There are<a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/point/france-gives-muslim-killer-elderly-jewish-woman-daniel-greenfield/"> obvious echoes </a>of the Sarah Halimi case.

<blockquote>
	
		Sarah Lucy Halimi was thrown out of the window of the third-floor Paris apartment while she begged her Muslim killer to spare her life.

	
		The 66-year-old director of an Orthodox Jewish nursery was woken from her sleep when she was violently beaten by her twenty-something Muslim neighbor who then dragged her to the window.

	
		She died on the street outside the building where she had lived for thirty years.

	
		The 28-year-old Muslim man confessed to the killing and was heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” and calling Halimi “Satan” shortly before&nbsp;throwing her out the window&nbsp;of her three-story apartment.

	
		In January, Traore was determined to be fit to stand trial. He was placed in a psychiatric hospital for weeks after his arrest in the April 2017 killing despite having no history of mental illness.

	
		But a judge requested a second series of tests, which determined that the Malian immigrant was not able to stand trial,&nbsp;20 Minutes&nbsp;reported Wednesday.
</blockquote>


	So there's a history of this sort of thing complete with a cover-up after the fact.


	This latest case involves a 90-year-old Jewish man in Lyon, France, who was<a href="https://www.tribunejuive.info/2022/05/20/sarah-cattan-mr-hadjaj-juif-de-90-ans-jete-par-la-fenetre-du-17-e-etage-par-son-voisin-musulman-chuuuuut/"> pushed out of the window </a>by his Muslim neighbor.

<blockquote>
	
		A nonagenarian died Tuesday in Lyon, probably pushed into the void by one of his neighbors from the floor of a building&nbsp;, the prosecution said this morning.&nbsp;It appears from the first investigations carried out by the departmental security that this person would have been pushed into the void following an argument by one of his neighbors whom he used to frequent&nbsp;.

	
		A judicial investigation of the count of "voluntary homicide" has been opened.&nbsp;The “suspect” is remanded in custody.

	
		According to&nbsp;&nbsp;Le Progrès&nbsp;, the victim, who lived on the 2nd floor of a tall building, was pushed from a higher floor.

	
		The regional daily specifies that “the track of an anti-Semitic homicide was mentioned, before being excluded” and that the investigation is continuing.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	As it usually is. All Muslim terrorism is just "mental illness."


	The Tribune Juive paper notes that, "Kobili Traoré left the hospital today without having served a day in prison for having thrown Sarah Halimi out of the window after having lynched her."


	Even the JTA mentions that, "More recently, a Jewish man died in a suburb of Paris after running into the path of a passing tram while escaping a group of individuals on the street.&nbsp;The death of Jérémie Cohen in February was initially treated as an accident until his family recovered footage of the assault. The family gave the evidence to Éric Zemmour, a far-right French Jewish politician, who highlighted the case in his presidential campaign last month."


	&nbsp;

90-Year-Old French Jewish Man Pushed Out of Window by Muslim Neighbor

There are obvious echoes of the Sarah Halimi case.


	
		Sarah Lucy Halimi was thrown out of the window of the third-floor Paris apartment while she begged

90-Year-Old French Jewish Man Pushed Out of Window by Muslim Neighbor

Despite the best efforts by the D.C. establishment and its judges, the Sussman trial is moving forward and with that comes <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/20/clinton-campaign-manager-denies-approving-passing-anti-trump-info-to-fbi-00034115">closer scrutiny</a> of the Clinton campaign.

<blockquote>
	
		The manager of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid, Robby Mook, testified Friday that the campaign did not instruct or authorize a lawyer to go to the FBI with claims of a potential data link between then-candidate Donald Trump and a Russian bank owned by allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

	
		That lawyer — former Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann — is on trial in federal court in Washington on a felony false-statement charge brought by special counsel John Durham, who claims Sussmann lied to the FBI when he said he was not acting on behalf of any client in relaying indications and internet data stream between a Trump-related server and one for Moscow-based Alfa Bank.
</blockquote>


	That particular smear, both discredited and explosive, is not the one most people are familiar with, but has shown how far the Clinton campaign was willing to go.


