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A 93-year-old man standing trial in Germany for his role in the Holocaust should be given a prison sentence of three years, prosecutors said on Monday. “The accused is charged with accessory to murder on 5,230 counts,” prosecutor Lars Mahnke told a court in Hamburg. The defendant, Bruno Dey, was aged 17 and 18 when he served as an SS guard at the Nazi concentration camp in Stutthof between August 9, 1944 and April 26, 1945. He is being tried by a juvenile court, because of his age

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Ex-Nazi death camp guard Bruno Dey is pushed into a courtroom, in Hamburg, Germany, July 6, 2020. BY BENJAMIN public swimming pools and basis and is dragging along — Photo: Christian Charisius / dpa / Pool. wedding halls; a limit at restau- contrary to what we have been KERSTEIN rants 20 customers inside and told — severe cases in its wake.” at the time of the World War II crimes. The Israeli cabinet, following 30 outside; a limit at synagogues “Today, there are around The prosecution argues that Dey had known at the time recommendations of the Health of 19 worshipers; a cancellation 90 severe cases and the number what was happening at the camp, located near the city of Ministry, approved on Monday of cultural events; a limit of 20 is doubling every four days,” he Gdansk, namely that people were being shot in the crema- sweeping new restrictions in an passengers on buses; and a limit of noted. “If we do not act now, we torium. He is said to have recognized that the regime’s mass attempt to curb a sharp rise in corona- 20 people at public gatherings. will have hundreds, and perhaps murder of Jews was wrong. virus infections in recent weeks. At a Monday cabinet meeting, over 1,000, severe cases in the “In such a situation, loyalty to the perpetrators must The restrictions include, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin coming weeks, which will paralyze end,” Mahnke said, arguing that the man should have quit among other things: an immediate Netanyahu said, “The pandemic our systems. Therefore, we must Continued on Page A3 closure of clubs, bars, gyms, is spreading — it is as clear as the take immediate steps that will sun. It is rising sharply on a daily Continued on Page A3

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News Syndicate, appeared (not in the Times, stories with anti-Semitic undertones can be story they publish, as any managing editor but elsewhere, including The Algemeiner) expected to double down on its anti-Jewish might do.” As for the effort to depict her as IRA STOLL under the headline “ gets you slant with Greensit in place.” antisemitic, Chua-Eoan told The Algemeiner: BOSTON fired at Labour and hired atthe New York People who actually know Greensit say “In 20 years of knowing her, 12 of those Times.” It accused Greensit of tweeting a the depiction of her as an antisemite is totally working with her, this characterization is “lie about training American cops to inaccurate, a false accusation driven by a completely alien to me, would be to any of us commit human-rights abuses.” Tobin added misinterpreted tweet of content she didn’t who have ever worked with her.” Allies of the incoming managing editor of that “blood libels have been a staple of anti- edit or even necessarily endorse, but that was Greensit herself deleted the old tweets editorial page are pushing Semitic propaganda since the Middle Ages,” published by her then-employer. and clarified on Twitter: “Just bc someone back against a poorly substantiated, yet widely describing Greensit as “someone who spreads Ken Kurson — a former aide to Rudolph tweets co-workers’ articles (variety views/ spread, accusation that she is an antisemite. anti-Semitic blood libels.” Giuliani and the former editor of The New opinions), it doesn’t that person edited The New York Times announced June 22 The Tobin article also contextualized York Observer — told The Algemeiner that (not my role) / endorses.” In plain English that Charlotte Greensit would start July 6 as Greensit’s hiring as part of the Bennet-Cotton he knows Greensit via her late husband, Jim that means, “Just because someone tweets “Opinion’s managing editor and associate Edito- fiasco. Tobin wrote that Times publisher A. Frederick, who was a journalist and author. co-workers’ articles that express a variety of rial Page editor.” That triggered a flurry of intense G. Sulzberger “vowed to change the way the “I have known Charlotte Greensit for years,” views or opinions, it doesn’t mean that person scrutiny of her paper trail, which included tweets opinion section operated, and to do that, he Kurson said. “Jim Frederick was a close friend edited the articles, which is not my role, promoting content from The Intercept, a left-of- has hired Greensit.” Those familiar with the and Charlotte is a good friend, too. They have or endorses the articles.” Greensit’s twitter center website focused on foreign policy and typically glacial pace of personnel decisions at been guests at our Shabbos table. I find these bio also now emphasizes: “Sharing articles national security issues where she had served as the Times, however, say it’s likely that Greensit’s efforts to portray her as a bigot outrageous doesn’t = my opinion.” managing editor since 2015. hiring was in the works well before Bennet’s and disgusting. More to the point, efforts to tar Greensit’s LinkedIn profile describes The Times opinion page has been a departure and that it is not the product of a anyone who is suspected of an unauthorized her as a 1997 graduate of the University of scorched-earth battleground in the culture publisher-driven search that took only a mere view of the Middle East as an antisemite feed Newscastle-upon-Tyne. She spent 12 years wars. Editorial page editor James Bennet three weeks from inception to fruition. into one of the most destructive tropes there at Time. Her LinkedIn bio describes her as resigned under pressure on June 7, and one The Tobin column was widely circulated; is — that the Jewish people are so fragile we a specialist in “building and leading teams; of his deputies was reassigned after the Times it was picked up in one of Israel’s largest circu- are endangered by an errant tweet. Charlotte planning and operations, budgets; partner- published an opinion article by Senator Tom lation newspapers, Israel Hayom. Another is a great journalist and she’ll do great things ships; personnel management and mentorship; Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, calling for the pro-Israel columnist, Caroline Glick, picked at The New York Times.” managing communications, audience, product deployment of the US military to quell what the up the same theme in her own Israel Hayom Howard Chua-Eoan — who worked with and newsletter teams and strategies.” article called an “orgy of violence” and “rioters column. Greensit “participated in the left’s Greensit at Time and described her as one Longtime Algemeiner readers know and looters” in American cities following the newest blood libel that Israel is responsible of his dearest friends — said of her tweets: that I’m not exactly timid or reluctant when death in police custody of George Floyd. for the alleged systemic racism of American “She was simply sharing stories published by it comes to calling out anti-Jewish themes or A June 26 syndicated column by law enforcement agencies,” Glick wrote. “The her colleagues at the Intercept — my under- tendencies at The New York Times; it’s been Jonathan Tobin, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Times, which has long peppered its news standing is that she shared practically every Continued on Page A3 Why Should We Give a Pass to Those Who Tweet Antisemitism?

judge her. Her half-hearted non-apology for given the atmosphere at the Times, where the her past actions notwithstanding, that is, of deviations from woke ideology are, as we have JONATHAN S. TOBIN course, a very low standard. Nor do I think it seen with the ousted James Bennet, harshly Algemeiner Journal is likely that she, or anyone else at the Times, punished. The notion that theTimes ’ hiring (USPS 927800) is published weekly would be as charitable to those who retweet of an editor from The Intercept has nothing to (except for the week of Passover hateful views that they opposed. do with the newsroom revolt at the paper that and Succos) Instead, we are told we should listen to caused Bennet’s humiliation is laughable. The Subscription rate $40 per year Ours is a time when antisemitism is Greensit’s friends, who all vouch for her virtue same is true of any assurance that a person surging and the popularity of intersectional and opposition to antisemitism. One such with Greensit’s credentials and who was hired Algemeiner Journal politics has given new credibility to radical friend cited in The Algemeiner repeated the under such circumstances will be a bulwark 208 E 51st Street, Suite 185 groups that are keen to link the war on Israel discredited argument that she is merely guilty against more anti-Zionist and antisemitic New York, N.Y. 10022 to the culture wars being waged in the United of holding “an unauthorized view” about Israel smears being published on her watch. States. At such a moment it is the duty of those even if those views aren’t legitimate criticism The point of my column was to contrast Periodicals Postage who speak up against this prejudice to be ever but actually in accord with smears promoted Greensit’s hiring with the celerity with which Paid at , N.Y. more vigilant rather than to relax our efforts. by antisemites. Keir Starmer, the new leader of Britain’s and at additional mailing offices Yet when a person who has associated herself The point here is that actions and associa- Labour Party, dealt with a similar case of a with some of these smears and was an editor POSTMASTER: tions that would result in a person being tweet endorsing an antisemitic blood libel. In at a publication that habitually trafficked in Send address changes to “canceled” if they testified to links to racism the case of Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey, them rises to a position of eminence at the never seem to apply to antisemitism. Since her retweet of an article in which actress Algemeiner Journal country’s most important newspaper, the Greensit is a member in good standing of the Maxine Peake promoted a similar accusation, P.O. Box 250746 advice from some quarters is to not be too elite chattering classes, we are told to judge her was enough to get her fired from her party’s Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 hasty in expressing alarm. kindly. Had she categorically renounced the shadow cabinet. That is the conceit of a piece published content of the antisemitic story and other awful Both Long-Bailey and Peake were ardent by The Algemeiner that alleges that I have tweets, that would buttress her defenders’ supporters of former Labour Party leader Let your voice be heard! done an injustice to Charlotte Greensit, an arguments. But she has not done so. Jeremy Corbyn. Each subsequently denied [email protected] incoming managing editor at The New York Nor do I think it is likely that she will, that they were antisemitic, a stand that Corbyn Times because I called her to account for also maintains. Like Greensit, no doubt, their tweets in which she promoted an antisemitic friends also vouch for their good intentions To advertise in blood libel about Israel training American and lack of malice. the new Algemeiner police to kill African-Americans. But Starmer understands that if his Greensit scrubbed her Twitter account party is to get out from under the shadow of e-mail: [email protected] of this and other outrageous tweets that she Corbyn’s antisemitism, a clean sweep was posted during her time at The Intercept. We are or call necessary. now told that promoting such awful articles The publishers of theTimes are not so 718-771-0400 was just part of her job and, according to the fastidious. author of The Algemeiner article, since jobs Twitter. Photo:theanthonyryan Nor are they interested in disassoci- are hard to find in journalism, we shouldn’t Continued on Page A10 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 A3 World News. Argentinian University Khamenei Calls on , Professor Offers Bonus PA to Unify to Fight to ‘Whoever Finds a Israel’s Sovereignty Bid Poor Jew’

