At Columbia University, responding to a religious Jew who noted that Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, Jill Stein, the hard-left presidential candidate for the Green Party, snapped, “The Jews have Poland.”
Roughly half of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust died in Poland. Additionally, although Ashkenazic Jews were located in Europe, Sephardic Jews have lived in many lands outside of Europe, from the Middle East to Africa.
Stein, who has <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/green-party-nominates-jill-stein-for-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> the BDS movement targeting Israel, called for ending all aid to the Jewish state, and spoke at the March4Gaza rally in mid-January, declared, “I’m Jewish and I’m here. It’s a Jewish value, opposing genocide. Opposing genocide is a Jewish value. Opposing genocide is a core value.”
The Jewish man near her stated that Israel was the homeland of the Jewish people.
“The Jewish people have Poland,” Stein replied, before launching into a rant in which she accused “Israeli offense forces &#8230; Israel occupation forces” who were there “to further instigate violence here against civilians, against students who are simply standing up for our constitutional rights to have this debate, to have this discussion &#8230;”
Stein then appropriated a phrase that has traditionally applied to Jews to paint Palestinians as victims, saying, “It’s really critical that we stand up because Gazans are the canary in the mine shaft here and what happens in Gaza can happen and will happen anywhere.”
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The U.S. State Department has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne3dGStTN8Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a>, “Jews have often been called the ‘canary in the coal mine.’ Anti-Semitic attacks have often been a sign of a deeper sickness in society; they can warn of coming attacks in other populations.”
In 2019, British Labor MP John Mann, who was appointed as the British government’s adviser on anti-Semitism, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-uk-anti-semitism-adviser-jews-are-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-for-humanity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “When it comes to fighting anti-Semitism, it’s not enough for us to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Jewish community, when the anti-Semites are throwing the stones of hatred, of bitterness, of bile. We have to stand in front of [Jews] in this fight. This must not be only the responsibility of the Jewish community.”
“I represent a community that was comprised of coal miners,” he continued. “Coal miners who, when this country needed it, spent their lives underground digging coal. And what the coal miners in the collieries in my area did to warn against the impending doom was to take a small bird in a cage down the pit with them. A yellow canary. The Jewish community is the canary in the coal mine for humanity and for the safety and future of my grandchildren. That’s why we have, whether we like it or not, no choice.”
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In which Jill Stein says that the Jewish people have a homeland in Poland and that .1 percent of Jews are Zionists. 
Both absolutely false. 
Poland was the country where the most Jews were murdered during the Holocaust (millions) and today Jews represent .05% of the population… <a href="https://t.co/nf2NzXVnWE">pic.twitter.com/nf2NzXVnWE</a>
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What the hell did I just watch?
Jill Stein, the Green Party leader, says Jews can go back to Poland, that Zionists are 0.1% of Jews (we are over 95% of Jews) that the Israeli army is attacking American students on campus and they are at a risk of a genocide.
Doesn’t get dumber: <a href="https://t.co/j7JCOFFO1a">pic.twitter.com/j7JCOFFO1a</a>
&mdash; Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1783841722889613455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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I flew to Kraków, Poland, on Saturday night and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1889-at-auschwitz-with-elon-musk-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visited Auschwitz</a> with Elon Musk on Monday.
Auschwitz is an insane experience. For those who have seen images of the Holocaust, seeing the actual structures where mass death was brought upon the Jewish people, as well as Roma homosexuals and Russian soldiers, is an astonishing demonstration of the darkness that is present and possible inside the human soul.
For those who have not visited, it is worth the visit because I think that we tend to live very easy lives — thank God, in the West and in the modern era — and we tend to look around us and see people who are generally good, people who generally believe in non-evil things.
Then you go to a place like Auschwitz and realize it actually is not all that unthinkable for the unthinkable to happen.
I had the privilege when I was younger of helping to write the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor who&#8217;d actually gone through Auschwitz-Birkenau. And the stories obviously are horrifying. 
I think there are many important points to be gained from walking through Auschwitz-Birkenau. The first is to realize that people can be made to believe nearly anything. And this holds true on the side of both the evil people and the people who are victimized by those who are evil.
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One of the things you see when you walk through Auschwitz itself, the actual complex, is a room that&#8217;s just filled with suitcases. Every person who brought a suitcase to Auschwitz thought they were going to end up unpacking that suitcase step by step. European Jewry thought that whatever was next couldn&#8217;t be what it turned out to be, all the way until the final step into the gas chambers. So when we criticize people for not having fought back, at what point were they supposed to believe the unthinkable was now thinkable? Because the unthinkable is unthinkable until precisely the moment that it becomes real. 
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There is very little limit to the evil that can be created in the human heart. That evil can only be masked by ideology. Ideology absolutely matters. It absolutely matters.
