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? 

Post Oct 7th Massacre and Kidnapping of Israelis by Hamas Terrorists

Since the Oct7th massacre in Israel, I find it disheartening to see people show more concern for children of Gaza than Jewish children held hostage by Hamas. The Israeli hostages are being abused, starved, burned, raped by Hamas terrorists.  They are neglected by the media and by the International Red Cross.  Checkout this article "timesofisrael.com/relative-of-freed-captives-say-hamas-branded-child-hostages-in-case-they-escaped. The Israeli Biba babies are still missing – a 9 month old and 2 yr old, whereabouts unknown. Posters of hostages ripped down or defaced by hateful Hamas supporters in our cities and on our college campuses.

It's so important to get your news from multiple perspectives and to recognize skewed and anti-Israel broadcasting, especially what remains unspoken.   When I turned on Channel 2 News, a few days after retaliatory strikes had begun against Hamas by the IDF, I shuttered when I heard the female broadcaster state that there were "heavy casualties on both sides".  There is no excuse for equating the unprovoked brutal slaughter of innocent Israelis, including women and children,  with the causalities of war in Gaza, which includes terrorists and are mostly overstated by Hamas.   

Conditions Leading Up to & Following Oct 7th - under Biden

Since Biden took office, the world has been in disarray:  Beginning with the disastrous debacle in Afghanistan.  The weapons we left behind, were used by Hamas in their recent Oct 7th massacre of Israeli civilians.  Biden, Blinken, & Sullivan resumed funding the Iranian Regime and removed all sanctions against them, enacted during Trump's administration.   After Oct7th, Instead of putting the focus on getting Hamas to surrender and release all the hostages, Biden is trying to control Israel – telling Bibi Netanyahu to cease fighting in Southern Gaza, and to allow the Palestinian Authority control.     Biden has done nothing to sanction COLLEGEs that promote pro-HAMAS rallies. Biden is not a true friend of the Jewish people or the Jewish State. 

Biden continues  endangering our own US citizens by keeping our Southern border wide open, welcoming Hamas terrorists into this country.  Trump had our border secured and the wall was almost completely built.   Biden is focused on appeasing the far-left Jew-haters in his Democratic Party jinsa.org/biden-and-co-funding-palestinian-terror/    

FIGHTING the FALSE NARRATIVES against the JEWISH STATE

Regarding the pro-Palesine rallies, theblaze.com/news/ron-desantis-israel-hamas-students-terrorism-visas, Ron DeSantis described them, "If you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic."   Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) called on the Biden administration to rescind visas of foreign nationals who support Hamas.  Biden has yet to respond.

In this video, "Ben Shapiro talks about Israel vs Hamas and why he would never support Biden over Trump",  highlights the ignorance of a pro-Palestinian Oxford Union College student. 

In this 11/26/23 CNN Interview ,  Naftali Bennett, former Israeli Prime Minister, responds to the question of a 2-state solution, "We gave them their own state, in 2005, when we pulled out of GAZA, with its beautiful beaches…. They turned it into HAMASTAN ….. a terror state. Who wants to live next to a Nazi state?"

Trump Protected Jews on College Campuses and in Israel 

Check out Mark Levin’s monologue in this 12/03/23 episode foxnews.com/video/6342310894112 .   He details how the media portrays Trump as an evil dictator.  In reality, Trump is a true friend of Israel and the Jewish people. According to Levin “No other President has done as much for the Jewish people.”

Mark Levin listed Trump’s accomplishments:

• cut off ALL funding to the Palestinians – closed the PLO office  
• pulled US out of the Anti-Semitic UNHRC and cut off their funding
• appointed Niki Haley to defend Israel in her role as Ambassador to the UN 
• brought about the Abraham Accords, without giving up territory, creating ground breaking peace in the MidEast
• issued an Executive order to protect Jewish College students, using the civil rights act. 
• ended the Iranian nuclear deal.  imposed crushing sanctions against Iran.  Iran’s economy was in a deep recession…. The Iranian people were protesting.
• signed the Taylor Force Act to prevent "pay for slay" by the Palestinian Authority.  

I recommend these educational watchdog sites which use facts to fight the false hateful narratives against Israel and to fight pro-Hamas propaganda.

• FLAME factsandlogic.org/ 
• Camera.org COMMITTEE for ACCURACY in MIDDLE EAST REPORTING and ANALYSIS
• HamasOnCampus.org 
• MEforum.org/campus-watch 

Marxist Censorship, Cancel Culture, & the power of the Media

In Chapter 6 of his book "American Marxism", Mark Levin describes the Marxist tactics used to subvert our Democracy, by our mainstream media and "Big Tech", social media giants (FB, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon...). According to The Center for Responsive Politics, executives at Big Tech firms have shown their bias towards Democrats through their donations of millions to 2020 Democratic candidate campaigns.  They have also conspired against rival Conservatives, using smear campaigns and deplatforming, including former President Trump and Conservative Parler.

Big Tech uses sophisticated algorithms to censor what they decide is hate speech.   Much of their Artificial Intelligence technology was developed originally by the Chinese Communist Party to stifle political dissent.   Just like in a Communist regime, any debate that would challenge our government's Marxist-based ideology can not be tolerated. Truth is their enemy.  

Marxists refer to their movements and ideologies using euphemistic terms, such as "Progressives", "Democratic Socialists", "Antifa", "Black Lives Matter" (BLM), "the Squad", "Critical Race Theory" (CRT).  Their ultimate goal is a one-party left-wing autocracy.  