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A university professor in Argentina has declared that he will give a bonus to “whoever finds a poor Jew.” During an online international politics class through the 21st Century Business University located in Córdoba, Argentina, Esteban Lizondo also apparently remarked that Plaza San Martín, in Córdoba, Argentina. the State of Israel’s creation was a surrender to Photo: Rafael Bravo via Wikimedia Commons. the “Zionist lobby” in exchange for money. recorded the class and posted it on Twitter. The money “demonstrates the power that He also reported the incident to the Córdoba the Jews have,” said Lizondo. branch of the Argentine Jewish umbrella He added that “they are capable of organization DAIA, which communicated to Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a Friday prayers sermon, in Tehran, Jan. 17, 2020. handling business and financial enterprises the university that it is against Argentine law Photo: Official Khamenei website / Handout via Reuters. to continue enriching themselves. And not for to “by any means encourage or initiate perse- BY JNS.org Prosperity” plan stipulates that Washington nothing, go fight a Jew for money.” cution or hatred against a person or groups of will endorse an Israeli decision to apply Lizondo also said, “Why do you guys people because of their race, religion, nation- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali sovereignty to about 30 percent of Judea and think the Nazis killed so many Jews? Because ality or political ideas.” Khamenei on Monday commended Hamas Samaria as long as Israel commits to holding of the envy they had. Imagine Germans The university stated that it doesn’t political leader for his actions to good-faith negotiations with the bleeding to death in a terminal economic tolerate discrimination, and that the incident thwart Israel’s plan to apply Jewish sovereignty to and avoids construction in certain areas that crisis, with hyperinflation, and the Jews … will be investigated. If the accusations are the Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria. could become part of a Palestinian state. That they kept getting rich.” validated, the “maximum” punishment would “Dear mujahid brother Mr. Ismail Haniyeh state will only be established four years after An unnamed student of Lizondo be enacted, said the university administration. … I thank God for the resistance movement’s negotiations begin and only if the Palestinians successful efforts in defeating the US and the fully renounce terrorism and carry out major Zionist regime and in bringing dignity to the reforms, and only if they are no longer consid- Islamic nation,” tweeted Khamenei. ered a threat to Israel. Bedouins Pay Tribute “The abject Zionist enemy who has “Certainly maintaining vigilance, unity suffered irrevocable defeats in military fields and harmony among the Palestinian people pursues its strategy through the economic and movements will play an effective role in to Jewish Man Who Lost siege of Gaza and the trickery of negotiations the nullification of the enemy’s plots and will and compromise. But, the brave Palestinian bring about divine assistance,” Khamenei Life Saving Mother and nation continues its path of dignity and honor concluded, vowing that “Iran, just like before, via wisdom and experience,” he continued, and based on its religious and human duty, adding that it was essential for Hamas to will not spare any effort to support the Three Children join forces with the Palestinian Authority to oppressed people of Palestine and to revive frustrate Israel’s intentions. their rights as well as to repel the evil of the The Trump administration’s “Peace to fake, usurping Zionist regime.”

a new special commendation to Ben Zikri, BY ALGEMEINER STAFF Continued from Page A1 The current unemployment rate in Israel hailing him as an “example of civic action.” New Restrictions is just over 20 percent. In a scene of coexistence between ethnic prevent us from having to take even more There have been more than 30,000 groups, a group of Israeli Bedouins attended extreme measures later.” “I point out that we confirmed COVID-19 cases in Israel, and 332 the funeral on Sunday of an Israeli Jewish man will, separately, work on and submit very deaths. who died last week after rescuing a Bedouin soon an economic corona package in order to A large uptick in infections began after mother and three of her children from help whoever is hurt by the steps that we take Israel started to reopen businesses and drowning. today, and by other things as well,” he added. schools in May, following a largely successful Michael Ben Zikri lost his life on Friday “We will help businesses, the self-employed effort to contain the initial outbreak of the at a lake near the southern Israeli city of and workers.” disease earlier this year. Ashkelon when drowned after rescuing four members of the al-Karem family, who live in Continued from Page A1 his time there but never used his own weapon. the Bedouin village of Hura. Jail Sentence The German national is accused of A video posted to Twitter showed a his post in the watch tower. having “supported the insidious and cruel group of young Bedouins gathered at Ben The elderly defendant confessed at the killing of mostly Jewish prisoners,” according Zikri’s funeral holding hand-lettered placards beginning of his trial at to having served as a to the prosecution. in tribute to the deceased. guard at the Stutthof camp, where more than One of his tasks was allegedly to prevent On Monday, Israeli President Reuven 60,000 people are thought to have died. It was prisoners from escaping, revolting or being Rivlin’s office announced that he would award one of the last Nazi death camps to be liberated. liberated. He was drafted to the Wehrmacht armed During the trial, Dey also acknowledged Continued from Page A2 like the new editorial page editor, Kathleen forces in 1944 but sent to Stutthof — purport- witnessing inmates being locked behind a Managing Editor Kingsbury (who endorsed both Elizabeth edly against his will — because he was not door but insisted that he did not know that it a longtime obsession of mine. But after a Warren and Amy Klobuchar after a reality- deemed fit to serve on the front lines. was a door to a gas chamber. couple of days reporting it out, your colum- show-style televised interview process), seems Dey said he saw many dead bodies during nist’s opinion is that this is one where there’s less characterized by a clear or super-intense less than meets the eye. One could fault the ideological tilt and more characterized by a cept content critical of the pro-Israel lobby or Greensit than about the risks of the pro-Israel Times from hiring from the hard-left-leaning drive to grow the editorial page’s influence on that promoted the agenda of Hamas in Gaza. right adopting some of the worst habits of the Intercept, but the Times editorial page has also new platforms such as audio and video, and to But that kind of ideological purity is a luxury, anti-Israel left — rushing to portray others as hired from the right-leaning Weekly Standard increase its clout and business success on the especially when senior positions in journalism bigots before checking first to see whether the and Wall Street Journal editorial page. What Internet. are so scarce. Applying such a standard consis- accusation is well founded. matters less is what they did before they got It’s fair to say that Greensit should have kept tently would require mass resignations at most Ira Stoll was managing editor of The to the Times and what matters more is what more of a distance from any content blaming mainstream news organizations. Forward and North American editor of The they do after they get to the Times. Greensit, Israel for US police brutality, or from other Inter- The entire episode says less about Post. A4 | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 World News. Israeli Startup Pixellot’s AI-Powered Robot Photographers to Help Coach Soccer Star Leo Messi and Barcelona Team

