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The NBA All-Star Ja Morant has been suspended after footage was captured of him apparently displaying a gun in a video. This is the second time the 23-year-old Memphis Grizzlies star has been suspended by the NBA, after brandishing a firearm on Instagram just a few months ago.

The footage was from an Instagram Live video that showed Ja Morant and a friend in a car while they listened and danced to a song by rapper NBA YoungBoy. Morant was seen quickly revealing the gun. NBA spokesman, Mike Bass, said: “We are aware of the social media post involving Ja Morant and are in the process of gathering more information”. The Associated Press reported that the Grizzlies have suspended him from all team activities until the NBA have reviewed the footage.

This is not the first time Morant has caused controversy. In March he went on Instagram Live at 5am from a nightclub in Denver, Colorado, and brandished a gun. He was punished by the NBA by receiving an eight-game suspension without pay. The player then went to Florida for counseling, where he learnt how to “manage stress and cope with it in a positive way”. After the incident, he deactivated his social media for a period of time, but both his Instagram and Twitter have since been restored.

In July 2022, Morant signed a five-year contract with the Grizzlies worth $194 million, giving him an annual average salary of $38,860,000, according to Sportrac. He is also endorsed by brands such as Wendy’s, Bodyarmour, Uber Eats, Powerade, PSD and Hyperice, potentially worth hundreds of millions more, as reported by Sports Illustrated.

Reacting to the incident, Nike released a statement saying they appreciated Morant’s willingness to take responsibility and to get help, and that they support his focus on his well-being.

Jewish critics have suggested that Hatem Bazian has access to the JVP Twitter account and writes some of its hateful messages.

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Magazine

The DNA of campus antisemitism goes back to Hatem ‘Hate’em’ Bazian. Bazian is the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the one figure who did the most to kickstart the culture of campus hate.

Back in the ’90s, when Bazian was at San Francisco State University, he participated in an assault on the offices of the Golden Gate Xpress student newspaper, accusing it of being full of Jewish spies. Jewish students had complained about anti-Semitic behavior by Bazian in his role as student body president and his campaign against Hillel, the leading Jewish campus organization, which they said was a direct attempt to disenfranchise Jewish students.

The SJP organization allowed Hatem an even larger platform for his violent bigotry. In April 2002, 79 members attempted to disrupt a Holocaust Remembrance Day event and were arrested. At a rally to protest their arrests, Bazian said, “take a look at the type of names on the building around campus – Haas, Zellerbach – and decide who controls this university.”

SJP’s conference in 2001 was sponsored by a Hamas front group with the American head of Islamic Jihad as its keynote speaker. Bazian would later serve as the representative for KindHearts, another Hamas front group. And true to its MSA roots, the SJP Berkeley site describes Hamas as “a vast social organization” which “also has a militia established to fight Israeli troops in the occupied territories.”

So it was a little surprising to see Hatem Bazian tweeting “As a Jew” critiques to CNN over Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

“As a Jew” has a long and low dishonest history in which leftists, who happen to be of Jewish ancestry or pretending to be, denounce Israel… “as a Jew”.

It’s hard to think of anyone less Jewish than Hatem Bazian, but there he was.

So it turns out the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice For Peace org is actually run by NON-JEWISH Hamas affiliated Hatem Bazian…!?

He thought he was logged into the JVP Twitter account when he replied to @jaketapper pretending to be a Jew… pic.twitter.com/pryzcOsx0w

— A Jewish Resistance (@AJwshResistance) May 13, 2023

Bazian deleted his original tweet and claimed that he was just broadcasting a message from leftist anti-Israel hate group calling itself Jewish Voice for Peace. Jewish critics have suggested that Bazian has access to the JVP Twitter account and writes some of its hateful messages.

Either way, “as a Jew” now has the Islamist godfather of campus antisemitism playing the same phony game. It’s hard to think of any campus academic with a more sustained ugly history of antisemitism than Bazian. If he can play “as a Jew,” who can’t?

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“There’s no doubt that Charles will be the one to break this pattern” of sitting British monarchs not officially visiting the Holy Land, said one lord privy to the matter.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

King Charles III has indicated a strong desire to visit Israel officially, which would break the royal family’s longstanding custom of not having a sitting monarch come for a formal stay in the Jewish state, Britain’s Daily Mail reported Sunday.

The paper quoted Lord Stuart Polak as saying, “There is no doubt that Charles will be the one to break this pattern. The preparation has been done by his team to pave the way for this visit.”

Polak was a longtime Conservative MP who headed the right-wing party’s Friends of Israel group for over a quarter of a century before receiving a life peerage. Both the Conservative party and President Isaac Herzog, who is a personal friend of the king, have pushed for such a visit.

Herzog is said to have noted that the just-concluded Operation Shield and Arrow, when Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched a 1,400-rocket barrage at Israel over five days, had put a crimp in the plans.

