President Joe Biden went to Buffalo, New York on May 17th to deliver <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/17/remarks-by-president-biden-and-first-lady-biden-honoring-the-lives-lost-in-buffalo-new-york-and-calling-on-all-americans-to-condemn-white-supremacy/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653402553168000&amp;usg=AOvVaw09_anSOmz9r5W51Q15uQwZ" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/17/remarks-by-president-biden-and-first-lady-biden-honoring-the-lives-lost-in-buffalo-new-york-and-calling-on-all-americans-to-condemn-white-supremacy/" target="_blank">remarks</a> honoring the lives lost from a mass shooter’s rampage the weekend before. President Biden squandered the opportunity to fulfill his campaign and Inauguration Day pledges to unify the country when he used his Buffalo speech to exploit the horrific tragedy.


	Perhaps forgetting that he is currently the President of the United States, Biden declared that “the American experiment in democracy is in a danger like it hasn’t been in my lifetime.” He may well be right, but the reason is not “white supremacy” ideology as he would have us believe. The danger to the American experiment is from the perfect storm caused by the simultaneous failures of President Biden’s own disastrous economic, immigration, crime, and foreign policies.


	Payton Gendron, who allegedly killed ten people and seriously wounded three others at a supermarket in a black Buffalo neighborhood, revealed his hatred of blacks and Jews in a 180-page manifesto that he posted online. Gendron identified himself as “an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist” and espoused white supremacist beliefs.


	However, at the same time, this unhinged extremist also classified himself as belonging in what he called the “mild-moderate authoritarian left category” and claimed to be a “populist.” (Emphasis added) Populism is a label that can apply to both left-wing and right-wing ideologies. He denied being a “conservative” because, he said, “conservatism is corporatism in disguise.”


	Of course, there is nothing “mild” or “moderate” about this suspected mass shooter. If convicted, Gendron will deserve to spend the rest of his miserable life in jail without the possibility of parole or, better yet, the death penalty.


	That said, Gendron is a case study of the authoritarian traits and willingness to use violence in the service of a radical ideological cause that are exhibited on both the extreme far left as well as on the extreme far right. You wouldn’t know it from what President Biden said during his appearance in Buffalo but neither extremist fringe has a monopoly on resorting to violent means to obtain their perverted version of the “perfect” society.


	In a major <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi%3D10.1037%252Fpspp0000341&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653402553168000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1tfU3jhAZsfAiqR5Ecxep8" href="https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspp0000341" target="_blank">research study</a> published in 2022, entitled “Clarifying the Structure and Nature of Left-wing Authoritarianism,” the authors found strong parallels between right-wing authoritarianism and left-wing authoritarianism. They concluded that both “reflect a shared constellation of personality traits, cognitive features, beliefs, and motivational values that might be considered the ‘heart’ of authoritarianism.”


	Regarding left-wing authoritarianism in particular, the authors wrote that it “powerfully predicts behavioral aggression and is strongly correlated with participation in political violence.”


	Gendron himself, by his own admission, is a blend of left-wing and right-wing authoritarianism.


	President Biden understandably focused in Buffalo on the racially motivated massacre of blacks that had just occurred there days before. But he went beyond seeking to comfort the victims’ loved ones and calling for healing and racial harmony. The president exploited the tragedy for partisan purposes by grossly exaggerating white supremacy as the single most pervasive threat to domestic security. Biden chose, as he often does, to denounce only one end of the violent extremist spectrum while completely ignoring the other end of the violent extremist spectrum inhabited by left-wing authoritarians.


	President Biden referred to “white supremacy” five times in his Buffalo remarks. He also referred to what happened on January 6th. Among other things, he said that white supremacy is a “poison” that is “running through our body politic.”


	President Biden’s reference in his Buffalo remarks to the “body politic,” as well as to “January 6th,“ were unsubtle digs at the Republican Party, which he claims is now run by those supposedly bad “Ultra-MAGAs.” In President Biden’s mind, only they are capable of harboring any extremist, racist, violence-prone ideologies – surely not the Democrats and their leftist progressive base to whom&nbsp; Biden is subservient.


	Without dismissing white supremacists as one potentially serious source of domestic violence, they surely are not the only source. Other sources include Antifa, black nationalists, and eco-terrorists to name a few groups on the Left who have demonstrated their propensity for violence.


	Just consider these examples of left-wing violence during the last several years alone:


	1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Bernie Sanders supporter and campaign volunteer used a rifle to shoot at members of the House GOP who had gathered to practice at a softball field in June 2017 for an upcoming charity game. The shooter nearly killed then-House Majority Whip, Rep. Steven Scalise (R-LA). The shooter hated Republicans. His favorite cable television program was the left-wing MSNBC program, “The Rachel Maddow Show.”


	Should Bernie Sanders and Rachel Maddow bear some responsibility for inspiring their fan’s shooting spree? Of course not, unless we apply the same absurd “logic” of the leftists blaming Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson for inspiring Payton Gendron’s racist shooting spree in Buffalo.


	2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; During 2020, when rioters took to the streets in protest against George Floyd’s death while he was in police custody, an Antifa radical who supported Black Lives Matter murdered a Trump supporter in Portland, Oregon. Leftist protesters celebrated the killing.


	3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On Oct. 14, 2021, climate extremists stormed the entrance of the Interior Department building and disrupted normal business there. Some committed vandalism on public property, battled with police, and caused havoc resulting in multiple injuries to security personnel.


	To date, no October 14th House of Representatives Commission has been set up to investigate this insurrection. And not a peep from President Biden.


	4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Darrell Brooks Jr., who posted about committing violence against white people and praised Hitler for killing Jews, allegedly drove his car deliberately into the Waukesha, Wisconsin &nbsp;Christmas parade last November, killing six people. About sixty others were injured.


	Brooks and Gendron are mirror images of each other in their display of racial hatred and resulting acts of violence. The only difference is that Brooks is black and Gendron is white. Yet President Biden chose not to go to Waukesha, Wisconsin following the Christmas parade carnage caused by a racist, anti-Semitic black man but found time to go to Buffalo following the carnage caused by a racist, anti-Semitic white man.


	This is a perfect example of President Biden’s double standard at work.


	5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Earlier this year, a shooter describing himself as a black nationalist fired at terrified New York City subway passengers, injuring dozens of people. The suspect, Frank R. James, had posted racially charged rhetoric on social media including this one: “O black Jesus, please kill all the whiteys.”


	&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; James linked his own racist material on social media to the sites of black extremist groups such as the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, Black Liberation Army, and Black Lives Matter.


	President Biden did not bother to pay his respects in person to the injured victims, nor denounce the poisonous ideology of black supremacist nationalism posted on social media that may well have sparked James' shooting spree.


	Now, according to an <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-related-violent-threats-department-of-homeland-security-warning-supreme-court-draft-opinion-leak/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653402553168000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2dpIo8ieAVc8rRT3C1mX4U" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-related-violent-threats-department-of-homeland-security-warning-supreme-court-draft-opinion-leak/" target="_blank">internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo</a>, threats of violence from extremists on both sides of the abortion debate have escalated since the leak of the draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade.


	“Some of these threats discussed burning down or storming the U.S. Supreme Court and murdering Justices and their clerks, members of Congress, and lawful demonstrators,” the DHS memo reported. The DHS warned that "grievances related to restricting abortion access could fuel violence by pro-choice abortion-related violent extremists and other [domestic violent extremists.]"


	It would not be the first time that left-wing extremists have tried to storm and burn down a federal courthouse. As <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/03/13/watch-armed-violent-left-wing-militants-attempt-to-burn-federal-building-with-people-inside/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653402553168000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3byOKH1Iu1wODa8Or_K_75" href="https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/03/13/watch-armed-violent-left-wing-militants-attempt-to-burn-federal-building-with-people-inside/" target="_blank">recently as March 2021</a> (after several attacks in 2020), left-wing rioters attempted to burn down a federal courthouse in Portland Oregon, while several federal employees and police officers were still inside the building.


	The rioters shouted, “death to America” and “f-ck the United States” while attempting to break into the building. Unlike the January 6th Capitol riots, however, this insurrection did not appear to faze President Biden one bit.


	At least, the DHS now is taking the threat of arson at the Supreme Court and bodily harm to the justices seriously.


	For its part, the Senate has passed a bipartisan bill entitled the “Supreme Court Policy Parity Act of 2022,” which would grant the Supreme Court security-related authority equivalent to the legislative and executive branches.


	The Senate bill simply adds some language to existing legislation protecting Supreme Court justices, officers, and employees. It extends protection by the Marshal of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Police for “any member of the immediate family of the Chief Justice, any Associate Justice, or any officer of the Supreme Court if the Marshal determines such protection is necessary.”


	But the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has refused to take up the Senate safety bill, where it remains stalled.


	<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thehill.com/news/sunday-talk-shows/3488927-pelosi-current-supreme-court-dangerous-for-families-freedom/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653402553168000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3rhR2KwX6YOs4sbABqCTlH" href="https://thehill.com/news/sunday-talk-shows/3488927-pelosi-current-supreme-court-dangerous-for-families-freedom/" target="_blank">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi</a> herself has helped fan the flames of potential riots by smearing the Supreme Court as “dangerous to families, to freedoms in our country” during her May 15th CNN interview. After recklessly attacking the legitimacy of the third branch of the federal government, an independent judiciary, Pelosi added, “And that is why people have to mobilize.”


	Whether wittingly or not, Pelosi’s inflammatory rhetoric is helping to stoke the flames for far-left pro-abortion activist actions beyond their raucous protests outside of justices’ homes, which may lead to violence.


	To make matters worse, Pelosi’s Democrat-controlled House recessed before taking any action on the Senate safety bill. They are knowingly denying the members of the justices’ immediate families the same level of federal security protection as the House member’s own immediate families have.


	It’s not enough in these highly polarized and fractious times for President Biden to make general appeals to protesters to remain peaceful and eschew violence. For once, the president must get ahead of a potential crisis before it is too late, even if precipitated in this case by violence from left-wing pro-abortion extremists.


	It is time for President Biden to deliver a do-over of his Buffalo speech as soon as possible that is truly unifying for the country as a whole.


	The president can start by first acknowledging that the vast majority of Americans of all political persuasions are law-abiding, non-violent, and non-racist. Then President Biden must balance the scales in his denunciation of domestic violent extremists beyond the far-right end of the spectrum that he is accustomed to attacking.


	In short, President Biden needs to publicly condemn the leftist authoritarian extremists as among the sources of the poison jeopardizing the great American experiment and warn them of felony prosecutions if they engage in any unlawful activities. Don't hold your breath waiting for Biden to do so.

Biden's Surreal Speech on the Buffalo Shooting Spree

President Joe Biden went to Buffalo, New York on May 17th to deliver remarks honoring the lives lost from a mass shooter’s rampage the weekend before.

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		Is there hope for freedom of speech in America after all, despite all of the Left’s efforts to destroy it? Maybe: the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/18/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz/" target="_blank">announced</a> recently that “just three weeks after its announcement, the Disinformation Governance Board is being ‘paused,’ according to multiple employees at DHS, capping a back-and-forth week of decisions that changed during the course of reporting of this story.”

	
		The Post’s notorious Taylor Lorenz, whom PJM’s Stephen Green <a href="https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/04/19/insanity-wrap-everyone-is-going-nuts-over-tuckers-testicle-tanning-n1590883" target="_blank">referred to</a> as a “garbage human” who “still talks and whines like an underage Mean Girl when she isn’t busy ruining people’s lives for fun and profit,” reported the apparent demise of the Board in a funereal tone and as a victory for evil right-wingers, but for anyone who values the freedom of speech, the end of the Board is a cause for celebration.

	
		The Board, however, may not even really be dead. Lorenz claims that “on Monday, DHS decided to shut down the board, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. By Tuesday morning, Jankowicz had drafted a resignation letter in response to the board’s dissolution.” However, there are plenty of enemies of the First Amendment within the DHS, and so after the Board was killed, it became undead: “But Tuesday night, Jankowicz was pulled into an urgent call with DHS officials who gave her the choice to stay on, even as the department’s work was put on hold because of the backlash it faced, according to multiple people with knowledge of the call. Working groups within DHS focused on mis-, dis- and mal-information have been suspended. The board could still be shut down pending a review from the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Jankowicz is evaluating her position within the department.”

	
		Lorenz laments that the sainted Jankowicz, who is such an enthusiastic fascist that the thought of censorship moves her to <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/04/29/call-me-the-mary-poppins-of-disinformation-dig-the-disinformation-czarinas-cringeworthy-disinfo-ditty-n1593908" target="_blank">sing,</a> has fallen victim to the very purveyors of “disinformation” that, in happier times, she would have had deplatformed, silenced, and (oh joy of joys) maybe even sent to the gulag. “Within hours of news of her appointment,” Lorenz writes, “Jankowicz was thrust into the spotlight by the very forces she dedicated her career to combating. The board itself and DHS received criticism for both its somewhat ominous name and scant details of specific mission (Homeland Security Secretary&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/29/disinformation-governance-board-dhs/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5" target="_blank">Alejandro Mayorkas said</a>&nbsp;it ‘could have done a better job of communicating what it is and what it isn’t’), but Jankowicz was on the receiving end of the harshest attacks, with her role mischaracterized as she became a primary target on the right-wing Internet. She has been subject to an unrelenting barrage of harassment and abuse while unchecked misrepresentations of her work continue to go viral.”