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Israeli sports broadcasting startup Pixellot has signed an agreement with soccer A cartoon published July 3, 2020 by the Kansas newspaper the Anderson County Review comparing team FC Barcelona through the Barça Innova- Governor Laura Kelly’s order to wear masks to the Holocaust. Photo: Facebook. tion Hub (BIHUB) to develop a system for automated recording and processing of Kansas Newspaper Publisher images of the routine sporting activities that take place on the club’s premises, mainly at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper training ground Lionel Messi. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Apologizes for Posting Cartoon and in the Estadi Johan Cruyff. Pixellot will become an innovative partner Pixellot, which announced just two of FC Barcelona, which will include sending Comparing Coronavirus weeks ago that it raised $16 million in round its own staff to work in liaison with the club’s C investment led by Shamrock Capital with coaches and analysts to identify improve- Regulations to Holocaust the participation of Altshuler Shaham, as well ments and develop new products for use as existing investors the Erkin family, and in the Barça sphere. These, according to Grupo Globo, uses artificial intelligence to Barcelona, could also be sold to other clubs, provide viable alternatives to traditional video academies, and schools in different sports BY BENJAMIN KERSTEIN Sunday, Hicks said, “After some heartfelt and broadcasts to games and training sessions in around the world, “thus making the Club, in educational conversations with Jewish leaders professional and amateur leagues. association with Pixellot, a leading center The publisher of a local Kansas newspaper in the US and abroad, I can acknowledge the Pixellot was founded in 2013 and today of innovation in terms of solutions for the who posted an antisemitic cartoon comparing imagery” in the cartoon “was deeply hurtful employs about 150 people in Israel, the US, automated recording of sports activities.” coronavirus regulations to the Holocaust apolo- to members of a culture who’ve been dealt and Singapore. “Our team is excited to be joining forces gized on Sunday after being initially defiant. plenty of hurt throughout history — people Pixellot’s technology is based on a with the Barça Innovation Hub and acceler- The weekly Anderson County Review, to whom I never desired to be hurtful in the photography system that captures the whole ating the development and sales strategy for whose publisher Dane Hicks is a Republican illustration of my point.” sports field. Using artificial intelligence our entertainment and analysis solution,” said county chairman, posted the cartoon last Hicks admitted that he lacked “an algorithms, it becomes a virtual photographer Alon Werber, CEO of Pixellot. “For the last three Friday on its Facebook page. adequate understanding of the severity of that automatically tracks what’s happening on years we have been installing Pixellot systems It shows Democratic Kansas Governor their experience and the pain of its images.” the pitch. Its live broadcast includes graphics, throughout the Club’s facilities, including Laura Kelly, who issued an order for citizens “It’s clear I should have chosen a less advertisements, the scoreboard, and the the world-famous Camp Nou and the Palau to wear face masks last week, wearing a mask hurtful theme,” he added. ability to integrate with commentators in Blaugrana, recording thousands of hours of emblazoned with a Star of David. Behind her Hicks said he was removing the cartoon remote locations. entertainment and live matches. Our extended is an image of Jews being loaded on to trains “with my apologies to those so directly affected.” “Thanks to this partnership, the Club will association with the Club and the Barça bound for a concentration camp. This statement marked a turnaround in become a testing laboratory for developing new Innovation Hub shows how interested elite The caption to the cartoon reads, Hicks’ attitude toward the controversy, as he products for automated artificial intelligence- sports are in improving on-field and on-court “Lockdown Laura says: Put on your mask… had at first vowed not to apologize. based viewing and recording of training sessions performance by using leading technologies.” and step onto the cattle car.”Critics called “Apologies: To whom exactly?” he had and matches, the aim being to improve technical Marta Plana, secretary of the Board of the cartoon “disgusting,” “highly offensive,” said. “The critics on the Facebook page? and tactical analysis by the managers of Directors and head of the Barcelona Innova- “unbelievable,” and “outrageous.” Facebook is a cesspool and I only participate different professional sports at the Club,” read an tion Hub, believes this partnership can not In a statement posted on Facebook on to develop readership.” FC Barcelona statement. “These new products only help to improve the club but also sport will also be used to support the methodology and society in general. “In this case, in associa- employed by the Barça Academy.” tion with Pixellot, and through the use of US Army Private Charged in Pixellot has been working with Barcelona artificial intelligence, we are developing an for the past three years, supplying its technology application for use both in the coaching and Neo-Nazi Plot to Attack Own in the form of automated cameras installed at the management of sport. This technology the Ciutat Esportiva, and more recently in the can, for example, closely monitor certain Estadi Johan Cruyff, which record all of the plays and movements, and the recording Troops Pleads Not Guilty sporting activities that happen there without can then be automated, providing qualitative the need for any human intervention. information of major value to our coaches and As a result of this latest agreement, analysts,” said Plana. BY REUTERS attack in April after learning of a new foreign & ALGEMEINER STAFF deployment for his unit, prosecutors said. The plot was foiled in late May, and Head’s Tenure Extended A US Army private who according to federal Melzer was arrested on June 10, they added. prosecutors confessed to his role in plotting a Federal public defenders representing deadly attack on his own military unit pleaded Melzer did not immediately respond to by Six Months Due to ‘Security not guilty to charges he shared secret informa- requests for comment after the hearing. tion about the unit with a neo-Nazi group. Melzer is being held at the Metropolitan Challenges’ Ethan Melzer, 22, entered his plea on Correctional Center in Manhattan. Monday before US Magistrate Judge Sarah Prosecutors said Melzer admitted his role Netburn in Manhattan, at a hearing conducted in plotting an attack in a voluntary May 30 inter- electronically. view with military investigators and the FBI. BY JNS.org The US Department of Justice accused Melzer said in that interview he intended Melzer of using an encrypted app to send to cause the deaths of as many fellow service Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- his unit’s planned movements to members members as possible, declared himself a yahu announced on Sunday that Mossad of the Order of Nine Angles (“O9A”), which it traitor against the United States and likened director Yossi Cohen’s tenure would be described as “an occult-based neo-Nazi and his conduct to treason, prosecutors said. extended by six months. white supremacist group,” and a related group The defendant faces six charges, including According to a statement released by called the “RapeWaffen Division.” conspiring to murder US nationals and the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu had Calling Melzer “the enemy within,” prose- conspiring to murder US military personnel, asked Cohen to extend his term at the helm cutors said the Louisville, Kentucky, resident each of which carries a maximum life sentence, of the intelligence agency “due to the security hoped to cause mass casualties through what and providing material support to terrorists. challenges facing the state of Israel.” Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a Cyber he and co-conspirators labeled a “jihadi attack.” The case is US v. Melzer, US District Cohen agreed to the request and will begin his sixth term in office in January 21, Week at Tel Aviv University on June 24, 2019. Melzer enlisted in the Army in 2018, Court, Southern District of New York, No. Photo: Flash90. joined O9A in 2019, and began planning the 20-cr-00314. 2021, according to the statement. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 A5 U.S. News. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Promotes United Airlines to Launch Louis Farrakhan’s Independence Tel Aviv-Chicago Route Day Message in Which He Calls BY JNS.org Tel Aviv three days a week. Jews ‘Satan’ The airline operates more nonstop service United Airlines announced on Tuesday that between the United States and Israel than any it is further expanding its international schedule other U.S. carrier. United also announced that it in September with nonstop service three days is reinstating service between Chicago and Hong BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN a week between Chicago O’Hare International Kong, as well as between Los Angeles and Sydney. Airport and Ben-Gurion International Airport. “Throughout 2020, United has been the Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs tweeted support on Friday for notorious In addition to its brand-new service only carrier to maintain continuous daily antisemite Louis Farrakhan by promoting the Nation of Islam leader’s Fourth of July address that between Chicago and Tel Aviv, United is service between the U.S. and Australia, as well aired Saturday on Revolt TV, a cable channel founded by Combs. increasing its current service to Israel out of its as the U.S. and Israel,” said Patrick Quayle, New York/Newark, N.J. hub from daily flights Combs invited his followers to watch Farrakhan’s almost three-hour rant titled “The Crite- vice president of International Network out to 10 weekly flights. That is scheduled to rion,” which also streamed live on YouTube and has already garnered over 600,000 views. In his and Alliances. “As we continue rebuilding begin in August. speech, Farrakhan, 87, called the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, and our international network, we look forward It also plans to resume service between Jewish people “satan.” He said, “Mr. Greenblatt, you are Satan. Those of you that say that you’re to offering customers more opportunities Washington, D.C., and Tel Aviv in October. to travel between the U.S. and Hong Kong, Jews, I will not even give you the honor of calling you a Jew. You are not a Jew… you are Satan and And on Wednesday, it’s scheduled to resume Sydney and Tel Aviv.” it is my job now to pull the cover off of Satan so that every Muslim when he sees Satan, pick up a nonstop service between San Francisco and stone, as we do in Mecca.” “When you know who Satan is, you don’t have to kill

him [but] the stone of truth, that’s what you throw. We cast truth at falsehood till we knock out its brains,” he continued. He also called Jewish Harvard Law school professor emeritus “a skillful deceiver” and “Satan masquerading as a lawyer.” Greenblatt responded to Farrakhan’s comments saying, “This is routine for Farrakhan- give him a platform, he never fails to espouse hatred.” Farrakhan also shared the anti-Israel conspiracy theory implicating the Jewish state in the death of George Floyd. “That’s why you gotta come at us like a coward,” he said. “Like snakes trying to wrap yourself around us so you could give us the treatment that you were taught in Israel. You may, as you gonna stop your police from going to Israel to learn how to kill better.” He added: “Your days of killing us without consequence are over.” Ironically, Farrakhan also rejected claims that he dislikes Jews. He said, “They tell lies to make you think I am a bigot or antisemite, so that you won’t listen to what I’m saying. So far they’ve been pretty successful.” Farrakhan then recalled Jewish comedian Chelsea Handler who faced criticism for posting a video of a speech he had given on racism. He claimed it was “imposters” who spoke out against Handler, who later removed the post. He thanked her for sharing his teachings and said, “Go back and listen to more of Farrakhan and get to know me. Not from the mouths of your lying imposter brothers, [but] from the God within.” Farrakhan concluded, “If you really think I hate the Jewish people, you don’t know me at all. [I’ve never] uttered the words of death to the Jewish people.” Farrakhan additionally urged people in Africa not to take medication for coronavirus, saying, “Don’t let them vaccinate you with their treachery through vaccines, through medication. I say to the African presidents, do not take their medications.” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Algemeiner he was not shocked by Farrakhan’s remarks. “At this stage of history, no one can be surprised by the rants of America’s Godfather of antisemitism,” he said. He also condemned Farrakhan’s “lurid antisemitic conspiracy linking the Jewish state to the death of George Floyd.” “Imagine if Fox had run a parallel to the DC July 4th celebrations on its new platform,” he continued. “SWC awaits condemnation of Farrakhan’s antisemitic screeds by leading American political, cultural and social influencers.” In late June, the Fox Soul television network cancelled plans to air Farrakhan’s Independence Day message. A6 | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 Opinion. New York Is a Model of Diversity, Tolerance and Justice

