose.</p></blockquote>
<p>Greenblatt immediately began re-orienting the organization to be more directly in line with his own partisan instincts. He had previously been a staff member of the Barack Obama White House, which was itself embroiled in a number of disputes with Israel and the Jewish community. President Obama’s determination to pursue a policy of appeasement toward Iran and its nuclear ambitions placed him in conflict with Israel—which viewed Tehran as an existential threat—and put him at odds with American Jews and certain members of Congress, who agreed with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opinion about the disastrous nature of the nuclear deal. In seeking to dismiss those arguments, Obama and his staff—including those who were orchestrating what former national security advisor Ben Rhodes called their media “echo chamber”—were at pains to spin the debate as one between a president pursuing his nation’s interests and a powerful lobby that was buying support in Congress, a trope of traditional anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>But far from seeking to confront his former colleagues, Greenblatt was more interested in using the ADL to critique Netanyahu. He went out of his way in 2016 to publicly oppose Netanyahu’s claim that the Palestinians’ desire to push Jews out of West Bank communities would amount to “ethnic cleansing.” According to Greenblatt, that was a wrongful use of Holocaust terminology. Yet he was guilty himself of using a similar analogy to criticize enforcement of American laws against <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/closing-the-borders-to-refugees-wrong-in-the-1930s-and-wrong-today">illegal immigration.</a></p>
<p>There is, however, more at play here than mere hypocrisy. Though Greenblatt will occasionally criticize a Democrat for an anti-Semitic utterance or inappropriate Holocaust analogy, under his leadership, the ADL became focused on aiding the “resistance” to the administration of President Donald Trump, constantly accusing him of supposedly inciting or inspiring a rise in anti-Semitism on the far right. Indeed, the ADL became a prop for branding Trump a Nazi and/or anti-Semite.</p>
<p>While Trump’s intemperate and vulgar tone, as well as his willingness to attack opponents and critics was unorthodox, Greenblatt’s repeated attempts to connect the dots between his comments and far right extremists was rooted primarily in partisanship, not a defense of the Jews. That was apparent when it came to blaming the president for acts of violence against Jews, such as the attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, California. But it was also the case with respect to Greenblatt’s willingness to lend the ADL’s prestige to the false claim that Trump had somehow endorsed or expressed moral indifference to the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 because of a comment that was taken out of context about “very fine people” being on both sides of the barricades there. Trump said there were such people who disagreed about the need to clear public squares of all memorials to Confederates and those killed in the Civil War, not in the confrontation with neo-Nazis.</p>
<p>In doing so, the ADL aligned itself with the political views of most of its donors. But in addition to committing itself to a misleading partisan narrative about Trump, Greenblatt also pushed the group into a confrontation with the Trump administration over issues that had nothing to do with anti-Semitism. For example, Greenblatt tweeted his opposition to the nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court within seconds of the announcement, signaling that ADL would oppose any conservative.</p>
<p>The ADL condemned former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a man who was not only a friend to the Jewish community during his time in Congress and as director of the CIA but also helped to make historic breakthroughs for pro-Israel policies at the State Department. During his confirmation hearings, the ADL attacked him as a “bigot” for denouncing anti-Semitic Islamist radicals. That could be seen in the same context as Greenblatt’s reversal of Foxman’s opposition to the building of a Muslim community center and mosque in the Ground Zero area of Lower Manhattan where the 9/11 attacks took place. The ADL’s stance promoted the false narrative in which the real victims of the attacks were American Muslims, suffering from a mythical backlash.</p>
<p>The ADL also found itself closely aligned with Big Tech companies that it previously criticized for allowing anti-Semitism on social media. Though some of those firms, like Facebook, initially refused to go along with the ADL’s push for censoring hateful opinions, they soon found that the ADL was a willing partner when it came to justifying Silicon Valley’s shift toward censoring conservative opinions. The ADL’s efforts to steer those who logged onto hate websites to better sources of information actually led to another hate website that was spreading anti-Semitism. And its alliance with PayPal, intended to help weed out alleged radical groups, put it in the position of endorsing censorship more than actually fighting hate.</p>
<p>Despite the group’s claims to the contrary, the ADL’s leftist tilt caused it to be perceived as having shifted its priorities away from strictly Jewish issues. This led to even more dangerous problems than the disintegration of its gold-standard status as the ultimate authority on anti-Semitism. The spread of intersectional ideology—which lumps together all groups and peoples who claim to be oppressed because of their color or indigenous background and similarly views all of their opponents as linked by “white privilege”—has convinced many on the American left that the Palestinian war against Israel is somehow analogous to the struggle for civil rights in the United States.</p>
<p>This has led not only to attacks on Israel as a beneficiary of “white privilege”—the irony that a majority of Israeli Jews trace their origins to the Middle East or North Africa and are therefore “people of color” under the definition accepted by the left is lost on the Jewish state’s critics—but it has also provided fuel for a rising tide of anti-Semitism in which assertions of Israel’s illegitimacy are the primary line of attack. </p>
<p>This has proved troublesome for the ADL because of the way Greenblatt has helped to steer it into a position where it is an important ally for a party whose left-wing—including its young rock stars of the congressional “Squad”—are not only anti-Israel but in the case of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), are open supporters of the anti-Semitic BDS movement, which seeks Israel’s elimination. The group’s defense of Omar and Tlaib against criticisms from Trump about their anti-Semitism undermined their credibility in speaking up against the BDS movement while simultaneously earning them brickbats from the left.</p>
<p>Just as important, when the Black Lives Matter movement rose to prominence in the summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd, the ADL was swept along with the rest of the country’s leftists into supporting its demands. The anti-Semitic connections of the radicals behind BLM and the vicious attacks on Israel in its platform should have placed the ADL first among the movement’s critics. But in the moral panic about race that has infected America’s leftist elites, the ADL felt compelled to endorse the movement, defend it against its critics, and, crucially, take a supportive position about the critical race theory indoctrination that was linked to the protests. </p>
<p>In the past year, Greenblatt has felt compelled to note that anti-Semitism is a problem on the left as well as the far right, especially once incitement against Israel during the conflict with Hamas terrorists in May 2021 led to an outbreak of violent attacks against Jews in the United States. This incitement was led by left-wing Democrats like Omar, Tlaib, and their popular colleague Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who were appealing to intersectional ideology to justify their stance, libeling Israel and letting Hamas off the hook for firing thousands of rockets and missiles. The ADL was put in an awkward position, and was forced to push back against the delegitimizing smears heard on the floor of Congress, as well as from far-left and Islamist-friendly groups <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/13/head-of-adl-blasts-muslim-advocacy-org-cair-for-blatant-antisemitism/">like the Council on American-Islamic Relations</a> (CAIR). </p>
<p>Yet that didn’t cause Greenblatt or his group to rethink their endorsements of CRT. To the contrary, as was revealed after Greenblatt intervened to provide cover for “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg after she spouted racialist nonsense about the Holocaust in which she claimed it was merely a case of whites attacking other whites.</p>
<p>A definition of racism had been posted on the ADL website (in which racism was limited to prejudice against persons “of color”) that actually was similar to the gross comments for which Goldberg had to apologize with Greenblatt’s assistance. After the rise of BLM, the group’s definition was altered from one that stated that “the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another,” and that “a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics.” The new definition held that: “The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.”</p>
<p>As soon as the Goldberg controversy occurred, the ADL scrubbed the intersectional definition from its website and restored the old entry, although appending to it a lengthy note reportedly by Greenblatt, claiming that the group’s focus on the racism of whites was “true but not the whole truth.”</p>
<p>This Orwellian turn on the part of the ADL is noteworthy. Yet it’s also an element of another controversy in which it has recently become embroiled when it hired activist Tema Smith as its new director of Jewish outreach and partnerships. Smith has a long history as a bitter critic of Israel and left-wing Twitter troll. In an earlier time, it would have been unimaginable for a group that was as solidly pro-Israel and reflexively centrist as ADL to hire such a person, but she was the perfect job candidate for the Greenblatt era. </p>
<p>The most serious problem with the hire is not what she might have posted on Twitter in the past but her current assignment. While outreach is important for the entire Jewish world in a time of rising assimilation and a Jewish population that is largely disconnected from the community and a sense of Jewish peoplehood, Smith’s brief is focused on “Jews of color.” That Jews who are not white sometimes face discrimination within the community is deplorable and should be condemned. Jews come in all different colors and from many places of origin (something that the non-Jewish Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t seem to understand). The idea of dividing Jews by skin color can never be accepted any more than bias against converts should be tolerated.</p>
<p>In its eagerness to get in on the fashion of racialist rhetoric on the left and in the Democratic Party, the ADL is embracing the cause of “Jews of color.” Yet in doing so, it and others on the left have lumped in a variety of communities including those Jews from Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and North African countries, most of whom do not identify with the term. As such, the ADL is not only undermining a basic concept of Jewish unity, it is also utilizing the same intersectional playbook used by Israel-haters to brand the Jewish state and its supporters as possessing “white privilege.”</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><strong>In</strong> its eagerness to get in on the fashion of racialist rhetoric on the left and in the Democratic Party, the ADL is embracing the cause of “Jews of color.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Jews should not be defined by skin color; no one should. The point of the civil rights movement was to discard the obsession with race that fueled segregation. America should aspire to a colorblind society, and yet CRT and intersectionality demand that it be treated as the most important element in defining any person. Joining with its left-wing allies to apply this idea to Jews across the board, the ADL is again undermining the cause for which it was founded and providing useful cover to those who are seeking to harm the Jewish people, here and in Israel.</p>
<p>At a time when both the statistics that the ADL compiles about hate and the tenor of the national conversation confirm that anti-Semitism is on the rise, the need for an effective Jewish defense agency focused on anti-Semitism is real.</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><strong>Jews</strong> should not be defined by skin color; no one should.</p></blockquote>
<p>The ADL now finds itself a rare Jewish organization with a mission that is at least as relevant to Jewish life today as when it was founded 109 years ago. That should make it a group whose continued efforts are not only necessary but deserving of support from the broadest cross-section of Jewish life. </p>
<p>Far more important is the way the ADL’s embrace of BLM extremists and CRT gives a boost to the very forces on the left, who, because of their influence in Washington and among a younger generation of Democrats, now pose the most important threat to Jewish life in America. That is not merely a setback for ADL. It is an abandonment of the very purpose of its existence.</p>
<p>It is ironic that this is happening at a time when ADL’s influence and financial clout are greater than ever. But it is also a paradigm of how Jewish leadership is failing American Jewry’s best interests all the while claiming to be defending them.</p><br><br>
<h3>The ADL Has Corrupted Its Mission and Betrayed the Jewish Community By Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser</h3>
Source: <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/adl-has-corrupted-its-mission-betrayed-jewish-community-opinion-1728500" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/adl-has-corrupted-its-mission-betrayed-jewish-community-opinion-1728500</a><br><br>
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<p>The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, founded in 1913, originally <a href="https://www.adl.org/excerpt-anti-defamation-league-founding-charter" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">declared</a>, "The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience, and if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike, and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens."</p><p>It was established, that is, to combat Jew-hatred. If and only if the Jewish community is secure, it would then be appropriate to extend organizational resources to helping others in need. Put another way, a Jewish rights organization, founded by Jews, should rightfully focus on the plight of...Jews.</p><p>But for several decades at least, what is now called the ADL does not prioritize Jews. Its new <a href="https://www.adl.org/about/mission-and-history" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">mission</a> is "To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all." The ADL has elevated efforts to serve what it perceives as marginalized communities to equal or higher priority than the Jewish community, as though it has already eradicated antisemitism.</p><p>It has not. Recent <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/fbi" data-sys="1" class="multivariate">FBI</a> statistics <a href="https://honestreporting.com/honestreporting-research-study-comparing-us-media-coverage-of-hate-crimes-against-minorities-including-jews-1/" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">show</a> Jews are subject to more hate crimes per capita than any other group of Americans; twice as likely to be targeted as Black Americans, more than twice as likely as Muslims, and 50% more likely than those who are targeted for their sexual orientation or gender identity.</p><p>There are many organizations devoted to supporting marginalized communities; there is only one, in theory, dedicated to protecting Jews. By expanding its efforts beyond the Jewish community, the ADL dilutes its impact at a time of surging antisemitism.</p><p>Even more egregious, some of the groups supported by the ADL are hostile to the Jewish community. In 2020, the ADL signed on to a statement, <a href="https://medium.com/@jewishorgssayblacklivesmatter/majority-of-american-jews-in-full-page-new-york-times-ad-unequivocally-black-lives-matter-60ae44e7c305" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">published</a> in a full-page ad in <em>The New York Times</em>, endorsing the <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/black-lives-matter" data-sys="1" class="multivariate">Black Lives Matter</a> (BLM) movement. Of course, Black lives <em>do</em> matter. But leaders of BLM and affiliated groups, under the umbrella of the Movement for Black Lives, have wholeheartedly <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/the-blm-movement-and-antisemitism/" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">embraced</a> the antisemitic "Boycott, Divest, and Sanction" movement, slandering Israel as "an apartheid state" that commits "genocide." Even in defending the ADL's support for this organization, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt <a href="https://j0nathan-g.medium.com/pursuing-racial-justice-fighting-antisemitism-fd592d3e939e" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">admitted</a> that "some involved in the cause hold hateful ideas" and have "engaged in antisemitic rhetoric." Somehow, that wasn't a deal-breaker.</p><p>Later that year, a BLM rally turned into a <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/california/316733/synagogue-reopenings-now-on-hold-after-protests/" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">riot</a> in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Los Angeles, where many synagogues were graffitied with obscenities, Jewish businesses were looted and vandalized, and anti-Jewish epithets, including "F* the Jews," were shouted. Yet the ADL <a href="https://www.adl.org/disinformation-exaggerated-claims-targeted-antisemitic-violence-los-angeles" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">downplayed</a> the antisemitic nature of these events, laughably contending, "There is no indication that Jewish businesses or institutions were broadly targeted for vandalism."</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzuUhj4upqgfHr8DS4S5Po1YbyPMErnsXrKv-3JfjZvM0u-MLzD3IPU-6T0mzfwv6Yc3XSk3Ez3AKjO5VTU3F1y1yul17YfHiLP46iI8nZt_lI27Ypu-ubVWQJ0JhvqM0kt-Jr2hRl4OJ8RcviBwH7t3F9GZFTv_Gzm8xcZAUe2OM6Q8ggzsYFfw/s790/ADL%20CEO%20Jonathan%20Greenblatt%202014.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="790" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzuUhj4upqgfHr8DS4S5Po1YbyPMErnsXrKv-3JfjZvM0u-MLzD3IPU-6T0mzfwv6Yc3XSk3Ez3AKjO5VTU3F1y1yul17YfHiLP46iI8nZt_lI27Ypu-ubVWQJ0JhvqM0kt-Jr2hRl4OJ8RcviBwH7t3F9GZFTv_Gzm8xcZAUe2OM6Q8ggzsYFfw/s320/ADL%20CEO%20Jonathan%20Greenblatt%202014.jpg"/></a></div><center>ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in 2014</center><br><br>
<p>In Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991, Al Sharpton led mobs of Black residents in days of rioting as they looted stores, screeched "death to the Jews!," and attacked their visibly Jewish neighbors—even murdering a yeshiva student, Yankel Rosenbaum, following a car accident where a Hasidic Jew accidentally struck and killed a young Black boy. Sharpton's eulogy at the boy's funeral dripped with antisemitic tropes about Jewish money and power. In the three-plus decades since, Al Sharpton has never apologized for fomenting the infamous Crown Heights pogrom, but that didn't stop Greenblatt from <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/al-sharpton-jonathan-greenblatt-adl" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">mainstreaming</a> him, appearing on his <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/msnbc" data-sys="1" class="multivariate">MSNBC</a> television show <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160984567245231&set=a.210911840230" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">multiple</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/thereval/status/1277358117072908288" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">times</a>.</p><p>The ADL should not be legitimizing Jew-haters, yet under Greenblatt the organization has created a technology initiative funded with $1.75 million from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's charitable foundation. Omidyar has also <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/the-adl-took-1-75-million-from-a-funder-of-alt-left-anti-semitism-now-its-ignoring-alt-left-hate/2019/01/21/" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">financed</a> <em>The Intercept</em>, an Iran-apologist, radical left-wing news outlet that has at times defended Hamas and Hezbollah, antisemites in the British Labour Party, the Jew-hating leaders of the Women's March, and supporters of Louis Farrakhan. The Omidyar Network also <a href="https://unitedwithisrael.org/internet-mogul-funds-anti-semitic-professor-israel-boycotters/" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">funds</a> anti-Israel professors like Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University, who has called American Jews "diehard Fifth Column Zionists working against the best interests of Americans," and has tweeted that Israel is responsible for "every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world."</p><p>Extremist imams in some mosques across the country can be found <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/antisemitism-sermons-us-mosques" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">cursing</a> Jews as "the most devilish ones on the Earth," who "specialize in the shedding of blood, in crime, and in killing." The ADL ignores this and actively works to increase immigration from Muslim-majority countries, which their very own <a href="https://global100.adl.org/map/meast" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">studies</a> show have the world's highest rates of Jew-hatred.</p><p>Islamist extremists, Black supremacists, anarchists, and left-wing groups where Jew-hatred is on the rise get <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/new-adl-guide-blasts-right-wing-anti-semites-gives-left-leaning-bigots-a-pass" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">scant</a> attention from the ADL, which <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/report/audit-antisemitic-incidents-2021" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">fixates</a> on traditional right-wing bigots. This isn't surprising, given that Greenblatt is an alumnus of the Clinton and Obama administrations.</p><p>ADL leaders have hijacked the one-time stalwart Jewish defense organization to serve a progressive ideological agenda. This is a scandal that cannot be ignored—nor should it be tolerated. The ADL must return to its one-time "immediate object," which is to end Jew-hatred.</p><p>Sadly, other legacy Jewish organizations such the JCPA, as well as many Federations and Jewish Community Relations Councils, and even many of our synagogues, have also been commandeered to benefit the pet political causes of their leaders, rather than the people the institutions were formed to serve. Jewish donors, who anoint our American Jewish leaders, have permitted this "long <a href="https://benjaminkerstein.com/portfolio/antisemitisms-long-march-through-the-institutions/" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">march</a> through Jewish institutions."</p><p>American Jewish elites are betraying the American Jewish community, and must be held accountable for their failures. The rest of us need to insist that the leaders fulfill their responsibility to the Jewish community, and to demand they do their jobs—or find new ones.</p><p><em>Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser are the founders of <a href="https://jewishleadershipproject.org/" rel="nofollow" class="multivariate">The Jewish Leadership Project</a>.</em></p><p><em>The views expressed in this article are the writers' own.</em></p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-20815160615910474702023-10-03T17:20:00.007-04:002023-10-25T12:07:30.965-04:00Obituary - Fishman<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHVaOca8xS92wgrtJ0Nvse-l14lfZuTbWeXtmOkMVfbhr7P92_ouvJBBVHz5sDMmYRFz2KpNGA2-4IaWnCuvuellyt2CXuD-Zczi_WZy6-mLfqF8feDg9yNz50WNnGlFsXNpn1x4jU5dnARZGWfEoUjEPTuhDR0fqN0bfmw84Z01iYgX28Izi_5A/s270/Shelley%20Fishman%202019%20Closeup.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHVaOca8xS92wgrtJ0Nvse-l14lfZuTbWeXtmOkMVfbhr7P92_ouvJBBVHz5sDMmYRFz2KpNGA2-4IaWnCuvuellyt2CXuD-Zczi_WZy6-mLfqF8feDg9yNz50WNnGlFsXNpn1x4jU5dnARZGWfEoUjEPTuhDR0fqN0bfmw84Z01iYgX28Izi_5A/s320/Shelley%20Fishman%202019%20Closeup.jpg"/></a></div><br>
<h3>Shelley Benita Fishman</h3>
<h3>December 15, 1948 — May 13, 2023</h3>
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<p>Shelley Fishman, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend passed unexpectedly yet peacefully on May 13. Born and raised in Philadelphia and a graduate of Temple University, she was a life long educator and community advocate, particularly advancing women in leadership roles in professional organizations and politics. She loved her Tampa sports teams, her treasured pets, and most of all, her family and friends. Diagnosed with ALS 6 months ago, in lieu of flowers, you can honor her legacy by making a donation to further research on this devastating disease. [Survived by husband Benjamin. Mother to Seth (Lexie) Fishman in Pennsylvania and Ross (Gina) Fishman in Florida. Grandmother to Ethan and Zoey Fishman. Sister to Mark (Charlotte) Glass in Maryland.]</p>
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<h3>Benjamin David Fishman</h3>
<h3>March 4, 1949 — August 28, 2023</h3>
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<p>[Former <a href="https://npiprofile.com/npi/1558478404" target="_blank">pharmacist</a> and husband of the late Shelley (nee Glass). Survived by sons Seth (Lexie) Fishman and Ross (Gina) Fishman and two grandchildren.]</p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-2228254253206386562023-10-03T16:24:00.001-04:002023-10-03T16:38:18.136-04:00Obituary - Zeft<h3>Jerome Louis Zeft</h3>
<h3>July 29, 1943 — January 19, 2023</h3>
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<p>Jerome L. Zeft, of Philadelphia, age 79, passed away January 19, 2023. Loving son of the late Esther and Morris Zeft. Dear brother of the late Sheldon Zeft. He was loved dearly by his relatives and friends. A Graveside Service will be held Tuesday, January 24, 11AM precisely at King David Memorial Park, Bensalem PA 19020 (Section H) Contributions in his memory may be made to the Kimmel Center www.kimmelculturalcenter.org Shiva will be observed privately.</p>
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<p>ZEFT JEROME L. Of Philadelphia, age 79, passed away January 19, 2023. Loving son of the late Esther and Morris Zeft. Dear brother of the late Sheldon Zeft. He was loved dearly by his relatives and friends. A Graveside Service will be held Tuesday, January 24, 11 A M. precisely at King David Memorial Park, Bensalem PA 19020 (Section H) Contributions in his memory may be made to the Kimmel Center <a href="http://www.kimmelculturalcenter.org/" target="_blank">www.kimmelculturalcenter.org</a> Shiva will be observed privately. <a href="https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/jerome-zeft" target="_blank">www.goldsteinsfuneral.com</a></p>
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<b>Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer on Jan. 23, 2023.</b>
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Source: <a href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/inquirer/name/jerome-zeft-obituary?id=38722642" target="_blank">https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/inquirer/name/jerome-zeft-obituary?id=38722642</a>
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<h3>SHELDON SAUL ZEFT</h3>
<h3>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</h3>
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<p>Sheldon Saul Zeft, on July 21, 2018. Brother of Jerome Zeft. Relatives and friends are invited to Graveside Services Wednesday 11 AM precisely at King David Memorial Park (sec. H), Bensalem, PA. A Memorial Service will also be held at a later date. Contributions in his memory may be made to KenCCID, 9350 Ashton Road, Suite 202, Phila., PA 19114. <a href="https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/sheldon-zeft" target="_blank">www.goldsteinsfuneral.com</a> GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS</p>
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<h3>Affordable housing for gay seniors opens in Pa. By Kathy Matheson</h3>
Source: <a href="https://apnews.com/7f83d0af8a0f4135891c78d9ecc22c82" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/7f83d0af8a0f4135891c78d9ecc22c82</a><br><br>
January 14, 2014<br><br>
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<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jerry Zeft was so excited to move into his new apartment that he slept on an air mattress for nearly a week while he waited for his bed and other belongings to catch up with him. No matter that he’s 70 years old.</p><p>Zeft had landed a coveted spot in a new affordable housing complex for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. Only two other U.S. cities have similar developments.</p><p>“I wanted to get into a community that I’m more comfortable in,” Zeft said shortly after picking up the keys to his unit.</p>
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<p>This month’s opening of the John C. Anderson Apartments vindicates years of work by supporters who felt gay elders have been marginalized by youth culture, even within LGBT circles.</p>
<p>Experts say gay seniors are less likely than their straight peers to have the financial and family resources to age in homes of their own. Many fear discrimination at traditional elder housing facilities, leading them back into the closet after years of being open.</p>
<p>Philadelphia now joins Los Angeles and Minneapolis as locations with designated gay-friendly, affordable senior housing, collectively offering about 200 units.</p><p>Yet advocates say that’s nowhere near enough. Research indicates the number of gay seniors in the U.S. is expected to double to 3 million by 2030.</p><p>“It’s quite amazing that we have done so little for seniors to have a place that they can afford and that offers them respect and safety,” said Barbara Satin, an LGBT activist who worked on the 46-unit Minneapolis project.</p>
<p>Although anti-discrimination laws prohibit gay-only housing, buildings can be made LGBT-friendly through marketing and location. The $19.5 million Anderson project, named for a city councilman who fought for gay rights, sits in the affectionately nicknamed Gayborhood. When the leasing office opened last fall, hopeful tenants sat in a block-long line to drop off applications.</p><p>Those seniors belong to the generation that blazed a trail for gay rights, said Mark Segal, chairman of the Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Fund, which spearheaded the development. Yet their activism and openness often cost them both family ties and the opportunity for traditional jobs with retirement benefits, he said.</p><p>“Why should people, who were the pioneers of the community, not live with dignity? It’s outrageous,” Segal said. “We have to take care of our own — nobody else is.”</p><p>At the 56-unit Philadelphia building, monthly rents range from $192 to $786 based on income, which can’t exceed $33,000 per year. There is a waiting list for lower-tier units, though about a dozen remain at the upper end. Nearly all the residents identify as LGBT.</p><p>Two more complexes are under construction in Chicago and San Francisco. The Hirschfeld fund is interested in building units in New York, Segal said.</p>
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<p>The housing problem may ease for future generations as legalized gay marriage allows same-sex spouses to inherit a partner’s property and benefits, said Catherine Thurston, senior program director at New York-based Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders. However, she said many current seniors aren’t married and don’t own their homes.</p><p>Thurston also noted that it’s important to offer seniors more than just a place to live — they need activities and social services “to connect them to their community.”</p><p>The Anderson apartments has partnered with the nearby William Way LGBT Community Center to provide residents with counseling, programs and events. That’s another reason Jerry Zeft decided to sell his house in the city’s Oxford Circle section and move downtown.</p><p>“I don’t like staying home. I enjoy getting out,” Zeft said. “And this is the perfect place to get out in this area.”</p><h2>___</h2><p>Follow Kathy Matheson at www.twitter.com/kmatheson</p>
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<h3>FBI warned Twitter during ‘weekly’ meetings of Hunter Biden ‘hack-and-leak operation’ before censoring The Post By Miranda Devine</h3>
Source: <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/04/fbi-warned-twitter-of-hunter-biden-hack-before-censoring-the-post/" target="_blank">https://nypost.com/2022/12/04/fbi-warned-twitter-of-hunter-biden-hack-before-censoring-the-post/</a><br><br>
December 4, 2022<br><br>
<p>The <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/whats-missing-from-the-twitter-files-the-truth-about-the-fbi/">FBI warned Twitter during “weekly” meetings before the 2020 election</a> to expect “hack-and-leak operations’’ by “state actors” involving Hunter Biden, and “likely” in October, according to a sworn declaration by Twitter’s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth. </p>
<p>The warnings were so specific that Twitter immediately censored <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/">The Post’s scoop about Hunter Biden’s laptop on Oct. 14, 2020</a>, citing its “hacked materials” policy, a move described on Saturday as “election interference” <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/02/elon-musk-releases-twitters-files-on-censorship-of-post/">by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk</a>. </p>
<p>The extraordinary revelation for the first time lays bare how the FBI was involved in pre-bunking the story of the laptop, which had been in the bureau’s possession for almost a year. </p>
<p>“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” said Roth in a Dec. 21, 2020, declaration to the Federal Election Commission. </p>
<p>“I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.” </p>
<p>Roth’s signed declaration formed part of Twitter’s defense against a complaint by the Tea Party Patriots Foundation that its censorship of The Post was an “in kind” campaign contribution to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign. </p>
<h2>Feds’ social gatherings </h2>
<p>The <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/28/fbi-put-the-hunter-biden-story-right-in-facebooks-lap/">FBI also warned Facebook to be on “high alert”</a> for a “dump” of “Russian propaganda” before the 2020 election, in terms specific enough that it “fit the pattern” of The Post’s story, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan in August. </p>
<p>Facebook also censored The Post ahead of Twitter’s throttling of the story in October, pending “fact checks” that never appear to have been done. </p>
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<p>The FBI agent who organized those weekly meetings with Big Tech was <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/fbi-official-media-needs-to-be-held-accountable/">Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan</a>, whose postgraduate thesis claimed that Russia interfered with the 2016 election to help former President Donald Trump. </p>
<p>Chan testified by Zoom Tuesday in a lawsuit against the Biden administration that he organized the meetings in San Francisco for as many as seven DC-based FBI agents in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. Chan also organized weekly meetings with Facebook. </p>
<p>The lawsuit brought by the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana alleges that White House officials and federal agencies acted with Big Tech to censor “disfavored speakers, viewpoints and content on social-media platforms.” </p>
<p>Under questioning by Missouri Solicitor General John Sauer on Tuesday, Chan said the FBI warned Twitter to be on guard for a “hack and leak” operation but could not recall whether Hunter Biden was mentioned. </p>
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<p>This is a crucial inconsistency with Roth’s sworn declaration saying the FBI specifically mentioned Hunter. </p>
<p>The FBI used the meetings to lobby the social media platforms to change their terms of service in order to be able to quickly take down “hacked material,” says a source with access to a transcript of Chan’s testimony. </p>
<p>It looks very much as if the FBI pre-bunked a story it knew was coming about Hunter Biden. But how would it know The Post was going to publish the story in October 2020? </p>
<p>Well, the FBI was spying on Trump’s then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s online cloud, under the pretext of an investigation into alleged foreign agent registration violations, a probe which conveniently was dropped this year. </p>
<p>The covert surveillance warrant on Giuliani gave the FBI access to emails in August 2020 from <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/hunter-biden-laptop-repairman-says-fbi-threatened-him-to-stay-silent/">Delaware computer repair store owner John Paul Mac Isaac</a> disclosing information damaging to Joe Biden from the laptop Hunter Biden had abandoned at his store in April 2019. </p>
<p>The FBI also had access to my messages with Giuliani in October discussing when The Post would publish the story. </p>
<p>The FBI knew that Mac Isaac was a legitimate whistleblower because he had come to the bureau in the fall of 2019 to express national security concerns about evidence on the laptop of payments to the Biden family from Ukraine and China. On Dec. 9, 2019, two agents arrived at his store with a subpoena and took the laptop and a hard-drive copy. </p>
<p>We know from FBI whistleblowers who have come forward to Republican members of Congress that <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/fbi-warned-agents-off-hunter-biden-laptop-due-to-election-whistleblowers/">rogue FBI employees within the Washington Field Office buried the laptop </a>and other information detrimental to Joe Biden before the 2020 election. </p>
<p>Now, thanks to Elon Musk, we know more about Twitter’s role in this apparent interference. </p>
<p>During a live Q&A session on Twitter Saturday afternoon, Musk said: “If Twitter is doing one team’s bidding before an election, shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, that is the very definition of election interference. … Frankly Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee. It was absurd.” </p>
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<p>But, despite promises to reveal all about the censorship of The Post, Musk’s Friday night dump of what he calls the “Twitter Files” left out one crucial element: the FBI. </p>
<p>Journalist Matt Taibbi, deputized by Musk to release the information, tweeted that “there’s no evidence — that I’ve seen — of any government involvement in the laptop story.” </p>
<p>This contradicts Roth’s sworn declaration that the FBI warned of a “hack and leak” operation involving Hunter Biden, as well as Twitter’s lawyers’ response to the FEC in December 2020. </p>
<p>Law firm Covington & Burling told the FEC that Twitter “had been warned throughout 2020 by federal law enforcement agencies to be on the alert for expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ undertaken by malign state actors, in which those state actors might hack electronic communications of individuals associated with political campaigns and seek to disseminate the leaked materials. … Reports from the law enforcement agencies even suggested there were rumors that such a hack-and-leak operation would be related to Hunter Biden.” </p>
<p>Then there is the curious role of <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/twitter-files-reveal-james-baker-in-hunter-biden-laptop-scandal/">Twitter deputy general counsel James Baker, </a>who is former general counsel at the FBI, where he was involved in Russia-collusion plots against Trump. </p>
<p>According to Taibbi, Baker advised that The Post’s story should be censored because “the materials may have been hacked [and] caution is warranted. “ </p>
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<p>Before he was parachuted into Twitter, in June 2020, conveniently just five months before the election, Baker was a personal acquaintance of FBI agent Chan. </p>
<h2>Rooting for Biden </h2>
<p>Chan testified Tuesday that he knew Baker from when they worked together in 2016 with FBI “lovebirds” agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page on an investigation of a hack on Yahoo. </p>
<p>He said he remains in touch with Page, who, with Strzok, was forced out of the bureau after their virulently anti-Trump text messages were revealed. </p>
<p>Baker also is connected to some of the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/its-been-two-years-since-51-intelligence-agents-interfered-with-an-election-they-still-wont-apologize/">51 intelligence officials who signed the Oct. 19, 2020, letter</a>, published five days after The Post’s laptop bombshell, falsely alleging that Hunter’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” </p>
<p>Three days after the letter, candidate Biden used the letter to get off the hook in his final debate against Trump: “There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what [Trump is] accusing me of is a Russian plant … what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.” </p>
<p>Between leaving the FBI in 2018 and joining Twitter, Baker worked for the Brookings Institution, writing for the Lawfare Blog, which is published by David Priess, an ex-CIA agent who signed the “Dirty 51” letter and is the chief operating officer of the Lawfare Institute and publisher of the blog. Six more signatories of the letter are linked to the Lawfare Blog. </p>
<p>It’s a cozy network where everyone was rooting for Biden to beat Trump in 2020 — and Twitter was a useful fellow traveler.</p>
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<h3>House Republicans prepared to issue ‘criminal referrals’ in Hunter Biden probe By Jon Levine</h3>
Source: <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/10/house-republicans-ready-to-issue-criminal-referrals-in-hunter-biden-probe/" target="_blank">https://nypost.com/2022/12/10/house-republicans-ready-to-issue-criminal-referrals-in-hunter-biden-probe/</a><br><br>
December 10, 2022<br><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjfMrt_zUNwnR7ZbA7N556RctDkrTQ-X2lCMkegsNuDP97XrSuq8htDSLKm0yT-WU1X9cXEluU7lVFnegi6pBWjOkOvyDPKRxwnmxDyzIvd6oP1WCsk-Lc3yRwqLwwZjQS1XckGtYjQbU6GvReMlVtTZ8J9y7c327GOeFFRnQ-IuFFKYiMwv9R5w/s744/Joe%20Hunter%20Biden.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjfMrt_zUNwnR7ZbA7N556RctDkrTQ-X2lCMkegsNuDP97XrSuq8htDSLKm0yT-WU1X9cXEluU7lVFnegi6pBWjOkOvyDPKRxwnmxDyzIvd6oP1WCsk-Lc3yRwqLwwZjQS1XckGtYjQbU6GvReMlVtTZ8J9y7c327GOeFFRnQ-IuFFKYiMwv9R5w/s320/Joe%20Hunter%20Biden.jpg"/></a></div>House Republicans are preparing to launch a sprawling probe into the president's involvement in his son Hunter's business dealings.
