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‘Full support’ – Israeli, US, Saudi leaders back Jordanian king Following Coup Attempt

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Abdullah II of Jordan at SOFEX conference opening in Amman, May 6, 2014. Credit: Ahmad A Atwah/Shutterstock.

(JNS)The United States is “closely following” the situation in Jordan following reports of an alleged coup plot involving the former Jordanian crown prince, U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said on Sunday.

“King Abdullah is a key partner of the United States, and he has our full support,” tweeted Price.

Jordan’s official media outlet on Saturday denied reports that Prince Hamza bin Hussein, King Abdullah II’s half-brother, had been arrested, claiming that the prince had instead been asked to stop “movements and activities that are used to target” the kingdom’s stability and security. According to the Jordan News Agency, the warning was part of “joint comprehensive investigations undertaken by security agencies,” leading to the arrests of royal family member Sharrif Hassan bin Zaid, former Finance Minister Basem Ibrahim Awadallah and others.

In a video statement released to the BBC by his lawyers, Prince Hamza denied involvement in any conspiracy and claimed that he “was not allowed to go out, to communicate with people or to meet with them.”

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Prince Hamzah said he had been informed that this was a “warning” related to meetings he had attended, during which the government and king were criticized, as well as connected to social media posts about those meetings.

The prince said that friends of his had been arrested, his security detail had been removed and his Internet and phone lines had been cut. The video message, he said, had been sent via a satellite Internet connection that would also be cut soon, meaning that this would possibly be his last communication.

Prince Hamza then went on to say that he was not the one responsible for the “breakdown in governance, corruption and incompetence” from which the country had suffered over the past two decades.

Jordanian Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Maj. Gen. Yousef Huneiti indicated that the investigations were ongoing, and that the results would be announced “with full transparency and clarity,” according to the Jordan News Agency.

“No one is above the law and Jordan’s security and stability take precedence over any consideration,” said Huneiti.

CNN’s Jim Acosta: ‘We’re All Dealing with Some Post-Trump Stress Disorder’

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CNN’s Jim Acosta said Sunday on “Reliable Sources” that many within the news media were dealing with “post-Trump stress disorder” in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Anchor Brian Stelter said, “Do you feel like you are rundown, your lineup is really different than it would have been in the Trump years?”

Acosta said, “When you asked me if I was rundown, I was wondering if you were asking me how I felt during the Trump era. I think we’re all dealing with some post-Trump stress disorder.”

He continued, “There are questions about why aren’t Republicans getting on board with these Biden proposals. There were Republicans getting on board with overturning the election just a couple of months ago, so we shouldn’t have high expectations for that. But in terms of stacking shows and what comes first, what comes second, Brian, you and I both know this all too well. We did cover the news before Donald Trump came along, and we did it pretty well. There’s going to be plenty of stuff in the news put there, and it doesn’t have to have Donald Trump in the headlines for us to continue to exist.”

He added, “When he was president, he was doing things that were beneath the audience of the presidency. Now he’s doing things beneath the office of the post-presidency. He’s not going to change, but we need to change with the times.”

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Crash Involving Hatzalah Ambulance, Car Leaves 1 Dead, Several Hurt

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(AP) – One person was killed and several others were injured after an ambulance collided with another vehicle in Brooklyn.

According to police, the accident occurred at about 4 p.m. in the Flatlands section of the borough.

The private ambulance was transporting a 95-year-old woman when it collided with a 2002 Nissan Maxima going in the opposite direction and flipped onto its side.

The woman was taken to a hospital and died from her injuries. Six members of the EMS crew, a 67-year-old man riding in the ambulance and two people riding in the Maxima were treated for minor injuries.

The accident is under investigation.

Leading nationalist organizations urge Netanyahu, Saar, Bennett to reconcile, form right-wing government

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PM Benjamin Netanyahu, then-Minister of Internal Affairs Gideon Saar and then-Economy Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset, July 29, 2013. (Flash90/Miriam Alster)
By World Israel News Staff

Eleven leading organizations from the nationalist camp issued a call on Sunday to the leaders of the nationalist parties to put their personal differences aside and join together to form a government that is not reliant on anti-Zionist parties.

