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


	The Washington Post recently decided to cancel George Washington, running an op-ed demanding that George Washington University be renamed.


	"The university’s contentious colonial moniker must go. Even the university’s name, mascot and motto — 'Hail Thee George Washington'— must be replaced,” The op-ed demanded.


	Conveniently the op-ed did not propose to rename the paper it was running in.


	But the Washington Post has bigger problems than that. Its founder, Stilson Hutchins, like many Democrats, was a militant supporter of the Confederacy and even named one of his sons after Robert E. Lee. Long before he founded the Post, Hutchins had been editor of the North Iowan where he and other Democrats promised to defeat "Black Republicans".


	During the Civil War, Dennis Mahony, Stilson's superior while working on the Dubuque Herald, was arrested over his support for the Confederacy. Stilson and Mahony later went on to found the St. Louis Star.


	At the Herald, Stilson had editorialized, “Who wants Iowa covered with indolent blacks? Answer at the polls.”


	Hutchins, in the words of a cheerful profile by the Washington Post, left after Reconstruction and then "launched a bold, possibly even reckless plan: to start a Democratic newspaper in the Republican-run capital of the United States."


	The name, The Washington Post, came from Hutchins' managing editor, John Cockerill, a former Confederate drummer boy, who had gotten his start in the press working at the Dayton Empire under Clement Vallandigham, the Copperhead Democrat leader who was arrested and tried for treason during the Civil War. (Cockerill would later kill one of his critics in an exchange of gunfire.)


	And, as the Washington Post noted, the paper's original "city editor was Frederick Aiken, who had been one of Mary Surratt's defense attorneys in her trial for conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln."


	The Washington Post was founded, named, and run by Confederates and their Democrat allies.


	The paper was also predictably racist. One editorial urged that Washington D.C. would be "wealthier, healthier and happier for an immediate exodus of 15,000 or 20,000 of her Negro population." Otherwise there would have to be "a firm, but benevolent movement on the part of the white race as a whole to disabuse the negro of the delusions which have been instilled in him during the last dozen years."


	The same paper that has called for the heads, or at least the heads of the statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and countless other Founding Fathers and national heroes, has carefully avoided any kind of reckoning. It’s not that the Post’s people don’t know the history, they have just carefully avoided any significant discussion of their social justice rag’s ugly past.


	There’s curiously little interest in the origins of one of the country’s two most influential papers.


	Stilson, who later bought a former slave plantation, went on to marry a woman half his age who then tried to have him declared insane. Ownership of the Post does come with a history of insanity. Ned McLean, whose own descent into insanity was attributed to his ownership of the Hope Diamond, might have been more accurately attributed to owning the Post.


	(McLean has also been blamed for using the Washington Post to help incite some of the violence during the 1919 race riots in Washington D.C.)


	That’s bad news for Amazon's Jeff Bezos.


	Five years after buying the Washington Post, Bezos broke up his marriage, left his job as Amazon's CEO, and has taken to blaming the exposure of his affair with a guest host from The View on a conspiracy involving the National Enquirer, Trump, and the Saudi monarchy.


	At one point even the UN got involved in investigating the provenance of his genitalia photos.


	Aside from the racism, the Washington Post seems to drive its owners mad. Literally. But the true insanity is the Post putting "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and then avoiding any discussion of its own dark past. A more accurate motto might be, “History Dies in Darkness.”


	America is not systemically racist, but the Washington Post originated as one of the most racist papers in the country. The past is not the present and most people understand that. But the social justice paper insists on attacking the country and its people as a bunch of racists.


	And it carefully avoids engaging with its own history.


	The Washington Post came to life as a project by Democrat Confederates and Copperheads to avenge their losses in the Civil War and roll back Reconstruction. That doesn’t mean that the paper is doomed to be racist. Systemic racism, like racial essentialism and other assumptions that people individually and collectively are unchanging and unchangeable, is a racist myth.


	But the Washington Post insists that everyone else can’t change, but that it somehow has.


	All white people are racist, except its owner who has his own mega-yacht.


	If the Washington Post really wants George Washington University to change its name, it should change its own. Not because there’s anything wrong with George Washington, but there was a whole lot wrong with The Post’s founders and its present management. The paper began as a racist rag and continues today as a racist rag. The only difference lies in the targets of its hate.


	Last year, the Washington Post featured a video urging white people to take the blame for racism by “understanding your whiteness and the ways that white supremacy benefits you” and joining “white accountability groups.”


	Despite its origins in actual white supremacy, the paper has yet to join one of its own groups.

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At its 74th birthday (May 4-5), the state of Israel has matured into a strong and prosperous nation. Still, many Israelis, while always complaining about the government’s shortcomings, would not want to live anywhere else. They are proud of their country’s accomplishments in its seven decades of existence as an independent Jewish state. On the eve of Independence Day 2022, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the population of Israel was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbs.gov.il/en/mediarelease/Pages/2022/Israels-Independence-Day-2022.aspx" target="_blank">9.506</a>&nbsp;million, almost twelve times the population as at the establishment of the state in 1948 (806,000). Jews and others constitute 79% of the population, and Arabs 21%. About 75% of the Jewish population is comprised today of native-born Israelis, and more than half are at least second-generation Israelis.


	The 74th Independence Day celebration was marred, however, by a spate of terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 19 Israelis and wounded dozens of others. In its 74-years of independence, Israel lost over 24,000 soldiers and civilians in various wars and terrorist attacks. In the 1948 War of Independence alone, Israel lost close to 1% of its population at the time: 6,373 people, about 4,000 were soldiers, and the rest civilians.


	Nathan Alterman, Israel’s beloved poet, and chronicler of the War of Independence, a playwright, journalist, and translator, wrote in 1947 his immortal poem&nbsp;Silver Platter:&nbsp;“The state will not be given to the Jewish people on a Silver Platter.” Alterman wrote these wrenching words in 1947, soon after the UN voted on the Partition of Palestine on November 29, 1947. Alterman sought to prepare the Yeshuv (the Jewish community of Palestine) for the painful sacrifices independence would require. He stressed the point that in the coming war, everyone would have to make sacrifices.


	Alterman’s touching poem still remembered by this writer’s generation goes like this (in translation): “And the land grows still, the red eye of the sky slowly dimming over smoking frontiers. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As the nation arises, torn at heart but breathing, to receive its miracle, the only miracle. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As the ceremony draws near, it will rise, standing erect in the moonlight in terror and joy.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When across from it will step out a youth and a lass and slowly march toward the nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dressed in battle gear, dirty, shoes heavy with grime, they ascend the path quietly. &nbsp;&nbsp;To change garb, wipe their brow, they have not yet found time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Still bone weary from days and from nights in the field. Full of endless fatigue and unrested. Yet the dew of their youth is still seen on their head.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus they stand at attention, giving no sign of life or death. &nbsp;&nbsp;Then a nation in tears and amazement will ask “who are you?” And they will answer quietly, “<a href="http://www.zionism-israel.com/hdoc/Silver_Platter.htm">We are the Silver Platter on which the Jewish state was given</a>.”


	The annual torch-lighting ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem marked the beginning of the Independence Day festivities. It follows a national day of mourning for Israel’s fallen soldiers and civilian victims of Palestinian-Arab terror. Uniquely in Israel, the entire nation stands still sharply at 11am, as a long siren ringing across the country is sounded. Vehicular traffic stops in the middle of major highways, and buses across all cities come to a halt. Every Israeli knows a friend, a neighbor, a soldier, or a family member who lost their lives to preserve the Jewish state.


	In a recorded address to the nation on Independence Day, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated: “We will overcome any threat from the outside, Israel is stronger than ever.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-launches-74th-independence-day-with-torch-lighting-ceremony-1.10780..." target="_blank">The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Shin Bet security service, the Mossad are growing stronger at an unprecedented rate.</a>” Bennett added, “Israel is growing, high-tech is blooming, the health system is strengthening, and children in the country’s outskirts are receiving opportunities today they didn’t have before. And thank G-d, those who seek it can earn a living.”


	To be in Israel during Independence Day is to feel the pride and energy of this old-new nation. Considering where Jews were before 1948, in the early years of the state, and where it is today is to witness a miracle. It is not only the miracles on the battlefields, but in the transformation of the country’s infrastructure. It is a nation with few natural resources, but with the genius of its people, which made Israel into the “start-up nation.” Israeli inventions in medicine, agriculture, military technology, electronics, and high-tech in general,&nbsp;are simply stunning. While most Jews have been exiled from their land for 2000 years, and they have not had a fighting army since the days of Bar Kochva’s rebellion against Rome in 135CE, the exploits of the IDF are nothing short of incredible.


	Despite external threats and terror, Israel remains a democratic oasis in the midst of a regional cauldron of barbarism, providing the right to vote to all its citizens, and guaranteeing genuine freedom of religion and freedom of expression. It is a shining example of civility and tolerance in the midst of chaos and intolerance.


	Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of the British expeditionary forces in Afghanistan called the IDF “the most moral army in the world.” Col. Kemp explained: “There are two views of the Israeli Military — what you hear in most of the media, and the truth. I am going to tell you the truth. I have fought in combat zones around the world including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Iraq. I was also present throughout the conflict in Gaza in 2014. Based on my experience and on my observations, the Israel Defense Forces,&nbsp;<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/3Eo3mGQdYAYwu22W2wEQus/37d06bde6b68f0d90457cddd35eb90" target="_blank">the IDF, does more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare</a>.”


	Dvora Waysman, in a&nbsp;Jerusalem Post&nbsp;piece summarizing Independence Day best, wrote: “There is such a feeling of pride when I see the flags flying from cars and buildings all over the country.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-705907" target="_blank">When I hear the words of ‘Hatikvah’ being sung even now, there are tears in my eyes.”</a>

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		The establishment Left seems determined to tar its opponents as “terrorists.” There’s the Jan. 6 Committee, which continues to investigate what the Democrats insist was an “insurrection,” despite a complete lack of evidence. There’s the repeated claim (that Biden, Garland, and Christopher Wray, among others, have repeated) that “white supremacists,” by which is meant “Trump supporters,” are the nation’s biggest terror threat. And now a former FBI counterintelligence official has gone the whole way and likened Trump supporters to “violent jihadists.”