	
		“Harassment and abuse.” Ain’t that always the story? Whenever a Leftist is criticized, he or she claims to have received multiple death threats from those unhinged conservatives, yet the overwhelming majority of the actual political violence we have seen in the United States has come from the Left. A DHS wonk claimed: “Nina Jankowicz has been subjected to unjustified and vile personal attacks and physical threats. In congressional hearings and in media interviews, the Secretary has repeatedly defended her as eminently qualified and underscored the importance of the Department’s disinformation work, and he will continue to do so.”

	
		Sure. Jankowicz is indeed eminently qualified to lead a government effort to smear dissent from the Left’s agenda as “disinformation” and silence it accordingly. She has <a href="https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2022/05/11/at-last-were-getting-some-chilling-hints-about-what-the-disinformation-chief-wants-to-do-n1596936" target="_blank">said</a> that she wants “verified people,” i.e., trusted Leftists, to have the ability to edit Twitter so as to add “context” to tweets from people Leftists hate. She has <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/05/05/disinfo-board-chief-shudders-at-thought-of-free-speech-absolutists-taking-over-more-platforms-n1595540" target="_blank">said</a> that she “shudders” at the thought of “free speech absolutists” taking over social media platforms. So there was no question that she was perfect to run a Disinformation Governance Board. The only problem was that such a Board ran counter to everything the United States stands for or has stood for up until the ascendancy of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and the rest.

	
		Lorenz is gutted: “Jankowicz’s experience is a prime example of how the right-wing Internet apparatus operates, where far-right influencers attempt to identify a target, present a narrative and then repeat mischaracterizations across social media and websites with the aim of discrediting and attacking anyone who seeks to challenge them. It also shows what happens when institutions, when confronted with these attacks, don’t respond effectively.” It is hard to see how Lorenz or anyone thinks a government agency combating what a far-Left administration thinks is “disinformation” could have been sold effectively to the American people. With any luck, we’ll never find out.

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			Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;Shillman&nbsp;Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.</div>
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DHS Says Disinformation Board Being ‘Paused' Due to Harassment of Its Chief Enforcer

Is there hope for freedom of speech in America after all, despite all of the Left’s efforts to destroy it? Maybe: the Washington Post announced recently that “

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center


	What is—or rather&nbsp;should be—the purpose of interfaith dialogue?&nbsp;


	When the Vatican and Pope Francis announce, as they&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-01/pope-francis-morocco-visit-logo-hope-interreligious-dialogue.html">often</a> do, that they are engaged in interfaith dialogue with leading Muslims, what exactly are they conveying to the world?&nbsp; What are they accomplishing?


	The answer to these questions is the difference between what true interfaith dialogue is—namely, an excellent thing that acknowledges and tries to overcome complications—and what most modern day interfaith dialogue amounts to: soothing but false panaceas that serve only to suppress, leaving complications to fester and metastasize beneath the surface.&nbsp;


	As an example of the latter, consider the&nbsp;<a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2019/outside/documents/papa-francesco_20190204_documento-fratellanza-umana.html?fbclid=IwAR2CKBKh8l638cSyO8vOKjRUEndjTkAZ-ppgLP7H1t3djYVAcidO1yJgQC0">“historical” document</a>&nbsp;signed by Pope Francis and his Muslim counterpart, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Al Azhar.&nbsp; Far from even hinting that Islam has any connection to all the terror and havoc caused in its name, the document pins all the blame on “incorrect interpretations of religious [Muslim] texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride.”


	Of course, one of the reasons such “interfaith dialogues” are common is because their reverse—honest and straightforward dialogues—make for rather awkward experiences.&nbsp; They would go something like this: We—believers of this and that religion—acknowledge that we have differences and, rather than kill each other over them, we are here to lay them out in the open for discussion.&nbsp;


	That, after all, is precisely what dialogue among Western and Muslim peoples historically meant.&nbsp;


	For instance, around the year 718—less than a century after Islam’s prophet Muhammad had died—Caliph Omar II called on Byzantine Emperor Leo III to embrace Islam.&nbsp; This led to a frank exchange in letters.&nbsp; Rather than diplomatically praising though politely refusing Islam, Leo scrutinized its claims as heaven-sent.&nbsp; Among other things, he openly criticized Islam for circumcising and treating women as chattel and for teaching that paradise will be little more than a brothel, where Muslim men copulate in perpetuity with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2018/12/17/killing-and-dying-for-the-houris-islams-heavenly-whores/">supernatural women</a>.


	Leo further contrasted Christ’s peace with Muhammad’s jihad: “You call ‘the Way of God’ [sabil Allah, code for jihad] these devastating raids which bring death and captivity to all peoples. Behold your religion and its recompense [death and destruction]. Behold your glory ye who pretend to live an angelic life.”


	Far from being a godsend, Islam was at war with God’s people, concluded the emperor: “I see you, even now … exercising such cruelties towards the faithful of God [Christians], with the purpose of converting them to apostasy, and putting to death all those who resist your designs, so that daily is accomplished the prediction of our Savior: ‘The time will come when everyone who puts you to death will believe he is serving God’ (Jn 16:2).” (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306825554/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0306825554&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=raymondibrahi-20&amp;linkId=0f925201768b161ae319879bb3fdf1d7">Sword and Scimitar</a>&nbsp;pp. 63-65 has the complete “dialogue.”)


	Or consider St. Francis of Assisi, whom Pope Francis so idolizes as to take on his name.&nbsp; While St. Francis (b.1182) did meet and peacefully dialogue with Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil of Egypt—as the Vatican often reminds in an effort to position Pope Francis as walking in the saint’s “bridge building” footsteps—he was no less forthright than Leo (as closely&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2019/02/04/pope-francis-fake-interreligious-dialogue-with-the-muslim-world/">discussed here</a>).&nbsp;&nbsp; He did not ignore Islam’s violent reality nor apologize for Christian truths to accommodate Muslim sensibilities. &nbsp;His was true dialogue—and, if the Muslim clerics he debated had their way, would have cost him his head.


	The historical example most relevant for our times (to be explained in its proper place) concerns another Byzantine emperor, Manuel II (b. 1350).&nbsp; As a man who spent his entire life defending against invading Turks, Manuel was well acquainted with Islam. He understood the three choices Islamic law (shari‘a) imposed on conquered non-Muslims: “[1] they must place themselves under this law [meaning become Muslims], or [2] pay tribute and, more, be reduced to slavery [an accurate depiction of&nbsp;jizya&nbsp;and&nbsp;dhimmi&nbsp;status], or, in the absence of wither, [3] be struck without hesitation with iron,” he once wrote (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306825554/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0306825554&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=raymondibrahi-20&amp;linkId=0f925201768b161ae319879bb3fdf1d7">Sword and Scimitar</a>, p. 217).


	In 1390, Manuel was a ward—more realistically, a hostage—of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid, whom contemporary Europeans described as “a persecutor of Christians as no other around him, and in the religion of the Arabs a most ardent disciple of Muhammad.” &nbsp;At Bayezid’s courts, Muslim clerics regularly accosted Manuel to embrace the one “true” faith.&nbsp; &nbsp;He responded with blunt honesty: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”&nbsp; He too was lucky not to lose his head, as he managed to abscond back to Constantinople.


	Here are some lessons imparted from these historical anecdotes:


	First and contrary to popular belief, dialoguing between Western and Islamic peoples is not some new endeavor created by “progressive” men of Pope Francis’ ilk. &nbsp;Medieval and “backward” Europeans who supposedly were always more eager to fight than talk regularly and sincerely employed it.&nbsp;


	But whereas premodern Europeans saw it as an opportunity to highlight contentious differences that needed addressing before establishing a true peace, their modern day counterparts see it as an occasion to&nbsp;pretend&nbsp;there are no differences and nothing but “misunderstandings” in the way of peace.


	Second, although contemporary champions of interfaith dialogue no doubt cringe at and find the blunt words of men like emperors Leo and Manuel completely counterproductive, the reverse is true.&nbsp; Today, when any critical talk of Islam—especially its prophet—prompts “outraged” Muslims to riot and destroy, this may seem a counterintuitive claim.&nbsp; Here is where Emperor Manuel II’s haunting words are relevant.&nbsp; In 2006, Pope Benedict passingly quoted Manuel’s assertion that Muhammad had brought “things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” Muslims around the world rioted, burned churches, and attacked Christians; an Italian nun who had devoted her life to serving the sick and needy of Somalia was murdered there. &nbsp;


	All Pope Benedict had to do was merely&nbsp;quote&nbsp;Manuel—in the context of the emperor’s greater point, that “to act unreasonably [by forcing people to convert by the sword] is foreign to God”—for Muslims to respond with unbridled madness and violence.


	That is&nbsp;not&nbsp;dialogue; that is proof that men like Manuel were/are correct in their assessment of Islam.&nbsp; This is especially the case when one understands that past and present non-Muslim critics say what they say about Islam, not to be “mean” to Muslims, but to say, “here is the problem; here is why we are at odds; here is what needs to be fixed.”


	At any rate, Pope Francis learned the lesson: the only “interfaith dialogue” acceptable to Muslims is the sort that, instead of asking sincere but tough questions of Islam, covers for it.&nbsp; Hence why Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb—who had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/leading-muslim-institution-hopes-reconcile-vatican-6">severed all ties</a>&nbsp;with the Vatican after Pope Benedict quoted Manuel in 2006—has embraced Pope Francis as a fellow “brother” (in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/08/02/pope-francis-a-fool-or-liar-for-islam/">whitewashing</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/05/19/pope-francis-jihad-on-christianity/">Islam</a>).


	This is a great pity.&nbsp; Believe it or not, some Muslims actually need to hear the aforementioned criticisms and concerns to be shaken from their complacency and place themselves in the other’s shoes (as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2017/02/16/trump-american-muslims-embrace-christianity-pay-jizya-die/">well explained</a>&nbsp;by one Muslim and political activist in Egypt).&nbsp;


	Reasonable polemics against Islam, as captured by the words of Leo, St. Francis, Manuel, and many other historical personages, have caused not a few Muslims over the centuries to search their scriptures in order to respond to the charges, only to end in disappointment. Little wonder “blasphemy”—understood in Islam as any criticism of Muhammad/Islam—is punishable by death: it has led to the disaffection—that is, apostasy, also punishable by death—of many a Muslim.


	This is well captured by yet another medieval era debate between a Christian monk and a Muslim cleric. As the former continued reciting the misdeeds of Muhammad, wondering how anyone could accept him as a man of God, the Muslim accused him of “blasphemy” against “our Prophet Muhammad,” whom “you mock with insolence!” The shocked monk replied: “Upon my life, we do not bring anything from ourselves but from your Book and your Koran” &nbsp;(<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306825554/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0306825554&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=raymondibrahi-20&amp;linkId=0f925201768b161ae319879bb3fdf1d7">Sword and Scimitar</a>, p. 51) &nbsp;In other words, because non-Muslim criticism of Islam is often rooted in Islam’s own authoritative texts, honest Muslims have no choice but to reevaluate.


	Indeed, if Christian chroniclers are to be believed, the frank and sincere words of Emperor Leo III and St. Francis to Caliph Omar II and Sultan al-Malik, respectively, caused the latter two Muslims to apostatize from Islam, if only in secret.&nbsp;


	Be that as it may, one thing is certain:&nbsp;sincere&nbsp;dialogue ultimately empowers that which is true, and thus good—even if it leads to temporary friction;&nbsp;insincere&nbsp;dialogue ultimately empowers that which is false, and thus evil—even if it leads to temporary but artificial cooperation in the now, as in the good shows Pope Francis and his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2019/02/11/pope-francis-and-his-muslim-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/">Muslim wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing</a> regularly put.

True Dialogue with Islam

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center


	What is—or rather&nbsp;should be—the purpose of interfaith dialogue?

What on earth were French officials thinking? Or have we gone way beyond the point where “officials” and “thinking” can be used in the same sentence? The French news site&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/05/10/propos-misogynes-diffuses-par-la-mosquee-de-saint-chamond-42-pour-la-fete-du-laid-vous-femmes-musulmanes-tachez-dobeir-au-doigt-de-vos-maris-restez-dans-vos-foyers-et-ne-vous-exhibez/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Fdesouche</a>&nbsp;reported Tuesday that Ahamada Mmadi, an imam from Comoros, has been deported from France. In parting from the land of crepes and Suzettes, Mmadi struck a defiant note: “I have nothing to regret and nothing to apologize for as long as I have spoken the word of Allah. If I repent, I am no longer a Muslim.” Fair enough, Mmadi, but France’s action in deporting this Muslim cleric is curious in the extreme. According to the Islamic news site&nbsp;<a href="https://5pillarsuk.com/2022/05/10/imam-deported-from-france-for-reciting-quran-quoting-hadith/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">5 Pillars UK</a>, Mmadi and his family were “deported from France after he recited a verse from the Quran and quoted a Hadith which encouraged women to be chaste, stay at home and obey&nbsp;their&nbsp;husbands.” He was accused of making “comments incompatible with the principles and laws of the Republic.”


	So Mmadi’s statement that he had “spoken the word of Allah” was actually referring to why he was deported. But if he was really deported for quoting the Qur’an and Hadith, what do French authorities think the other imams in the country are teaching?


