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A stand-off between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main coalition partner over passage of Israel‘s budget threatens to trigger its fourth election in a little over a year amid an economic crisis fueled by the coronavirus outbreak. A ballot is automatically mandated if a budget is not approved by parliament by Aug. 25. Analysts are concerned that a new election and likely protracted coalition talks after- wards would have a crippling impact on an economy already expected to contract 6% this year, with unemployment now

Smoke rises after an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 4, 2020. Photo: Karim Sokhn / Instagram / Ksokhn + Thebikekitchenbeirut / via Reuters.

Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issue statements. Tel Aviv, July 27, 2020. Photo: Tal Shahar / Pool via Reuters. BY REUTERS hit Beirut in years shook the ground, Footage of the blast shared leaving some residents thinking an by residents on social media above 21%.Such instability could also make prospects for any & ALGEMEINER STAFF earthquake had struck. Dazed and showed a column of smoke rising return to a long-dormant peace process with the Palestinians A huge explosion near the weeping, some of them wounded, from the port district followed by even more remote and complicate Netanyahu’s bid to annex, center of Beirut killed at least 10 people walked through streets an enormous blast. Those filming with US approval, parts of the West Bank. people, injured hundreds and sent checking to see if relatives were hurt. what initially appeared to be a big The budget is pivotal to a “unity” accord reached after shock waves across the Lebanese The blast occurred in the blaze were thrown backwards by an inconclusive March election. It calls for Defense Minister capital, shattering windows and city’s port area, where there were the shock of the explosion. Benny Gantz of the centrist Blue and White party to take over causing apartment balconies to warehouses housing explosives, At least 10 bodies were taken as premier from right-wing Likud chief Netanyahu in 2021. collapse, witnesses and security Lebanon’s state news agency NNA to hospitals, a security source and The power-sharing pact stipulated that Israel would pass sources said. and two security sources said. A a medical source told Reuters. a binannual budget but Netanyahu is now calling for a 2020 The most powerful explosion to third security source said there The Lebanese Red Cross said Continued on Page A3 were chemicals stored in the area. Continued on Page A3

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comparisons of Israeli capability to the ability of Israel, but over the long term, of remote countries to project military power Israel would likely prove unable to KENNETH S. BOWER into the region, or the threat posed by poten- maintain the decisive technological superiority it now possesses versus NEW YORK tial enemies. The first of these assessments discusses the ability of the US or Russia to the current Sunni militaries. In such project conventional military power into the a scenario, Israel’s current exagger- ated emphasis on combat with Middle East, followed by threats posed by the non-state light infantry, located Most published Middle Eastern military Sunni Arab states and/or Turkey, and finally, within urban areas, under counter- net assessments are based primarily on lists of Shiite Iran and its proxies. insurgency rules of engagement, units and equipment. Unfortunately, history The study’s objective and fact-based would combine to compromise proved that such lists are all too often incor- assessments are often at odds with conven- its long-term ability to cope with rect. Even when they were correct, the overall tional wisdom. a Sunni conventional combined The IDF’s new ‘Ghost Unit’ conducts an assessments generally ignored the quality of First, it shows that, as compared to arms threat that could arise in the exercise. Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Office. personnel and/or equipment, as well as the Israeli military capability, neither the US nor future. decades of their own propaganda. They see extent to which rival defense systems could Russia can project meaningful conventional Israel can defeat Iran and its proxies at a weakness where the study sees strength. turn available financial, human, and material military power into the Middle East unless relatively acceptable cost — but only if there This compromises Israel’s ability to effec- resources into actual military power. they are provided with both many months to is decisive Israeli political and military leader- tively wage war and reach the compromises Almost without exception, these earlier mobilize and a lack of opposition during the ship, which is now lacking. If military power necessary to achieve peace with security. In net assessments ignored the impact of the long process of deployment. This conclusion has to be used preemptively to neutralize the the end, even if Israel somehow manages to time required by all militaries to mobilize and implies that any US-proposed mutual defense Iranian nuclear threat, Israel, acting unilater- achieve real peace with all its Muslim neigh- deploy. This is particularly true for the major treaty offered to Israel would be militarily ally, is far more militarily capable than the US. bors (which is doubtful), it will only remain powers that were remote from the Middle meaningless. Moreover, the study shows that, According to the study’s assessment, secure if it is the sole nuclear-armed country East. These countries had to project their over the long term, any such treaty would Israel cannot convert to an American-style in the Middle East. It will also have to maintain forces over intercontinental distances, which actually result in significantly diminished volunteer military based on active forces with a decisive superiority in terms of conventional was, and is, a slow and difficult process. Israeli national security. relatively small, low-readiness reserves. Such military power against any conceivable array The new study I have written contains no It is also demonstrated herein that Israel a conversion would result in a significant loss of possible enemies. lists at all. Its assessments are based on histor- can defeat any attempt by Russia to militarily of military capability that could ultimately put Kenneth S. Brower is a naval archi- ically proven combat data, which reflects the intervene against it. the state at existential risk. tect and defense analyst specializing in the impact of human and technical quality on The study assesses that a Sunni military The study provides a series of recom- interaction of technology and tactics and the military combat effectiveness. The study first threat, either with or without Turkey, could mendations that would improve Israeli Middle Eastern military balance. provides a summary of current Israeli military rapidly and unexpectedly emerge. The current political-military leadership. The fundamental A version of this article was originally combined military capability of the Sunni capability. Rather than simply providing conclusion is that most Israelis, as well as their published by the BESA Center. figures, it provides a baseline for subsequent states is relatively limited compared to that international supporters, have come to believe The Lonely, Angry Antisemite

