jewworldorder--2020-08-27--Rise of European populists today echoes dark Dreyfus era, Jewish historian warns

LONDON — On December 31 , 1999 , as the new millennium dawned , writer and historian Anne Applebaum threw a party at her small manor house in Chobielin , northwest Poland .
She and her husband , Radek Sikorski , then a deputy foreign minister in Poland ’ s center-right government , felt they and their guests had much to celebrate .
Communism had been vanquished , democracy and free markets were in the ascendant , and Poland was on the verge of joining the West .
But , as Applebaum says in her new book “ Twilight of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Parting of Friends , ” that mood has now soured .
Get The Times of Israel ’ s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up “ Nearly two decades later , I would now cross the street to avoid some of the people who were at my New Year ’ s Eve party , ” she writes .
“ They , in turn , would not only refuse to enter my house , they would be embarrassed to admit they had ever been there .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who were at that party would no longer speak to the other half.
” Her guests — mostly Poles , but supplemented by a smattering of friends and colleagues from London , Moscow and New York — have been split by what Applebaum terms a “ profound divide.
” It is one which , albeit with local variations , has splintered European politics , as well as those of Applebaum ’ s native United States .
Some , such as Applebaum and her husband , have remained loyal to their center-right roots .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ turn and embraced the hard-right populist and authoritarian parties which now dominate Hungary and Poland , compete for power in France , Italy and Spain , and have reshaped the political landscape in Britain and the US .
While Applebaum writes that the estrangements are “ political not personal , ” in truth they are both .
One of her millennium eve guests now spends her time spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories — including that Jews were responsible for the Holocaust — on social media .
Another is a frequent guest on Polish state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and “ greedy , ” calls Jewish organizations “ blackmailers , ” and has recanted his previous support for Israel .
And a Hungarian former colleague is an avid propagandizer of the attacks on the Jewish billionaire philanthropist George Soros which are peddled by Viktor Orbán ’ s government .
Applebaum , who has written acclaimed histories of Soviet and East European communism , as well as working for a host of US and British magazines and newspapers , says she had never personally experienced anti-Semitism in the first 30 years or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But that changed when the populist Law and Justice party came to office in 2015 .
As critical stories about the party ’ s various power grabs began to appear overseas , she writes , she was painted by pro-government television and magazines — including some where former friends worked — as “ the clandestine Jewish coordinator of the international press and the secret director of its negative coverage of Poland.
” “ The attacks on me were pretty clearly anti-Semitic , ” she tells The Times of Israel .
They began @ @ @ @ @ @ @ observes in the book , “ negative international press coverage of Poland finally grew too widespread for a single person , even a single Jewish person , to coordinate all by herself.
” All the same , Sikorski , who served as foreign minister for seven years in the government ousted by Law and Justice , is still sometimes questioned about his wife ’ s “ anti-Polish activity.
” Alongside virulent homophobia , anti-Semitism played an overt role in this summer ’ s re-election campaign of Poland ’ s president , Andrzej Duda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ victory , Duda vowed to veto legislation for Jewish compensation claims for assets seized during the Holocaust , while state TV accused his opponent , liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski , of being prepared to surrender to “ Jewish demands.
” ( Poland is the only EU country that has not passed comprehensive national legislation to return , or provide compensation for , private property confiscated by the Nazis . )
Law and Justice ’ s tactics weren ’ t totally unsurprising .
In 2018 , the party passed a controversial law that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nation or state of complicity in Nazi war crimes and a year later provoked a diplomatic spat with Israel over the Holocaust compensation issue .
But , Applebaum notes , prior to 2015 post-Communist Poland had a strong record in brokering Polish-Jewish reconciliation .
“ Poland has been almost ahead of everybody else in Europe .
The interest in Jewish history in Poland is very widespread .
There was very good teaching about Jewish history in Polish schools .
There ’ s a brilliant museum of Jewish history in Warsaw , ” she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commissions and joint history projects and , for 25 years , there has been an enormous investment of the Polish state into relations with the international Jewish community , with American Jews , [ and ] with Israel.
” The Law and Justice government , she argues , has “ cynically ” broken with that quarter-century tradition to build up “ the paranoia of its supporters ” and suggest there are “ supposed Jews who are going to confiscate their property.
” But , Applebaum believes , this campaign “ has very little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s an attempt to present Jews as a part of a wider “ foreign cabal ” that has designs which are inimical to the interests and values of ordinary Poles .
Applebaum is keen to stress that “ at least half the country is appalled by this.
” The longstanding investment in education and history will “ hopefully eventually win out , ” she hopes .
Nor does she believe Jews in Poland are presently in any particular danger .
“ I ’ m not afraid .
There ’ s no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this now is a form of signaling .
It ’ s about sending messages to your group about the shape of the group and creating fear of the outside.
” This is , she adds , not a return to the “ street politics ” of the 1930s .
“ Now it ’ s people on Twitter organizing Twitter mobs .
It can be unpleasant to be attacked online but it isn ’ t actually frightening , ” Applebaum says , before cautioning : “ That doesn ’ t mean that in some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” More widely , the role played by anti-Semitism in the new authoritarian politics is “ a tricky question , ” she says .
“ Partly , the anti-Semitism is just a function of this kind of populist rhetoric : ‘ We ’ re the real people against the foreigners , against the aliens , against the elites , ’ and historically that role has often been played by Jews .
Now it ’ s just as often played by Muslim immigrants.
” The “ rampant and very popular ” George Soros conspiracy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suggests that Jews are secretly plotting to bring Muslims to Europe to undermine Christianity — has “ given new legs to anti-Semitism , ” Applebaum believes .
( In addition to his philanthropic work on behalf of human rights and liberal democratic values , Soros offered generous backing for aid groups assisting migrants during Europe ’ s refugee crisis . )
However farcical this conspiracy theory may seem , it has become , Applebaum believes , “ an important part of identitarian and far-right ideology in Europe.
” At the same time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theoretical Jews rather than real ones .
It ’ s about George Soros who just exists as a symbol and has very little to do with the real George Soros.
” “ It ’ s mostly about myths and threats to the group that need to be undermined and emphasized rather than being about real people , ” she says .
But , as Applebaum ’ s book outlines , Orbán ’ s rhetoric about Soros and Hungary ’ s non-existent migrants serves an important political purpose , diverting attention from Russia ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the allegations of widespread corruption involving the prime minister ’ s friends and associates .
“ Orbán ’ s method works : Talk about emotive issues .
Set yourself up as a defender of Western civilization , especially abroad .
That way nobody notices the nepotism and graft at home , ” she writes .
Of course , the political situation in Hungary and Poland are not the same .
Applebaum believes that it is not currently possible for an opposition party to win a national election in Hungary .
Poland , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is still a big independent media here and there is a very vibrant and active opposition , ” she says .
Nonetheless , she fears that “ the goal of the ruling party is not to lose again… and they have sought to shape the electoral landscape in a way that they can ’ t lose.
” Law and Justice has thus meddled with the judiciary , fired civil servants , diplomats and army officers not to its liking , and replaced , suspended and leaned on those who head cultural institutions and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ History of Polish Jews ) who it suspects of being unsympathetic to its values .
Taxpayer-funded state media , Applebaum says , is now “ really virulent party propaganda of a kind that is reminiscent of what you would see in an authoritarian country : no pretense of objectivity , no opposition figures on TV , very aggressive.
” How did we get here ?
But Applebaum ’ s book doesn ’ t just seek to describe the changing political landscape in Europe and the United States ; she also seeks to explain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ once considered friends , allies and colleagues have been become cheerleaders for an authoritarian populism which she both abhors and views as a threat to democracy .
This is no idle intellectual exercise .
Applebaum believes that history suggests that authoritarians and demagogues don ’ t just need a degree of popular support and people who will “ promote the riot or launch the coup ” — they also need members of the “ intellectual and educated elite.
” “ They need people who can use sophisticated legal language , people who can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the law is the right thing to do , ” she writes .
“ They need people who will give voice to grievances , manipulate discontent , channel anger and fear , and imagine a different future.
” Applebaum is clear that those who she views as collaborators in the rise of authoritarian populism are not society ’ s “ left behinds , ” poor , rural or part of an “ impoverished underclass.
” Quite the opposite : they ’ re highly educated city-dwellers .
“ Resentment , anger and pessimism are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all have in common , ” says Applebaum .
“ For one reason or another , these are people who don ’ t like their political systems and who are radically or apocalyptically critical of them.
” For some , the motivation is careerism — perhaps combined with a canny sense of which way the political winds are blowing — but this is far from the whole story , she believes .
Instead , Applebaum draws on the work of the German-born American historian Fritz Stern .
A Jewish émigré to the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book “ The Politics of Cultural Despair ” examined the intellectual climate in the late 19th century which later helped give rise to Nazism .
“ What he was describing was people who were disturbed and distressed by modernity and by industrialization and rapid economic and social change .
And it seems to me we ’ re living in a very similar era , ” says Applebaum .
The implications , she believes , are potentially far-reaching .
“ If you think your society is in profound decline and that it is irretrievably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then you become much more open to very radical means of changing it , ” she says .
Brexit , Trump , and what comes next “ Cultural despair ” is by no means confined to Eastern Europe .
Applebaum detects it in the manner in which some Conservatives in Britain came to embrace both Brexit and , over the past four years , increasingly radical means to deliver it .
Applebaum knows this world well , having worked in the 1990s as deputy editor of The Spectator , the house journal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later became a leading voice in favor of the UK ’ s departure from the European Union .
“ The Brexiteer wing of the Tory party has been willing to break a number of taboos and… go after institutions which its members would once have considered sacrosanct like the BBC , the House of Lords , and the judiciary , ” says Applebaum .
“ Games were played with the suspension of parliament last fall that were pretty unprecedented.
” The Tory Brexiteers , she says , also adopted “ authoritarian-style political language @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real people ” against “ fake elites.
” And , of course , Applebaum detects a similar trend in the United States .
The Republican party that she once supported , she believes , has abandoned the optimism and idealism of Ronald Reagan in favor of what she terms the “ restorative nostalgia ” of US President Donald Trump .
The president , Applebaum argues , offers only a “ return to the xenophobia and inward-looking isolationism of the 1920s.
” She cites the example of the Fox News host Laura Ingraham — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ circles in which Applebaum once mixed — who now exudes an “ apocalyptic pessimism shared by so many others.
” Western civilization , Ingraham has suggested , is “ tipping over the cliff.
” Fiercely hostile to immigration ( despite being the mother of three adopted immigrant children ) , Ingraham was an early and vociferous supporter of the president .
But it would be a mistake , Applebaum believes , to suggest that the political ruptures of the last few years were unique .
Instead , she draws an analogy between the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affair ” which rocked late 19th century France and split its society asunder .
The polarization from the trial and wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus , a Jewish army officer labeled a traitor after he was accused of passing secrets to Germany , has much resonance today , she suggests .
Applebaum compares those who vociferously maintained their belief in Dreyfus ’ s guilt long after his innocence was proved to today ’ s hard-right populists .
The conspiracy theories , anti-Semitic tropes and accusations of a “ foreign , ” disloyal elite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ press ” — the equivalent of today ’ s “ far-right trolling operation ” — have many echoes today , she contends .
On the other side of the divide stood Dreyfus ’ s supporters who , like the opponents of the populist right today , she writes , “ conceived of the nation not as an ethnic clan but as the embodiment of a set of ideals : justice , honesty , objectivity , the neutrality of the courts.
” Thus the issue at stake was not simply the innocence or guilt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much wider fissure about the very character of the nation and its state .
“ The Dreyfus trial struck me as so unbelievably contemporary , and the lines of division between people were so familiar , ” Applebaum says .
“ What also intrigued me about the Dreyfus story was the way in which is split families and people who previously had been more or less on the same side… and that reminded me so much of what it ’ s felt like to live in either London or Washington or Warsaw over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Applebaum .

