tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-593245061011244572024-03-18T19:20:49.015-07:00FOUSESQUAWKConservative thoughts on the issues of todayGary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comBlogger18741125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-46750722426701845532024-03-18T15:45:00.000-07:002024-03-18T16:00:32.924-07:00Free Speech at UC Berkeley Once Again Put to the Test<p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: BentonSansBook; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><i>"The resolution condemns “all acts of discrimination, harassment, or intimidation against Palestinian students or any student based on their nationality or political beliefs.” </i></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: BentonSansBook; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><i>"It also calls on the administration to take “concrete steps to protect Palestinian students” and “accurately investigate” acts of discrimination and harassment."</i></p><div class="tncms-region hidden-print" id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="tncms-block" id="tncms-block-3105283" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: BentonSansBook; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><i>"The ASUC will also form a working group open to all campus community members to set guidelines for speakers brought to campus."</i></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: BentonSansBook; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">-Daily Californian</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmvst9KN_lnIJ-NQErlSDH7TKzLHzqYtXS5b5O9kOqbIMmxdjYWInQdTrzoW-7z9J-ANfSKsrPf0xdGGT5KEfAfIs8CjONYrzZyTt9j8rcShJdjT-P-h3knIMRsEW3q76jYXzocU2VWSfFP-vyP3_fuuZUiDGzuxTnS95NGE5aG_XQxDjbP92r3dpicA/s154/crybaby66(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="154" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmvst9KN_lnIJ-NQErlSDH7TKzLHzqYtXS5b5O9kOqbIMmxdjYWInQdTrzoW-7z9J-ANfSKsrPf0xdGGT5KEfAfIs8CjONYrzZyTt9j8rcShJdjT-P-h3knIMRsEW3q76jYXzocU2VWSfFP-vyP3_fuuZUiDGzuxTnS95NGE5aG_XQxDjbP92r3dpicA/w400-h345/crybaby66(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <i> "I need protection."</i></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>We have been following the <a href="https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-incident-at-uc-berkeley-on-february.html">story</a> about the February 26 disruption of a speech by Israeli lawyer and IDF veteran, Ran Bar-Yoshafat, at UC Berkeley and the ensuing fallout. </p><p>It has now been <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/israeli-lawyer-to-return-to-berkeley-after-antisemitic-mob-shut-down-speech/">announced</a> that he will return to UC Berkeley this evening to finish his speech as well as any other unfinished business.</p><p>The pro-Palestinian bullies are naturally upset and are demanding protection from the university. How ironic is that? The bullies and disruptors are now hiding and apparently applying for the Witness Protection Program to shield them from the "harmful" words of Yoshafat. The Student Government is hard at work passing <a href="https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/asuc/asuc-passes-resolution-protecting-palestinian-students/article_8b52b57a-e2c4-11ee-90a2-db0a896cf8aa.html">resolutions</a> protecting the Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim students.</p><p>(From what-themselves?)</p><p>It is all happening this evening, and we will follow up on what happens. I predict that the little rascals will crawl out of their hiding places long enough to disrupt this event as well. No doubt the campus police will be out in force-to protect the Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian kids from the harmful words of Ran Bar-Yoshafat.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHEkI720paQTbsSkyH6WsxDw-YD237xH-zxTIDrLxtHhBmEPRNL0eucPFFDzzWKJoXOyGlPJFbHOU2Mvkb-us-06TSEo79YyDl2MYDHpMfhEINttqERDDIbvkKTt_uuFhznqoC449HxeQaF4-sVpSBeq0yi0M8oPj8CydQVvzPA31dYBlfSIugM9W3Pg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="304" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHEkI720paQTbsSkyH6WsxDw-YD237xH-zxTIDrLxtHhBmEPRNL0eucPFFDzzWKJoXOyGlPJFbHOU2Mvkb-us-06TSEo79YyDl2MYDHpMfhEINttqERDDIbvkKTt_uuFhznqoC449HxeQaF4-sVpSBeq0yi0M8oPj8CydQVvzPA31dYBlfSIugM9W3Pg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-43857514001780626352024-03-17T20:09:00.000-07:002024-03-17T20:12:04.198-07:00German Chancellor Visits Jerusalem<p><b>What came out of the joint press conference with Netanyahu and Scholz</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi19tNIA4TPU7ILDzI8AB4T3RmuW3UV4-7fciFkWh4yvlOHRsGooafZqNKb_VMUegaLAGsErONlVTRBXqytJ5yQZvjVqtxf2BUAjtpbdf8mHArPJ4QEblr-6LcFBZWMNMmTNmIsFzUNZCRlb0hhsK1x4fabhlVwVKXITuctw-jKNIA5_IXSnenvQqRTDA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="186" data-original-width="300" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi19tNIA4TPU7ILDzI8AB4T3RmuW3UV4-7fciFkWh4yvlOHRsGooafZqNKb_VMUegaLAGsErONlVTRBXqytJ5yQZvjVqtxf2BUAjtpbdf8mHArPJ4QEblr-6LcFBZWMNMmTNmIsFzUNZCRlb0hhsK1x4fabhlVwVKXITuctw-jKNIA5_IXSnenvQqRTDA=w400-h248" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br /></b><p></p><p>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Israel today and met with President Netanyahu. It appears from the press conference they held today that Scholz agrees that Hamas must be eliminated. It also appears he expressed concern over the high number of civilian casualties.</p><p>The below article from the German-Jewish outlet, <i>Juedische Allgemeine,</i> is translated by Fousesquawk.</p><p> <a href="https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/israel/netanjahu-und-scholz-die-hamas-muss-eliminiert-werden/">https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/israel/netanjahu-und-scholz-die-hamas-muss-eliminiert-werden/</a></p><p><b>Netanyahu and Scholz: Hamas must be eliminated</b></p><p>"We have no future if Hamas, who is determined (to carry out) genocide against us, remains intact," stressed the Israeli head of government.</p><p>March 17, 2024 at 19:44</p><p>After a conversation with the (German) Federal Chancellor, Olaf Scholz (SPD), Israel's President, Benjamin Netanyahu, explains that he and his German guest are in agreement that, "Hamas must be eliminated".</p><p>There will be no peace as long as the Islamist terror organization remains in the Gaza Strip, said Netanyahu on Sunday in a joint press conference with Scholz in Jerusalem. "We have no future if Hamas, who is determined (to carry out) genocide against us, remains intact."</p><p>On Friday, Netanyahu approved a ground offensive in the town of Rafah on the Egyptian border. Before a planned offensive in Rafah, the civilian population will be brought to safety, Netanyahu said. Israel is also undertaking every effort to enable aid deliveries for the people in the Gaza Strip, "over land, over sea, and from the air".</p><p>At a meeting with Netanyahu, Scholz emphasized that Israel has the right to defend itself against the terror of Islamist Hamas. At the same time, he expressed doubts as to the military action of Israel in the Gaza war in view of the high victim toll. He urged Netanyahu to rethink his strategy in the Gaza Strip.</p><p>In the 5 months or so of the war, the number of civilian victims has reached an extremely high (level). "Many would say too high," said Scholz. No matter how important the goal may be, can such a terribly high cost be justified, or are there other ways to reach this goal?' Scholz asked.</p><p>Scholz arrived in Israel for a visit on the same day, the second since the start of the Gaza war on October 7.</p><p>In addition to Netanyahu, Scholz wanted to meet with President Isaac Herzog and Minister Benny Gantz, as well as relatives of hostages. It is believed that there are still about 100 of them alive. He previously met with Jordanian King Abdullah II in the Jordanian seaside resort of Akaba.</p><p>The federal Chancellor first traveled to Israel 10 days after the Hamas attack to assure the nation of German solidarity. "Israel's security and (that of its) citizens is a German reason of state," he said then. "Our responsibility growing out of the Holocaust makes it our duty to stand for the security and the existence of Israel".</p><p>Also for German reasons of state, Scholz has been very reserved in his criticism of Israeli military operations against Hamas, in contrast to other allies. That has met with criticism in the Arab world. Step by step, however, Scholz's warnings have become clearer.</p><p>With a view to a planned resumption of indirect talks over a provisional ceasefire, Schoilz said in Jordan: "For me, it is very clear that it is now a matter of making concrete the possibility to come to a longer-lasting cease-fire, which is shown in the existing talks."</p><p><br /></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-82023197683539806972024-03-17T18:41:00.000-07:002024-03-17T18:41:52.613-07:00Academic Whackery Attacks Marriage<p>Hat tip The College Fix</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: times;"><i>"Letiecq employs “critical family theorizing…to delineate an overarching orientation to structural oppression and unequal power relations that advantages [white heteropatriarchal nuclear families] and marginalizes others as a function of marriage fundamentalism.”</i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Noto Serif", georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd0AC7zbJQDy7fAsAp6AsasbsvtzQjzeLflv1byD7zcg2FKeGw3aGQRTc3zy0MEPq7yHhYQeHD7S49Pcqla_M_tYvr5EXZrmAaj8YNZFI7PKh6GT026Kwutt1fB8oKJ_3U4uWv2iiugi74_CilGlJ5gC-Qo0k1wSRpNI66mzoOj1D9cP81lZnmI0fBJw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="198" data-original-width="130" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd0AC7zbJQDy7fAsAp6AsasbsvtzQjzeLflv1byD7zcg2FKeGw3aGQRTc3zy0MEPq7yHhYQeHD7S49Pcqla_M_tYvr5EXZrmAaj8YNZFI7PKh6GT026Kwutt1fB8oKJ_3U4uWv2iiugi74_CilGlJ5gC-Qo0k1wSRpNI66mzoOj1D9cP81lZnmI0fBJw=w263-h400" width="263" /></a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Don't blame me. I didn't hire her."</span></i></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><br /></i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Founding Father George Mason must be rolling in his grave. The university in Fairfax, Virginia that bears his name has a professor teaching there who maintains that marriage is something designed to maintain white supremacy over non-whites-or something like that. The College Fix has the report </span><a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/marriage-promotes-white-supremacy-george-mason-professor/" style="background-color: transparent;">here</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"In this article, I draw upon critical feminist and intersectional frameworks to delineate an overarching orientation to structural oppression and unequal power relations that advantages White heteropatriarchal nuclear families (WHNFs) and marginalizes others as a function of family structure and relationship status."</span></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;">-Letiecq</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_ok-9LhYkFlSf2Q1G_qI3ZMP4s1yVQ6WlOoKsyjsQBwIXNo4SVg98jsfBwYVeeVS6TYqI7bzJP4uQDIBpTySD3_JPowhNUMcMxX0YktQnAtDL-kPtFGul2xGVu6m9lnV0Vo6-QS7uPlq2DlnArRjLNoMq-IIDfwfdzuUOfhbGp7uKkwIS6yrP_Jgug/s120/dumb2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="89" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_ok-9LhYkFlSf2Q1G_qI3ZMP4s1yVQ6WlOoKsyjsQBwIXNo4SVg98jsfBwYVeeVS6TYqI7bzJP4uQDIBpTySD3_JPowhNUMcMxX0YktQnAtDL-kPtFGul2xGVu6m9lnV0Vo6-QS7uPlq2DlnArRjLNoMq-IIDfwfdzuUOfhbGp7uKkwIS6yrP_Jgug/w297-h400/dumb2.jpg" width="297" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p>Where do I begin? Clearly, this is part of the overall effort by the woke left to destroy our family structure. That's because it has been clearly shown that the breakdown of the nuclear, two-parent family has led to countless societal woes here in the US. Professor Bethany Letiecq has to know that. For her to employ such tortured reasoning to argue that marriage (at least in the West) is an instrument of oppression designed to maintain some white power structure is silly. </p><p>I am not arguing that the institution of marriage in the US during my father's generation and back beyond was based on equality of roles. It was based on the husband working to support the family while the wife took care of the house, the cooking, and the children. The institution has changed a lot just in my lifetime. </p><p>Nor do I wish to put down the so-called non-traditional families, single parents, same-sex marriages etc. They have their rights too. Nobody is saying they cannot be good parents and raise children well. But they are at a disadvantage.</p><p>But if Letiecq wants to make the case (intersectionality?) that a stable, two-parent family is a destructive force in society, I would like to throw out a question. Is she denying-or does she even care) about the problem of absentee fathers in African-American communities across America? Is she arguing that black children are actually better off having only a mother in their lives and no real father? </p><p>During the worst days of Jim Crow in the South and overall discrimination against blacks all over the country, the rate of babies born out of wedlock was about 25%. Today it is about 72%. What has led to that shocking change in numbers is open to argument and is the topic of a separate argument itself. Most black conservatives today will tell you (I always quote Larry Elder) that the single biggest problem facing black Americans today is not white racism, but the out-of-wedlock birth rate. In other words, most black children are growing up without a real father/male role model in their lives. Crime, drugs, and gangs, soon follow. It is clear that black children have a better chance of growing into successful adults if they have a stable two-parent family. Yet, Letiecq either ignores or belittles that issue. (To be fair, white out-of-wedlock births have also risen dramatically, but nowhere near 70%.)</p><p>I also find it curious how Western feminists dedicate themselves to glass ceilings and abortion issues here in America, as well as sexual and other physical abuse (which are valid issues), but at the same time, studiously ignore the horrific treatment of women in many other parts of the world (child marriage, forced female circumcision, honor killings etc.) I don't know enough about Letiecq to know whether she addresses herself to those latter issues or not. Given her use of woke academic jargon, I suspect not.