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July 16, 2020 |
Your
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RJC Town Hall This
Sunday!
I’ll be back next week with my regular “Notes from Norm” about
important House and Senate races, but today I want to encourage you to
join us for the RJC Town Hall this Sunday night at
7:30 pm ET. You’ll hear Nikki Haley, Mark
Levin, the RJC’s Matt Brooks, and me discuss
the critical issues facing the Jewish community in 2020.
If you haven’t already registered, please
do so now. If you have registered, thank you! Please continue
sharing the registration link (https://www.rjchq.org/rsvp)
with other folks you think should join in.
This is a conversation you won’t want to miss about foreign
policy, domestic policy, and the critical political choices of 2020.
Reserve
your spot by registering today!
Please watch this space for more in-depth
analysis on individual races in the critical 2020 elections. If you’d
like to share your thoughts with me on any of these races, please
email me at [email protected]. Click here
to see previous "Notes from
Norm."
Victor Davis Hanson describes
the challenges President Donald Trump faces as we
approach the election in November:
By January 2019, after over three years of failed efforts to
impeach him, sue him, indict him, impoverish him, and destroy him, the
left had failed. The economy was booming. Trump’s tweets were mostly
bragging about his accomplishments. And the left was dumbfounded that
both impeachment and Mueller, in Nietzschean fashion, had only made
Trump stronger.
Then came an unexpected trifecta catastrophe — plague, a
quarantine-induced recession, and a leftist cultural revolution in the
streets. Suddenly, the left saw all of that as a gift that might
succeed where its own self-constructed melodramas had failed.
Hanson lays
out what Trump can do to come back strong and win in 2020 – defending
America’s rich history and great tradition of freedom; laying out a
plan for an economic revival that also solves the root causes of our
problems; and emphasizing the great future ahead when Americans of all
classes and races are united in restoring America’s promise for every
one of us.
This article is a must-read.
Nancy Pelosi Endorses
Ilhan
Omar
The Algemeiner reports:
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has
endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for re-election in
Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, announced Omar’s campaign on
Monday.
… Republican Jewish Coalition Executive
Director Matt Brooks rebuked the endorsement.
“It’s sad and disappointing how little the leadership of the
Democratic Party cares about standing up to antisemitism within their
ranks,” he told JNS. “For Nancy Pelosi to endorse Ilhan Omar, who has
trafficked in virulent antisemitic comments and has been one of the
most vocal anti-Israel members of Congress, sends a message to the
Jewish community that the Democratic Party just doesn’t care.”
Omar can tout
support from the House Speaker, but she faces a primary challenger who
is beating her in the fundraising race and may beat her in the primary
election on August 11. The Star Tribune reports:
[Antone] Melton-Meaux, a
mediation lawyer who emerged on the DFL scene late last year to
challenge Omar, told the Star Tribune he raised a staggering
$3.2 million between April and the end of June, with $2 million cash
left in the bank before the Aug. 11 primary. He dramatically outraised
Omar, who took in $471,624 during the same time period.
… The fundraising gap would be striking for any newcomer
challenging an incumbent, but it’s especially notable in a race
against Omar, a freshman Democrat and member of “The Squad” who has
risen to prominence as one of the first Muslim women elected to
Congress. Omar herself is a prolific fundraiser, fueled in part by her
national profile and her unabashed criticism of President
Donald Trump.
One response to the #Jewishprivilege hashtag.
By SefiraCreative, seen on Twitter July 14, 2020.
Pushing Back on
Antisemitism
Jonathan Tobin takes on the antisemitic
notion of “Jewish privilege,” which trended
on Twitter this week:
After seeing the hashtag #Jewishprivilege used to spread
anti-Semitic smears, a Jewish activist responded—and the result was a
tidal wave of tweets testifying to the fact that the phrase has
generally meant that Jews have been singled out for persecution.
…The notion of white Jewish privilege fits in with a mindset
that sees the world divided into two groups: evil white people and
virtuous people of color victimized by whites. In that formulation,
American Jews are participants in the outrage of systematic racism.
Israeli Jews fall into the category of oppressors of Third World
people, even though the majority of its citizens are actually “people
of color,” according to the criteria of the ideologues.
Both assertions are as false as the more traditional tropes of
right-wing Jew-hatred.
While America is far from perfect, the idea that it is an
irredeemably racist nation and that Jews are part of that problem is
simply untrue. America remains an exceptional nation when it comes to
anti-Semitism; Jews have been accepted in virtually every sector of
society. It’s also true that anti-Jewish hate crimes remain the most
prevalent form of religious bias in this country, according to two
decades of FBI statistics.
Jews are not the beneficiaries of some mysterious privilege,
either in the sense of the conspiracy mongers of the right or the
intersectional ideologues of the left.
Hen
Mazzig writes about how Jewish Twitter users took the
#Jewishprivilage hashtag away from the haters, here.
The RJC
is committed to reelecting President Donald Trump,
keeping the Senate, and winning back the House. We encourage
our members to participate in our outreach phonebank project to help
Republicans win in November. It's easy, and you can do it from
home! Here's how YOU can help:
- Sign up to
call Jewish voters from home by clicking HERE.
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Fill out all of the fields.
- Listen to the instructions and write
down your username and password when a member of the RJC Victory Team
contacts you.
- Make as many phone calls as you can. Everyone you
speak to is a potential vote for President Trump and the
GOP!
Sign up now and you could be the next RJC
Volunteer of the Week!
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The
Republican Jewish Coalition is hiring field staff for our advocacy
efforts in support of President Donald
Trump’s reelection in various battleground
states. CLICK
HERE for details and application
information.
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has endorsed a terrific slate of House and Senate candidates, and we
need them to continue their work on Capitol Hill!
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HERE to donate through the RJC PAC portal and show your support for
our great candidates!
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Trump
Takes Steps Regarding
China
During a press conference in the White House Rose
Garden, President Donald Trump announced that he had
signed into law the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which imposes sanctions on
entities that help violate Hong Kong's autonomy and financial
institutions that do business with. He also signed an executive order
that ends the United States’ preferential treatment of Hong Kong.
Under the executive order, exports from Hong Kong will be subject to
the same tariffs the White House has imposed on goods from mainland
China – marking a blow for leaders in Beijing as they struggle to
revamp their economy amid the coronavirus pandemic and cutting off a
lucrative loophole.
— Events —
RJC Victory Team National Days of
Action
Please join us for the upcoming RJC Victory Team
Virtual Days of Action scheduled next week for Tuesday, July 21 and Thursday, July 23 and then
for Tuesday, July
28 and Tuesday,
August 4. We'll be calling potential Jewish voters in
Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, and
Georgia, key battleground states of the 2020 election cycle. Click
here to sign up and help!
We look forward to scheduling in-person grassroots events and
resuming our chapter activities around the country as soon as
possible. Don't forget to check our
web site for updates.
We also encourage you to check out the terrific content and
virtual events offered by our sister organization, the Jewish
Policy Center.
While RJC offices are closed and our staff are teleworking, you
can reach us by email or by phone (please leave a voicemail message
and your call will be returned). Contact
information for our offices can be found on our web site. Please
visit us online for the latest RJC
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