'NEVER AGAIN' IS BEGINING TO SOUND LIKE EMPTY WORDS

Never again would humanity let this happen?

My friends and I have been harassed and even attacked for showing our Judaism on campus. 

 

By Andrew Galitzer

 

JNS

April 28, 2024

 

General Dwight Eisenhower and a party of high ranking U.S. Army officers that included Generals Omar Bradley and George Patton viewed charred remains of inmates that were burned upon a section of railroad track at Ohrdruf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, April 12, 1945

Patton ordered 1,000 Weimar civilians to tour Buchenwald. Here the group stares in dumbstruck horror at a truckload of corpses outside the crematorium, April 16, 1945. 

An American congressional delegation views bodies left stacked outside the Buchenwald crematorium, April 21, 1945.  

 

The United Nations established Jan. 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day to mark the day in 1945 when Auschwitz was liberated. The German Nazis built Auschwitz and thousands of other concentration and death camps to imprison and kill more than 6 million Jews. Humanity pledged “Never Again.” Never again would people be killed for their race or religion. Never again would humanity let this happen.

Instead of a relaxing winter break this year, 13 students from Drexel University in Philadelphia and I went to bear witness to the horrors of the Holocaust. We traveled with a group of Jewish students from various universities to see the death camps firsthand. It felt like we were in another world, but actually, this happened on Earth—our Earth. These atrocities were committed by people—regular people, just 80 years ago.

We saw the ghettos where Jews were forced to live and starve as rats. We touched the very cattle cars that shipped Jews off to the various camps. We visited concentration and death camps; chills went down our spines as we stepped through gas chambers and crematoria. We mourned at a mass grave of Jewish children in a forest. We saw unimaginable things and unspeakable things. We felt such raw emotions and cried countless tears.

Something powerful hit me in one of the gas chambers: This did not happen to “them.” It was not “the Jews.” It happened to me and my people; I am Jewish. These were my great-uncles, aunts, cousins—my family. We were dehumanized and gassed, just for being Jewish. 

I have one simple question: How?

How did people buy into such propaganda?

How could regular people become murderers?

How could humanity do such a thing?

Worst of all, I find myself asking, how is this happening to my people again?

How can the then-presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, in addition to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, openly say that calling for the genocide of Jews is not necessarily a violation of student conduct and that it depends on the “context.” How can calling for genocide ever be acceptable?

Antisemitism is at record-breaking levels on campuses and cities around the world. The very week my group returned from Poland, a student praised Hitler on a Drexel whiteboard. And it’s not just words: My friends and I have been harassed and even attacked for showing our Judaism on campus. Why do we have to hide our kippahs (Jewish head coverings) to feel safe?

Just weeks after the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, a Penn student said she was “empowered and happy” because of the massacre. She encouraged everyone at a rally in Philadelphia to “bring it to the streets.”

Never again is no longer just a phrase. It is a necessity, especially as we approach Yom Hashoah on May 6.

How can never again truly mean never again?

 

This article originally appeared in the Drexel University student newspaper, “The Triangle.”

MORE THAN 50% OF IRAN'S ROUGHLY 115 T0 120 BALLISTIC MISSILES AIMED AT ISRAEL FAILED AT LAUNCH OR MALFUNCTIONED IN FLIGHT

Iran just pulled its own nuclear teeth 

 

By Victor Davis Hanson 

 

New York Post 

April 28, 2024

 

 

 

Military personnel load onto a truck the apparent remains of a ballistic missile after it was found lying in the desert near the southern Israeli city of Arad.

 

Details of the recent limited Israeli retaliatory strike against Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. Nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions.

Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed to stop such incoming ordnance.

The target was near the Natanz enrichment facility. That proximity was by design: Israel showed Iran it could take out the very anti-missile battery designed to thwart an attack on its nearby nuclear facility.

The larger message sent to the world was that Israel could send a retaliatory barrage at Iranian nuclear sites with reasonable assurances that the incoming attacks could not be stopped.

By comparison, Iran’s earlier attack on Israel was much greater and more indiscriminate.

It was also a huge flop, with an estimated 99% of the more than 320 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles failing to hit their planned targets.

Moreover, it was reported that more than 50% of Iran’s roughly 115 to 120 ballistic missiles failed at launch or malfunctioned in flight.

Collate these facts and it presents a disturbing corrective to Iran’s nonstop boasts of soon possessing a nuclear arsenal that will obliterate the Jewish state.

Consider further the following nightmarish scenarios: Were Iranian nuclear-tipped missiles ever launched at Israel, they could pass over, in addition to Syria and Iraq, either Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza or all four.

In the cases of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, such trajectories would constitute an act of war, especially considering that some of Iran’s recent aerial barrages were intercepted and destroyed over Arab territory well before they reached Israel.

Iran’s strike prompted Arab nations, the US, the UK and France to work in concert to destroy almost all of Iran’s drones.

For Iran, that is a premonition of the sort of sophisticated aerial opposition it might face if it ever decided to stage a nuclear version.

Even if half of Iran’s ballistic missiles did launch successfully, only a handful apparently neared their intended targets — in sharp contrast to Israel’s successful attack on Iranian missile batteries.

Is it thus conceivable that any Iranian nuclear-tipped missile launched toward Israel might pose as great a threat to Iran itself or its neighbors as to Israel?

