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Sunday, Aug. 12 '18, א' באלול תשע"ח
HEADLINES:
1. PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HAS PAID $294,332 TO THE SBARRO BOMBERS
2. MODI'IN ILLIT: RABBI OF MIKVAHS PASSES AWAY
3. MORTGAGE BY FATHER OF THE BRIDE: GIFT OR LOAN?
4. NEXT STAGE - A FULL SCALE WAR AGAINST HAMAS?
5. IRAN: SOCCER FANS SHOUT 'DEATH TO THE DICTATOR'
6. HIKER KILLED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY
7. COOKIE COMPANY SUES FOR SABOTAGE
8. NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR: CANCEL WHITE PEOPLE
1. PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HAS PAID $294,332 TO THE SBARRO BOMBERS
by PMW, Arutz Sheva Staff
Seventeen years after a suicide terrorist detonated his explosive vest in the Sbarro pizza shop in downtown Jerusalem, the perpetrators' families continue to be rewarded with monthly payments from the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.
The Sbarro attack left 15 dead, including seven children. Three of the children were siblings, and were killed together with their parents.
A total of 130 civilians were injured in the attack.
So far, payments to the three terrorists total over $294,332 (1,020,570 shekels).
The Sbarro terrorists are among those who the PA and Hamas insist on freeing in any peace agreement. The terrorist who made the Sbarro bomb, Abdallah Barghouti, has murdered a total of 67 people.
The family of suicide terrorist Izz al-Din Al-Masri has received $50,124 as a reward for his suicide bombing.
The terrorist who planned the attack and brought the bomber to Sbarro was Ahlam Tamimi. Tamimi was arrested in September 2001 and received 16 life sentences. In 2011, she was released as part of the deal to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from his Hamas captors. For her time in prison she has been rewarded by the PA with salary payments of at least $52,681.
The suicide belt was built by Hamas bomb- builder Abdallah Barghouti. Barghouti was arrested in May 2003, and received 67 life sentences - 15 of them for building the bomb used to murder the people in Sbarro. He has received salary payments from the PA of at least $191,526.
By September 2018, the PA will have cumulatively rewarded Barghouti, Tamimi, and the family of Al-Masri with at least $294,332.
The PA mandates that every terrorist imprisoned by Israel receive a monthly salary for the full duration of his or her time in prison and often even after his or her release. The PA also pays monthly allowances to the families of terrorist so-called "martyrs."
In an interview filmed while she was still in prison, Tamimi explained her role in the attack.
In the interview, she admitted that "for nine days I examined the place very carefully and chose it after seeing the large number of patrons at the Sbarro restaurant. I didn't want to blow [myself] up, I didn't want to carry out a martyrdom-seeking operation (i.e., a suicide attack)."
"My mission was just to choose the place and to bring the martyrdom-seeker (i.e., the suicide bomber). [I made] the general plan of the operation, but carrying it out was entrusted to the Martyrdom-seeker. ... I told him to enter the restaurant, eat a meal, and then after 15 minutes carry out the Martyrdom-seeking operation. During the quarter of an hour I would return the same way that I had arrived.
"Then I bade him farewell. He went inside, he crossed the road and went to the restaurant, and I went back the way I had come... You have to know something: a martyrdom-seeker has a very special character, and I was amazed at his great wish to carry out the operation, his great wish to pass over to a different life. How beautiful it is when you make a person - [starts the sentence again] [Suppose] there's a poor person and you give him a lot of money. He will be happy and you yourself will be happy that you realized for him the happy life that he wanted. My job was to realize, for this martyrdom-seeker, the happy life that he wanted."
When asked whether she thought about the children and families in the restaurant, Tamimi said, "No."
"I have no regrets, and no Palestinian prisoner regrets what he or she has done. We were defending ourselves. What are we supposed to regret? Should we regret defending ourselves? Should we regret that the Israelis killed one of us so we killed a different one of them? We have no regrets."
When asked how many children were killed in the attack, Tamimi smiled and said "three." When the interviewer corrected her, she smiled again.
Tamimi currently lives in Jordan. When asked by a Jordanian website if she would participate in or carry out another terror attack, she responded, "Of course. I don't regret what happened, absolutely not. ... Regret is something that is out of the question. If time could go backwards, I would carry out what I did, in the same manner."