<br>AP<br><br>
<p>House Republicans preparing to launch a sprawling probe into the president’s involvement in his son Hunter’s business dealings say they are ready to throw the book at the Bidens — and are zeroing in on a shady China energy deal. </p>
<p>“If evidence justifies it, then we will have criminal referrals,” Rep. James Comer told The Post during an exclusive interview at his Capitol Hill office this week.</p>
<p>Comer, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, said the panel is particularly focused on a “potentially criminal” 2017 deal between Hudson West III — an LLC <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm/">Hunter Biden managed and invested in</a> — and CEFC, a Chinese energy behemoth looking to sell American liquified natural gas to China.</p>
<p>“What we have learned from interviews is it was more than that. It was also an effort to try to help China get their foot in the door to try to purchase drillers so they could start buying ownership into the infrastructure of our American energy industry,” Comer told the Post. </p>
<p>President Biden, who had just finished his tenure as vice president under President Obama at the time, was involved in the deal, Comer said.</p>
<p>Millions of dollars changed hands between the Biden family and the Chinese before Hudson West III was dissolved in 2018.</p>
<p>“This is China trying to buy ownership into our American industry, which is a national security threat — and oh by the way it was being conducted by Joe Biden. That’s a problem and that’s why we’re concerned that this White House is compromised,” Comer said.</p>
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<br>Rod Lamkey – CNP<br><br>
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<br>AFP via Getty Images<br><br>
<p>President Biden has taken significant heat from Republicans and activists <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/blind-chinese-dissident-chen-guangcheng-says-biden-must-help-protesters/">over a muted response to human rights protests</a> now breaking out across China. </p>
<p>Comer, a Kentucky Republican, said his investigation into the Bidens will be “full steam ahead” despite his party’s disappointing performance in the 2022 midterm elections. </p>
<p>“We have been working on this for over a year,” said Comer. “We will be ready with subpoenas out the door.” </p>
<p>While Comer’s House investigation has long been billed as a Hunter Biden probe, he and other Republicans say the real focus is President Biden. Hunter Biden’s alleged criminalities are currently being investigated in a separate probe by US Attorney David Weiss of Delaware — whose inquiry is said <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/06/federal-agents-have-evidence-to-charge-hunter-biden-report/">to be in its final stages</a>. </p>
<p>“This is an investigation of Joe Biden,” Comer declared.</p>
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<br>Rod Lamkey – CNP<br><br>
<p>The core issue is the extent and timing of President Biden’s involvement in his son’s business dealings. While the elder Biden has long insisted no such ties exist, an overwhelming body of evidence found on Hunter’s infamous hard drive and elsewhere indicates otherwise.</p>
<p>Since any criminal referrals would have to be made to Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Democrat and Biden appointee who likely would not prosecute the Bidens, Comer and the GOP are also focused on passing a law that would outlaw future Biden-like behavior. </p>
<p>“My goal is at the end of the investigation there will be a legislative fix,” Comer said. “It is so murky, what Joe Biden, his son, and his brother [James Biden] were doing. You ask if it’s illegal. I don’t know. But I know it should be.” </p>
<p>Comer is the first to acknowledge that House probes have little credibility with the American public. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calf.) spent years hounding former President Trump over alleged ties to Russia based on the now-discredited Steele Dossier. Before that, Republicans harangued Hillary Clinton in their Benghazi investigation. GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy boasted <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-benghazi-kevin-mccarthy-214325" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">it hurt her poll numbers</a> — though it otherwise went nowhere. </p>
<p>Comer hopes to break that pattern — citing the array and seeming impropriety of the foreign business ties of the former administration.</p>
<p>“If you’re someone like Donald Trump who runs for president who has a huge family business that has a footprint all over the United States — he has golf courses in Europe, his son-in-law has business dealings in the Middle East, the daughter deals with China on manufacturing things,” Comer said. “We need to have stronger disclosure laws as to what they do, what their contracts are, and things like that.”</p>
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<br>Rod Lamkey – CNP<br><br>
<p>House Republicans are hoping sweeteners like that will help win over Democrats to the reforms. </p>
<p>Comer is said he’s gathering at least 150 Suspicious Activity Reports generated by Hunter Biden. The files are automatically created by banks to record unusual behavior which is designed to thwart money laundering and other illicit financial activity. While accessing them was once a routine request to the US Treasury, Comer has accused the Biden administration of blocking their release.</p>
<p>Comer says he will get them from at least a dozen banks directly, such as JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo, and Citibank. One SAR, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/10/amid-hunters-ongoing-scandals-biden-is-going-soft-on-china/">which has already been released</a>, refers to “human trafficking” suspicions and described the president’s son as a “Politically Exposed Person.”</p>
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<br>https://www.pwmggroup.com/edward-prewitt.htm<br><br>
<p>From there Comer will begin the work of calling witnesses — the first of which won’t be Hunter Biden. Comer’s top initial targets will include Hunter’s financial adviser Edward Prewitt; James Gilliar, a Hunter business partner who <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm/">wrote the infamous</a> “10 held by H for the big guy” email; and Eric Schwerin, the president of Hunter’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners </p>
<p>Comer himself has never seen the actual hard drive and relies on reports from researchers on his staff to keep him abreast of the key details.</p>
<p>“There are some things I don’t want my eyes to see,” he said laughing. </p>
<p>Comer’s probe is only one of several high-profile investigations House GOP leaders have promised. The House Judiciary Committee, under its incoming chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), is planning an equal marquee look at the politicization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice and their interference in the 2020 elections, including Twitter and Facebook censorship of The Post’s exclusive pre-election reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop.</p>
<p>Comer says he and Jordan are working closely and speak “several times a day.” The combative and camera-loving Jordan has boasted of no fewer than 14 whistleblowers who have come forward to offer insider information. </p>
<p>Comer too said he had some aces up his sleeve — including two of his own whistleblowers. </p>
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<br>REUTERS<br><br>
<p>“They’re people that were involved in the Hunter Biden orbit,” he said. “They’re providing valuable information.”</p>
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<center><h3>Tim's Record</h3></center>
Source: <a href="https://votetimscott.com/record/" target="_blank">https://votetimscott.com/record/</a><br>
<center><h2>Border Security</h2></center>
<p>“On my first day as Commander-in-Chief, the strongest nation on Earth will stop retreating from our own southern border. If you don’t control your back door, it’s not your house. And if our southern border is unsafe and insecure, it’s not our country.” </p>
<p>Border security is national security. If we want to prevent deadly drugs like fentanyl from infiltrating our communities, we need to stop the illegal immigrants who bring them across our borders. The cartels won’t stop pumping drugs and violence into American communities until we stop them, either with a strong border wall or by military force. Biden’s failure to address the crisis at our southern border has turned every county in America into a border county.</p><ul><li><strong>Expel illegal immigrants</strong> trying to enter the country by reinstating Title 42 to combat the fentanyl crisis.</li><li><strong>Fully fund the construction of the wall</strong> at the southern border, while strengthening law enforcement’s capabilities to detect drug smugglers and human traffickers before they enter our country.</li><li><strong>End Biden’s “Catch and release”</strong> policies which weaken our nation’s security, and undermine our nation’s sovereignty.</li><li><strong>Recognize drug cartels as terrorists</strong> and let the world’s greatest military power defend our borders and our lives. </li></ul>
<h3>A Proven Record: </h3><ul><li><strong>Combatting The Fentanyl Crisis:</strong> Leading with legislation – the FEND Off Fentanyl Act – to sanction those supplying the deadly drugs, whether it is the suppliers in Chinese labs or the traffickers in Mexico.</li><li><strong>Securing Our Border Act:</strong> While Biden and congressional Democrats chose to spend $45 billion of taxpayer money to hire an army of IRS agents to target the middle class, we must redirect those resources into border security and give Border Patrol the support they need to keep our nation secure. To do so also means ending Biden’s catch-and-release agenda.</li><li><strong>Alan T. Shao II Fentanyl Public Health Emergency and Overdose Prevention Act:</strong> Utilize the powers outlined in Title 42 to address the true national public health emergency that is the raging fentanyl epidemic Biden has allowed to go unchecked. My good friend Alan Shao lost his 27-year-old son due to a fentanyl overdose, fentanyl that is being trafficked across the southern border.</li></ul> <br>
<center><h2>Education, Not Indoctrination</h2></center>
<p class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">“I have lived the truth that education is the closest thing to magic in America. But today, the far left has us retreating away from excellence in our schools. Extreme liberals are letting Big Labor bosses trap millions of kids in failing systems. They’re replacing education with indoctrination.”</p>
<p>America’s children should be learning ABCs, not CRT. The radical Left wants to indoctrinate our children, not educate them. We will fight to ensure that America’s kids are learning how to read and write, not about gender transition and sexual identity. We must demand excellence in our schools, which means giving every family a choice, every parent a voice, and every child a chance.</p><ul><li><strong>Defend parental rights</strong> by giving every family the power and resources they need to decide their child’s education and future.</li><li><strong>Demand transparency in the classroom</strong> so parents are informed as to what their children learn in school.</li><li><strong>Expand opportunities for all children</strong> by embracing education freedom and empowering parents, which will allow millions of children to unlock their God-given potential.</li></ul>
<h3>A Proven Record: </h3><ul><li><strong>The CHOICE Act:</strong> Ensures parents have the tools to find a school that can effectively serve their child’s needs and grants flexibility and support to parents with disabled children.</li><li><strong>Training America’s Workforce Act:</strong> Empower apprenticeship programs because every child deserves the opportunity to achieve their version of the American Dream.</li><li><strong>Kids in Classes Act:</strong> Big Labor Bosses have kept children out of classrooms, so this legislation would allow families to put unused Title I funds toward further choices for in-person education.</li><li><strong>Educational Choice for Children Act:</strong> Provides $10 billion in annual tax credits for Scholarship Grant Organizations.</li><li><strong>PROTECT Kids Act:</strong> Cut off federal funding from any school that allows students to change their pronouns, gender markers, or sex-based accommodations including locker rooms and bathrooms, without their parents’ consent.</li></ul> <br>
<center><h2>Conservative Values and God-given Rights</h2></center>
<p class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">“Under Joe Biden, we have become a nation in retreat. Retreating from religious liberty and the worship of God himself. I will preserve one nation, Under God, indivisible — where we honor our Creator and respect every innocent life.”</p>
<p>Conservatism is the home of common sense. The radical Left has tried its best to remove faith, patriotism, and religious liberty from our society, but we won’t back down. It’s time for new conservative leadership to bring Americans together with faith: Faith in God, faith in each other, and faith in America.</p><ul><li><strong>Life has intrinsic value because it comes from God.</strong> With a 100% pro-life voting record, we must stand up against the radical left pushing taxpayer-funded abortion up until the moment of birth. This starts by fostering a culture of life, and winning the hearts and minds of Americans.</li><li><strong>Celebrate our Founding Fathers, not cancel them.</strong> Americans have won the lottery of citizenship. Each generation must pass on the appreciation for the magnificence of our U.S. Constitution and the God-given rights it protects while cherishing the power of American exceptionalism.</li><li><strong>Individual Responsibility is an American value.</strong> If you are able-bodied, you work. You don’t spend what you don’t have. If you take out a loan, you pay it back. If you commit a violent crime, you go to jail. It’s common sense.</li></ul>
<h3>A Proven Record: </h3><ul><li><p><strong>100% Pro-Life:</strong> 100% score from National Right to Life and an A-rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.</p></li><li><p><strong>Child Tax Credit for Pregnant Moms Act:</strong> Allowing pregnant moms to claim the Child Tax Credit for their unborn children, to further protect life, support mothers, and reduce the number of kids born into poverty. </p></li><li><p><strong>Defending the Second Amendment:</strong> Holds an A-rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Gun Owners of America.</p></li><li><p><strong>Lifting Local Communities Act:</strong> Leading on a bill to allow faith-based organizations to apply for, and receive government grants without the fear of government overreach. </p></li></ul>
<center><h2>National Security</h2></center>
<p class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">“Security starts on our borders, but it doesn’t end there. The Chinese Communist Party’s goal is not just to surpass us. It is to beat us. As President, I will rebuild a military so lethal and powerful that our adversaries will fear us and our allies will respect us.”</p>
<p>Joe Biden and the radical Left have shown weakness on a global stage, and have made our adversaries bolder. Defeating China starts with reducing our soaring national debt and removing the Chinese Communist Party from our universities, our farmland, our personal data, and our skies.</p><ul><li><strong>Peace through strength</strong> can only be achieved if we have the most capable fighting force on the planet. My father and my brothers have 85 years of combined military service between them. When I am President, our service members will have every tool they need, and our veterans will have every resource they deserve. We must steadfastly support those who risk their lives to protect our freedom and ensure they have the modern capabilities they need to address the threats of tomorrow.</li><li><strong>Economic prosperity promotes stability and security</strong> — here at home and around the world. As Biden sends us deeper and deeper in debt to the Chinese Communist Party, he only further fuels China’s rise. And we will win the next century by the strength of our economy. China started this new economic Cold War, but America will finish it.</li><li><strong>Our military is not a social experiment,</strong> and we must show the world we are prepared and serious about winning the next century.</li></ul>
<h3>A Proven Record:</h3><ul><li><strong>Senate Foreign Relations: </strong>Senator Scott currently serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has jurisdiction over all matters of U.S. foreign policy. Within the committee, he is the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy.</li><li><strong>Senate Banking Committee:</strong> Senator Scott is the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over the national security work of the U.S. Treasury and the Department of Commerce, including economic sanctions and foreign trade.</li><li><strong>U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council:</strong> For several years, Senator Scott has served on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. As a member of the council, he supports the museum’s work to educate the American people about the horrors of the Holocaust and combat anti-semitism.</li><li><strong>Senate Armed Services Committee:</strong> Senator Scott previously served on the Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversees the U.S. Department of Defense and all U.S. military activities—at home and abroad.</li></ul> <br>
<center><h2>Law and Order</h2></center>
<p class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">“In Biden’s America, crime is on the rise and law enforcement is in retreat. The far left is ending cash bail. They’re demonizing, demoralizing, and de-funding the police. I grew up in neighborhoods alongside people who ended up incarcerated or in a cemetery. We needed more public safety, not less!”</p>
<p>Joe Biden and the radical Left’s agenda isn’t about protecting communities, they seek to promote chaos and fear under the guise of “fairness.” We must break the concept in this nation that you have to be for law enforcement or for communities of color. That is a false binary choice. We must re-fund our police and support public safety, because we cannot have innocent people at risk, police officers getting attacked and ambushed, and seniors locked in their homes in fear from sundown until sunup.</p><ul><li><strong>Supporting law enforcement:</strong> One out of every four law enforcement officer positions remains vacant. They can’t get people to do the job. President Biden has blamed the police, allowed for the Democrats to defund the police, and they’ve demonized the actual law enforcement profession.</li><li><strong>End sanctuary cities to stop illegal immigration,</strong> allowing local law enforcement to work with federal immigration authorities.</li><li><strong>Increase the penalties for criminals</strong> who intentionally target law enforcement officers.</li></ul>
<h3>A Proven Record:</h3><ul><li><strong>Recognized by law enforcement:</strong> Awarded the FSA National Legislative Champion Award from the Florida Sheriffs Association and the Major County Sheriffs of America Legislative Champion Award.</li><li><strong>Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act:</strong> Strengthens violent crime laws related to attacks on law enforcement, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, and other offenses.</li><li><strong>Back the Blue Act:</strong> Increase penalties for criminals who intentionally target law enforcement officers and provide new tools for officers to protect themselves.</li><li><strong>Safe Kids, Safe Schools, and Safe Communities Act:</strong> Fund enhanced school security, doubling the number of school resource officers in America’s schools and investing in school mental health professionals.</li></ul> <br>
<center><h2>Create Opportunities and Grow Wages</h2></center>
<p class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">“I am living proof that America is the land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. The circumstances may be different, the details may change, but every one of us is here because of an American journey where there were obstacles that became opportunities.”</p>
<p>Biden and the left have taxed, borrowed, and spent trillions of dollars trying to replace a hand up with handouts. All they bought us was crushing inflation that has devastated families like yours and mine. We must rebuild and restore every rung of the ladder that helped me climb. Because I want my American story to pale in comparison to you.
