The Post reported Monday that city prosecutors dropped charges against hundreds of those arrested last summer for rioting and looting.
On Tuesday, it reported that at least 39 cops face discipline over their conduct in the same riots.
This is Bill de Blasio’s New York.
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Anything that looks like a serious hurdle to ordinary eyes is, to Biden, an invitation in disguise. Even the election of a hardliner as Iran’s president, a man accused of playing a major role in the mass execution of political opponents three decades ago, is said to be a good sign that a deal is within reach.
If this sounds crazy, welcome to the upside-down world of the president’s foreign policy. When the goal is to do the opposite of whatever Donald Trump did, only a Never Trumper can understand the logic.
That describes the New York Times as well as all the president’s men. The Gray Lady, having never given Trump credit for anything, is on a mission to give Biden credit for everything. Distorting reality to make him appear wise and heroic is part of the selling job.
Such is the impression created by Sunday’s front-page story, which declares in a two-deck headline that “Iran’s Election Could Speed Nuclear Deal” and that a “Hardliner May Be Biden’s Best Chance.”
The “News Analysis” tag is a sign the writers are at liberty to inject more than the usual dose of opinion and speculation. Because the Times editorializes in supposedly straight-news stories, upping the dose could take the reader into the realm of fiction.
t feels like we’re there when the writers claim American negotiators believe the election means “the moment may have come” for a breakthrough.
That conclusion relies on a “theory” spun mostly by anonymous sources about the aims and methods of Ayatollah Khamenei, who is said to be “stage-managing” the election and nuke talks. In a giant leap, we are told this is “Biden’s bet.”
This is cheerleading, not analysis.
Nothing new there. The Times helped Barack Obama push the first Iran deal over the finish line in 2015 by downplaying or concealing its weaknesses, and appears determined to help Biden resurrect a corpse that should be left to rot.
Consider that during recent negotiations in Vienna, the Iranians refused even to meet with Americans. Instead, Europeans carried notes between the two sides’ luxury hotel accommodations.
Also, the newly-elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, immediately rejected any meeting with Biden. Raisi got elected with a low turnout, with many Iranians not voting because they believed the result was rigged.
Normally, all those behaviors would be unacceptable and reason alone to call off the talks.
Instead, Biden and the Times profess to see every insult, along with the election, as proof of Iran’s eagerness to make a deal.
This is a semantic switch from 2015, when Obama and his media handmaidens sold the deal as empowering Iranian moderates. Now, with no moderates in sight, we are told every word and deed proves the hardliners want a deal.
Never mind how wrong they were before, with Iran continually violating both the letter and spirit of the earlier deal, which Trump rightly scuttled.
Even now, with Biden practically begging for a new one, Iranians say publicly they won’t change the earlier terms or discuss other issues, including their support for terrorism.
Although Trump’s tough approach didn’t break Iran’s resolve, it certainly reduced its influence. But now America is back to granting concessions in exchange for insults, which will embolden Iran in all the worst ways.
Israel is opposed to a new deal, knowing it is the primary target of terrorism and the nuke program. The mullahs’ pledge to wipe Israel off the map is not forgotten in the Jewish state.
Nor are our Arab allies, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and others, in favor of Biden’s lifting the sanctions on Iran’s oil sector and allowing it to participate in the international banking system.
Trump’s embrace of Israel, and pressure on Iran, helped forge the historic Abraham Accords between Israel and four Muslim nations. Biden aides won’t even use the official title of those agreements, lest it make Trump look good.
Perhaps the biggest sign of Biden’s desperation is that Raisi’s role in the crushing of dissidents is not an obstacle. Biden downgraded US relations with Saudi Arabia largely because the Crown Prince was implicated in the death of a single person, Jamal Kashoggi, a regime opponent and writer.
The double standards make a mockery of Biden’s promise to make human rights a pillar of foreign policy. The left always sounds a loud trumpet on the issue when a Republican sits in the White House, but when they have a chance to do better, they punt.
Biden engaged in sweet talk with China despite its crackdown in Hong Kong and its mass detention and forced labor of Uighurs. And he talked tough about Vladimir Putin being a “killer” until he met with him.
The upshot is that Biden, like Obama, is adapting American policy to the lowest common denominator of Europe. For example, the climate change emergency that supposedly required the president to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and kill thousands of American jobs was nowhere in sight when Biden lifted sanctions on the Russian pipeline to Europe because Germany wanted to buy Russian natural gas.
At heart, the great power balance remains fairly simple: There is no Western alliance that means anything without bold American leadership. Trump instinctively understood this and was willing to go it alone on a number of issues, perhaps to a fault.
While he alternately angered the Europeans, China, Iran and even Russia, he had major successes with a consistent policy that put America first.
By always taking the opposite approach, the inevitable conclusion is that Biden is consistently putting America last.
