Why settle for supporting one Communist dictator, when you can support all of them?


	Fresh off appeasing China and Maduro's Venezuela, the Biden junta is turning its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/05/17/biden-reverses-trump-policies-on-cuba/">attention to Cuba</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		On Monday, the Biden administration announced a series of measures they believe will “increase support for the Cuban people and safeguard our national security interests.”
</blockquote>


	Or just the opposite. This allows moving more money into Cuba. That bails out the Communist regime. Again.

<blockquote>
	
		Within minutes of the announcement, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, a democrat, criticized the Biden administration for the changes.

	
		“I am dismayed to learn the Biden administration will begin authorizing group travel to Cuba through visits akin to tourism. To be clear, those who still believe that increasing travel will breed democracy in Cuba are simply in a state of denial,” Menendez said.

	
		“For decades, the world has been traveling to Cuba and nothing has changed. For years, the United States foolishly eased travel restrictions arguing millions of American dollars would bring about freedom and nothing changed. And as I warned then, the regime ultimately laughed off any promises of loosening its iron grip on the Cuban people and we ended up helping fund the machinery behind their continued oppression,” he added.
</blockquote>


	There's nothing foolish about it.


	The Left doesn't want Cuba to become democratic. It just pretends to use this as a rationale to justify enabling the Communist dictatorship. And restoring tourism allows its lefty base to enjoy partaking of the fruits of socialism.


	<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/06/bernie-women-fantasize-about-rape-sanders-backs-daniel-greenfield/">Child sex trafficking</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Foreign tourists, especially Canadians and Spaniards, are traveling to Cuba in surprising numbers for sex – and not just with adult prostitutes. They are finding underage girls and boys, a joint investigation by The Toronto Star and El Nuevo Herald has found.

	
		Havana’s conspicuous scenes of street-level prostitution are the outward face of a hidden prostitution trade in minors, some as young as 4, some with families complicit in their exploitation, the newspapers found.
</blockquote>


	There's a reason they're grooming&nbsp;kids in this country. It's just what socialists do.


	Senate and House members, both Cuban and non-Cuban, <a href="https://mariodiazbalart.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/president-bidens-unilateral-concessions-are-betrayal-cubas-democratic">blasted Biden's move</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		WASHINGTON, D.C.–&nbsp;Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), Michael McCaul (TX-10), Mark Green (TN-7), Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27), and Carlos A. Gimenez (FL-26), along with Senators James Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), issued the following statement on the Biden Administration's recent announcement providing concessions to the brutal Cuban dictatorship.

	
		"During Cuba’s historic anti-regime protests last year, President Biden said&nbsp;'[t]he United States stands with the brave Cubans who have taken to the streets to oppose 62 years of repression under a communist regime.' "Yet today, while hundreds of activists remain unlawfully imprisoned, the White House is resurrecting President Obama’s failed policy of unilateral concessions&nbsp;to the Castro/Díaz-Canel criminal dictatorship. Rather than supporting their pleas for freedom by expanding democracy programming, broadcasting, global diplomacy, and sanctions against their oppressors, the&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;White House is rewarding the Western Hemisphere’s longest-ruling communist dictatorship with high-level talks, easing sanctions, increased travel, and access to U.S. financial institutions. Appeasing Cuba’s murderous regime does not comply with the statutory requirements in U.S. law and undercuts America’s support for Cuba’s democratic opposition.

	
		"The Biden Administration’s repeated&nbsp;appeasement&nbsp;to&nbsp;the Cuban dictatorship is a betrayal of America’s commitment to human rights and freedom, and to the longsuffering Cuban people who are struggling for a genuine democratic transition."
</blockquote>


	That won't stop Biden, who has abandoned any hope of winning the votes of people who don't like him, and is focused on turning out the radical base.


	&nbsp;

Biden Makes It Easier to Move Money Into Communist Cuba

Why settle for supporting one Communist dictator, when you can support all of them?


	Fresh off appeasing China and Maduro's Venezuela, the Biden junta is

Biden Makes It Easier to Move Money Into Communist Cuba

If you thought bread prices were already high, they're about <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/16/us-europe-to-improve-food-chains-after-india-bans-wheat-exports.html">to go higher</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		The United States and the European Union are looking at how to improve food supply chains with export restrictions from India and other nations accentuating global problems, the EU’s trade chief told CNBC.

