Monday, January 13, 2025
Biden program meant to ‘protect Jewish institutions’ pays out six-figure grants to mosques that preach antisemitic hate
By Chuck Ross, The Washington Free Beacon
The Biden White House and Senate Democrats have touted their funding for an anti-terrorism initiative they say “has been critical to the security of Jewish institutions.”
But the program has given hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent months to mosques whose clerics have preached anti-Semitic hate, cheered Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, and been accused of raising money for terrorist groups.
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded $150,000 in grants since November to Masjid Jamaat al Mumineen, the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent, and the Islamic Center of Bothell as part of its “Nonprofit Security Grant Program,” according to federal records.
The program gives taxpayer funds to nonprofits and religious groups deemed “at high risk of terrorist attack” to help enhance security.
President Joe Biden touted the program last year as an example of the administration’s “aggressive” actions to counter anti-Semitism and “protect Jewish institutions.”
But the mosques have condoned the kinds of violence the grant program aims to prevent.
UK Warns Chabad on Fundraising for IDF
The UK government issued an official warning to Chabad's charity branch after its London and Essex center raised £2,280 for an IDF soldier.
The Charity Commission stated that fundraising for foreign armies is illegal and unacceptable for such organizations.
The fundraising activities were halted in January 2024 following an investigation triggered by 180 complaints.
DemonRats Award AOC Coveted Promotion Despite Her Anti US/Israel Opinions!
*After Years Attacking Israel, AOC Secures House Promotion*
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has been appointed to the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee, a significant step up in her political career.
Despite past tensions with Democratic leaders and criticism over her anti-Israel stance, AOC’s growing influence raises concerns about her rhetoric from this new platform.
Her appointment follows prior unsuccessful bids for other leadership roles and ongoing criticism of U.S.-Israel relations.
Denmark frantically messages Trump about security concessions on Greenland after he threatened to take it over
Danish leaders have sent private messages to President-elect Donald Trump’s team in recent days in a bid to pacify his ambitions for taking over Greenland, according to a new report.
Copenhagen is allegedly open to allowing US military presence on the autonomous island to boost security and appease Trump, who claimed “military coercion” could be deployed to bring Greenland under US rule, sources familiar with the talks told Axios.
The Danish government, which is responsible for Greenland’s defense, wants to avoid clashing with the US and hopes to assure Trump that Greenland will be safe from Russia and China without the need for American annexation, the sources added.
Copenhagen has also asked Trump’s team to clarify the incoming president’s comments after he shocked the world by suggesting that the US could invade the longstanding NATO ally.
One European diplomat told Axios that Denmark was widely seen as America’s closest ally in the European Union, and that no one could have imagined it’d be the first Trump would pick a fight with.
Greenland had been a colony of Denmark since the 18th century and became a self-governing Danish territory in 1953.
In 2009, the island won the right to secure independence if they ever voted to do so — something that Greenland’s prime minister, Múte Egede supports.
Egede, however, does not support the annexation of Greenland into the US.
At a press conference Friday in Denmark, Egede said he was open to discuss Greenland’s future with Trump, but warned that his people had no interest in becoming Americans.
“We are ready to talk,” he said. “Cooperation is about dialogue. Cooperation means that you will work towards solutions.”
The US already has a military base on Greenland and has had a defense agreement in place since 1951, which would make it easy to increase American troops on the island.
Greenland’s strategic importance has increased exponentially in recent years with ice-bound arctic waterways melting and world powers scrambling for new real estate between the United States and Russia.
The territory and its surrounding waters are rich in critical minerals and natural resources.
We can’t let Mark Zuckerberg pass the buck on Meta’s censorship
by Miranda Devine NYP
No, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t get to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast and pretend he’s a free speech champion as if there were nothing he could have done to stop the censorship at Facebook that rigged the 2020 election and probably cost lives during the pandemic.
The wanksta-lite makeover can’t hide Zuck’s sins, from throttling The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election to deplatforming a sitting president, Donald Trump, to suppressing COVID-19 dissent.
No matter how many “Iron Neck” workouts he does in an attempt to de-nerd himself, the billionaire tech titan will always be a spineless coward whose monopoly needs to be broken up. No one person should be wielding historically unprecedented power to censor political thought and speech, least of all a socially inept tech bro.
The Facebook founder whose Meta group behemoth owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp whined to Rogan Friday that “these people from the Biden administration would call up our team, and, like, scream at them, and curse,” to force them to take down posts. Now he tells us.
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