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Andrew Yang dropped out of New York City’s mayoral race late Tuesday, as early results showed him in a distant fourth place in the Democratic primary.
“I am not going to be the next mayor of New York City, based upon the numbers that have come in,” Yang told supporters at his Election Night party in Midtown.
The tech entrepreneur, a frontrunner for the early weeks of the race, was the first City Hall contender to concede on Tuesday.
Early returns from the Board of Elections showed the former presidential candidate performing poorly, with just 11 percent of the vote behind, Eric Adams, Maya Wiley and Kathryn Garcia.
“This campaign has been amazing,” Yang told his backers, striking an optimistic tone.
Before he ran for mayor, Yang said, “there was so much about New York City I did not know.”
And then, in perhaps a too-frank admission that went to the heart of his reputation as a Big Apple outsider, Yang said that before he ran for mayor, “there was so much about New York City I did not know.”
During the campaign, Yang said, he got to learn a lot about various neighborhoods in the Big Apple, adding, “this is an amazing city.”
Yang made his concession speech about two hours after polls closed.
With his wife Evelyn by his side, he told his backers that, “It’s been the most amazing experience running for mayor of New York City.”
He also vowed to work with the next mayor, noting that his last-minute alliance with Garcia was “something that no one had ever seen before.”
“I thought we could elevate each other and give New York City a better chance at leadership that I was excited about.”
As his speech ended, the crowd of a few hundred began chanting “Andrew Yang.” One cheeky supporter also shouted “universal basic alcohol,” in an apparent nod to Yang’s universal basic income plan.
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Anat Kimchi, 31, is being remembered as a brilliant student in the field of criminology. She was working on her doctorate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.
Kimchi is the daughter of Avi and Chava Kimchi as well as a sister to Itamar and Ofer Kimchi.
Kimchi was found around 4 p.m. Saturday during a visit to Chicago after someone fatally stabbed her on the loop in downtown Chicago.
Authorities said the man who stabbed Kimchi hid in the shrubs and Kimchi likely didn’t see him coming, WBAL-TV’s sister station in Chicago, WMAQ, reported.
Kimchi was a prestigious flagship fellow University of Maryland doctoral student, and a graduate of Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville.
Gary Lafree, chairman of the university’s Criminology and Criminal Justice Department, told The Chicago Tribune, “She was one of our best students, just about to embark on a professional career.”
The university issued a statement, saying: “The University of Maryland grieves the loss of Anat Kimchi, a brilliant young scholar. We offer our condolences to her friends and family during this difficult time.”
Police said they are reviewing security video and have strong leads on a man who was not yet in custody, WMAQ reported.
Late Monday afternoon, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told The Chicago Sun-Times that police know who stabbed Kimchi and are scouring various homeless encampments downtown.
Kimchi’s family is mourning her and asked for privacy at this time.
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A tight race for the City Council seat for the 48th district to replace Chaim Deutsch is brewing with 85% of first choice ballots counted. Former teacher Steven Saperstein is in first place with about 32% of the vote, while Mariya Markh is in a close second with about 31% of the vote.
Thus far, the biggest takeaway from this race is the lack of votes that stardom-seeker Heshy Tischler has received. Tischler, who had spent thousands of dollars on advertising in the run-up to election day has only managed to convince less than 220 votes (thus far) that he’s the right person to hold public office.
In a video message Tischler says he heard that he lost, but says “really I believe I won.”
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A Florida woman reportedly withdrew $20 from an ATM and was stunned to discover her account boasted a jaw-dropping balance of nearly $1 billion — which she’s hasn’t been able to return because she can’t get a real person to talk to at her bank.
When Julia Yonkowski, of Largo, checked her Chase Bank balance before making the small withdrawal Saturday, her receipt showed a balance of $999,985,855.94 in her account, WFLA reported.
“Oh my God, I was horrified. I know most people would think they won the lottery but I was horrified,” Yonkowski told the news outlet.
“When I put in for the $20, the machine came back and said we’ll give you the $20 but that’ll cause an overdraft and you will be charged and I said, ‘Oh just forget it,’” she said, adding that she hasn’t touched her account since.
“I know I’ve read stories about people that took the money or took out money, and then they had to repay it and I wouldn’t do that anyway because it’s not my money,” Yonkowski told WFLA.
“It kind of scares me because you know with cyber threats. You know I don’t know what to think,” she added.
But despite her best efforts so far, the accidental quasi-billionaire has been unable to reach Chase to correct the matter.
“I just can’t get through. I get tied up with their automated system and I can’t get a person,” she told the outlet.
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BREAKING: Beauty queen goes OFF on campus and social media censorship in Miss New Jersey pageant - @Justine_Brooke pic.twitter.com/ezRSlUx1WD
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 21, 2021
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A request: Could we please stop having (male) non-Jewish politicians wear Yarmulkas when meeting w/ Jewish groups?
