The powerful board of Penn&#8217;s Wharton business school is calling on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> President Liz Magill to resign over disturbing remarks that she made this week while testifying before Congress.
Magill did not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> during her testimony before the Committee on Education &amp; the Workforce that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the school&#8217;s code of conduct on bullying and harassment unless &#8220;the speech turns into conduct.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Conduct’ meaning committing the act of genocide?&#8221; Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) fired back. &#8220;The speech is not harassment? This is unacceptable.&#8221;
University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees held an “emergency meeting” on Thursday to address the continued fallout from Magill&#8217;s disastrous remarks.
The Wharton Board of Advisors &#8220;has been, and remains, deeply concerned about the dangerous and toxic culture on our campus that has been led by a select group of students and faculty and has been permitted by University leadership,&#8221; the Board said in a letter to Magill. &#8220;As confirmed in your congressional testimony yesterday, the leadership of the University does not share the values of our Board. Nor does it appear to understand the urgency to address the safety of our students on campus and the ongoing reputational damage to the University by the University’s policies and actions.&#8221;
&#8220;As a result of the University leadership&#8217;s stated beliefs and collective failure to act, our Board respectfully suggests to you and the Board of Trustees that the University requires new leadership with immediate effect,&#8221; the letter later added.
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NEWS 
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill is being asked to resign by the board of Penn&#39;s Wharton business school. <a href="https://t.co/ofrbxiSz19">https://t.co/ofrbxiSz19</a> <a href="https://t.co/wySprjgjnE">pic.twitter.com/wySprjgjnE</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1732941855338463738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-board-holds-emergency-meeting-after-gov-shapiro-blasts-penn-prezs-absolutely-shameful-comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> this week, &#8220;Leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test.&#8221;
&#8220;That was an unacceptable statement from the president of Penn,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penn-loses-100-million-donation-over-anti-semitism-congressional-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn Loses $100 Million Donation Over Anti-Semitism Congressional Testimony</a>

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Fed up with the anti-Israel bias and misinformation emanating from the terrorist group Hamas and their supporters in the mainstream media and on social media, major Jewish organizations are joining to launch a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leading-us-jewish-organizations-launch-the-107-project-a-new-centralized-communications-operation-to-promote-continued-us-bipartisan-support-for-israel-push-for-accurate-complete-coverage-of-israel-hamas-war-stronger-fo-302005368.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">communications operation</a> to give the public accurate information about the conflict.
The 10/7 Project, led by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, will focus on implementing an aggressive rapid response to the misinformation purveyed by Israel’s enemies. The 10/7 Project will also launch a daily newsletter and a <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4041860-1&amp;h=215032835&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.the10-7project.com%2F&amp;a=new+website" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new website</a> so legislators and the American public have access to real, fact-based information.
As Honest Reporting has <a href="https://honestreporting.com/featured/">continually noted</a>, media organizations including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Sky News, among others have demonstrated their anti-Israel bias in their reporting.
&#8220;Since October 7, there has been a concerted and consistent effort from Israel&#8217;s enemies to draw a false and dangerous equivalence between Hamas&#8217; deadly rampage to destroy the Jewish state and Israel&#8217;s right to defend itself against terrorists,&#8221; Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, stated. “The 10/7 Project will be a trusted and timely source of accurate information to set the record straight and combat false narratives perpetuated by Hamas terrorists and their anti-Israel allies.  They are responsible for slaughtering some 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians. This is no time for equivocation.&#8221;
&#8220;At this critical juncture, it is imperative that we separate fact from fiction regarding America&#8217;s most important Middle East ally and remind people that the vast majority of Americans understand that Hamas is our common enemy,&#8221; Eric Fingerhut, President &amp; CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, added. &#8220;Through aggressive rapid response and a comprehensive media campaign, The 10/7 Project will work tirelessly to combat misinformation and inaccurate reporting about the Israel-Hamas conflict and continue shining a light on the victims and hostages of October 7. We must ensure that murderous Hamas terrorists are not covered in a way that morally equates them with the sovereign, democratic state of Israel and its people, and that the loudest, most uninformed voices are not permitted to drown out the facts.&#8221;
&#8220;The 10/7 Project will help ensure that America&#8217;s leaders are educated and informed about Hamas&#8217;s despicable assault on the people of Israel and the Western values that America and Israel champion together,&#8221; said Howard Kohr, the CEO of AIPAC. &#8220;The United States must continue to stand with our democratic ally as it works to protect its families and secure its future.&#8221;
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&#8220;As leaders of American Jewry, we cannot be silent in the face of deadly violence from the Hamas Terrorist Army targeting the people of Israel,&#8221; William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, echoed. &#8220;We must ensure that America and the entire world are told and retold the stories of the butchery of the October 7 massacre. We must discredit and make outcasts of 10/7 deniers, who are Hamas sympathizers seeking to perpetuate false and misleading narratives by minimizing and rationalizing the most deadly day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. And we must work together, as one Jewish community, to successfully communicate to the American people the critical need to stand with Israel, as well as the importance of the US-Israel relationship to America and to Israel.&#8221;

