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Dr. David Passig of Bar-Ilan University believes the controversy will eventually lead to a new, agreed-upon national ethos – and a Constitution.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
A Bar-Ilan University specialist in examining the future told Globes Tuesday that he is optimistic that the hotly debated judicial reform plans of the Israeli government will ultimately lead to something very good for the country – a new, agreed-upon national ethos and even a Constitution.
Dr. David Passig, an associate professor in Bar-Ilan University’s Graduate School of Education who teaches about technological, social and educational aspects of the future and is a student of historical processes, said that although most people on both sides of the issue agree that Israel should continue to be both a democratic and a Jewish state, “there is an entire generation that does not know what democracy or Judaism is.”
“Now everything has risen to the surface, and that’s excellent,” he said. “Both sides are going to learn from each other. They won’t do it by choice, but they will do it out of necessity.”
It won’t happen quickly, however. In Passig’s opinion, the “really difficult” process of building “one nation with a cohesive identity” has succeeded on the military and economic planes, with the country first concentrating on making a safe haven for the Jewish people that can stand on its own two feet. But it will take “another 70 years or so” to address the “in-depth issues,” because history has repeatedly shown that it takes “150-200 years” for “the establishment of new national entities with clear self-determination, a constitution, and equitable laws,” he said.
The “crisis” that is the controversy over judicial reform “is the impetus for the creation of a new Israeli profile that will resonate better and be perceived as more relevant among large segments of the population,” he said optimistically. “It will not be secular or religious according to current definitions, it will have a sense of belonging not only nationally but also culturally, ethnically, and religiously.”
This “middle ground” where most Israelis are found, as he put it, will be represented by a constitution, which “is the essence of the ethos that is our generation’s lot to formulate and create, that grand idea which clarifies the uniqueness of Israeli nationalism. Therefore, a constitution is the thing that will truly define what it is to be Jewish and democratic.”
He again cautioned that it will take time. “This process will take us 20-30 years to realize, and we must be very tolerant of this process, because it is very difficult but healthy,” he said. The two necessary conditions, he added, are that there can be “no physical violence” and that “no group renounce responsibility, and refuse to take part in the process.”
The job of the politicians, he declared, “is to keep the war of wills at low intensity, until the thinkers formulate something worthy of a political compromise. Otherwise, they may only add fuel to the fire.”
Passig was also absolutely certain of another point: “If anyone thinks everything will be over by the next Knesset session – they’re delusional.”
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President Biden formally launches his reelection bid, dispelling long-standing speculation he would not seek a second term.
By The Associated Press
President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” he began when he was sworn into office and to set aside their concerns about extending the run of America’s oldest president for another four years.
Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first-term legislative achievements and more than 50 years of experience in Washington will count for more than concerns over his age. He faces a smooth path to winning his party’s nomination, with no serious Democratic rivals. But he’s still set for a hard-fought struggle to retain the presidency in a divided nation.
The announcement, in a three-minute video, comes on the four-year anniversary of when Biden declared for the White House in 2019, promising to heal the “soul of the nation” during the presidency of Donald Trump.
“I said we are in a battle for the soul of America, and we still are,” Biden said. “The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.”
While the prospect of seeking reelection has been a given for most modern presidents, that’s not always been the case for Biden. A notable swath of Democratic voters have indicated they would prefer he not run, in part because of his age — concerns Biden has called “totally legitimate” but ones he did not address head-on in the launch video.
Yet few things have unified Democratic voters like the prospect of Trump returning to power. And Biden’s political standing within his party stabilized after Democrats notched a stronger-than-expected performance in last year’s midterm elections. The president is set to run again on the same themes that buoyed his party last fall, particularly on preserving access to abortion.
“Freedom. Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans. There’s nothing more important. Nothing more sacred,” Biden said in the launch video, depicting Republican “extremists” as trying to roll back access to abortion, cut Social Security, limit voting rights and ban books they disagree with. “Around the country, MAGA extremists are lining up to take those bedrock freedoms away.”