less: a 40-year-old female passerby who the synagogue had he managed to penetrate remonstrated with Balliet and a 20-year-old the sanctuary, he readily answered in the affir- BEN COHEN/ male customer at a Muslim-owned kebab mative. And when given the opportunity to JNS.org restaurant targeted by Balliet after he sped explain his act, he embraced it: What mattered, the away from the synagogue in his car. It is a he said, was that other lone white men consid- Algemeiner Journal macabre irony that neither of his victims were ering similar atrocities should take heart from Jewish or Muslim. the attention garnered by his attack, just as (USPS 927800) is published weekly At high school, he made no friends and As horrifying as this attack was to outside he had taken heart from the massacre a few (except for the week of Passover didn’t belong to any clubs. He liked girls, but observers, by the standards Balliet set for months earlier at a mosque in Christchurch, and Succos) having a girlfriend was beyond his abilities. himself — his stated purpose was to kill as New Zealand by a white-supremacist shooter. Subscription rate $40 per year Academically, he was undistinguished, doing many Jews as possible — it was a colossal (Not to mention the slaughter by another well in biology but failing in English. When it failure. “Balliet speaks of himself like a loser,” deranged lone-wolf white supremacist at Algemeiner Journal came to his free time, most of it was spent on the noted the correspondent of Der Tagesspiegel Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha congre- 208 E 51st Street, Suite 185 Internet. Once he graduated, he left home for a on the trial’s second day. And indeed, much gation in October 2018.) New York, N.Y. 10022 spell of military service. He lasted six months, of the reporting bolstered that impression One question that arises from Balliet’s dismissing the experience as “exhausting,” Periodicals Postage as the details of Balliet’s schooling, his home trial is whether we will learn anything new “stupid,” and “not a real army.” From there, he Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. life, his record of antisemitic and racist utter- about the intersection of political extremism enrolled as a student in a local college, but he and at additional mailing offices ances, and his conviction that “the Jews” with an individual’s personal crisis, or quit that too after, as he put it, “falling ill.” were to blame for both Germany’s systemic whether, as the reporting thus far suggests, For the last five years, he had done POSTMASTER: failure and his own deadbeat existence were much of what we already know is being nothing at all. The day that ended with his Send address changes to unveiled in the courtroom. confirmed. “I have questioned a hundred name and awful deed inscribed in headlines But the proceedings also revealed people on the reasons for their antisemitism,” Algemeiner Journal across the world began with him as an another side to Balliet: haughty, cruel, and wrote the French philosopher Jean-Paul P.O. Box 250746 unknown 27-year-old, unemployed and living utterly without regret or remorse. When the Sartre in 1946, sharing some of the various Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 at home with a mother whose doting couldn’t video of his outrage that he livestreamed was answers he received. A “young painter” told quite quell the anger rising within him. replayed to the court, he grinned throughout Sartre that Jews encouraged insubordination This is the portrait of Stephan Balliet — the like a Cheshire cat. When asked whether he among domestic servants because of their Let your voice be heard! German neo-Nazi who mounted an armed would have slaughtered the children inside “critical habits.” A young woman told him that attack on a synagogue in the city of Halle last [email protected] she had been continually cheated by furriers, Yom Kippur — that has emerged from German all of whom were Jews. An actor insisted that media accounts of his trial, which began last he would have enjoyed a glittering career in To advertise in week at the high court in Magdeburg. the theater had the Jews not confined him Balliet’s act, which he livestreamed over the new Algemeiner to supporting roles. A former schoolmate the Internet, shocked Germany and left its complained that Jews were being favored by e-mail: [email protected] law-enforcement agencies heaving sighs examiners, who deliberately gave them higher of relief when it transpired that he failed to or call grades than non-Jews. And so it went on. penetrate the synagogue’s heavy doors that Similar prejudices about Jews persist 718-771-0400 stood between the 51 worshippers inside the today in America and Europe, alongside sanctuary and his bullets and grenades. But Neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet on trial in Germany. there was a death toll of innocents nonethe- Photo: Reuters / Hendrik Schmidt. Continued on Page A7 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 A3 World News. Antisemitism Is ‘Front US Version of Iron Dome and Center’ in Reactions Air Defense System Nears to Pandemic, Expert Says Realization Following Raytheon, Rafael Deal BY ALGEMEINER STAFF zation with a long history of battling for civil rights, we stand shoulder to shoulder with the civil rights leaders of this country and all the The global Jewish community is facing people out demonstrating who really believe rising antisemitism due to the coronavirus this is a moment of reckoning, and that we pandemic, a senior Anti-Defamation League have to look at police brutality, and that we (ADL) says. have to look at the racism that exists in the During a recent webinar titled “Anti- institutions in this country.” Semitism: Combatting the Other Global “When that narrative crosses the line Pandemic,” hosted by the American Society of the and is hijacked into antisemitic or anti-Israel University of Haifa, ADL Senior Vice President of narrative, then we will call it out no questions International Affairs Dr. Sharon S. Nazarian said, asked,” Nazarian said. “As a vulnerable minority Jews feel sensitive to Turning to the much-discussed role of the rise of conspiracy theories — particularly in social media platforms in spreading antisemi- non-democratic governments which use scape- tism, Nazarian said that companies like goating of minorities, and especially Jews, to Facebook must “come to terms with the fact deflect from their own failures.” that they have a role to play here and they “Governments that are not able to have to be part of the solution.” provide for their own citizens really use “This is a moment of reckoning where conspiracy theories as a mechanism for these privately held companies have a deflecting blame,” she added. A battery of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. Photo: IDF. responsibility just like any other sector, like Nazarian noted that in her conversations with the automobile industry and others, for the Jewish communities in many countries, “one of the BY UDI ETSION/CTech operational by the end of 2021. The cost of safety of their customers,” she declared. very common themes we saw were the economic each Tamir interceptor is believed to be in the Commenting on a recent Haifa University anxieties people were expecting to happen.” Israeli defense contractor Rafael region of $50,000, making it a relatively cheap and Institute for Counter Terrorism study that “Jewish communities know that not only Advanced Defense Systems has signed a deal interceptor and easier to sell abroad. examined the platform TikTok, Nazarian said the pandemic itself, but the economic impact with US defense contractor Raytheon Missile Around 50% of the components of the the company “targets very young people, and of a major slowdown like huge unemploy- & Defense Systems to set up a joint produc- Iron Dome system are already being manufac- because access to this hate language and specif- ment, what that historically rises to,” she tion facility for Iron Dome interceptors. tured in the US before being assembled at ically antisemitic language is so readily available continued. “Usually, the front and center of The production of the new partnership, Rafael’s facility in Israel. This new venture is and the algorithms continue to provide you the reaction is antisemitism.” called Raytheon RAFAEL Area Protection mainly meant to provide the US with the 240 with more of it, I’m glad the attention has been Nazarian also addressed concerns about Systems, will take place in the US, with a site interceptors it acquired with the two Iron brought onto TikTok through this study.” the Black Lives Matter movement, which has Dome systems. “I think it’s the responsibility of parents location to be finalized by the end of the year. been accused of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. “This will be the first Iron Dome all-up- to know as much as we can, what are our The new facility will produce both the “You have a big umbrella, with lots of round facility outside of Israel, and it will help children are watching and experiencing, and Iron Dome Weapon System, which consists organizations under it advocating for very the US Department of Defense and allies also to explain to our children how those of the Tamir interceptor and launcher, and the similar issues and causes,” she pointed out. algorithms work — that even if you’re not SkyHunter missile, a US derivative of Tamir. across the globe obtain the system for defense “We will call out antisemitism at ADL as seeking it out, it will come to you,” she stated. Both Tamir and SkyHunter intercept incoming of their service members and critical infra- we always have, at any instance where we see “It takes both sides, putting pressure on the cruise missiles, unmanned aerial systems, and structure,” said Raytheon Missiles & Defense it,” she pledged, “but as a civil rights organi- platforms but also education.” short-range targets such as rockets, artillery, Systems’ Sam Deneke, vice president of Land mortars, and other aerial threats. Warfare & Air Defense business execution. “We are excited about this new stage in our The new deal was announced as an Continued from Page A1 Lebanon’s health minister told Reuters Antonov An-225 Mriya, the heaviest aircraft ‘Total Chaos’ partnership with Raytheon and proud of our US there was a “very high number” of injured. Al ever built designed by the Soviet Union in hundreds of people were taken hospitals production,” said Brig. Gen. (res.) Pini Yungman, Mayadeen TV said hundreds were wounded. the 1980s, landed on Monday at Ben-Gurion for treatment.Lebanese President Michel executive vice president for Air and Missile Another Reuters witness said she saw Airport with two Oshkosh trucks belonging to Aoun called for an emergency meeting of Defense of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. heavy gray smoke near the port area and then the US. These two trucks will be overhauled the country’s Supreme Defense Council, “We have long partnered on US production heard an explosion and saw flames and black by Rafael so that they can provide logistical according to the presidency’s Twitter account. of Iron Dome and are pleased to increase smoke: “All the downtown area windows are support for the US Iron Dome systems. It was not immediately clear what caused manufacturing and bring SkyHunter to the US.” smashed and there are wounded people Iron Dome is the world’s most-used air the blaze that set off the blast or what kind of The US defense establishment rarely walking around. It is total chaos.” defense system with more than 2,500 opera- explosives were in the warehouses. purchases foreign weapon systems, but UN spokesman Farhan Haq told tional intercepts and a success rate exceeding Lebanese Internal Security Chief Abbas decided to acquire two Iron Dome air defense reporters it was not immediately clear what 90%. It has been extensively used by the IDF, Ibrahim, touring the port area, said he would systems while it completes the development the cause was, and that there was no indica- protecting communities across Israel from not pre-empt investigations. of its own solution. The systems, which were tion of any injuries to any UN personnel. hundreds of rockets fired by terrorist groups An Israeli official said Israel had nothing bought for $373 million, are set to become “We do not have information about what in the Gaza Strip. to do with the blast. has happened precisely, what has caused this, The governor of Beirut port told Sky whether it’s accidental or man-made act,” he said. Economists said that with a 2020 budget effec- Israeli leaders prone to taking populist moves News that a team of firefighters at the scene The US Pentagon said: “We are aware of tively covering only the last quarter, at this late stage leading to a loss in market confidence, a rise had “disappeared” after the explosion. the explosion and are concerned for the poten- passing a separate one for 2021 made no sense. in risk premium and damage to credit ratings. “I saw a fireball and smoke billowing over tial loss of life due to such a massive explosion.” Cedric Berry, associate director of sover- Amid a second wave of COVID-19 infec- Beirut. People were screaming and running, In Cyprus, an island lying west of eign ratings at Fitch Ratings, said any budget tions, public trust in Netanyahu’s handling of bleeding. Balconies were blown off buildings. Lebanon, residents reported two large bangs delay “would heighten concerns about Israel’s the crisis has plummeted. Thousands of Israelis Glass in high-rise buildings shattered and fell in quick succession. One resident of the capital ability to implement prudent fiscal policy and have taken to the streets, demanding his resig- to the street,” said a Reuters witness. Nicosia said his house shook, rattling shutters. erode (its) track record of debt reduction.” He nation over the graft charges, which he denies. said this could pressure Israel‘s ratings. But opinion polls predict a weak showing Continued from Page A1 tion trial, which began in May, as a catalyst for For Netanyahu, now in his fifth term, for Gantz in any new ballot, with Netanyahu Budget Battle the crisis. A snap ballot could lead to a delay in an election with a health crisis raging would still backed by a large bloc in parliament. budget instead. Gantz insists on sticking to the proceedings, and he could opt to pursue a law to be especially risky. But many Israeli political Denying he is pushing for an election, deal that was to be his insurance policy for a block his prosecution if he wins another term. commentators have been skeptical from the Netanyahu argues that an annual budget smooth transition of power. “The whole issue is really mostly politics,” start about his pledge to transfer power to Gantz. would allow the government to stream money Failure to resolve the dispute could said former Bank of Israel governor Karnit Flug. “Gantz is concerned that Netanyahu is immediately to battle the coronavirus and that a provide Netanyahu with a quick way out of Uncertainty aiming to establish the pretext to bring down longer-term budget would include spending cuts. the deal with Gantz and enable him to remain Flug, now vice president of research at the the government in early 2021 … Gantz is right Gantz dismissed that as a “fairytale” in an prime minister through an election campaign, Israel Democracy Institute, said a budget for to be concerned,” said Henry Rome, a senior interview with the Ynet website on Tuesday, possibly as early as November or in March if a only 2020 implied government instability, and analyst at the Eurasia Group think tank. saying Israel needed a long-term fiscal plan 2021 budget is not agreed. “that really intensifies economic uncertainty.” Flug said another election could make for economic and political stability. Some analysts point to Netanyahu’s corrup- A4 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 World News. Israeli Team Wins International Mathematics Competition for University Students

