Thursday, January 10, 2019

Fwd: Honenu reports: R. Eliyahu wrote letter to GSS Head



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Thursday, January 10, 2019, 13:24 The following is a translation of an open letter sent from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, to Nadav Argaman, the Head of the GSS. The letter was posted on the Facebook page managed by the Office of Rabbi Eliyahu.
Yeshivat Pri HaAretz is the education institution in Rechalim that has been repeatedly harassed by the GSS recently and illegally raided on January 9.
To Nadav Argaman, Head of the GSS
As was expected, most of the detained youths from Yeshivat Pri HaAretz were released to their homes without any charges against them. It has become clear that every detention made by the Jewish Department was false. It has become clear that they interrogated them with their hands bound for 12 straight hours as if they were ticking time bombs [dangerous terrorists]. It has become clear that you reviled them as if they were known murderers. It has become clear that all of the shaming by the GSS spokespeople in the media and the public about the yeshiva was for nothing. Who will pay the price for this terrible injustice?
You told the heads of yeshiva and the leadership of the communities in Yehuda and Shomron that you want cooperation with them for the good of the State, to stop Jewish terror, to prevent terror attacks. I will advise all of my colleagues, rabbis and public figures not to meet with the heads of the Jewish Department of the GSS until all of you apologize and publicly ask for forgiveness from the entire staff and student body of Yeshivat Rechalim.
Head of the GSS, Sir, we all value the operations which the GSS carries out in order to prevent terror. The Jewish Department under your command damages the reputation of the entire organization which you head. The personnel of this department have forgotten that their job is to investigate the truth, not to frame the innocent. And certainly not to slander an entire yeshiva by accusing it of being anti-Zionist. Someone there needs to know that publicizing the flag-burning video clip and the [Israeli flag with a] swastika by the GSS created a deep rift as far as we are concerned.
Your spokespeople depicted a yeshiva that burns Israeli flags and treats them with contempt. There is no-one like you who knows that all of that is a big, intentional lie. You knowingly sullied an entire yeshiva in the Shomron as if you were part of "B'Tselem" or "Breaking the Silence" and if that is your conduct, the advice I will give is to not associate with you from now on.
You should know that there is a price to this loss of trust. Recently someone came to me and told me that he received an offer from the Jewish Department to assist in preventing terror attacks and Jewish terror. I told him that we oppose attacks, but that it is inadvisable for him to work in the Jewish Department that describes all Jewish graffiti as if it were a hate crime and turns every stone thrown by a Jew into attempted murder.
Head of the GSS, Sir, this should not be the relationship between the public and the GSS. You must bang on the table after their series of failures and call to order the head of the Jewish Department. In my opinion, the department should be closed or at least the department heads should be fired. You have the responsibility to focus the goals of the department and to not allow them to return to the days of Avishai Raviv. You must not lose the public trust. You must rectify what you have damaged.

 

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Wednesday, January 09, 2019

J'Accuse Duma 2 in Arutz Sheva. Fool Me Once Shame On You Fool Me Twice Shame on Me. On 'Jewish Terror'

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Updated Jan. 10th, 2019

To their credit Arutz7 posted 2 newsworthy articles today that accurately depict the horrendous  denial of due process to  minors. These minors are either Settler Youth or sympathetic to Settler Youth.

This is the story.  Settler youth from a Yeshiva were arrested purely based on heresay with no credible evidence and other youth came to protest their arrest. The protesters were denied basic human rights to protest got beaten and arrested and forced to endure worse conditions detained then even a convicted hardened criminal endures in jail.


Police brutality against protesters of torture
'Girl forced to soil pants, boy beaten. They remained in police station all night,' says attorney.
Mordechai Sones, 10/01/19
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/257428#replies

Here is another report in Arutz7 on further denial of due process for the minors being held under archaic and immoral administrative detention laws.

It's increasingly obvious that Administrative detention laws are in place  to suppress political dissent not to find criminals. Child human rights activists where are you????

Why can't Shabak come up with some credible evidence other than forced confessions?   What gives Shabak or the Israeli Judicial System the right to pick on random Settler kids,  with nothing on them other that  they are Jewish Settler Youth, demonize them by labeling them 'Jewish terrorists' to justify this supposed criminal investigation? Any normal kid would feel betrayed by such a government that sanctioned such abuse.

