They say, "go woke, go broke".&nbsp;


	But Woke, in a bit of irony, <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/06/woke-canceled-hulu-after-two-seasons-1235051543/">got canceled</a>. The Hulu TV show that is.

<blockquote>
	
		Woke, the live action-animated comedy inspired by the life of award-winning artist&nbsp;Keith Knight, has been canceled by&nbsp;Hulu&nbsp;after two seasons.
</blockquote>


	Woke was, well, <a href="https://www.distractify.com/p/is-woke-hulu-based-on-a-true-story">woke</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		In the Hulu series&nbsp;Woke,&nbsp;Keef Knight&nbsp;is a black cartoonist who loves attending comic cons and tries his best to return lost wallets. But his world is turned upside down after he has a traumatic encounter with police, who pin him to the ground after they wrongly assume he's a mugger on the loose.

	
		The police eventually let Keef go but they don't apologize for their mistake.
</blockquote>


	Now, following up on the police, Disney (Hulu) canceled him. That follows up on Netflix jettisoning some of its more woke products. Both Netflix and Disney+ have been running into some financial issues with their streaming budgets. And woke virtue signaling may be starting to become too expensive to afford.

'Woke' Gets Cancelled. Literally.

They say, "go woke, go broke".&nbsp;


	But Woke, in a bit of irony, got canceled. The Hulu TV show that is.


	
		Woke, the live action-animated comedy

'Woke' Gets Cancelled. Literally.

California used to attract tourists eager to walk the streets of San Francisco and visit California landmarks and theme parks without stepping in human waste, getting mugged, or caught in the middle of a riot.


	Since that's no longer a great option, California's useless overlords is investing in abortion tourism.

<blockquote>
	
		Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) today issued the following statement after reaching an agreement on the framework for the 2022-23 state budget:

	
		"And in the wake of Friday’s stunning Supreme Court decision, the state is reaffirming its commitment to defending reproductive rights, providing more than $200 million in additional funding for reproductive health care services. The state will also be investing in key programs that help California families, from funding for homeownership programs and billions of dollars in additional ongoing funding for education, to universal preschool, children’s mental health, and free school meals."
</blockquote>


	And if we can't help California's children, we'll kill them instead.


	California's population has dropped for two straight years. The last thing it needs is less people. But it's not as if the Dobbs decision is going to have any impact on the prevalence of Planned Parenthood facilities in the state. So this is more likely a desperate bid for abortion tourism.


	With the fall of Roe v. Wade, states are gearing up to become the 'Nevada' of abortion tourism. And California has a hell of a pitch. Come for Disneyland and Legoland and stay to kill your future children. Remember whatever happens in California stays in a secret government database.

California to Spend $200 Million to Help Fund Abortion Tourism

California used to attract tourists eager to walk the streets of San Francisco and visit California landmarks and theme parks without stepping in human waste,

California to Spend $200 Million to Help Fund Abortion Tourism

Inflation? What inflation. We've got all the cash we can print. And more. Now let's print some and<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3537495-biden-commits-200-billion-to-global-infrastructure-plan-meant-to-counter-china/"> give it away</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		President&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;on Sunday relaunched a global infrastructure initiative meant to counter China’s growing influence, saying the U.S. would commit $200 billion to the effort in public and private financing to boost projects in developing and middle-income countries. &nbsp;

	
		Describing the globe as at an inflection point, Biden said the initiative by the Group of Seven (G-7) nations would help set the world on a strong path for the future by investing in sustainable projects that are “grounded in our shared values.”&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	Sustainable means worthless green energy garbage that puts money in the hands of politically connected investors.

<blockquote>
	
		In addition to U.S. commitments, Biden said the G-7 countries collectively would aim to mobilize $600 billion for the partnership by 2027. The $200 billion in funding the U.S. is committing over the next five years is a combination of federal financing, grants and private sector investment, according to a White House fact sheet distributed ahead of Biden’s remarks.&nbsp;The plan, called the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, is a rebranding of the “Build Back Better World” initiative that Biden unveiled at last year’s G-7 summit.
</blockquote>


	Because nothing was learned from the miserable failure of Build Back America.


	I'm all for countering China, but how about we do that by doing what the PRC did, build up our own manufacturing so it's globally competitive and take control of our economy, instead of dispensing more foreign aid so a handful of companies get some sort of favorable treatment in the Third World.

<blockquote>
	
		“I want to be clear: This isn’t aid or charity. It’s an investment that will deliver returns for everyone, including the American people and the people of all our nations," Biden said.
</blockquote>


	As usual, "let me by clear" means, "I'm going to lie to you now. The truth is the opposite of what I'm saying.


	Meanwhile, Americans can't afford to buy food and inflation is getting worse by the day.

Biden Announces $200B Plan to Aid Poorer Countries Because America is Made Out of Money

Inflation? What inflation. We've got all the cash we can print. And more. Now let's print some and give it away.


	
		President&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;on Sunday

Biden Announces $200B Plan to Aid Poorer Countries Because America is Made Out of Money

The Abortion Insurrection Leads to Violence From Arizona to Portland

After the Capitol Riot and the abuse of the term "insurrection", conservatives have retaliated by mockingly using the term "insurrection" for everything

The Abortion Insurrection Leads to Violence From Arizona to Portland

Islamic terrorism isn't going away any time soon, but it tends to be more pervasive in Europe.


	And this shooting <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61933817">will obviously</a><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/europe/norway-oslo-gay-bar-shooting-intl-hnk/index.html"> bring back</a> memories of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando by an Islamic terrorist.

<blockquote>
	
		Two people died and 21 were wounded early on Saturday in what police called an "act of Islamist terrorism".

	
		The shootings were in and near the London Pub, a popular LGBTQ+ venue, the Herr Nilsen jazz club and another pub.

	
		Norway's prime minister told the BBC the suspect was questioned in May, but was not deemed a threat at the time.
</blockquote>


	So business as usual.

<blockquote>
	
		The suspect, charged with terrorism, is a Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, and was “known to the police,” but has only received “minor convictions” up until now, prosecutor Christian Hatlo told reporters in Oslo Saturday.
</blockquote>


	"Iran" as an origin point sticks out. Shiite terrorism is usually organized under Iran's umbrella and does not involve lone wolf attackers. The country has a Sunni population.&nbsp;


	ISIS has also dissuaded its supporters from hitting gay bars after&nbsp;the Pulse massacre which was misunderstood as an anti-gay attack. ISIS wants the motives to be clear. And the Pulse massacre keeps being misrepresented as an anti-gay attack. That hasn't stopped one or two terror plots from targeting gay targets.


	Alternatively, like the Pulse massacre, it might all just be an unintentional coincidence.

Islamic Terror Attack Hits Norwegian Gay Bar

Islamic terrorism isn't going away any time soon, but it tends to be more pervasive in Europe.


	And this shooting will obviously bring back memories of

Islamic Terror Attack Hits Norwegian Gay Bar

Last month, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/press-releases/addameer-and-the-international-human-rights-clinic-at-harvard-law-school-send-joint-submission-to-the-un-independent-commission-of-inquiry-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-and-israel/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651623122609000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1WXbbLdWS-rmznnwXJ-HPn" href="https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/press-releases/addameer-and-the-international-human-rights-clinic-at-harvard-law-school-send-joint-submission-to-the-un-independent-commission-of-inquiry-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-and-israel/" target="_blank">Harvard Law School</a> deemed Israel in a report to the United Nations as “an apartheid regime.” They issued a 22 page report claiming that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IHRC-Addameer-Submission-to-HRC-COI-Apartheid-in-WB.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651623122609000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2AFuP3Ua8Wvqe0rNtRTHGa" href="http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IHRC-Addameer-Submission-to-HRC-COI-Apartheid-in-WB.pdf" target="_blank"> Israel systematically discriminates against</a> Palestinians and suppresses their civil and political rights.” Harvard’s report “finds that Israel’s actions in the occupied West Bank are in breach of the prohibition of apartheid and amount to the crime of apartheid under international law.”


	Now, the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University, has&nbsp; endorsed <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/29/editorial-bds/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651623122609000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Fs9kqYaza0eOY6YdqzW-H" href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/29/editorial-bds/" target="_blank">the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement</a>. They also expressed support for Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee, a student group that annually hosts an “Israel Apartheid Week” on campus. The editorial says, “We are proud to finally lend our support to both Palestinian liberation and BDS — and we call on everyone to do the same.”


	One wonders if those behind said editorial of boycotting the Jewish state are concerned for their job prospects as they would be, say if they endorsed the KKK or any other form of racism. This is pure and unmitigated hatred and antisemitism. And its politically acceptable at Harvard apparently.&nbsp;


	<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://hls.harvard.edu/academics/curriculum/catalog/default.aspx?o%3D78844&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651623122609000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ZgYDQLue3Zj5SVEJijpf2" href="https://hls.harvard.edu/academics/curriculum/catalog/default.aspx?o=78844" target="_blank">At Harvard Law School there is a spring 2022 class</a>&nbsp;on “Law, Human Rights, and Social Justice in Israel and Palestine” taught by Ms. Salma Waheedi, who has&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.palestineforum.net/statement-by-harvard-faculty-in-support-of-palestinian-liberation/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651623122609000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1vGdL8g7RFyDDuNpXLKZtt" href="https://www.palestineforum.net/statement-by-harvard-faculty-in-support-of-palestinian-liberation/" target="_blank">signed a letter</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;“express solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and self-determination. Israeli state violence has devastated Palestinian life through a combination of warfare, territorial theft, and violent displacement. Unwavering US financial, military, and political support has fueled an apartheid system that institutionalizes the domination and repression of Palestinians.”


	For all this talk about “safe spaces” one wonders, is Harvard a safe place for Zionists and those who stand with Israel?


	Today, I learned that Harvard graduate student, Cevin Soling wrote an open letter to Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow, as well as the school’s provost and two deans.


	He asked why Harvard administrators have allowed its Jewish community members to be subjected to harassment and antisemitism. This includes openly permitting students to violate explicit written rules of conduct so that they could engage in various forms of provocation directed at Jewish students.


	Soling, who will be receiving his fourth graduate degree from Harvard later this month is bravely one of the few standing up to Anti-Semitism at Harvard. 
	 
	Soling noted,

<blockquote>
	
		Due to a very long history of persecution, many Jewish students and professors like to keep a low profile. Unfortunately, this approach has only emboldened antisemitic bigotry on campus. What started as clumsy activism founded on disinformation where the school failed to intervene despite students breaking of conduct codes, has evolved into something more insidious. 

	
		I had to sit through Cornel West’s final class knew that he was spewing antisemitic conspiracy theories before his lectures. Now with the Harvard Crimson editors believing their antisemitic bigotry is virtuous, things have gone off the rails. The student paper’s outsized presence combined with their editors’ self-righteous nescience is an embarrassment to everyone at Harvard whether they realize it or not, and school officials need to act.
</blockquote>


	Soling references Harvard Professor Cornell West’s claim that he was denied tenure for a position that did not offer tenure due to a cabal led by Harvard’s Jewish president, who he presumes objects to his support for Palestinians.