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Israel’s national student team has won the International Mathematics Competition for University Students, Tel Aviv University announced on Tuesday. The global competition involving 546 students from 96 universities took place A damaged vehicle is seen at the site of an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 4, 2020. online this year due to the coronavirus A view of the Tel Aviv University campus. Photo: Photo: Reuters / Mohamed Azakir. pandemic, and the Israeli team came in first Ido Perelmutter via Wikimedia Commons. for team rankings. It also made the top ten for Eilan Solan of Tel Aviv University, who Israel Extends Humanitarian Aid personal rankings. supervised the team, commented, “I’m proud During the competition, the participants of our excellent students that brought great Offer to Lebanon After Devastat- answered questions on Algebra, Analysis honor to the country and to the university.” (Real and Complex), Geometry,and Combi- “The Israeli students were competing natorics. The answers were evaluated by team against the best young minds in the world, and ing Beirut Blast leaders and academics under the direction of showed impressive mathematical knowledge, the competition’s jury. along with creativity and improvisation skills, The Israeli team was composed of five which allowed them to solve very complex students from Tel Aviv University and one from equations under restricting time limits and in a BY ALGEMEINER STAFF Bar-Ilan University. The team was coached by competitive environment,” he noted. “I’m sure Dan Carmon and Lev Radzivilovsky of the School that those talented students will lead the Israeli Israel quickly offered humanitarian relief of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University. market and academia to many achievements.” to Lebanon on Tuesday, following the devas- Student Shvo Regavim said of his team’s Carmon called the competition “hard tating blast in Beirut in which dozens of people victory, “It feels great. The competition was and challenging,” adding, “Our students were killed and thousands more injured. hard, we were short on time, trying to answer successfully competed against very skilled The Israeli Foreign Ministry tweeted, “At all the questions, and I’m glad we achieved all and strong students from around the world.” the direction of FM @Gabi_Ashkenazi and the goals we set for ourselves.” “Making the competition online forced us Defense Min. Gantz, Israel via security and “On a personal level, this victory is a all to make the needed adjustments,” he said. international channels has offered humani- major achievement, but I mostly enjoyed the “The Israeli team showed very high skills and tarian medical assistance to the government challenge of solving high-level mathematical I’m proud of the students and their impressive of Lebanon.” exercises,” he added. achievement.” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin declared on Twitter: “We share the pain of the Lebanese people and sincerely reach out to offer our aid at this difficult time.” Israeli Chemistry Students Win The Israel Defense Forces tweeted, “This is the time to transcend conflict.” with reports of severe damage to nearby Gold, Silver and Bronze at 52nd Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- buildings and roads. yahu told his national security adviser, Meir One eyewitness described vividly how Olympiad Ben-Shabbat, to find out how the Jewish state the explosion was felt in every corner of the could be of help to its neighbor to the north. Lebanese capital. The cause of the massive explosion “Actually we were shocked because in Beirut’s port area has yet to be definitely usually when it happens, just one area will BY JNS.org because of coronavirus, mostly because the determined. experience those happenings after an explo- competition will take place on Zoom, and that Ammonium nitrate stored at the port was sion, but this time it was all of Beirut, even A member of the Israeli delegation to kind of lowers your motivation.” being looked at as a potential source of the blast. areas outside of Beirut,” Hadi Nasrallah, a the 52nd International Chemistry Olympiad After securing a gold medal, he said, Rescue workers were still pulling bodies resident of the city, told the BBC. (IChO), held this year in Istanbul, became the “When they called my name, it was exciting. out of the wreckage as night fell on Tuesday, first Israeli competitor in a decade to win a After three years in the competition, I found gold medal at the prestigious event. that the work paid off.” Israel’s young chemistry whizzes Peer’s teammates, Ron Shprints and Bar Report: 2.6 Million Israelis Do competed against 240 youths from 60 nations, Sheffer, both earned silver medals, with scores including Iran and Syria. Because of the of 83.31 and 81.80, respectively. Not Have Adequate Protection coronavirus pandemic, this year’s IChO was Team member Ward Yahya of Taibe held via Zoom. scored 62.05, earning a bronze medal. Roi Peer, 18, of Gan Haim scored a total The Education Ministry and the From Rocket Fire of 90.35, qualifying him for the gold medal. He Maimonides Fund’s Future Scientists Center finished 26th in the competition rankings. oversaw the team’s training. Education Prior to the competition, he said, “Last Minister Yoav Gallant congratulated the team, year, I won a silver medal, and I won bronze saying “We will support training for Israeli The report also severely criticized the BY BENJAMIN KERSTEIN the year before that. It’s been a weird year teams in scientific fields in 2021, as well.” current plan for evacuating the civilian A total of 2.6 million Israelis — approxi- population from border areas in the event of a mately 28% of the population — do not have conflict, characterizing it as deeply flawed and access to adequate protection from rocket fire, difficult to implement. World’s Largest Plane Lands in according to a new State Comptroller’s report. The IDF stated in response to the report, The report, published on Monday, found “The significant gap that emerges in the report Israel, With US Military Trucks that Israel was facing a serious aerial defense concerns government decisions that have not challenge, with several hundred thousand yet been implemented.” projectiles in the hands of its enemies, and it It added that a plan for the defense of to Be Fitted With Iron Dome noted that between 2000-2019 there had been northern Israel was already in its initial stages, 21,000 rockets and mortars fired at Israel from during which the IDF would survey commu- the Gaza Strip alone. nities up to a kilometer from the border and cargo of American military “Oshkosh” trucks that One major vulnerability was “vital facili- assess their security and defense require- BY ALGEMEINER STAFF ties,” only a small number of which have the ments. were to be fitted with a pair of Iron Dome aerial proper aerial defense measures in place. The This information would then be used “to The world’s largest plane — the Antanov defense batteries purchased by the US Army. Defense Ministry was singled out for criticism provide a defense solution for the communi- An-225 Mriya — landed at Israel’s Ben-Gurion The one-of-a-kind aircraft — built in on this issue. ties who require it in this sector,” the army said. International Airport on Monday, delivering a the 1980s by the Soviet Union — previously visited Israel in 2008. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 A5 U.S. News.

boycotts of Israel, likening them to boycotts of Pelosi Gives $14,000 to Omar’s Nazi Germany. In February 2019, a month after being Re-Election Campaign sworn in, Omar accused AIPAC of paying members of Congress to back Israel, saying it was “all about the Benjamins.” The following month, she pointed fingers BY JNS.org at her “Jewish colleagues” for attacking her Tlaib for labeling their criticisms as anti- Israel because of the Muslim faith of the two US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has donated $14,000 to the re-election campaign congresswomen, in addition to slamming her of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, according to Federal critics regarding “the political influence in this Election Commission records released on Thursday. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wears a country that says it is OK to push for allegiance face mask to protect from the coronavirus Pelosi gave $10,000 from her political action committee and another $4,000 from her to a foreign country.” disease (COVID-19) in Washington, US, May campaign committee to Omar on July 22, a week after Pelosi endorsed Omar’s re-election 19, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/ This led to the passing of a House resolu- campaign. File Photo. tion condemning antisemitism and other forms Omar will face four opponents in her district’s Aug. 11 Democratic primary. Her top of hatred that did not call out Omar by name. opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux, outraised Omar between April and June with $3.3 million to has a different experience in the use of words In response to Omar’s dual-loyalty Omar’s $470,000. [and] doesn’t understand that some of them accusation, Pelosi said at the time, “I don’t Melton-Meaux spent more than $1.7 million during the first few weeks of July, while Omar are fraught with meaning.” think our colleague is antisemitic. I think she spent $784,000 during that period—leaving the former with $695,000 on hand to Omar’s $732,000. Omar has perpetuated antisemitic tropes on Twitter and introduced a resolution in Congress that promotes US Ambassador to Holland Visits Cemetery That Includes Graves of Waffen-SS