An American request to Jordan to extradite Tamimi to the US was rejected. Today she is on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list.
2. MODI'IN ILLIT: RABBI OF MIKVAHS PASSES AWAY
by Mordechai Sones
Rabbi Meir Yisrael Yakobovitch, one of the founders of the city of Modi'in Illit and who served as the local mikveh rabbi, died suddenly last night at the age of 78.
The family says during the past few months he has been ill and underwent intensive hospital treatment. Last night he felt pain and his doctor recommended he be evacuated immediately to the hospital. He collapsed on the way to the car.
Rescue forces summoned to his home on Or HaChaim Street began life-saving operations on route to the hospital, but to the family's sorrow he did not survive the trip.
The brother of the deceased is Herzliya Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yechiel Yakobovitch. He is survived by many children and grandchildren.
The funeral left his house this morning and towards noon will pass the Shamgar funeral home in Jerusalem on route to Har Hamenuchot where he will be buried.
Kiryat Sefer - Modiin Illit
Flash 90
3. MORTGAGE BY FATHER OF THE BRIDE: GIFT OR LOAN?
by Eliran Aharon
On the eve of a couple's marriage, the bride's father mortgaged his apartment and gave the sum of one million shekels to the couple as help in purchasing an apartment.
It was verbally agreed they would repay the bank mortgage in his place every month.
Later, the couple's relationship ran aground and they divorced. In the divorce agreement with the rabbi of the community where they lived it was agreed the apartment purchased by the two would be sold and after repaying debts the apartment would be divided between the husband and wife.
At this stage, the husband petitioned the Rabbinical Court claiming the million shekels were given to the couple as a wedding gift as aid in purchasing an apartment, and therefore he is not obligated to return it. The woman claimed, however, that the funds were given as a loan and must be repaid from the amount received from the sale of the apartment. With both parties' consent the father was added to the claim, as he is actually the plaintiff.
Tiberias Regional Rabbinical Court members Rabbi Chaim Bazak, Rabbi Shlomo Shoshan, and Rabbi Yinon Boaron sat for long hours querying the husband, wife, father, and the community rabbi who formulated the divorce agreement. During the interrogation it became clear that the father had sold his apartment, took the money he received and gave it to the couple and then bought a new apartment with a mortgage.
Ultimately the dayanim were required to decide whether the million shekels were given as a loan to be returned or as a non-refundable marriage gift. To this end, dayanim used halakhic sources throughout history from Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat and the Rama through Rishonim and Acharonim to the contemporary judges who serve today in rabbinical courts.
The three dayanim reached the same conclusion, but the judges differed in their reasons leading to it. In summing up the verdict, the rabbinical judges, Rabbis Bazak, Shoshan, and Boaron wrote: "The court determines that the amount the parties received from the father of the woman was a loan and therefore the plaintiff's share in this loan shall be returned."
4. NEXT STAGE - A FULL SCALE WAR AGAINST HAMAS?
by ILTV
[brightcove:2046049]
5. IRAN: SOCCER FANS SHOUT 'DEATH TO THE DICTATOR'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Soccer fans at Tehran's Azadi Stadium on Friday chanted "death to the dictator" during the match.
The match was between Esteghlal Khuzestan and Tractor Sazi of Tabriz.
The "dictator," Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is blamed by many Iranians for the country's economic deterioration.
Local police beat the fans chanting "death to the dictator."
Iran's state broadcaster showing Friday night's match live muted the stadium noise, but did not state why.
[twittervideo:2046038]
6. HIKER KILLED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A hiker was killed in front of his family when he fell 30 meters (98 feet) from a cliff near Mitzpe Ramon on Friday night.
Rescue volunteers from the Har Negev unit and the Israeli Air Force's Unit 669 arrived at Nahal Hava (the Hava Stream) and evacuated both the victim and a group of hikers from the area.
The hiker was a resident of central Israel. He, his wife, and his 14-year-old son were hiking together with eight other family members.
Har Negev volunteer Rami Museli said, "We received a call at 6:30p.m., and we contacted Unit 669. A doctor who on the team was forced to declare the victim's death at the scene."
"Afterwards, we began evacuating the body, as well as the family, from the area.
"This is an area with a lot of tourist activity, as well as high cliffs."
