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New statistics from the Israeli Employment Service released Tuesday revealed the massive negative impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on the Jewish state’s economy, with minorities and low-wage workers hit partic- ularly hard. Israeli news site N12 reported that, according to the numbers, 23.5% of Israelis were seeking employment by the end of May. In February, just before the pandemic struck, the number was 3.9%.

Houses in Maale Adumim, in the West Bank, Feb. 15, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad / File.

Customers visit a nail salon, in , , June 4, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Amir Cohen.

BY BENJAMIN published “when its finished.” that at a meeting with represen- The Employment Service stated that the sudden shift KERSTEIN He added that, at the tatives of the “Bitachonistim” from near-full employment to record unemployment moment, he was aiming to annex (“Security”) movement, Netan- rates would decrease workers’ bargaining power, depress Prime Minister Benjamin half of Area C. yahu said that annexation would wages and increase underemployment, especially among Netanyahu said on Monday that Under the Oslo Accords of the not occur all at once, but rather be low-wage workers. he wanted to annex half of Area C 1990s, Israel was given full security pursued in stages. Israel’s minority communities have been particularly in the West Bank and annexation and administrative control over Netanyahu also told members hard-hit by the pandemic. While 20.7% of Jews have been would likely happen in stages. Area C, where there is a relatively of his right-wing Likud party able to return to work, only 9.2% of Muslims, Christians and Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot small Palestinian population. that he did not currently know Druze had succeeded in doing so. reported that, speaking at a Likud Under most peace proposals made where his coalition partners in Moreover, the small rate of recovery appeared not to faction meeting, Netanyahu said in recent decades, large parts of it the centrist Blue and White party that the annexation map was “still would be annexed by Israel. stood on annexation, but that the Continued on Page A3 being worked on” and would be Israel’s Channel 13 reported Continued on Page A3

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traded slaves, fought for the Confederacy, sought privilege, we could also insist that antisemitic to have American slaves returned to Africa authors be canceled. That means goodbye JONATHAN S. TOBIN (Abraham Lincoln), or defended British imperi- William Shakespeare (“Merchant of Venice”), JNS.org alism (Winston Churchill). We could then go on as well as just about everyone in the Western to include prominent antisemites on the list of canon in the medieval and early modern those to be toppled from their famous perches. period, and even seemingly enlightened If we were to do that, rampaging Jews writers like Voltaire. Throw out your copies As long as we’re tearing down monuments could join the anarchists in the streets and start of Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist), Anthony and statues to alleged racists, why not trash the by decapitating most busts or statues of leaders Trollope (The Way We Live Now), T.S. Eliot, antisemites while we’re at it? of the Roman empire for their atrocities against Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Police in riot gear keep protesters at bay in That’s the attitude of some Jews to the the Jewish people — a task that would include and lots of others. Lafayette Park, near the White House, in Washington, DC, May 31, 2020. Photo: Reuters / rerun of China’s Cultural Revolution currently dynamiting the Arch of Titus, which depicts As for music, you could demand that Jonathan Ernst. playing on our televisions screens in which the enslavement of Jews and the looting of the opera companies adopt Israel’s ban on the that at one point he tried to throw Jews out of woke protesters are seeking to erase all Second Temple, and renaming Hadrian’s Wall music of Richard Wagner, and that just about Tennessee and Kentucky. evidence of alleged evil racists on display in in northern England (named for the emperor all of the European composers of the 17th, And if you’re in the mood to delete films the public squares of the world. The reaction who built the amazing structure that stretches 18th, as well as many in the 19th and early 20th from streaming service catalogs, such as the to the callous murder of George Floyd at across the entire island of Britain, but who also centuries be canceled for their antisemitism. way “Gone With the Wind” is being axed, the hands of a Minneapolis policeman has laid waste to Judea, murdering countless Jews As for art, troubling depictions of Jews in you could demand that they toss out Martin provoked a necessary debate about police during the Bar Kochba revolt). Christian religious art abound, so museums Scorsese’s “Last Temptation of Christ” or Mel brutality and racism, even though many of We could go on to knock down statues should be compelled (by their generous Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” for the those who are seeking to guide that discussion of all medieval and early modern European Jewish donors) to toss them or at least send way Jews were depicted in them or the way are operating under some misconceptions monarchs who discriminated against or them to storage. As for the modern era, there they reinforced deicide myths (even though about the facts of police killings. persecuted and murdered Jews (it would be are lots of troubling examples, but let’s insist most Christians just think they’re stories The problems with the protests go beyond easier to list the ones who didn’t attack the that we see no more of the great paintings of about Jesus and generally ignore the troubling such distortions, or even the fact that in some Jews than the ones who did), as well as some, Edgar Degas, Pierre-August Renoir, and Paul parts about Jews). cases, rioting and looting followed. What we but not all, of the popes. The list of antisemitic Cézanne because of their antisemitism, which That’s a lot of canceling on our list, and are now faced with is a surge of revisionism, modern statesman, in addition to thinkers manifested itself in support for the false charges I’ve barely scratched the surface of all we moral preening, and virtue signaling about and writers, is equally lengthy. against French-Jewish Capt. Alfred Dreyfus. could do. racism that is seeking to retrospectively erase And since a recent feature on NPR If you feel like defacing national But we shouldn’t do any of that. or “cancel” — to use the language of social suggested that people reject their white privi- monuments, you could spray paint something The world, including the Jews, would be media — much of our history, art, and litera- lege, as well as atone for racist thoughts and nasty about Franklin Roosevelt on the one in diminished by the erasure of the great works ture that is alleged to represent its racist past. actions (whether or not they are personally his honor for his refusal to rescue Jews during of Western civilization that can be linked A fair-minded observer might respond to guilty of such behavior) by “decolonizing the Holocaust. Or you could visit Grant’s Tomb to antisemitism. We should seek to provide this spasm of iconoclasm by suggesting that we your bookshelf” through discarding all books in New York City and remind the few who visit not stop with statues of those who owned or that are tainted by racism or merely white that shrine to the man who won the Civil War Continued on Page A10 Nazi Headstones and Confederate Statues Should Be Treated the Same

tions near those who gave their lives for this asking rhetorically, “Robert E Lee, Stonewall the nation,” VA Secretary Robert Wilkie acknowl- Jackson — who’s next, Washington, Jefferson?” Algemeiner Journal BEN COHEN/ edged at the beginning of June. “That’s why VA Trump made the same point in similar JNS.org will initiate the process required to replace fashion amid the latest round of protests (USPS 927800) is published weekly these POW headstones.” against racism, which have included (except for the week of Passover Not surprisingly, amid the ongoing widespread demands for the renaming of US and Succos) coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives military bases named in honor of Confed- Subscription rate $40 per year The US Department of Veterans Affairs Matter protests sparked by the police murder erate commanders. “These Monumental and Algemeiner Journal (VA) agreed recently to the removal of a of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Nazi very Powerful Bases have become part of a small number of headstones in US military graves incident at the VA didn’t receive Great American Heritage, and a history of 208 E 51st Street, Suite 185 cemeteries that were engraved with the Nazi much media airplay. Still, the issues raised Winning, Victory, and Freedom,” he tweeted New York, N.Y. 10022 swastika and the Iron Cross. by this episode, along with its outcome, are — again glibly subsuming the secessionist, Periodicals Postage The stones marked the graves of captive relevant to the ongoing national clash over the slave-owning Confederacy within the broad, Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. German soldiers who were interred at two continued presence of Confederate statues triumphant sweep of American history. and at additional mailing offices cemeteries in this country after World War and war memorials in US cities. This is a deeply suspect line of argument, II — Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery The last time that the visual baggage of and the episode over the presence of Nazi POSTMASTER: in Texas and Fort Douglas Post Cemetery in the Confederacy animated the country to this headstones in our military cemeteries helps Send address changes to Utah. In addition to the offending symbols, extent was in 2017, with the violent white- explain why. Algemeiner Journal their headstones also carried the following supremacist show of force in Charlottesville, In that example, what was being objected inscription: “He died far from his home for the Virginia. Back then, as now, President Donald to was not the physical remains of the German P.O. Box 250746 Führer, people, and fatherland.” Trump made no secret of where he stood, POWs, but the horrendous manner in which Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 One might have assumed that, given using his Twitter feed to decry “the removal that presence was acknowledged. Some their content, removing the headstones would of our beautiful statues and monuments” and neutral inscription on the headstones would Let your voice be heard! not have been an issue for the VA. have been respectful and civilized, and a far cry In fact, the department’s first response from the encomium to Hitler that ended up on [email protected] was to insist that they remain in place. them. With the removal of the headstones, an In a mid-May letter to the Military unseemly wrong — the presence of the symbols Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an of a mortal enemy in the very locations where To advertise in advocacy group that brought the headstones’ American veterans are buried — has been the new Algemeiner existence to light, the VA argued that it had righted. And I would argue that the same moral e-mail: [email protected] a “duty” to preserve the markers. But then logic applied here should apply to the Confed- several members of Congress objected to erate memorabilia around us. or call the presence of the headstones, leading the White nationalists participate in a torch-lit Now, you might object that one cannot in department to reverse its initial decision. march on the grounds of the University of decency compare the officers and soldiers of 718-771-0400 It was “understandably upsetting to our Virginia, ahead of the Unite the Right Rally, in the Confederacy with the external enemy that veterans and their families to see Nazi inscrip- Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 11, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Stephanie Keith. Continued on Page A7 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 A3 World News. Spain’s Balearic Islands, Argentine Journalist Renowned Mediterranean Slammed for Bracketing Party Spot, Adopt ‘Zionism’ With ‘Nazism’ Anti-BDS Law and ‘Stalinism’