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US Ambassador to Holland Pete Hoekstra visited a Dutch cemetery on Thursday where Nazis are buried. “Walked among the graves at Ysselsteyn, a cemetery for German soldiers from WWI & WWII. A terrible reminder of the cost of going to war and why we must always work towards peace,” he tweeted. Buried at the cemetery are many members of the Waffen-SS, a military branch of the Nazi Party that killed Jews during the Holocaust. It is unknown whether or not Hoekstra knew about the Nazi graves at the cemetery. A US State Department spokesperson told JNS on Monday that “Ambassador Hoekstra and his team at the US embassy have made it their priority to honor and remember those who liberated the Netherlands from Nazi occupa- tion 75 years ago,” and that he “visited the German Military Cemetery in Ysselsteyn to see another of the many historical sites related to the liberation.” The spokesperson added that “Hoekstra is not the first US official to visit the cemetery and no new precedent was set by his visit. Officials from Canada, France, Israel, Poland, UK, the Netherlands and the United States have all partici- pated in formal events at the cemetery.” Before becoming Washington’s ambassador to Amsterdam in January 2018, Hoekstra, who was born in Holland, served in Congress, representing Michigan’s 2nd Congressional District. He ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate and governor of Michigan in 2010 and 2012, respectively.

Ysselsteyn German war cemetery in Holland. Photo: Alex Hoekerd/Flickr. A6 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 Opinion. Celebrity Antisemites Can’t Be Absolved Through Private Apologies

on black Americans to foil white Jews’ “plan Jay Electronica told his nearly 400,000 for world domination.” To back up his claim, followers on Twitter that Jews are “imposters” Jackson posted a fake quote attributed to Ice Cube in 2012. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. SHMULEY BOTEACH and black people are the “true children of Adolf Hitler. Yet former NBA star Stephen ENGELWOOD Israel.” He also described the Simon Wiesen- of video messages supporting the Jewish Jackson rose to DeSean’s defense on Insta- thal Center’s Rabbi Abraham Cooper as a community. gram, saying, “The Jews are the richest. You “DEVIL” before capping-off his nearly all-caps But most of this Jew-hatred has gone know who the Rothschilds are? … They tirade with “#SynagogueOfSatan.” unnoticed and unpunished. Recently, Mort Klein of the ZOA engaged control all the banks. They own all the banks.” Jay Electronica has recorded songs with DeSean Jackson was given clemency Ice Cube in a two-hour conversation that was Pop-icon Nick Cannon also repeated Chance the Rapper and Travis Scott, and his after posting a forgettable apology addressed treated as an act of absolution for the antise- the “true Jew” claim in an antisemitic podcast most recent album features Jay-Z on eight insultingly to his Jewish managers and team- mitic rapper. Mort was convinced, according discussion that he aired himself. Interviewing of its ten tracks. The album offended some owner, and only then the general community to JTA, that “the rapper was not antisemitic.” “Professor Griff” Griffin — ejected from the rap with its sickening rhyme: “And I bet you a of Jews. Cannon was ousted by Viacom, but According to JTA, Ice Cube has “drawn group Public Enemy after blaming Jews for “the Rothschild I get a bang for my dollar / The managed to stay on the air with Fox, where he widespread condemnation after repeatedly majority of wickedness that goes on across the Synagogue of Satan want me to hang by my still hosts The Masked Singer. He also won a tweeting antisemitic images and support for globe” — Cannon went on to explain, “You can’t collar…” The Jew-hatred was balanced out by few high-profile defenders, including Sean Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who be antisemitic when we are the Semitic people.” the album’s non-stop Jewish biblical imagery “Diddy” Combs, who publicly offered Cannon has disparaged Jews over the years, including Griffin, in turn, blamed his misfortunes on the — including references to Moses, Ezekiel, and a new job on his own station. Rabbi Cooper comparing them to termites.” villainous “Cohens and the Moskowitzes” who even the rapper’s claim that it was “recorded himself appeared on Cannon’s podcast to I’m sure that Mort’s intentions were control everything. Cannon later gave the lip over 40 days and 40 nights.” discuss antisemitism. noble, and I do not question whether we in the service of a public apology. Jay Electronica now joins a squad of Instead of rushing into dialogues and Jewish community should be doing outreach Most of this “true-Jew” talk spews from leading cultural figures waging a concerted granting errant clemency, we should demand to those whose hatred might be reversed. But the sewer that is the mind of Louis Farrakhan, campaign to hijack Jewish nationhood, giving public penance and repudiation of vile antise- I am increasingly disturbed at the growing arguably the most high-profile antisemite whole new meaning to the words “identity theft.” mitic words. number of celebrities granted clemency for in the United States. Having popularized A-List rapper Wiley told his 940,000 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s public racism, antisemitism, and bigotry the “Synagogue of Satan” slur, he calls Jews followers on Instagram and Twitter that Jews Rabbi,” whom The Washington Post calls through private conversations rather than “termites” and claims we are guilty of count- were “snakes,” “cowards,” at “war” with black “the most famous Rabbi in America,” is the public penance. less sins. people, responsible for the slave trade — and author of The Israel Warrior, Judaism for If Ice Cube wants to repudiate his long Heroic voices like NBA greats Charles even suggested we deserve to be shot. Everyone, and Renewal: The Seven Central history of antisemitism, he must do it in the Barkley and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weighed NFL player DeSean Jackson — with a Values of the Jewish Faith. Follow him on forum where that Jew-hatred was uttered: in in, along with Stephen A. Smith and Michael million followers on Instagram — claimed to Twitter and Instagram @RabbiShmuley. public. Wilbon, to condemn the remarks, and Pitts- be of “the real Children of Israel,” and called Recently, influential rapper and producer burgh Steeler Zach Banner posted a series