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The Prime Minister of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ireland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ireland</a> was met with intense backlash on Saturday after he said on social media that one of the Israelis who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists last month was &#8220;lost&#8221; and had been &#8220;found and returned.&#8221;
Prime Minister Leo Varadkar made the remarks about 9-year-old Emily Hand, who was released by terrorists on Saturday after Israel brokered a deal to ensure her safe return to her family.
Emily, who was 8 years old when she was kidnapped on October 7, was thought to have been killed during the unprecedented terrorist attack in which Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis. She was kidnapped during a sleepover at a friend&#8217;s house at Kibbutz Be&#8217;eri.
&#8220;This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family,&#8221; Varadkar wrote on X. &#8220;An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief. Our prayers have been answered.&#8221;
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The Taoiseach of Ireland (Prime Minister) refers to a 9 year old girl who was brutally kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas as “lost” and “been found and returned.” <a href="https://t.co/9qgsc1ZDVL">pic.twitter.com/9qgsc1ZDVL</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1728562581286408542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Israeli Government Spokesman Eylon Levy responded to the post: &#8220;This is how you describe a little girl who went missing during a stroll in a forest, then gets discovered by a friendly hiker. Not a girl brutally abducted by death squads that brutally massacred her neighbors. But this explains the extent of Ireland&#8217;s contribution: prayers.&#8221;
&#8220;Lost? This wasn’t your phone that was ‘lost &amp; found’! This was a human being. A 9-year-old who was kidnapped and taken hostage into Gaza,&#8221; said International Human Rights attorney Arsen Ostrovsky. &#8220;Emily is an Irish-Israeli national. What an extraordinary tone deaf and heartless statement from the Ireland’s PM @LeoVaradkar!&#8221;
Former Trump administration official Ezra Cohen responded: &#8220;Are you ill? Since when is brutally kidnapped by a terrorist group described as &#8216;lost&#8217;? Why are you afraid to tell the truth about what happened to Emily and so many other children?&#8221;
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Are you ill? Since when is brutally kidnapped by a terrorist group described as “lost”? 
Why are you afraid to tell the truth about what happened to Emily and so many other children? <a href="https://t.co/tGAzwcFyJH">https://t.co/tGAzwcFyJH</a>
&mdash; Ezra A. Cohen (@EzraACohen) <a href="https://twitter.com/EzraACohen/status/1728570179808903675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Middle East security analyst Seth Frantzman wrote: &#8220;She was kidnapped illegally by Hamas in a crime against humanity and they say &#8216;lost&#8217;. Disgusting. Vile. It shows how they dehumanize people. Never forget. Never forgive.&#8221;
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&#8220;This moral monster is the Prime Minister of Ireland,&#8221; wrote columnist John Podhoretz.
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She wasn’t lost, you absolute schmuck. She was kidnapped by a terrorist group. 
And you did less than nothing to help her get home. <a href="https://t.co/Oo5O4c1Bxp">https://t.co/Oo5O4c1Bxp</a>
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She wasn’t “lost.” She was kidnapped by terrorists. <a href="https://t.co/yIlOz47T1Q">https://t.co/yIlOz47T1Q</a>
&mdash; Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDeanCain/status/1728563215892935153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As a Jew of Irish descent, I am so horrified and disgusted. Lost and found like she went for a fucking hike in the woods. <a href="https://t.co/eNbgCCzHpk">https://t.co/eNbgCCzHpk</a>
&mdash; Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) <a href="https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1728562886241350054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Lost, found &amp; returned? She’s not a pair of sunglasses accidentally left behind…she was kidnapped by the Islamist terrorists of Hamas, you quisling clown. <a href="https://t.co/tJAzwKpKgT">https://t.co/tJAzwKpKgT</a>
&mdash; Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1728556551060001024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Lost” and then “found”. Like maybe she wandered off at a shopping mall for a moment.
Trudeau and Varadkar are both pro-Hamas. <a href="https://t.co/LaRT9bk7oV">https://t.co/LaRT9bk7oV</a>
&mdash; Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1728568798716854658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Emily Hand was not “lost.” She was abducted by Hamas, a terrorist organization, in violation of international law. 
She is the victim of a war crime. <a href="https://t.co/qa7ab0FuUo">https://t.co/qa7ab0FuUo</a>
&mdash; Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1728574045271281991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Prime Minister Of Ireland Blasted Over ‘Vile’ Remark About 9-Year-Old Israeli Hostage

Prime Minister Of Ireland Blasted Over 'Vile' Remark About 9-Year-Old Israeli Hostage

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Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) slammed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) this week for an ad calling out various Democrats — including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — who have criticized Israel for defending itself against Hamas terror attacks. 
One AIPAC ad featured a picture of Omar superimposed over Hamas rocket fire, with the caption, “When Israel targets Hamas, Rep. Omar calls it an ‘act of terrorism.’”
“Hamas has fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians,&#8221; AIPAC wrote. &#8220;This isn’t about evictions, annexation, or two states. It’s not about Palestinians or a better future. It’s about Hamas wanting to terrorize Israelis, destroy Israel, and gain power for itself and its Iranian backers.”
The ad appeared to be referencing a May 10 tweet by Omar that read, “Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism.” 
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Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism.
Palestinians deserve protection.
Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians.
It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid. <a href="https://t.co/vWWQfMqBkT">https://t.co/vWWQfMqBkT</a>
&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1391841207588999168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Three other images shared by AIPAC displayed the text, “Israeli citizens — Jews and Arabs — have faced more than 3,100 rocket attacks over the past week from Hamas, an Iranian-backed terrorist organization. Tell Congress: America must stand with Israel.” 
One image shows numerous Democrats with the caption, “Israel is under attack yet some in Congress want to put political restrictions on our aid to Israel.” Another featured Ocasio-Cortez, with the caption, “‘It’s wrong’ for President Biden to say Israel ‘has a right to defend itself.’”
On Wednesday, Omar complained that the ads were “deeply offensive.”
“This is desperate and deeply offensive,” Omar tweeted. “The rights of Palestinians and all people yearning for freedom and self-determination will not be ignored and no level of harassment will silence me or the millions of people demanding peace and justice.”
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This is desperate and deeply offensive. 
The rights of Palestinians and all people yearning for freedom and self-determination will not be ignored and no level of harassment will silence me or the millions of people demanding peace and justice. <a href="https://t.co/JK3I0xcAjz">https://t.co/JK3I0xcAjz</a>
&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1395083364856700932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Pelosi responded to AIPAC&#8217;s ads by condemning the pro-Israel group.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t agree with Congresswoman Omar&#8217;s comments, but it&#8217;s very disappointing to see deeply cynical and inflammatory ads twisting her words,&#8221; Pelosi <a href="https://twitter.com/aidachavez/status/1395144717495640065?s=20">said</a> Wednesday. 
&#8220;As we always respect Israel&#8217;s right to defend herself, there must be a serious effort on the part of both parties in the conflict to end the violence and respect the rights of both the Israeli and Palestinian people,&#8221; Pelosi added. 
As reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/20/ilhan-omar-facebook-hamas-aipac/">The Washington Post</a>, Facebook refused to give in to Democrats&#8217; calls to remove the adverts from their platform. “Facebook spokesman Andy Stone confirmed the company determined the ads did not violate its policies. However, the social network does reject ads that its fact-checking partners determine are false, and the company told Omar’s office in an email exchange that this ad would be eligible for a fact check.”
According to the Post, Omar’s office expressed deep concern “that Facebook would continue to profit off this hate.”
In 2019, Omar was widely criticized for anti-Semitic rhetoric when she argued that American support for Israel was motivated by Jewish money, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700901834/minnesota-congresswoman-ignites-debate-on-israel-and-anti-semitism">tweeting</a>, “It&#8217;s all about the Benjamins baby.”