the demonstrations (virtuous) and then representative of just about every corner of the riots (horrible) hit. Watching as tens the globe. Add to that New York’s service as SHMULEY BOTEACH of thousands of protesters marched down the spine of so many global fields — theater, A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest ENGELWOOD Fifth Avenue demanding racial justice was fashion, diplomacy, medicine, and finance, against racial inequality, at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, US, June 7, 2020. inspiring. George Floyd’s murder was not just to name a few — and the city seems to bring Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz. an injustice, but deserved national outrage so much of the world together inside itself. and demands systemic change. I deeply Never has the sheer force of shared human life of old Europe, but its home is in New York. 2020 will be remembered, among many appreciate and respect the NYPD and law potential been so apparent in one place. Every year, members of the global Chabad things, as the year that brought New York to enforcement across the country. But Ameri- The Lubavitcher Rebbe praised the city as a community celebrate the date of the Rebbe’s its knees. It began with the quarantines and ca’s dark legacy of the abomination of slavery melting-pot that proved humanity’s common arrival in the city, on the eve of the Holocaust the lockdowns, a challenge in all settings, and Jim Crow must be confronted, and racism origin in one God. he narrowly escaped. For him, as for millions which left millions confined for months inside utterly rooted out. As we head into the future, don’t we of Jews (including my own grandfather), cramped apartments with few windows or The ferocity of the protesters who turned want to see this bold, modern project actually New York offered a refuge from millennia of access to fresh air. violent spoke its own kind of terror. Entire blocks work? antisemitism. For months now, the city has felt like a were burned, businesses robbed, and streets New York is the graceful host to one As its future hangs in the balance, we ghost town. Even the traditional urban perks — littered with broken glass. Walking through New of the world’s largest Jewish communities, have to fight for the city that we love by museums, theaters, and nightlife venues — were York, once energizing and inspiring, now spurs including dozens of Hasidic sects and some coming together. Building on traditions of shuttered. The fear of infection made strangers concern. All around me, I see signs of a city of the world’s most beautiful synagogues openness and unity — and as a direct result act stranger than they normally would — an sliding back towards a more ignominious past, (and most cutting-edge kosher restaurants thereof — New York has risen as arguably the airborne tension over an airborne threat. when Central Park was a gangland and Times and supermarkets). Jewish schools prosper most influential city on earth. If we want to Almost en masse, urban-dwellers found Square a walkable Pornhub. throughout its boroughs and children walk see a world modeled on those values, we must themselves suddenly dreaming of a move to I love New York — all of it: its size and its fearlessly about. Jewish communities from fight for our city and prove to all mankind suburbia, if not even further to open country. grandeur; its priceless art and eclectic archi- Europe, Africa, and the Middle East — forced (and to ourselves) that multi-ethnic enclaves Many, including some of my closest friends, tecture; the way it quakes through every day, by pogroms and persecutions to flee the are cities that work. actually made the move. a supercity glistening with every stripe of life. towns of their ancestors — now thrive across Those rioters who want to destroy New The pandemic arrived with a force that But saving New York isn’t just about preserving New York’s boroughs. Last year’s uptick in York in the name of social justice ought to be left one questioning the very value of cities a unique and beautiful city. New York, after all, violent anti-Jewish attacks proved that things using the city as a model of what should be this big. Even as healthcare workers labored is more than just a city. It’s a living, breathing are far from perfect — which is why I am emulated rather than torched. heroically beyond exhaustion, hospitals were testament to the ability of people from all utterly opposed to Mayor de Blasio’s blunder Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s book on overwhelmed, and nursing homes swept walks of life to come together and be one. in proposing a $1 billion reduction in NYPD Judaism and the messiah, The Wolf Shall Lie up in a cloud of death. One after another, I More so than anything else American, New funding — but where else would communities With the Lamb, is available on Amazon and discovered that friends of mine had lost loved York brings our national motto — E pluribus of this magnitude be so seamlessly woven into at Shmuley.com. Follow him on Twitter and ones. Terribly, tens of thousands would die, all unum — to life. the municipal fabric? Instagram @RabbiShmuley. in or near a single city. Utterly unparalleled in its diversity, New Like so many other Hasidic dynasties, the Then, as spring edged toward summer, York comprises a patchwork of communities Chabad movement had its roots in the Jewish

Habbeh wrote on June 6. But in 2014, he made Maryam Abu Khaled recently released a video racist jokes about the physical appearance of insisting that there is nothing “harmless” about Islamists Appropriate Somalis. Later, he tweeted that his mother anti-black discrimination among Arabs, even would think he had the AIDS virus if he ever when these racial slurs are “well-intentioned” Black Lives Matter dated a “black girl.” and they “do not mean it,” as Said suggested. Samer Alhato (alias Samer Owaida), a Intrafaith discrimination is a problem member of the anti-Israel Students for Justice within Muslim communities as well, and since Movement Despite History in Palestine, represents the next generation of Chicago is a segregated city, local mosques are Palestinian Muslim activists in Chicago who divided along lines of class, race, and language. view black oppression and the Arab-Israeli Indeed, the Mosque Foundation where Said of Anti-Black Bigotry conflict as inseparably linked. preaches caters to a mostly Palestinian congre- Just as Alhato calls to “abolish the police,” gation, and its clerics preach pro-Palestinian he urges others to “hate the notion of Israel” and sermons and practice “a strict version of Islam,” the Middle East and North Africa, where the defy its “right to exist.” On June 5, Alhato was according to The Chicago Tribune. invited to speak at a BLM protest in Chicago Therefore, Chicago’s black residents HESHAM SHEHAB & descendants of slaves continue to experience systemic racism. In Chicago, mosques are where he promoted the antisemitic conspiracy may have been intimidated after the Mosque BENJAMIN BAIRD/ that “Israel trains racist police” responsible for Foundation mobilized private security JNS.org predominantly organized along ethnocen- tric lines, and a decades-old feud between violence against black Americans. vehicles to patrol South Chicago neigh- non-black Muslim store owners and their Not only did Alhato co-opt the black borhoods and protect Palestinian homes, African-American customers has occasion- liberation movement to target Israel, but mosques, and businesses from looters. his social media is replete with shocking Arab and South Asian Americans are Following the killing in police custody of ally resulted in violence. examples of anti-black bigotry, such as calling twice as likely than the average American to Minneapolis resident George Floyd, several Despite these biases, Islamists who African-Americans monkeys and accusing hold a college degree, and they historically radical Muslim-American organizations support pro-Palestinian causes have been them of lacking “working brain cells.” own many gas stations, convenience stores, have joined in nationwide protests to show using the Black Lives Matter movement to “How come black [people] love raising and liquor stores in Chicago. solidarity with black civil rights protests. demonize Israel and promote Palestinian the roof but can’t raise their own sons?” he “There are horror stories about how However, Floyd’s death has sparked difficult resistance. asked in a 2014 tweet documented by Canary people in the black community are treated conversations about black-Muslim relations, Headquartered in Chicago, American Mission, a watchdog for antisemitism. “Once by our [Arab] business owners and by the as well as the implicit racial biases found in Muslims for Palestine (AMP) is a grassroots you go black, you never get a job!” another security they hire,” said Hatem Abudayyeh, some Arab and South Asian communities. organization that the Anti-Defamation tweet reads, this one from 2013. executive director of the Chicago-based Arab Rather than acknowledge anti-black League accuses of providing a platform for If pro-Palestinian activists have been American Action Network. bigotry, Chicago Islamists — many of them antisemitism. Since the Floyd tragedy, AMP joining black justice protests in bad faith, other Apparently inspired by the Floyd with a history of anti-black discrimination — has advertised black justice protests and is Chicago Islamists have been minimizing and protests, AMP founder and president Hatem have minimized and excused this abhorrent hosting a new monthly webinar series called justifying anti-black hate. Bazian addressed this issue in a May 29 behavior while exploiting Floyd’s death to “Let’s Talk About BLM,” which provides a Jamal Said, imam of the Mosque Facebook stream. While Bazian admitted that satisfy their own anti-Israel agenda. platform to black Americans who happen to Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois, addressed Arab-owned liquor stores play a destructive After some activists unjustly blamed agree with AMP’s anti-Jewish worldview. the Arab-black tensions in a May 30 video role in African-American neighborhoods, a Palestinian convenience-store owner for Yet AMP’s newest National Develop- message to Chicago’s Palestinian-American he blamed Arab prejudice on a “Eurocentric calling the police on Floyd when he presented ment Coordinator, Mohammed Habbeh, has community. He advised viewers “not to say I white supremacist worldview.” a counterfeit $20 bill, non-black Muslims have repeatedly referred to blacks as abeed, the work with al-Abeed,” a racist slur commonly On the contrary, Saudi Arabia, which been forced to address the pervasive anti- word for “slaves.” used in Muslim communities. “I know that was never colonized by the West and remains black discrimination that has persisted within “Proud of my family and friends around you do not mean it,” Said added, excusing this relatively free of its cultural influences, has a their communities. the country stepping up and hitting the streets behavior and calling it “an ugly habit.” This behavior is a cultural import from to fight for Black Lives and demand justice,” Nevertheless, black Palestinian actress Continued on Page A7 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 A7 Opinion. Ahead of Move, Why Jordan Shields Threatens Terrorist Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi Uprising, Unity With Hamas From Extradition to US