	
		Frank Figliuzzi is a national security analyst for NBC News, and would seem to have a fine resume for the job, having served as the assistant FBI director for counterintelligence for nearly a year and a half during the Obama administration. But like so many Obama/Biden appointees, he seems more interested in playing partisan politics and smearing the administration’s opposition as terrorists than in assessing actual threats to national security. On Wednesday, Figliuzzi went into full Big-Lie mode on MSNBC, even as he denounced the Big Lie that he claimed Trump supporters were spreading.

	
		“Where we are right now,” Figliuzzi told Nicolle Wallace, is a “cult-like scenario.” The cult wasn’t, however, the group that insists that men such as Rachel Levine and Lia Thomas are women, that there are dozens of genders (including <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1524492898774884353" target="_blank">cake</a>), and that Joe Biden is a competent leader; no, as far as this crack former fed was concerned, were those who insisted on reality in the face of those fantasies.

	
		Raw Story <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-cult/" target="_blank">reports</a> that Figliuzzi explained that “Trumpism” (it was unclear if this word came from Raw Story or Figliuzzi) had “gone way beyond a political ideology. It is now the identity of a party. But it’s more than that because it’s now become a personal identity for those who consume the ‘Big Lie’ that the grand deception – and I can’t help because of my national security lens that I look at things through, to compare this to what we see in violent jihad.” As if aware of how ridiculous what he was saying really was, Figliuzzi anticipated the question: “What do I mean by that?” Apparently he meant that both Trump supporters and violent jihadis were chasing an illusion:

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			Yes, you have the purveyors and perpetrators of a ‘Big Lie.’ You become a martyr. You get this level of paradise. You go to Valhalla – here’s what happens: Those people are infidels. Yes, there are gurus and cultists and violent jihadists who preach that, but there’s also consumers who have to buy it and at the point where we’re at now, that supply and demand, the demand side of this are people who are consciously disregarding truth and reality.
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		Leftists come out with insane statements every day, and that’s on top of Joe Biden’s dementia syntax and Kamala Harris’ word salads, but this one from Figliuzzi really takes the cake gender. It’s certainly true that violent jihadists preach that paradise is guaranteed to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (Qur’an 9:111) and thereby attain Islamic martyrdom. But where is this concept in “Trumpism”? What is martyrdom in a Trumpian context? What is Trump’s paradise? Figliuzzi’s comparison fails miserably due to the fact that there simply is no real comparison between terrorists who are willing to murder and be killed in the service of their god and Americans who want to live in a nation with a sound economy, free and fair elections, reasonable prices, and a stable international situation.

	
		Nor does Figliuzzi even attempt to make such a comparison. Instead, he went out on the increasingly tenuous limb of claiming that there is <a href="https://pjmedia.com/columns/paula-bolyard/2022/05/11/2000-mules-dsouza-says-theres-an-easy-way-to-bust-the-ballot-traffickers-but-its-not-the-way-you-think-n1596887" target="_blank">no evidence</a> of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. “You know,” he continued, “a year ago, two years ago, you and I would say things like, ‘Here’s how to be nice to loony relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner.’ ‘Here’s how to keep showing facts to people who need to see the facts more.’ ‘Oh, these poor victims have gone down an echo chamber. They’re living in a rabbit hole. How do we get them out?’ It is a conscious decision to accept the Big Lie. Why? Because it has become their personal identity. If they begin to reject the facts – there was no fraud, there was no systemic crimes committed that would have resulted in the overturning of liberty – if they reject that, they are literally rejecting their personal identity.” What does any of this have to do with violent jihadists? Unless you sit down to Thanksgiving Dinner with the family of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, nothing.

	
		Figliuzzi went on to warn: “So this is a much harder nut to crack for us as a society. We not only need to hold accountable those who continue – like [Republican Senator] Ted Cruz Monday night on Fox – saying that January 6 was a ‘peaceful protest.’ He said it Monday night on Fox, it’s not only holding them accountable, it’s now figuring out what to do with those who consume deliberately by choice, the Big Lie, knowing that it’s wrong.” Hold Cruz accountable for stating a fact Figliuzzi doesn’t want known? That’s a crime now? Clearly this former FBI wonk thinks it should be. And that’s just part of the problem. There are, for example, still actual violent jihadists out there, while our intelligence agencies are busy trying to figure out how to curtail the freedom of speech and persecute Trump supporters. What could possibly go wrong?
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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>.

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Within one week, the Left's allies in the political Establishment joined forces in their quest to destroy democracy for the sake of saving democracy.


	On April 21, President Barack Obama <a href="https://reclaimthenet.org/transcript-of-president-barack-obamas-speech-at-stanford-april-21-2022/?msclkid=7a2b5c58c67511ec9b63012f85b49947">spoke</a> at a symposium Stanford organized to address social media problems. His recommendations included more government regulation against "toxic information," which he defined as "lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery, White supremacist, racist tracts, misogynist screeds."


	"You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe," Obama said. "Once they lose trust in their leaders, in mainstream media, in political institutions, in each other, in the possibility of truth, the game’s won.”


	On the same day, Hillary Clinton tweeted support for the European Union's Digital Services Act, which "sets for the first time the rules on how Big Tech should keep users safe online," especially regarding "misinformation or propaganda in light of Covid-19," the Financial Times reported.


	"For too long, tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability," Clinton <a href="https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/1517247388716613634?msclkid=7aa4fd17c68011ecb2c230d4d1d5bc3b">tweeted</a>. "The EU is poised to do something about it. I urge our transatlantic allies to push the Digital Services Act across the finish line and bolster global democracy before it's too late."


	Then on April 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of a Disinformation Governance Board, which would promote the Biden "Administration's" narrative on "irregular migration and Russia."


	It should surprise nobody that those actions coincided with Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter, increasingly known for banishing users who express opinions that contradict "woke" ideology or the Democratic Party's policies. But the Left's panic represents far more than fear over losing a convenient means to control narratives.


	Such panic reflects the pervasive influence of an idea that violates the nation's basic political and cultural values.


	That idea is repressive tolerance, a concept philosopher Herbert <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/m/a.htm#marcuse-herbert">Marcuse</a> promoted. A member of the neo-Marxist <a href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm">Frankfurt School</a> that developed "critical theory," Marcuse provided the foundation for today's cancel culture, university speech codes and online censorship.


	In his 1965 <a href="https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-1969.pdf?msclkid=62f715b2c68311ecb51ab03559878cb9">essay</a>, "Repressive Tolerance," Marcuse dismissed the traditional definition of tolerance. Instead, he advocated an institutional bias that advances left-wing ideas and suppresses opposing ones.


	"Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left," Marcuse wrote. "As to the scope of this tolerance and intolerance ... it would extend to the stage of action as well as of discussion and propaganda, of deed as well as of word."


	Marcuse even advocated "undemocratic means" in the name of social justice to allow a "subversive majority" to realign society. The means Marcuse outlined are all-too-familiar today:


	"They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.


	"Moreover, the restoration of freedom of thought may necessitate new and rigid restrictions on teachings and practices in the educational institutions which, by their very methods and concepts, serve to enclose the mind within the established universe of discourse and behavior -- thereby precluding a priori a rational evaluation of the alternatives."


	In other words, only left-wing ideas and solutions could be discussed, considered and adopted, as Marcuse reiterated in a second essay in 1968:


	"Tolerance would be restricted with respect to movements of a demonstrably aggressive or destructive character (destructive of the prospects for peace, justice, and freedom for all). Such discrimination would also be applied to movements opposing the extension of social legislation to the poor, weak, disabled. (Parenthesis in original)


	"As against the virulent denunciations that such a policy would do away with the sacred liberalistic principle of equality for 'the other side,' I maintain that there are issues where either there is no 'other side' in any more than a formalistic sense, or where 'the other side' is demonstrably 'regressive' and impedes possible improvement of the human condition."


	Compare Marcuse's position with some of Obama's comments at Stanford:


	"A regulatory structure, a smart one, needs to be in place, designed in consultation with tech companies, and experts and communities that are affected, including communities of color and others that sometimes are not well represented here in Silicon Valley, that will allow these companies to operate effectively while also slowing the spread of harmful content.


	"It’s not just that these platforms have -- with narrow exceptions -- been largely agnostic regarding the kind of information available and connections made on their sites. It’s that in the competition between truth and falsehood, cooperation and conflict, the very design of these platforms seems to be tilting us in the wrong direction."


	Obama even manufactured a moral equivalence between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former campaign advisor and host of the podcast, "War Room," to reinforce his point:


	"People like Putin and Steve Bannon, for that matter, understand it’s not necessary for people to believe this information in order to weaken democratic institutions. You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage."


	Repressive tolerance aggravates a phenomenon that goes beyond "woke" ideology, one that FrontPage Magazine <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/what-if-conspiracy-real-joseph-hippolito/">twice</a> <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/big-media-and-big-tech-collude-control-thought-joseph-hippolito/">examined</a>. Political and corporate interests use social media to manufacture supposedly grass-roots opinion. Techniques include building ostensibly independent social media accounts that disguise the interests behind them.


	Those campaigns received a cynical nickname: astroturf.


	"The whole point of astroturf is to try to give the impression there’s widespread support for or against an agenda when there’s not," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU">said</a> independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who won five Emmys at CBS News. "Astroturf seeks to manipulate you into changing your opinion by making you feel as if you’re an outlier when you’re not.


	"Special interests have unlimited time and money to figure out new ways to spin us while cloaking their role. Surreptitious astroturf methods are now more important to these interests than traditional lobbying of Congress. There’s an entire industry built around it in Washington."


	Astroturfing includes manipulating Wikipedia, arguably the most used online resource.


	"Anonymous Wikipedia editors control and co-opt pages on behalf of special interests," Attkisson said. "They forbid and reverse edits that go against their agenda. They skew and delete information in blatant violation of Wikipedia's own established policies with impunity."


	Another technique involves making incessant personal attacks, essential parts of the "woke" arsenal.


	"Hallmarks of astroturf include use of inflammatory language, such as 'crank,' 'quack,' 'nutty', 'lies,' 'paranoid,' 'pseudo,' and 'conspiracy,' " Attkisson said. "Use of the charged language tests well. People hear something's a myth, maybe they find it on Snopes and they instantly declare themselves too smart to fall for it."


	Add such epithets as "racist," "homophobe," "climate denier," "insurrectionist" and "anti-vaxxer."


	"Be aware when interests attack an issue by controversializing or attacking the people, personalities, and organizations surrounding rather than addressing the facts," Attkisson said. "That could be astroturf."


