🚨 FLASHBACK: MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, the "Obamacare Architect," openly talked about how he relied on dumb American voters to get ObamaCare passed.
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) December 15, 2024
In the first clip, he discusses "the stupidity of the American voter."
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“The Biden-Harris administration was lax in pursuing why some airlines will not fly to Israel,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tells Jewish Insider. “Indeed, they may have been worse than lax, and the State Department may have become inappropriately entangled in deliberations over safety and subverted the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“There have been allegations about antisemitic discrimination by airlines and that calls by unions not to fly to Israel were motivated solely by pro-Hamas activists,” he said. “These allegations are troubling, and, of course, American law prohibits American companies from participating in politically motivated boycotts of Israel,” noting that he “welcomes a full investigation of these issues.”
Operating without competition, El Al commands a staggering 71% of all passenger traffic through Ben Gurion airport on U.S. routes. Delta Airlines has teased an April 2025 return to Israeli skies, and negotiations are still ongoing with Israir and Arkia in leasing a few aircraft to provide North American service.
Obviously, a clear divide has emerged between airline unions’ safety assessments and Israeli aviation authorities.
“Flights to Israel are safe,” says Israel’s aviation chief Shmuel Zakai. “When we think that the airspace is not safe for flights, we close it. That earned us a lot of credit internationally.”
Meanwhile, several European carriers are gradually returning to Israeli airspace, with Aegean Airlines leading the way after resuming flights last week. Wizzair and LOT Polish Airways have also announced their return, with services scheduled to resume on December 22.
In November 2023, Disney tried to destroy X (Twitter).
— Fernando Cao Zheng (@thefernandocz) December 14, 2024
They pulled their ads and cost Elon $75M in revenue.
But instead of backing down...
Elon told their CEO to go f*** himself.
Here's the unbelievable story of how one decision cost Disney $200B: pic.twitter.com/b8IGWWJdkz
"The UN is in panic mode after Israel released videos from Gaza’s security cameras showing Hamas employees of UNRWA torturing Gazan civilians to death.
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) December 15, 2024
Among the prisoners who were killed there are many innocent gay people, journalists, protesters, Christians and anyone… pic.twitter.com/TnsSVwaZA7
Firebrand pundit Candace Owens has been named “Antisemite of the Year” by watchdog StopAntisemitism, which says she “blew the competition away” with more votes than anyone in previous years.
“Candace Owens’ witch’s brew of antisemitism drew from vile medieval blood libels, including claims that Jews drink Christian blood, conspiracies that Jews are pedophiles who control the media and are ‘taking over America,’ and modern toxic anti-Israel hysteria,” StopAntisemitism’s founder, Liora Rez, told The Post.
“There is no psychotic rabbit hole too extreme for this poisonous hater.”
StopAntisemitism bestowed the title last year on Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Other recipients have included Ye, the Hitler-loving rapper formerly known as Kanye West, in 2022, and Tlaib’s fellow “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in 2019.
The watchdog shared a video of comments from Owens — who split from The Daily Wire over her views — including her defending Ye’s antisemitic tirades and also her attacking Israel, which she claimed had “occupied” the US, in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
“Jew-hatred is a symptom of a decaying society just as it is a rotting mind,” Rez stated.
“This dishonor is awarded to the individual who has done the most to endanger the Jewish community, and in 2024, Candace Owens has tragically and decisively earned the title.
“Out of dozens of contenders, she blew the competition away with her relentless campaign of dangerous rhetoric targeting the Jewish community, earning more votes than any Antisemite of the Year we’ve ever named.”
The outspoken conservative pundit had previously scoffed at being in the running for the title.
“I feel like maybe [Israeli] prime minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu should’ve made the list because he’s killed more semites than anybody — did we forget Palestinians are semites,” she said on her show last month.
“The ratio under this post is incredible lol. Zionists are completely out of touch. Reminiscent of BLM in 2020 running around calling everything and everyone racist. From excruciatingly annoying, to mildly entertaining to utterly obsolete,” Owens posted on X in response to the announcement. “We are all fatigued with ‘antisemitism.’”
“Truly, I didn’t think anyone could top the petulance of Patrisse Cullors in 2020 but I have to hand it to the Zionist lobby this year,” she added. “BLM walked so you guys could run.”
“Obviously I will prepare an acceptance speech for my show tomorrow,” Owens later snarked in another X post. “So many people to thank.”
Owens had parted ways in March with the Daily Wire, a conservative outlet she began working for in 2021. She is widely believed to be under a gag order that precludes her from speaking specifically on the split.