Lawyers of 'Jewish terror' suspects walk out of court in protest
After court bars underage suspects from attending appeal hearing, attorneys walk out of court in protest.
Arutz Sheva Staff, 09/01/19
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/257387#replies

Thank you Arutz7 for reporting on these kids behalf. Hopefully it will generate an outrage that will end the 'legal' police and judicial abuse.

Dear Arutz7, 

Surely Israel National News can do better! Please start putting the Settlers  and the Settler Youth in a more Positive Light by telling a fair 2 sided story.   I am sending you some helpful links. 

re:

Round 2  Blood libels against Jews by none other than the likes of
Yaakov Amidror former Israeli National Security Advisor Maj. Gen. (Res.)

'Jewish terror more dangerous than Arab terror'
'Attacks by Jewish youths on Arabs undermines Israel's legitimacy,' says National Security Advisor Yaakov Amidror.  Arutz Sheva Staff, 09/01/19 
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/257386

Yaakov Amidror, When it comes to finding, Jewish Terrorists perhaps it's a projection of yourself you are seeing...

Friday, March 23, 2018
J'Accuse. Will the Land continue to be Silent? by Ruti Itzkowitz with Translation. Kol Yehudi On the Slander of the Hilltop Youth

Rav Shlomo Aviner J'Accuse protesting the slow murder of Elisha Odess by the hands of Shabak

Thursday, March 29, 2018
This Passover Reflect How Did Israelites End up in Egypt? They Threw Joseph in the Pit. Think of Elisha Odess This Seder Night!

Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Campaign to Divide and Conquer Yesha. Duma Suspects get Guilty Verdict! Condemned in the Media. Verdict is decided before the Trial has begun...

Lobbying For An End To Israel's Jewish Terrorist Law. Author: Anonymous 45 pages PDF
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjRnRKOUtvc3VqQmhJOUFQN0NfMnRaeFhjZmZN/view?usp=sharing







Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Fwd:Mike Huckabee newsletter January 8, 2019 Today's Commentary --- How should the President get funds to build the wall? -- Another way to fund the border wall, Chuck Norris-approved! -- True priorities -- Woods destroys their shaky tower -- Ainsworth: The twisted philosophy of "social justice" -- "Net neutrality" one year later -- Fake campaigns --"Tippy-top"--- Evening Edition --



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If the Democratic Congress refuses to appropriate money for border security that includes a wall, what can Trump do? Alternatives would seem to fall into two areas: 1) declare a national emergency and use the defense budget, and 2) find another source of funding such as confiscated drug money, online donations, etc. Let's look at 1) right now, with a follow-up tomorrow on 2).

There would definitely be a court challenge, because everything Trump tries to do is met with one. Matt Naham at the Law & Crime website has examined the "national emergency" argument after Trump asserted that he has the power to bypass Congress by declaring a national emergency and building a physical barrier along the border. He quotes a constitutional law expert, University of Texas Law Prof. Steve Vladeck, who said there's precedent from one 1950s Supreme Court decision that will cause such an attempt to fail.

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Another way to fund the border wall, Chuck Norris-approved!

By Mike Huckabee

We talked yesterday about the possibility of President Trump going around Congress to get the money for a border wall by declaring a national emergency and using Defense Department funds to build it.  According to experts, he's on solid legal ground if he uses construction funds that haven't already been allocated, though we don't know if there's enough non-appropriated money to pay for the entire project.  And he could certainly make the case –- with drug and crime stats alone –- that this is indeed a national emergency, as I expect him to do in his address to the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday evening, the first such address of his presidency.

I like to think he read my newsletter and took my advice to give the address

READ MORE HERE>>>

 

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True priorities

By Mike Huckabee

House Democrats are fast revealing their true priorities, and another one is a bill to require universal background checks for all gun purchases, even those between private individuals.  Regardless of what you think of the wisdom or effectiveness of that, it would be a major government expansion into the private exercise of a fundamental right, akin to requiring a government permit to self-publish a book.  

