Welcome to the Global Intifada
When [Sarah Milgrim] was a high school senior, in 2017, some swastikas appeared on her public high school. “I worry about going to my synagogue, and now I have to worry about safety at my school,” she told the local TV station at the time. “And that shouldn’t be a thing.”
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| The New York Times |
"Last night, outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., a gunman opened fire and murdered two young people because he thought they were Jews and because they were gathered in a Jewish place for an event hosted by a Jewish organization.
"Before I tell you about their alleged killer and the culture of lies that created the climate for his murderous rampage, I want to tell you about the people he cut down. Because I promise you: There will be no campaigns or hashtags or celebrities’ videos urging all of us to say their names.
"Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Those are their names. They met at work—they were staffers at the Israeli embassy—and fell in love. Yaron, 30, had purchased an engagement ring for Sarah, 26, a few days ago. They were meant to fly to Israel this coming Sunday so that she could meet his parents, who live in Jerusalem, before he proposed." . . . (Read Mariam’s obituary of Yaron here.) . . .
Trump official: US to crackdown on university antisemitism after Washington attack
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| Leo Terrell, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights |
. . ."Terrell added, "This is a tragic case. This is not going to end in two days. This is bigger than the deaths of two Jewish-Israelis, and it must provoke us to action because it is far beyond the crazy monster that killed them. “We are fighting antisemitism, but it is rampant. It is deep in this country and must be addressed. The shooter is just a puppet, antisemitism is ingrained on campuses and in the media, and these organizations are funded with foreign money. We must stop it - and we will stop it.' " . . .
Phyllis Chesler: Our Next Great Battle
The deprogramming of billions must get underway. And that may take a half-century. This is our next great battle.
"Elias Rodriguez, a Chicago man, executed two people--employees of the Israeli Embassy when they attended the Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. As Rodriguez pulled the trigger, he shouted, "Free, Free, Palestine."
"Clearly, he must have felt compelled to do this because he believed every single Big Lie that has been broadcasted and recycled for at least the last sixty years in the West. Assuming his post at X/Twitter is not a fake, Rodriguez, a former member of The Party for Socialism and Liberation and a supporter of Black Lives Matter, posted a Manifesto there. According to The Jewish Voice, The Times of Israel, and The Forward, this Manifesto is in the name of "kyodo.leather" and is signed by a Elias Rodriguez. In it, he writes:
" 'The atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestine defy description and defy quantification ... (it is) genocide. The Gaza health ministry records 53,000 killed by traumatic force ... what more can one say about the proportion of mangled and burned and exploded human beings whom were children....".
"My God! He is repeating all the articles that I've read, over and over again, in The New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and in Ha'aretz. Perhaps Rodriguez has read them all. I wonder whether he's also read Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, and the Electronic Intifada?
"Rodriguez no longer believes in non-violent demonstrations but favors "the morality of armed demonstration.... The (his) action would have been morally justified taken 11 years ago during Protective Edge, around the time I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. But I think to most Americans such an action would have been illegible, would seem insane. I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for whom the action will be highly legible and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.”
"For at least the last quarter-century, and even earlier than that, the world had been advised about what was coming our way, about the nature of Islam, Jihad, terrorism and its penetration of the West both culturally and economically." . . .
"It is all not enough. Israel must be allowed to rid Gaza of Hamas, its rule, its weapons, its tyranny. Israel and the United States must stop Iran in every way possible. Paradoxically, while making economic deals with Qatar, the Trump Administration must stop Qatar, as well as Iran, from funding global terrorism. Even that is long overdue and simply not enough."
Any comments, Mr. Springsteen?
