Candace Owens’ father-in-law defends Israel

 

Candace Owens’ father-in-law sought to distance himself from her controversial comments about Jews that have sparked an uproar, prompting social media users to accuse her of spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Lord Michael Farmer, the British aristocrat who made his fortune in metal trading, began a lengthy X thread on Monday by writing: “In view of public comments from a high-profile member of my family, I want to put my own views on antisemitism and Israel’s current military campaign in Gaza on public record.”

Farmer, a big-money donor to Conservative Party politicians in the UK, wrote that he was “very aware of the cruelty meted out” against Jews both before and during the World War II period when he came of age.

“The best man at my wedding and life-long friend was Jewish,” Farmer wrote, adding that he valued the “kindness and thoughtfulness from Jewish friends … at a time when I had few close relationships.”

Dems bury an angry, shouting Joe Biden pushing his speech to 11:30 pm in final disgrace Biden threw a lifeline to terror supporters during DNC speech

 

The Joe Biden show is officially in reruns. Biden even got bumped out of prime time. His speech started at 11:28 p.m., in the hour when old sitcoms run in syndication.

That wasn’t an accident. The first night of the Democratic convention was losers night, featuring Biden and Hillary Clinton along with duds like Kathy Hochul and zealots like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Democrats lined up an endless list of speakers ahead of Biden to push his speech back as far as they could, so as few people as possible would hear it.

The speech itself was written as a celebration of Biden’s accomplishments – some real, many imagined – as president. The actual nominee was an afterthought. Biden spoke of Kamala Harris only as someone who helped him – not for anything she ever did on her own.

If the Harris campaign had any hopes that Joe would let them get distance from his record, they were dashed. “When I say we I mean Kamala and me,” he emphasized, reminding voters that there’s no turning the page by voting for Harris.

Biden tried to play the old hits, but they ring hollow now. He talked about Charlottesville and how he claims Trump as president “emboldened” and praised anti-Semites. “Hate has no safe harbor” in America, he says. But we saw how anti-Semites have safe harbors – literal encampments on college campuses, immune from the law – in Joe Biden’s America. Biden even said of the pro-Hamas protestors, “Those protesters out in the street. They’ve got a point.”

No, they don’t, Joe.

Just days after Tim Walz pledged that Democrats wouldn’t call their opponents names, Biden called Trump a “loser,” a “liar,” a “felon,” and a “sucker.”

Amid the usual rants about January 6, there were the usual bald-faced lies, such as the claim that the Biden-Harris administration “helped schools get back open” after COVID when in fact they ignored the recommendations of scientists to side with the teachers unions in protracting school closures. They expect us to nod along, knowing it’s not true.

Of course, the pretense of one big happy family had to be maintained. Biden denied that he was angry at the Democrats who forced him off the ticket. Nancy Pelosi stood in the front row holding a “We Love Joe” sign, just weeks after wielding the knife. She came to bury Joe, not to praise him.

Biden stayed mostly on script, leaning on the prepared text to keep him from wandering off. But he was shouty and glowering as a result. By the end, nobody would wonder why Democrats decided they needed to dump this guy.

The amazing thing is that they made it as far as July pretending he was up to the job.

So Far DNC anti-Israel protests half as large as organizers predicted

 

The anti-Israel protest outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday drew less than half as many participants as organizers predicted, the New York Post reported.

Protest organizers had predicted that as many as 40,000 people would attend the rally. However, so far, less than 20,000 appear to have turned out, and thousands of anti-Israel signs are lying on the grass with no one to carry them.

There is still time for the demonstration to grow in size before the protesters are expected to march from Union Park to the site of the convention in the hopes of creating a disruption that the Democratic officials and delegates would hear.

270 organizations are gathering this week at the Coalition to March on the DNC in protest against Israel's retaliation for the Hamas massacre of October 7 and other causes.

