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Iran has paid the ‘Palestinian Resistance’ billions of dollars, including for every weapon used and for any house demolished in the West Bank and every weapon, says terrorist leader.
1/2 Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader Ziyad Nakhalah: Iran Has Paid The Palestinian Resistance Billions Of Dollars – It Pays For Every House Demolished In The West Bank And Every Weapon Used By The Resistance pic.twitter.com/pdIGrnUYIb
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 20, 2023
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The bill, approved by a 219-203 party-line vote, is unlikely to advance further because the Democratic-led Senate will not support it and the White House said President Joe Biden would veto it.
By Associated Press
Transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male would be barred from competing on girls or women’s sports teams at federally supported schools and colleges under legislation pushed through Thursday by House Republicans checking off another high-profile item on their social agenda.
The bill, approved by a 219-203 party-line vote, is unlikely to advance further because the Democratic-led Senate will not support it and the White House said President Joe Biden would veto it.
Supporters said the legislation, which would put violators at risk of losing taxpayer dollars, is necessary to ensure competitive fairness. They framed the vote as supporting female athletes disadvantaged by having to compete against those whose gender identify does not match their sex assigned at birth.
Opponents criticized the bill as ostracizing an already vulnerable group merely for political gain.
The House action comes as at least 20 other states have imposed similar limits on trans athletes at the K-12 or collegiate level.
The bill would amend landmark civil rights legislation, known as Title IX, passed more than 50 years ago. It would prohibit recipients of federal money from permitting a person “whose sex is male” to participate in programs designated for women or girls. The bill defines sex as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
The sponsor, Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., highlighted the case of Emma Weyant, a resident of his district and a 2020 member of the U.S. Olympic swimming team who finished second in the NCAA women’s 500-yeard freestyle championship last year. She was defeated by Lia Thomas, who had competed for three years on the University of Pennsylvania men’s swimming team before joining the women’s team.
“The integrity of women’s sports must be protected,” Steube said.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said it was a “great day for America, a great day for girls and women and for fairness in sports.”
Democrats said every child regardless of gender identify deserves the opportunity to belong to a team and that preventing competitors from doing so sends the message that they don’t matter.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who has a transgender daughter, said Republicans were cruelly scapegoating transgender children to score political points. She said three-quarters of transgender students report having experienced harassment or discrimination at school and many have considered suicide.
“These bills tell some of the most vulnerable children in our country that they do not belong,” Jayapal said. “Shame on you.”
Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said most people in the United States don’t know anyone who is transgender and that can create fear for politicians to exploit. The bill, he said, does nothing to address the severe inequities in the resources dedicated to men’s and women’s sports.
He highlighted the stance taken by Gov. Spencer Cox, R-Utah, who last year vetoed a bill banning transgender students from playing girls sports. Cox said: “I struggle to understand so much of it and the science is conflicting. When in doubt however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy and compassion.”
Pocan noted that in Utah at the time of the veto there were four transgender players out of 85,000 competing in high school sports, with only one competing in girls sports.
“There’s your raging national problem,” Pocan said. “What’s the Republicans response to this nonexistent issue? Hurt kids for being kids.”
In a message this week threatening a veto, the White House said that being part of a team is an important part of growing up, staying engaged in school and learning leadership and life skills. It said a national ban that does not account for competitiveness or grade level targets people for who they are and is discriminatory.
The administration also has issued a proposed rule that would prevent any school or college that receives federal money from imposing a “one-size-fits-all” policy that categorically bans trans students from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity. Such policies would be considered a violation of Title IX.
Any limits would have to consider the sport, the level of competition and the age of students. Elementary school students would generally be allowed to participate on any teams consistent with their gender identity, for example. More competitive teams at high schools and colleges could add limits, but those would be discouraged in teams that don’t have tryouts or cuts.
“We don’t want biological men taking away the achievements of women who fought so hard to get where they are today,” said Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military college.
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All members of Congress are invited to pre-record remarks; Joel Griffith of Heritage says “this unjustly allows her to rehabilitate her image.”
By Menachem Wecker, JNS
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has compared boycotts of Israel and of Nazi Germany, was listed as one of three members of Congress delivering opening remarks at a U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom event on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims.
That’s according to a listing shared on Twitter for what was to be an April 25 event, during which the USCIRF was to release its 2023 annual report. The event is now slated for May 1, without the congresswoman or her two colleagues, listed on the docket.
In response to a query from JNS about why Omar, given her history of antisemitic statements, was an appropriate speaker choice, a spokesperson for the commission, which is part of the federal government, who did not provide a name directed JNS to the webpage, “including a list of speakers on our website.” Omar was not listed on the site.