7. COOKIE COMPANY SUES FOR SABOTAGE
by JTA
You know what Oreos are.
They're two delicious chocolate circles and a creme filling. They're regular, double-stuff, vanilla, birthday cake and pumpkin spice (really). There is debate on how they should be eaten, but everyone knows they're best when dunked in milk.
What you might not know is that Oreos are just a copycat of Hydrox, a sandwich cookie first sold in 1908, four years before the first Oreos appeared on shelves. Even though (or maybe because?) they came second, Oreos came to dominate the market, becoming a fixture in America's grocery stores.
But for most of the past century-plus, Hydrox has held on. And at least in part, that's because of the Jews.
Until a glorious day in 1998, Hydrox was the premiere kosher sandwich cookie on the market, while Oreos remained treyf, lacking a kosher heksher, or seal of approval. Growing up, I genuinely thought Hydrox cookies were knock-off Oreos produced specifically for religious Jews. Oreos were the forbidden fruit, and I still vividly remember when, shortly after they became kosher certified, my mom snagged a sleeve of Oreos from a Jewish event.We gobbled them up.
Hydrox stopped production in 2003, giving Oreo 12 years of a monopoly, give or take a 100th anniversary promotion by Hydrox's then maker, Kellogg's. A Pax Oreana, if you will. But in 2015, Hydrox, now part of Leaf Brands, sprang back like a phoenix, and has been trying to duke it out with Oreo, David and Goliath style.
And now, it's taking that battle to the government.
Hydrox posted on Facebook that it has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, accusing employees of Oreo's parent company, Mondelez, of blocking Hydrox from view when it stocks Oreos on supermarket shelves. The Facebook post says Mondelez uses a system called "direct store distribution," where employees of the brand, rather than supermarket attendants, stock the food. This allows the Oreo stockers to push Hydrox aside when they place Oreo boxes on the shelves.
Loyal Hydrox customers have sent in pictures of the cookies being boxed out by Oreos, moved behind other products or otherwise obscured from customers. Hydrox claims a major supermarket chain brought the problem up at a meeting.
"We believe in competition and choice but we firmly believe the folks @Mondelez (the owners of Oreo) have been undertaking a national program to damage our brand and stop us from competing," Hydrox's posts says. "Many of you over the last few years have been great at taking pictures when you see #hydroxcookies being moved or blocked from store shelves and we really appreciate your help."
But Mondelez sounds unconcerned about the complaint, telling Gizmodo that it is "confident that this accusation has no merit. The OREO brand is an iconic one, with a proud and rich history of delivering great tasting products and exciting innovations to our consumers for more than a century. This focus, and our commitment to operating with integrity, has made OREO America's favorite cookie."
So who will win, the original kosher sandwich cookie, or the giant it's fighting? Only time — and maybe a government agency — will tell.
8. NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR: CANCEL WHITE PEOPLE
by Mordechai Sones
[youtube:2046061]
The New York Times has for the past week been criticized for incorporating on its editorial board Korean-born information technology law writer Sarah Jeong, who has expressed hostility toward the white race, especially "white males".
In her tweets from the years 2013-2015, she wrote that white men are "b******t" and suggested "canceling" Whites in general via the hashtag #CancelWhitePeople.
In one July 2014 she revealed: "Oh man it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men."
She bemoaned "white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants" and even declared: "White people have stopped breeding and will soon become extinct. That was my plan all along." She also regurgitated the Donald Trump-Hitler comparison with a straight face several times.
[twittervideo:2046066]
The Jewish news agency JTA, which is identified with a liberal-leftist line, wrote with concern about Jeong's promotion and noted that Simon Sanders, a senior Bernie Sanders campaigner in the Democratic primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election, defended the New York Times. According to Simon Sanders, Jeong's words cannot constitute racism because racism is defined as "prejudice combined with power" and therefore, despite empirical evidence to the contrary, only those in positions of power can be considered racist.
This argument, explained the Jewish news agency, allows senior leftist operatives to express anti-Jewish attitudes like Linda Sarsour without being considered anti-Semitic.
Fox News Anchor Howie Kurtz wondered why right-winger Alex Jones had been scrubbed from social networks while Jeong was allowed to express offensive positions and still be appointed to the New York Times.