And even if such missiles made it into the air and even if they successfully traversed Arab airspace, there is still an overwhelming chance they would be neutralized before detonating above Israel.

Any such launch would warrant an immediate Israeli response. And the incoming bombs and missiles would likely have a 100% certainty of evading Iran’s countermeasures and hitting their targets.

Now that the soil of both Iran and Israel is no longer sacred and immune from attack, the mystique of the Iranian nuclear threat has dissipated.

It should be harder for the theocracy to shake down Western governments for hostage bribes, sanctions relief and Iran-deal giveaways on the implied threat of Iran successfully nuking the Jewish state.

The new reality is that Iran has goaded an Israel that has numerous nuclear weapons and dozens of nuclear-tipped missiles in hardened silos and on submarines.

Tehran has zero ability to stop any of these missiles or sophisticated fifth-generation Israeli aircraft armed with nuclear bombs and missiles.

Iran must now fear that if it launched two or three nuclear missiles, there would be overwhelming odds that they would either fail at launch, go awry in the air, implode inside Iran, be taken down over Arab territory by Israel’s allies or be knocked down by the tripartite Israel anti-missile defense system.

Add it all up, and the Iranian attack on Israel seems a historic blunder.

It showed the world the impotence of an Iranian aerial assault at the very time it threatens to go nuclear.

It revealed that an incompetent Iran may be as much a threat to itself as to its enemies.

It opened up a new chapter in which its own soil, thanks to its attack on Israel, is no longer off limits to any Western power.

Its failure to stop a much smaller Israel response, coupled with the overwhelming success of Israel and its allies in stopping a much larger Iranian attack, reminds the Iranian autocracy that its shrill rhetoric is designed to mask its impotence and to hide its own vulnerabilities from its enemies.

And the long-suffering Iranian people?

The truth will come out that its own theocracy hit the Israeli homeland with negligible results and earned a successful, though merely demonstrative, Israeli response in return.

So Iranians will learn their homeland is now vulnerable and, for the future, no longer off limits.

And they will conclude that Israel has more effective allies than Iran and that their own ballistic missiles may be more suicidal than homicidal.

As a result, they may conclude that the real enemies of the Iranian nation are not the Jewish people of Israel after all, but their own unhinged Islamist theocrats.

NOW THAT IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE EVERY DAY

By Bob Walsh

Tangled: Victorino Arellano-Sanchez (left, grasping tree), 23, was lassoed by rancher and ex-rodeo star Robert Borba (right, on Long John the horse), 28, after he attempted to steal a woman's bike in Eagle Point, Oregon Friday

Cowboy: Borba heard the woman's shouts while he was stocking up at Wal-Mart. Luckily, he had Long John and his lasso to hand. Borba, born in California, used to work rodeos, but prefers the ranching life in Oregon

 

Eagle Point is a smallish town in south/west Oregon.  It has 10,000 residents more or less.  And a WalMart.

So, one of the local cowboys was heading across the parking lot of WalMart on his horse to pick up some food for his dogs, a couple of which were accompanying him.  To guard his horse in the parking lot I guess.  

Anyway he hears this woman yelling that somebody just grabbed her bicycle.  And he sees this skeezy looking character bugging off on a bicycle.  So he does what is indicated and pursues the bicycle rustler on horseback.  He just happened to have his rope with him (he is a cowboy after all) and he lassos the bad guy on the bicycle and ties him to a tree to await the arrival of the local constabulary.  It took them a while to convince the cops that this was as real thing, but they did get around to showing up.     

And so somebody ends up with a hell of a good story for their memoirs, and the lady gets her bike back.

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Bob, where do you get your news? At the local landfill? This incident happened back in 2016. But it's still a god story. (Pictures from the June 11, 2016 Daily Mail)

A BRITISH LADY'S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

 

If President Biden forgives the student loans of the pro-Palestinian protesters, the American taxpayers will, in fact, be supporting hatred of Jews and Israel.

 

IT'S A DAMN SHAME THAT WE CANNOT SHIP THE ANTI-ISRAEL SWINE OFF TO GAZA

Palestinian flag is raised over Harvard statue taking the place of the Stars and Stripes that typically flies proudly above founder's memorial

 

By Emma Richter 

Daily Mail

Apr 28, 20224

 

 

In other images, the Palestinian flag was seen draped on the John Harvard's lap, along with a keffiyeh around his neck

 

A Palestinian flag was raised over a statue at Harvard University as anti-Israel protest continue to rock college campuses and took the place of the American flag that typically flies above the founder's memorial. 

Video from Saturday night showed a group of pro-Palestine protestors, dressed in keffiyehs, raised a large Palestinian flag above the iconic statue of John Harvard. 

The Harvard Crimson reported student protestors hung the flag and two others around 6.30pm at the Ivy League campus. 

By 6.34pm, Harvard University Police officers called the school's Yard Operations to remove the flag that flew above the statue. 

In recent days, protests have erupted across campuses nationwide in the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, and the ongoing retaliatory attacks on Gaza that followed. 

 

Typically,  a large American flag has been seen flying above the Ivy League university's founder

 

School administrators have called in police forces to remove encampments and protestors at schools such as Harvard, Columbia, Emory, NYU, USC, the University of Texas, Cal-Berkley and Brown. 

