Fake news about Israel and the Jews continues to proliferate from many mainstream news sources that have sold out to the devil any credibility, they may have one had. Whether it’s the “Failing New York Times,” “Fake News CNN” or any other of the notorious media sources that are alleged to report biased, tainted news, unfortunately, it seems like a virtual non-stop barrage of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic spewing. It may be overt or more subtle, but there are organizations like Honest Reporting that are tracking and calling out the false news reporting for the lies that they are.Whether it’s 1984 “Big Brother” telling you what to think and do or the media twisting the truth so that’s unrecognizable anymore, this is dangerous not only to the Jews as scapegoats, but to the souls, freedom and future of our world.
October 15, 2021
Our World of Fake News
July 22, 2021
Don't Follow Haters and Liars
Truth does not mind being questioned.
A lie does not like being challenged.
This seems like truth to me!
People who push an agenda and their propaganda never like to discuss it or answer questions about it. It's usually prejudice in some way and they just want to ram it down people's throats.
Questioning and shedding light on things that don't seem right is part of our moral and civic duty.
Of course, the haters and liars would rather that we just accept the falsehoods they are peddling like stupid sheep who blindly follow them down the road to perdition. ;-)
(Source Photo: Friend)
Don't Follow Haters and Liars
August 27, 2020
Rope Light
Looks like a noose and it's hanging from the ceiling.
I don't think this light is too enlightened!
There are no ropes needed.
We need to cast light not darkness in this world. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Rope Light
June 3, 2020
Still Fighting For Our Rights
I can not believe I still have to protest this crap!!
Just went you thought humanity (at least Western civilization) had mostly evolved past all the discrimination, biases, bigotry, prejudice, and racisms.
We arrive in time only to find out that HATE is still brewing in our societies and people's evil hearts.
What a shame--that we misinterpret what divides us as taking precedence over what unites us!
What a pity--that we misjudge people by the color of their skin, their race, their religion, etc. instead of by the worthiness of their deeds.
What a disgrace--that we mistreat our fellow man simply because they are different from us and in the most superficial of ways.
With all our scientific advances and technological progress, we are still in stone ages of the evolution of our humanity. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Still Fighting For Our Rights
January 2, 2020
'Uncut Gems' Cuts Deep
Yesterday, we went to see the new Adam Sandler movie, Uncut Gems....Ratner's life is full of shlemazel of his own making. While he has a good wife, kids, and extended family (maybe with the exception of his loan shark uncle), a fancy-schmancy home in the suburbs with a newly renovated pool, his own jewelry business that even caters to some big-league sports players, and a shiksa girlfriend on the side (who seems to love him), Ratner is never satisfied or happy and is always pushing for more!
In the movie, Howard Ratner was driven by greed and made bad life choices, and to me, it was a shame that the he was portrayed as a Jew, which can feed the vicious cycle of discrimination and hatred that has often been anchored around money. With the vicious machete attack on Chanukah at a Rabbi's house in Monsey this week (after a slew of other anti-Semitic incidents, including an attack on a student for wearing a yalmulke on the NYC Subway to beatings and tire slashings of Jews in Brooklyn), we are reminded that there is once again a resurgence of prejudice and hate against Jews, but also that it's the light of Chanukah that "drives out the darkness," and that money and materialism are a mere shabby substitute to finding true security and success whether you work in the dense NYC Diamond District or live in the sprawling suburbs of America.
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
'Uncut Gems' Cuts Deep
December 8, 2019
Operation Thunderbolt: Fighting Prejudice and Persecution
No people should suffer blatant prejudice and persecution and everyone should be “entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” These are part of the foundational values that America and Israel share. We stand as friends and allies for respecting and valuing human rights, always to be underscored by peace and security for our peoples. Isn’t it an amazing “coincidence” that the rescue in Entebbe occurred on America’s 200th anniversary, July 4, 1976!
The raid on Entebbe and the miraculous rescue of the hostages stands as an everlasting symbol of courage and triumph of good over evil. As we continue to work and pray for a genuine peace in the Middle East for all its inhabitants, we also must stand resolutely and say “Never Again.”