	Mook is denying any connection to it. But here's the buried lede.

<blockquote>
	
		Mook said he had no knowledge of Clinton approving Sussmann to go to the FBI with the server information on behalf of the campaign.

	
		“I don’t see why she would,” he said.
</blockquote>


	Having no knowledge is a different animal.

<blockquote>
	
		Mook confirmed that top campaign officials were aware of the Alfa Bank “secret server” allegations in the summer and fall of 2016, but said they favored handing them off to a reporter.

	
		“Going to the FBI does not seem like a very effective way to get that information out to the public. We do that through the media,” he said.

	
		Mook said that after discussions at the highest levels of the campaign, they decided to do just that. He also said that somewhere around that time he informed Clinton personally and she concurred.

	
		“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” Mook said. “She agreed to that. ... She thought we made the right decision.”
</blockquote>


	Seemingly, Hillary signed off on the media end of the smear campaign.


	But what Mook's really saying is that he was not in on the serious opposition research end of things anyway.

<blockquote>
	
		However, Mook said he didn’t know during the campaign a private investigation firm called Fusion GPS was doing opposition research for Hillary’s bid through the law firm.

	
		“I was not aware during the campaign of anyone they were engaging to do that work,” Mook said. “I did not know that they had been retained.”
</blockquote>


	If Mook is telling the truth, then he wasn't on that part&nbsp;of the loop anyway. But there's no reason to think that Hillary and her people weren't. So as a defense witness, Mook just serves the purpose of drawing a line between the campaign and its darker operations. That's the next step. The shadow campaign that spawned Russiagate.

Hillary Clinton Signed Off On Discredited Russiagate Smears

Despite the best efforts by the D.C. establishment and its judges, the Sussman trial is moving forward and with that comes closer scrutiny of the Clinton

Hillary Clinton Signed Off On Discredited Russiagate Smears

"We're desperate, give us money."


	"If only we had funding, we might be able to teach."


	"Students in America are failing because schools don't have enough money."


	Nah. They have more money than<a href="https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/school-districts-are-struggling-to-spend-emergency-covid-19-funds-11652866201"> they know what to do with</a>. Every single outrageous property tax increase, teachers' union strike, and new budget pours insane amounts of money into a black hole that eats it up and emits nothing in return except more demands.


	We overfund the public school system and the vast majority of the money gets stolen, wasted, or sent off to politically connected consultants, woke textbook publishers, and the rest of the industrial educational complex.

<blockquote>
	
		U.S. school districts are struggling to spend billions of dollars in federal pandemic-relief money before the funding expires.

	
		Districts have yet to spend 93% of $122 billion sunk into the K-12 education system last year as part of the&nbsp;$1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education.

	
		The money, the largest-ever disbursement of federal funding for American schools,&nbsp;is meant to address learning loss, mental-health problems and other issues in schools caused by the pandemic. Districts are spending the money on&nbsp;teachers, counselors, technology, after-school programs and upgrades to school facilities.
</blockquote>


	If we wanted to do that, we should have opened up the school system and allowed the money to follow students into educational institutions that, unlike the failed corrupt public school system, actually want to serve them.


	Instead, a bunch of school districts are going to frantically buy up office furniture from designated minority suppliers at a 300% markup and spend millions on diversity, equity and inclusion consultants.

<blockquote>
	
		“There’s a real pressure to show something for it,” said Nick Melvoin, a school board member for the 575,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District.

	
		The district, the nation’s second-largest, has yet to spend a penny of the $2.57 billion in American Rescue Plan money it received last year. It is still trying to use up a few hundred million dollars from earlier stimulus packages.
</blockquote>


	Tragic, just tragic.


