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Two women shared an Omaha stage Tuesday to talk about how to light the darkness.

One was an Emmy-winning journalist, the daughter of Greek immigrants whose grandmother was part of a tiny Greek island community that heroically hid a Jewish family from Nazis searching door to door for them during World War II. The Nazis threatened to burn down the island. No one told. The Jewish family survived.

Yvette Manessis Corporon wrote a book about the story, which she first heard around her kitchen table as a child from her grandmother. Something Beautiful Happened was published in 2017.

Seated next to her at a luncheon put on by the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Federation and Institute for Holocaust Education was Mindy Corporon. Her 14-year-old son, Reat, and father, William, were gunned down by a white supremacist outside a Kansas City-area Jewish Community Center.

Mindy had happened upon the grisly scene, which occurred on a brisk, sunny Palm Sunday in 2014. She remembers seeing her fathers body perpendicular to his truck in the parking lot. She remembers screaming, What happened?

The two women happen to be related; Yvette is married to Mindys cousin.

I thought you said the Nazis were gone, Yvettes 9-year-old son, Nico, said when news of the Kansas shooting reached their home in New York.

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Yvette folded that story into her book. Mindy, who until then had been CEO of a wealth management firm, found a way to cope through the loss by starting an interfaith foundation called Faith Always Wins. The family is Christian.

The fact that victims of an anti-Semitic attack were not themselves Jewish is significant, said Pam Monsky of the Anti-Defamation League.

For us, thats the message we want to drive home. Anti-Semitism isnt a Jewish problem, said Monsky, community development liaison for the ADLs Plains states region, which covers Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas and is based in Omaha. Its a scary world out there.

Two years ago, a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue killed 11 people and wounded six, the worst attack ever on Jews in the United States. Such incidents of anti-Semitism prompted an unusual press request from Monsky in the weeks leading up to this lunch event, held at Champions Club in northwest Omaha. She didnt want advance publicity.

An Omaha police officer provided security for Tuesdays event.

In the 2014 Overland Park shootings, a 73-year-old Klansman and neo-Nazi killed three people total. Dr. William Corporan, 69, and Reat, who had come to the Jewish Community Center for a singing tryout, were shot inside Corporans truck in the parking lot. A third person, occupational therapist Terri LaManno, was killed in the parking lot of a Jewish retirement community about a mile away. LaManno was also a Christian.

The shooter also had fired on others at the two places. He was convicted and sentenced to death.

It can be easy to get lost in the darkness of evil and tragedy. Tuesdays speakers reminded the audience of 300 which drew from Omahas Jewish and Greek communities that its important to follow those who offer light through their moral courage and strength.

Those light-givers can be the courageous, like the people of Erikousa, an island near Corfu, Greece, who hid a tailors family at great risk. Yvette described the island as remote, difficult to get to and a symbol of how bloodthirsty the Nazis were. They knew a Jewish family from Corfu had escaped their roundup, and they were on the hunt.

My father remembers the sound of Nazi boots outside the door, Yvette said. He remembers them in our home, ransacking, searching for Jews, saying, Where are the Jews? They did this from house to house to house, and these poor, uneducated people with nothing to their names except, you know, a garden and a bunch of chickens kept the secret. Everyone. They had nothing to gain and everything to lose. Despite that, the simplest, humblest, most impoverished, uneducated people in the world all banded together to save this family.

The bearers of light also include the suffering, people like Mindy who have experienced tremendous loss and still get up to serve others.

Our world just collapsed, she recalled.

And yet, hours after she lost her father and son, she went to a school vigil in an attempt to console youngsters trying to make sense of it.

The givers of light can also be those who bear witness to pain and beauty and take those stories of surviving and thriving to the world.

Oliver Henderson plays first base waiting for some action. Without a left hand Henderson is able to adapt to the world of baseball.

Libby DiBiase runs in a 14-pound vest during a workout at CrossFit Kinesis in Gretna. This Omaha police officer uses CrossFit to keep in shape for her unpredictable job.

Jeff Strufing enjoys being able to help people during group classes at Kosama. Despite his cancer diagnosis, Strufing hasnt let it change his lifestyle. The 46-year-old business owner, husband and father of two still works part-time as a paramedic and teaches weekly classes at three gyms. Hes done it all while undergoing chemotherapy treatments.

Margie Irfan practices bicep curls during her workout at Life Time Fitness. Iftan entered the world of bodybuilding when she was 46 years old. The Omaha woman has lost 10 percent of her body fat while maintaining the same weight and shes got the toned muscles to prove it.

Jack Mallett practices his tennis skills at Miracle Hill tennis courts. After deciding to quit drinking Mallett, 92, made tennis his addiction.

Michelle Graft runs on the Wabash Trace in Council Bluffs to train for her portion of the MS Run the US relay. Gaft who has MS uses running to keep the symptoms at bay.

Mary Manhart works out at the Downtown YMCA four times a week. She sees the people at the gym as her extended family.

Hadeel Haider started to exercise after being treated forHodgkin's lymphoma, andshe fell in love with Zumba. Haider now teaches Zumba class at the the Maple Street YMCA.

Nancy Nygren works out at least three times a week to help keep off more than 65 pounds that she lost a decade ago. Shes the perfect example of somebody who has lost a significant amount of weight and has done it the right way, said Jennifer Yee, who leads Nygrens boot camp class and is also an instructor in Creighton Universitys exercise science program.

Tom Carney does a workout during kickboxing class. Carney used to work out so he could eat whatever he wanted. Now he understands diet is just as important as exercise.

