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Singer-actress Bette Midler, star of Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2, suggested that President Joe Biden arrest Republican members of Congress and allow the FBI to use deadly force in order regain Democrat House majority. “Now that Joe has total immunity, many are urging him to be GOP ruthless. Here’s a suggestion for implementing his new powers,” Midler wrote in a Friday X post, sharing a screenshot from an opinion piece published by The New Republic.

A yearbook at a Southern California high school is the subject of controversy after an article about the Israeli-Hamas war was included in the printing, prompting some students and parents to say the editorial is harmful to the local Jewish community. The student-written and teacher-approved article entitled, “Whose Land is it Anyway?” was printed on a single page in the Palos Verdes High School yearbook. For PVHS student Kayla Epstein, the article is problematic and upsetting. “There’s just so much that’s in this that is incorrect,” Epstein told KTLA’s Gene Kang as she held the yearbook open to the essay....

Israeli lawmakers on Monday advanced a government proposal to designate June 1 as a day to commemorate the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom in Iraq coordinated by Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Hussein. The Commemoration Day for the Farhud Events Bill, sponsored by Likud Party lawmaker Ofir Katz, was approved for first reading and will be discussed by the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee ahead of future votes. Katz’s bill calls for the pogrom to be commemorated in educational institutions across the Jewish state in order to preserve the memory of the events and the victims and pass it on to...

Arab mob crashes pro-Israel rally in Illinois, torching Israeli flag, attacking demonstrators, and calling for massacre of Jews. Extinguished X link.

All over the West since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of 1,400 Israelis, Muslim demonstrators have been calling for a new genocide of the Jews, right under the noses of authorities, and yet those authorities have taken no notice. One problem is that the threat was in Arabic, and authorities in Europe and North America don’t generally speak Arabic yet. Another problem is that even when it is translated into English, the threat doesn’t appear at first glance to be as bloodcurdling as it actually is. But as the demonstrations grow more heated, it becomes increasingly unwise for authorities to...

Some technical difficulties, but finally showing contemporaneous footage of mob attacking El Al flight stopped in Dagestan to refuel, storming plane, demanding passports of passengers, violence, security forces standing by and doing nothing.

Airport in Russia’s Muslim southern region closed after hundreds storm tarmac and climb on to planes. A mob in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan has stormed the airport in Makhachkala in search of Jewish passengers arriving from Israel. In the past day, local people have besieged a hotel in search of Jewish guests and stormed the airport after reports emerged that a flight from Tel Aviv was arriving in the city. While no one appears to have been seriously injured or killed in the riots, passengers have been forced to take refuge in planes or hide in the airport...

Samantha Woll, 40, board president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit, Michigan, was murdered Saturday, and was found stabbed to death outside her home. The Detroit Free Press reported: A politically connected Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed dead this morning outside her home in the city’s Lafayette Park neighborhood, east of downtown. Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue and previously worked for Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin and on the re-election campaign of Attorney General Dana Nessel, both Democrats. … “I am shocked, saddened and horrified to learn of Sam’s brutal murder,” Nessel said in...

Hamas terrorists beheaded babies and gunned down entire families in their homes in a small kibbutz in Israel, horrified Israeli soldiers have revealed. Some 70 Hamas terrorists wielding guns and grenades stormed the usually quiet Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel, killing anyone - men, women and children - they saw. The bullet-riddled bodies of Israeli residents now lay in the grounds of the kibbutz among burned out houses, strewn furniture and torched cars, with solemn Israeli soldiers went from house to house to take away the scores of people massacred there. Defence Forces took the foreign press through the...

Australian Jews were warned not to travel to Sydney due to pro-Hamas demonstrations, Sky News reported. Australian Jewish Association (AJA) President David Adler said Jewish citizens were warned to avoid Sydney's central business district on Sunday night as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered at the city's Opera House. "We've seen one or two Jewish people who turned up early, who have been taken away by police because they carried an Israeli flag," Adler told Sky News. "An email went around to the Jewish community warning us to stay out of the city of Sydney tonight, to stay away from the Town Hall...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a major ally of Vladimir Putin, has said that Europe should undergo a "moral cleansing," according to state news agency Belta. During a government meeting at the weekend, Lukashenko talked about fighting Nazis in the Second World War and said: "The time has come for the forgetful Europe to give itself a moral cleansing." "They — all who chose to forget — will have to look again at the grueling evidence of the bloody crimes of their own fathers and grandfathers," he said, according to Belta. "I must admit that we were delicately silent. In our...

