How to connect the past to the present, without facts that some find offensive...

WELCOME PRESIDENT TRUMP

January 20th, 2024 was a very special day and the beginning of a bright future for this country, Israel and the world as a whole. Donald Trump sworn in, reversing 4 years of damage caused by Joe Biden and the leftist Democrats.  I am so relieved and thankful to have a true friend of the Jewish people and Jewish State of Israel, back in the white house.   He even worked to negotiate a deal to release the hostages, before his inauguration.  Within minutes of his return to the oval office, he signed several executive orders demonstrating his commitment to fight Anti-semitism, especially on college campuses.  

  

HOW TO CONNECT THE PAST TO THE PRESENT without OFFENDING

Last week I was invited to speak at a local high school as part of the Keep the Stories Alive program of the North Jersey Jewish Federation.  After telling my parents story of surviving the Holocaust, I ended with a message to tie the past to the present.   

These 2 slides, below, show that history repeats itself.  The slide on the right compares the 1938 Nazi blockade with the 2024 Pro-Hamas college campus rallies, preventing Jewish students from attending classes.

NOTE: One of Trump's executive orders will help combat these riots by deporting those involved in these terrorist activities.

The next day, I was informed that some of the students were offended by my tie-in to Oct 7th.  Truth is offensive when you are taught to believe falsehoods.  

If I don't make the connection to what has happened on Oct. 7th, then my speech is strictly entertainment.    The students I presented to were all high school History, Genocide Studies and AP History students.  Aren't they taught about current events?  Don't they understand the meaning of genocide.    Don't they know right from wrong?   My colleague expressed it nicely "How is showing that there are parallels between the 1930s in Germany and what is happening in America today offensive". I ask why is it ok for college professors to tell lies and slander the Jewish State of Israel, but when I try to tell the truth I am forbidden.

I also talked about how the biased media caused me to become irate. I gave the example of when the CBS reporter equated the 2-sides the day after Israel began its retaliation. She stated "heavy casualties on both sides"!   I wanted to shout, NO!  one side was a slaughter of innocent civilians, on the other side casualties of war (in Gaza 80% of casualties were terrorists!)

How do you present the truth without offending the ignorant and uninformed? 

My Top 10 Lists of LINKS - Do your own digging for the facts - here are helpful sites!

Biden's chaos and crises - baby formula crisis, border crisis, gas price surges, exponential inflation, his declining cognitive mental state, & more.  We need to be informed. Don't believe me; Check for yourself. 

If you only listen to mainstream media, you will only hear the propaganda of the Democratic party. They censor anything negative to their party line, while often slandering Israel and Trump supporters. You have to be willing to dig for the truth by seeking alternative news sources.

Here are some reputable news sites: 

1. prageru.com - playlists discuss relevant issues
2. dailywire.com - Read, Listen, or Watch - Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, .... 
3. comicallyincorrect.com/category/af-branco-political-cartoons/  - Branco says it all with powerful cartoon images
4. legalinsurrection.com  - Branco cartoons
5. skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states  - Australia is watching us - we should listen
6. NewsMax 
7. OAN - One America News Network
8. RSBN - rsbnetwork.com
9. libertynation.com/top-conservative-news-sites - for other sites
10. BlazeTV - youtu.be/7xGSRyDLHdw - Jim Jordan speaks out  1/12/2021 

Here are some reputable sites that are fighting for the Jewish State of Israel:

1. factsandlogic.org - FLAME - Facts and Logic About the Middle East - combats anti-Israel propaganda with proven facts.
2. camera.org - Committee for Accuracy in MidEast Reporting
3. AZM.org - American Zionist Movement - lots of great programming
4. Simon Wiesenthal Center
5. https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/karl-marx  
6. Seeking the Truth about Israel 
7. The Case for Israel: Land Ownership in Palestine 1880-1948 by Moshe Aumann  (PDF posted on wordfromjerusalem.com )
8. World Affairs Journal: Enough Said-The False Scholarship of Edward Said
9. Hamas on Campus
10. DiscoverTheNetworks.org