“We, organizations from the nationalist camp, call on the leaders of the Zionist parties from the Right and Left to reject the possibility of forming a government-supported from within or without by parties that don’t recognize Israel’s right to exist as the nation state of the Jewish People,” wrote the organizations.

The organizations continued, “Any party whose members support terrorism must be rejected outright, whether it’s the Ra’am party of the Islamic Movement or the Joint List.

“All parties should reconcile with their political rivals because at the end of the day, the only thing that’s important is the Jewish state and Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.”

The signatories include Im Tirtzu, Regavim, Professors for a Strong Israel, Cafe Shapira Forum, Choosing Life Forum of Bereaved Families, My Israel, Headquarters for the South Tel-Aviv Struggle, Wounded IDF Veterans Forum, Lach Yerushalayim, Lavi, and Yozma Ezrachit.

Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu, which initiated the move, said that the letter was a wake-up call to the heads of the Zionist parties.

“Our elected officials need to wake up and understand that they are leading the country down a path of selling out its Zionist values for no justifiable reason. The nationalist camp has a clear majority to form a stable government. We are calling on Benjamin Netanyahu, Gideon Saar and Naftali Bennett to take responsibility. The good of the country needs to come first, not personal emotions and mutual hatred.”

Professor Asher Yahalom, head of Professors for a Strong Israel, said he leaders of the nationalist camp need to “put the interests of the Jewish People first.”

“The challenges abroad and at home require the establishment of a nationalist government,” said My Israel head Sara Haetzni-Cohen.

Meir Deutsch, head of Regavim, said that “whoever is willing to sit in a coalition with those who do not recognize Israel as a Jewish and democratic state isn’t a Zionist. All of the spins and twists will not be able to obscure this ethical matter.”

Meanwhile, late Sunday evening reports indicated that Opposition leader Yair Lapid’s consultations with right-wing Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett were progressing and that Likud officials were concerned.

According to Channel 13, Lapid, head of the center-left Yesh Atid party, offered Bennett the opportunity to serve as prime minister first in a rotation government on condition that he completely renounce Netanyahu. Despite their different ideologies, Bennett – whose party has only seven seats in the 120-seat Knesset – reportedly is considering accepting the deal.

Netanyahu won 30 seats in the election. Next is Lapid with 17.

Religious Zionism chair Bezalel Smotrich is urging Bennett to partner with Likud in order to form a stable right-wing government.

On Sunday evening, Saar reiterated his conviction never to join a Netanyahu-led government, Hebrew-language media reported.

Australian Neo-Nazis Call On Followers To ‘Breed Out’ Local Jewish Population

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(VINnews) — A far-right neo-Nazi group in Australia called on supporters to ‘breed out’ the Jewish population by consorting with local Jewish women, according to report by Dr. Dvir Abramovich of the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC).

The National Socialist Network urged “every honorable White man, national socialist, klansman, skinhead, racist” to take part in “Operation Ashkenazi Strange,” and seek out Jewish women in Melbourne in order to “breed out the Jewish race with Alpha Aryan Australian POWER,” according to a screenshot of a Gab post shared by the ADC.

The post also included a picture of a masked man holding up a whiteboard with derogatory instructions on how to contact and seduce Jewish women.

Thomas Sowell, the leader of the neo-Nazi group, also shared a photo of himself performing a Nazi salute in front of a picture of ADC head Dvir Abramovich in a gas chamber with a yellow Star of David on his forehead. The accompanying caption reads “f__k you Dvir.”

“These stomach-churning posts not only reveal the true nature of the neo-Nazi beast in our country but a rising climate of radicalization in which Hitler worshippers openly fantasize about gassing a Jewish leader and call on unrepentant bigots to be on the hunt and rape Jewish women and share such threats online,” Abramovich said in a statement.