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-25373483225779280382024-03-15T15:19:00.000-07:002024-03-15T15:21:43.395-07:00Another "Magnum Opus"" Op-Ed by Mark LeVine (UC Irvine)<p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">This article first appeared in<a href="https://www.newenglishreview.org/another-magnum-opus-by-mark-levine-uc-irvine/"> New English Review.</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisolpBd9PSFmk64PYdmDVFW5nVwH60ECzJ2EoaUGgPsgASRiX3bVaTz0BrikjZe0rtUDewggBQHAJ_kpvCRhUdjU15eXf3cbFh70fmK6c8sAht6akSMeQpQ3aOxpagcJOsxVz_mExBwpD9VZlRlrj6OI4LW0ju2VLipuYX5gREKrtZrTVD-uHcBA4j-g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisolpBd9PSFmk64PYdmDVFW5nVwH60ECzJ2EoaUGgPsgASRiX3bVaTz0BrikjZe0rtUDewggBQHAJ_kpvCRhUdjU15eXf3cbFh70fmK6c8sAht6akSMeQpQ3aOxpagcJOsxVz_mExBwpD9VZlRlrj6OI4LW0ju2VLipuYX5gREKrtZrTVD-uHcBA4j-g=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Back on January 19, 2024, University of California at Irvine comedian, part-time rocker, and history teacher, Mark LeVine, penned yet another one of his side-splitter </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/19/palestine-the-alchemy-of-big-lies-and-future-of-the-university" style="font-family: times;">op-eds</a><span style="font-family: times;"> for </span><i style="font-family: times;">Al Jazeera</i><span style="font-family: times;">, the Qatar-based propaganda outlet. As usual, the topic was Israel, LeVine's favorite boogie man, and as always, his wording is overblown, self-important, and full of nonsense disguised as academic discourse.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">In this silly piece, LeVine focuses, if that is the right word, on the disastrous December 5 testimonies of the three university presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn (two of whom are now former university presidents) before Congress following the horrific October 7 attack upon Israel by the terrorist organization, Hamas. I should note here that in the entire op-ed by LeVine, the words, October 7 and Hamas are not mentioned one time-even in passing. Aside from Israel, LeVine attacks Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, whose questions to the three presidents caused such an uproar. LeVine characterizes Stefanik's questions as fascistic, a curious accusation since the issue at hand was campus anti-Semitism, which has been plaguing all three schools as well as countless others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Here are some choice excerpts:</span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Only now it’s Palestinians and not Jews who are the martyrs and symbols, whose survival as a national community on their land has become, more than any other contemporary conflict, a bellwether of the possibility to address the increasingly intractable problems facing humanity."</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Heavy stuff indeed. Sorry, but I find it hard to imagine Hamas and their followers as martyrs. The Jews who died on October 7 in the most horrible of manner are the real martyrs. That was an act of war, and Israel rightfully responded by declaring war against Hamas and going into Gaza. The regrettable fact that many Palestinian civilians have died is a direct result of Hama's actions on October 7 and their subsequent tactics of fighting behind their own human shields. </span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;">"It was Gay’s moral cowardice in the face of Stefanik’s unmistakably mendacious set-up to the genocide question that revealed not only Gay’s unsuitability for leadership of the world’s premier research university but also the deeper intellectual and political rot at the highest echelons of American academia."</span></i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;">While there is much to agree with in this paragraph, I take issue with calling Stefanik's questioning "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;">unmistakenly mendacious". Anti-Semitism on college campuses is an undeniable fact, and if you call for a "Palestine" from the river to the sea, it is clear that it means either the removal or wiping out of Jews from all land within Israel's borders. It's kind of like, "<i>from the Oder to the Rhine, Deutschland will be judenrein."</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;">"<i>The congresswoman claimed that merely by chanting the phrases “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=/opinions/2023/11/15/from-the-river-to-the-sea-and-the-decolonisation-of-our-collective-future&source=gmail&ust=1705757090174000&usg=AOvVaw02bGiRLtMAWNmylt9zqebn" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/11/15/from-the-river-to-the-sea-and-the-decolonisation-of-our-collective-future" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0059a5;">river to the sea</a>” and “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=/news/2023/12/7/how-are-harvard-penn-presidents-responding-to-campus-anti-semitism-row%23:~:text%3DRepublican%2520Congresswoman%2520Elise%2520Stefanik%252C%2520a,armed%2520resistance%25E2%2580%259D%2520against%2520Israel%2520and&source=gmail&ust=1705757090174000&usg=AOvVaw2RHR-gn2V6fP6w74IeS-dd" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/7/how-are-harvard-penn-presidents-responding-to-campus-anti-semitism-row#:~:text=Republican%20Congresswoman%20Elise%20Stefanik%2C%20a,armed%20resistance%E2%80%9D%20against%20Israel%20and" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0059a5;">globalize the intifada</a>”, protesters are in fact calling for “violence against civilians and the genocide of Jews”. “Are you aware of that?” Stefanik asked Gay."</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>As for globalizing the intifada, given the level of violence, death, and destruction, during the previous intifadas, any call to globalize the intifada is unwelcome anywhere. Back in the days when UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian was a student at San Francisco State University, he infamously called for an intifada in the US. Bazian later went on to co-found the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The SJP has been a constant disruptor</span><span> </span><span>of any and all pro-Israel events on campuses across the nation. They are a prime source for campus anti-Semitism today.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;">"<i>Here Stefanik was brazenly deploying the well-worn fascist tactic most recently resuscitated by Donald Trump to great effect: the “big lie”. It couldn’t have worked better; before Stefanik could even finish her accusation, Gay interjected that she found those phrases “hateful, reckless, offensive speech [that] is personally abhorrent to me”. Soon-to-be-fired University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, who only a few months before had worked overtime to prevent the Palestine Writers Literature Festival from taking place at UPenn, similarly bent the knee to Stefanik’s concocted allegations about rabid anti-Semitism on her campus."</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;">Fascist? And of course, LeVine would be remiss if he didn't throw in Trump's name. Whatever you think of Trump, LeVine forgets that Trump was a strong supporter of Israel, arguably the most supportive US president in history. Even more importantly, it was Trump who put the universities on notice that if they didn't confront campus anti-Semitism, they risked losing federal funding. </span><span style="font-family: times;">In addition, Stefanik's allegations about rabid anti-Semitism at UPenn are hardly "concocted".</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Gay might have a problem citing colleagues, but it’s simply inconceivable that the now former president of Harvard is so ignorant and ill-informed as to believe that those two phrases are tantamount to a call for genocide (it is worth noting that “river to the sea” has been used by Zionists for over a century, most recently by Netanyahu to declare that there will be “no Palestinian state from the river to the sea”). Her rush to second Stefanik’s racist accusation in the most “personal” way possible represented both a complete disavowal of what she and her colleagues must know to be reality and the kind of grovelling by academic leaders to state officials that characterise totalitarian systems, not functioning democracies."</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;">Racist?</span><span style="font-family: times;"> Totalitarian? </span><span style="font-family: times;">Telling publicly funded universities to crack down on campus hate is hardly totalitarian. As for Netanyahu's quoted comment, there is a vast difference between advocating the removal or killing of an entire population and stating that such and such a state will never come to pass. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"If there was ever a moment for academic integrity to show its face, it was then. If there was ever an inflection point in the struggle against fascist propaganda in the halls of Congress, it was then. The only ethical response to Stefanik’s deployment of such brazen falsehoods in the service of repressive politics was the one another Harvard alum, Joseph Nye Welch, famously gave to Senator Joseph McCarthy some 70 years ago after McCarthy, during a nationally televised hearing, accused a young colleague from Welch’s law firm of being a communist and suggested that the man should be fired. “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Welch had said before refusing to answer any more questions on the matter."</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Well, at least LeVine didn't quote Patrick Henry's famous phrase, "Give me liberty or give me death".</span><i> </i><span>Maybe for a future <i>Al Jazeera</i> op-ed in which he claims that the academic freedom of scholars such as himself is under threat. I was just a kid when McCarthy was making headlines, but I don't recall him calling out campus anti-Semitism. His issue was the alleged presence of communists in government. (Some also accused him of being an anti-Semite.)</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Perhaps a generation ago, the three university presidents could have been forgiven for having no ready response to such a fantastical accusation since it existed outside the reality-based universe academics are used to functioning in." </span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;">Again LeVine appears to deny the obvious-the very reason those three presidents were called to testify in the first place; because campus anti-Semitism (disguised as the Palestinian cause) is very real and that includes the three respective universities they represented. That is the reality that academics like LeVine are <b>not</b> used to functioning in. After all, LeVine is the guy who, a few years ago, co-wrote a book claiming that the ultimate solution for peace was one state with two parallel governments, one Israeli and the other Palestinian. Now that's reality!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Whether it’s Columbia University banning both Students for Justice and Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, Harvard and UPenn fighting Palestine solidarity at every turn, the University of California pushing for “viewpoint-neutral history” while its campuses increase pressure on Palestine solidarity activities, or the outright criminalising and unrelenting threats, harassment, (self-)censoring and punishment of professors, students and staff, the campaign against Palestine solidarity is inseparable from and indeed the spearhead for conservative attacks on allegedly “woke” academic disciplines and their attempts to increase the measure of justice and societal power for long marginalised communities."</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;">As LeVine builds toward his crescendo of a climax, he invokes the hallowed names of SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), two despicable organizations most notable for their disruptive tactics of intimidation on campuses, as well as their refusal to engage in any constructive dialogue with those who disagree with them. He talks about the threats, harassment, etc directed against pro-Palestinian voices on campus (when they engage in language advocating hate and violence against Israelis and Jews in general, I might add). He doesn't have a word to say about the bullying, threats, disruption, and violence directed against Jewish students by these very organizations and their "woke" allies.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Universities, the news media, the culture industries – the institutions that were at the centre of critical theory’s analytical gaze and practices a century ago – are, like the Frankfurt School itself, once again at the centre of culture, and through it, political warfare. While leaders remain ensnared by the system, artists and academics, journalists as well as students and even government officials are creating unprecedentedly broad networks of solidarity that can withstand the intense pressure by power holders to enforce fealty and silence dissent."</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Through these webs of solidarity, the struggle over the future of the university will be increasingly bound up with campus struggles for Palestine."</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times;">I told you it was overblown. All that's missing is the stirring Jonathan Livingston Seagull music in the background. And oh, yes. Hamas and October 7.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i><br /></i></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-4581313067862437322024-03-13T13:10:00.000-07:002024-03-13T13:10:17.180-07:00The Incident at UC Berkeley on February 26<p>Hat tip <i>Legal Insurrection</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_cU1eDk0ZhH9CUZHhccOc2m5klIu4wMt6bZbYy3IZ9peTMj-b0_LC-FhMpMS_cQQlhU0YV-Vm-lorjLrP0aCqsTH40H2e7JhDN-GcRGbbxDQ2jF9ZZWw65CbOddlKVAfLSluvghzG5fXLS-YEMBVbT9t1mOJmBYzj5y_IdnCgF2Cktvzwtp_HfsObA/s304/pottedplants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="304" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_cU1eDk0ZhH9CUZHhccOc2m5klIu4wMt6bZbYy3IZ9peTMj-b0_LC-FhMpMS_cQQlhU0YV-Vm-lorjLrP0aCqsTH40H2e7JhDN-GcRGbbxDQ2jF9ZZWw65CbOddlKVAfLSluvghzG5fXLS-YEMBVbT9t1mOJmBYzj5y_IdnCgF2Cktvzwtp_HfsObA/s1600/pottedplants.