	Soling, a former fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, noted, “For the past 15 years, there has been a deficit of quality leadership at Harvard. The administration allows manufactured problems to fester and only responds reactively. By that time, their resolutions typically satisfy no one. The school needs to accept its past mistakes and set principled precedents. This should begin with condemning the antisemitic statements of the Crimson editors followed by soul-searching to understand how Harvard students could take vocal positions on many issues they quite evidently know precious little about yet, nevertheless, think they do.”


	Soling goes on to note that last year Harvard Hillel was vandalized two separate times, and a organization, Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), has been staging protests demanding that hummus made by Sabra be removed from dining halls. In addition, stickers have been placed on Sabra snack cups in the dining hall which read, "Warning! Sabra funds Israeli apartheid and the murder of Palestinians."&nbsp; He asks, “Are students free to sticker food in the student cafeteria with antagonistic political messages? If no disciplinary action is taken against the students who stickered the food, but action is taken in the future by other students with an agenda, what message do you think that sends about the permissibility of statements that target Jews?


	“Occupied Palestine” is a contentious term that is offensive to many in the Jewish community. What are the school rules about naming student organizations? Are students free to name their student organizations as they choose even if the names are mendacious and conceived to target a specific people?


	Shame on Harvard.&nbsp; Anti-Semitism seems to be one of the few forms of racism allowed. In today’s era of political correctness is Anti-Semitism allowed? Donors to Harvard should examine if they want to continue to help an institution which is increasingly standing against Israel.


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Harvard's Jew-Hate

Last month, Harvard Law School deemed Israel in a report to the United Nations as “an apartheid regime.” They issued a 22 page report claiming that  Israel

According to the non-profit Tikvah Fund, the New York Museum of Jewish Heritage has banned Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis from the museum, per an editorial in The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/holocaust-memorial-new-york-museum-jewish-heritage-ron-desantis-judaism-florida-cancel-culture-tivka-speech-event-aoc-censorship-11651759681?&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652053017481000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3usERY2eoO6KF1V302n_p9" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/holocaust-memorial-new-york-museum-jewish-heritage-ron-desantis-judaism-florida-cancel-culture-tivka-speech-event-aoc-censorship-11651759681?" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>.


	Tikvah is a “Jewish educational and cultural institution whose main activity in America is teaching young Jews about Jewish history and civilization.” It had planned to have DeSantis speak at their conference to “discuss how the ‘Florida model’ has contributed to the growth and vitality of Jewish life” in Florida.


	Instead, they were told that “DeSantis didn’t ‘align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity.'” Conference leaders were told that either the governor could be disinvited, or the event would not be welcome at the museum, according to the editorial. The organization claims they were told by the CEO told that the museum doesn’t “do politics…whether left or right.”


	Yet, this claim is factually inaccurate. The organization has hosted other politicians, including then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio”, as well as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who was a speaker there in 2018. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/video/senator-schumer-at-new-yorks-annual-gathering-of-remembrance-museum-of-jewish-heritage&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652053017481000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1z3KVUhQ8oeF56shGnfCKa" href="https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/video/senator-schumer-at-new-yorks-annual-gathering-of-remembrance-museum-of-jewish-heritage" target="_blank">Senator Schumer spoke there in 2019</a>.&nbsp;


	What none of these politicians are, however, is Republican.


	A letter to the museum by Joseph Borelli, the Minority Leader of the New York City Council and New York City Council Member Inna Vernikov, a member of the Jewish Caucus of the City Council, noted that, “As a museum devoted to teaching the world about the horrors of the Holocaust, MJH is an institution with a deep understanding of the dangers of political censorship.”


	They noted shock that the museum was “engaging in a form of “cancel culture”, prohibiting Florida Governor DeSantis, a duly elected government official representing 21 million people, including more than half a million Jews, from attending a Jewish Leadership Conference at the museum.”


	Borelli and Vernikov further note that:

<blockquote>
	
		..choosing to refuse entry to members of one specific political party is, in fact, playing politics. Matters such as the Holocaust should not be used as tools to promote a political agenda. The lessons of the Holocaust are innumerable, but one of the most critical ones is this: intolerance in any form, breeds hostility, suppression, and ultimately discrimination. For a Museum that aims to educate against these exact evils, I urge a swift reconsideration of the intolerant practice of banning a Republican Governor for simply holding differing viewpoints.
</blockquote>


	Rightfully, these New York City Council members note that if this museum does not renounce this decision, they will urge others to stop financially supporting the institution.


	Do donors to the Museum of Jewish History believe only Democrats should be allowed to speak? Or will New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul similarly be banned from New York’s Museum of Jewish History?


	After the cancellation, Governor DeSantis’ office <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/gov-desantis-reportedly-banned-from-ny-museum-of-jewish-heritage/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652053017481000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1L45PMiVz_-5MvNKtrMouq" href="https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/gov-desantis-reportedly-banned-from-ny-museum-of-jewish-heritage/" target="_blank">issued a statement stating:</a> “Governor DeSantis has always been a steadfast friend of the Jewish people and the State of Israel,” praising the editorial by Abrams and Cohen regarding the “remarkable Jewish renaissance” happening in Florida under his leadership, and affirming that “We hope that this is all a misunderstanding, and the museum leadership will rectify the situation, because a Holocaust memorial should never be politicized.”


	This decision must immediately be rescinded. Or Democrat New York politicians must also be banned from the grounds.


	Freedom of speech shouldn't be limited to Democrats. A call for comment to the New York Museum of Jewish Heritage was not returned.


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DeSantis Banned From New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage

According to the non-profit Tikvah Fund, the New York Museum of Jewish Heritage has banned Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis from the museum, per an editorial in

Just like that, the world is a different place. Its scary times ahead.&nbsp; As a 47-year old, in my lifetime I cannot remember a more serious time of conflict. Like many worldwide praying for Ukraine, I worry about what Russia’s action means for the State of Israel.


	Prime Minister Naftali Bennett avoided condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine — or even mentioning Russia by name - saying “The world order as we know it is changing. The world is much less stable, and our region too is changing every day.”


	And while the world has changed, Ukraine is fighting alone.&nbsp; Not America and not NATO will be coming to its rescue.&nbsp; Against this backdrop, surely many realize that Israel was created so that never again would Jews be dependent on anyone else for their security.


	It is also fitting to remember that so many worldwide blamed tensions between Israel and the United States as a “personality” issue of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Yet, with a different government now in place, Iran remains a major problem for Israel.&nbsp; 
	 
	And Israel alone must determine Israel’s security.


	Against that backdrop its fitting to remember some quotes through the years from various government officials.&nbsp; 
	 
	As Menachem Begin stated many years ago:

<blockquote>
	
		Our right to exist – have you ever heard of such a thing? Would it enter the mind of any Briton or Frenchman, Belgian or Dutchman, Hungarian or Bulgarian, Russian or American, to request for its people recognition of its right to exist?

	
		We were granted our right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization four thousand years ago. Hence, the Jewish people have an historic, eternal and inalienable right to exist in this land, Eretz Yisrael, the land of our forefathers. We need nobody’s recognition in asserting this inalienable right. And for this inalienable right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of nations.

	
		Because our Jewish state needs no American affirmation of our right to exist. Our Hebrew bible established that right millennia ago. Never, throughout the centuries, did we ever abandon or forfeit that right. Therefore, sir, we alone, the Jewish people – no one else – are responsible for our country’s right to exist.
</blockquote>


	Today, surely Israel’s leaders are facing sleepless nights remembering that responsibility.


	And how about the anti-Israeli United Nations? As Prime Minister Golda Meir said,

<blockquote>
	
		I look around me at the United Nations and I think to myself we have no family here. Israel is entirely alone here, less than popular and certainly misunderstood. Why should that be? Why? Why?
</blockquote>


	Who cares today about the United Nations condemnations? Surely not Russia.


	No more needs to be said. Arms matter. Weapons matter. Security and self-determination matters.

<div>
	
		Today, surely Israel’s leaders must remember the words of Ze’ev Jabotinsky:

	<blockquote>
		
			We were not created in order to teach morals and manners to our enemies. Let them learn these things for themselves. We want to hit back at anybody who harms us. Whoever does not repay a blow by a blow is also incapable of repaying a good deed in kind. The Latin proverb says “of two evils choose the lesser. When we are in a position where – through no fault of our own – physical force dominates, only one question can be asked: what is worse? To continue watching Jews being killed and the conviction grows that our lives our cheap, and among the whole world that we are spineless?...the blackest of all characteristics is the tradition of the cheapness of Jewish blood, on the shedding of which there is no prohibition and for which you do not pay.

		
			A new commandment must enter our hearts: that even where there is only one Jew, the word 'Zhid' must not be heard without response. Wise people will come and try to dissuade us - But it is not our purpose to win in every single incident. Our objective – to create about us the belief that a slur on our national feelings is no longer what it once was, a small diversion free of cost – but will rather, with an absolute certainty and a mathematical precision, result in a sharp and unpleasant confrontation.
	</blockquote>

	
		Let us pray for Ukraine, the Jews of Ukraine, the West and the State of Israel.

	
		Thankfully the State of Israel knows its responsibility.
</div>


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What Putin's Aggression Means for Israel

Just like that, the world is a different place. Its scary times ahead.&nbsp; As a 47-year old, in my lifetime I cannot remember a more serious time of conflict

This year has been a tremendously difficult year. Covid-19 was – and remains – scary and awful.


	For so many New Yorkers, what has also been awful over the last year has been watching the destruction of New York City – undoubtedly in large part because of a pair of egomaniac buffoons: Mayor Bill De Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo.&nbsp;


	New York City is a fragment of itself – abandoned stores and empty streets. The city that used to never sleep is in a slumber. After a year in which the city permitted looting and rioting, in which kids remain largely out of school, in which crime is rising rapidly and so many of us are afraid to walk in the streets, the city is largely shuttered and in disarray. Streets are filled with crime, the homeless are everywhere -- and so many New Yorkers have left.


	“If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere” now seems to be a punishment of how many extra barriers one needs to encounter in NYC to succeed.


	Contrast that with Florida which is wide open, where the Mayor tweets asking people what help they need to succeed, and it’s easy to understand why so many of New York’s finest have moved in the past year.


	One doesn’t need to sit on Wall Street or Park Avenue in order to work – Miami Beach and the sun works just fine for so many professionals. I have a running list of 50 friends and acquaintances who have moved to Florida, all of whom never previously thought of leaving NYC.


	Spending the last week in Miami after a year in New York, I am amazed how many people I run into in Miami who have moved -- like my friend Mitch Modell (of Modell’s sporting goods) who had tears in his eyes over dinner at Carbone (a NYC restaurant which opened in Miami) as he said he cannot believe he no longer has a home in New York. He said he simply didn’t feel safe anymore in the city, and couldn’t remain in an unsafe city. Like many, we have more friends in Miami now, and as those of us who live in Manhattan know the streets, don’t feel safe right now.