Our Marxist media thrives on exploiting a crises. I watched the news repeat the image of George Floyd's last moments, everyday.  Everyday the media reinforced the narrative of systemic racism in the police force, by exploiting this one incident, fanning the flames of hatred against the police in order to divide us, inciting riots during summer 2020.   However, when a Black cop shot a White protester, Ashley Babitt, on 1/6/21, the media avoided any mention of it.... that Black cop was later celebrated as a hero.    

Levin is appalled by the disparity of our justice system.   The violent BLM/ Antifa rioters from last summer were not apprehended. VP Harris funded bail for those who were. Our radical left government supports and protects these violent Antifa rioters.   Antifa.com website is a portal to our own whitehouse.gov.  

Mark Levin gave kudos to Governor DeSantis for filling in where our government is negligent. For example, the open border crisis has resulting in millions of unvetted illegal immigrants being bused throughout the US, including Florida.   DeSantis has redirected those busses to DC. When our government ignores violent Antifa, DeSantis responded by issuing a law making violence during a protest a felony, thereby increasing penalties in the State of Florida. 

The press has incredible power to move people. If only the media used their power for good.  If they had repeated images of Hitler's brutality during the Holocaust, maybe then American citizens would have pressured our government to increase immigration quota for Jewish refugees?  The NY Times hid any mention of the horrors of the Holocaust deep in the middle of the paper. It should have been persistent, front page, prime time coverage.   

Media Campaign against Trump & Censorship

For the past four years  Trump was subjected to an incessant smear campaign from the leftist mainstream media (MSM). He was falsely accused of Russia collusion and relentlessly bullied. He was portrayed as a monster white-supremacist, because he put America first; never any acknowledgement of his monumental successes. Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” developed a CoVid vaccine in 10 months, despite being told it was impossible. As mentioned in my prior post, his administration negotiated the historic Abraham Accords, achieving peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. December, 2019, he passed the new Anti-Semitism Definition  to protect Jewish college students. (Details saved  trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism ).  He hired Nikki Haley, the first Ambassador to the UN, to courageously stand up for Israel, against the anti-Israel bias in the UN. Haley also stood up against their pro-Hamas resolutions. She referred to her inaugural role as “the new sheriff in town”.  According to Mike Kelley of NewsMax –“ ISIS was born under Obama and obliterated by Trump… Trump brought ISIS down.”  No other president achieved what Trump and his administration did in just four years.  

Just like Obama, we only hear accolades for Biden regardless of his actions, from MSM.  Hannity described the media’s treatment of  Biden as their “candidate protection program”.  MSM is silent about the Biden family dealings with Communist China.   MSM Journalists no longer do any research. They only attack or silence their adversaries. They agitate and bully Trump and Republicans. In this video Rep. Ron DeSantis responds to an aggressive CNN reporter.

ANTIFA RIOTS

Back in June, 2020, after violent BLM/Antifa mobs burned down a Minneapolis Police Station, Kamala Harris responded with , “This is a movement…They are not going to stop and they should NOT”.  Antifa bombed and burned cities. Over 7 months of BLM/Antifa riots in Democratic cities, resulted in 45 innocent citizens killed, 700 police officers injured, small businesses looted and destroyed, 150 federal buildings damaged, defaced, burned.  Instead of outrage, Democrats empowered these thugs. Kamala funded their bail.  www.antifa.com is a redirect to Biden’s whitehouse.gov .

According to DailyTorch 1/21/2021 article “Exposing Democrat Hypocrisy over Political Violence”,  “Democrats who encouraged and funded the Antifa, BLM rioters for most of the past year, wasted no time exploiting the Capitol attack for political gain." In Biden’s inaugural address he characterized 75 million Trump fans as domestic terrorists, Neo-Nazis, & fascists.  Biden incited his fellow leftists to track down Trump supporters. This is not unity; this is the KGB.  

The CAPITAL 1/06/2021

They blamed Trump for inciting the handful of thugs who stormed the capital.  In his speech Trump called for “peaceful” protests. The media censored that video and Twitter & Facebook deleted his accounts, disconnecting him from his people: We the People.  Renowned lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, refers to this as McCarthyism. According to Mark Levin of “Life, Liberty, & Levin”, the FBI knew of the attack, days prior and did nothing. 

John Earle Sullivan, a radical self-described “revolutionary” who founded a group called “Insurgence USA,” was arrested and charged with planning and inciting a riot amid the heavy pro-Trump crowd at the U.S. Capitol.   He was one of many radical leftist and Antifa infiltrators who blended into the crowd. Sullivan was seen on video shouting to a crowd, over a microphone, “we about to burn this shit down,” “we got to rip Trump out of office".  Details can be found in this document.

Historical Parallels

The censorship and targeting of 75 million Trump fans, along with the shutdown of conservative voices on Facebook, Twitter and Parler, is a great big red flag.   Remember the historical parallels.  From 1927 – 1933 Germany went from Democracy to a 1-party Nazi system, censoring all dissenting political views.  Nazi Propaganda was everywhere. 

Isn’t that what is happening here, now?  Leftist propaganda as delivered by MSM, newspapers, social-ist media…Our MSM is the propaganda arm of the Democratic party.  According to Mike Pompeo “Censorship, wokeness, political correctness, it all points in one direction – authoritarianism, cloaked as moral righteousness."  Nikki Haley stated, “From college classrooms to corporate boardrooms, … liberal elites want to silence anyone who does not toe the far left line."  Freedom of speech has been compromised, replaced by fake news and censorship.

For historical perspective, these quotes come from USHMM article on Nazi-propaganda-and-censorship:

“When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press…The Nazis controlled all  forms of communication through censorship and propaganda… By the middle of 1933, the Nazi Party was the only political party, and nearly all organized opposition to the regime had been eliminated. Democracy was dead in Germany.”