The German city of Tangerhütte has announced plans to rename a day care center after migrant parents reportedly expressed concerns that the current name does not accurately reflect the diversity of the community.
The day care center is currently named after Anne Frank, a Jewish girl whose diary was published after she died at the age of 15 in a Nazi concentration camp — and according to local reports, migrant parents have complained that it is &#8220;challenging&#8221; to explain to their children who Frank was and why her story mattered.
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After migrant parent pressure, Anne Frank daycare center to be renamed <a href="https://twitter.com/ZvikaKlein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZvikaKlein</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Germany?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Germany</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AnneFrank?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AnneFrank</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Holocaust?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Holocaust</a> <a href="https://t.co/6FzEhRd7OW">https://t.co/6FzEhRd7OW</a>
&mdash; The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1721306836073144757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to a <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-771852#771852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Jerusalem Post, the daycare center&#8217;s director explained that &#8220;parents with migrant backgrounds feel uncertain about the name and find it challenging to explain to their children.&#8221;
An open society advocacy group, Miteinander eV, argued that there were certainly age-appropriate ways to discuss Frank&#8217;s story with younger children — and objected to the change, They said in a statement that especially as anti-semitism is on the rise in many areas, &#8220;renaming the daycare center sends the wrong signal.&#8221;
The city&#8217;s mayor, Andreas Brohm, has said the name change will go forward in spite of any concerns, noting that Anne Frank did not fit the parents&#8217; push to embrace a &#8220;new focus on diversity.&#8221;
&#8220;Ultimately, the parents and employees wanted a name that was more &#8216;child-friendly&#8217; and &#8216;better suited to their concept.&#8217; Their needs are more important than the global political situation,&#8221; the BILD newspaper reported.
&#8220;&#8216;Migrant parents&#8217; successfully got Anne Frank canceled in Germany? Seems a little on the nose,&#8221; Guy Benson responded to the news in a post on X.
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“Migrant parents” successfully got Anne Frank canceled in Germany? Seems a little on the nose. <a href="https://t.co/8XeGy0BuL4">https://t.co/8XeGy0BuL4</a>
&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1721331314345861227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Imagine telling yourself in 2013 that in 10 years time, the Germans will be cancelling the &#8216;Anne Frank Kindergarten&#8217; because of &#8230;.. &#8216;Diversity,'&#8221; Gray Connolly <a href="https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1721655222123237884" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;This is appalling. A German daycare center named after Anne Frank is changing its name,&#8221; said Aviva Klompas. &#8220;German media reports that parents want the center to push a message more focused on &#8216;international diversity.&#8217; Hear that? They are promoting diversity by erasing Jews.&#8221;
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This is appalling. A German daycare center named after Anne Frank is changing its name.
German media reports that parents want the center to push a message more focused on “international diversity.”
Hear that? They are promoting diversity by erasing Jews.
&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1721535136490016972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">German</a> police officers decked out in heavy tactical gear executed a raid on an apartment building in Duisburg to arrest a man they allege was planning an Islamic terrorist attack on a Jewish event, according to multiple German publications and local police.
German newspaper Bild reported that authorities arrested 29-year-old Tarik S. (full last name not given) after a foreign intelligence service tipped off German officials about the plot, according to a translation of the <a href="https://www.bild.de/news/inland/news-inland/sek-ueberwaeltigt-ihn-zu-hause-islamist-wollte-mit-lkw-in-pro-israel-demo-rasen-85858384.bild.html">report</a>. The suspect was reportedly already known as being high-risk after fighting for ISIS in the past and writing in the past that he wanted to die as a martyr.
Intelligence sources told the newspaper that the suspect was planning to ram a truck into a pro-Israel rally in North Rhine-Westphalia to kill as many people as possible.
Spiegel <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/nordrhein-westfalen-polizei-nimmt-terrorverdaechtigen-aus-duisburg-fest-a-93e407d7-cae4-4e55-bfc3-ab77a92e1d97" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the suspect had &#8220;easy access&#8221; to a truck, had searched online for pro-Israel events and &#8220;jihadist&#8221; content. The suspect has reportedly been under the watch of Germany&#8217;s security services for a long time due to his previous terrorism and warnings from foreign intelligence services.
An intelligence report suggested that the Islamic terrorist attack in Israel two weeks ago fueled the suspect&#8217;s desire to execute his terroristic plot.
The suspect allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-isis-member-kills-2-in-brussels-belgium-raises-terror-alert-level-to-extremely-serious" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> the ISIS terrorist who went on a shooting spree in Brussels last week and was &#8220;inspired by his actions.&#8221;
The translated report said that the suspect &#8220;comes from the jihadist scene in Herford,&#8221; Germany, and traveled to Syria in 2013 where he reportedly &#8220;joined ISIS.&#8221;
The report said his terrorist name was &#8220;Osama Al Almani,&#8221; Osama, the German. He allegedly posed next to a beheaded victim, and when he was to Germany in 2016, he was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/isis-fighter-germany-arrested-suspect-2016-3">arrested</a> and <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/german-court-sentences-23-year-old-to-five-years-for-isis-membership-486353">sentenced</a> to five years in prison for being part of a terrorist group.
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SEK-Einsatz in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Duisburg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Duisburg</a>, Zugriff auf Terrorverdächtigen Tarik S. (29), er wollte nach ersten Ermittlungen mit einem Laster in eine Pro-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a>-Kundgebung rasen. Der Islamist saß bereits im Gefängnis, weil er für <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISIS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ISIS</a> in Syrien kämpfte. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/terror?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#terror</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#gaza</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel_under_attack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel_under_attack</a> <a href="https://t.co/AXKN3YW2Ma">pic.twitter.com/AXKN3YW2Ma</a>
&mdash; Frank Schneider (@chefreporterNRW) <a href="https://twitter.com/chefreporterNRW/status/1716858677720760632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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German Police Raid Building To Stop ISIS ‘Terrorist Attack Against A Jewish Event’: Report

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Jewish-owned houses are being marked with the Star of David by anti-Semites in Berlin in images <a href="https://mjhnyc.org/blog/jewish-badges-during-the-holocaust-the-othering-of-jews-across-nazi-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reminiscent</a> of 1930s Nazi Germany, according to multiple reports. 