	Another friend of mine for 30 years who works in real estate left once his teenage son was robbed at gunpoint in front of his home on the Upper East Side. He also left because his kid’s private school (for which he paid $55K annually) had his son write essays apologizing for privilege and wealth. Another friend, a nightlife impresario, left after his wife was harassed daily while walking the kids around in a stroller. These stories don’t make the news and all of us who live in Manhattan have similar ones.


	People outside of Manhattan have no idea how bad Gotham truly is, how depressed and isolated the residents of the city are and feel. So many of us are shell-shocked – even more so when we come to Florida and see life passing us by. Florida is wide open – and the COVID numbers aren’t worse in Florida. We are more angered when we realize teachers' unions control the fate of our children, even more angered when even though NY got billions in bail-out money, taxes will still rise there – surely a punitive move.


	As a close friend of mine told me when leaving,

<blockquote>
	
		“NYC ain't gonna get its groove back. What has happened in NYC has made it impossible for me. It’s not being a conservative in a lefty city. I’ve always been fine with that – there was a place for me, the resistance. But now, it’s not just that the city has jerked left. It’s that it despises any form of success or ambition. It’s not just the GOP that is disgusting. It’s any form of trying to succeed in business or school or art. The culture of NYC used to adore its big dreamers and big ambitions. Now, it hates them.

	
		That’s why ordinary diners are attacked by “peaceful protestors”. It has nothing to do with any issue or justice. It’s simply about wealth redistribution – diner has money, protestor doesn’t, therefore protestor has the right to disrupt the diner and the restaurant. It sickens me. I can live in a place where I am a tiny minority. I can’t live in a place that wants to rob me.”
</blockquote>


	So many of us feel this way. We feel hated for succeeding, we feel attacked. I grew up in the Bronx, the product of a single-mother household, and attended NYC public schools, yet Mayor De Blasio attacked people like me who went to the Hamptons during the pandemic for fresh air and space, calling us “fair-weather friends.” I’ve paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes in NYC and employ hundreds of people. I am not evil because I succeed, not a “fair-weather” friend because I have a home in the Hamptons. I’m proud of what I have accomplished and apologize to absolutely no one for it.


	De Blasio got what he wanted – many of those “fair-weather friends” haven’t returned. Many of my hedge fund friends moved quietly to Palm Beach and won’t return. Perhaps that’s the strategy of these progressives all along – to destroy business and commerce. Sitting in wide-open Florida, it is hard to think this isn’t part of some sinister plan.


	For the first time ever, I have proactively made it my mission to meet the front-runners running for Mayor in the upcoming November election. In a race in which accepting donations from real estate developers is considered controversial, perhaps it's unsurprising the business community has been overwhelmingly silent surrounding the upcoming election, and the candidates are largely people who haven’t accomplished much. There are no big names and certainly no sure-fire candidate who can turn this mess around.


	On the Democratic side, there is Eric Adams, the current Brooklyn Borough President. He appears to be the best of the worst. He’s a former NYPD captain who touts law and order. He has stated that “business is needed in NYC.” He claims to be a moderate – although he also wants to raise taxes, not the brightest move when NY’s best and brightest are fleeing. Andrew Yang, the current front-runner, is an open "progressive" touting universal basic income – a socialist endeavor. Yang, who portrays himself as an uber-successful entrepreneur, has a net worth of $600K according to his financial filings. Not exactly super successful when it comes to NYC cost of living – so what makes him qualified to solve NY’s huge issues? Most of the Democratic candidates identify as "progressives" – the prescription which led us into this situation. On the Republican side is Fernando Mateo, a long-time advocate for livery cabs. In a city where Republicans are outnumbered seven to one, it seems like a lost cause.


	I write this from Miami where I’ve been out daily for dinner at restaurants, after days packed with Zoom calls, where real estate is booming, where the sun is shining, and where the energy is what New York City used to have. Offices won’t reopen full-time, and if they don’t do that then why must I live in the city? Many more have left NYC than realized, and when that happens and progressives seek to continue to tax, tax, and tax, then what happens to those who make money who remain?&nbsp;


	I’m sad and pessimistic that New York City will ever recover. I have lived there my whole life, and I am terrified about the future of our once-great city.


	Ronn Torossian is a Public Relations executive.

Terrified for NYC’s Future

This year has been a tremendously difficult year. Covid-19 was – and remains – scary and awful.


	For so many New Yorkers, what has also been awful over

It seems the chickens are coming home to roost in New York City. The Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan – long considered one of the most liberal communities in the country -- is up in arms as there are several new homeless shelters packed with junkies and registered sex offenders.&nbsp;


	According to media reports, hundreds of homeless people have descended upon the area causing chaos. How many of those people blindly vote Democrat, yet are opposed to homelessness in their own backyard? Do these folks, who just a few months were clamoring to defund the police, expect police protection from those shooting drugs up in the streets by their homes? Do they just hope masturbators in the street will miraculously stop?


	Against this backdrop, New York City is stopping cars at random checkpoints to enforce quarantine rules, but lets people commit crimes and get out of jail with no bail.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	This week, I was thrown out of “Upper West Siders for Safer Streets,” a Facebook discussion group formed to discuss the problems of that neighborhood, for daring to suggest protesting Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio for their policies which are to blame for the issues in our city.&nbsp;


	Organizers of these groups removed me for “discussing politics” as they advocate instead, calling City Council members. Nearly all of them vote Democrat and voted de Blasio.&nbsp;


	Meanwhile, de Blasio has called people like me who are now living in the Hamptons “fair-weather friends,” saying:

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		“This city is for New Yorkers, this is for people&nbsp;who live here, work here, fight to make this place better, fight through this crisis.” 
</blockquote>


	I am a native New Yorker, a product of the NYC public school system who is raising a family in this city, and who has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for this city. Where does it say we need to put our families in danger?


	For the next few years, the city that never sleeps will be sleeping. Without restaurants, culture and all the things that made our city great, many residents have left and will not return. Taxes, over-regulation, and soft-on-crime policies like bail reform leave many like this native of NYC wondering why the hell we need it.


	Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio will go down in history as the great destroyers of New York City.


	Let us pray sane minds prevail in New York City, but I don’t have my hopes up.


	<a href="https://www.ypo.org/profile/ronn-torossian/" target="_blank">Ronn Torossian</a>&nbsp;is a native New Yorker and entrepreneur.

The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost in NYC

It seems the chickens are coming home to roost in New York City. The Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan – long considered one of the most liberal

One of the reasons Donald Trump’s message resonates is he is striking at the core of a corrosive Washington, DC culture.&nbsp;Government waste and misconduct are&nbsp;rampant.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	A&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.bna.com/chemical-safety-board-n57982073621/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1475063472031000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGUcP5sqYPLQZPSoM_z_HREuEdCng" href="http://www.bna.com/chemical-safety-board-n57982073621/" target="_blank">story</a>&nbsp;about the Chemical Safety Board (CSB), a&nbsp;U.S. federal agency, is a&nbsp;clear reminder of what we are up against when career bureaucrats are left to their own devices. Daniel Horowitz, the board's managing director, was placed on leave in June 2015 by&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/new-top-chemical-safety-board-lawyer-suing-his-own-agency.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1475063472031000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrc7QHf6-FCi8f4pay-nAxoJh0pA" href="http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/new-top-chemical-safety-board-lawyer-suing-his-own-agency.html" target="_blank">Acting Board Chairman Richard (Rick) Engler.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;Horowitz and the organization's then-general counsel were accused of creating a toxic work environment and retaliating against whistle-blowers. The official notice for his removal included 10 charges of misconduct.&nbsp;


	Anyone in business found to have committed such misconduct would rightfully find themselves out of work. Fast forward more than a year and Horowitz is still on the payroll&nbsp;earning $158,700&nbsp;because&nbsp;“the action was never finalized by the board.”


	In June,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.bna.com/chemical-safety-board-n57982073621/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1475063472031000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGUcP5sqYPLQZPSoM_z_HREuEdCng" href="http://www.bna.com/chemical-safety-board-n57982073621/" target="_blank">Michael Wright, the health and safety director at the United Steelworkers union</a>, told Bloomberg&nbsp;News, “[I]t's not the CSB's fault.” Wright added it was appropriate to keep Horowitz off the job given the accusations against him, noting, “I'd rather have him collect a salary and not do work than collect a salary and do work for the CSB.”


	It makes no sense at all – those who do no work must not be paid.&nbsp; There is no logical reason to pay someone taxpayers’ dollars for staying at home.


	Engler,&nbsp;the Acting Board Chairman of the CSB, is the same bureaucrat who promoted a lawyer suing his agency for hundreds of thousands of dollars as its acting General Counsel.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	Prior to his promotion, Raymond Porfiri was the agency’s Deputy General Counsel, having worked at the CSB for 16 years. In October 2014, Porfiri filed a federal lawsuit against CSB charging it with various incidents of discrimination and failure to accommodate injuries he sustained in an April 2011 accident pruning a tree at his residence. In his suit Porfiri is demanding a $300,000 payment from the government – and in his new role is directly supervising the CSB attorney charged with assisting the Justice Department in defending against his own lawsuit.&nbsp;This is government ineptitude at its finest.


	And it’s the same Engler that, soon after his appointment,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/peer-says-new-head-of-chemical-safety-board-spending-taxpayer-money-like-a-drunken-sailor/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1475063472031000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFWHtRSWjCDrEOJV_Mi7H3AfEJcDw" href="http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/peer-says-new-head-of-chemical-safety-board-spending-taxpayer-money-like-a-drunken-sailor/" target="_blank">awarded</a>&nbsp;“nearly $100,000 in sole-source contracts for outside lawyers and consultants without public notice or discussion and kept them below a dollar threshold that would trigger an array of federal procurement requirements,” according to Corproate Crime Reporter.&nbsp;


	This whole episode at the CSB&nbsp;is symptomatic of&nbsp;everything we have come to associate with government and bureaucracy – at best inefficiency, at worst,&nbsp;corruption.&nbsp; Big government is simply never good.&nbsp; No matter who is elected in November, more in government need to be told,&nbsp;“You are fired.”

Rampant Government Waste And Misconduct At The Chemical Safety Board

One of the reasons Donald Trump’s message resonates is he is striking at the core of a corrosive Washington, DC culture.&nbsp;Government waste and misconduct

Rampant Government Waste And Misconduct At The Chemical Safety Board

Last week, in front of the European Parliament, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority,&nbsp;claimed that Israeli rabbis had instructed Jewish residents&nbsp;to poison Palestinian water supplies. &nbsp;Blood libels have long faced the Jews.&nbsp;There were those who believed Jews were baking Passover matzah with the blood of Christian children.&nbsp; Need a scapegoat because a child went missing? It must have been those Jews.&nbsp;


	Blood libels have been around for a long time and eventually morphed into water libels. When the Black Death hit Europe in the 14th&nbsp;century, the Jews were blamed.&nbsp;


	The rationale was that the Jews were affected less, thus they must have been poisoning wells and collecting water elsewhere. Five hundred and ten&nbsp;Jewish communities&nbsp;were massacred between 1348 and 1350. On February 14, 1349, 900 Jews were burned alive in Strasbourg as a preventive measure; the plague had not even arrived there yet.&nbsp;Yet, the&nbsp;main cause of the Black Death’s sweep of Europe&nbsp;was most likely poor hygiene, assisted by fleas and rats.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	Shamefully, a Jewish organization helped the latest incarnation of this ancient blood libel&nbsp;emerge from Abbas.&nbsp;Breaking the Silence (BTS), best known for spreading false allegations of misdoings within the Israel Defense Forces, has apparently expanded the scope of their work.