Justice and truth are on Russia's side, President Vladimir Putin said MOSCOW, February 24./TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he had made the decision to hold a special military operation in response to address of leaders of the Donbass republics. "People's republics of Donbass approached Russia with request for help. In connection<...>I made the decision to hold a special military operation. Its goal is to protect the people that are subjected to abuse, genocide from the Kiev regime for eight years, and to this end we will seek to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine and put to justice those that...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Crown Heights riot, the worst outburst of anti-Semitic violence in modern American history. Perhaps the most lasting insult to the victims is the way in which journalists and other liberal activists have sought to erase the riot from our collective memory and history. Insult is perhaps too generous a term considering how one of the riot's chief anti-Semitic instigators, the Rev. Al Sharpton, has managed to become a respectable member of the Liberal Élite and one of the most influential Democratic power brokers in New York City and beyond.

Antifa, carrying shields and weapons, attacked a group of Christians, including young children, who were congregating in Portland. A large group of Antifa carrying shields and melee weapons attacked a group of Evangelical Christians congregating for a prayer and worship event at the waterfront in downtown Portland, Ore. Video recorded at the scene showed children and families running away as black-clad Antifa militants tore apart the sound equipment and assaulted attendees with pepper spray and projectiles.

The Biden administration is poised to start contracts with private firms to surveil service member's social media accounts to find those with views they deem “concerning.” According to The Intercept: An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will “continuously” monitor military personnel for “concerning behaviors,” according to a Pentagon briefing in late March.

A military veteran and longtime military analyst warns America’s national defense is in retreat because the Pentagon is charging forward with left-wing ideologies that do not involve killing our foreign enemies. It is no right-wing claim to suggest the Pentagon is subjecting soldiers, sailors, and Marines to left-wing lessons warning about the Right. In February, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a one-day “Stand Down” to every military unit, which required commanders to address “right-wing extremism” in the ranks and how to report on suspicious activity by fellow soldiers. According to the Pentagon, the “Extremism Stand Down” came after it was...

The Biden administration's top law enforcement officials on Wednesday pledged to dedicate their resources to combat domestic violent extremists amid questions over whether the agencies are equipped to monitor such threats in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee for a hearing on domestic extremism as Congress ramped up its scrutiny this week of the circumstances around the attack on the Capitol. Both Garland and Mayorkas testified that white supremacist groups pose the most serious domestic national security threat in the U.S., reinforcing...

We’ve learned by now that the purges happening on social media are not just aimed at extremists, as the left first claimed. They are gradually moving the goalposts to snare the rest of us conservatives too. Toward the beginning of the purges, the left claimed they were just banning people who incited or threatened violence. Then it moved to banning people who posted “false” memes (never mind that many of these memes were merely opinions or satire). Now the excuses are flying like crazy. Anything from questioning the results of the presidential election to promoting MAGA, which they’re claiming is...

Just like 1930s Berlin. DeBlasio’s New York; AntiFa Thugs Terrorize Jewish Neighborhood, Break Windows, Loot Stores Featured Written by BlabberBuzz | August 18, 2020 07:52 AM AntiFa protesters who are violent is usually a Northwest thing, something that many northeastern Americans were pleased with. But it seems that some of the violent brand of “anti” fascist members have made it to the streets of Brooklyn. Hundreds of protesters, including members of the anti-fascist group AntiFa, rampaged through the ultra-orthodox are of Williamsburg over the weekend, trashing local and national chain stores and spraying anti-police graffiti, according to police and local...

A writer for a “Law & Order” spin-off and the play-by-play broadcaster for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings found themselves out of jobs after making social media posts this week that their bosses found incendiary or insensitive, highlighting a surge in such firings across many lines of work. Firings over social media statements have become a common occurrence, but the tense environment of nationwide protests have made Twitter, Instagram and Facebook especially dangerous for those who want to remain employed. Craig Gore, who has worked on the shows “S.W.A.T.” and “Chicago P.D.,” was fired Tuesday from the forthcoming “Law & Order:...