However, the paper cited another diplomatic source who said that even the possible danger of Palestinian terror attacks wouldn’t deter the monarch. The king, said the source, “made it clear in recent years that he is not afraid to go to Israel and will not allow being the monarch prevent him from returning in that role.”

A royal call could be considered historic if not unprecedented, as Charles has come to Israel three times in his life in a private capacity. The first two times were as marks of respect for Israeli leaders, as he attended the funerals of the assassinated prime minister Yitzak Rabin in 1995 and of former prime minister and president Shimon Peres in 2016.

His most recent visit was in January 2020, when he came with dozens of world leaders to Yad Vashem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations.

His son William, who is now the crown prince, broke the taboo on official visits when he visited Israel in June 2018. Although it was officially touted as a non-political visit, the Duke of Cambridge met with Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Ramallah and Jerusalem respectively, as well as with high-tech entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv. He also spent time at Yad Vashem, prayed at the Western Wall and stopped at the tomb of his great-grandmother, Princess Alice, who is buried in Jerusalem.

The royal itinerary angered Israel when it noted Jerusalem as being part of the “Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

According to Lord Polak, Charles would also visit the Palestinian Authority in order to prevent an international outcry.

Although the late Queen Elizabeth exhibited great warmth to her Jewish subjects and included the chief rabbis of her kingdom in many of her ceremonial occasions, she had never visited Israel even once during her 70-year reign.

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“It is possible that by operating cameras and microphones remotely, they will try to degrade people or even blackmail them into performing various actions.”

By World Israel News Staff

It appears that Israel’s war with the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, which has been launching deadly rockets across the border, is fighting the Jewish state on yet another front – namely, social media.

During the recent fighting in Gaza, PIJ has been utilizing bots on Facebook to hack into Israelis’ mobile phones, according to the Digital Research division of Zionist NGO Im Tirtzu

Over the past weekend, the organization monitored a number of profiles suspected of being operated by Islamic Jihad and other suspicious players working to hack into the phones and computers of Israeli citizens by distributing malicious links.

“We have already located three that are utilized by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and have located multiples others that are probable,” an Im Tirtzu spokesperson told World Israel News.

The activity was first identified in groups of residents of the south and later among those affiliated with the national camp, current affairs groups, and more, the NGO said in a press release Sunday. Some profiles have reportedly been running for years and boast thousands of followers.

“This is a particularly disturbing phenomenon. Trying to lure citizens into malicious links posing as lottery sites, vacation booking sites, sites for watching free sports and especially dating sites,” said Dov Trachtman, head of the division.

“This has several purposes,” he continued.

“First, access to personal information and access to bank accounts, social networks, or classified and sensitive information if soldiers or officials are involved. It is also possible that by operating cameras and microphones remotely, they will try to degrade people or even blackmail them into performing various actions.

“The recommendation is to always be suspicious of links from strangers, no matter if they have 100 friends or 15,000 followers. Keep antivirus software intact and, of course, report and warn others about any suspicious activity,” he advised.

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In the run-up to the election, opinion surveys indicated the increasingly authoritarian Erdogan, who has governned Turkey for two decades, narrowly trailed his challenger.

By Associated Press

Early returns from Turkey’s national election Sunday had President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a solid lead after some 47% of ballot boxes were counted, the Turkish state-run news agency said, while the longtime leader’s main challenger disputed the numbers that showed him trailing.

Erdogan, who has governed NATO member Turkey as either prime minister or president for two decades, had 52.2 of the vote from the partial count, compared to 41.9% garnered by opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the Anadolu Agency reported.

In the run-up to the election, opinion surveys indicated the increasingly authoritarian Erdogan narrowly trailed his challenger. The race, which largely centered on domestic issues such as the economy, civil rights and a February earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people, had appeared to be shaping up as the toughest re-election bid of the Turkish leader’s 20-year rule.

With the partial results showing otherwise, members of Kilicdaroglu’s center-left, pro-secular Republican People’s Party, or CHP, disputed Anadolu’s numbers, contending the state-run agency was biased in Erodgan’s favor.

“We are ahead,” tweeted Kilicdaroglu, 74, who ran as the candidate of a six-party opposition alliance.

The election could grant Erdogan, 69, another five-year term or see him unseated by Kilicdaroglu, who campaigned on a promise to return Turkey to a more democratic path and to repair an economy battered by high inflation and currency devaluation. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the winner will be determined in a May 28 run-off.

Voters also elected lawmakers to fill Turkey’s 600-seat parliament, which lost much of its legislative power after Erdogan’s executive presidency. The opposition has promised to return Turkey’s governance system to a parliamentary democracy if it wins both the presidential and parliamentary ballots.