Rik Zortman runs the name of children who have died of cancer. He has ran the name of more than 250 children since his son's death in 2009.

Katie Chipman, a 12-year-old gymnast with juvenile arthritis, practices at Airborne Academy. Chipman works to hard to compete and only misses practices if her symptoms are too severe.

Joe Reisdorff and Dan Masters grew up in the same town, attending the same church were never close untilReisdorff needed a new kidney and Masters was a match.

Still recovering from a heart transplant, Rick Ganem wouldn't be able to make it to his daughter Sarah's wedding. So she brought the ceremony to his hospital room.

Since starting her weight-loss journey, Keasha Hawkins-Moore is closing in on dropping half of her starting weight 500 pounds. During that journey, she's battled cancer, lost loved ones and strengthened her faith.

Leota "Lee" Brown suffered a stroke and two days later, the 98-year-old was back to her spunky self at home in an assisted-living facility. She's required no therapy since the stroke.

Harley Swanek had been living with an undetected heart condition for the first seven months of her life. It caused her to become unresponsive for more than 30 minutes, leading to a brain injury. Harley's back home and relearning all of her milestones.

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One of the most persistent and controversial debates about the history of World War II concerns the role of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust, and specifically, the actions of Pope Pius XII. In the view of some historians, Pius manifestly failed to protect the Jews of Europe or effectively protest their fate, even those who were under his own nose in Rome, during the Nazi Holocaust.

But other historians take a diametrically opposite view, holding that Pius actually did all he could to defend the Jews of Europe, and that he will ultimately be remembered for having saved to quote the late, distinguished historian Sir Martin Gilbert hundreds of thousands of them.

In other words, it is a polarized debate, often bitterly so. On March 2, when the Vatican opened the secret war archives of Pius XII, new layers of evidence will emerge that should offer unprecedented clarity on what the Pope and the church did and didnt do in the face of the greatest moral challenge in the history of Europe.

Preparation of the archive for use by scholars has taken about 15 years; in that time, doubts were continually sown about whether the archive would be opened at all. On March 4, 2019, Pope Francis announced definitively that its doors would open with the observation that the Catholic Church was not afraid of history on the contrary, she loves it. Francis added that he had taken the decision to open the archive with a serene and confident soul, certain that the documents in the archive would showcase Pius XIIs moments of exaltation during the Nazi era, as well as those moments of serious difficulties, of tormented decisions, of human and Christian prudence.

The fate of the Jews is, of course, only one element of this enormous archive, and so the church will be able to make the case for the saintliness of Pius XII by referring to what Pope Francis called the pastoral but also theological, ascetic, diplomatic activities that the wartime pontiff engaged in on behalf of Catholics living under Nazi occupation. At the same time, however, church leaders seem convinced that the controversies over Piuss stance during the Holocaust will be laid to rest in his favor.

In a recent interview with Vatican News, Monsignor Sergio Pagano Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archives was asked whether the archive contained unseen documents that would prove the Churchs work under the papacy of Pius XII to save Jewish people during the Holocaust. Without a doubt, replied Pagano. Researchers would now have access to documents, he explained, that contained numerous testimonies of the assistance given by simple Christians, as well as by religious institutes and the bishops themselves for the salvation of this poor population so cruelly persecuted.

Even more importantly, perhaps, the archive would provide answers to the complaints about Piuss silence during the Holocaust, exemplified by the fact that he never once mentioned the Jewish people as a victim group of the Nazis in his entire time as pope. According to Monsignor Pagano, the documents in the archive provide a new, more detailed explanation for that silence.

For many in the Jewish world, the opening of the archive will be a seminal moment in the relationship between Catholics and Jews since the Second Vatican Council of 1965 famously exonerated the Jewish people of the charge of deicide collective, eternal responsibility for the suffering and death of Jesus. Abraham Foxman, the former national director of the Anti-Defamation League who survived the Holocaust in Poland after he was hidden by his devoted Catholic nanny, told me that it was no accident that Pope Francis, whom he called very sincere in his understandings and sensitivities towards the Jewish people, had authorized the opening of the archive.

Nor should we underestimate the enormous significance of what Foxman called one of the most secretive organizations in the history of human society i.e., the Catholic Church opening itself up to scrutiny. For those reasons, Foxman argued that the archive will not allow for a simple whitewash of Pius XII. If a consensus does finally emerge among scholars of the period, Foxman believes that this will recognize that the Church did more than we know about, but less than it could have done.

To some extent, this more nuanced interpretation of Piuss role has already surfaced. A 2011 book by the historian Paul OShea titled A Cross Too Heavy: Pope Pius XII and the Jews of Europe, made a powerful case that Pius was certainly not a Jew-hater or Nazi sympathizer, but neither could he be seen as a lamb without a stain.

According to OShea, Piuss behavior was governed by his conscious and deliberate choices to do all within his limited economic and political power, as he perceived it, to help European Jewry while keeping the fiction of papal neutrality, and not endangering the position of the Catholic Church in Germany or occupied Europe. On the question of the pontiffs silence, OShea described this as a strategy to protect Vatican interests, including rescue activities. Within these parameters, therefore, there will always be differences between those who insist that Pius did have the power to be more assertive in the face of Nazi savagery towards the Jews, and those who argue that he showed wisdom in deploying his skills to save as many Jews as possible without endangering his own institution.