To truly understand what happened in Auschwitz-Birkenau, you have to understand German and European history. You have to understand European anti-Semitism. The first and most fundamental thing to understand about anti-Semitism in the modern era is that it is a conspiracy theory about power. When you read the writings of Hitler and those who preceded Hitler by 50, 60, and 70 years — anti-Semitic writings — what you see is that there&#8217;s a conspiracy theory about Jews.
These conspiracy theories assert the powerful in every industry are Jewish, that they are part of an evil conspiracy, and that the only reason they gain power is through some sort of perverse machination, and they, therefore, must be extricated; they must be destroyed. The theory of power suggested they were the exploiters, they had rigged the system on their own behalf, and, therefore, they had to be destroyed.
And that ideology, a self-justifying ideology whereby the people you&#8217;re about to kill are actually the true victimizers, breeds the victimization of Jews and is very much alive and well and with us today.
When we see places like Auschwitz-Birkenau, we think the extent of the horror is so unthinkable and so unimaginable that we tend to cut it off from the rest of human relations. We tend to think, “This is an outlier. It&#8217;s just this crazy statistical outlier.” When, in reality, it is just the culmination of a continuum theory that has been present on Earth for literally thousands of years, going all the way back to the Book of Exodus — the same remarks Pharaoh was making about the Jews, that he felt they were exhibiting rising numbers in power and a threat to the Egyptians. That same stuff was repeated by Hitler, and it&#8217;s being repeated by some people today.
One of the things Elon and I discussed at fair length was diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI is the basic thesis that the world is driven by power dynamics, that virtually every system is a power dynamic system and that free speech is actually just a stand-in for power. That free markets are standing for power, that those who are successful in these systems are actually perpetuaters of the system for their own exploitative power.
That is a dangerous theory. The theory that power lies behind all systems exists on all sides of the political aisle.
You see people in the West marching on behalf of members of Hamas. The only rationale for LGBT people suggesting they have solidarity with people who would literally murder them the first chance they got in the Gaza Strip is this DEI theory that there&#8217;s a system of power that must be torn to the ground. That merges with anti-Semitism, because, after all, if you&#8217;re making the case that there is a group of people with disproportionate power along racial, ethnic, and religious lines, and they are, therefore, the oppressors and exploiters, that merges well with conspiratorial theories about anti-Semitism.
This is why you see all these streams crossing with the DEI Left. This is why you see Black Lives Matter protesting for “Palestine.” This is why you see people who are socialists protesting on behalf of some of the least socially responsible people on planet Earth.
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In the modern world, we have been seeing an attempt to read strength as evil and weakness as virtue. That is a despicable morality because it&#8217;s not moral at all.
In fact, it&#8217;s directly anti-Biblical. The Bible specifically says that if you&#8217;re a judge, you are not allowed to favor either the poor or the rich. Why does the Bible suggest you&#8217;re not allowed to favor the poor when the suggestion by the Left is that you&#8217;ll never favor the poor? The answer is because virtue and wealth are not necessarily connected.
I know very virtuous people who are poor. I know very virtuous people who are rich, and I know many people who are not virtuous, who are both poor and rich. And that makes a difference when it comes to world politics. If you believe the weak are inherently virtuous, that is believing the system itself has made them weak, the system must be torn down, and the people who purport to uphold the system must be destroyed.
That&#8217;s how all of this connects to visiting places like Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Many of the media attacks lobbed at the social media platform X are motivated by gatekeepers in the media who want control of the flow of information, according to tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Musk appeared with Shapiro at the European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in Krakow, Poland, on Monday. Musk and Shapiro discussed topics such as anti-Semitism, free speech, and social media during a roughly hour-long discussion. The conference itself, scheduled to take place from Sunday to Tuesday, focused on the spread of anti-Semitism since Hamas’ invasion of Israel on October 7, the deadliest day for Jews since World War II.
During a discussion on media stories targeting Musk and his social media platform X, Musk and Shapiro agreed that X has become a massive work-around to information censors who manage traditional media outlets.
&#8220;The legacy media for most of my life, up until the past 15 years, performed what they saw as a gatekeeping function. They were the ones who got to define the narrative. They were the ones who got to determine what was appropriate news and what was inappropriate news,” Shapiro said.
“After social media arose, in the early days, the sort of things that you articulate were actually articulated by virtually all the social media heads. [Meta founder] Mark Zuckerberg used to say the kinds of things that you say. [Twitter co-founder] Jack Dorsey used to say the kinds of things that you said,” he continued.
The Daily Wire host said that the social media companies were taken over by “legacy media types” who reverted the platforms back to a gatekeeping function instead of allowing news to spread organically.