In other images, the Palestinian flag was seen draped on John Harvard's lap, along with a keffiyeh around his neck.  

As staff members took the flags down, protestors were heard yelling 'Shame!' at them, along with other chants such as 'Free, free, Palestine' and 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!' 

Harvard spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain said the protestor's actions was 'a violation of University policy and the individuals involved will be subject to disciplinary action.' 

Once the flags were removed, demonstrators gathered inside and outside the encampment, and made it clear that they were willing to have their school IDs collected by administrators. 

'Harvard, Harvard take my ID. You can't really scare me,' the protestors chanted. 

 

Student protestors hung the large flag and two others around 6.30pm on the Ivy League campus

As staff members took the flags down, protestors were heard yelling 'Shame!' at them, along with other chants such as 'Free, free, Palestine' and 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!'

 Once the flags were removed, demonstrators gathered inside and outside the encampment, and made it clear that they were willing to have their school IDs collected by administrators

 

They then held a vigil around the statue for a Palestinian that was killed in the war, The Harvard Crimson reported. 

Following the vigil, a large group of administrators, including the Dean of Students, Thomas Dunne, stormed the encampment with ID scanners. 

As they collected student's information, they handed each protestor a piece of paper that warned them of disciplinary actions, including the possibility of graduating seniors having their degrees withheld. 

'Repeat violations of University and School policies will result in increasingly severe sanctions. Students with pending disciplinary matters may not be granted a degree,' the slip said. 

The Harvard Crimson said the American flag is typically hung outside Monday through Friday, but is lowered at 4pm 'for proper storage.' 

 

School administrators have called in police forces to remove encampments and protestors at schools such as Harvard, Columbia, Emory , NYU, USC, the University of Texas , Cal-Berkley and Brown

Multiple tents are seen at Harvard University's encampment on Thursday in the Yard 

 

Last week, the university tried to stay ahead of the mounting protests as it locked most gates into its famous Harvard Yard ahead of classes on Monday. 

The school also limited identification to those with school IDs and posted warning signs against setting up tents or tables on campus without permission.

On Wednesday, protestors continued to set up camp as they brought out 14 tents after a rally against the university's suspension of the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.

This is not the first time Harvard University has held a pro-Palestine protest or faced backlash for its response to the ongoing war, as the former president of the school, Claudine Gay resigned in January. 

Gay left the Ivy League University 28 days after her shocking response at a congressional testimony about campus anti-Semitism. 

She refused to categorize calls for genocide of Jews as harassment or admit that Jewish students had a right not to feel unsafe at Ivy League schools. 

In her resignation letter, she vehemently claimed victimhood, attributing her decision to resign to ‘threats fueled by racial animus.’  

Gay, who was accused of both plagiarism and antisemitism, emphasized that her departure is in the best interests of Harvard, allowing the community to navigate a challenging moment with a focus on the institution rather than any individual. 

'After consultation with members of the Corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual,' she wrote.

 

Students protest against Israel at Harvard University on October 14

The former President of Harvard, Claudine Gay resigned in January after mounting criticism of anti-Semitism on campus and accusations of plagiarism 

 

Along with her December 5 testimony, Gay has also been accused of mounting claims of plagiarism.

She said it was 'frightening' to find herself the target of threats, and 'distressing' to have her character questioned. 

Gay will be replaced by Alan M. Garber, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, who sat behind her at the infamous hearing, nodding as she made her remarks. 

Although campus protests recently dwindled down, they started up again after Columbia University President Nemat  Shafik testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee about rampant anti-Semitism remarks on campus. 

During Shafik's hearing, the Ivy League chief defended the 'peaceful' demonstrations and the students' right to free speech in the surge of anti-Semitic rhetoric since the start of the Gaza war. 

House GOP Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., accused Columbia's leadership of refusing to 'enforce their own policies and condemn Jewish hatred on campus, creating a breeding ground for antisemitism and a hotbed of support for terrorism from radicalized faculty and students.' 

Shafik insisted she has aggressively worked to combat antisemitism on campus, including holding over 200 meetings on the topic, holding daily meetings of the campus security team and working with the NYPD and FBI when hate crimes occur on campus. 

Since then, pro-Palestine protests have broken out at universities across the country including Columbia, NYU and the University of Texas. 

Rep Ilhan Omar's daughter Isra Hirsi was among at least 108 people arrested as police in riot gear moved in to break up the anti-Israel protest that rocked New York's Columbia University.

Tensions had been at boiling point since the protesters pitched tents on the university's south lawn, with several fights breaking out as they were met by pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators. 

 

Although campus protests recently dwindled down, they started up again after Columbia University President Nemat Shafik testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee about rampant anti-Semitism remarks on campus

Rep Ilhan Omar's daughter Isra Hirsi was among at least 108 people arrested as police in riot gear moved in to break up the anti-Israel protest that rocked New York's Columbia University.

On Tuesday, NYU students and faculty descended on Washington Square Park to demand a 'total academic boycott of Israel

 

The daughter of the staunch Democrat had already been suspended by her university, Barnard College, earlier for joining the protest on the Upper West Side.

Hundreds of troopers, armed with riot shields and batons, were seen scuffling with pro-Palestine protesters at the University of Texas, as the Lone Star state was forced to send in mounted officers to control the growing chaos at the protest. 

