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One of the more powerful liberal propaganda houses, known as the Anti-Defamation League, published a murder hit list Tuesday on reported Alt-Right and Alt-Lite extremists in America. Apparently the only qualifiers for extremism are patriotism, the belief in small government, and support for the current president (according to the left). Make no mistake about it, the ADL posted this disgusting report as a hit on ALL Donald Trump supporters.

The report put a target on ALL Trump supporters most notably the conservatives and some they brand as Alt Right and Alt Light activists mentioned in their report.

In just one year, the alt right has gone from relative obscurity to being one of the United States most visible extremist movements. This stratospheric rise is due in large part to the rhetoric employed during the 2016 presidential campaign, which granted implicit approval to the once-taboo hallmarks of the far right overt racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, misogyny, and anti-Muslim bigotry.

You cant discuss the alt right without mentioning the alt lite, a loosely connected movementof right-wing activists who reject the overtly white supremacist ideology of the alt right, but whose hateful impact is more significant than their lite name suggests. The alt lite embraces misogyny and xenophobia, and abhors political correctness and the left.

The report is full of slanderous statements andargues that the conservative movement leaders in America today are white supremacists and anti-Semites

Mike Cernovich led the Trump movement in the run-up to the 2016 election and broke numerous anti-Hillary stories.

Gavin McInnes leads the Proud Boys (a patriotic American fraternity) movement and is an extremely popular radio host at both Rebel Media and Compound Media.

Popular New Right reporter Jack Posobiec also made the list. He actually held a rally AGAINST political violence.

Lucian Wintrich is The Gateway Pundits White House Correspondent and made the list because of his skyrocketing popularity and charisma. Lucian is a popular campus speaker and media magnate, having been profiled in dozens of publications from The New Yorker and Hollywood Reporter toseveral papers internationally.

Lucian Wintrich is also an open gay conservative and the grandson of a Nazi occupation survivor. Lucians grandfather, a Jew, fled the Nazis in Poland and came to America penniless. Again Lucian is the grandson of a Nazi occupation survivor and yet the ADL is claiming that he is racist, anti-Semite and right-wing extremist. That is how crazy the current incarnation of the left is. If you are a patriotic American who believes in conservative values progressiveslabel that as extremism.

Tonight Lucian made the Anti-Defamation Leagues hit list.

Adding @Cernovich + @Gavin_McInnes to the @ADL_Nationals hate list is #ADLterror. Itll trigger more of these nuts to kill ADL targets. pic.twitter.com/ae5cZgCiKx

American So Woke (@AmericanSoWoke) July 18, 2017

Makes sense now @JGreenblattADL #ADLTerror pic.twitter.com/XRcct7Y10L

Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) July 18, 2017

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Posted By simmons on July 25, 2017

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Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel

When the opening line of an article about you starts out this way, This is some seriously sick shit, you know its not going to end well.

But thats exactly how David Nir at Daily Kos started his piece Friday on Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel and his loony tune attack on the Anti Defamation League(ADL), as he tries not to lose to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown two consecutive times should he become the GOP nominee next year.

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The ADL and its Center on Extremism releaseda reportnaming 36 leading purveyors of hate from both the alt-right and the closely linked alt-lite. The guide is a roster of activists and leaders who personify the Alt Right and Alt Lite movements at a time of increased public activity, the report announced. Snapshots of both movements key players detail their backgrounds and involvement.

A former Marine who uses his military service as a battering ram, Mandel is hitting the beaches to defend Mike Cernovich.

Sad to see @ADL_National become a partisan witchhunt group targeting people for political beliefs. I stand with @Cernovich & @JackPosobiec, Ohios gung ho, pro-Trump two-term treasurer tweeted.

Per ADL, the rap sheet on Cernovich reads like this:

Cernovich is known for his promotion of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which propagated outrageous claims about child trafficking and culminated in Edgar Welch firing an AR-15 as he entered D.C.s Comet Ping Pong pizzeria.He is a contributor to Alex Jones Infowars.

Dont forget, Pizzagate included a starring role by then Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

It was enough to make flat-earthers look sane, wrote Nir, who marveled at how those uncomfortable with sporting overt white supremacy, behavior as practiced by the alt-right, somehow manages to be just as hateful toward women, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, and blacks.

In another shameless but revealing tweet, Treasurer Mandel wrote, As the grandson of Holocaust survivors and as a Marine who defended our freedom, Treasurer Mandel believes the ADL is dead wrong for creating hit lists on American citizens. Of all organizations, the ADL should know that making target lists of people based on their political beliefs is a dangerous practice and slippery slope.