“Then there seemed to be an institutional takeover by a lot of legacy media types in terms of the kinds of rules and restrictions that were placed on what you could and could not say on these platforms,” Shapiro said. “Who would get banned, who would not get banned. Advertisers weaponize against, you know, particular outlets if those outlets didn’t follow the dictates that were put forward by these types.”
“And it seems like since you took over, one of the biggest objections of all is that they’re not performing the gatekeeping function anymore. Someone else is,” Shapiro said.
Musk agreed.
“I don’t think there should be a gatekeeping function by a small number of individuals. For newspapers in America, there are about five editors that decide what gets put on the front page or what to focus on or what not to focus on. And most of the other papers just copy them, essentially. But is that really what we want? Do we want just a handful of people deciding what they think is important, or should it be that the people decide what&#8217;s important?” Musk asked.
“I think it should be a sort of an organic thing where the people decide what’s important and what to focus on, not just a handful of editors. And yeah, they don’t like the fact that this power has been taken away from them, but I think it should be,” he added.
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Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, owner of the social media giant X, said Monday that media attempts to “cancel” him are driven by fear of competition in the news industry.
Musk appeared with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro at the European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in Krakow, Poland. Musk and Shapiro covered topics including anti-Semitism, free speech, and the social media age during a roughly hour-long discussion.
As the conversation hit on social media, Shapiro questioned Musk on what is behind numerous hit pieces that have targeted Musk in recent months, especially after his purchase of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“The reality is that X is competition for the legacy media. X is where people go to get the most current news and learn about the world. So, the legacy media are our direct competitors, so they’re really going to find every angle to try to cancel X,” Musk responded.
Musk then suggested that X is soaking up market share from the traditional media and outcompeting older print and cable outlets for users’ attention.
“If you want to know why things are happening, look at the incentives, you know? Legacy media has had a tough time with respect to usage,” Musk said.
“The numbers I saw was that the sort of traditional print-cable television viewership went down something like 20-30% last year. On the other hand, X went up roughly the same, roughly 20-30%,” he continued. “It’s a direct competition for people’s attention. So, if there’s some attack they can levy against me, they will.”
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The focus of the EJA conference is the rise of anti-Semitism across Europe since the terror group Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, resulting in the murders of roughly 1,200 people and the capture of hundreds more. Shapiro and Musk noted that the Palestinian terror group and its backers in Gaza appear to have gained support in the West in the months since the attack.
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Shapiro praised Musk for his content moderation decisions regarding X. Under Musk’s guidance, the platform allowed Shapiro and others to post graphic footage from October 7 to allow others to see video and photos of Hamas’ brutality, Shapiro said. The decision has led to a better accounting of the attack and Israel&#8217;s war on Hamas in the public square.

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Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who owns the social media giant X, blasted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and its prevalence on college campuses on Monday.
Musk appeared with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro at the European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in Krakow, Poland, on Monday. Musk and Shapiro discussed topics such as anti-Semitism, free speech, and social media during a roughly hour-long discussion.
The conversation flowed to DEI and the impact it has had on universities in the United States. Shapiro compared DEI and its emphasis on race-based solutions to Nazi conspiracies about Jews.
“If you read Nazi literature, the Nazis literally promoted the idea that the Jews were, of course, this small caste of people who were running all major industries, who were standing behind all world power,” Shapiro said. “That theory of power and group identity is really ugly, and we see echoes of it today.”
DEI “suggests that all of society is a vast pyramid of group identity, and at the very top are the people who are successful, and that those people are exploiting everybody else. And we can tell who is successful by their group identity; not by their level of success, their group identity. It matches up incredibly, almost a Venn diagram with the circle of anti-Semitism,” Shapiro said.
Musk responded, “You should always be wary of any name that sounds like it could come out of a George Orwell book,” in reference to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
“What it really means is discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and sexual orientation. And it’s against merit, and, thus, I think is fundamentally anti-Semitic,” Musk said.
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&quot;Diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8230;you should always always be wary of any name that sounds like it could come out of a George Orwell book.&quot;— <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a> discuss the dangers of DEI. <a href="https://t.co/Si43BkLiry">pic.twitter.com/Si43BkLiry</a>
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The tech titan later said that the U.S. needs to discard the DEI standard in favor of one based on merit.
“We really need to stop this principle that the nominally weaker party is always right. This is simply not true,” Musk said. “If some of those weaker groups want to annihilate you, that does not make them good.”
