Have You Done THIS Yet? Have You?

With Gov. Murphy mandating that this election be conducted by VBM, it's all the more important that we follow through and support our great Republican candidates. That's why I put my ballot in the mail today during my weekend bike ride through LBI. Don't forget to vote by July 7! pic.twitter.com/DGi6x1Cdpa

— Jack M. Ciattarelli (@Jack4NJ) June 27, 2020

Devastated Eateries: Murphy Action A 'Body Blow'

Van Drew: Murphy 'Forcing Businesses To Die'

Statement by New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew about Governor Phil Murphy's decision to indefinitely delay the indoor reopening of restaurants and gyms in the state.

This is no longer about safety. This is Governor Murphy forcing businesses to die; businesses that just spent months investing and preparing to open at a time he gave his word to them on. The restaurants placed food orders, bought PPE, hired staff back, and started advertising.How is going to a busy big-box store any safer than a prepared restaurant?To compare us to other states undermines the pain and the work that went in to keeping us at the diminishing virus levels we are currently at. It does not represent any sense of reality in New Jersey.I am completely disgusted and my heart aches for the pain these business owners are feeling after their dreams are being smothered by Governor Murphy’s cruel change of mind.  

And Now, For the Days REALLY BIG Question!

While Joe Biden was doing that fake ‘everyman’ routine for years, did anyone ever ask him how he was able to afford this enormous mansion while he was on a government salary for 50 years? pic.twitter.com/ga0Ym2nT4H

— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) June 29, 2020

Have You Thought About THIS Lately?

Anarchy In Our Streets Will NOT Be Tolerated!

For more than a month, there has been a sustained assault on American civilians, law enforcement officers, public and private property, and national treasures such as the Lincoln Memorial. These attacks aren’t the actions of peaceful protesters—they are the violent criminal acts of rioters, arsonists, anarchists, and left-wing extremists. On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order to protect America’s monuments, memorials, and statues from those who seek to erase our history. “They’re tearing down statues, desecrating monuments, and purging dissenters,” the President said. “It’s not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; it’s the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don’t love our country.” Under the new order, any person who causes willful damage to federal property will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. President Trump will not tolerate violence and intimidation from a mob to impose its fringe ideology on law-abiding citizens. 🎬 Press Sec: “Anarchy in our streets is unacceptable, and anger is not enough.” President Trump’s latest action also allows federal support to be withheld from state and local law enforcement agencies who fail to protect such monuments and memorials. It is the sacred first duty of America’s leaders—federal, state, and local—to ensure domestic tranquility and defend the life, property, and rights of our citizens. In a letter to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday, President Trump offered a partnership to end the violence in Chicago and bring about real change. “If you are willing to put partisanship aside,” the President wrote, “we can revitalize distressed neighborhoods in Chicago, together. But to succeed, you must establish law and order.” Across our country, provocateurs who are ignorant of American history are attempting to rewrite it. Some politicians hope to appease this mob by negotiating with the extremists who are destroying their communities and even claiming entire city blocks. President Trump is standing up to these anarchists. Peaceful protesters deserve to be heard. Violent rioters deserve to be arrested. Real leaders can tell the difference. Read President Trump’s letter on the violence in Chicago. MORE: Administration takes action to protect America’s history from the mobs

‘Our moral obligation is to the American workers’ President Trump signed two executive orders on Friday at the sixth meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, a committee co-chaired by Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. The first order directs federal agencies to replace one-size-fits-all, degree-based hiring with skills-based hiring. Unnecessary degree requirements exclude otherwise qualified Americans from federal employment, impose the expense of college on prospective workers, and disproportionately harm low-income Americans. The second order continues President Trump’s National Council for the American Worker through at least next September. The President’s Pledge to America’s Workers has been signed by more than 400 companies and organizations. Together, these employers have pledged career training and development opportunities for over 16 million American workers—and counting. 🎬 Ivanka Trump: This President is leading by example Learn more: Putting skills before degrees in federal hiring

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President Trump signs an Executive Order on Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence | June 26, 2020

Phony Phil Plays Politics With YOUR Rights!

ZOA Exposes BLM Antisemitism; Demands Apology

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement:

 

The Zionist Organization of America demands an apology and retraction from Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) President Rick Jacobs and other Jewish leaders for libeling ZOA President Morton Klein. After Mr. Klein appropriately called out the Black Lives Matter (“BLM”) organization’s virulent, institutional antisemitism, other discriminatory hatreds, and anti-Israel blood libels, enshrined in the BLM/M4BL (Movement for Black Lives) platform, Facebook page and activities, URJ’s Rick Jacobs called Mr. Klein a “ racist ” and “ Islamophobic ” in articles printed in multiple newspapers. URJ/Jacobs also invoked these libelous names to condemn ZOA’s membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (the “CoP”) – an organization that the ZOA co-founded! Certain other leftwing Jewish leaders from the Reform and Conservative Jewish groups, women’s groups and Ameinu, whose president is treasurer of the extremist J Street, and the pro-BDS Peace Now and Workmen’s Circle also signed a letter (see below) falsely accusing Mr. Klein of promoting “hate in organized Jewish life,” and issued numerous similar tweets and website postings.