	Personal attacks intend to intimidate anyone questioning a prevailing narrative.


	"Astroturfers tend to reserve all of their public skepticism for those exposing wrongdoing rather than the wrongdoers," Attkisson said. "In other words, instead of questioning authority, they question those who question authority."


	Obama combined astroturf and the idea of repressive tolerance in his speech to address two ongoing issues: the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the integrity of the 2020 Presidential election.


	"The fact that scientists developed safe, effective vaccines in record time is an unbelievable achievement," he said. "And yet despite the fact that we’ve now, essentially clinically tested the vaccine on billions of people worldwide, around one in five Americans is still willing to put themselves at risk and put their families at risk rather than get vaccinated. People are dying because of misinformation.”


	Those remarks ignore the growing evidence that those vaccines <a href="https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00593-4/fulltext">fail</a> to prevent the spread of COVID-19, contain deadly <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/newly-released-pfizer-documents-reveal-covid-jab-dangers_4355020.html?est=6k6WQbVrWy%2B2GIXEoMZQUvpoeRaSlKBYo7aTPjqUaFiB%2BiBbmefDe4RbXO8%3D">side effects</a>, especially for the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html?s_cid=11374:pericarditis%20vaccine:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY21">heart</a>, and <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8538446/#sec3-viruses-13-02056title">irreparably damage immune systems</a>.


	In December, FrontPage Magazine <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/12/brave-new-world-athletes-heart-problems-joseph-hippolito/">reported</a> on the possibility that COVID-19 vaccines and boosters cause heart problems in highly trained athletes. More <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-alarming-trends-in-covid-jab-side-effects_4319841.html?rs=SHRWCNMH">recent</a> <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v1">studies</a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8912977/">confirmed</a> the links between the vaccines, pericarditis and myocarditis, especially in children and young adults.


	When addressing the 2020 Presidential election, Obama dismissed the idea of potential fraud:


	"President Trump’s own attorney general has said that the Justice Department uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud. A review of the ballots in Arizona’s largest county, the results of which were endorsed by some pretty courageous local Republicans, because many of them were harassed and received death threats, actually found more votes for President Biden and fewer votes for President Trump. And yet today, as we speak, a majority of Republicans still insist that President Biden’s victory was not legitimate. That’s a lot of people."


	One county in Arizona, however, signifies no trend. Increasing <a href="https://2020electionirregularities.com/">evidence</a> shows numerous irregularities in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- at least. So does Dinesh D'Souza's documentary, "2000 Mules," which chronicles nationwide ballot stuffing.


	But the DHS's Disinformation Governance Board represents the ultimate embrace of repressive tolerance. Serving as director is Nina Jankowicz, who <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-s-disinformation-chief-is-trump-dossier-author-fan-and-hunter-laptop-doubter/ar-AAWG5q8">promoted</a> the now-discredited ideas that Hunter Biden's laptop was what she called a "Trump campaign product," and that Trump colluded with Russian agents to win the 2016 election.


	Given the Biden "Administration's" embrace of the kind of "woke" ideology Marcuse would favor, that board represents the ultimate rejection of the marketplace of ideas, which forms the philosophical basis for the Constitution.


	Joseph Hippolito is a freelance writer and a regular contributor to FrontPage Magazine. His commentaries have appeared in The Federalist, The Stream, Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post and National Post.

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Within one week, the Left's allies in the political Establishment joined forces in their quest to destroy democracy for the sake of saving democracy.


	On

Stanford University, where the administration&nbsp;<a href="https://robertspencer.org/2017/11/video-stanford-dean-nanci-howe-congratulates-student-fascists-as-they-disrupt-robert-spencer-event" target="_blank">worked actively</a>&nbsp;to engineer a student walkout when I spoke there in 2017, is on the warpath against the freedom of speech these days. In April, Barack Obama&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/04/22/obama-first-amendment-doesnt-apply-to-social-media-giants-n1592019" target="_blank">spoke there</a>&nbsp;and called for restrictions on speech to combat “disinformation.” On Wednesday, the far-Left mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, made his own appearance at Stanford, where he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/10/sadiq-khan-big-tech-silicon-valley-trump" target="_blank">claimed</a>&nbsp;that “the worst thing globalization has brought to social media is the proliferation of hate speech.” What’s hate speech? Anything Obama, Khan and their allies dislike. And the person they dislike most in the world is Donald Trump; Khan is worried about what could happen if Elon Musk allows Trump to return to Twitter.


	The UK’s Guardian, which makes Lavrenti Beria look like a libertarian, said that at Stanford, Khan “called on tech companies to rein in hate speech, speaking about his own experience of abuse amplified by one of the most powerful figures on social media.” Khan’s alleged abuser was, of course, Trump, “who frequently used the mayor as an online&nbsp;punching bag, calling Khan ‘a stone-cold loser’ and ‘very dumb.’” Khan charged that Trump’s insults had actively endangered him: “Khan, whose family are from Pakistan, said the amount of racial abuse he received on social media increased by 2,000% under Trump and required him to receive police protection.”


	There’s an obvious cause-and-effect problem here. Even if Khan’s claims about the amount of “racial abuse” he received are true, unless Trump tweeted, “Hey, go and send your own insult to London’s mayor!” (he didn’t) there is no necessary connection between that abuse and Trump’s criticism. This remains true despite the fact that Khan also claims&nbsp; that once Trump was banned from Twitter, the clouds dispersed, the birds started singing, the sun began to shine, and his detractors went away: “Khan emphasized the power that companies have to act, saying that in the year after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/twitter" target="_blank">Twitter</a>&nbsp;banned Trump over his role in inciting the attack at the US Capitol, he received ‘the least racial abuse of any time over five years’. Abuse directed at Khan declined by 75% in 2020, the year Trump lost the election, and a further 40% in 2021 after the ban from Twitter, according to statistics from London’s city hall.”

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	But Khan is not any more interested in logical thought than Obama is, or any Leftist leader is. They want to play upon the emotions in order to manipulate their audiences into agreeing with them. And what they want you to agree to are restrictions on speech. Khan, of course, like Obama, insists that he believes “passionately in freedom of speech.” Yeah, I bet you say that to all the amendments. Khan couldn’t even sustain that passionate belief for the length of his Stanford speech, adding almost immediately that he hopes that even Elon Musk’s Twitter will “make sure that you aren’t seeing messages that are inciting hatred, that are amplifying division.” Inciting hatred and amplifying division according to whom? People who think like Sadiq Khan, of course.


	And as far as Trump himself is concerned, Khan is amenable to the miscreant’s being allowed to speak as long as he stays in line: “The question is whether Donald Trump has learned his lesson,” declared the good king. “Everybody should be entitled to be rehabilitated. And if it’s the case that Donald Trump is going to use Twitter in a responsible way, then it’s all well and good. But if he breaks the rules, there needs to be consequences.” Another ban? Caning? Beheading?


	It’s important to remember that when Trump criticized Khan, Khan harshly criticized Trump as well. Even before Trump was elected, Khan&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/londons-new-mayor-trumps-ignorant-view-of-islam-could-make-both-our-countries-less-safe" target="_blank">said</a>: “Donald Trump’s ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe — it risks alienating mainstream Muslims around the world and plays into the hands of the extremists.”


	Did Trump receive any “racist abuse” as a result of that statement? It wouldn’t matter if he had; the “hate speech” racket is entirely one-sided. “Hate speech” is when a dissident criticizes a Leftist; when a Leftist criticizes a “dissident,” it’s “speaking truth to power.” So has Trump “learned his lesson”? Let’s hope not.


	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>.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan Hopes Trump Has ‘Learned His Lesson'

Stanford University, where the administration&nbsp;worked actively&nbsp;to engineer a student walkout when I spoke there in 2017, is on the warpath against the

David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the author of the newly published book,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://secure.anedot.com/david-horowitz-freedom-center/theenemywithinbook&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1618426106699000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFFYpDgYPvov8qvdLHG_lH5vxX4ag" href="https://secure.anedot.com/david-horowitz-freedom-center/theenemywithinbook">The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America</a>.


	On Saturday May 14, thousands of left-wing activists descended on Washington, D.C. They gathered at the behest of Planned Parenthood and the radical Women’s March to protest a leaked legal opinion about the unconstitutionality of Roe v. Wade, which made abortion for any reason, up to and beyond the moment of birth, an absolute right.


	The activists’ agenda was to announce their plans to create a “Summer of Rage” whose goal is to “make America ungovernable,” and thus to force the Supreme Court to legalize abortion without restriction until the moment of birth and beyond. In other words, theirs was a call to sedition and insurrection. The bottom-line goal of the insurrectionists is not to defend a constitutional right – in fact they almost never argue the constitutionality of Roe or its lack thereof.


	Their goal is to destroy the independence of the judiciary, by deciding a constitutional issue by intimidation and force. This is a textbook example of political terrorism. “Abort the Court” is even a slogan of the movement in case anyone might have doubts about the criminal agendas of what has become the Democrat Party and the political left.


	The anti-Court terrorism of the left is driven by what the lawless Biden administration and its equally corrupt Department of Justice have described as “disinformation,” and claim is itself a terrorist threat. The leaked Supreme Court opinion that triggered this threat would not ban abortion as the terrorists claim. It would merely return the decision as to when and how abortion should be legal to the legislatures of the fifty states. This was where it resided for nearly 200 years until a handful of politically appointed lawyers invented a right so fraudulent that even pro-abortion legal scholars like Yale’s John Hart Ely, could not bring themselves to swallow it.


	The anti-constitutional chicanery of the Roe decision had the immediate effect of dividing the country more decisively and dangerously than at any time since the Civil War. So ominous were these divisions that even a Roe champion like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when she saw its effects &nbsp;was forced to conclude that in deciding Roe the left had gone a bridge too far. The vicious fruits of making unlimited abortion an absolute constitutional right – and doing so by judicial fiat and magical reasoning – are now evident in the preparations for war by the anarchist and terrorist left. Hopefully, reason will prevail and there will not be hundreds of deaths as there were the last time the domestic terrorists took to the streets in the summer of 2020 to spread mayhem and grief across the land. But the fact that America is now in the hands of a White House criminal and a Department of Justice enabler offers little cause to think optimistic thoughts.

The Abortion Insurrection

David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the author of the newly published book,&nbsp;The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian

Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.