The focus of the EJA conference is the rise in anti-Semitism across Europe since the terror group Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, resulting in the murders of roughly 1,200 people and the capture of hundreds more. Shapiro and Musk noted that the Palestinian terror group and its backers in Gaza appear to have gained support in the West, especially on college campuses, in part because of a belief that the Palestinians in Gaza are victims of Western oppression. Gaza is one of the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/08/have-palestinians-received-more-aid-than-any-group-history/">leading</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-israel-foreign-aid-gaza-strip-611b2b90c3a211f21185d59f4fae6a90">recipients</a> of aid from the U.S. and Europe.
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“I’m a big believer in moral absolutism, not moral relativism. There is good and bad in the absolute, and you judge any group or individual against absolute moral standards, not whether they’re the so-called oppressed or oppressor,” Musk said.
“You would think,” Shapiro responded, “but the pseudo-sophisticates on college campuses seem to think differently.” The Daily Wire host then pivoted to the spread of DEI on college campuses, asking Musk what the future of universities should be given that they “appear to have been corrupted by moral relativism.”
“We need to return to what things mostly were, which is a focus on merit,” Musk said. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a man, woman, what race you are, what beliefs you have. What matters is how good are you at your job, or what are your skills.&#8221;
“You could be a three-legged green Martian, wears a kimono, drinks yak’s milk. Who cares? It doesn’t matter. What matters is, how good is your work? That’s it,” Musk added.

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International Arrest Warrant Issued For Putin
An arrest warrant for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-international-criminal-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-vladimir-putin-for-abducting-children-war-crimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian President Vladimir Putin</a> has been issued by the International Criminal Court. The ICC says Putin is allegedly responsible for abducting children from Ukraine and transferring them to Russia. In a video statement, the ICC president said that while a judge has issued the warrant, the group itself has no police force, so an arrest would be up to the international community. On Friday, the Russian foreign ministry rejected the warrant and the allegations, adding that Russia does not recognize the international criminal court.
Poland Sends Fighter Jets
Poland has become the first <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/poland-to-transfer-mig-29-fighter-jets-to-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NATO country</a> to supply the Ukrainian Army with MiG-29 fighter jets. Polish President Andrejz Duda made the announcement Thursday, saying his country will send four planes to President Volodymr Zelensky, after Ukraine’s repeated requests for Western air support via fighter jets. It’s unclear whether other NATO countries will follow suit.
El Salvador Crackdown Continues
El Salvador’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-salvadors-crime-crackdown-could-push-gangs-north-toward-u-s-expert-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government sent another 2,000 suspects</a> this week to its massive new prison designed to hold gang members. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce joined Afternoon Update with the latest:
<blockquote>The president of El Salvador has requested an extension of the emergency measures that his administration has been using to crack down on gangs for about a year now. Over the course of that period, some 65,000 suspects have been arrested. The anti-gang campaign comes in response to a surge of violent crime in recent years. Human rights activists have criticized the crackdown, accusing the government of human rights abuses and the arrest of innocent people in its mass raids.</blockquote>
Drag Queen Story Hours In New York
New York’s Attorney General Letitia James <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-offers-family-friendly-alternative-to-ny-attorney-generals-drag-story-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced this week</a> that she will be hosting a drag queen story hour event for children in Manhattan on Sunday. The event is co-sponsored by the New York, Queens, and Brooklyn public libraries. The announcement comes as some states, including Tennessee, are moving to crack down on sexually charged performances in front of children.
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Honda Recall
Honda has recalled nearly half a million vehicles due to concerns with seatbelts improperly latching due to a manufacturing defect that causes the seat belt button and latch to deteriorate over time, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/16/honda-recall-seat-belts-vehicles-crv-accord/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The vehicles in question are the popular CR-V between 2017 and 2020, the Accord between 2018 and 2019, the Accord Hybrid between 2018 and 2019, the Odyssey between 2018 and 2020, the Acura RDX between 2019 and 2020, and the Insight from 2019.
Silver Lining In California?
There is a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/climate/california-drought.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">silver lining</a> to all the rain and snow storms hitting California. Daily Wire reporter Mairead Elordi reported:
<blockquote>According to data from the U.S. Drought monitor, 44% of the state is no longer under any drought conditions. 36% of the state is still experiencing moderate drought and just 8% is considered in severe drought. This is the first time in three years that LA and San Francisco are classified as drought free. And another large rain storm is predicted for next week.</blockquote>
California Crack Down On Skittles?
California <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/california-law-could-ban-sale-of-candies-like-skittles-pez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may soon ban</a> Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, and a variety of nonperishable savory foods due to a new bill that bans five common chemical additives linked to cancer and organ damage. If the bill passes, food makers will either have to adapt their products or stop selling them in America&#8217;s most populous state.