 

In sum, Rick Jacobs and those other Jewish leaders are essentially, absurdly, irrationally, and libelously saying that accurately calling a racist, antisemitic, Israel-hating organization “antisemitic” and “anti-Israel” makes one a “ racist ” and an “ Islamophobe” who promotes “hate.” 

 

These attacks by Rick Jacobs, etc. never give any reasons why Mr. Klein’s criticism of the BLM group’s antisemitism is wrong or false or inaccurate. They provide  no  facts to back up their name-calling or disparagement. Jacobs and others simply call Mort Klein names, with no explanation. 

 

Moreover, these inappropriate public attacks on Mr. Klein by certain Jewish leaders may be endangering Mr. Klein and his family. Mr. Klein has already received threatening phone calls to him and his family. This is intolerable and frightening. In this era of raw sensitivities and heightened antisemitism, inappropriate attacks and name-calling of Mort Klein, such as those leveled by Rick Jacobs, etc. against a Jewish leader, must not be tolerated and must stop and be retracted. 

 

We believe that these attacks are intended to silence, censor, demonize and marginalize Mr. Klein and ZOA for our strong pro-Israel political views, which are fiercely opposed by URJ, Jacobs, and the letter’s leftwing signatories. We believe these signatories want to diminish the credibility of ZOA and Mort Klein, while appeasing the Israel-hating BLM group. We believe they are afraid to criticize the BLM org., fearing this will antagonize them and provoke them to more hostile actions. But as history shows, appeasement always fails. Journalist Melanie Phillips  noted  that in “ an atmosphere redolent of the 17th century Salem witch trials ,” those, such as Mr. Klein, who criticize BLM’s anti-Jewish, insurrectionist side, are called “ racist “ and “ a Twitter mob then assembles to strip such people of their reputation, platform or job for the crime of telling the truth .” 

 

The attacks on ZOA and Mr. Klein also violate the rules of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which URJ and the letter’s signatories agreed to.

 

Rick Jacobs/URJ’s name-calling is patently ridiculous, as well as dangerous.  It is known that Morton Klein fought for Black civil and voting rights, attended numerous sit-ins and rallies for Black voting and civil rights, helped register Black voters, and was arrested in Mississippi for doing so.  

 

As a child of Holocaust survivors born in a displaced persons camp in Germany, who lost most of his family, including his grandparents, to the worst hatred and racism in history, Morton Klein knows first-hand the tragic results that unbridled hatred and racism can cause thus being acutely sensitive to hatred and racism.  

 

Condemning the antisemitic BLM organization is not a condemnation of Black people’s lives — it’s a condemnation of the BLM group’s antisemitic platform. Black people’s lives do matter, immensely.  

 

ZOA and Morton Klein  condemned  the horrific killing of George Floyd and racism with all our hearts, and promoted police reform.  

 

ZOA and Mr. Klein also appropriately condemned the attacks on innocent police officers; the widespread looting and riots; and the Black Lives Matter-led pogrom with its destruction of numerous Jewish businesses, and defacing and damaging of about a dozen synagogues and Jewish schools in Los Angeles, including painting the words “F--- Israel, Free Palestine” on synagogue walls. 

  

Courageous, highly-respected journalists and academics, including liberal Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, Melanie Phillips, Caroline Glick, Jonathan Tobin, Ruthie Blum and Joel Pollak, have all condemned BLM.  

For instance, Melanie Phillips  wrote : “ BLM is an anti-white, anti-capitalist and anti-Jewish hate group, ” and praised ZOA for standing up for truth and justice. Professor Dershowitz  condemned  BLM’s “war on the Jewish people,” and recently reiterated that the BLM platform is antisemitic, and  declared  on JBS television, “ I will defend [Mort Klein] politically, and if necessary, I will defend him legally”, while Glick condemned the “stunning silence” of Jewish leaders to these attacks on Jewish institutions. 

 

Muhammad Ali’s son, Muhammad Ali, Jr.,  called  BLM “racist,” and stated, ‘‘ My father would have said, ‘They [BLM] ain’t nothing but devils.’ My father said, ‘All lives matter. ’” Ali, Jr. also said, “ Black Lives Matter is not a peaceful protest ,” and called BLM divisive, saying, “ It’s a racial statement. It’s pitting black people against everyone else. It starts racial things to happen; I hate that .”