	On June 14, 2016,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134130332&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1467377897933000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFwFVryT5SzpS0XXqM1CkRI7Fx_iA" href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134130332" target="_blank">Yehuda Shaul, a co-founder of BTS</a>, was filmed allegedly telling a group of tourists that&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/787/798.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1467377897934000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEz5Nbj1A2jGd1KOAax-8_vdvYMZg" href="http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/787/798.html" target="_blank">Israeli settlers had poisoned the water system</a>&nbsp;of a Palestinian village a few years ago, causing its residents to be displaced. In the anti-Semitism business, that was all that was needed for&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi%3D157%26doc_id%3D18211&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1467377897934000&amp;usg=AFQjCNElYDkPcC1hplB-8TIOY8HfDt6VKQ" href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=18211" target="_blank">the story to spread</a>.&nbsp;


	On June 16, the&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/792/185.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1467377897934000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHyJq0R04XBD8dqwTJ5FqP-v4soIg" href="http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/792/185.html" target="_blank">PLO expanded the rumor</a>, claiming that Rabbi Shlomo Melamed, chairman of the Council of Settlement Rabbis, had given permission to settlers to poison the wells in Palestinian neighborhoods across the West Bank.&nbsp;


	The Palestinian Authority (PA) followed on June 20, claiming on television that the Council of Settlement Rabbis was trying to either scare away or kill Palestinians by poisoning their drinking water.&nbsp; The Arab League condemned the supposed act - and then of course, Abbas took to the international stage with it. What all of these alleged human rights agents forgot to mention is that Rabbi&nbsp;Shlomo Melamed&nbsp;and the Council of Settlement Rabbis do not exist.&nbsp;


	A few days later, an extremist American Jewish organization, The New Israel Fund, sent out a donor request for Breaking The Silence.&nbsp; As John Proctor asks in&nbsp;The Crucible,&nbsp;“Is the accuser always holy now?” Breaking The Silence does not deserve&nbsp;awards, let alone any funding from American Jews. &nbsp;


	Academic&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/davidfiresterny&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1467377897934000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGuD8Hq-uSsApHxX3NF3OZFoj2Gzg" href="https://twitter.com/davidfiresterny" target="_blank">David Firester</a>&nbsp;has asked on these pages, “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/208917/liberal-academia-and-my-struggle-survival-david-e-firester&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1467377897934000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFiotPPH0tjqddYvxAAOwkVTMgzqg" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/208917/liberal-academia-and-my-struggle-survival-david-e-firester" target="_blank">how can smart people hold such dumb views?&nbsp;It has often been said that there is no cure for stupid, while ignorance is easily treated through education.”</a>&nbsp;One wonders how can American Jews assist in blood libels.

How American Jews Assist Palestinian Blood Libels

Last week, in front of the European Parliament, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority,&nbsp;claimed that Israeli rabbis had instructed Jewish

How American Jews Assist Palestinian Blood Libels 

<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/04/15/thank-you-cherna-irving-moskowitz/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1466535646956000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFN_tThHVlutKHBGnbcGRCZOq06-A" href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/04/15/thank-you-cherna-irving-moskowitz/" target="_blank">Dr. Irving&nbsp;Moskowitz</a>, a&nbsp;man who has rightfully been called the Montefiore and Rothschild of our time,&nbsp;passed away last Thursday. A prominent philanthropist, he had a steadfast dedication to the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Condolences to, Cherna Moskowitz, his wife and partner for the past sixty years.


	<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/132667/thank-you-cherna-dr-irving-moskowitz-ronn-torossian&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1466535646956000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFl3Rwv9YaomKH5i9zCEfI7Sd_Naw" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/132667/thank-you-cherna-dr-irving-moskowitz-ronn-torossian" target="_blank">Dr. Irving Moskowitz</a>&nbsp;was a man of action, dedicated to strengthening the State of Israel. He was a steadfast supporter of the right of Jews to live anywhere in the Land of Israel. Irving Moskowitz was born on January 11, 1928 in New York City, the ninth of thirteen children. He was a semi-professional baseball player before entering the University of Wisconsin where he received the Phi Beta Sigma scholastic award for academic excellence.&nbsp; After receiving his Bachelor's Degree in Medical Science, Dr. Moskowitz began practicing medicine in Long Beach, California and then transformed his career as a physician into an entrepreneurial career building and managing hospitals.


	As The Irving Moskowitz Foundation website notes, the man believed&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		that everyone should have the opportunity to succeed in life. He believes in extending to a disadvantaged student the scholarship that will enhance his or her life by ensuring that a child experiences the pride, fun and teamwork of playing on a sports team; or in seeing that inner city sixth graders have an outdoor, hands-on learning experience at science camp.
</blockquote>


	Dr. Moskowitz said, “I remember growing up hungry, but I cannot sit idly by and watch children in our community grow up without food to eat.”&nbsp; He helped so many people in need “regardless of race, creed, politics or religion,"&nbsp;often quietly and across so many walks of life. &nbsp;


	Israel and Jewish issues were foremost among&nbsp;his philanthropic priorities. Dr. Irving Moskowitz was deeply influenced by the fact that he&nbsp;lost 120 family members in the Holocaust, noting that his tireless work was about “doing the natural thing for a Jew – trying to save our nation.” As he said, “What could be more natural for a person with [my] upbringing than to want to help his people in Israel who are being surrounded by people that want to destroy the country?”


	The great prophet Hillel noted: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” Dr. Irving Moskowitz epitomized this quote. May his wife Cherna, eight children and more than forty grandchildren be comforted among the mourners of Zion.&nbsp;

Prominent Philanthropist Dr. Irving Moskowitz Passes Away

Dr. Irving&nbsp;Moskowitz, a&nbsp;man who has rightfully been called the Montefiore and Rothschild of our time,&nbsp;passed away last Thursday. A prominent

Israel struggles with terrorist attacks, and works vigilantly to combat suicide attacks. The government is forced to resort to means that&nbsp;will protect her people – and combat terrorists who believe they will head to heaven and be rewarded as part of their jihad.


	Rightfully, the Israeli government has pursued a path of home demolition.&nbsp; As&nbsp;Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu noted "We have a policy of creating a price for suicide terrorists, because the suicide terrorist commits suicide after all, it is reasonable to assume he realizes he is committing suicide, but we know that this is one of the effective tools.”


	Hamoked, an organization&nbsp;that has received&nbsp;$720,301 from the American Jewish extremist group the New Israel Fund (NIF), regularly petitions Israel’s Supreme Court to&nbsp;postpone the demolition of terrorists' homes who have carried out attacks against Israelis.&nbsp; In response, Israel’s Minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, has said NIF "reached a new peak of Israel-hatred” with this action.&nbsp;


	That was last week’s new low. They topped it this week.


	Hamoked’s most recent “Extremely Urgent” letter to Israel’s Attorney General&nbsp;said he&nbsp;must&nbsp;“pressure the Government of Israel and the security establishment who are considering imposing on relatives of individuals who perpetrated attacks against Israelis. We have learned from the media of a plan to expel relatives of individuals who have perpetrated attacks on Israelis to the Gaza Strip if it is revealed that they had prior knowledge of the attackers’ plans or supported their actions. We request your intervention to prevent this unlawful measure.”


	Hamoked’s letter continues,&nbsp;“It is difficult to overstate the gravity of expulsion and its fatal impact on all aspects of a person’s life and rights. Expulsion means separating the expelled individuals from their families, removing them from their property, possessions, livelihoods, from their physical and social surroundings and making them vagabonds in the Gaza Strip.”


	A "fatal impact" would result from punishing&nbsp;people who knew about an impending plan for jihad?&nbsp;Maybe they should be given social security&nbsp;and trauma counseling instead?


	It's sick and insane for American Jewish radicals to fund these activities of opposing the punishment of family members of terrorists who knew about attacks before they were perpetrated.&nbsp;


	Those who support these actions of demanding that Israel not punish the family members of Palestinian terrorists who knew about the attacks in advance have blood on their hands.&nbsp;


	American Jews who fund the NIF include Alisa Doctoroff, Franklin Fisher, Yaffa &amp; Paul Maritz, Joan &amp; Irwin Jacobs, and the Board of&nbsp;Temple Israel of White Plains– President&nbsp;Ellen Salant, Ken Kanfer, Audrey Samers, Magan Schain, Sam Kahn, Joel Wolfson, Renana Rosenbloom, Bruce Wexler, Randi Kattan and Lewis Polishook – who recently endorsed their Rabbi’s position as a leader of the International Council of The New Israel Fund.&nbsp;

Don’t Punish the Families of Terrorists Who Knew About Impending Attacks?

Israel struggles with terrorist attacks, and works vigilantly to combat suicide attacks. The government is forced to resort to means that&nbsp;will protect her

Don’t Punish the Families of Terrorists Who Knew About Impending Attacks?

There was a time in Europe when Jewish&nbsp;people were made to wear yellow stars on their arms to indicate that they were indeed Jewish.&nbsp; It was not a badge of honor, but a way to identify Jews&nbsp;for discrimination, scorn and, ultimately, Hitler’s final solution.&nbsp;Perhaps that is why the European Union’s November 11th decision to label products that come&nbsp;from the regions in Israel after the Six-Day War is being scorned in almost all sectors of Israel, left to right.&nbsp; Labeling items for discriminatory reasons&nbsp;so that others can choose to exclude them&nbsp;is another nail in a coffin being built by the proponents of the Boycott Divest Sanctions (BDS) movement.&nbsp; Among the very few in the Jewish community who support this endeavor is a radical American Jewish organization, who raise $30 million annually, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/246199/extremist-radical-new-israel-fund-and-its-funders-ronn-torossian">The New Israel Fund (NIF). </a>&nbsp;


	NIF openly supports a boycott of Israeli&nbsp;settlements&nbsp;and Eastern Jerusalem and has no issues with boycotting the areas that the EU now wants to stamp with the yellow star -- “made in settlements” – and still wants its supporters to believe it is not against the Jewish state.


	The European Union is one of Israel’s top trading partners.&nbsp; The products from the Judea and Samaria, the Golan Heights and even the areas in East Jerusalem will now require special labels to notify purchasers that they come from what they decided is disputed or occupied areas.&nbsp; Although it represents a small percentage of Israel’s $13 billion in annual exports to the EU’s 28 countries, it has far reaching repercussions.&nbsp; There is a historic precedent to suggest that this labeling will reach into all of Israel.&nbsp; A next step will certainly be to target businesses that might have even remote ties to the areas the EU and the NIF have designated as problematic.