German outlet Tagesspiegel <a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berliner-staatsschutz-ermittelt-unbekannte-spruhen-davidstern-auf-eingangstur-10619689.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Friday that Berlin Police confirmed it was aware of an incident where a Star of David was painted on a Jewish woman&#8217;s door. German State Security is investigating the marks on suspicion of incitement and hatred. The Jewish resident whose house was graffitied said she called the police, but authorities told her to report it online. 
“They advised me to remove the Star of David because leaving it at the door could cause further reactions,” the woman said. She explained that she has a mezuzah on her doorframe, which is a piece of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah in Hebrew. The Jewish woman said she is now afraid to go to synagogue and to be seen in public wearing her necklace that has a Star of David pendant. 
“And I won’t speak Hebrew on the street today,” she added. 
Three more incidents involving the apparent intimidation of Jewish residents were reported on Saturday.
“It is now the subject of our investigation to find out whether the other houses have a Jewish resident and whether the incidents are connected,” the police said, <a href="https://archive.ph/vcKPd#selection-2963.126-2963.271">according</a> to The Telegraph.
Posts on social media showed multiple other doors in Berlin being marked with the Star of David. 
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More and more reports of an ongoing intimidation campaign in Berlin targeting Jews.
People are marking houses were Jews live and Jewish-owned stores with a Star of David. <a href="https://t.co/2yVxze4oQL">pic.twitter.com/2yVxze4oQL</a>
&mdash; Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) <a href="https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1713182090068726246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Human rights attorney Brooke Goldstein posted another photo of a door that had been marked.
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“In Berlin, Jewish homes are being marked by pro-Hamas Jew haters. IN GERMANY, 2023,” Goldstein wrote. 
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In Berlin, Jewish homes are being marked by pro-Hamas Jew haters. 
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&mdash; Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1713159172563341420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The reports of anti-Semitism out of Berlin come as anti-Israel protestors gather in cities across the world to voice their support for Palestinians after Hamas brutally attacked Israel, slaughtering over 1,300 Israelis.
A large group of demonstrators hit New York City streets on Thursday to condemn Israel. Anti-Israel rallies were held at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Columbia University, where a Jewish student <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-feel-safe-jewish-columbia-student-says-he-was-attacked-by-pro-palestinian-activist">told The Daily Wire</a> he was attacked on campus by a pro-Palestinian activist who was tearing down fliers raising awareness about Israelis who have been taken hostage by Hamas.
Hamas terrorists invaded Israel last Saturday, slaughtering Israeli families. Over the course of the week, the scale of Hamas’ atrocities against the Israelis has become more evident. During their attack, the terrorists targeted the most vulnerable, including raping and killing young women and slaughtering children and infants.

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Allowing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mass amounts</a> of people into a country who do not follow the country&#8217;s fundamental values is a “grave mistake,” according to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
The century-old former top diplomat sat for an interview with Germany’s Welt TV and discussed Germany’s current problems with social cohesion and institutional integrity after high numbers of immigrants and refugees have been allowed into the country. Reflecting on anti-Israel protests going on in Germany, Kissinger suggested that mass immigration was causing severe friction in German society.
“It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different [cultures and religions] and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that,” Kissinger said, according to <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/henry-kissinger-germany-let-in-way-too-many-foreigners/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO Europe</a>.
Kissinger, a Jew who fled Germany with his family in 1938, said that protesters marching through Berlin’s streets in support of Hamas’ Saturday terrorist attack on Israel is a “painful” sight.
Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip, launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on Saturday. Terrorists targeted civilians regardless of age or gender, killing over 1,300 Israelis, wounding thousands more, and taking an untold number captive, including small children.
Israel’s response, which has so far consisted of ridding Israel of Hamas terrorists and targeted strikes against Hamas military targets in Gaza, has prompted protests in support of Hamas and Palestinians in Gaza in major cities across the West. In the United States, numerous cities and college campuses have seen pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests.
New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-largest-cities-ramp-up-security-as-anti-israel-rallies-hit-streets-after-former-hamas-chief-called-for-day-of-jihad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he was “deeply disturbed by the message of hate urging violence in our communities.”
Police departments across the country were put on alert after former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called for Muslims to rise up in support of Hamas’ invasion of Israel on Friday. The former Hamas leader called to protest in support of the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” what Hamas has called its Saturday invasion of Israel.
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“We declare next Friday, ‘The Friday of the Al-Aqsa Flood,’ as a day of general mobilization in our Arab and Islamic world and among the free people of the world,” Meshaal said in a statement sent to Reuters. “It is a day to rally support, offer aid, and participate actively. It is a day to expose the crimes of the occupation, isolate it, and foil all its aggressive schemes. It is a day to demonstrate our love for Palestine, Jerusalem, and Al-Aqsa. It is a day for sacrifice, heroism, and dedication, and to earn the honour of defending the first Qibla of Muslims, the third holiest mosque, and the ascension of the trusted Messenger.”
The Biden administration has struck a pro-Israel message and moved two aircraft carriers and numerous aircraft into positions close to Israel. The moves come despite a vocal minority in the Democratic Party that have expressed support for Palestinians and suggested that Israel is to blame for Hamas’ terrorism.