LONDON — On December 31, 1999, as the new millennium dawned, writer and historian Anne Applebaum threw a party at her small manor house in Chobielin, northwest Poland.
She and her husband, Radek Sikorski, then a deputy foreign minister in Poland’s center-right government, felt they and their guests had much to celebrate. Communism had been vanquished, democracy and free markets were in the ascendant, and Poland was on the verge of joining the West.
But, as Applebaum says in her new book “Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends,” that mood has now soured.
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“Nearly two decades later, I would now cross the street to avoid some of the people who were at my New Year’s Eve party,” she writes. “They, in turn, would not only refuse to enter my house, they would be embarrassed to admit they had ever been there. In fact, about half of the people who were at that party would no longer speak to the other half.”
Her guests — mostly Poles, but supplemented by a smattering of friends and colleagues from London, Moscow and New York — have been split by what Applebaum terms a “profound divide.”
Anne Applebaum, author of ‘Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends.’ (Rahil Ahmad)
It is one which, albeit with local variations, has splintered European politics, as well as those of Applebaum’s native United States. Some, such as Applebaum and her husband, have remained loyal to their center-right roots. But others have taken a very different turn and embraced the hard-right populist and authoritarian parties which now dominate Hungary and Poland, compete for power in France, Italy and Spain, and have reshaped the political landscape in Britain and the US.
While Applebaum writes that the estrangements are “political not personal,” in truth they are both. One of her millennium eve guests now spends her time spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories — including that Jews were responsible for the Holocaust — on social media. Another is a frequent guest on Polish state television who attacks Jews as “scabby” and “greedy,” calls Jewish organizations “blackmailers,” and has recanted his previous support for Israel. And a Hungarian former colleague is an avid propagandizer of the attacks on the Jewish billionaire philanthropist George Soros which are peddled by Viktor Orbán’s government.
Applebaum, who has written acclaimed histories of Soviet and East European communism, as well as working for a host of US and British magazines and newspapers, says she had never personally experienced anti-Semitism in the first 30 years or so in which she lived in Poland. But that changed when the populist Law and Justice party came to office in 2015. As critical stories about the party’s various power grabs began to appear overseas, she writes, she was painted by pro-government television and magazines — including some where former friends worked — as “the clandestine Jewish coordinator of the international press and the secret director of its negative coverage of Poland.”
Anne Applebaum with her husband, then foreign minister Radosław Sikorski at the Memorial honoring the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Fighters. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland)
“The attacks on me were pretty clearly anti-Semitic,” she tells The Times of Israel. They began to peter out when, she wrly observes in the book, “negative international press coverage of Poland finally grew too widespread for a single person, even a single Jewish person, to coordinate all by herself.” All the same, Sikorski, who served as foreign minister for seven years in the government ousted by Law and Justice, is still sometimes questioned about his wife’s “anti-Polish activity.”
Alongside virulent homophobia, anti-Semitism played an overt role in this summer’s re-election campaign of Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda. On the eve of his narrow victory, Duda vowed to veto legislation for Jewish compensation claims for assets seized during the Holocaust, while state TV accused his opponent, liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, of being prepared to surrender to “Jewish demands.” (Poland is the only EU country that has not passed comprehensive national legislation to return, or provide compensation for, private property confiscated by the Nazis.)
Law and Justice’s tactics weren’t totally unsurprising. In 2018, the party passed a controversial law that made it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in Nazi war crimes and a year later provoked a diplomatic spat with Israel over the Holocaust compensation issue.
Polish President Andrzej Duda waves to supporters as he campaigns for a second term in Serock, Poland, June 17, 2020. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
But, Applebaum notes, prior to 2015 post-Communist Poland had a strong record in brokering Polish-Jewish reconciliation.
“Poland has been almost ahead of everybody else in Europe. The interest in Jewish history in Poland is very widespread. There was very good teaching about Jewish history in Polish schools. There’s a brilliant museum of Jewish history in Warsaw,” she says. “There were endless government commissions and joint history projects and, for 25 years, there has been an enormous investment of the Polish state into relations with the international Jewish community, with American Jews, [and] with Israel.”
The Law and Justice government, she argues, has “cynically” broken with that quarter-century tradition to build up “the paranoia of its supporters” and suggest there are “supposed Jews who are going to confiscate their property.” But, Applebaum believes, this campaign “has very little to with actual Jews.” Instead, it’s an attempt to present Jews as a part of a wider “foreign cabal” that has designs which are inimical to the interests and values of ordinary Poles.
Illustrative: Thousands of Polish nationalists march to the US Embassy, in Warsaw, Poland on May 11, 2019 to protest US pressure on Poland to compensate Jews whose families lost property during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Applebaum is keen to stress that “at least half the country is appalled by this.” The longstanding investment in education and history will “hopefully eventually win out,” she hopes. Nor does she believe Jews in Poland are presently in any particular danger. “I’m not afraid. There’s no violence towards Jews. A lot of this now is a form of signaling. It’s about sending messages to your group about the shape of the group and creating fear of the outside.”
It’s about sending messages to your group about the shape of the group and creating fear of the outside
This is, she adds, not a return to the “street politics” of the 1930s.
“Now it’s people on Twitter organizing Twitter mobs. It can be unpleasant to be attacked online but it isn’t actually frightening,” Applebaum says, before cautioning: “That doesn’t mean that in some places it couldn’t become frightening.”
‘Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends,’ by Anne Applebaum. (Courtesy)
More widely, the role played by anti-Semitism in the new authoritarian politics is “a tricky question,” she says.
“Partly, the anti-Semitism is just a function of this kind of populist rhetoric: ‘We’re the real people against the foreigners, against the aliens, against the elites,’ and historically that role has often been played by Jews. Now it’s just as often played by Muslim immigrants.”
The “rampant and very popular” George Soros conspiracy theory — which, in effect, suggests that Jews are secretly plotting to bring Muslims to Europe to undermine Christianity — has “given new legs to anti-Semitism,” Applebaum believes. (In addition to his philanthropic work on behalf of human rights and liberal democratic values, Soros offered generous backing for aid groups assisting migrants during Europe’s refugee crisis.)
However farcical this conspiracy theory may seem, it has become, Applebaum believes, “an important part of identitarian and far-right ideology in Europe.” At the same time, she says, “this is about theoretical Jews rather than real ones. It’s about George Soros who just exists as a symbol and has very little to do with the real George Soros.”
“It’s mostly about myths and threats to the group that need to be undermined and emphasized rather than being about real people,” she says.
This poster featuring US billionaire George Soros in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, reads, ‘We can’t let Soros get the last laugh.’ It was part of a government campaign, July 6, 2017. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)
But, as Applebaum’s book outlines, Orbán’s rhetoric about Soros and Hungary’s non-existent migrants serves an important political purpose, diverting attention from Russia’s growing influence in the country and the allegations of widespread corruption involving the prime minister’s friends and associates.
“Orbán’s method works: Talk about emotive issues. Set yourself up as a defender of Western civilization, especially abroad. That way nobody notices the nepotism and graft at home,” she writes.
Of course, the political situation in Hungary and Poland are not the same. Applebaum believes that it is not currently possible for an opposition party to win a national election in Hungary. Poland, she argues, is different. “There is still a big independent media here and there is a very vibrant and active opposition,” she says.
Nonetheless, she fears that “the goal of the ruling party is not to lose again… and they have sought to shape the electoral landscape in a way that they can’t lose.”
Leader of Poland’s right-wing ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski, left, wearing a face mask for protection against the coronavirus, casts his ballot in the presidential election runoff in Warsaw, Poland, on July 12, 2020, next to a man wearing a face mask of Kaczynski’s likeness. (AP Photo)
Law and Justice has thus meddled with the judiciary, fired civil servants, diplomats and army officers not to its liking, and replaced, suspended and leaned on those who head cultural institutions and museums (including the Museum of the History of Polish Jews) who it suspects of being unsympathetic to its values. Taxpayer-funded state media, Applebaum says, is now “really virulent party propaganda of a kind that is reminiscent of what you would see in an authoritarian country: no pretense of objectivity, no opposition figures on TV, very aggressive.”
How did we get here?
But Applebaum’s book doesn’t just seek to describe the changing political landscape in Europe and the United States; she also seeks to explain and understand how many of those she once considered friends, allies and colleagues have been become cheerleaders for an authoritarian populism which she both abhors and views as a threat to democracy. This is no idle intellectual exercise.
Supporters of conservative incumbent President Andrzej Duda, who is seeking reelection in a tight presidential election runoff attend a rally in Tykocin, Poland, July 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Applebaum believes that history suggests that authoritarians and demagogues don’t just need a degree of popular support and people who will “promote the riot or launch the coup” — they also need members of the “intellectual and educated elite.”
“They need people who can use sophisticated legal language, people who can argue that breaking the constitution or twisting the law is the right thing to do,” she writes. “They need people who will give voice to grievances, manipulate discontent, channel anger and fear, and imagine a different future.”
Applebaum is clear that those who she views as collaborators in the rise of authoritarian populism are not society’s “left behinds,” poor, rural or part of an “impoverished underclass.” Quite the opposite: they’re highly educated city-dwellers.
“Resentment, anger and pessimism are things that these kinds of political movements all have in common,” says Applebaum. “For one reason or another, these are people who don’t like their political systems and who are radically or apocalyptically critical of them.”
For some, the motivation is careerism — perhaps combined with a canny sense of which way the political winds are blowing — but this is far from the whole story, she believes. Instead, Applebaum draws on the work of the German-born American historian Fritz Stern. A Jewish émigré to the US in 1938, Stern’s 1961 book “The Politics of Cultural Despair” examined the intellectual climate in the late 19th century which later helped give rise to Nazism.
Illustrative: A supporter of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party displays a placard showing crossed out Niqabs during a demonstration against the German government’s asylum policy organized by the AfD party in Berlin on November 7, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL)
“What he was describing was people who were disturbed and distressed by modernity and by industrialization and rapid economic and social change. And it seems to me we’re living in a very similar era,” says Applebaum.
The implications, she believes, are potentially far-reaching. “If you think your society is in profound decline and that it is irretrievably going downhill and it’s dying, then you become much more open to very radical means of changing it,” she says.
Brexit, Trump, and what comes next
“Cultural despair” is by no means confined to Eastern Europe. Applebaum detects it in the manner in which some Conservatives in Britain came to embrace both Brexit and, over the past four years, increasingly radical means to deliver it. Applebaum knows this world well, having worked in the 1990s as deputy editor of The Spectator, the house journal of the British Conservative party, which later became a leading voice in favor of the UK’s departure from the European Union.
“The Brexiteer wing of the Tory party has been willing to break a number of taboos and… go after institutions which its members would once have considered sacrosanct like the BBC, the House of Lords, and the judiciary,” says Applebaum. “Games were played with the suspension of parliament last fall that were pretty unprecedented.”
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage gestures on an open topped bus while on the European Election campaign trail in Sunderland, England, Saturday, May 11, 2019. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)
The Tory Brexiteers, she says, also adopted “authoritarian-style political language” which attempted to pit the “real people” against “fake elites.”
And, of course, Applebaum detects a similar trend in the United States. The Republican party that she once supported, she believes, has abandoned the optimism and idealism of Ronald Reagan in favor of what she terms the “restorative nostalgia” of US President Donald Trump.
Demonstrators gather around a protest sculpture depicting US President Donald Trump on a toilet using a smartphone as protesters against the US president’s State Visit gather in Trafalgar Square in central London on June 4, 2019, on the second day of Trump’s three-day State Visit to the UK. (ISABEL INFANTES / AFP)
The president, Applebaum argues, offers only a “return to the xenophobia and inward-looking isolationism of the 1920s.” She cites the example of the Fox News host Laura Ingraham — a former acquaintance from the young conservative circles in which Applebaum once mixed — who now exudes an “apocalyptic pessimism shared by so many others.”
Western civilization, Ingraham has suggested, is “tipping over the cliff.” Fiercely hostile to immigration (despite being the mother of three adopted immigrant children), Ingraham was an early and vociferous supporter of the president.
Screen capture from video of US President Donald Trump, left, during an interview with Laura Ingraham of Fox News, at the White House, Washington, October 29, 2018. (YouTube)
But it would be a mistake, Applebaum believes, to suggest that the political ruptures of the last few years were unique. Instead, she draws an analogy between the current era and the notorious “Dreyfus affair” which rocked late 19th century France and split its society asunder. The polarization from the trial and wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer labeled a traitor after he was accused of passing secrets to Germany, has much resonance today, she suggests.
Applebaum compares those who vociferously maintained their belief in Dreyfus’s guilt long after his innocence was proved to today’s hard-right populists. The conspiracy theories, anti-Semitic tropes and accusations of a “foreign,” disloyal elite spread by France’s “yellow press” — the equivalent of today’s “far-right trolling operation” — have many echoes today, she contends.
Alfred Dreyfus in the Villemarie Garden, Carpentras 1899-1900. (Dreyfus Family Collection)
On the other side of the divide stood Dreyfus’s supporters who, like the opponents of the populist right today, she writes, “conceived of the nation not as an ethnic clan but as the embodiment of a set of ideals: justice, honesty, objectivity, the neutrality of the courts.” Thus the issue at stake was not simply the innocence or guilt of one Jewish solider, but a much wider fissure about the very character of the nation and its state.
“The Dreyfus trial struck me as so unbelievably contemporary, and the lines of division between people were so familiar,” Applebaum says.
“What also intrigued me about the Dreyfus story was the way in which is split families and people who previously had been more or less on the same side… and that reminded me so much of what it’s felt like to live in either London or Washington or Warsaw over the last 30 years,” says Applebaum.