	Across Israel, from the left to the right, there is unanimity in opposition to the labeling.&nbsp;Isaac Herzog from the dovish Zionist Union party said that this was a “dangerous and detrimental” move that will damage peace efforts. Herzog even compared the move to the UN’s decision to equate Zionism with racism in 1975.&nbsp; He quoted his father, Chaim Herzog’s statement while an Ambassador at the United Nations then:&nbsp;“This decision is based on hatred, falsehood and ignorance, devoid of any moral value. For us, the Jewish people, this is no more than a piece of paper, and we must treat it as such.”


	Former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said, “Every time that Europe labels Jews, it’s a sign that anti-Semitism, insanity and hypocrisy have&nbsp;taken over and that they are leading the entire free world to a catastrophe.”


	Yair Lapid, head of Yesh Atid, said that the EU’s move will “strengthen terror against Israel.”&nbsp; He proclaimed, “This move, proposed by the BDS movement, may ultimately lead to a total economic boycott of the State of Israel. This is a decision that will only harden Palestinian positions and pushes off the chance for a political solution.”&nbsp; Lapid Tweeted, that this hits Israel as “Jews are being stabbed on the streets.”


	The New Israel Fund helped make this EU decision a reality.


	Naomi Chazan, who was NIF president from 2008-2012&nbsp;and is still a senior NIF board member <a href="http://tv.social.org.il/eng/about-us">who serves on the Public Council of Social Television</a>, the NIF’s leading media organization, explained her position on the boycott, saying, “Because of the ambiguity, in practical terms, boycotting Israel is only going to get the majority of Israelis riled in the wrong direction. It is not an effective move, politically ... That is not true of targeted measures against settlements and against businesses and economic activities that relate to the Occupation ... I think that is the right direction to go. I think it’s very, very important.”&nbsp;


	Many Americans who proclaim to support Israel – including leaders such as UJA’s president Alisa Doctoroff or Rabbi Gordon Tucker and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17804">Temple Israel of White Plains</a> -- still give to the NIF, thus advocating for the labeling initiative that just occurred.&nbsp;


	Naomi Paiss, NIF VP for Public Affairs, said just a short while ago that the&nbsp;“NIF will not deny funding to organizations that call for a boycott of settlement products, assuming they meet our other rigorous funding criteria.”&nbsp; She added, “We who uphold democratic values including freedom of expression, and who differentiate between Tel Aviv and Kfar Tapuah, are the majority” --&nbsp;and provide&nbsp;support for this hateful initiative.


	The World Jewish Congress&nbsp;last&nbsp;week&nbsp;said the European Union was guilty of applying “blatant double standards” and deliberately singling out Israel for special measures, and the ADL called it wrong and hypocritical.


	The New Israel Fund is an extremist organization, and we know many of the American Jews who choose to fund this organization and call upon them, for their love of Israel, to stop supporting this group. Barbara and Eric Dobkin, Sally Gottesman, Murray Koppelman, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Bryna Linett, Carole &amp; Saul Zabar, Irwin Jacobs, William and Sera Goldman, <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/the-jim-joseph-foundation-the-jewish-communal-fund-others-must-stand-with-israel-against-enemies/2015/07/05/">the Jim Joseph Foundation, the Jewish Communal Fund,</a> Dr. Gabor Herman, the&nbsp;Leichtag Foundation, the&nbsp;Lopatin Foundation and Edith Everett: You cannot support a group that helps Europeans to practice anti-Semitism against Israel.&nbsp; Please stop.

New Israel Fund Supports Labeling Of Israeli Products

There was a time in Europe when Jewish&nbsp;people were made to wear yellow stars on their arms to indicate that they were indeed Jewish.&nbsp; It was not a

New Israel Fund Supports Labeling Of Israeli Products

The head of the Jewish Home party, Israel’s <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/israels-minister-education-boycotts-american-jewish-extremists">Education Minister Naftali Bennett</a>, has ranked the highest of any government minister in terms of his satisfaction rating in an annual poll on the Knesset Channel in Israel. The poll, which rates the performance of all current Knesset members and government ministers, ranked his deputy, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, in third place.


	While American liberal Jews continue to overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party, Israelis stand with the right-wing Jewish home party – and support the nationalistic government of Benjamin Netanyahu.&nbsp; Bennett has reduced the number of students in a classroom, and Shaked has vowed to stop foreign funding to the radical left who boycott Israel.&nbsp; Both are strong proponents of the Jewish right to live throughout the land of Israel and that Israel has rightful possession of Judea and&nbsp;Samaria.&nbsp;


	Bennett is a proud Jew – one who stands up and tells the truth in an unapologetic manner and in good English.&nbsp; As he told The Washington Post, “We will never give away land to the Palestinians.”&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/naftali-bennett-or-pm-netanyahu-where-would-zeev-jabotinsky-stand/">Naftali Bennett</a> is clear-headed, well-spoken, and determined to better the place of Israel in the world.


	Bennett is part of the new Israeli leadership which understands and cares about the Public Relations image of Israel.&nbsp; He founded “Israel Sheli” (My Israel), a network of pro-Israel activists committed to spreading Zionism online.&nbsp;


	This is Israeli democracy – the people of Israel supporting a strong, sane leadership.


	Forty-three-year-old Naftali Bennett served in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit of the Israel Defense Forces, and at the age of 27 founded a company which he sold 6 years later for $145 million. He lived in New York City for a few years building the company, until he returned to Israel where he fought in the Second Lebanon War and then served as Netanyahu’s Chief of Staff. This man is independently wealthy, self-made and driven by Zionism.


	Naftali Bennett has wisely asked: “What does the world want from us; what do the Arab nations want from this small Jewish State?” He opposes the creation of a Palestinian state, noting, "I will do everything in my power to make sure they never get a state." He supports free enterprise, and in so many ways is the future of Israel.


	While America is capitulating to terror with a deal with Iran, Israelis stand strong and support a strong Israel. As Zionist leader <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/08/09/commemorating-the-75th-memorial-of-zeev-jabotinsky/">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a> said in 1937 Jewish values are “not an archaic object of our history, but an active pulsating power which exists today and will continue for all eternity.”

Israeli Right-Wing Ministers Score Highest Satisfaction Ratings

The head of the Jewish Home party, Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett, has ranked the highest of any government minister in terms of his satisfaction

Israeli Right-Wing Ministers Score Highest Satisfaction Ratings

The New Israel Fund (NIF) continues to claim it&nbsp;does not boycott Israel – this despite facts to the contrary in its&nbsp;pattern of giving, as well as public statements.


	A few simple facts. The first Israeli boycott initiatives were <a href="http://www.whoprofits.org/content/about-who-profits">led by Women's Coalition for Peace</a> -- while it was being funded by the NIF, and former NIF president Naomi Chazan was involved in the development of that organization. Women's Coalition for Peace launched the boycott project following&nbsp;2006, and was funded by the NIF until 2011. Following the many years of funding, naturally, the ill-wind blowing from this activity continues and harms major Israeli companies. What began as a boycott of the settlements spread like wildfire and become a boycott of major companies in the Israeli economy, situated inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders.


	The following is a very partial list of companies who have been negatively impacted directly by this organization: Elbit Systems, IDB Group, Keter Plastic (Keter Group), Malam Team, Matrix IT, Shufersal, Amisragas, American Israeli Gas Crop, Leumi Bank, Hapoalim Bank, Bezeq - The Israeli Telecommunication Corporation, Delek Israel Fuel, Clal Industries, Super Pharm and&nbsp;Delta Galil Industries.


	In addition, cooperation between the NIF and Coalition of Women for Peace continues unabated. Thus, for example, the website of Shatil, the operational arm of the NIF, <a href="http://www.shatil.org.il/node/28897&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=0CB0QFjAGahUKEwi6nv2rzL_HAhUDtRoKHeENAS8&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEqqwNUTxza3z7bRYQMQUTFHjCnw">continues to publicize announcements of CWP activities</a>.


	Furthermore, not only were leading activists in CWP not ousted from the NIF and its organizations, but they were actually promoted in various NIF organizations. For example:


	CWP co-founder Hannah Safran is now active in Isha L’Isha, an NIF-funded organization, and <a href="http://www.guidestar.org.il/organization/580431799">even edited a book</a> summing up 30 years of the organization’s activities. Adi Dagan, a spokeswoman for CWP until 2008, transferred her activism from 2009 until at least 2013 to the NIF-funded organization Agenda, where she was <a href="http://www.themarker.com/career/1.1936952%20(">Director of Consultancy and Training</a>.


	Naomi Chazan, who was NIF president from 2008-2012, is still a senior NIF board member <a href="http://tv.social.org.il/eng/about-us">and serves on the Public Council of Social Television</a>, the NIF’s leading media organization. In 2014 Chazan explained her position on the boycott to an audience of supporters in the U.S. (Partners for Progressive Israel): 

<blockquote>
	
		Because of the ambiguity, in practical terms, boycotting Israel is only going to get the majority of Israelis riled in the wrong direction. It is not an effective move, politically... That is not true of targeted measures against settlements and against businesses and economic activities that relate to the Occupation... I think that is the right direction to go. I think it’s very, very important.

	
		Many of us have not bought settlement products for 46 years, knowingly. We check, when we go to the supermarket, where products are made. And we do not buy. That message conveys to Israelis that there is a price to Occupation, and you’re paying it with your pocket, and that’s why it’s effective, and that again is strengthening the connection between economic measures and perhaps bolstering a willingness to entertain agreements that perhaps there was no rush to do in the past, because it’s beginning to hurt.
</blockquote>


	In response to a claim that:

<blockquote>
	
		One of the problems we have as Americans is that we buy products that are labeled Israel,&nbsp;and they’re not labeled… across the Green Line or not, so it’s very difficult for BDS related to the Occupied Territories being effective here.
</blockquote>


	Chazan responded that indeed:

<blockquote>
	
		I think it’s important… it’s something that could and should be done by American organizations… I’m pointing to a direction that could be interesting to pursue.
</blockquote>


	(Chazan’s remarks were published by Israeli journalist and blogger Ishay Fridman.)


	Essentially, Chazan is continuing to promote a boycott of the settlements as an effective means for exerting pressure on Israeli society and the Israeli government – despite the fact that the anti-boycott law does not differentiate between a general boycott and a boycott against Judea and Samaria. Furthermore, Chazan’s remarks reveal that despite a number of questions from the audience on the BDS movement, Chazan not only does not denounce the general boycott of Israel, but rather explains that the reason for the lack of implementation of the boycott is that, according to her, “It is not an effective move, politically.”


	Chazan’s own words explain more than anything else what kind of attitudes the NIF is continuing to finance: Delegitimacy organizations that call for a boycott of Israel. It is worth noting that this is no one-off mistake.


	Recently the media published several reliable examples of the NIF’s continued funding of organizations that support the boycott. The New Israel Fund remains among the most dangerous extremist American Jewish organizations&nbsp;opposing Israel – and we call upon all NIF donors to&nbsp;take action and halt their donations.

