"Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail."
-Theodore Roosevelt
“The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”
Hon. Alex Kozinski, dissent in Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567 (9th Circuit 2003).
I hate when people conflate my misandry with my feminism. Feminism is my job, misandry is my hobby that is unrelated to my job. When I say I don’t like men, I don’t mean it as a “feminist take,” I mean it in the same way I don’t like olives or tesla cyber trucks.
There’s no way your clap back is a modern family clip, how old are we?💔
Old enough not to childishly celebrate sexism.
So this is where we’re at now? ‘My sexism is just a fun hobby?’
In a scathing statement after the meeting with Mr Martin in Washington DC on Friday, the American Jewish Committee stated that “antisemitism is pervasive in Ireland” and that Ireland is seen as one of the most problematic countries in Europe” due to its “demonisation of Israel”.
It came just hours after Mr Martin rejected comments from Israel’s Ambassador to the US calling him an anti-Semite.
Media reports in the Jewish Insider earlier this week suggested that the meeting would not go ahead as community groups were cancelling their attendance. However, it was attended by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
In a statement, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) said its Director of International Jewish Affairs, Rabbi Andrew Baker, met with the Taoiseach to “directly address concerns about antisemitism and the demonisation of Israel in Ireland, seen as one of the most problematic countries in Europe”.
Mr Baker said: “Antisemitism is pervasive in Ireland, posing serious risks for its 3,000 Jews, many of whom hold Israeli citizenship. Alongside physical harassment and attacks, widespread anti-Israel sentiment—including in parts of the government—affects daily life.”
I came to the UK to speak in Manchester, Leeds, and London; standing in solidarity with the British people and Jewish communities to show that “there is a way forward” for peace in the Middle East.
I represent a small minority of Arabs and Muslims who believe in peace between Muslims and Jews, Arabs and Israelis, a voice of reason in a crowd radicalized by Islamists.
I have great faith in God that we, the good guys, will change the norm and create a better future for our region.
Let me remind you; many minorities throughout history started small before their message became the norm.
It’s challenging, but absolutely worth it.
With God’s help, we will prevail. Peace will prevail.
A Jewish woman wearing an Israeli flag was almost “lynched” in an antisemitic attack in Copenhagen, Denmark, last week.
According to the Danish newspaper BT, the 39-year-old woman was riding her scooter through the Christiania neighborhood in the Danish capital on Friday night, wearing an Israeli flag, when a man dressed in black approached her and asked her if she was Jewish.
After the victim said yes, the assailant reportedly asked, “Are you proud of that?” and then called her a “child murderer,” she told BT.
While she was calling the police, another man appeared and told her to throw away her Israeli flag.
“Before I could even get answers from the police, things escalated further,” the woman said. “Suddenly, a group of men rushed towards me.”
“A strong man with a Middle Eastern appearance shouted at me to take off the flag immediately,” she recalled.
When she refused to throw away her flag, the group of men started tearing it apart. According to her testimony, there were at least 50 bystanders who watched the attack without intervening.
“When I screamed for help, one of the men smiled mockingly and said, ‘Nobody will help you here.’ Then he grabbed me by the throat and started choking me with his hands,” the woman recounted.
“One of them pulled the flag over my head so I couldn’t see what was happening. I kept shouting for help, but no one intervened,” she continued. “Then they started dragging me off the asphalt.”
The woman also said one of the assailants cut off her jacket with a knife. When she tried to call the police again, the group of men allegedly began taunting her and calling her a “Jewish whore.”
“When I finally got through to the police, the policeman didn’t ask if I was OK,” she said. “Instead, he asked me why I was carrying an Israeli flag in an area like Christiania. I felt completely abandoned.”
“I had to beg and convince him that I was in extreme danger,” she continued. “Finally, he agreed to send two female officers.”
Local police confirmed they have opened an investigation into the antisemitic attack after receiving a report about the incident.
According to BT, the victim was left with scratches and bruises on her body after being discharged from the hospital.