The bill will probably never make it past the GOP Senate and would likely be struck down as unconstitutional if it did, although with today's judges, it's best not to tempt fate in that regard.  But even though it may be a pointless, doomed and unconstitutional waste of time, it signals liberal virtues, so expect it to pass the House by a solid margin.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/house-dems-prepare-law-will-devastate-private-gun-sales/

 

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Woods destroys their shaky tower

By Mike Huckabee

Warning: This post refers to the sort of language that would get most children's mouths washed out with soap by their mothers, but a certain new Democratic member of Congress not only uses it against the President in front of crowds, but brags about saying it in front of her young son, too.  And the Washington Post tried to defend it.  But James Woods destroyed their entire shaky tower of rationalization with just one deadly tweet.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/james-woods-expertly-uses-washington-posts-anti-trump-tweet/

There are a few things not mentioned in the story about the left's attempt to justify this very public profanity aimed at Trump by saying it's not as bad as him calling some nations "s***hole countries."  First of all, unlike her profanity in front of children and crowds, that quote from Trump came from a closed-door meeting that I assume was attended exclusively by adults.  Also, it's never been established that he actually said it: the claim that he did came from a Democrat with a history of quoting controversial remarks from closed meetings that other attendees denied were ever said, and some at that meeting claim they never heard Trump say it.

Finally, it's worth noting the phony outrage on the left that greeted the quote from Trump.  As this story shows, they hardly have such delicate ears that a profanity will send them to the fainting couches, as long as it comes from someone they support and is aimed at a political opponent.  Further, their outrage allegedly stemmed from how horrified they were that Trump would suggest that the nations illegal immigrants were fleeing were in any way inferior to our own.  In their eyes, America is responsible for all the evils in the world, and all other cultures are not merely equal to Western culture, but superior to our racist, sexist, colonialist, oppressive ways.  

And yet, when Trump tries to use border security or deportation to return them to their wonderful nations of origin, the same critics assail him for having no compassion because he wants to send them back to places where they may die from all the violence, crime, drugs, disease, starvation, oppression…

Gee, sounds pretty awful!  What word do you think leftists who wholeheartedly defend profanity would use for a place like that?

 

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Ainsworth: The twisted philosophy of "social justice"

By Laura Ainsworth

Have you been perplexed and frustrated to no end by Social Justice Warriors who profess to be fighting racism and sexism while seeming to be the most racist and sexist of all?  The ones who insist they hear "dog whistles" to which we're not attuned but who don't hear the sirens they themselves are emitting?  The ones who point fingers but who simply need to look in the closest mirror to see someone obsessed with race, all the while saying it's impossible for them to be racist?  Let me tell you, I'm sick of it, too.

SJWs have redefined racism and sexism so that, under their definition, they can't possibly be accused of it.  This view doesn't make sense at all, except to someone whose brain has been marinating in a concept called intersectionality, which is all over college campuses now but has apparently been around for decades in sociology and gender studies departments.  The only way SJWs could get well-intentioned people to move towards policies that you or I would call racist or sexist was to redefine the terms.  And if you don't get it, you're just proving their point by illustrating how clueless you, as a privileged person, are.

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"Net neutrality" one year later

By Mike Huckabee

We recently passed the one-year anniversary of the FCC repealing the Obama-era policy of "net neutrality," which set off a firestorm on the left.  It was claimed that without government regulation, the Internet as we knew it was over.  Consumers would get the shaft as traffic was slowed, blocked and shifted to the highest bidder.  There were protests, lawsuits, and vows that it would be a major Democratic campaign issue.  The FCC chairman even had to cancel a public appearance due to death threats (leftists now send death threats as often as Bed, Bath and Beyond sends out discount coupons.)

So it's one year later, and what's happened?  Well, the Internet is still here.  There was hardly a mention of net neutrality during the election.  Average internet speeds are up by a third since last year, 23% more homes have access to fiber net, and 5G Internet is promising speeds up to 100 times faster.  The private sector is working fine, and none of the hysterical horror stories came true. 

As IBD notes at the link, there is a threat to the free and open Internet, but it isn't from ISPs or Republicans on the FCC or lack of federal regulation.  The threats are from big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, and they're all run by self-proclaimed liberals.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/net-neutrality-ajit-pai-internet/

 

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Fake news

By Mike Huckabee

You heard about the Democratic false-flag misinformation campaign meant to make it look like Russians backed losing Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore?  Well, it appears there was another one, designed to make it falsely appear that he backed Prohibition of alcohol sales. 

Why do Democrats think they have to pay to create fake social media campaigns to slander Republicans as Russian agents and misrepresent their views?  Isn't that what the real news media is for?