In William Shakespeares Hamlet, the Danish prince of the title says of his late father, the king: He was a man. Take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again. With the opening of the papal archive, we may well reach the same conclusion about Pius XII. Regardless, the opportunity has finally come to learn more not only about the wartime pope, but about the church he headed. Many Catholics endured persecution under the Nazis at the same time that many of their fellow believers, as Foxman put it to me, killed Jews from Monday to Friday, and then went to church on Sunday. Amid all this heat, those scholars who will now enter the archive have a vital responsibility to shed light as well.

Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org & The Tower Magazine, writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics from New York. To read more of Cohens columns, visit cjn.org/cohen.

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(STL.News) On Wednesday, February 26, the Anti Defamation League (ADL) honored a team of local, state, and federal law enforcement partners, who worked together to prosecute James Fields Jr., the white supremacist who was convicted of more than two-dozen hate crimes for a car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, with ADL SHIELD Awards during the groups 10th Annual awards ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Since 2010, the ADL annually recognizes law enforcement for significant contributions toward protecting the American people from hate crimes, extremism, and domestic or international terrorism.

Among the recipients of this years ADL SHIELD Award were the local, state, and federal agencies, and individuals, that investigated, prosecuted, and assisted in the prosecution, of James Fields, Jr. The ADL recognized contributions from the United States Attorneys Office for the Western District of Virginia, the Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Virginia State Police, the Charlottesville City Police Department, the Albemarle County Police Department, the City of Charlottesville Commonwealths Attorneys Office, and the University of Virginia Police Department.

The awful events of August 12, 2017, including James Fields act of domestic terrorism, left an indelible mark on the local Charlottesville community, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and our country, U.S. Attorney Thomas T. Cullen stated today. Although we couldnt bring Heather Heyer back or heal the permanent physical and psychological injuries suffered by dozens of others, we could seek meaningful justice for these victims, their families, and the community and send a clear message that hate-inspired acts of violence, murder, and terror will be met with the full and collective force of American law enforcement. I am very proud of our federal, state, and local partners and grateful to the ADL for recognizing their extraordinary achievements.

On August 12, 2017, after attending the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville and returning to his vehicle, Fields drove his car onto Fourth Street, a narrow, downhill, one-way street in downtown Charlottesville. At or around that same time, a racially and ethnically diverse crowd had gathered at the bottom of the hill, at the intersection of Fourth and Water Streets. Many of the individuals in the crowd were celebrating as they were chanting and carrying signs promoting equality and protesting against racial and other forms of discrimination. Fields slowly proceeded in his vehicle down Fourth Street toward the crowd. He then stopped and observed the crowd while idling in his vehicle. With no vehicle behind him, Fields then slowly reversed his vehicle toward the top of the hill.

The members of the crowd began to walk up the hill, populating the streets and sidewalks between the buildings on Fourth Street. Having reversed his car to a point at or near the top of the hill and the intersection of Fourth and Market Streets, Fields stopped again. Fields admitted that he then rapidly accelerated forward down Fourth Street in his vehicle, running through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly into the crowd. Fieldss vehicle stopped only when it struck another stopped vehicle near the intersection of Fourth and Water Streets. Fields then rapidly reversed his car and fled the scene. As Fields drove into and through the crowd, Fields struck numerous individuals, killing Heather Heyer and injuring at least 28 others.

As the ADL recognized, local, state, and federal investigators undertook a massive coordinated investigation in the aftermath of Fields act of domestic terrorism. Investigators collected and reviewed over 5,000 hours of video footage related to the Unite the Right Rally, interviewed hundreds of witnesses and victims, and completed an exhaustive review of Fields background and social-media profile to develop evidence of his racial and anti-Semitic motivations. As a result of these extraordinary efforts, Fields was convicted of 29 federal hate crimes, as well as first-degree murder in state court, and is currently serving multiple life sentences.

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BETHESDA, Md. Montgomery County Police and Montgomery County Public Schools are currently investigating after racist graffiti was discovered over the weekend at Walt Whitman High School.

According to authorities, a resident called police at around 2 p.m. Sunday notifying police of the incident. Upon arrival, police said that a noose and a racial slur were found spray pained on a wall near the school's tennis courts.

Dr. Robert W. Dodd, principal at Walt Whitman High School, emailed the following letter to parents Monday morning addressing the incident:

Dear Parents and Students-

The purpose of this letter is to inform you about a serious incident that occurred over the weekend on the Walt Whitman High School campus. It came to our attention that racist graffiti using the n-word was spray painted on our campus. The Montgomery County Police Department was notified on Sunday, March 1, 2020 and is investigating this incident. I want to emphasize as strongly as possible that hate crimes will not be tolerated in the Walt Whitman High School community. If it is discovered that our students were involved, they will receive serious school-based consequences and may face additional charges from Montgomery County Police.

This year the Walt Whitman cluster has significantly intensified its work to eliminate hate in all forms. We have partnered with the Anti-Defamation League and implemented the program No Place for Hate which has served as the foundation for our weekly OneWhitman sessions with students. The Anti-Defamation League is also providing ongoing professional development for our staff, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to combat hate bias. In addition, Walt Whitman parents have partnered with the Equity Initiatives Unit in MCPS to provide ongoing opportunities to discuss race and racism in our community of schools. This hateful graffiti underscores the urgency of our ongoing work to collectively stand against hate.

In response to this latest incident, we will provide students with the opportunity during OneWhitman on Wednesday to discuss how hate speech in the community continues to impact our school. In addition, we have our next Parent Seminar on Race and Equity at 7:00 PM on March 18, 2020.