More than 64 million people, including 3.4 million overseas voters, were eligible to vote. This year marks 100 years since Turkey’s establishment as a republic — a modern, secular state born on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.

Voter turnout in Turkey is traditionally strong, but the government has suppressed freedom of expression and assembly since a 2016 coup attempt. Erdogan blamed the failed coup on followers of a former ally, cleric Fethullah Gulen, and initiated a large-scale crackdown on civil servants with alleged links to Gulen and on pro-Kurdish politicians.

Internationally, the elections were seen as a test of a united opposition’s ability to dislodge a leader who has concentrated nearly all state powers in his hands and worked to wield more influence on the world stage.

Erdogan, along with the United Nations, helped mediate a deal with Ukraine and Russia that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach the rest of the world from Black Sea ports despite Russia’s war in Ukraine. The agreement is set to expire in days, and Turkey hosted talks last week to keep it alive.

The war in Ukraine inspired Finland and Sweden to seek NATO membership as protection against potential Russian aggression. But Erdogan has held up Sweden’s accession to the alliance and demanded concessions, contending that nation was too lenient on followers of the U.S. based cleric and members of pro-Kurdish groups that Turkey considers national security threats.

Critics maintain the president’s heavy-handed style is responsible for a painful cost-of-living crisis. The latest official statistics put inflation at about 44%, down from a high of around 86%. The price of vegetables became a campaign issue for the opposition, which used an onion as a symbol.

In contrast with mainstream economic thinking, Erdogan contends that high interest rates fuel inflation, and he pressured the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey to lower its main rate multiple times.

Erdogan’s government also faced criticism for its allegedly delayed and stunted response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that caused devastation in 11 southern provinces. A lax implementation of building codes is thought to have exacerbated the casualties and misery.

In his election campaign, Erdogan used state resources and his domineering position over media to try to woo voters. He accused the opposition of colluding with “terrorists,” of being “drunkards” and of upholding LGBTQ+ rights, which he depicts as threatening traditional family values in the predominantly Muslim nation.

In a bid to secure support from citizens hit hard by inflation, he increased wages and pensions and subsidized electricity and gas bills, while showcasing Turkey’s homegrown defense and infrastructure projects.

Kilicdaroglu’s six-party Nation Alliance pledged to dismantle the executive presidency system, to restore the independence of the judiciary and the central bank, and to reverse crackdowns on free speech and other forms of democratic backsliding in Turkey.

‘No more important election than this one’

At polling stations, many voters struggled trying to fold bulky ballot papers — they featured 24 political parties competing for seats in parliament — and to fit them into envelopes along with the ballot for the presidency.

“It’s important for Turkey. It’s important for the people,” said Necati Aktuna, a voter in Ankara. “I’ve been voting for the last 60 years. I haven’t seen a more important election than this one.”

“We have all missed democracy so much. We all missed being together,” Kilicdaroglu said after voting at a school in Ankara, where his supporters chanted “President Kilicdaroglu!”

Also running for president was Sinan Ogan, a former academic who has the backing of an anti-immigrant nationalist party.

In the 11 provinces affected by the earthquake, nearly 9 million people were eligible to vote. Some 3 million people left the quake zone for other provinces, but only 133,000 people registered to vote at their new locations.

Erdogan said voting went ahead “without any problems,” including in the earthquake-affected provinces.

“It is my hope that after the evening’s count … there will be a better future for our country, our nation and Turkish democracy,” Erdogan said.

In Diyarbakir, a Kurdish-majority city that was hit by the earthquake, Ramazan Akcay arrived early at his polling station to cast his vote.

“God willing it will be a democratic election,” he said. “May it be beneficial in the name of our country.”

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First published on May 9, 2020.

Remember Mother’s Day. Sunday 10th of May 2020, [3 years ago] the day families gather together, the day people in many countries around the World celebrate motherhood in every shape and form whether it …

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First published on May 12, 2018

In addition to its picturesque natural beauty, music, dancing, and coffee, Colombia is also well-known for producing many different varieties of flowers that are long-lasting and of a high quality. Ideal climate conditions that …

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Julia Ward Howe was a humanist who cared about suffering people, a feminist, a social justice activist & suffragette, and it was because of her anti-war commitment that she wrote the famous “Mother’s Day Proclamation” 5 years after the Civil War, which resulted in 600,000 dead American soldiers

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Iraqi Shiite militia leader Qais Al-Khazali tells his followers that the Mossad, the modern State of Israel’s renowned intelligence agency, used a prostitute to assassinate a 7th-century imam.

Iraqi Shiite Militia Leader Qais Al-Khazali: The Israeli Mossad Used a Prostitute to Assassinate Imam Ali, in the 7th Century #Antisemitism #Mossad #Iraq @Qais_alkhazali pic.twitter.com/KzytWsGSzZ

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 14, 2023

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