	<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/15/joe-biden-condemns-buffalo-shooting-racially-motivated-act-white-supremacy-violent-extremism/">On Saturday</a> of this past weekend, a deranged 18-year-old man in Buffalo opened fire in a grocery store, killing ten people. The killer is white, and most of his victims were black. So no surprise that Twitter, which has replaced newspapers as the “first draft of history,” immediately started attacking&nbsp; Tucker Carlson and conservatives in general for “radicalizing” the shooter and being “racists.” And of course, supporters of the Second Amendment came under fire for resisting “common sense” gun laws.


	In other words, this heinous crime by a deranged psycho reprises all the stale anti-gun clichés and “systemic racism” tattered narratives that progressives recycle to gain some political capital from this tragedy. Unless, of course, the perp is black, like the black man last November who drove his SUV through a Christmas parade, killing five people. No progressive outcry then, even though he had praised Hitler on Facebook and called for murdering whites. No political utility in that news, any more than in the thousands of black men, women, and children murdered last year, most by other black people. Black lives, it seems, don’t matter unless they’re ended by white people.


	As for blaming conservatives, the 108-page manifesto the Buffalo shooter posted, assuming it’s authentic, is a mixture of grievances and bizarre ideas that could not be seriously described as “conservative,” even if one accepts the progressive big lie that all conservatives per se are racists. That, by the way, is why the Left has so assiduously promoted the “systemic racism” canard: any deranged racist nut can then be weaponized against conservative Republicans and media, especially Tucker Carlson, whose huge ratings embarrass and humiliate hack outlets like CNN and MSNBC.


	But the shooter’s “manifesto attacks a number of news networks for hiring Jews,” PJ Media’s Matt Margolis <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/05/15/heres-what-the-buffalo-shooters-alleged-manifesto-actually-says-n1597997">writes</a>. Tucker Carlson isn’t mentioned at all, just the “internet,” that font of wackiness of all political stripes. That didn’t stop CNN veteran and faux conservative S.E. Cupp––who in 2017 said nary a word about the Bernie Sanders acolyte who shot up Republican lawmakers practicing for a baseball game––from tweeting, “The toxic garbage being pushed by MAGA, Q, Fox, and even many GOP members of Congress has REAL consequences. But these are the same people who’ll insist right-wing extremism ISN’T a threat to our natl security — it isn’t even REAL, they say. It was very real in Buffalo today.” Apparently, some psychos are more equal than others.


	Later in the “manifesto,” Margolis reports, the shooter tells us quite specifically his political identity: as an “ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist” and “leftist authoritarian” who rejects conservatism as “corporatism in disguise.” Typical of obsessive autodidacts, the bulk of the manifesto comprises&nbsp; “nonsense and garbage,” as Margolis puts it. But “eco-fascism” signals the left-wing radical environmentalism of terrorist outfits like the Earth Liberation Front, or eco-terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who from 1979 to 1995 murdered three people and wounded 23 with letter-bombs. These eco-terrorists, like fascists and communists, are fine with using violence to achieve their aims


	The link of fascism and environmentalism, by the way, is not a slur. The Nazis were passionate environmentalists, and the Third Reich was the first modern nation to pass legislation protecting animals and nature. As historian Simon Schama writes, “Exterminating millions of lives was not at all incompatible with passionate protection of trees.”


	The antihumanism of radical environmentalism could also be found in early 20th century progressive eugenics and fears of over-population of lesser “races” and “race suicide,” which provided the Darwinian authority for abortion preached by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Preserving the racial “blood” from contamination requires also preserving the “soil” as well, what is meant by the “ethno-nationalism.” If we’re looking for affinities between the killer’s antihumanist racism and political ideology, “white supremacism,” a fringe ideology rejected by conservatism, doesn’t align with the Right, if at all, as closely as the antihumanism of radical environmentalism does with Left. The same antihumanism also characterizes the progressive sacrament of abortion, which the Democrats in Congress recently attempted to make a national law that would allow abortions any time up to birth.


	In addition to such politicized smears of conservatives for being “racist,” we will no doubt also be inundated with calls for stricter gun laws and policies on “ghost guns,” as if a sociopath intent on mayhem can’t get a gun legally, as the Buffalo killer did, or just steal one. The Democrat-run cities such as New York and Chicago have very strict gun-control regulations, which haven’t slowed their astronomical murder rates. Instead of hounding with specious regulations citizens exercising their Constitutional right to own a gun, the anti-gun nuts squealing about “gun violence” should be calling for tougher penalties for using a gun in a crime, and rolling back bail and sentencing “reforms” that let violent criminals back on the streets.


	But we know what all these attacks and lies about guns are really about: weakening the Second Amendment. For more than a century the entire progressive playbook has focused on reducing the freedom and autonomy of citizens, families, churches, small businesses, and the states. The federal technocratic Leviathan centralizes and concentrates power in its agencies and bureaus that increasingly enmesh the people in intrusive regulations, with which they slowly erode the people’s rights and freedom.


	And the Second Amendment is particularly a target since it counters the tyrannical regime’s most important aim––the monopolization of force. It’s no accident that the First Amendment guarantees free speech, and the Second guarantees self-defense. Those are the foundations of freedom, for without them no people can stay free for long.


	So it’s no surprise that we’ve been seeing continual assaults on the First Amendment and demands for censorship camouflaged as “content moderation” or preventing “hate speech.” Even the ACLU, which once defended the First Amendment right of Klansmen to march in a Jewish neighborhood, are now minions of Big Brother.


	Or the Dems scheming to pack the Supreme Court, countenancing threats against Supreme Court Justices, and indulging demonstrations in front of their homes in order to illegally intimidate them into ruling how the Dems want them to.


	Or pushing to eliminate the Electoral College, and to base the number of Senators on population. The Electoral College and equal number of Senators for each state are two of the Constitution’s important defenses against the tyranny of a homogenized, dependent majority that Woodrow Wilson called a “single community, co-operative as in a perfected, coordinated beehive” controlled by its elite caretakers.


	In short, what we are witnessing is the century-long progressive assault on the Constitution and its checks and balances in order to create the tyranny of the minority, that guild of credentialed cognitive elites who despise the working- and middle classes as “deplorables,” “bitter clingers to guns and religion,” and “smelly Wal-Mart shoppers,” upon whom elites look with an “ugly blend of sanctimony, self-interest, and social-connections,” as Fred Siegel put it in his indispensable book The Revolt Against the Masses.


	All the commentary that follows mass shootings is not about “gun violence” or “systemic racism.” Rather, it comprises propaganda for this old progressive ambition to dismantle the Constitution and its unalienable rights, which are the bedrock of our political freedom.

Another Mass Shooting, Another Tsunami of Progressive Propaganda

Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.


	On Saturday of this past weekend, a deranged 18-year-old man in

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


	In 1978, Deana Bowdoin, an Arizona State University college student, was raped and strangled. It would take thirty years to trace the murder to Clarence Wayne Dixon, a serial rapist whose criminal record began when he attacked a 15-year-old girl with a pipe.


	By the time Deana’s murder was traced to him, Dixon was already in prison for kidnapping and raping another ASU college student.


	He should have already been locked up during Deanna's murder because he had assaulted a 15-year-old girl with a pipe, telling her, “Nice evening, isn’t it?”, but future Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor <a href="https://navajotimes.com/reznews/fort-defiance-native-scheduled-for-may-11-execution/">deemed him</a> "not guilty by reason of insanity".


	Two days before the monster was supposed to go to a psychiatric hospital, he raped and murdered Deanna.


	Former Justice O'Connor's shameful opposition to the death penalty should be seen in the context of Deana's murder. While O’Connor made headlines when she falsely suggested that the death penalty is unfair, it was her failure to hold Dixon accountable that was truly unfair.


	Over 40 years later, Dixon’s defenders have gone back to claiming that he’s mentally unfit and that executing him is cruel and unusual punishment, but the true cruel and unusual punishment is the one suffered by Deana’s family who had to wait <a href="https://www.abc15.com/news/state/a-look-back-at-the-deana-bowdoin-case">this many decades </a>to see justice.


	“Deana was a beautiful person, inside and out. She was only 21 and in her last semester at ASU when she was violently taken from my family. The last forty-four plus years of reliving Deana’s brutal murder as well as enduring the trial and appellate litigation has been nothing short of horrific for our family. As victims, the Arizona Constitution guarantees a prompt and final conclusion of this matter. Our parents wanted nothing more than to ultimately see justice for Deana. Unfortunately, they both passed away before punishment could be imposed," her sister stated.


	The true cruel and unusual punishment was inflicted by a justice system on the family members of the victim because it has been unnaturally rigged by leftists to protect criminals over victims.


	Deana, had she lived, would be in her late fifties today. The young girl would have started a family, built a career, and made an impact on the world.


	Unfortunately she never had that chance.


	Clarence Wayne Dixon has gone on living all these decades. He grew old under the care of the state. His apologists claimed that he couldn’t be executed because he had been declared legally blind or found to be suffering from this physical or mental ailment or that. His lawyers insisted that his determined pursuit of a bad legal strategy proved that he was crazy.


	The Washington Post ran <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/10/arizona-execution-clarence-dixon-pro-life/">an op-ed </a>claiming that Republicans don't really care about life because they didn't spare the monster who raped and killed a girl.


	Complaining about the leaked draft of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade, the op-ed insists that "ultimately, it isn’t about valuing human life but about how much each human life is worth. And in Arizona, a convict’s life seems to have very little value."


	Evil Lives Matter.


	Dixon placed so little value on human life that he took it casually. His defenders are equally casual about murdering babies. But they claim that defending a murderer while rallying for the right to kill babies means that they are the ones who truly value human life.


	No, we don’t believe that all human life has value regardless of the individual. That’s a collectivist fallacy. The lives of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Clarence Wayne Dixon, all now fortunately dead, do not equate to the life of a single baby taken at a Planned Parenthood baby parts plant, let alone that of the millions who have perished in this gruesome way.


	Believing in the value of life means fighting against those who would take lives.


	The Washington Post op-ed complains that “Arizona’s Republican attorney general, Mark Brnovich” has "conservative values” that “don’t line up quite the same way. Brnovich is antiabortion, yes, but since the start of this year, he has been locked on a mission to resume executions — making Dixon and Atwood his first targets."


	Frank Jarvis Atwood, a pedophile cokehead, who was out on parole for abducting an 8-year-old boy, kidnapped Vicki Lynne Hoskinson, an 8-year-old girl. He was then seen with blood on him. Despite having the best legal representation that his father’s money could buy, including a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Atwood’s people claim that he never had a fair shake, and invented a new controversy over the potential use of a gas chamber.