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The parliament of Spain’s Balearic Islands passed a bill earlier this month condemning the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. The legislation approved on June 6 described BDS as discriminatory and denounced antisemitism as defined by the People sunbathe at Playa De Palma beach, in International Holocaust Remembrance Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 14, 2020. Photo: Alliance (IHRA), which includes anti-Israel Reuters / Enrique Calvo. racism. origin,” he added. All major parties in the legislature voted The World Jewish Congress (WJC) for the bill. tweeted in response to the news, “Identifying MP Maxo Benalal, chairman of the and defining antisemitism are critical steps in Jewish community of Ibiza, introduced the bill eradicating it. Thank you.” in parliament, and was aided by the Lawfare Spanish pro-Israel group ACOM called Part of an exhibit on the Holocaust supported by the IHRA. Photo: Courtesy of IHRA. Project and the umbrella group the Federa- the passage of the bill a “sensational victory Socialist ideology that dominated Germany tion of Jewish Communities. BY ALGEMEINER STAFF against the intolerant.” under Hitler was antisemitic according to Ignacio Wenley Palacios, senior counsel By adopting the IHRA definition of the definition of the International Holocaust of the Lawfare Project in Spain, said, “Boycotts An Argentine journalist was under fire antisemitism, the group said, the legisla- Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), adopted by by public institutions have all the attributes of on Monday for an article in which he brack- tion meant that “the boycott activities of the the Argentine government on June 7. the most intolerable discrimination.” eted Nazism with Zionism — a few days after BDS movement, which seek to discriminate Among the manifestations of antisemi- “They deny relations and the provision of the Argentine government formally adopted a against those who support the Jewish state tism identified by the definition is the “[D] public services to individuals not because of definition of antisemitism that rejects such a and its companies and citizens, are part of rawing (of) comparisons of contemporary their behavior, but because of something they comparison as antisemitic. antisemitic behavior.” Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” cannot change nor avoid — their country of In an article for La Gaceta de Tucumán — a newspaper serving Argentina’s north- Yedlin tweeted that the article contained western province of Tucumán — staff writer an “unfortunate grouping” of ideologies, Federico Türpe referred to “great propaganda remarking that Stalinism and Nazism were Antisemitic Vandals apparatuses” of the previous century, “such responsible for several million deaths and that as those of Nazism, Zionism, Stalinism or the comparison with Zionism was “banal.” Peronism.” Türpe replied to the criticism by doubling Hang Sheet Spray-Painted Responding to the article, Pablo Yedlin down on his article, calling Yedlin “paranoid” — who represents Tucumán in the Argen- and “misguided.” tine parliament — pointed out that Türpe’s “Zionism’s propaganda program is With ‘Vulgar Insults’ grouping of Zionism with the National phenomenal and documented,” Türpe insisted. Over Holocaust Memorial Continued from Page A1 closest associates did not know their positions Annexation on the matter. Trump administration did not want to see A senior coalition source said, “They still in Nashville annexation proceed without a consensus in haven’t formulated their stance.” the current government. According to Israeli news site Walla, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Netanyahu also said that he would not bring Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, both of the Trump peace plan to a full vote. BY ALGEMEINER STAFF Blue and White, have sent mixed signals on Instead of doing so, Netanyahu stated, he the annexation issue. would “conduct negotiations on the basis” of A memorial to the Holocaust at a Jewish Yediot reported that even the two men’s the plan. community center in Nashville, Tennessee, was defaced over the weekend with white supremacist symbols and antisemitic insults. Local media reported that on Saturday, Gaza Rocket Strikes the memorial at the Gordon Jewish Commu- nity Center in west Nashville had been Southern Israel; IDF covered with a white bed sheet spray-painted with what witnesses described as “vulgar The memorial to the Holocaust in Nashville, Ten- insults in a message of hate.” nessee. Photo: Courtesy of nashvilleholocaustmemorial.org. Retaliates Against Hamas “We condemn such bigotry and violence, confronting racism and anti-Semitic attacks which has no place in Nashville or anywhere are rising, our JCC community continues in America,” the community center’s leader- to stand united with those who condemn ship declared in a statement. discrimination in all its forms.” BY JNS.org were reported, according to the military. The statement expressed confidence The goal of the Holocaust memorial The conflagration comes after Israel in the current security arrangements for the is to teach the history of the Nazi genocide Israel struck several Hamas targets in approved the latest Qatari aid package for center. of the Jews “through the personal stories of the Gaza Strip on Monday night after a rocket Gaza, to the tune of $50 million, which is “We are fortunate to have an excellent the Nashvillians who are represented there,” launched from the coastal enclave fell in Israeli reportedly to be delivered later in the week, security team in place to protect us,” the state- according to its website. “The name of each territory, according to the . and amid heightened tensions due to Israel’s ment said. “They work hand in hand with local European hometown of the survivors is “In response to the rocket that was fired plan to extend its sovereignty to the Jordan and national authorities to keep us and our presented at the pathway leading up to the from Gaza into Israel earlier this evening, our Valley, and parts of Judea and Samaria. campus safe. At a time when our nation is memorial.” fighter jets and tanks just targeted under- According to Al-Jazeera, senior Hamas ground Hamas infrastructure and military official Salah al-Bardawil said at a news confer- Continued from Page A1 sectors that have seen a high rate of return to posts,” the Israeli military said in a statement. ence in the Gaza Strip on Monday that “it is the Negative Impact work were medical (27.7%), finance (26.7%) and The rocket landed in an open area in duty of each free Palestinian citizen to rise up include low-wage workers. The professional education (25.2%), all relatively high-paying. the Eshkol region, and no injuries or damage against this flagrant aggression on our land.” A4 | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 World News. Israel Signs Deal to Acquire COVID-19 Vaccine From US Company Moderna

