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In a speech at a Democratic National Convention event in Philadelphia sponsored by the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga) compared Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria to “termites.” In New York City, posters calling Christian supporters of President Trump “trash” began appearing attached to city litter baskets. Vito Turo, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Sanitation, hastened to reassure city residents that “we do not condone the unlawful defacement of City litter baskets and have asked the artist who designed these posters to submit them for review and...

What if the real problem is defeatism? The Republican establishment has been spooked for some time by a media that puts every objection to Obama's agenda in the worst possible light, as well as by the narrative of irreversible demographic and cultural change. Despite favorable off-year contests, Obama's re-election in the face of expectations to the contrary has taken its toll. Undoubtedly, serious differences of interest and conviction play a role in Republican divisions, and politicians will always tend to run from risky battles. But the abject surrender of congressional Republican leaders goes well beyond ordinary political caution to defeatism...

“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” according to the news outlet, two senior CENCOM intelligence analysts, who work for the Defense Intelligence Agency, sent a written complaint to the DOD’s IG alleging that reports were being altered to portray the terror groups as weaker than they actually were. Some of these changed assessments were then used to brief President Obama. Over 50 analysts have come forward to support the claim. The reports may have been changed to fit the Obama administration’s narrative that ISIS was being degraded through the U.S. led air campaign and...

Obama's strategy: Anti-America, pro-Iran, pro-Islam, pro-Muslim Brotherhood! Video at source link.

Muslim leaders from across America will gather in Texas this weekend to hold the annual Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect conference, a weekend forum that is being billed as a “movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message,” according to event information. The Saturday event, which seeks to combat “Islamophobes in America” who have turned the Islamic Prophet Muhammad “into an object of hate,” according to organizers, comes just a week after radicalized Islamists in France killed 17 people.

Sigolène Vinson, a freelancer who had decided to come in that morning to take part in the meeting, thought she would be killed when one of the men approached her. Instead, she told French news media, the man said, “I’m not going to kill you because you’re a woman, we don’t kill women, but you must convert to Islam, read the Quran and cover yourself,” she recalled.

A recent controversy has erupted over the discovery of a textbook that is unashamedly pro-Islam and anti-West within the Florida school system. The book in question is used in the Brevard County school system and is a textbook on world history. However, the version of history is definitely distorted. I first came across this story on the Fox News website written by Todd Starnes (who does yeoman's work ferreting out the progressive left) but have since seen several local news stories about it. I live in central Florida and have found that this textbook is used statewide for three years....

JERUSALEM – The Obama administration pledged to the Palestinian Authority it will secure an extension of a freeze on Jewish construction in the West Bank and a de facto freeze in eastern Jerusalem, a top PA leader told WND. Under intense U.S. pressure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November announced a 10-month halt to all Jewish construction in the West Bank in an attempt to jumpstart talks aimed at creating a PA-led state. Netanyahu had publicly claimed the settlement moratorium was temporary and that new construction would resume after the freeze expires in September. The Obama administration is also demanding...

US President Barack Obama faced a host of personnel problems this week, as two top appointees bowed out because of unpaid income taxes and another pick distressed some in the Jewish community. Slideshow: Pictures of the week Samantha Power, a Harvard University genocide expert and former Obama campaign adviser, has been appointed to the the National Security Council's multilateral institutions office. She has been criticized in the past for making statements critical of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians. In one clip making the rounds courtesy of YouTube, Power accuses Israel of "major human rights abuses," though she distinguishes...

Decision comes as Iran declares industrial-scale uranium enrichment capabilities It’s not a joke. On April 9, the United Nations Disarmament Commission reelected Iran to the senior office of a vice chairman. The commission also elected Syria as its recording secretary. The very day the Disarmament Commission—yes, as the name implies, this organization is in fact responsible for reducing the development of dangerous weapons by dangerous nations—cast its vote to reelect Iran to one of the three vice chair positions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Iran could now produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale. No joke. He did so...

A reader has sent me the following deeply disturbing account of the current atmosphere on a British law course: 'I must say it's been an eye-opener for me regarding the level of antizionism/antisemitism I have encountered from the people on the course, many of whom have training contracts and will go into practice as the next generation of lawyers. Upon realising the hostility I decided not to tell anyone that I was Jewish. 'One day, at the end of a workshop, someone raised the issue that an Israeli soldier was in the headlines for shooting a Palestinian boy. Three other...

From today's Oprah: Why does so much of the world still hate us? What are the bigger questions behind the conflict with Iraq? With time running out, Americans need to know about our role in the world. All eyes are on us. What will happen? Come back later for more information from today's show! Now and Then Before September 11, many Americans didn't realize the extent of anti-U.S. sentiment. Today we are more aware, but still struggling to understand these feelings. Are you informed about world events? How much do you know about what's happening in the world? Terrorism, weapons...