(Credit Photo: Government Press Office Israel via Flickr)
Operation Thunderbolt: Fighting Prejudice and Persecution
November 21, 2019
Not WHO They Seem
But they are not all the same.
It's NOT a matter of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, etc. that is important.
But rather it's what is inside people's hearts.
Some hearts are pure in intent (even if not in every deed).
Others are sullied with hate and abuse of others just because they can.
But why hurt others when you can help them?
People are not all the same.
Inside they are different.
Luckily G-d looks at the inside; the outside is just the packaging. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Not WHO They Seem
April 27, 2019
The Hateful, Anti-Semitic New York Times
This is what has become of the garbage New York Times...
Resorting to anti-Semitism, hate, and incitement against the Jewish people and Israel.
This from the New York Times "coincidentally" the same day that a shooting spree took place at a synagogue in California resulting with one women dead, multiple people injured, and the Rabbi losing one or more of his fingers.
Complete disgrace on the hateful, Anti-Semitic New York Times!
U.S. Department of Justice investigation!!!
Amazing how the alt-left liberals, with the New York Times leading the march of hate, profess to fight against every ...phobia and ...ism, except of course, against the age-old Anti-Semitism!
How are the New York Times' disgusting "leadership" going to be held accountable?
For every decent person still out there, please dump your subscription to the garbage New York Times and stand up against the hateful publication that it truly is.
(Source Caricature: The Hateful, Anti-Semitic New York Times)
The Hateful, Anti-Semitic New York Times
April 18, 2019
Impeach + AOC
I saw these two photos separately.
But I instantly realized that they belong together.
Like peanut butter and jelly.
Who is a bigger pee brain than AOC?
* She impulsively lost 25,000 jobs and $5 billion investment in NYC from Amazon (as well as about $27.5 billion in tax revenue over 25 years).
* Her ridiculous Green New Deal wanted to rid us of farting cows and airplanes and didn't get a single yes vote in the Senate (even from her own party).
* AOC stated that the three branches of government are the "the presidency, the senate, and the house" (Uh, wrong!).
* Ocasio-Cortez boasts insanely that government deficit-spending doesn't really matter (hmm, I wonder is that how she handles her personal finances too?).
* She allies herself with fellow anti-American and anti-Semites like:
- Ilhan "(Schmilhan) Somebody Did Something [on 9/11]" Omar
- Rhasida "(Israel-Hater) They Forgot What Country They Represent" Tlaib
- Linda "Muslim Brotherhood" Sarsour
How did anyone actually vote for (or support) people like these to run this amazing country? ;-)
(Source Photo: AOC is from Facebook and Impeachment is from me)
Impeach + AOC
March 8, 2019
Democrats and Anti-Semitism
There are terrible anti-Semitic events happening in parallel in Europe and right here in America. This past week, Belgian hosted mocking and hateful caricatures of Orthodox Jews in their carnival procession. And right here in Washington, D.C., the Democratic Party made a complete farce of the handling of one of its own, anti-Semites, Rep. Ilhan Omar. Omar continues to vent her hared against Israel even going so far as to denounce its supporters as having "dual loyalty."
It is so disheartening to see the Democratic party reverting back to its ugly days and roots of hate just like during/after the Civil War when they were the party of "opposition to civil and political rights for African Americans."
The question is how far down this evil path will things go again? ;-)
Democrats and Anti-Semitism
February 16, 2019
Getting Rid Of The "Farting Cows"
When politicians are extremists (Alt-left or -right) and want to get rid of "farting cows" and airplanes, then who knows what or who is next on their genocidal list (and with the elimination of cows being all too reminiscent of the notion of Jews going “like sheep to the slaughter.”)
Bigotry, hate and extremism is unbecoming of a Congressional Representative like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and they should be resolutely rejected-- it hurts an important environmental cause and needs to be rejected for the cows and for us. ;-)
(Source Photo: Pixabay)
Getting Rid Of The "Farting Cows"
February 11, 2019
The New Faces Of Hate
"It's all about the Benjamins baby".
