June 17, 2021

 

The Times of Israel

Thousands of right-wing [Jewish] nationalists marched through parts of Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday, with some chanting racist slogans, as Israel was said to have warned Hamas, via Egyptian mediators, of a tough and immediate response to any rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. Police estimated turnout in Jerusalem at 5,000 participants and some 2,000 officers were deployed across the city for the event. Footage posted to social media showed the right-wing marchers chanting “Death to Arabs” as well as “Shuafat is on fire,” referring to the East Jerusalem neighborhood, and “Jerusalem is ours.” While voicing support for the decision to approve the march, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid immediately denounced the chants of “Death to Arabs.”

Associated Press

In the 1980s, Rabbi Meir Kahane’s violent anti-Arab ideology was considered so repugnant that Israel banned him from parliament, and the U.S. listed his party as a terrorist group. Today, his disciples march through the streets by the hundreds, chanting “Death to Arabs” and assaulting any they come across. This week, they took part in a wave of communal violence in Jerusalem and mixed cities across Israel in which Arabs and Jews viciously attacked people and torched cars … Admirers of Kahane were elected to parliament in March as allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and one of the most prominent has become a fixture on Israeli TV. Their resurgence has injected another element of volatility to the conflict.

Breitbart

The San Francisco public school enrollment is plummeting as mostly white families are fleeing the district, a report at the San Francisco Chronicle said Wednesday. According to the news report, more than 1,700 public school students have left the city’s district over the past year, with possibly a continued exodus into the start of the next academic year in the fall … The Chronicle noted a school budget report released Wednesday that found enrollment in the district at the end of the current year was 50,955, the lowest in decades … A drop of 299 white students, or four percent, was the largest loss to enrollment … The Chronicle reported kindergarten applications have experienced a 55 percent drop from white families … The district has experienced a turbulent year in a city that has seen a rise in crime and drug overdoses …

Task & Purpose

The Army has disabled comments on a series of new recruiting commercials meant to reach potential recruits from all backgrounds after being bombarded by criticism that the service is “woke.” The new series called “The Calling,” posted to YouTube on May 4, showcases real soldiers and their stories in an animated format. One video features a corporal who discusses her “fairly typical childhood” in which she took ballet and played the violin, and also “marched for equality” with her two moms … Another video features a first lieutenant who immigrated to Florida from Haiti with his family as a child … “It is important that the soldiers featured in the campaign reflect the incredible diversity of both the Army and the American public – and not just ethnic diversity, but diversity of influences, upbringings, and experiences,” she continued.

Philip Giraldi

… Equally unsurprising, [the Pentagon’s] DEOMI has included in its mission the assertion that those who deny the so-called holocaust are a threat to national security. A 20-page booklet entitled Holocaust Revisionism published by DEOMI’s “Research Directorate” as an education resource was written by one Captain Carlos C. Huerta, an orthodox Jewish rabbi … The booklet is intended to send the message to American military service personnel that skepticism about the standard history taught in schools regarding what happened to Europe’s Jews during World War 2 is not permissible for those in uniform.

Remix News

Following the example of the Hungarian national team, Croats also announced that they will not kneel before the matches of the Euro 2020 Championship, which kicks off Friday evening … The players of the Croatian national football team said they will certainly not kneel in their opening match against England. The reasoning on the part of the Croatian federation is the same as the Hungarian position, which points to European Football Association (UEFA), which prohibits players making political gestures. It is common practice in England for players to kneel before matches, who are campaigning for the controversial Black Lives Matter political movement.