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Sunday, Aug. 12 '18, א' באלול תשע"ח
HEADLINES:
1. PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HAS PAID $294,332 TO THE SBARRO BOMBERS
2. MODI'IN ILLIT: RABBI OF MIKVAHS PASSES AWAY
3. MORTGAGE BY FATHER OF THE BRIDE: GIFT OR LOAN?
4. NEXT STAGE - A FULL SCALE WAR AGAINST HAMAS?
5. IRAN: SOCCER FANS SHOUT 'DEATH TO THE DICTATOR'
6. HIKER KILLED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY
7. COOKIE COMPANY SUES FOR SABOTAGE
8. NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR: CANCEL WHITE PEOPLE
1. PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HAS PAID $294,332 TO THE SBARRO BOMBERS
by PMW, Arutz Sheva Staff
Seventeen years after a suicide terrorist detonated his explosive vest in the Sbarro pizza shop in downtown Jerusalem, the perpetrators' families continue to be rewarded with monthly payments from the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.
The Sbarro attack left 15 dead, including seven children. Three of the children were siblings, and were killed together with their parents.
A total of 130 civilians were injured in the attack.
So far, payments to the three terrorists total over $294,332 (1,020,570 shekels).
The Sbarro terrorists are among those who the PA and Hamas insist on freeing in any peace agreement. The terrorist who made the Sbarro bomb, Abdallah Barghouti, has murdered a total of 67 people.
The family of suicide terrorist Izz al-Din Al-Masri has received $50,124 as a reward for his suicide bombing.
The terrorist who planned the attack and brought the bomber to Sbarro was Ahlam Tamimi. Tamimi was arrested in September 2001 and received 16 life sentences. In 2011, she was released as part of the deal to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from his Hamas captors. For her time in prison she has been rewarded by the PA with salary payments of at least $52,681.
The suicide belt was built by Hamas bomb- builder Abdallah Barghouti. Barghouti was arrested in May 2003, and received 67 life sentences - 15 of them for building the bomb used to murder the people in Sbarro. He has received salary payments from the PA of at least $191,526.
By September 2018, the PA will have cumulatively rewarded Barghouti, Tamimi, and the family of Al-Masri with at least $294,332.
The PA mandates that every terrorist imprisoned by Israel receive a monthly salary for the full duration of his or her time in prison and often even after his or her release. The PA also pays monthly allowances to the families of terrorist so-called "martyrs."
In an interview filmed while she was still in prison, Tamimi explained her role in the attack.
In the interview, she admitted that "for nine days I examined the place very carefully and chose it after seeing the large number of patrons at the Sbarro restaurant. I didn't want to blow [myself] up, I didn't want to carry out a martyrdom-seeking operation (i.e., a suicide attack)."
"My mission was just to choose the place and to bring the martyrdom-seeker (i.e., the suicide bomber). [I made] the general plan of the operation, but carrying it out was entrusted to the Martyrdom-seeker. ... I told him to enter the restaurant, eat a meal, and then after 15 minutes carry out the Martyrdom-seeking operation. During the quarter of an hour I would return the same way that I had arrived.
"Then I bade him farewell. He went inside, he crossed the road and went to the restaurant, and I went back the way I had come... You have to know something: a martyrdom-seeker has a very special character, and I was amazed at his great wish to carry out the operation, his great wish to pass over to a different life. How beautiful it is when you make a person - [starts the sentence again] [Suppose] there's a poor person and you give him a lot of money. He will be happy and you yourself will be happy that you realized for him the happy life that he wanted. My job was to realize, for this martyrdom-seeker, the happy life that he wanted."
When asked whether she thought about the children and families in the restaurant, Tamimi said, "No."
"I have no regrets, and no Palestinian prisoner regrets what he or she has done. We were defending ourselves. What are we supposed to regret? Should we regret defending ourselves? Should we regret that the Israelis killed one of us so we killed a different one of them? We have no regrets."
When asked how many children were killed in the attack, Tamimi smiled and said "three." When the interviewer corrected her, she smiled again.
Tamimi currently lives in Jordan. When asked by a Jordanian website if she would participate in or carry out another terror attack, she responded, "Of course. I don't regret what happened, absolutely not. ... Regret is something that is out of the question. If time could go backwards, I would carry out what I did, in the same manner."