“The failure to recognize the violent reality of living under siege, occupation, and apartheid makes no one safer. No person, no child anywhere should have to suffer or live in fear of violence. We cannot ignore the humanity in each other,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the daughter of Palestinian immigrant parents, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/starbucks-union-backed-by-prominent-dems-claims-solidarity-with-palestine-after-hamas-terror-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement earlier this week. “As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue.”
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-takes-on-hamas-sympathizers-with-history-lesson-this-has-nothing-to-do-with-settlements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debunked</a> the accusations against Israel during an interview with Megyn Kelly on her show Tuesday.
“Israel unilaterally pulled out of the Gaza Strip in an attempt to create some sort of security arrangement, presumably protect the Jews at the northern tip of the Gaza Strip, and allow the Palestinians some chance at electing a government,” Shapiro said, referring to the pullout in 2005. “They then promptly elected Hamas, a State Department-designated terror group in an election that was fully legitimate as attested to by [former U.S. President] Jimmy Carter.”
“So the attempt to tie this to settlements is insane,” Shapiro said, “because again, there are no settlements inside the Gaza Strip. The areas that were attacked [in Israel] have been part of the state of Israel since 1948. This is not post-1967 settlements in the West Bank — in the so-called West Bank; Judea and Samaria.”

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If you want to know how our leaders plan to transform this country, it&#8217;s not enough to look at the millions of foreigners from the Third World that they&#8217;re importing every year. That&#8217;s obviously one of the most important parts of what they&#8217;re doing, and it&#8217;s clearly deliberate. We have Border Patrol agents literally <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1707821541231038780?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fist-bumping</a> illegal migrants on-camera and <a href="https://x.com/JLRINVESTIGATES/status/1708127970529886449?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cutting fencing</a> for them. But, at the same time, it&#8217;s also important to take a look at the kind of people the government is expelling from this country. Don&#8217;t just focus on who they&#8217;re importing. Look at who they&#8217;re exporting, arbitrarily and by force. If you do that, you&#8217;ll learn a lot about the ideologies that our government truly cannot stand. You&#8217;ll discover what they desperately want to destroy, as quickly and completely as they can.
Here&#8217;s a case that tells you everything you need to know on that front. Just a few weeks ago, without any warning, the Biden administration decided to deport the Romeike family. They&#8217;ve been living in the state of Tennessee for the past 15 years. This is a family that, unlike the illegal immigrant drunk drivers and violent felons that the Biden administration will defend at every opportunity, has not committed any crime. So, what did they do? 
Well, back in 2006, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike were living in Germany. They decided to homeschool their five children because they&#8217;re Christians, and they were upset about the perverted and Satanic books that their kids were being forced to read in schools. Sound familiar? But in Germany, homeschooling wasn&#8217;t allowed. There&#8217;s a Nazi-era law in Germany, which is still in effect to this day, that bans homeschooling in the vast majority of cases. Officials in Germany then started <a href="https://hslda.org/post/romeike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fining</a> the Romeikes more than they were earning. Police officers showed up and dragged their kids to school. They threatened to take the children permanently.
To protect their children, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled to the United States back in 2008. Initially, an immigration judge approved their request for asylum. But the Obama administration appealed that decision, and ultimately, a federal appeals court told the family they had to leave the United States and return to Germany. This is a report on what happened, from a decade ago:
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After the decision to deport this family was upheld in the courts, there was an enormous public outcry, as you might imagine. So, the DHS under the Obama administration did something unexpected. They allowed the Romeikes to stay in this country. In 2013 the feds granted the family something called “indefinite deferred action status.&#8221; That allowed them to work and live in the United States, without fear of deportation, and without any timetable for leaving. They were free and clear. 
That was their arrangement for a decade. During this period, the Romeikes had two more children, both of whom were born in the United States. But then, on September 6th of this year, during a routine check-in, all of this changed. The Romeikes learned that their deferred status was coming to an end. The Biden administration, for some reason, had decided to terminate it. They weren&#8217;t given a reason. They were told that they had four weeks to get German passports, and that they&#8217;ll be deported on October 11.
No one in the Romeike family did anything to trigger this change in the federal government&#8217;s reasoning. All that&#8217;s happened is that the Biden administration has decided to end their deferred status, out of the blue. Watch:
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A federal court ruled, a decade ago, that this family doesn&#8217;t technically qualify for asylum, even though they&#8217;re in a really difficult position. Whether you agree with that ruling or not, it really doesn&#8217;t matter. Even if we concede, for the sake of argument, that this family doesn&#8217;t have a legitimate asylum claim, the fact remains that the Biden administration has spent the last several years refusing to deport millions of illegal aliens who *clearly* don&#8217;t have any legitimate basis for asylum. This is not something that I personally concede, by the way. It is obvious to me that if you flee a country because you are being persecuted for exercising your basic human right to educate your own children, you are in every sense a legitimate asylum seeker.
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But the point is that we already open our arms to many illegal immigrants who have no claim to asylum at all. We&#8217;re talking about criminals who came here simply because they want to make more money. These criminals enjoy total protection under the Biden government. In fact, Joe Biden himself is on record saying he wants I.C.E. agents fired if they deport illegal aliens who come here and then get caught driving drunk. Watch:
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So, if you come here from Haiti or El Salvador, and then having broken our laws to enter this country, you proceed to get completely wasted and endanger American citizens on the road, Joe Biden thinks you shouldn&#8217;t have to fear deportation. And on top of that, he thinks any federal agent who even contemplates deporting you should lose their job. 