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Support for Black Lives Matter in the key swing state of Wisconsin has plummeted from +25 approval to zero amidst the riots in Kenosha .
The city has been plagued by rioting , looting , violence and arson all week following the police killing of Jacob Blake , culminating in the Tuesday night shooting of three BLM protesters , two fatally , by a 17-year-old who acted in self-defense .
A new poll suggests that the bedlam is turning people against Black Lives Matter , and by proxy Joe Biden , who has endorsed BLM on numerous occasions .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what ’ s happening in Wisconsin , where support for BLM has gone from +25 to +0 in 2 months , ” tweeted Jonathan Chait .
He cites a newly released RPubs poll which also shows that approval for Black Lives Matter amongst whites has dropped from +22 to -5 since June .
The poll was taken before much of the violence unfolded in Kenosha , meaning the numbers are likely even worse for BLM approval .
The poll numbers are backed up by anecdotal evidence from a New York Times article about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some voters in Kenosha.
” The article quotes several voters who say their support for Trump has hardened because of the riots , while also highlighting how the chaos is driving Democrats away from Joe Biden .
For example , 59-year-old Scott Haight said he was a “ lifelong Democrat ” but that he isn ’ t going to vote this year .
Priscella Gazda , who only voted once in her life – for Obama in 2008 – told the newspaper , “ I am going to vote for Trump .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people and what we need.
” As we highlighted earlier this week , people like Don Lemon are suddenly expressing concern that the relentless rioting is harming Democrats ’ chances in the 2020 election .
“ I think Democrats are ignoring this problem or hoping that it will go away…Joe Biden may be afraid to do it…He ’ s got to address it .
He ’ s got to come out and talk about it , ” said the CNN host .
A CNN poll earlier this month also found that Biden ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 14 points in early June to just 4 points following three months of unrest .
A separate Pew poll also found that almost as many American voters now view violent crime as an important election issue compared to coronavirus , something that is likely to help President Trump .
“ A sizable 59 percent of voters in the survey indicate that violent crime , which President Trump has framed as happening in Democrat-controlled cities , is a “ very important ” factor in casting their ballots , ” writes Rusty Weiss .
Democrats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that more moderate voters are turned off by Black Lives Matter/Antifa rioting , but the notion that they can do anything to reign in the mayhem looks incredibly unlikely .
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Support for Black Lives Matter in the key swing state of Wisconsin has plummeted from +25 approval to zero amidst the riots in Kenosha.
The city has been plagued by rioting, looting, violence and arson all week following the police killing of Jacob Blake, culminating in the Tuesday night shooting of three BLM protesters, two fatally, by a 17-year-old who acted in self-defense.
A new poll suggests that the bedlam is turning people against Black Lives Matter, and by proxy Joe Biden, who has endorsed BLM on numerous occasions.
“Democrats need to be extremely concerned about what’s happening in Wisconsin, where support for BLM has gone from +25 to +0 in 2 months,” tweeted Jonathan Chait.
He cites a newly released RPubs poll which also shows that approval for Black Lives Matter amongst whites has dropped from +22 to -5 since June.
Democrats need to be extremely concerned about what’s happening in Wisconsin, where support for BLM has gone from +25 to +0 in 2 months. https://t.co/2wNMWoW6it — Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) August 27, 2020
The poll was taken before much of the violence unfolded in Kenosha, meaning the numbers are likely even worse for BLM approval.
The poll numbers are backed up by anecdotal evidence from a New York Times article about how the violence is “already swaying some voters in Kenosha.”
The article quotes several voters who say their support for Trump has hardened because of the riots, while also highlighting how the chaos is driving Democrats away from Joe Biden.
For example, 59-year-old Scott Haight said he was a “lifelong Democrat” but that he isn’t going to vote this year.
Priscella Gazda, who only voted once in her life – for Obama in 2008 – told the newspaper, “I am going to vote for Trump. He seems to be more about the American people and what we need.”
As we highlighted earlier this week, people like Don Lemon are suddenly expressing concern that the relentless rioting is harming Democrats’ chances in the 2020 election.
“I think Democrats are ignoring this problem or hoping that it will go away…Joe Biden may be afraid to do it…He’s got to address it. He’s got to come out and talk about it,” said the CNN host.
A CNN poll earlier this month also found that Biden’s lead over Trump had dropped from 14 points in early June to just 4 points following three months of unrest.
A separate Pew poll also found that almost as many American voters now view violent crime as an important election issue compared to coronavirus, something that is likely to help President Trump.
“A sizable 59 percent of voters in the survey indicate that violent crime, which President Trump has framed as happening in Democrat-controlled cities, is a “very important” factor in casting their ballots,” writes Rusty Weiss.
Democrats are clearly starting to become very nervous that more moderate voters are turned off by Black Lives Matter/Antifa rioting, but the notion that they can do anything to reign in the mayhem looks incredibly unlikely.
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jewworldorder--2020-08-28--Linguists: Young People Refusing To Use Full Stops In Sentences Because They See Them As ‘Aggressive

