Rabbis plan to boycott Trump speech to pro-Israel group

Love Trump or hate him in this instance it makes no difference. 

Now... not back when..these rabbis are going to take a stand, but sat on their ass watching Barry systemically set up Isreal for the slaughter house.

 Don't believe me? 

Ask this guy if he rather have Barry president or Trump.

 This kills me.

 "We are against the ugliness that has engulfed this election season. And he has driven much of it, from his comments about Mexicans and Muslims to the violence at his rallies."

 They're worried about viloence towards Muslims? These f-ing rabbis better wake up! Because Muslims sure as hell ain't worried about killing Jews. It's their national pastime.

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NEW YORK – Dozens of rabbis are planning to boycott a scheduled speech by Donald Trump to the nation's largest pro-Israeli lobbying group to protest what they feel is divisive rhetoric by the Republican presidential front-runner.

The rabbis plan to hand out fliers requesting that hundreds of attendees at the annual gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington either skip Trump's speech on Monday or stand up as Trump starts speaking and silently walk out.

"He embodies 'Sinat chinam' — senseless hatred," said Rabbi David Paskin of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, one of the protest's organizers. "We are against the ugliness that has engulfed this election season. And he has driven much of it, from his comments about Mexicans and Muslims to the violence at his rallies."

Trump, who holds a significant delegate lead in the quest for the Republican presidential nomination, has left some Jewish leaders uneasy with what they feel is a lack of understanding about the Middle East, his pledge to stay neutral during peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, and his inflammatory speech that evokes totalitarian regimes.

One of the former leaders of the liberal Reform movement, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, believes the walkout will signify that "American Jews are beginning to wake up. And they are getting ready to take on Donald Trump."

"The delegates to the AIPAC conference are there to cheer on Israel," Yoffie wrote this week in Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper. "But not this year. American Jews, looking around in stunned disbelief, are concluding that ... enough is enough."

Trump has frequently touted his warm feelings toward Israel, noting that his daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism when she married into a prominent Orthodox family, and that he had been the grand marshal of a pro-Israel parade in New York City in 2004.

"He has been a major supporter of the Jewish community in New York and beyond. He has received numerous awards, participated in many events and made significant contributions to a variety of Jewish-related causes over the years," said Hope Hicks, Trump's campaign spokeswoman. "Mr. Trump has said, as president, there will be no one stronger on Israeli-American relations than him, and his consistent support and advocacy for Israel over many years is proof of this."

He has said that remaining "neutral" in the peace talks could help him negotiate a better deal, a stance that has upset many Zionists. He also drew some criticism when during a December appearance before the Republican Jewish Coalition, he said he was best positioned to get a Middle East peace deal because he's a negotiator, "like you folks." Many involved with the RJC said that formulating a response to Trump will dominate the group's annual convention in Las Vegas next month.

An AIPAC official declined to comment about the impending protest but noted that the group invites all active Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to address the conference. Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and John Kasich have also confirmed their attendance.

Trump is poised to speak at the cavernous Verizon Center, with as many as 18,000 convention-goers in attendance, potentially creating a dramatic spectacle if there is a mass walkout. But organizers of the protest — organized online and, so far, largely drawing from the Reform and Conservative movements of Judaism, whose followers tend to lean left politically —say their goal is not to elicit an angry reaction from Trump.

"There's been plenty of times, he seems to enjoy when protesters interrupt his speech," said Rabbi Jesse Olitzky of South Orange, New Jersey. "That's not our goal. We simply won't be complacent."

Rabbis plan to boycott Trump speech to pro-Israel group

Wonder if this is your typical ISIS fighter?

They can't be this stupid! 

Guess he thought he was going to hang out at the Mosul Mall.

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Captured American ISIS fighter says, 'I was not thinking straight'

A Virginia man who joined ISIS and surrendered to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters earlier this week has expressed regret for entering the terror group's self-proclaimed caliphate, saying he "made a bad decision" and "was not thinking straight."

In an interview broadcast on the Kurdistan 24 news station, Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, said he had made his way to the ISIS-held city of Mosul, Iraq with an unidentified woman whom he had met in Turkey while traveling. 

"We spent some time together, and she said that she is from Mosul, Iraq," Khweis said. He added the pair traveled from Istanbul to Mosul by bus and private vehicle, arriving on Jan. 16.

"On the way there I regretted [my decision], and I wanted to go back home after things didn’t work out and saw myself living in such an environment," Khweis said. 

It was not immediately possible to establish the woman's identity, whether she was a member of ISIS, her ultimate fate or whether she even existed. U.S. officials told The Daily Beast this week that the terror group has established a network of women responsible for recruiting new fighters. 

Khweis said he was only able to stay in Mosul for a month before he had enough. "It is not like Western countries. It is very strict and no smoking there," he said, adding that most of the foreign fighters he saw were from countries in central and southern Asia.