“This is not a time to be complacent,” Biden added. “That’s why I’m running for reelection.”
As the contours of the campaign begin to take shape, Biden plans to campaign on his record. He spent his first two years as president combating the coronavirus pandemic and pushing through major bills such as the bipartisan infrastructure package and legislation to promote high-tech manufacturing and climate measures. With Republicans now in control of the House, Biden has shifted his focus to implementing those massive laws and making sure voters credit him for the improvements.
The president also has multiple policy goals and unmet promises from his first campaign that he’s asking voters on giving him another chance to fulfill.
“Let’s finish this job. I know we can,” Biden said in the video, repeating a mantra he said a dozen times during his State of the Union address in February, listing everything from passing a ban on assault-style weapons and lowering the cost of prescription drugs to codifying a national right to abortion after the Supreme Court’s ruling last year overturning Roe v. Wade.
Buoyed by the midterm results, Biden plans to continue to cast all Republicans as embracing what he calls “ultra-MAGA” politics — a reference to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — regardless of whether his predecessor ends up on the 2024 ballot.
In the video, Biden speaks over brief clips and photographs of key moments in his presidency, snapshots of diverse Americans and flashes of outspoken Republican foes, including Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. He exhorts supporters that “this is our moment” to “defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedoms. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights.”
Biden also plans to point to his work over the past two years shoring up American alliances, leading a global coalition to support Ukraine’s defenses against Russia’s invasion and returning the U.S. to the Paris climate accord. But public support in the U.S. for Ukraine has softened in recent months, and some voters question the tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance flowing to Kyiv.
The president faces lingering criticism over his administration’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of war, which undercut the image of competence he aimed to portray, and he’s the target of GOP attacks over his immigration and economic policies.
Two years later, the president now 80, Biden allies say his time in office has demonstrated that he saw himself as more of a transformational than a transitional leader.
Still, many Democrats would prefer that Biden didn’t run again. A recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows just 47% of Democrats say they want him to seek a second term, up from 37% in February. And Biden’s verbal — and occasional physical — stumbles have become fodder for critics trying to cast him as unfit for office.
Biden, on multiple occasions, has brushed back concerns about his age, saying simply, “Watch me.”
During a routine physical in February, his physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, declared him “healthy, vigorous” and “fit” to handle his White House responsibilities.
Aides acknowledge that while some in his party might prefer an alternative to Biden, there is anything but consensus within their diverse coalition on who that might be. And they insist that when Biden is compared with whomever the GOP nominates, Democrats and independents will rally around Biden.
For now, the 76-year-old Trump is the favorite to emerge as the Republican nominee, creating the potential of a historic sequel to the bitterly fought 2020 campaign.
The remaining GOP field is volatile, with DeSantis emerging as an early alternative to Trump. DeSantis’ stature is also in question, however, amid questions about his readiness to campaign outside of his increasingly Republican-leaning state.
“If voters let Biden ‘finish the job,’ inflation will continue to skyrocket, crime rates will rise, more fentanyl will cross our open borders, children will continue to be left behind, and American families will be worse off,” Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.
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Jews visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Tuesday stood in silence during the two-minute siren blared across the country annually on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen IDF soldiers and victims of terror.
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Tucker Carlson speaks during 2022 FOX Nation Patriot Awards on November 17, 2022 in Hollywood, Florida. (Jason Koerner / Getty Images)
Tucker Carlson has been kicked off of Fox News, just like his predecessor Bill O’Reilly. (Sorry, he’s been “future endeavored” if you like.) Like O’Reilly, Carlson was the target of years of boycotts and advertiser pressure campaigns from activists who opposed his right-wing demagoguery. Like O’Reilly, Carlson easily withstood it all. And like O’Reilly, what eventually brought down Tucker Carlson was the irresistible power of the democratic state.