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<li><strong>Made in America agenda</strong> that ramps up research and development, reclaims supply chains, and re-energizes our manufacturing base with Opportunity Zones 2.0.</li>
<li><strong>Unleash American energy and innovation</strong> by removing burdensome red tape, cutting taxes, and expanding an all-of-the-above energy approach.</li>
<li><strong>Live within our means,</strong> by reining in the left’s out-of-control spending, ending earmarks and political favors, and making tax cuts permanent.</li>
</ul>
<h3>A Proven Record:</h3><ul><li><strong>Lead author of the Republican tax cuts:</strong> Slashed taxes for families, brought jobs and investment back from overseas, and created Opportunity Zones to inject private dollars into communities that have been left behind. We spurred high employment, low inflation, and fast wage growth for the working class.</li><li><strong>Championing Opportunity Zones:</strong> The most impactful anti-poverty program in the past 50 years, by generating private sector investments into nearly 4,000 communities across the country. Households have seen their personal lives, financial security, and standard of living improve as a result of local investments.</li><li><strong>Permanently fund HBCUs:</strong> Provide for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, without putting taxpayers on the hook.</li><li><strong>Expanding Access to Credit for Small Businesses Act:</strong> Opens up access to credit for small businesses, particularly rural and minority-owned businesses owners, who are less likely to have relationships with traditional banking institutions, would have the much needed access to fulfill their American dream.</li></ul> <br>
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<h1>Sen. Tim Scott Delivers Republican Response - Apr 28, 2021</h1>
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<h1 class="main_page_title">REMARKS: SENATOR SCOTT RESPONSE TO THE JOINT ADDRESS</h1>
Source: <a href="https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/remarks-senator-scott-response-to-the-joint-address" target="_blank">https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/remarks-senator-scott-response-to-the-joint-address</a> <br><br>
<p style="text-align: center;">***As Prepared for Delivery***</p>
<p><strong>Common Sense Makes Common Ground</strong></p>
<p>Good evening. I’m Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina.<br /><br />We just heard President Biden’s first address to Congress.<br /><br />Our President seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words.<br /><br />But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership.<br /><br />He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted.<br /><br />That was the pitch. You just heard it again.<br /><br />But our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes.<br /><br />We need policies and progress that bring us closer together.<br /><br />But three months in, the actions of the President and his party are pulling us further apart.<br /><br />I won’t waste your time tonight with finger-pointing or partisan bickering. You can get that on T.V. any time you want.<br /><br />I want to have an honest conversation.<br /><br />About common sense... and common ground.<br /><br />About this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation… and how we move forward together.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>Growing up, I never dreamed I’d be standing here tonight.<br /><br />When I was a kid, my parents divorced. My mother, my brother, and I moved in with my grandparents. Three of us, sharing one bedroom.<br /><br />I was disillusioned and angry, and I nearly failed out of school. But I was blessed.<br /><br />First, with a praying momma…<br /><br />Then with a mentor, a Chick-Fil-A operator named John Moniz… <br /><br />Finally, with a string of opportunities that are only possible here in America.<br /><br />But this past year, I’ve watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me up.<br /><br />So many families have lost parents and grandparents too early.<br /><br />So many small businesses have gone under.<br /><br />Becoming a Christian transformed my life — but for months, too many churches were shut down.<br /><br />Most of all, I am saddened that millions of kids have lost a year of learning when they could not afford to lose a day.<br /><br />Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future.<br /><br />Our public schools should have reopened months ago. Other countries’ did. Private and religious schools did. Science has shown for months that schools are safe.<br /><br />But too often, powerful grown-ups set science aside. And kids like me were left behind.<br /><br />The clearest case for school choice in our lifetimes.</p>
<p>*** </p>
<p>Last year, under Republican leadership, we passed five bipartisan COVID packages.<br /><br />Congress supported our hospitals, saved our economy, and funded Operation Warp Speed, delivering vaccines in record time.<br /><br />All five bills got 90 or more votes in the Senate. Common sense found common ground.<br /><br />In February, Republicans told President Biden we wanted to keep working together to win this fight.<br /><br />But Democrats wanted to go it alone.<br /><br />They spent almost $2 trillion on a partisan bill that the White House bragged was the most liberal bill in American history!<br /><br />Only 1% went to vaccinations. No requirement to re-open schools promptly.<br /><br /><span>COVID brought Congress together five times. This Administration pushed us apart.</p>
<p>*** </p>
<p>Another issue that should unite us is infrastructure.<br /><br />Republicans support everything you think of when you think of “infrastructure.” Roads, bridges, ports, airports, waterways, high-speed broadband — we’re all in!<br /><br />But again, Democrats want a partisan wish list. They won’t even build bridges... to build bridges!<br /><br />Less than 6% of the President’s plan goes to roads and bridges. It’s a liberal wish-list of Big Government waste... plus the biggest job-killing tax hikes in a generation.<br /><br />Experts say, when all is said and done, it would lower Americans’ wages and shrink our economy.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>Tonight we also heard about a so-called “Family Plan.” Even more taxing, even more spending, to put Washington even more in the middle of your life — from the cradle, to college.<br /><br />The beauty of the American Dream is that families get to define it for themselves. <br /><br />We should be expanding options and opportunities for all families — not throwing money at certain issues because Democrats think they know best.</p>
<p>*** </p>
<p>“Infrastructure” spending that shrinks our economy is not common sense.<br /><br />Weakening our southern border and creating a crisis is not compassionate.<br /><br />The President is abandoning principles he held for decades. Now, he says your tax dollars should fund abortions. He’s laying groundwork to pack the Supreme Court!<br /><br />This is not common ground.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>Nowhere do we need common ground more desperately than in our discussions of race.<br /><br />I have experienced the pain of discrimination.</span><br /><br /><span>I know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason. To be followed around a store while I’m shopping.<br /><br />I remember, every morning, at the kitchen table, my grandfather would have the newspaper in his hands. Later, I realized he had never learned to read it. He just wanted to set the right example.<br /><br />I’ve also experienced a different kind of intolerance.<br /><br />I get called “Uncle Tom” and the N-word — by ‘progressives’! By liberals!<br /><br />Just last week, a national newspaper suggested my family’s poverty was actually privilege… because a relative owned land generations before my time.<br /><br />Believe me, I know our healing is not finished.<br /><br />In 2015, after the shooting of Walter Scott, I wrote a bill to fund body cameras. <br /><br />Last year, after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, I built an even bigger police reform proposal.<br /><br />But my Democratic colleagues blocked it!<br /><br />I extended an olive branch. I offered them amendments. But Democrats used the filibuster to block the debate from even happening.<br /><br />My friends across the aisle seemed to want the issue... more than they wanted a solution.<br /><br />But I’m still working. I’m still hopeful.</p>
<p>*** </p>
<p>When America comes together, we’ve made tremendous progress. But powerful forces want to pull us apart.<br /><br />A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic — and if they looked a certain way, they were inferior.<br /><br />Today, kids again are being taught that the color of their skin defines them — and if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor.<br /><br />From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven’t made any progress. By doubling down on the divisions we’ve worked so hard to heal.<br /><br />You know this stuff is wrong.<br /><br />Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.<br /><br />It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different discrimination.<br /><br />And it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.</p>
<p>*** </p>
<p>I’m an African-American who has voted in the South all my life. I take voting rights personally.<br /><br />Republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat.<br /><br />And so do voters!<br /><br />Big majorities of Americans support early voting… </span><br /><br /><span>And big majorities support Voter I.D. — including African-Americans and Hispanics.<br /><br />Common sense makes common ground. <br /><br />But today, this conversation has collapsed.</span><br /><br />The state of Georgia passed a law that expands early voting; preserves mail-in voting; and, despite what the President claimed, did not reduce Election Day hours.<br /><br />If you actually read this law, it’s mainstream! It will be easier to vote early in Georgia than in Democrat-run New York. <br /><br />But the left doesn’t want you to know that. They want people to virtue-signal by yelling about a law they haven’t even read!<br /><br />Fact-checkers have called out the White House for misstatements.<br /><br />The President absurdly claims this is worse than Jim Crow.<br /><br />What is going on here?<br /><br />I’ll tell you. A Washington power grab.<br /><br />This misplaced outrage is supposed to justify Democrats’ sweeping bill that would take over elections for all 50 states; send public funds to political campaigns you disagree with; and make the bipartisan Federal Elections Commission... partisan!<br /><br />This is not about civil rights, or our racial past. It’s about rigging elections in the future.<br /><br />And, no — the same filibuster that President Obama and President Biden praised when they were Senators… that Democrats used just last year… has not suddenly become a racist relic just because the shoe is on the other foot!<br /><br />Race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants.<br /><br />It’s too important.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>This should be a joyful springtime for our nation. <br /><br />This Administration inherited a tide that had already turned. The coronavirus is on the run!<br /><br />Thanks to Operation Warp Speed and the Trump Administration, our country is flooded with safe and effective vaccines.<br /><br />Thanks to our bipartisan work last year, job openings are rebounding.<br /><br />So why do we feel so divided... and anxious?<br /><br />A nation with so much cause for hope should not feel so heavy-laden.<br /><br />A President who promised to bring us together should not push agendas that tear us apart.</p>
<p>*** </p>
<p>The American family deserves better. And we know what better looks like!<br /><br />Just before COVID, we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime.<br /><br />The lowest unemployment ever recorded for African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans. The lowest for women in nearly 70 years.<br /><br />Wages were growing faster for the bottom 25% than the top 25%.<br /><br />That happened because Republicans focused on expanding opportunity for all Americans.<br /><br />We passed Opportunity Zones… criminal justice reform... and permanent funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities for the first time ever.<br /><br />We fought the drug epidemic... rebuilt our military… and cut taxes for working families and single moms like mine.<br /><br />Our best future won’t come from Washington schemes or socialist dreams. It will come from you — the American people.<br /><br />Black, Hispanic, white and Asian. Republican and Democrat. Brave police officers and Black neighborhoods.<br /><br />We are not adversaries. We are family!<br /><br />We are all in this together. And we get to live in the greatest country on Earth.<br /><br />The country where my grandfather, in his 94 years, saw his family go from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.<br /><br />So I am more than hopeful — I am confident — that our finest hour is yet to come.<br /><br />Original sin is never the end of the story. Not in our souls, and not for our nation. The real story is always redemption.</p>
<p>*** </p>
<p>I am standing here because my mom has prayed me through some very tough times.<br /><br />I believe our nation has succeeded the same way:<br /><br />Because generations of Americans, in their own ways, have asked for grace… and God has supplied it.<br /><br />So I will close with a word from a worship song that helped me through this past year. The music is new, but the words draw from Scripture.<br /><br /><em>[May] the Lord bless you and keep you,</em><br /><em>Make His face shine upon you</em><br /><em>And be gracious to you…</em><br /><br /><em>May His presence go before you,</em><br /><em>And behind you, and beside you…</em><br /><br /><em>In your weeping and rejoicing,</em><br /><em>He is with you...</em><br /><br /><em>May His favor be upon [our nation], for a thousand generations</em><br /><em>And your family... and your children…</em><br /><em>And their children.</em><br /><br />Good night, and God bless.</p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-69660608293645855182023-06-06T14:39:00.000-04:002023-06-06T14:39:37.568-04:00How Cultural Marxism Threatens the United States—and How Americans Can Fight It By Mike Gonzalez and Katharine GorkaSource: <a href="https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/how-cultural-marxism-threatens-the-united-states-and-how-americans-can-fight" target="_blank">https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/how-cultural-marxism-threatens-the-united-states-and-how-americans-can-fight</a>
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November 14, 2022<br>
<p class="article-summary__eyebrow"> Summary</p><p>The United States has successfully confronted Marxist attempts to derail it from its historic path of liberty and order. The multifaceted effort to defeat the enemy, generally referred to as the Cold War, concentrated many of the best minds in the country. In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, many Americans and others around the globe justifiably believed that communism had been defeated. However, American Marxists, making use of the complacency that victory often produces, have gained more influence than ever before. Cloaking their goals under the pretense of social justice, they now seek to dismantle the foundations of the American republic by rewriting history; reintroducing racism; creating privileged classes; and determining what can be said in public discourse, the military, and houses of worship. Unless Marxist thought is defeated again, today’s cultural Marxists will achieve what the Soviet Union never could: the subjugation of the United States to a totalitarian, soul-destroying ideology.</p>
<h3 class="key-takeaways__heading">Key Takeaways</h3>
<p class="key-takeaways__copy-one">With the end of the Cold War, many Americans justifiably believed communism had been defeated. But American Marxists have gained more influence than ever before.</p>
<p class="key-takeaways__copy-two">Cloaking their goals under the pretense of social justice, these cultural Marxists want to distort America’s history and dismantle its very foundations.</p>
<p class="key-takeaways__copy-three">Unless Marxist ideas are defeated, their proponents will push the United States to follow a totalitarian ideology that obliterates freedom and opportunity.</p>
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<h3>1989: The Watershed Year</h3>
<blockquote>All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a Trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.</blockquote>
<blockquote>—Abraham Lincoln, in his 1838 “Lyceum Address”</blockquote>
<p>In 1989, as the Soviet empire was crumbling, <i>The New York Times</i> noted an interesting new development: While millions who had lived under the brutal rule of communism for decades were finally throwing off their yoke, Marxist professors were taking over American academia:</p>
<blockquote>As Karl Marx’s ideological heirs in Communist nations struggle to transform his political legacy, his intellectual heirs on American campuses have virtually completed their own transformation from brash, beleaguered outsiders to assimilated academic insiders. It could be considered a success story for the students of class struggle, who were once regarded as subversives.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Felicity Barringer, “The Mainstreaming of Marxism in U.S. Colleges,” The New York Times, October 25, 1989, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/25/us/education-the-mainstreaming-of-marxism-in-us-colleges.html?fbclid=IwAR3N1H0Hr6l7fJzT5-AmMAZE5kSljxAl5Bm8KRGibJ7IY6x1FbHINA39T00 (accessed October 12, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>So began the article, which ran under the headline “The Mainstreaming of Marxism in U.S. Colleges.” It was penned by a journalist trained in understanding communists, the paper’s 1985–1988 Moscow correspondent, Felicity Barringer. Her piece highlighted an important turning point in the history of modern Marxism and shone a spotlight on emerging trends and evolutions that, generations later, have now blossomed into full bloom. One such trend was that American Marxism was being liberated from Moscow’s shackles. Indeed, communism’s defeat in the Soviet Union and its captive nations behind the Iron Curtain seemed not to faze the Marxist academics Barringer quoted. “I’m very happy with what’s happening in these countries. I think it’s going to save socialism, rather than kill it,” said John Roemer, professor of economics at the University of California, Davis.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ibid.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Another trend was the fact that capitalism’s victory was reduced to its superior ability to satisfy man’s needs and wants, one of communism’s greatest failures. Capitalism’s advantage as a provider of goods and services was derided as an illusory good: Prosperity came at the expense of conforming to the dictates of the marketplace, forcing people to live lives of quiet desperation. Capitalism’s superior ability to provide goods and services was also cast by the new Marxists as the harbinger of ugly consumerism. The free market’s ability to liberate the creative spirit and allow individuals to pursue human flourishing with their families was never acknowledged, and certainly never contrasted with Marxism’s inevitable despotism, something that Karl Marx himself had averred would be necessary.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>In their Manifesto, Marx and Friedrich Engels write that collectivization “cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property.” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, February 1848, Marxist.org., p. 26, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf (accessed October 12, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Barringer was therefore right to note that inside the academy Marxism was growing especially in those areas that had to do with culture, because it had failed so badly in its economics:</p>
<blockquote>Where Marxism is thriving, these scholars say, is less in social science courses, where there is a possibility of practical application than in the abstract world of literary criticism. It is also in this field that new radicals—from feminists who say class analysis leaves women out, to deconstructionists who say historical truth does not exist—have posed the sharpest challenge to those who back Marx’s theories of class struggle.</blockquote>
<p>But that still left them with the problem that workers in the West were refusing to wage a revolution that they intuited would hinder their own economic interests and diminish their freedoms. Because of that, Marxism had to evolve to find other revolutionary agents: “'Marxism and feminism, Marxism and deconstruction, Marxism and race—this is where the exciting debates are,” Jonathan Wiener, professor of history at the University of California at Irvine said.</p>
<p>That insight from Professor Wiener was important, as it foreshadowed the identity-based Marxism of the 21st century. The struggle would no longer be based on economic class but on identity—based on ascribed characteristics, such as race, sex, or national origin, that are inherited at birth and over which the individual has no control. The reasons were simple: Economic classes fluctuate, especially under capitalism, where people can, and often do, change their stations in life. Race, sex, and national origin are, however, immutable. They are thus superior loci of revolutionary change. This is why the new Marxism emerged victorious on college campuses and elsewhere in American cultural centers starting in the late 1980s, whereas it had failed when it relied on social class and guns. This new mutation of Marxism was cultural—“cultural Marxism.” It began to be debated and written about in the 1920s and the 1930s, by Antonio Gramsci in Italy and the so-called Frankfurt School in Germany, but this cultural Marxism only came to full fruition in the late 1960s when Gramsci was first translated into English and the Frankfurt School’s Herbert Marcuse came to prominence among university students. Gramsci was translated by the British journal <i>New Left Review</i>, and Marcuse came to be known as the guru of the New Left. This <i>Special Report</i> discusses the dangers posed by this new mutation, one hatched by the 1960s’ New Left.</p>
<p>On American, Canadian, Western European, and even Japanese college campuses in the early 1960s, rebellion found fertile ground in a rising generation of students. It was there that the New Left was born. Universities then continued to serve the revolution by providing a supportive ecosystem to those radical students as they entered adulthood and became professors, where they could indoctrinate subsequent generations.</p>
<p>The strategy to achieve the new cultural Marxism was also no longer predicated on Marx’s original prescription, the violent overthrow of the system by the working class, or in Marx and Engel’s own words, “formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, [and] conquest of political power by the proletariat.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, p. 50.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Rather, the strategy now draws on Gramsci’s concept: Ideologues must infiltrate institutions and all of society and “raise the consciousness of” the “oppressed” with a new cultural worldview, or narrative.</p>
<p>Marxism had failed in Western societies when it relied on economic status and violence.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>When it did succeed in Eastern Europe, it was as a result of occupation by Stalin’s troops and successive military interventions by the Warsaw Pact.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> But this time it had a real chance of succeeding. This is the reason that cultural Marxism today presents a far more serious and existential threat to the United States than did Soviet communism.</p>
<p>Because of cultural Marxism’s inroads into the education system, many of America’s youth have already been raised on a diet of ideas that directly undermine the American Founding. They are not taught that all people are created equal; they are taught that some people are racially privileged due to structural racism. They are not taught individual rights so much as group rights. They are not taught that the United States, with its free markets and property rights, has brought more prosperity to more people than any other nation on earth. They are not taught that generation after generation has worked to achieve the Founders’ ideal that all men are created equal. They are taught that America is systemically racist, that its very laws were designed to uphold something called white supremacy—which refers not to the vile notion that the white race is supreme, but to all Western traditions, codes, societal arrangements, laws, and norms.</p>
<p>Many Americans are today experiencing firsthand the effect of the poison that is being fed to their children in schools. The majority of Americans pays thousands of dollars in taxes to have their children indoctrinated in public schools and universities. Another significant portion of the population is paying additional thousands, even tens of thousands, to have their children indoctrinated in private schools and universities. And nearly all parents are allowing their children to be continually bombarded with these same anti-American, anti-reality, counter-factual ideas through movies, television shows, books, comics, games, social media, search engines, and the news feed on their iPhones.</p>
<p>A growing number of Americans are aware of the depth of the infiltration of their culture by insidious ideas, but do enough understand the long-term ramifications? Americans’ first task therefore in reversing the tide of cultural Marxism is to ensure that more of the public understands both the roots and the consequences of these ideas.</p>
<h3>Background to the Present Crisis</h3>
<p>The year 1989 was an important inflection point in the nation’s history because it marked the start of a real takeover. Marxists had tried before to communize the United States, starting with Karl Marx himself. Indeed, in 1864 Marx wrote to congratulate Abraham Lincoln on his re-election, stating, “The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Karl Marx, “Address of the International Working Men’s Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America,” November 1864.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> But Marx was wrong in seeing the fight to end slavery as a movement into his communist ideal of a classless, godless society, as he was wrong about so many things.</p>
<p>When Marx and Engels published the <i>Manifesto of the Communist Party</i> in 1848, they described a world defined by structural conflict based on economic inequalities and social class. They advocated an uprising of the working class—the proletariat—against the wealthy owners of capital—the bourgeoisie. They had already called on the proletariat to capture state power through “revolutionary terror,”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Karl Marx, “The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna,” Neue Rheinische Zeitung, November 1848, translated by the Marx–Engels Institute, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/11/06.htm (accessed on July 19, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> and in the Manifesto repeated the need to introduce dictatorship through “despotic inroads,”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, p. 26.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> and then to progress to a state of communal ownership through the “abolition of bourgeois property.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ibid., p. 22.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>For nearly 70 years, Marx and Engels’s vision of industrial workers inevitably unleashing revolution never came about, however. In 1917, Lenin and his band of Bolshevik terrorists were able to bring this vision to fruition in Russia, and they did so through the self-conscious introduction of state terror. Using a similar combination of tyranny and terror, Mao was able to impose communism on China, as Castro did on Cuba, Kim Il-Sung on North Korea, and so on. None of these were industrialized societies, however, and Marx and Engels had so insisted that communism must come from industrialized nations that they called for a bourgeois transition before communists could attempt a revolution.</p>
<p>In spite of extensive efforts to galvanize workers across the globe, the Soviets failed to bring about their communist revolution in developed, industrialized countries, such as France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. Gramsci, the founder of Italy’s communist party, was one of the first to propose a solution to this conundrum. He argued that workers had accepted the cultural institutions of their bourgeois oppressors, and therefore effectively imposed their own enslavement on themselves. Gramsci wrote that the worker had developed a “false consciousness”—the worker remained faithful to God, loyal to his family, patriotic to his nation, and he liked his private property, all things that Marx had said needed to be abolished. As Marcuse wrote years later in his essay on “Repressive Tolerance,” “false consciousness has become the general consciousness.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance,” 1969, https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html (accessed October 12, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>The implications for those wanting to wage revolution were immense. In Western Europe and North America, where strong civil society strengthened traditional relationships, Gramsci argued that communists should abandon the dream of violent revolution, what he termed the “war of maneuver.” Rather, Gramsci argued, they should undertake a “war of position,” or hidden conflict. The supposedly oppressed groups would gain influence and power by taking over existing institutions.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>From the Prison Notebooks, quoted by Perry Anderson in The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci (New York: Verso, 2020), p. 36.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> It would be the job of communist intellectuals to undermine the state’s “hegemonic narrative” and introduce into the minds of the people a “counter-narrative.” A war of position “was the only form possible in the West,” Gramsci wrote in the 1930s in what came to be known as his <i>Prison Notebooks</i>.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ibid.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Where the Soviets failed to mobilize workers to engage in violent revolution, Gramsci succeeded in laying the groundwork for revolutionary change by focusing on culture and education. Thus, it was intellectual elites and students who picked up the revolutionary baton in the 1960s and successfully carried it into the heart of America.</p>
<p>A key moment came in 1960. C. Wright Mills, an influential sociologist at Columbia University, wrote a seminal article titled “Letter to the New Left,”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>C. Wright Mills, “Letter to the New Left,” New Left Review, No. 5 (September–October 1960).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> which appears to have provided a name—the New Left—for a movement that wanted to bring about radical change but independently of Moscow. He dismissed the Soviet focus on the worker as Victorian Marxism and even “vulgar” Marxism. Instead, Mills wrote, “Who is it that is thinking and acting in radical ways? All over the world—in the bloc, outside the bloc and in between—the answer’s the same: it is the young intelligentsia.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ibid.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> He recognized that in many places around the world it was not workers but young people who were in fact sparking revolution, and by highlighting that fact, he provided inspiration to a generation of middle-class white students in the United States that they could be agents of revolutionary change.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Daniel Geary, “‘Becoming International Again’: C. Wright Mills and the Emergence of a Global New Left, 1956–1962,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 95, No. 3 (December 2008), pp. 710–736.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>This type of argument was able to take root in no small part because the ground had been well tilled for years by the New Left’s precursors. American students had been fed a steady stream of content critical of American power and prosperity, mostly written by socialists or inspired by socialist ideas—Jack London’s <i>The Call of the Wild</i> (1903); Upton Sinclair’s <i>The Jungle</i> (1906); Sinclair Lewis’s <i>Babbitt </i>(1922); John Steinbeck’s <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> (1939); Arthur Miller’s <i>Death of a Salesman</i> (1949) and <i>The Crucible</i> (1953); J.D. Salinger’s <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> (1951); Allen Ginsberg’s <i>Howl </i>(1956); Jack Kerouac’s <i>On the Road</i> (1957); and John Kenneth Galbraith’s <i>The Affluent Society</i> (1958), to name just a few.</p>
<p>These books, among many others, entered the mainstream and helped to shape an image of America’s middle class as pathetically conformist, pawns of their own consumerism, superficial, spiritually dead, and unhappy (though it is known from opinion polls and surveys that Americans were by and large happy in the 1950s). The writer and satirist H. L. Mencken described them as the “booboisie.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>For Mencken’s influence on one of the original SDS leaders, see Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam, 1993), p. 1.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> These books also demonstrated how much easier it is to bring about change by influencing the culture rather than by trying to organize a violent revolution of workers. And it was not only books, but all forms of culture. Todd Gitlin, a leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the pre-eminent institution of the New Left, wrote:</p>
<blockquote>The future New Left read David Riesman and C. Wright Mills and Albert Camus, and found in them warrants for estrangement, but nothing influenced me, or the baby-boom generation as a whole, as much as movies, music and comics did. On the big screen, on posters, and in popular magazines, America was mass-producing images of white youth on the move yet with nowhere to go. What moved the new sullen heroes was the famous rebellion without a cause.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Gitlin, The Sixties, p. 31.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>America’s youth were thus primed to be discontent, to disparage the prosperity that had given them their safety and ease and lives of comfort that others around the world could only dream of—and disparage it they did. One has only to think of the seminal “Port Huron Statement,” the opening salvo from SDS, issued at its first national convention in 1962:</p>
<blockquote>We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit…. Some would have us believe that Americans feel contentment amidst prosperity—but might it not better be called a glaze above deeply felt anxieties about their role in the new world?<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>“Port Huron Statement,” The Sixties Project, University of Virginia at Charlottesville, http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SDS_Port_Huron.html (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>The fact that Fidel Castro, fresh from law school at the age of 32 and surrounded by a band of youthful revolutionaries, had successfully ousted Cuban president Fulgencio Batista in January 1959 also helped to fuel the spirit of revolution. In case any of America’s elite youth had missed that fact, Harvard’s chief academic officer, McGeorge Bundy (later to be President John F. Kennedy’s National Security Advisor, and later still, president of the Ford Foundation), welcomed Castro to the campus in April 1959. So many students were interested in seeing Castro that the event had to be moved from an auditorium to the football stadium. Capturing that shift in focus from the worker to the student, Castro explained that he agreed to speak at Harvard, because, “That is where you find the real ‘military spirit:’ in students, not in the barracks.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Graham Allison, “Fidel Castro at Harvard: How History Might Have Changed,” The Boston Globe, April 25, 2015, https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/fidel-castro-harvard-how-history-might-have-changed (accessed October 14, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> It should come as no surprise that within three years of Castro’s visit, Harvard’s chapter of SDS would have 600 dues-paying members and the mission of “shaking America to its roots.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Gitlin, The Sixties, p. 2.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>The year 1960 thus set the stage for the tumultuous decade that followed, though most Americans unwarily expected a continuation of the 1950s Eisenhower years. The New Left that emerged in the years that followed—not just in America, but also in Canada, Germany, Japan, and the U.K.—was made up of intellectuals, activists, and students who abandoned the economic determinism of Soviet communism and embraced the causes of civil rights and social democracy. This was a key steppingstone to today’s cultural Marxism. Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara replaced Lenin and Stalin as revolutionary icons. The Martinican revolutionary Frantz Fanon became the writer of choice for the New Left.</p>
<p>Fanon popularized the phrase first written by Jean-Paul Sartre, “by any means necessary,” which epitomized Marxists’ dictum that the ends justify the means. In the U.S. it was further propagated by Malcolm X. Fanon gave expression to the relativism of the New Left when he wrote, “Truth is that which hurries on the break-up of the colonialist regime; it is that which promotes the emergence of the nation; it is all that protects the natives, and ruins the foreigners.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Joy James, “‘Concerning Violence’: Frantz Fanon’s Rebel Intellectual in Search of a Black Cyborg,” The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 112, No. 1 (Winter 2013), https://sites.williams.edu/jjames/files/2019/06/black-cyborg.pdf (accessed August 1, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Fanon’s championing of anti-colonialist rhetoric and denunciation of all things Western was then imported domestically, and the same dynamic was repeated, only this time casting in opposition Western whites and the new minority categories that were hastily being created by activists and the bureaucracy. The writer Susan Sontag claimed “critical distance” from the New Left, but she perfectly captured the philosophical vibe of her era when she wrote in 1966, “The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Robert Carson and Hollis Robbins, “Susan Sontag: Race, Class and the Limits of Style,” The American Interest, November 29, 2019, https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/11/29/susan-sontag-race-class-and-the-limits-of-style/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>This is exactly what Columbia’s Maxine Greene had in mind when she taught that the “oppressive hegemony” of the capitalist social order “reproduces” itself through traditional schooling. In academia, after the late 1960s, the takeover was paved by Greene and other professors who prepared the radical students of the 1960s to become the radical professors of the 1980s. Studies show that teaching was one of the top occupations sought by members of the New Left, and that most maintained their ideological commitment for the rest of their lives.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Cyril Levitt, “The New Left, the New Class and Socialism,” Higher Education, Vol. 8, No. 6 (November 1979), p. 642.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Unsurprisingly then, a 2006 study of professors by Harvard’s Neil Gross and Solon Simmons shows that by far the most radical cohort that year were those professors born between 1942 and 1956, or those who went to college in the 1960s or the early 1970s. Fully 50 percent of them were either extremely liberal or liberal, whereas only 8 percent were either conservative or extremely conservative. The number would be even more lopsided had the authors not collapsed “slightly liberal” and “slightly conservative” into a moderate middle. By comparison, those born before 1942 were much less likely to be radically liberal. The radicals were also most highly concentrated in social sciences and the humanities, where they, respectively, outnumbered conservatives by 58 to 5 and 52 to 4.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Neil Gross and Solon Simmons, Professors and Their Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 26 and 27.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>But, before going all in on Gramscian cultural indoctrination, the radical students of the New Left gave revolution one last try. The decisive turn toward totalitarianism and violence was not only noticed by intellectuals on the right. Irving Howe, one of the best-known socialist men of letters in the mid-20th century, wrote a searing 7,000-word essay for <i>The New York Times Magazine</i> in 1982 decrying how the New Left of the 1960s had turned American liberalism dogmatic and violent:</p>