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Two people who attended a Washington, D.C. conference &#8212; where Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech &#8212; have tested positive for coronavirus.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) announced that two people from New York who attended the conference this week have confirmed cases of the contagious disease.
“We have confirmed that at least two Policy Conference attendees from New York have tested positive for the Coronavirus,” AIPAC told conference attendees and participants in an email on Friday.
“We have continued to remain in constant communication with the Westchester County Health Department and the DC Health Department which is coordinating with the New York Health Department, and national health authorities,” the email said, according to <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/03/07/virus-hits-dc-two-aipac-conference-attendees-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-894800">Biz Pac Review</a>.
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Important Update: Coronavirus 
As emailed to Policy Conference attendees, participants, speakers, administration and Hill offices.<a href="https://t.co/0mkWeuRErA">https://t.co/0mkWeuRErA</a> <a href="https://t.co/EHl694pkgJ">pic.twitter.com/EHl694pkgJ</a>
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More than 18,000 people, along with many congressional lawmakers, attend the conference each year, its website says. This year, Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as well as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming attended. Also on hand were former 2020 Democratic candidates Mike Bloomberg and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.
Pence, who has been tapped by President Donald Trump to head up the administration&#8217;s response to the virus, said during a Friday briefing that he hadn&#8217;t heard that people at the conference had tested positive.
“That’s the first I’ve heard of it, in the midst of a busy day,” Pence said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also said during the press conference that he had not heard the news.
“If you have someone who was here, the risk of there being a major outbreak obviously, which everybody thinks about, but what will happen is that those individuals that were infected will have contact tracing and that’s the ‘public health weapon,’ if you want to call it, that we have,&#8221; he said.
The D.C. Department of Health said in a statement Friday that “there is no identified risk to conference attendees at this time.&#8221;
“All attendees and members of the public are urged to follow the well-established prevention tips like staying home if sick and calling ahead to a health provider if experiencing symptoms,” the Health Department said.
The White House moved to tighten visitor restrictions last month amid fears that the coronavirus could spread there, and is holding regular meetings on how to reduce the threat to Trump and his staff, according to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/06/how-white-house-is-protecting-trump-from-the-coronavirus/">New York Post</a> report.
&#8220;In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the White House has mandated that guests disclose all countries visited in the past 30 days. And further steps are under review by a group led by Tony Ornato, White House deputy chief of staff for operations,&#8221; the Post reported.
<blockquote>The group was described to The Post by one senior administration official as a “task force” that convenes when necessary to address emerging threat situations.
The biggest visible change in the West Wing has been installation of hand sanitizer stations. But the senior official said temperature checks and ending public tours are possible if the crisis worsens — though neither is imminent.
The Ornato-led group is “constantly monitoring and re-evaluating” White House protocols, the official said.</blockquote>
Back on February 21, the Secret Service began &#8220;requiring non-pass-holding visitors to the White House complex to submit a list of countries visited in the past 30 days.&#8221;
“It’s not a hard and fast ban, but it lets the medical experts know who to talk to with follow-up questions,” an official told The Post. “People have been very cooperative and understanding, which we appreciate.”

Mike Pence And Nikki Haley Address Annual AIPAC Conference In Washington

Two People At D.C. Conference Attended By VP Pence Test Positive For Coronavirus

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Socialist Bernie Sanders, the front runner in race for the Democratic presidential nomination, attacked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Sunday and was subsequently condemned by the organization.
&#8220;The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security,&#8221; Sanders wrote on Twitter. &#8220;So do the Palestinian people. I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference.&#8221;
Sanders concluded, &#8220;As president, I will support the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians and do everything possible to bring peace and security to the region.&#8221;
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As president, I will support the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians and do everything possible to bring peace and security to the region. 2/2
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1231709011688480768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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AIPAC responded in a statement, writing, “Senator Sanders has never attended our conference and that is evident from his outrageous comment. In fact, many of his own Senate and House Democratic colleagues and leaders speak from our platform to the over 18,000 Americans from widely diverse backgrounds – Democrats, Republicans, Jews, Christians, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, progressives, Veterans, students, members of the LGBTQ+ community – who participate in the conference to proclaim their support for the U.S.-Israel relationship.&#8221;
&#8220;By engaging in such an odious attack on this mainstream, bipartisan American political event, Senator Sanders is insulting his very own colleagues and the millions of Americans who stand with Israel,&#8221; AIPAC concluded. &#8220;Truly shameful.&#8221;
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Senator Sanders has never attended our conference and that is evident from his outrageous comment. 
Full statement: <a href="https://t.co/XDcNKhYXSq">https://t.co/XDcNKhYXSq</a> <a href="https://t.co/aJGJiv2wv8">pic.twitter.com/aJGJiv2wv8</a>
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Sanders has surrounded himself with fringe far-left voices – ranging from members of Congress to activists – who have extensive histories of documented anti-Semitism.
The most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-omar-tlaib-take-democrats-anti-ryan-saavedra">prominent anti-Semites</a> that Sanders has surrounded himself with on his campaign include socialist Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and far-left activist <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/liberals-democrats/bernie-sanders-linda-sarsour/">Linda Sarsour</a>.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who walks in lock-step with Omar and Tlaib but is more careful with her words, is also campaigning for Sanders.
Omar, who is among the most notorious anti-Semites in the country, responded with Sanders&#8217; attack on AIPAC with glee, writing, &#8220;Thank you @BernieSanders for standing up for Palestinian human rights. All candidates should follow Bernie’s example and #SkipAIPAC!&#8221;
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Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> for standing up for Palestinian human rights.
All candidates should follow Bernie’s example and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SkipAIPAC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SkipAIPAC</a>! <a href="https://t.co/tdembI9iV5">https://t.co/tdembI9iV5</a>
&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1231733459229585409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;[Sanders] supports a &#8216;two-state solution&#8217; to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has often been very hostile to Israel’s defensive measures against the radical Islamic terrorism that engulfs the Jewish state on all sides,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-bernie-sanders-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">reported</a> last year. &#8220;While running for president in 2016, Sanders <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-Jewish-group-slams-Bernie-Sanders-for-misstatements-on-2014-Gaza-war-450507">cited a blatantly false number</a> of Palestinian-Arab deaths that had allegedly resulted from the 2014 Gaza Strip war between the two sides.&#8221;
Sanders&#8217; repeated hostility toward Israel has led some to predict that if he becomes the Democratic nominee that &#8220;Trump will win a majority of Jewish voters.&#8221;
New York Times columnist Bari Weiss even agrees with the assessment.
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That is correct.
&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1231755449239822338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Sanders&#8217; contempt for Israel spilled over during his recent CNN town hall last week when he falsely accused Israel&#8217;s government of being racist.
Sanders was asked, “How do US-Israel relations look under your administration?”
“To be for the Israeli people and to be for peace in the Middle East does not mean that we have to support right-wing, racist governments that currently exist in Israel,” Sanders <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/sanders-you-can-support-israelis-without-backing-their-racist-government/">responded</a>.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

Vermont Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders, Surrounded By Anti-Semites, Attacks AIPAC. AIPAC Responds In Statement.