	Mmadi added: “I don’t have to apologise for the moment I spoke the word of Allah. … Our sisters live a nightmarish life … and we call it a land of freedom.” Mmadi was claiming that women in France live a “nightmarish life” because they aren’t subject to the restrictions on women’s freedom that Islamic law entails. The good imam was apparently criticizing the status of women in France, as compared to the status of women in states that enforce Islamic law (Sharia), during a sermon at the Saint-Chamond mosque in the Loire department. During that sermon, he quoted a passage from the Qur’an that French authorities thought was unacceptably misogynistic.


	According to 5 Pillars UK, Mmadi quoted this passage from the Qur’an: “And stay in your houses. Do not display yourselves with the display of the time of ignorance. Be regular in prayer, and give alms, and obey Allah and his messenger.” (Qur’an 33:33)


	If French officials were looking for misogyny and inequality, the Qur’an has much more disturbing passages than that. It even calls for the beating of women that Muslim men even suspect might be contemplating getting out of line: “Men are in charge of women, because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend of their property. So good women are obedient, guarding in secret what Allah has guarded. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, give them a warning and banish them to separate beds, and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34)


	It doesn’t seem, however, as if Mmadi even quoted that verse; the other one, calling for women to cover themselves and stay at home, was bad enough in itself for French authorities. To be sure, according to 5 Pillars UK, however, Mmadi did go a bit farther: “He also told worshippers at the mosque about an authentic Hadith in which Abu Huraira (ra) reported: ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘If a woman prays her five prayers, fasts her month of Ramadan, guards her chastity, and obeys her husband, she will enter Paradise from any gate she wishes.’” This was the basis upon which “French authorities in the Loire region deemed his sermon, which was made at Eid prayers last year, ‘discriminatory.’”


	Mmadi pointed out quite correctly: “These are not my words, they are the words of the Prophet and of God. All I did was repeat what was in the holy books.” Indeed. And so it is extraordinary that French authorities deported him for this. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of other imams in France. Do French authorities think that they don’t read the same Qur’an that contains the passage Mmadi quoted? Do French authorities assume that all other imams in France reject the Qur’an’s exhortations to violence, misogyny, and hatred for unbelievers? Do they not realize that other Muslims besides Mmadi read and believe in the Qur’an as well?


	If French authorities, as well as authorities all over the West, including the U.S., think that imams such as Ahamada Mmadi are “extremists,” they’re in for a rude awakening. They continue to insist that they want to create a new Islam with French characteristics, an Islam that will be compatible with French secularism. Yet the Qur’an also has Allah telling the believers: “This day I have perfected your religion for you and completed my favor to you, and have chosen Islam as the religion for you.” (5:3) If Islam is perfect as it is, any change will only make it worse, not better. That’s why innovation (bid’a) is a serious sin in Islam. Do French officials honestly think they will be able to create a new, Westernized Islam, shorn of its features that are offensive to contemporary Western sensibilities? If so, they really are in for a rude awakening.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;Shillman&nbsp;Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

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A report on how the Palestinians observed Nakba Day, May 15, is here: “On ‘Nakba,’ Abbas vows to continue payments to prisoners and ‘martyrs,'” by Khaled Abu Toameh,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-706742" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Jerusalem Post</a>, May 15, 2022:

<blockquote>
	
		The Palestinian Authority will continue to pay allowances to the families of Palestinian prisoners and those killed while carrying out attacks against Israel,&nbsp;PA President Mahmoud Abbas&nbsp;said on Sunday.

	
		Abbas’s renewed commitment to the families of the prisoners and “martyrs” was made on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), the word used by Palestinians to describe the creation of Israel in 1948.…

	
		Abbas and other Palestinians also emphasized that they will remain committed to the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees and their descendants to their former homes inside Israel.

	
		“The Palestinian people and their leadership will not rest until all prisoners enjoy freedom,” Abbas said, adding that he will remain committed “to the rights of the families of the martyrs and prisoners.”

	
		The Palestinians, he said, will not agree to give up any of their rights, especially their right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state with east Jerusalem as its capital. Abbas also affirmed the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees and their descendants to their former homes inside Israel.…

	
		Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy chairman of the ruling Fatah faction (headed by Abbas), said at the rally that the Palestinians are determined to restore their homeland” and confident that they will be triumphant.
</blockquote>


	The Palestinians are “confident they will be triumphant”? When have they, or their fellow Arabs, ever emerged triumphant against Israel? Israel has won the three wars of survival it had to fight in 1948, 1967, and 1973. The Jewish state similarly defeated Hezbollah in two wars, and Hamas in four campaigns. In 1948, the Jewish state began the war against five Arab armies that invaded on May 15 with a handful of rickety Czech Avia airplanes and some guns smuggled from abroad; at the time there was an international arms embargo on the belligerents (though Great Britain continued to supply weapons to the armies of Egypt, Iraq and, especially Jordan, The Jewish fighters not only held their own, but defeated all the Arab forces but one — Jordan’s British-officered Arab Legion, which managed to seize and hold onto Judea and Samaria (a/k/a, as of 1950, the West Bank).


	Militarily, Israel has come a long way since those desperate days of smuggled small arms. Now it is a major producer of advanced weapons, such as the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, and the far less expensive, and even more impressive laser-based Iron Beam anti-missile system. Israel is a world leader in drones, anti-missile defenses, and cyberwarfare. The Jewish state is the tenth largest exporter of weapons in the world. In 2021, Israel exported $118 billion worth of weapons. And it has even supplied weapons to the American military that were more advanced than anything in the Americans’ armory. What an extraordinary leap from 1948, when many Israelis went armed only with rifles and pistols, and a handful of machine guns, to confront well-armed Arab soldiers.

<blockquote>
	
		Aloul said that the “battles” with Israel are still raging in Jerusalem and “everywhere in Palestine.” He pledged that the “sacrifices of the martyrs, injured and the prisoners will never stop.”
</blockquote>


	When Aloul spoke on May 15, there were no longer any “battles” still “raging” between Arab mobs and Israeli police being fought in Jerusalem. The Israeli police had managed to suppress the rioters who tried to grab the casket of Shireen Abu Akleh; the police made sure that the wishes of her family were respected, and the casket taken by hearse from the hospital to the church where the funeral was to be held. The rioters — wearing tee-shirts with M-19 rifles silkscreened on them, carrying Palestinian flags, and triumphantly allahu-akbaring — were foiled. Before that, there had been the Ramadan clashes on the Temple Mount, where Arab mobs hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails at Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall far below, and at the police themselves, were pursued and arrested, and the stockpile of rocks and other weapons that they had stored inside Al-Aqsa Mosque were confiscated. For now, a relative calm prevails again in Jerusalem — that is, until the next stabbing or shooting of an innocent Israeli, followed by the capture, or in many cases the “neutralizing,” of the attacker. Rinse, repeat. But these cannot be described as “battles.”&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said that the “double standards” of the international community must end. In an implicit reference to the Russia-Ukrain war, Shtayyeh said that the world distinguishes between one refugee and another. “I is unreasonable that one refugee receives the attention of the world, while another is neglected by the world,” he said. “This is unacceptable.”
</blockquote>


	It is preposterous for the PA Prime Minister Shtayyeh to complain about a “double standard” that favors the Ukrainians, while the poor Palestinians are, in his view, “neglected by the world.” Neglected”?&nbsp;The UN Human Rights Council has a special item on its permanent agenda – Item #7 – which is about the “human rights situation in Palestine.” This agenda item must be discussed at every meeting of the Human Rights Council. The UN General Assembly has also set up a “Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.”&nbsp;This Committee was established by the UN General Assembly to investigate Israeli “war crimes” and is apparently to&nbsp;continue in perpetuity. ” Neglect” of the Palestinians? Do an Internet search for “Palestinians” and the search engine will immediately come up with more than two billion links. No people and no state gets as much sympathetic attention, at the UN, in the world media, and on social media, as the “Palestinians.”

<blockquote>
	
		He [Mohammed Shtayyeh] urged the United Nations to implement all its resolutions pertaining to the Palestinians, including the “right of return.”

	
		“Our people are increasingly insisting on their right to return and the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital,” the PA premier said. “We will remain committed and loyal to our principles. We will continue to fight for them until they are all accomplished.”

	
		Shtayyeh also emphasized the importance of maintaining the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

	
		“We care about this institution in the same way we care about our people in the diaspora,” he said. “Today, there are 6.4 million refugees waiting for the right of return.”
</blockquote>


	What Shtayyeh means is that UNRWA is under a serious threat of losing contributions from donors if it does not rid its schoolbooks of antisemitism, as it has long promised to do. Shtayyeh wants the unqualified support for UNRWA to continue, without any imposition of aid cuts and, of course, “maintaining” the status quo, which means without any change to the textbooks UNRWA uses.


	Mohammed Shtayyeh claims that there are 6.4 million “Palestinian” refugees waiting for their “right of return,” to which should be added the approximately four million Palestinians now living in Gaza and the West Bank, for a total of 10.4 million Palestinians. These figures are simply plucked out of the air. At next year’s Nakba Day, someone from the P.A. will claim that there are 7 or 8 million Palestinians waiting to exercise their “right of return” – implausible figures, with as little reliability as those Shtayyeh offered this year. The same thing happens with the figures on Muslims worldwide. Just four years ago, we were solemnly informed that there were 1.4 billion Muslims, though some in the West argued that the true figure was 1.2 billion. Then Muslims began to claim that there were 1.5 million, 1.6 million, then 1.8 million Muslims. And now the claim is that there are “more than 2 billion Muslims” in the world, but no convincing demographic data is offered to back up these claims. They are made up numbers, but used to present an image of an Islam that is ineluctably on the march, growing steadily in numbers and power and, we are being led to believe, Islam will soon surpass Christianity as the world’s biggest religion. The implication is clear: resistance is futile, join the winning team, the “strong horse” of Islam that will inherit the earth.

<blockquote>
	
		Ahmed Abu Holy, head of the PLO’s refugee department, said that the Palestinians won’t accept “partial solutions” to the problem of the refugees. He too stressed the importance of maintaining UNRWA and rejecting any attempt to delegate its powers to other UN bodies.
</blockquote>


	Ahmed Abu Holy can insist on refusing “partial solutions” to the Palestinian refugee problem all he wants, but Israel has no intention of allowing itself to be swamped by Palestinians exercising some putative “right of return.” The only “right of return” that Israel just might accept would be that exercised by the approximately 25,000 Arabs who are “real refugees” – that is, who left Mandatory Palestine and then Israel between 1947 and 1949. Israel is not going to commit demographic suicide.

<blockquote>
	
		Hamas, for its part, said in a statement on the occasion of the Nakba that there is “no legitimacy or sovereignty” for Israel “over one inch of the land of historic Palestine.”
</blockquote>


	It’s always useful to be reminded that Hamas denies Israel the right to exist. It seeks not territorial compromise, but destruction of the Jewish state, to be replaced by “Palestine,” that will include all the territory “from the river to the sea.” The PA, for its part, is willing to accept a much-reduced Israel, as the first step in its salami-strategy of leaving Israel without the Jordan Valley, an the Golan Heights, both so necessary to. its defense, and with only a nine-mile wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea.&nbsp;The PA differs from Hamas in timing and tactics, but not in the ultimate goal of eliminating the state of Israel.

<blockquote>
	
		“Our people will remain committed to Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Palestine, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea,” the statement read.

	
		Hamas also vowed to pursue the “armed resistance” against Israel “until the aspirations of our people are achieved.”
</blockquote>


	Hamas has been pursuing that “armed resistance” against Israel since its founding in 1987. It has fought four wars with Israel, and has been defeated – crushed – in every one. In the latest war, in May 2021, Hamas fired 4,500 rockets toward Israel. 600 of them fell short, landing in Gaza itself, killing Palestinian civilians. Of those rockets that did end up in Israel, 90% were intercepted and destroyed by the Iron Dome anti-missile defense, and the others fell harmlessly in fields. Meanwhile, Israel destroyed numerous stockpiles of rockets, hidden in schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, and even mosques. The IDF destroyed several command-and-control centers, and significant parts of the network of tunnels Hamas had built under Gaza at terrific expense. The IDF also killed 200 Hamas fighters, while only one Israeli soldier was killed, and no significant damage was inflicted by those thousands of Hamas rockets.

<blockquote>
	
		Abbas said that he was proud of the “steadfastness of the brave prisoners held in occupation prisons.”
</blockquote>


	The “brave prisoners” he is talking about are terrorists who murdered Israeli men, women, and children in cold blood.

<blockquote>
	
		Abbas has staunchly refused to halt the payments to the families of the prisoners and “martyrs” – a scheme described by some as “pay for slay.”
</blockquote>


	It is an outrage that the Bidenites have managed to ignore both the letter and the spirit of the 2018 Taylor Force Act, by restoring aid to the PA that Trump had ended. The Taylor Force Act had been intended to force the PA to stop its “Pay-For-Slay” program, which provides generous subsidies both to imprisoned terrorists, and to the families of terrorists who died while committing their attacks. As long as the “Pay-For-Slay” program exists, past terrorism will be rewarded, and future terrorism will be incentivized. Mahmoud Abbas is very clear that he will never halt the “Pay-For-Slay” payments. The Taylor Force Act is very clear. But the Bidenites refuse to apply it; they would rather keep the aid tap open for the Palestinian Authority in order to…. Well, in order to do what? In order, apparently, to keep the “good will” of the Palestinians so that, at some point in the future, they will be prepared to negotiate a “peace” with Israel. You know the one — the one they call the “two-state solution” but always fail to explain just how it is a “solution” when it would only whet, not sate, the territorial appetites of Palestinian Arabs. If the continuation of the “Pay-For-Slay”program won’t turn off that tap, what would it take for the Bidenites to stop their appeasement of the&nbsp;rais&nbsp;in Ramallah?