	It's hard out there for government workers who have to figure out how to spend stolen taxpayer money as fast as it comes in. Feel their pain. They sure as hell don't feel yours. 
	&nbsp;

Biden Dumped $122B on Schools, 93% is Unspent

"We're desperate, give us money."


	"If only we had funding, we might be able to teach."


	"Students in America are failing because schools don't have

Biden Dumped $122B on Schools, 93% is Unspent

Joshua Katz, a respected linguist at Princeton, is not being fired because of an alleged relationship in 2006, but because he criticized woke abuses in 2020.


	At Quilette, Katz had courageously condemned efforts to silence free speech and eliminate academic freedom.


	"Independence of thought is considered the hallmark of academia, but everyone deserves it. In the United States, thank heavens, freedom to think for oneself is still a right, not a privilege," he concluded.


	In typical fashion, the radical leftists whom he had criticized in a restrained, civil and respectful fashion, unleashed the full fury of cancel culture and set out to destroy him.


	What followed was Lavrentiy Beria's&nbsp;"Show Me the Man and I'll Show You the Crime".&nbsp;


	Since none of the false claims that Katz was in any way a racist or had engaged in hate speech, could go beyond impotent fuming they had to find something else.


	And all <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/princeton-president-asks-board-to-fire-tenured-classics-professor-citing-sexual-misconduct-investigation-11653013224">this witch hunt </a>came up was this...

<blockquote>
	
		Princeton University’s president has recommended that the school’s board of trustees fire a tenured classics professor, concluding he didn’t cooperate fully in a sexual-misconduct investigation, according to a copy of his letter to the board’s chair reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
</blockquote>


	Salem witch trial judges would be embarrassed by this.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		The report said that in 2018, Dr. Katz didn’t fully cooperate with investigators examining a consensual sexual relationship he had with an undergraduate student beginning in 2006, after her junior year, and continuing until her graduation. The student declined to participate in the investigation at that time.
</blockquote>


	We know exactly why&nbsp;Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber wants Katz fired. He told us so himself in an op-ed in 2020, deeming his speech "irresponsible and offensive."


	"Our policies, however, protect Katz’s freedom to say what he did, just as they protected the Black Justice League’s. He can be answered but not censored or sanctioned," Eisgruber claimed.&nbsp;


	Now he grubbily seeks to bypass those policies.


	"Show Me the Man and I'll Show You the Crime".

Princeton Pres. Conspires to Fire Tenured Prof Who Defended Free Speech

Joshua Katz, a respected linguist at Princeton, is not being fired because of an alleged relationship in 2006, but because he criticized woke abuses in 2020

Princeton Pres. Conspires to Fire Tenured Prof Who Defended Free Speech

Predictable and despicable.


	From Obama spokescreep Tommy Vietor (above) to cult leader and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson all of lefty Twitter, the blame for leftists failing to sweep primary elections and oust incumbents is... the Jews.


	If it wasn't for those pesky Jews, the Squad would have grown three sizes overnight.


	A whole lot of money has been pouring into primary races on both sides. The decision by leftists to make the outcome of the primaries about "Jewish money", about a Democratic Majority for Israel and AIPAC, is anti-semitism of a very traditional kind.


	Leftists routinely pour money into local elections from outside the district. But when pump millions from the Bay Area or Park Slope into a primary race thousands of miles away, that's "grass roots energy", but when the accursed infidel Jews do it... well that's just evil.


	Having lost some primaries because of antisemitic candidates, lefties are doubling down on the antisemitism.


	&nbsp;

Leftists Blame Jews for Losing Democrat Primaries

Predictable and despicable.


	From Obama spokescreep Tommy Vietor (above) to cult leader and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson all of lefty

Leftists Blame Jews for Losing Democrat Primaries

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

	
		Thankfully the State of Israel knows its responsibility.
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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,

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		“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.”
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	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.” 
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	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.

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