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Skittles candies are seen in the shop in Milan, Italy on October 6, 2021. SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 01: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference on February 01, 2023 in Sacramento, California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Attorney General Rob Bonta, state Senator Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) and other state leaders announced SB2 – a new gun safety legislation that would establish stricter standards for Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) permits to carry a firearm in public. The bill designates “sensitive areas,” like bars, amusement parks and child daycare centers where guns would not be allowed.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.,</a> might be the only white boy from East Wilmington, as he is wont to say, but Ol&#8217; Diamond Joe is much more than that. By his own account, he is the most Polish-Jewish-Black-Puerto Rican-Greek-Irish-Catholic president that we have ever had.
On Tuesday, Biden was in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-u-s-president-sneaked-into-a-warzone-without-anyone-noticing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Poland</a> to re-emphasize <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-again-says-war-in-ukraine-is-the-single-most-important-event-going-on-in-the-world-right-now-americans-beg-to-differ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Swamp&#8217;s commitment</a> to endless war in Ukraine. While there, he told his Polish counterpart about his own connection with the Poles.
“As a young man, I was, uh, born in a coal town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood. Then when coal died, we moved down to Delaware, to a town called Claymont, Delaware, which was a working-class town,” Biden told President Andrzej Duda. “And, uh, but everyone in town was either Polish or Italian. I grew up feeling self-conscious my name didn’t end in an ‘s-k-i’ or an ‘o.&#8217;”
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Biden in Poland: ‘I grew up feeling self-conscious my name didn’t end in “S-K-I” or an “O” <a href="https://t.co/4mlg1D5DYb">pic.twitter.com/4mlg1D5DYb</a>
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The president threw in an &#8220;all-kidding aside&#8221; but it would seem that he has always been a bit race-conscious from an early age. In fact, he&#8217;s most at home in a multicultural society. Or rather, he changes his life story to best suit whatever group he is speaking with.
Just last month, he also told a group of black Americans that he used to go to the African-American church in town after attending Catholic mass.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s lay one thing to rest. I may be a practicing Catholic, but [I] used to go to 7:30 Mass every morning in high school and then in college before I went to the Black church,&#8221; Biden said at the time. &#8220;Not a joke, Andy knows this.&#8221;
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He also had an affinity for the Jewish people and attended Synagogue growing up.
“I probably went to shul more than many of you did,” Biden <a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/519838/biden-jewish-high-holidays-white-house-shul-more-than-many-of-you-did/">stated</a> during a 2022 celebration of Rosh Hashanah.
“You all think I’m kidding, he can tell you I’m not,” the president said while gesturing toward a rabbi from Delaware.
“I’m a practicing Catholic, but I’d go to services on Saturday and on Sunday,” the president explained “You all think I’m kidding. I’m not.”
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Joe Biden at his event celebrating Rosh Hashanah:
&quot;I probably went to shul more than many of you did&#8230; I&#39;m a practicing Catholic but I went too services on Saturday and Sunday. You think I&#39;m kidding.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/g3OPT2TGaf">pic.twitter.com/g3OPT2TGaf</a>
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So, Biden wants the American people to believe that he would spend at least three hours every weekend attending multi-faith services growing up in Wilmington.
He is also practically Greek, too.
On Greek Independence Day in 2009, then-Vice President Biden, declared,  “I am an honorary Greek, not only today … but every day.” He gave himself the moniker “Joe Bidenopulous&#8221; because, he said, &#8220;in my first election the Greek community elected me.&#8221;
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Last fall, while in Puerto Rico for hurricane recovery efforts, Biden also let it be known that he was raised in the Puerto Rican community.
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Biden: &quot;I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/OA1LPK5auy">pic.twitter.com/OA1LPK5auy</a>
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And, of course, Biden claims to be a devout Roman Catholic. He also believes in gay marriage, abortion, radical gender ideology, and more that goes against church teaching.
So is Biden actually a walking, talking melting pot molded by nearly every ethnicity and religion under the sun?
No. A far likelier explanation is that he is a lying cheeseball.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Spice Girls <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">singer</a> Mel C canceled her scheduled New Year’s Eve performance in Poland, which prompted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBT</a> activists to celebrate her decision.
The 48-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">British singer</a> did not specify her reason for canceling the show. Still, followers were convinced that she decided to pull out because of Poland’s anti-LGBT stance.
&#8220;In light of some issues that have been brought to my attention, that do not align with the communities I support, I&#8217;m afraid I will no longer be able to perform in Poland as planned on New Year&#8217;s Eve,” Mel C, whose real name is Melanie Jayne Chisholm, <a href="https://twitter.com/MelanieCmusic/status/1607439103984820224">shared</a> on Twitter.
&#8220;I hope to be back there very soon. Hope you&#8217;re all having a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for 2023. Melanie xxx.&#8221;
Followers were thrilled with what they saw as a stance in favor of the LGBT community.