 

It’s also not “Islamophobic” to condemn terrorists who murder innocent Jews and others while screaming “Alluha Akbar.” It’s also not Islamophobic to be concerned about HIAS resettling unvetted immigrants from certain Mideast Muslim-majority countries where, according to ADL surveys, 74% to 93% of the population is antisemitic. We don’t need more Jew-haters and Israel-haters coming to America. We would similarly oppose clearly-recognized Black-haters coming to America. 

 

Organizations and individuals who demonize and perpetrate violence against the Jewish people must be called out – regardless of their color or creed.

 

The facts demonstrate that URJ, Rick Jacobs, and all Jewish leaders should  join  ZOA in protecting the Jewish community. We urge URJ and Jacobs and other Jewish leaders to join with ZOA in a united front, calling out the BLM group’s antisemitism, anti-Jewish violence and anti-Israelism – instead of maligning ZOA and Mr. Klein for fighting antisemitism and defending the Jewish people and Israel.

 

The BLM/M4BL official  platform * and the BLM  Facebook page  falsely accuse Israel of committing “genocide” against Palestinian Arabs – a vicious blood libel. (Incidentally, Israel’s Arab population today is ten times larger than it was when the Jewish State was re-established in 1948 — that’s not much of a genocide.) BLM condemns no other country but Israel. 

 

In his article condemning BLM’s war on the Jewish people, Professor Alan Dershowitz aptly  explained :

 

“Until and unless Black Lives Matter removes this blood libel [accusing Israel of committing genocide] from its platform and renounces it, no decent person — black, white or of any other racial or ethnic background — should have anything to do with it. . . .  To give Black Lives Matter a pass on its anti-Jewish bigotry would be to engage in racism. Black antisemitism is as inexcusable as white antisemitism or white racism. There can be no double standard when it comes to bigotry .” 

 

The BLM/M4BL platform and BLM Facebook page also falsely call Israel an “apartheid” state; demand ending U.S. military assistance to Israel; condemn the “global war on terror” and blame Israel for it; and promote antisemitic, anti-Israel BDS - Boycott Divestment and Sanctions. Among other things, the BLM/M4BL platform falsely asserts: “ The U.S. justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people .

 

*These and other BLM smears and attacks against the Jewish people are contained in the “Cut Military Expenditures Brief” section of the BLM/M4BL  platform .

 

BLM also falsely and outrageously claims that Israeli police train U.S. police to target African Americans.

 

In addition, the BLM/M4BL platform’s anti-Israel “Brief” contains two “resources”: the major “BDS movement” website and a “Black Palestinian Solidarity” website. Similar to the BLM/M4BL platform itself, these BLM “resource” sites contain vicious, incendiary, antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-American smears, and promote mutual “resistance” against the U.S. and Israel. These “resource” sites falsely accuse Israel of killing and “ targeting unarmed civilians ” including children; falsely accuse both the U.S. and Israel of “ unchecked state-sanctioned racialized violence ”; and promote multiple cultural, academic and economic boycott, sanctions, and divestment campaigns against Israel’s Jews and those who do business with or interact with Israel.  

 

The “resistance” that these groups encourage includes violence. During a joint BLM/Dream Defenders trip to “Palestine” (Israel), attended by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and Farrakhan-praising Israel bashing antisemite  Marc Lamont Hill , the BLM/DD attendees “resonated” with Palestinian-Arab statements urging them to “ deal[] with the obsession over ‘non-violence’ .” An attendee  reported : 

 

“ A [Palestinian] sister said in a meeting that until recently, [Palestinians]  didn’t have a distinction between violence and nonviolence — it was all resistance .  I think  that is so powerful  as Black Americans find themselves caught up in  this faux binary of good versus bad protester , and that assignment, to one or the other, is often handed down by those in power .”   

 

A  report  of Amb. Dore Gold’s Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs provides details about BLM co-author Dream Defenders’ extensive ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation Palestine (PFLP), including DD’s propaganda activities and trips to “Palestine” to ensnare Black activists into supporting the PFLP and hating Israel. DD and the PFLP also produced an 11th grade  curriculum  glorifying the PFLP and Black Panther Party (whose tenets are similar to those of the BLM platform). 

 

The PFLP is designated as a  foreign terrorist organization  by the U.S. State Department. PFLP terrorists assassinated Israel’s tourism minister, blew up airplanes, and attacked Jews praying in a Jerusalem synagogue with guns, knives, and axes,  murdering four innocent Jewish worshipers  – including three U.S. citizens – and a Druze policeman, and injuring twelve other innocent praying Jews.  