Linguists: Young People Refusing To Use Full Stops In Sentences Because They See Them As ‘Aggressive’

A new Netflix movie set to be released next month celebrates 11-year-olds twerking , prompting condemnation about the film sexualizing children .
“ Amy , 11 , becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew .
Hoping to join them , she starts to explore her femininity , defying her family ’ s traditions , ” read Netflix ’ s original description for the movie , which is called Cuties .
The trailer for the film shows ‘ diverse ’ children in a rough neighborhood learning to dance provocatively in preparation for a tournament .
“ They loved you .
See @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says one of the characters as a video of the girls twerking on social media is displayed .
The plot also features a young Muslim girl whose family tries to stop her from joining in with the other girls .
Another scene shows the 11-year-old girls talking to a group of 14-year-old boys who are asking them about their age .
The film is rated MA for a mature audience despite almost exclusively featuring 11-year-old girls , a factor that many viewers found creepy .
After a backlash , Netflix changed the description @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ free spirited dance crew.
” After being posted to YouTube for less than 48 hours , the trailer has 47,000 downvotes and just 6.6 thousand upvotes .
Respondents expressed their disgust , noting that the timing is horrendous given recent revelations about Jeffrey Epstein ’ s underage sex trafficking ring .
“ Seems really weird that you would contrast an Islamic family who wants their 11 year old daughter to be religious and cover herself up , ” said one .
“ With her dancing provocatively and wearing considerably less clothes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have made the girls 18 at the very least ?
This seems like borderline propaganda and an excuse to see young girls dancing.
” “ If Netflix really wanted to give light on the hypersexualization of children , it should ’ ve been a documentary , ” said another .
“ Filmed on the island of Jeffrey Epstein .
Bill Clinton was carefully edited out of some scenes , ” joked another .
Given that the media is trying to push acceptance for things like Drag Queen Story Time and child drag queens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of LGBT awareness , it ’ s perhaps unsurprising that Netflix is now openly sexualizing children on their platform .
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A new Netflix movie set to be released next month celebrates 11-year-olds twerking, prompting condemnation about the film sexualizing children.
“Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family’s traditions,” read Netflix’s original description for the movie, which is called Cuties.
The trailer for the film shows ‘diverse’ children in a rough neighborhood learning to dance provocatively in preparation for a tournament.
“They loved you. See how many likes we have?” says one of the characters as a video of the girls twerking on social media is displayed.
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The plot also features a young Muslim girl whose family tries to stop her from joining in with the other girls.
Another scene shows the 11-year-old girls talking to a group of 14-year-old boys who are asking them about their age.
For those who want to know the deep plot of this film pic.twitter.com/9vFlmQZKBo — Pig (@BionicPIGtv) August 19, 2020
The film is rated MA for a mature audience despite almost exclusively featuring 11-year-old girls, a factor that many viewers found creepy.
After a backlash, Netflix changed the description of the movie from “twerking” to “free spirited dance crew.”
Netflix changed the description from twerking to “free spirited dance crew.” pic.twitter.com/Lp6LujcqQf — Sophia (Nuke Emoji) Narwitz (@SophNar0747) August 20, 2020
After being posted to YouTube for less than 48 hours, the trailer has 47,000 downvotes and just 6.6 thousand upvotes.
Respondents expressed their disgust, noting that the timing is horrendous given recent revelations about Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex trafficking ring.
“Seems really weird that you would contrast an Islamic family who wants their 11 year old daughter to be religious and cover herself up,” said one.
“With her dancing provocatively and wearing considerably less clothes. Like, you couldn’t have made the girls 18 at the very least? This seems like borderline propaganda and an excuse to see young girls dancing.”
“If Netflix really wanted to give light on the hypersexualization of children, it should’ve been a documentary,” said another.
“Filmed on the island of Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton was carefully edited out of some scenes,” joked another.
Given that the media is trying to push acceptance for things like Drag Queen Story Time and child drag queens like Desmond is Amazing in the name of LGBT awareness, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Netflix is now openly sexualizing children on their platform.
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jewworldorder--2020-08-28--Litzman: UTJ could quit the coalition if there is a lockdown over High Holidays

Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman continued his public battle against the government ’ s coronavirus policy , saying in an interview published Friday that his United Torah Judaism party would consider leaving the coalition if a nationwide lockdown is imposed over the upcoming High Holidays .
“ The approval for mass demonstrations [ outside the Prime Minister ’ s Residence ] alongside the opening of cultural centers , but with continued restrictions on synagogues and the prevention of travel to Uman , have destroyed public confidence in the system , ” Litzman told the Hamodia daily .
The newspaper is controlled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Litzman is a member of .
Get The Times of Israel ’ s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Litzman said Interior Minister Aryeh Deri , head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party , also opposed a national closure during the High Holidays , which this year begin on the evening of September 18 and last until mid-October .
A UTJ source dismissed Litzman ’ s threat , saying it didn ’ t have the backing of the rest of the party .
“ Who is Litzman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the past when he threatened it was worth something , ” the source told the Haaretz daily .
“ He didn ’ t consult with anyone in United Torah Judaism on the matter.
” The source also said Litzman , who until May served as health minister , was only making the threat to get Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’ s attention .
“ He knows that when you want something from Netanyahu you need to show him strength , ” the source said .
The threat comes after Litzman called earlier this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resign for seeking to halt a Hasidic pilgrimage to the Ukrainian city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah .
During a cornerstone-laying event Thursday , Litzman claimed that Gamzu had warned Ukraine ’ s president that “ Jews will dirty his city and bring diseases.
” Ukraine announced Wednesday it would seal its borders to foreigners through September to curb rising coronavirus infections , blocking Israeli and Jewish pilgrims from traveling to Uman for the Jewish new year .
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal also signaled the government would impose a ban on large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ announcement of the entry ban came after Gamzu asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to prevent the pilgrimage , fearing returning pilgrims could drive up infection rates in the Jewish state .
Zelensky had announced Tuesday that Ukraine would “ significantly limit ” the entry of Jewish visitors for Rosh Hashanah at Netanyahu ’ s request , but didn ’ t specify the degree to which the pilgrimage would be limited .
Netanyahu ’ s office swiftly denied that the premier had made such a request , in what seemed like an effort to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to UTJ lawmakers , coalition whip Miki Zohar , a Likud party ally of Netanyahu ’ s , lashed out at Gamzu on Wednesday for trying to keep Israelis from traveling to Uman for Rosh Hashanah but not seeking to halt mass protests against the prime minister , claiming Gamzu was motivated by an alleged fear of the media .
Gamzu rejected Zohar ’ s criticism , as did Health Minister Yuli Edelstein .
Several lawmakers also came to Gamzu ’ s defense .
Zohar ’ s criticism of Gamzu came a day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everything ” to prevent large numbers of Hasidic Jews from flying to Uman , and threatened he could resign over the matter .
Ukraine is one of the few countries that are currently allowing in Israeli nationals , despite the high coronavirus infection rate in the Jewish state .
On Thursday , the Bratslav Hasidic sect said it would never again support Netanyahu due to the government ’ s efforts to prevent the pilgrimage to Uman .
The development came as dozens of worshipers were held for up to 17 hours at a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even though a decision by Kyiv Wednesday to not allow foreign nationals in the country only takes effect Friday at midnight .
Umnan usually sees tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews visit the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav for the Rosh Hashanah holida , .
According to Channel 12 , after the Hasidim withdrew their support , Netanyahu told leading rabbis he was working to find a solution to allow them to enter Ukraine and visit Uman .
Dozens of Bratslav Hasidim protested Netanyahu ’ s policy on the matter in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , while the premier was staying at a hotel in the city .
Some ten more flights from Israel were due to arrive in Ukraine Thursday and Friday , before the sweeping entry ban takes effect .
Channel 12 reported that two more flights later Thursday would be allowed in and possibly more on Friday , but that at least two flights have been canceled .
Channel 13 said the pilgrimage site was already packed with worshipers , who weren ’ t wearing face masks , staying outdoors , or observing social distancing @

Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman continued his public battle against the government’s coronavirus policy, saying in an interview published Friday that his United Torah Judaism party would consider leaving the coalition if a nationwide lockdown is imposed over the upcoming High Holidays.
“The approval for mass demonstrations [outside the Prime Minister’s Residence] alongside the opening of cultural centers, but with continued restrictions on synagogues and the prevention of travel to Uman, have destroyed public confidence in the system,” Litzman told the Hamodia daily.
The newspaper is controlled by the Gur Hasidic sect, which Litzman is a member of.
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Litzman said Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, also opposed a national closure during the High Holidays, which this year begin on the evening of September 18 and last until mid-October.
A UTJ source dismissed Litzman’s threat, saying it didn’t have the backing of the rest of the party.
“Who is Litzman? He barely represents himself. In the past when he threatened it was worth something,” the source told the Haaretz daily. “He didn’t consult with anyone in United Torah Judaism on the matter.”
The source also said Litzman, who until May served as health minister, was only making the threat to get Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attention.
“He knows that when you want something from Netanyahu you need to show him strength,” the source said.
Shas leader Aryeh Deri (left), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) and UTJ leader Yaakov Litzman at the weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister’s Office, Jerusalem, December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The threat comes after Litzman called earlier this week for coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu to resign for seeking to halt a Hasidic pilgrimage to the Ukrainian city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah.
During a cornerstone-laying event Thursday, Litzman claimed that Gamzu had warned Ukraine’s president that “Jews will dirty his city and bring diseases.”
Ukraine announced Wednesday it would seal its borders to foreigners through September to curb rising coronavirus infections, blocking Israeli and Jewish pilgrims from traveling to Uman for the Jewish new year.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal also signaled the government would impose a ban on large gatherings in Uman during Rosh Hashanah
The announcement of the entry ban came after Gamzu asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to prevent the pilgrimage, fearing returning pilgrims could drive up infection rates in the Jewish state.
Zelensky had announced Tuesday that Ukraine would “significantly limit” the entry of Jewish visitors for Rosh Hashanah at Netanyahu’s request, but didn’t specify the degree to which the pilgrimage would be limited.
Netanyahu’s office swiftly denied that the premier had made such a request, in what seemed like an effort to assuage his ultra-Orthodox partners.
Coronavirus czar Professor Roni Gamzu during a meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at the Jerusalem city hall on August 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
In addition to UTJ lawmakers, coalition whip Miki Zohar, a Likud party ally of Netanyahu’s, lashed out at Gamzu on Wednesday for trying to keep Israelis from traveling to Uman for Rosh Hashanah but not seeking to halt mass protests against the prime minister, claiming Gamzu was motivated by an alleged fear of the media.
Gamzu rejected Zohar’s criticism, as did Health Minister Yuli Edelstein. Several lawmakers also came to Gamzu’s defense.
Zohar’s criticism of Gamzu came a day after the latter vowed to “do everything” to prevent large numbers of Hasidic Jews from flying to Uman, and threatened he could resign over the matter.
Ukraine is one of the few countries that are currently allowing in Israeli nationals, despite the high coronavirus infection rate in the Jewish state.
On Thursday, the Bratslav Hasidic sect said it would never again support Netanyahu due to the government’s efforts to prevent the pilgrimage to Uman.
The development came as dozens of worshipers were held for up to 17 hours at a Ukrainian airport before being allowed in, even though a decision by Kyiv Wednesday to not allow foreign nationals in the country only takes effect Friday at midnight.
Umnan usually sees tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews visit the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav for the Rosh Hashanah holida,.
File: Pilgrims to Uman celebrating at the grave of Rebbe Nachman, September 7, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
According to Channel 12, after the Hasidim withdrew their support, Netanyahu told leading rabbis he was working to find a solution to allow them to enter Ukraine and visit Uman.
Dozens of Bratslav Hasidim protested Netanyahu’s policy on the matter in the northern Israel city of Safed on Thursday, while the premier was staying at a hotel in the city.
Some ten more flights from Israel were due to arrive in Ukraine Thursday and Friday, before the sweeping entry ban takes effect. Channel 12 reported that two more flights later Thursday would be allowed in and possibly more on Friday, but that at least two flights have been canceled.
Channel 13 said the pilgrimage site was already packed with worshipers, who weren’t wearing face masks, staying outdoors, or observing social distancing.


jewworldorder--2020-08-28--El Al plane listed for historic Israel-UAE trip with dialing code flight numbers

Israel has listed an El Al flight taking off Monday for Abu Dhabi , which would be Israel ’ s first commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates after the two countries agreed to a US-brokered deal to normalize relations .
The website of the Israel Airports Authority listed the flight on Friday .
It said the flight would be numbered LY971 , a nod to the UAE ’ s international calling code number .
A return flight to Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday will be numbered LY972 , Israel ’ s international calling code .
Get The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Authorities in Israel and the UAE did not immediately acknowledge the flight .
The US Embassy in Abu Dhabi did not immediately respond to a request for comment .
Among those set to be on the flight are White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and several other senior Trump administration officials , who are scheduled to arrive in Israel over the weekend .
An Israeli delegation led by National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat will also be on the flight .
It will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flight in months , after it shut down most of its operations due to the coronavirus pandemic .
The airliner will bring three furloughed senior pilots back to work for the flight , according to Hebrew-language media reports Thursday .
The Foreign Ministry is conducting talks with Saudi Arabia about the flight potentially passing over Saudi airspace , but the matter isn ’ t final , a source with knowledge of the talks told The Times of Israel .
Kushner and the US delegation also will travel to several Arab states as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ties with Israel .
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week visited Israel , the UAE and a number of other countries in the region in a bid to expand on the agreement between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi , but appeared to return home empty-handed .