The New Israel Fund’s Responsibility for the Boycott Against Israel

The New Israel Fund (NIF) continues to claim it&nbsp;does not boycott Israel – this despite facts to the contrary in its&nbsp;pattern of giving, as well as

The New Israel Fund’s Responsibility for the Boycott Against Israel

Two Jews, three opinions.&nbsp; There are so many points of legitimate differences within the Jewish community, and so many important issues to be debated.&nbsp; Reform vs. Orthodox, a two-state solution, the Iran deal, and so many other issues to be discussed, which are legitimate.&nbsp;And while we accept the concept of two Jews and three opinions, an unacceptable opinion must be financing&nbsp;boycotts against Israel.&nbsp; In no uncertain language, the New Israel Fund (NIF) openly advocates a boycott of Israel&nbsp;and, to the tune of $30 million annually, harms Israel immensely.&nbsp; Those who fund the NIF must be ostracized and shamed, and we will continue in this vital endeavor.


	As communications professionals, we cannot help but notice the active public relations endeavors of the Jewish Communal Fund, which&nbsp;defines itself&nbsp;in a recent press release as “the largest and most active Jewish donor advised fund in the country.”&nbsp; They recently issued a release noting that they “approved grants totaling $816,904 to local Jewish charities in the New York area through its endowment, the JCF Special Gifts Fund.”


	And while the JCF gives to many important issues, the question remains why the organization also gives millions to an organization that boycotts Israel.&nbsp; A review of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jcfny.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/JCF-2013-990-Public-disclosure-return.pdf">the organization’s tax-return filings</a> reveals that JCF funneled many millions of dollars to the New Israel Fund (NIF) in the last few years.&nbsp;The NIF funds organizations like the Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF), whose Executive Director has called Israel “racist,” and “murderous,” and described the country as a “temporary Jewish apartheid state.”


	B’Tselem received $10,036 in 2014 from the Jewish Communal Fund, and was the source for the recent UN Human Rights Council report against&nbsp;Israel.&nbsp; The JCF gave $10,500 to A&nbsp;Jewish Voice for Peace, which&nbsp;openly supports a boycott&nbsp;and was on the Anti-Defamation League’s&nbsp;list of most Anti-Israel groups in America in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/israel-international/Top-10-Anti-Israel-Groups-in-America.pdf">2012</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/israel-international/israel--middle-east/Top-Ten-2013-Report.pdf">2013</a>. As the ADL said, “Like other Jewish anti-Zionist groups, JVP uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide a greater degree of credibility to the anti-Israel movement.”


	No matter how much lipstick is put on a pig, it is still a pig.&nbsp; No amount of money that the Jewish Communal Fund gives to good Jewish issues makes their financing of a boycott acceptable.&nbsp; And while we note that the JCF issues press releases announcing their donations, we ask why they will not – and have not – publicly addressed the issue of why they support a boycott of Israel financially.


	We ask another 6-figure NIF donor,&nbsp;the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund, why their&nbsp;website notes that they are proud donors to the Friends of Israel Defense Forces, a great organization that provides supplies to IDF soldiers, yet they also support&nbsp;NIF, which boycotts Israel.&nbsp;Lela Goren, a developer whose brothers founded Israeli tech company Radiant System;&nbsp;the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jewocity.com/blog/condemn-eric-dobkin-the-lopatin-family-foundation-and-attacks-at-pride-parade-in-israel/15142">the Lopatin Family Foundation</a> and others fund important issues – how can they also support a boycott?


	We welcome freedom of discussion – we reject boycotts of Israel, and so must all who care about the State of Israel.


	George Birnbaum is an international political consultant, who formerly served as chief of staff for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hank Sheinkopf, CEO of Sheinkopf Communications, is a leading political strategist who has worked on campaigns in four continents.&nbsp; His clients have included former President Bill Clinton. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/5WPRSpeakers">Ronn Torossian</a> is CEO of a top 20 US PR Agency, and author of “For Immediate Release.”

Why Are American Jews Supporting a Boycott of Israel?

Two Jews, three opinions.&nbsp; There are so many points of legitimate differences within the Jewish community, and so many important issues to be debated.

Why Are American Jews Supporting a Boycott of Israel?

Today, we are living in a very unusual time; a time when America doesn’t support her allies, surrenders moral authority and is not the world leader it&nbsp;once was. Our generation could very well be witness to the collapse of everything we hold dear in America. As President Obama yields to tyrants under the guise of liberalism and open-mindedness, we decide to sell out our allies in defense of fundamentalists that are hell-bent on killing anyone they consider infidels.&nbsp; Throughout the Middle East – from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar there is concern with the dangerous nuclear deal reached with Iran.


	Taking the lead from Obama, American Jewish liberals help weaken the West. For example, take the <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16626#.Va_WjpvbKUk">New Israel Fund</a> (NIF), an American non-profit organization which supports initiatives harmful to Israel’s security and its economy, and backs the boycott of Israel. A job description for the hiring of a director of outreach for the western United States and a development associate deceptively detail the need to “Provide logistical support for public and fundraising events,”&nbsp;“Create and distribute invitations and manage RSVPs,”&nbsp;and “Provide logistical support for speakers and delegations from Israel; create and manage effective system for coordination of visiting speakers.”


	Needless to say that the NIF does not mention in these ads that the funds raised will be devoted to harming Israel, weakening the Israel Defense Forces, and harming the interests of the West in the Middle East. With President Obama caving in to Iran, Western interests are further endangered in the region, while NIF money continues to empower the radicals among the Palestinian Arabs and other militant Arab organizations that are essentially in control of Israel’s neighboring regions.&nbsp;


	If you get a job with NIF, you can work alongside Edith Everett, a major NIF donor who supports capitulating to Iran.&nbsp; In <a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/opinion/why-iran-deal-makes-sense-0%20-">&nbsp;this op-ed in The Jewish Week</a> Everett asked,

<blockquote>
	
		In reality, how much can he (Obama) demand of Iran? The idea that the United States, however powerful, can pull all the strings is a kind of arrogance that needs to be tempered with reality. No other nuclear country, including Israel, would even consider observers of their facilities. The fact that Iran has engaged in this dialogue&nbsp;is a credit to Obama who, before proposing a military option, is intelligently and sensibly trying first to negotiate an arrangement that would limit Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon.
</blockquote>


	There is much fault with Everett’s hypothesis here, including the fact that among other options, there is the economic strength to stop despots from obtaining such power.&nbsp; The real tell here is that she cedes America’s morality in being a great republic, claiming “arrogance.” A true Obamist.


	Following the Iran deal,&nbsp;the NIF can&nbsp;actively pursue its mission of encouraging Israel to return the Western Wall, (occupied territory) and to weaken a strong Western ally in the Middle East. In working at the New Israel Fund, employees can sing songs of peace to ISIS in the hopes that “removing settlements” will ensure an end to global conflict.&nbsp; What a wonderful world. The chosen candidate can hear from NIF donors like <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/american-jewish-donors-must-stop-supporting-the-families-of-arab-terrorists-in-jerusalem/2015/06/21/0/?print">Yaffa &amp; Paul Maritz</a>, Bonnie &amp; Marty Tenenbaum, Elisabeth and Gareth Turner, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16966#.Va7If5vbKUk">Dr. Gabor T. Herman</a>, Sally Gottesman and others about how Israel is the rotten apple in a region of dictators and terrorists.&nbsp;


	Stand with the New Israel Fund – and get a paycheck for standing against America and Israel.

Get Paid to Harm Israel &amp; America

Today, we are living in a very unusual time; a time when America doesn’t support her allies, surrenders moral authority and is not the world leader it&nbsp;

Get Paid to Harm Israel &amp; America

In response to the United Nations report issued today which accused Israel of war crimes, Israeli Foreign Ministry officials thundered that "it is well known that the entire process that led to the production of this report was politically motivated and morally flawed from the outset." We agree.
Across the political spectrum in Israel, the United Nations report was condemned – noting its purpose was simple – to undermine Israel’s right to defend its citizens from attack.
Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett noted that the report "has blood on its hands [for] allowing the murder of Jews."  Speaking from the Knesset, Bennett said, “It is a report with blood on its hands that is trying to turn Jewish blood into the cheapest product in the world. This is a report with blood on its hands because it's trying to restrict soldiers who protected this country's citizens; it's trying to tie our hands."
There is blood on the hands of those who wrote the report – as well as those organizations funded by the<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/05/07/the-new-israel-fund-is-beyond-defense/"> New Israel Fund</a> who provided factually inaccurate information to the United Nations.  They are responsible for this modern day blood libel against Israel.
MK Tzipi Livni – a Netanyahu opponent -- denounced the report, noting it was “born in sin by a committee that systematically and proactively attacks Israel.” Livni added, "We will not accept a comparison between IDF soldiers and terrorists. We will not agree to speak about IDF soldiers and terrorists in the same breath. This is an important distinction for any country fighting terrorism."
Put most simply, this report gives a boost to terrorist organizations around the world by allowing them to continue to attack innocent civilians.
While Israel chose not to cooperate with the biased UN, factually questionable information was provided by numerous organizations funded by the extremist New Israel Fund (NIF), including B’Tselem (69 mentions in the report), Human Rights Watch (22 mentions), Physicians For Human Rights-Israel (16), Hamoked (12), Breaking The Silence (8), Adalah (8), and Yesh Din (5.).
<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197096#.VYhajZvbKUk">Bennett said from the Knesset</a>: 
<blockquote>I saw the report, and I saw here several recognized organizations: Breaking the Silence, B'Tselem -- and I ask myself: B'Tselem? Our B'Tselem? That cannot be. So I had to make sure.</blockquote>
He added:
<blockquote>I went on the website of <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/05/07/the-new-israel-fund-is-beyond-defense/">The New Israel Fund</a>, who invented the granting of this patent of putting soldiers on trial for war crimes. Please note - the B'Tselem organization was nominated for the Campaign to name Children from Gaza Killed During Protective Edge. Why would the world file complaints against us? We're so good at harming ourselves - [via] organizations such as B'Tselem, the New Israel Fund, Breaking the Silence. After all, if the world would miss a war crime to attribute to us - there are those of us who would find it all by ourselves. Like a homecoming party, the radical leftist organizations meet after each operation of the IDF, and tell the UN that we are war criminals.</blockquote>
Many in Israel have called for an end to funding of these organizations who harm Israel’s interests.  We join them, and agree it is time that those responsible for funding the organizations behind this report immediately stop helping the enemies of Jews.
Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson once asked, “Is there another people on Earth so emotionally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape, robbery committed by their enemies fill their hearts with admiration and awe?”
Professor Gerald Steinberg, an Israeli academic, <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/10/29/new-israel-fund-under-renewed-scrutiny-over-funding-for-israeli-ngo-led-by-boycott-activist/">said recently</a> that “While the leaders of the New Israel Fund… claim to support Israel and human rights principles, they enable the highly destructive activities that do the opposite. By the time these funders acknowledge this failure and end their support, the damage will be done.”
We say loud and clear to the United Nations, the New Israel Fund and their donors: The State Of Israel will continue to defend itself whether you like it or not.  And we will say forever - shame on you. Stop strengthening terrorists and funding the enemies of Israel.
George Birnbaum is an international political consultant, who is partners with Arthur Finkelstein. Birnbaum formerly served as chief of staff for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hank Sheinkopf, CEO of Sheinkopf Communications, is a leading political strategist who has worked on campaigns in four continents.  His clients have included former President Bill Clinton.
<a href="http://www.ronntorossianupdate.com/">Ronn Torossian</a> is a New York-based entrepreneur and author of “For Immediate Release.”
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The United Nations Has Israel’s Blood On Its Hands