An American request to Jordan to extradite Tamimi to the US was rejected. Today she is on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list.
2. MODI'IN ILLIT: RABBI OF MIKVAHS PASSES AWAY
by Mordechai Sones
Rabbi Meir Yisrael Yakobovitch, one of the founders of the city of Modi'in Illit and who served as the local mikveh rabbi, died suddenly last night at the age of 78.
The family says during the past few months he has been ill and underwent intensive hospital treatment. Last night he felt pain and his doctor recommended he be evacuated immediately to the hospital. He collapsed on the way to the car.
Rescue forces summoned to his home on Or HaChaim Street began life-saving operations on route to the hospital, but to the family's sorrow he did not survive the trip.
The brother of the deceased is Herzliya Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yechiel Yakobovitch. He is survived by many children and grandchildren.
The funeral left his house this morning and towards noon will pass the Shamgar funeral home in Jerusalem on route to Har Hamenuchot where he will be buried.
Kiryat Sefer - Modiin Illit
Flash 90
3. MORTGAGE BY FATHER OF THE BRIDE: GIFT OR LOAN?
by Eliran Aharon
On the eve of a couple's marriage, the bride's father mortgaged his apartment and gave the sum of one million shekels to the couple as help in purchasing an apartment.
It was verbally agreed they would repay the bank mortgage in his place every month.
Later, the couple's relationship ran aground and they divorced. In the divorce agreement with the rabbi of the community where they lived it was agreed the apartment purchased by the two would be sold and after repaying debts the apartment would be divided between the husband and wife.
At this stage, the husband petitioned the Rabbinical Court claiming the million shekels were given to the couple as a wedding gift as aid in purchasing an apartment, and therefore he is not obligated to return it. The woman claimed, however, that the funds were given as a loan and must be repaid from the amount received from the sale of the apartment. With both parties' consent the father was added to the claim, as he is actually the plaintiff.
Tiberias Regional Rabbinical Court members Rabbi Chaim Bazak, Rabbi Shlomo Shoshan, and Rabbi Yinon Boaron sat for long hours querying the husband, wife, father, and the community rabbi who formulated the divorce agreement. During the interrogation it became clear that the father had sold his apartment, took the money he received and gave it to the couple and then bought a new apartment with a mortgage.
Ultimately the dayanim were required to decide whether the million shekels were given as a loan to be returned or as a non-refundable marriage gift. To this end, dayanim used halakhic sources throughout history from Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat and the Rama through Rishonim and Acharonim to the contemporary judges who serve today in rabbinical courts.
The three dayanim reached the same conclusion, but the judges differed in their reasons leading to it. In summing up the verdict, the rabbinical judges, Rabbis Bazak, Shoshan, and Boaron wrote: "The court determines that the amount the parties received from the father of the woman was a loan and therefore the plaintiff's share in this loan shall be returned."
4. NEXT STAGE - A FULL SCALE WAR AGAINST HAMAS?
by ILTV
[brightcove:2046049]
5. IRAN: SOCCER FANS SHOUT 'DEATH TO THE DICTATOR'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Soccer fans at Tehran's Azadi Stadium on Friday chanted "death to the dictator" during the match.
The match was between Esteghlal Khuzestan and Tractor Sazi of Tabriz.
The "dictator," Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is blamed by many Iranians for the country's economic deterioration.
Local police beat the fans chanting "death to the dictator."
Iran's state broadcaster showing Friday night's match live muted the stadium noise, but did not state why.
[twittervideo:2046038]
6. HIKER KILLED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A hiker was killed in front of his family when he fell 30 meters (98 feet) from a cliff near Mitzpe Ramon on Friday night.
Rescue volunteers from the Har Negev unit and the Israeli Air Force's Unit 669 arrived at Nahal Hava (the Hava Stream) and evacuated both the victim and a group of hikers from the area.
The hiker was a resident of central Israel. He, his wife, and his 14-year-old son were hiking together with eight other family members.
Har Negev volunteer Rami Museli said, "We received a call at 6:30p.m., and we contacted Unit 669. A doctor who on the team was forced to declare the victim's death at the scene."
"Afterwards, we began evacuating the body, as well as the family, from the area.
"This is an area with a lot of tourist activity, as well as high cliffs."