 

BLM-UK is also openly, repeatedly tweeting and retweeting vicious anti-Israel blood libels and calls for boycotts and sanctions against the Jewish state, including BDS-group “Al Haq”’s demonization of Israel and calls for anti-Israel actions. The Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs report “ Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs and Promoting BDS and Terrorist Organizations ” documents that Al Haq is headed and run by designated terror group PFLP operatives and convicted terrorists.  For instance, on June 28, 2020, BLM-UK tweeted: “ Mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel’s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades. FREE PALESTINE ,” and “ On the eve of Israel's planned formal annexation of Palestinian land, we stand with Palestinian civil society in calling for targeted sanctions in line with international law against Israel's colonial, apartheid regime ,” along with a series of four anti-Israel actions called for by Al Haq, including ending trade agreements, boycotts, ending military cooperation with Israel, and bringing Israelis to “justice” for their “war crimes.”

Rabbi and Law Professor Dov Fischer wrote about the recent BLM-led pogroms:    The Black Lives Matter pogrom saw attacks on Temple Beth El, Baba Sali Congregation, the Kosher Mensch Bakery and Kitchen, Cong. Beth Israel, Cong. Beth Tivereth Avi/Morasha, Shaarei Tefilah Synagogue, Shalhevet Yeshiva High School for Girls, and a Shul wall on which were spray-painted anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slogans. The Black Lives Matter pogromists even — get this! — defaced a statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who lost his life during the World War II era by leveraging his diplomatic status to  save thousands of Hungarian Jews  from being gassed and cremated by Hitler’s Nazis in Auschwitz. . . .

Jews on the scene during the Fairfax, Los Angeles pogrom reported  chants of “ F___ the police and kill the Jews ” and screams of, ‘ F___ Jews.’ ”   A key  instigator  of the Fairfax (Jewish district), Los Angeles pogrom, BLM-Los Angeles lead organizer Melina Abdullah, has an alarming record of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and is a  strong supporter and defender of notorious Nation of Islam Jew-basher  (“ Judaism is a gutter religion ”; “ Jews are Satan ”) Louis Farrakhan. Abdullah complained that the Women’s March included “Zionists,” and  accused  CNN of standing “ with a Zionist Israel that murders and terrorizes the Palestinian people ” when CNN didn’t renew Jew-hater Marc Lamont Hill’s contract. BLM-LA also partnered with the Nation of Islam.     It’s time to stop demeaning and falsely accusing ZOA and Morton Klein for simply having the courage to stand up against antisemitism of the group BLM.    ZOA Praises Stuart Applebaum, Jewish Labor Committee for their Apology: Stuart Applebaum, President of the Jewish Labor Committee, originally signed the June 12 joint letter discussed below. But then, Mr. Applebaum spoke to Mort Klein and stated that after examining ZOA’s stance on BLM, Mr. Applebaum realized that Mr. Klein and ZOA are not promoting hate. Mr. Applebaum stated that he regretted signing the June 12 letter, and apologized to Mr. Klein.    Signers of a Joint Letter, etc., Condemning Mort Klein for Correctly Condemning the Group BLM’s Antisemitism and Israel Hatred Also Need to Apologize and Retract Their Hateful Statement.   Fifteen left-leaning organizations’ leaders piled on, along with Rick Jacobs/URJ. In a widely-published letter, tweets and website postings, these organizations’ leaders condemned Mort Klein’s tweets about the group BLM’s antisemitism, etc. Similar to Rick Jacobs/URJ’s name-calling, this group letter and accompanying tweets and postings are devoid of facts. The letter, website postings, and tweets never even mention BLM’s hateful platform and activities, or the shocking attacks on numerous Jewish businesses, synagogues and schools in Los Angeles.     ZOA accordingly demands that these signers apologize to ZOA and Mr. Klein, and join us in condemning BLM’s hateful platform, dangerous demonization of Israel and hateful activities:   Kenneth Bob, President, Ameinu (Bob also serves as J Street’s Treasurer);  Hadar Susskind, President and CEO, Americans for Peace Now (APN also openly promotes partial anti-Israel BDS);  Rabbi Bennett Miller, National Chair, ARZA;  Rabbi Hara Person, Chief Executive, Central Conference of American Rabbis; Robert Aronson, Chair, HIAS;   Meredith Jacobs, CEO, Jewish Women International;  Janet Gurvitch, President, Na'amat USA;  Marilyn Wind, President, MERCAZ USA; Sheila Katz, CEO, National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW);  Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, Chief Executive, Rabbinical Assembly; Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President , Union of Reform Judaism (URJ);  Ann Toback, CEO, The Workers Circle;  Leslie Lichter, Interim CEO, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism; Rabbi Marla Feldman, Executive Director, Women of Reform Judaism; and Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League for Conservative Judaism   After the antisemitic pogrom in Los Angeles, it’s long-past time for left-leaning and all Jewish organizations to join ZOA and Morton Klein in combatting all forms of antisemitism – instead of attacking us and trying to vilify us for standing up for the Jewish people and Israel.

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