As of 9pm Thursday, 34 people were arrested, and the next morning, an additional 20 were also arrested. 

The university's faculty appeared to be standing behind the students. Pavithra Vasudevan, a professor at UT, told the American-Statesman that the arrests lay at the feet of the university's administrators. 

On Tuesday, NYU students and faculty descended on Washington Square Park to demand a 'total academic boycott of Israel.'

Flyers shared by organizers stated four demands for the movement, including the 'end of all war profiteering and investment in genocide', and providing 'full amnesty to all students and faculty penalized for their pro-Palestine activism.' 

An organizer who would not give her name told DailyMail.com they had been 'inspired' by the pro-Gaza encampment at nearby Columbia University where cops arrested hundreds of people at the weekend.

'We were inspired by our comrades at Columbia,' the senior student said, wearing a black face covering and a keffiyeh over her hair.

PASSOVER CELEBRATES THE EXODUS OF THE JEWS IN BIBLICAL TIMES FROM EGYPT ... NOWADAYS PASSOVER CELEBRATES THE EXODUS OF THE JEWS FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Bill Maher lashes out at 'privilege-y' anti-Israel protesters who are 'cosplaying as revolutionaries' on college campuses 

He said the Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf is today's equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt and asks why the ignorant publicity-seeking protesters are not targeting truly repressive regimes

 

By Dominic Yeatman  

 

Daily Mail

Apr 28, 2024

 

Bill Maher tore into college age protesters as performative publicity seekers, warning that 'no-one likes you', in a withering putdown on his HBO show

 

Bill Maher tore into college-age protesters as performative publicity seekers, warning that 'no-one likes you', in a withering putdown on his HBO show.

The comic and pundit blasted demonstrators, who have brought chaos to 'normies' with sit-down protests on major roads and college campuses, as damaging their own cause.

He dubbed the Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf the modern equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt and scorned their 'cosplay as revolutionaries' while disrupting the lives of those who have to work for a living.

'Hey, if it makes you feel good to cosplay as revolutionaries. Knock yourself out. Burn yourself out. Just don't drag Gaza into it,' he said on Real Time with Bill Maher.

'Also, throwing stuff on paintings is just stupid. No one sees mashed potatoes on a Monet and thinks he's got a point, I should recycle my cans.'

 

Demonstrators have repeatedly targeted major bridges and highways bringing chaos to city centers since the protests erupted

Maher joked that the Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf, seen here on students at UCLA is today's equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt

 

The 68-year-old had already clashed with guest Don Lemon who was appearing alongside NYU professor Scott Galloway, after the former CNN host complained of living 'in uncomfortable spaces all the time'.

'What do you mean uncomfortable spaces?' Maher demanded.

Lemon replied: 'I am often the only person of color in the room.'

'There's only three of us,' Maher pointed out.

The exchange prompted a clapback from Caitlyn Jenner who tweeted: 'Good on you Bill Maher.

'Don is a privileged, wealthy, (not to mention entitled ie Demands to X and CNN in alleged contract terms), celebrity. Get over yourself.'

But Maher saved his most scathing remarks for those protesting Israel's war in Gaza, denouncing them as ignorant and misguided - dubbing New York's Columbia State University 'Kanye State'.

'You know Passover?' he asked. 'It celebrates the Exodus of the Jews in Biblical times from Egypt. And nowadays it celebrates the Exodus of the Jews from Columbia University.

'I'm not saying there aren't sincere passions about Gaza, especially among people from the region, but Social Justice Warriors, for a lot of them, it seems like it's more about the warrior-ing than about whatever the cause is.

 

Lectures are heading back online at Columbia University in New York after protesters seized the college grounds 

Columbia is among dozens of colleges that have become swept up in Israel-Hamas protests, with other prestigious universities including Harvard and MIT thrown into chaos

There were more road protests in DC on Saturday night ahead of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner

 

'If you really cared about apartheid so much — which Israel does not actually practice.

'Arabs there vote, they serve in Parliament, they sit on the judiciary — wouldn't you start with this? With the hundreds of millions of women in the world who live under a true apartheid, a gender apartheid of the most brutal kind? I'll wait.

'Are you really speaking truth to power, or do you just think you look cool in a keffiyeh, which is really just the new Che Guevara t-shirt.

 

 

Che Guevara t-shirts were popular during the Vietnam War protests

 

'Another historical figure you never researched and still think is a hero, but was actually a sadistic racist monster fighting for communism, the worst form of government ever. But these are small matters.

'Small matters, when activism merges with narcissism.

'Less about the cause and more about me, look at me, watch me! And if you like the way I'm fighting injustice, remember to like and subscribe!'

Among those joining the ranks of unemployed protesters are the 28 Google employees who were fired earlier this month for joining a protest at the company's offices in New York and California.

'Maybe if these Google employees had the slightest idea what kind of fundamentalist, oppressive assholes they're supporting — Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard — they might take it a little easier on the world's greatest monster, Genocide Joe,' he said.

'Genocide, by the way, is when you want to wipe out an entire people. That's the stated goal of Hamas. That's what From the River to the Sea means. Hamas would do that to Israel, but can't. Israel could do that to them, but doesn't.

'You know how you can find that out? Google it!'

And he mocked US airman Aaron Bushnell, 25, who burnt himself to death outside the Israeli embassy in DC in February in protest at US involvement in the country's assault on Gaza.