	Atwood, who is Greek Orthodox, had a mother who was Jewish by birth, and the media tried to transform him into the victim because he was offered a choice between gas and a lethal injection. The pedophile killer’s legal team also complained that due to his back issues he couldn’t be strapped to a gurney because “every second on that table will be agonizing.”


	It’s been thirty-eight years since the murder. Every second of it was agonizing for Vicki’s family.


	Meanwhile Frank Atwood has obtained several degrees, including one in comparative religion, gotten married, and written six books. Now the son of a cable company president from Brentwood will once again have his turn to play the victim. We’ll be told, over and over again, that he will have to be taken to the death chamber in a wheelchair.


	Outside the prison where Dixon was being executed, protesters gathered waving, “All Life is Precious” signs. All life is precious except the lives of innocent men, women, and children.


	&nbsp;“It would offend humanity to execute Mr. Dixon," a filing on behalf of Deana's killer claimed.


	On the contrary, it would have offended humanity not to execute him.


	To say that life is precious while doing nothing to protect it is how we once again became a nation with skyrocketing murder rates where criminals are no longer locked up.


	Deana and Vicki were murdered by monsters who should have been in jail, but weren’t.


	Thanks to Sandra Day O’Connor, Dixon was roaming on the loose after a violent assault, and thanks to California’s broken justice system, Atwood was out on parole even after his parents asked for it to be withdrawn. A young woman and a girl are dead who should have been alive.


	The same thing is happening all over the country. Most of the killers whose crimes are sending homicide rates through the roof will never face justice. And that is why the killing will go on.


	Conservatives believe life is precious and are willing to defend the lives of the innocent against the ravages of evil men. Leftists however believe that only evil lives matter.

Evil Lives Matter

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Glazov Gang: Naomi Wolf on 'The Bodies of Others'

On May 10th, President Joe Biden delivered a&nbsp;speech on inflation&nbsp;in an effort to get ahead of the expected bad news the next day concerning the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The president said that fighting inflation was now his “top domestic priority” even though it was not that long ago when he dismissed the steep price increases Americans were experiencing as merely “transitory.”


	President Biden is calling inflation “a real tough problem to solve.” Too bad that the president has no clue on how to solve the “real tough problem” that he had a big hand in creating.


	President Biden’s speech was long on passing the buck to others and short on offering real solutions. The president refused to accept any responsibility for the inflation that began surging early in his term.


	Instead of following the advice from the sign on President Harry Truman's desk in his White House office, "The Buck Stops Here," Biden took to heart President Truman’s quip: “If you can't convince them, confuse them.”


	Indeed, President Biden tried to spin his own disastrous economic policies into something positive. He shamelessly boasted, “I think our policies help, not hurt.”


	At a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on May 11th, Biden said that “until we got elected and we changed presidents, I think people started to lose faith in the capacity of the American government to deliver — to deliver, to make life better for people.”


	The American people are not fooled. A majority has lost faith in President Biden’s capacity to perform his job and make life better for the American people. About two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Biden is handling the economy, according to a&nbsp;poll reported by CNN&nbsp;earlier this month.


	Sure enough, the latest CPI inflation news was bad. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on May 11th&nbsp;an overall CPI increase of 8.3 percent from April 2021 through April 2022. This was slightly smaller than the 8.5 percent increase for the 12-month period ending in March 2022, but still a very alarming number for everyday Americans trying to make ends meet. This latest annual CPI increase is nearly six times the annual increase of just 1.4 percent when President Biden took office.


	The core CPI index (excluding food and energy) rose 6.2 percent over the 12 months between April 2021 and April 2022, with the month-to-month core CPI increase doubling between March and April 2022 versus between February and March.


	On May 12th, BLS announced more bad inflation news. The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 11 percent for the 12 months ended in April 2022. For the 12 months ended in April, the Producer Price Index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services rose 6.9 percent.


	Sellers’ production cost increases will usually end up being pushed through to retailers and ultimately to consumers, which will further fuel the surging inflation that the American people are experiencing every day.


	In short, the Bidenflation continues to destroy Americans’ purchasing power. And Americans will still be dealing with unaffordable prices for a long time, even if year-to-year CPI increases begin to slow gradually in comparison to the months starting in April 2021 when Bidenflation began to take hold.


	Democrats control both the White House and the two chambers of Congress – although not “all three branches of government” as the president mistakenly said. Fortunately, the Democrats do not control the Supreme Court but would like to change that as soon as they can by packing the Court with ultra-progressives.


	Although admitting that “we’re in power,” President Biden continues to look for scapegoats.


	“There are two leading causes of inflation we’re seeing today. The first cause of inflation is a once-in-a-century pandemic,” President Biden said during his prepared remarks on May 10th. “And this year we have a second cause — a second cause: Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine.”


	Many Americans are not buying these tiresome excuses.


	So, President Biden added his favorite bogeyman to deflect blame from himself -&nbsp;&nbsp;“Ultra-MAGA” Republicans. The president came up with the phrase “Ultra-MAGA” all by himself, according to his out-going press secretary Jen Psaki.


	President Biden aimed his partisan fire at Florida’s Republican Senator Rick Scott, whom the president mistakenly said was from Wisconsin.


	President Biden repeated the lie for which he had already earned&nbsp;three Pinocchios from the Washington Post&nbsp;when he first started spreading it in April. He falsely claimed that Senator Scott’s own individual ‘11-point plan to rescue America’ constituted the “Ultra-MAGA” agenda of the congressional Republicans.


	What caught the White House’s eye in particular was Senator Scott’s personal idea of having all Americans pay even a small amount of income taxes to “have skin in the game.” President Biden and his team continued to characterize this suggestion of Senator Scott’s as the official congressional Republican position even after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had unequivocally rejected it the month before.


	“Let me tell you what would not be a part of our agenda:” Senate Minority Leader McConnell said, in commenting on Senator Scott’s proposal in the event that the Republicans take back the Senate in the midterm elections. “We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years.”


	In case anyone missed his rejection of Senator Scott’s plan, Senator McConnell added, “That will not be part of a Republican Senate majority agenda. We will focus instead on what the American people are concerned about: inflation, energy, defense, the border, and crime."


	House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also said that Senator Scott’s plan would not be part of the House Republicans’ midterm agenda.


	In awarding the three Pinocchios, the Washington Post article explained that Senator Scott’s “snippet of an idea, such as it is, cannot be labeled a ‘congressional Republican’ plan. No legislation has been crafted, and no other Republican lawmakers have announced their support.”


	Nevertheless, President Biden trotted out the same disinformation during his May 10th remarks. He tried again to mislabel Senator Scott’s own ideas, which the senator has since revised in any event, as the “congressional Republican agenda.” Biden doubled down further on this lie during his remarks to the Democratic National Committee fundraiser on May 11th.


	On May 12th, the Washington Post fact-checker stated: “We reaffirm our rating of Three — nearly Four — Pinocchios.”


	When not lying outright, President Biden tends to mislead the American people with half-truths.


	For example, President Biden boasted that “the deficit has gone down both years I’ve been here." What the president left out was the fact that the national federal debt as a whole has climbed sharply on his watch due to the spendthrift policies of the Biden administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress.


	Deficit is defined as the shortfall between what the government spends and what the government takes in as revenue during some measurable period of time. The federal public debt of the United States means the total amount of money that the federal government owes.


	President Biden was either confused or was deliberately trying to mislead the American people when he conflated cutting the deficit with cutting the current amount of the total federal public debt.


	“The bottom line,” President Biden said, “is: How much does America owe?&nbsp;&nbsp;How much in the hole are we going? We’re reducing that.”


	No, Mr. President, you are not reducing how much America owes overall. The federal public debt is still growing at an unhealthy pace even with some periodic deficit reductions.


	“In April 2022, the public debt of the United States was around 30.37 trillion U.S. dollars,”&nbsp;Statista reported,&nbsp;“around 2.2 trillion more than a year earlier, when it was around 28.2 trillion U.S. dollars.”&nbsp;&nbsp;(Emphasis added)


	April 2021 was the month after President Biden signed into law the partisan $1.9 trillion so-called American Rescue Plan Act.


	Between November 2021 and April 2022 alone, the U.S. public debt rose nearly $1.5 trillion.


	With interest rates beginning to rise sharply as the Federal Reserve tries to tame Bidenflation, federal spending on interest will increase too and add even more to the national public debt.


	President Biden conveniently left out that part of the story in his boast about cutting the deficit.


	The president also told a half-truth when he criticized oil companies for simply sitting on 9,000 unused oil leases on federal property and supposedly pocketing their profits instead.&nbsp;The president neglected to mention the barriers to drilling, production, and building out of infrastructure such as port facilities and pipelines, which his administration’s anti-fossil fuel policies have created.


	These barriers include onerous regulatory burdens and policies designed to discourage capital investments in fossil fuel production and infrastructure. On top of that, President Biden’s budget includes multiple tax increases on the oil and gas industry and increases in other corporate taxes, some of which will end up being passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.


	President Biden has no plan to solve the mounting inflation problem. All he does is to shift blame from himself, lie to the American people, and build back on his already failed economic and anti-fossil fuel policies.

The Ultra-Buck Passer and Liar in the White House

On May 10th, President Joe Biden delivered a&nbsp;speech on inflation&nbsp;in an effort to get ahead of the expected bad news the next day concerning the

The French news site <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/" target="_blank">Fdesouche</a> reported Tuesday that Ahamada Mmadi, an imam from Comoros who has been deported from France, has no regrets: “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. If he was really deported for speaking the word of Allah, 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 the Islamic news site&nbsp;<a href="https://5pillarsuk.com/2022/05/10/imam-deported-from-france-for-reciting-quran-quoting-hadith/" 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.”


	5 Pillars UK says that 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)


	The Qur’an has much worse; 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) But it doesn’t seem 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.


	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 was defiant: “I don’t regret anything. 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 think Mmadi is some kind of extremist outlier, 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 really think they will be able to create a new, Westernized Islam, shorn of its features that are offensive to contemporary Western sensibilities? They are indeed 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>.