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In a now-viral clip, 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was caught on camera, while campaigning in New Hampshire, affirmatively agreeing with a questioner&#8217;s utterly vile depiction of prominent bipartisan pro-Israel organization American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
&#8220;I&#8217;m an American Jew,&#8221; the leftist begins, &#8220;and I&#8217;m terrified of the unholy alliance that AIPAC is forming with Islamophobes and anti-Semites and white nationalists. And no Democrat should legitimize that kind of bigotry by attending their annual <a href="https://event.aipac.org/PolicyConference">Policy Conference</a>. I&#8217;m really grateful that you skipped the AIPAC Conference last year. And so my question is if you&#8217;ll join me in committing to skip the AIPAC Conference this March.&#8221;
All along, Warren is seen visibly and passionately nodding. She then simply responded to the interlocutor: &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;
Trump re-election campaign Deputy Director of Communications – Research Zach Parkinson tweeted out the following accurate description to accompany the video: &#8220;Tonight, Elizabeth Warren nodded along and smiled as a questioner slandered AIPAC as &#8216;an unholy alliance&#8217; of &#8216;Islamophobes,&#8217; &#8216;anti-semites, and white nationalists&#8217; that perpetuates &#8216;bigotry&#8217; Without blinking, Warren then agreed to boycott next year&#8217;s AIPAC conference.&#8221;
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Tonight, Elizabeth Warren nodded along and smiled as a questioner slandered AIPAC as &quot;an unholy alliance&quot; of &quot;Islamophobes,&quot; &quot;anti-semites, and white nationalists&quot; that perpetuates &quot;bigotry&quot;
Without blinking, Warren then agreed to boycott next year&#39;s AIPAC conference <a href="https://t.co/U2MJ6DCTdZ">pic.twitter.com/U2MJ6DCTdZ</a>
&mdash; Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AZachParkinson/status/1225619091739881472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Warren has been consistently anti-Israel, in terms of both policy and personnel, throughout her entire campaign.
“It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution,” Warren <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1186052533405528067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1186052533405528067&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fwatch-elizabeth-warren-says-shes-open-to-cutting-off-aid-to-israel">intoned</a> back in November, “and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table.”
&#8220;Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) revealed on Saturday that she is open to withholding billions of dollars in military aid to Israel until the government ceases building settlements in the country’s West Bank,&#8221; The Daily Wire similarly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-elizabeth-warren-says-shes-open-to-cutting-off-aid-to-israel">reported</a> at the time.
Sounds a lot like a quid pro quo, no?
The Daily Wire has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-elizabeth-warren-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">criticized</a> Warren&#8217;s naive foreign policy views with respect to Israel and her mollycoddling of anti-Semitic congresspeople: &#8220;She supports a &#8216;two-state solution&#8217; to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has often been critical of Israel’s need to robustly defend itself amid a sea of existential enemies surrounding it. Warren has disingenuously implied that congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has merely engaged in criticism of Israel’s present government, rather than also engaging in overt anti-Semitism.&#8221;
Perhaps worst of all, last summer Warren <a href="https://www.jta.org/2019/07/29/united-states/meet-max-berger-the-jewish-anti-occupation-activist-on-elizabeth-warrens-campaign">hired Max Berger</a>, a co-founder of vehemently anti-Israel, self-hating &#8220;Jewish&#8221; group IfNotNow, to be a top campaign operative. Amazingly, Berger was actually <a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/ANTI-SEMITE-OF-THE-WEEK--MAX-BERGER--ELIZABETH-WARREN-S-NEW-STAFFER--WANTS-TO-BE-FRIENDS-WITH-HAMAS.html?soid=1131491229186&amp;aid=9lf-XdrU8EU">once named &#8220;Anti-Semite of the Week&#8221;</a> by the organization <a href="http://StopAntiSemitism.org">StopAntiSemitism.org</a>: &#8220;<a href="https://canarymission.org/individual/Max_Berger" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Max Berger</a> is a co-founder and one of the most prominent leaders of the radical &#8230; group IfNotNow. The groups calls for the destruction of the state of Israel, idolizes terrorists and spreads lies and false propaganda against the Jewish State. &#8230; This week, Berger caused outrage for a now-deleted 2013 tweet in which he confesses he would &#8216;totally be friends with Hamas&#8217; — a designated terror organization in the U.S. which is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.&#8221;
AIPAC, of course, is not exactly a fiery right-wing group. Last March, following its 2019 Policy Conference, I wrote a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-what-exactly-current-role-aipac-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> entitled, &#8220;What Exactly Is The Current Role For AIPAC?&#8221;:
<blockquote>And yet AIPAC is hardly a particularly conservative group. Indeed, many of us in the more traditional, Eretz Yisrael-inspired camp of Zionism tend to view AIPAC as a nuisance at best and a counterproductive gadfly at worst. AIPAC stubbornly continues to lend <a href="https://www.aipac.org/news-hub/articles/25-years-since-oslo">de facto</a> support to the Oslo Accords — the single biggest geopolitical blunder in Israel’s national history. Two bloody intifadas, countless thousands killed by Islamist extremism, and one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44732/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">outrageous</a> Gaza unilateral withdrawal later, AIPAC <a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/03/04/politics/aipac-launches-conference-appeal-progressives">continues</a> to support a <a href="https://www.aipac.org/learn/issues/issue-display/the-peace-process">“two-state solution”</a> entailing the carving out of a new PLO terrorist state somewhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. AIPAC’s institutionally self-aggrandizing support of mass U.S. military aid to Israel, furthermore, actually <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/04/support-israel-which-why-don-support-aid-israel/SXvLm92jTazjoV33k7Y65L/story.html">redounds against</a> the <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/rand-paul-is-right-about-aid-to-israel/">long-term interests</a> of Zionism.</blockquote>

Elizabeth Warren Holds Get Out The Vote Event In Derry, NH

WATCH: Elizabeth Warren Nods Along While Questioner Calls AIPAC An ‘Unholy Alliance’ Of ‘Islamophobes, Anti-Semities, And White Nationalists’