Israel has listed an El Al flight taking off Monday for Abu Dhabi, which would be Israel’s first commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates after the two countries agreed to a US-brokered deal to normalize relations.
The website of the Israel Airports Authority listed the flight on Friday.
It said the flight would be numbered LY971, a nod to the UAE’s international calling code number. A return flight to Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday will be numbered LY972, Israel’s international calling code.
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Authorities in Israel and the UAE did not immediately acknowledge the flight. The US Embassy in Abu Dhabi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Among those set to be on the flight are White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and several other senior Trump administration officials, who are scheduled to arrive in Israel over the weekend.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, following the announcement of Israel’s normalization agreement with the UAE, August 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
An Israeli delegation led by National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat will also be on the flight.
It will be El Al’s first commercial flight in months, after it shut down most of its operations due to the coronavirus pandemic. The airliner will bring three furloughed senior pilots back to work for the flight, according to Hebrew-language media reports Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry is conducting talks with Saudi Arabia about the flight potentially passing over Saudi airspace, but the matter isn’t final, a source with knowledge of the talks told The Times of Israel.
Kushner and the US delegation also will travel to several Arab states as the Trump administration pushes other countries to normalize ties with Israel.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week visited Israel, the UAE and a number of other countries in the region in a bid to expand on the agreement between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi, but appeared to return home empty-handed.


jewworldorder--2020-08-28--Black Lives Matter Mob Tries to Attack Rand Paul Outside RNC

An angry Black Lives Matter mob tried to attack Senator Rand Paul outside the Republican National Convention in DC during yet another night of mayhem .
“ Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100 , one block away from the White House .
Thank you to @ DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob , ” tweeted the Senator .
The video shows Paul and his wife walking down the street after leaving the venue while BLM agitators chant “ say her name !
” Their line of protection is pretty thin with just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to block the BLM rioters .
One of them then tries to get to Paul by pushing away a police officer holding a bike , temporarily causing the Senator and the officer to lose their balance .
The Senator then says something to the officer before Paul ’ s wife begins almost jogging in an effort to get away faster .
The scene was just one of many examples of chaos on yet another night of BLM bedlam .
Congressman Brian Mast was also confronted by an angry mob .
Another man and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lunatics .
The same group then targeted another two people leaving the RNC .
Rioters also tried to attack a bus full of RNC Convention attendees .
They also threatened to burn down St Johns Church .
When not screaming in people ’ s faces , the rioters kept themselves busy by starting fights with cops .
Trump supporters shouldn ’ t be too unhappy to see such scenes unfold right up until the election .
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An angry Black Lives Matter mob tried to attack Senator Rand Paul outside the Republican National Convention in DC during yet another night of mayhem.
“Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob,” tweeted the Senator.
Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 28, 2020
The video shows Paul and his wife walking down the street after leaving the venue while BLM agitators chant “say her name!”
Their line of protection is pretty thin with just a handful of police officers on hand to block the BLM rioters.
One of them then tries to get to Paul by pushing away a police officer holding a bike, temporarily causing the Senator and the officer to lose their balance.
Rand Paul just got chased by a crowd back to his hotel, after leaving the White House from Trump’s Republican Party Nomination #DC #DCProtests pic.twitter.com/h1kPcZG1jh — Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) August 28, 2020
The Senator then says something to the officer before Paul’s wife begins almost jogging in an effort to get away faster.
The scene was just one of many examples of chaos on yet another night of BLM bedlam.
Congressman Brian Mast was also confronted by an angry mob.
Congressman @BrianMastFL walking through protesters after leaving Trump’s RNC speech. Mob confronts: him: pic.twitter.com/1xvEdyOMBL — Phillip Nieto (@nieto_phillip) August 28, 2020
Another man and his wife were also harassed by masked lunatics.
Man and his wife leaving White House get mobbed on their way back to their hotel by livid protesters. pic.twitter.com/qnpPTfReS3 — Phillip Nieto (@nieto_phillip) August 28, 2020
The same group then targeted another two people leaving the RNC.
More RNC guests being harassed after leaving the White House: pic.twitter.com/FhlTZnBSM7 — Phillip Nieto (@nieto_phillip) August 28, 2020
Elderly Trump supporters were also targeted.
Rioters also tried to attack a bus full of RNC Convention attendees.
A woman opened the back door of the bus of RNC attendees and hopped inside #RNCConvention2020 #DC #DCProtest pic.twitter.com/Uar2cVbk7y — Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) August 28, 2020
They also threatened to burn down St Johns Church.
Protesters in front of St Johns Church chanting if “we don’t get it (justice) burn it down!” pic.twitter.com/KDq73c0Knj — Phillip Nieto (@nieto_phillip) August 28, 2020
When not screaming in people’s faces, the rioters kept themselves busy by starting fights with cops.
BLM Terrorists causing chaos on the streets of DC tonight pic.twitter.com/B6wNBBEtvX — Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) August 28, 2020
A crowd swarms DC Police officers as they try to make an arrest near the White House #DC #DCProtests pic.twitter.com/c1kiIKqvmD — Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) August 28, 2020
Trump supporters shouldn’t be too unhappy to see such scenes unfold right up until the election.
Polls suggest that support for Black Lives Matter has plummeted since June, with voters deserting Joe Biden as a result.
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jewworldorder--2020-08-28--Israel Museum offers capsule tours led by staffers during reopening

The Israel Museum reopened in mid-August after months of coronavirus-imposed closure , several staff demonstrations protesting possible salary cuts , and a last-minute grant from American donors .
Now the country ’ s largest cultural institution is finally open to visitors , with a coronavirus-safe approach that includes half-hour capsule tours of the museum ’ s permanent and current exhibits .
Some 100 members of the museum ’ s permanent staff , from the director to the security guards , are guiding the capsules — small family or friend units who visit the museum together .
The tours are scheduled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , although visitors are strongly encouraged to purchase museum tickets online .
Get The Times of Israel ’ s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Some of the guided tours are given by curators of their own exhibits .
Director Ido Bruno leads a walk through the sculpture garden , and the director of the Shrine of the Book offers his take on the mysterious , ancient scrolls housed in the glistening white-domed building .
For now , only 2,000 people are allowed at a time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that usually holds some 20,000 .
Each visitor has their temperature checked at the door before being welcomed in to wander around or to head to the temporary gallery in the main building where several stations display a list of upcoming tours in Hebrew , Arabic , English , Italian and Russian .
“ It ’ s our house , it ’ s very intimate , it ’ s emotional — and that ’ s the idea , ” said Tomer Tsur , from the museum ’ s events department .
“ We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ friends , and in that way we protect ourselves and our visitors .
It ’ s a very new concept for us.
” There have been some 500 tours since the museum reopened , with most staff members offering at least two a day , said Tsur .
On Tuesday morning , curator Shirli Ben Dor Evian led our family capsule around the one-room exhibition of “ Emoglyphs , Picture-Writing from Hieroglyphs to the Emoji , ” her recently opened exhibit that compares the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt to the emoji icons of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Archaeology Wing , is a one-gallery window into the symbols , messaging and culture of ancient Egypt , wittily juxtaposed against the colorful , expressive icons used to augment messages , created in 1999 in Japan .
“ To me it ’ s the most obvious thing , ” said Ben Dor Evian .
“ Hieroglyphics and emojis stem from the same place.
” Over time , the Egyptians ’ pictures were replaced by a writing system consisting of approximately twenty signs — the alphabetic script that reins in Western culture to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the gallery , where a short film explained the concept of the exhibit , the pair of 11-year-olds in my family unit were enthralled , leading Ben Dor Evian on a less-than-straight path through the gallery , which was fine with her .
The exhibit of some 250 objects — all but two are from the museum ’ s collection — include carefully engraved jade scarabs , an inscribed lid of a female mummy , an ancient anchor recently found in the sea by the Israel Antiquities Authority — is an eye-opening look @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the past and repurposes it .
“ The pictures give us very specific ideas , ” said Ben Dor Evian .
“ When you ’ re writing with pictures , you intuitively understand what took place 5,000 years ago and here in the 21st century , and it ’ s much more powerful than just writing with words.
” There are unexpected , fun tidbits when viewing the collection with Ben Dor Evian , such as her explanation of how the dung beetle became a god and revered symbol for the Egyptians , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s ability to gather dung in order to hatch its young .
The image of the beetle became their word for “ become , ” for its representation of new life .
At the end of a 35-minute tour , Ben Dor Evian had to head to her next tour .
Our group lingered a few minutes longer , until a guard came over and politely asked if we were ready to leave , in order to let another few visitors into the gallery .
Visitors are welcome to wander around the museum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tour , if they desire .
There ’ s also an outdoor sculpture garden for those leery of spending too much inside , even with masks and social distancing .
Cafes are open , but with limited menu options and no indoor seating .
The main museum store is also open for business .
In these last days of summer , before the unknowns of a school year starting during the coronavirus , it ’ s an easy way to spend a few engrossing hours .