Every student deserves to feel like Whitman is their school and is a safe and welcoming place to thrive. We remain steadfast in our commitment to create a positive school culture and we value your continued support. Do not hesitate to call me at 240-740-4800 if you have any questions.

Just last month, police at Salisbury University canceled classes on Feb. 20 after racist and threatening graffiti was found on campus.

Salisbury University President Charles Wright said campus police worked with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to "ensure the safety and security of all members of our campus community."

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"Not one, but multiple racist threats are being directed at Black and Brown members of OUR community," Wright said in a letter. "An attack on some members of our campus community is an attack on all of us, and we all need to respond."

A person of interest was later identified, according to campus police, and the case has been turned over to the Wicomico County States Attorneys Office for appropriate charges.

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More than 30 officials of American Jewish organizations recently visited Saudi Arabia. What was the purpose of this visit? Who paid for it? And why are most of the participants hiding their involvement?Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has stated that the goal of the visit was bridge-building, which he thinks happened, as indicated by the fact that we had kosher meals for four days, that we had a minyan there. Two years ago, there was similar talk about fabulous silk pajamas that the leaders of Qatar bestowed upon Jewish officials who visited that Gulf kingdom.We have seen no results from that trip of benefit to the American Jewish community or to any Jewish interest, and here we are, two years later, with another one, under mysterious circumstances. Bridge-building for what? What is on the other end of the bridge? And when will the American Jewish public be let in on the secret?We heard [from the Saudis] about the intentions to build and make change, Hoenlein said. Is he claiming that the Conference of Presidents is playing a role in bringing about fundamental change in one of the worlds premier abusers of human rights? If so, that is something deserving of full disclosure. If not, what is the point of that assertion? Of what relevance are stated Saudi intentions without specifics?If officials of American Jewish organizations choose to visit Arab kingdoms as private individuals, that is their business. But when they visit Saudi Arabia or Qatar as representatives of Jewish organizations as they did in this case then the Jewish community has a right to know the purpose of the visit, its content and results; who went and who paid the bills. If the Jewish groups paid, their members have a right to ask whether that was an appropriate use of their membership dollars. If the Saudis paid, there is reason for concern that they are trying to buy influence. If so, to what ends?The fact that nearly all the participants are hiding their involvement is a worrisome sign. Mr. Hoenlein told reporters that he, along with Conference chairman Arthur Stark, and CEO William Daroff, led the delegation. He said that he was not naming the other 27 participants because the Saudis need to know that they can talk to us at the highest level of their government, and know that we will treat it with the appropriate confidence. Its nice to get headlines, but its more appropriate to build the relationship.However, in announcing the visit, Hoenlein put himself in the headlines, with the clear implication that it had some strategic purpose, yet without even the most general indication of what that might be. There have been reports over the years about a few American Jewish officials serving as conduits in back-room international diplomacy. But that kind of explanation would not seem relevant in this case; secret diplomacy is not conducted with 30 officials of different, and often competing, organizations.IF SAUDI leaders had never before met an American Jew, perhaps the Presidents Conference could make the case that it was breaking new ground. But representatives of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League visited Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s. And Martin Oliner, leader of the Religious Zionists of America, states in his bio that he has represented the Riyadh-based Saudi British Bank.We are left to assume that the Saudis believed they had something to gain from hosting this large Jewish delegation. And since it is unthinkable that the Conference of Presidents leadership would reveal the fact of the visit to the press against the wishes of its hosts, it is reasonable to conclude that the Saudi Arabian leadership wanted the Jewish world to know it, and anticipated benefit from its revelation.Indeed, the Saudis revealed the trip not to major national or world organs of opinion, such as The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, but to the Jewish news media, via the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which suggests that the Saudis were targeting American Jewry with the news.Why? Why would Riyadh want to cultivate American Jewish opinion?Saudi Arabia has a horrific record of human rights abuses, including capital punishment for gays; whipping of women rape victims, who are blamed for their own victimization; severe restrictions of the physical movements and autonomy of all women; and the murder and dismemberment of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Do the Saudis seek to use ties with leaders of American Jewish organizations in an effort to repair their public image? If so, why do so via prominent Jews?The Anti-Defamation Leagues review of textbooks used in Saudi schools in 2018-2019 found that they teach that Zionist Jews use control of media, money, politicians, women and drugs as part of a supposed scheme to conquer much of the Arab world. Does the Saudi regime seek the appearance of American Jewish support because of longstanding Saudi stereotypes about Jews dominating the American news media one of the oldest Jew-hating libels around?The Saudis likely are also worried about the Saudi Educational Transparency and Reform Act (H.R.554/S.357), a bipartisan congressional initiative to force Riyadh to reform its school curricula. We are glad that the ADL and various human rights groups have endorsed the bill.But will other American Jewish organizations those whose leaders participated in this trip endorse it?Saudi Arabias human rights violations are not waning. According to Amnesty International, the Saudi authorities in the past year escalated repression of the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. Severe mistreatment of women, political dissidents and religious minorities persists.Do American Jews want their representatives hobnobbing with the leaders of such a regime under flimsy claims of intent to reform? By hiding their participation in the delegation, the groups that took part in it are withholding information and accountability to which their members, and the Jewish community as a whole, are entitled. Transparency and accountability are basic expectations in professional Jewish life. The questions about this and similar trips must be answered.The writers are members of the steering committee of the Committee on Ethics in Jewish Leadership, jewishleadershipethics.org.

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A pair of groups that claim to monitor extremist groups in the United States have lined up a law enforcementofficer near Dallas in their cross hairs. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Southern Poverty Law Centre claim Constable John Shirley is a member of an alleged anti-government group, the Oath Keepers. Constables are elected in Hood County Texas.