Representative Rashida Tlaib said about congressional representatives supporting Israel in a bill that would punish companies that participate in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) to further Israel's destruction.
"They forget what country they represent."
"This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state is absolved of the mass shooting of protesters."
"Silence" around the Palestinian cause "has been a little interesting to me."
Perhaps, the most concerning thing is where is the Democratic Party leadership in calling out these anti-Semitic hate-mongers in their ranks?
The New Faces Of Hate
July 6, 2018
The Diversity Tapestry
"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value, no matter what their color [or race, or origin, or religion, or age, or gender, or sexual orientation, or disability]."
Ok, I added the "or" statements at the end.
But the point is the same and important.
Discrimination, bigotry, prejudice, and bias are stupid.
They are a function of ignorance.
- We learn from diversity.
- Life is richer with diversity.
If everything was in monocolor...if life was homogeneous...if there was only one type of everything, then what type of humdrum, monotonous, and boring place would this be?
Value the variety. Value the diversity. Value the differences.
They make us better and stronger than we could ever otherwise be. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
The Diversity Tapestry
September 9, 2017
A Holocaust Bar Mitzvah
It was very memorable, I think not only for the young man and his family, but for many of the congregants--and frankly, it brought me to tears.
The family was from the Israeli embassy, and they did something that I had never seen before.
When the father got up with his wife and son at the pulpit to speak, he didn't talk about how great his son was.
Instead he spoke about a young boy from the Holocaust who never made it to his bar-mitzvah.
The father told of the just 12-year old that lived in Europe and was murdered by the Nazis in the Jewish genocide that killed 6,000,000!
The father presented a certificate from the Remember Us program with the name and information of the murdered boy to his son.
The message of this father and Israeli official on his son's bar-mitzvah was very clear--Never again!
Never again--the hate, prejudice, discrimination, and murder of Jews just because they are Jews.
The people that were murdered by the evil Nazis and other hating bigots throughout history showed no mercy towards G-d's creatures--in fact, quite the contrary--they relished in the absolute torture and killing of each and every one.
Never again, is not just a phrase, but it is a determination and a commitment to be a "light unto nations" not to forget how some can fall under the evil influence and not to allow it to happen again that people engage in the most outrageous and vile atrocities against their fellow man.
Unfortunately these days, hate and bigotry comes in many colors, races, genders, orientations, and affiliations--and the haters may often pretend--like the Nazis did as the "Aryan Nation"--that they are superior, better, and even righteous in their (evil) cause.
However, we have to know better--we have to be able to discern good from evil--raise up good over evil--and fight for good to win against evil.
It is not just a single battle, but a long intergenerational war, and one that will be won.
G-d Almighty will most assuredly see to it that those who hate on and perform the vilest of deeds against their fellow man, they will end up paying the ultimate price not only with their rotting flesh, but with the eternal burning of their sickening souls. ;-)
(Source Photo: here with attribution to the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team--HEART)
A Holocaust Bar Mitzvah
August 17, 2017
Ok To Be Ourselves!
While perhaps normally I wouldn't just post this to my blog...
I thought that in light of the report that came out of 917 hate groups operating right now in the United States, that I would take this as an opportunity to be me.
To hell with all the haters out there!
- The more they hate us, the more I will love my Jewishness.
- The more they try to stamp out our religious freedom, the more I will relish in it.
- The more they try to kill us, the more I will live as a Jew.
No more Holocausts...no more bigotry...no more hate--it is enough! ;-)
Ok To Be Ourselves!
May 2, 2017
Racism--From Our Campuses to the United Nations
Just this week...
- Students at a major local university here in Washington, D.C. hang bananas from nooses targeting blacks on campus for the 2nd time this school year. And today, students rally to plead for an investigation and intervention.
- As every U.S. senator has agreed, the Unjust United Nations continues its institutionalized Anti-semitism and unfair targeting of democratic ally, Israel, labeling them an Apartheid state, pushing a grotesque boycott, divestment, and sanction regime, denying Israel's claim to it's ancient and modern day capital of Jerusalem, and falsely targeting them--truly one of the most progressive states in the entire world--as a human rights violator.