France Deports Imam for Quoting Qur’an

The French news site Fdesouche reported Tuesday that Ahamada Mmadi, an imam from Comoros who has been deported from France, has no regrets: “I have nothing to

“Critical race theory has become one of those hot-button issues that the Republicans and other disinformers, who are engaged in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAKwMgMhBw&amp;t=1680s">disinformation for profit</a>, frankly have seized on,” said Nina Jankowicz at an October 29, 2021. Profiteering was going on, but not by those Jankowicz accused.


	In September, 2021, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) wrote to Joe Biden claiming that parents who complained about critical race theory indoctrination were engaging in <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/bidens-disinformation-czarina-parents-concerned-about-critical-race-theory-are-disinformers_4453035.html">“domestic terrorism.</a>” Days later, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo on “threats of violence” against teachers and school board members.


	Parents who complained about critical race theory were guilty of “a form of domestic terrorism and hate crime” and Garland wanted to deploy the FBI, DOJ and Department of Homeland Security against the parents. As it turned out, the critical race theory profiteer was a member of Garland’s own family.


	Garland’s son-in-law <a href="https://www.topionetworks.com/people/xan-tanner-55c2ec24b20924dc55000a48">Xan Tanner</a> is co-founder, board member, and president of <a href="https://www.panoramaed.com/">Panorama Education</a>, a vendor of surveys on the “social and emotional climate.” Last October, Panorama recommended that teachers read “Teaching Toward Freedom,” an essay by <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/garland-son-in-law-education-company-recommends-book-bill-ayers">Weather Underground alum Bill Ayers</a>.


	“You should know that the system you’ll be joining hates Black and Brown and poor kids,” Ayers wrote. “I have factual evidence that the system is organized to miseducate these children, and it includes the shameful lack of resources, enforced racial segregation, the dumbed-down and Eurocentric curriculum accompanied by a stifling top-down pedagogy, and arcane rules and routines that result predictably in social shaming and widespread exclusions.”&nbsp;And so on.


	Panorama also conducts workshops dealing with “systemic racism” and the resources include articles by <a href="https://altagraciamontilla.com/about/">Altagracia Montilla</a>, a “queer woman of color” who describes herself as “strategist, facilitator, freedom dreamer, conflict coach, and healer&nbsp;committed to dismantling oppressive systems that disempower communities targeted by physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and economic violence.” Montilla is “currently designing organizational development and racial justice frameworks informed by the most basic laws of nature found in cosmology, quantum physics, and astrophysics.”


	The Panorama workshop featured Montilla’s article “<a href="https://medium.com/@altagraciamontilla/how-white-supremacy-lives-in-our-schools-e541c5b3355">How White Supremacy Lives in Our Schools</a>.” Examples of white supremacy include “the Ku Klux Klan and MAGAs at half-empty Trump rallies,” but “white supremacy is everywhere, pertinent and pervasive, woven into the fabric of our society and reflected in every institution and organization in the U.S. including schools.”


	According to Montilla, the written word is “characteristic of white supremacy culture.” Apparently James Baldwin (<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7753/the-fire-next-time-by-james-baldwin/">The Fire Next Time</a>) Stanley Crouch (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kansas-City-Lightning-Charlie-Parker/dp/0062005596">Kansas City Lightning</a>) and Chester Himes (<a href="https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/chester-himes/lonely-crusade/9781560251422/">Lonely Crusade</a>) and other black writers never got the memo. Montilla also finds white supremacy in something she calls “perfectionism,” so seeking the correct answer to a math problem could also be racist. &nbsp;That would surprise distinguished scholars such as Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell, who earned advanced degrees long before the dawn of affirmative action.


	Panorama Education boasts contracts in <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/critical-race-theory-firm-linked-to-ag-garlands-kin-serves-schoolscompany-co-founded-by-ag-garlands-son-in-law-serves-over-20k-schools/">50 of the largest 100 school districts</a> in the country, some 13 million students in 23,000 schools and 1,500 districts across 50 states. Panorama also received $16 million from charitable organizations including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg gave <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/attorney-general-garland-potential-conflict-interest-son-in-law-firm-critical-race-theory">$16 million to Panorama</a> through his charitable foundation, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative.


	Inflicting racist junkthought on children is a lucrative business. That raises conflict-of-interest issues for the attorney general, but so far nothing has come of it. The DOJ failed to prosecute corrupt FBI bosses such as James Comey and Peter Strzok, so Garland is surely off-limits.


	For Nina Jankowicz, only “Republicans and other disinformers” are “weaponizing” disinformation “for profit.” In a classic case of projection, Jankowicz accuses others of the very activity she is conducting.


	Jankowicz is also on record that Hunter Biden’s laptop is a “Trump campaign product” and “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/head-of-bidens-disinformation-board-referred-to-hunters-laptop-as-a-trump-campaign-product">Russian influence op</a>.” Jankowicz is also a big fan of Christopher Steele, author of the eponymous dossier, a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bidens-disinformation-chief-is-trump-dossier-author-fan-and-hunter-laptop-doubter">Clinton campaign product</a> now exposed as pure disinformation.


	That faithful service doubtless played a role in her selection as the DHS disinformation boss. Nina Jankowicz, 33, is the Biden Junta’s minister of propaganda. Look for the wannabe <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inHoYfGn2WA">chanteuse</a> to ramp it up as crucial midterms approach, with conditions worsening by the day.


	In the meantime, those parents Merrick Garland smeared as “domestic terrorists” might check their school district for materials from Panorama Education.&nbsp; Parents nationwide might verify how much money their district is spending on essays from the scholarly Altagracia Montilla and Weatherman emeritus Bill Ayers.


	In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-When-World-Fire-Delpit/dp/1620974312">Teaching When the World is on Fire</a>, the book Merrick Garland’s son-in-law recommends, Ayers joins <a href="https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Brown-Lecture-in-Education-Research/H-Richard-Milner-IV">H. Richard Milner IV</a>, author of “Yes, Race and Politics Belong in the Classroom,” along with&nbsp; “Cops or Counselors” by <a href="https://www.pedronoguera.com/bio/">Pedro Noguera</a>, and “Climate Change Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students,” by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/amy-harmon">Amy Harmon</a>. And so on.


	For decades a collective farm of mediocrity and failure, the government education monopoly now serves the left as a one-stop indoctrination center. Call it the disinformation inherent in the system.

The Nina-Merrick Unholy Alliance

“Critical race theory has become one of those hot-button issues that the Republicans and other disinformers, who are engaged in disinformation for profit,

I recently visited the Tomb of Rachel also known as Kever Rachel, located just south of Jerusalem in “Area C,” near the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Bethlehem. Bethlehem is in “Area A,” which denotes full Palestinian control. Kever Rachel has been identified as the place where the Matriarch Rachel was interred and has been revered by Jews for centuries, though Palestinians and their eager apologists now claim it as a site <a href="https://honestreporting.com/idns-10212015-unesco-israel/">exclusively</a> holy to Muslims.


	As I was exiting, I couldn’t help but recall the stark contrast between how the place used to look like before Israel transferred control of Bethlehem to Yasser Arafat’s PA. Back then, it was a quaint, simple structure with a white dome and large menorah perched on the rooftop. Entrance to the site was made through a gate that was flanked by two impressive Ottoman Sebils. Hanging above the gate was a sign in Hebrew that said “Kever Rachel Imeinu,” which translates to the Tomb of Rachel our Mother.


	Today, the original structure is entombed in a fortress-like building and is virtually unrecognizable. The change was made necessary due to several violent attempts by Palestinians to ransack the place and harm visiting Jewish worshipers. Their desire to destroy the site is rather ironic given their claim that Kever Rachel is a holy Muslim site.


	In 1995, Israel transferred control of Bethlehem to the Arafat and his gang of gunmen in the misguided belief that they were dealing with rational people. Rachel’s Tomb however, perched just on the outskirts of Bethlehem, was retained by Israel. Concurrent with this transfer, Israel ceded control of the city of Shechem (Nablus) as well. Within Shechem was another site holy to Jews known as Kever Yosef or the Tomb of Joseph, believed by some to be Joseph’s final resting place. Palestinians claim this site to be holy to them as well but evidence for this remains scant.


	Kever Yosef, which housed a synagogue was also retained by Israel, and a small force of Israeli troops was garrisoned there to protect the site and ensure the safety of worshipers. But in October 2000, following an outbreak of extreme Palestinian violence, Israel ceded Kever Yosef to the PA in a misguided effort to placate the rioters. Predictably, Palestinian rioters then stormed the tomb, destroying fixtures and torching prayer books. They then proceeded to paint its white-domed roof green, symbolizing the completion of the Islamic takeover.


	Kever Yosef reverted to Israeli control two years later following Operation Defensive Shield, and sporadic Jewish worship there resumed shortly thereafter, albeit under heavy armed guard and usually at night. Unlike Kever Rachel, Kever Yosef is situated in a strategically more precarious position as it is ensconced in Shechem while Kever Rachel remains on the outskirts of Bethlehem and has been walled off from the city.


	On April 9, 2022, Palestinian rioters, enraged over yet another imaginary transgression, stormed Kever Yosef and caused severe damage. The tombstone was shattered, electrical fixtures were ripped out and prayer books were burned. The action was carried out in full view of Palestinian “policemen” who did nothing to stop the hooliganism and may have even encouraged it. Israeli repair crews, under the protection of the <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-authority/large-idf-force-enters-shechem-to-protect-renovation-of-josephs-tomb-damaged-by-arabs/2022/04/13/">Israeli Defense Forces</a>, repaired the damage a few days later. &nbsp;


	This is the Palestinian modus operandi, a deleterious pattern that demonstrates an utter contempt for antiquity and religious sites. On October 12, 2000, Palestinian rioters in Jericho stormed an ancient Byzantine-era synagogue known as the “<a href="https://www.jewishjericho.org.il/english/places/Shalom_Al_Israel_En.html">Shalom Al Israel Synagogue</a>,” with the intent to destroy its well-preserved central medallion bearing the inscription “Shalom al Israel.” They failed to destroy the precious mosaic floor but that does not negate the nefarious intent. When the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem fell to Jordanian/Palestinian forces in 1948, all Jewish institutions – including the impressive <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-hurva-synagogue">Hurva</a> Synagogue – &nbsp;were either dynamited or converted to garbage dumps or animal pens.


