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Real Hate Speech and Actually Unsafe Community [UPDATE: 30 November]
The suspect in the first of two closely timed attacks on Orthodox Jewish boys sure doesn’t look like a skinhead or Klansman, which is why there is not a word about the suspects’ race.
The boy was walking home with his mother around 6 p.m. Sunday near Throop Avenue and Walton Street in Williamsburg.
Without saying a word, the passerby approached and punched him repeatedly in the face before rushing off, police said.
The attack likely NOT random, as it was followed by a second similar attack in the area, beating down another young Orthodox Jewish boy.
Just 30 minutes later, a second Orthodox boy, age 12, was walking home when he was approached by four or five strangers near Walton Street and Union Avenue — just over a block away from the previous attack, police and law enforcement sources said.
The group of men shoved the boy to the pavement and punched him before fleeing, law enforcement sources added.
So, someone spun these men up and pointed them at Jewish boys. If words 
matter and if we are supposed to check public figures on setting a hateful tone, where is the media and DNC outrage, heck, where are Saint Sasse, Defender of the TruCon Faith Flake, and the Venerable (if he’s not lyin’) Ryan? Their silence, now, condemns them, especially after another Democrat pundit, Marc Lamont Hill, went full eliminationist.
Speaking Wednesday at a United Nations-organized observance event for the terrorist-affiliated Palestinians, CNN political commentator Marc Lamont Hill appeared to endorse violent resistance against Israel and call for the 70-year nation state’s elimination.
In a speech delivered at the event’s opening meeting, he specifically argued that the Palestinians should be allowed to use methods of violent resistance to combat their alleged oppression by the Israelis.
Watch Marc Lamont Hill’s whole UN speech, or at least watch the most on point clip:
His call for the elimination of Israel, is linked with and justified by Black Lives Matter’s hatred of police, by literally blaming the Jews for alleged American police anti-black brutality. CNN owns this. Twitter (Jack Dorsey) and Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) are as complicit, based on their own demonstrated standards for de-platforming “hate” and “unsafe” speakers. figures on setting a hateful tone, where is the media and DNC outrage, heck, where are Saint Sasse, Defender of the TruCon Faith Flake, and the Venerable (if he’s not lyin’) Ryan?
CNN’s first reaction is their real position. CNN initially failed to condemn or to fire Marc Lamont Hill.
Not a peep from @JakeTapper or @brianstelter about their CNN colleague @marclamonthill‘s public call for the destruction of Israel and a Jewish genocide yesterday. The real test isn’t what either will say on Twitter or via DM, but whether they will cover the scandal on TV.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 29, 2018
Then the heat got too high, and CNN dumped Hill with a one sentence statement to Mediaite, but were silent on his eliminationist Jew-hatred.
“Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,” a CNN spokesperson told Mediaite.
Indeed, CNN has simply erased Marc Lamont Hill, and failed to post anything about his firing.
[UPDATE: In the late evening hours of 29 November, after I published this piece, CNN finally posted a story on the firing. CNN’s story, about dismissing Marc Lamont Hill, had not one word of corporate condemnation or contrition.
CNN said Thursday that it had severed ties with contributor Marc Lamont Hill following controversial comments the liberal pundit made about Israel.
So, CNN considers the comments “controversial,” not hateful or unsafe. “Liberal” is good in CNN’s view, so we are left with Israel as the reason CNN reluctantly had to part ways with Hill. This was a rather subtle way to blame the Jews. END UPDATE]
Were CNN to do otherwise, they would have to attack the intersectional darling, Congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar, about whose Jew-hatred Susan Quinn wrote in QOTD: Anti-Semitic or Anti-Israel—or Both? See Powerline generally for coverage from her state, and see Scott Johnson’s withering piece on Ilhan Omar at RealClearPolitics.
And despite her self-portrait as an apostle of love, Omar is a proponent of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. She is, to put it bluntly, an Islamist hater of Israel. In a 2014 tweet during Israel’s hostilities with Hamas, for example, Omar prayed for “Allah to awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” In a May 31 tweet this year, she referred to Israel as an “apartheid regime.”