7. COOKIE COMPANY SUES FOR SABOTAGE
by JTA
You know what Oreos are.
They're two delicious chocolate circles and a creme filling. They're regular, double-stuff, vanilla, birthday cake and pumpkin spice (really). There is debate on how they should be eaten, but everyone knows they're best when dunked in milk.
What you might not know is that Oreos are just a copycat of Hydrox, a sandwich cookie first sold in 1908, four years before the first Oreos appeared on shelves. Even though (or maybe because?) they came second, Oreos came to dominate the market, becoming a fixture in America's grocery stores.
But for most of the past century-plus, Hydrox has held on. And at least in part, that's because of the Jews.
Until a glorious day in 1998, Hydrox was the premiere kosher sandwich cookie on the market, while Oreos remained treyf, lacking a kosher heksher, or seal of approval. Growing up, I genuinely thought Hydrox cookies were knock-off Oreos produced specifically for religious Jews. Oreos were the forbidden fruit, and I still vividly remember when, shortly after they became kosher certified, my mom snagged a sleeve of Oreos from a Jewish event.We gobbled them up.
Hydrox stopped production in 2003, giving Oreo 12 years of a monopoly, give or take a 100th anniversary promotion by Hydrox's then maker, Kellogg's. A Pax Oreana, if you will. But in 2015, Hydrox, now part of Leaf Brands, sprang back like a phoenix, and has been trying to duke it out with Oreo, David and Goliath style.
And now, it's taking that battle to the government.
Hydrox posted on Facebook that it has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, accusing employees of Oreo's parent company, Mondelez, of blocking Hydrox from view when it stocks Oreos on supermarket shelves. The Facebook post says Mondelez uses a system called "direct store distribution," where employees of the brand, rather than supermarket attendants, stock the food. This allows the Oreo stockers to push Hydrox aside when they place Oreo boxes on the shelves.
Loyal Hydrox customers have sent in pictures of the cookies being boxed out by Oreos, moved behind other products or otherwise obscured from customers. Hydrox claims a major supermarket chain brought the problem up at a meeting.
"We believe in competition and choice but we firmly believe the folks @Mondelez (the owners of Oreo) have been undertaking a national program to damage our brand and stop us from competing," Hydrox's posts says. "Many of you over the last few years have been great at taking pictures when you see #hydroxcookies being moved or blocked from store shelves and we really appreciate your help."
But Mondelez sounds unconcerned about the complaint, telling Gizmodo that it is "confident that this accusation has no merit. The OREO brand is an iconic one, with a proud and rich history of delivering great tasting products and exciting innovations to our consumers for more than a century. This focus, and our commitment to operating with integrity, has made OREO America's favorite cookie."
So who will win, the original kosher sandwich cookie, or the giant it's fighting? Only time — and maybe a government agency — will tell.
8. NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR: CANCEL WHITE PEOPLE
by Mordechai Sones
[youtube:2046061]
The New York Times has for the past week been criticized for incorporating on its editorial board Korean-born information technology law writer Sarah Jeong, who has expressed hostility toward the white race, especially "white males".
In her tweets from the years 2013-2015, she wrote that white men are "b******t" and suggested "canceling" Whites in general via the hashtag #CancelWhitePeople.
In one July 2014 she revealed: "Oh man it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men."
She bemoaned "white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants" and even declared: "White people have stopped breeding and will soon become extinct. That was my plan all along." She also regurgitated the Donald Trump-Hitler comparison with a straight face several times.
[twittervideo:2046066]
The Jewish news agency JTA, which is identified with a liberal-leftist line, wrote with concern about Jeong's promotion and noted that Simon Sanders, a senior Bernie Sanders campaigner in the Democratic primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election, defended the New York Times. According to Simon Sanders, Jeong's words cannot constitute racism because racism is defined as "prejudice combined with power" and therefore, despite empirical evidence to the contrary, only those in positions of power can be considered racist.
This argument, explained the Jewish news agency, allows senior leftist operatives to express anti-Jewish attitudes like Linda Sarsour without being considered anti-Semitic.
Fox News Anchor Howie Kurtz wondered why right-winger Alex Jones had been scrubbed from social networks while Jeong was allowed to express offensive positions and still be appointed to the New York Times.
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