In response to the United Nations report issued today which accused Israel of war crimes, Israeli Foreign Ministry officials thundered that "it is well known

The United Nations Has Israel’s Blood On Its Hands

<a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/06/634885199350344688_new-israel-fund-logo.gif"><img src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/06/634885199350344688_new-israel-fund-logo.gif" alt="634885199350344688_new-israel-fund-logo" width="289" height="289" /></a>About 2,000 American families currently have children serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), other American Jews send their kids to Israeli summer camp -- and other American Jews fund the <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/05/07/the-new-israel-fund-is-beyond-defense/">New Israel Fund</a> (NIF) and cooperate with efforts at the United Nations to malign the State of Israel.
Their most recent endeavors involve accusing Israel of systematically compromising the welfare of Palestinian children.  A special representative of the <a href="http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/72860-150528-un-envoy-put-israel-on-blacklist-for-harming-children">UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict</a> recently recommended including the Israel Defense Forces on the blacklist of countries and bodies accused of systematically compromising the welfare of children – alongside Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Islamic State, the Taliban and other terrorist organizations. The list is due to be published soon, as an appendix to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s special Annual Report on Children in Armed Conflict.
Like previous UN Reports, the NIF and their partners cooperate with the UN to accuse Israel of war crimes in general and of abusing Palestinian children in particular. In October 2014 Adalah and Physicians for Human Rights (jointly with al Mezan, a Palestinian human rights organization) filed a report to the UN Human Rights Council. The report cited: Numerous cases of torture, ill-treatment and the disproportionate use of force by police, military and others security forces against Palestinian children.
For example, on June 1 2014, <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/ISR/INT_CCPR_NGO_ISR_18495_E.pdf">Adalah</a> (an NIF grantee) sent an urgent letter to the Israeli Attorney General containing 21 shocking testimonies made by Palestinian children and recorded by the Defense for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-P), alleging dangerous practices that constituted serious criminal offenses such as assault, damage, threat, sexual harassment and other unlawful activity committed by security authorities, including soldiers, GSS interrogators, and prison wardens.
A further report was filed to the UN Human Rights Council in February 2015 by the Child Trust Fund, which addressed the condition of Palestinian children, and based its findings on materials provided by Breaking the Silence’s 2012 report. Breaking the Silence, an organization founded by former Israeli soldiers whose purpose is to expose alleged abuses committed by the Israeli Defense Forces, released a booklet of witness reports written by more than 30 former Israeli soldiers. <a href="http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G15/029/22/PDF/G1502922.pdf?OpenElement">These reports document accusations of Palestinian children being beaten, intimidated, humiliated, verbally abused and injured by Israeli soldiers.</a>
To place Israel on a blacklist for harming children is a gross, untrue accusation.  Yet, attempting to do so is consistent with the goals of NIF, an organization that supports boycotts of Israel. Despite employing the same barbaric tactics as ISIS and Boko Haram and using the same repugnant rhetoric in their crusade to annihilate Israel and the United States, NIF ignores Hamas and Hezbollah misdeeds against Israel – and harms Israel by cooperating with the United Nations to blacklist one of the world’s most humanitarian armies.
The truth is the IDF did everything in its power to minimalize Palestinian casualties during Operation Protective Edge.  Throughout the escalation, the IDF continuously warned innocent civilians in Gaza with electronic messaging and pamphlets when certain areas were going to be struck and gave them ample time to evacuate. They even went one step further by pinpointing areas they could evacuate to in order to avoid any gunfire and live combat.  But sadly many of these civilians were forced to remain in these hostile areas to serve as human shields in order to maximize Palestinian casualties to propel Hamas's propaganda campaign and lure fellow Islamic extremists and faux human rights activists to their cause.
The New Israel Fund funds and supports groups that harm the IDF, supplying information to the UN in order to categorize the IDF with notorious and nefarious terror groups like ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al-Nusra. But when did any member of these terror groups do everything in their power to minimize civilian casualties and treat wounded civilians in their own hospitals?  Israel continuously provided <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Israeli-hospitals-continue-to-treat-sick-Gazans-despite-missile-attacks-362269">humanitarian relief</a> and medical aid to Palestinian men, women, and children, who were treated in Israeli hospitals throughout the entire conflict.
The real child abuse is orchestrated by individuals like the leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, whose net-worth is estimated at<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/28/gazas-millionaires-and-billionaires-how-hamass-leaders-got-rich-quick/"> $2.6 billion</a> as the people he claims to champion for are starving, unemployed, and fed false information each and every day on how Israel is to blame for their suffering.  The real child abuse comes in the form of brainwashing Gaza’s youth with children’s <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=14949">programs</a> lauding martyrdom and encouraging them to grow up to become suicide bombers instead of becoming doctors, engineers, nurses, or other occupations to make a difference for Palestinian Arab society.
As Israel’s Ambassador to the UN <a href="http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/prosor-un-truth-will-turned-head-morality-cast-aside/">Ron Prosor </a>has noted, when it comes to Israel there is a “moral fog” and Hamas’ child abuse continues to receive a hall pass by the international community.
If the New Israel Fund, B’Tselem, or Breaking the Silence cared about the lives of Palestinian children then their grievances would be focused on Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and the regimes that support them.  These organizations claim that their missions, which undermine Israel’s existence, are inspired by “Jewish values,” but no Jewish scripture will tell you that boycotting and marginalization fall under the umbrella of Jewish values.
Anyone who cares about Israel stands against the <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/uja-president-alisa-doctoroff-and-her-radical-support-of-palestinian-non-violent-activism-and-new-israel-fund/2015/02/22/">New Israel Fund</a>.
Hank Sheinkopf is CEO of Sheinkopf Communications and a leading Democratic strategist. His clients have included former President Bill Clinton. Ronn Torossian is CEO of 5WPR, one of the 20 largest independent American PR firms. George Birnbaum is an international political consultant, who formerly served as chief of staff for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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No Friend Of Israel Works With the UN to Place Israel on a Blacklist For Harming Children

About 2,000 American families currently have children serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), other American Jews send their kids to Israeli summer camp

<a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/05/634885199350344688_new-israel-fund-logo.gif"><img src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/05/634885199350344688_new-israel-fund-logo.gif" alt="634885199350344688_new-israel-fund-logo" width="286" height="286" /></a>As usual, the world’s media have it wrong about Israel.  The Jewish State remains a forward-thinking beacon of democracy, equality and justice.  Witness Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s newly appointed justice minister who at the age of 39 is likely one of the few women anywhere in the world to hold such a senior government position.  She’s a secular leader of a religious party, and lives in North Tel Aviv.
The extremists are on the left, holding minimal influence or power, and thankfully, with Shaked’s Jewish Home party now holding senior roles in Netanyahu’s coalition, the radical fringe of the New Israel Fund (NIF), and its ilk are likely to face continued challenges in the very near future.  Their desire to further harm the State of Israel will not be made easier with Shaked in power.
While Israel’s High Court of Justice recently called boycotts such as those supported by the New Israel Fund “economic terrorism,” Shaked noted that “to boycott Israel because of its policies and because Israel wants to defend itself is not only anti-Zionist ... it's 21st century anti-Semitism."  She rightfully said that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/video/.premium-1.644195">boycotting Israel "should be illegal."</a> In America, one cannot legally practice racism or bigotry – the same rules are likely to be applied to Israel.
<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194679#.VU67mZt0yUk">A fellow member of Shaked’s Party</a> recently asked for charges to be filed against the husband of the President of the New Israel Fund for committing treason – one can expect this to continue with the new Justice Minister.
Shaked, in an op-ed last year, noted that
<blockquote>the Israeli government, which invests a lot of money in its defense budget, has still not understood that public diplomacy is the new battlefield and that money and resources must be invested to repulse the wave of incitement and lies spread about it around the world. The battlefield of public diplomacy is far more important today to the existence of the State of Israel than a tank battalion or an Apache squadron.</blockquote>
Shaked recognizes the dangers posed by radical extremist leftists.
She further criticized those who
<blockquote>call for an academic and economic boycott of Israel and by presenting petitions against Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and heads of the security forces. These organizations enjoy a great deal of power and invest millions of euros in their incitement activity — a sort of a “new anti-Semitism."</blockquote>
That would include organizations like Beyond the Silence – an organization funded by NIF – whose donors include Alisa Doctoroff, <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2015/04/jim-joseph-foundation-temple-shalem-in-chevy-chase-united-against-israel.html/">the Jim Joseph Foundation,</a> the <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/leichtag-foundation-brandeis-university-board-member-and-other-traitors-who-support-bds-new-israel-fund.html/">Leichtag Foundation</a> and others. They will be countered.
Shaked continued: “[F]oreign states damage Israel’s sovereignty with a heavy hand by funding anti-Israeli — not to mention anti-Semitic — organizations, while Israel stands by unable to respond.”  She has proposed a bill – similar to America’s Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) – which will require foreign countries funding projects in Israel to fax taxes and follow disclosure laws.  They will stop the radical, extremists of the New Israel Fund who are intent on harming the Jewish State.
As Israel’s incoming Justice Minister noted,
<blockquote>These NGOs cause Israel significant international damage, in general, and to Israeli soldiers, in particular, by helping draft petitions presented to various European courts. One such example is the significant contribution of the Adalah organization to the Goldstone Report — Israel is still dealing with the fallout from that document. Another example is the expert opinion provided by the organization in a petition presented to a Spanish court against senior Israeli defense officials. The proposed bill seeks to curb the ability of foreign entities to influence activities of this kind.</blockquote>
She is right, as Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf and Netanyahu’s former Chief of Staff George Birnbaum have written often with me, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16555">“If you stand with the New Israel Fund, you stand against Israel.”</a>  These dangerous groups funded by the New Israel Fund have a new Sheriff, a new Justice Minister in Jerusalem – and she’s smart, charismatic … and was <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-hottest-politicians-ranked/">recently named the best-looking female in the Knesset</a>. 
Shaked will not be silent in the face of haters, having said that,
<blockquote>J Street has taken upon itself the role of Israel's loudest critic. Among its actions are the leading of a media campaign against the placing of sanctions on Iran by the US Congress; denunciation of the Cast Lead operation and its definition as 'an illegitimate and even criminal operation'; defining the takeover of the Marmara as 'brutal and cruel'; support for the US administration's demand to freeze construction in Jerusalem; pressure on the US administration not to veto the proposal by the Palestinian Authority to denounce Israel for construction in Judea and Samaria and more.</blockquote>
The leader of her party, Education and Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett, said,
<blockquote>Yes, <a href="/2015/ronn-torossian-and-hank-sheinkopf/new-israel-fund-is-no-friend-of-israel/">New Israel Fund</a>, I will boycott whoever persecutes Israeli soldiers. I will not apologize for it. Members of the New Israel Fund, listen carefully: Whoever harms, slanders and persecutes Israeli soldiers are not my brothers. The NIF works methodically and consistently to attack our Israeli soldiers, accuse them of war crimes of torturing Palestinians and intentionally attacking women and children. They turn to the UN and to the committees that are most hostile to Israel and try their best to convince them that Israel is a war criminal. I repeat: They say that our soldiers- you, I, your friends and your families, your children and their friends – that we are all war criminals. The <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/israel-supporters-must-oppose-new-israel-fund">New Israel Fund</a> invests large amounts of money through its organizations with one purpose- to harm IDF soldiers who are physically protecting us with their bodies.</blockquote>
Ayelet Shaked has rightfully said that the boycotts against Israel are among the greatest threat faced by the country. One should expect that the New Israel Fund will continue to be further ostracized by the Jewish community worldwide.  Those who fund the hate of the NIF must stop acting against the interests of Israel.
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Israel’s New Justice Minister to Clamp Down on New Israel Fund &amp; Radical Left