bureau. The State Department issued a $5 million bounty for his arrest in 2018. STEVEN EMERSON Hamas, Arouri said, would “use all forms PETRA MARQUARDT WASHINGTON of struggle and resistance against the annexa- BIGMAN tion project.” Whereas Fatah tends to invoke HAIFA the term “popular resistance” as an implicit threat of violence, Arouri’s statement puts An adviser to Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist activity front and center as an option A small group of Republican members The FBI’s wanted poster for Hamas terrorist President has threatened to challenge Israel. of Congress have been trying to right a great Ahlam al-Tamimi. Photo: Screenshot. Israel with the possibility of a third Intifada By joining Hamas, Fatah has decided wrong by demanding that Jordan extradite (violent uprising) if Israel decides to extend to throw its lot in with a designated terrorist Sbarro massacre mastermind Ahlam Tamimi means that what Tamimi actually claims is that its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank. organization dedicated to killing Jews and to the United States. But as a proud and murderous Jew-hatred is an integral part of “When things flare up and it becomes . Terrorist groups, even ideological rivals unrepentant murderer of Jews — including Islam. Needless to say, this is a view that would a fully-fledged Intifada, we will see a combi- like Fatah and Hamas, often collaborate if they two American citizens — Ahlam Tamimi has normally be rejected as Islamophobic, and it nation of forces between Gaza and the West believe that they can mutually benefit, especially many admirers, and it unfortunately seems would surely appall the Muslim faith leaders Bank,” Nabil Shaath told the Arabic-language when trying to combat a common enemy that the Jordanian government has no interest who have recently taken welcome steps to version of France 24. Though Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist in turning over this unrepentant terrorist. “foster a new era in Muslim-Jewish relations.” Shaath’s comments came days after offshoot of the and This case not only reveals a lot about the Since King Abdullah of Jordan claims Fatah and Hamas agreed to cooperate against Fatah is a relatively secular nationalist organi- continuing glorification of terrorism against “to be a 41st-generation direct descendant of the Trump administration’s proposed initia- zation, both groups are vehemently opposed Israel in the Middle East, but it also provides a Muhammad” and is supposedly “promoting tive and Israel’s possible annexation plans in to Israel’s proposed annexation plans. depressing example that appeasing extremists interfaith dialogue and a moderate under- the West Bank. “Fatah never differed with us on is perhaps all too often regarded as prudent standing of Islam,” he would arguably also “There will be popular resistance in confronting the occupation and resisting its policy and diplomacy. have reason to take offense at Tamimi’s view which everyone participates,” said Fatah plans, even when we had disagreements,” Tamimi, who planned and facilitated the of Islam’s founder as a murderous Jew-hater. official from Ramallah at a joint Arouri said. 2001 suicide bombing that killed 15 people, Moreover, as far as Tamimi is concerned, video news conference on Thursday, adding During the conference, Fatah’s represen- including 7 children, and injured 130 at a Jordan is merely “a vein of Palestine.” But as that “all the options are open if Israelis start tative also labeled Palestinians who doubt Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, has enjoyed the dismissive as this may sound, she is obviously the annexation.”Abbas sanctioned Fatah’s unity between Hamas and Fatah as “traitors” life of a celebrity ever since she was released right to believe that Abdullah’s Jordan is participation in the event. and Israeli collaborators. in the controversial 2011 deal Israel struck in a pretty good place for the killers of Jews. Abbas claims to support a two-state Rajoub’s comments also complement the order to free Hamas hostage . Less than two weeks before Tamimi’s 2017 solution, but has previously spread antisemitic PA’s latest incitement campaign. Last month, As reported on the Islamist website interview at the Muslim Brotherhood site, conspiracies that delegitimize any Jewish official PA TV repeatedly shared messages MEMO, Ahlam’s release was a reason to Jordanian authorities released a soldier who presence in the state of Israel. Fatah’s decision threatening the death penalty for any Pales- celebrate for the Tamimi clan of the West had killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 to publicly support a return to terrorism tinian who cooperates with Israel, according Bank village Nabi Saleh — not least because from prison. The unrepentant killer was matches Abbas’ long-held views and rhetoric. to Palestinian Media Watch. Fatah officials another terrorist member of the clan was reportedly “greeted by chanting supporters Beyond stating that “all the options” are on and institutions often stress that any form of also released, and the murderous couple who kissed him on the cheek and raised a the table, Rajoub also threatened that “popular collaboration with the Jewish state is “treason.” got married in Amman, Jordan. Right after photo of him with the caption, ‘Welcome to resistance” could take several forms, including “Every day I ask all our institutions if her release, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal the hero Daqamseh.'” violence. “Intifada for us is a means, the end is we know that someone is cooperating [with met with her in Cairo, and when she arrived The families of three US Special Forces to end the occupation, to end and remove the Israel], we should shoot him. We should fire in Jordan, she received a hero’s welcome, troops who were killed by a Jordanian soldier annexation from the table,” he said. at him because [cooperation] is forbidden including a reception in her honor at the at a military base in Jordan in 2016 are there- For international audiences, Fatah uses the now,” Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah’s Central Jordanian Law Court building. fore right to worry that the murderer of their word “occupation” as a reference to Israel’s rule Committee, said last month. Tamimi’s status as a Palestinian “hero” sons will eventually also be released from over after the 1967 Arab- Ironically, Fatah depends heavily on made it easy for her to start a TV career hosting prison. These families have recently joined the Israeli war. However, to Palestinians, Fatah and Israel for foiling Hamas plots to spark a third a show that glorified Palestinian terrorists, efforts to pressure Jordan to extradite Tamimi. the Palestinian Authority (PA) generally refer to Intifada in the West Bank and to carry out a and she reportedly got to travel “widely and While the Trump administration has all of Israel as occupied territory. coup to oust the PA. Yet Rajoub still agreed to often within Jordan and to numerous Arab reportedly indicated that it would consider Hamas, on the other hand, does not shy share a stage with Al-Arouri, a terrorist leader countries — including repeat visits to Algeria, withholding some of the $1.3 billion in annual away from its ultimate goal of destroying behind Hamas’ expansion in the West Bank. Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Tunisia and Yemen US aid to the country if Jordan continues to the Jewish state in its entirety, regardless Despite Israel’s help, Fatah and the PA — speaking to school and university groups, refuse to extradite Tamimi, it’s far from clear of previous attempts at presenting a more systematically praise terrorists who kill Israelis trade unions, and on TV — boasting of her this will happen. And King Abdullah can moderate face. and use Palestinian institutions, such as media central role in the massacre, of the high death count on an international diplomatic chorus Despite their shared animosity towards outlets and educational material, to encourage toll and of her intention to kill Jewish children.” — including all too many Israeli diplomats — Israel, Palestinian factions have been future generations to carry out attacks. Some three years ago, when the US first that will reject any serious pressure as a reckless fragmented for more than a decade, with Last month, PA TV repeatedly aired a demanded Tamimi’s extradition after it was move that would risk weakening the king while competing visions on how to engage the music video glorifying terrorists with lyrics announced that she was on the FBI’s list of agitating the Islamist extremists who are eager Jewish state. Several attempts at presenting such as “Martyr, we must follow in your Most Wanted Terrorists, she responded by to topple him. Few will be questioning how wise a common approach between Hamas and footsteps.” The music video includes footage proudly displaying her extremist Islamist it is to appease these extremists by confirming Fatah have failed to produce tangible results. of an actual stabbing attack against an Israeli views in an interview with a site that promotes their belief that a murderous terrorist like But recent developments show that both police officer in 2015. the ideology of the Jordanian Muslim Broth- Tamimi is a heroic role model. Palestinian rivals are trying to overcome their Recent developments suggest that erhood. She declared that, “Our war with the As The Algemeiner recently reported, differences and unify their efforts to confront Fatah’s violent incitement campaign Zionist enemy is an ideological war from the Arnold and Frimet Roth — whose 15-year-old Israel, including through terrorism. may soon be backed up with operational days of the Prophet Muhammad to now.” daughter Malki was one of Tamimi’s victims Obviously enough, there were no An increase in terrorist activity may support for terrorist attacks. If the two main Continued on Page A9 already be underway. On Sunday, Palestinian Palestinian rivals unite, Israel could face a “Zionists” in the days of Muhammad — which terrorists in Gaza fired three rockets into coordinated violent uprising like the Second Israel. Israel’s air force struck several terrorist Intifada, which included Fatah and PLO-affil- Continued from Page A6 doing so, pro-Palestinian activists whitewash targets in response later that day. A similar iated organizations joining Islamist groups Bigotry the normalization of anti-black hate within tit-for-tat occurred last month. like Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad horrible record of discrimination against its their own communities, while simultaneously At Thursday’s online news conference, to carry out high-casualty terror attacks. black citizens, who — according to the Center paying lip service to the cause of racial justice Hamas was represented by Saleh al-Arouri Fatah’s support for a third Intifada for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi and equality. Such transparently exploitative in Beirut, a senior Hamas official who has appears to be an attempt at deterring Israel Arabia — are “treated as slaves by members of motives do lasting damage to the black civil directed numerous terrorist plots in the West from pursuing annexation plans. But threat- the royal family and the rest of society.” rights movement and racial reconciliation. Bank, including the 2014 murder of three ening terrorism may also be a strong signal Islamists are using the Floyd tragedy to Hesham Shehab is the Chicago associate Israeli teenagers. Al-Arouri used to be based to Palestinian constituents. A recent poll found advance an intersectionalist worldview that at the Counter-Islamist Grid, a project of the in Turkey but has since moved to Lebanon that just over half of Palestinians support armed imagines the United States and Israel as the Middle East Forum. Benjamin Baird is the and serves as deputy head of Hamas’ political Continued on Page A9 common enemy of all oppressed people. In director of the Counter-Islamist Grid. A8 | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 Impressions.