One speaker at the protest attacked feminists who do not oppose Israel, saying "You struggle to be included in the US imperial war machine. We struggle to destroy it." The speaker also led the crowd in chants of "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free."

On Sunday night, the Chicago Sun Times reported that a group of anti-Israel protesters targeted a delegate party held at Navy Pier, where a protestor rushed onto the stage and grabbed a microphone, the paper reported. The protester shouted, “You are funding a genocide."

A protester who identified herself as Jinan also stated ominously, “Welcome to hell week."

Fetterman's Communications Director Carrie Adams Openly Contradicts her Boss in reference to his loyalty to Israel

 Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) harbors views on Israel that are so unusual in his own party that “there are even people on his current staff who think he is wrong,” Peter Savodnik wrote in The Free Press on Sunday.

After Savodnik concluded his interview with the pro-Israel senator, Carrie Adams, Fetterman’s communications director, called him to say, “‘I don’t agree with him’ about Israel and Gaza,” Savodnik wrote.

Adams added, “I have a sense that his international views are a lot less nuanced than my generation, because when he was growing up, it was might makes right, and for my generation and younger who, of course, are the ones protesting this, they have a much more nuanced view of the region,” per the Free Press.

“I’ve been a reporter since the summer of 1998, when I covered Bill Clinton’s trip to Martha’s Vineyard for the Vineyard Gazette,” Savodnik wrote. “This was the first time I’d ever encountered anyone—on Capitol Hill or anywhere else, on the record, off the record, on background, whatever—criticizing ‘the principal.’”

Fetterman told Savodnik that he was skipping the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week because his kids are off school, and he wants to spend time with them.

In a Shocking Psak the Kabbalist Harav Dov Kook "It is a Mitzvah to Go Up to the Har Habayis"

 

Ger Issues New Prohibitions for Girls "A Bar Code Scanner is Asur"

 Crazed Gerer Prohibitions on the Girls

In the attached audio file (I didn't down load it) you can listen to a list of delusional regulations on guarding against the hazards of technology set by the rabbis of the Gur Hasidic community so that the girls will not be exposed, God forbid, to unacceptable and dangerous content.

A partial list of prohibited and permitted things:

It is forbidden to use a barcode scanner when purchasing products in large chains.

It is forbidden to use the device for Rav-Kav charging.

It is forbidden to develop images in personal positions in photo development stores.

It is forbidden to bring computer-made work such as greeting cards, etc. to school.

You are allowed to look at security camera screens but you should not watch much. (It is necessary to find out why this was allowed.)

And more and more different and strange prohibitions.

Candice Owens Says that if anything should happen to her... it was the Zionists!

 

Haniyeh’s elimination in Iran was a spectacular victory for Israel

 

Ismail Haniyeh, a prominent leader of the terrorist Palestinian group Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran the night after he attended the inauguration of the new Iranian president. The day before, Haniyeh had been welcomed by Iran’s Supreme Leader, who promised him continued support for Hamas’ war on Israel. Although Israeli authorities did not officially take responsibility for Haniyeh’s elimination, both Iranian authorities and international experts strongly suspect that Israel orchestrated the audacious operation.

Whatever the circumstances of the event, Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran was a significant tactical and propaganda victory for Israel. This operation not only removed the head of a terrorist organization closely aligned with the Iranian regime, but also showcased Israel’s ability to infiltrate Iranian territory during a major international political event when security control is naturally much tighter. The message was clear: Israel can strike any Iranian leader at will.

According to the Associated Press Kamala’s Campaign Has Been Engaging With Anti-Israel Movements

 

According to a new report, top Democrat officials, including Kamala Harris’ campaign officials and even Harris herself, have been engaging with and courting the radical anti-Israel “uncommitted movement”.

The Associated Press revealed that top Democrats have spent weeks meeting with “uncommitted” voters and their allies, including a previously unreported secret meeting between Kamala Harris and the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan.

The meeting between Harris and the activists was part of an effort to respond to criticism in key swing states like Michigan, which has a significant Arab American population.