He added: “Let’s remember that before he committed the Christchurch massacre, Brenton Tarrant was radicalized on the internet, consumed by the conspiracy theory of ‘White replacement’ that Sewell is promoting, and that Sewell unsuccessfully tried to recruit the mass-murderer.”

Tarrant, an Australian, killed 51 people and wounded 40 at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.

Abramovich called on the Australian government to designate the National Socialist Network and other neo-Nazi groups as terror organizations. Last month, Australia outlawed the neo-Nazi Sonnenkrieg Division, the first time it has designated a right-wing organization as a terror group.

Asian Woman Stabbed to Death, But Hate Crime Not Suspected

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By Brian Freeman(NEWSMAX)

An Asian woman was stabbed to death over the weekend in Riverside, Calif., but police do not suspect a hate crime, CNN reported on Sunday.

The woman, 64-year-old Ke Chieh Meng, was out walking her two dogs on Saturday when she was attacked. Police said officers arrested 23-year-old Darlene Stephanie Montoya after neighbors in the area of the stabbing reported: “a transient woman walking through their yards and appearing suspicious.”

Riverside Police spokesperson Officer Ryan Railsback said, “when our detectives interviewed the suspect, they didn’t come across anything to suggest she attacked the victim due to her race.”

Police said the murder appeared to be random.

“We’re going to try to research [the suspect’s] drug-abuse history and her mental-health history,” Railsback said, adding that cops are nonetheless “not closing the door on anything,” according to the New York Post.

Less than a week ago, Montoya was arrested by Riverside police after she attacked a woman near a shopping mall and booked her into jail for assault with a deadly weapon, CNN reported.

However, she was released shortly thereafter on a “notice to appear” citation because of  Riverside’s coronavirus-inspired emergency bail schedule.

Railsback said the victim in that case was a white woman, according to the Post.

Just this past week, President Joe Biden announced a number of new actions to combat the nation’s rise in anti-Asian violence, Axios reported, after a recent series of shootings in which at least six Asian women were killed.

Anti-Asian hate crimes reported to police in the nation’s largest cities soared almost 150% last year, according to a study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University.

Israeli Scientists Use Umbilical Cord Blood To Improve Autistic Children’s Cognitive And Social Skills

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(VINnews)A team of Israeli scientists is endeavoring to use umbilical cord blood to effect changes and improvements in the lives of autistic children. To mark World Autism Awareness Day which fell last Friday, the team published some of its findings and called on mothers to collect and save the blood as it could be used to treat their children at a later stage.

The treatments are based on a protocol which was developed by the Duke University Medical Center involving a one-time infusion to patients of some of their own cord blood cells which were taken from their umbilical cord at birth. Dr. Omer Bar Yosef, a clinical and research neurobiologist at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, told the Jerusalem Post that he has so far treated 25 children with autism as part of a Phase II trial and hopes to treat up to 60 children in this phase of the trial.

“There is no chemotherapy involved, no chemical medications,” explained Dr. Moshe Israeli, who serves as scientific director at Taburit, one of the leaders in the field of umbilical cord blood collection and preservation in Israel. “There is no concern; it’s not risky.”

The team has seen encouraging results in a number of different areas, including communication and social and emotional responsiveness.

“We don’t know 100% why it is working,” Israeli said. “There is a unique type of stem cell in the cord blood. These cells make their way through the blood to the brain, and we think they promote the growth of new synapses in the brain.

Synapses connect neurons in the brain to neurons in the rest of the body. Scientists have discovered that the difficulty in managing social interactions found in people with autism is due to poor maturation of the synapses. The synapses from cord blood could improve the brain’s neuron connections enabling improved social interaction.

“One or two years after treatment, we see through brain imaging that there are more synapses,” Israeli explained. “The treatment influences the brain to grow and become more efficient and have better communication.”