&#8220;I’m super proud of you, my dear. [These] small things change the world. Thanx,&#8221; one follower <a href="https://twitter.com/davidmoreno/status/1607490317170708482">wrote</a>.
&#8220;The best ally,&#8221; another person <a href="https://twitter.com/burcakmusic/status/1607461718724149249">agreed</a>.
&#8220;Thank you for not only being here for us, but also by us,&#8221; a third person <a href="https://twitter.com/thisissaave/status/1607716118269157377">chimed in</a>. &#8220;We love you Mel.&#8221;
The New Year&#8217;s Eve show is being staged by Polish state broadcaster TVP. They said the Spice Girls member pulled out &#8220;under the pressure of online comments,” per the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64101556">BBC</a>. Many followers were thrilled to hear Mel C canceled the show.
Mel C is a well-known LGBT rights activist. The British LGBT Awards gave her the celebrity ally prize in 2021, and she was also named &#8220;Honorary Gay&#8221; by Attitude magazine earlier this year, the publication noted.
Poland is well known for having a strong stance on traditional marriage. In 2020, President Andrzej Duda said the LGBT movement was &#8220;more destructive&#8221; than communism. Same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in the mostly Catholic country, and same-sex couples cannot legally adopt children.  
Over one-third of the country has established “LGBT-free zones,” or places where state and local laws seek to preserve traditional marriage, per <a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/world/lgbt-free-poland-intl-scli-cnnphotos/">CNN</a>. But the Polish US Embassy confirmed that those individuals are still protected from violence or discrimination just like all other citizens of the country.
“They are declarations that represent the views of local officials on issues of moral salience, and may be viewed as both a voice within a larger discussion on gender and sexuality as well as a manifestation of the freedom of expression,” a statement on the laws <a href="https://twitter.com/PolishEmbassyUS/status/1318296004504977408">says</a> in part. “All individuals in Poland, including members of the LGBT community, have the right to full protection against hate, violence and discrimination.”

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President Joe Biden said Wednesday that a missile that landed inside Poland was &#8220;unlikely&#8221; to have been fired by Russia.
The missile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-russian-missiles-fired-into-nato-member-poland-killing-two-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck</a> a farm 15 miles inside Poland, killed two people, and instantly sparked discussions about convening NATO members to determine whether a military response was warranted under the organization&#8217;s Article 5.
The Associated Press first reported the missile strike Tuesday morning after a senior U.S. official told the publication that Russia fired the missiles.
“There is preliminary information that contests that,” Biden later told reporters while overseas when asked if the missile had been fired from Russia. “It is unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia, but we’ll see.”
Now it appears as though the missile, which Poland said was &#8220;Russian-made&#8221;, was actually fired by Ukrainian forces at a Russian missile, missed, and continued traveling through the air until it detonated at the farm, preliminary assessments suggested <a href="https://apnews.com/article/g-20-summit-nato-biden-andrzej-duda-25e615909ba0d871d5092f5b3aec21c8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the AP.
The Russian government immediately pushed back on claims that they had fired the missile as soon as the AP&#8217;s report was published.
“No strikes on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish state border were made by Russian means of destruction,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said. The ministry called the reports “deliberate provocation(s) aimed at escalating the situation.”
The Department of Defense said at a press conference on Tuesday that they could not confirm the AP&#8217;s original report that claimed that Russia fired the missiles.
“We are aware of the press reports alleging that two Russian missiles have struck a location inside Poland near the Ukraine border,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said. “I can tell you that we don’t have any information at this time to corroborate those reports and are looking into this further.”
Ryder added, “When it comes to our security commitments and Article 5, we’ve been crystal clear that we will defend every inch of NATO territory.”
NATO was created with the primary mission of countering attempts by the then-Soviet Union to expand into Eastern Europe and other areas by uniting member nations in a collective defense against attacks through NATO’s <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Article 5</a>.
Article 5, which was first invoked after Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, ensures that “an attack against one Ally is considered as an attack against all Allies.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-russian-missiles-fired-into-nato-member-poland-killing-two-report-says">Russian Missiles Fired Into NATO Member Poland, Killing Two, Report Says</a>

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Editor&#8217;s note: The Associated Press has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/associated-press-reporter-fired-over-inaccurate-russian-missile-attack-story">retracted the story</a> on which this report was based. The reporter, Associated Press national security correspondent James LaPorta, was also fired. The Daily Wire&#8217;s original story appears below: 
Russia reportedly fired missiles Tuesday into Poland, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), killing two people and sparking fears of what kind of response the incident could elicit from NATO.