'In his last Facebook post he said, 'many of us like to ask ourselves, what would I do if I was alive during slavery?' Maher remarked.

'Interesting cocktail question, sir. And I guess the right answer is kill myself.

'But it wouldn't have actually fix the problem if General Ulysses S Grant had immolated himself and his last words were, 'Hey, Lincoln, are you using that log?

'And then last week, another sad, confused man set himself on fire at the Trump trial in New York.

'So, you can tell yourself you're a martyr for the Palestinian cause, but it's a lot less special when the next guy does it for Stormy Daniels.'

He demanded to know why protesters were not targeting repressive regimes including China, North Korea and Myanmar, rather than America's ally in the Middle East.

And he warned that protesters would never win allies among the American public by disrupting their lives.

'Someone needs to tell the people who block traffic in the name of a cause, no one likes you. And you're probably hurting your cause,' he insisted.

'In case you haven't seen what's going on lately, activist for ending the war in Gaza have taken to gathering on roads and bridges and stopping commuters from crossing.

'It happened last week in New York and San Francisco. Chicago, Seattle. They also blocked traffic here on the 405, but no one noticed.

 

Police attempts to remove and arrest demonstrators as here at Northeastern University have been thwarted with the return of protestors to cleared spaces

Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin was among those seized by police 

 

'What they did notice was this: That you have to be pretty dumb to think that the way to bring people around to your point of view is to make them late to pick up their kids from daycare.

'And that's what most normies are thinking. I have a kid, I have a job. And yes, I'm sure there are injustices on both sides in the Middle East as there are injustices all over the world, but I'm going to be late for work.

'Something you protesters on the bridge seem to have the luxury of not having to worry about, which seems kind of privilege-y.

'You can glue your hands to the street because your hands don't have to do any work today.'

BRUCELLA FLIPS OFF ANTI-ISRAEL MOB

Caitlyn Jenner confronts anti-Israel mob outside White House Correspondents' Dinner as she and socialite friend Sophia Hutchins flip them the bird

The former Olympian said she was 'mobbed and harassed' by the crowd

 

By Isabelle Stanley  

 

Daily Mail

Apr 28, 2024

 

Sharing the video and a photo of herself flipping of the crowd, Jenner wrote: 'There is no place for you or your vitriolic antisemitism in this country.'

 

Caitlyn Jenner confronted anti-Israel protestors outside the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday accusing them of 'vitriolic antisemitism'. 

The former Olympian approached the group on her way to the dinner in Washington D.C. 

Recording the interaction on her phone, she stopped to challenge them, saying '100 million Jews' before flipping off the crowd on her way into the venue. 

Sharing the video on Sunday, she said she was 'mobbed and harassed' and wrote: 'Shame on the hundreds of Terrorist sympathizers and the Hamas lovers outside last nights #WHCD that were far from peaceful.'

The protestors are demanding a ceasefire and wanted journalists to boycott the dinner in protest of the government's support of Israel. 

 

Caitlyn Jenner approached the group on her way to the dinner in Washington D.C. on Saturday night

Recording the interaction on her phone, she stopped to challenge them, saying '100 million Jews' before flipping off the crowd

Sharing the video on Sunday, she said she was 'mobbed and harassed'

 

In the video, Jenner walks through the crowd, stopping to talk to one protestor and asking 'what is your name?' 

The crowd shouts back 'Free Palestine' as she walks away, turning back to film the crowd before police usher her away and into the venue. 

Police then hold the crowd back as one person shouts after her 'you're so old, just please go home'. 

Sharing the video and a photo of herself flipping of the crowd, Jenner wrote: 'There is no place for you or your vitriolic antisemitism in this country.

'Get the hell out - we don’t tolerate terrorism here.'

She then shared a photo of her manager Sophia Hutchins also flipping off the crowd. 

She added: 'After my manager, Sophia Hutchins, and I were mobbed and harassed by Hamas terrorist sympathizers on our way into #WHCD she had a very similar message for them.

'Surround yourself with a team of fighters - it’s the only way!' and called for Donald Trump to be re-elected. 

 

Her manager Sophia Hutchins (right) also flipped off the crowd

 

They were attending the annual White House correspondents' dinner. 

The protests forced Biden's motorcade to take a different route from the White House to the Hilton. 

At one point, the crowd of over 100 people chanted: 'Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide.'

President Joe Biden did not mention the war in Gaza in his speech and instead delivered an election year roast making fun of his age and firing barbs at Donald Trump.

'It's been a year since I delivered the speech and my wife, Jill told me she was worried how I'd do,' Biden began.

'I  told her, "Don't worry. It's just like riding the bike" She said that's what I'm worried about,' Biden joked, in a reference to him falling off his bike two years ago during a summer vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

Biden, 81, wasted no time in getting to this November's election which sees the two oldest candidates running in American history. Trump will be 78 by the time election day rolls around. 

'Course the 2024 elections in full swing and yes age is an issue,' Biden said. 'I'm a grown man and I'm running against a six-year-old!'

A growing movement against the war in Gaza has dogged Biden this year including at a $250-per-ticket March fundraiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall, where protesters disrupted the event for the U.S. handling of the crisis in Gaza. 