<blockquote>Each day the New Left kept moving away from its earlier spirit of fraternity toward a hard-voiced dogmatism, from the ethic of nonviolence toward a romantic-nihilist fascination with a “politics of the deed.” In the years of the Vietnam War the New Left grew rapidly, mostly as a center of opposition, but by locking itself into a politics more and more like that of the old left-wing sects, it made certain that in the end it would do no more than reenact their collapse.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>To see Stalin’s theory of “social fascism” refurbished by SDS leaders as a theory of “liberal fascism” played hell with one’s nerves. To see the Leninist theory of a “vanguard party” transformed into the New Left strategy of “confrontation politics” made one suspect nothing ever is learned from history. To see the Leninist–Stalinist contempt for liberal values elevated to Herbert Marcuse’s haughty formulas about “repressive tolerance”—formulas used to rationalize the break-up of opponents’ meetings by some New Left groups—made one despair of any authentic left in America.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The authoritarian debauch was soon all-encompassing: Ideology hates free spaces.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Irving Howe, “The Decade that Failed,” The New York Times Magazine, September 19, 1982, p. 83, https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/19/magazine/the-decade-that-failed.html (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>The SDS soon transfigured itself into a terrorist group known as the Weather Underground, while others created the equally violent Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Puerto Rican National Liberation Front, and other groups. They set off bombs, tried to kill policemen and politicians and overthrow society to implement, in the words of the Weathermen, “world communism.” The New Left’s violent stage was of short duration, however; eventually the Weathermen unwittingly helped to cut short the armed revolution stage. They were mostly wealthy white kids from the suburbs with no idea of how to carry out revolt, and therefore ended up killing each other in higher numbers than they killed policemen or members of the bourgeoisie.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Mark Rudd, “I Was Part of the Weather Underground. Violence Is Not the Answer,” The New York Times, March 6, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/opinion/weathermen-greenwich-village-explosion.html (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> The Weathermen thus showed in stark form the futility of violent revolution, especially if it was not preceded by cultural indoctrination. Most of the terrorist groups that emerged in the late Sixties and early Seventies had disintegrated by the early 1980s.</p>
<p>But the radicals did not abandon their dream of dismantling the United States. The radical students of the 1960s who had sought to emulate Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh by unleashing revolution in the United States, by the early 1980s were facing the reality that they would not topple the U.S. government through violence.</p>
<p>Their acceptance that revolution was futile was soothed by their new understanding that they could still overthrow society, but they would do so by infiltrating the institutions and acculturating Americans to such Marxist ideas as abolishing the family, property, the nation-state, and God. They would have to burrow in. If violence came in at all—as Marx had written that it must—it would be more as a final coup-de-grace, after the institutions had been taken over, than as a bloody, regime-changing revolution.</p>
<p>Rudi Dutschke, the West German radical and disciple of the Frankfurt School revolutionary kingmaker Marcuse, titled this Gramscian strategy “The Long March through the Institutions” (a communist nod to Mao’s Long March in China in the 1930s). This became the philosophy that guided how the Marxist penetration of American society and her institutions would be affected. No figure better personified this metamorphosis from armed revolution to cultural infiltration than Bill Ayers, who went from being one of the main architects of the Weather Underground, designated by the FBI as a domestic terrorist organization, to getting a PhD in education in the 1980s and being called “a school reformer” by such figures as NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Sol Stern, “The Bomber as School Reformer,” City Journal, October 6, 2008, https://www.city-journal.org/html/bomber-school-reformer-10465.html (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Ayers, however, knew what he was doing when he reposted on his website classic lines by Gramsci, such as:</p>
<blockquote>The history of education shows that every class which has sought to take power has prepared itself for power by an autonomous education. The first step in emancipating oneself from political and social slavery is that of freeing the mind. I put forward this new idea: popular schooling should be placed under the control of the great workers’ unions. The problem of education is the most important class problem.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Bill Ayers, “Gramsci on Education,” November 26, 2018, https://billayers.org/2018/11/26/gramsci-on-education/ (accessed November 1, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>By 1989, the year that Barringer discovers it, that penetration of American citadels of thought had reached a tipping point. The now middle-aged radicals were deeply ensconced in the faculties of the campuses they had once disrupted. Not only did they have professorships, but they had also trained two decades of students in their radical ideologies. Now those students were developing their own radical ideas and casting aside the older generation. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the rejection of the mostly white, male professors of law who had established the critical legal studies (CLS) movement by the heavily minority and female professors of law who created critical race theory (CRT). This was key in the transition from the Marxism of the New Left, which was ascendent in the 1960s and 1970s, to the next generation of Marxism, which took hold in the 1980s and had its coming out party in 1989, when CRT was first named and formally founded. It happened at a convention held at a convent in Madison, Wisconsin, when black and other non-white law faculty and students who were members of the CLS movement decided to strike out on their own, establishing CRT as a race-based offshoot of CLS.</p>
<p>Should there be any doubt about the foundational role of Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci in the emergence of this new, cultural Marxism, one has only to recall an interview with Richard Delgado, a Mexican-American law professor who helped to found CRT, who said this of CRT’s ironic beginnings in a religious setting: “So we gathered at that convent for two and a half days, around a table in an austere room with stained glass windows and crucifixes here and there—an odd place for a bunch of Marxists—and worked out a set of principles.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>“Living History Interview with Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic,” Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 221 (2011), p. 225, https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=faculty (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Marx and Marxism comes up often in the writings that formed the movement. Gramsci, meanwhile, is quoted approvingly by several authors in the 1995 anthology of essays that serves as the bible of CRT, <i>Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement</i><span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas (eds.), Critical Race Theory, The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (New York: New Press, 1995).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span>—which CRT adherents, in another reference to Mao, refer to as the “Big Red Book.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Max B. Sawicky, “How the Critical Race Theory Scare-Mongering Failed in Virginia,” The New Republic, March 9, 2022, https://newrepublic.com/article/163467/critical-race-theory-loudoun-county (accessed October 13 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> And, lest anyone forget, Frankfurt’s Institute for Social Research, which originated from the German antecedent of CRT, critical theory, was founded by members of different communist parties in 1922 to help to promote Marxism in the West.</p>
<p>The decade of the 1980s, which followed the political and social paroxysms of the 1960s and 1970s—and was ironically the decade of the Reagan revolution and the collapse of Soviet communism—was a halfway point between the cultural spasms of the 1960s and today’s near-total takeover of Western<b> </b>cultural institutions by the Left. It was also the point at which the Marxist Left made the all-important pivot from class-based or economic Marxism to cultural Marxism. Thomas Klingenstein, the chairman of the board of the Claremont Institute, has independently come up with an alternative name for the phenomenon: Woke Communism (Woke Comm for short).<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Thomas Klingenstein speech at the National Conservative Conference III, Miami, September 10–13, 2022.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>This <i>Special Report</i> presents a strategy to counter the threat to<b> </b>America’s liberties that this ideology poses. It is not a strategy to fix all the threats. It says nothing about the administrative state, or about the “Great Reset” economic strategy of the World Economic Forum. It examines the origins of today’s cultural Marxism as well as lessons learned from other great ideological conflicts, particularly the Cold War, to develop a strategy for turning back the radical takeover of American institutions and thus preserve American principles and freedoms, which are the only true path to equality and opportunity for all.</p>
<h3>The Fundamental Design of Cultural Marxism</h3>
<p>Today’s cultural Marxists believe that the reason economic, social, cultural, academic, and health outcomes (to name just a few) show persistent racial disparities is because of a pervasive, systemic racism that can only be eliminated by smashing the system itself. The quickest way to do that is to create a never-ending number of racial and country-of-origin categories (such as Hispanics and Asian Americans, both created by government fiat in 1977 at the insistence of leftist activists), the members of which would be instilled with grievances about the disparity of these outcomes, to the point that they will want to become active soldiers in smashing the system. The Marxist narrative that all of society for all of history has been divided into categories of the oppressed and their oppressors is played over and over. The government, and all society, the purveyors of CRT say, must thus treat people not as individuals with liberties, but as categories that deserve special treatment and benefits as members of these categories.</p>
<p>What is happening today, therefore, is nothing more than this age’s identity category version of Marx’s 19th-century claim that, because individuals have different abilities, and because they belong to different classes, their rights must differ. According to Marx, if government or society in general were to grant people equal individual rights (such as to consumption and services), material inequality (the bugaboo of all Marxists then and now) would ensue. Another reason why Marx thought that government needed to distribute goods and services unequally until the point that communism reached its final stage (a completely elusive target date), was that “socialism inherits inequalities from capitalism that can’t be wished away.”</p>
<p>Fast forward to today, and famed “anti-racist” Ibram X. Kendi declares that “[t]he only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Conference attended by one of the authors.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> The government, Kendi—a retail promoter of CRT—is saying, must discriminate in favor of the members of the categories deemed oppressed. But, as Klingenstein rightly observed at the Third National Conservative Conference, held in Miami in September 2022, “A free society will necessarily lead to different outcomes. The more outcome equality, the less freedom there is.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Eric Mann, “Building an Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist United Front: Theory and Practice From the L.A. Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union,” September 16, 1996, https://thestrategycenter.org/1996/09/06/building-the-anti-racist-anti-imperialist-united-front-theory-and-practice-from-the-l-a-strategy-center-and-bus-riders-union/ (accessed October 24, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Marx, an economic determinist, believed that the different outcomes depended on different classes, and these depended on their relationship to the factors of production. Basing their views on race and other immutable traits, America’s cultural Marxists explain the different outcomes in terms of categories that are racial and sexual. To them, the racial disparities that so bedevil today’s society happen because the dominant sets of practices and institutions, the rules for the construction of all authorized institutions and activities, codify “white supremacy.” To cultural Marxists, all the rules, norms, behaviors, traditions, and mores of Western civilization constitute white supremacy. White supremacy is totalizing—it is the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the Reformation—everything. It is that which needs to be torn down. Capitalism, for both earlier Marxists as well as today’s, must be demolished—for Marx because he sought “the abolition of private property,” for cultural Marxists, because it rewards the wrong norms and forms of conduct.</p>
<p>The revolution as originally envisioned by Marx and Engels would not only abolish private property and the right of inheritance; it would also centralize credit and communications; factories and instruments of production would be communally owned; it would abolish the family and create “an openly legalized community of women.” It would even abolish countries and nationality. All this, theoretically, to end gradations of social rank or class, which Marx described as having simplified in his day into two antagonistic classes—the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The Marxist revolution must thus begin with the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie. All this is consonant with today’s cultural Marxists.</p>
<p>Cultural Marxism adapts Marx’s foundational concepts. Marx believed that revolutions would invariably result when “the material forces of production in society come into conflict with the existing relations of production.” Cultural Marxists, abandoning economic determinism, substitute culture for economy and racial and sexual identities for the proletariat. They agree with Gramsci that “popular beliefs and similar ideas are themselves material forces.” And immutable traits, such as race, will now trump class. To the 21st-century communist Eric Mann, “the racialization of all aspects of political life operates as a material force in itself.”</p>
<p>Cultural Marxism is thus a remodeled Marxism, a mutation; but it is Marxism nonetheless, something Americans in the 21st century need to understand. It is entirely distinct from other forms of garden-variety left liberalism, whose proponents are being displaced by cultural Marxists—in the Democratic Party, for example, socialist members of the so-called Squad, such as Representatives Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), and Corey Bush, (MO), receive levels of attention denied to their moderate colleagues, such as Representatives Henry Cuellar (TX) and Carolyn Bourdeaux (GA). The cultural Marxists’ goal is not to improve the system, but to overturn the existing social order entirely—which they consider to be an enforcer of “white supremacy.”</p>
<p>Because of that absolutism, cultural Marxism cannot tolerate or co-exist with other worldviews. It demands censorship, which began as “political correctness” but has since veered into the far more insidious censorship, which leads inevitably to tyranny (as Marxism always has everywhere it has been tried). It punishes alternative views by attempting to drive those who express them from public life, a phenomenon dubbed “cancel culture.” As Klingenstein said in his September 2022 speech, “if the Woke Comms want to overthrow our system, we have to overthrow theirs.” The new Marxists play for keeps, just as the old ones did. Marx’s favorite phrase came from Goethe’s Mephisto (the devil): “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Paul Kengor, The Devil and Karl Marx (Gastonia, NC: Tan Books, 2020), p. 36.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Cultural Marxists took over the universities and transformed the class struggle into one over race, sex, and other immutable traits, and used these positions of power to reinterpret not just history but reality itself. Cultural Marxists also abandoned violent struggle in favor of indoctrination. Socialism evolved from preaching government ownership of the means of production to putting socialists in charge of “the means of meaning production.”</p>
<p>The capture of the university has paid huge dividends, for it is from the university that so much of a nation’s culture emanates. But the takeover by Marxists has been far more totalizing. In fact, sex, sexual orientation, climate, and other issues have been used indiscriminately to advance revolutionary goals, something that Marxists themselves sometimes admit. The former Marxist David Horowitz, for example, quotes an SDS radical as having once written, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>David Horowitz, Hillsdale College, July 9, 2010, YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSCGMrriZpo (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Horowitz explains, “In other words the cause—whether inner city blacks or women—is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.” Eric Mann, the communist and former Weatherman who trained Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors for a decade on Marxism–Leninism and how to be an organizer—drove this point home when he told an interviewer in 2015 that whether the issue is race, sex, gender, or the environment, the goal is overthrowing the U.S. system, and the rest is just “a little division of labor.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Eric Mann, interview, The Laura Flanders Show, 2015, https://lauraflanders.nationbuilder.com/ericmann (accessed October 15, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Even the drug culture falls under that division of labor. Horowitz says that SDS leader and progressive firebrand Tom Hayden once described the utility of the drug culture to him: “Once you get a middleclass person to break the law, he said (and he was thinking of students), they are on their way to becoming revolutionaries,” wrote Horowitz.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>David Horowitz, “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model,” 2009, https://userpages.monmouth.com/~dmajor/Mail/BHO-rules4rev.html (accessed October 15, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>A few examples of what this looks like in practice should suffice to demonstrate the impact the cultural Marxists have had.</p>
<h3>Cultural Marxism’s Infiltration of the Institutions</h3>
<p><b>Education. </b>Universities today have almost completely succumbed to the ideology imposed by those who have followed the cultural Marxist pioneers of the 1980s. As the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression pointed out in its 2022–2023 College Free Speech Rankings report, 42 percent of conservative students “are most likely to feel they cannot express their opinions,” compared to 13 percent of liberal students saying the same.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>College Pulse and FIRE, “2022–2023 College Free Speech Rankings,” https://rankings.thefire.org/ (accessed September 15, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> The report, shockingly, has a list of 772 professors who have been fired, suspended, or sanctioned because of conservative speech, and another long list of speakers who have been disinvited to speak at American universities. Not surprisingly, political science professor Samuel Abrams found that “academic faculty report a six-to-one ratio of liberal to conservative professors.” College administrators are far worse, sporting a 12-to-one ratio of liberal to conservative members. First-year students, meanwhile, reported a much smaller but still significant two-to-one ratio. “It appears that a <i>fairly</i> liberal student body is being taught by a <i>very</i> liberal professoriate—and socialized by an <i>incredibly</i> liberal group of administrators,” concluded Abrams.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Samuel J. Abrams, “Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators,” The New York Times, October 16, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/opinion/liberal-college-administrators.html (accessed September 15, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>The university officials most involved with enforcing the cultural Marxist ideology generally fall under the heading of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). These are positive terms (who could be against diversity, equity, or inclusion?) but they have been distorted into meaning almost the exact opposite. James Lindsay, Bruce Gilley, and Peter Boghossian, three dissenting academics, have drafted a “Cheat Sheet for Policy Makers”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>The Oregon Association of Scholars is a chapter of the National Association of Scholars that describes itself as “a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Oregon that promotes excellence, freedom, and merit in higher education in the state” that is composed of professors, graduate students, university administrators, trustees, and independent scholars in the Beaver State. See Oregon Association of Scholars, “About,” https://oregonscholars.org/about/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> that provides a glossary of what they found working inside the American university system. The trio define today’s <i>diversity</i> as “[a]n identity-based approach to society; includes only those who agree with Social Justice, which is a violation of individual identity; enforced intellectual conformity, political quotas; an attack on merit and a form of soft bigotry.” <i>Equity</i>, they write, now means the new inequality that we have seen, and “equality of outcomes plus reparations, which is a violation of equality before the law, a dismantling of the foundations of a free society [and] state management of society by redistributing resources, opportunity, and access.” <i>Inclusion</i>, the three write, now means “restricted speech and justification for purges,” which is, “an attack on freedoms of association and speech [and] an enforced separation of people by race (‘neo-segregation’).”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Bruce Gilley, Peter Boghossian, and James Lindsay, “Responding to Social Justice Rhetoric, A Cheat Sheet for Policy Makers,” Parents Defending Education, August 2021, https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Responding-to-Social-Justice-Rhetoric.pdf (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Nonetheless (or perhaps, unsurprisingly), a 2021 study of 65 of the largest universities by The Heritage Foundation’s Jay Greene found that the average American university has 45 DEI personnel who act as political commissars enforcing the cultural Marxist ideology of DEI. (The University of Michigan alone has 163.) That means that universities have 40 percent more DEI staff than history professors.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Jay P. Greene and James D. Paul, “Diversity University, DEI Bloat at the Academy,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3642, July 27, 2021, https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/BG3641_0.pdf. That total number of DEI staff excludes Title IX and legal compliance staff and ethnic and gender study professors and related staff.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Greene’s study examined campus climate survey results to see if the number of DEI staff made campuses more welcoming or inclusive, and unsurprisingly he found that the opposite was the case.</p>
<p>In the 1980s, when the takeover of campuses by cultural Marxists started to become evident, a number of leading intellectuals published books that either directly or indirectly tried to alert the general public to what was happening in the universities, including Allen Bloom’s <i>The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students</i> (1987); John M. Ellis’s <i>Against Deconstruction </i>(1989);<i> </i>Roger Kimball’s <i>Tenured Radicals: How Politics has Corrupted Our Higher Education </i>(1990);<i> </i>and Dinesh D’Souza’s <i>Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus </i>(1991). But those warnings had little effect. As John Ellis, a professor of German literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz, reflected some 30 years later:</p>
<blockquote>Radical politics was a rising force on the campuses, and we were trying to draw attention to the dangers in what was happening while there was still some chance of arresting it. But it’s now clear that we failed to stop the slide, because the political radicals on campus never had any interest in what we had to say. Their purposes were not ours. We were interested in the quality of higher education, but what they cared about was getting control of the campuses so they could use them to promote their political ideology, one so unpopular with the general public that it could not have been advanced in any other way.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>John M. Ellis, The Breakdown of Higher Education (New York: Encounter Books, 2020), p. viii.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>In reflecting on what allowed the advance of radical politics on campuses and the failure of these and other warnings to slow those advances, Ellis blames “factors that are always present in human life: the complacency of those many people who are always prone to think alarms overwrought.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ibid.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Too many Americans are still willing to think the alarms overwrought. Parents are willing to overlook the far-left leaning of universities, and to pay large sums or incur debt for the privilege of having their children indoctrinated into the anti-American cult of modern academia. As Andrew Breitbart once famously said, “You send your kids off to college. They love you. You walk away with a Cornell mom T-shirt. You are walking away going this is great, and come Thanksgiving, your kid tells you that you are an imperialist and a racist and a homophobe.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>QuotePark.com, Andrew Breitbart, https://quotepark.com/quotes/1811806-andrew-breitbart-you-send-your-kids-off-to-college-they-love-you/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Universities are, of course, not the only place where cultural Marxists indoctrinate students. The CRT spread in K–12 classrooms accelerated after the social upheaval of the BLM riots of 2020, giving rise to widespread opposition by parents starting in early 2021. CRT, as explained earlier, is a revolutionizing method that also focuses on outcomes as measured by race, and therefore in its practices violates the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution’s provision for “the equal protection of the law” when students are treated differently because of their race, sex, or national origin. “Critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law,” acknowledges Delgado.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), p. 3.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Despite this reality, President Joe Biden has made CRT part of the nation’s hegemonic narrative, directing his Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, to favor schools practicing CRT when distributing taxpayer dollars.</p>
<p>Many studies by different scholars have concluded that the nation’s schools of education, where K–12 teachers are trained, have been turned into veritable cultural Marxist madrassas. One such study, by Jay Schalin of the James G. Martin Center, analyzed nearly 300 syllabi used at three prominent colleges of education. Schalin said the evidence was “unequivocal”: The “most influential thinkers in our education schools are radicals who adhere to a collectivist, utopian vision.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Jay Schalin, “The Politicization of University Schools of Education: The Long March through the Education Schools,” The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, February 19, 2019, https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/02/schools-of-education/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Critical pedagogy, a version of CRT, elevates group membership defined in terms of race, sex, or sexual orientation over the individual. Like CRT, critical pedagogy is based on the teachings of Gramsci, who sought to use education to advance socialism by imposing a “counter-narrative” that would produce students who were ready to install the socialist revolution.</p>
<p><b>Sex and Gender. </b>The sexual revolution, of which critical theorist Herbert Marcuse was also a guru, has been clearly part of the strategy, as are today the advances of gender theory and critical pedagogy. Gender theory—or gender ideology—derives from feminism, critical theory, and Marxist–Freudian thought. One of the intellectual forefathers of gender theory is Michel Foucault, the French poststructuralist who philosophized that gender, commonly understood in society, was a social construct imposed by oppressive forces. Operating from Marxist postmodern terminology of “autonomy” and “liberation,” Foucault believed that deconstructing the norms of gender would bring about “greater autonomy and creativity in human identity.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Scott Yenor, “Sex, Gender, and the Origin of the Culture Wars: An Intellectual History,” Heritage Foundation First Principles No. 63, June 30, 2017, https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/sex-gender-and-the-origin-the-culture-wars-intellectual-history.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> To Foucault, sex was not binary, and the “naturalness” of gender and sex was dubious. Foucault’s thought represents a cultural Marxism that also transcends class struggle—as seen with race—and bases the “oppressed vs. oppressor” dynamic on sex. It asserts that individuals need to be liberated from societal norms and commonly understood notions of gender and sex in order to achieve liberation.</p>
<p>From Foucault and the French second-wave feminist Simone de Beauvoir, one can track the development of gendered pronouns and the transgender phenomenon that is being imposed on students in schools and universities across the country today. Kate Millett, whose <i>Sexual Politics</i> is an example of the distinction between sex and gender, was a Marxist feminist who argued for a reconstruction of academic disciplines in order to reflect the “structures of gender oppression that have subjugated women.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ibid.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> <i>Sexual Politics</i> is replete with citations of Engels, Marx, and Stalin. Millett, dubbed the “Karl Marx of the women’s liberation movement,” or “The Mao Tse-Dong of women’s liberation” (the latter by <i>The New York Times</i>), personified this new form of Marxism that is triumphant in America today.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Mike Gonzalez, The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free (New York: Encounter Books, 2020), p. 99.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Finally, there are academics, such as Dean Spade, a law professor at Seattle University who helped to found the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit organization inspired by the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the activism of Marsha Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two transvestites who founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970. Spade is an academic and activist who supports a “Critical Trans Politics” that embraces many tenets of Marxist thought.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Dean Spade, “What’s Wrong with Rights?” in Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, & the Limits of Law (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Spade has contributed to an anthology titled <i>Towards an Ethics of Activism</i>, in which BLM co-founder Alicia Garza is also featured.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Frances S. Lee, ed., Anthology: Toward an Ethics of Activism, 2018, https://francesslee.medium.com/toward-an-ethics-of-activism-a-community-investigation-of-humility-grace-and-compassion-in-377948c84e7e (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> This current generation of gender theorists, like Spade, Wendy Brown, and Judith Butler, urge the dismantling of the American status quo and criticize the emphasis that others place on equality. “Gender equality” as civil rights and law issues is not enough. Instead, they believe the entire system is corrupt and in need of liberation.</p>
<p>In practice, this academic jargon has tragic consequences, such as minors undergoing the routine amputation of perfectly healthy body parts, and hormonal interventions that fill their young bodies with toxins. “These are deeply invasive and often irreversible procedures that destroy functioning and alter visible physical structures,” explained former Heritage Foundation analyst Ryan Anderson.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ryan Anderson, “Protect Good Medicine, Stop the Censorship of Good Counseling,” Heritage Foundation Commentary, October 26, 2020, https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/protect-good-medicine-stop-the-censorship-good-counseling.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> And here, again, the institutions in charge of the culture exercised their ruthless censorship over those who would dare question the new cultural Marxist regime. In February 2021, Amazon banned sales of Anderson’s book <i>When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment</i>.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Virginia Allen, “Based on False Assumptions, Amazon Still Censoring Book on Transgenderism,” The Daily Signal, January 9, 2022, https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/09/based-on-false-assumption-amazon-still-censoring-book-on-transgenderism/.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>It is not by any means the first time that Marxists used sex and children to undermine the authority of parents, the church, and the state. One particularly disturbing example occurred in the early 20th century during the short-lived Hungarian Soviet state of 1919. Its education and culture commissar Georg Lukacs ordered schools to instruct young children on sexual perversions like those of today. According to his biographer,</p>
<blockquote>Special lectures were organized in schools and literature printed and distributed to “instruct” children about free love, about the nature of sexual intercourse, about the archaic nature of bourgeois family codes, about the outdatedness of monogamy, and the irrelevance of religion, which deprives man of all pleasure. Children [were] urged thus to reject and deride paternal authority and the authority of the church, and to ignore precepts of morality.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Victor Zitta, Georg Lukács’ Marxism, Alienation, Dialectics, Revolution (Berlin: Springer, 2016), p. 106.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p><b>Climate. </b>America’s wars over climate are also a part of a Marxist strategy. No less a figure than Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says he walked away from environmentalism in the late 1980s because it was taken over by Marxists. He said in a 1997 interview that composition of Greenpeace changed dramatically after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Communism’s demise behind the Iron Curtain brought with it the growth of anti-corporate extremism. According to Moore,</p>
<blockquote>suddenly, the international peace movement had a lot less to do. Pro-Soviet groups in the West were discredited. Many of their members moved into the environmental movement, bringing with them their eco-Marxism and pro-Sandinista sentiments. A lot of those in the peace movement were anti-American and, to an extent, pro-Soviet. By virtue of their anti-Americanism, they tended to sometimes favor the communist approach. A lot of those people, a lot of those social activists, moved into the environmental movement once the peace movement was no longer relevant.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>John Elvin, “A Green Activist Changes Colors—Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore,” Insight on the News, October 20, 1997.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>Social activists, Moore told <i>Insight on the News</i>, “are now using the rhetoric of environmentalism to promote other collectivist agendas, such as class struggle—which I personally believe is a legitimate area, but I don’t believe it’s legitimate to mix it up with environmentalism.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Anderson, “Protect Good Medicine, Stop the Censorship of Good Counseling.”</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>One can see why Van Jones, at one time President Barack Obama’s “green jobs czar,” found it so easy to go from being a self-described communist who in 1994 co-founded the collective Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which trained young activists on Marx and Lenin, to joining the Apollo Alliance, which promoted environmental efforts, after STORM disintegrated in 2002.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Eliza Strickland, “The New Face of Environmentalism,” East Bay Express, November 2, 2005, https://eastbayexpress.com/the-new-face-of-environmentalism-1/ (accessed May 20, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Cultural Marxists have used the climate debate to take over the corporate world to advance their cause. They do this mainly through the use of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) rules. ESG is a nebulous and even benign-sounding term, and hence many people unwittingly sign on to it believing it to mean simply more conscientious behavior by corporations. In fact, ESG is the framework through which corporations adopt policies which are socialist and collectivist in nature and directly counter free-market principles. Under the guise of ESG, a public company must place the ends of environmentalism, diversity, and equity above the traditional ends of efficiency, innovation, and excellence, which are the normal drivers in the free market, and which are, ultimately, the factors that drive wealth creation—not just for corporate owners and employees, but for all investors—and that means many ordinary Americans whose retirement funds are invested in American corporations. Investment firms and proxy advisory service companies that provide advice to asset managers on how to vote on proxy proposals at shareholder meetings, will, for example, instruct companies to bend to their will.</p>