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<a href="https://jstreet.org">J Street</a> has long been one of the most pernicious anti-Israel groups operating in the open. Untold amounts of ink have been <a href="https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2013/12/3/letter-j-street-liberals-fundamentally-misunderstand-pro-israel/">spilled</a> revealing the self-described &#8220;political home of pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans&#8221; for the <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/222366-j-street-pro-progressive-not-pro-israel">highly biased</a>, anti-Israel, <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/anti-zionism-of-j-street/">Palestinian-Arab apologist</a> organization that it is.
For years following its 2007 founding by leftist activist Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street operated on the outermost fringes of the institutional pro-Israel and Jewish communities. But the years-long success of the <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/open-hillel-is-a-much-bigger-problem-than-you-think/">insidious</a> &#8220;Open Hillel&#8221; movement helped to ingratiate J Street, which routinely assails Israeli governmental policy and never seems to find any fault with Islamist terror acts committed against the Jewish state, within some more mainstream elements of the American Jewish community. And as Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro recently wrote, the modern Democratic Party feels more at home within the J Street fold than it does within the ambit of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-what-exactly-current-role-aipac-josh-hammer">moderate</a> pro-Israel group AIPAC:
<blockquote>[T]he heart of the Democratic Party has moved against Israel. &#8230; So the Democrats built up and gave credence to J Street, a Trojan horse group dedicated to undermining American support for Israel and justifying left-wing hatred of the Jewish state. J Street was founded by Clinton operative Jeremy Ben-Ami and Israeli far-left political figure Daniel Levy in late 2007. One of its chief sources of funding — a source obscured in the early years by its founders — was anti-Israel radical George Soros.</blockquote>
Accordingly, four candidates for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination — South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Rep. Julian Castro (D-TX), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — spoke last month at the <a href="https://jstreet.org/conference/">J Street National Conference</a>. By contrast, not a single 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate spoke at the <a href="http://www.policyconference.org">AIPAC Policy Conference</a> last spring.
Now, the indispensable Legal Insurrection website has <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/11/j-street-radicalization-conference-speaker-compares-netanyahu-to-louis-farrakhan-and-stands-by-tamika-mallory/">highlighted</a> a particularly vile and irksome exchange that emanated from the bowels of the conference. It appears that April Baskin, who has the titles of &#8220;Racial Justice Director, Jewish Social Justice Roundtable&#8221; and &#8220;Founder/Principal, Joyous Justice Consulting,&#8221; defended noted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-womens-march-president-suggests-jews-are-ryan-saavedra">anti-Semite Tamika Mallory</a> and expressly compared infamous <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/17/us/farrakhan-again-describes-hitler-as-a-very-great-man.html">anti-Semite</a> Louis Farrakhan to longtime Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-after-much-electoral-fanfare-israelis-once-josh-hammer">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>. Per <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/11/j-street-radicalization-conference-speaker-compares-netanyahu-to-louis-farrakhan-and-stands-by-tamika-mallory/">Legal Insurrection</a>:
<blockquote>[P]anelist April Baskin said that white supremacy is &#8220;woven into Jewish life in America.&#8221; She also said there are things she &#8220;hates&#8221; about the Jewish community — including her belief that Jews have a &#8220;propensity&#8221; to &#8220;complain.&#8221; &#8230;
Later in the session, Baskin declared her support for the disgraced Tamika Mallory. Mallory’s downfall culminated in early 2019 when when it emerged that she maintained a close relationship with the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan. Mallory, the ex-Women’s March leader, refused to condemn Farrakhan and even posted a picture calling the anti-Semite &#8220;the GOAT (greatest of all time).&#8221;</blockquote>
Perhaps most egregiously of all, Baskin compared infamous Jew-hater Farrakhan to Netanyahu: &#8220;Tamika Mallory being pictured with with Louis Farrakhan, honestly, isn’t that different to me than my former boss, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, being seated with prime minister Netanyahu. In both cases, they both largely don’t agree with their politics, but in both cases, those are leaders who are connected to a large body of people.&#8221;
As of publication time, it seems that none of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who spoke at last month&#8217;s J Street National Conference have condemned Baskin&#8217;s vicious smear. Surprise, surprise.

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J Street Conference Speaker Compares Benjamin Netanyahu To Louis Farrakhan

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Today, news broke that former New York City mayor and prominent billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg is considering tossing his hat into the dystopian ring that is the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary. The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-bloomberg-preparing-to-enter-2020-democratic-race-11573167459?mod=hp_lead_pos3">quotes</a> a Bloomberg adviser named Howard Wolfson, who suggests that the main reason Bloomberg might jump in is his fear that none of the current 2020 Democrats can defeat President Donald Trump at the ballot box.
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&#8220;Mike believes that Donald Trump represents an unprecedented threat to our nation,&#8221; Mr. Wolfson said.
&#8220;Mike is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned to [defeat Trump],&#8221; Mr. Wolfson said. &#8220;If Mike runs he would offer a new choice to Democrats built on a unique record running America’s biggest city, building a business from scratch and taking on some of America’s toughest challenges as a high-impact philanthropist.&#8221;
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By all means, Bloomberg should enter the fray if he feels called to do so. But we should not mince words here: There is no chance whatsoever that Bloomberg would successfully win the Democratic presidential nomination if he were to enter the field. And the chief reason for that is very simple. Bloomberg would have no shot because he is a somewhat sane person who would be seeking the presidential nomination of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-democratic-party-has-become-parody-itself-josh-hammer">fully insane</a> political party.
Bloomberg, who has made a veritable fortune over the course of a lifetime working in the financial services industry, is an ex-Republican who openly identifies as a <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/30/bloomberg_we_shouldnt_be_embarrassed_about_capitalism_non-capitalistic_venezuela_is_collapsing.html">capitalist</a>. But he would be seeking the presidential nomination of a political party whose grassroots <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/240725/democrats-positive-socialism-capitalism.aspx">increasingly identify</a> as more socialistic than capitalistic. He would be seeking the presidential nomination of a political party in which the leading sources of disagreement over the course of the past few televised primary debates have been whether the harebrained &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; nostrums has a bankrupting price tag best estimated at $40 trillion or $50 trillion, and whether it is appropriate to literally eliminate private health insurance for over a hundred million American citizens while implementing that quixotic socialized medicine scheme.
Bloomberg, furthermore, is nothing if not a lifelong friend of the Jewish state of Israel. In 2014, when anti-Israel President Barack Obama oversaw a temporary <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/213288-obama-defends-israel-flight-ban">U.S. flight ban</a> to Israel amidst the jihadist rocket fire that rained down on the Jewish state that summer from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">Hamas</a>-controlled Gaza Strip, Bloomberg personally <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2014-07-23/why-i-flew-to-israel">flew to Israel</a> solely to demonstrate to his fellow Americans that it was safe to do so. Bloomberg may not be a hardcore <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-the-pro-israel-case-against-u-s-military-aid-to-israel">Caroline Glick-style Zionist</a>, but he is, at minimum, an AIPAC-style pro-Israel advocate. But the modern Democratic Party is no longer an AIPAC-style pro-Israel political party. On the contrary, the 2020 Democrats now shirk AIPAC en masse in favor of obeisance at the sycophantically pro-Palestinian altar of the vehemently anti-Israel group <a href="https://www.creators.com/read/ben-shapiro/10/19/the-j-street-democrats">J Street</a>.
Additionally, it must be noted that Bloomberg, while hardly Orthodox in identification, is nonetheless proudly and publicly Jewish. This too is a problem for the modern Democratic Party, which extols the virtues of Holocaust deniers like Palestinian Authority chieftain Mahmoud Abbas, glorifies Jew-haters like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and is being rapidly Corbynized into an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">overtly anti-Semitic</a> political vehicle. It is difficult to see how Bloomberg&#8217;s proud Jewishness counts, in the eyes of today&#8217;s Democratic Party, as anything other than a net negative.
Bloomberg would have no chance for the Democratic presidential nomination were he to formally enter the fray. He is a sane Jew who would be seeking the presidential nomination in a fully insane, socialist, increasingly Jew-hating political party.