BY CTech/ News billion doses completed by the middle of 2021. Moderna is not the only pharma company Israel has signed a deal to procure a working on a vaccine. Chinese company coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine, already in CanSino has also reported success in its first advanced stages of development, from US phase of testing on humans, which ended in biotech company Moderna, according to local April. It also says it is nearing completion of phase two and expects to begin phase three Mayor of Warsaw and the presidential candidate of the main Polish opposition party Civic Plat- reports. form (PO) Rafal Trzaskowski attends election rally in Zakopane, Poland, June 6, 2020. Photo: Marek Ministry of Health officials confirmed in the course of the summer. The company’s Podmokly / Agencja Gazeta via Reuters. on Sunday that negotiations were ongoing vaccine works similarly to Moderna’s version and reportedly an agreement was signed on and a successful trial would mean the popula- Tuesday morning under which Moderna tion of China would likely benefit from it first. Polish State TV Uses Jewish will supply Israel with vaccines, assuming it British and Swiss company AstraZeneca proves it developed an effective one.Moderna is also developing a vaccine. The company is Property Restitution Issue to announced it was concluding its phase two cooperating with Oxford University scientists testing for the vaccine and plans to begin phase in the production of ChAdOxi, tested thus Attack Opposition three with 30,000 participants in July. The far on animals including chimpanzees, and company claimed it could start production of is preparing to begin testing on humans next the vaccine as soon as September of this year. week. Residents of the UK are set to be first in In phase one, the vaccine was adminis- line to receive the vaccine. BY REUTERS incumbent, Andrzej Duda, in the June 28 vote. tered to 45 volunteers and showed promising The American pharmaceutical giant President Duda is close to PiS. results and was found to be safe. Phase two, Pfizer has already produced a vaccine, which & ALGEMEINER STAFF TVP quoted a 2015 interview with which is nearly complete, was to test the safety the company claims tricks the body into and efficacy of the vaccine that was shown to thinking it has been invaded by Covid-19, Polish public television has raised the Trzaskowski saying Poland “needs to talk be safe for use on humans. Although no data promoting the production of antibodies to sensitive issue of Jewish property restitution with Jewish communities and try to solve was made available to the public, results are fight off the virus. The vaccine, called BNT162, during the country’s presidential campaign by this problem (of property restitution).” It believed to reveal those who were vaccinated which contains various proteins, will be in first accusing the main opposition candidate, Rafal also suggested Trzaskowski’s “thinking is not showed an increased amount of antibodies and second phase testing within weeks. Trzaskowski, of putting foreign interests first. based on Polish interests.” surpassing that of patients who have recov- Johnson & Johnson also reported it is set Poland was home to one of the world’s Previously, the show has said Trzas- ered from the virus. to begin mass production of a vaccine. AD26, biggest Jewish communities until it was kowski has close ties to George Soros, the Moderna’s vaccine called mRNA-1273 which was developed by the company, will almost entirely wiped out during World War billionaire financier who supports liberal counters Covid-19’s ability to enter cells by begin phase one of clinical trials in September. Two by the Nazis who set up death camps causes in eastern Europe. preventing the production of the spike protein French Sanofi reported it was in collabo- such as Auschwitz on Polish territory. “(Trzaskowski) is a man (…) who repre- which would allow the virus to latch on to the ration with GSK to develop an adjuvanted Jewish former property owners and their sents foreign interests in our country,” PiS MP cell, thereby preventing the disease from devel- vaccine, using innovative technology from descendants have been campaigning for Arkadiusz Mularczyk told Reuters, adding that oping and allowing the body’s immune system both companies. It plans to begin clinical trials compensation since the fall of communism the PO candidate took “his mandate” from to destroy the virus before any disease occurs. on humans in the next couple of months. Using in 1989. But the nationalist ruling Law and Berlin or Brussels and would not stand up for If the third phase of testing by Moderna adjuvant technology would reduce the number Justice party (PiS) says Poland itself was also a Polish interests. is successful, the company believes it would of antibodies needed to produce vaccines, victim of Nazi Germany and that it is for Berlin A spokesman for PO said it was difficult be able to begin mass production of a vaccine therefore accelerating time to market. to compensate former Polish Jews. to comment on such “absurdities.” in the coming months with an estimated one The prime time news show on state- “Public television in Poland is more owned TVP suggested on Sunday that similar to public television in Russia or Belarus Trzaskowski, presidential candidate of the than to public television in a democratic centrist Civic Platform (PO), would use public country,” said Jan Grabiec. US May Withhold Aid to money to compensate Jews for their losses and Trzaskowski has said he will reform TVP fail to defend national interests if he beat the if he wins the presidency. Jordan Over Extradition of Israel Passes Law Allowing ‘Sbarro’ Terrorist

Ministers to Temporarily Give BY JNS.org Up Parliament Seats The US may consider halting aid to Jordan in an effort to secure the extradition of Ahlam Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi, a Jordanian terrorist on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for her role in BY JNS.org Prime Minister and Vice the suicide bombing at a Jerusalem pizzeria Premier Benny Gantz. The legislation is impor- in 2001 that killed 15 people, including two Israel’s Knesset on Monday passed a law tant to Gantz’s Blue and White Party, as 12 of American citizens. allowing legislators appointed ministers or An FBI “Most Wanted Terrorist” poster for Pales- the 15 Blue and White members elected to the Henry Wooster, nominee for the role of deputy ministers to resign temporarily from tinian terrorist Ahlam Ahmad al-Tamimi, one of Knesset during the March elections are minis- US ambassador to Jordan, made the threat to the masterminds of the Aug. 9, 2001 bombing of their parliamentary seats and enable other ters or deputy ministers and thus are unable to withhold aid to pressure Jordan to extradite the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. Photo: FBI. members of their party to take their place. formulate laws or sit on Knesset committees, Tamimi in a written statement to the Senate Under the so-called “Norwegian Law,” II is scheduled to speak to the Senate Foreign leaving only three of the party’s MKs to do this Foreign Relations Committee, according to if such a minister or deputy minister later Relations Committee and House Foreign work. Proponents of the law argue that it is the AP.“The United States has multiple options resigns, is dismissed or is appointed prime Affairs Committee via video to voice his a welcome first step towards a separation of and different types of leverage to secure minister, vice prime minister or acting prime opposition to Israel’s plan to extend sover- powers in Israel, where, currently, members of Ahlam Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi’s extradition,” minister, he or she automatically returns to eignty to the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea the executive are also members of the legisla- wrote Wooster. “We will continue to engage the Knesset at the expense of the new MK. The and Samaria. ture, unlike in the United States. Jordanian officials at all levels not only on this law allows for between one and five members Tamimi, who selected the target and Opponents of the law claim that it is a issue, but also on the extradition treaty more of a party who are also ministers or deputy drove the bomber there, was arrested by waste of badly needed funds, because it will broadly. US generosity to Jordan in Foreign ministers to give up their parliament seats in Israel weeks after the attack and sentenced cost the public millions more dollars per year. Military Financing as well as economic favor of party members below them on their to 16 life terms, but was released in the 2011 Opposition head slammed the support and other assistance is carefully party’s list. The bill was approved in its second Israel-Hamas prisoner swap and moved to government on Twitter, claiming: “Instead of calibrated to protect and advance the range of and third readings, with 66 votes in favor and Jordan. She has appeared frequently in the unemployment benefits for freelance workers US interests in Jordan and in the region.” 43 against. It required 61 votes to pass. media, expressing no remorse for her role in and grants for the unemployed, they are The extradition issue is likely to be raised The passing of the law was a condition of the deaths of innocent civilians. wasting public funds on [political] jobs.” this Wednesday when Jordan’s King Abdullah the coalition agreement signed between Israeli www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 A5 U.S. News.

Jersey, and subsequently as Vice President of Former ADL Exec Appointed to its Northeast Division overseeing the Connect- icut and Boston-based regional offices.” Head Security Training Initiative Against a background of a rise in antise- mitic incidents, Bernstein would now lead a push to introduce CSS to “even more Jewish for US Jewish Communities communities across the country, building nationwide and central office infrastructure, the addition of new board members, and the future establishment of a security advisory BY ALGEMEINER STAFF board,” the statement said. The facade of the Tree of Life synagogue in “We are ramping up our efforts to create Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nov. 3, 2018. Veteran US Jewish advocate Evan Bernstein was announced on Monday as chief execu- a more robust operation that meets the latest Photo: Reuters / Alan Freed / File. tive officer of the Community Security Service (CSS) — an independent organization focused security demands we see first-hand in our equip them with the critical tools needed to on protecting the Jewish community and its institutions through what it calls the “best-in-class work with communal organizations,” Edward create secure environments.” training to build on-the-ground volunteer led CSS physical security teams and safety programs.” Sugar — CSS Board Chair — said. “With new Bernstein said that he was “honored to CSS said in a statement that Bernstein was coming to the organization “with substantial resources, funding, leadership, and dedicated have been selected to lead a national organi- leadership experience of more than 20 years and has been at the forefront of fighting anti- community members, we are now in a better zation whose singular ever-critical mission is Semitism and all forms of hate, including a long tenure at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), position to push back against the rising tide of to protect Jewish life and Jewish way of life.” where he served for seven years as the organization’s regional director for New York and New incidents singling out Jewish institutions and ‘Rabble-Rouser’ Yair Netanyahu’s ‘Racist’ Obama Tweet Slammed by Abe Foxman

