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The two Benjamins: Netanyahu and Gantz





The Suspense Isn’t Over in Israel





Israel’s second multi-party parliamentary election within six months ended without a clear-cut winner. President Reuven Rivlin will consult the elected parties to choose someone, presumably either Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu or the Blue and White party’s Benjamin Ganz, to form a new government. Only when (or if) that person succeeds in forming a governing coalition, will the rest of us know who the next Prime Minister of Israel will be.

Melissa Langsam Braunstein makes the case that no matter which Benjamin becomes the next prime minister, Democrats on the left will still be unhappy <[link removed]>. She predicts that Democrats who insist that they support Israel -- just not Netanyahu’s policies -- will quickly find other justifications for criticizing Israel and for supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks Israel’s destruction, if Ganz becomes prime minister. 

Michael Bachner at The Times of Israelexplains some of the potential governing coalitions <[link removed]> that may take shape in the weeks ahead. The one option nobody wants is yet another election. 

Jonathan Tobin makes the very important point that this election will not, contra rhetoric from the left, decide the future of peace in the Middle East. He writes <[link removed]>: 

[T]his question was actually determined in an election held 14 years ago, as well as in one that didn’t happen four years later. By that I refer to the vote that took place on Jan. 9, 2005 when Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, succeeding Yasser Arafat. Abbas, who was the leader of Arafat’s Fatah party and the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, won with 62% of the vote.

…While his elevation to the post of president of the PA was heralded at the time as a step towards peace, all it really did was to further entrench the corrupt rule of Fatah. Though Hamas branded him as a weakling, Abbas had no intention of making peace. The Islamist terror group won a Palestinian legislative election in 2006 and then organized a bloody coup in 2007 that enabled it to seize power in Gaza.

So it was little surprise that when it came time for another Palestinian election, Abbas merely stayed in office without holding another vote. As had been the case many times elsewhere in the Third World in the post-colonial era, Palestinian democracy was a case of one man, one vote, one time. There has never been another election for Palestinian president in either the West Bank or Hamas-controlled Gaza; Abbas is currently serving in the 15th year of the four-year term to which he had been elected.



Peace between Israel and the Palestinians requires Palestinian partners willing to live peacefully alongside the Jewish state. They may be hard to find. Arutz Sheva reports on a poll of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza <[link removed]> conducted in the days before the Israeli election:

When asked what the best path is for the PA vis-à-vis Israel, a plurality (37%) favored terrorism, or what pollsters called an “armed struggle against the Israeli occupation". Just 32% said they preferred a peace deal, while 10% said the best path is “waging non-violent resistance”. Seventeen percent said they prefer the status quo.

Three months ago, 34% backed terrorism as the best option, with 36% favoring a peace deal. A far larger number of Palestinian Arabs say they approve of terror attacks against Israelis – including civilians – however. A whopping 61% of Palestinian Arabs, including 49% of those in Judea and Samaria and 80% of Gazans, approved of the terrorist bombing attack on an Israeli family last month which left 17-year-old Rina Shnerb dead and her father and brother seriously injured.



























Sarsour and Mallory





Women’s March Replaces Anti-Semitic Leaders with… Anti-Semitic Leaders





The Women’s March – the radical leftist group that rallies for “resistance” against President Donald Trump, came under strong criticism for the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views of its top leaders. (Tablet Magazinecovered this story in detail <[link removed]>.) Two of the those leaders, Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, have stepped down from the Women's March board.

Mallory came under fire for refusing to disavow Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and her connections with him. Sarsour, who is currently a campaign surrogate for Bernie Sanders, is a Palestinian-American and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a virulent critic of Israel and an advocate for the BDS movement.

The Washington Postreports <[link removed]>:

A diverse cast of 16 new board members that includes three Jewish women, a transgender woman, a former legislator, two religious leaders and a member of the Oglala tribe of the Lakota nation will inherit an organization recovering from a failed attempt to trademark the Women’s March name and fractured relationships with local activist groups and the Jewish community.



David Rutz at the Washington Free Beaconhas details on some of the new leaders <[link removed]> chosen by the Women’s March: 

The Women's March announced 16 new board members, one of whom, Zahra Billoo, has attacked Israel as a "terrorist state" indistinguishable from ISIS.

Billoo, a civil rights lawyer and executive director of the San Francisco Bay area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has accused the U.S. and Israel of enabling terrorism in tweets shared by the Daily Wire‘s Ryan Saavedra. Another new board member, Palestinian-American activist Samia Assed, has questioned Israel's existence and declared it effectively illegitimate.



The Women's March pulled an about-face after Billoo's past statements went viral. This afternoon <[link removed]> they dropped Billoo from the organization board.

But another new board member, Charlene Carruthers, supports Louis Farrakhan <[link removed]> and called Israel an apartheid state. 

It appears that the Women’s March organization still has work to do to rid itself of its "anti-Semitism problem."































See the New RJC PAC Endorsements





The RJC PAC is thrilled to announce our first slate of Congressional endorsements! These great candidates have stood shoulder to shoulder with Israel and helped advance the GOP agenda on Capitol Hill.