<blockquote>
	
		“The great Palestinian people cannot be defeated because they have a just issue that cannot be obliterated by false narratives,” Abbas stressed. He called on Israel’s leaders “to get out of the cycle of denial of the other because it will not bring security and stability to anyone.”…
</blockquote>


	The Israelis are not “denying…the other.” They are all too aware of the Palestinians, who do not permit them a moment’s peace. They simply refuse to submit to the demands of either the Slow Jihadists of the PA or the Fast Jihadists of Hamas. The Israelis are not going to let themselves be swamped by a “right-of-return” tide of pseudo-refugees who are uniquely allowed to treat their status of “refugee” as inheritable, unlike any of the other hundreds of millions of refugees created since World War II. Israelis are going to keep territory necessary to their security, including the Golan, the Jordan Valley, and the five large settlement blocs in the West Bank. And they will not yield any part of Jerusalem, the city which has been the spiritual center of Jewish life, inhabited uninterruptedly by Jews since 1500 B.C.


	On Nakba Day, from the Palestinians it’s the same old same old. It’s not just Israel that is getting tired of the same preposterous claims, the same demands for aid, the same threats, the same dreams of crushing the Jews. It’s also the many former donors in the Western world who are tired of again being snookered by empty Palestinian promises to change their schoolbooks. It’s former donors among the Gulf Arabs who have chosen to ignore Palestinian demands, and instead are promoting their own national interests, either by joining the Abraham Accords, as the UAE and Bahrain have done, or by drawing ever closer to Israel in security matters, as Saudi Arabia and Egypt have done.


	It’s a new world, but the Palestinians still don’t get it. When King Salman dies, and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman becomes King, and has the Kingdom join the Abraham Accords, then the Palestinians may finally realize that. Until then, more nonsense and more lies. It’s their stock in trade. Same old same old.

On Naqba Day, It’s the Same Old Same Old

A report on how the Palestinians observed Nakba Day, May 15, is here: “On ‘Nakba,’ Abbas vows to continue payments to prisoners and ‘martyrs,'” by Khaled Abu

The face of Christianity has changed in recent years. This revolution has already secularized the face of Protestantism, and it is currently having a drastic effect on the Catholic Church, especially in Germany, where thousands of people leave the Church every year. (Some 221,390 people left the Catholic Church in Germany in 2020.)&nbsp;


	The mass exodus of German Catholics began before the implantation of the German Bishops Synodal Path, the name given to a series of conferences (2019 to 2023) where hundreds of Catholics gather to discuss contemporary theological and organizational questions concerning the Catholic Church, including possible reactions to the sexual abuse crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


	The Synodal Path in many ways is a reset or neo-Reformation, focusing on the following issues:

<ol>
	<li>
		The call that women be granted access to all Church responsibilities, including the priesthood.</li>
	<li>
		The end of compulsory celibacy.</li>
	<li>
		The resolve that traditional Catholic attitudes towards sexual morality be changed.</li>
</ol>


	 
	One talking point listed above -- the end of compulsory celibacy -- may not seem all that revolutionary, since celibacy was not required of priests in the early Church. That tradition (married priests) has been maintained in Eastern Orthodoxy, where men can marry before ordination but not afterwards. In the Orthodox Church, only monks are celibate. Bishops and patriarchs are chosen from among monks, not among married clergy.


	In the years following the Second Vatican Council, many Catholics became Orthodox largely because of the stripping away of liturgical traditions in Catholicism. It’s ironic, but even in liberal-progressive Germany, Orthodoxy is viewed as the keeper of Patristic traditions. As <a href="https://orthochristian.com/134886.html">Priest Alexey Veselow,</a> head priest of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Great-Martyr Barbara in the North Rhone town Krefeld, has noted:

<blockquote>
	
		Germans view the Orthodox Church as the keeper of Patristic traditions. That’s not an exaggeration. They see that, contrary to local Catholics and Protestants, we strive to live piously and take the Bible seriously. We keep fasts, pray and don’t let ourselves be led by modern values. In the Western denominations today, everything is blurry—there is no substance.
</blockquote>


	For centuries, the common belief was that Christian Orthodoxy was so rooted in tradition that it was immune to the heresies of modernization. The West, by contrast, has proven itself to be the great innovator and change-maker. A small example of this is the making of the Sign of the Cross. The original Sign was the Orthodox way, right-to-left, but Rome changed it in the West to left-to-right for no other reason than the attraction of novelty.


	Creeping modernist trends, however, have been buzzing outside the walls of Orthodoxy for some time now. The modernists are not outside invaders, however, but Trojan Horse insiders (so-called Orthodox), and they hail mainly from the world of academia.&nbsp;


	<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/1096741988/orthodox-christian-churches-are-drawing-in-far-right-american-converts">NPR</a> recently tapped into this reality when it published an article declaring that “Orthodox Christian Churches are drawing in far-right American converts.” The article came as a shock to me, an Orthodox convert from Roman Catholicism, because it was based on the research work of a young Orthodox academic, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, a doctor of philosophy and anthropology and self-proclaimed “fan of theology.”


	Riccardi-Swartz’s work, a study of a Russian Orthodox parish in Appalachia, became the basis of her book, Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia, published in April 2022. Swartz, who describes herself as a documentary filmmaker, wife, and mom to a special needs toddler, writes that she converted to the Orthodox Church in 2011 during a research project she was engaged in with an Orthodox community in SW Missouri.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		I continue to focus my research within U.S. Orthodox communities. My first book looks at conversion in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) communities in Appalachia. My next book project will explore the lives and experiences of women in contemporary Orthodox settings.
</blockquote>


	After winning the trust of the Appalachian congregation, Swartz conducted interviews with the convert members of the parish, probing them about their fears and concerns regarding the modern world. While doing her work, she writes that she discovered that many of the converts held right-wing views that she terms “almost alt. right.” In the NPR interview, Swartz claims that the series of interviews was “about culture and not theology.”


	Swartz’s dividing of culture and theology into two separate parts borders on the simplistic if only because the relation between culture and religion is an old and still ongoing debate.&nbsp;


	Swartz criticized the Orthodox converts in the parish as having “an ideological rigorism.” Then she lambasted them as a community for being much too interested in what she terms “authoritanism and monarchial systems.” She also reported an admiration among the congregation for Vladimir Putin, and was quick to tell NPR that “there was an Orthodox priest at the January 6 insurrection.”


	“We cannot let far right radicalism infect the faith,” she says. “If we want a sustainable plan for the future of Orthodoxy, we have to do something about the far right.”


	In other words, "we" have to make the far right more like the far left: Get that January 6 Orthodox priest to march with BLM or Antifa--yes, that would be fine--or get him to relax his views on abortion or even to infuse a little critical race theory into those parish Sunday school lessons. Oh yes, and let’s not forget to get him to praise the humanity and "righteousness" of a transgender woman athlete who wants to compete in the Olympics.


	The interview, as you can imagine, was a marriage made in Heaven for NPR. As NPR noted,

<blockquote>
	
		The case study that Riccardi-Swartz provides adds detail and color to a trend that a handful of historians and journalists have documented for nearly a decade. In publications mostly targeted toward an Orthodox Christian audience, they have raised the alarm about a growing nativist element within the church. Despite Orthodoxy's relatively small imprint in the U.S., they warn that, unchecked, these adherents could fundamentally alter the faith tradition in the United States. They also warn that these individuals are evangelizing hate in the name of Orthodoxy in ways that could attract more who share those views. 
</blockquote>


	“Evangelizing hate” is a harsh and suspect criticism created within a left-wing political prism.


	Riccardi-Swartz writes,

<blockquote>
	
		The Orthodox far-right in the United States are caught up in the global Culture Wars; whatever political ideology they align themselves with—fascism, populism, monarchism, and many of the other isms—they are typically homophobic, transphobic, anti-intellectual, and, more often than not, white supremacists—whether avowed or in spirit.
</blockquote>


	In one online interview conducted by the Orthodox Studies Center at Fordham University, Swartz recalls her <a href="https://forever.fordham.edu/s/1362/18/interior.aspx?sid=1362&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=10476&amp;content_id=11190%20">conversations</a> with the Appalachian parishioners -- most of whom are educated, she admits -- and says that she asked them whether or not they have ever met an actual queer person, or had a queer person in their families.


	The choice of the word ‘queer’ here is significant, as it suggests a definite left-wing mindset, the result of the researcher’s academic influence where the word queer has been in vogue for quite some time. (Dear Ms. Swartz, do you know that even many gay people hate the word queer?) A theologically sound Orthodox researcher would not use left-wing catch words like "queer," as that word lends credibility to esoteric left-wing gender philosophies and hardcore transgender doctrines like gender reassignment surgery for children. "Queer" venerates a left-wing political narrative.


	The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham, a Catholic university, is a left-progressive Jesuit stronghold. This can be clearly seen in the interview in which Riccardi-Swartz is never challenged or questioned about certain statements she makes which would seem to run counter to Orthodox theological beliefs. The Orthodox OCSC interviewer is careful never to challenge any of Swartz’s views or assumptions, which seems to indicate a possible fear of university disapproval (Swartz’s book is published by Fordham University Press).


	A quick Fordham University Google check will reveal widespread complaints about the university’s treatment of conservative students and their viewpoints. Visitors to the website can even sign an online petition protesting the university’s censorship of conservative views.


	In short, Fordham, like so many other Catholic universities, has become a left-wing think tank posing as a university.


	Riccardi-Swartz never mentions the name of the particular ROCAR parish where she conducted her study, nor does she ever name the famous Russian Orthodox monastery near the parish (<a href="https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/recent_news/monastery-offers-quiet-life-in-wayne/article_f477ea67-e6ea-5963-8">Holy Trinity Monastery</a> in Wayne, West Virginia). She does, however, admit that the parish she examined so harshly under a microscope was not happy with her classification of them as alt right lunatics who would welcome a Putin invasion of the United States. &nbsp;


	Father Fr John Whitford, a ROCOR priest, writes that Swartz is currently not affiliated with ROCOR:

<blockquote>
	
		She began her study not long after the election of Donald Trump, and it is clear that her analysis of ROCOR converts is entirely viewed through a political lens that is colored by her own left-wing politics. Her observations are entirely improbable -- and I speak as someone who is a ROCOR convert, and after having been in ROCOR for most of my life at this point.
</blockquote>


	Swartz’s label for right wing Orthodoxy is “Reactive Orthodoxy.” Like many on the Left, she throws around labels like “white supremacy” with Johnny Appleseed-like abandon. She’s big on all the Left’s major buzz words (like "transphobic"), then admits she has a special affinity for Eugene Dennis Rose, or <a href="https://www.sainthermanmonastery.com/Fr-Seraphim-s/1817.htm">Father Seraphim Rose,</a> the great ROCOR acetic monk who co-founded a monastery in northern California.


	Rose, who grew up Methodist but became atheist when he studied Nietzsche at Berkley, was later involved with Buddhism when he studied under Alan Watts. He was part of the early San Francisco Beat scene in the 1950s. He led an active gay sex life until his conversion to Orthodoxy in 1962. After becoming a monk, he co-founded a ROCOR monastery in Platina, California.


	Swartz makes the claim that were Fr. Seraphim alive today he would be shocked at the extreme right-wing views of many in the parish that she writes about. While voicing an affinity for Seraphim Rose -- she also reports that many of the male convert parishioners at the parish came to Orthodoxy through Fr. Seraphim’s writings -- she seems to be suffering a disconnect where the great monk is concerned.


	Fr. Seraphim Rose would certainly not be saying any of the things that flow so easily from Swartz’s pen, such as: Have you ever met a queer or transgender person? Are you a white supremacist? And, by the way, what are your views on critical race theory?


	The monk’s reaction to her work would be quite the opposite, as I can easily imagine him looking at Swartz in astonishment, and then advising her to shut up and read the writings of St. Paul, which have nothing to do with the norms of contemporary culture.&nbsp;


	&nbsp;In his book, The Kingdom of Man and the Kingdom of God, Fr. Seraphim, wrote:

<blockquote>
	
		…The goal of the Revolution, originally the hallucination of a few fevered minds, has now become the goal of humanity itself. Men have become weary; the Kingdom of God is too distant, the Orthodox Christian way too narrow and arduous. The Revolution has captured the ‘spirit of the age,’ and to go against this powerful current is more than modern man can do, for it requires precisely the two things most thoroughly annihilated by Nihilism, Truth and faith.
</blockquote>


	&nbsp;Put another way -- or as one online reviewer commented on Swartz’s NPR interview:


	“Wow, this young girl wrote a dissertation on a topic and she actually believes she has figured the whole Orthodox thing out and how it is 'nationalist', 'Putinist', "monarchism", 'far-right', and 'Trumpism'.