But I.C.E. has no problem going after the Romeikes. None of the I.C.E. officers telling this family that they&#8217;re about to be deported are worried about getting fired by Joe Biden. It&#8217;s almost as if they&#8217;re following orders. This law-abiding, hardworking Christian family is dangerous, according to the Biden government. They&#8217;re lawbreakers, because of some technicality with asylum procedure. The family patriarch, who works as a piano accompanist at a small private university in Tennessee, is a threat. But the drunk drivers who could wipe out your whole family? We need to protect them at all costs, that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re saying.
It&#8217;s so absurd on its face that you have to conclude that something else is going on here. What might that be? The other day, one of the many ghouls at the left-wing propaganda outfit Media Matters said the quiet part out loud. Of course, it&#8217;s not worth paying any attention to Media Matters most of the time. They&#8217;re a partisan Soros-funded operation that exists to defame and smear their political opponents. But as a window into what the Biden government and their allies are planning, it can be useful to check in on Media Matters every now and then. So with that in mind, here&#8217;s what one of Media Matters&#8217; hacks, who uses the name &#8220;Ari Drennan,&#8221; posted the other day on X: &#8220;Hot take but unless you have a very good reason, homeschooling should be illegal. Too many parents use it to abuse their children, keeping them ignorant and easy to control.&#8221;
Drennan was responding to a video of a child pointing out that Joe Biden sniffs children, and how disgusting that is. Of course, any reasonable, well-adjusted child would agree that it&#8217;s disgusting that Joe Biden sniffs children. But that makes Joe Biden look bad, so Ari Drennan couldn&#8217;t let it stand. And in the process, the quiet part was uttered out loud, which is this: Many on the Left, especially the LGBT Left, have hated homeschooling for a long time because they see it as a direct attack on their ability to indoctrinate the next generation of Americans. And they&#8217;re right about that. So, they want to outlaw homeschooling, just like they did back in Germany in 1938. They&#8217;ll accuse you of child abuse if you resist their indoctrination. And ultimately they&#8217;ll try to take your children.
It&#8217;s hard to imagine another reason why the Biden administration could possibly want to deport the Romeikes. The truth is obvious: They want to take out a symbolic target. White Christians who won&#8217;t do what they&#8217;re told — who won&#8217;t surrender their children to the perverse propaganda that the Biden administration endorses — are the enemy of this regime. And now they&#8217;re very publicly being shown the door. This is a precursor to what they&#8217;re planning for the rest of us.
It&#8217;s also, once again, a chance for the Biden administration to humiliate its political enemies. The Romeikes have seven children. One of them is married to an American citizen named Trace Bates. According to the <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/09/29/german-romeike-family-faces-deportation-in-tennessee-what-we-know/70985920007/#:~:text=Trace's%20brother%20Lawson%20Bates%20said,by%20the%20Los%20Angeles%20Times." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessean</a>, &#8220;Trace Bates was photographed with his brother in crowds at pro-Trump protests in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Trace’s brother Lawson Bates said on social media that the two attended a pro-Trump event in Washington&#8217;s Ellipse Park but were not part of the riot at the U.S. Capitol.&#8221;
So this family definitely doesn&#8217;t have the right politics. If they torched Wendy&#8217;s on behalf of BLM, maybe they could stay. But they like Donald Trump and they question the sacred legitimacy of our infallible elections, so they have to go. They have to uproot their lives, and move halfway across the world, leaving half of their family in the United States.
What&#8217;s interesting about this is, is that back when the Trump administration tried to end the Obama-era D.A.C.A. policy, courts ruled that Trump didn&#8217;t have the authority to do it. Why? Because they said all those illegal migrants had come to rely on Barack Obama&#8217;s decision. So even though what Barack Obama did was illegal — even though D.A.C.A. was unconstitutional — all of those illegal migrants had to stay in this country. They were entitled to rely on what Barack Obama promised them. But the Romeikes don&#8217;t get that luxury. Maybe they should have gotten D.U.I.&#8217;s and voted Democrat, if they wanted to stay here.
It&#8217;s hard to see exactly what happens next in the Romeikes&#8217; case. Lawmakers in Congress right now are working on <a href="https://hslda.org/post/congress-can-stop-deportation-for-romeikes-but-we-need-your-help" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> that might let them stay in this country. And they&#8217;re obviously taking this through the court system. But as a sign of where things are going, the implications are pretty clear. These people do not believe you have the right to educate your children. They think that&#8217;s their job. That&#8217;s why the Biden DOJ opened up federal counterterrorism investigations because of parents complaining at school board meetings. It&#8217;s why Joe Biden&#8217;s surrogate, Terry McAuliffe, said, &#8220;I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.&#8221; It&#8217;s why California just tried to pass a law saying parents could lose custody of their kids if they don&#8217;t affirm their &#8220;gender identity.&#8221; And it&#8217;s why now, the Biden administration wants to send the Romeikes back to Germany, where they&#8217;re all but certain to be prosecuted.
A few minutes ago I said we&#8217;re importing foreigners and anarchy from the Third World. But really it&#8217;s worse than that. We are specifically rewarding thousands of Haitians and Guatemalans and Africans who endanger their own children in their efforts to cross the border. And, at the same time, we&#8217;re exporting hardworking white Christians who care more about their children than anything else in the world. We are governed by politicians who hate children as much as they want to control them. Whatever happens to the Romeikes, that&#8217;s now very clear. And like the Romeikes, we really only have one choice in response, which is to disobey. Whatever the consequences, the alternative — surrendering our children to these scumbags — is much worse.
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Michelle Obama — whose husband, former President Barack Obama, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/barack-obama-on-wealth-inequality-only-so-much-you-can-eat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 2018 speech “There’s only so much you can eat. There’s only so big a house you can have. There’s only so many nice trips you can take. I mean, it’s enough” — got paid over $700,000 for a one-hour speech in Germany.