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HAMMER: Michael Bloomberg Would Have No Chance At The Democratic Presidential Nomination

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-will-win-democratic-primary-latest-2020-josh-hammer">Leading</a> 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has come under fire, of late, for her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-elizabeth-warren-says-shes-open-to-cutting-off-aid-to-israel">suggestion</a> that U.S. foreign aid to our ally Israel could become jeopardized by an oh-so-very obstinate Israeli governmental refusal to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">commit national suicide</a> at the jihadist altar of the &#8220;two-state solution&#8221; cartel. &#8220;It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution,&#8221; Warren <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1186052533405528067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1186052533405528067&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fwatch-elizabeth-warren-says-shes-open-to-cutting-off-aid-to-israel">intoned</a>, &#8220;and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table.&#8221; Similarly, today comes news that fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg <a href="https://twitter.com/merica/status/1191415957731848192">believes</a> that the U.S. must &#8220;take steps to make sure th[at] US taxpayers [are] not contributing&#8221; to policies counter to the much-ballyhooed &#8220;two-state solution.&#8221;
Sounds a lot like a <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1191416211537616897">quid pro quo</a>, no?
Alas, none of this anti-Israel braggadocio is particularly new for the Left. Many today forget that Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin&#8217;s thunderous 1982 Zionist vow that he was &#8220;not a Jew with trembling knees&#8221; was issued in <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/menachem-begin-to-joe-biden-i-am-not-a-jew-with-trembling-knees/2015/04/03/">direct response</a> to &#8230; wait for it &#8230; then-Sen. Joe Biden&#8217;s (D-DE) threat to cut off U.S. aid to Israel. Yes, that would be the same purported &#8220;moderate&#8221; now once again seeking his party&#8217;s presidential nomination. Similarly, when ham-handed former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/john-kerry-israel-apartheid-palestine-peace-process-2014-4">dropped the &#8220;apartheid&#8221; word</a> in 2014 to describe the oh-so-very dire possible outcome of failed Israeli-Palestinian <del>capitulation to jihad</del> &#8220;peace talks,&#8221; it seemed obvious that the bumbling Bostonian had in mind a withholding of U.S. aid to Israel as one plausible penalty.
The status quo of <a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf">mass U.S. aid to Israel</a>, therefore, amounts to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles#Sword_of_Damocles">sword of Damocles</a> that empowers hardened anti-Israel U.S. policymakers to wield U.S. aid as a cudgel toward achieving their leftist, capitulatory, Islamism-empowering policy goals. There is no reason to ever expect this to change: Contra the bemused lecturing of the likes of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), such quid pro quos and strings attached on foreign aid beneficence are intrinsic to the entire foreign aid edifice itself. The result is to denigrate Israel as little more than an American satrap that must act according to the capricious whims of a foreign superpower. Israeli sovereignty is a casualty — as is Zionism itself.
It therefore ought to make sense that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20070425_RL33222_ee97f8a100b2abd96b43a0f4d0cc6848e74efb26.pdf">suggested</a> a reduction and eventual phasing out of U.S. aid (technically just economic aid, but Netanyahu&#8217;s logic also applies to military aid) to Israel during his initial prime minister stint during the 1990s. Caroline Glick — arguably the single most consistently <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Israeli-Solution-One-State-Peace-Middle/dp/0385348061">arch-Zionist</a> commentator of the past two decades — has long <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-one-Time-to-walk-away-from-US-aid-462677">believed</a> in phasing out U.S. aid to Israel, going so far as to call military aid a &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/carolineglick/posts/i-believe-that-us-military-aid-to-israel-is-a-poison-pill-israel-subsidizes-us-m/859228864147869/">poison pill</a>&#8221; for Israel. Venerable Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, a longtime stalwart of the pro-Israel community, <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2016/09/05/israel-doesnt-need-american-foreign-aid-n2213875">agrees</a>. Not only are Israeli self-determination and Zionism itself undermined, but the median American&#8217;s opinion of the morally and strategically indispensable U.S.-Israel alliance is sullied by crass fiscal considerations. To state the obvious, phasing out the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid from receiving any foreign aid would redound to the interests of U.S. taxpayers.
True, this phasing out cannot happen overnight. True also, there have historically been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-how-bernie-sanders-could-actually-hurt-the-palestinians">real American gains</a> from U.S. aid to Israel. But the reality is that in the long run, contra the more organizationally myopic views of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-what-exactly-current-role-aipac-josh-hammer">powerful organs</a> of the Jewish and pro-Israel establishment, both the United States and Israel alike would benefit from a phasing out and gradual winding down of all U.S. aid to Israel. This conclusion surely strikes many in the pro-Israel community as counter-intuitive, but it is ultimately correct. The integrity of the Zionist project would only be fortified by the Jewish state&#8217;s slowly weaning itself off Uncle Sam&#8217;s fiscal teat.