O’Reilly, remember, was fired from Fox after the New York Times reported that he had settled multiple sexual misconduct lawsuits. Fox was able to ignore twenty years of consumer activism from liberals who had hoped that they could leverage the market against him, but had to fold when it became clear that he was becoming a legal liability. Carlson withstood multiple aggressive boycott campaigns led by media watchdogs like Media Matters for America, NGOs like the Anti-Defamation League, and politicians like Ilhan Omar; but as Politico noted just a few years ago, the high ratings he brought to the network made him “all but cancel-proof.” But when Carlson exposed Fox to the threat of state action and, ultimately, a historic $787.5 million defamation settlement, it couldn’t defend him anymore.
Liberalism presents consumer activism as an effectively omnipotent cure for every problem capitalism can inflict upon us. It has to, because if we recognize the limits of things like boycotts and advertiser pressure campaigns then we have to accept that sometimes state intervention is the only possible solution. Capitalism has to resist this principle because once you acknowledge the state’s ultimate sovereignty over markets, you’ve destroyed the premise of private property — the foundation upon which capitalism is built.
That’s why even left activists are often tempted to regard boycotts as how you do politics rather than as a sometimes ill-fitting strategy.
Three years ago this week, Bernie Sanders appeared on Fox News during his 2020 primary campaign. It was widely regarded as an extraordinarily successful event; Sanders refused to pander to Fox’s right-wing audience, but he was still able to build common ground with them over issues like health care and taxes. At the time, however, a widespread objection among liberals and many ostensible leftists was that by appearing on Fox he was “legitimizing” it. Media Matters, which had been promoting advertiser boycotts because of Carlson, loudly complained that the appearance was undermining its strategy: “Democrats need to ask themselves if at this moment they really want to be throwing Fox News a lifeline,” Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said.
I don’t think it very plausible to argue that but-for-Bernie Carlson would have left Fox in 2019, but casting blame for the strategy’s failure is beside the point. It failed. As I argued at the time, if your boycott strategy demands absolute buy-in that you’ve never been able to achieve, it’s time to change the strategy. Fox kept Carlson on because he was more of an asset than a liability; this is easy enough to see when you look at its stock yesterday.
Can you guess when news broke that Carlson was leaving? Fox was always going to be able to swallow these little ad revenue hits, but what it couldn’t absorb was Dominion Voting Systems taking it to court and suing it into oblivion.
I am not going to use this piece to address concerns about state censorship from folks who are fine with market censorship, which is what boycott deplatforming strategies obviously are. I do, however, want to take this opportunity to remind everyone which strategy is more effective.
In March 2018, Reviver Academy’s imam Fadi Kablawi confessed that the FBI believed he was involved with ISIS.
By Joe Kaufman, FrontPage Magazine
One would think that a mosque and madrassa attached to an imam, who regularly attacks Jews from the pulpit, would be ostracized by the community, but that is not what is happening with the Miami-based Masjid As-Sunnah An-Nabawiyyah and its children’s school, Reviver Academy, where their imam, Fadi Kablawi, repeatedly assails others.
Not only has the Muslim community ignored the imam’s hate-filled rhetoric, but it has openly embraced him and his institutions. Even the state of Florida provides taxpayer funding towards the imam’s school. In an era when antisemitism is not to be tolerated, it seems many are giving a pass to Kablawi and company.
Both the masjid and the school are owned by the North Miami Islamic Center (NMIC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation. All three entities operate out of the same three-floor facility. While Reviver Academy, a.k.a. As-Sunah An-Nabaweya Revivers, takes up the second floor, the school as well shares the first floor space that is used weekly for Imam Kablawi’s lectures and sermons, speeches that, many times, are saturated with hatred and violence.
Kablawi, who was born in Jordan and who has been arrested for Medicaid fraud, has no filter in his talks. This is especially the case when it comes to discussions about Jews.
In December 2020, Kablawi told his congregants that Jews are “the lowest of the lowest.” He said that people “crack jokes about Jews being cheap” as “a punishment from Allah.”
In January 2021, Kablawi stated that Jews “deserve the wrath of Allah… because he knows what the truth is… [H]e knows what’s right, but his intention is evil.”