<p>The point man for ESG is Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, an asset company that has a $10 trillion global portfolio. “Fink leverages this immense power to compel companies that BlackRock invests in to comply with an aggressive climate change and diversity agenda in their operations,” writes Heritage Foundation fellow Richard Reinsch.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Richard Reinsch, “Larry Fink of BlackRock and His Global Crusade to Advance Identity Politics,” Heritage Foundation Commentary, January 28, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/larry-fink-blackrock-and-his-global-crusade-advance-identity-politics (accessed September 15, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Fink’s closely read annual letter to CEOs makes clear his commitment to both climate extremism and DEI. His 2020 letter warned that BlackRock “will be increasingly disposed to vote against management and board directors when companies are not making sufficient progress on sustainability-related disclosures and the business practices and plans underlying them.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>John Elvin, “A Green Activist Changes Colors—Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore,” Insight on the News, October 20, 1997.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>The following year, Fink’s 2021 letter paid homage to the wave of destruction that the cultural Marxist leaders of BLM had inflicted on the United States in 2020, but which Fink referred to as “a wave of historic protests for racial justice in the United States and around the world.” He then added, “we ask that your disclosures on talent strategy fully reflect your long-term plans to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion, as appropriate by region.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Larry Fink’s 2021 letter to CEOs, https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/2021-larry-fink-ceo-letter (accessed September 15, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>Assets worth $10 trillion can bring a lot of leverage. That is a gargantuan amount, which means that most investors—that is, most people reading those words—will directly or indirectly own funds managed by BlackRock. (Fidelity Investment, in but one example, has formed a strategic alliance with BlackRock.) All of which means that investor money is being used to force companies into taking a knee for cultural Marxist policies. But just in case businesses try to opt out of ESG, activists will force companies to adopt the Marxist practices. As Reinsch explains it,</p>
<blockquote>to woke activists and government officials, opting out of ESG is not an option. So, they force noncompliant businesses to conform to ESG by artificially creating real costs for not doing so. They do this through litigation. They will sue companies—often with dubious or plainly meritless cases—just to create litigation risk and costs. Even if the claims are meritless, businesses face real costs measured in lawyers’ fees, litigation costs, and the risk—however small—of a monetary judgment. As companies plan, they must consider such costs. Activists in and out of government deliberately create these costs to make it less attractive for companies to refuse to adopt ESG priorities.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Reinsch, “Larry Fink of BlackRock and His Global Crusade to Advance Identity Politics.”</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>Software giant Oracle, for example, was sued by shareholders insisting that Oracle had “breached its fiduciary duty by failing to have meaningful diversity on its board and workforce.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>“Oracle Wins Dismissal of Shareholders’ Board Diversity Suit,” Bloomberg Law, May 24, 2021, https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/oracle-wins-dismissal-of-shareholders-board-diversity-suit (accessed September 12, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Oracle won dismissal of the suit, but the case was costly.</p>
<p>One can therefore see why companies such as Starbucks set targets on the percentage of “diverse people” who have to be hired, why they set executive bonuses according to the attainment of these targets, or why Coca-Cola stated that any outside law firms it hires must have a certain percentage of minority representation.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ed Whelan, “Coke No Longer So Woke, Lest It Go Broke,” National Review, March 28, 2022, https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/coke-no-longer-so-woke-lest-it-go-broke/ (accessed October 24, 2022)</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>It is important to recognize and declare exactly what ESG does—it coerces. It forces companies to invest in issues that are not directly relevant to their business and to neglect their fiduciary duty to investors.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Patrick Tyrrell, “What Is Wrong with ESG ‘Wokeism’?” Heritage Foundation Commentary, September 30, 2021, https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/what-wrong-esg-wokeism (accessed October 12, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> It forces them to judge in favor of some individuals and against others for such immutable qualities as skin color, race, or sexual orientation.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>See, for example, the lawsuit brought against American Express by white employees alleging reverse discrimination: Anna Allen, “American Express Discriminated Against Employees, Lawsuit Alleges,” The Washington Free Beacon, August 25, 2022, https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/american-express-discriminated-against-white-employees-lawsuit-alleges/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> As West Virginia’s State Treasurer Riley Moore has put it, “ESG redefines capitalism so that it serves the purposes of the left.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Riley Moore speech at National Conservative Conference III, Miami, September 10–13, 2022.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p><b>The Post-Soviet Consolidation. </b>This all-out demolition of all the foundations of American and Western society has succeeded beyond what most people thought possible following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2017, on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik victory in Russia, Anne Applebaum wrote in <i>The Washington Post</i>:</p>
<blockquote>So discredited was Bolshevism after the Soviet Union’s demise in 1991 that, for a quarter of a century, it seemed as if Bolshevik thinking was gone for good. But suddenly, now, in the year of the revolution’s centenary, it’s back.… In the United States, the Marxist left has also consolidated on the fringes of the Democratic Party—and sometimes not even on the fringes—as well as on campuses, where it polices the speech of its members, fights to prevent students from hearing opposing viewpoints, and teaches a dark, negative version of American history, one calculated to create doubts about democracy and to cast shadows on all political debate. The followers of this new alt-left spurn basic patriotism and support America’s opponents, whether in Russia or the Middle East. As in Britain, they don’t remember the antecedents of their ideas and they don’t make a connection between their language and the words used by fanatics of a different era.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Anne Applebaum, “100 Years Later, Bolshevism Is Back. And We Should Be Very Worried,” The Washington Post, November 6, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/bolshevism-then-and-now/2017/11/06/830aecaa-bf41-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html (accessed October 12, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>Whether they all recognize themselves as Marxists or not does not matter. They are heirs to the “fanatics of a different era” and must be confronted.</p>
<h3>The Fundamental Purpose and Identity of the United States</h3>
<blockquote>[T]o form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.</blockquote>
<blockquote>—Preamble to the Constitution</blockquote>
<p>It is important to take a look, albeit briefly, at what exactly the cultural Marxists are in the process of trying to destroy. The Marxists’ lust for societal destruction would annihilate not an old and immoral European monarchy, a Tsarist empire, or a corrupt third-world dictatorship, but one of man’s most successful and noble experiments—the United States. It has been an immeasurable force for good for Americans and for the world.</p>
<p>The fundamental purpose of the United States, as conceived by the Founders, was to create the optimum conditions for human flourishing. The Founders drew from the knowledge and experience of millennia to craft a society in which they believed the greatest good could accrue to the greatest number. They never set out to create a perfect society; they knew that sin and imperfection affected all men, and therefore perfection on this earth was not possible. But they believed they could create a better political order than the monarchies and aristocracies that existed at the time by learning from and building on what had come before. They respected self-governance; they recognized fallen humanity; they checked ambition with ambition; they recognized individuals rights and the right to private property as well as the rights of minorities; and they believed strongly in limiting the power of government.</p>
<p>What the Founders crafted succeeded far beyond what most Europeans of the time expected. Never has a country been established with such high aspirations and unbridled optimism. Indeed, never had a country been created with such forethought and planning. As Alexander Hamilton put it in <i>Federalist</i> No. 1,</p>
<blockquote>it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1, Yale Law School, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed01.asp (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>What emerged was a country deeply and profoundly committed to ordered liberty.</p>
<p>James Madison, reflecting on the Founding, said, “The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world,” then adding, “woe to the ambition that would meditate the destruction of either.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>James Madison, Union. Chapter 7, Document 27, https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch7s27.html (accessed October 18, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> That dual spirit of aspiration and optimism has allowed Americans, where others might give up or simply not try in the first place, to carve a home out of wilderness, to break free from a great empire, to end the scourge of slavery, and to defy assaults both from without and within. That dual spirit of aspiration and optimism emboldened America’s Founding Fathers to write into the Founding documents what Martin Luther King, Jr., would later describe as the promissory note of equality. “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,” King said in his famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial, “they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Martin Luther King, “I have a Dream Speech,” August 28, 1963, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mlk01.asp (accessed October 18, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>In the 400 years since the first seeds of the American idea were planted with the Mayflower Compact, Americans have experienced extraordinary opportunity, prosperity, and freedom—characteristics which in themselves do not define human flourishing, but which are the necessary preconditions.</p>
<p>Has it been a perfect experiment? No earthly thing can be. But where it has erred, Americans have demonstrated both the flexibility and the will to self-correct. As Abraham Lincoln said on June 26, 1857: The Founders</p>
<blockquote>meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Springfield, Illinois, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2, The Abraham Lincoln Association, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/ (accessed October 18, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p><i>A standard maxim, familiar to all, revered by all, constantly approximated</i>. This was a formula for human flourishing grounded in a profound understanding of human nature, of the invariable tendency to corruption and tyranny, of the limitless potential for human suffering—but also of the capacity of men to understand better than anyone else their own interests. The American experiment has retained its vibrancy and relevance through the centuries exactly because so many have sought respite from corruption and tyranny.</p>
<p>The Founders’ commitment to liberty has not just served Americans well but has marked America as the beacon of freedom around the world. At his acceptance speech for the 2022 Bradley Prize, the Chinese dissident Chen Guangsheng said,</p>
<blockquote>Truly, in the hearts of those who refuse to be enslaved, America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is a beacon of freedom and a model of democracy. America holds the hopes and dreams of humanity. The Constitution and the rule of law guarantee democracy, freedom, human rights, and social justice. With the three branches of government, power is limited, and freedom of speech and religion are protected. The people are free to pursue their dreams. So, America is the most dynamic nation on earth, not only a superpower in wealth and strength, but also in goodwill and potential.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Remarks by Chen Guangcheng, delivered at the 18th Annual Bradley Prize Ceremony, Washington, DC, May 17, 2022.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>This is what cultural Marxists and their associated movements seek to end. They want to destroy the American experiment. BLM co-founder Alicia Garza is clear that her organization seeks to “chang[e] how we’ve organized this country…. I believe we all have work to do to keep dismantling the organizing principle of this society.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Dan Neumann, “Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Maine Can Be a Leader in Dismantling White Nationalism, Beacon,” Beacon, June 28, 2019, https://mainebeacon.com/black-lives-matter-co-founder-maine-can-be-a-leader-in-dismantling-white-nationalism/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Her co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, says: “It is going to take complete transformation—at all branches of government—to change the fate of this country.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore, “Ferguson Protest to #FergusonNext. 5 Paths to Progress After Non-Indictment,” The Guardian, November 24, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/24/ferguson-protests-progress-non-indictment-grand-jury (accessed Sept. 27, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> They have dispensed with the primacy of reason in favor of the primacy of power—their power. Cultural Marxists are brazenly candid that it is power they seek. “Life without power is death, a world without power would be a ghostly wasteland, a dead planet,” wrote Alinsky in <i>Rules for Radicals</i>, where he uses the word “power” 72 times. “Organize for power,”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1971), p. 10.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> instructed Alinsky. Garza adds, “Power is very much about deciding who gets to make decisions, and who doesn’t…. The struggle right now is not a moral one, it is a struggle over power.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Neumann, “Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Maine Can Be a Leader in Dismantling White Nationalism.”</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<h3>A Strategy for Defeating Cultural Marxism</h3>
<p>The United States has faced communists intent on taking power before, and won the struggle, as Felicity Barringer noted, just as a new struggle was being birthed at home. The Cold War focused the minds of this country’s best and brightest. National Security Council Paper 68, referred to as NSC-68, written in 1950 as the struggle against the Soviet Union was taking a pivotal turn, provided the blueprint for how America would defeat that communist threat. The military and political threat would be defeated by: (1) building up the U.S. military to guarantee victory in a kinetic war (and by doing so deter pre-emptive action by Moscow); (2) providing economic and military aid to U.S. allies in Europe, strengthening NATO, and thus creating a bulwark against expansion by the Soviets; and (3) changing the inimical and belligerent nature of the enemy through a targeted informational campaign delegitimizing its oppressive regime and promoting dissent among its citizens and the captive nations within the Soviet bloc.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, “A Report to the National Security Council–NSC 68,” April 12, 1950, https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/report-national-security-council-nsc-68?documentid=NA&pagenumber=1 (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>These objectives were, for the most part, driven by the federal government. However, nongovernmental organizations and actors were also crucial to the victory against the communist threat and their role must not be underestimated, especially given the impact of Saint John Paul II’s anti-communist actions as Pope and the influence of dissident intellectuals, such as Alexandre Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. However, today’s threat environment, with a largely internal adversary, requires a different framework for its strategic response.</p>
<p><b>Focus Locally. </b>Cultural Marxists have already shown the way. Their “long march through the institutions” should inform the counterstrategy. While conservatives focused on the high-level aspects of American politics—national races, general elections, presidential campaigns, and policies that were driven from the top down—the Gramscians took monies from left-leaning donors and mega-foundations and focused their sights on local centers of political and cultural dominance.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Note, for example, George Soros’s efforts to elect radical prosecutors. See, for example, Charles D. Stimson and Zack Smith, “‘Progressive’ Prosecutors Sabotage the Rule of Law, Raise Crime Rates, and Ignore Victims,” Heritage Foundation Legal Memorandum No. 275, October 29, 2020, https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/progressive-prosecutors-sabotage-the-rule-law-raise-crime-rates-and-ignore.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> From using Soros money to fund “social justice” candidates for district attorney’s offices, to installing pro-CRT officials on schoolboards, the approach eschewed the obvious and national for the far more impactful subtle and local centers of power. Conservatives must take back these territories first. This is cultural trench warfare that will be needed to win back every inch of political territory ceded to an adversary that thought globally but acted locally for decades. Many of the different strategies laid out here thus involve action at the state level and local level. Until a new President replaces Joe Biden, it is unlikely that those who want to resist can look to Washington, DC, for answers.</p>
<p><b>National Leadership. </b>The importance of local action is not to say that national action by national figures is irrelevant. When President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban divisive and racist anti-American “diversity training”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>The White House, “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping,” September 22, 2020, https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-race-sex-stereotyping/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> within the federal government and companies contracting with the government, he placed an important marker in the sand. The war against the internal threat of cultural Marxism will require a type of strategy that combines local and state activists with national centers of influence and power in novel ways. Here are some examples of how an effective multilevel response could be built: Whoever succeeds Joe Biden in the Oval Office, of either party, should do the right thing and sign new executive orders and laws that target the nonprofit status of colleges with mega-endowments that promote racist policies, such as segregated graduations or violations of freedom of speech, or any practice that contravenes existing law. Non-governmental not-for-profit initiatives to exert financial and political pressure on the most woke universities would be an essential force multiplier in weakening the grip of cultural Marxists upon academe.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>See, for example Turning Point USA’s DivestU initiative. Brooke Singman, “Conservative Group Launches ‘DivestU’ to Redirect Donations Away from Liberal Colleges,” FoxNews, July 16, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-group-launches-divestu-to-redirect-donations-away-from-liberal-colleges (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p><b>Reversing the Takeover of Educational Institutions. </b>Americans must recognize that universities have become incubators of Marxism, and even K–12 education has now been caught up in the culture war with the widespread use of CRT, sexual indoctrination, gender ideology, and DEI in classrooms.</p>
<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) showed one path for accomplishing the reversal of these evolutions through tackling the issues of tenure, viewpoint diversity, and accreditation.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Susan Svrluga and Lori Rozsa, “In Florida, DeSantis Plans for Colleges Rattle Some Academics,” The Washington Post, July 1, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/01/desantis-florida-universities-laws/ (accessed August 10, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> It may be hard for small-government conservatives to accept, but government can use its legitimate power to make changes that will lessen the grip of cultural Marxists on American institutions.</p>
<p>Additionally, Americans at all levels of government should:</p>
<p><i>Help Employers to Move Away from the Bachelor’s Degree as a Proxy for Employability.</i><b> </b>Ever since <i>Griggs v. Duke Power</i>,<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Griggs v. Duke Power Company, Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/401/424/ (accessed August 10, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> the 1971 Supreme Court decision that said that companies may not use job requirements that exclude members of a certain race from employability even if no discriminatory intent exists, employers have tended to use a bachelor’s degree as a proxy for employment capabilities tests. Subject-specific tests are already legal, however, and government<b> </b>can take steps to help employers expand the use of tests. The technology sector is leading the way.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>See, for example, Lindsey M. Burke, “It Is Time for States to Break Up with Education Colleges,” Heritage Foundation Commentary, September 16, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/its-time-states-break-education-colleges.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> The Supreme Court can also make things easier by revisiting <i>Griggs</i>, which the National Association of Scholars’ Neetu Arnold calls “a logical next step.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Neetu Arnold, “A Novel Plan to Reduce Student Debt,” Law & Liberty, August 8, 2022, https://lawliberty.org/a-novel-plan-to-reduce-student-debt/ (accessed August 10, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> The federal government can also be induced to relax its requirements for employment.</p>
<p><i>Limit Federal Higher Education Subsidies.</i><b> </b>This is the obvious alternative to President Biden’s student loan forgiveness. Representatives Virginia Foxx (R–NC), Elise Stefanik (R–NY), and Jim Banks (R–IN) have introduced the Responsible Education Assistance Act which, among other things, would help Americans excluded from the post-secondary education system to gain access to high-quality short-term programs that would give them marketable skills.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>News release, “Foxx, Stefanik, Banks Announce Responsible Alternative to Biden’s Blanket Student Loan Scheme,” Committee on Education and Labor, Republicans, August 4, 2022, https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408476 (accessed August 10, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p><i>Cap “Indirect Costs” at Universities Subsidized by Federal Taxpayers.</i><b> </b>As Heritage’s Jay Greene has pointed out, taxpayers fund the cultural Marxist agenda at universities to the tune of $100 million per university, per year.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Jay P. Greene and John Schoof, “Indirect Costs: How Taxpayers Subsidize University Nonsense,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3681, January 18, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/education/report/indirect-costs-how-taxpayers-subsidize-university-nonsense.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> This is mostly through federal grants for research, which ends up subsidizing the research agendas of the Ford Foundation, George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, and Google Research. Universities also use taxpayer dollars to fund DEI activity. Greene proposes that Congress</p>
<blockquote>cap the indirect rate federal agencies pay for research overhead so that it does not exceed the lowest rate that a university accepts from a private organization. This market mechanism will force all funders to pay the true indirect cost rate, thereby eliminating the taxpayer cross-subsidy of private organizations and reducing the ability of universities to fund ideological and illiberal activity on campus.</blockquote>
<p><i>Ban Mandatory DEI Statements and Bias Response Teams at Public Universities.</i><b> </b>This obvious and necessary step can be achieved by defunding DEI staff and offices at public universities, making DEI statements voluntary, which would effectively eliminate them. It would be incumbent on political leaders to make clear how these terms have been reinterpreted by cultural Marxists: Diversity means numerical proportionalism and can only be achieved through violating the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause and by using coercion; equity means treating Americans differently because of their race; and inclusion has come to mean language codes. The organizations Speech First and the Goldwater Institute have produced model legislation that states:</p>
<blockquote>A public university or community college of this state shall not establish nor use public resources to support any office, position, or system whose function is to:</blockquote>
<blockquote>A) Investigate, threaten disciplinary action, or otherwise punish enrolled students for expressions of speech protected by state or federal law, including but not limited to speech pertaining to disagreements of opinion; political beliefs or affiliations; or perceived bias, prejudice, stereotypes, or intolerance.</blockquote>
<blockquote>B) Solicit the reporting of incidents of student speech protected by state or federal law, including but not limited to speech pertaining to disagreements of opinion; political beliefs or affiliations; or perceived bias, prejudice, stereotypes, or intolerance.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Speech First, Goldwater Institute, “Protecting Students from Bias Reporting Systems–Model Legislation,” July 2022, http://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BRT-Model-Policy.pdf (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p><i>Pass Legislation Banning the Implementation of CRT and Gender Theory in K–12 Classrooms.</i> Together with Heritage’s Jonathan Butcher and Heritage’s sister organization Heritage Action, the authors of this <i>Special Report</i> have helped leaders in 20-plus states to write or enact legislation that bans the implementation of CRT practices that violate the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act. Establishing parental rights in every state as well as reconfiguring funding for K–12 education so that the funds follow the student rather than the institution would also go a long way in redressing the current ideological conformity in schools.</p>
<p><b>Prosecuting the Sexualization of Children. </b>One of the most grotesque ways in which the cultural Marxists negatively affect people’s lives comes at the confluence of sex and children as early as elementary school. This includes pernicious instruction on sexual practices, the rush to respond to any sign of gender dysphoria with opposite-sex pronouns and names behind the back of unsuspecting parents or, worse, with the amputation of healthy reproductive organs—against the will, or without the knowledge, of parents. And as described earlier, Georg Lukacs revealed how Marxists are intent on using sexual depravity to overthrow existing society.</p>
<p>Society must fight back, but how? The Biden Administration is not only of no help, it is the main culprit pushing this ideology. President Biden’s top people behave more like Lukacs than like statesmen looking after the interests of the American people. The Administration insists that “gender-affirming” care, an Orwellian euphemism for the horrific practices detailed above (the amputations, the toxic therapies that leave children sterile for life, the indoctrination), is the best medical approach. Indeed as Emilie Kao at the Alliance Defending Freedom writes, the federal government is enacting policies in both education and health care that could override state protections of parental rights.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Jay W. Richards and Grace Melton, “The White House Plan to Make Gender Ideology a Central Theme of the American Experiment,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3686, February 17, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/the-white-house-plan-make-gender-ideology-central-theme-the-american-experiment.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> The Administration also issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that reinterprets “discrimination on the basis of sex” in Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments to include “gender identity.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>U.S. Department of Education, “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance,” Federal Register, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Vol. 87, No. 132 (July 12, 2022), https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/07/12/2022-13734/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> This will make it impossible to do anything to stop those adults who prey on children, including those with gender dysphoria.</p>
<p>Congress must, therefore, do all it can to protect the right of parents to be in charge of their children’s upbringing, and to ensure that courts apply the highest legal standard of review and strictest scrutiny of federal government policies. This high standard will strengthen the ability of parents to challenge federal policies that exclude them from making crucial decisions for their children. For that to happen, both houses of Congress must be held by conservatives, and these conservatives must find the courage to protect parents. President Biden is sure to veto any legislation of this type, of course, so Congress must attach it to “must-pass” bills and stand its ground.</p>
<p>And, of course, there are the states. Kao points out that Arizona, Florida, and other states have enacted parental rights laws that recognize and strengthen the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>The Heritage Foundation, “Protecting Children and Families with Parents’ Bills of Rights,” April 11, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/education/report/protecting-children-and-families-parents-bills-rights. Currently, 15 states protect parental rights as fundamental rights in statute, while 35 do not. See Parentalrights.org, “Protecting Parental Rights at the State Level,” https://parentalrights.org/states/ (accessed October 13, 2022) (citing statutes from Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> The Surgeon General of Florida has challenged the Administration’s “gender-affirming” approach.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Florida Department of Health, “Treatment of Gender Dysphoria for Children and Adolescents April 20, 2022,” https://www.floridahealth.gov/_documents/newsroom/press-releases/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-guidance.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery (accessed April 20, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> States are prohibiting the use of Medicaid funds for gender transition and banning these procedures on minors.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Anne Branigan and Annie Gowan, “Florida to Bar Medicaid Coverage for Those Seeking Gender-Affirming Care,” The Washington Post, August 11, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/11/florida-transgender-medicaid/ (accessed October 13, 2022); Chelsey Cox, “As Arkansas Bans Treatments for Transgender Youth, 15 Other States Consider Similar Bills,” USA Today, April 8, 2021, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/08/states-consider-bills-medical-treatments-transgender-youth/7129101002/ (accessed October 13, 2022); Renuka Rayasam, “The Transgender Care that States Are Banning, Explained,” Politico, March 25, 2022, https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2022/03/25/the-transgender-care-that-states-are-banning-explained-00020580 (accessed October 13, 2022); and “Tennessee Governor OKs Transgender Youth Treatment Ban,” NBC News, May 20, 2021, https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/tennessee-governor-oks-transgender-youth-treatment-ban-rcna985 (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>This is an area where being one of the most litigious societies on earth will help. Parents and the burgeoning number of “detransitioners” must avail themselves of the many legal foundations willing to work with them to sue the unethical medical practitioners engaging in this medieval-style butchery, or against adults who are clearly grooming young children to satisfy their own perverted urges. Americans should look across the Atlantic and take their cues from a lawsuit brought by a female detransitioner against the Tavistock Clinic, Britain’s main gender clinic. It highlighted the lasting physical, emotional, and mental damage experienced by thousands of young people.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Keira Bell, “Keira Bell: My Story,” Persuasion, April 7, 2021, https://www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story?triedSigningIn=true (accessed October 13, 2022). These changes were triggered when Keira Bell, a young woman in the United Kingdom, sued the nation’s gender identity clinic arguing that she was too young to provide informed consent to procedures that cause irreversible harm. Doctors prescribed her puberty blockers at age 15, testosterone injections at age 16, and then performed a double mastectomy on her at age 20.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> It may also spark a wave of class action lawsuits.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Eleanor Hayward, “Tavistock Gender Clinic ‘to Be Sued by 1,000 Families,’” The Times, August 11, 2022, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tavistock-gender-clinic-to-be-sued-by-1-000-families-lbsw6k8zd (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p><b>Dismantling the Racial Taxonomy. </b>The cultural Marxist strategy of instilling grievances based on racial and sexual categories depends on the creation of the categories themselves. Government played the indispensable role that only government can play in the creation of the racial identities we have today by making them official. Even when these identities were synthetic constructions of cultural Marxists, government gave them its imprimatur when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1966 started asking companies with more than 100 employees to collect information on “Negro, American Indian, Oriental and Spanish-surnamed” employees.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Edwin Meese and Mike Gonzalez, “Trump Can Help Overcome Identity Politics,” The Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-can-help-overcome-identity-politics-1519772254 (accessed August 10, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> In 1977, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made official the five categories of “white,” “black,” “Hispanic,” “Native American,” and “Asian” (what demographers sometimes call “the ethno-racial pentagon”).<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Directive No. 15,” as adopted on May 12, 1977, https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/populations/bridged-race/directive15.html (accessed August 10, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Government, therefore, bears the responsibility for getting rid of these identities that have become the instruments of cultural Marxist organizers. Activists effectively turned the original goal of the Civil Rights Act—to force government to adopt race-neutral policies—on its head.</p>
<p>Because of the OMB’s Policy Directive No. 15, the Census now demands that Americans identify themselves as one of these categories. If people refuse to think of themselves in this manner, the government will make that decision for them. The Census Bureau allocates Americans to one of the minority OMB categories if they put a check mark on the “other race” box, using neighborhood data as guide. Social scientist David Hollinger has explained that, in the rush to make America a “majority minority” nation, the OMB has instructed the Census Bureau to “allocate” responses that “combine one minority race and white” to “the minority race.” As Hollinger puts it, “thus the federal government quietly reinserted into the tabulation of the census the principle of hypodescent”—the technical term for the old segregationist one-drop rule—“that the opportunity to make ‘more than one’ was publicly said to repudiate.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Meese and Gonzalez, “Trump Can Help Overcome Identity Politics.”</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>There is, in other words, no escape. All levels of government follow this scheme, which is now being copied by virtually all institutions—public and private.</p>
<p>What can be done about this? In 2018, Mike Gonzalez co-authored with Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese a solution that was published in <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>. They wrote:</p>
<blockquote>Mr. Hollinger has proposed to do away with the pan-ethnic groups altogether and “count instead those inhabitants who identify with descent communities from specific countries.” The 2020 census starts down that path by adding a “write-in area” for countries of descent for both whites and blacks, as well as Hispanics, but will still divide them under the pan-ethnic umbrellas.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ibid.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>Sociologist Nathan Glazer, co-author with Daniel Patrick Moynihan of the classic 1963 study “Beyond the Melting Pot,” has similarly proposed asking only questions on national descent, and going back only as far as grandparents, “because by the third generation and certainly the fourth, the mix of ethnicities is extensive,” as he wrote in 2002.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Nathan Glazer, “Do We Need the Census Question?” National Affairs, No. 53 (Fall 2002), https://www.nationalaffairs.com/public_interest/detail/do-we-need-the-census-race-question (accessed October 24, 2022)</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>President Biden surely will not do it, but his successor can make sure that the 2030 Census is rid of this problem by issuing an executive order that directs the OMB to rescind Directive No. 15 and a revision that the OMB issued in 1997. The executive order must also instruct all other agencies to stop collecting this data.</p>