While Israel only allows the use of one’s own cord cells or their siblings’ cells, a Phase III trial being run at Duke also allows for the use of third-party cord blood cells, meaning the cells of an unrelated donor that is stored in one of the cord blood banks.In the US, the treatment is already approved for compassionate use.

Bar Yosef warned that the treatment does not help everyone, but added that even if only 20% of those treated improve, it would be considered an amazing result, since no previous treatment had targeted the neurological aspects of autism.

Hanna Abramovich-Biniachvili, whose seven-year-old Avi had the treatment two years ago, says that her son is now more capable of controlling his moods and his relationship with space, and interacts much better with the environment around him.

“He started to speak, make eye contact,” she said. “We see such a dramatic improvement.”

Abramovich-Biniachvili said that the family has invested and continues to invest in additional supports for Avi to help improve his ability to function, but she believes the cord blood is what made the difference.

“There is a dramatic difference that we did not see before this treatment from anything else,” Abramovich-Biniachvili says.

Around 1 in 100 children in Israel are diagnosed with autism according to ALUT, the Israeli Society of Children and Adults with Autism, but the numbers are rising and there could be 50,000 Israeli citizens with the disorder within the next decade.

Hackers Publish 533 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers, Personal Data

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Hackers published the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users today, according to reports. The leak includes users’ full names, locations, phone numbers, and email addresses.

It does not appear that passwords have been leaked.

Via Business Insider:

A user in a low level hacking forum on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online.
The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.
Insider reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known Facebook users’ phone numbers with the IDs listed in the data set. We also verified records by testing email addresses from the data set in Facebook’s password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal a user’s phone number.

According to Insider, Facebook says that the security vulnerability that allowed hackers to scrape the data was fixed in 2019.

Battered by scandals and pressure from Democrats and the media over political controversies like the Cambridge Analytica incident, Facebook has put a greater emphasis on privacy in its public statements in recent years.

In 2019, CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised to shift the company’s products towards privacy-focused communications.

“I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content won’t stick around forever,” said Zuckerberg at the time. “This is the future I hope we will help bring about.”

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Rapper DMX on life Support After Heart Attack, Lawyer says

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(AP) DMX’s longtime New York-based lawyer, Murray Richman, said the rapper was on life support Saturday evening at White Plains Hospital.

“He had a heart attack. He’s quite ill,” Richman said.

Richman said he could not confirm reports that DMX, 50, overdosed on drugs and was not sure what caused the heart attack.

“I’m very sad about it, extremely sad. He’s like my son,” Richman said. “He’s just a tremendous person, tremendous entertainer, tremendous human being. And so much to offer, so much to say. Not the run-of-the-mill rapper. A person of great depth.”

On Saturday night, the TMZ.com website reported that it received a statement from a representative of DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, that said: “Last night Earl ‘DMX’ Simmons was rushed to the hospital after collapsing at home. At this time he remains in ICU in critical condition. Earl has been a warrior his entire life. This situation represents yet another road he must conquer.

“The Simmons Family appreciates the overwhelming outpouring of heartfelt love, encouragement, support and prayers for Earl. Earl is someone whose life and music have been a source of inspiration and strength to so many people around the world. It is reassuring to see his fans return that same passion and energy to him during his time of need.”

DMX made a splash in rap music in 1998 with his first studio album “It’s Dark and Hell is Hot,” which debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The multiplatinum selling album was anchored by several hits including “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem,” “Get At Me Dog” and “Stop Being Greedy.”

The rapper had four other chart-topping albums including “…And Then There Was X,” “Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood,” “The Great Depression” and “Grand Champ.” He has released seven albums and earned three Grammy nominations.

Along with his music career, DMX paved his way as an actor. He starred in the 1998 film “Belly” and appeared in “Romeo Must Die” a couple years later with Jet Li and the late singer Aaliyah. DMX and Aaliyah teamed up for the film’s soundtrack song “Come Back in One Piece.”

The rapper also starred in “Exit Wounds” with Steven Seagal and “Cradle 2 the Grave” with Li.