	In this regard, the Palestinians have shown themselves to be no different than the Taliban and ISIS. &nbsp;in 2001, the Taliban destroyed the one-of-a-kind Bamiyan Buddha statues in the name of religion. Then in 2015, ISIS destroyed the ancient &amp; irreplaceable antiquities at Palmyra, also in the name of religion. Palestinian vandalism at Joseph’s Tomb, and their efforts to destroy other culturally and religiously important sites, also in the name of Islam, reveals their true colors.


	Palestinian apologists predictably remained mute in the face of the latest Palestinian outrage at Joseph’s Tomb. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, organizations all too willing to spread antisemitic <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-apartheid-libel-of-israel-amnesty-international-report-11643669544">blood libels</a> against the Jewish State, did not utter a single word of condemnation.


	Joseph's Tomb, Rachel’s Tomb, the Hurva and Jericho Synagogues were not symbols of the so-called occupation. They were symbols of Judaism and that was enough to rouse the ire of those bent on genocide and ethnic cleansing. A society that maintains a near-maniacal intolerance and hatred for other religions or cultures, and acts upon that hatred in a violent and destructive manner, is undeserving of statehood.

The Desecration of Joseph’s Tomb: What Lessons Can Be Drawn?

I recently visited the Tomb of Rachel also known as Kever Rachel, located just south of Jerusalem in “Area C,” near the Palestinian Authority-controlled city

Raymond Ibrahim, author of the new book,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1642938203/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1642938203&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=raymondibrahi-20&amp;linkId=f41d2e2f0b3c33ac1456833892c7e05b">Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam</a>, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center


	On April 24, 2022, the grand imam of Islam’s most prestigious university, Al Azhar, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rUeKDpNxz0">delivered</a> an address before the heads of state, with Egyptian President al-Sisi sitting in the front row, during state-level celebrations of Laylat al-Qadr (the “Night of Power”), which, in Islamic teaching, is the night when Allah first revealed the Koran to Muhammad.


	Considering the occasion of the speech and the speech deliverer himself, Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb—arguably “<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/08/23/dr-ahmed-al-tayeb-meet-the-worlds-most-influential-muslim/">the most influential Muslim in the world</a>”—Islam was praised to the ceiling.&nbsp; Of especial interest, however, was al-Tayeb’s rendition of history.&nbsp; At one point he said:


	In just a few years after the death of the prophet Muhammad (Allah pray on and grant him peace), the Islamic conquests [literally, “openings,” <a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2021/12/16/egyptian-scholar-sentenced-to-five-years-imprisonment-for-recounting-accurate-history/">futuhat</a>] caused the two most powerful empires that divided and controlled every corner of the Middle East to collapse, and their lands in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and North Africa to become Islamic lands to this very day.


	This, of course, is true.&nbsp; The two empires the sheikh refers to are the Eastern Roman Empire (“Byzantium”) and the Sassanian Empire of Persia.&nbsp; Most of the lands cited by al-Tayeb—from Syria and Egypt in the east, to Morocco and Algeria in the west—were Christian and governed by the Eastern Roman Empire.&nbsp; Only Iran and parts of Iraq were under Sassanian rule and Zoroastrian in religion.&nbsp; During the seventh century, Muslims conquered and Islamized all of these lands.


	As usual, however, when it comes to Islamic retellings, facts are quickly mingled with fiction.&nbsp; After making the above statement, al-Tayeb offered this:


	These [Muslim] conquests were not conquests of colonization that rely on the methods of plunder, oppression, control, and the policies of domination and dependency, [all of which] which leave nations in ruin.


	He went on to condemn conquests of colonization that are about oppression and plunder—a swipe at Europe’s historic colonization of the Middle East—before continuing:


	Yes, the Islamic conquests were not like this—dominating peoples and controlling them with the arrogance of force and weapons; rather, they led to a new avalanche of life—full of knowledge, justice, freedom, and equality—which flowed in the veins of those [once] powerless people.


	It is difficult to emphasize how utterly surreal such claims are, at least for those familiar with Islam’s true history.&nbsp; The conquests of all the Christian lands mentioned by the Grand Imam (from Syria in the east to Morocco in the west), as well as those Christian lands of later Islamic conquests (ignored by al-Tayeb as they were eventually overturned)—in Spain, the Mediterranean islands, Asia Minor, the Balkans, etc.—featured bloodshed, massacres, terror, enslavement, plunder, and the oppression of the conquered and exploitation of their resources on a grand scale.&nbsp; Page after page of <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: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West</a>, clearly document this, based on both Christian and Muslim sources.


	Even more absurd is the grand imam’s claim that the Christian and Zoroastrian peoples living under the Eastern Roman and Sassanian empires were happy to be “liberated” by the sword of Islam, and that—seeing that Islam was a religion of “knowledge, justice, freedom, and equality”—they eagerly responded by converting in droves.


	As is well known, the supposedly “liberated” peoples—the ones to survive the initial massacres and enslavements, anyway—who preferred to remain Christian, Zoroastrian, or Jewish, could do so only by becoming dhimmis, second-class citizens who had to make regular tribute (<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/05/28/islamic-jizya-fact-and-fiction/">jizya</a>) payments and adhere to a host of humiliating social strictures (as captured in the “<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2014/03/24/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/">Conditions of Omar</a>”).&nbsp; The desire not to be financially fleeced or treated inferiorly—or sporadically persecuted, as many dhimmis were, depending on whether the next ruler was “radical” or not—is what caused so many non-Muslims to convert to Islam over the centuries.


	This was the only way they could experience “justice, freedom, or equality”—at least of a sort.


	Especially ludicrous is that al-Tayeb depicts the Muslim conquests as somehow being more virtuous than European colonization of the Middle East.&nbsp; In reality, whereas jihads culminated in slavery, depopulation, and devastation—certain regions especially in North Africa, Spain, and Anatolia never recovered—European colonialists abolished slavery and introduced their Muslim subjects to the boons of modernity, from scientific and medicinal advances to the radical concepts of democracy and religious freedom.


	Although it is difficult to find an analogy from Western history that captures the lunacy of al-Tayeb’s claims, consider for a moment whatever the worst point of American history might be—say slavery. Now imagine a state ceremony, attended by the U.S. president, where a leading Christian delivers a speech about how the enslavement of blacks was a wonderful and altruistic thing—certainly not to be compared to the cruel enslavement practiced by those evil non-Christians—and that it was really about bringing “knowledge, justice, freedom, and equality” to enslaved Africans.


	That is the level of absurdity of al-Tayeb’s claims.


	But why all these lies?&nbsp; Here we come to the crux of the matter.&nbsp; To feel good about themselves and their religion, Muslims must maintain this happy fiction—that their non-Muslim ancestors were “liberated” by Islam and that they were only too eager to embrace it, at which point they began to enjoy “knowledge, justice, freedom, and equality.”


	The alternative, the truth—that their ancestors were Christians or other non-Muslims who were conquered and compelled to embrace Islam due to sporadic bouts of persecution and systemic discrimination—is not quite as satisfying, not to mention may get them thinking.


	Hence the chronic chicanery of the Grand Imam of the Muslim world’s most prestigious university—also known as <a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2019/02/11/pope-francis-and-his-muslim-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/">Pope Francis’s closest Muslim ally</a>.

A Mind-Blowing Lie by the World’s Most Influential Muslim

Raymond Ibrahim, author of the new book,&nbsp;Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz

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		House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Tito’s Handmade) is ostensibly a Catholic, but she doesn’t exactly wear her religion on her sleeve. Her most famous connection with her Church is her public rejection of its teaching on life issues, and her determination to protect and strengthen the “right” to commit what the ecclesiastical authorities she claims to respect say is murder. But Pelosi doesn’t hesitate to invoke her religion when it seems useful to her to do so, that is, when she thinks it can help her advance her far-Left agenda. Last week, she pulled out the Gospel of Matthew to justify sending $40 billion to Ukraine during a time of steeply rising inflation, astronomical gas prices, and a baby-formula shortage.

	
		Speaking on the House floor about the aid package for Ukraine, the superannuated hypocrite <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1524193428975853568" target="_blank">said</a>, “So when you’re home thinking, ‘What is this all about?,’ just think about ‘When I was hungry, you fed me,’ in the Gospel of Matthew.” It was bitterly ironic to see a woman who has strenuously insisted for years that her religion had no place in her politics suddenly invoking the words of Jesus to justify her preferred public policy, but Leftist politicians have never shied away from even the most cynical and manipulative grandstanding. She clearly intended to co-opt opposition to the Ukraine aid package by portraying it as un-Christian, hoping to intimidate Christian conservatives into thinking that if they opposed it, they would be going against the very words of the Gospel itself.

	
		Pelosi’s transparent ploy wasn’t working with at least one of those Christian conservatives. William Davis, whose Twitter bio says he is Catholic and conservative, <a href="https://twitter.com/WillDavisDC/status/1524195074317459456" target="_blank">responded</a> trenchantly to Pelosi, “For I was a defense contractor, and you gave me even more taxpayer money.” Others pointed out that Pelosi had never sponsored a comparable payout for the hungry and homeless on the streets of her district in San Francisco.

	
		Pelosi did, however, take recourse to the same rhetoric last October, when, during an event in San Francisco, she <a href="https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/cnsnewscom-staff/nancy-pelosi-when-i-was-naked-you-clothed-me-all-those-things" target="_blank">quoted</a> to the city’s mayor, London Breed, the same passage in Matthew, again as she touted big-government socialist measures that have manifestly failed. “Madam Mayor, it’s always a joy to be with you while we’re talking about low-income housing, affordable housing, public housing, and the rest, and to hear you speak from your own personal experience about it.&nbsp;‘When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was homeless, you gave me shelter. When I was naked, you clothed me,’” quoth Nancy. “All of those things in the&nbsp;Gospel of Matthew, the Mayor brings to the experience.”

	
		Pelosi has even situated her staunchly pro-abortion stance within the context of her alleged religious commitment. In September 2021, touting her pro-abortion bill that would circumvent the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Pelosi <a href="https://cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/pelosi-defends-what-church-correctly-calls-murder" target="_blank">reminded</a> us, “I come to this as a Catholic and a mother of five, in 6 years and 1 week, and the joy that all that meant to us.” Then in March 2022, arguing that Roe should be upheld, she said it again: “I am a devout Catholic … Mother of five children in six years and one week. This is a precedent of the court. It should be upheld by the court. This really gets me burned up, in case you didn’t notice, because, again, I’m very Catholic, devout, practicing, all of that.” All of that, yeah. Apparently, the idea was that if she, as a supposedly devout Catholic, so firmly supported Roe, then so should we all. But exactly how the connections actually go in Pelosi’s tangled mind is not always entirely clear.