	“But she is way less smart than she thinks she is.”


	Thom Nickels is a Philadelphia-based journalist/columnist and the 2005 recipient of the AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism.&nbsp; He is the author of fifteen books, including Philadelphia Architecture (2005);&nbsp;Literary Philadelphia&nbsp;and Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls. &nbsp;

Yearning for Russian Orthodoxy to be Like the Democrat Party

The face of Christianity has changed in recent years. This revolution has already secularized the face of Protestantism, and it is currently having a drastic

For fifteen years, Kali Fontanilla taught middle and high school students in California public schools. Then she abruptly left it behind. Why would a teacher who loves teaching quit her job? Her answer should alarm us all. Watch and find out.

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The 20 Dumbest Hollywood Hatemongers

On March 27, 2022, during a live television broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards, popular actor Will Smith hijacked the ceremony by storming onstage to slap

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.


	On May 14, 2022, Payton S. Gendron, a white supremacist, opened fire on black people in a New York supermarket. The next day, thousands of miles away in California, David Wenwei Chou, a militant supporter of Communist China, opened fire in a Taiwanese church.


	While Gendron’s mass shooting has been widely covered, with every detail of his manifesto made public, Chou’s motives have received very little coverage. Biden visited Buffalo, NY where the supermarket shooting took place, but has shown no signs of visiting Laguna Woods, CA.


	Unlike Gendron, Chou may not have passed around the usual 4chan manifesto, and probably never used Discord or Twitch, but his motives are certainly no great mystery. He had his own manifesto, “Diary of an Independence-Destroying Angel” (a reference to Taiwan’s independence) that he sent to an alleged pro-Chinese paper operating in the United States.


	While we’ve been regaled with excerpts from Gendron’s manifesto, the contents of Chou’s manifesto have yet to be printed. And that’s certainly a convenient double standard.


	But even without Chou’s manifesto, we know that he had been recruited by Communist China and was a member of a ChiCom front group aimed at the very people whom he set out to kill.


	Chou had <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-19/laguna-woods-taiwanese-church-shooting?_ga=2.209678226.1204509463.1652991740-639314874.1649112790">told a neighbor</a> that he saw himself as Chinese and "strongly believed China and Taiwan were one country". Notes left behind by Chou referred to the same ChiCom idea. A photo shows Chou next to a banner in Chinese reading, "Swiftly and violently exterminate the independence demons." The reference was to efforts by Taiwan to maintain its independence.


	It’s also typical of the violent rhetoric being directed by China at the people of Taiwan.


	Chou had <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/southern-california-shooter-has-ties-to-the-communist-regimes-united-front-work_4474258.html?welcomeuser=1">been a director</a> of Las Vegas Chinese for Peaceful Unification where the eliminationist banner in question had allegedly <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/17/laguna-woods-church-shooting-suspect-called-too-radical-for-chinese-communist-group/">been displayed</a>. The Vegas organization was apparently a chapter of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification which is run by China's United Front Work Department.


	In 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had announced the<a href="https://2017-2021.state.gov/designation-of-the-national-association-for-chinas-peaceful-unification-nacpu-as-a-foreign-mission-of-the-prc/index.html"> designation</a> of NACPU as a foreign mission controlled by Communist China.


	"Peaceful reunification" is China's euphemism for taking over the nation of Taiwan.


	A year after Pompeo's designation, China's Xi had urged that "compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, must come together and move forward in unison. We must take resolute action to utterly defeat any attempt toward 'Taiwan independence.'" And called for "peaceful national reunification" while warning that "no one should underestimate the resolve, the will, and the ability of the Chinese people to defend their national sovereignty and territorial integrity."


	In March 2022, the Communist regime emphasized that it intended to solve the problem of Taiwan “in the new era”: a term widely taken to mean during Xi's rule.


	In April, China's Los Angeles consul warned that his regime would "reserve the option of taking all necessary measures" in response to, among others, "Taiwanese independence separatists."


	Chou's attack at the Geneva Presbyterian Church where he opened fire was not a random act.


	It was a Communist terrorist attack.


	While the mass shooting only killed one person and wounded four others, Chou had made plans for a massacre. He glued the locks and nailed a door shut. He had brought explosive devices and had clearly studied previous mass shootings.


	It was only Dr. John Cheng's heroism in tackling Chou, at the expense of his life, that prevented the Communist mass shooter from racking up a much bigger death toll.


	The FBI and local authorities are treating this Communist attack on a church as a hate crime, yet there’s been virtually no national coverage and no action from the Biden administration.


	“Beijing’s pro-unification campaign has been sending out dehumanizing languages such as ‘annihilating the people and saving the island’ and dismissing the Taiwanese independence movement as a violent separatist crime,” an academic warned.


	Secretary of State Pompeo had warned that China "uses front organizations like the NACPU to advance propaganda and malign influence."


	Even while the Biden administration tries to stamp out domestic free speech under the guise of fighting “disinformation”, it’s dialing back the Trump administration’s efforts against China’s influence operations.


	In February, Biden's DOJ shut down the “China Initiative” while falsely claiming that it had "fueled a narrative of intolerance and bias". Using leftist talking points, it <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/02/biden-admin-ends-effort-stop-china-spying-because-daniel-greenfield/">dishonestly</a> contended that the attempts to stop Communist China's persecution of Asians in America was somehow connected to a "rise in anti-Asian hate crime and hate incidents".


	The church shooting in Laguna Woods shows however that fighting China’s Communist infiltration saves Asian-American lives.


	Numerous Chinese Americans have complained of being stalked, followed, spied on and threatened by ChiCom agents operating in the United States.


	This latest attack escalates the assaults and kidnapping plots to Communist terrorism.


	Had the Biden administration taken China’s influence operations seriously, the church shooting in Laguna Woods might have been averted. By shutting down the China Initiative, Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland betrayed America and Asian-Americans in particular.


	That’s why the Biden administration is focusing on Buffalo and not Laguna Woods.


	The racist supermarket shooting was a failure by New York authorities, however the Geneva Presbyterian Church shooting was a crime whose roots were in Beijing. While Democrats have deployed counterintelligence resources to target domestic political opponents, they have surrendered to China’s intelligence assault while claiming that opposing it would be racist.


	Biden can go to Buffalo to score some political points for the midterm elections, but he can’t go to Laguna Woods because the blood from the Geneva church shooting is on his hands.

Did Biden’s Appeasement of China Cause a Communist Church Shooting?

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is one of the largest and most respected Muslim organizations on the continent. Politicians routinely fawn all over it. But it is also easily one of the most sinister Islamic organizations in the West ISNA manifested its truly evil agenda once again recently, when it issued a <a href="https://isna.net/isna-strongly-condemns-attacks-on-palestinians-in-al-aqsa-mosque/" target="_blank">statement</a>&nbsp;denouncing “Israeli violence against Palestinian worshipers” without, not surprisingly, bothering to notice that those “worshipers” were actually Islamic jihadis who were stockpiling stones and other material to use as weapons in attacks against Israeli civilians.


	On May 5, one group finally called out ISNA, which continues to enjoy mainstream acceptance and wield considerable influence in the corridors of power in Washington. The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), which represents “over 2000 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in matters of American public policy,” <a href="https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/2022/05/cjv-calls-isna-to-retract-statement-supporting-violence/">called on</a> ISNA to “retract&nbsp;<a href="https://isna.net/isna-strongly-condemns-attacks-on-palestinians-in-al-aqsa-mosque/" target="_blank">its statement</a>&nbsp;issued April 16 entitled, ‘ISNA Condemns Israeli Violence Against Palestinian Worshipers.’ CJV pointed to numerous factual errors in the statement which, taken together, could easily be characterized as promoting a false narrative, encouraging antisemitism and even fomenting violence.”


	ISNA’s encouragement of antisemitism and fomenting of violence was no surprise. According to


	<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178" target="_blank">Discover the Networks</a>, “ISNA leaders view Islam as being&nbsp;<a href="http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib/20080127_Extremism_and_ISNA.pdf">superior</a>&nbsp;to all other faiths and destined to replace them. Taha J. Alwani, a leading official of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7589">Fiqh Council of North America</a>, which is run under ISNA, writes: ‘In considering the earth as an arena for Islam, Allah has promised its inheritance to His righteous people, and He has promised that Islam will prevail over other religions.’…In July 2008, ISNA’s lawyers&nbsp;<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/735/emerson-exposes-radical-ties-of-state-department-outreach">conceded</a>&nbsp;that their organization, through its affiliate NAIT, had&nbsp;<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/732/isna-admits-hamas-ties">given</a>&nbsp;financial support to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. Their defense was that documentary evidence of those ties dated back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, before the U.S. government had officially designated Hamas as a terrorist organization.”


	CJV President Rabbi Pesach Lerner declared that ISNA’s " statement makes outlandish claims that invert those who came to cause violence with those who responded to quell it. As written, it appears to demonize Israeli police for stopping a violent riot. The police foiled attempts to murder Jewish worshipers at the Western Wall, and restored calm so that peaceful Islamic prayers could occur at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Both Muslims and Jews should commend Israeli police for preventing an intended massacre and permitting the faithful of both religions to worship safely."


	CJV added in a press release that “the ISNA statement erroneously claims that ‘Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque,’ with ‘unprovoked and violent Israeli attacks’ on ‘Palestinian worshippers.’ In reality, both&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6920936979979243520-rGhR/" target="_blank">Arab scholars</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/just-look-at-their-feet-the-defenders-of-al-aqsa-were-desecrating-it/" target="_blank">Israeli commentators</a>&nbsp;have pointed to the desecration of the mosque by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6924407688156057601-kuud/" target="_blank">rioters</a>&nbsp;that occurred in the morning, prior to prayers, as was&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/OGAride/status/1514807495214002180?s=20&amp;t=Vql9q3ti5Np_6gb1DLvMiQ" target="_blank">documented on camera</a>. The Israeli police enabled prayers to take place by stopping the riot.”


	ISNA, however, is never going to admit that the Israeli police acted properly; to do so would be tantamount to rejecting the words of the Qur’an itself. The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).


	This situates antisemitism as a divine imperative, a matter of being faithful to the core teachings of the Qur’an. CJV Southern Regional Vice President Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes was likely unaware of these passages of the Qur’an when he stated: "Islam is an Abrahamic faith with hundreds of millions of peaceful adherents. Few things could sully the reputation of Islam in America more than a statement condemning efforts to prevent bloodshed, under the imprimatur of an American organization with Islam in its name. It is for this reason that we urge ISNA to repudiate this statement before it can do further damage."


	It's a revealing contrast: Rabbi Parnes is worried about the reputation of Islam in America, while ISNA is intent on sullying the reputation of Israel worldwide, on false pretenses. That sums up the two sides of the conflict in a nutshell.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;Shillman&nbsp;Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

Islamic Society of North America Called Out for Fomenting Violence Against Jews

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is one of the largest and most respected Muslim organizations on the continent. Politicians routinely fawn all over

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) “<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/11/nih-director-tabak-confirms-agency-hid-covid-genes-per-chinese/">eliminated from public view</a>” data about the early genomic sequences of COVID-19, acting NIH director Lawrence Tabak told Congress last week, admitting that the NIH concealed the data at the request of Chinese scientists.


	Tabek told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the NIH did not destroy the sequence but “it just did not make it available for interrogation.” Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler asked if the NIH was able to “withdraw public viewing” of the data.&nbsp; Tabak said “that’s correct” but implied that the concealment had been “an error,” due to “old technology.” The NIH boss leaves room for reasonable doubt.


	As <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-nonprofit-at-the-center-of-the-lab-leak-controversy">Vanity Fair reported</a>, the information could resolve whether the Covid virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or arose naturally in the wild. China’s Communist dictatorship has refused to participate in an investigation of the issue.


	The notion that the virus arose naturally in the wild is speculation, not science, which involves empirical inquiry, testing, and <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000691">replication</a>. On the other hand, evidence that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), its likely place of origin, has been steadily mounting.


	“<a href="https://besacenter.org/china-biological-warfare/">China and Viruses: The Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu</a>,” a January 2020 paper by Israeli molecular biologist Dr. Dany Shoman, revealed that Dr. Qiu, shipped a cargo of deadly pathogens to the Wuhan lab. The <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/15/from-winnipeg-to-wuhan/">shipment included</a> Makona, Mayinga, Kikwit, Ivory Coast, Bundibuguy, Sudan Boniface, Sudan Gulo, MA-Ebov, GP-Sudan and Nipah viruses from Malaysia and Bangladesh.


	This dangerous cargo came from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab (NML) where Dr. Qiu, a Chinese national, ran the special pathogens program. In 2017 and 2018, Dr. Qiu made at least five trips to the Wuhan lab. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, funded gain-of-function research, which makes viruses more <a href="https://osp.od.nih.gov/biotechnology/gain-of-function-research/">lethal and transmissible</a>, at the WIV.


	Fauci and NIH boss Francis Collins both lied about funding such research at China’s Wuhan facility. When researchers found evidence of a lab leak, Fauci pressured them to <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01383-3">change their position</a>. When CDC director Robert Redfield found evidence of a lab leak he got <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/ex-cdc-director-robert-redfield-says-he-got-death-threats-saying-he-thought-covid-leaked-china-lab-1597382">death threats</a>. No word of any FBI investigation.