This is as disgusting as it is terrifying. The GOPs top Senate candidate in a major race is siding with an insane conspiracy theorist and engaging in a baseless, histrionic assault against the leading organization devoted to protecting Jews from the very kinds of hatred that Cernovich and his ilk promote. This only further cements Mandel as the very worst that Republicans have to offer, Nir concluded.

Mandel was beat decisively in 2012 when Browns comfortable margin, despite $40 million spent against him, secured the seat a second time. If Mandel loses a second race to Brown next year, his rising Republican star will fade over the horizon for a while as political day follows political night, until another dawn presents another opportunity.

Mandel has shown he embraces Trump and Trumpism and all the methods Trumpism is infamous for employing. The attack from Mandel and friends on Brown, between now and next years mid-term elections, will be thick with unending fake news.

Meanwhile, its unclear whether Mandel will appear with President Trump when Air Force One lands in Ohio for a rally in Youngstown soon. Even if Mandel doesnt stand with Trump, hes already shown that he stands with the Tweeter-in-chief on all the worst features Americans have seen unfold in the first six months of a Trump White House.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -

Nearly every speaker expected to attend an August rally in Emancipation Park is a leader of the alt-right movement, according to a civil rights group.

Jason Kessler, a self-described white activist in Charlottesville, is scheduled to hold his Unite the Right rally at the park on Saturday, August 12.

Kessler said his rally is in support of keeping the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park, previously known as Lee Park. He estimates more than 400 will attend in support of the rally. Meanwhile, authorities tell NBC29 that the park and surrounding area may be crowded with around 4,000, which includes an unknown amount of likely counterprotesters.

Posters for Kesslers event include a list speakers:internet personality Anthime "Baked Alaska Gionet, National Policy Institute President Richard Spencer, Right Stuff founder Mike Enoch Peinovich, Traditionalist Worker Party cofounder Matthew Heimbach, CounterFund founder Pax Dickinson, and podcaster Johnny Monoxide Ramondetta.

All of those people, including Kessler, are listed in the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) piece From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate.

They want to unite those white supremacists on the extreme right to show that they're coherent, to defend what they view as their white heritage and culture against diversity, said ADL Center of Extremism Director Oren Segal.

Segal adds,This might be one of the biggest gatherings of white supremacists we've seen in a long time.

The ADL added Kessler to its "who's who" list of alt-right leaders after his involvement in May's white heritage protest in then-named Jackson Park. Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously in June to rename it and Lee Park to Justice and Emancipation parks, respectively.

"He clearly put himself by his statements and his activity in the orbit of these groups and therefore he made our list," said Segal.

I think it's very hypocritical of the ADL to devote their lives to attacking uppity whites when they support the ethno-state of Israel, Kessler said.

The nonprofit organization describes Kessler, Spencer, and Ramondetta as white supremacists and members of the alt right movement. Other speakers are considered alt right, according to the ADL.

"I'm happy to be considered the enemy of the ADL," Kessler said.

I want people to understand the Unite the Right rally is a white supremacist rally, and that as people of faith we are called to confront that and counteract that, said Congregate Charlottesville Lead Organizer Brittany Caine-Conley.

Caine-Conley is also a member of Charlottesville SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), which is asking city officials to deny Kessler's permit. Solidarity Cville has sent a similar request, as well.

The Anti-Defamation Leagueis encouraging the Charlottesville community to avoid violence.

An alternative rally is being planned the same day as Unite the Right.

Albemarle County said it was contacted on July 14 by a representative of a group 1 Team 1 Fight.

The group has requested space in Darden Towe Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on August 12.

"They have characterized their event as a I'm going to read this so I get it right, unity gathering of various patriot groups across the country, said Albemarle County spokesperson Lee Catlin.

The permit has yet to be approved by the county.

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Posted By simmons on July 24, 2017

From Metapedia

Zionism is a Jewish nationalist ideology and movement created during the 1800s in order to establish an ethnically/racially Jewish nation state in the Middle East. This cause found its realization in the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 after the end of British rule, realizing the promises of the Balfour declaration. Zionism is supported by the Israel lobby and various form of Jewish influence more generally.