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Israel’s New Justice Minister to Clamp Down on New Israel Fund & Radical Left

<a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/05/2015_03_10_Hillary_Clinton_by_Voice_of_America_cropped_to_collar.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/05/2015_03_10_Hillary_Clinton_by_Voice_of_America_cropped_to_collar.jpg" alt="2015_03_10_Hillary_Clinton_by_Voice_of_America_(cropped_to_collar)" width="315" height="292" /></a>In 1998, Hillary Clinton on The Today Show blamed the media for the many issues facing her husband, then-President Bill Clinton, saying, “This is — the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.” And today, that damn conspiracy continues amidst allegations that the Clinton Foundation took cash while she was Secretary of State – and that emails mysteriously disappeared.
Or, of course one can take the alternative track, as some Clinton Foundation insiders are, that they are not nor have they ever tried to hide anything. On this issue, it seems that even the liberal media is not buying it, as the PR firestorm continues to blast the international goodwill work.
It’s an interesting political landscape when charity causes issues for a presidential campaign.  It’s more interesting that these mistakes are made by Hillary Clinton as she launches her bid for the 2016 presidential nomination. She had to know as soon as she announced her campaign watchdogs would turn a spotlight on the Clinton Foundation and the family’s reporting of funds donated to the charity.
The <a href="http://ronntorossianfoundation.com/clinton-charity-scandal/">Clinton charity scandal</a> is here – and the criticism is not all coming from right-wingers, or GOP-leaning news sources either. The New York Times recently looked <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0">at Bill Clinton’s relationship with Canadian businessman Frank Giustra.</a> The mining magnate donated millions to the Clinton Foundation – and is a board member.  And even the Gray Lady had to say that Clinton “helped” Giustra secure a hot mining deal in Kazakhstan. In return, the foundation received a steady flow of cash consisting of upwards of $2.35 million.
Giustra, for his part, has vociferously objected to the way the situation has been construed. He has repeatedly insisted no one is trying to hide anything. “Every penny went to charities we identified,” he said.  Although he also added that there are about 1,100 “undisclosed” donors to the Clinton Foundation, many who are not U.S. residents.
Naturally, the problem arises in the “undisclosed” part of the comment. Due to the sensitive political nature of the association between Secretary Clinton and her family’s Foundation, Ms. Clinton agreed to have the Foundation disclose its donors … this was way back before Hillary Clinton could be appointed Secretary of State. In fact, the Clinton Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with the White House promising to reveal its contributors on an annual basis. And it did … at least for a while. When they stopped and why they stopped is up for debate and different depending on who you ask. But the key here is that everyone is asking.
The longer they go without a satisfactory answer, the worse the <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/practice/crisisprfirm.cfm">PR crisis</a> facing the Clintons is likely to be.  The good news? There’s no email trail.
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Clinton Charity Scandal:  At Least There Won’t Be an Email Trail

In 1998, Hillary Clinton on The Today Show blamed the media for the many issues facing her husband, then-President Bill Clinton, saying, “This is — the great

<a href="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/04/BDS4.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/04/BDS4.jpg" alt="BDS" width="310" height="218" /></a>Nary does a day pass without op-eds or emails amongst the Pro-Israel community complaining about biased media coverage.  Whether it’s<a href="/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-to-benjamin-netanyahu-on-hamas/"> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s</a> speech to Congress about Iran, the media’s narrative surrounding the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict or something else, Israel is always in the media – and controversy is usually close behind.
In 2002, an Israel State Comptroller report noted, “[S]ince its establishment in 1948, Israel’s intelligence organs have not succeeded to respond to the broad-based propaganda and incitement by the Arab world.”  This report stated that there is a "lack of an overall strategic public relations conception and objective,” and also “[n]o comprehensive budgetary analysis to serve government public relations requirements.” Those words still ring perfectly accurate today.
This week, former <a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/news/broward/fl-jjbs-ambassador-0401-20150330-story.html">Israeli ambassador and diplomat Gideon Meir</a> noted the country “is failing to win the public relations battle to convince international organizations, such as the United Nations, that Israel is morally right to defend their nation against the terrorists.” Meir added, "To make any headway in convincing the media and the international community that Israel is right in defending the nation against terrorists, I have advised our government to spend much more money than they currently do in public relations." Same old, same old.
A few years ago, from the Knesset floor, Likud MK<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167878#.VTVCzqaJnzI"> Ze’ev Elkin</a> said, “Israel’s hasbara (PR) budget is a total of NIS 9.5 million, compared to NIS 200 million for the Palestinians. How are we expected to deal with that? It’s like a small vehicle fighting a platoon of tanks.”  (Israel’s conflict is with much of the Arab world – not just the Palestinian Arabs.)
On this, and so many other fronts, Israel is sorely alone. Shamefully, nary a major American Jewish organization spends real money on a <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">PR Firm</a>, or a public relations campaign.  It is unfortunate – and until that changes, one can expect to see terrible media coverage surrounding Israel.  The narrative can be changed – but it will not be changed without public relations.
<a href="/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-to-benjamin-netanyahu-on-hamas/">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a>, the founding father of the Revisionist Zionist movement, from which the ruling Likud Party emanates, is someone who understood the importance of public relations.  As Jabotinsky said before his death in 1940,
<blockquote>The work of the publicist is a legacy from the Prophets of Israel…Our passion is to speak, to proclaim—"shouting" is what the same audience calls it, "we have no need for words, give us actions." One thing that audience forgets is that speech is also an action – Perhaps the most authentic of all other actions. Cities have been destroyed, and more will fall, but what was shouted in the wilderness thousands of years ago is alive and still relevant. The world was created by the Word. The world will be mended by the Article.</blockquote>
Israel simply will not improve her perception in the world without a <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">public relations strategy</a> and campaign.  The time is long overdue.
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An Israeli PR Change Is Long Overdue

Nary does a day pass without op-eds or emails amongst the Pro-Israel community complaining about biased media coverage.  Whether it’s Prime Minister Benjamin

<img src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/04/800px-WhiteHouseSouthFacade.jpg" alt="" width="324" height="240" />The media crows about Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealing to Americans across all political lines about the danger of the Iran deal – a deal which Israelis across the political spectrum maintain is a mistake.  Apparently, democracy matters – except when it comes to Israel.
Along these lines, just released <a href="http://jpupdates.com/2015/04/15/data-shows-ron-dermer-persona-non-grata-at-white-house/">data from White House visitor logs</a> unveils the fact that Israel’s Ambassador, Ron Dermer is persona non grata at the White House.   That is something Obama – who bows to other foreigners – would not dare do to another ally of the United States.
Yes, extremist, radical Israeli attorney Michael Sfard met with the head of the Middle East Division at the White House, Yael Lampert on December 9, 2014.  Sfard – and the organizations he represent – are regarded as the most extreme-left which exist.
Danny Danon, a Likud Member of Knesset has said that Sfard is "trying to bypass democracy," and that he uses the Israel "legal system because his ideas are not welcome in Israeli society.” Gerald Steinberg, President of NGO Monitor, said that Sfard "sees the courts as the way to force the changes that he perceives as necessary for Israel, [b]ut he doesn't convince the Israeli public. In any democratic process, you can’t use just the legal system to impose an ideology.”
Sfard testified as an expert witness for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) during the recent terrorism trial where victims were awarded hundreds of millions of dollars.  He has <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/ngo_lawfare_exploitation_of_courts_in_the_israeli_arab_conflict">previously provided paid testimony</a> on behalf of the PLO.  As The Jerusalem Post has reported, “<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/NGO-silence-on-PLO-terror-verdict-392098">This was the third case where Sfard served as an expert on behalf of the PLO and against terror victims</a>…”, and “…Sfard’s work on behalf of the PLO is a fitting complement to his promotion of the Durban Strategy.”
<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16522#.VS--OJt0yUk">As I have previously written</a>, “Sfard is an attorney for a number of organizations who are funded by the New Israel Fund related organizations, including Yesh Din, Breaking the Silence, and  Al-Haq, a leading anti-Israel “lawfare” NGO, on a lawsuit filed in Canada seeking a judicial declaration of Israel’s guilt in committing “war crimes” and deeming the security barrier illegal.” This is the equivalent of Lyndon Larouche meeting with the President’s staff of France, Britain and Italy.
Meanwhile, this week, in a ruling that The Jerusalem Post declared “<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/High-Court-rules-on-boycott-law-398206">one of its most important decisions of the era</a>,”,  Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s Finance Minister can “impose fines and withhold funding from Israeli NGOs calling for boycotts of businesses in all or parts of Israel and the power to file lawsuits against those NGOs.” Petitioners in court who sought permission of boycotts of Israel were <a href="/2015/ronn-torossian-and-hank-sheinkopf/new-israel-fund-is-no-friend-of-israel/">New Israel Fund</a> (NIF) sponsored organizations, including Gush Shalom, Adalah – the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).  Hence, extremists like Sfard’s <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Birthright-Israel-cuts-ties-with-New-Israel-Fund-383088">New Israel Fund</a> affiliated organizations who sought permission of boycotts of Israel were rejected.
Israeli Justice Hanan Meltzer described boycotts as “political terrorism”  - as the  Israeli High court ruled that the speech is not protected speech – akin to shouting “fire in a crowded theatre”.
In 2008, Obama said, “I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt a unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel and that can’t be the measure of our friendship with Israel. If we cannot have an honest dialogue about how do we achieve these goals, then we’re not going to make progress.”
An Israeli democracy overwhelmingly elected a Likud government.  President Obama chooses those who support terror against Israel, and boycotts of the State.
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