Michelle Obama spoke at a start-up event held near the annual Oktoberfest beer festival; the event’s webpage said roughly 5,000 people would hear her speak about how to “push past self-doubt while discussing the importance of inclusivity and diversity.” The organizers of the event said Michelle Obama “topped the list” of prospective speakers for the event.
“They really pulled out all the stops to get her,” one source told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12559675/michelle-obama-pay-munich-conference-speech.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>. “It’s one of the highest fees that they have ever paid.”
The Obamas have raked in the cash since Barack Obama left office; they got a $65 million deal with Penguin for their memoirs and signed a multi-year contract with Netflix in 2018. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos was a supporter of Obama and his wife was Obama’s Ambassador to the Bahamas from 2009 to 2011.
In 2019, the Obamas’ company, Higher Ground Productions, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obamas-new-production-company-gets-deplorable-james-barrett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that another company, founded in 2008 as Higher Ground Enterprises and devoted to helping authors publish e-books, renounce its trademark. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/barack-obamas-production-company-runs-a-trademark-problem-1236219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR) noted that Higher Ground Productions asked the U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office to cancel the trademark registration for “Higher Ground Enterprises.”
THR reported, “Higher Ground Enterprises is run by Hanisya Massey, who, according to her attorney Larry Zerner, is in the business of helping authors publish e-books. … On April 10, a Trademark Examiner refused to register the Obamas&#8217; claimed mark with a nod to the one held by Massey. The Obamas … argued the two marks could co-exist in the marketplace.”
The Obamas’ production company stated:
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The consumers of “media production services” covered by the Application are likely to be highly sophisticated. Media production services are generally offered not to individual consumers but to commercial entities and professionals in their field. Indeed, Applicant has entered a deal with Netflix in connection with its media production services. Such customers, whether multi-billion-dollar media companies or smaller commercial entities in need of media production services, will exercise the height of care in selecting a media production company and are highly unlikely to be confused by a photographer or e-book publisher — particularly when the other party uses a distinguishable mark.
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The U.S. Trademark Office disagreed, countering, “The overriding concern is not only to prevent buyer confusion as to the source of the goods and/or services, but to protect the registrant from adverse commercial impact due to use of a similar mark by a newcomer.”
THR continued, “In a petition to cancel, the Obamas essentially allege that Massey doesn&#8217;t deserve a trademark because ‘Higher Ground Enterprises’ wasn&#8217;t actually in use at the time of its 2016 registration. (An online search turns up some early incorporation filings, though the digital trail at least seems thin.)”
Zerner furiously replied, “The Obamas have known for almost a year that their Higher Ground trademark application was rejected by the USPTO because it infringed my client&#8217;s rights. Instead, of simply picking another name, the Obamas&#8217; lawyers have now filed a meritless petition to cancel my client&#8217;s trademark so they can take it for themselves. This is really deplorable behavior. I hope that the Obamas realize that these actions are not consistent with the values they preach and that they instruct their attorneys to immediately dismiss the petition.”

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In 1938, the main synagogue in the German city of Munich was demolished on direct orders from Adolf Hitler. Eighty-five years later, construction workers <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/europe/munich-synagogue-hitler-germany.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">came across</a> pieces of it in a river just a few miles away. 
The synagogue, built in 1887, was leveled by the Nazis because Hitler believed it was an “eyesore” for the city, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66107481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. A construction crew uncovered columns from the synagogue as well as a partial stone tablet with the Ten Commandments inscribed on it while working on a dam. 
“I knew the imposing building as a child before it was torn down, and I never thought that parts of it could have survived the destruction, much less for them to resurface almost a century later,” 90-year-old Charlotte Knobloch, the president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/europe/munich-synagogue-hitler-germany.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times in an email. 
The synagogue, one of two in Munich at the time, was one of the first synagogues in Germany that was destroyed by the Nazis, <a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/this-month/april/1927.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. 
The construction crew <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/europe/munich-synagogue-discovery-scli-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> the remnants of the synagogue on June 28 during a job to refurbish a small dam on the Isar River, according to the BBC. The artifacts were roughly five miles from where the building once stood. The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/europe/munich-synagogue-hitler-germany.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that the artifacts were 15 to 25 feet below the service. The crew immediately contacted German heritage officials to inform them of the find. 
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A construction crew found pieces of Munich’s main synagogue in a river during a project to refurbish an old underwater structure. The synagogue was among the first Jewish places of worship to be destroyed in Hitler’s Germany. <a href="https://t.co/gsZKqEpl3g">https://t.co/gsZKqEpl3g</a> <a href="https://t.co/Prhmk2kaMQ">pic.twitter.com/Prhmk2kaMQ</a>
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&#8220;[That was a] day which is very unusual in my professional career, because we don&#8217;t usually find a synagogue in a river,&#8221; Jewish Musem Munich director Bernhard Purin <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186049726/munich-synagogue-hitler-demolished-found-river" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NPR. Purin added that the discovery of the tablet with the Ten Commandments is “especially touching” because “all worshippers look to it” during services. 
The rubble from the synagogue was placed in the yard of the company that carried out the demolition, the Times reports. In 1956, it was used — along with other debris from bombed buildings — to reinforce a dam in the river. 
&#8220;These stones are part of Munich&#8217;s Jewish history,&#8221; Knobloch <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66107481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t expect fragments to survive, let alone that we would see them.&#8221;
Upon learning of the orders to destroy the synagogue, the Jewish community in Munich worked through the night to preserve items, including Torah scrolls and ritual objects, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center says. Just a few hours later, the synagogue was demolished. 
Five months after the Munich synagogue’s destruction, the Nazi pogroms known as Kristallnacht occurred, also known as “the night of broken glass,” in which Jewish synagogues, homes, and businesses were destroyed. 