It is so important to fully stand behind our Republicans after all they have accomplished for the U.S. and Israel. Donate through the RJC PAC portal <[link removed]>, and your donation will go directly to their campaigns. These candidates will know that you made the donation and that it went through the RJC PAC portal.

Here’s one example of why your help is so important: Senator Susan Collins (ME). The New York Sun editors note that the left is out to get Senator Collins <[link removed]>:  

As the Democrats vent their election year fury on Justice Brett Kavanaugh, they are pouring a fortune — millions — into a campaign to defeat Senator Susan Collins of Maine. They are blaming her for Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation, which the Senate’s most distinguished woman secured in the extraordinary speech announcing her decision to back the Justice. 



In the big tent of the Republican Party, we may disagree amongst ourselves at times, but we share a commitment to liberty and our constitutional system. MoveOn and their friends are going all-out to defeat Collins. We need our fellow Republican Susan Collins in the Senate and that is why the RJC PAC has endorsed her. Learn more about the RJC PAC’s endorsed slate of candidates and show your support here <[link removed]>. 




























Activists celebrate the passage of the CA state bill mandating ethnic studies in high schools





Trouble for the Children





John Murawski at RealClearInvestigations notes that “woke history” is making inroads in public high schools around the country. What are your children being taught? He writes <[link removed]>:

Like growing numbers of public high school students across the country, many California kids are receiving classroom instruction in how race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship status are tools of oppression, power and privilege. They are taught about colonialism, state violence, racism, intergenerational trauma, heteropatriarchy and the common thread that links them: “whiteness.” Students are then graded on how well they apply these concepts in writing assignments, performances and community organizing projects.

…Students at schools in Anaheim, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco are taught how to write a manifesto to school administrators listing “demands” for reforms. Some conduct a grand jury investigation to determine who was responsible for the genocide of the state’s Native Americans. And one class holds a mock trial to determine which party is most responsible for the deaths of millions of native Tainos: Christopher Columbus, the soldiers, the king and queen of Spain, or the entire European system of colonialism.

…Advocates believe they are within striking distance of making ethnic studies a graduation requirement in high schools across the country, making it a prerequisite for preparing students to navigate the world, much as learning about the Western tradition had once been. They say the shift to ethnic studies appears inevitable because of the nation’s changing demographics, the growing awareness of white supremacy and other forms of systemic discrimination, and a newfound political clout for the ethnic studies movement.







College students contend with similarly skewed curricula, but Jewish students face another serious challenge as well: anti-Semitism. Adam Kredoreports at the Washington Free Beacon <[link removed]>:

Anti-Semitic harassment on college campuses aimed at pro-Israel students jumped by 70 percent in the past year, the highest levels ever seen, according to a new study showing that the endorsement of anti-Israel causes by students and professors has created an unsafe environment for Jewish students.

Harassment of students who expressed pro-Israel ideologies jumped 70 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to a new report by the AMCHA Initiative, a campus organization that monitors anti-Semitism on more than 400 college campuses and that has recorded some 2,500 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. since 2015.

AMCHA found in its latest report that while examples of classical anti-Semitism decreased overall, there has been a major spike in students being targeted for hate speech and violence due to their open support for the state of Israel.




























RJC is Hiring Field Staff for 2020 Outreach





The Republican Jewish Coalition is hiring field staff for our advocacy efforts in support of President Donald J. Trump’s reelection in various battleground states.

If you (or someone you know) have relevant political experience and a strong desire to make an impact at the grassroots level that will win the White House in 2020, CLICK HERE <[link removed]> for details and application information.






























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2019 is a critical year for us to lay the groundwork for our 2020 efforts to help Republican candidates up and down the ballot. Your purchase of a kippah will support the RJC, President Trump, and Republicans running for Congress.

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Trump Orders Substantial New Sanctions on Iran <[link removed]>President Trump said on Wednesday that he ordered Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to substantially raise sanctions on Iran, the first U.S. policy response to last week’s attack on critical Saudi Arabian oil facilities.


The administration didn’t immediately say what steps it would take, but it can levy additional sanctions to cut off Iran’s remaining sources of revenue beyond the “maximum pressure” campaign that has already devastated Iran’s economy by blacklisting the country’s most important economic sectors.



Back Off from the ‘Resist’ Nonsense <[link removed]>
Kevin D. Williamson writes:
“Or perhaps we should back off from the Third Reich analogies and the “resist” nonsense and begin to take our duties as citizens at least halfway seriously. That begins with an understanding, among other things, that the Bill of Rights is not up for renegotiation, that perverting regulatory and counterterrorism powers for narrow political ends is a dereliction of duty and a misuse of power that should result in the offending party’s removal from office, that abusing one’s political office to bully individuals and businesses simply for having political preferences at odds with your own (talking at you, Joaquin Castro) is dishonorable and destructive, and that losing a presidential election does not render the government illegitimate or invite overturning the constitutional order.

“Political stability requires, in the long term, consensus and cooperation, and these are impossible to achieve if you act like it’s the invasion of Poland every time an election doesn’t go your way.”

















































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