— Shlomo Zuckier (@ZuckierShlomo) June 21, 2021
There's no Jewish law/tradition for gentiles to wear Yarmulkas. If anything, it projects a sense of extreme pandering& maybe even a tinge of cultural appropriation. pic.twitter.com/NOqIU1Ba8O
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Men who are unhappy in their marriages are at higher risk of death, especially from strokes, Tel Aviv University scholars have concluded.
“What we found, which is surprising, is that dissatisfaction among men with their marriage is a risk factor for death, of a similar magnitude to smoking, or men failing to exercise,” Dr. Shahar Lev-Ari, the public health researcher behind the study, told The Times of Israel.
His team insists that the research shows that health authorities should start promoting marriage therapy, in order for people to get sick less frequently and live longer.
“Marital education programs for couples should be implemented as part of health promotion strategies for the general population,” they wrote in a newly published peer-reviewed academic article.
The researchers revived decades of health data on 10,000 Israeli men, from a Tel Aviv University study that started in 1965. As it began, participants were asked to rank their marriage’s success on a scale of one to four.
“Revisiting this data, when we are more aware of links between psychological wellbeing and physical health, we found that their marriage satisfaction at the start of the study was actually a predictive factor for death in general and for death by strokes,” Shahar Lev-Ari said.
Men who were dissatisfied with their marriage were 19 percent more likely, on average, to die during the 32-year-long study than others of their age who were satisfied.
Fatal strokes were 69% more common among those who felt they had an unsuccessful marriage compared to those who indicated a very successful marriage.
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When Rabbi Mike Moskowitz got the Pride email from Kasbah BBQ & Deli, a kosher restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, he immediately went to Facebook to offer his feedback.
“Very impressed!” wrote Moskowitz, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in Orthodox communities. He the restaurant and shared the rainbow-colored image that touted “diversity in all many flavors,” along with a 10% discount code.
Moskowitz’s reaction stemmed from the fact that Kasbah Deli caters to Orthodox Jews. While acceptance of LGBTQ Jews has grown within some Modern Orthodox communities in recent years, that is far from the norm in most Orthodox communities, which largely view the biblical prohibition on same-sex relations as binding. Pride Month, celebrated annually in June, is not widely acknowledged in most Orthodox spaces.
The email was news to Kasbah Deli, too. “This is our old logo, something here is wrong and we are looking in to it,” Kasbah commented.
It wasn’t the only New York City kosher restaurant to be surprised by its own Pride email. A kosher deli in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights called Mendy’s sent a formal retraction and apology to customers just hours after its email went out, blaming the incident on a marketing company.
“Mendy’s would like to apologize for an email that went out this morning that you may have found offensive,” its retraction email said. “We work with a non-Jewish company on marketing and promotions and, as the result of a miscommunication, the wrong campaign was launched on our behalf. We are now working with them in order to educate them so that they can better-serve the needs of our community going forward.”
Both Mendy’s and Deli Kasbah send promotions through a service offered by 9Fold, a company that operates digital services for restaurants.
Reached by phone, an employee of Mendy’s said the discount code (15% off with code TOGETHER) had been sent out “without talking to the owner.” The employee declined to give his name or comment further.
Deli Kasbah’s email offered a 10% discount code. A representative of the restaurant said the manager was out of town and could not comment about the email.
But the restaurant’s Facebook accounted responded quickly to the post from Moskowitz, who is currently a scholar-in-residence at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBTQ synagogue in Manhattan.
“We don’t know where was this sent from we are looking in to it our self’s as well,” it wrote.
“Thank you and to be clear, we are very supportive of it and hope that you do not apologize for celebrating people,” Moskowitz answered. “If I can be supportive in any way, please PM me.”
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As mainstream American news outlets continue to provide extensive coverage surrounding the dramatic uptick in anti-Semitic attacks on Jews and Jewish property, I pause and ponder about just how quickly this latest explosion of visceral Jew hatred has emerged on the scene.
I may be called a lot of things, but one thing I am not is naïve. As a son of Holocaust survivors and a lifelong Jewish activist who has been in the forefront of battling the perennial scourge of anti-Semitism since my youth, I am keenly cognizant of the fact that Jew hatred is simmering eternally under the surface; ready and eager to rear its odious head at just about any perceived provocation.
So, let’s be clear. This wave of heightened anti-Semitic assaults was not triggered by the latest Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s response to it. These pro-Hamas supporters who we see on the streets of major cities in North America demonstrating against Israel’s right to exist share the terrorist dogma of the organization that they worship. The left wing media continues to erroneously label them as “pro-Palestinian” supporters but if they truly were supporters of the Palestinian Arabs, they would turn their wrath towards the organization that is totally responsible for turning the Palestinians into pawns in a deadly game by using them as human shields.