	In early 2020, Fauci <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-china-travel-ban-coronavirus-transparency-criticizes-trump-response">opposed President Trump’s ban</a> on travel from China. In similar style, the CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier delivered a series of press briefings that <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/true-hero-dr-messonnier-suddenly-resigns-cdc-lloyd-billingsley/">faithfully echoed China’s</a> talking points. In May of 2022, after all the ravages of the pandemic, Lawrence Tabak admits that, at the request of China, the NIH concealed crucial data about the origin of Covid virus. The acting NIH boss, a <a href="https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-almanac/lawrence-tabak-dds-phd">dentist (DDS)</a> with a <a href="https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2021/12/tabak-acting-nih-director.html">PhD in oral biology</a>, has also made news on another front.


	It recently emerged that from 2010 to 2020 NIH scientists and leaders raked in <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/12/the-green-side-of-white-coat-supremacy/">$350 million in undisclosed royalties</a>. This is public information but heavy NIH redactions concealed the amounts paid to Collins (14 payments) Fauci (23 payments) and Fauci’s deputy Clifford Lane with eight payments.&nbsp; As Adam Andrzejewski of <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/">Open the Books</a> noted, this was different than in 2005, when the revelations included the name of the official, the amount, and the third-party payer.


	As journalist John Solomon <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/profit-motive-hidden-from-patients/">revealed in 2005</a>, Fauci and Lane were collecting royalties on an AIDS treatment, but they failed to tell the patients the NIH employees were receiving royalties from pharmaceutical companies and device makers. For Andrzejewski, this is a conflict of interest “on its face.”


	For NIH boss Lawrence Tabak, it was only “an <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/acting-nih-director-admits-appearance-of-conflict-of-interest-in-secret-royalty-payments-to-fauci-scientists_4460259.html?utm_source=newsnoe&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2022-05-11-3&amp;utm_medium=email2&amp;est=8cmHyRXZRCYXyY1bQ9AJaMqaJ5TcaRm1uAv5%2B8uZFxFSkODNyIQNWc8%2F1tf975s%3D">appearance of a conflict of interest</a>.” This from a man who, since 2010, served the NIH as <a href="https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-almanac/lawrence-tabak-dds-phd">deputy ethics counselor</a>. That raises another issue.


	In her 1995 book, The Search for an AIDS Vaccine, <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/02/when-grady-met-fauci/">Fauci’s wife Christine Grady</a> said children and pregnant women were suitable subjects for drug trials and touted “the availability and effectiveness of AZT.” &nbsp;As Fauci and Grady had to know, AZT (azidothymidine), marketed as Zidovudine, is a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/zidovudine">DNA chain terminator</a> rejected for cancer treatment because of <a href="https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/">excessive toxicity</a>.


	In 2012, the National Institutes of Health named Christine Grady chief of the NIH bioethics department. The <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/international-voice-human-subjects-protections-named-nih-clinical-center-bioethics-chief">NIH announcement</a> did not disclose that Grady is the wife of Dr. Fauci, who heads a key NIH agency. If Tabak saw anything unethical about concealing the Fauci-Grady relationship, nothing emerged in the record. As Tabak had to know, Dr. Fauci’s wife as NIH bioethics boss was a conflict of interest, not just the appearance of one.


	The NIH inspector general explored that theme in the <a href="https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-03-19-00150.pdf">2019 report</a>, “NIH Has Made Strides in Reviewing Financial Conflicts of Interest in Extramural Research, But Could Do More.” So NIH ethics counselor Lawrence Tabak had to know that actual conflicts of interest were going on. Under Tabak, the NIH is concealing them, just as the agency concealed data about the origin of Covid at request of China.


	Like Fauci, Collins, and Biden “disinformation” boss <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/nina-jankowicz-putting-red-lipstick-censorship-thom-nickels/">Nina Jancowicz</a>, Lawrence Tabak is a professional prevaricator, a key job qualification under current conditions. Like the scene at the end of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, embattled Americans look from the Biden Junta to China &nbsp;and find it hard to tell which is which.


	The Chinese are “<a href="https://amac.us/flashback-to-when-joe-biden-said-come-on-man-chinas-not-a-threat/">not bad folks</a>,” Biden said in 2020. In 2022 and beyond, it’s all about memory against forgetting.

NIHilist Collaboration Puts China in Charge

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) “eliminated from public view” data about the early genomic sequences of COVID-19, acting NIH director Lawrence Tabak

Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the author of many books.


	Of all the far-left radicals in our time who’ve smoothly parlayed revolutionary rhetoric into comfy establishment sinecures, Urvashi Vaid, who died on May 14 at age 63, was one of the smoothest. A daughter of privilege - her father was a writer and professor, her mother a poet and painter - she attended Vassar and Northeastern Law before diving headfirst into the world of progressive activism, first working for the ACLU’s National Prison Project and then, in the 1980s, landing powerful positions - first as Public Information Director, then as Executive Director - at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, at the time America’s most influential gay-rights group.


	In those days the gay-rights movement, as led from above by Vaid and likeminded leftist souls, might just as well have been run directly from Moscow. In Vaid’s New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/us/urvashi-vaid-dead.html">obituary</a>, Clay Risen puts it this way: “Ms. Vaid was at the center of a wide array of progressive issues…insisting that freedom for gay men and lesbians required fighting for gender, racial and economic equality as well,” her overarching and unapologetic goal being not to win acceptance for gays but to “build…a progressive movement.” In other words, well-off gay guys who donated money to the NGLTF thinking they were fighting antigay bigotry were actually funding a range of far-left causes that were, more likely than not, utterly at odds with their own interests.


	Recognizing that Vaid’s shrill rants against capitalism, Christianity, and the patriarchy only served to reinforce the public perception of gay people as social misfits and political extremists, a number of gay writers (among them myself, Jonathan Rauch, Walter Olsen, Andrew Sullivan, and the late Paul Varnell) threw ourselves into the fray, getting out the message, in countless articles as well as in such books as my own A Place at the Table (1993), that most gay Americans weren’t really all that different, in most ways, from most straight Americans.


	Since most of us happened to be white males, the first response to our arguments by Vaid and her fellow self-styled “queers” was to smear us as a bunch of straight-acting, politically reactionary white boys - gay Uncle Toms, as it were - who hated sissy types, people of color, you name it. But over the course of the 1990s, as gays came out of the closet in record numbers, our basic message was confirmed: the issues that resonated most with gay America were precisely those that we supported and that Vaid and her ilk reviled as “assimilationist” - namely, same-sex marriage and the right to serve openly in the military.


	In an effort to reverse the anti-leftist winds of change, Vaid wrote a book, Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (1995), in which, ceasing for the moment to malign non-lefty gays, she tried to sell them - us - on her “liberationist” line. In my <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/05/books/radically-different.html">review</a> of Virtual Equality for the New York Times (yes, back then the Times would actually invite somebody like me to review a book like hers), I noted that, in some passages, Vaid told us non-lefty gays exactly what we wanted to hear - for instance, that the gay-rights movement “should seek to educate straight people instead of ignoring or demonizing them.” Yet on the whole, I added, Virtual Equality was “vintage Urvashi Vaid, proffering a vision of a ‘common, progressive movement’ for social, economic and political revolution led by gay people, who, in her view (though not, it seems to me, in the view of most gay people themselves), embody a radical differentness that makes them the natural vanguard for revolution.”&nbsp;


	Alas for Vaid, although Virtual Equality received glowing reviews from her cronies on the left, sales were pitiful: precious few gay readers were interested in a stultifying 400-page-long chunk of agitprop about the need for mass liberation from the white overclass. Yet Vaid was nobody’s fool. If she approached gay politics with a stubborn Marxist utopianism, she was eminently pragmatic when it came to running her own career. Failing to connect with the rapidly emerging gay mainstream, she made a point of bonding with Bill Clinton, staying tight with him (her purported principles to the contrary) even after he signed the Defense of Marriage Act, reneged on his promise to lift the gay military ban, and was credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults.


	And in the succeeding years, even as she continued to preach radical liberation, Vaid led a highly successful life as a jewel of the left-wing cultural elite, cruising through a series of big-ticket jobs at the Ford Foundation, the Arcus Foundation, and the Gill Foundation, founding a lesbian PAC, starting her own consulting group, sitting on various boards (including that of Planned Parenthood), writing another book (Irresistible Revolution, 2012), hanging with Tony Kushner, Rachel Maddow, and Hannah Gadsby, and living in Manhattan and Provincetown with her partner, the “political humorist” (i.e., unfunny stand-up comic) Kate Clinton.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	In a manifest attempt to sidestep the fact that Vaid wasn’t a reformer but a full-throated fount of revolutionary rhetoric, several of her obituaries have proffered a grotesque amount of revisionism. Just one example: at the website of the Boston public-radio station WGBH, the <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2022/05/19/remembering-urvashi-vaid-the-lgbtq-activist-who-spent-decades-fighting-for-equality">headline</a> called her “the LGBTQ activist who spent decades fighting for equality,” and the article itself quoted another activist as saying that Vaid “wanted full justice and equality for all people.” No. No. No. First of all, during the period when she was primarily an out-loud-and-proud activist, there was no such thing as “LGBTQ” - a term that several obits have retrofitted onto her career. But far more important, Vaid was no more about justice or equality than Mao or Lenin. She wanted to use gays to spearhead a socialist rebellion -&nbsp; period.


	Well, there was no socialist rebellion. In the short term, then, she failed. But in the long term? Well, the sobering fact is that if we hadn’t had people like her in key institutional positions a quarter-century ago, preaching political revolt, social upheaval, and cultural transformation as a day-to-day way of life and quietly furthering the careers of those who shared her convictions, we wouldn’t have, in the year 2022, an America whose fundamental liberties are being shredded and whose kids are being perniciously and permanently damaged by such toxic dogmas as transgender ideology and Critical Race Theory.


	So for the time being, at least, it looks as if Urvashi Vaid won after all. And for those of us who care about the future of a free and strong America, nothing matters more than doing everything we can to undo her victory.

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Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the author of many books.


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Israel has for long ruled the skies over Syria, thanks to its brilliant pilots, Syrian incompetence, and an informal understanding with the Russians, who have given anti-aircraft weapons to the Syrians, but done nothing themselves to prevent the IAF from attacking Iranian, Hezbollah, and Syrian sites. It was in order to ensure that that arrangement would remain in place that Israel was initially reluctant to forthrightly condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. But it has since done so, on several occasions, and as we know from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s angry denunciation of Israel – including his intolerable remark about Hitler’s supposed Jewish ancestry – the Russians are angry about Israel’s siding with Ukraine.

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		On May 15, the Israeli Air Force carried out a raid near Masyaf in northwestern Syria, where an important military site was completely obliterated. Just as the planes were leaving the area, Russians fired S-300 anti-aircraft missiles at the Israeli planes, but none were hit. Still, it was a new and worrisome development, a demonstration that Russia was no longer going to allow the IAF to bomb with impunity. What this means is reported on here: “In first, Russian military said to fire S-300 missiles at Israeli jets over Syria,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-russian-military-said-to-fire-s-300-missiles-at-israeli-jets-over-syria/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Times of Israel</a>, May 17, 2022:

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			Russian forces opened fire on Israeli jets with advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles at the end of an alleged IAF attack on targets in northwestern Syria last week, Channel 13 news reported Monday, in what could signal a significant shift in Moscow’s attitude to Israel.

		
			According to the unsourced report, the unprecedented incident occurred on Friday night, when the Israeli Air Force bombed several targets near the city of Masyaf in northwestern Syria.

		
			At least five people were killed and seven were hurt in the airstrike, Syria’s state news agency said. Other media in the&nbsp;country said six were killed, all crew members of a Pantsir air defense system who attempted to take down the Israeli missiles.
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		Since 2017, there have been more than 1,200 Israeli airstrikes on targets in Syria. During all that time, the Syrians have managed to shoot down exactly two Israeli planes, both in 2018.

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			The report said the Syrian military fired off dozens of anti-aircraft missiles, which have been largely ineffective at halting the hundreds of Israeli strikes on Syria in recent years.

		
			However, this time the S-300 batteries also opened fire as the jets were departing the area, Channel 12 said.&nbsp;The report noted that Syria’s S-300 batteries are operated by the Russian military and cannot be fired without their approval.

		
			The report said that the S-300 radar did not manage to lock onto the Israeli jets and thus did not present a serious threat to the IAF fighter jets.

		
			If confirmed, however, this would mark the first use of the S-300s against the IAF over Syria and would be a worrying development for Israel, which has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria in the course of the country’s civil war and since, targeting what it says are arms shipments bound for Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group and other Iranian-linked sites.…
	</blockquote>

	
		Why did the Russians wait until the Israel planes were leaving the area to shoot missiles at them? Were they deliberately trying not to bring down Israeli planes, but simply to send a message of singular displeasure over Israel’s siding with Ukraine?&nbsp;And are they hinting that the next time, the Russians won’t be.delivering a warning, but launching a real anti-aircraft attack with their S-300 missiles, meant to destroy Israeli planes and pilots?