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Yair Netanyahu — the 28-year-old son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — was upbraided on Tuesday by a senior American Jewish leader for his tweet promoting the discredited conspiracy theory that former US President Barack Obama was born in Kenya. “One is tempted to ignore the racist rants of a young rabble-rouser, but this is too serious, especially at this time,” Abraham Foxman — the National Director Emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) — told The Algemeiner, when asked for his reaction to the younger Netanyahu’s earlier posting on Twitter. On Tuesday morning, Netanyahu shared a post by Malik Obama — the estranged half-brother of the ex-president who lives in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi — showing a fabricated birth certificate purportedly belonging to Barack Obama. The fake certificate has been doing the rounds of social media since at least 2009 and contains several obvious clues as to its false nature. For example, it lists the country of birth as the “Republic of Kenya” in the year 1961 — but Kenya did not become a republic until 1964. Additionally, some versions of the certificate shared by supporters of the so-called “birther” movement have carried the birth registra- tion number 47O44; Obama was 47 when he became the 44th president of the United States. “Yair Netanyahu may think he’s speaking out as an individual, but the world looks at his family name and sees him as a representative of the State of Israel, or at least as acting on the behest of his father,” Foxman said. Added Foxman: “The son of the prime minister of Israel believes that he can sound off without any regard for, in this case, the feelings and sensitivities of American Jews. He tweets a discredited, offensive and racist meme about Presi- dent Obama at a time of major upheaval here. He should delete it and apologize.” Yair Netanyahu’s social media activity has regularly courted controversy. Currently without a job and living at his parents’ official residence in Jerusalem, Netanyahu had been working for the Israeli legal NGO Shurat Ha-Din when he was suspended in March 2019 for a Twitter post deriding Israeli President ’s commitment to the rights of Arab citizens of Israel. In Dec. 2018, he was briefly suspended from after posting that peace in the region would not come until “all the Jews” or “all the Muslims” departed from Israel. “I prefer the second option,” he wrote. A6 | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 Opinion.

mightily with the Obama administration. So did the elected government of Israel as The Demonization of Netanyahu well as AIPAC and even leading Democrats like Senators Charles Schumer and Robert Adviser Aaron Klein Menendez, as well as 78% of the Israeli population. I worked closely with activists and politicians on both sides of the aisle to oppose the catastrophic Iran deal which was was tapped last week to serve as strategic Aaron to be a man of firm moral grounding — a disgrace to the United States. Were we all and communications advisor to Israeli Prime a Jewish patriot with a passion for truth and ‘antagonizing democrats’? SHMULEY BOTEACH Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. burning Jewish pride. Ultimately, the jabs hurled Klein’s way ENGELWOOD Considering Netanyahu is himself a nearly Most importantly for a man in his position are symptomatic of a stadium mentality with unparalleled strategist and communicator, it Klein has exhibited insight and understanding which so many view the Jewish State. Worse, follows that he’d only draft the highest-caliber on many of Israel’s key political issues. they demand Israel play by their rules. assets. Indeed, Klein’s credentials are solid and For example, Israel is regularly pressured For too long in America, we’ve seen To give an example: Israel mulls annexa- assuring. Before helping Netanyahu and Likud into making dangerous territorial conces- people fired, forced to resign, or other- tion, and as if on cue, the coliseum crowds win their last election — his work was praised sions. In the wake of the fifteen-year fiasco wise de-platformed for nothing more than emerge. The Palestinian Authority, the UN, by campaign chairman Israel Katz — Klein in Hamas-held Gaza, it’s an easier motion to expressing an unpopular political opinion. and the EU chime in. Dignitaries warn that had worked for more than fifteen years as a oppose today. But in 2005, much of Israel was With time, this ‘cancel-culture' has become the Jewish annexation of their own historic journalist, strategist, and author specializing in swept up in a fever to unilaterally withdraw increasingly intense. Lately, it can even be homeland could lead to ‘disaster,’ ‘escalations,’ politics and the Middle East. from the enclave. Dashing for a quick-fix, seen seeping into the mesh of the Israeli polit- or even Israel’s collapse. A group of 400 Jewish And yet, some in Israel have protested his many were oblivious to the risks. To his credit, ical and media establishments. studies professors equate annexation to appointment. Of course, they don’t call into Klein was on the scene, telling the truth about In the United States, this “spirit of “Apartheid.” Even the Emirati ambassador to question his integrity or abilities, but rather a the elements Israel would be empowering ferocious intellectual intolerance,” as my the US Yousef al-Otaiba felt the need to warn few obscure political opinions he expressed and the Jews it was evicting. He lived there friend, ’ columnist Brett Israel against annexation, publishing an op-ed over the past fifteen years. News outlets on on the ground for six months, covering the Stephens calls it, reached a crescendo last in Hebrew and in Israel’s leading newspaper both sides of the aisle dug through a decade Gush Katif residents being forcibly evacuated week with the resignation (or forced-firing) of Yedioth Aharonoth — a PR event facilitated by of news content, each intent on proving from their own homes. He gave a voice to the New York TimesEditorial Page editor James a man I admire, Haim Saban. that Klein was a right-wing extremist. Some heroic, yet much-maligned settlers, whose Bennet, a distinguished journalist with impec- But with all this, Israel has so slammed him for slamming President Obama, very presence on that land stopped it from cable liberal credentials, who did nothing manymouths to please. even as Obama empowered genocidal Imams becoming the giant unified rocketropolis that wrong but publish an op-ed by a sitting Of course, there should be different with $150 billion and legitimized their nuclear it is today. And I was a personal witness to so American Senator expressing what turned views on annexation. It’s a complex issue that ambitions with his Iran deal and refused to much of this as my children were, arguably, out to be mainstream views. The opinion — Israelis should analyze, discuss and decide on. veto an United Nations motion against Israel, the last to actually plant trees in Gush Katif namely, that America should deploy active But trading partners, Jewish-studies profes- itself an American first. Others warned that (on Tu B’Shvat) the year it was handed to the duty troops to major American cities in sors, and the ambassador to a foreign nation Klein’s appointment might offend Biden, Hamas terrorists. response to looting and rioting — was at the from an even more foreign nation? Respect- summing it up as a “short-sighted move” bent In the years since Israel’s withdrawal, tens time supported by 52% of American voters, fully, since when did their voices matter more on “antagonizing Democrats.” of thousands of rockets have been fired and as Stephens pointed out in abrilliant op-ed than Israelis themselves? And I say this as an But since when has expressing right-wing thousands of innocents sacrificed in further- earlier this week. Personally, I was opposed American Jew who loves Israel. views become “antagonizing” to democrats? ance of Hamas’ stated goal of murdering every to deploying American troops. But the idea The annexation debate has proven Surely Israel as a democracy, like the United Jew the world over that a distinguished editor was fired over that no country has to put up with non-stop States itself, has people on the right and Responding to that tragic tendency, publishing Senator Tom Cotton’s opinion is micro-management like Israel does. Klein’s the left, and like the wings of a bird which Klein has fought to make the malice of Israel’s shocking. And yet, cascades of condemna- appointment has shown that Israel mustn’t achieves flight through antithetical propul- enemies known. Pursuing high-risk interviews, tions and a New York Times staff revolt would just impress American Presidents, but their sion, we need both. Klein spoke directly with terrorist chieftains quickly culminate in Bennet’s resignation. potential successors, too. I have known Aaron Klein as a profes- (including some from Hamas) laying bare the Looking past the uproar it’s clear that I urge Prime Minister Netanyahu, Aaron sional colleague for some 15 years and have barbarity of their plans and world-views. In ideas today are judged less by their merits Klein, and their detractors, to recall this long valued him as someone dedicated in others, he forced political and religious leaders than popularity and mass-appeal. That trend simple, unbreakable truth. When you have body, heart, and soul to the Jewish state. As to take a stand on the terrorist issue, unmasking has empowered another: the masses have inherent merits, you need no one’s approval. far back as a decade ago, we hosted radio- Hamas-sympathizers like English Parliamen- now become judges, juries, and executioners Israelis can think for themselves. shows on WABC 770AM in New York City, tarian George Galloway and the Imam of the of people’s entire careers. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s holocaust America’s most listened-to talk-radio station. planned Ground-Zero mosque. As a result, politics and media are begin- memoir, “Holocaust Holiday: One Family’s In the years since, I’ve written intermittently With all of this and more, Klein has ning to feel less like the Roman Forum than Descent into Genocide Memory Hell,” written for Breitbart News, for whom he founded and emerged as a leader in the field of combat- the Roman Coliseum — where only the with historical contributions by Mitchell Bard, led the Jerusalem-based Middle-East Bureau. ting BDS and heralding the merits and virtues crowd-pleasers survive. will be published later this year. Follow him on From what I have seen, read and heard, I know of Israel for the world to see. Yes, he clashed Which brings us to Aaron Klein, who Twitter and Instagram @RabbiShmuley.