Demonstrators holding banners chanted about journalist deaths in Gaza outside the Washington Hilton, the site of the annual gathering.

Hundreds of protesters encouraged journalists to boycott the event and shouted down administration officials as they entered.

Biden avoided the large protests at the front of the hotel by arriving through a back entrance, where he was greeted by smaller groups of protesters calling for a ceasefire.

Kelly O'Donnell, president of the White House Correspondents' Association, declined to comment on security measures for the dinner.

'The safety and security of our protectees is the U.S. Secret Service's top priority,' said U.S. Secret Service spokesperson Alexi Worley, who declined to comment further.

Israel's six-month old war against Hamas in Gaza, in response to the Oct. 7 attack by the militant group in southern Israel, has killed more than 34,000 people, Palestinian health authorities say, and caused a humanitarian disaster for the enclave's more than 2 million inhabitants.

The Hamas attack killed 1,200 people in Israel, and led to 253 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies.

The White House Correspondents Association was founded in 1914 and has held a dinner nearly every year since 1921 to celebrate the reporters who cover the presidency and raise money for scholarships.

HARVARD ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS REPLACE AMERICAN FLAG WITH PALESTINIAN FLAF

Anti-Israel mob unfurls ISIS banner at Washington University as Green Party presidential candidate is arrested - while Harvard students raise Palestinian banner instead of the US flag

Longshot 2024 Green Party hopeful Jill Stein joined pro-Palestinian protesters on Saturday. She and two of her staff were arrested in the demonstration at Washington University in St. Louis 

 

By Katelyn Caralle

 

Daily Mail

Apr 28, 2024

 

Jill Stein (center) and her campaign staff were arrested at anti-Israel protest on Washington University's campus in St. Louis, Missouri on Saturday

 

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested Saturday at Washington University in St. Louis as campus chaos related to the Israel-Hamas war spreads across the country.

Stein, 73, and members of her campaign staff joined pro-Palestinian protests at the college in St. Louis, Missouri when the 2024 candidate got into a scuffle with law enforcement. 

Students at WashU are among those engaging in nationwide campus protests over their college's ties to the war in Gaza. 

Stein also joined protesters at Columbia University on Friday, where anti-Israel demonstrators have taken over campus with an encampment that they refuse to breakdown despite threats from the college.

 

 

The Palestinian flag was raised above University Hall at Harvard on Saturday before Harvard police officers removed it about one hour later.

 

At Harvard, students were seen taking down a US flag and replacing it with a Palestinian flag.  

Their actions mirror those of students at other elite universities, like Harvard, where the American flag that flies on the main campus has been replaced by a Palestinian flag. 

 

Stein tussles with law enforcement who were pushing back protesters with a bike

 

Stein, a presidential longshot, claims Columbia is writing a 'blank check' to fund the war in Gaza because its endowment includes investment in Microsoft, which sells computers to the Israeli Defense Force. 

Several videos posted to X over the weekend show Stein joining the demonstration.

One clip shows the politician physically pushing back against police using a bike to push the protesters into a contained area.

Along with Stein, the others arrested with her team include campaign manager Jason Call and deputy campaign manager Kelly Merrill-Cayer.

Squad-member Cori Bush also voiced her support for protestors in her home-state on Saturday evening.

'Solidarity with anti-war student activists at WashU,' she wrote followed by a black fist and the Palestinian flag.

'As students exercise their right to protest, I urge university & local authorities to allow these courageous students & community members to continue their practice of non-violent civil disobedience.'

Bush, who is facing a fierce inter-party challenge ahead of July 25th primary, has spent the last several months battling a DOJ investigation into her alleged financial corruption.

Several colleges across the country are experiencing massive anti-Israel protests amid the ongoing war in Gaza. Specifically, the pro-Palestinian students are protesting their universities' ties with Israel.

The most extreme protests are taking place at Columbia University in New York City, where hundreds set up an encampment on campus and forced suspension of in-person classes. Columbia's endowment includes investment in Microsoft and Amazon, which both conduct business with Israel.

 

Stein (left)  links arms with Alderwoman Alisha Sonnier (second from right) and Aldermanic President Megan Green (right) as she engages in pro-Palestinian protest at WashU in St. Louis, Missouri on Saturday

 

Before being cuffed, Stein took a video describing her actions.

'We're standing here with the students at WashU standing up for our constitutional rights, standing up for the American people who want an end to this genocide now,' she said in a selfie-style video.

'Police are gathered here,' she added, panning to an image of a full-force of law enforcement, 'and we're going to stand here in line with the students.'

In the background of the video, the college students are heard chanting, 'Hold the line.'

'Jill and others were attempting to deescalate with police before they began arresting people,' a post from Stein's X account claims:.

Holding a megaphone in her hands but speaking without it, Stein said to law enforcement: 'We can avoid the embarrassment and the humiliation that will come down on this administration if it attacks peaceful demonstrators who are simply calling for peace and human rights and the end to a genocide that the American people abhor.'

