SERIES Opinion. Tradition. ABOUT IS EU HAVING THE 'BIBI' SECOND THOUGHTS BLESSING NETANYAHU ABOUT ISRAEL? OF LOVE PLANNED A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 | 13 SIVAN 5780 VOL. XLVII NO. 2457 Five Police Shot Top US Jewish Groups Voice During US Protests, Solidarity, With Trump Says He Could Black Americans Bring in Military BY BEN COHEN The leading Jewish civil rights organization in the US declared its solidarity with black communities “suffering at the hands of a racist and unjust system” as protests sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis last week continued. In a statement issued over the weekend, the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) emphasized that Floyd’s killing reflected the “deep, pervasive, systemic issues” confronting African-Americans. US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible, in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, in Washington, DC, June 1, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Tom Brenner. Protesters gather at the scene where George Floyd was pinned down by a police officer kneeling on his neck before later dying in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 26, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Eric Miller. BY REUTERS after law enforcement officers used gunfire downtown & we will share teargas and rubber bullets to clear more info as it available,” St Louis “We stand in solidarity with Black and Brown commu- & ALGEMEINER STAFF the way for him to walk there after Police said on Twitter. nities across the country as they yet again are subject to pain Four St Louis police officers he made his remarks in the White Trump has condemned the and suffering at the hands of a racist and unjust system,” the were hit by gunfire late on Monday House Rose Garden. killing of George Floyd, a 46-year- statement — issued by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt — during violent protests over the death Demonstrators set fire to a old African American who died declared. of a black man in police custody, strip mall in Los Angeles, looted after a white policeman pinned his The ADL strongly criticized the fact that three of the hours after President Donald Trump stores in New York City and neck under a knee for nearly nine four police officers who were involved in arresting Floyd vowed to use the US military to halt clashed with police in St Louis, minutes in Minneapolis on May had not, so far, faced criminal charges. The fourth officer, the spreading clashes. Missouri, where four officers were 25, and has promised justice. But Derek Chauvin — who pinned his knee upon Floyd’s neck Trump deepened outrage by taken to hospital with non-life- he said rightful protests could not Continued on Page A3 posing at a church clutching a bible threatening injuries. be drowned out by an “angry mob.” “Officers are still taking Continued on Page A3 Emergency ShabbatCalendar Parshat NASSO Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 8:06pm | Shabbat Ends: 9:14pm פרשת נשא Committee for Israel? P.O.B. 208 East 51st St, Suite 185 New York, NY 10022 page A8 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2020 The Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 Opinion. Is the EU Having Second Thoughts Over Its Hostility Toward the Jewish State? This is a serious misreading of inter- national law. Israel is not “occupying” these MELANIE PHILLIPS territories. In law, occupation can only occur if /JNS.org the land belongs to a sovereign power, which was never the case here; and a state can also hold onto land which continues to be used for belligerent purposes against it. Has the European Union reached a It is also a gross misreading of the Geneva tipping point over Israel? Or to be more Convention, as the Israelis living in these terri- precise, is the Europeans’ bluff finally to be tories were not transferred but moved there called over Israel’s proposal to extend its entirely of their own volition. sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria? The animus against Israel by both the The EU has been mulling punitive EU and Britain is of long standing. Let’s European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Photo: Amio measures against Israel if it goes ahead with rephrase that: The animus against Israel by Cajander via Wikimedia Commons. what its Western critics call “annexation of the the European and British political class and occupied territories of the West Bank.” intelligentsia is of long standing. decades lain with the Arab world. countries toward Israel is therefore all the A number of member states, headed by For although the EU and Britain condemn Now, however, something more inter- more striking. A major reason is that, reacting France along with Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Israel for “illegal occupation,” fail to defend it esting has been occurring to undermine this against their recent experience of Soviet Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Belgium, against the malice