	
		G-7 foreign ministers warned over the weekend that the war in Ukraine is increasing the risk of a global hunger crisis. This is because Ukraine has been unable to export grains, fertilizers and vegetable oil, while the conflict is also destroying crop fields and preventing a normal planting season.

	
		This has increased the reliance on nations from other parts of the world for these products. But some of these countries, concerned about supplies for their own citizens, have imposed restrictions on exports. This is the case in India, for example, which announced Saturday a ban on wheat sales “to manage the overall food security of the country.”
</blockquote>


	When people can't get bread, then the riots begin. The Arab Spring was fueled in no small part by wheat prices. Any regime that values its own stability is going to do its best to secure a supply of wheat and gasoline for its own domestic use. Think of it as hoarding on a global scale.&nbsp;


	Countries are cutting off food exports to protect their own political survival. All of this is doing interesting things to global markets and the consequences won't be pretty.

The Wheat Crisis is Getting Worse

If you thought bread prices were already high, they're about to go higher.


	
		The United States and the European Union are looking at how to improve

The Wheat Crisis is Getting Worse

In entirely coincidental news, the FDA has reached a deal to create a pathway to reopen the baby formula plant at the center of the formula crisis just as public outrage over the shortages went viral and entered mainstream public discourse.


	Coincidence? <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fda-abbott-agree-plan-resume-production-infant-formula/story?id=84756500">I'm sure</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		In a move to ease a nationwide shortage of infant formula, the Food and Drug Administration on Monday said it has agreed with Abbott Nutrition on a plan to reopen the company’s manufacturing plant in Sturgis, Michigan, after it was shut down following the discovery of a deadly bacteria inside.
</blockquote>


	How long would the bureaucrats have dragged this out if angry parents hadn't broken through? I don't know, but I strongly suspect there wouldn't be a deal right now.


	Now the backstory is that the shutdown was not unreasonable. Babies fell sick and Abbott was accused of mishandling safety at the plant. But the FDA was also accused of ignoring the obvious.


	Both Abbott and the FDA have been arguing about guilt.

<blockquote>
	
		Abbott maintains that there is still no conclusive evidence linking its formula to four infant illnesses, which included two deaths.

	
		"The infants consumed four different types of our formula made over the course of nearly a year and the illnesses took place over several months in three different states," Abbott tweeted last week. "The formula from this plant did not cause these infant illnesses."

	
		FDA officials on Monday, however, cautioned against any conclusions in the cases and said the investigation remains ongoing. They noted in particular that genetic sequencing of bacteria was only provided in two of the four cases and that more work needs to be done to rule out the causes.
</blockquote>


	And that's after months on the job.


	Abbott is likely more worried about getting sued and reputational damage that it's willing to take the lesser financial hit on the plant. The FDA cares even less. Finally outraged parents ended the game of chicken.

<blockquote>
	
		Officials cautioned it might still take weeks before many parents see more infant formula on shelves, either from the Sturgis facility or from foreign suppliers. But the two developments were hopeful signs the crisis would resolve.
</blockquote>


	It'll take quite a while for things to return to normal, whatever that may even be in this economy.


	&nbsp;

Would the FDA be Moving to Reopen Baby Formula Plant Without Public Outrage?

In entirely coincidental news, the FDA has reached a deal to create a pathway to reopen the baby formula plant at the center of the formula crisis just as

Would the FDA be Moving to Reopen Baby Formula Plant Without Public Outrage?

I'll quote the opening premise and spare you the rest of this because in the entire Politico interview, no one seems to understand what conservative comedy is or why <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/13/liberals-should-worry-conservative-comedy-00031907">leftist comedy is failing</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		For the past three years, Matt Sienkiewicz, an associate professor of communication and international studies at Boston College, and Nick Marx, an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University, have immersed themselves in the world of conservative comedy. The findings of their inquiry, which they detail in their new book,&nbsp;That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them, might come as a surprise to devotees of the Daily Show: Conservative humorists aren’t merely catching up to their liberal counterparts in terms of reach and popularity. They’ve already caught them — and, in some cases, surpassed them, even as the liberal mainstream has continued to write conservative comedy off as a contradiction in terms.
</blockquote>


	Political comedy can be divided into establishment and anti-establishment.