ABANDONING THE ATTACK ON RAFAH WOULD BE A HUMILIATING SURRENDER TO HAMAS

Rafah operation must take place – even in defiance of the US

The deadlock in negotiations for the release of Israeli captives held by Hamas, coupled with American accusations against the group, has paved the way for Israel to launch the Rafah offensive. The IDF's starting position for this operation is better than those at the beginning of the campaign in the northern Gaza Strip or the Khan Younis area. The enemy will now be entering combat with a command echelon that has been depleted

 

By Meir Ben Shabbat  

 

Israel Hayom

Apr 28, 2024

 

 

A fireball erupts after Israeli strike over Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 20, 2023,

 

As signs of an imminent IDF operation in Rafah intensify, there is growing concern that Israel will unnecessarily exercise self-imposed restraint by acting with insufficient force, so as not to upset the Biden administration, the Egyptians, or the ICC prosecutor at The Hague.

Meanwhile, Hamas is presumably exploiting the prolonged waiting period and preparing well for the ground operation in this sector, which will undoubtedly pose complex operational challenges for the IDF. Despite the political pressures, Israel's decision-makers must make it a top priority to attain the objectives with minimal risk to the security of our forces.

The deadlock in negotiations for the release of Israeli captives held by Hamas, coupled with American accusations against the group, has paved the way for Israel to launch the Rafah offensive. The recent de-escalation with Iran allows Israel to shift its focus, without forfeiting political gains made, while continuing the fight against Hezbollah and dismantling terrorist networks in the West Bank.

In this operation, the security establishment will be required to achieve five objectives: Dismantling Hamas' regional brigade, with its four battalions: eliminating or arresting its commanders and most of its personnel, seizing or destroying its command centers, strategic assets, weapons, and production facilities – both above or below ground. Eliminating or arresting senior members of Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who fled from other areas to Rafah and found refuge there.
Ending Hamas' civilian control in this area: striking Hamas' governing mechanisms, including police and internal security forces, prisons, and courts, as well as "civilian" committees for managing emergency affairs.

Taking control of smuggling routes and shaping a new security reality along the border strip, preventing smuggling from Sinai to the Gaza Strip.
Advancing the release of the captives– either by seizing opportunities during the fighting or through negotiations following increased pressure on Hamas.
The IDF and Hamas: Starting Conditions

The IDF's starting position for this operation is better than those at the beginning of the campaign in the northern Gaza Strip or the Khan Younis area. The enemy will now be entering combat with a command echelon that has been depleted, with many fighters dead, injured, or arrested. Second, its stockpile of weapons and ammunition has dwindled. Third, the ability to strike the Israeli home front with rocket fire is rather limited. And fourth, the IDF will have already replenished its forces, updated its intelligence, and improved its fighters' operational combatworthiness through lessons learned from previous stages of the fighting.

However, from the enemy's perspective, the overall picture also has some bright spots. Their force deployment in the combat zone has not only remained intact but has also been reinforced with operatives from other areas. Their logistical preparedness has improved thanks to humanitarian aid entering the Strip, and they are equipped with fuel and food that allow prolonged survival in tunnels.

Additionally, they draw encouragement from the pressures exerted on Israel to minimize casualties and benefit from the involvement of Iran and its proxies, as well as the political support of Turkey and other countries. Above all, they are emboldened by their demonstrated ability to survive the IDF onslaught so far and the fact that even after 200 days of fighting, Hamas continues to be the central power in the Gaza Strip.

A formidable task

Alongside its offensive capabilities, the IDF will also need to strengthen its defense against various forms of attacks on its forces or on the home front that exploit proximity to borders or the use of tunnels. The same applies to the possibility that Hamas may carry out provocations in the border fence area and towards Sinai, aiming to create tensions between Israel and Egypt. Hints of this could be found in a statement issued this week by the "Palestinian factions." The IDF's well-oiled war machine has proved itself, and there is no doubt as to its ability to successfully handle this challenge as well. On the political level, maximum support and freedom of action are required to allow the IDF to employ intense firepower that will reduce the risk to our soldiers and bring about the swiftest possible defeat of the enemy.

Meanwhile, the IDF will need to continuously examine how the combat situation can be leveraged to advance the release of the captured individuals.

The Rafah operation will not complete the task of decisively defeating Hamas. Even after it is over, much more work, and a deeper impact, will be needed inside the territory before Hamas' remaining capabilities are destroyed and a new reality emerges. This was also the case following Operation Defensive Shield, which began exactly 22 years ago. It will not be quick and easy, but it is necessary and possible.

ICC WANTS THOSE AWFUL ISRAELI WAR CRIMINALS BUSTED

Israel readies for international arrest warrants

“We simply won’t leave the country,” says FM, as International Criminal Court prepares to target Israeli leaders.

 

Israel Today 

Apr 28, 2024 

 

 

Arrest warrants are expected to be filed against (L-R) Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi by the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Israel believes that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague will in the coming week issue arrest warrants for top Israeli officials amid charges of humanitarian violations in the Gaza Strip.

Arrest warrants are expected to be filed against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz stressed that Israel has gone out of its way to avoid civilian casualties and enable the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza. In fact, it has done this much more so than any other nation involved in a full-scale war in modern times.

Given this, for the ICC to even entertain the idea of issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders as though they were criminals “is entirely hypocritical. We will just remain here and not leave the country” in order to avoid arrest, Katz told Channel 12 News.

“No one will prevent us from protecting the security interests of the citizens of Israel and letting the IDF do its job. We will not be deterred,” he added.