	
		Meanwhile, back in the real world, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1524380835058700292" target="_blank">tweeted</a>, “I voted NO to send $40 Billion American tax dollars to Ukraine. That bill does things we should not be doing. Americans are suffering from a baby formula crisis, a border crisis, skyrocketing inflation and fuel crisis, and they are fed up with America last politicians.” It’s refreshing to see that at least some politicians in Washington are not as self-serving, calculating, and disingenuous as Pelosi. But apparently not very many.

	
		The money is going to Ukraine, with no regard for the crises here at home, and with the America-First president still vilified and ridiculed by the political and media elites even now that he has been well over a year out of the White House. Pelosi reminded us of the priorities that she and God, in that order, ought to have. It is us peasants’ job, as far as she is concerned, simply to fall in line.
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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>.

What Would Jesus Do? Just Ask Nancy

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Tito’s Handmade) is ostensibly a Catholic, but she doesn’t exactly wear her religion on her sleeve. Her most famous connection

Celebrating Eid al-Fitr at the White House, our dangerously elder statesman, Joe Biden, made a series of claims that deserve to be examined. We have already discussed in <a href="https://robertspencer.org/?p=257465" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">yesterday’s post</a> his inclusion of the Muslim Rohingyas as innocent victims of persecution in Myanmar, and why that “persecution” was not quite so simple, but forms part of a much more complicated story, one that includes Rohingya massacres of Buddhists in the 1940s, and a separatist insurrection by the Rohingyas that erupted in the 1970s, then again in the 1990s, and again in 2016-2017, that led finally to attacks by the Burmese army and most of the Rohingyas in Myanmar fleeing into Bangladesh, from whence their ancestors had come in the 19th&nbsp;and early 20th&nbsp;century.


	Here is the offending sentence where the Rohingyas appear:

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		“Today, we also remember all those who are not able to celebrate this holy day, including Uyghurs and Rohingyas and all those who are facing famine, violence, conflict, and disease,” Biden said.
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	Who are “all those [Muslims] who are facing famine, violence, conflict, and disease”? And who is to blame? Biden makes it sound as if these terrible conditions have been inflicted on Muslims by others – that is, non-Muslims.


	There are certainly Muslims facing famine, violence, conflict, and disease in many parts of the world. Almost all of them, however, live in Muslim-majority countries. Here’s a rundown on a few of them. In Yemen, one group of Muslims, the Shi’a Houthis, backed by Iran, have been fighting other Muslims since 2015. The Houthis are trying to overturn the national government in San’a, which is backed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The ferocity of the fighting has done great harm to the economy, and led to mass starvation and the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world. Nota bene: in Yemen, none of the violence, nor the consequences of that violence, has had anything to do with non-Muslims. All along it has been a Muslim-against-Muslim conflict, with both sides being backed by other, non-Yemeni Muslims.


	The same holds true in Libya, where, long after Muammar Qaddafi was deposed and killed — sodomized by a rifle and then shot — in 2011, Libyans are still slaughtering one another in attempts to grab power and the money that comes with it. For now, the forces of General Khalifa Haftar, based in Tobruk in eastern Libya, have been fighting the Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli, in western Libya. But even within both of these camps, there are smaller factions that persist in fighting each other. In Tripoli, last September, fighting broke out that pitted the 444 Brigade against the Stabilisation Support Force, two of the main groups in the GNA. Another half-dozen factions have been fighting with one another, off and on, mostly within the GNA, but also including fissiparous forces that are nominally under the control of General Haftar, and yet still jostle for power with one another for power. Outside forces involved in Libya are also Muslim. The GNA is supported mainly by Turkey, which has now built a base in western Libya, while General Haftar’s main supporters are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt. Everyone involved on either side, whether Libyan, or foreign supporters of the GNA or General Haftar, is Muslim.


	Then there is Syria, which is now in the eleventh year of its civil war, that pits Muslims against Muslims. Iran’s Shiites support the Alawite Bashar al-Assad, while the Gulf Arabs – Sunnis all – support the Syrian opposition. Save for help extended to Assad by the Russian Air Force, this civil war, too, is purely a Muslim-against-Muslim affair.


	Besides these three civil wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen, there is all kinds of violence that racks the Muslim world. In west Africa, the Islamic terror group Boko Haram and Fulani jihadis, operating mainly in northern Nigeria, has been steadily mass-murdering – hundreds at a time – Nigerian Christians. The Nigerian army is unable to stem this violence, which has spread from the northeast into central Nigeria, So far, about 45,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria. Thousands of other Christians have been killed by Boko Haram in Chad, Niger, and northern Cameroon. And scarcely a day goes by without news of another group of Christian villagers being killed, or girls kidnapped, by Boko Haram, with no letup in sight.


	Elsewhere in Africa, Muslim violence continues in Somalia, where the terror group Al-Shebab has been executing Christians as well as moderate Muslims. Muslims connected to ISIS have carried out terror attacks in Uganda, including two suicide bombings in the capital Kampala, and a series of murderous attacks on pastors. These Islamic terrorists manage to keep one step ahead of the Ugandan army, even in a country that is 82% Christian.


	Christians are persecuted as well in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt. Apostates from Islam are subject to long prison terms, and sometimes executed by members of their own families, who are only following Muhammad’s command “If someone changes his [Muslim] religion, kill him.” In Egypt, Coptic churches have been subject to frequent bombings by Islamic militants; Copts have been killed in their houses and at their businesses, while Coptic women and girls have been kidnapped by Muslims, forced to convert, and then “married” to their kidnapper.


	Since the 1980s, there have been attacks by Muslim terror groups — including Palestinian groups — on Kenyan targets and Israeli properties in Kenya. Al-Shebab has also become more active in the country, recruiting Kenyans to its ranks, and carrying out raids on Christians in northern Kenya.


	In Afghanistan, the Taliban has attacked both the Shi’a Hazara – whom they regard as not being real Muslims — and the handful of Christians who remain in the country. In Pakistan, Hindus and Christians have been the targets of Muslim violence, and their percentages of the Pakistani population have been greatly reduced since Partition in 1947. The state does little to protect them from attacks by Muslims. Sunnis in Pakistan also routinely attack, and kill, members of the Ahmadi sect, claiming they are not real Muslims but the “worst kind of Infidels.” Pakistani Sunnis also target the Shi’a minority. One Sunni group, Sipah-e-Sahaba, exists for one purpose: to attack Shi’a, especially the educated — engineers, doctors, lawyers – who because of their status and wealth are seen as a threat to Sunni dominance.


	All of this is offered as evidence that it is not Muslims who are being persecuted or killed by non-Muslims, as Biden implied in his Eid al-Fitr remarks, but almost everywhere it is Muslims who are persecuting and killing other Muslims. Muslims also persecute, and in some cases kill, non-Muslims – overwhelmingly their victims are Christians, but Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists are also targeted. If Biden wants to talk about “violence, famine, conflict, and disease,” let him examine who is responsible for those four horsemen of the apocalypse, and where, and whom, they plague. Let him investigate the situation in the Muslim countries where endless civil wars continue (Libya, Syria, and Yemen), in the countries where Sunni Muslims attack and murder Hindus Sikhs, Christians, Ahmadis, and Shi’a Muslims (Afghanistan and Pakistan), in the countries where Sunni Muslims persecute and sometimes kill Christians (Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Somalia). This is just the briefest of overviews — a&nbsp;tour d’horizon&nbsp;— of what has been happening in the Muslim lands. But even that was apparently too much for Joe Biden to grasp, our president who wants us to believe that Muslims suffer from “violence, famine, conflict, and disease” that non-Muslims inflict on them, when the greatest source of misery, by far, for Muslims, is other Muslims. But since it would have been impolitic to recognize that truth, why did Biden have to say anything at all? Why not just a quick greeting to his Muslim guests that evening, along the lines of: “Jill and I are very glad to welcome&nbsp;you to the White House to share an Eid el-Fitr dinner, where we can break bread together and celebrate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Let this be an occasion when we can put aside our anxieties about the state of the world and contemplate, with gratitude, the freedom that this country — our country — secures for all of us.”


	There. That’s enough. That’s more than enough.

Biden’s Peculiar Eid al-Fitr Speech

Celebrating Eid al-Fitr at the White House, our dangerously elder statesman, Joe Biden, made a series of claims that deserve to be examined. We have already

After angry public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito draft opinion on reversing Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas said: "We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like. We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that." The kind of events to which Thomas referred include pro-abortion activists blocking church entrances and protesting at the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Alito.


	It is difficult to determine when this generation of Americans on the Left decided to attack rather than persuade those who disagree. But an inflection point occurred when, for the first time in history, the Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, not because of ethics or lack of character, but because Democrats opposed his judicial philosophy.


	President Ronald Reagan nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Justice Robert Bork, who represented — to Democrats like Sen. Ted Kennedy — a threat to move the Supreme Court to the right on issues like abortion and affirmative action. Kennedy viciously attacked. On the Senate floor, Kennedy described "Robert Bork's America" as "a land in which women would be forced into back?alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens."


	Two years ago, at a pro-abortion rights rally in front of the Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., shouted: "I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions." Following this, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement: "Justices know that criticism comes with the territory. But threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous."


	Two years earlier, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., at a rally, called for the public harassment of President Donald Trump's Cabinet members. Waters shouted: "If you see anybody from that (Trump) Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."


	President Joe Biden, who once backed an amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade, recently slammed its possible reversal: "What are the next things that are going to be attacked? Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that's existed in American history — in recent American history."


	Even The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet criticized the intolerance of the supposedly tolerant Left. In 2017, Baquet said: "I don't understand how one can actually have an intellectual discourse in this country if you cannot have the opportunity to read thoughtful people with whom you disagree. We're at a moment in the country right now which I think, you know, the left should do some soul searching too, right? ... We don't want to hear anything — we've long said this about this about the Right ... but the Left as a rule does not want to hear thoughtful disagreement."


	I am pro-life. I oppose abortion. I live in California, where voters opposed abortion restriction propositions for parental notification and for waiting periods. As a federalist who believes that issues like abortion are properly left to the states, I see my role as a citizen, pundit and a person of faith to persuade, not threaten. There was a time when people on the Left felt this way, too.

Leftists Bury Another Norm

After angry public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito draft opinion on reversing Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas said: "We are

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