The ADL has described the ideology of the Oath Keepers most closely resembles that of the militia movement, whose adherents believe that the United States is collaborating with a one-world tyrannical conspiracy called the New World Order to strip Americans of their rightsstarting with their right to keep and bear arms.

Meanwhile, the SPLC saidthe entire organization is based on a set of baseless conspiracy theories about the federal government working to destroy the liberties of Americans.

On one hand the SPLC claims the group espouses a number of conspiracy and legal theories associated with the sovereign citizen movement and the white supremacist posse comitatus movement. The claims are not verified.

Oath Keepers is controversial. It supports President Donald Trump and marched against police violence in Ferguson, MO. The group's founder Stewart Rhodes supportedEdward Snowden's decision to leak the PRISM documents, Rhodessaid in a Reason interview.

Constable Shirley wrote a commentary on a website in which he claims to have been a member of the Oath Keepers for more than a decade and to have held several offices within the organization.

Ive seen the multiple waves of attacks by the media and progressive NGOs (such as the SPLC), he said on the website. The Oath Keepers organization has been called right-wing, racist, anti-government, a militia, among many other hot-button epithets.

Capitalizing on the base level of ignorance of too many of our citizens, these progressive organizations have done their best to turn polite society against the organization, by throwing around these ad hominem attacks without actually providing any evidence to support their assertions.

The article is a fundraising and recruitment piece.

An Oath Keepers recruitment event Constable Shirley had planned was cancelled after management of the Harbour Lakes Golf Club in the town of Granbury, Texas, claimed it had been misled.

Roger Deeds, the sheriff of Hook County, said that from what he had been told the group was simply trying to protect the constitution and protect Texas.

Deeds said he is not a member of the group, but has doesn't have a problem with someone want to belong to the group.I dont think theyre anti-government. This guy is running for reelection so hes bragged about being a member, Deeds said in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Ive read that theyre made up of people who are anti-government but I dont think thats correct, he toldThe Independent. I dont think theyre anti-government."

Members of Austin Police Department block off part of Republic of Texas Boulevard, March 19, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Sergio Flores

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On March 6, 2019, Britains Equalities and Human Rights Commission launched a probe into claims that the countrys Labour Party, currently led by the lifelong Trotskyite Jeremy Corbyn, is institutionally anti-Semitic.

We are all too familiar with the development that the conflation of antisemitism and antizionism may be found today within politics.[1] Challenging this distortion remains a priority in Western countries. Fortunately, as recent events within Britains Labour Party have shown, many constituents are rejecting the overt antisemitism and anti-Israel extremism of the groups who have often underhandedly taken control of their party.[2]

It increasingly seems as if one source of antisemitism as shown by more than one survey in Europe and in the United States is that there often seems to be widespread antisemitism within Muslim communities (here, here and here).

Islamic hatred of Jews is deeply rooted. It can be seen in the later verses of the Quran, in Muhammads expulsions, mass executions, and enslavement of the Jews of Medina, or in the attack on Jews in the oasis of Khaybar.

Islamic antisemitism continued to have a largely negative impact on Jews living under Muslim rule in the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe down the centuries. Sometimes Jews were treated better than they were in Christian countries, for instance during the Inquisition; at other times, there were massacres; but in all instances, Jews suffered a variety of humiliations as second-class dhimmis: people with a scripture who were due protection by Muslims but demeaned for their failure to recognize the prophet Muhammad as the true Messiah.[3]

The German political scientist Matthias Knzel summed it up:

Islamic anti-Semitism, although not restricted to the Islamist movements, is a key factor in the Islamists war against the modern world.

It lies behind Tehrans desire to destroy the cancerous tumor of Israel and motivated the recent Iranian attack on Israel by an armed drone. It inspires Recep Tayyip Erdogans threat that Israelis wont be able to find a tree to hide behind, a clear allusion to a hadith that demands the killing of Jews. It causes Mahmoud Abbas to deny any connection between Jerusalem and the Jews and transforms the political conflict between Israel and the Arabs into a religious struggle between right and wrong.

Islamic antisemitism mobilizes the terrorists of the Islamic State to murder Jews in Europe and it ensures that not only in Amman, but also in Berlin and Malmo Arabs threaten Jews with this particular war cry: Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews; the army of Muhammad will return. Khaybar is the name of an oasis inhabited by Jews that Mohammed conquered in blood in 628. It is also the name of an assault rifle made in Iran and a type of rocket used by Hezbollah to fire at Israeli cities in 2006.

A 2014 survey of antisemitism by the US Anti-Defamation League (ADL) covered 100 countries. It found that all the countries in the top 10 most antisemitic locations were in the Middle East or north Africa region, with an overall figure of 73%. The West Bank and Gaza came at the top, with 93% of Palestinians expressing antisemitic views.

A smaller survey of 19 countries published by the ADL in the following year found that Muslim populations in general had the highest levels of antisemitism in Europe:

For the first time, the ADL poll measured Muslim attitudes in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. An average of 55 percent of Western European Muslims harbored anti-Semitic attitudes. Acceptance of anti-Semitic stereotypes by Muslims in these countries was substantially higher than among the national population in each country, though lower than corresponding figures of 75 percent in 2014 for Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

In the United States, a 2017 report on antisemitism in general, identified much of the hatred as coming from the Muslim community, notably on college campuses:

It is particularly disturbing that anti-Semitism appears to be relatively common in the American Muslim community, including among its leaders.