	Stewart, Colbert and the rest of the gang who defined the entertainment news complex got their start during the Bush years pretending to be anti-establishment. And then they faded into boring hacks during the Obama years with a mission of being establishment comedians attacking opponents of the regime. After four years of excitement brought on by attacking Trump, the establishment is back to the usual lefty trick of trying to seem anti-establishment by wrapping itself in borrowed victimhood, abortion, BLM, illegal migrants, etc... so that they would seem like they were fighting the power rather than being the power.


	Butt his game is lame. Attacking Mitch McConnell with talking points from the DNC or ranting about the issue of the week when your guy is in power is lame.&nbsp;


	And establishment comedy is inherently lame.


	Conservative comedy became anti-establishment comedy. And while it still needs plenty of work, it gets its laughs from mocking the abuses of lefties.&nbsp;


	It's no coincidence that conservative comedy began rising even as lefty censoriousness took off. The two are closely interrelated. Most conservative comedy is only&nbsp; funny within the frame of the&nbsp;lefty speech wars.&nbsp;


	Or, simply, it's only funny to the extent that an anti-establishment is tilting at an establishment.&nbsp;


	Comedy can be innately funny regardless of politics. But political comedy does depend on a power differential. This is an area where lefty metrics of "punching up" and "punching&nbsp;down" do apply, not for ethical reasons, but because a combative&nbsp;underdog is inherently funny while combative establishment is oppressive, grotesque, and difficult to cheer for. That doesn't mean that a sizable contingent won't cheer anyway. Plenty of personality cults run that way. Clapter still fills the airwaves while lefty comedians insist that inflation is a conspiracy theory Republicans made up because they hate black people. But it doesn't win over anyone who isn't already on board.


	That's the difference between tribal signaling, which bad unfunny comedy relies on, "What's the deal with those people? Aren't they dumb?" and insurgent humor, which may not be well thought out, but succeeds by creating the comical spectacle&nbsp;of an inverted power differential.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	&nbsp;

Conservative Comedy is Funny Because Conservatives are Underdogs

I'll quote the opening premise and spare you the rest of this because in the entire Politico interview, no one seems to understand what conservative comedy is

Conservative Comedy is Funny Because Conservatives are Underdogs

Mehmet "Mohammed" Oz, a Turkish&nbsp;diet guru who supports gun control and pandemic lockdowns, is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dr-oz-says-2015-tweet-should-disqualify-barnette-from-republican-primary-reprehensible">objecting </a>to a tweet by Senate candidate Kathy Barnette.

<blockquote>
	
		Days before Tuesday's Republican primary&nbsp;election&nbsp;in&nbsp;Pennsylvania, senatorial candidate Dr. Oz said during an interview Saturday that a comment made by one of his primary opponents, Kathy Barnette, should disqualify her from contention.&nbsp;

	
		The remark concerns a tweet from 2015 when Barnette said "pedophilia" was a fundamental tenet of the Islamic religion.

	
		Oz. is hoping to become the state’s first Muslim senator and said the comment should be "disqualifying" as it attacks those who observe the&nbsp;religion.

	
		"It’s reprehensible that she would tweet out something that is defamatory to an entire religion," Oz said in an interview with the Associated Press Saturday, just days before the Republican primary in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
</blockquote>


	Certainly in a Muslim country, she could be beheaded. Or, like another Christian woman in Nigeria, stoned and then burned to death.


	In Mehmet's Turkey, where he is a citizen and recently voted, blasphemy is a crime that can lead to prison time.


	But America isn't under Islamic Sharia rule. Yet.&nbsp;


	Still, let's address the question of whether pedophilia is as fundamental to Islam as it is to wokeness. Mohammed Oz fails to discuss it, simply fuming that it is "reprehensible" and "defamatory".&nbsp;


	Obviously, the best defense against such charges is truth.


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	Here's a<a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/islamic-law-girls-can-be-married-even-cradle-raymond-ibrahim/"> little contemporary background</a> on Islamic religious authorities from Raymond Ibrahim.