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>On February 26, there was yet another <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/anti-israel-protesters-broke-windows-breached-uc-berkeley-event-with-idf-veteran/">disruption </a>of an Israel-related speaking event at UC Berkeley. I should be more precise in that the event was disrupted because it was sponsored by a pro-Israel campus group and featured an IDF veteran as speaker. Anti-Israel events are rarely if ever, disrupted.</p><p>Subsequently, the <i>Daily California</i>n, the campus fishwrap, ran an <a href="https://www.dailycal.org/opinion/op-eds/protesting-in-context/article_d012b340-d81f-11ee-8cf7-3b4f4b849d0f.html">op-ed</a> in which the writer, a first-year student who was present, defended the protest, but in claiming that reports of violence were exaggerated, made a couple of contradictions. </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: BentonSansBook; font-size: 16px;"><i>"On Monday, a coalition of pro-Palestinian student groups hosted a somewhat impromptu protest with the aim of shutting down the speech of Israeli blogger, soldier and self-proclaimed Israeli policy expert Ran Bar-Yoshafat." </i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: BentonSansBook; font-size: 16px;"><i>"In lieu of popular support, I believe that pro-Israel groups and advocates at UC Berkeley campus and in America at large have employed the strategy of perpetuating the perception of pro-Palestinian advocates and groups as violent, unruly and illogical — through the removal of context. The protest at Zellerbach Hall and its surrounding discourse is a tangible example of this rhetoric in action. I attended this protest from start to finish, and the claims that I make about it come from first-hand observation."</i></span></p><p>What is obvious in the above op-ed is that the "somewhat impromptu" protest was planned in advance and had as its goal to shut the event and its speaker down. </p><p>The "perception that" pro-Palestinian advocates and groups are violent, unruly, and illogical"? That's for sure. The anti-Israel mobs have proven that fact time and time again, as they did at UCB on February 26.</p><p>In addition, <i>Campus Reform</i> is featuring the <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/uc-berkeley-student-speaks-horrific-day-jewish-students-says-freshman-female-choked-violent-protest-watch/24998">account </a>of the incident from a young student from Bears for Israel that is somewhat different from the above account in Daily Californian. In addition, to the broken windows and scuffling with campus police, Danielle Sobkin reports that a female student was choked by the rioters</p><p>Apparently, no arrests were made. Par for the course. I don't know why they even have campus police at UCB. They are no more than potted plants.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-2860906125354101942024-03-12T19:01:00.000-07:002024-03-12T19:01:47.903-07:00Move Over: Another Jew-Hater Coming to Cornell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-voyAvAHp4Z-18jz8FIPPfGX6sB-gO1_-7KyorSQH6bq73tRdncJeBMKTzNksczQ4XDv1GfQDjaijxrNyUy_i_vVdurTamyn5NbnzOmIMCmlMID5pfjaLI9vNB8tT6vuxHu5Susl03B7d6IgqPe1qbzs1DxqHmi5GgZD8MfVvQ-AO4ueYhoiKDSOtg/s329/cornell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="329" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-voyAvAHp4Z-18jz8FIPPfGX6sB-gO1_-7KyorSQH6bq73tRdncJeBMKTzNksczQ4XDv1GfQDjaijxrNyUy_i_vVdurTamyn5NbnzOmIMCmlMID5pfjaLI9vNB8tT6vuxHu5Susl03B7d6IgqPe1qbzs1DxqHmi5GgZD8MfVvQ-AO4ueYhoiKDSOtg/w400-h319/cornell.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>When it comes to Jew-hatred, Cornell has had more than its share in the last several years. Now they are adding yet another. Some gal named <a href="https://www.wunpini.com/">Wunpini F. Mohammed</a>, who apparently is a specialist in cartoon studies, is transferring from the University of Georgia to Cornell. There, she will join others of her ilk, like Prof. <a href="https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-energizer-at-cornell.html">Russell Rickford</a>, who described himself as "energized" by the Hamas attack and massacre of over 1,200 innocent civilians, who were raped, tortured, murdered, or kidnapped back to Gaza on October 7.</p><p>In addition, the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is quite active, and just recently, a student was arrested for posting <a href="https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2023/10/vicious-threats-against-jews-at-cornell.html">death threats</a> against Jews in general. I am also linking the Cornell page from the database of the California-based <a href="https://amchainitiative.org/search-by-university#university/name2/campus-monitor2/5b4bd8b02d7f5f28788b1607/">Amcha Initiative </a>which is devoted to fighting campus anti-Semitism. And just today, Daniel Greenfield, writing in <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/meet-the-foreign-student-protester-supporting-hamas-at-cornell/">Frontpage Magazine</a>, has a report on a virulently anti-Semitic student, a foreign exchange student no less, named Momodou Taal. As if that were not enough, Cornell is one of several major universities now under investigation by the Dept. of Education, Office of Civil Rights for complaints of anti-Semitic activity</p><p><i>Campus Reform </i>has the report <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/cornell-university-hires-unhinged-jew-hating-professor-thinks-israel-must-destroyed/24981">here</a> with several of Mohammed's anti-Jewish screeds.</p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times;">And what if one would say, "If Muslim folks don't want to be incorrectly associated with Hamas' barbarism and October 7, the answer is to be vehemently anti-Hamas and to work to dismantle Hamas and terrorism"? It cuts many ways.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times;">I also note that<i> Campus Reform</i>, the site that exposes much of the anti-Semitism happening on our campuses, has a gadfly who regularly comments on these stories and always trashes not just Israel, but Jews in general. I won't bother writing his name (which is probably an alias anyway), but you can catch some of his screeds in the reader comment section (along with my comment as well).</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times;">So no doubt, Mohammed will fit right in at Cornell and find plenty of company who share her hate for Jews.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-87795381900565202132024-03-11T20:00:00.000-07:002024-03-11T20:00:30.983-07:00Texas Tech: "Whole Lotta F---'in Goin' on"<p>Hat tip The College Fix</p><p><br /></p><p>Texas Tech University is in the spotlight this week thanks to a professor of something called "Decolonial Theory", who has gone on a rant throwing around f-bombs in referring to Israel and anyone who supports the Jewish state.</p><p>Say hello to Professor Jairo Funez-Flores, who went on an obscenity-laden rant on social media and is now on paid leave while the university tries to figure out what to do with this guy. It is their opinion that the professor's remarks were anti-Semitic, which I believe he is denying. I should note that his posting on X came hours after the October 7 attack.</p><p>The College Fix has a <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/texas-tech-puts-professor-on-leave-over-hateful-antisemitic-unacceptable-remarks/">report</a>.</p><p>The Campus newspaper, the<i> Daily Toreador </i>has two articles running on the situation, which can be read <a href="https://www.dailytoreador.com/news/f-nez-flores-speaks-at-student-protest-following-suspension-with-pay-from-tech/article_f42647ac-dd78-11ee-afc1-3bd62f5d50ac.html">here</a> and <a href="https://www.dailytoreador.com/news/students-propose-resolution-at-sga-senate-for-f-nez-flores-first-amendment/article_102eadaa-dd0f-11ee-ba9b-4f7d2a644bb5.html#tncms-source=signup">here</a>. In the latter link, I jumped into the reader comment fray, as I often do. </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Fira Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>"As a gentile who taught 18 years at a major California university (1998-2016), I can testify first-hand that the anti-Israel movement on our campuses is anti-Jewish to its core no matter how much they deny it. It is high time that the leaders of our universities wake up to how this campaign has resulted in intimidation of Jewish students across the nation by the likes of SJP.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Fira Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>It amazes me how anybody, after the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7, could take their side and justify what they did. Hamas is evil, and they proved it on October 7. The blood of innocent Palestinians is on Hamas' hands."</i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: times;">So the university is now trying to decide whether the learned professor of Decolonial Theory was merely exercising his right of free speech outside of the university venue or if he crossed the line. On a larger scale, I think university administrators need to take a serious look at how this whole pro-Palestinian movement on campus has itself crossed the line into pure anti-Semitism. In my view, that line was crossed years ago, and academia still has failed to confront it no matter how much they prattle on about the "values of their university, inclusion" etc. I also think they need to take a hard look at the sort of people they are bringing into their classrooms and who are representing the image of their institutions.</span></p><p>Decolonial theory!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2YIysADSU_sb9R0SImR-o-s1HuUcJVEqQ-Eur4say_MX0aXdmeRfVB5ny7388RVSqbt_RcAA0O-CDdkrHuKtYRIIzC0fEuDTcQorcJEjM06IR4YIsPB1-wu_Bqhf8AP2RpNk9B0dPQegSFTDR4xHUMUB9jHz1uBDBV7Ti_tTw9MmRjWhF9YLkLqfsMw/s193/laffingworkers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="193" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2YIysADSU_sb9R0SImR-o-s1HuUcJVEqQ-Eur4say_MX0aXdmeRfVB5ny7388RVSqbt_RcAA0O-CDdkrHuKtYRIIzC0fEuDTcQorcJEjM06IR4YIsPB1-wu_Bqhf8AP2RpNk9B0dPQegSFTDR4xHUMUB9jHz1uBDBV7Ti_tTw9MmRjWhF9YLkLqfsMw/w400-h276/laffingworkers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-68463909715892158012024-03-11T10:56:00.000-07:002024-03-11T12:08:03.392-07:00One Fine Day in Iran<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xvTMdte4wdPw7U3k47cjbrH3jdzdD1bO_lzCgEbmqWQX08bIGB0YBXsInM0mEXaMfl7V0y5BhgiFNRQWPpoMGOdKN8RcYOa9eMVY2fO2IZdqptx3wAqd_r5Ffah5Wf59_-t-VcJ5DMe1WYXdtoCs966aMy7iUhFkJZN-JNZpRq8vQp-dw5YCmg6oqg/s200/beach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="180" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xvTMdte4wdPw7U3k47cjbrH3jdzdD1bO_lzCgEbmqWQX08bIGB0YBXsInM0mEXaMfl7V0y5BhgiFNRQWPpoMGOdKN8RcYOa9eMVY2fO2IZdqptx3wAqd_r5Ffah5Wf59_-t-VcJ5DMe1WYXdtoCs966aMy7iUhFkJZN-JNZpRq8vQp-dw5YCmg6oqg/w360-h400/beach.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The below incident happened in Qom, Iran, but is reported in today's<i> La Stampa</i> in Italy. The translation of the written article clearly states what occurred. The article has a video of the incident, which is in Farsi but has some English subtitles. Translation of the written article in Italian is by Fousesquawk.</p><p> <a href="https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2024/03/10/video/mullah_fotografa_donna_senza_velo_in_una_sala_daspetto_lei_si_ribella_e_lo_affronta-14135440/?ref=LSHA-BH-P4-S3-T1">https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2024/03/10/video/mullah_fotografa_donna_senza_velo_in_una_sala_daspetto_lei_si_ribella_e_lo_affronta-14135440/?ref=LSHA-BH-P4-S3-T1</a></p><p><b>Mullah photographs woman without veil in a waiting room. She rebels and confronts him</b></p><p>"Show me your phone!" That's how a woman confronted a cleric (who was) surprised while he was taking a photo, probably to report the fact that she was without a head covering. But the mother, at that moment in the waiting room of a clinic in Qom with her sick child, reacted forcefully and lashed out at the mullah, shouting at him to show her his phone. Other women came to calm her, but also to help her (and who) surrounded the man, who was filmed as he hurriedly left the clinic. It is unclear what occurred after the events recorded by the security cameras. The Iranian judiciary has stated that a case has been opened and that the incident is the object of an investigation but denied reports that the clinic was shut down or that there had been arrests made.</p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>Meanwhile at the Oscars........</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDWPpU9wOspyQUte47fuQVMMOZmMwidf2CqfqnLs9HeRIe1OMsLz0anBdqYg6hCOTh4NpjYJi6kfyaz7X-Y5FCy26zq4nB1Q5Ntd-nrEMNQ3aJ11uUQ6rwCSMeL7k-xZoC-SF3NmOCu_boTa8MYiPCoB3aZd7Yk-XC3GGVi4ol2-7FAsEnMUdnRrjfQ/s180/cena.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="151" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDWPpU9wOspyQUte47fuQVMMOZmMwidf2CqfqnLs9HeRIe1OMsLz0anBdqYg6hCOTh4NpjYJi6kfyaz7X-Y5FCy26zq4nB1Q5Ntd-nrEMNQ3aJ11uUQ6rwCSMeL7k-xZoC-SF3NmOCu_boTa8MYiPCoB3aZd7Yk-XC3GGVi4ol2-7FAsEnMUdnRrjfQ/w336-h400/cena.jpg" width="336" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-71923585447516829672024-03-10T17:39:00.000-07:002024-03-10T20:33:44.296-07:00Switzerland: Anti-Semitism in the Schools<p>There is a troubling report coming out of Switzerland in the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Incidents of bullying and violence directed at Jewish schoolchildren are on the rise. The perpetrators are generally immigrant Muslim children. This is outrageous, but as we have reported, other European countries are experiencing the same problem. As a result, several Jewish children have had to change schools. As one Swiss Jewish official notes, it is not the Jewish victims who should be removed from a school, rather it is the perpetrators who should be removed.</p><p>The below article from <i>Blick</i> (Switzerland) is translated by Fousesquawk.</p><p><a href="https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/judenfeindliche-uebergriffe-an-schulen-ich-gebe-dir-10-sekunden-dann-bist-du-tot-id19516754.html"> https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/judenfeindliche-uebergriffe-an-schulen-ich-gebe-dir-10-sekunden-dann-bist-du-tot-id19516754.html</a></p><h2 class="sc-42b0166d-0 ljiYCr" style="background-color: white; margin: inherit;"><div class="sc-a96484f5-0 chKbbB"><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="color: #e20000; display: block; font-family: GoodOT; font-size: 26px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><br /></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Anti-Jewish attacks in school</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">'"I'm giving you 10 seconds, then you're dead"</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Threats, insults, bullying. In the last months, there have been numerous attacks on Jews (females and males) in Swiss schools. The Israeli Community Association says the problem has massively increased.