the “alternate homeland” scenario; this plan would see the forced transfer or displacement Do Jordanians Want a of Palestinians to Jordan. Dr. Al-Sharafat wants to see all parties return to the negotiating table Palestinian State? under the auspices of the Americans. Jordanian Awad Al-Maharmeh stated, “I am satisfied with saying that I do not support the establishment of an armed Palestinian state on But do Jordanians support the eventual the borders of Jordan, but Palestinian autonomy The Jordan Valley.Photo: Юкатан via establishment of an independent armed only.” As for Israel’s plans to annex some of the Wikimedia Commons. RAMI DABBAS Palestinian state on their borders? territory, on that topic, he refused to comment. another act of “occupation.” But he added that NEW YORK One can’t simply forget the events of Black A Jordanian entrepreneur residing in September in the 1970s or the Lebanese civil Chile said, “Jordanian lands for me, as a Jorda- he “does not encourage the establishment of war of the 1980s, both of which were caused by nian, are holy lands from the Jordan River to an Islamic Palestinian state west of the river. the Palestinians. And then there’s all the smaller the borders of Saudi Arabia, from the borders I prefer to see the West Bank under Jordanian guardianship, and let the Palestinians self-rule Israel is reportedly considering applying terrorist attacks and airplane hijackings by of Syria and Iraq to Aqaba. But the Palestinian in a demilitarized state.” sovereignty to territory in the West Bank. Palestinians. In short, we’ve come to know the issue does not at all concern me.” Finally, Modar al-Momani, a Jorda- King Abdullah II of Jordan and his foreign Palestinians as a people who quickly turn to Laith Haddad is a Jordanian singer living nian-born international journalist based in minister both strongly oppose the annexation violence and terrorism given the opportunity. in the United Arab Emirates. “I am in favor of an Jerusalem, said, “The safest solution is two and describe it as illegal. There are reports Dr. Saud Al-Sharafat, director of the unarmed Palestinian state. … If a Palestinian state neighboring states, which just like any two that Benny Gantz will soon visit Amman to Sharafat Center for Globalization and were to be established, it must be demilitarized,” countries in the world, would be governed by discuss the situation with our king. Terrorism Studies and Research in Amman, he said. As for Israel annexing some of the terri- international law. And this according to the All Arab countries are publicly opposing is against the annexation process, and his tory, Haddad insisted that Israel didn’t have the 1967 border lines.” the annexation, but Jordan is at the center of this position is the same as that of the Jordanian right to do so. “However,” he added, “as a Christian, Rami Dabbas is a civil engineer by issue given its location and that it previously government and the king. I also recognize that these lands have been Jewish profession who writes for several media ruled the territories in question. Jordan is now He says that the timing is inappropriate, since the time of the biblical Exodus.” outlets. He is a pro-Israel advocate, peace using that unique position to take a number and that the move will harm Israel’s long-term A retired engineer and professor of campaigner, and political activist speaking of steps against the Israeli move, especially in interests. This is especially true in regard to theology at a Christian college in Amman out against terrorism. A version of this article Washington and European capitals. Israel’s relations with Jordan, which fears called Israel’s plans to annex the Jordan Valley was originally published by Israel Today. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 A7 Opinion. An Open Letter to Eliot More Antisemitic Activity Engel’s Primary Opponent at UMass Amherst Is Not a Surprise

