| This is what the second CAIR "spy" was paid to donoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 23 Dec 05:45 AM From the Columbus Dispatch: One week after the exec | | From the Columbus Dispatch: One week after the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Ohio chapter in Hilliard was fired for spying on the organization for an anti-Muslim group, the national office of CAIR announced Tuesday via its Twitter account that a second "spy" had been identified. The unnamed second person that CAIR said was spying on the organization and American Muslims came forward voluntarily. While the individual did not work for the nonprofit, he was an active volunteer in a large mosque and was invited to national meetings and events, the tweet said. So if he wasn't an employee at CAIR, what sort of "spying' did he do? Steven Emerson, the founder on the anti-Muslim IPT, paid the second individual $3,000 per month to record prominent Muslim leaders, CAIR's tweet said. If this spy was not a member of CAIR, that means that all he could record were what CAIR leaders were telling Muslims during their seemingly public events. It sounds like this person was simply recording speeches that were given to the Muslim community at large. What is wrong with that - unless, as this CAIR tweet implies, Muslim leaders say things to their fellow Muslims that they don't want the rest of the world to hear. If that is true, then the real problem isn't that Emerson's group paid someone to record the speeches. The real issue...Read More |
From Ian: DC Librarian Who Made Children Reenact Holocaust Is Failed Dem Candidate, Convicted Fraudster, and Animal Abuser The Washington, D.C., public school librarian who made third graders reenact graphic scenes from the Holocaust is a Democrat who claims she ran for office in New Jersey, where she was convicted of defrauding the state through a tutoring scam and charged with several counts of animal abuse. Kimberlynn Jurkowski was placed on leave this week after parents complained to Watkins Elementary School that she made students role-play the Holocaust, assigning students to be Jews and pretend to die in gas chambers and dig mass graves, according to the Washington Post. One student was assigned to be Adolf Hitler, who carried out the Holocaust, Jurkowski told the students, "because the Jews ruined Christmas." A Washington Free Beacon investigation found that Jurkowski was hired by the D.C. public school after a scandalous tenure as a librarian in New Jersey, where she ran in 2010 for a local school board as a Democrat, according to an image posted to her Twitter account. There is no record of Jurkowski serving on the school board for Hamilton Township in Atlantic County, where she says she ran for office. There is record, however, of New Jersey catching Jurkowski bilking taxpayers out of approximately $24,000...Read More |
Interview with Master Holocaust Teacher Dorene Schwartz-Weitz Master Holocaust Teacher Dorene Schwartz-Weitz Holocaust education is something that should be part of every history or social studies class. Or so you would think. After all, the Holocaust is an historic event, a catastrophic event, an attempt at genocide. It happened. People are yet alive to give testimony that this is so. We know however, that in many cases, this particular event in history, the event known as the Holocaust, goes unmentioned in elementary and high school curriculums. Artist and Master Holocaust Teacher Dorene Schwartz-Weitzaims to change this. She wants mandatory Holocaust Education in every school in the United States. And she wants that education done properly. Schwartz Weitz wants Holocaust Education curriculums to be not only mandated but regulated. How do we know that the state of Holocaust Education within the United States is a failure? A 2020 poll revealed that 63% of the respondents had no idea that "6 million" Jews had been murdered.\* Of those who were aware that a number of Jews had been murdered by the Nazis, 36% believed the number of victims to be 2 million or so. A further 48% of those polled could not name a single concentration camp. They had apparently never even heard of Auschwitz, the most infamous of all Nazi concentration camps. The Holocaust occurred...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal In my previous blog I wrote incorrectly that 16 Israelis were murdered in the 2001 Sbarro Restaurant bombing, with one victim remaining unconscious only to die later. The truth is that 15 died in the explosion or immediately after, and 130 were injured, some of them very seriously. A 31-year old woman named Chana Nachenberg, who was there with Sarah, her toddler daughter, suffered a traumatic brain injury from one of the pieces of shrapnel in the bomb, and entered what doctors call a "persistent vegetative state." Chana is still alive 20 years later, and still unresponsive. Her daughter Sarah was one of the few at the location who escaped unhurt. A person in a vegetative state has some brain function, but is not able to communicate. Sometimes they recover, but the longer they have been in this condition, the less likely it becomes. Are they in any sense aware? Nobody knows, but I hope not. Here is something Sarah wrote about her mother some years ago. Twenty years is a long time, the length of a generation. Think about what happened in your life in the past 20 years. Today Sarah has a daughter of her own. I was informed of my error by Arnold Roth...Read More |
From Ian: Palestinians slam Mansour Abbas for 'recognizing' Israel as a Jewish state Palestinians from across the political spectrum have strongly condemned Ra'am (United Arab List) leader and MK Mansour Abbas for allegedly recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. On Tuesday, Abbas was quoted as saying, "The State of Israel was born as a Jewish state, and it will remain one." He made the statement at a conference of the Hebrew economic newspaper Globes. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has repeatedly stated his refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, on Wednesday expressed outrage over the statements of the Arab MK. "These irresponsible statements are consistent with the calls of extremists in Israel to displace the Palestinians and harm the status of the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque and the history of the Palestinian people," he said in a statement released by the PA president's office. The statement added that Mansour Abbas represents only himself when he talks about accepting Israel as a Jewish state. "He does not represent the Palestinian people at home and everywhere in the world," the statement read, adding that such remarks "contradict religion, history and Palestinian heritage." Accusing Mansour Abbas of being part of a "current that promotes the Zionist colonial project," the PA statement continued, "It is unfortunate that instead of siding with the rights of his people and...Read More |
Yesterday, Hamas sent out a text message to the merchants who have permits to visit Israel for trade and have not returned: "Brother merchant, for the sake of your interest, we ask you to return to Gaza no later than Thursday 23/12. Your delay will prevent you from automatically renewing your permit." It seems that many of these merchants take advantage of the permit system to escape Hamas permanently. Since 2016, nearly 3,300 Gazans who were given permits to leave for any reason (including visiting relatives in hospitals) have not returned, according to Israeli authorities, causing some alarm from the Im Tirtzu NGO worried that they are terrorist sleeper cells. It is a small percentage of all permits given - about 3% - and those who have business permits are vetted. We have noted in the past that the Christian population of Gaza has plummeted from 5,000 when Hamas took over to less...Read More |
Yesterday, the head of Israel's Islamist Ra'am party shook the Palestinian street with an interview that is getting wide coverage in Arabic: The head of the first major Arab party to enter a government coalition said Tuesday that Israel's status as a Jewish state could not be changed, advising the Arab community to follow his pragmatic approach rather than trying to challenge the country's identity. "Israel was born as a Jewish state. And that was the decision of the Jewish people, to establish a Jewish state. The question is not 'what is the identity of the state?' That's how the state was born, and so it will remain," said [Mansour] Abbas, the head of the Islamist Ra'am party. "This is the reality. The question is not the about the state's identity — but what the status of Arab citizens will be in it," Abbas said. Arab antiemites are angry. One Israeli Arab newspaper derogatorily calls Abbas a "Shabbos goy...Read More |
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