of the United Nations, and collective animus. oppression, they are determined to assert and Luxembourg, are calling for a hard line. endorse the meretricious rulings against it at In 2004, the EU expanded to include a once again their historic national identity. Measures being considered include the European Court of Justice, they are never- number of post-communist countries from They are having to do so in the teeth of supporting any UN moves against “annexa- theless trading with Israel at ever-increasing central and eastern Europe, such as Hungary, a liberal orthodoxy that the Western nation tion”; public support of proceedings against levels, as well as depending heavily upon it for Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. is fundamentally racist, exploitative, and Israel currently underway in the International crucial military and intelligence support. Unlike Western Europe, these countries dangerous, and that it must be superseded by Criminal Court at The Hague; and increasing So while defaming Israel in the court of are friendly toward Israel. This is not because trans-national institutions like the UN or the EU. the boycott of settlements in various ways, world opinion, they have been simultaneously their populations are free of anti-Jewish These former Communist countries along with increased financial support for the milking its genius for their own benefit. They want prejudice or that these states are free of joined the EU because they believed it was in Palestinians. to hurt it, but not enough to hurt themselves. Holocaust guilt. On the contrary, central and their economic interest to do so. Nevertheless, The EU and Britain maintain that Israel Their hostility is the product of three eastern Europe has a terrible history of deeply there stretches a deep philosophical chasm is illegally occupying the disputed territories, factors: historic and ineradicable anti-Jewish embedded Catholic antisemitism, anti-Jewish between them and the European monolith. and that its settlements there amount to a prejudice; the pathological inability to deal pogroms, and atrocities against the Jews both For the EU was founded on the idea — in transfer of population into those lands in with collective guilt over the Holocaust; and during and after the Holocaust. line with the progressive belief that the West is The friendship extended by these contravention of the Geneva Convention. the perception that their interests have for Continued on Page A10 The New York Times’ Anguish Over Annexation in the State of Israel. Its Jewish publishers were did not “deport or transfer,” or forcibly compel, the frightened lest American Jews like themselves anyone to move there. Unlike the forced Algemeiner Journal JEROLD AUERBACH be seen as disloyal citizens. population transfers by Nazi Germany during BOSTON Its May 31st issue featured a two-column World War II (the source of this prohibition), (USPS 927800) is published weekly editorial diatribe titled “Annexation Violates Jewish settlers eagerly returned of their own (except for the week of Passover International Law.” It focused on the malfea- accord to Biblical Judea and Samaria, the and Succos) sance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ancient homeland of the Jewish people (as Subscription rate $40 per year Nothing is likelier to rile New York Times for declaring his intention to annex Jewish even the Times acknowledges). So much for editors — and, not infrequently, columnists Algemeiner Journal settlements. Attentive to the opposition that misplaced analogy. TheTimes editorial and contributing writers — than Jewish settle- of “international organizations” (never pleasingly notes that Joe Biden has declared 208 E 51st Street, Suite 185 ments in Judea and Samaria, the Biblical renowned for their embrace of Jewish state- that if elected president he would “reverse” a New York, N.Y. 10022 homeland of the Jewish people. hood), it spelled out “many reasons” why Trump annexation decision. The current round of censure began Periodicals Postage annexation is “a bad idea.” Annexation, the editors warned, “would three weeks ago (May 7) in a Times column Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. The “main reason” forTimes opposition render the West Bank into a patchwork of by Daniel Pipes, listing six reasons why Israel and at additional mailing offices is that “the West Bank is regarded by interna- simmering, unstable Bantustans” (a familiar should not annex any part of the West Bank. tional organizations and most of the world as Times equation of Israeli settlements with POSTMASTER: Among them, curiously, was that President occupied territory, and the Jewish settlements South African apartheid). It would also “weaken Send address changes to Donald Trump might “erupt in fury,” although as illegal under the Geneva Convention.” Israel’s support in the Democratic party,” he had already indicated his approval of the Algemeiner Journal According to Article 49, “The Occupying already at a low level, and among “American plan.