Should Statues Have Been Erected in the First Place?

BY JEREMY ROSEN dates to the third century. Some even argue that and despised Jews. But knowing that made me the cherubs over the ark show that images were proud of our destiny and that we had survived allowed much earlier. it all. To eradicate the past and its symbols All of a sudden it has become fashion- Abstract, non-representational art prevents learning its lessons. able in the US to take down or demolish some presents no difficulties (other than price). And You might argue that we should not impose statues. There is a case to be made that none of nowadays, there are plenty of very Orthodox statues on the public altogether, particularly in them should have been put up in the first place. artists churning out art (usually of very multicultural societies. The public arena needs The earliest statues we have discovered moderate merit). Some religious extremists to be safe for every group. If there are statues that were of pagan gods. The oldest is a fertility still insist on no images at all. But there has offend sensibilities and we cannot agree, then figurine discovered in Northern Israel at always been a distinction between the tolerant indeed it makes sense to take them down and Berekhet Ram, around 230,000 years ago, while the earliest European ones go back merely 30,000 years. With the emergence of Biblical monotheism, all such figurines and idols were strictly forbidden. But human nature being what it is, even most Israelites continued to worship them, sometimes as independent gods, sometimes as agents of a single greater and non-representable one. They obviously believed in hedging their bets. The wonderful Greek figures we see today were of gods and heroes. Some like to argue that it was the Greeks who first reproduced the human form for purely aesthetic reasons. And indeed, Aristotle wrote an important book on aesthetics. Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman and Christian emperor Theodosius, following the Biblical law against idols, banned any kind of pagan statues. But as Christianity expanded and fractured, effigies began to proliferate in the Catholic west; in the Orthodox east, icons were A bronze statue of the late Pope John Paul II in Teramo, Italy. Photo: Eyepix/Cover Image via Reuters. permitted because they were only two dimen- sional. During the history of Christianity, there attitudes of rabbis living under Islam, which remove them to museums where we can teach have often been periods of iconoclasm that led also forbade images, in contrast to those living the next generation to be less narrow minded to the destruction or defacing of statues. This in Christian societies that have religious effigies. and prejudiced. Oh yes, and we should plant is why in many museums today, you can see Maimonides even recommends looking at trees instead. Better for the air and the climate. human forms without arms or noses. beautiful objects and architecture for inspira- Revolutions are intoxicating, particularly Judaism and Christianity interpreted the tion in his Eight Chapters. for young idealists, firebrands, and anarchists. second of the Ten Commandments in different The Greeks and Romans liked to have But the record of both fascists and Marxists ways. statues of victorious generals. And of course is not a good one. Incremental change works “You shall not make an idol and any picture every incoming victor set about smashing all better. There have been plenty of changes over of anything in the heavens above, on the earth traces of the defeated. Fortunately, some were the years. America today is not the America below, or in the water beneath. Do not bow left so that we now have important archaeolog- of 50 years ago. There has been a black presi- down to them or worship them.” ical information that helps us understand other dent and black police chiefs. Although more is Were these two sentences one or two societies, even evil ones. In the past, statues needed for many minorities and disadvantaged commandments? Many Christians believed have played a part in recording the cultures sectors of our societies, it will come. they were one. and histories of nations. But in Judaism, statues Rabbi Jeremy Rosen received his rabbinic But most rabbinic authorities have inter- never caught on. We did not go in for that kind of ordination from Mir in Jerusalem. He preted the second commandment to mean that glorification or hero worship. also studied philosophy as an undergraduate one cannot make any image at all of the human So what should we think about this new at Cambridge University and went on to earn figure or any other image intended for worship iconoclasm that seems to demand the removal his PhD in philosophy. He has worked in the as gods. However, some have argued that one of any statue any group feels offended by? I was rabbinate, Jewish education, and academia may possess two-dimensional art for purely taught in Britain to recognize the difference for more than 40 years in Europe and the US. aesthetic purposes and whole-body sculptures between good and bad characters, and that He currently lives in the US, where he writes, only if incomplete. In some early synagogues, attitudes and opinions constantly change. And teaches, lectures, and serves as rabbi of a small there were indeed two-dimensional mosaics of I was fully aware of how many of those kings community in New York. Biblical characters. Look up the Dura Europus and figures commemorated in public buildings, synagogue (in what is now called Syria), which institutions, and universities had persecuted www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 A9 Legals. Opinion.