• Anti-Semitism – a guide to the Political Left

• New AntiSemitism Disguised as Anti-Zionism

Don't believe the 2020 Election was hacked?  Here are the hidden testimonies on voter fraud and voter irregularities. The Supreme Court refused to hear them and mainstream media censored them, That doesn't make them non-existent or false. Decide for yourself:

1. ** youtu.be/XeRz61N4IFA?t=103  - Greg Kelly on Newsmax TV - the Media's double standard 12/1/2020   (especially relevant today!)
2. video.foxnews.com/v/6213477546001?playlist_id=930909813001#sp=show-clips   HANNITY interviews USPS Truck driver Jesse.  Jessie drove a Truck full of ballots from Bethpage LI  to Pennsylvania.
3. youtu.be/3wObE1JCQMg?t=444   OAN Pittsburgh video surveillance
4. youtu.be/3wObE1JCQMg?t=5601  Susan Boyle - POLL mgr- Fulton County GA Hearings.... Lack of training, flawed chain of custody - OAN 12/4/2020 
5. https://youtu.be/3wObE1JCQMg?t=9070  Mark Damik - state wide POLL watcher 
6. ** youtu.be/3wObE1JCQMg?t=10280     DANA VanBuren Smith Poll Worker / Watcher emotional handling of paper ballots, no ballot chain of custody 
7. ** youtu.be/5vjy3rCnmgE  IT Dominion woman - blond  with rowdy black rep!
8. ** youtu.be/G2f3aw9rk30  Dominion consultant   -  Melissa Carone - Rudy Giuliani’s Star Voter Fraud Witness at Michigan Hearing | NowThis
9. ** youtube.com/watch?v=L-VOSEU3ybs - the NUMBERS - 'A Trump loss is improbable to the point of impossible’—look at the math—Trump Advisor Steve Cortes

Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the MEDIA

Our television media and our social media have failed to protect the values of truth in journalism. I recently watched the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma”. Facebook (FB) was portrayed as a powerful puppeteer, feeding into whatever view the user is leaning towards. If a FB user was leaning left, soon FB was feeding them radical leftist propaganda and conspiracy theories: Whatever strategies would hold the user as a captive audience, and gain the most “likes”. Truth has become irrelevant. We are living in George Orwell’s 1984. Your FB feed is bred by FB, to confirm your view of reality, not to challenge it.

 

FB, Google, YouTube and other social media platforms are silencing conservative voices and allowing hate speech and fake news to proliferate. Prager University videos have been banned for presenting a conservative perspective. Anti-Zionist and anti-Israel propaganda have become mainstream, accepted, normalized. In a prior post from my blog, in May 2017, I wrote about the destructive forces of propaganda against Israel, perpetrated by the Palestinians and leftist media, bootupnow.blogspot.com/2017/05/anti-israel-propaganda-prevents-peace.html 

President Trump recently negotiated the Abraham accord, the first viable peace agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbors, in 30 years. Finally, a president who sees the Palestinian threat for what it is, slanderous to Israel’s reputation world-wide, run by the terrorist organization, Hamas. Pallywood, the Palestinian theatrical media, produces fake episodes portraying Israeli military (IDF) as violent aggressors. The media promotes this biased view as truth. Prior administrations have tried to appease the Palestinians, asking Israel to make concessions and give up their land in exchange for peace. These offers of land for peace were always refused by the Palestinians.  According to a recent Ben Shapiro Daily Wire article-"Relations between Jordan and Israel, between the UAE and Israel, between Sudan and Israel, between Egypt and Israel — none now hide behind the fig leaf of Palestinian demands to avoid peace."

Trump stands by Israel and the Jewish people.  When pro-Israel students are harassed on campus, there is no outrage. The media is silent. In Dec, 2019, President Trump's executive order declared anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism, and added Antisemitism to the list of discriminations prohibited by Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 

People ask me why I care so much about Israel. When Israel is slandered, I take it personally. Israel is the Jewish State, the Jewish homeland. If you criticize Israel’s policies and do NOT criticize Syria’s, Iran’s, or other fascists regimes in the MidEast, then your criticism is anti-Semitism. 