	
		If it is the latter, the Russians are badly miscalculating. Israel will not be dissuaded. Its pilots, the best in the world, will continue to destroy Iranian, Syrian, and Hezbollah bases as they deem necessary. The IAF will evade those S-300 missiles, which will only be a further embarrassment for the Russian military, already suffering mightily from its poor performance in Ukraine. Still worse for the Russians would be the Israeli response if one or more of its planes were to be brought down by an S-300 missile. In that case, the Israelis will not cease operations in Syrian skies, but instead will send punishing waves of Israeli aircraft to destroy the S-300 batteries that are known to exist in Syria. The Russian military doesn’t want to be put to that test; with good reason, it fears what Israeli pilots, planes, and missiles are capable of. It would be sensible for the Russians in Syria to steer clear of direct conflict with the IAF, as it has for years, lest it be shown up in a display of Israeli air superiority. After the Russian debacle in Ukraine, that kind of humiliation in Syria would be too much. The Russians are properly wary of tangling with Israel.

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			Without specifically mentioning the incident, Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday said Israel would not be deterred and vowed to prevent Iran from transferring “advanced capabilities” to other entities in Syria.…
	</blockquote>

	
		Defense Minister Gantz was sending a message to several addresses, one of which was the Kremlin. Israel, he was making clear, will not “be deterred” by Russian S-300 missiles; it will continue to do whatever it takes to keep Iran from using its bases in Syria to transfer advanced weapons to Hezbollah.

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			Israel and its allies for years have lobbied Russia not to give Syria and other regional players the S-300 system, arguing that it would limit Israel’s ability to neutralize threats, including by Hezbollah.
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		Israel has now informed Moscow, through Defense Secretary Gantz’s veiled message, that it will not be deterred from bombing Iranian and Hezbollah sites in Syria. What is not said, and need not be, is what would happen if a Russian missile from an S-300 battery brought down an Israeli plane. The Russians know that Israel will do whatever it takes to eliminate any new threat to its bombing of Iranian sites in Syria, and will not be deterred. The Israelis have not hesitated to attack the Russians in the past; they brought down five Russian Migs, flown by Russian pilots, in Operation Rimon 20 in 1970, with no Israeli losses. Moscow has to be worried about Israel’s response to any further Russian launches of S-300 missiles in Syria. It very well may consider itself satisfied with that single S-300 missile it fired, which, launched only&nbsp;after&nbsp;the Israeli planes had left the area of their bombing, was likely meant only to warn Israel, not to destroy its planes. Having delivered that message, Russia can now go back to its previous position of leaving Israel’s planes over Syria alone. No need to tangle with IAF pilots and planes, where things might go as badly for the Russians as they did in Kharkiv.
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Russians Fire S-300 Missiles At Israeli Aircraft In Syria

Israel has for long ruled the skies over Syria, thanks to its brilliant pilots, Syrian incompetence, and an informal understanding with the Russians, who have

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center


	An Arabic-language <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0wcC4ad43U">video&nbsp;</a>of a Muslim cleric addressing how terrorists “misuse” Islamic scriptures to justifying killing non-Muslims is an ideal example of the hypocrisy of Muslim apologias.&nbsp;


	During his sermon, Sheikh Samir Hashish—who was addressing the bombings of Coptic churches in Egypt, which have left hundreds dead over the years—<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0wcC4ad43U">said</a>&nbsp;that those Muslims who attack churches and kill infidels often cite a&nbsp;sahih hadith&nbsp;(a statement attributed to Muhammad and deemed authentic), where the prophet said, “A Muslim must not be killed on account of a&nbsp;kafir&nbsp;[a non-Muslim, or infidel].” After saying that the hadith does not justify the outright slaughter of non-Muslims, Hashish&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0wcC4ad43U">elaborated</a>:


	The hadith itself is of course authentic… However, the hadith does not mean that whoever, without cause, kills any of the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] has done rightly.&nbsp; Not at all—the hadith did not say this; it did not say those who do this are right.&nbsp; The hadith simply excludes the death penalty from among the possible punishments.&nbsp; In other words, the Muslim who kills a non-Muslim without cause—is he wrong or not?&nbsp; He’s wrong.&nbsp; Is he to be penalized or not?&nbsp; He is to be penalized—but without the death penalty.&nbsp; Let him be judged any which way, but do not kill him.&nbsp; Why? Because of what the hadith says.&nbsp; The prophet said, “a Muslim must not be killed on account of a&nbsp;kafir&nbsp;[infidel].”&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because their blood is not equal.&nbsp; The blood of the Muslim is superior.&nbsp; Call it racism or whatever you want, but of course the blood of the Muslim is superior.&nbsp; This is not open to debate.&nbsp; [Translation my own.]


	What is notable is that, while the sheikh claims that radicals are twisting the hadith to say something it is not—that any Muslim who kills any infidel is exempt from any punishment—what the hadith is&nbsp;really&nbsp;saying—that the life of a Muslim is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2013/11/18/islamic-racism-muslim-blood-superior-to-infidel-blood/">more precious</a>&nbsp;than the life of a non-Muslim—is little better and possibly worse.


	Nitpicking over details while ignoring the root problem—that is, “straining at gnats while swallowing camels,” to quote Christ (Matt. 23:24)—is increasingly how leading Muslim clerics disassociate Islam from the violence and intolerance performed in its name.&nbsp;


	Consider for example how another learned Muslim scholar sought to put a gloss on the enslavement and rape of non-Muslim women.&nbsp; While discussing&nbsp;<a href="https://quran.com/4/3-13">Koran 4:3</a>, which refers to infidel prisoners of war as “<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2008/12/14/are-slave-girls-in-islam-equivalent-to-animals/">possessions</a>,”&nbsp;Suad Saleh, a female professor of Islamic doctrine at Al Azhar university in Egypt, correctly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.meforum.org/5846/muslims-sexual-slavery">explained</a>&nbsp;that “female prisoners of wars are ‘those whom you own.’ In order to humiliate them, they become the property of the army commander, or of a Muslim, and he can have sex with them just like he has sex with his wives.”


	But then the Al Azhar professor proceeded to speak as if the real problem is not Islam’s institutionalization of sex slavery but rather how some Muslims misuse it to the detriment of Islam’s image.&nbsp; She&nbsp;<a href="https://www.meforum.org/5846/muslims-sexual-slavery">said</a>:&nbsp;


	Some [Muslim] opportunists and extremists, who only harm Islam, say: “I will bring a woman from East Asia, [as a sex slave] under the status of ‘right hand possessions.’ And with the consent of my wife, I will allocate this woman a room in the house, and will have sex with her as a slave girl.” This is nonsense. This is not prescribed by Islam at all. &nbsp;Islam says that a woman is either a wife or a slave girl. &nbsp;Legitimately-owned slaves come from among prisoners of war.


	What Egypt’s Professor Saleh, Sheikh Hashih, and many other scholars apparently fail to understand is that&nbsp;inherently unjust laws—ones that permit the sexual enslavement of women because they are non-Muslims or that operate on the assumption that the value of human lives is based on their Muslim or non-Muslim status—will&nbsp;always&nbsp;be “abused.”


	For instance,&nbsp;<a href="https://quran.com/2/256-266">Koran 2:256</a>&nbsp;says there is no coercion in Islam.&nbsp; Yet, because other Koran verses call on Muslims to hate (<a href="https://quran.com/60/4">60:4</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://quran.com/3/28">3:28</a>) and war on Christians and Jews (<a href="https://quran.com/9/29-39">9:29</a>), it is only natural that,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2013/05/16/islamic-forced-conversions-past-and-present/">past and present</a>, forced conversions have been common. &nbsp;After all, pressuring hell-bound infidels to embrace Islam can be rationalized as an altruistic act. Moreover, it helps empower Islam, which is always a good thing.&nbsp; As one human rights report&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1110/S00770/pakistan-forced-marriages-of-religious-minority-women.htm">explained</a>&nbsp;while discussing the rampant sexual abuse and forced conversion of Christian girls in Pakistan:


	The dark side of the forced conversion to Islam is not restricted only to the religious Muslim groups but also involves the criminal elements who are engaged in rape and abduction and then justify their heinous crimes by forcing the victims to convert to Islam.&nbsp;The Muslim fundamentalists are happy to offer these criminals shelter and use the excuse that they are providing a great service to their sacred cause of increasing the population of Muslims&nbsp;(emphasis added).


	Similarly, Koran&nbsp;<a href="https://quran.com/9/29-39">9:29</a>&nbsp;says that war on People of the Book can only end when the latter agree to pay tribute (<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/05/28/islamic-jizya-fact-and-fiction/">jizya</a>) to their Muslim overlords.&nbsp; And pay they did, for well over a millennium, until the practice was formally abolished thanks to European pressure during the colonial era. Apologists say that Koran 9:29 means that Christians and Jews must pay jizya to representatives of the Islamic state, not just any Muslim.&nbsp; Today, however, criminals from Muslim backgrounds who are acquainted with the basics of 9:29—that infidels are to be warred on until they pay up—see Christian and other minorities in their midst as piggy banks: they are free game for robbing, plundering, and kidnapping for ransom—sometimes even being&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/05/17/egypt-after-ransom-paid-coptic-christian-still-killed/">killed after ransom is paid</a>—as Egypt’s Coptic Christians&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2014/04/03/coptic-abductions-and-the-jizya-rationale/">can attest</a>.&nbsp;


	As one Muslim cleric and welfare recipient in the UK who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-cleric-calls-u-s-aid-to-egypt-jizya/">referred to British taxpayers as “slaves”</a>&nbsp;once&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/paying-jizya-welfare-terrorist-tamerlan-tsarnaev-andrew-c-mccarthy/">explained</a>:


	We take the jizya, which is our&nbsp;haq&nbsp;[Arabic for “due” or “right”], anyway. The normal situation by the way is to take money from the&nbsp;kafir&nbsp;[infidel], isn’t it? So this is the normal situation. They give us the money—you work, give us the money, Allahu Akbar.&nbsp; We take the money.


	In short, the problem is less that some Muslims mistakenly believe that they deserve no punishment whenever they kill “inferior” infidels—but rather that Islamic scriptures teach that Muslim blood is “superior” to non-Muslim blood in the first place; the problem is less that some Muslims are not strictly following Islam’s rules concerning the sexual enslavement of infidel women—but rather that the Koran allows non-Muslim women to be enslaved in the first place; the problem is less that some Muslims are ignoring the Koran’s mandate that there be no compulsion in religion—but rather that it calls for enmity and war on non-Muslims in the first place; the problem is less that some Muslims are not strictly following Islam’s rules concerning who has the right to collect jizya from infidels—but rather that it allows the fiscal extortion of non-Muslims in the first place.


	It is no solace to learn that Islamic scriptures are being misinterpreted to promote&nbsp;this&nbsp;injustice, when their true interpretation actually permits&nbsp;that&nbsp;injustice.

The Blatant Hypocrisy of Islamic Apologias

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center


	An Arabic-language video&nbsp;of a Muslim cleric addressing how terrorists “

The current number of Yezidis in Iraq is estimated, according to unofficial statistics, to be more than 700,000 people spread over three main regions: Sinjar (Shingal), the largest Yezidi city in Iraq and in the world; the Nineveh plain, which encompasses several areas for Yezidis, of which the most important is Sheikhan, the site of the first and largest Yezidi religious edifice, the Temple of Lalish, in addition to the areas of Bashique and Bahzani and the other villages such as Khatara and Mahat; the third area is in Dohuk province in Kurdistan, with three main sites, Shariya, Khananki, and Derbon.


	After the events of 2014 and the invasion of ISIS in Sinjar and its genocide of the Yezidis, more than 150,000 Yezidis have emigrated from Iraq, according to the United Nations. The large number of migrants is due to several reasons, of which the most important is ISIS and the genocide, as well as the neglect of the Yezidis by the Iraqi government. In Iraq, during all the conflict between the major political groups, the small groups of religious minorities were neglected, and their rights were even directly violated.


	Representation in the Iraqi government is divided into sectarian quotas. Minorities received small quotas, which primarily went to Christians. The Yezidis have suffered politically in recent times, although five representatives with a Yezidi religious background were candidates in the most recent Iraqi parliamentary elections, but four of them belonged to Kurdish political parties.


	A member of parliament belongs to a Yezidi party that holds the “quota” seats for Yezidis, although the Federal Court of Justice, the highest judicial authority, has decided that the Yezidis’ quota, which is determined by population, should give them at least five seats. This, however, was immediately rejected by the major political parties, and the Yezidis received only one seat, which clearly violates the judicial decision.


	The Iraqi journalist Riyad al-Hamdani observes that the big blocs will not hesitate to control the minority seats in the Iraqi parliament whenever the opportunity arises, and it is clear that the current quota seats are also allocated in a certain political context, which means that they’re controlled by the big political blocs, and that there is no free representation of minorities in Parliament. Al-Hamdani considers the Iraqi parliamentary election law to be unfair for religious minorities, especially since it prevents diaspora Iraqis from voting, and this means that, given the number of Iraqi immigrants, most of whom are religious minorities, that the minority groups, particularly Yezidis and Christians, are the most affected.