<p>The next President should also disband the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations (NAC), which was chartered by President Obama in 2012. It controls how the Census (and therefore the nation) approaches race. Its membership is made up of all the groups of the identitarian left—Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), the Mexican–American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), the National Urban League, the Alliance of Iranian Americans, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, Asian American Decisions, the Japanese American National Museum, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Native American Rights Fund, the Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander National Network, Plataforma Afrodescendiente, the U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, and the Supreme Court Committee on Minority Concerns. Other members are mostly academics involved in ethnic studies, critical race theory, and multiculturalism.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Mike Gonzalez, “Inside the U.S. Government Agency Where Identity Politics Was Born,” Quillette, October 23, 2018, https://quillette.com/2018/10/23/inside-the-us-government-agency-where-identity-politics-was-born/ (accessed August 10, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>These groups forged these identities with power in mind. As the writer Benjamin Francis–Fallon suggests, “ethnic leaders and elected officials sought to forge several peoples into one” because they recognized that ethnic solidarity was “an instrument of political power, one that could produce the society that they desired.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Benjamin Francis–Fallon, “Minority Reports: The Emergence of Pan-Hispanic Politics, 1945–1980,” dissertation submitted to Georgetown University, June 22, 2012, https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/557625 (accessed June 28, 2018).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> These activists wanted to prevent the new immigrants, from places such as China, Colombia, Cuba, Korea, Mexico, and Vietnam, from going through the assimilationist process that had made millions of Armenians, East European Jews, Greeks, Irish, Lebanese, Sicilians, and Swedes into Americans. The activists instead sought to create the victimization of collectives. They wanted to change America. As Courtney Jung, one of the cultural Marxist theorists, put it in a 2006 paper,</p>
<blockquote>a political identity does not arise spontaneously. Instead, by using categories of race, gender, and class to define an unequal distribution of rights and privileges, liberal democratic societies compel some of their members to identify with others of a similar ethnic, sexual, or economic character.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Courtney Jung, “Why Liberals Should Value ‘Identity Politics,’” Dædalus, Vol. 135, No. 4 (Fall 2006), p. 32, https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/daed.2006.135.4.32 (accessed July 26, 2018).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>The NAC charter and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) give the Secretary of Commerce the authority to terminate the committee. According to the FACA, “Determinations of action to be taken and policy to be expressed with respect to matters upon which an advisory committee reports or makes recommendations shall be made solely by the President or an officer of the Federal Government.” Since the Secretary of Commerce established the NAC in 2012, under the FACA, the Secretary is authorized to terminate the NAC. The next President must see to it that it happens.</p>
<p><b>ESG: Fight Fire with Fire. </b>ESG is another area where the states are leading, and this will probably need to remain state-led, given that state pension funds controlled by state financial officers are asset behemoths that can get the attention of woke financial companies. It is therefore a welcome sign that more than a dozen states are drafting or considering plans to punish banks and other financial asset managers who impose ESG rules on companies in their states. State financial officers in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming are considering barring major financial asset managers from doing business with the state.</p>
<p>These states were led by West Virginia’s State Treasurer Riley Moore, who on July 28, 2022, placed five major financial institutions—Larry Fink’s BlackRock, as well as Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo—on a “Restricted Financial Institution List” that restricts their activities in the state because of their boycott of the fossil-fuel sector.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Treasury of the State of West Virginia “Restricted Financial Institution List,” https://wvtreasury.com/portals/wvtreasury/content/legal/memorandum/Restricted-Financial-Institutions-List.pdf (accessed September 16, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Inclusion on the list authorizes the state treasurer to take the following actions:</p>
<ul><li><b>Disqualify</b> a restricted financial institution from the competitive bidding process or from any other official selection process;</li>
<li><b>Refuse</b> to enter into a banking contract with a restricted financial institution based on its restricted financial institution status; or</li>
<li><b>Require</b>, as a term of any banking contract, an agreement by the financial institution not to engage in boycott of energy companies for the duration of the contract.</li>
</ul><p>“We’re not going to pay for our own destruction, we’re not going to subsidize that,” Moore told Fox Business in an interview. “They [ESG activists] have weaponized our tax dollars against the very people and industry that have generated them to begin with. That is why we’re pushing back against this ESG movement.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Thomas Catenacci, “Republican States Are Planning an All-Out Assault on Woke Banks,” FoxBusiness, August 3, 2022, https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/republican-states-planning-assault-woke-banks-wont-do-business (accessed September 16, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Moore gained an immediate victory when Bancorp pledged not to boycott fossil fuels to avoid being placed on the list.<b> </b></p>
<p>The chief financial officer in DeSantis’s Florida agrees, saying in July 2022 that</p>
<blockquote>[f]or years now, the cult of ESG economic activists has been working overtime to infuse unwanted, woke ideology into the American economic system because they know their social policies wouldn’t pass the sniff test from voters. It’s anti-American, anti-freedom, a deliberate attempt to subvert our democracy and not in the best interest of Florida businesses, retirees, or investors.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Ibid.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>Governor DeSantis himself proposed legal and administrative actions<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>News release, “Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Initiatives to Protect Floridians from ESG Financial Fraud,” Ron DeSantis, July 27, 2022, https://www.flgov.com/2022/07/27/governor-ron-desantis-announces-initiatives-to-protect-floridians-from-esg-financial-fraud/ (accessed October 23, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> banning fund managers of the State Board of Administration surrendering to ESG scoring for Florida’s investments under the state’s retirement system. All this has potentially huge ramifications at all levels across American politics and culture, and it shows that state leaders can fight and resist cultural Marxism.</p>
<p><b>Investigating the BLM Organizations. </b>Because they have been the vector for the introduction of cultural Marxism into the lives of all Americans, getting serious about the threat that the BLM organizations represent is the most immediate, and easiest, thing that Americans can do to confront Marxism. That will have to involve Congress, which has the power to hold hearings. Congressional investigations are one of American society’s best self-defense mechanisms. Since 2020, all American institutions have been turned upside down, in what the media has mindlessly called a “racial reckoning.” Everything has been impacted—every institution, from school to the office, houses of worship, the military, sports leagues, and the corporate world, has been tinted with a heavy dogmatic hue that is new to American shores. Hundreds of riots and an estimated 12,000 demonstrations shook U.S. cities after the death of George Floyd in May 2020,<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>This information comes from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which coded over 660 events as riots in September 2020. The Excel spreadsheet containing the information has been removed from the website (https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/), but the authors have a record of it.</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> which left in their wake some $2 billion in property damage,<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Insurance Information Institute, “Facts and Statistics: Civil Disorder,” https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-civil-disorders (accessed July 28, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> making it the costliest disturbance in U.S. history, and at least 25 people dead as of Halloween that year.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Lois Beckett, “At Least 25 Americans Were Killed During Protests and Political Unrest in 2020,” The Guardian, October 31, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> The murder rate went up 30 percent in 2020 alone, far surpassing the highest previous spike of 12 percent in 1968—another politically charged year—and leaving open the question of whether some sort of “Ferguson” or “Minneapolis” effect, where crime rises because police pull back after riots, was at fault.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Paul Cassell, “Explaining the Recent Homicide Spikes in U.S. Cities,” Utah Law Faculty Scholarship, September 2020, https://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1216&context=scholarship (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></p>
<p>It is high time, therefore, for Congress to hold hearings on BLM, especially the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), the mothership of the movement, on its activities since 2013, but especially from the time of the Ferguson riots to the present, and on the 2020 riots. This is all the more important because BLMGNF was set up by women who were recruited and schooled by Marxists trained in the cultural Marxism discussed in this <i>Special Report</i>. These BLM architects have embraced violent action. They have called for the “complete transformation” of “all branches of government,”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Patrisse Cullors and Darnell Moore, “Ferguson Protests to #FergusonNext: 5 Paths to Progress After Non-Indictment,” The Guardian, November 24, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/24/ferguson-protests-progress-non-indictment-grand-jury (accessed July 29, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> and for “dismantling the organizing principle of this society.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Neumann, “Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Maine Can Be a Leader in Dismantling White Nationalism.”</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> They then went about achieving this through violence, intimidation, and infiltration. They were instructed on how to overthrow the United States and then set about doing exactly that. Any rational society would have already investigated them. The only reason this has not happened is that America’s political leaders, especially in Congress, are too cowed to investigate an organization with the words “Black Lives Matter” in its title, too afraid to be labeled as racists. Members themselves have been too scared so far to do what is right, and they have surrounded themselves with staff who seek only to protect them from controversy. Because congressional staff tend to be young, and all have gone through the “higher education” system, these staff members have also bought at least partially into the oppressor/oppressed narrative and third-world superiority that the U.S. educational system currently teaches.</p>
<p>Congress must therefore put Cullors, Alicia Garza, Melina Abdullah, Opal Tometi-Black, and others under oath, and ask them how much of the mayhem they coordinated, or BLMGNF coordinated. Congress must also question their intent. Congress must ask whether the BLM organizations really want to dismantle the nuclear family,<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Anthony Leonardi, “Black Lives Matter ‘What We Believe’ Page that Includes Disrupting ‘Nuclear Family Structure’ Removed from Website,” Washington Examiner, September 21, 2020, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/black-lives-matter-what-we-believe-page-that-includes-disrupting-nuclear-family-structure-removed-from-website (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> embrace central planning—as the LeftRoots organization, of whose coordinating committee Garza is a member, aims to do.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>LeftRoots, “We Need a Radical and Grounded Left,” https://leftroots.net/why-leftroots/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Members should also ask Garza what she means when she says, “It’s not possible for a world to emerge where black lives matter if it’s under capitalism. And it’s not possible to abolish capitalism without a struggle against national oppression and gender oppression.” She made these statements at the 2015 annual convention of the Marxist organization Left Forum.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Nick Kangadis, “Flashback, BLM Co-Founder in 2015, ‘It’s not Possible’ for Black Lives to Matter Unless we Abolish Capitalism,” MRC TV, September 16, 2020, https://www.mrctv.org/blog/flashback-blm-co-founder-2015-its-not-possible-black-lives-matter-until-capitalism-abolished (accessed August 1, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> Members of Congress should ask Tometi what she meant when she lauded Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s “participatory democracy.”<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Opal Tometi-Black, “Black Lives Matter Network Denounces U.S. ‘Continuing Intervention’ in Venezuela,” Venezuelaanalysis.com, December 26, 2015, https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/11789 (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> They should ask Cullors why she wants to not only defund the police, but also to abolish the prison and courts systems.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Democracy Now!, “Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors on Abolition and Imagining a Society Based on Care,” January, 31, 2020, https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/31/patrisse_cullors_an_abolitionists_handbook (accessed August 1, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> What does she envision will happen to society, and is the dismantling of society precisely what she intends through all these steps?</p>
<p>Such a committee looking into BLM must of course avoid the credibility deficiencies that plagued the January 6 panel. Both Republicans and Democrats must be allowed to appoint members, because cross-examination is indispensable in eliciting the truth. Even if they want to overthrow the Constitution and the constitutional order, the leaders and architects of BLM have constitutional rights as Americans. They have the right to try <i>peacefully </i>to convince their fellow Americans that it would be best to overthrow the country and start anew. But their fellow Americans also have a right to know what BLM stands for and what it is working toward. This is all the more true given the enormous resources that corporate America has poured into BLM, and the popular support the group still enjoys, although it has waned since its high of 2020. Ordinarily this would have been the job of the press, but whether because of newsroom coercion or because they were ideologically in synch (dare one say “fellow travelers”?), the press not only refused to do its job, but even prepared the ground for BLM’s work by changing the language itself. And of course, BLM did use violence to accomplish its aims.</p>
<p>There are also a number of different approaches that can be part of the overall anti-woke strategy. Congress should:</p>
<p><b>Re-classify Social Media Providers as Public Utilities. </b>The inordinate political power of the left-wing social media platforms that dominate information flows today will only be broken as the result of a multifront, multi-actor war against the likes of Twitter and Facebook. As conservative foundations and citizens’ groups convince Capitol Hill and the executive to reclassify social media as a public utility and common carrier—à la Bell Corporation—and so ban them from censoring content, First Amendment–based private initiatives, such as Rumble and Truth Social, must multiply and flourish with the support of conservative investors who understand what Andrew Breitbart meant when he observed that “politics is downstream from culture.”</p>
<p><b>Fight the Battle in the Courts. </b>Across all sectors of this endeavor, case law must be established, and battles must be fought in courtrooms across America and at the highest level in the Supreme Court. Society must make a much greater investment in seminal cases that can reverse the cultural and political victories of the domestic Marxists. The impact of private organizations, such as Judicial Watch and the Alliance Defending Freedom, cannot be overestimated, especially given the reversals that conservatives have realized recently with such tectonic results as <i>Dobbs v. Jackson</i> on abortion and <i>NYSRPA v. Bruen</i> on the Second Amendment. Those fighting cultural Marxists must be willing to fight in the courtrooms across the land, not just at schoolboard meetings and during election season.</p>
<p><b>Re-engage in the Culture. </b>Perhaps most important of all, donors must build a new ecosystem for the provision of cultural content if the ultimate victory against those who hate America is to be achieved. Hollywood is starting to pay the commercial price for the near-absolute wokification of its output. From the disastrous results of making massive moneymaking franchises like <i>Star Wars</i> and <i>Star Trek</i> woke,<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Christian Toto, “Can Woke Hollywood Survive Biden’s Recession?” Hollywood in Toto, August 6, 2022, https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/woke-hollywood-biden-recession/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> to the stock market losses incurred as a result by the likes of Netflix and Disney,<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Charles Gasparino, “Thumbs Down on ‘Woke’: ‘Disney Debacle’ Lesson for CEOs,” New York Post, May 7, 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/05/07/thumbs-down-on-woke-disney-debacle-lesson-for-ceos/ (accessed October 13, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span> it is plain that a significant portion of the American people have had enough with being politically preached to through their TV and movie screens. The time is more than ripe for those who want to take back the culture to follow the lead of such un-woke present-day movie blockbusters as <i>Top Gun: Maverick</i>. Reagan was right. He who tells the better story will win this war. But conservatives must do more to engage and invest in the culture, and they must recognize that the TV shows and movies their children watch, the books they read, the social media platforms they hang out on will all profoundly impact their children’s worldview.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>America is facing a new mutation of Marxism, but it is Marxism still. Nearly 30 years after Felicity Barringer wrote her 1989 article on the Marxist emergence in universities, the philosophy professor Jason Barker celebrated the bicentennial of Marx’s birth (yes!) by writing another piece for <i>The New York Times</i>. In it, he made clear what is documented in this <i>Special Report</i>, by observing that</p>
<blockquote>[r]acial and sexual oppression have been added to the dynamic of class exploitation. Social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, owe something of an unspoken debt to Marx through their unapologetic targeting of the “eternal truths” of our age. Such movements recognize, as did Marx, that the ideas that rule every society are those of its ruling class and that overturning those ideas is fundamental to true revolutionary progress.<span class="annotation__highlight" data-annotation="<p>Jason Barker, “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!” The New York Times, April 30, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/karl-marx-at-200-influence.html (accessed August 10, 2022).</p>"><span class="annotation-link">REF</span></span></blockquote>
<p>Leaving aside that, once again, <i>The New York Times</i> is covering for BLM, Barker was on point. Only, this country was not made for Marx; it was made for liberty-minded people. Proposals in this paper do not intend to root out necessary right-left debates on the size and role of government, American foreign policy, etc. This paper merely exposes attempts to dismantle and remake the United States through the use of an oppressor-oppressed narrative, and proposes antidotes. Americans need to take this issue seriously and take action—now—by taking the corrective steps detailed here.</p>
<p><i><b>Mike Gonzalez</b> is Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. </i><i><b>Katharine C. Gorka</b> is former Director for Civil Society and the American Dialogue at The Heritage Foundation. </i><i>The authors would like to thank Emilie Kao, a Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and Vice President for Advocacy Strategy at Alliance Defending Freedom. Her upcoming paper on parental rights and protecting children from gender ideology informs the section titled Prosecuting the Sexualization of Children. They would also like to thank Kurt Gmunder and Braden Spurlock, members of Heritage’s Young Leaders Program, for their help in researching this paper.</i></p>
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Samuel J. Abrams, “Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators,” The New York Times, October 16, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/opinion/liberal-college-administrators.html (accessed September 15, 2022).
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The Oregon Association of Scholars is a chapter of the National Association of Scholars that describes itself as “a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Oregon that promotes excellence, freedom, and merit in higher education in the state” that is composed of professors, graduate students, university administrators, trustees, and independent scholars in the Beaver State. See Oregon Association of Scholars, “About,” https://oregonscholars.org/about/ (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Bruce Gilley, Peter Boghossian, and James Lindsay, “Responding to Social Justice Rhetoric, A Cheat Sheet for Policy Makers,” Parents Defending Education, August 2021, https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Responding-to-Social-Justice-Rhetoric.pdf (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Jay P. Greene and James D. Paul, “Diversity University, DEI Bloat at the Academy,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3642, July 27, 2021, https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/BG3641_0.pdf. That total number of DEI staff excludes Title IX and legal compliance staff and ethnic and gender study professors and related staff.
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John M. Ellis, The Breakdown of Higher Education (New York: Encounter Books, 2020), p. viii.
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Ibid.
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QuotePark.com, Andrew Breitbart, https://quotepark.com/quotes/1811806-andrew-breitbart-you-send-your-kids-off-to-college-they-love-you/ (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), p. 3.
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Jay Schalin, “The Politicization of University Schools of Education: The Long March through the Education Schools,” The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, February 19, 2019, https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/02/schools-of-education/ (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Scott Yenor, “Sex, Gender, and the Origin of the Culture Wars: An Intellectual History,” Heritage Foundation First Principles No. 63, June 30, 2017, https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/sex-gender-and-the-origin-the-culture-wars-intellectual-history.
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Ibid.
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Mike Gonzalez, The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free (New York: Encounter Books, 2020), p. 99.
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Dean Spade, “What’s Wrong with Rights?” in Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, & the Limits of Law (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015).
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Frances S. Lee, ed., Anthology: Toward an Ethics of Activism, 2018, https://francesslee.medium.com/toward-an-ethics-of-activism-a-community-investigation-of-humility-grace-and-compassion-in-377948c84e7e (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Ryan Anderson, “Protect Good Medicine, Stop the Censorship of Good Counseling,” Heritage Foundation Commentary, October 26, 2020, https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/protect-good-medicine-stop-the-censorship-good-counseling.
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Virginia Allen, “Based on False Assumptions, Amazon Still Censoring Book on Transgenderism,” The Daily Signal, January 9, 2022, https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/09/based-on-false-assumption-amazon-still-censoring-book-on-transgenderism/.
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Victor Zitta, Georg Lukács’ Marxism, Alienation, Dialectics, Revolution (Berlin: Springer, 2016), p. 106.
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John Elvin, “A Green Activist Changes Colors—Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore,” Insight on the News, October 20, 1997.
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Anderson, “Protect Good Medicine, Stop the Censorship of Good Counseling.”
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Richard Reinsch, “Larry Fink of BlackRock and His Global Crusade to Advance Identity Politics,” Heritage Foundation Commentary, January 28, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/larry-fink-blackrock-and-his-global-crusade-advance-identity-politics (accessed September 15, 2022).
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John Elvin, “A Green Activist Changes Colors—Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore,” Insight on the News, October 20, 1997.
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Larry Fink’s 2021 letter to CEOs, https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/2021-larry-fink-ceo-letter (accessed September 15, 2022).
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Reinsch, “Larry Fink of BlackRock and His Global Crusade to Advance Identity Politics.”
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“Oracle Wins Dismissal of Shareholders’ Board Diversity Suit,” Bloomberg Law, May 24, 2021, https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/oracle-wins-dismissal-of-shareholders-board-diversity-suit (accessed September 12, 2022).
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Ed Whelan, “Coke No Longer So Woke, Lest It Go Broke,” National Review, March 28, 2022, https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/coke-no-longer-so-woke-lest-it-go-broke/ (accessed October 24, 2022)
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Patrick Tyrrell, “What Is Wrong with ESG ‘Wokeism’?” Heritage Foundation Commentary, September 30, 2021, https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/what-wrong-esg-wokeism (accessed October 12, 2022).
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See, for example, the lawsuit brought against American Express by white employees alleging reverse discrimination: Anna Allen, “American Express Discriminated Against Employees, Lawsuit Alleges,” The Washington Free Beacon, August 25, 2022, https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/american-express-discriminated-against-white-employees-lawsuit-alleges/ (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Springfield, Illinois, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2, The Abraham Lincoln Association, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/ (accessed October 18, 2022).
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Remarks by Chen Guangcheng, delivered at the 18th Annual Bradley Prize Ceremony, Washington, DC, May 17, 2022.
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Dan Neumann, “Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Maine Can Be a Leader in Dismantling White Nationalism, Beacon,” Beacon, June 28, 2019, https://mainebeacon.com/black-lives-matter-co-founder-maine-can-be-a-leader-in-dismantling-white-nationalism/ (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1971), p. 10.
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Neumann, “Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Maine Can Be a Leader in Dismantling White Nationalism.”
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Note, for example, George Soros’s efforts to elect radical prosecutors. See, for example, Charles D. Stimson and Zack Smith, “‘Progressive’ Prosecutors Sabotage the Rule of Law, Raise Crime Rates, and Ignore Victims,” Heritage Foundation Legal Memorandum No. 275, October 29, 2020, https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/progressive-prosecutors-sabotage-the-rule-law-raise-crime-rates-and-ignore.
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The White House, “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping,” September 22, 2020, https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-race-sex-stereotyping/ (accessed October 13, 2022).
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See, for example Turning Point USA’s DivestU initiative. Brooke Singman, “Conservative Group Launches ‘DivestU’ to Redirect Donations Away from Liberal Colleges,” FoxNews, July 16, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-group-launches-divestu-to-redirect-donations-away-from-liberal-colleges (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Susan Svrluga and Lori Rozsa, “In Florida, DeSantis Plans for Colleges Rattle Some Academics,” The Washington Post, July 1, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/01/desantis-florida-universities-laws/ (accessed August 10, 2022).
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Griggs v. Duke Power Company, Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/401/424/ (accessed August 10, 2022).
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See, for example, Lindsey M. Burke, “It Is Time for States to Break Up with Education Colleges,” Heritage Foundation Commentary, September 16, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/its-time-states-break-education-colleges.
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Neetu Arnold, “A Novel Plan to Reduce Student Debt,” Law & Liberty, August 8, 2022, https://lawliberty.org/a-novel-plan-to-reduce-student-debt/ (accessed August 10, 2022).
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News release, “Foxx, Stefanik, Banks Announce Responsible Alternative to Biden’s Blanket Student Loan Scheme,” Committee on Education and Labor, Republicans, August 4, 2022, https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408476 (accessed August 10, 2022).
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Jay P. Greene and John Schoof, “Indirect Costs: How Taxpayers Subsidize University Nonsense,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3681, January 18, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/education/report/indirect-costs-how-taxpayers-subsidize-university-nonsense.
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Speech First, Goldwater Institute, “Protecting Students from Bias Reporting Systems–Model Legislation,” July 2022, http://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BRT-Model-Policy.pdf (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Jay W. Richards and Grace Melton, “The White House Plan to Make Gender Ideology a Central Theme of the American Experiment,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3686, February 17, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/the-white-house-plan-make-gender-ideology-central-theme-the-american-experiment.
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U.S. Department of Education, “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance,” Federal Register, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Vol. 87, No. 132 (July 12, 2022), https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/07/12/2022-13734/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal (accessed October 13, 2022).
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The Heritage Foundation, “Protecting Children and Families with Parents’ Bills of Rights,” April 11, 2022, https://www.heritage.org/education/report/protecting-children-and-families-parents-bills-rights. Currently, 15 states protect parental rights as fundamental rights in statute, while 35 do not. See Parentalrights.org, “Protecting Parental Rights at the State Level,” https://parentalrights.org/states/ (accessed October 13, 2022) (citing statutes from Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming).
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Florida Department of Health, “Treatment of Gender Dysphoria for Children and Adolescents April 20, 2022,” https://www.floridahealth.gov/_documents/newsroom/press-releases/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-guidance.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery (accessed April 20, 2022).
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Anne Branigan and Annie Gowan, “Florida to Bar Medicaid Coverage for Those Seeking Gender-Affirming Care,” The Washington Post, August 11, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/11/florida-transgender-medicaid/ (accessed October 13, 2022); Chelsey Cox, “As Arkansas Bans Treatments for Transgender Youth, 15 Other States Consider Similar Bills,” USA Today, April 8, 2021, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/08/states-consider-bills-medical-treatments-transgender-youth/7129101002/ (accessed October 13, 2022); Renuka Rayasam, “The Transgender Care that States Are Banning, Explained,” Politico, March 25, 2022, https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2022/03/25/the-transgender-care-that-states-are-banning-explained-00020580 (accessed October 13, 2022); and “Tennessee Governor OKs Transgender Youth Treatment Ban,” NBC News, May 20, 2021, https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/tennessee-governor-oks-transgender-youth-treatment-ban-rcna985 (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Keira Bell, “Keira Bell: My Story,” Persuasion, April 7, 2021, https://www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story?triedSigningIn=true (accessed October 13, 2022). These changes were triggered when Keira Bell, a young woman in the United Kingdom, sued the nation’s gender identity clinic arguing that she was too young to provide informed consent to procedures that cause irreversible harm. Doctors prescribed her puberty blockers at age 15, testosterone injections at age 16, and then performed a double mastectomy on her at age 20.
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Eleanor Hayward, “Tavistock Gender Clinic ‘to Be Sued by 1,000 Families,’” The Times, August 11, 2022, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tavistock-gender-clinic-to-be-sued-by-1-000-families-lbsw6k8zd (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Edwin Meese and Mike Gonzalez, “Trump Can Help Overcome Identity Politics,” The Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-can-help-overcome-identity-politics-1519772254 (accessed August 10, 2022).
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Directive No. 15,” as adopted on May 12, 1977, https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/populations/bridged-race/directive15.html (accessed August 10, 2022).
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Meese and Gonzalez, “Trump Can Help Overcome Identity Politics.”
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Ibid.
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Nathan Glazer, “Do We Need the Census Question?” National Affairs, No. 53 (Fall 2002), https://www.nationalaffairs.com/public_interest/detail/do-we-need-the-census-race-question (accessed October 24, 2022)
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Mike Gonzalez, “Inside the U.S. Government Agency Where Identity Politics Was Born,” Quillette, October 23, 2018, https://quillette.com/2018/10/23/inside-the-us-government-agency-where-identity-politics-was-born/ (accessed August 10, 2022).
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Benjamin Francis–Fallon, “Minority Reports: The Emergence of Pan-Hispanic Politics, 1945–1980,” dissertation submitted to Georgetown University, June 22, 2012, https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/557625 (accessed June 28, 2018).
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Courtney Jung, “Why Liberals Should Value ‘Identity Politics,’” Dædalus, Vol. 135, No. 4 (Fall 2006), p. 32, https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/daed.2006.135.4.32 (accessed July 26, 2018).
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Treasury of the State of West Virginia “Restricted Financial Institution List,” https://wvtreasury.com/portals/wvtreasury/content/legal/memorandum/Restricted-Financial-Institutions-List.pdf (accessed September 16, 2022).
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Thomas Catenacci, “Republican States Are Planning an All-Out Assault on Woke Banks,” FoxBusiness, August 3, 2022, https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/republican-states-planning-assault-woke-banks-wont-do-business (accessed September 16, 2022).
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Ibid.
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News release, “Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Initiatives to Protect Floridians from ESG Financial Fraud,” Ron DeSantis, July 27, 2022, https://www.flgov.com/2022/07/27/governor-ron-desantis-announces-initiatives-to-protect-floridians-from-esg-financial-fraud/ (accessed October 23, 2022).
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This information comes from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which coded over 660 events as riots in September 2020. The Excel spreadsheet containing the information has been removed from the website (https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/), but the authors have a record of it.
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Insurance Information Institute, “Facts and Statistics: Civil Disorder,” https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-civil-disorders (accessed July 28, 2022).
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Lois Beckett, “At Least 25 Americans Were Killed During Protests and Political Unrest in 2020,” The Guardian, October 31, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Paul Cassell, “Explaining the Recent Homicide Spikes in U.S. Cities,” Utah Law Faculty Scholarship, September 2020, https://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1216&context=scholarship (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Patrisse Cullors and Darnell Moore, “Ferguson Protests to #FergusonNext: 5 Paths to Progress After Non-Indictment,” The Guardian, November 24, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/24/ferguson-protests-progress-non-indictment-grand-jury (accessed July 29, 2022).
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Neumann, “Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Maine Can Be a Leader in Dismantling White Nationalism.”
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Anthony Leonardi, “Black Lives Matter ‘What We Believe’ Page that Includes Disrupting ‘Nuclear Family Structure’ Removed from Website,” Washington Examiner, September 21, 2020, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/black-lives-matter-what-we-believe-page-that-includes-disrupting-nuclear-family-structure-removed-from-website (accessed October 13, 2022).
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LeftRoots, “We Need a Radical and Grounded Left,” https://leftroots.net/why-leftroots/ (accessed October 13, 2022).
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Nick Kangadis, “Flashback, BLM Co-Founder in 2015, ‘It’s not Possible’ for Black Lives to Matter Unless we Abolish Capitalism,” MRC TV, September 16, 2020, https://www.mrctv.org/blog/flashback-blm-co-founder-2015-its-not-possible-black-lives-matter-until-capitalism-abolished (accessed August 1, 2022).