Published in 1862, Moses Hess laid the foundation of what is considered as the philosophical base of Zionism, with the book Rome and Jerusalem. It calls upon Jewish nationalism and the need to establish a national state for the Jews. However, Hess never used the term "Zionsim". Instead, he argued for a national Jewish state based upon socialism. The term "Zionism" was coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890.[2]

In 1896, Theodor Herzl published the book Judenstaat (The Jewish State). Herzl argued for the practical means to create a Jewish national state. Herzl also assembled the first Zionist congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897.[3]

Zionists individuals and organizations have frequently been criticized for hypocrisy and double standards, supporting Jewish nationalism and an ethnically/racially Jewish nation state in Israel, while at the same time opposing White nationalism and supporting mass immigration and multiculturalism elsewhere.

See also Jews and immigration.

The Palestinians who have lost their homes in the creation of Israel are among those opposed to its existence. Among Jews, the orthodox Neturei Karta group opposes Zionism as blasphemy. Zionism was formerly opposed by some powerful Jews who feared that the creation of a Jewish state would cause them to lose their power and influence (such as ownership of newspapers and real estate), as such control could not be exercised if all the Jews migrated to Israel. Opposition also comes from some who oppose Zionism's promotion of Jewish racial identity.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.

Dagobert D. Runes, A World Without Jews, 1959.

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Posted By simmons on July 24, 2017

(JTA) For the second time in less than a week, protesters demonstrated against Israel outside a synagogue in Istanbul over Israels decision to put up metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount.

The latest incident reported in the Turkish media occurred Saturday outside the Ahrida Synagogue on the European side of the Turkish capital, in the north of the neighborhood of Fatih, which is a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist movements in Turkey.

Responding to the Turkish Jewish communitys protests, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yldrm said in a statement Sunday to the media that while limiting Muslims access to Al-Aqsa mosque for whatever reason is an unacceptable mistake that Turkey expects Israel to undo immediately, the Turkish government does not agree with actions actions outside places of worship of Jewish citizens.

Yldrm said the government expects on all citizens exercise self restraint. The short statement did not say what would happen to those who do live up to the governments expectation.

Israel installed the security devices at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, at the site the Muslims call Haram al Sharif, in response to a July 14 terrorist attack near the Al-Aqsa mosque that killed two Israeli police officers.

At the Ahrida Synagogue, which is one of the countrys oldest, at least 29 men gathered carrying signs with anti-Israel slogans and a cardboard structure meant to symbolize an X-ray machine, the Haberler news website reported.

On Thursday, protesters showed up at the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, where they kicked the front door and hurled objects at it. Leaders of Turkish Jews condemned the targeting of synagogues to protest Israels actions. Following the July 14 attack, Israel temporarily limited access to the holy site for men under 50 and placed metal detectors at the entrance to the site.

Synagogues, which have been targeted by Islamists and other terrorists in Turkey in the past, are heavily guarded in Istanbul by police. To enter Istanbuls main synagogues, including Neve Shalom, visitors must obtain the permission of the Jewish community prior to arriving there. The fact that demonstrators were able to gather outside the synagogues and stage protests there is highly unusual for Istanbul.

In the aftermath of the officers slaying, in which the three Arab-Israeli terrorists were shot dead by police, several Palestinians died in riots over the past week and three Jews were murdered in the West Bank settlement of Halamish inside their home by a Palestinian terrorist.

On Sunday, a security officer at the Israeli Embassy in Aman, Jordan, killed a man that Israels Foreign Ministry said had come to carry out a terrorist attack at the compound. Approximately 30 people were besieged in the embassy on Monday due to the Jordanian authorities desire to detain and question embassy staff, who have diplomatic immunity under international treaties.

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JTA - Neighbors of a shuttered synagogue in the Bronx want its apparent owners to clean up the trash that is accumulating on its property.

Congregation Hope of Israel on Walton Avenue in the lower Grand Concourse neighborhood once the hub of a vibrant Jewish community in the New York City borough closed in 2006. The local television station News 12 reported last week that garbage is piling up on the property and no one is taking responsibility.

New York Citys Department of Sanitation told residents it cannot clean up the trash because the property does not belong to the city, News 12 reported.

Its disrespectful for any community, said Rabbi Levi Shemtov, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Riverdale, a Bronx neighborhood. It shouldnt be this way.

News 12 traced the ownership of the property to a post office box in Hartsdale, New York, in suburban Westchester County, but were unable to contact the man associated with the address. The man is said to be a board member of the synagogue.