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Caption:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">On Saturday a week ago, a 15-year-old attacked an Orthodox Jew with a knife and seriously injured him in Zurich District 2</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">A summer day in 2023: Joshua* (14) is afraid. Since a few weeks ago, he has been attending a new school. A Muslim classmate says to him, "When class is over, I'll give you 10 seconds to run-then you are dead."</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><br /></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Joshua knows: The reason for the threat is his religion, (that) he is Jewish. His parents come from Israel, (and) the family has been living in Switzerland for 5 years.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">Now he sits there, panic grabbing him. Joshua calls his father. Teachers accompany him to the tram stop so that he can get home safely. The young boy, who uttered the threat-and is waiting for him in front of the school- is 15 years old. He describes himself as a Hamas supporter (and) consumes terror propaganda on the Internet. </span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; letter-spacing: 0px;">A.H. ** is also 15 years old and a consumer of Islamist propaganda. A few days ago, he stabbed an Orthodox Jew 15</span><span style="font-family: times;"> times with a knife.</span><span style="font-family: times; letter-spacing: 0px;">in the Selnau-Quartier (Zurich). The 50-year-old family father barely survived. The teenager-terrorist had sworn fidelity to the Islamic State (IS), and in a video, announced, "he wanted to kill as many Jews as possible." Now he sits in pre-trial custody.</span></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><br /></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">The school did too little</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">His attack unleashed a debate about online radicalization and the limits of juvenile justice. The non-party government counsel, Mario Fehr, demanded that the perpetrator have his citizenship revoked.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Jewish student, Joshua, continued to go to class after the incident in the summer, (and) in his case, the threat remained. Still, some schoolmates made it clear to him: In this schoolhouse, they were "on the side of the Palestinians". After the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, the parents took their son out of the private day school. "Unfortunately, we did not go to the police then," says Joshua's father today. He regrets that because the school itself has done too little.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">The school principal sees it differently. She indeed confirms the incident and says,"the attack was clearly motivated by anti-Semitism." She also stresses, however, that "intensive" conversations with the parents and children were subsequently held. The Muslim student has consequently apologized to Joshua. Anti-Semitism is, furthermore, a recurring theme in education-described as "very demanding" by the principal. "Many students have acquired partial knowledge of the Middle East conflict from social media."</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">Sports day cancelled</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">There are many attacks like that against Joshua. The escalation in the Middle East has led to a series of anti-Jewish incidents in schools. Many have resulted in the Jewish student having to change classes or even schools.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Sunday Blick</i> knows of cases in several cantons. In December, for example, a conflict escalated in a public primary school in Zurich. A game and sports day had to be canceled because the mood among the students was heated. A Jewish girl was severely bullied. </span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">Marc Capres, spokesman for the city's School and Sports Office, confirms the incident. It was handled together with the Violence Prevention Department, as well as the City Police Youth Service and other specialists. "The school leadership reacted in an exemplary manner." He is unaware of similar attacks. </span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">Last week, a group of Jewish parents from Bern warned that the schools were becoming a hotbed of anti-Semitism. As the <i>Tamedia</i>* newspapers reported, they demanded in a letter that the city of Bern strengthen its commitment against anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitic incidents in schools had reached an unprecedented magnitude.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">"Israel must die," scream students</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">A report from the West Switzerland Organization, Cicad, comes to the same conclusion. On some playgrounds, "Jew" has become a curse word, in Whatsapp-chat rooms, Hitler and Third Reich memes are popular. In a schoolyard in French-speaking Switzerland, Jewish students are shouted down with the words, "Israel must die."</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">Are these isolated cases, or do Swiss schools have an anti-Semitism problem? Jonathan Kreutner, General Secretary of the Swiss-Israeli Community Association (SIG): "Numerous anti-Semitic insults and repeated bullying against Jewish and Israeli students are reported to us."</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; letter-spacing: 0px;">Since October 7, the problem has massively "intensified". Jews, </span><span style="font-family: times; letter-spacing: 0px;">across the board and completely unjustifiably, are held responsible for the war in Gaza. The SIG assumes the (unreported) cases are higher.</span></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">In the city of Basel, since the Hamas massacre, there have been 15 reports of anti-Semitic incidents in schools. This involves provocations, insults, and anti-Semitic words, says Gaudenz Wacker, spokesperson at the Department of Education.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">Children taught to resolve conflicts</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">The educational leadership of the cantons of Aargau and St Gallen, in contrast, are not aware of any anti-Semitic incidents in connection with the escalation in the Middle East. In Aargau, the problem is estimated to be limited, as Philipp Grolimund, co-president of the School Principal Association,</span><span face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif" style="color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; letter-spacing: 0px;">writes</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">. The canton of Bern </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">will not comment on the number of incidents or any increase.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">Thomas Minder, president of the Swiss School Principals, observes, "Schools are generally no more a violence-free environment than sports clubs or other places where people come together." Anti-Semitism is just one aspect of xenophobia, and this, in turn, is only a part of intolerance.</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">"In the schools, we primarily try to teach tolerance to students as a value," Minder says. From an early age, an attempt is made to teach children instruments and methods to be able to resolve conflicts constructively and sustainably. "Often that succeeds."</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">Jonathan Kreutner from the Israeli Community Association feels it is important that the association and cantons support civil engagement and invest in prevention. It is clear for him. "There must be no tolerance for anti-Semitic bullying and violence in schools." The attackers must receive noticeable consequences. It is not the victims who should leave the schools, but rather the perpetrators."</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">* Name changed</span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">** Name known</span></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span class="sc-a96484f5-1 dvPyKq" style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div></h2>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-19681998230840529842024-03-10T15:19:00.000-07:002024-03-13T07:37:29.947-07:00Netherlands: Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Protest at Opening of Holocaust Museum<p><b>Dutch king booed. 13 arrests</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqAlVfY_tF6xVo1ijRTE9_kE8u240M0YMUiIG14bQoUJVNhk5nqywcB_fPW9R0pGGLfya4q_ZqificBXJos-Lmxmpd-GIvNgD6-z83LrrdIVrm7-ZV315bvlPfWsWpjFG5bFlUTvNwGzoj8_CVAcrYn6k-Crgj226z-tINEUJbLc2AcY6XL_D3i4eFng" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="463" data-original-width="694" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqAlVfY_tF6xVo1ijRTE9_kE8u240M0YMUiIG14bQoUJVNhk5nqywcB_fPW9R0pGGLfya4q_ZqificBXJos-Lmxmpd-GIvNgD6-z83LrrdIVrm7-ZV315bvlPfWsWpjFG5bFlUTvNwGzoj8_CVAcrYn6k-Crgj226z-tINEUJbLc2AcY6XL_D3i4eFng=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>-Algemeen Dagblad</i></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Today in Amsterdam, about 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters showed up to demonstrate at the opening of the National Holocaust Museum. They were ostensibly protesting the presence of the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, at the event. Even King Willem-Alexander was booed by the mob as he arrived at the Portuguese Synagoge and as he left. Demonstrators tried to climb over police buses set up as a cordon. In all 13 persons were arrested for disturbing the peace and vandalsim.</p><p>The question begs: Had the Israeli president not been present at this event, would there still have been a protest? Maybe not, but as it was, they could have at least respected the solemnity of the event, the location, and the presence of their own king, Willem-Alexander, who is generally a well-respected figure in the Netherlands. </p><p>The below article from <i>Algemeen Dagblad</i> is translated by Fousesquawk. We are working on adding English subtitles to the video in the article.</p><p><a href="https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/holocaustmuseum-geopend-in-grimmige-sfeer-me-moet-demonstranten-weghouden~a92eba2d/"> https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/holocaustmuseum-geopend-in-grimmige-sfeer-me-moet-demonstranten-weghouden~a92eba2d/</a></p><p><b>Holocaust museum opened in grim atmosphere, (riot) police have to keep demonstrators away</b></p><p>Update: King Willem-Alexander was greeted with boos today upon his arrival at the Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and at his departure. The atmosphere in the demonstration on Waterloo Square became grim. Demonstrators are angry over the presence of the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog. Thirteen demonstrators were arrested.</p><p>Domestic editorial staff, March 10. Latest update: 18:58</p><p>During the condoning off between Waterloo Square and Visserplein in Amsterdam by police, several demonstrators climbed onto the police buses that were set up as a cordon. The police beat them away with batons. Later, the activists set off fireworks. Those flew over the cordon that police put up there.</p><p>Demonstrators then threw fireworks and eggs over the police buses at the police. On the buses, the demonstrators glued pamphlets with the head of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, with the text: "Wanted".</p><p>Groups of demonstrators challenged each other in front of the door of the Holocaust Museum. A group of Palestinian supporters shouted slogans like, "shame on you" to a dozen pro-Israel demonstrators in an adjacent section. Who, for their part, defiantly waved Israeli flags. </p><p>In the pro-Israel section, hangs a banner with photos of people who were abducted on October 7. The police come between both parties to calm the mood down. The atmosphere has now become grim. Police buses were shaken back and forth by demonstrators.</p><p>Around three pm, peace is restored in Amsterdam. In total, 13 demonstrators were arrested. The arrests were carried out, among other things, for disturbing public order and vandalism, such as throwing rocks and the destruction of a police bus. All suspects are still in custody and are being questioned, the police report. Among the suspects is a minor, according to a spokesperson. </p><p><b>Herzog calls for the hostages to be freed</b></p><p>In his speech at the opening of the Holocaust Museum, Herzog called for the release of Jewish hostages being held in Gaza. He feels that the Holocaust Museum is a reminder of "the horrors that come from anti-Semitism". "Hate and anti-Semitism are now flourishing worldwide." Herzog also said in his speech that "too many Dutch people" helped the Nazis, but he also spoke of the Dutch people who protected persecuted Jews.</p><p>King Willem-Alexander said in his speech at the opening of the National Holocaust Museum that "people must remain aware how the Holocaust began and how it went from bad to worse." He described how the Sobibor Extermination Camp "began with a sign in the Vondelpark" on which (was written) "Forbidden for Jews".</p><p>"This museum shows us how it happened, not so long ago," said Willem-Alexander. The king presented a mezuzah to the great-granddaughter of Holocaust survivor, Rudie Cortissos. A mezuzah is a text casing with a fragment from the Torah, which according to Jewish customs, is placed on the doorpost (of a Jewish home). Upon his arrival and departure from the Holocaust Museum, the king was treated to boos.</p><p>Protesters outside could be heard clearly in the synagogue, as Willem-Alexander spoke. In the house of worship, it could be heard how the protesters were chanting. What exactly they were yelling is not clear.</p><p><b>Police stop demonstrators</b></p><p>At the opening, there is tension due to the arrival of the Israeli President, Issac Herzig. The riot police wanted to prevent the demonstrators from going from Waterloo Square to the synagogue.