Over the years, DMX has battled with substance abuse. The rapper canceled a series of shows to check himself into a rehabilitation facility in 2019. In an Instagram post, his team said he apologized for the canceled shows and thanked his fans for the continued support.

Last year, DMX faced off against Snoop Dogg in a Verzuz battle, which drew more than 500,000 viewers.

Lawsuit Claims Epstein & Maxwell Raped, Trafficked & Threatened to Feed Woman to Alligators

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(TJVNEWS.COM) Testimony from a Turkish National known anonymously as Jane Doe sounds like something out of a horror movie. In the most shocking bit of news surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein/ Ghislaine Maxwell saga, an allegation which reveals on full display the wickedness and depravity of the perverted pair.

Miami Herald reported:

In early 2008, as financier Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers were waging what would become a successful campaign to get the Justice Department to drop its sex trafficking case against their client, Epstein and his purported madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, were allegedly raping a 26-year-old South Florida real estate broker who claims in a lawsuit filed last week that Epstein trafficked her to other men, including a local judge.

Ms Doe, a married Muslim woman from Turkey, said she met Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell at a barbecue hosted by her employer in late 2006 or early 2007. The employer is not named in the lawsuit, which states that Ms. Doe was told that Mr. Epstein wanted to buy or rent a property. Ms. Doe found a $10,000-a-month rental for him.

The suit says Mr. Epstein wanted to hire Ms. Doe and tried to convince her with lavish gifts and a promise of “highly-placed” work, The Miami Herald writes.

Ms. Doe, a trained hairdresser, allegedly went to his Palm Beach estate in January 2008 to cut his hair, but when she got there, she claims Mr Epstein was naked and proceeded to “brutally rape” her with Ms. Maxwell’s help.

The Miami Herald reported, “She attempted to leave, telling them she intended to report the rape. Maxwell, in response, claimed that she had already called the police. Two men who claimed to be police officers arrived at Epstein’s mansion and threatened to arrest Doe for prostitution, to take away her son and deport her, according to the suit.”

“After the alleged abuse, the pair reportedly drove the woman to pick up her 8-year-old son and stopped the car ‘at a large body of water that was infested with alligators,’ the lawsuit states.”

The filing adds: “Epstein then ushered the Plaintiff to the body of water and told her in explicit detail that, as had happened to other girls in the past, she would end up in this body of water and be devoured by the alligators, should she ever reveal what Epstein had done to her.”

Ms. Doe claims she was trafficked over the next five months under threats of deportation, murder, arrest for prostitution, or that her son would be taken from her, The New York Post reported.

After the alligator threat, the suit alleges that Ms. Doe was checked into a hotel in Naples, Florida where “over a period of several days, Epstein and Maxwell repeatedly raped and sexually abused the plaintiff, all in the presence of her son,” the Telegraph reported.

The lawsuit adds that she was forced to have vaginal reconstructive surgery. It was carried out “in a wealthy person’s home by a man with a Russian accent,’’ in order to “create the false impression that she was a virgin for a ‘high-profile’ client,” the lawsuit says. The filing states that she was left with permanent injuries.

The victim looked younger than 26 at the time and was told to men she was trafficked to, that she was only 17

 

 

Hunter Biden Admits He Smoked Parmesan Cheese After Mistaking It for Crack

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PAM KEY President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden admitted during a CBS News interview that he smoked Parmesan cheese after mistaking it for crack cocaine during the height of his addiction.

Reporter Tracy Smith said, “You wake up some mornings — I shouldn’t even say some mornings because you slept 15 minutes at a time and be looking for crack and to smoke whatever was there?”

Biden said: “I spent more time on my hands and knees picking through rugs smoking anything that resembled crack cocaine. I probably smoked more Parmesan cheese than anyone – than anyone you know, Tracy.”

Smith said, “Because there would will be crumbs mixed in?”

Biden said, “Yeah, I went one time for 13 days without sleeping, and smoking crack, and drinking vodka exclusively throughout that entire time.