AVI WEISS NEW YORK JUSTINE MURRAY SYRACUSE

Those murderous acts have not spared your own district. Just a year and a half ago, New York congressional candidate Jamaal Baker Hall at the University of Massachusetts Ari Fuld, son of Rabbi Yonah Fuld, was knifed Bowman. Photo: Jamaal Bowman for Congress/Facebook. The university’s Students for Justice in Amherst. Photo: Wikipedia Commons. to death by a Palestinian terrorist. in Palestine (SJP) chapter immediately entitled “Opposing efforts to delegitimize the Yet some of these incidents are justified And let us not forget the countless other rushed to their own defense, denying any State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divest- and even celebrated. Why? Because groups American victims of Palestinian terrorism, involvement in the incident. They released a ment, and Sanctions Movement targeting like SJP and other anti-Israel activists perform including Taylor Force, an American veteran backhanded “condemnation” of the act that Israel.” When the time came to vote on it, 398 mental gymnastics to convince college who was murdered in Tel Aviv by Palestinian mentioned nothing about antisemitism, but Congresspersons voted yea, 17 voted nay. administrators that their Jew-hatred is simply terrorists. In 2018, the Taylor Force Act was instead made the incident about themselves. Reps. AOC, Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida a way of advocating for the rights of Palestin- passed in Congress. The bill calls for America Entitled “End the Criminalization of Pales- Tlaib (D-MI) were among the few nay votes. ians and other minorities. to decrease aid to the PA until it stops tinian Identity,” the statement alleged that How would you have voted on this Antisemitic incidents occur time and again supporting terrorist families. the act of vandalism caused anti-Palestinian resolution? How can we be sure that having on college campuses everywhere with the same Due to the PA’s “pay to slay” policy, the discrimination. received a strong endorsement from AOC excuse: Israel, the only real democracy in the families of these terrorists will be receiving This disgraceful display of antisemi- (who also co-sponsored a different pro-BDS Middle East, is somehow an “oppressive regime” financial support from the PA for life. Knowing tism is nothing new at UMass Amherst. The resolution proposed by Omar), that you and therefore, it’s OK to demonize Jewish that their families will receive money, this SJP chapter there has a long track record of don’t support her on this issue? Are you students on campus for their support of Zionism policy has also inspired others to commit contributing to the college’s hateful climate. able to definitively commit yourself to never and Jewish self determination. more heinous acts of terror. Only a few weeks earlier, the chapter supporting BDS? As CAMERA on Campus notes, the Countless Riverdalians now live in waged an online attack on the UMass Black Speaking of Reps. Omar and Tlaib, you vandalism at the UMass Hillel center is just Israel, including my daughter and her family. Student Union and a Jewish student group for tweeted that “@IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib do another example of a “common pattern Some live in the town of Efrat, just south of co-hosting a Zoom lecture with a black Jewish not hate Israel.” As many know, both Omar displayed by many antisemites: holding Jerusalem, in Gush Etzion. In the center of Israeli. Calling this event “a larger effort by the and Tlaib have made highly antisemitic state- American Jews accountable for a conflict Gush Etzion, many, including Ezra Schwartz, Israeli government,” SJP harped on the speak- ments in recent years, and their antisemitism happening on the other side of the world.” a teenager from Boston, were viciously er’s association with AIPAC, playing into the has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation A disconcerting trend across colleges murdered by Palestinian terrorists. trope that Jewish organizations are conniving League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and universities is that campus groups are Furthermore, the human rights abuses and always have an ulterior motive. among many others. Do you still stand by often going unpunished for these actions. of the PA (and the Hamas terrorist organiza- The speaker was supposed to discuss your defense of these Congresswomen? Furthermore, instead of advocating tion, for that matter) don’t merely extend her experiences as a black Jewish Israeli, but Mr. Bowman, you have raised questions for ways to actually help Palestinians fight to Israelis, but Palestinians as well. In fact, SJP attempted to dehumanize her as nothing about Israel’s human rights record and corruption within their own government according to a 149-page report released in more than a Zionist stooge, blindly carrying labeled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin or condemning violence and attempts on 2018 by Human Rights Watch, the organiza- out the “nefarious” interests of the Israel lobby. Netanyahu as “authoritarian.” However, Israel innocent lives, Students for Justice in Palestine tion describes what it calls “arbitrary arrests” SJP preached that they must shut down is the only democracy in the Middle East. It preoccupies itself with donning Hezbollah and “systematic torture” by the PA and Hamas dialogue at all costs when it comes to the has just gone through its third election in 18 T-shirts and publicly celebrating known towards innocent Palestinians. Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because it “normal- months. Yet you’ve said nothing about the PA, terrorists, including Rasmea Odeh. Odeh Mr. Bowman, you have said before izes the occupation.” This absurd claim violates whose president, Mahmoud Abbas, is now helped plan the 1969 Jerusalem supermarket that “this is not about singling out Israel and the principles of academic freedom, which in his 15th year of a four-year term. Will you bombing that murdered two students. targeting Israel.” Yet it seems to me, at least in maintain that while dialogue is welcome on a similarly label Abbas an authoritarian? SJP at UMass has, in fact, publicly idolized regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that college campus, inciting hatred against Jewish I look forward, and I believe our commu- convicted terrorists — when a representa- this is exactly what you are doing. students on campus is not. nity looks forward, to hearing your responses tive praised Popular Front for the Liberation And so, in light of all this, my questions Despite this, some faculty supporters to the specific questions that I’ve raised. of Palestine icon Leila Khaled. Khaled has are very specific: Do you support the Taylor of SJP, like UMass professor Sut Jhally, often Sincerely, hijacked two airplanes. But UMass SJP’s Nate Force Act? Are you prepared to say that propagate antisemitism in the classroom. Rabbi Avi Weiss Taskin says that he’s “inspired by her story.” you oppose the PA’s policy of financially He produced the movie, The Occupation of Avi Weiss is the founding rabbi of the And unsuspecting college students, supporting families of terrorist murderers? The American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and longtime eager to latch on to what they believe is a And will you condemn the human rights War in the US, narrated by rock star activist activist for Jewish causes and human rights. social justice cause, gleefully jump on the abuses of the PA and Hamas? Roger Waters. The film itself is a hodgepodge He is the author of Spiritual Activism: A Jew-hating bandwagon. If these “pro- Pales- Additionally, your position on BDS is not of doctored footage stitched together in Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing tinian” organizations really cared about clear. an attempt to give credence to antisemitic the World. human rights, where are their protests when Most recently, there was a bill in Congress conspiracy theories of Jewish-controlled governments and media. terrorist groups like Hamas use Palestinian All of this from a professor tasked with children as human shields? Where is their Continued from Page A2 time, a staggering human cost. teaching communications. outrage when Palestinian school curricula Nazi Headstones In institutional terms, some current signs But UMass isn’t the only school harboring train their children how to “become martyrs” was Nazi Germany. After all, many leading can be seen of a move against the commemo- Jew-hatred. Students for Justice in Palestine and kill Jews from a young age? Where are Confederates, including Braxton Bragg, for ration of the Confederacy. Defense Secretary chapters have popped up on campuses every- their picket signs and boycotts when the whom the famous base in North Carolina is Mark Esper has mooted a “bipartisan discus- where. Their antisemitic tirades have had a Palestinian Authority doubles down on their named, and Jefferson Davis, the president of sion” on the renaming of military bases, detrimental effect on campus life for Jewish lifetime “pay-to-slay” salary awarded to those the Confederacy, were honored veterans of while the US Navy has outlawed the display students. who murder Israeli Jews? the Mexican-American war of 1846-48, and of Confederate flags aboard its ships and in A 2015 study conducted by researchers If Students for Justice in Palestine and considered to be great and sage patriots. The other facilities. But as the Jewish experience at Trinity College revealed that more than their faculty supporters ever hope to base their Civil War they helped initiate a little more than reminds us only too well, changes in institu- half of Jewish college students in the US have cause on the principle of justice, then it should a decade later was not the result of outside tional behavior aren’t necessarily mirrored experienced antisemitism on their campus. not come at the cost of injustice toward others. aggression, according to this argument, but a in public opinion. Especially with Trump in Antisemitic incidents on campus increased Justine Murray is a student at Syracuse tragic conflict within the American family that the White House, the segment of opinion that by 45% in the following year. University, and a pro-Israel advocate. politics alone was not able to resolve. twists its perverse regard for the Confederacy This interpretation of history is one of the into an American value will continue to assert factors behind Trump’s vocal rejection of the itself aggressively. Petraeus, wrote recently in The Atlantic. “The military cemeteries, then we should treat the removal of Confederate memorials. It might The only response to this misrepresenta- irony of training at bases named for those symbols of the Confederate betrayal of the seem patriotic, but in reality, it isn’t — not least tion is to point to the historical record. “These who took up arms against the United States, United States in a similar manner. because the values and the vision of American bases are, after all, federal installations, home and for the right to enslave others, is inescap- Ben Cohen is a New York City-based society that the Confederacy represented had to soldiers who swear an oath to support and able to anyone paying attention.” journalist and author who writes a weekly eventually to be defeated on the battlefield at defend the Constitution of the United States,” If we are no longer prepared to tolerate column on Jewish and international affairs what was, especially by the standards of that the former head of the CIA, Gen. David Nazi symbols as an ongoing presence in our for JNS. A8 | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 Impressions.

Palestinians Make Don’t Legalize Marijuana Questionable in Israel Claims on Borders

and Human Rights BY MIRIAM ADELSON/JNS.org and normalizing cannabis in society, among normal adults, will quickly find its way to minors, an especially It is sad that in a time of disputes on issues of vulnerable group whose brains continue to develop the utmost importance to Israel, the parties that until the ages of 21-25. The drug itself could have BY ELDER OF ZION control its unity government have managed to catastrophic effects on these young people. agree on only one subject: the “need” to decrimi- Not only does early familiarity with drugs nalize and legalize cannabis. make them more widely used farther down the Yesterday was the weekly meeting of the Pales- For experts on the issue of drug use, like road, but cannabis also harms the development tinian Authority cabinet. Prime Minister Mohammad myself, watching the Likud and Blue and White of the young brain and impairs the ability to make Shtayyeh said some nonsensical stuff, including this parties announce last week that they would work decisions. Studies show that a young person who puzzling statement: “The territory of our Palestinian state is one contiguous unit on the entire borders of June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital” and “any solution, settlement, or political project must guarantee a just solution to the refugee issue.” How can the borders be the “borders” of 1967 be contiguous, when the area was split before 1967 between the West Bank and Gaza? As far as a “just solution to the refugee issue” — who decides what is “just”? Because if it is Palestinians, the only solution they could agree on is one that erases Israel. According to the report, he added this head- scratcher: Shtayyeh also confirmed the government’s solidarity with all who are subject to discrimination in all its forms, whether it is racial discrimination based on color, religion, nationalism, or gender, and that our people are against injustice and with freedom, equality, and justice for the rest of the