<blockquote>
	
		Back in 2011, for example, Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, issued a fatwa&nbsp;asserting&nbsp;that there is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”

	
		The grand point of the Saudi fatwa, however, is not that girls as young as nine can be married, based on Muhammad’s example, but rather that there is no age limit whatsoever.&nbsp; The only question open to consideration is whether the girl is physically capable of handling her “husband.”&nbsp; Fawzan documented this point by quoting&nbsp;Ibn Battal’s authoritative exegesis of&nbsp;Sahih Bukhari:

	
		The ulema [Islam’s scholars and interpreters] have agreed that it is permissible for fathers to marry off their small daughters, even if they are in the cradle.&nbsp; But it is not permissible for their husbands to have sex with them unless they are capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the men.&nbsp; And their capability in this regard varies based on their nature and capacity.&nbsp; Aisha was six when she married the prophet, but he had sex with her when she was nine [that is, when she was deemed capable].
</blockquote>


	But just because Islam legalizes pedophilia, doesn't mean that it's a cornerstone or fundamental. Does it?


	Let's go back to Mohammed's original rape of Aisha.


	In,<a href="https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2010/12/islam-was-born-out-of-child-abuse-and.html"> "Islam Was Born Out of Child Abuse and Rape"</a>, I described that as the original sin that served as the power base for Islam.

<blockquote>
	
		Islam is the only major world religion where child marriage has the religious sanction of its prophet. Mohammed 'married' Aisha, his most notable wife,&nbsp;when she was six years old. The marriage was consummated when she was nine or ten at the latest. Like so many marriages, it was the product of an alliance between her father and Mohammed. Aisha's merchant father was Mohammed's first ally outside his family and went on to be Mohammed's successor. That alliance was sealed with the sexual abuse of his little girl. 
		 
		Such arrangements are still common in the Muslim world today, where little girls are treated as gifts to seal an alliance. 
		 
		Islam was born out of the brutal rape of a little girl. As the mother of the Sunni Caliphate, Aisha is not just an incidental figure. Her marriage to Mohammed lies at the heart of Islam. The alliance between her father and her abuser made Islam viable by giving its prophet his first real power base. After Mohammed's death, her father used that connection to the Chief Prophet of Islam, to gain the political upper hand over Mohammed's son-in-law in the civil war that arose afterward. And it was her father who oversaw the codification of the Koran in its written form. 
		 
		The spread of the Islamic faith and the codification of the Koran were made possible only through the rape of a little girl. And there is no way around that. This is why child abuse remains a permanent part of Islam. To disavow it, is to disavow Islam's Prophet and his successor, whom Sunni Islam associates with the codification of their religion's holiest book. Muslims cannot tolerate gently mocking cartoons of their prophet. They certainly are not about to put him aside so that no more 9-year-old girls get raped.
</blockquote>


	So yes, pedophilia is a cornerstone of Islam.&nbsp;


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Fact Check: Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam

Mehmet "Mohammed" Oz, a Turkish&nbsp;diet guru who supports gun control and pandemic lockdowns, is objecting to a tweet by Senate candidate Kathy Barnette

Fact Check: Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam

Week after week come new headlines of attacks upon Jews walking the streets of ordinary, traditionally Jewish New York neighborhoods.


	Since the beginning of December, there have been eight attacks upon Jews, starting with the shooting assault on a Jersey City Jewish supermarket which left three innocents dead.


	Quite simply, even a mere year or two ago, this was not a problem one would have expected to see in the post-Second World War United States. A new menace to Jewish life, a reawakened anti-Semitism, reminiscent of the 1930s, with its Nazi and fascist infection, when Jews were last victimized in American streets, is now with us and <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/black-anti-semitism-and-leftist-paternalism-danusha-v-goska/">a high proportion of this anti-Semitic violence is being perpetrated by African-Americans</a>.


	The&nbsp;problem is also large when viewed in the total context of hate crimes in the US: in the third quarter of 2019, anti-Jewish incidents comprised <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww1.nyc.gov%2Fsite%2Fnypd%2Fstats%2Freports-analysis%2Fhate-crimes.page&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369004708&amp;sdata=c5vqINo7xBbGGbhiJI8Up1Vy7m05UiDG%2FMZHIdvZZ5Q%3D&amp;reserved=0">roughly half of all hate crimes recorded</a> by New York City police.


	After the Jersey City attacks, some local blacks despicably blamed Jews for living in the neighborhood and thus supposedly causing the attack.