However, her departure came amid public friction with its co-founder and star podcaster Ben Shapiro. In the wake of the Hamas surprise attack that killed some 1,200 Israelis, she was caught liking a post on X spouting a bizarre and centuries-old conspiracy theory about rabbis drinking the blood of Christians.
Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew and a staunch defender of Israel, had criticized Owens’ comments as “absolutely disgraceful.”
Rez said that “thankfully” Owens “has been disavowed by many of her former friends and allies.
“But she is a cautionary tale for our nation,” the watchdog’s founder said. “Just as Candace has deteriorated into insanity and irrelevance, so does every civilization where antisemitism flourishes.”
Following her departure from the Daily Wire, Owens has launched her own show, which she posts on YouTube and other platforms.
She’s also continued to draw scrutiny over her comments on Jewish people. Over the summer, she appeared to imply suggested that some of the heinous experiments conducted by Nazis during the Holocaust were merely “propaganda.”
“The Nazis experimented on innocent people,” Owens said over the summer. “Some of the stories, by the way, sound completely absurd. ”
“The idea that they just cut a human up and sewed them back together?” she further pondered at the time. “Why would you do that? Literally even if you’re the most evil person in the world, that’s a tremendous waste of time and supplies [to] just slice a person in half and sew them back together. That just sounds like bizarre propaganda.”
Owens maintains that her remarks were taken out of context and denies that she’s downplayed the experiments by notorious Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele.
“They can’t produce [videos of] me discussing Mengele because it doesn’t exist,” Owens argued on her show in November. “If you’re speaking about someone so evil, why is a lie required?”
Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years.
As such, he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history.
Recall earlier that after a flailing candidate Biden lost the first three 2020 primaries and caucuses, his inert campaign was headed nowhere.
Obama and fellow Democratic insiders abruptly engineered the withdrawal of his rival 2020 presidential candidates: hard left but likely sure-loser candidates including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg.
The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.
Mashaal, who was serving a 20-year sentence for financing Hamas through the Holy Land Foundation, was reportedly released after serving 16 years. According to Israeli media, he will spend the next year in a rehabilitation facility. The U.S. has not confirmed his release, but the news has been widely reported in Arab media.
The release comes amid ongoing talks surrounding a possible hostage agreement, fueling speculation that the two developments could be connected. Arab media also reported the sentences of four other American-Palestinians associated with the Holy Land Foundation have been significantly shortened.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a historic clemency act, commuting sentences for 1,500 people and pardoning 39.
Was Mashaal’s release related? Who knows
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday ordered the Israeli embassy in Dublin shuttered amid Ireland’s hostile stance toward the Jewish state.
Also on Sunday, Sa’ar ordered the opening of an Israeli embassy in Moldova.
Ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich was already recalled last May after Ireland became one of three European countries to recognize a Palestinian state.
The Irish government last week approved a proposal to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
On Oct. 29, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris called on the European Union to “review its trade relations” with Israel, following what he described as a “shameful” vote by the Knesset on a law banning the activities in Israel of UNRWA, the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians.
Ireland has for years criticized Israel and its policies in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, but the rhetoric has escalated since Jerusalem responded to the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, that triggered a multi-front war.
In announcing the decision, Sa’ar cited the “extreme anti-Israel policy of the Irish government.”
“The antisemitic actions and rhetoric that Ireland is taking against Israel are based on delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish state and on double standards,” Sa’ar said in a statement.
“Ireland has crossed all red lines in its relationship with Israel. Israel will invest its resources in promoting bilateral relations with the countries of the world according to priorities that are also derived from the attitude of the various countries towards it,” the statement continued.
Harris condemned the “deeply regrettable” move in a post on X, saying he rejects the assertion that Dublin is anti-Israel. “Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-international law,” he claimed.
Moldova already has an embassy in Israel and in explaining the rationale for reciprocating in Chișinău, Sa’ar said that “there are countries that are interested in strengthening their ties with Israel and do not yet have an Israeli embassy. We will adjust the Israeli diplomatic structure of our missions while giving weight, among other things, to the approach and actions of the various countries toward Israel in the political arena.”
Sa’ar informed Moldova’s Foreign Minister Mihail Popșoi of his decision to open the embassy, which is expected to happen in 2025. Sa’ar instructed the director general of his ministry to locate a suitable building for the embassy in Moldova and to initiate the process of appointing an ambassador there.
Sources told Charedi news outlet Kikar HaShabbat, that the invitation comes as a gesture of appreciation for the leaders’ support during the recent campaign.
Prior to the election, the Satmar Rebbe met with Eric Trump at Trump Tower to discuss concerns about proposed educational regulations affecting yeshivas.
When Rabbi Alter was in Aveilus for his mother, Trump sent a personal letter of condolence through Kaplounn.