usually a huge political advantage, it is very rewarded for that decision by doubling their Netanyahu Responded to much a disadvantage when the country is support since the last election while Likud has going to hell in a handbasket, as is currently the lost ground. case with both the United States and Israel. Bennett can also point to the fact that COVID Much Better Than Trump undermined confidence in his the pandemic policies belatedly adopted by leadership by downplaying the pandemic and Netanyahu are what he has been calling for all Trump, but Still Faces second-guessing those who urged the imple- along. That is encouraging some to proclaim mentation of more drastic measures. If he loses him a possible replacement for Netanyahu on his bid for reelection, it will primarily be due the inevitable day when either the judges in Challenges to the fact that the virus lockdowns tanked the his corruption trial, the voters, or providence booming US economy and set the stage for the ends his long reign as prime minister. summer’s chaos on the streets of American That may be unlikely, though it’s enough Only four months later, that moment of cities even if it’s not clear any Democratic presi- to give pause to those in the Likud who have triumph seems like a very long time ago. dent would have done any better. been thinking about provoking a fourth JONATHAN S. TOBIN Netanyahu’s widely supported decision That said, Israel’s death toll — now at round of elections as a way to avoid Netan- JNS.org in May to allow the country to ease off the nearly 550 — and the number of infected at yahu having to keep his word about allowing drastic lockdown policy that had allowed about 75,000 remain comparatively small Gantz to replace him in the top job. And it’s a Israel to escape the worst effects of the compared to most other countries, making it reminder to Israelis that Netanyahu’s efforts to pandemic is now seen as a terrible blunder. one of the safer places in the world in terms of ensure that his party had nothing but a pack Only a few months ago, the corona- Infection rates soared; as a result, the prime contracting and recovering from COVID-19. of mediocrities waiting to replace him — so virus pandemic seemed to illustrate the vast minister’s image was transformed from that of In Netanyahu’s case, the turnaround is as to forestall any realistic challenge to his differences in management skills between a COVID hero to just another bumbling politi- particularly frustrating because it illustrates authority — remains a mistake. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime cian who was over his head in dealing with a the cost of the prime minister’s obsessive Netanyahu’s admirers can claim that he Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. problem he didn’t quite understand. focus on thwarting potential rivals, even if will dig himself out of this hole as he has done so The former was slow to react to the Is that fair? Not entirely. they might have helped him. The recent rise many times before. They may be right. But the problem and, for the most part, reluctant The eagerness with which most of the in the polls of the Yamina Party, which stands prime minister’s inability to outfox a virus the to take drastic measures to cope with the Israeli media seized on the bad pandemic to the right of Netanyahu’s Likud, is instruc- same way he has his political opponents may spread of a deadly disease that proved to be news as proof of the prime minister’s incom- tive. Its leader, Naftali Bennett, did a good also be a sign that belief in his political immor- the greatest challenge of his presidency. By petence was dictated more by partisanship job in dealing with the pandemic during his tality will sooner or later be exposed as hubris. contrast, the latter was in his element as the than anything else. And the protesters who short-lived tenure as defense minister prior In the meantime, efforts to dismiss his man to trust in an emergency. Netanyahu is turned out to demonstrate outside his official to the coalition deal with Gantz. But Netan- critics as incorrigible leftists and electoral an experienced crisis manager, schooled by residence to demand his resignation were yahu wanted both Bennett and former Justice sore losers — and many of them are both of many years in charge of a government that likely the same people who had worked for Minister Ayelet Shaked out of the government those things — won’t be as effective as in the is always one step away from a war footing. his defeat in three elections rather than being despite their talent and appeal because he past. That will remain true if Israelis are, like While Trump was at his worst, the prime disillusioned former supporters. sees them as would-be successors he wished Americans, focused solely on their pandemic minister seemed to be at his best in guiding Of course, that’s what happens when to derail. misery that Netanyahu is helpless to alleviate. the Jewish state through the pandemic. you’re the man in charge. He got the credit for After the first of the three elections As long as the security situation, including the In April, his leadership skills helped everything that went right. But that means he in April 2019, Netanyahu and his loyalists danger of a war with Hezbollah and Iran in him survive Israel’s third election in a year also has to shoulder the blame for all the things rejoiced when Yamina was knocked out of the north, remains on the back burner, Netan- and induced his leading opponent, Blue and that went wrong on his watch, even if they the Knesset. But it rebounded in the latter yahu’s summer of political woe will continue. White Party leader Benny Gantz, to throw in weren’t all his fault, and it’s likely that no one two votes. In April of this year, Bennett and Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of the towel and join him in a coalition govern- else would have handled things any better. Shaked had the good sense to stay out of the JNS-Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on ment whose creation seemed to justify his That’s the problem with being in power Likud-Blue and White coalition, and retained Twitter @jonathans_tobin. followers’ ritual sycophantic chatter about during a catastrophe. While incumbency is their independence. They have now been Netanyahu as a political wizard. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 A7 Opinion. The Fading Memory of Israel and India: Partners Soleimani Exposes Iran’s Against COVID-19 Sclerotic Regime

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HILLEL FRISCH JNS.org The Israeli delegation preparing to fly to India An Israeli delegation organized by the to develop breakthroughs in coronavirus test- Defense Ministry, consisting of 20 special- ing. Photo: Israeli Defense Ministry. ists, is in India working with counterparts to further develop four potentially ground- and its Indian counterparts, to collect tens breaking Israeli innovations for the rapid of thousands of samples in a short period of The extent to which Qassem Soleimani’s detection of the coronavirus. time, and to analyze them using computer spectacular demise at the hands of the Ameri- Iranians take part in a funeral procession for Faster detection enables governments systems based on artificial intelligence. This cans affected Iran’s ability to harm the US and the late Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Teh- ran, Jan. 6, 2020. Photo: Nazanin Tabatabaee / WANA and health authorities to enable a greater massive sampling will shorten processes and its allies is debatable. (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters. advance the approval of effective technology. What is abundantly clear, however, is degree of economic activity, and testing kits shows support in the wrong places. In Lebanon, found to be ready for use could be placed at It should be noted that all of the necessary that his memory is fading fast within Iran Israeli and Indian approvals were acquired despite the regime’s efforts to maintain it. a clear positive correlation exists between the entrances of sites such as airports and the relative number of searches for Soleimani shopping centers. ahead of this joint activity. An analysis of the contours of Soleimani’s Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said in memory reveals that most of the Iranian and the preponderance of Shiites in one of Among the technologies being tested is a Lebanon’s six provinces. Soleimani evokes the test that uses artificial intelligence to analyze the a statement that “since the start of the global population is interested in neither his killing pandemic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is nor his “revolutionary” legacy. least interest in the almost exclusively Sunni voice, and identify changes and deteriorations working to advance international cooperation Soleimani was head of the Quds Force, northern province of Tripoli and the highest in the condition of one’s respiratory system. A and mutual assistance. I see great importance Iran’s most powerful weapon, and the in Nabatiyeh, in southeast Lebanon, where second technology brought to India is a breath- in the cooperation with India in the fight mastermind of the regime’s agenda to export Shiites form a sizeable majority. alyzer test based on the use of terahertz waves. against the COVID-19 pandemic. This opera- its revolution and create a Shiite crescent There is, however, one major exception to The patient must breathe into a sterile sampling tion conveys a message of friendship and of proxy militias in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and this correlation: Beirut. In sparsely populated kit, after which the sample is analyzed using solidarity with India. It also provides a unique Lebanon. His fast-diminishing memory is Nabatiyeh, Hezbollah’s real stronghold, artificial intelligence for rapid virus detection. opportunity for scientific and technological an indication that Iran’s population does not searches for Soleimani are at least 20 times A third innovation is an isothermal support these policies, and probably does not higher relative to the size of the population than testing kit — a biochemical test that detects cooperation that can assist Israel, India and the support the regime behind them. in Beirut, which includes the Dahiya agglomer- the detection of the virus in a saliva sample. world in coping both with the pandemic and These inferences are drawn from an ation of Shiite neighborhoods in the southern A chemical reaction that takes place once the with the economic crisis that came with it.” analysis of Google Trends, which records part of the city. Dahiya is home to Hezbollah content is heated at about 60 degrees Celsius Earlier this week, Dani Gold, head of the online search terms. Searches on Google headquarters and contains the bunker where enables detection within 30 minutes. Directorate of Defense Research and Develop- reflect the degree of public interest in the its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, resides. Lastly, a test kit was brought to India that ment, told reporters on a conference call that terms or personalities being searched. Media sites usually add the phrase uses polyamino acids. It detects coronavirus Israel and India are working together to gain By far the greatest indication of Solei- “Hezbollah stronghold” to designate this area. proteins collected in a saliva sample within control of the pandemic, and that one of the ways mani’s lack of popularity, dead or alive, is the Shiites represent more than 60% of Dahiya’s several minutes. to achieve this is through a new generation of population. But how much support do those relatively low level of interest he evokes inside The delegation, led by Israeli Ambassador rapid testing. “PCR tests take too long to control Shiites really give to Hezbollah? Google Iran versus the arenas where he operated. Just to India Ron Malka, includes representatives the disease. We want to open economies in records relatively few searches there for Solei- over six months after his killing, his biography from the Defense Ministry, the Israel Defense certain area. We are trying to use new technology mani, Nasrallah’s close ally. was searched 50 times more often (relative Forces, the Ministry of Health, and various for fast testing that will take between seconds to This finding jibes with my searches for to the population) in Lebanon than in Iran, industries. It includes Israel’s defense attaché minute. We aim for less than a minute.” Hezbollah “martyrs,” which I performed to and nearly 100 times more often in Bahrain, to India, Col. Assaf Meller, and the medical The cooperation between Israel and determine from where Hezbollah recruits where the Shiite majority chafes under a personnel are being led by professor Nati India will enable the delegation, and its Indian its fighters. I found (albeit from a very Sunni minority regime backed to the hilt by Keller, an infectious diseases specialist from counterparts, to collect tens of thousands of small sample due to Hezbollah censor- Iran’s arch-rival, Saudi Arabia. Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. samples in just 10 days and analyze them using But this does not only reflect paltry ship) that the organization recruits mostly computer systems based on artificial intel- from the periphery — the Lebanese south “All four of the innovations have been identification with Soleimani in Iran as a chosen for further testing because they’re ligence. This massive sampling will shorten whole. The pattern of searches within Iran and Nabatiyeh — and only marginally from processes and advance the approval of effec- Dahiya, where the overwhelming percentage considered to be more mature technology,” is problematic to the regime. The largest a defense source told JNS in recent days. tive technology. All tests will be validated using number of searches inside the country took of Lebanese Shiites live. PCR tests, added the Defense Ministry. In the periphery, where there are no “They’ve already undergone testing here in place, unsurprisingly, in Kerman province, Israel. In India, a massive scale of testing can “In recent years, Israel-India relations where Soleimani was born and raised. But jobs except for those paid for through Iranian have developed into a strategic partnership and largesse, young people are more easily be done. The delegation will work with our searches for him in Tehran province — the since the beginning of the corona crisis, the two recruited. In Beirut, where there are other partners in the Indian Office of the Principle political, economic, and demographic heart countries have agreed to provide mutual assis- ways to make a living besides fighting Bashar Scientific Advisor.” of the country — were only one-eighth the tance and to cooperate in areas of research,” the al-Assad’s battles, Shiite youth look elsewhere. Last Sunday, the delegation took off from number of searches in Kerman relative to the ministry noted. “For the purpose of this specific These patterns add up to a much larger Ben Gurion International Airport on two population. separate Israir flights, and landed in Delhi on activity, the government of India has desig- The same pattern holds true for other picture. Iran, over 40 years after the revolution, Monday morning. nated a local team of around 100 professionals, personalities and terms venerated by is going the way of the Soviet elite: it is exerting In a statement, the Israeli Defense as well as a team dedicated to the construction the Iranian regime, such as the Ayatollah violent force wherever it can, but its legitimacy Ministry said “the cooperation between of testing sites that will be operated jointly by Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic; is hanging by a thread and still declining. Just Israel and India will enable the delegation the Israeli and Indian delegations.” his successor Khamenei; and revolutionary as the Soviet Union projected power abroad terms like “vilayat el-feqih” (the “rule of the only to lose the home front, so have the Iranian Supreme Spiritual Leader,” a key concept ayatollahs succeeded in giving the impression observation that faith in tolerance educa- such attacks are always a possibility, in good behind the Iranian theocracy). The inhabit- at least of growing regional power while their tion — teaching our children from an early times and in bad, and that our resources ants of Tehran appear to have little interest in support declines at home. age that differences should not be cause for are best invested in preventing them. When these personalities, their ideological concepts, Professor Hillel Frisch is a professor of enmity among humans — becomes possible. it came to the synagogue in Halle on Yom or their grand scheme of exporting the revolu- political studies and Middle East studies at But by the same token, we know that there are Kippur last year, that challenge was as basic tion and exerting Iranian domination, which Bar-Ilan University and a senior research those, like Balliet, who reject these notions as stationing a police car outside the building was Soleimani’s domain. associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for as a modern form of Jews poisoning wells, — a measure that was, incredibly, not taken by Even where Soleimani and the Quds Strategic Studies. and who are perversely reinforced in their the authorities in that city, despite the fact that Force operated with their local proxies, an A version of this article was originally worldviews when they encounter Jews (or it was Judaism’s holiest and therefore busiest analysis of the pattern of Internet searches published by The Jerusalem Post and the those they perceive as Jews) speaking about day. The analysis of the lonely pathology that BESA Center. the Holocaust, or the evils of racism, or the Balliet represents will continue, as it must, but difficulties faced by immigrants in their host it has taken more than enough lives already. Continued from Page A2 will admit to doing so, and of those who do, societies. No conventional form of education Ben Cohen is a New York City-based Lonely, Angry very few are going to engage in the acts of is going to work in these cases. journalist and author who writes a weekly newer tropes about Zionism or Israel. deadly violence witnessed in Pittsburgh and If we have learned anything from Balliet’s column on Jewish and international affairs However, not everyone who believes them in Halle. It is only on the basis of this last trial so far, it is that we should assume that for JNS. A8 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 Impressions.