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September 30, 2015<br>
<p> Half a century ago, Democrats looked at the country and realized they were never going to convince Americans to agree with them. But they noticed that people in most other countries of the world already agreed with them. The solution was obvious.</p>
<p> So in 1965 — 50 years ago this week — Sen. Ted Kennedy passed an immigration law that has brought 59 million foreigners to our shores, who happen to vote 8-2 for the Democrats.</p>
<p> Democrats haven’t won any arguments; they changed the voters. If anything, the Democrats have stopped bothering to appeal to Americans. The new feminized Democratic Party says, <i>That’s too bad about those steelworkers in Ohio losing their jobs, but THERE’S A WOMAN AT A LAW FIRM IN NEW YORK CITY WHO DESERVES TO MAKE PARTNER!</i></p>
<p> Republicans should be sweeping the country, but they aren’t, because of Kennedy’s immigration law. Without post-1965 immigrants bloc-voting for the Democrats, Obama never would have been elected president, and Romney would have won a bigger landslide against him in 2012 than Reagan did against Carter in 1980.</p>
<p> This isn’t a guess; it’s a provable fact. Obama beat Romney by less than 5 million votes in a presidential election in which about 125 million votes were cast. More than 30 million of Obama’s votes came from people who arrived under Teddy Kennedy’s immigration law; fewer than 10 million of Romney’s did.</p>
<p> The 1965 act brought in the poorest of the poor from around the globe. Non-English-speaking peasants from wildly backward cultures could be counted on to be dependent on government assistance for generations to come.</p>
<p> Kennedy and other Democrats swore up and down that the new immigration law would not change the country’s demographics, but post-1965-act immigrants are nothing like the people who already lived here.</p>
<p> As Pew Research cheerfully reports, previous immigrants were “almost entirely” European. But since Kennedy’s immigration act, a majority of immigrants have been from Latin America. One-quarter are from Asia. Only 12 percent of post-1965-act immigrants have been from Europe — and they’re probably Muslims.</p>
<p> Apparently, the “American experiment” is actually some kind of sociological trial in which we see if people who have no history of Western government can run a constitutional republic.</p>
<p> As of 1970, there were only 9 million Hispanics in the entire country, according to the Pew Research Center. Today, there are well more than 60 million.</p>
<p> We’ve already taken in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621572676/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1621572676&linkCode=as2&tag=anncoulter-20&linkId=5LA2BLKUCMUDQTTF">one-quarter of the entire population of Mexico</a><img decoding="async" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=anncoulter-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1621572676" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, most of whom seem to live in Los Angeles. For the last decade, nearly half of all felons sent to California’s prisons have been Hispanic, according to the Department of Corrections.</p>
<p> In 1970, there were only a few thousand Haitians in America. Today, there are nearly a million. Miami beaches and New York parks are suddenly littered with goat heads from Haitian voodoo rituals.</p>
<p> In 1970, there were virtually no Somalis in the United States. In the past 25 years alone, we’ve brought in more than 80,000 Somali refugees — and more than half of those since 9/11. Recent headlines out of Minnesota: “Minnesota ISIS terror suspect pleads guilty to conspiracy,” “February trial date set for Minnesota ISIS terror suspects,” “The Twin Cities have an ISIS problem.”</p>
<p> (Possible new GOP slogan: “We’ll cut your taxes, as long as these voodoo priests and refugees approve it.”)</p>
<p> In 1960, there were about 200,000 Muslims in the U.S., according to a study in the International Journal of Environmental Science and Development. Today, the U.S. census estimates that there are more than 6 million Muslims here. Muslims are expected to surpass Jews as the second-largest religion in America in about two decades.</p>
<p> No country has ever simply turned itself into another country like this.</p>
<p> With the media cheering the end of America and businessmen determined to keep importing cheap labor, Democrats don’t even bother hiding what they’re doing.</p>
<p> Democratic political strategists Ruy Teixeira and John Judis have been gloating for 20 years about how post-1965 immigration would soon produce a country where Republicans could not win an election, anywhere. Then Democrats could do whatever they want. They called the new emerging majority “George McGovern’s Revenge.”</p>
<p> In today’s America, George McGovern would be a moderate Democrat; Jimmy Carter would be a two-term president; and we’d be holding primary debates at the Walter Mondale Presidential Museum and Library.</p>
<p> Any GOP candidate for president who wants to increase immigration — i.e., all of them except Trump — ought to be required to first pass this simple test: Be successfully elected governor of California on a platform of tax cuts and social conservatism.</p>
<p> The Democrats got the voters — and the country got 9/11, Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon bombing, clitorectomies, an explosion of gang rapes, child rapes, sex tourism, slavery, voodoo, Russell Brand, billions of taxpayer dollars stolen in Medicare and Medicaid scams, an epidemic of heroin deaths, soccer, bankrupt school districts and hospitals, overcrowded prisons, and endless tax hikes to pay for all the immigrant services, as small town after small town goes all-Mexican, or all-Somali or all-Hmong.</p>
<p> The people coming in aren’t the ones exulting about “the browning of America.” It’s smug liberals who want America to be humbled and destroyed. The cultural left is overjoyed at the remaking of our society into one that is poorer, browner and less free.</p>
<p> These changes are entirely the result of government policies that were never debated, much less put to a vote. Americans have not been consulted on the question of whether to turn our country into some other country. <i>Never mind what we’re doing. You’ll thank us later.</i></p>
<p> I know it’s gauche to consider what Americans want, but how about the immigrants? Presumably some didn’t come only for the welfare, crime and terrorism opportunities. They decided to move to the United States — not Mexico or Somalia or China — because they wanted to live in America. If our current immigration policies aren’t stopped, they’re going to wonder why they bothered.</p>
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<h3>Biden can’t hide fact that border is still wide open By Mark Krikorian</h3>
Source: <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/joe-biden-cant-hide-fact-that-border-is-still-wide-open/" target="_blank">https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/joe-biden-cant-hide-fact-that-border-is-still-wide-open/</a>
April 19, 2023<br><br>
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<p>The Biden administration’s plan to hide the border crisis isn’t working.</p>
<p>The idea was to get prospective <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/human-tidal-wave-is-waiting-for-border-to-open-may-11-biden-has-no-plan-to-stop-it/">border-jumpers</a> to instead schedule their illegal entry to the United States through an app called CBP One.</p>
<p>The White House hoped this would replace news footage of Border Patrol agents greeting human-wave crossings of illegal immigrants with orderly, boring images of people at legal ports of entry, or even at airports in the interior, holding permission slips issued (illegally) by the Department of Homeland Security.</p>
<p>But it’s not working.</p>
<p>The administration announced in January that up to 30,000 people from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba would be admitted each month through the CBP One app and paroled (again, illegally) into the United States — and that those who didn’t use it and jumped the border would be bounced back into Mexico.</p>
<p>This did, in fact, cause a drop in illegal crossings for a couple months, as prospective illegal immigrants adopted a wait-and-see approach. (Arrests of illegal crossers dropped only compared with the earlier stratospheric levels; January’s numbers were down from December, but were quadruple the level of January 2020 under President Trump.)</p>
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<p>Wait-and-see made sense initially, because 99% of would-be illegal immigrants who got an appointment through CBP One ended up being let in and let go. (Let me stress again how illegal this whole thing is, which is why the state of Florida is suing to make DHS stop.)</p>
<p>The problem is that CBP One doesn’t work especially well, and the number of slots it gives out each day is limited in any case — it’s almost a lottery as to whether you’ll get the OK.</p>
<p>This has led increasing numbers of people, lured to the US border by <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/joe-bidens-pay-cut-is-driving-massive-us-gloom/">Biden’s rhetoric and policies</a>, to skip the CBP One process and just jump the border as before.</p>
<p>I recently visited a migrant shelter in the Mexican border town of Mexicali, which houses people awaiting their CBP One appointments. </p>
<p>I learned that the shelter’s former director had just been fired — because he was smuggling into the United States residents of the shelter who’d grown tired of waiting for CBP One!</p>
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<p>Now if the administration’s threats to immediately expel anyone who didn’t use the app were true, this wouldn’t continue because word would spread that Biden was serious this time.</p>
<p>But, in fact, people who bypass the app and cross anyway, especially if they have kids with them, are generally let in and let go. </p>
<p>When people get away with this, they tell their friends and relatives, and more follow.</p>
<p>And this is going to get a whole lot worse when<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/alejandro-mayorkas-expects-surge-at-the-border-next-month-when-title-42-ends/"> Title 42</a> expulsions end next month.</p>
<p>This is why the surge of foreigners transiting Mexico on their way north continues apace. </p>
<p>Juarez, for instance — the Mexican city opposite El Paso and one of the main centers of the border crisis — is hosting tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Venezuela and elsewhere, sleeping in parks and abandoned buildings, preparing to cross the border.</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLJNQShkelOoQGXpFw8P_DYuYkTTPN7PHa9Hy1tN8_M8loE78CHm3hUzj_l-hyIml7VK-de0PUMAwEz53YBkw5WdEobPKRDRL4tAuSJ4Is1ouspzbvRCVgSJhB_M4aDJZLAJGDek8k89qUHJJ5gf6MvnbS8V5iNxkgqdP4igiTIve8LDViI2yvA/s1024/Alejandro%20Mayorkas%202023.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLJNQShkelOoQGXpFw8P_DYuYkTTPN7PHa9Hy1tN8_M8loE78CHm3hUzj_l-hyIml7VK-de0PUMAwEz53YBkw5WdEobPKRDRL4tAuSJ4Is1ouspzbvRCVgSJhB_M4aDJZLAJGDek8k89qUHJJ5gf6MvnbS8V5iNxkgqdP4igiTIve8LDViI2yvA/s320/Alejandro%20Mayorkas%202023.jpg"/></a></div>Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks Tuesday during a hearing with the Senate Homeland Security Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
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<p>It’s gotten so bad there that the governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which includes Juarez, recently demanded that Mexico’s federal government enforce its own southern border with Guatemala to stop the flow of migrants.</p>
<p>Amid the administration’s ongoing failure to control the border — or even to hide the disaster it’s created — <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/mayorkas-faces-kin-of-grandma-kid-killed-by-smuggler/">DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas</a> continues to insist that he’s got things under control.</p>
<p>He told a congressional committee Wednesday — and I am not making this up — “It is my testimony that the border is secure.”</p>
<p>A colleague of mine recently wrote, “It’s hard to decide which is worse — the fact that the Biden administration is allowing millions of illegal aliens to live and work the United States despite Congress’ statutory limits, or the lengths to which it’s going to hide that fact.”</p>
<p>They’re both pretty bad. And we’ve got at least two more years of this.</p>
<p><em>Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.</em></p>
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<p>Special Counsel John Durham on Monday released a 300-plus page report critical of the FBI, Justice Department and the entire U.S. intelligence community for its pursuit of an investigation into alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian government without evidence to substantiate the underlying allegations.</p>
<p>Here are some of the key takeaways:</p>
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<p><strong>Government Had No Evidence</strong></p>
<ul><li>"Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," Durham wrote. Crossfire Hurricane is the FBI codename for the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.</li>
<li>Durham contended that, had the FBI followed its own procedures, the bureau "would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject."</li>
</ul><p><strong>No New Charges</strong></p>
<ul><li>Durham did not recommend that any additional people face charges stemming from his investigation.</li>
<li>He previously pursued cases against former Clinton campaign lawyer <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/jury-sussmann-trial-continues-deliberations">Michael Sussmann</a> and Steele Dossier contributor <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/jury-convicts-danchenko-fo-lying-fbi-special-counsel-durhams-trial">Igor Danchenko</a>, but was unsuccessful.</li>
</ul><p><strong>U.S. Foreign Allies Refused to Aid in the Effort</strong></p>
<ul><li>United Kingdom intelligence service officials were unwilling to aid in the investigation, contending that it was devoid of predicating evidence.</li>
<li>"Later in the Fall of 2016, UK ALAT-1 was at FBI Headquarters with some of his British Intelligence Service-I counterparts," Durham notes, referencing a UK intelligence official. "While there, members of the Crossfire Hurricane team played the audio/visual recordings of CHS-1 's August 20, 2016 meeting with Carter Page. UK ALAT-1 said the effect on the British Intelligence Service-I personnel was not positive because of the lack of any evidence corning out of the conversation."</li>
<li>"UK ALAT-1 told the OIG that after watching the video one of his British colleagues said, 'For [expletive] sake, man. You went through a lot of trouble to get him to say nothing,'" Durham continued. "At a later point in time, after the Mueller Special Counsel team was in place, UK ALAT-1 said that 'the Brits finally had enough,' and in response to a request for some assistance '[a British Intelligence Service-I person] basically said there was no [expletive] way in hell they were going to do it.'"</li>
</ul><p><strong>Former Intel Officials Promoted the Narrative Despite Knowing There Was No Evidence</strong></p>
<ul><li>Former CIA Director John Brennan came into Durham's <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/durham-calls-out-former-cia-director-brennan-trump-russia-statements">crosshairs</a> for his repeated public remarks supporting the narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.</li>
<li>"I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign," he told the House Intelligence Committee in 2017. President Trump’s Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash" Brennan wrote for the New York Times in 2018.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Key Foreign Affairs Officials Saw No Evidence</strong></p>
<ul><li>Victoria Nuland, who served as undersecretary for Political Affairs at the Department of State, and is one of that agency's "most experienced Russian observers," told Durham's team she "never saw any U.S. government proof of the allegations contained in the Steele reporting regarding Trump and Russian officials, and further stated that to her recollection no information regarding a well-coordinated conspiracy between Trump and the Russians had ever come across her desk, with one exception."</li>
<li>"Nuland advised that she had received a two-page summary of the Steele allegations from Jonathan Winer," Durham wrote. The Steele dossier has been thoroughly discredited.</li>
</ul><p><strong>The Clinton Campaign Was Behind The Whole Thing</strong></p>
<ul><li>"The FBl's actions with respect to other highly significant intelligence it received from a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server," the report concluded. "Unlike the FBI's opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information, in this separate matter involving a purported Clinton campaign plan, the FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information.”</li>
<li>"This lack of action was despite the fact that the significance of the Clinton plan intelligence was such as to have prompted the Director of the CIA to brief the President, Vice President, Attorney General, Director of the FBI, and other senior government officials about its content within days of its receipt," Durham added. "It was also of enough importance for the CIA to send a formal written referral memorandum to Director Corney and the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, for their consideration and action."</li>
</ul><p><strong>There Were Double Standards for Trump and Clinton</strong></p>
<ul><li>"The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign," Durham wrote.</li>
<li>"In one such matter...FBI Headquarters and Department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Clinton and other officials or candidates who appeared to be the targets of foreign interference," he added. "In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its longtime and valuable CHSs went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated."</li>
<li>"These examples are also markedly different from the FBl's actions with respect to other highly significant intelligence it received from a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server," Durham continued.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Clinton Opposition Research Firm Fusion GPS Went to the Media Before the FBI</strong></p>
<ul><li>Before handing over their materials to law enforcement, Fusion GPS and Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann approached a media outlet to secure coverage of the materials.</li>
<li>"Prior to providing the unfounded Alfa bank claims to the FBI, Sussmann and Fusion GPS (the Clinton campaign's opposition research firm) had provided the same information to various news organizations and were pressing reporters to write articles about the alleged secret communications channel," Durham wrote. "Moreover, during his September 2016 meeting at the FBI, Sussmann told Baker that an unnamed news outlet was in possession of the information and would soon publish a story about it."</li>
<li>"The disclosure of the media's involvement caused the FBI to contact the news outlet whose name was eventually provided by Sussmann in the hope of delaying any public reporting on the subject," he continued. "In doing so it confirmed for the New York Times that the FBI was looking into the matter."</li>
<li>"On October 31, 2016, less than two weeks before the election, the New York Times and others published articles on the Alfa Bank matter and the Clinton campaign issued tweets and public statements on the allegations of a secret channel of communications being used by the Trump Organization and a Russian bank -allegations that had been provided to the media and the FBI by Fusion GPS and Sussmann, both of whom were working for the Clinton campaign," the report concluded.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Media Reporting on Trump-Russia Collusion</strong></p>
<ul><li>Articles by The New York Times, Slate, and Mother Jones regarding the Trump-Russia collusion narrative were cited by the report for the inaccurate information they published. Durham noted that some reports by the Times were debunked by Strzok, while others, such as those by Slate and Mother Jones, were based on information the Clinton campaign was pushing regarding the Alfa Bank allegation.</li>
<li>Regarding the Times' reports, "the FBI's own records show that reports published by The New York Times in February and March 2017 concerning what four unnamed current and former U.S. intelligence officials claimed about Trump campaign personnel being in touch with any Russian intelligence officers was untrue."</li>
</ul><p><strong>Durham Recommends No New Policies, But Advises DOJ and FBI to Follow Existing Ones</strong></p>
<ul><li>"This report does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability in how counterintelligence activities are carried out…the answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old," he wrote.</li>
</ul><p><em>Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/whedonwins">Twitter</a>.</em></p>
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<h3 class="brix---accordion-title">REVIVE AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY</h3>
<ul role="list"><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Use the military, including drones, to <span class="text-span-35">secure our southern border</span></li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span>End affirmative action</span><span>:</span> repeal Lyndon Johnson’s executive order 11246</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span class="text-span-35">Protect American children:</span> ban addictive social media under age 16 & gender confusion “care” for minors</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Make political expression a civil right & <span>end unlawful DEI indoctrination</span><br/></li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span class="text-span-35">Withhold federal funding</span> for cities that refuse to protect Americans from violent crime</li></ul>
<h3 class="brix---accordion-title">Unleash the American economy: Achieve >5% GDP Growth</h3>
<ul role="list"><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span class="text-span-35">Drill, frack & burn coal:</span> abandon the climate cult & unshackle nuclear energy</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Put Americans back to work: dismantle Lyndon Johnson’s failed “Great Society”</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Incentivize trade schools over hollow college degrees (<span class="text-span-35">sorry, gender studies majors</span>)</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Launch deregulatory “Reagan 2.0” revolution: cut >75% headcount amongst U.S. regulators<br/></li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Limit the U.S. Fed’s scope: <span class="text-span-35">stabilize the dollar</span> & nothing more</li></ul>
<h3 class="brix---accordion-title">Declare Independence from Communist China</h3>
<ul role="list"><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Hold the CCP accountable for Covid-19: use all financial levers</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span class="text-span-35">Achieve semiconductor independence:</span> secure our modern way of life</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Stop CCP affiliates from buying American land</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Use our military to <span class="text-span-35">annihilate Mexican drug cartels:</span> defend against the CCP’s opium war<br/></li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Ban U.S. businesses from expanding in China until the CCP stops cheating</li></ul>
<h3 class="brix---accordion-title">Dismantle Managerial Bureaucracy</h3>
<ul role="list"><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span class="text-span-35">Shut down toxic government agencies:</span> Dept of Education, FBI, IRS, and more (and rebuild from scratch when required)</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">End civil service protections for bureaucrats: <span class="text-span-35">8-year term limits</span> instead</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Eliminate federal employee unions: repeal JFK’s executive order 10988</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Move >75% of federal employees out of Washington D.C. & <span class="text-span-35">end pro-lazy “remote work”</span> option<br/></li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Cut wasteful expenditures: White House, not individual agencies, will submit budget requests to Congress</li></ul>
<h3 class="brix---accordion-title">End Weaponization of Government & Financial Markets</h3>
<ul role="list"><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span class="text-span-35">Pardon defendants of politicized prosecutions:</span> Trump, Mackey, and peaceful Jan 6 protesters</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Hold Congress accountable for “hush money” fund: taxpayers should not subsidize sexual misconduct</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span class="text-span-35">Publish the Jeffrey Epstein client list:</span> government should not use police power to shield select elites</li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet">Rescind Biden’s ESG rule for retirement funds: get politics out of corporate America and capital markets<br/></li><li class="americafirst2-0bullet"><span class="text-span-35">Oppose CBDCs:</span> fight all plans for digital currency, a dangerous scheme for government control over our bank accounts</li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-11374341250419375872023-05-01T13:02:00.000-04:002023-05-01T13:02:48.544-04:00‘The greatest crime against humanity’ in history: Naomi Wolf’s 11 revelations from Pfizer vaccine documents By Patrick Delaney<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfxwSe9pV5YI9N_mzj1qvjZJZ1R9Cqi_CaOEJ_1m5Z8hl-5Kiz0X9_H80y_AyK7Sielf1uMV6IS-3SWAqmtHi1vsEUoz4vUo881VGHFo4kiTWRgQXBG5Xz3ObMwyhCuWnuMwPQqzKW7ARHy_2kzaCjUe2LeYyX2vEUoBCKGKiROc6-6xsO3Y/s810/Naomi-Wolf%20Hillsdale%20College.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfxwSe9pV5YI9N_mzj1qvjZJZ1R9Cqi_CaOEJ_1m5Z8hl-5Kiz0X9_H80y_AyK7Sielf1uMV6IS-3SWAqmtHi1vsEUoz4vUo881VGHFo4kiTWRgQXBG5Xz3ObMwyhCuWnuMwPQqzKW7ARHy_2kzaCjUe2LeYyX2vEUoBCKGKiROc6-6xsO3Y/s320/Naomi-Wolf%20Hillsdale%20College.png"/></a></div>
Source: <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-greatest-crime-against-humanity-in-history-naomi-wolfs-11-revelations-from-pfizer-vaccine-documents/" target="_blank">https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-greatest-crime-against-humanity-in-history-naomi-wolfs-11-revelations-from-pfizer-vaccine-documents/</a>
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April 24, 2023<br><br>
<p>(<a href="https://lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews</a>) — In an extraordinary speech synthesizing several “headline” discoveries from analyses of thousands of Pfizer documents, Dr. Naomi Wolf presented how the COVID “<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bayer-executive-mrna-shots-are-gene-therapy-marketed-as-vaccines-to-gain-public-trust/">vaccine</a>” enterprise intentionally sought to not only “disrupt and impair human reproduction” but “attack” and “kill” large numbers of people, particularly in the West.</p>
<p>Wolf, a lifelong Democrat, <a href="https://freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu/programs/cca-iv-big-pharma/what-s-in-the-pfizer-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">addressed</a> the conservative citadel of Hillsdale College in March, confessing that events over the last three years “truly imploded” her former world view and that what matters most now is “the Constitution, liberty and freedom.”</p>
<p>The author and journalist who is also a co-founder and CEO of the <a href="https://dailyclout.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Clout</a> explained how she and Steve Bannon of the <a href="https://americasvoice.news/playlists/the-war-room/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">War Room</a> recruited 3,500 science and medical experts to help analyze tens of thousands of <a href="https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> that Pfizer <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fda-finally-releases-data-used-to-greenlight-pfizer-jabs-after-court-battle/">submitted</a> to the FDA for use in evaluating the safety and effectiveness of their COVID injectables.</p>
<p>The FDA had originally argued against their release in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to stall publication of the crucial safety data for up to <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/court-rejects-fda-request-to-hide-pfizer-jab-data-for-75-years-orders-release-over-coming-months/">75 years</a>, but this request was <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/why-a-judge-ordered-fda-to-release-covid-19-vaccine-data-pronto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> by a Texas court and the first drop of documents were <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fda-finally-releases-data-used-to-greenlight-pfizer-jabs-after-court-battle/">released</a> on March 2, 2022.</p>
<p>These 3,500 recruited experts were divided into six working groups with committees at the head of them to analyze the documents and create <a href="https://dailyclout.io/category/pfizer-reports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that would be <a href="https://dailyclout.io/product/war-room-dailyclout-pfizer-documents-analysis-volunteers-reports-book-paperback/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accessible</a>, and understandable, to the general public.</p>
<p>And regarding these dozens of reports, Wolf apologized in advance for having to share that these Pfizer documents “contain evidence of the greatest crime against humanity in the history of our species.”</p>
<p>Providing a summary of just “some of the things that came to light,” she highlighted the following 11 points:</p><br>
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<h4>#1: Pfizer knew their gene-based injections had negative efficacy as early as November 2020</h4>
<p>At least as early as May 2021, five months after the rollout of the Pfizer gene-based injections, reports began to emerge of many “breakthrough cases” where fully jabbed <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bill-maher-nine-new-york-yankees-test-positive-for-covid-after-being-fully-vaccinated/">celebrities</a> and then the <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/400-britons-a-day-contract-coronavirus-even-after-two-jabs-expert-says/">public</a> at large were being inflicted with cases of COVID-19. By October, studies began to confirm the ineffectiveness of the shots, and then later, by January 2022, that those who were jabbed against COVID-19 were <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/studies-show-vaccinated-people-more-likely-to-catch-covid-19-than-the-unvaccinated/">more likely</a> to catch it.</p>
<p>These findings continued to be confirmed in <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-study-finds-two-mrna-shots-provide-negative-immunity-against-covid/">July 2022</a>, <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-two-new-studies-show-mrna" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December</a> 2022, and then in <a href="https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/they-forgot-to-tell-you-the-new-bivalent?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January</a> as well.</p>
<p>Yet, according to the analysis of the data, Wolf stated that Pfizer knew this was the case with regard to their own product in November 2020 before being broadly introduced and marketed as a remedy for COVID-19.</p>
<p>“Pfizer knew, for instance, one month after rollout, so that’s November of 2020, that the vaccines didn’t work to stop COVID!” she exclaimed.</p>
<p>She recalled how during this period the full marketing of the product was in swing, with the celebrity spokespeople encouraging all to get the shot. “The ads are in social media, the ads are on television” and “a month after rollout, Pfizer’s internal documents identify that its vaccines have vaccine failure and failure of efficacy. And they identify that the third most common side effect of the Pfizer vaccine is… COVID!”</p>
<h4>#2: Shortly after release of the COVID injections on the market, Pfizer moved to hire 2,400 full-time employees to process the paperwork of the injured</h4>
<p>In a January 2021 <a href="https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/files/americas-frontline-doctors-white-paper-on-experimental-vaccines-for-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white paper</a> analyzing the new COVID “<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bayer-executive-mrna-shots-are-gene-therapy-marketed-as-vaccines-to-gain-public-trust/">vaccines</a>,” America’s Frontline Doctors observed how and why the safety of such an intervention had to be assured before its being used, especially on a global population.</p>
<p>“In contrast to taking a medication for an actual disease,” they <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/frontline-doctors-experimental-vaccines-not-safer-than-covid-19/">explained</a>, “the person who takes a vaccine is typically completely healthy <em>and would continue to be healthy without the vaccine</em>. As the first rule of the Hippocratic Oath is: do no harm, vaccine safety must be <em>guaranteed</em>. That has not yet happened,” they observed at the time.</p>
<p>In her group’s examination of the Pfizer documents, Wolf declared that what was “stunning” is that around this same time, “within a month or two [of vaccine rollout], Pfizer was getting so many reports of adverse events [AEs] – meaning bad things happening to people who had been injected – that they understood they needed to hire 2,400 full-time staffers in order simply to process the paperwork” of these injuries. They also knew this was necessary “to prepare for the flood of adverse events that they knew they would get in the near future.”</p>
<p>Of course, many months later, evidence reveals correlations of the shot mandates with enormous <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/data-shows-covid-jabs-correlate-with-major-rise-in-younger-excess-deaths-disabled-workers/">increases</a> in younger excess deaths and disabled workers, which in the United States <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-vaccines-raise-mortality-rate-by-26-analyst-reveals-at-sen-ron-johnsons-roundtable/">equates</a> to those under age 50 who took the shots having a 49 percent higher mortality rate, including all categories of the jabbed suffering a 26 percent increase. All of this results in about 600,000 excess deaths per year and a historic <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-life-expectancy-falls-again-in-historic-decline_4732330.html?utm_source=Ccpv&utm_campaign=2022-09-18&utm_medium=email&est=YV8zW7SRTOla87asqq3ONtnZOD8rXAKMdH4GEtWxaTns4XIKb1MMVioocszk%2BwA%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decline</a> in life expectancy.</p>
<h4>#3: Pfizer and the FDA withheld information that the shots cause heart damage in youth for four months while an aggressive propaganda campaign drove many thousands to get injected</h4>
<p>“Pfizer knew in May of 2021 that the vaccines had caused heart damage in 35 minors within a week after the injection,” Wolf explained. This information was known by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well, as the documents were in their possession.</p>
<p>“But the government of the United States – and I’m embarrassed to say I voted for these people – didn’t tell parents until August of 2021 that there was an elevated risk of heart damage in healthy young adults. Four months later!” she exclaimed.</p>
<p>“And in those four months, what did the young adults of America receive? A constant battering with propaganda on social media, on television, in news outlets bought up by money in the CARES Act, as well as from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” Wolf explained. “They did not tell the young adults, the healthy young adults of the United States, your generation, that this was elevating a risk of heart damage till four months later.”</p>
<h4>#4: Rather than staying in the injection site, Pfizer knew the shot’s dangerous lipid nanoparticles quickly distribute throughout the body. And there is no evidence they ever leave</h4>
<p>“You may recall that the CDC said that the materials of the injection stay in the injection site,” the journalist said. “And the materials are lipid nanoparticles, they are mRNA,” which means they are “industrial fat which is covered in polyethylene glycol, which is a petroleum byproduct… and spike protein.”</p>
<p>Yet, while it was broadly propagated that these dangerous substances stay in the injection site, “that’s not what happens to these materials! And Pfizer knew that! These materials ‘biodistribute’ – this is <em>Pfizer’s language –</em> throughout your body in 48 hours!” Wolf exclaimed.</p>
<p>First describing how “lipid nanoparticles [LNPs] are designed to cross every membrane in the human body,” which has been known for at least a decade, Wolf asked, “So where do these ingredients go?”</p>
<p>“They go to the brain (some of you have noticed changes in the personalities of loved ones who have taken these injections). They biodistribute to the liver, the adrenals, the spleen. And if you’re a woman, they accumulate in your ovaries,” she lamented.</p>
<p>“Now, these are industrial fats coated with polyethylene glycol in your ovaries,” Wolf warned. “And what’s incredibly scary for a woman is that there’s no mechanism that we’ve found by which the body gets rid of the lipid nanoparticles in the ovaries… And Pfizer knew [this].”</p>