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Biden Revokes Trump-imposed Sanctions Against ICC Prosecutor

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(JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday lifted the sanctions against International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that were imposed seven months ago by his predecessor, former U.S. President Donald Trump.

The move was also directed at Phakiso Mochochoko, head of the Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division of the ICC Prosecutor’s Office, said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a statement.

Biden had “revoked Executive Order 13928 on ‘Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated with the ICC,’ ending the threat and imposition of economic sanctions and visa restrictions in connection with the Court,” according to the statement, and the State Department had “also terminated the separate 2019 policy on visa restrictions on certain ICC personnel.”

The above decisions “reflect our assessment that the measures adopted [by the Trump administration] were inappropriate and ineffective,” stated Blinken.

He added that though the Biden administration continues “to disagree strongly with the ICC’s actions relating to the Afghanistan and Palestinian situations,” and maintain its “longstanding objection to the [ICC]’s efforts to assert jurisdiction over personnel of non-States Parties, such as the United States and Israel … we believe … that our concerns about these cases would be better addressed through engagement with all stakeholders in the ICC process, rather than through the imposition of sanctions.”

The Trump administration sanctioned Bensouda and Mochochoko on Sept. 2, 2020, for what former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the “illegitimate attempts” of the court—which he referred to as a “thoroughly broken and corrupt institution”—to subject Americans to its jurisdiction.

Bensouda announced early last month the ICC’s intention to open an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by Israelis and Palestinians since the summer of 2014.

The announcement was strongly denounced by Israel, which insists that the ICC has no jurisdiction in the matter. In addition, the fact that Bensouda set June 13, 2014 as the starting point for the investigation means that the court will not look into the kidnapping and murder the previous day of three Israeli teens—Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel—at the hands of Hamas terrorists.

The incident sparked “Operation Protective Edge,” Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, which took place from July 8 to Aug. 26 that year.

The Palestinian Authority, which requested the probe into “Israeli war crimes,” welcomed the ICC decision.

Agricultural terror: PA activists destroy Beit El tree orchard

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(INN/Arutz Sheva) Dozens of fruit trees were damaged near the city of Beit El in Binyamin, in an act of agricultural terrorism carried out by activists of the Palestinian Authority’s agricultural committee.

The vandalism apparently took place a few minutes after Shabbat began, after a provocation took place on Friday in which activists belonging to the PA’s agricultural committee, in addition to activists from other foreign-funded organizations as well as left-wing anarchist organizations, tried to plant trees on the hill near Beit El.

A resident who toured the site during Shabbat was horrified to discover that during the provocation, an entire orchard he had recently planted was completely destroyed, and his trees uprooted.

Yedidya Waserteil, a resident of the hill whose orchard was damaged, said in response to the incident: “The Palestinian Authority will use any means in its war against the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and even uses tools of violence and agricultural terrorism.”

“We do not intend to surrender, and we will continue to hold on to the land in spite of everything. The only Jewish answer today to the Arab takeover of the growing territories of Judea and Samaria is the establishment of new settlements,” he added.

 

YouTube Deleted 2.5 Million ‘Dislikes’ From Biden White House Videos, Data Indicates

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Peter Svab ( The Epoch Times)

YouTube has deleted about 2.5 million ‘dislikes’ from videos on the official White House channel of President Joe Biden, according to data collected and posted online by a researcher who wished to remain anonymous. YouTube recently announced that it’s testing a new page design that hides the dislike count.

 

The Google-owned video platform allows users to give videos either a thumb up (like) or thumb down (dislike). For at least two years, it’s had a policy to remove likes and dislikes it considers spam.

“We have policies and systems in place to ensure that the engagement on YouTube is authentic, and remove any fraudulent metrics,” a YouTube spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email, but when asked, wouldn’t go into details on what criteria it uses to make these calls.

The White House videos have seen these kinds of interventions on an ongoing basis, but it appears it’s only the dislikes that are disappearing.