What Does Judaism Have to Offer Seth Rogen?

BY MARC ERLBAUM “The fact that I have no kids is making this truly not that the Golden Rule of “love your neighbor as yourself,” an bad,” he asserted. In both interviews, he commented eternal code of law and morality, the notion of one God, Seth Rogen doesn’t owe you anything. Rogen is that he may regret the decision to go childless in his and even more radically, the notion that God is one and Jewish, but he never claimed to be a spokesman for the later days when he is alone, but that loneliness would there is nothing other; but one of the most significant Jewish people. He is an actor and entertainer. Why do be worth all of the carefree me-time that he was able gifts it affords us is the awareness that we are needed we expect celebrities to represent us or promote our to enjoy now. and we are capable of transcending ourselves and beliefs or causes? They can be hired to do so, but as far While others are devoting plenty of ink to the issue affecting the entire creation. as I know, no one is paying Rogen to be their spokes- of Rogen’s animus toward Israel, and by extension the Why does God need us? If He’s the infinite and model, and no one is writing him a script to read for the trend in this direction for many young diaspora Jews, omnipotent God, He doesn’t need anything. And yet He cameras. He is entitled to his beliefs and opinions, and it may be worth focusing for a moment on this larger created us, and He gave us a role to play and a job to do. you are entitled to disagree with him. issue of Judaism’s relevance to a generation that a) That job is to be a “light unto the nations.” This means One of the many things Rogen said about Jews and has been raised on values that are very different from to reveal Him in the midst of the darkness, to show the Judaism on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast recently was those expressed in Torah, and b) has never really been world around us that He exists. We do so by being Godly that he is afraid of Jews. Based on some of the responses exposed to the beautiful and truly radical ideas that ourselves. Every time we overcome our self interest for to his remarks, it’s hard to blame him. Torah presents. The censure from more conservative quarters In other words, it may well be that the Judaism that of the Jewish world has been swift and severe. There Rogen deems “silly” is silly indeed, but it is not, in fact, are those who have essentially branded him a traitor. Judaism at all. A stripped down and secularized version What did Rogen do to earn such furor and condemna- of Jewish practice and tradition which maintains rules tion? He voiced his apathy, and even antipathy, toward but abandons all depth and spirituality is certainly no Israel. And he expressed his disinterest in Judaism, competition for a free and self-gratifying lifestyle that with the declaration that religion is “silly,” and the includes “ungodly” amounts of weed, entertainment, and assertion that he doesn’t care that his wife is Jewish personal liberty. even though she wishes he did. The “New World” offered Jewish immigrants an Admittedly, these are mortal sins in the world of escape from not only violent persecution of antise- Jewish advocacy. There are those who are angry that mitic hordes, but also from the strictures of what was Rogen is not more positive about his Jewish identity. often an oppressive religious orthodoxy that stressed There are those who contest that as a high-profile compliance over personal joy and self-actualization. celebrity with a large megaphone and a wide audience, The justifiable move away from self-denial and toward he should be more educated on the subject of Jewish personal development eventually evolved, several history and more sensitive to the influence he will have generations down the line, into the culture that we on the millions of young Jews who will be exposed to inhabit today, which stresses immediate gratification his words. But though they might wish that Rogen and zealous self-concern. thought or felt differently, why should they assume This is not a judgment or condemnation of he would? What has Judaism done for Rogen or other millennial Jews, but rather a recognition of their young Jews other than brand them with a target and circumstances and an understanding of how we the sake of someone or something else, we are revealing laden them with something that they must defend, got here. The responsible next step, then, is not to God, because if there were no Godliness within us, we which they never chose and never understood? denounce or excommunicate, but to ask ourselves would be purely self-preserving and self-serving. What benefits has Judaism bestowed on what it is that Judaism truly has to offer, and how we Each of us is charged with the job of being a light young diaspora Jews that assure their devotion and can make that available to Rogen and the cohort that unto the nations, and each of us can fulfill it. When we allegiance? What have they learned of Judaism that he represents. neglect the job God gives us, He understands. It’s not merits defending? The primary lessons that Rogen To a generation for whom there is nothing more an easy job, and the world He created is distracting and seems to have gleaned from his Jewish experience significant than the here and now, Torah suggests a seductive. But if we comprehend how precious the job and education are a) that everyone hates Jews, b) that more protracted gaze toward posterity and legacy. is, how fortunate we are to be entrusted with such a every Jew has a funny uncle, c) that Jews today are To those for whom the visceral and temporal is most job, and how great our effect will be when we perform “soft,” and d) that Jewish summer camp is a breeding valuable, Torah offers the spiritual and eternal. These it, we will then be more inclined to embrace our birth- ground for young Jews to cohabit and replicate. alternatives are less immediate and palpable, but they right rather than eschewing it. Is there something that Judaism provides are more profound and enduring. A life of intoxication What Judaism gives us is something far more someone like Rogen who is living the “American and diversion may be fun and pleasurable, but it may important and fulfilling than “me time.” Seth Rogen Dream?” Does it have anything to offer millions of also be the result of a deep-seated gnawing dissatisfac- believes that he doesn’t need Judaism, and there young Jews who may not have attained Rogen’s level of tion which needs to be numbed and buried at all costs are millions of young, impressionable Jews who are success but who believe that his fame and fortune are because it is never addressed or resolved. exposed to his beliefs and opinions and who agree the summit of human accomplishment? If Judaism can fill the void that begs for constant with him. But Seth, and all of you others, there’s One of the most telling things about the WTF palliatives and distractions, then it is worth exploring. something you should know: Judaism needs you! interview to me was toward the very end, when Maron The version of Judaism that has been offered to genera- There’s something in this stuff that’s more enriching asked Rogen if he and his wife were planning to have tions of diaspora Jews does not do so, but as someone than money, more intoxicating than weed or fame, kids. Rogen said they’re not, and Maron asked why. who grew up secular and embraced a more traditional more captivating and addictive than video games or Rogen mentioned the absurdity of bringing children and devoted Jewish lifestyle after college, I can confi- porn or other forms of entertainment. Check it out into a world so dysfunctional, but he also concluded dently affirm that authentic Jewish spirituality does. and see for yourself. Or hit me up, and I’ll be glad to that his carefree life is good and children can be quite Many friends and family members questioned connect you with someone who can help you find a burden. “So they would cut in on your you-time?” my turn to a more observant and spiritual practice as a what you didn’t even realize you were looking for. Maron asked. “Exactly,” Rogen responded, agreeing young adult. I was affluent and successful and married Marc Erlbaum is a filmmaker and social activist. that they would. to a wonderful woman and seemed to have everything. He is the founder of Common Party (www.thecom- In an interview several months ago with Jimmy In one particularly frank and probing conversation, monparty.com), a non-political social movement Kimmel, Rogen made a similar point. Discussing his a close friend said to me, “but we don’t need God.” that is working to bring the country back together experience dealing with quarantine, he explained how After thinking about it a moment, it struck me, and I in these divisive times through the celebration of our he has actually enjoyed himself at home, smoking a responded, “but what if God needs us?!” overwhelming commonality. “truly ungodly” amount of weed and spinning pottery. Judaism gives us many things — among them, www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 A9 Legals. Opinion.