</p><p>About a thousand people are demonstrating on Waterloo Square against the presence of Herzog. The demonstrators yell chants like, "Free Palestine," and "Never again is now". Many people have Palestinian flags. A spokesperson for the Jewish organization, <i>Erev Rav</i>, emphasized in a speech that the museum is not being protested. "We are happy that there is a museum. But how is it possible that such a holy place as the Holocaust Museum is used to normalize genocide? We are here to say not in our name".</p><p>On Sunday morning, a woman was arrested. According to police, she was arrested for placing stickers.</p><p><b>*Update: </b>Here is the translated video from the above <i>Algemeen Dagblad</i> article. Hat tip to Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna for subtitling. Translation by Fousesquawk.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='640' height='360' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxrBxGQg31t6zdcm5_zH_pFzoT8zdv1d6McsMqia4AWThYusrgp-pydOByXBlwLeUIKJk9kr5REqvgsGjdg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-81937485578576809932024-03-09T10:48:00.000-08:002024-03-09T10:50:39.476-08:00Austria: Yet Another Gang Rape Shakes the Country<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgofW-xqFThROuiYyqDDX-d1VLqcxa3MQ9DRnzV7FFT4cCXLTfixkOVyrHmPra06uAFpH2UZYcYj8RIdiwR-nVHA9UUfaRvkT-D_DgMca4zOwBRE2hVstmWU4dFRT3eCrW8bZ4ZeYBJ_ZlDxi5j0VY3RNZ3j9rCgY5TZYHComhy518DGEQmLRwW2waVYw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="200" data-original-width="272" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgofW-xqFThROuiYyqDDX-d1VLqcxa3MQ9DRnzV7FFT4cCXLTfixkOVyrHmPra06uAFpH2UZYcYj8RIdiwR-nVHA9UUfaRvkT-D_DgMca4zOwBRE2hVstmWU4dFRT3eCrW8bZ4ZeYBJ_ZlDxi5j0VY3RNZ3j9rCgY5TZYHComhy518DGEQmLRwW2waVYw=w400-h294" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bischofshofen (Pongau), Austria </div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Nine youths, 8 boys and 1 girl between the ages of 15-18 are charged with gang raping two teenage girls, ages 15 and 16 back in December. Austria has been shaken by a series of gang rapes and a murder of young women and girls over the past two years at the hands of young migrants. This incident occurred in Bischofshofen (Pongau), near Salzburg.</p><p>The below article in the <span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>NÖN – Niederösterreichische Nachrichten </i>(Austria) is translated by Fousesquawk.</span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.noen.at/in-ausland/zwei-maedchen-im-pongau-von-mehreren-jugendlichen-missbraucht-412850051"> https://www.noen.at/in-ausland/zwei-maedchen-im-pongau-von-mehreren-jugendlichen-missbraucht-412850051</a></p><p>Investigation</p><p><b>Two girls in Pongau abused by several youths</b></p><p>Created: 9 March 2024 at 15:37</p><p>Caption: Investigation against 9 accused</p><p>Two girls ages, 15 and 16, were reportedly sexually abused at the end of December 2023 by a group of youths, some massively in Bischofshofen (Pongau). The public prosecutor is investigating 9 accused altogether: 8 boys as well as a girl, (all) aged between 15-18. According to the <i>Salzburger Nachrichten</i> report, they are Turks, Serbians, and Austrians with a migration background. </p><p>A police spokesperson confirmed the December incident on Saturday to APA (Austrian Press Agency). It was not publicized for reasons of victim protection. According to the victim's attorney, Sabina Moser, to the <i>Salzburger Nachrichten</i>, the (victims) students were recently questioned the whole day (in an adversarial hearing). The criminal proceedings against the accused will primarily be for the crime of "sexual abuse of a defenseless or psychologically impaired person" (Paragraph.205 State Penal Code). Two of the accused allegedly filmed the attack with cell phone videos. The police have now evaluated the cell phone videos. The previously uncharged boys are (currently) free. </p><p>The incident occurred while the 15-year-old girl was alone with her 16-year-old girlfriend in the parents' apartment and the 8 boys came by "to chill". Subsequently, a lot of alcohol flowed, and the two eventual victims reportedly soon became heavily drunk. There were reportedly at least 4-5 of the boys who were direct perpetrators of the girls- they had sexual intercourse or similar acts with the female student. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><header class="article-header" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2.38889rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 146.875px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 960px;"><div class="article-facts" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 25px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 650.5px;"><div class="article-facts__authors" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 43px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 650.5px;"><br /><div class="author-box" style="align-items: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div></header>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-8249535332709174732024-03-08T17:01:00.000-08:002024-03-08T17:22:56.699-08:00More on the Anti-Semitic Attack in Paris: The Victim Speaks<p>Hat tip Rair Foundation USA, Gates of Vienna, and Vlad Tepes for subtitling. Translation by Brunhilde.</p><p><br /></p><p>This week, we translated an <a href="https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2024/03/france-another-anti-semitic-attack-in.html">article</a> out of France reporting how a French Jewish man in his 60s was attacked and beaten as he came out of a Paris synagogue. The victim, identified only as Marco, was accosted by a male who called him a "dirty Jew" and accused him of "killing people in Gaza." before attacking him, beating and kicking him severely enough to send him to the hospital.</p><p>In this video, Marco tells how he doesn't feel like he has a future in France anymore. The identity of the alleged attacker (who has been arrested) has not been publically revealed, but it is clear from Marco's interview that the attacker is not a Frenchman, rather a migrant, so many of whom hold an intense hatred of Jews, which they have brought with them to France.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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Enjoy.</p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='640' height='360' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwMG6t0iaie84y19JADXo1j5FJY28SuRNDzSVwrXMyClbej6PfISnFKJbBBHN2TDS8p1Q3kk_UJwbsorFzH' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-24388348546138163442024-03-08T09:41:00.000-08:002024-03-08T09:46:52.242-08:00Is it Time to Get Rid of the State of the Union?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg95n8teI5wJE6i47Qvt7bruQMFwLHttvnKG1pUF2FnjX0c0hjmOBrAd62KXmxu6Y-VtbnLD_Iuz7lN_JPZeaHAsrCwG6BFWaAO8sVEu44fULtpdkKyMWd1hZHHh3mI-5P-vouf0pru1iYNYOVAyeuUzAZCw071iU6VflNZL1tH7T2pSWWMMNgNG1Pzqw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg95n8teI5wJE6i47Qvt7bruQMFwLHttvnKG1pUF2FnjX0c0hjmOBrAd62KXmxu6Y-VtbnLD_Iuz7lN_JPZeaHAsrCwG6BFWaAO8sVEu44fULtpdkKyMWd1hZHHh3mI-5P-vouf0pru1iYNYOVAyeuUzAZCw071iU6VflNZL1tH7T2pSWWMMNgNG1Pzqw" width="240" /></a></div>In recent years, I have come to the conclusion that the NFL should abolish the Pro Bowl once and for all. It has become an embarrassment. True, no team wants to see a star player injured in a meaningless game, but flag football? Are you kidding? Now they keep thinking of new ways to save this old dog like skills contests. Pretty soon someone will come up with the bright idea of NFL all-stars in a swimsuit competition.</span></div><p></p><p>But the thesis of this piece is not football or the Pro Bowl. That's just a lead-in. After watching last night's masked ball at the Capitol and Joe Biden's performance, I now question why they even hold a State of the Union address in the first place.</p><p>I'm not going to try and pick apart Biden's speech and how he acted last night. I'll let the pundits do that. While Fox News says it was appalling (which it was), CNN and MSNBC are talking about how he "nailed it" or "hit it out of the park". I would rather address the question of why we need to continue with this useless exercise in nothing.</p><p>Officially, the reason for holding the State of the Union is that the president is required to come before Congress regularly and "report" on the "state of the union". Actually, he or she does not legally have to make a personal appearance. They could just "mail it in", so to speak by actually sending Congress a written report. But in the age of television and mass communication, the speech is more of an opportunity to "reach the people". </p><p>Of course, inserted into every president's speech is the claim that "the state of the union is strong". Kind of like, "ten bells and all is well." How about, "ten bells and ten million new illegal migrants are running around. Lock your doors"?</p><p>Biden aside, these speeches, played out at great expense and much fanfare, have come to feature the same old routine. The President enters the chamber and takes 10 minutes to reach the podium while dozens of brown-nosing senators and congressmen and women mob him, pat him on the back, and take selfies. The same applies after the speech as the President is making his way out the door, which for Biden, is enough of a challenge as it is.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7HdPxbqYOrbZXa4uzmfKMYLNgliR4BtG5YVl5qD03VziaBDGwkBdnd0X9q-JMICI7vb8i0n7aYVLBuLwbxSRJ0Q6A4bi3tDI0ODUaK0DQ8rAml7wnXeqAms-PmCJEMBGIVHPoiS0lSK73a6W6yMwexwebjwNGtVCLLiM4GR-0zxy9S_uPThnI71IDA/s310/biden%20exit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="310" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7HdPxbqYOrbZXa4uzmfKMYLNgliR4BtG5YVl5qD03VziaBDGwkBdnd0X9q-JMICI7vb8i0n7aYVLBuLwbxSRJ0Q6A4bi3tDI0ODUaK0DQ8rAml7wnXeqAms-PmCJEMBGIVHPoiS0lSK73a6W6yMwexwebjwNGtVCLLiM4GR-0zxy9S_uPThnI71IDA/s1600/biden%20exit.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The speech itself is full of all the good news about what the president has accomplished in the past year, real or imagined, and proposals for this or that (the so-called laundry list). Last night, Biden reached an all-time low of absurdity when he talked about the reduced amount of chips snack food companies were putting in their bags and lauded (Pennsylvania Senoator) "Bobby" Casey's bill to fix that glaring inequity. There was also a reference to the size of Snickers bars! Nixon had his "Checkers speech". Maybe this will go down as Biden's "Snickers speech".</p><p>In addition, these speeches feature more than their share of partisan politics, attacking the other party and making the usual political talking points. Last night was no exception. Along with all the negative references to "the previous president" (Trump), Biden even issued an ugly, thinly veiled threat to the Supreme Court justices over the abortion issue.</p><p>And those interminable applause lines that stretch the length of these speeches far beyond what they would appear to be on paper. How many times did we see poor Kamala Harris jump to her feet to clap her hands while Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sat there with a quizzical look on his face?</p><p>I may be hard-hearted, but I'm getting tired of seeing these shoutouts to various individuals who are invited to attend and be saluted by the President for this and that. In this case, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson flew in from Sweden to mark that country's admission into NATO.</p><p>And there were the usual partisan displays by the opposition parties, in this case, the Republicans. Marjorie Taylor Greene interrupted to challenge Biden to "say her name" (Laken Riley, the young lady from Georgia who was murdered, allegedly by an illegal alien criminal from Venezuela). Biden, true to form, answered her challenge by saying, "Lincoln Riley" (a well-known college football coach). </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-VflhsaND5ymruNzG63MkyJ4RmnzbyqedhHmjt8jUsQb4x07ceP2BPyix3HQqUxJTTYkEJXtT_nsFl9nOvCg8qxIVMMSzYFWNvfPt1KH-Qtw-pLaDNDBHTVcYyelOLlU_RyvlNUoFHtes2XbBvdbywvnmmSPchgz5DZwbVsMdiuikbKT3pAQQW4Sh5w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="308" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-VflhsaND5ymruNzG63MkyJ4RmnzbyqedhHmjt8jUsQb4x07ceP2BPyix3HQqUxJTTYkEJXtT_nsFl9nOvCg8qxIVMMSzYFWNvfPt1KH-Qtw-pLaDNDBHTVcYyelOLlU_RyvlNUoFHtes2XbBvdbywvnmmSPchgz5DZwbVsMdiuikbKT3pAQQW4Sh5w" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"<i>What have I got to do with all this?</i>"</div><br /><br /><p></p><p>So what purpose is served by these speeches? Are there any real discussions about issues of the day? Are there any important announcements made by the President? Last night Biden announced that he is ordering the military to build a port on the Gazan coast to facilitate aid deliveries to the Gazan people. I wonder how many military people will be attacked and killed in that process. If it comes to pass, I will predict that the attackers will not be Israelis. More likely, it will come from Hamas or the Houthis. Gratitude is not exactly their long suit.</p><p>But I digress.</p><p>Unless the State of the Union is drastically altered to make it worthwhile and a positive event, I say scrap it altogether. Few could argue that this spectacle gives support to the claim that the US Congress is the "greatest deliberative body in the world". Quite the opposite, I would say. Frankly, I don't know how they could reform this event to make it worthwhile-unless the President came out and gave the speech in a swimsuit. In Biden's case, he would just think he is back home on the beach in Delaware.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgf58eqagtiZ5Ac9SlJjR2Xt9ZE5bZwyj-UCqIAWLPUPw8u2agUavx3iDLsL9KcXdwV8ih47tPhZ0sjezaavTmk8h2ABO3OqxdKlAQUHoxIwdXn0HpGOu-DC8f-qW216zIHCavHPNIxBMKL5ec4HcurZz3n6F7tSmc94pkBiu0p-mzYV8zJ77AuB7EvSQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="303" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgf58eqagtiZ5Ac9SlJjR2Xt9ZE5bZwyj-UCqIAWLPUPw8u2agUavx3iDLsL9KcXdwV8ih47tPhZ0sjezaavTmk8h2ABO3OqxdKlAQUHoxIwdXn0HpGOu-DC8f-qW216zIHCavHPNIxBMKL5ec4HcurZz3n6F7tSmc94pkBiu0p-mzYV8zJ77AuB7EvSQ" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"On the Beach</i>"</div><br /><br /><p></p><p>You heard it here first.