Muslim expression of anti-Semitic views has become especially common on American college campuses.

Several Muslim attacks on Jews, synagogues and more are listed in the report. Here, anti-Jewish prejudice is, as often as not, conflated with anti-zionist ideology and activism. Again, that distortion, in turn, leads many people, most often on the left, to indulge Muslim antisemitism, to join Islamic protests, and even, as Britains Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn did for many years, to call Muslim terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah friends.

Some anti-zionism is bolstered by the widespread rationalization that Palestinian resistance to Israel is in harmony with ones own secular political convictions. Palestinians and their supporters across the Islamic world are thought to be protesting and fighting for nationalistic, anti-colonial, and economic motives combined with an anti-apartheid pro-refugee set of priorities. Fatah, the Palestine Liberation Organizations leading party, for example, is proclaimed as a secular, nationalist entity. The first article in the PLOs 1964 Covenant reads: Palestine is an Arab homeland bound by strong Arab national ties to the rest of the Arab Countries and which together form the great Arab homeland.

Some in the international community came to see the Palestinian struggle for a state as a natural successor to their actions over the Vietnam War, the anti-Apartheid Movement, and general anti-imperialist values. Religion, let alone old-fashioned land-grabs, did not (and still do not) enter into their thinking on this and related issues.

The 1988 Covenant (Mithaq) of Jeremy Corbyns good friends (and Israels enemies), however, could not be more religious in nature. It opens with the words:

Praise be unto Allah, to whom we resort for help, and whose forgiveness, guidance and support we seek; Allah bless the Prophet and grant him salvation, his companions and supporters, and to those who carried out his message and adopted his laws everlasting prayers and salvation as long as the earth and heaven will last.

It continues: Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.

Note that they say they are fighting Jews, not Israelis.

Article One reads:

The Islamic Resistance Movement: The Movements programme is Islam. From it, it draws its ideas, ways of thinking and understanding of the universe, life and man. It resorts to it for judgement in all its conduct, and it is inspired by it for guidance of its steps.

Article Five reads:

By adopting Islam as its way of life, the Movement goes back to the time of the birth of the Islamic message, of the righteous ancestor, for Allah is its target, the Prophet is its example and the Koran is its constitution. Its extent in place is anywhere that there are Moslems who embrace Islam as their way of life everywhere in the globe. This being so, it extends to the depth of the earth and reaches out to the heaven.

Its 2017 Covenant speaks of Palestine as The land of the Arab Palestinian people and, even though it plays down overt antisemitism, it opens with the words, Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all worlds. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad, the Master of Messengers and the Leader of the mujahidin, and upon his household and all his companions. Moreover, its Preamble contradicts in its second line the nationalist tone by stating that:

Palestine is a land whose status has been elevated by Islam, a faith that holds it in high esteem, that breathes through it its spirit and just values and that lays the foundation for the doctrine of defending and protecting it.

Corbyns other friend, Hezbollah, does not have a Covenant, but does have something very like it its 1985 al-Risala al-maftuha (or Open Letter) in which its founding spiritual mentor, Shaykh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, set out the movements program. Its second paragraph reads:

We are an umma [people] linked to the Muslims of the whole world by the solid doctrinal and religious connection of Islam, whose message God wanted to be fulfilled by the Seal of the Prophets, i.e., Muhammad.

The following paragraph continues:

As for our culture, it is based on the Holy Koran, the Sunna and the legal rulings of the faqih who is our source of imitation (marja al-taqlid).[4] Our culture is crystal clear. It is not complicated and is accessible to all.

A client of Iran, Hezbollah, although based in Lebanon, continually threatens to destroy Israel and includes Israel among its enemies:

Friends, wherever you are in Lebanon we are in agreement with you on the great and necessary objectives: destroying American hegemony in our land; putting an end to the burdensome Israeli Occupation.

Hezbollah is not alone in its focus on Israel and the Palestinians, ostensibly derived from an underlying religious conviction that it is impermissible under sharia law for non-Muslims to occupy land that had for centuries endured under Islamic rule just as many Muslim continue to claim a right of return to al Andalus in most of Spain.

Curiously, while this rule applies to other lands, such as Spain and Portugal, they are regularly ignored in favour of Palestine. In a 2017 article titled The deep reason Muslim world hates Zionism, Rafael Castro writes:

Cultural and political demands advanced by Berbers, Kurds and Chechens have been frustrated. Muslim claims over Mindanao and Southern Thailand have been crushed. Yet Islamic solidarity and support for the Palestinian cause dwarfs the solidarity and support provided to urgent Muslim causes elsewhere.

Castro links this view to a seemingly mythical Islamic version of history:

According to Islamic tradition, the biblical Abraham, Moses, David and Solomon were Muslim prophets. The Israelites were also originally Muslim. The corollary is Islamic supersession, namely the belief that Muslimsand not Jewsare the legitimate heirs to the Israelite faith and homeland.

Anshel Pfeffer, a left-wing secular British journalist who has specialized in Israeli affairs wrote in 2014, The Israel-Palestine conflict is not just about land. Its a bitter religious war:

Celebratory images of blood-stained cleavers, popularised in Isis beheading clips, quickly flooded many Palestinian websites and Facebook pages. It did not matter that the chosen targets were elderly civilians inside Israels pre-1967 borders.

This is what a religious war looks like, and we should stop kidding ourselves that this is not what has been happening in the Middle East. In various degrees its been going on for a century. Yes, it is also a conflict over a piece of land between two nations, and not all Israelis and Palestinians hopefully still a minority in both societies want to see this as a struggle between Muslims and Jews, but there are enough of them who do.