Hope of Israel was the last functioning synagogue in the neighborhood, just behind the Bronx County Courthouse, when it closed. Its last rabbi died in 2003, when the Orthodox synagogue was barely able to make a 10-man minyan (quorum) for prayers. For years the congregation board was led by Abraham D. Levy, a retired justice of the state Supreme Court who died in 2001.

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Kudos to Congregation Bnai Israel in Northampton for broadening its membership to include family members who may not be Jewish but share a commitment to the synagogues journey of faith.

Allowing non-Jewish members of the conservative synagogues families to vote on certain issues and serve on some committees would have been unthinkable a generation ago, say supporters of the change approved at the annual meeting in June.

Rabbi Justin David says, Over the years weve done many things to try to welcome all people to our community. But if we really wanted to be inclusive, we needed a structural change.

Naomi Tannen, membership chairwoman of the synagogue, began working on the change two years ago and an 11-person task force studied the issue. My daughter is married to a non-Jewish man, and he is very interested in Judaism, Tannen says. I worried that under the current regulations, he wouldnt be welcomed, and I was unhappy about that.

Her family is hardly alone. According to a Pew Research Center study, 58 percent of Jewish people who married between 2000 and 2013 have a non-Jewish spouse.

Among the issues discussed were the concerns of some synagogue members that certain Jewish traditions and rituals such as reading from the Torah at services would be threatened. Ron Ackerman says, Its a very special honor to be called up to read from the scroll. It would be like if I went up to receive communion at a Catholic service, and as a non-Catholic, thats clearly inappropriate for me to take part in.

Compromises were made so the ritual life of the congregation will remain unchanged, says David. Certain synagogue leadership positions and committee memberships are reserved for Jewish members.

The change at Congregation Bnai Israel is possible only because its governing body the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism voted in March to allow individual congregations to make that choice.

USCJ, as a valued and trusted partner, is committed to assisting welcoming, vibrant and caring Jewish communities to fully engage the spiritual gifts of all community members, reads the resolution approved overwhelmingly by its general assembly. We call on all of our kehillot (congregations) to open their doors wide to all who want to enter.

We are glad the Northampton synagogue accepted that invitation.

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Chances are good that if you spot a donkey in Granby, its spent some time with Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue.

In response to widespread abandonment of those animals in the West, Dan and Marianne Lemelin use their farm on Aldrich Street as one of about 20 satellite adoption centers for the rescue agency based in San Angelo, Texas.

Donkeys have always had a special place in my heart, says Marianne Lemelin. There are five donkeys on the familys farm.

In June, Peaceful Valley delivered 10 more donkeys for adoption. I had a waiting list, actually, this year for them, Lemelin says. Within a week I had them all placed.

Like dogs, they act as companion animals in their new homes.

However, in the drought-stricken West, they are often abandoned by financially overwhelmed owners.

Many of those animals have been fortunate to find new homes with compassionate people like the Lemelins.

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The Northampton Post 28 American Legion baseball team is a winner this summer, earning its first trip to the state tournament since 1996.

After completing a 17-1 regular season, Northampton won three games in the first round of the playoffs and advanced to the best-of-three western Massachusetts championship series last week against East Springfield. After dropping the first game, Northampton rallied with 8-7 and 19-3 wins. It was one of eight teams that began play during the weekend in Milford to compete for the state championship.

This is really satisfying, Northampton coach Chuck Holt told Gazette sports writer Adam Hargraves. It means a lot because of this group of kids all the experience and camaraderie. This is a family.

Under Holts guidance, the Northampton team of players in their late teens continued its long tradition of outstanding play for dozens of fans who turn out with their lawn chairs on summer evenings to enjoy the games at Arcanum Field in Florence.

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MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) called Monday for the construction of a Synagogue on the Temple Mount in response to the brutal terrorist attack in Halamish Friday night.

"The Zionist response would largely be to make the other side understand and feel that they have lost. They must understand that they gain nothing from terrorism. They are the only ones who will lose, and this will happen on three levels," Smotrich told Arutz Sheva.

MK Smotrich listed what he considered to be the Zionist response to the campaign of incitement and terror against Jewish rights on the Temple Mount. "I would set up a Synagogue on the Temple Mount today, this morning. If someone thinks that through terrorism, violence, and the massacre of a family he will push our sovereignty back, then - if I am the Prime Minister - this morning I would close the Temple Mount to Arab prayer and establish a Synagogue for Jews. And if the terrorism continues I would close the mount to Arabs and there will be only Jews there."