In May 2021, he said, “[T]he Jews cry… every minute about the Holocaust. And they make it the worst thing happen in history for any group of people… You didn’t suffer… When you come and say, ‘We want money for our great-grandfathers, who were burned by Hitler,’ you’re capitalizing, just as usual. You love money.”
Kablawi has also targeted LGBTQ, Christians, Hindus and fellow Muslims. He has blamed female victims of rape for the violence committed against them, and he has joked about sacrificing house pets.
In March 2018, Kablawi confessed that the FBI believes him to have involvement with ISIS. In November 2019, a congregant and follower of his, Salman Rasheed, was arrested for attempting to recruit ISIS, in a plot to kill the deans of both Broward and Miami-Dade College. Along with videos of Kablawi speeches, Rasheed posted on Facebook, “Americans Are Our Greatest Enemy After Israeli Yahuds” and “Americans will pay Inch by Inch For everything they have done to us…”
Kablawi, who met with Rasheed on several occasions, called him a “good brother.” Rasheed’s mother accused Kablawi of brainwashing her son to commit terrorist acts.
In July 2020, Kablawi stated, “[J]ihad is when you put your life on the line… Real jihad is not climbing walls. Real jihad is climbing over people’s necks and heads and skulls.”
Quran scholar Ibrahim Akar sits atop all Reviver teachers, on the school’s website. In March 2015, Akar made a vile post on his social media claiming that “90% of women… are cursed by God.” He further said that women “wearing perfume outside the house is forbidden” and is an act of adultery. He cynically concluded by asking, “Did you know why most of the people of the Hellfire are women?”
Photos on the Reviver site depict Akar teaching children in class, which includes a number of small girls. Akar chants Quaranic recitations before Kablawi’s sermons and during many of the sermons, Akar can be seen seated prominently behind Kablawi.
Last month, the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF), an umbrella group for many of South Florida’s Muslim organizations, posted on its Facebook page a graphic advertising administration and teaching jobs for Reviver Academy. The ad stated that the school is “now hiring college students and grads.”
This was not the first time the Federation had posted an ad for the school. It did so as well, in July 2021, also announcing the hiring of new teachers. When clicking on the ad, which had a large Reviver logo on it, one was brought to a page directly on the Federation website containing more details about the Reviver job description, discussing position requirements, qualifications, benefits and compensation. An online form was provided for prospective Reviver teachers to fill out and submit a resume directly via the Federation site.
Far worse than the advertisements, Federation member Islamic Center of South Florida (ICOSF) has made Kablawi a core piece of its worship service. For at least the past year, Kablawi has been regularly performing the khutbah (Friday prayer) at the mosque.
None of the Federation or ICOSF’s dealings with Kablawi and his outfits should come as a surprise. The two entities have significant links to extremism, themselves. Another Federation member, Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen (MJAM), currently promotes material on its website targeting Jews, Christians, Hindus, gays and women with hatred and violence, and ICOSF’s main imam, Hasan Sabri, has, in the past, labeled America an “enemy.” However, to ignore such a level of hate and incitement, as is exhibited by that of Kablawi, shows just how fanatic these groups are.
What is a surprise, though, is that the state of Florida would finance such bigotry.
Reviver Academy is currently receiving tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funded scholarships for its pupils, via the Florida non-profit organization Step Up for Students. The scholarships or vouchers have averaged around $7000 per student. During last year’s Ramadan, the mosque made it a point to inform its congregants that it would help them get “vouchers” to assist them in paying for their children’s Reviver educations. The individual relaying this information was Nabil el-Shukri, the younger brother of deceased al-Qaeda leader Adnan el-Shukrijumah.
Whether it is the Muslim Federation of South Florida or the Islamic Center of South Florida or the state of Florida itself, there is no excuse whatsoever to embrace Fadi Kablawi, his mosque, his school, or anything else related to him. He should be shunned and his institutions permanently shut down.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
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