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HAMMER: The Pro-Israel Case Against U.S. Military Aid To Israel

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The 2019 AIPAC <a href="http://www.policyconference.org/gallery/speakers2019.asp">Policy Conference</a> wrapped up yesterday in Washington, D.C. Considered the top annual gathering for pro-Israel activists, countless synagogues and on-campus Hillel chapters across the nation send representatives to the Policy Conference each year.
Although Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is organizationally <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2015/01/07/christians-united-for-israel-hits-2-million/">larger</a>, AIPAC is oftentimes considered more powerful and influential for at least three reasons. First, it is wealthier. Second, it is more closely associated with the American Jewish community, which remains the traditional &#8212; though, by <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/jewish-american-beliefs-attitudes-culture-survey/">no means</a> whatsoever, the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/03/more-white-evangelicals-than-american-jews-say-god-gave-israel-to-the-jewish-people/">future</a> &#8212; bastion of American pro-Israel sympathy. Third, in contrast to the more conservative-leaning and <a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2016/july/cufi-responsible-for-gops-strong-pro-israel-platform">Republican Party-friendly</a> CUFI, AIPAC&#8217;s entire raison d&#8217;être is to protect and promote bipartisan support for the Jewish state.
It is the third plank &#8212; bipartisan support for Israel &#8212; that forms the true backbone of AIPAC&#8217;s institutional identity. Paradoxically, however, it is also the plank that makes the future of AIPAC the murkiest.
As I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">wrote</a> earlier this month, the Democratic Party &#8212; the political party of Harry Truman, who first recognized the fledgling Zionist state in May 1948 &#8212; is quickly and irrevocably transmogrifying into an institutionally anti-Israel, anti-Jewish party:
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Tough as it may be for inveterate leftist Jews <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/420430/the-left-is-making-jews-choose-our-progressive-values-or-ourselves/">to process</a>, true <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43632/mini-brexit-seven-mps-flee-labour-blast-it-josh-hammer">Corbynization</a> &#8212; the metastasization of the once-pro-Israel Democratic Party into a U.K. Labour Party-esque leftist outfit that routinely shills for Jew-haters &#8212; continues apace. How far &#8212; and how quickly &#8212; we have fallen from Islamic Republic of Iran Sycophant-in-Chief Barack Obama&#8217;s egregious <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/10/obama-outrages-by-calling-4-jewish-victims-of-pari/">description</a> of a 2015 Parisian kosher supermarket shooting executed by Islamic State jihadis as &#8220;a bunch of folks [randomly shot] in a deli.&#8221; Four years later, Obama&#8217;s party cannot bring itself to support a toothless, anodyne, non-personalized <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44279/hammer-house-democrats-anti-anti-semitism-josh-hammer">resolution</a> that is merely condemnatory of the world&#8217;s oldest, bloodiest, crudest, most systemic bigotry.
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The central tension inherent in AIPAC&#8217;s over-arching purpose &#8212; the maintenance of bipartisan support for the Jewish state in a world in which one of America&#8217;s two political parties is quickly approaching something closely akin to full-on <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1108879606377922561'">BDS advocacy</a> &#8212; has therefore long been apparent to savvy observers. The rise of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45198/rachmuth-j-street-gaslights-americans-about-threat-sloan-rachmuth">J Street</a>, the wildly anti-Israel agitprop outfit that farcically summons the chutzpah to dub itself &#8220;pro-Israel,&#8221; has long provided breathing room on the American Left for the percolation and normalization of &#8220;anti-Zionism&#8221;-masquerading Jew-hatred. The rise of J Street&#8217;s clout on the Left has transpired in close tandem with the rise of the progressive base&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38455/intersectionality-leads-ignoring-anti-semitism-ben-shapiro">inherently anti-Semitic</a> &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; cult of faux-intellectual doltishness. It should thus be little surprise that, for a political movement for whom such Jew-haters as Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar serve as the new &#8220;it girls,&#8221; it is now de rigueur for the movement&#8217;s presidential contenders to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435280-trump-on-2020-dems-skipping-aipac-they-are-totally-anti-israel">forswear attendance</a> at AIPAC&#8217;s Policy Conference.
And yet AIPAC is hardly a particularly conservative group. Indeed, many of us in the more traditional, Eretz Yisrael-inspired camp of Zionism tend to view AIPAC as a nuisance at best and a counterproductive gadfly at worst. AIPAC stubbornly continues to lend <a href="https://www.aipac.org/news-hub/articles/25-years-since-oslo">de facto</a> support to the Oslo Accords &#8212; the single biggest geopolitical blunder in Israel&#8217;s national history. Two bloody intifadas, countless thousands killed by Islamist extremism, and one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44732/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">outrageous</a> Gaza unilateral withdrawal later, AIPAC <a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/03/04/politics/aipac-launches-conference-appeal-progressives">continues</a> to support a <a href="https://www.aipac.org/learn/issues/issue-display/the-peace-process">&#8220;two-state solution&#8221;</a> entailing the carving out of a new PLO terrorist state somewhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. AIPAC&#8217;s institutionally self-aggrandizing support of mass U.S. military aid to Israel, furthermore, actually <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/04/support-israel-which-why-don-support-aid-israel/SXvLm92jTazjoV33k7Y65L/story.html">redounds against</a> the <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/rand-paul-is-right-about-aid-to-israel/">long-term interests</a> of Zionism.
AIPAC&#8217;s dilemma is thus real. Caught in the middle between an increasingly &#8220;anti-Zionist&#8221; Democratic Party and a Republican Party with many passionate Zionist supporters whose views on Jewish rights in the Jews&#8217; homeland of Judea and Samaria do not align with the horrifically failed vision of Oslo, it is not immediately obvious <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Achieving-AIPACs-mission-544632">what role AIPAC serves</a> in the year 2019.
Consider the <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/207251/the-end-of-aipacs-israel-monopoly">following conclusion</a> of Jeff Ballabon, written at Tablet in July 2016 around a year after AIPAC&#8217;s catastrophic <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/09/03/how-aipac-lost-the-iran-deal-fight/">failed attempt</a> to kill the affirmatively evil capitulation to fundamentalist jihadism commonly known as the &#8220;Iran nuclear deal&#8221;:
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The pro-Israel community should push AIPAC to reposition itself with a clear eye on contemporary reality. AIPAC can best serve the pro-Israel cause by redeploying its formidable assets to help pro-Israel, national-security-conscious Democrats defeat the anti-Israel progressives ascendant in their party &#8212; certainly the most effective way to ensure continued bipartisan support for Israel. New organizations promoting policy innovation and adaptive political strategies must also enter the pro-Israel market, however, to address challenges, push policies, and forge alliances on behalf of Israel that run counter to AIPAC&#8217;s strategic approach and the preferences of its members. AIPAC&#8217;s directors and customers &#8212; i.e., the Jewish community&#8217;s leading philanthropists and the grassroots activists who genuinely want to protect Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship &#8212; should accept nothing less.
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Ballabon is right to encourage the rise of &#8220;[n]ew organizations&#8221; to enter the &#8220;pro-Israel market.&#8221; (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44392/jexodus-jewish-millennials-launch-liberation-josh-hammer">Jexodus</a>, perhaps?) And cynically, it does perhaps seem that the best present function of AIPAC is to serve as a (much) less awful outlet than J Street, for purposes of Democratic political fealty. To AIPAC&#8217;s credit, it is increasingly focusing on the need for <a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/03/04/politics/aipac-launches-conference-appeal-progressives">progressive outreach</a>. Finally, there are also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/us/politics/democrats-israel-palestine.html">external third-party actors</a> seeking to retain some degree of pro-Israel support within the Democratic flank.
But as the two political parties drift <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1095005128283828225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1095005128283828225&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F44424%2Fhammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">even farther apart</a> on U.S.-Israel relations, AIPAC&#8217;s central tension may become unsustainable. And as much as true Eretz Yisrael-inspired Zionists (including yours truly) may look scornfully upon AIPAC, a possible future demise of AIPAC would likely only buttress <a href="https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2013/12/3/letter-j-street-liberals-fundamentally-misunderstand-pro-israel/">J Street</a>.
That should scare everyone.