	Astonishingly, a local black official, Jersey City School Board member Joan Terrell-Paige, <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Feducation-official-tweets-anti-semitic-rant-about-jersey-city-shooting-rampage%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369014717&amp;sdata=hmF7BRNIsqGUmEsleT1DcXXD%2FsRD68lG5oZJksQCxjM%3D&amp;reserved=0">asked</a> “Where was all this faith and hope when Black homeowners were threatened, intimidated, and harassed by I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE brutes of the jewish [sic] community?” whom she accused of having “waved bags of money”&nbsp; in front of black homeowners.


	In one of the five assaults in New York City during Chanukah, a Jewish man, walking in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was confronted by a gang of black youths screaming anti-Semitic obscenities at him, one of whom threw his drink at him.


	In another assault, also in Crown Heights, a Jewish man was accosted by a group of eight black teenagers and knocked to the ground.


	More serious still, this past weekend, a machete-wielding African-American man, Grafton Thomas, <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fnews%2Fus-news%2Fmultiple-victims-reportedly-stabbed-rabbi-s-new-york-home-n1108271&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369014717&amp;sdata=i3CzTegLCWUsKG2A7vSTTDV6qmjWNUFeEDYExZeA2Iw%3D&amp;reserved=0">attempted to murder several Jews</a> after entering a rabbi’s home in the orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Monsey in upstate New York. Thomas stabbed five people, one of whom was seriously injured.


	More than a century ago, Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Irish playwright and wit, Oscar Wilde, devised a euphemism for the-then illegal activity of homosexual sex, ‘The love that dare not speak its name.’ Today, as though it were illegal or grossly offensive to identify anti-Semitic acts committed by anyone other than whites, officialdom substitutes the vocabulary of the mealy-mouthed. It would appear that attacks on Jews are viewed as serious and deserving of scrutiny and action only when committed by credentialed haters like white supremacists.


	Thus, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2020%2F01%2F03%2Fde-blasio-now-says-anti-semitism-is-a-problem-on-left-and-right%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369024727&amp;sdata=3eo9enya0LX%2FwD8PjIwr8d28pAu%2FE8VQy68zO2j2zYk%3D&amp;reserved=0">claimed</a> in the midst of December’s anti-Jewish attacks that “‘most’ of the ‘violent and anti-Semitic attacks around this country’ are ‘fermented systematically and in an organized fashion by right-wing forces’” and that President Trump was also largely responsible for this.


	Similarly, Representative Rashida Tlaib (D–MI) <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2019%2F12%2F12%2Frashida-tlaib-wrongly-claims-white-supremacy-behind-jersey-city-slaughter%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369024727&amp;sdata=3JY3dBgCAF7X3lhr%2Fn4NGat6Irjs9xoRkTVEEI%2Ftix0%3D&amp;reserved=0">asserted</a> that the Jersey City attack was a case of “white supremacy.” Still others opt for silence.


	Where are the African-American community leaders, local and national, decrying this anti-Jewish violence perpetrated by members of their community? Where are the New York City Democratic representatives? Senator Charles Schumer has <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FSenSchumer%2Fstatus%2F1211297365174423552&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369034736&amp;sdata=fcEdv0N%2Ffcqks3psnQYGUTcEN%2F%2FJGwM0GW7OXmxr9q0%3D&amp;reserved=0">condemned</a> the attacks as “pure evil” and <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democrats.senate.gov%2Fnewsroom%2Fpress-releases%2Fschumer-briefed-by-fbi-on-monsey-attack-demands-thorough-fed-investigation-of-this-specific-attack-and-other-anti-semitic-attacks-in-recent-days&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369044745&amp;sdata=YXMezhjOhIiu6yXnGGp7GrufgZsBA7ksfhkx35i4OxI%3D&amp;reserved=0">called</a> for a federal investigation into the attack, but why have we heard nothing, for example, from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?


	Only last October, Representative Ocasio-Cortez could be found absurdly <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Focasio-cortez-accuses-trump-of-anti-semitism-over-his-attacks-on-schiff%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369044745&amp;sdata=whWj1lMylukMS2O%2Fv1ctYu3vojv4uCrC4SeV4y4%2BA08%3D&amp;reserved=0">accusing President Donald Trump of anti-Semitism</a>. Now, when confronted by actual anti-Semitic assaults in the streets of her own city, not a word was to be heard from her.


	Mayor de Blasio, it is true, was not silent, observing that “It’s not enough to condemn anti-Semitism — we have to confront it … The NYPD … will bring the perpetrators to justice.”