LEGAL NOTICE How American Jews Remembering Ze’ev Championed Righteous Jabotinsky 80 Years After Social Change His Death

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entitled to mishpat. I am morally you serve me, I will bless you. Every Control) and move its ground entitled to tzedakah. But to covenant has an if-then quality to it. positions accordingly. The Covenant and chessed, I am not entitled at all. Therefore, every covenant is inher- Former diplomat Jayant Prasad When someone acts toward me in ently vulnerable. That is what Moses warns against any complacency vis-à- the Love chessed, that is an act of pure grace. emphasised throughout Devarim. vis China because of the defusing of I have done nothing to deserve it. Don’t take the land or its blessings recent standoffs in Depsang, Chumar, Maimonides notes, citing for granted. If you do well, things and Doklam. There are reports of a the phrase from Psalms that “The will go well, but if you do badly, Chinese build-up at Pangong Tso, in that this phrase, which is rare in universe is built in lovingkind- great dangers lie in store. India’s eastern Ladakh. Tanach, makes an appearance at ness,” that creation was an act of That is covenant. Chessed, in New Delhi would do well to JONATHAN SACKS key moments of Jewish history. pure chessed. No one ever creates contrast, has no if-then quality. It take steps to counter Beijing’s anti- LONDON For example, it figures in King something because it deserves to is given out of the goodness of the India designs. Solomon’s great prayer at the conse- be created. Creations do not exist giver, regardless of the worth of the India cannot take on China cration of the Temple in Jerusalem: before they are created. recipient. When Moses, Solomon economically. The current balance An interesting phrase appears “Lord, the God of Israel, there We can define this in human and Nehemiah referred to chessed in of India-China trade, according to at the end of last week’s parsha and at is no God like You in Heaven above terms more precisely. The book addition to the covenant, they were one estimate, is in favor of Beijing. the beginning of this week’s, and they or on Earth below—You who keep of Ruth is known as the work, par making an implicit request of God of India’s imports from China in are the only places where it appears the covenant and love with Your excellence, of chessed: “Rabbi the most fundamental significance. 2019-2020 reached $65 billion out in the Torah. The phrase isha-brit servants who continue wholeheart- Zeira said, ‘This book does not Even if we fail to honour the covenant, of $81 billion in two-way trade. veha-chessed (Deuteronomy 7:9) or edly in your way.” (1 Kings 8:23) have anything in it concerned with please God be gracious to us, for You New Delhi exports raw in this week’s parsha, et ha-brit ve-et When, after the Babylonian impurity or purity, forbidden or are good even when we are not, and materials and intermediate ha-chessed (Deut. 7:12). exile, the nation gathered around permitted. Why then was it written? You do good even when we do not products and imports finished Know therefore that the Lord Ezra and Nehemiah in Jerusalem and To teach us the greatness of the deserve it, when we have no claim on products. Indian manufacturing depends on supplies from China. your God is God; He is the faithful renewed the covenant, they said: reward for acts of chessed.” You whatsoever – ki le-olam chasdo, There are two key scenes in the for His chessed is eternal. India imports fertilizers from China book. The first occurs when Naomi, The verses in our parsha sound as well as critical medical supplies. bereaved of her husband and two conditional: “If you pay attention India does not attract global sons, decides to return to Israel. to these laws … then the Lord your supply chains. China is still central She says to her two daughters-in- God will keep the brit and the to a large number of such chains. law, “Go back, each of you, to your chessed …” This suggests that we Some companies are moving out of mother’s home. May the Lord show will be shown chessed if we deserve China, but they are heading mainly you kindness, as you have shown it, but if not, not. But it isn’t so. At toward Southeast Asia, not India. kindness to your dead husbands the end of the curses in Bechukotai, India is not without options, and to me…” She was telling them God says: “Yet in spite of this, when however. New Delhi could use its that they had no further obliga- they are in the land of their enemies, status as the world’s largest democ- tions toward her. They had been I will not reject them or abhor them racy to rope powerful democratic married to her sons, but now they so as to destroy them completely, states, including the US, Canada, are widows. Naomi has no other breaking my covenant with them: the UK, France, Japan, South Korea, sons. Being Moabite women, they I am the Lord their God.” Australia, New Zealand, and Israel, will be strangers in Israel: they have God will never break the into the project of isolating China on no reason to go there. You owe me covenant, even if we do, because the diplomatic chessboard. “Now therefore, our God, the nothing, she is saying. You have of His chessed. Tanach describes Much of the enlightened inter- God, keeping the brit and the national community is furious great God, mighty and awesome, been kind, you have been good the relationship between God and chessed to a thousand generations over China’s role in the outbreak who keeps His covenant and love, do daughters-in-law, but now we must Israel in two primary ways: like a of those who love Him and keep of COVID-19. There is widespread not let all this hardship seem trifling go our separate ways. husband and wife, and like a parent His commandments. (Deut. 7:9) feeling that the WHO is under in Your eyes—the hardship that has The second speech occurs and a child. Between husband and If you pay attention to these Beijing’s influence and has done little come on us, on our kings and leaders, when Ruth has gone to gather grain wife there can be a divorce. Between laws and are careful to follow to arrest the virus. India could lead on our Priests and Prophets, on our in the field of Boaz, who treats her parent and child there cannot be. them, then the Lord your God will efforts to tackle the global health ancestors and all Your people, from with great care and consideration. They may be estranged, but the keep the brit and the chessed with challenge and in the process expose the days of the kings of Assyria until She asks him: “Why have I found parent is still their parent and the you, as He swore to your ancestors. China and isolate it internationally. today. (Neh. 9:32) such recognition in your eyes that child is still their child. Marriage (Deut. 7:12) New Delhi could use its naval At these critical moments, you notice me—a foreigner?” The is a covenant; parenthood is not. The phrase is strange. The command to compel China to when Moses renewed the covenant two key words here are “recogni- Do not forsake us, we say to God, relationship between God and behave reasonably. Over 90% of on the banks of the Jordan, when tion” and “foreigner.” “Recognition” because whatever we have done, Israel is defined by brit, covenant. Chinese trade moves through the Solomon dedicated the Temple, and means that you have behaved You are our parent and we are Your That, essentially, is the content of Malacca Straits, which are near the people in Ezra and Nehemiah’s toward me as if you had obligations children. Chessed is the kind of love the Torah. What then is added by India’s Andaman-Nicobar Islands. time rededicated themselves, they to me. But “I am a foreigner.” The a parent has for a child, whether the word chessed? India could play its card from there. took care to define the relationship word used here is not “stranger,” they deserve it or not. Chessed is The translators have a problem India’s ever growing bonhomie between God and the people as one with it. The Jewish Publication i.e. a resident alien to whom unconditional grace. with the US can also be put to good of brit and chessed, covenant and Society’s translation of the opening certain duties are owed. It means, a I believe that chessed is the use. The time is ripe for this. During love. It seems that both are neces- verse of our parsha is: “And if you complete outsider. Ruth is saying to highest achievement of the moral his 2016 election campaign, Donald do obey these rules and observe sary, or they would not have used Boaz, you do not owe me anything. life. It is what Ruth did for Naomi, Trump claimed the Chinese were them carefully, the Lord your God this language on these three defining That is what makes Ruth the and Boaz for Ruth, and from that stealing jobs from the American will maintain faithfully for you the occasions many centuries apart. supreme book of chessed, that is, of kindness came David, Israel’s people. US-China friction has only covenant that He made on oath with What then is the meaning of good done to another who has no greatest king. Reciprocal altruism risen since then, hitting a new high your fathers.” This translateschessed chessed? Significantly, Maimonides claim whatsoever upon you. What – I do this for you, and you do this during the pandemic. Trump claims as “faithfully” and takes it as a qualifi- dedicates the penultimate chapter Ruth does for Naomi, and what for me – is universal among social that China is responsible for the cation of the verb “maintain” or “keep”. of The Guide for the Perplexed to Boaz does for Ruth, are not mishpat animals. Chessed is not. In chessed virus, which has paralyzed the US This is a very stretched translation. the analysis of three words: chessed, or tzedakah. They are purechessed . God created the universe. In chessed economy and resulted in historic A non-Jewish translation, the tzedakah and mishpat. On chessed Now let us return to the question we create moments of moral beauty levels of unemployment and more New International Version, translates he says: with which we began. Why did Moses, that bring joy and hope where there than 150,000 American deaths. ha-brit veha-chessed as “covenant of In our Commentary on Pirkei and Solomon, and Nehemiah define was darkness and despair. The current administration in love.” This is a very Christian trans- Avot (5:7) we have explained the the relationship between the Jewish Shabbat Shalom Washington is on excellent terms lation. The covenant entered into expression chessed as denoting people and God not in terms of a with India. President Trump has excess. It is especially used of between the Israelites and God was single concept, covenant, but added Continued from Page A9 said he would like to expand the G-7 a covenant of law, not just of love. extraordinary kindness. Loving- to it a second idea, namely chessed, India to G-11 by adding India (as well as Aryeh Kaplan, in The Living kindness is practised in two ways: meaning an act of love. Australia, Russia, and South Korea). Torah, got it right when he trans- first, we show kindness to those Covenant is essentially recip- violence was the worst since 1967. Trump has even invited India’s lated it as “God your Lord will keep who have no claim whatever rocal. Two people or entities pledge In a media interview, India’s leader Narendra Modi to attend the covenant and love with which upon us; secondly, we are kind themselves to one another, each former ambassador to China and the G-7 summit, which is likely to He made an oath to your fathers.” to those to whom it is due, in a committing to a responsibility. Pakistan Gautam Bambawale be held around the UN General Not “covenant of love” but “covenant greater measure than is due to This is how it was defined by God confirmed that Beijing does not Assembly session in September of and love.” But still: what is the them … The very act of creation is at Mount Sinai: “Now if you obey believe in its 1993 Border Peace this year. China is excluded from the covenant, and what is the love that an act of God’s loving-kindness: “I me fully and keep My covenant, and Tranquility Agreement and prospective G-11. is distinct from the covenant? have said, ‘The universe is built in then out of all nations you will be subsequent confidence-building Jagdish N. Singh is an Indian This might seem a minor loving-kindness’” (Ps. 89:3)… My treasured possession, for all the agreements with India. China has journalist based in New Delhi. matter were it not for the fact The difference between the earth is Mine” (Exodus 19:5). If you assumed the right to unilaterally A version of this article was origi- three terms is that I am legally are My people, I will be your God. If define the LAC (Line of Actual nally published by The BESA Center. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 A11 Social.