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/379050.php

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"Tippy-top"

By Mike Huckabee

For those who saw Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on "Sixty Minutes" pushing for a return to 70% tax rates on the "tippy-top" earners (apparently, that's a math term now used in college economics classes), here's a handy primer on how tax codes really work and why punishing tax rates result in less revenue to the government, which Democrats like JFK used to understand.

https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/01/07/raising-the-tax-rate-versus-raising-the-effective-tax-rate/

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Fwd: Daniel Greenfield's article: Who's Behind the War on Orthodox Jewish Schools?

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Lichvod Rabbanim and Askanim, Shlita

Anti Semites are targeting Jews in New York.

How to fight back?

Will anyone listen to reason?

Sometimes it seems that all logic goes out the window and nobody hears a word.

This is a Gezeira coming from Above.

Let us compare this with the dispute between Yosef Hatzadik and his brothers.

The Settlers of the Shomron live close to the Kever of Yosef Hatzadik in Shchem.

They too were thrown into jail and abandoned and bad mouthed by their brothers. Their brothers in return were accused of stealing the goblet as a test to see if they would once again abandon their brother.

We are now being tested. Will we allow our brethren to be incarcerated in the dungeons of Shabak?

Let us defend the Settlers and their kids in Judea and Samaria from those who are demonizing them falsely accusing them of being terrorists.

Divide and conquer is their modus operandi. All they want is to find just one Jewish Terrorist.  The Jewish Duma blood libel against suspects Amiram ben Uliel and Elisha Odess worked for 3 years. Even now many are convinced they are deadly Jewish TERRORISTS no different than Hamas. (Listen to Kol beRamah Israel radio interview of Bentzi Gopshtein January 7, 2019 around 7:30pm Israeli time 12:30pm EST.) The Israeli Chareidi interviewer took it as a given taking for granted that there are Jewish Terrorists. Nobody even contradicted him to set him straight. Now all the listeners are convinced that there are Jewish Terrorists!

Wait, the Duma trial has came up empty handed of evidence. The Confessions of Elisha Odess disqualified. . 

Shabak and the Jewish Division of Terror  needs to find a new Jewish Korban for their blood libel.

Yeshiva Pri HaAretz here we come!

Surely Hashem will IYH have Rachmanus on us and our kids in New York  if we unite and say enough persecution of pure Yiddishe Neshomas in Judea and Samaria.

Collectively, in 2015, we tolerated the roundup, administrative detention, and brutal interrogations of tens of youth, Jewish suspects in the Duma arson. Finally Shabak nailed  2 Hilltop Youth to suffer 3 years, often in solitary, and denied the right to be with other religious inmates. This was before ever being convicted!  

Hey! Don't people go to jail after being  convicted?

This crime is a stain on our collective conscience.  Their good name was smeared, they were unjustly accused and incarcerated with no credible evidence!

This must be rectified!

Rabbanei Yesha were collectively silent. Many even condemned acts of Jewish Terror when there was no credible evidence nor conviction  of Jewish Terror to speak of.. Just the say so of the Politicians and the Knesset Members and media and "excellent" reputation of Shabak that said so. 

The silence of the Rabbanim ended recently when their own boys in Yeshiva Pri HaAretz  in Rachelim were now targeted. The entire Yeshiva is called radical and is being smeared as a Yeshiva that supports Jewish terror.  These targeted victims of Shabaks interrogations transitioned from Hilltop Youth,  to a more typical Yeshiva. ...Albeit to a "radical" Yeshiva, according to the expert Maggid of TOI (Times of Israel).

How much longer will it take for this "radical" Yeshiva to transition to Yeshiva of Flatbush? YAFFED does such transitions seamlessly.

In Duma all the evidence they had on them  was graffiti and forced confessions during or following torture.  A ridiculous Trumped up story that sounded implausible. What Jewish idiot on his own or even with others would venture deep into an Arab Village, set fire to a house, realize nobody was killed, go to another house to set fire and find time to scribble graffitti Yechi Hamelech and Nekama and successfully escape the village with no camera or eye witness as the fire was burning. Is this realistic? 

Forget about common sense. Rabbanim, Is this Halachically credible evidence?

Amiram ben Uliel, the Breslov Chosid he's the guy!!!!  He's probably schizo cause he couldn't figure out if he was Chabad  or Kach! He should have scribbled Na, Nach, Nachman after all if he was Breslev....but what a Macho guy he was to have come up with this ingenious plan!  Problem is... he's not the Macho type...more the Breslev type...you know Hisboddidus etc. 

Now Netanyahu is getting his share of false accusations and nothing is helping him. He is under Lachatz.