Mohammad Galal Mostafa, a former Egyptian diplomat and researcher at Brandeis University, wrote an essay in 2018 that also focuses on the religious dimensions of the conflict:

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is driven by several factors: ethnic, national, historical, and religious. This brief essay focuses on the religious dimension of the conflict, which both historical and recent events suggest lies at its core. That much is almost a truism. What is less often appreciated, however, is how much religion impacts the identity of actors implicated in this conflict, the practical issues at stake, and the relevant policies and attitudes even of non-religious participants on both sides. It follows that religion must also be part of any real solution to this tragic and protracted conflict.

Finally, the secularist Palestinian Authority and other Palestinian leaders have also recently decided to emphasize the religious element in their struggle. They really are not that emphatic about either religion or the truth. They are not even that emphatic about having a state. They are emphatic about obliterating Israel.

In an article dated March 4, 2019, the award-winning Arab journalist Khalid Abu Toameh identified a trend in both secular and religious Palestinian authorities in Gaza and the West Bank. This trend, he noted, aims to counter political moves in parts of the Arab world to normalize relations with Israel, and does this by returning to religious themes as a justification for rejecting attempts normalization. Abu Toameh observes that:

In a recent move, Palestinians have begun resorting to Islam to justify their vehement opposition to normalization of relations with Israel. Palestinian leaders and activists have long cited political and nationalist reasons to explain their opposition to any form of normalization with Israel but Islam is a new factor in the mix.

Abu Toameh draws special attention to a group of religious scholars in Gaza:

a group of Palestinian Islamic scholars issued yet another fatwa (Islamic religious opinion) on March 3 warning against any form of normalization with the Zionist entity.

The scholars are hoping that their fatwa will rally Muslims worldwide to the Palestinian campaign against normalization with Israel. By issuing such fatwas, the Palestinians are clearly hoping to turn the conflict with Israel into a religious one.

The Gaza-based group, called Palestinian Scholars Association, said in its fatwa that according to the rulings of Islam, normalization with the Zionist enemy, and accepting it in the region, is one of the most dangerous penetrations of the Muslim community and a threat to its security, as well as a corruption of its doctrine and a loss of its youths.

The scholars go on to explain that normalization and reconciliation means empowerment of Jews over the land of the Muslims, surrender to the infidels and loss of religion and Islamic lands.

What is not said, of course, is that there also seem to be increasing incursions, religious or otherwise, into lands that have never historically been under the rule of Islam for instance Nigeria, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The underlying Islamic antisemitism, however, so long denied by many Palestinians and many of their left-oriented supporters, has been slowly coming to the fore. Although it has been there all along, it now appears in the context of the Islamic revival that has taken place over the past four decades. In the end, the only thing that can oppose it will be a renewal of a secular reform that once had a deep impact in many Muslim countries, only to falter after the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979. Without that, peace may never return to the Middle East.

[1] See, among others, David Hirsh, Contemporary Left Antisemitism, London, 2017 and Dave Rich The Lefts Jewish Problem, fully updated 2nd ed., London, 2018

[2] For a recent detailed analysis of how this happened, see Tom Bower, Dangerous Hero: Corbyns Ruthless Plot for Power, London, 2019.

[3] For a full study, see Andrew G. Bostom, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, Amherst NY, reprint ed. 2008.

[4] A major religious leader in Shiism whose legal and spiritual rulings must be obeyed. In this case the Imam Khomeini.

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Primary challenger Michael Weinstock has accused U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) of supporting an Islamic relations group designated as an unindicted co-conspirator in terrorist activities by the federal government.

In an op-ed piece published by Jewishpress.com, Weinstock called for Suozzi to rescind a letter of support the congressman sent to the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR, in November.

I was shocked to learn that Suozzi recently sent a beautiful letter of support to CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, congratulating them on their gala fundraiser, Weinstock, a Great Neck native, wrote in the piece.

The FBI cut ties with CAIR in the summer of 2008, according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

This was in response to the organization being named an unindicted co-conspirator in the provision of material supplies to Hamas, which is classified by the federal government as a foreign terrorist organization, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

No criminal charges were handed down to the organization according to the Department of Justice.

Suozzis letter sent to CAIR headquarters was in regard to the organizations 25th Anniversary Gala on Nov. 9, 2019.

The letter commends the organization on bringing together community leaders, scholars, and activists to celebrate CAIRs work defending civil liberties, according to the letter.

Suozzi touted the organizations legal efforts to uphold and defend the constitutional and civil rights of American Muslims, the letter reads.

Weinstock wrote in his piece that U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has previously addressed the organizations ties to terrorism and cutting off contact with the organization should be a government-wide policy as stated in two separate federal documents.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the FBI wrote, Until we resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and Hamas, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner, in an April 2009 letter to the U.S. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security.

According to its website, CAIR is a nonprofit, grassroots civil rights and advocacy organization and Americas largest Muslim civil liberties organization, with affiliate offices nationwide.

The organization was founded in 1994 and has worked to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America, according to the website.

Despite those efforts, CAIR has been tied to other organizations that promote and condone terrorism and anti-Semitic propaganda, according to the ADL.

According to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Suozzi was not the only representative to reach out to CAIR. The documents show more than 100 members of Congress sent letters of support to the organization ahead of their gala.

Efforts to reach Suozzi or representatives from his campaign for comment were unavailing.

Suozzis endorsement of this anti-Semitic organization tells us that his support of the Jewish community is completely transactional, Weinstock said. When he supports us- its never heartfelt.