The channel has posted more than 300 videos that have garnered nearly 3.7 million dislikes of which nearly 2.5 million were removed, according to data posted on the website 81m.org. The author of the website started to track the engagement on January 26 and has published all the data as well as the methodology used to collect it, but wouldn’t comment on his or her identity when asked via email.

YouTube is deleting close to 8,000 dislikes per video on average. Not a single like was removed, the data indicatesfeatured

Even after the interventions, the videos have nearly six times more dislikes than likes on average, the data shows. Without intervention, the ratio would be over 17 dislikes for every like.

Posts on social media indicate that some supporters of former President Donald Trump make a point of disliking the Biden White House videos. The videos often get thousands of dislikes shortly after popping online, only for a large portion of the dislikes being deleted later.

 

In some cases, batches of dislikes would be removed about once an hour, keeping the dislike count around the same number. In other cases, a large portion of dislikes would be chopped down at once, the data indicates.

The website 81m.org lists results of the same analysis for several other YouTube channels with large followings. None of them exhibited dislike removals of this magnitude.

Videos of PewDiePie, one of the most popular channels on the platform, do show some like and dislike removals, but never more than a few dozen per video, based on a review of the data for the past more than two dozen videos on the channel.

YouTube recently announced testing of a design that still includes the dislike button, but no longer shows the number of dislikes.

“This is a test for a small group of users and is a response to creator feedback that the visible count may impact their wellbeing,” a spokesperson said via email.

YouTube and its owner, Google, have long faced accusations of political bias. The companies have said their products are developed and run as politically neutral, but employee accounts and leaked internal materials indicate the companies are infusing their politics into their products.

According to research psychologist Robert Epstein, Google shifted millions of votes in the Nov. 3 election by skewing its search results and other tools, compared to competitors.

“Google search results were strongly biased in favor of liberals and Democrats. This was not true on Bing or Yahoo,” Epstein told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, referring to data from more than 700 voters who worked with him to monitor what results they were receiving from channels such as search results, reminders, search suggestions, and newsfeeds ahead of the election.

Google previously rejected Epstein’s research results.

Joe Biden might just have killed Major League Baseball

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By Andrea Widburg(American Thinker)

Georgia passed a law that greatly expands people’s opportunities to vote.  However, because it mandates voter ID for absentee ballot requests, Democrats, led by Joe Biden, have announced that the bill is the Second Coming of Jim Crow.  Joe went farther and sought to destroy parts of Georgia’s economy by calling for Major League Baseball to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia.  The MLB franchise heeded that call.

One of the highlights of the baseball season is the All-Star Game, which was set to be played on July 13 in Atlanta.  Since 1933, midway through the MLB season, fans pick their favorites from the American League and the National League, and then the chosen stars compete.  I’m not a baseball fan, but I’m willing to bet that, in terms of ad revenue and merchandise sales, it’s an important part of the business end of pro baseball.  And it certainly brings revenue to the city hosting it.

On Thursday, Biden made one of his little scripted appearances, this time on ESPN.  It’s worth noting that ESPN, which Disney owns, long ago transferred its allegiance from sports to leftism with a serving of sports on the side.  Trump, who was a fine athlete when he was young, was never allowed near ESPN.

Sage Steele, ESPN’s interviewer, told Biden:

“Tony Clark is the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. He said he would, quote, look forward to discussing moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta because Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed into law a bill passed by the Republican-led state legislature to overhaul how its state elections are run. So, Mr. President, what do you think about the possibility that baseball decides to move their All-Star Game out of Atlanta because of this political issue?”

At this point, the president who used the word “unity” eight times in his inauguration speech could have said something along the lines of, “You know, Sage, baseball is America’s pastime.  We invented the game, and it’s a sport everyone should be able to enjoy without politics intruding.”