Perhaps if Netanyahu stops Shabak from arresting innocent Yeshiva students turning them into Public Enemy No. 1 enemy of the State of Israel,  falsely accusing them without forensic evidence,( he surely can empathize) , Hashem might help him as well.

So now we have a unique opportunity to show Ahavas Yisroel between Dati Leumi and Chareidi and fulfill the Mitzvah of Pidyon Shvuyim and veAhavta leReyacha Komocha!

Let us reflect....

Why all this baseless hatred against innocent religious youth we ask?

Perhaps
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There are those who are terribly afraid of the Messianic  Era. Maybe they feel they aren't yet ready or worthy and don't want to be left behind. We are one people after all...May Hashem find us all worthy in the merit we admit our shortcomings and try to rectify any wrongdoing.

This community Religious Zionist community is davka  threatening because of their religious beliefs. 

The crime of this community is their deep longing to restore Yerushalyim to the glory of it's past.

 But so many of us Jews pray the same Tefillot. Is it all lip service? Let us show everyone  that we are on the same page and on that zchus and restoring their good name and freedom Hashem will redeem us BE"H from this terrible Galus!

V'Hareinu by Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz


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Daniel Greenfield's article: Who's Behind the War on Orthodox Jewish Schools?

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In 2016, a poll showed Trump beating Hillary Clinton 66% to 22% among Orthodox Jews. This wasn't as unusual as it sounds. In New York City, Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods light up as islands in a lefty sea.

Romney won over 90% of the vote in some Orthodox Jewish areas.

Traditional religious beliefs are associated with conservative politics among Jews the same way that they are among Christians. 60% of Jews who attended weekly religious services disapproved of Obama while those who didn't, mostly supported him. Why do American Jews lean much more to the left? Because only 11% of American Jews attend weekly synagogue services. Well below the 40% national average.

Only 34% of American Jews are certain that they believe in G-d. What do they believe in? When asked what it means to be Jewish, 56% mentioned social justice, 42% comedy and only 19% percent mentioned anything involving religion. Meanwhile 63% of Israeli Jews believe "completely" in G-d.

Last year, Trump's approval rating among Orthodox Jews was at 71%. The American Jewish Committee's Survey wrote the results up glumly as "We have seen the future, and it looks Orthodox".

Establishment Jewish groups, which suddenly woke up and realized that the majority of Jewish children in New York City were Orthodox Jews, are preparing to fight that future. If those children are allowed to grow up Orthodox, the end of the Jewish Left will have arrived. And so they came after the children.

The New York State Department of Education now threatens to shut down Jewish schools and report parents who refuse to send their children to leftist government schools to child protection authorities. As in the Soviet Union, giving a child a Jewish education would be treated as evidence of child abuse. The government would be able to abduct children for the crime of receiving a Jewish education.

The new "Indian Residential Schools" had arrived.

Jewish schools aren't the only targets of this discriminatory campaign by the educational establishment. Catholic schools have also come under attack with the Archdiocese of New York posting an editorial that declares, "Leviathan has now focused its attention on religious schools here in New York, with the clear intention of either forcing them to submit to its authority or face destruction."

The public face of the campaign against Jewish schools is YAFFED or Young Advocates for Fair Education. Its members claim to be the products of Orthodox Jewish schools whose poor education left them so unprepared for the real world that all they were able to do was launch an extremely effective statewide campaign whose press releases and talking points are quoted verbatim in every single media outlet.

As in March for Our Lives, young faces are used to hide the agendas of the old lefties behind the curtain.

While Naftuli Moster, YAFFED's executive director, plays its equivalent of David Hogg, speaking to media outlets and appearing at forums to discuss the incredible intellectual disadvantage that the same educational system that produced generations of visionary thinkers and geniuses burdened him with, Hannah Rothstein, a not remotely "young" Baruch College prof, serves as its president.

Hannah Rothstein also serves on the board of Footsteps, an organization working to secularize Orthodox Jews and transition them to an irreligious lifestyle. She's a Trump critic and an Obama supporter.

She has also donated to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Al Franken, Beto O'Rourke and Cory Booker. Her repeated out of state donations, some through ActBlue, show a woman passionate about the Left. And the growing Orthodox Jewish population poses a threat to everything that Rothstein has been funding.