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This country waged a civil war over slavery in the mid-19th century. It struggled with the advancement of civil rights for all people, regardless of race and religion, in the 20th century.

The fight for equality has been going on for more than 200 years, and often it seems like real progress is being made, especially when an African-American was elected president in 2008.

So, why is the ugly tide of racism and religious bigotry, particularly the white supremacist strain, on the rise again?

According to data recently released by the Anti-Defamation League, every New England state reported at least a doubling of white supremacist propaganda incidents last year. In Vermont, 81 incidents of white supremacist propaganda were recorded in 2019, compared to 14 in 2018. That ranks second among New England states to Massachusetts, which recorded an alarming 148 incidents last year compared to only 35 in 2018. New Hampshire had 30 incidents in 2019, 10 times the number recorded the year before.

Our data clearly demonstrates that white supremacists are doubling down on the distribution of propaganda across the U.S. and in our region, with a particular focus on campuses and the public square, said Robert Trestan, ADL New England Regional Director. By injecting a barrage of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, stickers, banners and posters into the public square and on campus, white supremacists are attempting to normalize their messages of bigotry and to bolster recruitment, all while hiding behind the cloak of anonymity, never having to face the consequences of their hate and intolerance.

Its happening right here in Brattleboro, where an anti-Jewish message was scrawled in chalk on an Elliot Street sidewalk in 2018, and white supremacist leaflets were distributed in Pliny Park last year. We have a self-identified white supremacist in Bennington who boasts about how he helped drive the only black woman legislator from the Vermont House, and faced no charges from either the town police or the attorney generals office because they could find no laws he had broken.

Lets call it what it is: racism, perhaps emboldened by a president who pandered to white supremacists after they held a violent rally in Virginia; who trusts as one of his key advisers, especially on immigration policy, a man (Stephen Miller) who promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roofs murderous rampage, according to leaked emails.

Here in Vermont, we can be more vigilant, more aware, more responsive to incidents of white supremacist propaganda, whether its leaflets distributed on the street, posters stapled on the public square, racist messages scrawled on the sidewalk or online racial harassment with no repercussions.

Quite simply, we can do better.

* Guest editorial from the Brattleboro Reformer in Brattleboro, Vt.

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Trigger warning: This piece openly discusses racism, misogyny and other hateful ideologies.

Perhaps you have seen them across Rhode Island- stickers and flyers in stark red white and blue, using the pretense of Americana to share ominous anti-immigrant messages or obliquely praise a white American master race. Littered across the public eye in Providence, Woonsocket, and West Warwick, these flyers are sparking a natural consternation and outrage among decent Rhode Islanders. Who is spreading such trash in our state, and why? We might hope its just the work of someones lone racist uncle, but the truth is more discomforting. These flyers are the overt activities of a coordinated group, one Rhode Islanders should understand and oppose with equal thoroughness.

That group calls itself Patriot Front; and in brief, they are some of the white nationalists from Charlottesville Virginia, wearing a new mask and a fresh coat of paint. Their message is fascism and race hatred, coated in a star-spangled veneer to try and lower the guard of regular Americans enough to listen. What follows is an accounting of their history and tactics, and some of the ways we can all take a stand against their brand of hate.

Patriot Front formed in the fallout of the violent, racist rally in Charlottesville Virginia on August 11th and 12th of 2017. One of the most prominent groups present on the tiki-torch side in the Charlottesville rally was Vanguard America, an overt and self-avowed neo-fascist organization. It was a Vanguard America member, James Alex Fields, who committed the infamous vehicle attack which killed anti-racism activist Heather Heyer and injured over twenty others.

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Unrepentant in their hateful and violent beliefs but understanding that their violence and open praise for fascism had damaged their public reception and reputation, Vanguard America eventually sought to reorganize under a new name and banner: Patriot Front. They kept the classic fascist symbol of an axe bundled together with several wooden rods, called a fasces, but the rest of their iconography and rhetoric was given a red-white-and-blue, flag-stamped makeover. During this time, a threatening anti-feminist Vanguard America banner was dropped at the 2018 Rhode Island Womens March. That banner drop was later claimed by Patriot Front members, cementing that they are functionally the same group. Later in the fall of 2018, Patriot Front attacked a book fair in Boston. Several months after the bookfair attack, three members of the group attacked police officers in East Boston with knives and other illegally-carried melee weapons, simply because the police saw them putting up fliers and approached to ask questions. Perhaps even more alarmingly, Patriot Front members openly fantasize about far right death squads, rape gangs, and the racial/religious/ethnic cleansing of North America in their online forums.

That said, while the danger of this group is as clear as the need to oppose it, there is no reason for Rhode Islanders to panic. While Patriot Front is a nationwide organization with triple-digit membership numbers, anti-fascist researchers believe there are probably no more than half of a dozen members of the group currently operating in Rhode Island. Their tentative foothold here can be decisively thwarted by a robust community response. While white supremacist flyering and stickering by Patriot Front and others has risen steadily in Rhode Island over the past year and a half, with a surge in activity corresponding to Trumps impeachment acquittal and the Patriot Front march in Washington DC, the placement of the flyers seems to suggest individuals or small groups quickly entering and leaving an area, rather than a brazen and sustained presence.

We have compiled a partial map of these flyerings and others based on documented tips we receive, as well as our own members encountering them.

All Rhode Islanders can have a role in keeping these hateful goons from terrorizing our most vulnerable neighbors. Heres what you can do to help:

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