</p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-53591224847365449172024-03-07T10:38:00.000-08:002024-03-07T10:40:27.085-08:00Sweden: 4 Arrested in Terror Raid on Mosque<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiL7uW8XpDcd5xcz5fxazwhwtmewSQ3zIQUOYme5yluGKY6qEPUMeS5_9AgXsxQneAVK3t3ADWm8wDZWwJ_pxz6p2hXxe1_addrYIAWlNKwWfmJbG7goVDXf8hVrEe_--kBrnaC37GLMYcYRLbO74yo-bfVYxvqw1PUaKn1eoY_yKsuLp-7o_hSRKz2Kw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="339" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiL7uW8XpDcd5xcz5fxazwhwtmewSQ3zIQUOYme5yluGKY6qEPUMeS5_9AgXsxQneAVK3t3ADWm8wDZWwJ_pxz6p2hXxe1_addrYIAWlNKwWfmJbG7goVDXf8hVrEe_--kBrnaC37GLMYcYRLbO74yo-bfVYxvqw1PUaKn1eoY_yKsuLp-7o_hSRKz2Kw=w295-h400" width="295" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>There has been a police raid by Sweden's National Security Police (<span style="font-family: times;">Säpo) </span>in the town of <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;">Tyresö. Four people are in custody, charged with planning to carry out an act of terrorism as well as large-scale weapons possession. The location raided today is described as a mosque and gathering place. I don't know if this is a makeshift or established mosque.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFKM71_uQBLWKUTkeSAuOx4kaYZM28GNJftM5Aa0ECFM_eFbbiNrKv-SWAkOQH9kTb6Xy6e-KtECFOVjGyKvkbBHFg4jqRYhDp8VWPd5cYbMpSCCL7VdIil2yxu0bm3xT6B3jVOWyNQzBGg6zDP8LngBrz7S25TJN7q8LaTRc5k01SMv9KsmO2WIt1kw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="569" data-original-width="1010" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFKM71_uQBLWKUTkeSAuOx4kaYZM28GNJftM5Aa0ECFM_eFbbiNrKv-SWAkOQH9kTb6Xy6e-KtECFOVjGyKvkbBHFg4jqRYhDp8VWPd5cYbMpSCCL7VdIil2yxu0bm3xT6B3jVOWyNQzBGg6zDP8LngBrz7S25TJN7q8LaTRc5k01SMv9KsmO2WIt1kw=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>-Dagens Nyheter</i></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;">The below article from <i>Dagens Nyheter</i> is translated by Fousesquawk.</span></span></p><p> <a href="https://www.dn.se/sverige/sapo-och-polisen-i-gemensam-insats-i-tyreso/">https://www.dn.se/sverige/sapo-och-polisen-i-gemensam-insats-i-tyreso/</a></p><p>Sweden</p><p><b>Four suspected of preparing for a terrorist crime-Connected to ISIS</b></p><p>Updated at 18:15. Posted at 16:48</p><p>Caption: One person DN (<i>Dagens Nyheter)</i> spoke to was a witness to the police raid on the location in <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;">Tyresö</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;">Four persons suspected of preparing for a terrorist crime and aggravated weapons possession were arrested Thursday in </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">Tyresö. According to Security Police ( </span><span style="font-family: times;">Säpo<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> ),</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;"> the suspected crimes are connected to the ISIS terror organization.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">"We had to act to disrupt the planned crime and avert a possible threat," says Fredrik Hultgren-Friberg, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Säpo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">press spokesman to DN.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">The case involves violent Islamist extremism where the Security Police also see connections to large-scale organized crime, the authorities write in a press release.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">The raid on Thursday was carried out, among others, on a building that residents in the area describe as a mosque and gathering place.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">"I saw police lying on a hill here behind (us) and they (moved). Two of the operational forces then came and moved me out of the way. They went ahead with a sledgehammer and began to break the windows. When they had broken openings in the windows, they threw in stun grenades," says an eye witness to the police operation.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">The witness describes how the police then broke down the door to the premises and searched it; then technicians arrived at the scene.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">A man who usually visits the mosque has reached the closed-off location.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">"I was married in this mosque, and I have been coming here for about ten years. It is a good mosque, and I have never heard anyone say anything about terrorism or anything like it. This really surprises me, and I wonder what has led to this," says a man standing outside the mosque.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">One of the police officers who are at the scene tells DN that he, among other things, is tasked with calming people who became upset when they saw the raid.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">In total, there are four persons arrested in connection with the operation, suspected of preparing a terrorist crime and aggravated weapons possession, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: DNSerifVF, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Säpo reports</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">"It involves a group of individuals in the violent Islamist environment. The suspected crimes have international connections and are tied to the ISIS terror organization," says Fredrik Hultgern-Friberg, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: DNSerifVF, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Säpo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times;">press spokesman to DN.</span></p><p><b>Why was the raid done now?</b></p><p>"Based on our undercover work, it was judged that we needed to take action to stop the planned crimes and avert a possible threat. I cannot go into any concrete time aspects, but in the Security Police's duties, it means that we often have to act in a timely manner to avert a threat."</p><p>"We cannot wait for a crime to happen. When it comes to human life, we can never take chances," he says.</p><p>In connection with the operation in <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: DNSerifVF, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Tyresö</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: DNSerifVF, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">, several house searches were carried out under the leadership of the National Unit for Security Goals.*</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: DNSerifVF, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">* (Translator's note) This is the prosecutorial arm for cases handled by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: DNSerifVF, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Säpo.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: DNSerifVF, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; max-width: 520px; padding-bottom: var(--ds-spacing-px-gap-vertical-static-medium);"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: DNSerifVF, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; max-width: 520px; padding-bottom: var(--ds-spacing-px-gap-vertical-static-medium);"><br /></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-86970648484004821952024-03-06T14:39:00.000-08:002024-03-07T20:53:06.809-08:00France: Another Anti-Semitic Attack in Paris<p><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDWhjU1uQ-46-6EAE0N_2nCRw0k9VfWAlMToIrkdf97HR6HWK8XDXikK0rF__GuAhgL8gS3SNOUqWY4147sPxEkvcPRITd3XTpPhxVw8ivYkOONUYtqJzGo7P4xyZlFWNCN4B040YiGfeXG_BhYDxniHVca8VYnmfcu1hJg7EK2sV_SfdktmlwWp2njQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDWhjU1uQ-46-6EAE0N_2nCRw0k9VfWAlMToIrkdf97HR6HWK8XDXikK0rF__GuAhgL8gS3SNOUqWY4147sPxEkvcPRITd3XTpPhxVw8ivYkOONUYtqJzGo7P4xyZlFWNCN4B040YiGfeXG_BhYDxniHVca8VYnmfcu1hJg7EK2sV_SfdktmlwWp2njQ=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The victim</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>-L'Humanite</i></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Last Friday in Paris, a 62-year-old Jewish man who was walking out of a synagogue and wearing a kippa, identified by the media only as "Marco", was attacked by a man on the street who called him a "dirty Jew" and proceeded to punch and kick him before fleeing on foot. According to several news accounts, the man also accused the victim of "killing people in Gaza". </p><p>Today, the suspect in the attack was arrested in Paris. Various news reports identified him only as being about 30 years old. The media is also reporting that he is known to the police for previous "anti-Semitic insults and attempted murder".</p><p>This article by<a href="https://www.europe1.fr/societe/info-europe-1-un-homme-interpelle-apres-lagression-antisemite-dun-sexagenaire-a-la-sortie-dune-synagogue-4234357?at_medium=Fan+Page&at_campaign=Twitter&at_creation=Europe+1"> Europe 1 </a>is translated by Fousesquawk. </p><p><b>INFO Europe 1- Man arrested after anti-Semitic attack of 60-year-old man coming out of synagogue</b></p><p>Jean Baptiste Marty, Fiora Garenzi, and Hans Lucas via AFP 09:17, 6 Match 2024. Updated at 13:24 on 6 March, 2024</p><p>An individual was arrested Wednesday by police after the anti-Semitic attack of a man in his 60s in Paris last Friday, according to information gathered by <i>Europe 1</i>. The charged person is already known for other anti-Semitic acts and for attempted homicide.</p><p>According to <i>Europe 1</i>'s information, an individual was arrested Wednesday morning by police after the anti-Semitic attack on a man in his 60s in Paris last Friday. The suspect is suspected of having insulted and beaten Marco, a man of 62 years, on the street because of his religion. The charged person is already known for other acts of anti-Semitism and for attempted homicide. </p><p><b>Darmanin denounced an "unspeakable act"</b></p><p>He was arrested in the 20th Arrondissement of Paris. He is suspected of having hit and called the victim "a dirty Jew'. The victim, who was wearing a kippa, was coming out of a synagogue when he was attacked by a man who fled on foot, according to police sources. The attacker punched and kicked the victim, who was transported to a hospital.</p><p>As soon as the attack was announced, Minister of Interior Gerald Darmanin denounced a "new anti-Semitic attack" and an "unspeakable act". The attack occurred around 5:30 pm on rue des Orleaux in the 20th arrondissement.</p><p>The same day, the minister of Interior asked prefectures to reinforce protective measures for the Jewish community, notably around the schools and places of worship after a distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza turned into a tragedy following shots by Israelis and a stampede that caused 115 deaths, according to Hamas. The international community has called for an investigation and an immediate cease-fire in the war unleashed by the bloody attack conducted on October 7 in the south of Israel by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated from Gaza.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00123f; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-stretch: condensed; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 1.3; list-style-type: none; margin: 25px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-56610888006811807402024-03-05T16:01:00.000-08:002024-03-05T16:08:48.960-08:00UCSB Mess Gets Messier<p> Hat tip <i>The College Fix</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MWzrdC2-RiYK2MEQFpbToaiE74a0v9jNsrXCDaPLrs05Y7vDKBhk1Q12Ti_Nu8_c_tK-wj6mkZRWzU4KGv2JSL1qANfKp4Yd9gr8Cwb2W_N8BZ9NSzV1WkslW_NcXejbcaQC3-G4orc6cKbgW0UYiNX36Y4hlb850jrSwnS7UEgihQjVKCqvRIVE2w/s2048/ucsbmcc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MWzrdC2-RiYK2MEQFpbToaiE74a0v9jNsrXCDaPLrs05Y7vDKBhk1Q12Ti_Nu8_c_tK-wj6mkZRWzU4KGv2JSL1qANfKp4Yd9gr8Cwb2W_N8BZ9NSzV1WkslW_NcXejbcaQC3-G4orc6cKbgW0UYiNX36Y4hlb850jrSwnS7UEgihQjVKCqvRIVE2w/w426-h640/ucsbmcc.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>We have been following a <a href="https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2024/03/jews-not-welome-at-uc-santa-barbara.html">story</a> out of the University of California at Santa Barabra. The Multi-Cultural Center on campus (MCC) has been suspended by the university after anti-Semitic screeds showed up written within the center.</p><p>As a result of the university's action, a group of faculty from the Black Studies Department have written a <a href="https://blackstudies.ucsb.edu/news/announcement/626">letter</a> protesting the university's action. It might also be noted that the professors did not sign their individual names to the letter. They are calling for a "day of interruption" on campus on March 7 to protest the suspension. <i>The College Fix</i> blog has the report <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucsb-black-studies-faculty-plan-day-of-interruption-to-protest-protections-for-jews/">here</a>.</p><p>In addition, <a href="https://dailynexus.com/2024-03-02/ucsb-black-studies-calls-for-day-of-interruption-in-statement-over-mcc-suspension/">here</a> is how<i> The Daily Nexus,</i> the campus paper is reporting the story.</p><p>Here is my two cents worth. </p><p>At a time when unity and healing are badly needed at UCSB, this letter only further divides and exacerbates the problem. This letter can only serve to create more tension between Jews and other minorities on campus. These professors, all educated people, have to be aware of this. They cannot plead ignorance.</p><p>Nowhere in this letter is there any concern or mention of the offensive anti-Semitic messages found in the MCC. Indeed, the closest the letter gets to referring to Jews is the condemning reference to Israel. Nowhere is there any sympathy for Jewish students. Furthermore, the reason for the suspension is not even mentioned. I note that the letter makes reference to several alleged victim groups, but Jews are not included.</p><p>I also note that the letter includes a condemnation of the (campus) police. How does that improve the campus climate? </p><p>And finally, if these professors really feel so strongly that they are on the right side, why didn't they sign their names? I always do, even when I was teaching at UC Irvine and publicly criticizing the leadership of UCI and the entire UC system for their inability or unwillingness to combat campus anti-Semitism. </p><p>The letter is an embarrassment for those who composed it, especially when they didn't have the courage to sign their names.