The Israel Museum reopened in mid-August after months of coronavirus-imposed closure, several staff demonstrations protesting possible salary cuts, and a last-minute grant from American donors.
Now the country’s largest cultural institution is finally open to visitors, with a coronavirus-safe approach that includes half-hour capsule tours of the museum’s permanent and current exhibits.
Some 100 members of the museum’s permanent staff, from the director to the security guards, are guiding the capsules — small family or friend units who visit the museum together. The tours are scheduled throughout the day and require no preregistration, although visitors are strongly encouraged to purchase museum tickets online.
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Some of the guided tours are given by curators of their own exhibits. Director Ido Bruno leads a walk through the sculpture garden, and the director of the Shrine of the Book offers his take on the mysterious, ancient scrolls housed in the glistening white-domed building.
Israel Museum director Ido Bruno (second from left) with visitors for a capsule tour of the museum in August 2020 (Courtesy Israel Museum)
For now, only 2,000 people are allowed at a time into the museum, a sprawling complex that usually holds some 20,000 .
Each visitor has their temperature checked at the door before being welcomed in to wander around or to head to the temporary gallery in the main building where several stations display a list of upcoming tours in Hebrew, Arabic, English, Italian and Russian.
“It’s our house, it’s very intimate, it’s emotional — and that’s the idea,” said Tomer Tsur, from the museum’s events department. “We only allow small capsules of families and friends, and in that way we protect ourselves and our visitors. It’s a very new concept for us.”
There have been some 500 tours since the museum reopened, with most staff members offering at least two a day, said Tsur.
Curator Shirly Ben Dor Evian at the start of her new exhibit, ‘Emoglyphs’, where she is self-guiding short capsule tours in August 2020 (Courtesy Jessica Steinberg)
On Tuesday morning, curator Shirli Ben Dor Evian led our family capsule around the one-room exhibition of “Emoglyphs, Picture-Writing from Hieroglyphs to the Emoji,” her recently opened exhibit that compares the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt to the emoji icons of today.
The exhibit, housed at the Archaeology Wing, is a one-gallery window into the symbols, messaging and culture of ancient Egypt, wittily juxtaposed against the colorful, expressive icons used to augment messages, created in 1999 in Japan.
“To me it’s the most obvious thing,” said Ben Dor Evian. “Hieroglyphics and emojis stem from the same place.”
Over time, the Egyptians’ pictures were replaced by a writing system consisting of approximately twenty signs — the alphabetic script that reins in Western culture to this day.
From the entrance to the gallery, where a short film explained the concept of the exhibit, the pair of 11-year-olds in my family unit were enthralled, leading Ben Dor Evian on a less-than-straight path through the gallery, which was fine with her.
Curator Shirly Ben Dor Evian at her new exhibit, ‘Emoglyphs’, where she is self-guiding short capsule tours in August 2020 (Courtesy Jessica Steinberg)
The exhibit of some 250 objects — all but two are from the museum’s collection — include carefully engraved jade scarabs, an inscribed lid of a female mummy, an ancient anchor recently found in the sea by the Israel Antiquities Authority — is an eye-opening look into how modernity takes what existed in the past and repurposes it.
“The pictures give us very specific ideas,” said Ben Dor Evian. “When you’re writing with pictures, you intuitively understand what took place 5,000 years ago and here in the 21st century, and it’s much more powerful than just writing with words.”
There are unexpected, fun tidbits when viewing the collection with Ben Dor Evian, such as her explanation of how the dung beetle became a god and revered symbol for the Egyptians, who were amazed at the coleopteran’s ability to gather dung in order to hatch its young. The image of the beetle became their word for “become,” for its representation of new life.
At the end of a 35-minute tour, Ben Dor Evian had to head to her next tour. Our group lingered a few minutes longer, until a guard came over and politely asked if we were ready to leave, in order to let another few visitors into the gallery.
Israel Museum staffers are offering 30-minute VIP tours to the exhibits and favorite spaces in the museum for the occasion of the museum’s reopening in August after an extended coronavirus closure (Courtesy Israsel Museum)
Visitors are welcome to wander around the museum on their own, or try another tour, if they desire. There’s also an outdoor sculpture garden for those leery of spending too much inside, even with masks and social distancing.
Cafes are open, but with limited menu options and no indoor seating. The main museum store is also open for business.
In these last days of summer, before the unknowns of a school year starting during the coronavirus, it’s an easy way to spend a few engrossing hours.


jewworldorder--2020-08-28--Eight major European photography events to follow in the next months, online and offline

In 2020 photography events worked tirelessly to reinvent themselves amid the new normal in the age of COVID-19 .
Due to lockdown restrictions or current great uncertainty , some major photo festivals in Europe had to be postponed , but many still offer a variety of experience for their audience – online and offline .
Check out some of our favourites .
This festival of photography and visual arts encompasses almost all of Spain and will last until the 31 October .
This year ’ s 23rd edition focuses on digital projects .
The outdoor exhibitions paying homage to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in our lives recently are being held in more than 50 cities in Spain , inviting citizens to use photography as a means of expression and communication in these difficult times .
The festival features renowned international and local artists as well as emerging talents .
Japanese photography from the 1950s and 1960s ; the Magnum photographers ’ views of the human body ; and a survey of the relationship between art and fashion – are just some of the collective shows offered this year .
The individual exhibitions feature some big names @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pandemic can hardly be forgotten this year – PHotoESPAÑA ’ s ‘ Time at a Standstill ’ exhibition compiles the work of 42 photographers who ’ ve been exploring the experience of confinement in Spain through different vantage points and narrative voices .
For their online experience , the festival website offers access to 107 online exhibition galleries .
Visitors are encouraged to vote for their favourite .
The festival has only slightly reduced the number of exhibitions in 2020 compared to previous years .
Among this year ’ s highlights : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ water shortages ; protest movements , and documenting the pandemic .
Overall 20 exhibitions will be available at 3 locations in the town .
Some festival events could not be maintained in their usual form .
At the same time , organisers promised to make exhibitions , screenings , discussions , conferences and portfolio reviews available in virtual form on the festival ’ s website and on social media platforms .
Athens Photo Festival , which usually takes place in the Greek capital during the summer months , plans to kick off this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ run until mid-November .
The event offers exhibitions , talent development and engaging activities such as photo marathons , portfolio reviews , educational labs and a night screening .
The team says it ’ s exploring ways to digitise parts of the program to offer artist talks , portfolio reviews and exhibition tours as an online experience .
The festival invites photographers and visual storytellers from all over the world to explore a festival -wide theme proposed each year .
Most of the exhibitions are designed as open-air installations , highlighting the dialogue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To the streets !
’ – is the title of this year ’ s edition .
“ The street has taken on a fundamental role in contemporary global society .
We want to explore the online and physical public space as an updated place of protest , as an area to be reclaimed by marginalised people , as a place of encounter and mutual recognition , and as a field for experimentation , play and celebration , ” organisers say .
This photography event is focused on nature and environmental issues since its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to blend images into the landscape of La Gacilly , a village in French Bretagne .
Large format photographs of both renowned photographers and amateurs are installed on its streets , making open-air exhibitions accessible anytime .
This year the festival focuses on Latin America , presenting an exceptional selection of work from the region .
Biodiversity preservation and climate issues is another topic presented with some excellent photographic work .
When : canceled in 2020 , maintaining awards and some limited events online and offline This international photography festival , which celebrated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cancel its 51st edition in 2020 due to pandemic-related restrictions .
The festival ’ s team has made available online one of the most anticipated experiences of the festival , a projection of festival favourite artists and photographers – the Night of the Year .
Rencontres d ’ Arles holds two special events in Arles in the end of August with their partners .
Around a hundred guests , writers , philosophers , scientists , and other experts in different areas were invited to participate in debates and screenings on the topic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s relationship with nature .
These sold-out events are broadcast on social media .
Photo London , an annual photography event , usually held in Somerset House in London .
It generously shares a vast selection of photography-related content on its website .
This year , due to uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 its fair will also take place online .
One of the world ’ s biggest fairs focused on photography is usually held in the middle of November .
Special exhibitions featuring important public and private collections , award ceremonies and conversation series @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and key figures in the field are organised each year .
The archive of the talks from the previous year can be found on the fair ’ s website .