An employee tends to a medical cannabis plants at Pharmocann, an Israeli medical cannabis company in northern Israel, Jan. 24, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Amir Cohen / File. together to normalize cannabis use in Israel was starts to use cannabis at age 14 or 15 has an 18% like watching a disaster unfold on the big screen, chance of becoming addicted to opiates as an adult. facilitated by people who, on any other matter, are The chance increases to a frightening 28% among reasonable and rational. those who start to use cannabis at age 13. Studies Decriminalization is a clear path to legal- have shown that the IQ of children who used ization, and the legalization of this supposedly cannabis dropped six to eight points lower than A rocket is fired towards Israel, in the southern Gaza “harmless” drug is a threat to society, especially that of children who did not. Strip February 24, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu to its youth, who are society’s most vulnerable It’s unequivocal: The drug makes those of our Mustafa. members. teenagers who use it, the next generation, less intel- Please, let’s put the arguments about the ligent and more likely to waste their lives. Israel has people of the world. medical advantages of cannabis into proportion: been blessed with human treasure — wonderful This is amusing because if a Jew –- even one who Cannabis might be able to help the treatment of young people who reach international achieve- lived in Gush Etzion, across the Green Line, before multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and other diseases, but ments in every field. We must not harm them by 1948 — would want to buy land in “Palestine,” he or she that research is still in its infancy — like the research legitimizing cannabis, a plant that damages motiva- couldn’t. It’s illegal. And the person who wants to sell about the dangers of becoming addicted to it. tion, IQ, poses a risk of addiction to soft and hard to the Jew would be arrested. Not exactly equal rights. It’s important to remember that the medical drugs, and facilitates the onset of psychosis. Also, there are quite a few Palestinian laws that discourse focuses on CBD, the non-psychoactive You’ve been warned. discriminate against women, homosexuals, and many component of cannabis, or, to use more familiar Dr. Miriam Adelson, MD is a specialist in others. slang, the component that doesn’t cause a “high.” chemical dependency and drug addiction. She Could the respected prime minister of the Pales- If CBD is proven to be of medical value, it can be is the publisher of Israel Hayom and, with her tinian Authority not be telling the truth? I highly doubt it. produced in pill form. From here, the puffers asked husband Sheldon Adelson, the owner of Israel Elder of Ziyon has been blogging about Israel for permission to consume the drug in its natural Hayom and the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Arab world for a really long time now. He form, catching a lift to the desired “high.” Of course, newspapers. also controls the world, but deep down, you already the negative financial interests of the producers are A version of this article first appeared in knew that. also hovering in the background. Israel Hayom. Cannabis is a gateway drug to harder drugs, www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 A9 Legals. Opinion. LEGAL NOTICE Germany and the The New Iconoclasm: Jews: Hope That Down With Jefferson, People Can Change Up With Sharpton

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searching out a place’s weaknesses them, Joshua and Caleb, listened of the past. and vulnerabilities. That is what carefully and understood what their As with our justified Jewish What Is Going On? spying is about. The exclusive use mission was: to be the eyes of the grievances, one can make a case of the verb latur in our parsha – congregation, letting them know for removing reminders of the repeated twelve times – is there to the beauty and goodness of what Confederacy, which was both racist tell us that the twelve men were not lay ahead, the land that had been and treasonous, or of anything else comprehend tribal societies. You sent to spy. But only two of them their destiny since the days of their linked to slavery. cannot use war to turn them into JONATHAN SACKS understood this. ancestor Abraham. But what’s going on isn’t really liberal democracies. Fail to under- Almost forty years later, The Israelites at that stage did about slavery, the Civil War, or even LONDON stand this and you will waste many when Moses retells the episode not need spies. As Moses said many America’s horrifying century of Jim years, trillions of dollars, and tens of in Devarim 1:22-24, he does use years later: “You did not trust in the Crow discrimination and segrega- thousands of lives. the verbs lachpor and leragel. In Lord your God, who went ahead of tion. Nor are the efforts to “defund It might seem odd to suggest In March 2020, whilst launching Genesis 42, when the brothers you on your journey, in fire by night the police” or to eliminate positive that a book by two contemporary a new book, I took part in a BBC radio come before Joseph in Egypt to and in a cloud by day, to search out portrayals of the police (like the economists holds the clue to unrav- programme along with Mervyn King, buy food, he accuses them of being places for you to camp and to show children’s cartoon “Paw Patrol” elling the mystery of the spies in our who had been governor of the Bank meraglim, “spies”, a word that you the way you should go” (Deut. that some especially foolish people parsha. But it does. of England at the time of the finan- appears seven times in that one 1:32-33). God was going to show want thrown off the air) about We think we know the story. cial crash of 2008. He, together with chapter. He also defines what it is to them where to go and where to attack. confronting police brutality and Moses sent twelve spies to spy out the economist John Kay, had also be a spy: “You have come to see the The people needed something modern-day racism. the land. Ten of them came back brought out a new book, Radical nakedness of the land” (i.e. where it else entirely. Moses had told them The same is true for those with a negative report. The land Uncertainty: decision-making for is undefended). that the land was good. It was who want to prevent the views is good, but unconquerable. The an unknowable future. The reason ten of the twelve “flowing with milk and honey.” But of conservatives like Sen. Tom people are strong, the cities impreg- The coronavirus pandemic men came back with a negative Moses had never seen the land. Cotton (R-Ark.) from a hearing in nable, the inhabitants are giants was just beginning to make itself report is not because they lacked Why should they believe him? mainstream media, or for those who and we are grasshoppers. Only two felt in Britain, and it had the effect of courage or confidence or faith. They needed the independent testi- are seeking to purge contemporary of the men, Joshua and Caleb, took a making both of our books relevant It was because they completely mony of eyewitnesses. That was the art and theater of all vestiges of that different view. We can win. The land in a way that neither of us could misunderstood their mission. They mission of the twelve. And in fact, all catch-all term of white privilege. It is good. God is on our side. With His have predicted. Mine is about the thought they had been sent to be twelve fulfilled that mission. When also applies to those who are trying help, we cannot fail. precarious balance between the “I” spies. But the Torah never uses the they returned, the first thing they to claim that words like “riots” and On this reading, Joshua and and the “we”: individualism versus word “spy” in our chapter. The ten said was: “We went into the land to “looting” are inherently racist, even simply did not understand what which you sent us, and it does flow if this is utter nonsense. was going on. with milk and honey! Here is its What is going on is an effort to They believed it was their fruit” (Num. 13:27). But because ten essentially challenge the foundation role to find out the “nakedness” of them thought their task was to be of Western civilization. It is illiberal of the land, where it was vulner- spies, they went on to say that the in that while posing as opposition to able, where its defences could be conquest was impossible, and from hate, it seeks to eliminate freedom overcome. They looked and could then on, tragedy was inevitable. of speech and thought. It prizes not find. The people were strong, The difference between the ten “safety” — ensuring that no one and the cities impregnable. The bad and Joshua and Caleb is not that is confronted not only by hateful news about the land was that there the latter had the faith, courage and things but by any thought or idea was not enough bad news to make confidence the former did not. It is that contradicts their personal it weak and thus conquerable. They that they understood the story; the assumptions and biases — over thought their task was to be spies ten did not. liberty and freedom. and they did their job. They were I find it fascinating that a And it is expressed in a latter- honest and open. They reported leading economist and a former day McCarthyism in which all those what they had seen. Based on the Governor of the Bank of England who don’t conform to the fashion intelligence they had gathered, they should argue for the importance of of the day are hounded, shunned, advised the people not to attack – narrative when it comes to decision- and silenced. Those who challenge Caleb had faith, courage and confi- the common good. Theirs is about not now, and not from here. making under conditions of radical the assumptions of the movement, dence, while the other ten did not. how to make decisions when you Their mistake was thatthey uncertainty. Yet that is the profound even if they are outspoken against But this is hard to understand. The cannot tell what the future holds. were not meant to be spies. They truth in our parsha. racism, are branded as racists. Even ten – not just Joshua and Caleb – The modern response to this were told latur, not lachpor or Ten of the twelve men thought those who stay silent and refuse to knew that God was with them. He latter question has been to hone leragel. Their job was to tour, they were part of a story of espionage. recite the current catechism of guilt had crushed Egypt. The Israelites and refine predictive techniques explore, travel, see what the land The result was that they looked for are now being canceled; hence, had just defeated the Amalekites. using mathematical modelling. The was like and report back. They were the wrong things, came to the wrong the rush of individuals, organiza- How could these ten – leaders, trouble is that mathematical models to see what was good about the conclusion, demoralised the people, tions, and companies to insincerely princes – not know that they could work in a relatively abstract, delim- land, not what was bad. So, if they destroyed the hope of an entire virtual signal. defeat the inhabitants of the land? ited, quantifiable world and cannot were not meant to be spies, what generation, and will eternally be They may be currently taking What if the story were not deal with the messy, unpredict- was the purpose of this mission? remembered as responsible for one down statues of people you don’t this at all? What if it was not about able character of reality. They don’t I suggest that the answer is to of the worst failures in Jewish history. like, or tossing out books and films faith, confidence, or courage. What and cannot consider what Donald be found in a passage in the Talmud Read Amy Chua’s Political you think are bad, but the Bolshevik if it was about “What is going on?” Rumsfeld called the “unknown that states: it is forbidden for a man Tribes, mentioned earlier, and you spirit of this movement will never – understanding the situation and unknowns” and Nicholas Taleb to marry a woman without seeing will discover a very similar analysis apply to antisemitism. In fact, what happens when you don’t. The termed “black swans” – things that her first. The reason? Were he to of America’s devastating failures in eventually it will be applied to the Torah tells us that this is the correct no one expected but that change marry without having seen her first, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. perennial Jewish scapegoat and reading, and it signals it in a most the environment. We live in a world he might, when he does see her, find I write these words while the Zionism, which is falsely linked to striking way. of radical uncertainty. he is not attracted to her. Tensions Coronavirus pandemic is at its white privilege and colonialism. Biblical Hebrew has two verbs Accordingly, they propose a will inevitably arise. Hence the idea: height. Has anyone yet identified That’s why the only thing for that mean “to spy”: lachpor and different approach. In any critical first see, then love. the narrative of which it and we are principled persons to do now is stand leragel (from which we get the word situation, ask: “What is happening?” The same applies to a marriage a part? I believe that the story we tell up against this impulse. Though so meraglim, “spies”). Neither of these They quote Richard Rumelt: “A great between a people and its land. The affects the decisions we make. Get much of contemporary culture is words appear in our parsha. That deal of strategy work is trying to figure Israelites were travelling to the the story wrong and we can rob an pushing us towards compliance with is the point. Instead, no less than out what is going on. Not just deciding country promised to their ances- entire generation of their future. Get cancel culture, we must summon twelve times, we encounter the rare what to do, but the more fundamental tors. But none of them had ever seen it right, as did Joshua and Caleb, and up the courage to resist all outrage verb, la-tur. It was revived in modern problem of comprehending the situa- it. How then could they be expected we can achieve greatness. mobs, and to refuse to virtue signal or Hebrew and means (and sounds like) tion.” Narrative plays a major role in to muster the energies necessary Shabbat Shalom denounce those who fall afoul of the “to tour.” Tayar is a tourist. There is all making good decisions in an uncer- to fight the battles involved in self-appointed arbiters of wokeness. the difference in the world between a tain world. We need to ask: of what conquering the land? They were We should defend Western civiliza- tourist and a spy. story is this a part? about to marry a land they had not Continued from Page A2 tion — warts and all — against those Malbim explains the differ- All Down Neither Rumelt nor King and seen. They had no idea what they who wish to consign it to the dustbin Kay quote Amy Chua, but her ence simply. Latur means to seek were fighting for. context and to speak out about the of history. The alternative is not only book Political Tribes is a classic out the good. That is what tourists The twelve were sentlatur : commonplace hatred for Jews that a catastrophe for the West, but also account of failing to understand do. They go to the beautiful, the to explore and report on the good was so much a part of the last two for the Jews. the situation. Chapter by chapter majestic, the inspiring. They don’t things of the land so that the people millennia. But we should not join Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in she documents American foreign spend their time trying to find out would know it was worth fighting for. those seeking to vandalize, hide chief of JNS-Jewish News Syndi- policy disasters from Vietnam to what is bad. Lachpor and leragel Their task was to tour and explore, away, or delete those things that are cate. Follow him on Twitter @ Iraq because policy-makers did not are the opposite. They are about not spy and decry. But only two of linked to troubling ideas or actions jonathans_tobin. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 A11 Social.