<h4>#5: ‘I don’t say it lightly, but it’s mass murder’: Side effects in Pfizer documents far more severe than CDC and doctors told patients</h4>
<p>The Pfizer documents acknowledge more than 42,000 adverse events, including 1,200 deaths, in just the first three months due to what Wolf describes as “catastrophic categories” of side effects that go far beyond typical warnings given by public health authorities.</p>
<p>“These are not the same side effects that the CDC tells you about or your doctor tells you about,” Wolf recalled. While the CDC has often typically said recipients will have fatigue, chills and perhaps swelling at the injection site, “that’s not what’s in the Pfizer documents.”</p>
<p>Rather, “there’s industrial scale strokes, hemorrhages, blood clots, lung clots, leg clots, neurological disorders, dementia-type disorders. Guillain-Barré, Bell’s Palsy [and more].”</p>
<p>“The number one side effect is joint pain,” she said. “Did the CDC tell you about joint pain?” And another “surprising side effect is myalgia, muscle pain,” of which Wolf said she has friends now enduring, despite their prior excellent health. And this side effect is indicated “at industrial scale in the Pfizer documents.”</p>
<p>“I don’t say it lightly, but it’s mass murder,” she grieved. “There are 61 deaths from stroke, for example. Half of the stroke adverse events took place within 48 hours of the injection. They’re five deaths from liver damage and half of the liver damage adverse events took place within 48 hours of the injection.”</p>
<h4>#6: Prior to it being legal, more than 1,000 children were injected, and Pfizer’s documents indicate a high rate of serious injury</h4>
<p>In early 2021, before any Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for children, Wolf reported that Pfizer injected “62 kids, some of them as young as two months old,” with their gene-based product, 28 of whom there were no records of the results available. “We don’t know if they survived,” she said.</p>
<p>“Among the 34 whose records are still in the Pfizer documents, there’s a seven-year-old British girl who sustained a stroke, and there’s a two-month-old baby with liver damage,” she lamented.</p>
<p>“And so this is such a chilling report because it’s clear – and we did additional investigation of this – there were a thousand kids in the United States in different university hospitals, including Rochester Medical Center, that were experimented on prior to it being legal to inject children with this material,” the author lamented.</p>
<p>“And I can promise you, these are what society calls ‘throwaway kids.’ These are not kids whose parents have lawyers. These are not kids whose parents have a voice. We’re going to find that these are kids who are institutionalized, who are orphaned or discarded in some way,” she grieved.</p>
<h4>#7: Pfizer documents reveal a ‘Mengele-type experiment… on how to disrupt and impair human reproduction.’ Available records of study participants who conceived children show 80% lost their babies</h4>
<p>Highlighting what she calls “the centerpiece of what we found in the Pfizer documents,” Wolf explained that she doesn’t make reference to Nazi medical experimentation lightly, but contained in the documents is “literally [a] Mengele-type experiment at a grand scale on human reproduction, [a] 360-degree experiment on how to disrupt and impair human reproduction.”</p>
<p>“So, for example, in the Pfizer documents, women study participants were told not to get pregnant, which is interesting,” she observed. “It’s a respiratory disease. Why would you tell women not to get pregnant?”</p>
<p>Nevertheless, 270 women did conceive children of whom Pfizer reportedly “lost the records” of 234, which Wolf said is a violation of the law.</p>
<p>“Of the 36 [remaining] women whose pregnancies came to term, over 80 percent of them lost their babies [by] spontaneous abortion or miscarriage,” she reported.</p>
<h4>#8: Pfizer knew there was a danger to fertility. Lipid Nanoparticles damage the placenta during pregnancy, causing early deliveries. Lots of chromosomal abnormalities as well</h4>
<p>In addition, the Pfizer documents indicate that “shedding is real,” Wolf reported. “Pfizer defines exposure to the vaccine as skin contact, inhalation and sexual intercourse, especially [at the time of] conception.”</p>
<p>Since Pfizer also warned male trial participants against having sexual intercourse with childbearing-aged women and to use two forms of birth control if they did, “there was clearly something about conceiving with a vaccinated male that Pfizer was guarding against,” she said.</p>
<p>“So, we know now that there’s horrific damages to conception from this injection” which include the lipid nanoparticles traversing the placenta and causing children to be born prematurely, Wolf said.</p>
<p>She also reported that maternal fetal medicine specialist, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/giving-experimental-covid-jabs-to-pregnant-women-has-been-the-greatest-medical-disaster-in-history/">Dr. Jim Thorpe</a>, is “seeing, at great scale, chromosomal abnormalities in newborns of vaccinated mothers.”</p>
<p>These results were foreseen by some, including former Pfizer vice president and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory Dr. Michael Yeadon, who, on December 1, 2020, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doctors-petition-eu-to-stop-all-covid-vaccine-studies-due-to-grave-risks/">petitioned</a> the European Medicines Agency to halt all studies due to safety concerns, including possible damage to placentas during pregnancy. His warnings went unheeded. And though having been vilified, he has now been, unfortunately for all, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-pfizer-vp-michael-yeadon-demands-apology-from-media-over-lies-asserting-vaccine-safety/">vindicated</a>.</p>
<h4>#9: Pfizer docs show that lipid nanoparticles also enter breast milk, stunting, injuring and sometimes killing babies</h4>
<p>Since these dangerous LNPs circulate throughout the body, especially in the recipient’s blood, Wolf explained that they make their way into breast milk.</p>
<p>“And nursing babies, in the Pfizer [trial] documents, sustained seizures and one baby died in the E.R. after nursing from a vaccinated mother, from multi-organ system failure,” she said. “Four of the moms, who were lactating… had breast milk that turned blue green.”</p>
<p>After the release of these injections into the general population, incidents of these adverse events began to publicly emerge.</p>
<p>One <a href="https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?IDNUMBER=1166062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VAERS report</a> from February 2021 describes the death of a five-month-old breast-fed infant whose mother received a second dose of Pfizer’s jab. The following day, the baby refused to nurse, developed a fever, and was later hospitalized with a rare blood disorder in which blood clots form in small blood vessels throughout the body before dying.</p>
<p>And in June 2021, a six-week-old breastfeeding baby <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nursing-baby-died-with-blood-clots-inflamed-arteries-following-mothers-pfizer-shot-vaers-report-says/">became</a> inexplicably ill with a high fever after his mother received a COVID-19 vaccine and he died weeks later with blood clots in his “severely inflamed arteries.”</p>
<p>Wolf went on to explain that even the National Institutes of Health (NIH) completed a separate study that found “babies nursing from vaccinated moms were having failure to thrive, not putting on weight. They were agitated and restless and sleepless.”</p>
<p>She believes that these dynamics have provide an indication as to why “nursing mothers have gone, in the last two years, from 34 percent of all moms to 16 percent of moms,” which indicates “something’s wrong.”</p>
<p>“Not only are babies in the next generation not getting that primal experience of total love, total nurture, total safety, which is so important, but there’s something that is leading moms to not be able to nurse those babies. And I think we have a clue here in the contamination of vaccinated moms’ breast milk,” Wolf opined.</p>
<p>“I also want to note that Bill Gates rolled out lab-grown breast milk right at the moment that women were suffering these harms to their own ability to sustain their children,” the feminist author said (more <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/is-bill-gates-behind-the-production-of-fake-breast-milk-and-other-alternative-foods/">here</a>).</p>
<h4>#10: ‘Nazi medicine,’ a war on women’s fertility: Pfizer docs show 3 to 1 of AEs sustained by women, 16% ‘reproductive disorders.’ ‘What kind of monsters look at 16% reproductive disorders and keep going?’ Results: ‘13% to 20% drop in live births’</h4>
<p>In examining the thrust of the Pfizer documents, Dr. Wolf concluded that an overall motive behind this enormous enterprise includes “a war against women’s ability to reproduce.”</p>
<p>Her team “found that of the adverse events, 72 percent of them were sustained by women. And this is constant throughout. It’s a constant 3 to 1 [ratio]” she said while also acknowledging the real harms done to men (<a href="https://dailyclout.io/women-have-three-times-the-risk-of-adverse-events-than-men-risk-to-the-reproductive-organs-is-even-greater-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Report 38</a>).</p>
<p>“And of the 72 percent of adverse events” in women, Pfizer defines 16% of them as, “[in] their words, ‘reproductive disorders,’” while men also suffer a terrible rate but far less at 0.49 percent.</p>
<p>“What kind of monsters look at 16 percent reproductive disorders [in their trials] and keep going?” the longtime feminist charged.</p>
<p>She goes on to call the Pfizer records reminiscent of “Nazi medicine” due to how detailed their records were regarding the hundreds of thousands of adverse attacks against the reproductive organs of women. For example, the records <a href="https://dailyclout.io/wp-content/uploads/90120aeb-79da-408f-984d-fdc5c7f373bb_1037x1193.webp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reflect</a> “20 different scientific names for ruining women’s menstrual cycles” she said.</p>
<p>“Not surprisingly, in 2022, around the world, nine months after the rollout in most of Western Europe, there’s a 13 percent to 20 percent drop in live births all over Western Europe, in North America, [in] Singapore and Australia,” she explained.</p>
<p>This includes “double the number of stillbirths in Scotland, a highly vaccinated country, [and] 89 stillbirths in Canada in one province when usually they have two or three,” Wolf grieved.</p>
<p>Calling this phenomenon an “absolute baby die-off,” the journalist went on to cite the experience of <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/giving-experimental-covid-jabs-to-pregnant-women-has-been-the-greatest-medical-disaster-in-history/">Dr. James Thorp</a> saying how he was now experiencing “five or six miscarriages a week when before they would have two a month.”</p>
<p>This phenomenon is “not universal,” Wolf shared. “This drop, this murder of the next generation, is not global. It’s [focused in] Western Europe and North America.”</p>
<h4>#11: LNPs degraded the basic factories of masculinity in boys’ testes in utero when their mother had been injected. ‘So, these are monsters, and there’s no way to avoid concluding that they’re focused on disrupting human reproduction’</h4>
<p>Furthermore, <a href="https://dailyclout.io/pfizer-fda-cdc-hid-proven-harms-to-male-sperm-quality-testes-function-from-mrna-vaccine-ingredients/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Report 37</a> reveals the damage done to the reproductive capacities of baby boys in their vaccinated mothers’ wombs.</p>
<p>Wolf explained how the Pfizer documents reveal that LNPs “degrade baby boys in utero” by traversing “the testes of fetal baby boys” and damaging “the Sertoli cells and the Leydig cells, which are basically the factories of masculinity.”</p>
<p>These cells “are responsible for the male hormonal balance that create things like deep voices, hair on their bodies, broad shoulders, all of the things that we associate with normal masculinity. And that is being degraded.”</p>
<p>“So, we don’t know if these little baby boys of vaccinated moms are going to be able to grow up to be sexually functioning adult men,” she warned.</p>
<p>Additionally, “Why this focus on reproduction?” Wolf asked. Why did Pfizer examine and document the impact of their injectable on the “sexual cells of the sexual organs of the rats, right? It’s a respiratory virus!”</p>
<p>“So, these [people] are monsters, and there’s no way to avoid concluding that they’re focused on disrupting human reproduction,” she concluded.</p>
<h4>‘We are under attack’ with a ‘bioweapon,’ it’s ‘a mass murder situation, a war, a war crime, [and] crimes against humanity’</h4>
<p>Wolf goes on to give her personal judgments as to why this is happening, particularly in the West, and advances a conclusion similar to former pharmaceutical executive and researcher <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/alexandra-latypova/">Sasha Latypova</a> and paralegal journalist <a href="https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Watt</a>, asserting that these COVID vaccines are “a bioweapon and we are under attack.”</p>
<p>Over the last six months, Latypova has <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/how-the-us-govt-built-a-shadow-structure-that-enabled-covid-vax-bioterrorism/">determined</a> through extensive documentation that U.S. government agencies, particularly the Department of Defense, along with the pharmaceutical companies and <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-defense-dept-contracted-with-chinese-communist-party-to-deploy-covid-vaccine-against-citizens/">Chinese Communist Party</a> (CCP), are involved in “a conspiracy to commit mass murder through bioterrorism and informational warfare operations worldwide.”</p>
<p>Echoing their findings, Wolf explained how CCP-affiliated Fosun Pharmaceutical plays a significant role in developing and distributing the Pfizer/BioNTech biological warfare agents that are marketed as “COVID-19 vaccines.”</p>
<p>She explained that the CCP owns the manufacturing plants “producing the injection that goes into the bodies of schoolchildren here in the United States of America,” and further how studies overseen by the CCP reveal they knew full well that LNPs damage fertility and cause <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/myocarditis/">myocarditis</a>.</p>
<p>“To me, it is obvious,” she said, that these investigative studies were intended “to show the Chinese Communist Party how you kill Westerners without leaving fingerprints.”</p>
<p>Speaking of the American government’s culpability, Wolf asserted that “this is a captured [Biden] administration and captured institutions that are allowing the CCP and their allies, the World Economic Forum, [and the] Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to cripple our country.”</p>
<p>Emphasizing how the CCP prefers “asymmetric warfare” tactics that “kind of degrade and demoralize the [enemy] population rather than having a hot war with shooting,” the author showed how the vast majority of approximately 42,000 adverse events recorded in the Pfizer documents occurred in the Western nations.</p>
<p>“That’s targeting North America and Western Europe,” she emphasized.</p>
<p>“I believe we’re looking at a mass murder situation, a war, a war crime, [and] crimes against humanity,” Wolf assessed. And with regard to “all of these evil doers” who are responsible, “friendly as they look in their little outfits, talking to the cameras,” the author disclosed, “I hope they will all face justice in this lifetime.”</p>
<h4>Possible treason charges; Canadian doctor: ‘It’s a time to put these bastards in jail’</h4>
<p>In service to this end, Watt has <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/how-the-us-govt-built-a-shadow-structure-that-enabled-covid-vax-bioterrorism/">produced</a> what she calls a “[r]esearch and organizing tool” providing evidence for the stated goal “to prosecute members of Congress, presidents, HHS and DOD secretaries and federal judges for treason under 18 USC 2381.”</p>
<p>Late last year, prominent Canadian medical doctor Roger Hodkinson <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1646986666362413058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1646986666362413058%7Ctwgr%5Ec1264936de6379cbe826500afc5272c264871516%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fchoiceclips.whatfinger.com%2F2023%2F04%2F14%2Fthe-big-kill-the-biggest-kill-in-medical-history-physicians-need-to-be-arrested%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclaimed</a> he was “full of vengeance” against these culprits and “it’s a time to put these bastards in jail.”</p>
<p>“We’ve seen the biggest kill ever in medicine’s history directly because of the intervention of these idiots into health care. And it’s the physicians, it’s not just the politicians, it’s the physicians themselves who are principally culpable because they have allowed [the] government’s jackboots to influence how they manage their patients, which has never, ever happened before,” he said.</p>
<p>“How can you look into the eyes of a pregnant woman and tell her that this experimental product is safe? How can you do that as a physician?!” the biotech CEO exclaimed. “Any physician that has done that should be in jail!”</p>
<h4>‘If my people… will humble themselves and pray and seek my face… I will forgive their sin and heal their land’</h4>
<p>Facing what she described as “this abyss of human evil every single day” over the last few years, Wolf also shared how the experience has forced her to take the reality of God much more seriously.</p>
<p>“I know that sounds paradoxical, but I felt like this evil overtook the world in lockstep, in perfect unison in a way that I could not explain using my critical thinking,” she assessed. There was “something metaphysical about” what happened.</p>
<p>Feeling the world is facing “a biblical moment where humanity is being asked to choose,” Wolf, who is Jewish, has taken up reading the Bible “a lot these days,” and ended her presentation reminding her Christian audience of the promise God gave to Solomon in 2 Chronicles 7:14:</p>
<blockquote><p>If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land.</p></blockquote>
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Source: <a href="https://americafirstreport.com/the-abcs-of-djt-prove-we-need-him-back-in-dc/" target="_blank">https://americafirstreport.com/the-abcs-of-djt-prove-we-need-him-back-in-dc/</a><br><br>
April 23, 2023<br>
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<p>America is sinking among the waves of incompetence, impotence, and fiscal incontinence of democratic socialist President Joe Biden.</p>
<p>It is jarring to recall how much brighter things looked just 27 months ago, after four years of President Donald J. Trump’s triumphs, and before Biden arrived and wrecked everything.</p>
<p>From A to Z, here are 26 things that Trump got right:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>A</b>braham Accords: Trump brokered <a href="https://www.state.gov/the-abraham-accords/">four peace agreements</a> among Israel and its neighbors — Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan.</li>
<li><b>B</b>order Wall: Trump’s <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-02-07/how-much-of-president-donald-trumps-border-wall-was-built">458-miles</a> of concrete and steel fortified the border and curbed illegal immigration before Biden obliterated America’s southern frontier.</li>
<li><b>C</b>onsular offices in Jerusalem were upgraded to <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-keeps-promise-open-u-s-embassy-jerusalem-israel/">a U.S. embassy</a>, thus enforcing the relevant statute that presidents Clinton through Obama circumvented.</li>
<li><b>D</b>eregulation: Trump promised to kill two old regulations for every new one imposed. American Action Forum counts <a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/the-legacy-of-the-regulatory-budget/">4.7 existing rules junked</a> per new one implemented.</li>
<li><b>E</b>nergy independence: Trump achieved the impossible dream of U.S. self-reliance and then made America <a href="https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/in-the-news/column-case-american-energy-dominance">globally dominant</a> as a net exporter of energy for the first time since 1952.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/03/21/trump-expected-sign-executive-order-free-speech/"><b>F</b>reedom-of-speech protection</a>, per Trump’s executive order, became a prerequisite for colleges to receive federal funds.</li>
<li><b>G</b>orsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett joined the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/13/how-trump-compares-with-other-recent-presidents-in-appointing-federal-judges/">Supreme Court</a>. Meanwhile, 223 other constitutionalists whom Trump nominated reached the federal bench.</li>
<li><b>H</b>istorically Black Colleges and Universities scored an advocacy office in the White House, a permanent stream of federal funds, and year-round Pell Grants, to aid their summer school students. HBCU presidents begged Obama in vain for these things. Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-black-americans-history-2020-deroy-murdock">invited them to the Oval Office</a> in his fifth week in Washington, listened, and <a href="https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15107830/hbcus-have-a-champion-in-president-trump">approved their requests</a>.</li>
<li><b>I</b>ran nuclear deal: Killed.</li>
<li><b>J</b>avelin anti-tank missiles that Trump provided have helped Ukraine stymie Russian invaders.</li>
<li><b>K</b>eystone XL Pipeline: Approved.</li>
<li><b>L</b>ittle Rocket Man, Kim Jong Un, met thrice with Trump. While North Korea did not scrap its nuclear-weapons program, it conducted <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/737365074/trump-to-meet-kim-jong-un-at-dmz">zero atomic tests</a> after this odd couple first <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/joint-statement-president-donald-j-trump-united-states-america-chairman-kim-jong-un-democratic-peoples-republic-korea-singapore-summit/">huddled in Singapore</a> on June 12, 2018. Kim detonated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_North_Korea">four nukes</a>under Obama-Biden.</li>
<li><b>M</b>exico, Canada, and the U.S. signed a new trade deal that replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement.</li>
<li><b>N</b>ATO’s finances soared, as Trump prodded U.S. allies to boost Western collective defense by <a href="https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2020/3/pdf_publications/sgar19-en.pdf#page=39">$400 billion</a> through 2024.</li>
<li><b>O</b>pportunity Zones incentivized <a href="https://www.eda.gov/archives/2021/news/blogs/2020/10/01/spotlight.htm">$78 billion</a> in private capital to <a href="https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/08/18/the_benefits_of_opportunity_zones_in_a_recessionary_economy_848455.html">8,768</a> largely low-income, minority communities.</li>
<li><b>P</b>overty fell to a rate of 10.5%, the lowest since 1959, when federal figures began. Before COVID-19 unleashed Hell on Earth, the strongest economy in 60 years drove black poverty to 18.8%, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/biden-obama-trump-economy-garden">a record low</a>.</li>
<li><b>Q</b>asem Soleimani, Iranian Revolutionary Guard chief, was droned to smithereens on Trump’s order. Tehran’s ayatollahs promptly learned some manners.</li>
<li><b>R</b>ight to Try legislation freed terminally ill patients to use promising cures that awaited FDA approval.</li>
<li><b>S</b>pace Force: Trump’s out-of-this world promise became reality as the Pentagon’s newest armed service.</li>
<li><b>T</b>ax Cuts and Jobs Act: This <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55743">$1.9 trillion tax reduction</a> unleashed massive economic growth that most benefitted lower-income Americans.</li>
<li><b>U</b>nemployment hit <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/economy-jobs/">all-time lows</a> for blacks and Hispanics and triggered the least female unemployment since <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/26/west-virginia-republican-party/unemployment-women-lowest-point-almost-70-years/">September 1953</a>.</li>
<li><b>V</b>eterans secured broader medical freedoms through VA Choice and swift punishment for abusive VA employees.</li>
<li><b>W</b>ashington, D.C.’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-education/2017/05/trump-administration-reverses-obama-policy-on-dc-vouchers-220150">school-voucher program</a> was reauthorized with a $45 million appropriation.</li>
<li><b>X</b>i Jinping and other Chinese Communist Party members restrained themselves when Trump deployed his Peace through Strength strategy. Under Biden, Red China does whatever it wants, from an unprecedented mock blockade of Taiwan to spy balloons vacuuming intelligence over America to US-based CCP “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/19/chinese-police-new-york-city-foreign-influence/">police stations</a>” that terrorize dissidents.</li>
<li><b>Y</b>es votes for the First Step Act totaled 358 in the House (including 176 Democrats) and 87 in the Senate (among them, 47 Democrats). This <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/756/actions">overwhelmingly bipartisan criminal-justice-reform</a> measure let non-violent prisoners, many black, return to their communities.</li>
<li><b>Z</b>ero American wars began under Trump. The dovish consequences of his hawkish command were exactly opposite the “Push the nuclear button NOW!” belligerence that his deranged critics forecast.</li>
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<p>Wouldn’t four more years of Trump be better than four years of Biden?</p>
<p><em>Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.</em></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this blog http://phillipsphiles.blogspot.com/rss.xml</div>Joyce Kavitskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714646290387234597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658172.post-57555531251227382642023-04-10T18:07:00.006-04:002023-04-10T21:44:50.361-04:00Phlashback: 1985, 1987-1990, 1992 & 1994 New York Magazine Donald Trump Cover Stories<center><h3>February 11, 1985</h3></center>
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<center><h3>November 16, 1987</h3></center>
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<center><h3>July 11, 1988</h3></center>
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<center><h3>September 4, 1989</h3></center>
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<center><h3>March 5, 1990</h3></center>
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<center><h3>November 9, 1992</h3></center>
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<center><h3>August 15, 1994</h3></center>
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March 13, 2023<br>
<p>After reviewing some 41,000 hours of security-camera videos, Tucker Carlson and his Fox News team this week refuted multiple lies that Democrats have trafficked since January 6, 2021. Here are the five biggest: </p>
<P><strong>•</strong> Democrats consider January 6 a "deadly insurrection." They call this Storming of the Bastille 2.0 a bloody attempted overthrow of the U.S. government.<p>
Footage from outside the Capitol shows an initial cadre of violent extremists breaking windows and kicking down doors. "It was awful," Carlson said. "We hate vandalism. We hate assault."<p>
But new video shows hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who walked calmly between velvet ropes within the Capitol. Many took photos of paintings in the Rotunda. Two of them quietly perused a literature table and walked away with free publications.<p>
Many of these unarmed protesters innocently wandered into the Capitol, after overwhelmed guards threw the doors open. Evidently, they believed that January 6 was an open house on Capitol Hill.<p>
Should these people have been there? No.<p>
Were they armed revolutionaries? No.
<P><strong>•</strong> Wearing red, white, and blue face paint and fur-wrapped Viking horns, an Arizona Navy veteran named Jacob Chansley was that day's highest-profile protester. Dubbed the "QAnon Shaman," the Justice Department called Chansley "the most prominent symbol of a violent insurrection." Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler said on MNSBC: "Chansley is a stone-cold thug."<p>
But far from dangerous, security cameras witnessed Chansley on what the New York Post called a "Tour de Farce." Police escorted him through the Capitol. At least nine officers surrounded him. Two tried to open locked doors for him. None arrested him. Indeed, his armed guides ushered him into the Senate Chamber.
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Rather than attack them there, Chansley prayed: "Thank you, Heavenly Father, for taking the inspiration needed to these police officers to <i>allow us into the building.</i>" (Emphasis added.)<p>
Should Chansley have been there? No.<p>
Was he a "stone-cold thug?" No.
<P><strong>•</strong> CBS News blamed some 2,000 January 6 rioters for "causing the deaths of five police officers." MSNBC's Joe Scarborough claimed that "Donald Trump's supporters...killed police officers." <p>
Some rioters, in fact, battled and beat cops. They should be locked up.
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There were law-enforcement personnel who perished, but "none of whom died at the scene on Jan. 6," according to FactCheck.org. Four committed suicide -- three days, eight days, and two of them six months later, respectively.<p>
Tragic and horrible? Yes. <p>
Did Trump supporters kill them? No. <p>
CNN's Anderson Cooper said: "Officer Brian Sicknick died after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the fight."<p>
New January 6 video, in fact, shows Sicknick alive, well, and on duty inside the Capitol, after rioters supposedly murdered him outside the building. He wore a helmet, which shielded him from fatal cranial trauma. <p>
"Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes," an April 19, 2021 Capitol Police statement declared. Washington, D.C.'s coroner determined that two strokes killed Sicknick on January 7, 2021.<p>
A depressing and untimely demise? Yes.<p>
Murder by Trump supporters? No.
<P><strong>•</strong> According to the January 6 Committee, "On January 5th, [Trevor] Hallgren took a tour of the Capitol with Representative Barry Loudermilk, during which he took pictures of hallways and staircases."<p>
Lie: George Republican Loudermilk showed the carefully plotting putschists how to succeed.<p>
Truth: Loudermilk took some 15 constituents through the Rayburn House Office Building, <i>across the street </i> from the Capitol. None of Loudermilk's guests was in the Capitol the next day.
<P><strong>•</strong> "Later that day, Senator Hawley fled after those protesters he helped to rile up stormed the Capitol," said then-Congresswoman Elaine Luria (D - VA). The January 6 Committee then presented a recording of the Missouri Republican running down a Senate hallway. The audience roared with derisive laughter. <p>
New video shows that Hawley followed Capitol Police advice and was at least the 25th person to sprint past that security camera.<p>
Of course, this unraveled the Democrats' lies. So, they padlocked the truth until House Republicans set it free.
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February 17, 2023<br>
<p>AT&T's recent deplatforming of Newsmax, one of America's most influential cable news channels, should alarm everyone, including liberals. We are all at risk when censorship occurs—when one is silenced based on his or her point of view.</p>
<p>The facts strongly suggest that partisan and ideological motives played a sizable role in AT&T and DirecTV's decision to remove Newsmax on January 24, when some 13 million homes were deprived of the channel—including my own. After the recent State of the Union address, I turned to Newsmax for their coverage, but was surprised to find it suddenly missing from my channel guide.</p>
<p>Newsmax has been quite familiar to me: For several years now, I have been a legal analyst for the network. While the channel is center-right in its political orientation, my liberal positions are welcomed without any hesitation.</p>
<p>In my book The Case Against the New Censorship, I studied the growing movement to silence dissenting views, of which Newsmax now appears to be a victim.</p>
<p>Publicly, DirecTV and AT&T (DirecTV's 70% owner, with financial firm TPG owning the remaining 30%) say the move to deplatform Newsmax was about "cutting costs" and saving customers money. But when one notes that Newsmax was the fourth-highest-rated cable news network and that its license fee requests are modest (about a $1 per subscriber per year), the DirecTV decision doesn't make much business sense. Indeed, there are dozens of channels that DirecTV carries that cost much more than Newsmax, but have much lower ratings.</p>
<p>While DirecTV's decision may have been legally permissible, it was wrong and frankly un-American to deny Newsmax access to its platform, making it impossible for viewers to see the channel and exercise their civic right to take part in the marketplace of ideas.</p>
<p>Over a year ago, DirecTV carried three conservative-leaning channels, including One America News Network (OANN), a hard-right network. Meanwhile, DirecTV has continued to offer a panoply of left-leaning channels. In the past year, then DirecTV and AT&T have deplatformed two of their only three conservative news channels.</p>
<p>As one of America's largest companies, AT&T has a duty to abide by "good corporate citizenship," and thus to provide ideological balance in its choice of platformed TV networks. It clearly has not done so.</p>
<p>While private censorship is often legal, there are potential constitutional concerns if the government encouraged AT&T to shut down Newsmax.</p>
<p>As the case may be, in 2021, Democrats on the House Commerce Committee held hearings to investigate pay-TV systems for carrying conservative channels that were allegedly spreading "misinformation." On February 22, 2021, Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Jerry McNerney (D-CA) wrote to AT&T CEO John Stankey demanding to know if he was "planning to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN on U-verse, DirecTV, and ATT TV, both now and beyond any contract renewal date."</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbxOg5-G7xwxiROR3D4go-7B0AulOS9CobTcLfEKw77oeuPmAwodYJP14s36LHcnH7Bi6memoT-ipk0Tm5CclVGUbWPICLHsy-4xB6pENvQAY_D7opRGPNoPEUg7rgKEmDm_liFVLxdi3AxaL1fx6qcgPXLfubfTQLpCNYNyx1NA0m7FA_FXc/s790/Newsmax%20Houston%202022.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="790" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbxOg5-G7xwxiROR3D4go-7B0AulOS9CobTcLfEKw77oeuPmAwodYJP14s36LHcnH7Bi6memoT-ipk0Tm5CclVGUbWPICLHsy-4xB6pENvQAY_D7opRGPNoPEUg7rgKEmDm_liFVLxdi3AxaL1fx6qcgPXLfubfTQLpCNYNyx1NA0m7FA_FXc/s320/Newsmax%20Houston%202022.jpg"/></a></div>Signage for the Newsmax conservative television broadcasting network is displayed at a broadcast TV booth at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022.
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<p>A year later, in February 2022, as its contract with OANN neared its end, AT&T announced it was deplatforming the channel. It cited—surprise!—"cost-cutting" as the basis for its decision. OANN never had Newsmax's ratings, but it's not clear why AT&T eliminated it from its lineup while keeping many other low-rated channels.</p>
<p>Newsmax says that when it was up for renewal with AT&T/DirecTV last month, DirecTV's position was, and continues to be, that Newsmax is not eligible for any license fees. Meanwhile, all U.S. cable news channels get fees, and nearly all top cable channels do as well. Newsmax asserts that DirecTV's demand it take zero fees would impact all its other cable broadcaster agreements, essentially demonetizing and censoring the network.</p>
<p>So why doesn't DirecTV cut costs by reducing fees for the many lower-rated networks it carries? Why, again, has DirecTV decided everyone in cable news gets license fees except for Newsmax?</p>
<p>This is not just a "business dispute"; it is a prima facie case of discrimination against Newsmax.</p>
<p>After Elon Musk's release of the "Twitter Files," we know the FBI worked to censor private parties—a serious potential breach of constitutionally protected free speech rights. Did something similar happen when AT&T shut off OANN and Newsmax?</p>
<p>The relatively small amount of money DirecTV saved by removing Newsmax—with the ensuing loss of customers and brand reputation—makes one wonder if a larger hand was at play that forced its deplatforming decision.</p>
<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says Congress will hold hearings on AT&T's targeting of Newsmax and OANN. These hearings must be bipartisan: The rights of all Americans are at stake.</p>
<p>Recently, I signed a letter along with 22 major Jewish leaders calling on AT&T and DirecTV to return Newsmax to its platform. (Disclosure: Newsweek Opinion Editor Josh Hammer was another signee of the same letter.)</p>
<p>This letter was remarkable in its support from major Jewish leaders spanning the political spectrum. At a time of rising antisemitism at home and abroad, Newsmax has consistently offered fair and invaluable coverage on issues of concern to American Jews.</p>
<p>As a liberal, I am truly troubled that a major conservative cable news channel—and one that is reliably pro-Israel, like Newsmax—was silenced by AT&T. If AT&T and DirecTV can get away with silencing Newsmax, who will be next?</p>
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