"I found it very, very hard to live there," Khweis said. "I found someone who could take me back to Turkey. First he told me that he will take me, but then he said it will be difficult to take me all the way to Turkey. [Later] he told me he will take me near Turkey’s border."

Khweis ultimately surrendered to Kurdish Peshmerga forces near the town of Sinjar, which was retaken by Iraqi forces from ISIS late last year.

Khweis said he had arrived in Turkey after traveling through Europe, stopping in London and Amsterdam along the way. He also elaborated on his background, saying that his parents had moved to the U.S. from the Palestinian territories before he was born.

Khweis said he attended mosque in America, but did not do so frequently. Apart from his encounter with the Iraqi woman, he did not offer any other reason for why he joined ISIS.

When asked by his interviewer if he had a message for the American people, Khweis said, "Life in Mosul is really very bad. The people who control Mosul don’t represent a religion. Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ISIS] does not represent a religion. I don’t see them as good Muslims."

Wonder if this is your typical ISIS fighter?

Hillary Clinton cash take over $21 million

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

What could the bitch possibly say which would warrant this kind of money!!!

Better yet... you have to question the mental stability of the corporations paying these huge amounts for like a 30 minute speech.

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Hillary Clinton cash take over $21 million

Harvard Law drops controversial seal

They want to rewrite history because it doesn't suit them. It won't be long until they demand the removal of these two from Mount Rushmore because they once owned slaves.

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Say goodbye to Harvard Law’s seal, which has been under protest thanks to it being derived from a slave-owning family, according to The Harvard Crimson. 

The school’s highest governing body, The Harvard Corporation, agreed on Monday that Harvard Law School could drop the shield; the decision came less than a week after a Harvard law committee released a report recommending it be abandoned.

As previously reported by USA TODAY, the current shield is drawn from the family crest of Isaac Royall, Jr., “whose bequest to the College in 1781 was used to create the first endowed professorship of law in the College in 1815. Royall derived his wealth from the labor of enslaved persons on a plantation he owned on the island of Antigua and on farms he owned in Massachusetts.”

(Don't you like the irony in this? These idiots would not even be attending Havard if Isaac Royall Jr. did not establish it.)

Harvard President Drew Faust and Corporation Senior Fellow William F. Lee approved of the recommendation in a letter penned to the committee, according to The Harvard Crimson.

“Following a review of the committee report, the ‘different view’ conveyed by Professor Gordon-Reed and Ms. Rittgers, and your own memorandum, the Corporation agrees with your judgment and the recommendation of the committee that the Law School should have the opportunity to retire its existing shield and propose a new one.”

Harvard Law drops controversial seal

Kerry determines ISIS committing genocide in Iraq, Syria

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, according to US officials, as he acted to meet a congressional deadline.

But Kerry’s finding, set to be announced Thursday, will not obligate the United States to take additional action against ISIS militants and does not prejudge any prosecution against its members, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly preview Kerry’s decision.

A day after the State Department said Kerry would miss the March 17 deadline, the officials said Kerry had completed his review and determined that Christians, Yazidis and Shiite groups are victims of genocide. The US House of Representatives this week passed a nonbinding resolution by a 393-0 vote condemning IS atrocities as genocide.

Lawmakers and others who have advocated for the finding had sharply criticized the department’s disclosure Wednesday that deadline would be missed. The officials said Kerry concluded his review just hours after that announcement and that the criticism had not affected his decision.

The determination marks only the second time a US administration has declared that a genocide was being committed during an ongoing conflict.

The first was in 2004, when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell determined that atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region constituted genocide. Powell reached that determination amid much lobbying from human rights groups, but only after State Department lawyers advised him that it would not — contrary to legal advice offered to previous administrations — obligate the United States to act to stop it.

In that case, the lawyers decided that the 1948 UN Convention against genocide did not require countries to prevent genocide from taking place outside their territory. Powell instead called for the UN Security Council to appoint a commission to investigate and take appropriate legal action if it agreed with the genocide determination.

The officials said Kerry’s determination followed a similar finding by department lawyers.

Although the United States is involved in military strikes against ISIS and has helped prevent some incidents of ethnic cleansing, notably of Yazidis, some advocates argue that a genocide determination would require additional US action.

In making his decision, Kerry weighed whether the militants’s targeting of Christians and other minorities meets the definition of genocide, according to the UN Convention: “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.”

His determination, however, does not carry the legal implication of a verdict of guilt or conviction on genocide charges, the officials said. Such decisions will be left to international or other tribunals.

In a bid to push the review process, several groups released reports last week documenting what they said is clear evidence that the legal standard has been met.

The Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians, which had applauded Monday’s House resolution, said they hoped the delay would ensure that Kerry makes the determination.

“There is only one legal term for this, and that is genocide,” said Knights of Columbus chief Carl Anderson.

The groups’ 280-page report identified by name more than 1,100 Christians who they said had been killed by IS. It detailed numerous instances of people kidnapped, raped, sold into slavery and driven from their homes, along with the destruction of churches.

Kerry determines ISIS committing genocide in Iraq, Syria