HAMMER: What Exactly Is The Current Role For AIPAC?

Republican Party

Last week, the leftist organization MoveOn declared victory over several Democratic presidential candidates as they did not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee&#8217;s annual bipartisan Policy Conference. But the truth is more prosaic; many of the candidates were simply not invited or had scheduling conflicts.
The process <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44955/moveonorg-demands-2020-democratic-candidates-emily-zanotti">started</a> on March 20, when MoveOn, a prominent progressive pressure group, demanded that the Democratic presidential hopefuls boycott the 2019 AIPAC Policy Conference, citing that 74.3% of their members believed the candidates should skip the event.
&#8220;MoveOn is calling on 2020 presidential candidates to not attend the AIPAC conference,&#8221; the group <a href="https://twitter.com/MoveOn/status/1108431265110417409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1108431265110417409&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F44955%2Fmoveonorg-demands-2020-democratic-candidates-emily-zanotti">tweeted</a> in a thread citing four reasons for doing so, including AIPAC&#8217;s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, supposedly peddling &#8220;anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric while giving platforms to those involved in human rights abuses,&#8221; allowing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to headline the event, and refusing &#8220;to condemn the anti-Semitism of Republicans.&#8221;
On March 22, MoveOn declared victory on its <a href="https://front.moveon.org/2020-candidates-skip-aipac/">website</a>.
&#8220;After MoveOn members asked candidates to skip the AIPAC conference, no 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are yet publicly committed to attend the AIPAC conference in DC this weekend!&#8221; the group wrote, listing seven candidates who were reported to be skipping the conference, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke, San Antonio, Texas Mayor Julián Castro, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
But in reality, AIPAC has a policy of not inviting presidential candidates in non-election years, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/27/did-eight-democratic-candidates-boycott-aipac-conference/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.a3706a8281be">reported</a>.
Harris cited a busy schedule but still <a href="https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1110301531306409986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1110323893930209280&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fus-news%2Fkamala-harris-meets-aipac-representatives-in-her-office-after-forgoing-conference-1.7061261">met with</a> AIPAC California leaders in her Senate office; Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s policy team spoke to AIPAC activists from Massachusetts in her office, <a href="http://jewishinsider.com/16057/the-boycott-that-wasnt-2020-democrats-and-aipac/">reported</a> Jewish Insider.
O&#8217;Rourke also cited a scheduling conflict and the preference to campaign, but claimed it was not &#8220;anything to the negative.&#8221;
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Asked by a reporter in Rock Hill, SC why he&#8217;s missing AIPAC this year, presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke says campaigning in SC is &#8220;the best way for me to spend this time.&#8221; via <a href="https://twitter.com/alisonkmain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@alisonkmain</a>: <a href="https://t.co/3F4aEUnZ7y">pic.twitter.com/3F4aEUnZ7y</a>
&#8212; DJ Judd (@DJJudd) <a href="https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1109090531685093381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Buttigieg said he was not invited to speak, but hasn&#8217;t ruled it out for the future, reported The Washington Post&#8217;s Dave Weigel. 
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Asked <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> why he&#8217;s not going to AIPAC. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t invited!&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t rule out going in future. <a href="https://t.co/t2Id3cre5d">pic.twitter.com/t2Id3cre5d</a>
&#8212; Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) <a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1109544754298142720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Castro and Inslee, who are both <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-3-24-2019">polling</a> around 1%, did not explain why they did not attend.
The only candidate who expressed that he was not attending due to concerns with AIPAC was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), whose spokesman <a href="https://twitter.com/AkbarSAhmed/status/1108761684242509825">said</a> he was &#8220;concerned about the platform AIPAC is providing for leaders who have expressed bigotry and oppose a two-state solution.&#8221;
Two other candidates not named by MoveOn spoke during side events at the conference venue, Jewish Insider reported: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
Gillibrand told the audience that &#8220;if you want to find criticism of Israel, just look at Haaretz,&#8221; a left-leaning Israeli publication. &#8220;But those who want to criticize Israel&#8217;s government or raised issues with its policies should not be expressing their views by using anti-Semitic language. And that&#8217;s why I will always, and always have spoke out loudly and clearly whenever I heard such hurtful, bigoted tropes, whether they come from my own party or whether they come from across the aisle. Because the truth is enough was enough, and we can never allow anti-Semitism to become normalized.&#8221;
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who is also running for president, did not attend the conference but <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAmyKlobuchar/status/1110629449068961792">met with</a> AIPAC members from Minnesota. Presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HW) did not attend the conference either but <a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1109200783055224835">said</a> it was not for political reasons.

Leftist Organization Claims False Victory For Dem Candidates Not Attending AIPAC. Here’s The Real Reason.

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