Smotrich continued: "Secondly, I would exact a very steep price from the population in Judea and Samaria. The big lie of the Defense Minister is 'let's separate the population from the terrorism.' In the real world this is a lie, because this terrorist, the person who carried out the Shabbat night massacre, was a 'civilian' until the moment before the massacre. He did not belong to the larger Hamas infrastructure. He grew up within a world that produces terrorists, an infrastructure of incitement and which support the payment of salaries [to murderous terrorists], and an atmosphere that encourages these [acts of murder]."

"During the past five or six years, when Netanyahu created a policy of quality of life and freedom of movement, he greatly improved the quality of life of the Palestinians. Today this allows us to enact a heavy price and to demonstrate the price of terrorism. If you are quiet, you will have a good life. If you commit terrorism, you will not have a good life.

The third step Israel must take, according to MK Smotrich, is to build in Judea and Samaria. "Construction should continue. We should be systematic in our approach to this well-known matter. Sovereignty must be applied and hundreds of thousands of Jews should be brought to Judea and Samaria to demonstrate that a Palestinian state will not arise and destroy the hope that drives terrorism."

In conclusion, MK Smotrich said that the goal of these three steps is "to convey a message: Terrorism will not only not bring you closer to your goals, it will distance you and you will lose it and it does not pay."

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Posted By richards on July 24, 2017

(JTA) A prominent Spanish organization that is dedicated to preserving the countrys Jewish heritage awarded a prize to a local politician who had accused Israel of massacring Palestinian children.

The Centro Sefarad-Israel, which was created with government funding in 2006 and based in Madrid, awarded its Crown of Esther prize on Thursday to Maite Pagazaurtundua, a Spanish lawmaker serving at the European Parliament, Europa Press reported. She received the award for her defense of justice and freedom, the report said.

In 2014, Pagazaurtunda co-signed a letter with several other members of theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats the parliamentary bloc to which Pagazaurtundas UnionofProgress and Democracybelongs condemning Israels actions against Hamas in Gaza. It was addressed to Martin Schulz, then the president of the European Parliament.

An immediate ceasefireisneededto put an end to the massacre and the suffering of the civilian population, many of them children, the letter read.

The letter co-signed by Pagazaurtunda, a Basque politician who is known in Spain for denouncing the terrorist activities of the ETA Basque nationalist militia, did not mention Hamas or Palestinian terrorism.

The Spanish Foreign Ministry and the Madrid municipality set up Centro Sefarad-Israel in the framework of efforts to restore sites connected with the Jewish Sephardi presence in Spain that ended in 1492 with the start of the Spanish Inquisition.

Spain and Portugal, which began implementing its own Inquisition in 1536, passed laws in 2013 granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews. At least 4,500 people have received Spanish nationality, and hundreds more received the Portuguese one. Leaders from both countries said the laws affording nationality to Sephardim were meant to atone for the persecution.

On Tuesday, the SAPO broadcaster in Portugal reported that the French-Israel media mogul Patrick Drahi,who founded the international Israel-based news channeli24news, received the Portuguese nationality.

Municipalities in Portugal and Spain in recent years began investing in preserving their Jewish heritage sites and relevant treasures.

The town of Covilha in Portugal last year placed in City Hall a 400-year-old Torah scroll that had been discovered during renovations, and may have been concealed by Jews practicing Judaism in secret during the inquisition.

On Tuesday, the municipality said it would keep the scroll there indefinitely following the defeat in court of a claim of ownership of the scroll by a local businessman who said he bought the scroll from one of the construction workers who discovered the object, the Lusa news agency reported.

Separately, dozens of Portuguese historians gathered Monday at the southern Portuguese city of Faro for a symposium marking 530 years since the completion of the first book ever printed in Portugal, a Hebrew Bible. A copy of the Bible, known in Portugal as the Pentateuco, was completed in Faro on July 30, 1487, by the Jewish publisher Samuel Gacon.

The book is on display at an Oxford University library. It is believed to have been captured in battle and brought to England following a skirmish between British and Portuguese troops in 1596.

But a researcher speaking at the seminar, Rui Loureiro of the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Superior Institute, a prestigious university based in the town of Portimo near Faro, disputed this theory, the sul Informacao website reported. Citing a paucity of records of the books transfer, Loureiro argued the book was taken by a Jewish person who emigrated because of the Inquisition.

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