Today, a department store occupies the space where the &#8220;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66107481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beautiful</a>&#8221; synagogue once stood. Authorities say the remains of the place of worship will be returned to the Jewish community. 
“The extermination of Jewish citizens during the Nazi era began with the destruction of Jewish culture,” Munich Deputy Mayor Katrin Habenschaden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/europe/munich-synagogue-discovery-scli-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The demolition of the main synagogue on Hitler’s orders marked the beginning of exclusion, persecution and destruction. The fact that today we can find remains of the once cityscape-defining magnificent building is a stroke of luck and touches me deeply. Jewish life was and is an integral part of our city’s history, present and future.”

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A Bronze Age sword that was discovered in Germany is in such good condition that it nearly glimmers after over 3,000 years.
The sword was discovered by German archeologists at a burial site in Nördlingen, Bavaria, in southeast Germany, alongside the remains of a man, a woman, and a boy. Images of the sword show the exceptional preservation and the intricate details on the hilt of the weapon. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection announced the find in a <a href="https://www.blfd.bayern.de/mam/blfd/presse/pi_bronzezeitliches_schwert.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> last week. 
&#8220;Last week, archaeologists made a very special find during excavations in Nördlingen: a bronze sword that is over 3,000 years old and is so extraordinarily well preserved that it almost still shines,” the state office said in the translated statement. “It is a representative of the bronze full-hilt swords, whose octagonal hilt is made entirely of bronze (octagonal sword type),&#8221;
The hilt of the sword is made of bronze, which now appears with a greenish tint, and is an octagonal shape, the statement says. Researchers have <a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/octagonal-sword-from-bronze-age-burial-in-germany-is-so-well-preserved-it-shines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dated</a> the sword to the 14th century B.C., which <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-bronze-age-sword-found-cb2070fdd128a40ee3f8e3421e80356b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falls</a> in the middle of the Bronze Age. 
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The 3,000 year old sword is similar to the Bronze D type Rixheim swords (though the sword type has been described as “octagonal”). 📷Dr. Woidich <a href="https://t.co/xN2VXfVeme">https://t.co/xN2VXfVeme</a><a href="https://t.co/LVwmf5uWoX">https://t.co/LVwmf5uWoX</a> <a href="https://t.co/iAJ6NrmiWb">pic.twitter.com/iAJ6NrmiWb</a>
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Archeologists believe that the three bodies buried in the grave were placed in quick succession, but it’s unclear if they were related, according to the statement. 
&#8220;The sword and the burial still have to be examined so that our archaeologists can classify this find more precisely,&#8221; Mathias Pfeil, head of the state office, told <a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/octagonal-sword-from-bronze-age-burial-in-germany-is-so-well-preserved-it-shines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LiveScience</a>. &#8220;But it can already be said: the condition is exceptional! A find like this is very rare!&#8221;
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The find is so rare partly because many Bronze Age swords have already been looted, but also because the type of sword could only be made by skilled smiths, the outlet notes. 
&#8220;The production of octagonal swords is complex because the handle is cast over the blade (so-called overlay casting),” the statement said. “The decoration is made with an inlay and using hallmarks. While there are two real rivets, another pair of rivets are only implied.”
Octagonal swords were only made in two areas of Germany at the time, including one location in the south of the country and one in the north. It’s not yet clear where this sword stems from, according to the statement. 
While there are no major signs of wear or cut marks along the blade, archeologists <a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/bronze-age-sword-germany-scli-intl-scn/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believe</a> it was used as a weapon because of “The center of gravity in the front part of the blade,&#8221; which means it was &#8220;balanced mainly for slashing.”

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This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-law-enabling-tribes-to-bar-non-native-families-from-adopting-native-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court Upholds Indian Child Welfare Law</a>
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a 1978 law that states Native American parents should have priority preference when Native American children are up for adoption. The Law was challenged by several non-Native American families, who argued that Congress had gone outside of its constitutional authority. In a 7-2 vote, the majority opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett who ruled that, “Congress’s power to legislate with respect to Indians is well established and broad.” President Joe Biden praised the decision, saying, it kept in place &#8220;a vital protection for tribal sovereignty and Native children.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-government-agencies-hit-with-cyberattack-chinese-spies-breach-hundreds-of-networks-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Agencies Hacked</a>
Several U.S. federal government agencies were effectively hacked due to a vulnerability in a widely used software called “MOVEit.”  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed to CNN that it “is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions.” It’s unclear who is responsible for the attack.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/human-brains-skin-from-harvard-morgue-sold-on-black-market-feds-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Morgue Manager Accused Of Selling Body Parts</a>
Several people are accused of stealing and selling human remains from Harvard Medical School’s morgue.
A grand jury has indicted the morgue manager, 55-year-old Cedric Lodge, in the criminal plot, which, according to the complaint, lasted from 2018 to earlier this year. The federal complaint was filed in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where one of the defendants lives. Lodge allegedly allowed buyers to come into the morgue and pick and choose what remains they wanted to buy. He also allegedly stole parts of donated cadavers including brains, skin, and bones, took them home to his New Hampshire residence, and shipped them to buyers by mail. Six other people, including Lodge’s wife Denise Lodge and a mortician from Arkansas, have all been charged in the scheme.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/space-force-general-admits-shed-prioritize-gender-surgery-access-over-qualified-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Space Force General Admits She’d Prioritize Gender Surgery Access Over Qualified Officers</a>
Space Force Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt is under fire for admitting during a recent Department of Defense Pride event that she would allow access to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/missouri-governor-signs-bills-banning-transgender-treatments-for-minors-protecting-womens-sports">gender-affirming care</a>” to take priority over qualifications when deciding where to assign officers. 