</p><p><br /></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-29024501685973958472024-03-05T11:00:00.000-08:002024-03-05T11:00:00.799-08:00Liberal Media Goes Bonkers Over SCOTUS Ruling<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiARy9KDVqYhZZrA8kVSGrpDQJ4LdKYEC1dSYPfm5MyBf_OhhL3wbWq9lu4cviapNglP8ztWSq5L2wKqnEQyU7N1uaiLCwfbI1i_t5swK1wpTIiBZvTzHMzqyM8BDmGK51FFqh3hRw_SZVzEiBszaLXKvsG3ynC1OrhRi7YNPP9p2TB0w9Mgy-rppI7UQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="256" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiARy9KDVqYhZZrA8kVSGrpDQJ4LdKYEC1dSYPfm5MyBf_OhhL3wbWq9lu4cviapNglP8ztWSq5L2wKqnEQyU7N1uaiLCwfbI1i_t5swK1wpTIiBZvTzHMzqyM8BDmGK51FFqh3hRw_SZVzEiBszaLXKvsG3ynC1OrhRi7YNPP9p2TB0w9Mgy-rppI7UQ" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Keith Olbermann</div><br /><br /><p></p><p>This week's Supreme Court decision ruling that Colorado cannot remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballot is not being accepted gracefully by the liberal media, particularly the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC. In addition, crackpot broadcaster, Keith Olbermann, wherever he is broadcasting from these days, has angrily said the the Supreme Court should be dissolved. According to Olbermann, the justices are "political whores" who have "betrayed our democracy".</p><p>Not that we conservatives don't gripe about Supreme Court decisions that don't go our way. We have a long history of that. But what stands out about this ruling is that it was unanimous. All nine justices, including the three liberals on the court, agreed that Colorado had exceeded its authority. The ruling extends to all states that try to keep Trump or anyone else off the ballot.</p><p>Instead of conceding that the justices had been unanimous, the liberal media is splitting hairs, stressing the written opinions of the liberal judges who disagreed with certain points raised by the more conservative judges. In other words, the mainstream media refuses to allow this 9-0 decision to unite the country. Better to keep the country arguing about the decision and remain divided.</p><p>The Supreme Court did not rule that states cannot remove candidates from state and local elections. With good cause, they can do that. They have no authority to do it in federal elections, however. (Each state legislature can make its own voting rules in federal elections, but removing a candidate from federal election is beyond their authority.) On the basic argument of removing Trump from the ballot, the justices were all in agreement.</p><p>In addition, imagine the chicanery that would result if courts in various states were to exclude any candidate from the ballot in a federal election. Particularly in a large swing state, such action could very well decide an election. Soon, it would become the norm and be used as a campaign tactic by either party. Goodbye democracy.</p><p>What is also lost in the discussion for the mainstream talking heads at CNN and MSNBC is that the very reasoning used by the Colorado court was faulty on its face. The Colorado court had ruled that Trump was ineligible because he was an elected official who had violated his oath by engaging in insurrection (the January 6 case). Regardless of whether you think Trump is guilty of that or not, the fact remains that he has never been convicted of that charge. In fact, he is not even charged with insurrection, a crime which has its own federal statute (18 USC 2383). Trump is charged with conspiracy to overturn the results of an election, but not insurrection. Until he is charged and convicted of insurrection, no judge, no court in Colorado, or any other state has the authority to declare Trump guilty of such act. That comes from a jury or a trial court judge in the event of a non-jury trial. The other alternative would fall to Congress to use the 14th Amendment, section 3, which covers elected officials who violate their oath and engage in insurrection, a move designed to exclude such candidates for national office.</p><p>What has happened in Colorado (and a few other states) is a corruption of our judicial system, designed to corrupt our electoral system. In other words, if Colorado's action were to stand, the left would have been killing two birds with one stone- our democracy and our judicial system.</p><p>Liberals are disappointed at the court's ruling, and they are free to express their disappointment-including our irresponsible media. Had it been a 5-4 or even a 6-3 decision split down ideological lines, the anger would be more understandable. But when the three most liberal justices agree with the majority, do you think that maybe-just maybe- we could agree that the decision was the proper one?</p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-59697305800677700052024-03-04T16:06:00.000-08:002024-03-04T16:06:26.850-08:00More on Yesterday's Knife Attack on Jewish Man in Zurich<p>Yesterday, we <a href="https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2024/03/switzerland-15-year-old-arab-stabs-50.html">reported </a>on a knife attack upon an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich Saturday night by a 15-year-old Muslim boy. It has now been reported that the victim is out of danger. Below is a video report from <a href="https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/orthodoxer-jude-attackiert-mahnwache-nach-bluttat-in-zuerich-opfer-ausser-lebensgefahr">SRF News</a> in Switzerland. Hat tip to Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna for assistance with subtitling. Translation is by Fousesquawk.</p><p>Note: There is a false start in the video which lasts for several seconds. English subtitles begin after about 14 seconds.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='640' height='360' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzzbNHbHU4Mvu-uHZ8UZfYVEgMbbvH_kjkaxxpn_se3DzlehQW2PRel-OksRkIwY0wud5MRiLsm3j9t0JM1' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-10065562460187609042024-03-04T10:14:00.000-08:002024-03-04T10:24:08.537-08:00Israel-Palestinians: Some Contrasts<p> This article first appeared in <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-palestinians-some-contrasts/">Times of Israel Blogs</a>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJgoD1cDIxFXdZ78X0yZQksE54l0QUSCeFILTQ_QB5VmE_DNCHufMsyXUqRYltYF7bL_Pok48w0PzRibqrVihnhvG3JhFecDAq9krlYxr3fzSZa3erLx5hgmj9MY5JZDZeXOMmkieJ0B_XaRnGwh-PZuL2QVOMan_Q9G_V1rkTGbZENIMACgUiWCYOkQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="327" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJgoD1cDIxFXdZ78X0yZQksE54l0QUSCeFILTQ_QB5VmE_DNCHufMsyXUqRYltYF7bL_Pok48w0PzRibqrVihnhvG3JhFecDAq9krlYxr3fzSZa3erLx5hgmj9MY5JZDZeXOMmkieJ0B_XaRnGwh-PZuL2QVOMan_Q9G_V1rkTGbZENIMACgUiWCYOkQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: -8px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Saturday night, a 15-year-old male of Tunisian origin attacked a 50-year-old Orthodox Jew on the streets of Zurich leaving him in critical condition. During and immediately after the act, the young suspect reportedly yelled, “<i>Allahu Akhbar</i>,” claimed to be affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades, stated he was a Muslim, and that it was his duty to take action. He also reportedly stated, “Death to all Jews.”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This incident is, of course, anecdotal, but incidents like this are happening on a persistent basis, especially after October 7, but for many years and decades prior to the Hamas attack as well. It is just one of countless Muslim attacks on Jews related to the Israeli-Hamas conflict.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, violent anti-Israel demonstrations have broken out all over America. New York City cops constantly have their hands full battling pro-Palestinian protesters on the streets. On our college campuses, pro-Hamas demonstrations have become even more disruptive than usual. The fear level for our Jewish students has risen to even new heights.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCLVAIhtuUA0YCuwNNZjxoTLvcr7yCpsdOg9fxeASf1_WhdE996ilPDgKFW3bAUthCfQCBCpDCEC2xUeAjVmEZtnfXvKveloLdlofpZd3EqYgSZqvbSPXFnWSvzrf6aVnMeMOK0yQRVS6fV1xIZ0nSbcyJY4O-pJvitoxaVh9bW2zRaSTqfqJ2rsCBGA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="295" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCLVAIhtuUA0YCuwNNZjxoTLvcr7yCpsdOg9fxeASf1_WhdE996ilPDgKFW3bAUthCfQCBCpDCEC2xUeAjVmEZtnfXvKveloLdlofpZd3EqYgSZqvbSPXFnWSvzrf6aVnMeMOK0yQRVS6fV1xIZ0nSbcyJY4O-pJvitoxaVh9bW2zRaSTqfqJ2rsCBGA" width="320" /></a></div><br />These are well-known facts, as are the facts surrounding the October 7 attacks, the atrocities, and the inhuman treatment of innocent hostages still languishing in Gaza. There is no need for me to go over them again. However, there are a number of contrasts I would like to point out to those observers who can’t make up their minds (for some bizarre reason or another) about which side is righteous and which side is evil.<p></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First of all, with few if any exceptions, while pro-Israel demonstrations are uniformly peaceful and non-disruptive, pro-Palestinian demonstrations tend to be the opposite and frequently erupt into violence as in New York City most recently.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Secondly, pro-Israel demonstrations always feature both Israeli and American flags. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations hardly ever feature any American flags, just Palestinian flags and occasionally flags from some other Muslim nation.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thirdly, on our college campuses, anti-Israel events are rarely if ever disrupted, while pro-Israel events are routinely disrupted. I know this from personal experience having attended or witnessed countless events on both sides.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition, ask yourselves how many incidents are we witnessing in Europe and North America where Jews are attacking innocent Muslims on our streets? As illustrated in the latest attack in Zurich, we can spend all day listing Muslim attacks upon Jews in the West.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, how many rabbis are calling for death to Muslims and/or Palestinians in the synagogues? Contrast that with the number of imams calling for death to Jews in their Friday sermons. I don’t say that this is true of all imams, but far too many.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you ask yourselves these questions and answer them honestly, it is quite hard to come up with any conclusion other than Israel is on the right side of this conflict.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is not to suggest that the Palestinian people do not have any valid arguments in the conflict. I don’t pretend to be an expert when it comes to Israel and its history. I have never been to Israel. However, whatever support or sympathy I may have ever felt for Palestinians was lost as a young man when I witnessed the skyjackings of the 1960s, the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of the Israeli team, the 1985 Achille Lauro incident, and so on. In short, this has been going on ever since.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I take no pleasure in seeing the images coming out of Gaza and the deaths of innocent women and children. I pray for the safe return of the hostages and the safety of the Israeli soldiers. But Hamas must be destroyed even assuming it will return in some form or another in the coming years. Those animals who carried out October 7 must be brought to justice one way or another.</p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-79427936550488112302024-03-03T10:23:00.000-08:002024-03-03T14:22:34.059-08:00Switzerland: 15-Year-Old Arab Stabs 50-Year-Old Orthodox Jew in Zurich<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsPjY6d9Z4FxFCcDZGgmHwITPv9KRePae0QWUcxmgPdjoqsgQthJb5gcM7gF9qxfp26fOPhXnmtnCNDpsGrG3ZMraYfs_FKkNSguOz0EvTeoppA_OEj7niZgkI17_yBPVG1P3v6ZR-M0R1qti-rIpQujAURLEXX4qdvtMXuBb-MzK6E9XGkcWkeoYBQQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="238" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsPjY6d9Z4FxFCcDZGgmHwITPv9KRePae0QWUcxmgPdjoqsgQthJb5gcM7gF9qxfp26fOPhXnmtnCNDpsGrG3ZMraYfs_FKkNSguOz0EvTeoppA_OEj7niZgkI17_yBPVG1P3v6ZR-M0R1qti-rIpQujAURLEXX4qdvtMXuBb-MzK6E9XGkcWkeoYBQQ" width="271" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"Just doing my duty"</i></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>On Saturday night in Zurich, a 15-year-old youth attacked a 50-year-old Orthodox Jew with a knife seriously wounding him. According to witness statements, the young male, who is a Swiss citizen from a Tunisian family, stated that he was there to kill Jews. He also reportedly shouted, "<i>Allahu akhbar</i>" and "death to all Jews". The suspect was held by witnesses until police arrived to take him into custody.</p><p>In the interest of time constraints today, we are posting a partial translation of an article from today's <i>Neue Zuercher Zeitung</i></p><p> <a href="https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/zuerich-15-jaehriger-attackiert-ultraorthodoxen-juden-ld.1820408">https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/zuerich-15-jaehriger-attackiert-ultraorthodoxen-juden-ld.1820408</a></p><p><b>A young Swiss male of Arab origin stabs an Orthodox Jew in Zurich and declares allegiance to Al-Aqsa Brigades</b></p><p><b>The victim is critically injured. Police have heightened security measures at Jewish establishments in the city.</b></p><p>...........................</p><p>Jonathan Kreutner, General Secretary of the Swiss-Israeli Community Association (SIG), said in response that we have to await the results of the investigation before we draw an ultimate conclusion. He also said, however: "We are assuming that it is an anti-Semitic hate crime. In a severity that we in Switzerland have never known."</p><p>According to witness statements, this is also shown by statements the perpetrator made during the attack. The youth acknowledged to the victim's family members that he belonged to the Al-Aqsa Brigades and told them it was his Muslim duty to take action. Witnesses also told the Jewish magazine, <i>Tachles</i>, that the perpetrator shouted: "I am Swiss. I am a Muslim. I am here to kill Jews". According to <i>20 Minutes</i>, he also reportedly shouted, "<i>Allahu akhbar"</i> and "Death to all Jews".</p><p>....................................</p><p><br /></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-49144109786382094322024-03-03T09:35:00.000-08:002024-03-03T20:23:26.178-08:00Belgium: Police Foil Islamic Terror Plot: 4 Arrests<p>Early this morning, Belgian police arrested four young males (three of whom are minors) in four different cities across the country. The four were allegedly plotting a terror attack at an undiclosed location.