I deal with colleagues, professors at the community college I work at, who admit that they hate Zionists. When a close colleague told me this, I was very hurt. A Zionist is someone who loves Israel. Since when did Zionism become a dirty word? I blame the media for portraying Israel negatively by repeating these inciteful words: occupier, colonial, in reference to Israel. Israel is not an occupier, since Israel is, and always was, the historic Jewish homeland. The Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel. The British Mandate of Palestine returned the land of Israel to the Jews, in a legal process. Any Arab Bedouins living on the land at that time, in 1948, were paid fairly for their property by the Zionists. 

My colleagues believe what the media and other academics have fed them. It’s not only what the media covers, it’s what the media refuses to cover. How many people know about the more than 2500 acres of farmland and 2700 acres of forest burned by fire bombs and incendiary balloons launched by the Palestinians from Gaza. What about the terror tunnels and murder of innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas? As soon as Israel is accused of some alleged crime, it is all over the news. What about when Israel comes to our rescue, to help us fight fires in California? How often do you see media coverage of Israel in a positive light? 

The most righteous thing someone can do, is to speak up for someone else. The gentiles who risked their lives to defend my parents from the Nazis, there is nothing higher, more revered to me. Trump defending Israel and Zionist students on college campuses, deserves the same respect and admiration. Trump threatened to withhold federal funds from colleges promoting Anit-Israel hate propaganda. No other president has ever addressed it or tried to stop it. Hate coming from the right and neo-NAZIs, is readily disavowed. But not from the left. Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionisn in the Democaratic party has proliferated and does not seem to abate. The Democratic Party remains  politically correct, refusing to disavow Anti-Semitism in their own party. 

Anti-Israel Propaganda prevents Peace

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King.


To read some useful articles on Israel & the Palestinians:

• discoverthenetworks.org
• carolineglick.com/israeli-sovereignty-over-judea-and-samaria-is-inevitable,
• jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-and-facts-toc
• david-collier.com/the-lies-and-the-myths-of-the-anti-israeli-crowd 

These sites describe the myths & lies propagated by Pro-Palestinian / Anti-Israel hate groups such as SJP, BDS, & JVP.
SJP, Students for Justice in Palestine, their motto is “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” - their goal is the same as that of the Nazis during the Holocaust, a land that is Judenfree -free of Jews.   BDS, Boycott, Divest, Sanctions, it promotes the boycott of Israeli goods. This was a Nazi tactic, Jewish businesses were boycotted during the Shoah!
To understand Palestinian PROPAGANDA Warfare, we need to expose their deceitful Language: 
PALESTINE - There is no such country.  Palestine was the name for the land of Israel prior to 1948 British Mandate of Palestine.   The mandate divided the land between Israel & Jordan, 2 states, with Jordan getting 77%.  
Original flag of Palestine 1939 (re. http://drrichswier.com/2014/11/16/flag-palestine-1939 ) :

The current Arab Palestinian flag is nearly identical to Jordan's flag.  Can you tell the difference?
  
Arab Palestinians use the terms  "occupation" & "settlers" to describe the Jews of Israel /Palestine.  The truth is that Israel is the Jewish birthright and Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel.   There is scientific evidence to back this up: DNA and archeological artifacts.   Arab Palestinians have even accused Israel of Apartheid.  This is so absurd, since Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East. Arab citizens of Israel have full rights.   

When Israel became a state in 1948
700,00 Arabs living in Israel were instructed by their Arab leadership to flee, since the Arab states were planning a military attack.  These Arabs were told by their leaders that they would have the "right of return" after Israel was destroyed.   At the same time 800,000 Jews living in Arab countries were forced to flee as their homes & property was forcefully confiscated.  Those Jewish refugees  became Israeli citizens.  The Arabs who chose to leave Israel became refugees and are still living as refugees to this day! 

Here is a NEW Term:
PALLYWOOD - a term for the orchestrated Palestinian-Hamas propaganda theatrical campaign by the Arab media.  
To learn more, checkout these sites:

• PRAGER University education videos on YouTube.  
• pallywood.com/video/ 
• https://canarymission.org/campaign/Pallywood_Mainstream_Media 
• https://youtu.be/qVLCk5IJO1M?si=Jxrr3KTEolrvMlKa   

I also recommend reading Brigitte Gabriel's memoire, "Because They Hate", or Alan Dershowitz's "The Case for Israel".