In 2020 photography events worked tirelessly to reinvent themselves amid the new normal in the age of COVID-19. Due to lockdown restrictions or current great uncertainty, some major photo festivals in Europe had to be postponed, but many still offer a variety of experience for their audience – online and offline.
Check out some of our favourites.
Where: Spain and online
When: June 25 – October 31
This festival of photography and visual arts encompasses almost all of Spain and will last until the 31 October. This year’s 23rd edition focuses on digital projects.
The outdoor exhibitions paying homage to the role that balconies and windows have played in our lives recently are being held in more than 50 cities in Spain, inviting citizens to use photography as a means of expression and communication in these difficult times.
The festival features renowned international and local artists as well as emerging talents. Japanese photography from the 1950s and 1960s; the Magnum photographers’ views of the human body; and a survey of the relationship between art and fashion – are just some of the collective shows offered this year. The individual exhibitions feature some big names in photography too.
The topic of the pandemic can hardly be forgotten this year – PHotoESPAÑA’s ‘Time at a Standstill’ exhibition compiles the work of 42 photographers who’ve been exploring the experience of confinement in Spain through different vantage points and narrative voices.
For their online experience, the festival website offers access to 107 online exhibition galleries. Visitors are encouraged to vote for their favourite.
Where: Perpignan, France and online
When: August 29 – September 13, additional dates: September 19, 20, 26, 27.
The festival has only slightly reduced the number of exhibitions in 2020 compared to previous years. Among this year’s highlights: ecological issues: pollution, deforestation, water shortages; protest movements, and documenting the pandemic. Overall 20 exhibitions will be available at 3 locations in the town.
Some festival events could not be maintained in their usual form. At the same time, organisers promised to make exhibitions, screenings, discussions, conferences and portfolio reviews available in virtual form on the festival’s website and on social media platforms.
Where: Athens, Greece and online
When: September 16 – November 15, 2020
Athens Photo Festival, which usually takes place in the Greek capital during the summer months, plans to kick off this year in mid-September and is scheduled to run until mid-November. The event offers exhibitions, talent development and engaging activities such as photo marathons, portfolio reviews, educational labs and a night screening. The team says it’s exploring ways to digitise parts of the program to offer artist talks, portfolio reviews and exhibition tours as an online experience.
Where: Getxo, Basque Country, Spain and online
When: 3–27 September 2020
The festival invites photographers and visual storytellers from all over the world to explore a festival -wide theme proposed each year. Most of the exhibitions are designed as open-air installations, highlighting the dialogue between images and the environment.
‘To the streets!’ – is the title of this year’s edition. “The street has taken on a fundamental role in contemporary global society. We want to explore the online and physical public space as an updated place of protest, as an area to be reclaimed by marginalised people, as a place of encounter and mutual recognition, and as a field for experimentation, play and celebration,” organisers say.
GETXOPHOTO prepares a specific program for online experience.
Where: La Gacilly, France
When: July 1 – October 31
This photography event is focused on nature and environmental issues since its foundation in 2004. The festival aims to blend images into the landscape of La Gacilly, a village in French Bretagne.
Large format photographs of both renowned photographers and amateurs are installed on its streets, making open-air exhibitions accessible anytime.
This year the festival focuses on Latin America, presenting an exceptional selection of work from the region. Biodiversity preservation and climate issues is another topic presented with some excellent photographic work.
Arles, France
When: canceled in 2020, maintaining awards and some limited events online and offline
This international photography festival, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, had to cancel its 51st edition in 2020 due to pandemic-related restrictions.
The festival’s team has made available online one of the most anticipated experiences of the festival, a projection of festival favourite artists and photographers – the Night of the Year.
Rencontres d’Arles holds two special events in Arles in the end of August with their partners. Around a hundred guests, writers, philosophers, scientists, and other experts in different areas were invited to participate in debates and screenings on the topic of the great history of man’s relationship with nature. These sold-out events are broadcast on social media.
Where: Online
When: 7–18 October 2020
Photo London, an annual photography event, usually held in Somerset House in London.
It generously shares a vast selection of photography-related content on its website. This year, due to uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 its fair will also take place online.
Where: Paris, France
When: 12-15 November
One of the world’s biggest fairs focused on photography is usually held in the middle of November. Special exhibitions featuring important public and private collections, award ceremonies and conversation series’ led by artists, curators, and key figures in the field are organised each year. The archive of the talks from the previous year can be found on the fair’s website.


jewworldorder--2020-08-28--With over 2,000 daily virus cases, Israel’s death toll reaches 891

The Health Ministry said Friday that 2,068 people tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday , with 10,777 new cases found in total over the course of the week .
The daily infection rate was the highest seen in Israel since the end of July .
The ministry reported eight more coronavirus deaths since Thursday evening , taking the total to 891 .
Get The Times of Israel ’ s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Of the 20,444 active cases in Israel , 426 patients were in serious condition with 118 of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were in moderate condition .
The remainder had mild or no symptoms .
There have now been 111,493 cases of the coronavirus in Israel since the start of the pandemic .
The new figures came as testing levels appeared to remain at high levels , passing the 30,000 mark for the third day in a row on Thursday , with 36,372 carried out returning a positive rate of 5.9 % .
Ministers are expected on Sunday to discuss coronavirus tzar Ronni Gamzu ’ s “ traffic light ” plan , which last week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approve , reportedly due to opposition from ultra-Orthodox ministers who oppose restrictions that could shutter synagogues in high-infection areas .
Gamzu ’ s plan outlines restrictions to be imposed during the High Holiday period , which begins next month .
The plan would only place restrictions on cities with high morbidity rates , where the rate of infection is not slowed by September 10 .
The restrictions would take effect starting from Rosh Hashanah until October 11 , after the Sukkot holiday .
Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman said in an interview published Friday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consider leaving the coalition if a nationwide lockdown is imposed over the holiday period .
“ The approval for mass demonstrations [ outside the Prime Minister ’ s Residence ] alongside the opening of cultural centers , but with continued restrictions on synagogues and the prevention of travel to Uman , have destroyed public confidence in the system , ” Litzman told the Hamodia daily .
On Wednesday , Ukraine announced it would seal its borders to foreigners through September to curb rising coronavirus infections , blocking Israeli and Jewish pilgrims from traveling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city usually sees tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews visit the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav for the Rosh Hashanah holiday , which this year begins the evening of September 18 .
The announcement of the entry ban came after Gamzu asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to prevent the pilgrimage , fearing returning pilgrims could drive up infection rates in the Jewish state .

The Health Ministry said Friday that 2,068 people tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, with 10,777 new cases found in total over the course of the week.
The daily infection rate was the highest seen in Israel since the end of July.
The ministry reported eight more coronavirus deaths since Thursday evening, taking the total to 891.
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Of the 20,444 active cases in Israel, 426 patients were in serious condition with 118 of them on ventilators, and 178 people were in moderate condition. The remainder had mild or no symptoms.
There have now been 111,493 cases of the coronavirus in Israel since the start of the pandemic.
The new figures came as testing levels appeared to remain at high levels, passing the 30,000 mark for the third day in a row on Thursday, with 36,372 carried out returning a positive rate of 5.9%.
Ministers are expected on Sunday to discuss coronavirus tzar Ronni Gamzu’s “traffic light” plan, which last week they refused for a third time to approve, reportedly due to opposition from ultra-Orthodox ministers who oppose restrictions that could shutter synagogues in high-infection areas.
Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu at an inauguration ceremony of a Health Ministry command center near Ben Gurion Airport, August 26, 2020. (GPO)
Gamzu’s plan outlines restrictions to be imposed during the High Holiday period, which begins next month.
The plan would only place restrictions on cities with high morbidity rates, where the rate of infection is not slowed by September 10. The restrictions would take effect starting from Rosh Hashanah until October 11, after the Sukkot holiday.
Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman said in an interview published Friday that his United Torah Judaism party would consider leaving the coalition if a nationwide lockdown is imposed over the holiday period.
“The approval for mass demonstrations [outside the Prime Minister’s Residence] alongside the opening of cultural centers, but with continued restrictions on synagogues and the prevention of travel to Uman, have destroyed public confidence in the system,” Litzman told the Hamodia daily.
On Wednesday, Ukraine announced it would seal its borders to foreigners through September to curb rising coronavirus infections, blocking Israeli and Jewish pilgrims from traveling to the city of Uman.
The city usually sees tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews visit the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav for the Rosh Hashanah holiday, which this year begins the evening of September 18.
The announcement of the entry ban came after Gamzu asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to prevent the pilgrimage, fearing returning pilgrims could drive up infection rates in the Jewish state.


jewworldorder--2020-08-28--Israeli Border Police clash with East Jerusalem residents, one officer injured


jewworldorder--2020-08-29--World’s largest bronze gorilla sculpture grabs New Yorkers’ attention

To raise awareness and funds for the critically endangered gorilla species , public artists Gillie and Marc Schattner have created a massive sculpture of the animal .
Titled King Nyani , the Swahili word for “ gorilla ” , it ’ s the world ’ s largest bronze gorilla sculpture and can fit two to three humans just in its hands .
Gillie and Marc have dedicated a large part of their career as artists to bringing attention to the world ’ s endangered species through their Love The Last project .
The artists get passionately involved in their projects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ head of a family of silverback mountain gorillas that Gille and Marc encountered on a trip to Uganda .
They say they were moved to tears watching the gorilla exhibit empathy and kindness as opposed to the “ scary ” image so often portrayed .
Inspired by the movie scene where King Kong takes a woman in his hand , King Nyani ’ s hand is open for visitors to sit and interact with him .
Through a partnership with the Hudson Yards-Hell ’ s Kitchen Alliance and NYC Parks , the sculpture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Park for nine months .

To raise awareness and funds for the critically endangered gorilla species, public artists Gillie and Marc Schattner have created a massive sculpture of the animal.
Titled King Nyani, the Swahili word for “gorilla”, it’s the world’s largest bronze gorilla sculpture and can fit two to three humans just in its hands.
Gillie and Marc have dedicated a large part of their career as artists to bringing attention to the world’s endangered species through their Love The Last project.
The artists get passionately involved in their projects.
King Nyani is based on the head of a family of silverback mountain gorillas that Gille and Marc encountered on a trip to Uganda. They say they were moved to tears watching the gorilla exhibit empathy and kindness as opposed to the “scary” image so often portrayed.
Inspired by the movie scene where King Kong takes a woman in his hand, King Nyani’s hand is open for visitors to sit and interact with him.
Through a partnership with the Hudson Yards-Hell’s Kitchen Alliance and NYC Parks, the sculpture will be on display in Bella Abzug Park for nine months.