Israeli Actress Shira Haas Shares Photo of ‘Shtisel’ Season 3 Script, Ahead of Potential July Filming

BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN

Clémence Poésy and Jesse Eisenberg in a scene from ‘Resistance.’ Photo: YouTube screenshot. “Shtisel” star Shira Haas got fans of the popular Israeli drama series excited on Friday when she Jewish Actor Jesse Eisenberg shared on Facebook a photo of the script for the show’s third season. “Here we go,” the Israeli actress captioned the Reflects on Playing French shot in which she peeks out from behind a script labeled, in Hebrew and English, “Shtisel Season 3.” The script is dated July 2020, which perhaps means Resistance Fighter, His Family’s that filming for the Hebrew-language television show will begin next month. The photo was originally posted on social media Holocaust History by YES Studios, the Israeli production company behind the series, which also streams on . YES Studios said, “We can’t wait to start produc- tion on #Shtisel3 and see our amazing cast and crew BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN when I was 18 years old. I think a lot of artists struggle again… it’s been a long time coming, but will be worth with this feeling — a lot of artists tend to be empathetic the wait! Shabbat Shalom!” Jewish actor Jesse Eisenberg opened up recently people and it’s sometimes why they were drawn to their “Shtisel” is about a fictional Haredi family about the family he lost in the Holocaust and his personal work in the first place — and yet when you get wrapped living in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Geula, connection to his latest film role, in which he plays a up in the day to day business of it, you lose track of how Jerusalem. Haas plays Ruchami Weiss, the teenage central figure in the French resistance against the Nazis. your work can be of service to other people.” In the film “Resistance,” Eisenberg, 36, takes on the He elaborated in an interview with Digital Spy, lead role of Marcel Marceau, a French mime artist who saying, “I started as a young man doing my writing and put his career on hold to rescue Jewish children from acting and my little plays. And then I met my wife, she the Nazis during World War II. Born as Marcel Mangel, kind of pulled me into a life of trying to use my artistry he began aiding the rescue efforts when he was 15, just to benefit other people. And of course, I entered like a few years older than many of the children whom he Marcel — reluctantly — and then discovered that it saved. His own father was murdered at Auschwitz. doesn’t compromise your work. So for me, the story was “My family comes from a part of Poland that is very incredibly personal…[It] spoke to me very specifically close to where Marceau’s father came from in south- as somebody who is an artist, who’s constantly trying to eastern Poland, so in some ways, it felt like I was playing reconcile the preciousness with which I treat my own somebody who, were I born with the same genetic artistry and helping others.” makeup but 70 years earlier, I would be him,” said the “Resistance” filmed in Germany, and Eisenberg, actor in an interview with The Australian Jewish News. along with his son, visited the site of the former Dachau Einseberg’s mother was a former professional concentration camp. At the site, the actor would meet clown, something he was able to reflect on when he with people affected by the war and spend time with played Marceau, he explained. the film’s German crew members who would tell family “The Social Network” actor also said he’s been stories “some of which were really amazing about practicing mime with his son. He recalled, “Before my families that helped people survive the war — and some child could speak I was rehearsing for this movie and stories that they were ashamed to have in their family,” performing mime for him. It transcended conversations Eisenberg noted. that we would have had if he were older and could speak, Discussing his own family’s connection to the and so there was something that was really unusually Holocaust, Eisenberg said, “I became obsessed with my powerful and effective about using mime in dialogue family’s history during the war when I was 19 years old. niece of the lead character in the show, Akiva Shtisel, with somebody who at the time couldn’t speak.” I would see my aunt every week — she died last year played by Michael Aloni. Marceau initially used his talents as a mime for at 106 … She was born in Poland and then when she Filming of the show’s third season was originally performance, but later realized he could also help lift the was about nine she came to America … I became really scheduled to begin in May, but was delayed due to the spirits of bereaved children. His process of finding a deeper fascinated and it was interesting for me as an American coronavirus pandemic. meaning in his work resembled Eisenberg’s own path. teenager to have some connection to something that Haas has most recently received praise for her He told The Australian Jewish News, “I have tried was so much more historically relevant than my own starring role as Esther “Esty” Shapiro in the Netflix to reconcile how the art that I am interested in can be of life. Doing this movie connected me that much more to miniseries “.” service to other people since I started acting and writing that period of time.” www.algemeiner.com Attention Not-For-Profit Organizations

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