The Associated Press&#8217; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-kherson-9202c032cf3a5c22761ee71b52ff9d52">report</a>, which came from information it received from a senior U.S. official, said that the missile strikes came as Russia was targeting Ukrainian energy facilities across the country with &#8220;its biggest barrage of missiles yet.&#8221; The strike <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/europe/poland-missile-rocket-nato-przewodow-ukraine-intl/index.html">reportedly</a> happened 15 miles inside of Poland&#8217;s border at a farm.
The report said that the Polish government did not immediately confirm the report.
The Department of Defense said at a press conference that they could not confirm the report.
&#8220;We are aware of the press reports alleging that two Russian missiles have struck a location inside Poland near the Ukraine border,&#8221; Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said. &#8220;I can tell you that we don&#8217;t have any information at this time to corroborate those reports and are looking into this further.&#8221;
Ryder added, &#8220;When it comes to our security commitments and Article 5, we&#8217;ve been crystal clear that we will defend every inch of NATO territory.&#8221;
The Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the news on Twitter, saying that the development was &#8220;concerning&#8221; and they would defend Poland if it was attacked by Russia.
&#8220;Latest news from Poland is most concerning,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;We are consulting closely with Poland and other Allies. Estonia is ready to defend every inch of NATO territory. We’re in full solidarity with our close ally Poland.&#8221;
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Latest news from Poland is most concerning. We are consulting closely with Poland and other Allies. Estonia is ready to defend every inch of NATO territory. We’re in full solidarity with our close ally Poland 🇵🇱
&mdash; Estonian MFA 🇪🇪 | 🌻 #StandWithUkraine (@MFAestonia) <a href="https://twitter.com/MFAestonia/status/1592591979963371521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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NATO was created with the primary mission of countering attempts by the then-Soviet Union to expand into Eastern Europe and other areas by uniting member nations in a collective defense against attacks through NATO&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm">Article 5</a>.
Article 5, which was first invoked after Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, ensures that &#8220;an attack against one Ally is considered as an attack against all Allies.&#8221;

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A top Polish official slammed a Polish member of European Parliament on Tuesday for suggesting the United States was behind damage to two Russian gas pipelines to Germany this week.
Radoslaw Sikorski, a member of European Parliament and chairman of the Delegation for relations with the United States, wrote on Twitter, “Thank you, USA,” along with a picture that showed methane coming to the surface from one of the spots where the pipeline ruptured.
“By the way, there’s no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from Russia to Western Europe, including Germany,” Sikorski claimed on Twitter. “Nordstream’s only logic was for Putin to be able to blackmail or wage war on Eastern Europe with impunity.”
“All Ukrainian and Baltic sea states have opposed Nordstream’s construction for 20 years,” he continued. “Now $20 billion of scrap metal lies at the bottom of the sea, another cost to Russia of its criminal decision to invade Ukraine. Someone, @MFA_Russia , did a special maintenance operation.”
Russia instantly capitalized on the statement from Sikorksi, who is married to American leftist writer Anne Applebaum, asking on social media if his statement was &#8220;an official statement on this being a terrorist attack.&#8221;
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💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Zakharova?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Zakharova</a>: ex Polish FM, now European MP <a href="https://twitter.com/radeksikorski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@radeksikorski</a> has thanked the US for today&#39;s incident at the Russian gas pipeline (Nord Stream 2).
Is it an official statement on this being a terrorist attack? <a href="https://t.co/QnGc10kNCq">https://t.co/QnGc10kNCq</a>
&mdash; MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) <a href="https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1574854894049234948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Sikorksi&#8217;s remarks were quickly condemned by Stanislaw Zaryn, Poland&#8217;s secretary of state and former director of the Department of National Security.
&#8220;Russian #propaganda instantly launched a smear campaign against Poland, the US and Ukraine, accusing the West of aggression against #NS1 and #NS2,&#8221; Zaryn tweeted. &#8220;Authenticating the Russian lies at this particular moment jeopardizes the security of Poland. What an act of gross irresponsibility!&#8221;
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Russian <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/propaganda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#propaganda</a> instantly launched a smear campaign against Poland, the US and Ukraine, accusing the West of aggression against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NS1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NS1</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NS2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NS2</a>.
Authenticating the Russian lies at this particular moment jeopardizes the security of Poland. What an act of gross irresponsibility! <a href="https://t.co/S9YJKRCv9B">pic.twitter.com/S9YJKRCv9B</a>
&mdash; Stanisław Żaryn (@StZaryn) <a href="https://twitter.com/StZaryn/status/1574831526273060884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Nord Stream AG, the Russian company behind the pipelines, released a statement on the incident, calling it “unprecedented.”
“The destruction that occurred on the same day simultaneously on three strings of the offshore gas pipelines of the Nord Stream system is unprecedented,” the company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nord-stream-pipelines-see-unprecedented-damage-after-cia-warned-german-government-of-sabotage">said</a> in a statement. “It is not yet possible to estimate the timing of the restoration of the gas transport infrastructure.”