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Although these militias have Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful sion adds a vital building block by been degraded recently through Purpose of Organization filed with secretary place there, and the ability to infil- of state of New York (SSNY)on : combining its sensor fusion percep- trate the premises undetected and a string of airstrikes attributed to #179803 tion technology with LeddarTech’s AJ; 6/5/12/19/26; 7/3/10 06/12/2020 Office location: Kings place a bomb precisely where it Israel, which according to foreign county. SSNY has been designated proven LeddarEngine platform,” would cause maximum damage. news reports destroyed various Notice of formation of limited liability as the agent of the LLC upon whom Charles Boulanger, CEO of The bewildered and hesitant weapons systems, it remains likely company(LLC) Name: STEVANT process against it may be served. LeddarTech, said in a statement. that similar weapons are still in SSNY shall Mail copy of process to: responses of the Iranian authorities MUSIC, LLC. Articles of organization “The existing single sensor not only indicate their astonish- Syria or can be shipped there in filed with the secretary of state of New Gian Staples 427 sterling place Apt. solutions in the market do not ment that their secret installation relatively short order. York(SSNY) on 03/27/2020 . Office 3R Brooklyn, NY 11238. Purpose: all lawful activity provide the performance, flexibility, was exposed and damaged, but Over the past two years, Iran location: Richmond county. SSNY has scalability, and cost-effectiveness that been designated as the agent of the AJ; 7/3/10/17/24/31; 8/7 also their uncertainty regarding the and its proxies have targeted Israel LLC upon whom process against it the market needs for mass deploy- attacker’s identity and methods. on several occasions via rocket or may be served. SSNY shall mail copy The Brown Girl Allure LLC. Arts of ment,” Boulanger said. “Our Even before all the details drone attack on the Golan Heights. Org. filed with the NY Secretary of of process to: STEVANT Music,LLC, LeddarEngine platform built on an surrounding the alleged sabotage In each case, Israel’s air force was State on 4/28/20. LegalInc Corporate 42 Gina court staten Island, NY 10314. open software architecture combined emerge, it appears safe to conclude able to intercept the threat before Purpose: all lawful activity Services Inc. designated as agent of with VayaVision’s sensor fusion and the LLC upon whom process against that this was the worst setback to it could cause damage, but there’s AJ; 6/5/12/19/26; 7/3/10 perception enables LeddarTech to it may be served. NY Secretary of State Iran’s nuclear program since its always a first time for everything. address customers’ need for sensing Notice of formation of limited shall mail copy of process to LegalInc centrifuges were incapacitated in The latest event — and Iran’s public solutions that are hardware agnostic, liability company(LLC) Name: Corporate Services Inc. at 1967 Wehrle 2010 at the same site at Natanz. It accusations of Israel — necessitates, PYRAMYD STUDIOS LLC. Articles Drive Suite 1 #086 Buffalo, NY 14221. scalable, and adaptable to any vehicle was eventually revealed that those at the very least, raising the alert level of Organization filed with secretary Purpose: Any lawful purpose. and sensor configuration.” centrifuges were hit in a particularly in the north as an act of prudence. AJ; 7/3/10/17/24/31; 8/7 of state of New York(SSNY) on sophisticated cyberattack via the Iran has other options for a 06/14/2019 . Office location: Kings Continued from Page A7 Notice of formation of limited liability Stuxnet computer worm. According response — via from county. SSNY has been designated Uprising Lebanon (unlikely) or by hitting as the agent of the LLC upon whom company(LLC) Name: DIVINITYBK to foreign reports at the time, the struggle in response to proposed process against it may be served. LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Stuxnet virus was jointly developed Israeli targets abroad. We can SSNY shall mail copy of process to: secretary of state of New York(SSNY) annexation measures. by the IDF Military Intelligence assume that along with seeking Pyramyd Studios LLC 225. N. 7th St. on 06/16/2020. Office location: Kings In this context, Fatah’s recent Directorate’s Unit 8200 and the US revenge and trying to find those Apt. 3 Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose: county. SSNY has been designated posturing is primarily driven by a National Security Agency. The worm physically responsible for carrying as the agent of the LLC upon whom all lawful activity desire to confront Israel and remain targeted the supervisory control out the Natanz attack, the Iranians AJ; 6/12/19/26; 7/3/10/17 process against it may be served. relevant in the Palestinian political SSNY shall mail copy of process to: and data acquisition systems for will also try fixing the breaches DIVINITYBK LLC 640 E. 57th St.Fl. arena. It is unclear whether Fatah the centrifuges and caused their in their nuclear defenses. History Notice of formation of limited liability and Hamas can make this latest company(LLC) Name: LIVLEX 3 Brooklyn, NY 11234. Purpose: all collapse. The Stuxnet worm was tells us they will only be partially attempt at unity last. However, Fatah’s TRADING CO LLC. Articles of lawful activity reportedly active for nearly a year successful in this regard, because organization filed with the Secretary AJ; 7/10/17/24/31; 8/7/14 latest open embrace of violence fits before it was discovered. time and again their machinations of State of New York (SSNY) with the organization’s track record In the most recent attack, are discovered — and disrupted. Notice of formation of limited liability on 06/04/2020. Office location: of perpetuating and encouraging centrifuges — ones far more Yoav Limor is a veteran Israeli company(LLC) Name: MS DYNAMIC Richmond county. SSNY has been terrorist attacks against Israelis. advanced than those ravaged by journalist and columnist for Israel designated as the agent of the LLC LLC. Articles of Organization filed Steven Emerson is consid- Stuxnet a decade ago — were again Hayom. This article first appeared upon whom process against it may with the Secretary of State of New York(SSNY) on : 06/11/2020. Office ered one of the leading authorities targeted. The Iranians were testing in Israel Hayom. be served. SSNY shall mail copy of on Islamic extremist networks, process to: Livlex Trading Co LLC, 936 location: Kings county. SSNY has been Carlton Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10312. designated as the agent of the LLC financing, and operations. He Purpose: all lawful activity upon whom process against it may serves as the Executive Director Continued from Page A7 the US for the murderous terror AJ; 6/19/26; 7/3/10/17/24 be served. 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plague raged; 24,000 died. A leading Were we in Pinchas’ position, term interests of the people. That is Israelite, Zimri, brought a Midianite asking, “Should I kill Zimri and why, though some will die as a result, Moral vs. Political woman, Cozbi, and cohabited with Cozbi?” the moral answer is an governments are now gradually her in full view of Moses and the unequivocal No. They may deserve easing the lockdown provisions once Decisions people. It was the most brazen of to die; the whole nation may be the rate of infection falls, to relieve acts. Pinchas took a spear and drove eyewitnesses to their sin; but you distress, ease the economic burden, it through them both. They died, cannot execute a death sentence and restore suspended civil liberties. and the plague stopped. without a duly constituted court of We have moral duties as million under Chinese communism. Was Pinchas a hero or a law, a trial, evidence and a judicial individuals, and we make political The fact that virtually all nations, murderer? On the one hand, he verdict. Killing without due process decisions as nations. The two are JONATHAN SACKS in the face of the pandemic, chose saved countless lives: no more is murder. That is why the Talmud different. That is what the story of LONDON life was a significant victory for the people died because of the plague. rules Halachah ve-ein morin Pinchas is about. It also explains Torah’s ethic of the sanctity of life. On the other hand, he could not kein: if Pinchas had asked a Bet the tension in governments during That said, the former Supreme have been certain of that in advance. Din whether he were permitted the pandemic. We have a moral The coronavirus pandemic Court judge Jonathan Sumption To any onlooker, he might have to act as he intended, he would commitment to the sanctity of life, raised a series of deep moral and wrote a challenging article in seemed simply a man of violence, be told, No. Halachah is based on but we also have a political commit- political issues. How far should which he argued that the world, or caught up in the lawlessness of non-negotiable moral principle, and ment, not just to life but also to governments go in seeking to at least Britain, had got it wrong. the moment. The parsha of Balak halachically you cannot commit “liberty and the pursuit of happi- prevent its spread? To what It was overreacting. The cure may ends with this terrible ambiguity murder even to save lives. ness.” What was beautiful about extent should it restrict people’s be worse than the disease. The unresolved. Only in our parsha do But Pinchas was not acting the global response to Covid-19 movements at the cost of violating lockdown amounted to subjecting we hear the answer. God says: on moral principle. He was making was that virtually every nation in their civil liberties? How far the population to house arrest, “Pinchas, son of Eleazar, son a political decision. There were the world put moral considerations of Aaron the Priest, has turned thousands dying. The political leader, ahead of political ones until the back My anger from the Israelites Moses, was in a highly compromised danger began to recede. by being zealous among them on position. How could he condemn I believe that there are moral My behalf, so that I did not wipe others for consorting with Midianite and political decisions and they out the Israelite people in My zeal. women when he himself had a are different. But there is a great Therefore say: I am making with Midianite wife? Pinchas saw that danger that the two may drift apart. him My covenant of peace.” (Num. there was no one leading. The danger Politics then becomes amoral, and 25:11-12) was immense. God’s anger, already eventually corrupt. That is why the God declared Pinchas a hero. intense, was about to explode. So institution of prophecy was born. He had saved the Israelites from he acted – not on moral principle Prophets hold politicians account- destruction, showed the zeal that but on political calculation, relying able to morality. When kings act for counterbalanced the people’s not on halachah but on what would the long-term welfare of the nation, faithlessness, and as a reward, God later be known as mishpat melech. they are not criticised. When they made a personal covenant with Better take two lives immediately, act for their own benefit, they are. him. Pinchas did a good deed. that would have been eventually Likewise when they undermine the Halachah, however, dramati- sentenced to death by the court, to people’s moral and spiritual integrity. cally circumscribes his act in save thousands now. And he was Salvation by zealot – the Pinchas multiple ways. First, it rules that if right, as God later made clear. case – is no solution. Politics must be Zimri had turned and killed Pinchas Now we can see exactly what as moral as possible if a nation is to in self-defence, he would be declared was ambiguous about Pinchas’ act. flourish in the long run. innocent in a court of law. Second, it He was a private individual. The Shabbat Shalom should it go in imposing a clamp- causing great distress and giving rules that if Pinchas had killed Zimri question he would normally have down of businesses at the cost of the police unprecedented and and Cozbi just before or after they asked was, “What shall I do?”, to driving many of them bankrupt, dangerous powers. It represented were engaged in cohabitation, he which the answer is a moral one. Continued from Page A2 rendering swathes of the popula- “an interference with our lives and would have been guilty of murder. But he acted as if he were a political Give a Pass tion unemployed, building up a our personal autonomy that is Third, had Pinchas consulted a leader asking, “What shall we do?” ating their newspaper from radical mountain of debt for the future intolerable in a free society.” The Bet Din and asked whether he and deciding, based on conse- attacks on Israel, as evidenced by and plunging the economy into the economic impact would be devas- was permitted to do what he was quences, that this would save many their hiring someone from The worst recession since the 1930s? tating. “If all this is the price of proposing to do, the answer would lives. Essentially, he acted as if he Intercept. Given the history of the These are just a few of the many saving human life, we have to ask have been, No. This is one of the were Moses. He saved the day and Times, that is hardly surprising. But heart-breaking dilemmas that the whether it is worth paying.” rare cases where we say Halachah the people. But imagine what would that someone who claims to be a pandemic forced on governments There are, he said, no absolute ve-ein morin kein: “It is the law, happen anywhere if an ordinary leading critic of the Times’ coverage and on us. values in public policy. As proof but we do not make it known.” And member of the public usurped the of Israel and Jewish issues would Strikingly, almost every country he cited the fact that we allow cars, there are many other conditions and role of Head of State. Had God not endorse their attitude is puzzling. adopted the same measures: social despite knowing that they are poten- reservations. The Torah resolves the endorsed Pinchas’ action, he would The left’s cancel culture and distancing and lockdown until the tially lethal weapons, and that every ambiguity but halachah reinstates have had a very difficult time. its chilling effect on free speech are incidence of new cases had reached year thousands of people will be it. Legally speaking, Pinchas was on The difference betweenodious. It has led to people being its peak (Sweden was the most killed or maimed by them. In public very thin ice. moral and political decisions hounded out of jobs and the public conspicuous exception). Nations policy there are always multiple, We can only understand this becomes very clear when it comes square for holding views that are not didn’t count the cost. Virtually unani- conflicting considerations. There by way of a fundamental distinc- to decisions of life and death. The racist but merely dissent from the mously, they placed the saving of are no non-negotiable absolutes, not tion between moral decisions and moral rule is: saving life takes prece- Black Lives Matter movement’s false life above all other considerations. even the sanctity of life. political decisions. Moral decisions dence over all other mitzvot except narrative about America. But neither The economy may suffer, but life is It was a powerful and are answers to the question, “What three: incest, idolatry and murder. If the Times nor most of Greensit’s infinitely precious and saving it takes challenging piece. Are we wrong should I do?” Usually they are based a group is surrounded by gangsters supporters have spoken up against precedence over all else. to think that life is indeed sacred? on rules that may not be trans- who say, “Hand over one of you, or cancel culture when it concerns This was a momentous victory Might we be placing too high a value gressed whatever the consequences. we will kill you all,” they must all be those who do not genuflect to the for the value first articulated in the on life, imposing a huge economic In Judaism, moral decisions are the prepared to die rather than hand BLM catechism. Torah in the Noahide covenant: “He burden on future generations? province of halachah. over one. Life is sacred and must Friends of Israel are now who sheds the blood of man, by I am going to suggest, oddly Political decisions are answers not be sacrificed, whatever the cautioned to be wary of being too man shall his blood be shed, for in enough, that there is a direct to the question, “What should we consequences. That is morality; that harsh to those who spread libels of the image of God He created man” connection between this argument do?” where the “we” means the is halachah. the Jewish state lest we be guilty of (Gen. 9:6). This was the first declara- and the story of Pinchas. It is far nation as a whole. They tend to However, a king of Israel was acting unfairly. They say an excep- tion of the principle that human life from obvious, but it is fundamental. involve several conflicting consider- permitted, with the consent of the tion to the harsh treatment dealt to is sacred. As the Sages put it, “Every It lies in the difference – philosoph- ations, and there is rarely a clear-cut Sanhedrin, to wage a (non-defen- others who have tweeted out hate life is like a universe. Save a life and ical and halachic – between moral solution. Usually the decision will sive) war, even though many would should be carved out for Greensit it is as if you have saved a universe.” and political decisions. be based on an evaluation of the die as a result. He was permitted because she is highly regarded In the ancient world, economic Recall the Pinchas story. likely consequences. In Judaism this to execute a non-judicial death by fellow elites. That falls flat as considerations took precedence The Israelites, having been saved sphere is known as mishpat melech sentence against individuals on a standard that any reasonable over life. Great building projects like by God from Bilam’s curses, fell (the legal domain of the king), or public policy grounds (le-takken person, no matter their ideology or the Tower of Babel and the Egyptian headlong into the trap he then set hilchot medinah (public policy ha-olam kefi mah she-ha-sha’ah faith, should be obliged to respect. pyramids involved huge loss of life. for them. They began consorting regulations). Whereas halachah is tzerichah). In politics, as opposed to Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in Even in the 20th century, lives were with Midianite women and were timeless, public policy tends to be morality, the sanctity of life is a high chief of JNS-Jewish News Syndi- sacrificed to economic ideology: soon worshipping their gods. time-bound and situational (“a time value but not the only one. What cate. Follow him on Twitter @ between six and nine million under God’s anger burned. He ordered to kill and a time to heal, a time to matters are consequences. A ruler jonathans_tobin. Stalin, and between 35 and 45 the death of the people’s leaders. A tear down and a time to build”). or government must act in the long- www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 A11 Social.