Interestingly enough, in New York, where the vast majority of the anti-Semitic attacks are taking place, one nary hears a word from the state’s attorney general. The one person who has it within their bailiwick the authority to call for tougher sentences for perpetrators has remained cryptically mum.
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Iran's only nuclear power plant has suffered a mysterious emergency shutdown that is set to last up to four days and cause blackouts.
Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, an official from the state electric company Tavanir, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last 'for three to four days.'
He went on to say that power outages could happen but didn't explain any further. This is the first time Iran has reported an emergency shutdown of the plant, located in the southern port city of Bushehr.
It went online in 2011 with help from Russia. Iran is required to send spent fuel rods from the reactor back to Russia as a nuclear nonproliferation measure.
Earlier on Sunday, Tavanir released a statement saying that the nuclear plant was being repaired, without offering further details. It said the repair work would take until Friday.
In March, nuclear official Mahmoud Jafari said the plant could stop working since Iran cannot procure parts and equipment for it from Russia due to banking sanctions imposed by the US in 2018.
Bushehr is fueled by uranium produced in Russia, not Iran, and is monitored by the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA did not immediately respond to request for comment on the reported shutdown.
Construction on Bushehr, on the coast of the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf, began under Iran's shah in the mid-1970s.
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the plant was repeatedly targeted in the Iran-Iraq war. Russia later completed construction of the facility.
The plant, which sits near active fault lines and was built to withstand powerful quakes, has been periodically shaken by temblors.
There have been no significant earthquakes reported in the area in recent days.
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A formal taskforce charged with investigating the April 30 disaster at Mount Meron, which left 45 people dead, will investigate the behavior and decision-making of former public security minister Amir Ohana, former interior minister Aryeh Deri, and former housing minister Yaakov Litzman, who all were in office at the time of the incident, Channel 12 reported Sunday.
While Deri and Litzman had no direct responsibilities for the Mount Meron site, they reportedly pressured the relevant authorities to allow the event to proceed without limitations.
The report said that other officials who are expected to be probed by the taskforce include Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai and Northern District Police Chief Shimon Lavi. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, chairman of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, who was selected to lead a committee in charge of the site last year, is also expected to be investigated, alongside Yossi Schwinger, head of the National Center for the Development of Holy Places, for not adequately ensuring the safety of the site.
Earlier on Sunday, the cabinet approved the proposal published last week by Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman to establish a governmental commission of inquiry into the disaster.
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Three countries have contacted Israel to inquire about the possibility of obtaining vaccines rejected by the Palestinians in recent days if Ramallah indeed decides it doesn’t want them, the Haaretz daily reported Sunday.
Citing an unnamed diplomatic source, the paper said Israel was in touch with the countries about a batch of doses set to expire in July.
If an agreement is reached it would be under the same terms as the deal with the Palestinians, whereby Israel would be repaid out of future vaccine shipments to those countries. The deal would need the approval of Pfizer.
Meanwhile, the PA Health Ministry said on Sunday that it will seek to renegotiate the terms of its recent deal for one million coronavirus vaccine doses with Pfizer and the Israeli Health Ministry, hoping to receive Pfizer vaccines from Israel that do not expire until the end of July.
Israel announced the planned transfer on Friday and immediately sent an initial shipment of 100,000 vaccines to Ramallah. Under the terms of the deal, Israel was handing over its soon-to-expire vaccines in exchange for an equivalent part of the PA’s shipment of fresh Pfizer vaccines, which are scheduled to arrive later in 2021.
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It was a year ago that mobs of looters roamed the streets of New York City following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. From the month of May to June mobs would walk the streets of New York City smashing and looting storefronts, with videos of the incident going viral.
Despite the lawlessness, the NYPD – who were vastly outnumbered during these unexpected events – made hundreds of arrests, with most taking place in Manhattan and the Bronx. Data reviewed by NBC New York showed that at one point, up to 118 arrests were made in the Bronx during the worst of the looting in early June.
Despite the heroic actions by the police, many, if not all of these criminals are still roaming the streets – despite their arrests at the time. This is due to the fact that since then, the NYPD says the Bronx DA and the courts have dismissed most of those cases – 73 in all. Eighteen cases remain open and there have been 19 convictions for mostly lesser counts like trespassing, counts which carry no jail time.
In Manhattan, the NYPD data shows there were 485 arrests. Of those cases, 222 were later dropped and 73 seeing convictions for lesser counts like trespassing, which carries no jail time. Another 40 cases involved juveniles and were sent to family court; 128 cases remain open.
This lack of accountability by the DA’s office has led to outrage by victims and store owners of the looting who see the situation as criminals who are getting off scot free.
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