A <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/cia-warned-berlin-about-possible-attacks-gas-pipelines-summer-spiegel-2022-09-27/">report</a> from German news outlet Spiegel said that the CIA had cautioned Germany about possible attacks on Baltic Sea gas pipelines weeks ago. Berlin is presently assuming it was a targeted attack on the Nord Stream system, unnamed sources said.
Germany, the continent’s largest economy, relied upon Russian natural gas for 55% of its imports before the beginning of the conflict. The producer price index for industrial products in Germany has risen 45.8% year-over-year as of August 2022, according to <a href="https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/Prices/Producer-Price-Index-For-Industrial-Products/_node.html">data</a> from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, which followed increases of 37.2% in July 2022 and 32.7% in June 2022.
Several manufacturers have therefore <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-companies-pause-production-as-energy-prices-soar">paused operations</a> in response to high energy prices and a likely drop in consumer demand. Industrial production in the eurozone has fallen 2.3%, according to <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/14698159/4-14092022-AP-EN.pdf/653e3e30-294b-4af7-4db4-8bab2cadc782?t=1663065884252">data</a> from the European Union.
Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report. 
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nord-stream-pipelines-see-unprecedented-damage-after-cia-warned-german-government-of-sabotage">Nord Stream Pipelines See ‘Unprecedented’ Damage After CIA Warned German Government Of Sabotage</a>

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Poland Slams Politician Who Suggested U.S. Blew Up Pipelines: 'What An Act Of Gross Irresponsibility!'

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A Polish politician, who is married to American leftist writer Anne Applebaum, ignited a firestorm on social media this week by suggesting that the United States was behind the damage to Russia&#8217;s Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea this week.
The tweet from Radoslaw Sikorski came after explosions were reported where the pipelines are located in the Baltic Sea, which was followed by a sharp decrease in the conduits’ pressure.
&#8220;Thank you, USA,&#8221; Sikorski, a member of European Parliament and chairman of the Delegation for relations with the United States, declared on Twitter.
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Thank you, USA. <a href="https://t.co/nALlYQ1Crb">pic.twitter.com/nALlYQ1Crb</a>
&mdash; Radek Sikorski MEP (@radeksikorski) <a href="https://twitter.com/radeksikorski/status/1574800653724966915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;[By the way], there&#8217;s no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from Russia to Western Europe, including Germany,&#8221; Sikorski claimed on Twitter. &#8220;Nordstream&#8217;s only logic was for Putin to be able to blackmail or wage war on Eastern Europe with impunity.&#8221;
&#8220;All Ukrainian and Baltic sea states have opposed Nordstream&#8217;s construction for 20 years,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Now $20 billion of scrap metal lies at the bottom of the sea, another cost to Russia of its criminal decision to invade Ukraine. Someone, @MFA_Russia , did a special maintenance operation.&#8221;
Nord Stream AG, the Russian company behind the pipelines, released a statement on the incident, calling it &#8220;unprecedented.&#8221;
“The destruction that occurred on the same day simultaneously on three strings of the offshore gas pipelines of the Nord Stream system is unprecedented,” the company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nord-stream-pipelines-see-unprecedented-damage-after-cia-warned-german-government-of-sabotage">said</a> in a statement. “It is not yet possible to estimate the timing of the restoration of the gas transport infrastructure.”
A <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/cia-warned-berlin-about-possible-attacks-gas-pipelines-summer-spiegel-2022-09-27/">report</a> from German news outlet Spiegel said that the CIA had cautioned Germany about possible attacks on Baltic Sea gas pipelines weeks ago. Berlin is presently assuming it was a targeted attack on the Nord Stream system, unnamed sources said.
Germany, the continent’s largest economy, relied upon Russian natural gas for 55% of its imports before the beginning of the conflict. The producer price index for industrial products in Germany has risen 45.8% year-over-year as of August 2022, according to <a href="https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/Prices/Producer-Price-Index-For-Industrial-Products/_node.html">data</a> from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, which followed increases of 37.2% in July 2022 and 32.7% in June 2022.
Several manufacturers have therefore <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-companies-pause-production-as-energy-prices-soar">paused operations</a> in response to high energy prices and a likely drop in consumer demand. Industrial production in the eurozone has fallen 2.3%, according to <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/14698159/4-14092022-AP-EN.pdf/653e3e30-294b-4af7-4db4-8bab2cadc782?t=1663065884252">data</a> from the European Union.
Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report. 
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Polish Politician Stuns With Tweet Suggesting Who Was Behind Destroying Russia's Pipelines

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