Burt has gone viral in a video this week in which she explains how she handles several states that have passed laws <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-becomes-18th-state-to-ban-transgender-surgeries-on-children">banning transgender surgeries</a> — and in some cases, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors. In the speech, Burt states that while she would normally consider job performance and qualifications before selecting officers for certain jobs, she also has had to consider whether her troops and their families would be comfortable taking jobs in certain states.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeptofDefense</a> &quot;pride&quot; event last week gets more bizarre with scrutiny. 
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1. Here, LTG Burt openly admits she lets supposed concerns over &quot;anti-LGBTQ+ laws in a state&quot; about &quot;healthcare&quot; dictate personnel choices, even if it means choosing a less-qualified officer. <a href="https://t.co/O5zc2yku9P">pic.twitter.com/O5zc2yku9P</a>
&mdash; William Thibeau (@WilliamThibeau) <a href="https://twitter.com/WilliamThibeau/status/1668979208016494592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rand Paul Plays Hardball For COVID Docs
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky vowed on Thursday to block all nominees and legislation in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions until key documents related to COVID and its origins are released. 
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Until such time as the majority decides it would like to cooperate with me in a bipartisan fashion to obtain the COVID documents necessary to conduct oversight, I will object to every piece of legislation and nominee coming out of this committee. <a href="https://t.co/stFn9SWtqU">pic.twitter.com/stFn9SWtqU</a>
&mdash; Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRandPaul/status/1669352798411182081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-buy-iron-dome-air-defense-system-from-israel/#:~:text=The%20Bundestag's%20budget%20committee%20released,Israel%2Dmade%20air%20defense%20system.&amp;text=BERLIN%20%E2%80%94%20Germany%20has%20the%20green,get%20its%20own%20Iron%20Dome." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany Getting Its Own &#8216;Iron Dome&#8217;</a>
The<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-buy-iron-dome-air-defense-system-from-israel/"> nation of Germany</a> is moving ahead to purchase new technology similar to Israel&#8217;s “Iron Dome” defense system. The Budget Committee of Germany’s National Parliament released its initial payment of €560 million toward the purchase of the Israel-made Arrow-3 air defense system. The purchase is part of the European country&#8217;s  €100 billion defense upgrade.
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Concord, NH – June 14: Former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge, 55, shields his face with a printout of the indictment against him as he walked from the Warren B. Rudman United States Courthouse, following his arrest on charges related to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts.

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Germany’s budget committee approved the purchase of key parts of Israel’s “Iron Dome” on Wednesday.
The Bundestag’s budget committee <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-okays-4-3-billion-purchase-of-israels-arrow-3-anti-missile-system/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> an advance payment of €560 million ($611 million) to buy Israel’s Arrow 3 air defense system — the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-releases-funds-israels-arrow-3-missiles-planned-4-bln-euro-deal-2023-06-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uppermost</a> layer of the Jewish State’s Iron Dome. The committee also approved €950 million ($1 billion) to purchase six German-made IRIS-T SLM systems — the Iron Dome’s middle layer.
“With the purchase of the German IRIS-T SLM and the acquisition of the Israeli Arrow, we are pushing ahead with two major projects from the Bundeswehr’s special assets that will help build up a protective umbrella in Germany,” Karsten Klein, a member of the committee, told <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-buy-iron-dome-air-defense-system-from-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
Arrow 3 is designed to intercept missiles outside the Earth’s atmosphere, according to manufacturer <a href="https://www.iai.co.il/sites/default/files/2020-05/Arrow%20Brochure_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel Aerospace Industries</a>. The Arrow 3 system can intercept missiles fired from nearly 1,500 miles away. 
The system was first implemented in Israel in 2017 and has prevented attacks from Iran and Syria, according to <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-okays-4-3-billion-purchase-of-israels-arrow-3-anti-missile-system/">The Times of Israel</a>. Experts have said the system could also be <a href="https://spacenews.com/israeli-experts-arrow-3-could-be-adapted-anti-satellite%E2%80%82role/">used</a> as an anti-satellite weapon. 
The total price tag of Arrow 3 is <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-releases-funds-israels-arrow-3-missiles-planned-4-bln-euro-deal-2023-06-14/">projected</a> to reach €4 billion ($4.3 billion), and the defense system is expected to be in operation by late 2025. Berlin aims to finalize the deal with Israel by the end of 2023. If the agreement fails, Germany will lose most or all of its advance payment.
The money will come from a €100 billion <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-olaf-scholz-nato-1f1a27b1b0e4aab79bdb4e5a7de07eb4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fund</a> to bolster the country’s defenses, announced by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last year — a “turning point” in defense spending. The fund would bring Germany’s defense spending to 2% of its GDP, a number former President Donald Trump constantly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-summit/trump-calls-germany-captive-of-russia-demands-higher-defense-spending-idUSKBN1K032D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressured</a> the country to reach.
The move to buy the Israeli system is part of larger efforts by Germany and NATO to increase air and missile defenses on the continent amid Russia’s use of missiles in Ukraine. It is part of Germany’s new national security strategy that Scholz <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-politics-germany-government-olaf-scholz-44dca48439255f9bc0722c6cd7d157bf">announced</a> Wednesday.
Scholz emphasized the importance of the defense investment, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-okays-4-3-billion-purchase-of-israels-arrow-3-anti-missile-system/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a> it was  “a big project that doesn’t just relate to Germany itself.”
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The defense system is part of NATO’s <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_211687.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Sky Shield Initiative</a> (ESSI), a collection of 17 European countries dedicated to “the multinational acquisition and integration of a broad range of air defence capabilities by European countries.” When in place, the Iron Dome-like defense system could also protect many of Germany’s neighbors.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">German</a> gun manufacturer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/guns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Heckler &amp; Koch</a> addressed a controversy on social media after the person running their Twitter account defended a pro-feminism Miller Lite ad.