According to the AP, weeks of communication between pro-Palestinian Arab activists and the Harris campaign have resulted in progress, but their core demands remain unmet. The activists want Harris to endorse an arms embargo against Israel and a permanent ceasefire. Harris has supported a ceasefire but rejected an arms embargo.

During a campaign trip to Michigan, Harris herself met with Abdullah Hammoud, mayor of Dearborn, the city with the largest number of Arab Americans in the U.S.

Kamala’s coronation is a blow for US democracy

 

This week, the Democratic Party will nominate for president a woman who hasn’t won a single primary. I’ve elected not to attend the convention in Chicago. Since Joe Biden pulled out, it’s become a toothless coronation – and if there are protests, I can’t report on them. To do that, one needs pre-approved press credentials from the terrifying Chicago Police Department, which seems to regard half a dozen kids with placards and a camera as a nascent riot.

The diminution of American democracy continues. Three months ago, we were told Joe was fit and well: anyone who said otherwise was a liar. Then he bombed at the debate. The elite realised Trump might win, so now we were told Biden was gravely ill – and horribly selfish for refusing to stand aside. A coalition of hacks and politicians humiliated the poor man off the ticket, a surrender they quickly labelled “historic” and “brave.”

It was Kamala Harris’ turn for a makeover. Yesterday, she was an idiot; today she is the second coming of Lincoln, with quirks that once made her absurd – that crazy laugh, her random use of unrelated words – rebranded as a breath of fresh air. And it seems to be working. She’s climbing fast through the polls. If Trump was crafted by Twitter, Harris has been remade by TikTok – a living meme whose every slap-down and side-eye is greeted by the press with “oh no, she didn’t!”

Of course, one thing she absolutely will not do is talk to reporters. There’s been no formal press conference since she stole Joe’s mantle, not a single sit-down interview. She declined even to speak with Time magazine, despite it comparing the candidate to Obama and putting a pencil portrait of Kamala on the cover that Trump admitted made her look “beautiful”.

The message is that Kamala is “normal” while her opponents are “weird”, an impression reinforced by tapping Governor Tim Walz for her vice president. He served in the military. He taught in a school. Tim – a name that evokes decency and trust – has been crowned “America’s dad”, albeit a dad who takes a weirdo position on trans rights, abortion and illegal immigration.

The one interesting task Biden gave Kamala was reducing people-flow to the border via Central America. Today, the border is a mess; conservatives call her a failed “border czar”. Democrats insist that the term never applied to her because it doesn’t exist, and by implication is a Right-wing smear. Yet contributors to CNN, CBS and ABC called her a “border czar” in the past, and Lester Holt famously put it to her that “You haven’t been to the border”, as if it were part of her job. She replied with characteristic absurdity: “And I haven’t been to Europe.”

It’s rumoured that Harris worried that her brief was being mischaracterised; some speculated at the time that she was being set up by Biden’s staff to take the wrap for an impossible task. The “border czar” controversy is a reminder that until very recently, she was regarded by the people now promoting her as the weak link in a frail administration.

At least her name was familiar. With Biden apparently so sick he can’t run for re-election, the US media ought to be asking: “who is running this country?” – and the list of potential answers is very short.

A fun game to play in the car is, “name a member of the Biden cabinet”. I bet you can get Harris, maybe Antony Blinken, but that’s it. Yet, think back to George W Bush and the names trip off the tongue – Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice – because US politics used to be dominated by substantial, accomplished people (a few of them, contra the myth about Republicans, female and black).

Today, if the Republicans are held hostage by their base, the Democrats are run by a dwindling, ageing elite – and Kamala, who at 59 is older than you think, was granted her party’s nomination not because she’s a “diversity hire” but because they didn’t want an open contest and she happened to be next in line.

America, after years of messing about, has reverted to monarchy. Welcome home, cousins.

Story by Tim Stanley