Bias, bigotry, prejudice, racism, anti-semitism, hatred, and discrimination--it's all still around us.
Whether your Jewish or Black or Indian or Asian or LGBT or whatever--it's open season from lynching bananas with references to gorillas to targeting the Jewish State with everything from murder to economic terrorism and so on.
Why people want to smash the living daylights out of others and call themselves righteous doing it is beyond a mystery and speaks more to the truth of what's genuinely evil in the hearts of mankind. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Racism--From Our Campuses to the United Nations
March 22, 2017
UN Is Plagued With JEWPHOBIA
It's a most evil disease of the mind, body, and soul.
And it's called--Jewphobia!
And it's taken many forms throughout history...
- Hateful Anti-Israel Resolutions
- Terrorism
- Wars
- Boycotts, Divestitures, and Sanctions
- Genocidal Holocaust
- Death Camps
- Crematoria
- Gas Chambers
- Forced Labor
- Human Medical Experiments
- Kristillnacht
- Iron Curtains
- Persecutions
- Pogroms
- Discrimination
- Blood Libels
- Torture Chambers
- Inquisition
- Expulsions
- Occupations
- Destruction of the Temple (2x)
- Plundering
- Masacres
- Sieges
- Infanticide
- Slavery
WHEN IS THE HATE AND JEWPHOBIA GOING TO STOP?
(Source Graphic: Andy Blumenthal with source background photo here)
UN Is Plagued With JEWPHOBIA
March 17, 2017
The Utterly Useless United Nations
Of no surprise, the report was generated by an anti-Semitic Arab-led group at the UN.
The cursed authors of the hateful report are Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley, along with their anti-Israel benefactors at the farcical United Nations.
The tiny-sized State of Israel (the size of New Jersey) is surrounded by radicalized enemies with more than 50 of their own countries yet that is not enough for them as they are obsessed with and seek the destruction of the one State of Israel.
The United Nations is comprised of 193 members, with the largest block being the 119 non-aligned members, of which 57 are made up of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Some have put it this way, "1 despot-1 vote!"
I am confidant that the biggest problem for the Anti-Semites in and out of the UN--aside from the formidable Israel Defense Forces (IDF)--is that Almighty G-d protects the Children of Israel.
As it says in Zechariah 12:3,
"On that day, when all the nations [the United Nations] of the earth are gathered against her [Israel], I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves."
So UNjust, evil, United Nations, enjoy your bias and hateful reports and resolutions, Israel will remain the Jewish Homeland, as promised by G-d over 3,000 years ago, and you will remain destined to rot in the you-know-where. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
The Utterly Useless United Nations
March 14, 2017
Your Days Are Numbered
So far this year, there have been over 100 bomb threats to Jewish community centers, synagogues, and schools--threatening innocent men, women, and children.
In just three months, from the election through February 7, there have been over 1,300 hate incidents targeting a variety of religious and ethnic groups since the election--this is a 650% increase over "normal."
Thank G-d, nothing large-scale and serious has actually happened.
But hate is alive and well in the USA.
Already, there's been one arrest of a left-wing extremist.
You can be sure that more will follow!
Those evil people with bias, prejudice, and hate in their hearts and violence on their minds will see justice done.
It's a matter of time...
Unanimously 100 Senators have called for swift action.
We have some of the finest law enforcement in the entire world.
And with every hateful act, you are leaving a most wonderful forensic trail of evidence that will lead them right back to you.
It's one thing for people to disagree politically, religiously, socially or otherwise but it's another to be a racist and hater and seek to do bad.
You may be calling in bomb threats, but what's ticking is the clock on you...the countdown has begun until you're caught and then you'll be counting the years and decades locked securely behind bars, wasting away, and doing your hard time and penance for the crimes you have done and the evil you espouse.
With justice, may G-d hear it, see it, and let it be done. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Your Days Are Numbered
January 24, 2017
Don't Push The Button
"Don't push my buttons without reading the manual."
- Gadgetmobile, Inspector Gadget
In terms of not pushing other people's buttons:
"Remember, you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity."
- Dale Carnegie
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Don't Push The Button