Moster, YAFFED's public face, is also a Footsteps graduate. Pesach Eisen, a Yaffed member who testified in its cause, is a Footsteps member and a fellow with the radical leftist Jews for Racial & Economic Justice which denies the existence of lefty anti-Semitism even as it defends leftist anti-Semites. Eisen demonstrates how Footsteps and YAFFED act as arms of the broader anti-Jewish Left.

And Moster has, in turn, defended the anti-Semitic Women's March.

Anita Altman serves on the Board of Directors of YAFFED and her bio boasts of helping numerous Footsteps clients. In 2014, she had signed an angry letter, declaring, "AIPAC speaks for Israel's hard-line government and its right-wing supporters, and for them alone; it does not speak for us." The signatories included a range of anti-Israel activists, supporters of BDS and defenders of anti-Semitic terrorism.

Altman has also signed a letter backing anti-Semitic Farrakhan supporter Linda Sarsour.

Altman is, unsurprisingly, no fan of religious Jews. In a bizarre interview, which repeatedly warns of a "khasidic takeover", she complained that there is "fear" when "it comes to government dealing with these fundamentalist communities." Then she compared Orthodox Jews to Iran.

That's the medieval bigotry behind YAFFED and the war on Orthodox Jewish schools.

YAFFED's bid is all about lefties using the government to deal with "fundamentalists" under the guise of helping the few formerly Orthodox members of Footsteps being used as fronts for the hateful operation.

Altman isn't the only anti-Israel activist in YAFFED. Its communications director, Abigail Beatty, also allegedly works for the anti-Israel NIF, an organization notorious for its funding of leftist and BDS group.

YAFFED claims to advocate for "the rights of Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox children". But it appears to be another face of Footsteps: an organization advocating against the traditional religious practices of Orthodox Judaism.

The people behind YAFFED have the right to advocate for discriminatory policies targeting the Orthodox Jewish community, in order to force Jewish parents to take their children out of Jewish schools.

They have the right to do so in the name of their radical leftist politics and hatred of religion.

But they have no right to masquerade as an organization fighting for the rights of the very people they are persecuting. Instead of highlighting these obvious connections, the media has chosen to act as the echo chamber for YAFFED while denying the Jewish communities targeted by Altman and her ilk, a voice.

Anonymous stories and bots have been used to manufacture a group of Orthodox Jewish parents and children who are "suffering" in the Jewish school system, but oddly, choose not to leave it.

These astroturf tactics are being used to justify discrimination and harassment of a religious community.

It's about more than just the bigotry of Anita Altman, obsessed with recreating Philip Roth's Eli the Fanatic. Behind the fresh young faces, there are elderly veterans of the lefty political establishment, many with backgrounds in education and academia, who see religious Jewish education as a threat.

An economic threat and also a political threat.

In a letter to a Democrat councilmember, David Bloomfield, claimed that the war on Jewish schools would enable their students to "vote outside the confines of their deterministic communities".

Bloomfield has written a number of articles and appeared at Yaffed forums attempting to pressure the government into cracking down on Jewish schools.

At stake are two very different visions of education and the future.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos recently visited Orthodox Jewish schools and touted them as models of school choice. There is no word in the English language that the Left hates more than "choice".

The education lobby has gone to war against charter schools. And Orthodox Jewish schools are seen as even worse than charter schools. They don't bow to the teachers' unions. The money their parents spend on education doesn't end up in the pockets of union bosses and their Democrat political allies.

The Orthodox Jewish community has helped drive the expansion of voucher programs. And school choice is an existential threat to the educational establishment and the political power of the Left.

Orthodox Jewish communities have fueled support for school choice not only in New York, but in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, endangering presidential elections.

Something had to be done about those pesky Jews. Now something is being done.

The Left's vision of the educational system is Footsteps and Yaffed writ large, a machine for destroying communities, undermining their traditions, and crushing parental authority so that academics can reinvent the children in their own cultural and political image. That's what happened to American Jews.

Now the same people who a century ago turned a generation of immigrants from believers in G-d to believers in social justice see another Jewish demographic threat and want to do it all over again.

On Sabbath, hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Jews will read the story of how an ancient Egyptian leader grew disgusted with rising Jewish demographics. "Behold, the numbers of the children of Israel are too many," he tells his political allies. "Come, let us deal cunningly with them, lest they multiply."

On Fifth Avenue, the establishment pharaohs, whose faith is not in Isis or Hathor, but in progressive social justice, look at the children in Jewish schools across New York City and bitterly echo his words.









Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine at the above link.

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