700 Members of British Music Industry Sign Open Letter Vowing to ‘Wipe Out’ All Forms of Racism

BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN

More than 700 music industry leaders in the United Kingdom committed to combating racism in an open letter on Saturday that cited incidents of anti- Jewish bigotry. The open letter, titled “#NoSilenceInMusic,” stated Seth Rogen speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. that “In recent months through a series of events and incidents, the anti-black racists and antisemites, Seth Rogen Accuses Jewish plus those who advocate islamophobia, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, have repeatedly demonstrated that they clearly want us all to fail.” Agency Chief of ‘Misrepresenting’ The letter referenced “systemic racism and racial inequality” and “anti-Jewish racism promulgated Call, Amid Ongoing Furor Over Israel Remarks

BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN Shortly after, Zonszein tweeted that Rogen had contacted her and revealed that the only reason he had Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog spoke spoken with Herzog was because “my mom made me Rita Ora. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. with Seth Rogen over the weekend, amid the ongoing call him.” Zonszein even shared a screenshot of what furor over the controversial remarks about Israel the Rogen had messaged her. through online attacks,” saying, “the result is the same: Canadian Jewish actor and comedian made during a On Monday, Rogen tweeted a link to a Haaretz suspicion, hatred and division. We are at our worst recent podcast interview. interview in which he accused Herzog of “misrepre- when we attack one another.” In a Facebook post, Herzog said that during a “frank senting our conversation” and violating a privacy pledge. The letter was signed by musicians, managers, and open conversation” with Rogen, the star of the top music industry executives, agents, labels, lawyers, upcoming film “An American Pickle” was “kind enough to songwriters, producers and others. Artists who make clear to me that what was missing in the published endorsed the open letter include Rita Ora, James interview was what he did not say: How important Israel Blunt, The 1975, Lewis Capaldi, Leona Lewis, Lily is to him. And that, of course, Israel must exist.” Allen, Niall Horan, Labrinth and Violet Skies. Among Rogen “explained his words were meant as a joke, the major labels that attached their names to the state- taken from a critical, humorous exchange with a fellow ment are Sony Music, Warner Music, CAA, Universal Jewish comedian, he was misunderstood and apologized Music Group, Island Records UK, Capitol, Domino, for that and I accepted his explanation,” Herzog added. EMI Records, TaP Music, UTA and X-Ray Touring.The Furthermore, Rogen noted that he was “very letter also stated: “Minorities from all backgrounds concerned about rising anti-Semitism, which he himself and faiths have struggled and suffered. From slavery is combatting daily and is also assisting the Jewish to the Holocaust we have painful collective memories. community on this front,” recalled Herzog. All forms of racism have the same roots — ignorance, Rogen also referenced how “raising doubt, lack of education and scapegoating. We, the British asking questions, and arguing differing positions are music industry are proudly uniting to amplify our fundamental in Judaism,” Herzog said, “and in some voices, to take responsibility, to speak out and stand interviews, he humorously asks questions about almost together in solidarity. Silence is not an option.” everything, as part of the process of casting doubt, which “There is a global love for music, irrespective he says is an important motif for the Jewish people. He Herzog “sent a letter to my mother somehow, on of race, religion, sexuality and gender. Music brings told me that while he was speaking in jest during the official letterhead — very fancy letterhead,” Rogen told joy and hope and connects us all. Through music, noted conversation, we cannot ignore the fact that Jews Haaretz. “My mom implored me to call this guy and I education and empathy we can find unity. We stand outside Israel often have to stand at the forefront and did and told him I thought this was a private conversa- together, to educate and wipe out racism now and for explain the State of Israel, and sometimes they do not tion and I hoped it was a private conversation. After all, our future generations.” know how nor what to explain.” I did it because he reached out to my mother asking The letter comes after British rapper Wiley had On Sunday, Israeli-American journalist Mairav to talk to me. At no point did I give him permission to his Twitter account suspended and Facebook and Zonszein shared on Twitter a link to an article about publish any part of the conversation.” Instagram accounts deactivated, following an antise- Rogen’s call with Herzog, calling it “truly ridiculous.” mitic rant on social media. www.algemeiner.com Attention Not-For-Profit Organizations

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