Israeli Autonomous Vehicle Startup VayaVision Acquired by Canada’s LeddarTech

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Canadian company LeddarTech announced Tuesday it has acquired Israeli automotive company VayaVision Sensing. The financial terms of the agree- ment were not specified, but according to one person familiar with the matter who spoke to Calcalist on condition of anonymity, the sale price is estimated to be in the region of tens of millions of dollars. VayaVision, which is now a subsidiary of LeddarTech, was founded in 2016 by Nehmadi Youval Dean Furman of South Africa (L) challenges Ghana’s Christian Atsu during a Group C soccer match of the 2015 and Ronny Cohen and employs over 30 people in Israel, African Cup of Nations, in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea, Jan. 27, 2015. Photo: Reuters / Mike Hutchings. all of whom will retain their positions following the sale. In 2018, VayaVision raised $8 million in a seed ‘I Would Love to See More Jewish Players,’ South African Soccer Star Dean Furman Says

A worker tends to systems in the back of a Mobileye BY ALGEMEINER STAFF from the community,” Furman pointed out. “I hope autonomous driving test vehicle, at headquarters in parents and young Jewish players are looking up to Jerusalem, May 15, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun. South African soccer star Dean Furman hopes to me, Joe Jacobson and Nicky Blackman. There is more security in other jobs. Is it a safe career path? Not partic- inspire fellow Jews to take up the sport. round led by Israeli early-stage venture fund Viola ularly. But if your dream is to become a footballer you The 32-year-old midfielder — who is seeking to Ventures, San Francisco and Tel Aviv-based Mizmaa should be encouraged to follow it.” make a comeback in England after five years with Super- Ventures, and Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding In an interview with The Algemeiner last year Sport United in his native country — told company OurCrowd. Mitsubishi UFJ Capital and following South Africa’s upset victory over host Egypt in an interview published on Monday, “We’re few and far LG Electronics also participated. VayaVision also in the African Cup of Nations tournament, Furman between. I would love to see more Jewish players.”“To received a 2.45 million euro (approximately $2.77 commented, “To young Jewish footballers, I want to say become a pro, sacrifice is key,” he added. “If there was million) grant from the European Commission’s that it is possible. There aren’t too many of us, but the a bar mitzvah party on a Saturday night, I’d leave at 10.” European Innovation Council (EIC) in March 2019. dream of being a professional is definitely achievable.” “Maybe there aren’t many sporting role models VayaVision develops a data processing system compatible with a variety of autonomous sensor systems, cameras, radars, and LiDAR. VayaVision’s system is designed to provide precise 3D imaging of a vehicle’s surroundings. According to its statement, the company provides its technology to leading players in the automotive industry addressing use cases from L2 to L5 ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) Netflix Airs Anne Frank and AD (autonomous driving). The VayaVision team is comprised of experts in the fields of machine and computer vision as well as deep neural networks. Documentary That Also Features “LeddarTech approached us because they wanted to expand their outlets,” VayaVision co-founder and CEO Ronny Cohen told Calcalist. Stories of Holocaust Survivors “Our technological synergy with them is excellent. We provide them with a significant shortcut and they give us the opportunity to expand our resources and staff BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN cence like Frank, but were fortunately able to stay alive. as well as access to dozens of new clients.” As a young German Jewish girl, Frank kept a diary You managed to establish an international client base, why did you decide to sell the company? A documentary titled “#Anne Frank — Parallel of her family’s two years in hiding in Nazi-occupied “The automotive market is very complex and Stories” began streaming on Netflix this month. Amsterdam. The family was eventually captured and difficult and the problem that we are facing is also The 2019 film — narrated by Academy Award- deported to Nazi concentration camps where they all very complicated. All the companies in the sector winning actress Helen Mirren — shares the story of the died except for Frank’s father, Otto. understood that it would take longer and require more teenage diarist who died in the Holocaust alongside Mirren tells Frank’s story through the pages of her diary. resources than they had initially thought. That means those of five female survivors of the Nazi genocide, who The documentary includes commentary from that one company can’t do it all on its own and there retell their experiences on camera. historians and professors, and a guide through some of has been a wave of consolidations over the past year. The survivors featured in the documentary faced significant places in Frank’s life, as well as those of the deportation and suffering during childhood and adoles- survivors. Continued on Page A9 www.algemeiner.com Attention Not-For-Profit Organizations

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