FACULTY OF UNIVERSITIES HAPPILY WALLOW IN THE STY OF SWINE ..... BUT AMERICA'S JEWS SHOULD NO LONGER TAKE ANY SHIT FROM THESE SWINE

Don’t take any guff from these swine…

American Jewish leaders, stand up now or forever hold your peace. 

 

By Benjamin Kerstein

 

JNS

Apr 28, 2024

 

 

The late “gonzo” journalist Hunter S. Thompson

 

“Don’t take any guff from these swine,” Hunter S. Thompson used to say, and not without reason. The legendary gonzo journalist found himself constantly confronted with the appalling. The savage heart of the American dream prompted him to “make a beast of himself to escape the pain of being a man.” If only out of instinctual defiance, he refused to take guff from anyone.

American Jews need not make beasts of themselves, but it is time for them to heed Thompson’s advice. They should no longer take any guff from these swine. I refer, of course, to the swine who have infested many of America’s most unjustly revered institutions of higher learning. There, Sus scrofa domesticus have constructed a filth-ridden sty from which they spew antisemitism; advocate genocide; render normal university life impossible; force other students to study online; and abuse, bully and physically assault Jews and anyone else who dares dissent from their fetid ideology.

The swine want, of course, the consummation of the world’s oldest hatred: What Louis-Ferdinand Céline charmingly referred to as “a pile of a million dead stinking Yids.”

Céline also asserted that this stinking pile was “not worth the life of a single Aryan.” The adults in the room appear to agree. Those who should and almost certainly do know better have been remarkably sanguine about having their institutions infested with Scrofa domesticus. Even President Joe Biden, in whom so many Jews put their trust and their vote, seemed content to channel his predecessor’s famous “very fine people on both sides” admonition on the Charlottesville Nazis. For Biden and most of his Democratic colleagues, it appears, some Nazis are more condemnable than others.

As for the high rollers of academia, who suddenly find themselves presiding over a sty rather than a school, even this small measure of equivocation is out of fashion. Faculty happily jump into the wallow while administrators either collaborate or—as is common in catamites—bend the knee and simply look away. That everything the swine are doing violates these institutions’ alleged codes of conduct as well as numerous laws is irrelevant to those who know better. That they could end the scatologic orgy tomorrow through mass arrests and expulsions is unthinkable. They are too sympathetic with or too terrified of the sows.

To what quarter, then, may American Jews turn? The obvious answer would be to their communal leadership. Unfortunately, as I know from the many who have contacted me, this only evokes a sense of total despair—and quite rightfully so. The warning signs that the swine were gathering have been there for a quarter-century. The red flags were so plentiful that only the willfully blind could fail to see them. But the American Jewish leadership chose to be blind. They either did nothing or were so ineffective they might as well have done nothing. They had a chance to contain the thing before it became impossible to contain, but they chose not to.

The reasons for this dereliction are legion and will be fully understood only in the light of history. Certainly, the nepotistic gerontocracy that rules the major Jewish organizations was woefully unprepared to deal with a grassroots neo-Nazism arising from the political left and the Muslim community. These leaders often enjoyed seven-figure salaries and flattering political connections they did not wish to jeopardize by rocking the boat. Many are graduates of the very institutions from which the swine have now come wriggling forth. Perhaps it was a simple failure of nerve. They lacked the strength necessary to face unpleasant facts.

Right now, however, the failure of American Jewish leaders is clearly manifest. That failure squeals and snorts and wallows right before our eyes. American Jews should have no illusions about what this means: They are more or less on their own, abandoned by many of their political allies, bereft of effective leadership, and lacking the means for basic communal self-defense. And it is only a matter of time before the swine burst forth from the campuses into the broader Jewish community, wreaking bloody mayhem wherever they can.

Some I have spoken to believe that the answer lies in the formation of a new organization or organizations dedicated to active self-defense of the Jewish community and a more militant and radical resistance to antisemitism. This is a fine idea, but such organizations will take time to build and the problem is immediate. American Jews must use the tools they have.

The major organizations are there and still have enormous political, financial and organizational resources to draw on. Overnight, they could organize an effective counter-protest movement and a nationwide Jewish self-defense force. They could hold the relevant institutions’ feet to the political, cultural and financial fire. They have chosen not to. The imperative of the moment is to force them to do so.

This will only happen if the American Jewish community demands it. The major organizations should be deluged with emails and phone calls. Donors should threaten to withhold their money. Denunciations should be issued from the pulpit, in the media, and even in quotidian personal interactions.

In all of them, there should be not just recrimination but an absolute and irrevocable demand: Don’t take any guff from these swine. Stop indulging Scrofa domesticus with the excuse of free speech and assembly, when neither of those rights protects organized violence, genocidal incitement and systematic lawbreaking. Stop pussyfooting around your treasured political allies and threaten them with a total cessation of Jewish support if they don’t take effective action. Stop indulging in nostalgia for your alma mater and admit that these institutions willfully permitted their swine to micturate on everything you believe in.

Above all, end your silence. Speak up, speak out, denounce, demand. Be angry, be uncompromising, make it plain, make them listen. Don’t take any guff from these swine. You still have the power to do so, though you will not have it for long if the swine get their way. If American Jewish life becomes impossible, it will be as bad for you as for the rest of your beleaguered community. Act.

You have a chance now, perhaps for the last time, to redeem yourselves. Take it. If you cannot or will not do so, please step aside to make way for those who will.