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https://mailchi.mp/49ebc9ff866d/krd-news-fieldston-school-urj-pres-rick-jacobs-and-i

MORE ANTISEMITISM AT FIELDSTON

In “‘No Zionists’ and ‘No Straights’: Tweets from Teacher Rattle Elite New York City School” (Washington Free Beacon, Jan 9), Adam Kredo exposes even more anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism at Fieldston School, this time from history teacher J.B. Brager. Bad enough? This particular teacher was slated to teach an elective history course titled “Nazi Germany and the Holocaust” later this month.Plus, when Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Congressman Max Rose (NY-11) got word about the anti-Semite who Fieldston forced on their students at a required assembly, their response in a letter to Fieldston’s leadership was perfect:

There should be no place in our national discourse for hate-filled speech targeting any group. As Jewish Members of Congress dedicated to combatting anti-Semitism, we would like to understand how such a speaker could be invited to address ECFS students, what steps the school has taken to hold those responsible accountable, how the school has communicated to students and parents that such rhetoric is unacceptable, and how ECFS will implement processes to prevent future incidents. By drawing comparisons between the Holocaust and the State of Israel, these statements misrepresent current events while devaluing the horrors of the attempt to eliminate European Jewry.

Breaking News: Fieldston has fired J.B. Brager.

Plus, anti-Semitism continues around the globe:
A 30-year old Jewish man was beaten and subjected to anti-Semitic abuse on Tuesday on a Berlin subway:
A man in Toronto finds a swastika scrawled on his Alzheimer-stricken uncle’s head; and
A Holocaust monument and newly renovated synagogue were vandalized in Greece.

https://mailchi.mp/da1399d27006/krd-newsbari-weiss-and-the-solidarity-march?e=9365a7c638

Bari Weiss was a star at the NYC Solidarity March on Sunday! Watch her on video as she was interviewed by CNN walking over the Brooklyn Bridge (it’s a worthwhile five minutes), and read her speech (today’s featured article). She did not disappoint!

Colin Kaepernick mourns the death of a terrorist because of the color of his skin (one really can’t make this stuff up)!

Kaepernick had some choice words about the early Friday killing of Soleimani, which was ordered by President Donald Trump. “There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism,” the football player wrote in a tweet published at about 3 p.m. Saturday. A minute later, Kaepernick followed up with another tweet accusing the United States of using its military might to enforce its will onto non-white people. “America has always sanctioned and besieged Black and Brown bodies both at home and abroad,” he wrote. “America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, to enforce its policing and plundering of the non white world.” (Newsweek, Jan 5);

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/corbyn-bernie-sanders-socialism-british-election-2020.html

“Corbyn’s victory became a matter of faith, and its adherents continued to tout wisps of evidence for it even in the face of dismal polling ….Whether a more moderate Labour leader would have defeated Johnson — who is highly unpopular, yet still far less unpopular than Corbyn — is unknowable. What is certain is that his delirious backers assumed his success, and built around it a self-serving theory from which they refused to deviate in the face of mounting indications of doom.”

The British election results, like any election results, are the result of unique circumstances and multiple factors. They are also, however, a test of a widely articulated political theory that has important implications for American politics. That theory holds that Corbyn’s populist left-wing platform is both necessary and sufficient in order to defeat the rising nationalist right. Corbyn’s crushing defeat is a decisive refutation.

Many writers, not only on the left, detected parallels between the rise of Corbyn and the movement around Bernie Sanders. The latter is considerably more moderate and pragmatic than the former, and also not laden with the political baggage of Corbyn’s widely derided openness to anti-Semitic allies. And yet many leftists have emphasized the similarities between the two, which are indeed evident. Both built youth-oriented movements led by cadres of radical activists who openly set out to destroy and remake their parties. Both lost in somewhat close fashion, Sanders in 2016 and Corbyn the next year. And fervent supporters of both men treated their narrow defeats as quasi-victories, proof of victory just around the corner.

Arguments of this sort tend to quickly devolve into straw-man attacks. So, in order to show that the view I’m describing is widespread, I am sharing lengthy excerpts from a half-dozen essays written by American leftists in recent years:

https://mailchi.mp/f9ea712148da/krd-news-the-jews-are-done-being-silent-the-jews-are-done-being-afraid?e=9365a7c638

Yair Lapid didn’t mince words at the ELNET conference in Paris. His message to anti-Semites (today’s featured article) is one you must read;
Ilhan Omar is once again facing accusations of anti-Semitism;
The UN sells anti-Semitic texts at it’s book fair (because why not make a profit on something you are good at?);
George Washington University students share an anti-Semitic video on snapchat;
Elizabeth Warren makes an immoral and dangerous vow: To divide Jerusalem;
The NY Times and NBC troublingly smear the victims of violent murder in Mexico to deflect from the border crisis

A call to action: Check out the list of congressional representatives who support CAIR. If your representative is on it, please contact him/her with the information provided in the article.

IS WORLD WAR II HISTORY STILL RELEVANT? By David Harris

https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/09/03/is-world-war-ii-history-still-relevant/

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, when German forces invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, is the history still relevant? Does it have contemporary meaning? Or is it destined to fade away, as the wartime generation of soldiers, eyewitnesses, and survivors reaches the twilight of their lives? There are, I believe, five enduring lessons of this defining period in modern history.

First, a failure of imagination can be catastrophic.

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Top-PA-religious-leader-called-Jews-in-Jerusalem-colonialist-cancer-600459?fbclid=IwAR0kSkeD0tjswC2M8ui9vpUL_tzddoMERFeBXN7UALaR6RCpgfM4_SLZzds

PALESTINIAN RELIGIOUS LEADER CALLS JEWS IN JERUSALEM ‘COLONIALIST CANCER’ 

Prominent Palestinian religious leader denounced “Jewish attacks” against Palestinian religious symbols in Jerusalem and referred to the Jewish presence in the land of Israel as a “colonialist cancer,” NGO Palestinian Media Watch said on Monday. According to a report by the Palestinian Authority official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, as quoted by PMW, the Supreme Fatwa Council, led by Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, “Warned of the danger of attacks against the religious and national symbols in occupied Jerusalem, and held the occupation government fully responsible for these violations.” “The council expressed its rejection of all types of settlements and emphasized that the Palestinian people will not stand idly by in the face of this colonialist cancer,” the report added.
   The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is the Palestinian Authority’s highest religious leader. Hussein, a former imam of the Al Aqsa mosque, was appointed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas in 2006.

https://jewishjournal.com/advertising_supplement/editors-note-advertising_supplement/303553/silence-of-the-libs-do-liberal-jews-see-security-as-a-jewish-value/

SILENCE OF THE LIBS: IS SECURITY A JEWISH VALUE? (David Suissa, Jewish Journal, Aug 25)

What I found odd with T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC), Rabbis for Human Rights, and the New Israel Fund when I took a close look at their websites is that while they mention plenty of Jewish values, I didn’t see one mention of “security.” The closest was Rabbis for Human Rights, which mentions “safety” for “the stranger, the different and the weak, the convert, the widow and the orphan.” That is indeed noble, but what about “safety” for a 17-year-old Jewish girl whose only crime was to go on a nature walk with her family? Is it possible that the silence of these groups after the murder of Rina Shnerb was connected to the absence of “security for the Jewish people” in their values statements? After all, they are very loud when they pounce on Israel for any violation of the human rights of Palestinians…