	In addition, the Iraqi government did not pay attention to the full rights of the Yezidis. Those who checked the political situation of the Yezidis in Iraq would find that no Yezidi minister had been appointed through the tenures of four governments, and Yezidi representation in the Iraqi government was limited to the rank of diplomat or general manager; this confirms the Iraqi government’s neglect of the Yezidis and its sectarian and racist basis. The neglect has ranged from doing nothing regarding the reconstruction of the destroyed Yezidi territories in Sinjar. According to a press release of the Governor of Nineveh, Najm al-Jubouri, we can look for more neglect, as he has stated that there will be no reconstruction or rebuilding in Sinjar unless the displaced people return there. But how can they, when the city is 75% destroyed?&nbsp;


	Political and armed conflicts, as well as the destruction and the absence of justice, prevent Yezidis from returning to their homeland.


	The Yezidi journalist Theyab Ghanem was surprised by the governor’s statements: “We are used to such things after we allocated an amount of money, and although the amount was small, namely $25 million, that is nothing compared to the devastation in the Sinjar city, we were surprised that the amount was canceled without notice.”


	Ghanem asked the Iraqi government to pay more attention to the Yezidis and their regions, and to keep them out of political conflicts, because they are a psychologically and morally devastated society, and are exposed to constant catastrophes due to the conflicts over Sinjar. It is clear that Sinjar in the current period is outside the plan of the Iraqi government, because the political situation in the country is complex.


	This neglect has led to differences and conflicts in the Yezidi regions. There are Iraqi political attempts to change the world’s view of the Yezidis and conceal their humanitarian needs. It is necessary for the Yezidis to take serious steps to standardize their future plans, to find a formula that serves their society, and to face the challenges and difficulties which they will have in the future due to political and regional conflicts. The resistance of the Yezidis against ISIS and its predecessors was motivated by a desire to live in peace and ultimately attain a better life, and those aspirations remain, but now what has happened is the transformation of their cause by some political parties into a political issue that is being manipulated by forces that do not have the Yezidis’ best interests at heart.

Yezidis in Iraq and a Government’s Neglect

The current number of Yezidis in Iraq is estimated, according to unofficial statistics, to be more than 700,000 people spread over three main regions: Sinjar (

Rising prices and food shortages have triggered widespread protests in Iran, with video footage&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZTdPjAsBc" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">showing</a>&nbsp;demonstrators chanting “death” to the country’s ruling duo — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi. “Protests over soaring food prices continued in several cities in Iran on Saturday, according to postings on social media,” the UK newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/14/food-protests-continue-across-iran-as-one-person-reported-dead" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Guardian</a>&nbsp;noted.


	The oil-rich Shia Islamic regime, which has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/12/russia-using-weapons-smuggled-by-iran-from-iraq-against-ukraine" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">closely allied itself</a>&nbsp;with Russia since the beginning of the Ukraine invasion, appears to be suffering the fallout from the raging conflict. The TV channel&nbsp;<a href="https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220513-they-re-imposing-famine-on-us-protests-spread-among-iranians-faced-with-soaring-food-prices" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">France24</a>&nbsp;noted that “in recent days, [the Iranian] people have been struggling to obtain basic necessities. Lines have stretched outside of food stores where some people have been seen fighting over cooking oil. Others have turned to looting.”


	While ordinary Iranians face hardships, the regime is busy investing billions&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-accelerates-enrichment-uranium-near-weapons-grade-iaea-says-2021-08-17/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">expanding</a>&nbsp;its nuclear weapons program and financing terrorists groups abroad. In April, the Mullah regime&nbsp;<a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/04/china-iran-vow-deeper-military-ties-to-counter-the-u-s/">signed up</a>&nbsp;to join the emerging anti-U.S. military alliance led by China, and conducted war games with Chinese and Russian navies in the Indian Ocean two months ago.


	The&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-arrests-85705bee2b806cb4456dc0a645a876ee" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Associated Press</a>&nbsp;reported the latest Iranian protests:

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		An Iranian lawmaker says one person was killed in his city during recent unrest over price increases in the southwestern Khuzestan province, semi-official ILNA news agency reported Saturday.

	
		Ahmad Avaei, a member of parliament from Dezful did not give the name or gender of the person killed, or say how many people were arrested during the unrest.

	
		State media reported Friday that Iranian authorities had arrested at least 22 demonstrators who had been protesting sudden price hikes of subsidized staple foods, 15 of them in Dezful. A firefighter was injured in clashes with demonstrators in a nearby city, Andimeshk.

	
		The unrests follow Iran’s announcement earlier in the week that the cost of cooking oil, chicken, eggs and milk would rise by as much as 300%, as food prices surge across the Middle East due to global supply chain snarls and Russia’s invasion of major food exporter Ukraine.
</blockquote>


	Protests in Iran, set off by economic turmoil, often turn into anti-regime unrest. In November 2019, protests which began over fuel price hike ignited a nationwide movement against the Mullah rule. The regime quelled those protests by&nbsp;<a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/12/u-s-envoy-says-iranian-regime-may-have-killed-over-1000-protesters/">murdering</a>&nbsp;more than a thousand demonstrators. The Islamic Guard (IRGC) and other pro-regime militia used snipers, machine guns, and helicopter gunships to mow down hundred of unarmed demonstrators, independent investigations&nbsp;<a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/12/u-s-envoy-says-iranian-regime-may-have-killed-over-1000-protesters/">showed</a>.


	Biden’s Nuke Deal in Limbo


	The current wave of anti-regime protests in Iran come at an inopportune time for President Joe Biden, who desperately wants to restore the 2015 nuclear deal with the regime. His administration has already made a series of concessions to appease Tehran. Reversing President Donald Trump’s policy of Maximum Pressure of Iran, the Biden White House&nbsp;<a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/02/biden-weakens-sanctions-pressure-on-iran-in-hope-of-restarting-nuke-deal-talks/">weakened</a>&nbsp;the sanctions pressure on the regime.


	To further sweeten the Obama-era nuke deal, the Biden White House officials even toyed with idea of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy/1650394393-israel-pressuring-biden-over-irgc-terror-listing" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">removing</a>&nbsp;the IRGC — Iranian regime’s foreign terrorist arm — from the U.S. terror list, news reports suggest.


	Apart from murdering dissidents and anti-regime demonstrators at home, the IRGC funds, trains, and arms the deadliest jihadi and terrorist groups across the Muslim world, including Gaza-based Hamas, Palestrina Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Lebanese Hezbollah, and Yemen’s Ansar Allah Houthi militia.

Iran: Protests Over Soaring Food Prices Hit Several Cities

Rising prices and food shortages have triggered widespread protests in Iran, with video footage&nbsp;showing&nbsp;demonstrators chanting “death” to the country

Self-described "trained Marxist" Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the communist revolutionary movement Black Lives Matter, posted a tearful Instagram message recently claiming that conservative commentator Candace Owens showed up at her home and harassed her.


	In this short video, Candace shows what really happened. Don't miss it below:

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Candace Video: Exposing BLM And Patrisse Cullors

Self-described "trained Marxist" Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the communist revolutionary movement Black Lives Matter, posted a tearful Instagram message

A debate among Israel’s coalition partners was taking place last week on whether Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), is a “partner for peace” or a “political terrorist.” The debate is essentially between the Israeli political Left and Right. Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the rightist ‘Israel Our Home’ party has argued that Abbas “is using every opportunity to incite against the Israeli government.” On the flip side, Israel’s Health Minister, Nizan Horowitz, leader of the leftist Meretz party, considers Abbas a “peace partner.”


	During the memorial service for the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last October (Hebrew calendar), Horowitz criticized both Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, for not meeting with Mahmoud Abbas. Horowitz said, “We need to finish his work (meaning Rabin’s) and bring about two states…<a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/horowitz-slams-bennett-lapid-for-not-meeting-with-mahmoud-abbas-682340">there is a partner</a>, and whoever doesn’t talk to him strengthens Hamas.”


	In an apparent criticism of Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Lieberman pointed out at a faction meeting of his party that, “He (Mahmoud Abbas) must not be legitimized…He can’t be a partner for anything.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-apparent-swipe-at-gantz-liberman-urges-boycott-of-pas-abbas/">He is a terrorist just like the rest of the terrorists.&nbsp; He just deals in political terror, which is sometimes even more dangerous and harmful than conventional terror</a>.”


	The discord among Israel’s coalition partners was aggravated by the accidental killing last week of&nbsp;Al Jazeera&nbsp;reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, during clashes in the northern Samaria city of Jenin, known as the terror capital of the West Bank. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops were in Jenin’s refugee camp to apprehend terrorists involved in the recent murders of 19 Israeli civilians, policemen, and women.


	Abbas has categorically refused to cooperate with Israeli authorities on a joint investigation pertaining to the death of Abu Akleh. Abbas used the opportunity of Abu Akleh’s unfortunate death to score anti-Israel points in the international arena. He blamed Israel for the killing of Abu Akleh. It sounds like a repeat of the “2002 Jenin massacre hoax,” perpetrated by the Palestinians and their helpers in the western media. Such premature accusations were meant to smear the Jewish state before the facts have been fully revealed.


	Abbas asserted last Thursday that Israeli authorities were “fully responsible” for the killing of Abu Akleh. He said, “We hold the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for killing her.” He continued, “They cannot hide the truth with this crime. <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/international/wireStorypalestinians-reject-probe-israel-reporters-killing-84663910">are the ones who committed the crime, and because we don’t trust them, we will immediately go to the international Criminal Court.”</a>


	PM Naftali Bennett responded to Abbas’ charges, denying Israel access to basic findings required to get to the truth. He urged the PA not to take “any steps to <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/international/wireStorypalestinians-reject-probe-israel-reporters-killing-84663910">disrupt the investigation or to contaminate the investigation process</a>.” Soon after the regrettable death of Abu Akleh, Israel asked the PA to provide the bullet that hit the Palestinian journalist for a joint ballistic examination. The PA refused.


	The same Abbas who doesn’t trust Israel and blamed the “occupation authorities,” refused to end the Palestinian conflict with Israel and secure a Palestinian state for his people in 2008. Israeli PM Ehud Olmert offered Abbas the most generous peace deal ever, that would have ended the so-called “occupation” or Israel’s necessity to enter Jenin.


	As President of the PA, Abbas has taken hostile actions against Israel all along. He boycotted talks with Israel throughout the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. Abbas never attempted to take tangible steps toward peace, bypassing and evading bilateral negotiations with Israel. At the same time, he has incessantly repeated the longstanding irredentist demands of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).


	In 2011, while agreeing to reconcile with Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization, Abbas vowed never to negotiate with Israel. In September 2011, Abbas deliberately bypassed negotiations with Israel, and officially requested that the UN recognize the independence of a unilaterally declared Palestinian state.


	At the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, on September 24, 2021, Abbas’ speech opened with invoking the “Nakba,” which means in essence, “catastrophe,” referring to the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, which he held responsible for the Palestinian plight and the refugee problem. Abbas stated, “This year marks the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1101142">73rd anniversary of the Nakba</a>.” He warned that the current and former Israeli governments “have persisted in evading the two-state solution based on international law and UN resolution.” Lying with impunity, Abbas continued, “We have extended our hands time and time again for peace and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1101142">still cannot find a partner in Israel</a> … the leaders of Israel no longer feel any shame while stating their blunt opposition to this solution which is supported by global consensus.”


	It is simply astonishing that Abbas, facing the international community, would lie with a straight face, and equally unbelievable that the international community, then as now, didn’t renounced his big lie.


	A year earlier, in January 2020, US President Donald Trump presented his Middle East peace plan, which proposed a realistic two-state solution. Israel fully embraced it; the Arab Gulf states supported it enthusiastically, while Abbas rejected it, calling it a “<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-51288022">conspiracy deal</a>.” Abbas shunned the Trump plan even before it was presented, and refused to join the peace talks. The Trump “Deal of the Century” would have pumped over $50 billion of investment dollars into the future Palestinian state, and made eastern Jerusalem the Palestinian capital, as well as create a contiguous state.


	Mahmoud Abbas used the death of Shireen Abu Akleh as a cudgel against Israel with the compliance of the international media, while at the same time inciting fellow Palestinians against Israel. This is not the ways of a peacemaker.


	Nizan Horowitz was delusional when in a meeting with Abbas in Ramallah last year he declared, “<a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/origins2021/10/israeli%20-ministers-meet-abbas-ramallah#ixzz7hma https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/10/israeli-ministers-meet-abbas-ramallah">We have a common mission: to maintain hope for peace, based on the two-state solution</a>. Tonight in Ramallah, with the President of the Palestinian Authority, we took another step to deepen cooperation with our closest and most important neighbors.” Horowitz’s statement smacks of the same wishful thinking British PM Chamberlain expressed after meeting Hitler in Munich, claiming to bring “Peace for our time.”


	Mahmoud Abbas has had multiple opportunities to consummate the two-state solution. Instead, he used every possible excuse. To resume talks with Israel he demanded release of Palestinian prisoners. When Israel complied, that was not enough. And when PM Olmert offered to admit into Israel 5,000 Palestinian refugees, it was not enough either.


	At this point, it is clear that the 87 year-old Abbas will never settle for a two-state solution, end to the conflict, and agree to a genuine peace with Israel. Israel must therefore look for a peace partner among the younger Palestinian generation, who unlike Abbas, would carry legitimacy and have courage to say yes to peace. To date, no such figure has surfaced.

Mahmoud Abbas: Eternal Political Terrorist?

A debate among Israel’s coalition partners was taking place last week on whether Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), is a “

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