Hilly Clinton presenting a journalism award is something like Scott Walker presenting the prize for the best AFSCME chapter. But neither she nor her hosts seemed the slightest bit embarrassed. They should have been. Having a Democratic frontrunner who is currently embroiled in a scandal involving her unprecedented efforts to conceal her activities as a cabinet official handing out the hardware and taking no questions should have been impossibly awkward. Instead, it provides a good indication of the level of scrutiny to which Clinton can expect to be subject in her campaign. She joked (or was it taunted?), “‘I am all about new beginnings: a new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account.” Haw, haw. There are nearly unending questions, many of them fresh, about Clinton’s private server and her destruction of tens of thousands of emails from her time as secretary of state. Clinton is taking the final steps before the public launch of her second presidential campaign in the midst of stonewalling the press, but no one seemed to mind.
[AP: “[President nObama] and [Hilly Clinton] met privately at the White House Monday afternoon…Moments after the White House confirmed the meeting, Clinton posted a message on Twitter praising nObama's health care law…”] -Fox News
Beat-sweeteners unite – Clinton talked about problems with her “relationship” with the news media, as if it were simply a misunderstanding or a matter of overcoming past mistrust. In the establishment media narrative, the question is whether the presumptive nominee will just “let her guard down” and let the people and the press see the “real her.” That’s just a bidding war among beat-sweetening reporters who are auditioning for access, implicitly promising to offer the perfect depiction of a strong-yet-nurturing-yet-funny-yet-thoughtful-yet-open-minded-yet-experienced candidate. It has nothing to do with the questions Clinton prefers to leave unanswered about her electronic antics or her buckraking from questionable sources around the globe. Nor does it address what she plans to do about the growing pressure for her to hand over her servers to a third party for review. -Fox News
"They tell you: Sacrifice yourself with us, you will defend a just cause." The French government's anti-jihadist website, called "Stop Djihadisme," features videos debunking jihadist recruitment propaganda.
(Bob Unruh) - A federal judge who halted President nObama’s executive action implementing amnesty for up to 5 million illegal aliens now is being asked by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to sanction the administration for lying in court...The nObama Justice Department has “lied intentionally to two courts which have addressed the president’s unconstitutional and illegal executive actions,” claims a motion on behalf of Arpaio submitted to the federal court in Brownsville, Texas. Judge Andrew Hanen has issued a temporary injunction stopping Obama’s amnesty program, determining it is unconstitutional because he didn’t follow the Administrative Procedures Act. http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/immigration-judge-pushed-to-sanction-obamas-lawyers.
The Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, co-chaired by four Republicans and four Democrats, was created to help Congress fight global anti-Semitism around the world and to promote tolerance and remembrance of the Holocaust. The task force will educate congressional members on the “distinct form of intolerance” that is anti-Semitism and will work with foreign leaders, civil society groups and the executive branch to share ways to reduce acts of hate and anti-Semitism worldwide.
“We look forward to working with our colleagues in Congress to find innovative solutions that match the 21st century face of this age-old bigotry,” U.S. Representatives Chris Smith, Nita Lowey, Eliot Engel, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Kay Granger, Steve Israel, Peter Roskam and Ted Deutch said in a joint statement.
Testifying in front of Congress on Tuesday, Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, noted a “strange confluence of hatred” across Europe that includes radical Muslims, far-right and neo-Nazi political groups like Jobbik in Hungary and Golden Dawn in Greece, and an elite, educated class of people “with a pathological hatred of Israel,” all of which, along with years of economic downturn, has caused a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe.
“For the first few decades following World War II, we mistakenly believed that anti-Semitism—the age-old hatred of Jews—had finally disappeared from Europe and everywhere else,” said Lauder. “I now tell you with the greatest sadness that, 70 years later, the age-old virus of anti-Semitism has returned in all its evil and ugliness. Anti-Semitism has returned to streets of Paris and Toulouse, to the streets of Brussels and Copenhagen. It has even returned to Berlin.”
France, which with 500,000 Jews has the world’s third largest Jewish population, behind Israel and the U.S., has seen a particularly sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks over the past year and has increased security at Jewish schools following the Charlie Hebdo attack. A February report for Le Parisien newspaper and the French TV program CQFD found 68 percent of French people believe anti-Semitism is on the rise. Seventy-seven percent believed Islamophobia is increasing.
Jews in France experienced twice as many anti-Semitic attacks in 2014 compared with 2013, according to a report released in January by the country’s Jewish Community Security Service.Jews in Denmark also faced threats and attacks last year. According to Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, president of the Danish Jewish Community, who testified before Congress on Tuesday, fewer Danish Jews are wearing yarmulkes, and “they wouldn’t dare” for fear of being physically attacked in certain areas of Copenhagen, he said.
On February 15, Dan Uzan, a volunteer security guard, was shot dead outside the main Copenhagen synagogue, hours after a shooting at a debate on freedom of speech and Islam at a cultural center in the city.
“The terror attack against the Jewish community in Denmark did not occur in a vacuum. It did not happen in Copenhagen just by chance. It was the culmination of years of growing anti-Semitism,” said Asmussen. “It happened in a country where it has become widely acceptable to criticize and question both Israel and Jews with a carelessness that we did not expect or imagine just a few years ago."
Representative Curt Clawson, R-Florida, who noted his own Danish ancestry, asked what the world could do next, especially if the solution to global anti-Semitism cannot be found within the Muslim community.
“What we see in Denmark is the same all over. The Muslim community tends to be very fractured,” said Asmussen. He cited the “ring of peace” that saw Muslims form a human shield around a Copenhagen synagogue earlier this month, which mirrored a similar initiative around an Oslo synagogue in February. But not many Muslims take part in such displays of solidarity, said Asmussen.Lauder, Asmussen and Roger Cukierman, president of the Council of Jewish Institutions of France, who also testified, all agreed that not every country takes the anti-Semitism threat seriously, and that the U.S. needs to do more to step up the pressure and fight it.
Both Lauder and Cukierman said the Internet can be a tool and a platform to disseminate hatred and ill-feeling toward Jews. “On the Internet, ways were found to ban child pornography. Likewise, anti-Semitism must be banned,” said Cukierman. “The providers of Internet must understand that they bear a responsibility when murders are committed by youngsters who became jihadists through the Internet.”
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0315/congressional_task_force_worldwide_anti-Semitism.php3
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