	However, as the Orthodox Jewish newspaper, Vos Iz Neias, <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvosizneias.com%2F2019%2F12%2F26%2Fop-ed-when-will-mayor-deblasio-back-up-his-talk-with-action%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369054750&amp;sdata=SDZkNKkweVAdM8Hq0xzo8nehq2kmmTwqggrVUO88ajM%3D&amp;reserved=0">notes</a>, “Mayor De Blasio’s policy has proved to be consistent: send out a tweet (only sometimes). Arrest the perpetrators. Release them a few hours later back onto the streets … The mayor cannot claim to be serious about eliminating anti-Semitic attacks in the city, while at the same time refusing to keep the perpetrators of these very crimes off the streets.”


	New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has been forthright and active, <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fmonsey-synagogue-stabbing-multiple-people-stabbed-at-synagogue-in-rockland-county-2019-12-28%2F%23&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369054750&amp;sdata=%2FrDg%2FfD1k9Isqgob4BZNvb7DtLKgyZ%2FAjG7GbyJHpbU%3D&amp;reserved=0">describing</a> the Monsey attack as a case of “domestic terrorism” and issuing instructions to state police to increase patrols in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods across the state, but the silence from many other Democrats and African-African-American leaders remains alarming and symptomatic of the problerm.


	The systematic ignoring and misidentification of black anti-Semitic assaults is an unsustainable and unserious approach to a profoundly serious problem. Regrettably, at this moment, we have no reason to expect progress because the reluctance to confront black anti-Semitism is not mysterious: it stems from a general reluctance to condemn anti-Semitism committed by anyone other than white racists because doing so would call attention to the widespread nature of the problem and beg the question of its durability and resurgence.


	Any searching examination would soon reveal that anti-Semitism is not simply another bigotry, but rather an intellectual and spiritual disease which invests Jews with virtually supernatural capacity to harm humankind as the essential first step in mobilizing the masses to persecute and even murder them.


	Those who wish to rid the world of the Judeo-Christian moral and intellectual legacy can do no better than targeting its Jewish progenitors. This is why anti-Semitism has been rife across time and place, operates without the normal stimulants of ethnic animosity or competition for territory or resources, and even appears in societies devoid of Jews.


	The African-American community must confront the problem of anti-Semitic sentiment and violence within and this can only start with the African-American leadership recognizing the problem, taking the lead, forthrightly condemning the assaults, and visibly engaging in acts of solidarity with Jews.


	Progress also cannot occur when leaders like <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fbo-dietl-questions-photo-de-blasio-activist-head-scarf-article-1.3614800&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369064755&amp;sdata=EBsuW6KIM%2B5ZJvxJrT%2Fmpxn9anREGPIMRl5ngEb9t0M%3D&amp;reserved=0">Mayor De Blasio</a> and Democratic presidential candidate <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2019%2F09%2F21%2Fpressure-growing-for-bernie-sanders-to-dump-linda-sarsour%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369064755&amp;sdata=RQcWH2Ix3EnI4qTewkGmka%2FBMxiVmvoXF%2FxkLK5opxk%3D&amp;reserved=0">Bernie Sanders</a> embrace radical Muslim activists like <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.investigativeproject.org%2Fdocuments%2Fmisc%2F729.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369074760&amp;sdata=5TehMEXWSyQpouwuBWqM8kbCMQ9J9lJMc%2BEQX8OsOTk%3D&amp;reserved=0">Linda Sarsour</a>.


	In short, positive words without positive action, or worse, coupled with negative action, has not and will not suffice.


	This is a moment of truth for Democrats and for African-Americans, to be counted in substantive opposition to the haters within their ranks with a view to marginalizing them, or to quietly acquiesce in this alarming state of affairs, to the detriment of American Jews and society in general in the years to come. Their decision will shape the country the United States will become.


	Dr. Daniel Mandel is Director of the Zionist Organization of America’ s Center for Middle East Policy and author of <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjcpa.org%2Farticle%2Fchanan-reich-on-h-v-evatt-and-the-establishment-of-israel-the-undercover-zionist%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C65a2a6dac7f148b5e14308d7941cf39b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637140724369084764&amp;sdata=Y7JC1BgVfFE8ge78C1coHAips0qQMTiRkfirmecEvQQ%3D&amp;reserved=0">H.V. Evatt &amp; the Establisment of Israel</a> (Routledge, London, 2004).

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