[I]t's not just Israel's policies toward the Palestinians that have eroded Americans' good will toward Israel. Perhaps as important has been Israel's role in American politics ... . Israel, by behaving appallingly and then trying to silence any condemnation of its appalling behavior as antisemitic, gives ammunition to Jew haters. As Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president of the liberal Zionist group J Street, told me, "When you end up using antisemitism as a pretext for kicking kids out of universities and out of the country, and you use it as a pretext for ending cancer research and use it as a pretext for undercutting the First Amendment, you're going to get some blowback against the people doing that." read more
Huckabee's comments drew swift condemnation from across the region, with U.S. allies expressing discomfort with his remarks. read more
The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department's headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The New York Times. The women said Ms. Chavez-DeRemer's husband, Dr. Shawn DeRemer, had touched them inappropriately at the Labor Department's building on Constitution Avenue. One of the incidents, during working hours on the morning of Dec. 18, was recorded on office security cameras, the people said. In January, the women's concerns about Dr. DeRemer, 57, were raised as part of an internal investigation by the department's inspector general into alleged misconduct by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and her senior staff, one of the people said. read more
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is in custody after being arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. read more
Thomas L. Friedman: Israel's accelerating attempts toward annexation of the West Bank and to permanently remain in Gaza -- and deny Palestinians political rights in both areas -- are as morally reckless and demographically insane as would be the U.S. annexing Mexico. read more
According to Yale Law DEI grad JD Vance, the regime's thugs have "absolute immunity."
He seems to be yearning for something along the lines of Hitlerian Germany's infamous 1933 Enabling Act (en.wikipedia.org), the "Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich."
#1
Like trying to talk about Jack the Ripper without talking about ripping.