</p><p><a href="https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20240303_93192584">This article</a> from today's Dutch-language daily, <i>De Standaard</i>, is translated by Fousesquawk.</p><p><br /></p><p>Radicalization</p><p><b>Four suspects in terror investigation arrested, among them a 15-year-old from Ninove</b></p><p>On Sunday morning, the federal police arrested four persons in Ninove, Brussels, Charleroi, and Luik (Liege), in the context of a terror investigation within the jihadist environment. "The four were making plans for a terror attack," says the Federal Prosecutor's Office.</p><p>By Cedric Lagast and Mark Eeckhaut</p><p>Today at 06:53</p><p>The special units raided four different addresses early Sunday morning across the country. That was accompanied by considerable security measures. They were looking for four persons, who had contact on the Internet where they were concocting a plan for a terror attack.</p><p>They are an adult from Liege and three minors from Ninove, Brussels, and Charleroi. The suspect from Ninove is barely 15 years old. They are all four French-speaking. They found each other on the Internet. From the conversations they carried out, it can be deduced that they are radicalized. They reportedly talked about the Islamic State among other things.</p><p><b>Terrorist group</b></p><p>"They are suspected of participating in a terrorist group and preparing for a terrorist attack," says Eric Van Der Sypt, from the Federal Prosecutor's Office. During the house searches, no weapons or explosives were found.</p><p>What the target of the attack was, that was not yet determined. "But in such a situation, we prefer to intervene," the Federal Prosecutor's Office says. "Better too early than too late."</p><p><br /></p><h3 class="ds-ebe0ecc6_root ds-ebe0ecc6_heading4 ds-300db776_none ds-91174671_primary ds-66f0fec7_medium ds-1d70522a_marginbottom1 ds-b48c4984_inherit" data-testid="subhead" style="background-color: white; color: var(--color-text-grey-base); font-family: Arnhem, "Arnhem Fallback", serif; font-size: var(--font-heading-4-large-size); font-weight: var(--font-weight-medium); line-height: var(--font-heading-4-large-line-height); margin-bottom: var(--space-1); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></h3>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-49301300002488801742024-03-02T20:10:00.000-08:002024-03-03T08:40:13.686-08:00Israeli Professor Disrupted at UNLV<p>On February 27, Asaf Peer, an Israeli professor of physics from Israel's Bar-Ilan University was speaking at an event at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas when pro-Palestinian protesters entered the room and disrupted the event. The incident was reported not only by<i> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/israeli-physics-prof-escorted-police-las-vegas-students-shut-astronomy-speech/24941">Campus Reform</a></i>, but the <i><a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-789486">Jerusalem Post</a></i> as well. According to the reports, campus police were called in but refused to remove the protesters, claiming they were exercising their free speech rights. The university officials who were present reportedly decided to end the event early and the professor was escorted out of the room by police.</p><p>If the reports are accurate, it is just another outrageous example of how Israeli speakers or pro-Israel speakers are routinely disrupted and harassed by the pro-Hamas mobs. It is absurd that the protesters were exercising their free speech rights. They were stripping those rights from the speaker and his audience.</p><p>The proper response to these types of disruptions by campus hooligans is to remove them and subject them to disciplinary action. The infamous UC Irvine incident of 2010 when 11 members of the Muslim Student Union disrupted the speech by the Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, should serve as an example. They were immediately removed from the room by campus police (who were on site), charged, and successfully prosecuted in court. That should be the standard. Sadly, that is rarely how universities handle these disruptions, including at UC Irvine. Subsequent disruptions of pro-Israel events at UC Irvine have not been handled as was the Oren event.</p><p>Based on the above reporting, it seems that the campus police acted as potted plants while university officials exhibited the usual cowardice to which we have become accustomed.</p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-42572932627309197662024-03-02T19:05:00.000-08:002024-03-02T19:05:28.099-08:00Jews Not Welome at UC Santa Barbara<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKekDyiDrgC4nzgFWC1SFYk8MEvDLh1O0UbmzRzYnFeWi3OISpuXBeB7tOtmBsc1pl91HfbkeNPgHr1YpVWZHZsZ8zrjZXpgt8kgHg3jy67tFtSnpmZGvYUNnVbCMApYtVyHm5cFy97V3Qjs8uCq7Zsv5aFnNK0KbxIR0QFXO7AcIqZ2A8T_GXf-J0tw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="240" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKekDyiDrgC4nzgFWC1SFYk8MEvDLh1O0UbmzRzYnFeWi3OISpuXBeB7tOtmBsc1pl91HfbkeNPgHr1YpVWZHZsZ8zrjZXpgt8kgHg3jy67tFtSnpmZGvYUNnVbCMApYtVyHm5cFy97V3Qjs8uCq7Zsv5aFnNK0KbxIR0QFXO7AcIqZ2A8T_GXf-J0tw" width="277" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">UC Skate Board</div><br /><br /><p></p><p>I happened to visit the campus of UC Santa Barbara several years ago during a previous campus <a href="https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2014/03/pro-life-incident-at-uc-santa-barbara.html">controversy</a> regarding one of their radical professors. My impression was that it was a quirky campus where most students ride around on skateboards or bikes, hence, I labeled it, UC Skate Board, an apt moniker.</p><p>Sadly, with all the pro-Hamas Jew hatred spreading across our campuses like wildfire, UCSB has also been hit. It is not something new to UCSB, but like other campuses, it is getting worse than ever.</p><p>In <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/zionists-not-welcomeduc-santa-barbara-multicultural-center-displays-litany-deranged-anti-semitic-posters/24926">this news article</a>, <i>Campus Reform</i> reports on a disturbing wave of anti-Jewish writings appearing on that campus, most notably in the Multi-Cultural Center. (Are we surprised?)</p><p>On February 28, the Daily Nexus, campus newspaper of UCSB <a href="https://dailynexus.com/2024-02-28/ucsb-temporarily-suspends-mcc-after-students-post-pro-palestine-anti-zionist-signage-at-center/">reported</a> that the university has taken the unprecedented step of suspending the MCC and its Instagram account. That is a positive step. They should also suspend the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).</p><p><br /></p>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-68429068405115461832024-03-02T16:09:00.000-08:002024-03-03T08:34:15.434-08:00Netherlands: Dutch Woman Being Prosecuted in the Netherlands for War Crimes in Syria<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP5EZSzl0wEE_1th53TgnHtc6seuN9lECnOFhzy6B_bjdNZMJGAF4LsuKQArYB5WN2p7flHi8zNPvdxiz75chZAw9V9phuXyoiZgOmjtDleAe82UZc_nGpJTh5d3X2e_sg5mJ4aJ2cZXV7urXPLd7H7mENjgiHYjPQTEFLwafy_Mg5RoRMxVWa7ZkMag" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1100" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP5EZSzl0wEE_1th53TgnHtc6seuN9lECnOFhzy6B_bjdNZMJGAF4LsuKQArYB5WN2p7flHi8zNPvdxiz75chZAw9V9phuXyoiZgOmjtDleAe82UZc_nGpJTh5d3X2e_sg5mJ4aJ2cZXV7urXPLd7H7mENjgiHYjPQTEFLwafy_Mg5RoRMxVWa7ZkMag=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Women of ISIS</div><br /><br /><p></p><p>We have posted several reports of European-based women who joined their ISIS husbands in Syria and Iraq and later returned to Europe. One Dutch female citizen is on trial in the Hague, accused of engaging in plunder in Syria and sending death threats back to people in the Netherlands.</p><p>The below article from <i>Algemeen Dagblad</i> is translated by Fousesquawk.</p><p> <a href="https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/de-kinderslippers-lagen-nog-op-de-grond-is-vrouw-xaviera-wordt-vervolgd-voor-plunderen-in-syrie~a6437989/">https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/de-kinderslippers-lagen-nog-op-de-grond-is-vrouw-xaviera-wordt-vervolgd-voor-plunderen-in-syrie~a6437989/</a></p><p>Caption below photo: Xaviera S.</p><p><b>Children's slippers still lay on the ground, ISIS wife Xaviera prosecuted for plunder in Syria</b></p><p>The Dutch ISIS wife, Xaviera S. from Apeldoorn must still be prosecuted because she allegedly engaged in plunder in Syria, a war crime. She is the first to be prosecuted for this offense in the Netherlands. She also allegedly threatened a Dutch columnist and a journalist with death from Syria. She herself blames her deceased husband.</p><p>-Cyril Rosman, March 1, 2024 at 16:01. Latest update: March 1, 2024 at 17:12</p><p>A pan of rice was still on the counter. And children's slippers still lay on the carpet by the mattresses. Yet, the Dutch Syria traveler, Xaviera S. (now 30) never asked her husband how he actually came into possession of that house in that Syrian village. "He always told me not to interfere."</p><p>She also didn't ask when they later moved several times, including to Raqqa, the then-capital of the ISIS caliphate. There she lived among other (places) on the top floor of a villa. The second wife of her husband lived on the first floor. And some of the houses, according to the (prosecution) were clearly left behind by refugees.</p><p><b>First Dutch woman</b></p><p>Taking possession of houses and their contents for yourself is plunder, and therefore, a war crime, the Public Prosecutor's office argued Friday in The Hague court. "The impact of looting is huge. Not just for individual people, but also for the rebuilding of the country". S is the first Dutch ISIS wife to be brought to trial for this offense, (but) there are now more cases in progress.</p><p>The Apeldoorn woman asked no questions of her husband, the Dutch jihadist Anis Z. But she (suspected) then, as she confirmed Friday, that the houses maybe belonged to people "who did not follow the rules of ISIS". "And at that time, I could agree."</p><p>Xaviera S. traveled to the conflict zone in 2014. The Apeldoorn woman of Netherlands/Antilles origin had been deep in problems in the years prior (drinking, smoking drugs, debts), for which Youth Care Services took her son away. She converted to Islam. "I wanted a purpose in my life."</p><p><b>Married via Skype</b></p><p>But Xaviera soon winds up in radical circles. Via Skype, she enters into an Islamic marriage with Anis Z., a known jihadist who is in Syria. Without seeing him, she travels there not much later. </p><p>"In reality, he was a completely different person than via Skype," she says about Anis in court. In addition to Xaviera, the Dutch citizen had three other wives, also Dutch. Anis blew himself up in 2015 in a suicide attack for ISIS. Xaviera remarries with another jihadist, the Dutch-Algerian Mokhtar M.</p><p>In 2018, after the fall of the ISIS caliphate, Xaviera was in jail in Turkey for 1-1/2 years. At the end of 2019, she returned to the Netherlands, where she was taken into custody. In May 2020, she was provisionally released because she was in the late term of pregnancy.</p><p>She is back in court on Friday. The woman in the Hague courtroom no longer resembles anything like the tightly-veiled ISIS wife who threatened people with death from the caliphate. Xaviera has her hair in a bun, wears jeans and a sweater, and has tattoos and a nose piercing. She no longer feels like a Muslim. She answers all questions calmly.</p><p><b>Photos of Kalashnikovs</b></p><p>It stands diametrically opposed to the threats that she, according to the Public Prosecutor, made on social media. For example, she wrote on Twitter, now X, that she was preparing to take the life of columnist Ebru Umar on sight, along with a photo of a Kalashnikov. She also reportedly wrote on Facebook to journalist Brenda Stoter Boscolo that "it's too bad that you don't live around the corner, otherwise I would have come at you with my AK-47."</p><p>Both women have suffered greatly from the threats and have had therapy to deal with it. Their attorney, Richard <span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">Körver: "These threats were made in a period when journalists were targeted by jihadists, think of the attack on Charlie Hebdo." They want compensation for damages from S."</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">S. herself denies the threats. She says that her husband, Anis, wrote the texts, (and that) he had access to her phone and social media accounts. Anis cannot explain any more about this. He is dead.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>240 hours community service</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">On Friday, the Public Prosecutor demanded a jail sentence of 860 days, of which 720 days would be conditional, and community service of 240 hours. Since she has been in detention for a few months, S. does not have to go back to jail. "A long jail sentence of 6-7 years would not be out of the ordinary, given the seriousness of the offenses. But we need to fight terrorism as effectively as possible, and if this lady went back to jail, the chance of recidivism would only be greater." S. is easily influenced and according to the psychologists, struggles with a borderline disorder. She is now staying in an assisted living project, (while) her two children now live elsewhere. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Xaviera's attorneys, Levy and Jurnet, are asking for an acquittal for plunder and threats. According to them, it is not proven that the woman from Apeldoorn knew that the house still belonged to other people. It was her husband who arranged the living quarters. In addition, it was he who reportedly placed the threatening tweets.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"> Verdict in the case is on April 26.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="article__component article__component--paragraph" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-width: 100vw; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px; position: relative; width: 694px;"><p class="article__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p></div><div class="article__component article__component--subheader" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100vw; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px; position: relative; width: 694px;"><h2 class="article__subheader" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></h2></div>Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.com0