That’s what Joe could have said.  That’s not what he did say.  Instead, he urged the MLB franchise to get the hell out of Georgia.  I’ve interlineated a few helpful comments:

I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. I would strongly support them doing that. People look to them. They’re leaders. Look at what’s happened with the NBA, as well. [Editor: Is he talking about disrespecting the flag or selling out to China?] Look what’s happened across the board. The very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these in these various sports and it’s just not right. [Editor: Is Joe stereotyping black men as good athletes?  Why, yes, I think he is.]
This is Jim Crow on steroids what they’re doing in in Georgia and 40 other states. [Editor: Again, Georgia is expanding opportunities to vote.  What really agitates Biden, et al., is a request that voters provide some ID for absentee ballots.  Nobody’s getting hanged from a tree or having a cross burned on his lawn.]
What it’s all about[.] … Imagine passing the law saying you cannot provide water or food for someone standing in line to vote. [Editor: This is a lie.  Politically aligned groups or people cannot use food or drinks as bribes for people waiting in line.  It’s standard election law.] You can’t do that. Come on!
Or you’re gonna close a polling place at five o’clock when working people just get off. [Editor: This is such a blatant lie that the day before Biden appeared on ESPN, the Washington Post was forced to give it “Four Pinocchios.”  The law actually maintains voting hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and also expanded early voting.]
This is all about keeping working folks and ordinary folks that I grew up with from being able to vote.

Here’s the video, if you care to watch:

 

Thanks in part to Biden’s toxic combination of lies and encouragement, the MLB franchise decided on Friday to dump Georgia as the venue for the All-Star Game:

This is yet another example of corporations wielding their vast power to move the political needle left.  (You can watch Tucker Carlson excoriate both Biden’s lies and this corporate that practice here.)  The only way that it’s going to stop is if people hit these corporations in their bottom line.  Stop watching Major League Baseball and stop buying the merchandise that annually sends billions of dollars to the MLB franchises.  As long as there are no consequences from them using their market clout and goodwill to manipulate politics, they’ll keep doing it.

Remember, there are only 30 baseball teams, but there are around 80 million Trump voters.  We can make the franchise hurt for its decision to weaponize America’s game against the integrity of America’s elections.  Trump sounded the same note on Friday, urging his supporters to boycott all the woke corporations that are pushing leftist political agendas.

Suspect In Killing Of Capitol Police Officer Was A Nation Of Islam Supporter

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Sholom Schreirber
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Chuck Ross (Daily Caller)

The 25-year-old man who allegedly killed a Capitol police officer on Friday was a supporter of the Nation of Islam, the extremist group led by Louis Farrakhan, according to NBC News.

Noah Green was fatally shot after ramming his vehicle through a checkpoint at the Capitol, the network reported. He hit two officers, killing one, 18-year Capitol police veteran William “Billy” Evans.

Green was shot after exiting his vehicle with a knife and lunging at officers, a spokesperson for Metropolitan police said at a press conference.

NBC News first reported that Green, an Indiana native, was a supporter of the Nation of Islam. The network cited federal law enforcement officials familiar with the attack.

Green’s Facebook page, which was taken offline after the Capitol attack, showed multiple posts about the Nation of Islam and Farrakhan. In a post on March 17, Green, who described himself as a “Follower of Farrakhan,” said that he has faced personal struggles in recent years and also recently lost his job. (RELATED: Farrakhan Calls The Coronavirus Vaccine A ‘Vial Of Death’)

He also said that he hoped one day to meet the Nation of Islam leader.

“To be honest these past few years have been tough, and these past few months have been tougher,” Green wrote in the post.

“I am currently now unemployed after I left my job partly due to afflictions, but ultimately, in search of a spiritual journey.”

Of Farrakhan, Green wrote that he “has done miraculous work not just with me, but with the lives of millions.”

“A major goal of mine is to meet this man who has been instrumental on my awakening and life’s work. I am unsure if I’ll ever be afforded that opportunity, but I wanted to write this note for two purposes: to give everyone an update, and in hopes that the note may somehow reach the Minister.”

Green also posted a certificate from the Nation of Islam affiliate in Norfolk, Va. which referred to him as Noah X.

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