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Omar soft-pedaled her support for BDS during her appearance before a large Democratic audience at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park the week before the competitive Democratic primary on Aug. 14, though she has proudly reiterated it since her election. During the campaign the Star Tribune kept her support of BDS a deep secret to voters who get their news from the paper. Although she holds herself out today in the Star Tribune an apostle of love, Ilhan Omar is an enthusiastic trader in one side of a bigoted coin.
So, the Democratic Party is returning to its anti-Semitic roots, but Klan Party 3.0 reflects the global coalition of the secular left and Islamists. The leftist party and their media mouthpieces misdirect false claims of outrage against right wing “extremists,” while shrinking the space in society where Jews are safe. Time for real leaders, not the self-serving posers and office-seekers, in the Republican Party to stand up against Klan Party 3.0. President Trump, your nation needs you all the more, to hate back the Jew-haters with interest.
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This is speaking truth to power …
Very inconvenient truth.
Thanks, Clifford. It gets darker and darker.
Honestly, as a Jew, I have more disgust for fellow Jews who support unambiguously, the rampantly anti Semitic left, than I have for the sick and extreme haters who act out on their stupidity.
I have not joined the Jewish Community of Flathead Co. MT because of these hateful Jews. I have even put away my Hanukkah decorations. Don’t know how to start looking for a conservative Jew that believes in G-d. Maybe take out a newspaper ad.
Maybe join the local gun range? I’m not being entirely flippant, as it filters a bit on secular leftism.
I have tried, but my grandson is putting a damper on it. Both Kaylett and the grandson keep promising to take me to the range. I no longer drive, not strong enough to rack a gun, so will have to try different pistols to find one I can handle. Meantime they both find excuses not to take me to the range with them. Grandson is in to competitive shooting and his speed through the course is outstanding. Kaylett is working on her speed, and frankly I don’t think they want to be bothered with me, as “you have no need for a gun.” I gave my 38 six shooter to grandson to repair for me, and I haven’t gotten it back. The darn thing is so heavy for my damage hands I have to hold it with both hands. At one time was a pretty good shot and it annoys me the family is giving me the brush.
That’s where our left is headed and has been for some time. That is who the left is and always has been. The relationship between Islamists and National Socialists was not unusual, it was the post WWI great depression German chaos that was unusual.
Perhaps the left’s most successful big lie was to establish the anti market, anti religion, anti Jew, racist, anti rule by law pro centralized economic control, anti democratic democratic centralist dictatorship of the National Socialist party as right wing. And our left wants people to believe that the pro constitution, pro limited government and pro decentralized power, pro market, rule by law folks are on the same political side as the national socialists. We should never ever refer to the NAZI’s as anything but National Socialists, never ever refer to them as right wing, never ever fail to point out the identical programs of National Socialists, The Italian Socialists the Soviet Socialists and progressives then and now. Always remind folks that the pro slavery, pro kkk, pro Jim Crow pro centralized economic control anti constitution party has always been the progressive wing of Democrat party that now is dominant.
Unfortunately, it’s only us and about 25 other people that seem to know the truth of which you speak.
That’s because we use their language, don’t confront them, don’t do our homework. They can’t debate the point because the truth is all on our side.
I live in Omar’s district. She is a liar, a criminal, and an anti-semite. She has some lower level civic violations regarding campaign finance and legislative behavior, too. She doesn’t care. She just does whatever she wants. I hope the Minnesota GOP has her trapped legally on this stuff.
A reporter asked her the most ordinary question, “How did you win?” Of course she accused the reporter of being a racist for asking that question. All she had to say was, that she lived in a progressive and multicultural district, which is the truth.I’m told that all of her legislative rhetoric is like that. She just babbles about race all of the time.
My feeling is she’s really stupid and if the Democrat party doesn’t figure out a way to prop her up or protect her, she is going to be a train wreck. I suppose the other option is she just shuts up and doesn’t make any waves like Amy Klobuchar.
I think she sees politics as a racket. A great way to make a living by babbling.
She beat two very serious legislators in the primary. I haven’t asked around, but I would think that a lot of the establishment was really pissed off about it. I suppose if they did anything to defeat her it would’ve been controversial. They actually tried to keep her out of the Minnesota Legislature, but it was so ham-handed it was embarrassing.