The company distanced themselves from their employee&#8217;s comments, which were also deleted. They <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “The Road Forward” alongside an image of a road sign that said, “HK does not engage in identity politics. A policy was violated. Changes were made.” 
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The gun manufacturing company was likely referring to a series of tweets that went viral in the wake of a Miller Lite ad resurfacing online. The Miller Lite spot, which was originally released in March, celebrated female beer brewers and mocked previous advertising efforts featuring women in bikinis. The ad started circulating in amid the backlash toward Bud Light&#8217;s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. 
&#8220;Wow- woke? Allow me to translate: objectifying women was never a good marketing strategy. In the firearms industry, that was a prominent strategy up until recently. Many industries have done that (including beer corps),&#8221; the Heckler &amp; Koch verified Twitter account wrote in the now-deleted tweet. 
&#8220;As an actual woman typing this, I’ll use more words for you to comprehend: using bunnies to sell products is trash marketing. Supporting women by not doing that is good.&#8221;
The social media manager criticized some aspects of the ad. 
&#8220;Now to address the rest, non-bikini parts, of the ad: seems like they should have given sources for the info they’re throwing out. And, for them to isolate a huge part of their target consumer base makes no sense. Annnd, their virtue signaling ad doesn’t even make me want to drink their beer,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;But, at least they used actual women for it (presumably).&#8221;
She went on to criticize the &#8220;old marketing strategy of putting a gun in a ‘bikini model’s’ hand for the sake of marketing and not even making sure she knows how to hold the gun properly.&#8221;
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Several Twitter users were pleased to see the company quickly take control of the situation with their follow-up tweet. 
TurningPoint USA contributor Lauren Chen <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1658985803413098498" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Next up is an official apology, but it&#8217;s a good start.&#8221;
Conservative talk radio host Jesse Kelly <a href="https://twitter.com/jessekellydc/status/1658963070457384962?s=43&amp;t=BDz6oekueqrSVJ50bM62xw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “This is how you respond when the liberal white woman you hired finally reveals herself. Well done and I will now go back to wanting an HK, but never actually spending that kind of money.”

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The Association for Decentralized Learning, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christian</a> hybrid school provider in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany</a> which offers both virtual and home education, filed a lawsuit at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European</a> Court of Human Rights after government officials refused to grant the entity approval to open new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">schools</a>.
German authorities did not approve a 2014 application from the Association for Decentralized Learning to launch primary and secondary educational opportunities. Attorneys filed a lawsuit over the inaction in 2017 and presented their case in three separate hearings. The German Constitutional Court dismissed a final domestic appeal last year.
Lawyers for Alliance Defending Freedom International will represent the school before the European Court of Human Rights and contend that the denial of recognition for “an innovative school based on Christian values” should draw scrutiny, according to a <a href="https://adfinternational.org/hybrid-school-echr-germany/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the faith-based legal advocacy organization.
“The right to education includes the right to embrace innovative approaches like hybrid schooling,” ADF International Director of European Advocacy Felix Böllmann said in the release. “By restricting this educational model, the state is violating the right of German citizens to pursue education that conforms with their convictions. When it comes to the requirement of physical presence, Germany has one of the most restrictive educational systems in the world.”
Current students at the Association for Decentralized Learning reportedly maintain average standardized test scores higher than their peers at government-controlled institutions. Court officials acknowledge the robust educational outcomes but contend that the school’s hybrid model does not offer sufficient socialization for participants.
Home education has been outlawed in Germany for more than a century; four years ago, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against a family from Darmstadt, Germany, which had <a href="https://adflegal.org/client/wunderlich-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a> the right to homeschool their children. Private religious schools, although legal, must follow state-mandated curricula from the area in which they are located.
Tobias Riemenschneider, a pastor at Evangelical Reformed Baptist Church in Frankfurt, Germany, said in an interview with The Daily Wire that the nation’s restrictive education laws present “great difficulty to parents who are convinced by their Christian faith that it is God’s will for them to raise their children themselves in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” He noted that parents who defy government sanctions against home education risk incurring considerable fines, prison sentences, and the possibility that authorities will take their children.
“Even for many Christians who see school attendance as generally compatible with their faith, the situation has changed fundamentally in the last three years,” Riemenschneider said. “In recent times, the state has increasingly included ideologies in the curriculum that contradict the teachings of the Bible, such as homosexuality or transgenderism. Many parents legitimately worry that their child will be indoctrinated at school contrary to their beliefs and may even be encouraged to embrace homosexuality or undergo sex reassignment surgery.”
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Riemenschneider said that Christian families, including some from his congregation, have left Germany to homeschool their children in Switzerland and France over the lack of robust private Christian schools and the cost of enrolling students in the programs. Across Europe, however, home education is “becoming increasingly difficult” or is “banned altogether.”
“If you stay in Germany, the best, and for many only, option is to put your children in as good a Christian school as possible and take the necessary time every day to correct things at home that were taught at school and may go against the parents’ faith,” he added.
Riemenschneider, an attorney by training, expressed doubt that the European Court of Human Rights would intervene in the century-old German school system.
“The current case differs from previous cases in that it is not parents who are suing, but a private school that offers a hybrid school model that combines physical attendance with homeschooling,” he noted. “Particularly in light of the fact that during COVID, public schools had themselves temporarily switched to homeschooling, maintaining such a ban would seem less than stringent.”
The outcome of the case is personal for Riemenschneider since his oldest daughter is slated to begin her formal education next year. “I still don’t know what to do about this,” he added.

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