In response to JNS reporting that Omar was no longer a speaker, Jeremy Slevin, a senior advisor to Omar, called the JNS report “false.”
“Sorry to burst your bubble, but this story is completely false,” he said. “Rep. Omar will be delivering virtual remarks at the event, just like Sen. Rubio.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) were the other two listed in the original announcement.
When JNS asked the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom about the claim from Omar’s office that the reporting was false, the unnamed USCIRF spokesperson told JNS: “We had a change in date to May 1, 2023. This event is being held virtually, and we invite all members of Congress to provide remarks, as they wish, for USCIRF’s annual report rollout.”
Rabbi David Saperstein, director emeritus of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, whom JNS was unable to reach via multiple channels, remains listed as moderator at the event.
Laura Ortiz, a spokeswoman for Rubio, told JNS that the senator would not attend in person but would pre-record remarks. She deferred questions to the USCIRF. “They organize the event, not the senator,” she said. “That’s up to their prerogative.”
“Marco has been on the record on his disagreements with the congresswoman on multiple occasions,” she added.
Joel Griffith, a financial regulations research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told JNS that it is “preposterous” for the commission to invite someone who calls for boycotting the lone Middle East nation, which offers religious freedom for Jews, Christians and Muslims, to speak at an event about religious freedom.
“There is no excuse for any organization that claims to respect religious freedom to invite Ilhan Omar to speak,” he said. “This unjustly allows her to rehabilitate her image.”
Griffith, who told JNS he speaks as a “proud Jewish American,” encouraged Saperstein not to moderate any event with Omar.
“I think that the commission owes an apology, both to our ally Israel and to those of us who care so deeply about this,” Griffith said. Of Omar being welcomed to speak on Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, he added: “To invite her is a slap in the face of people who put their lives on the line.”
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom spokesperson did not respond when JNS offered an opportunity for it to comment on Griffith’s suggestion it owes an apology.
Omar has a long history of antisemitic statements, including accusing Israel of having “hypnotized the world” and Jews of buying control of Congress (“It’s all about the Benjamins”). She has called Israel an “apartheid state” and likened it to the Taliban and Hamas terrorist groups.
Per the USCIRF website, the 2023 annual report “documents systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom that have occurred in the last year, and provides recommendations to the U.S. government intended to deter religious persecution and promote freedom of religion and belief abroad.”
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‘Memory Paths’ provides the most direct route to the site along with other relevant information.
By Pesach Benson, TPS
Ahead of Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and terror victims, the Defense Ministry launched an app to help people locate the graves of family and friends in military cemeteries.
Named “Memory Paths,” users enter the name of the individual whose grave they are looking for. The app provides the most direct route to the grave.
The app also links to a website where users can recite Psalms and light a virtual memorial candle.
The day also honors deceased members of the Israel Police, Mossad, Israeli Prison Service and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet). This includes Druze, Bedouins, Christians and Muslims.
In 1980, the Knesset expanded Memorial Day to include people killed in action going back to 1860, when Jews first began moving outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. This includes members of various pre-state underground militias who fought the British.
The day was later expanded to include civilians killed in terror attacks and other hostile acts.
Memorial Day begins at sundown on April 24. Sirens will wail at 8:00 p.m. and again at 11:00 a.m. as the nation joins in a minute of silence. Ceremonies will be held across the country and families of the fallen will visit the graves.
A torch-lighting ceremony at the Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery on April 25 towards sundown marks the transition from the somber Memorial Day to the joy of Independence Day.
“In preparation for the upcoming Memorial Day, the system will operate in some of the cemeteries and I hope that by the next Memorial Day we will expand the application to all military cemeteries in Israel,” said Aryeh Moalem, head of the Defense Ministry’s Department of Commemoration and Heritage Families.
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Gosar is “well known as one of the top advocates of the State of Israel and a defender of those of the Jewish faith across the world.”
By Andrew Bernard, The Algemeiner
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) in a now-deleted newsletter on Sunday included a link to an article whose headline described Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland as “Jewish Warmongers” on a website that routinely publishes antisemitic and other hate content.
As first reported by Media Matters on Monday, Gosar’s newsletter listed the article’s title as “Congressman Gosar: Warmongers Nuland & Blinken ‘Are Dangerous Fools Who Can Get Us All Killed.’”
But as published on Veterans Today, which bills itself as an “uncensored independent alternative foreign policy” site, that headline read: “Congressman Gosar: Jewish Warmongers Nuland & Blinken ‘Are Dangerous Fools Who Can Get Us All Killed.’”
The intentional deletion of the antisemitic portion of the headline has raised questions about who was responsible for the newsletter’s content.
In a statement to media, a member of Gosar’s team claimed that a third-party aggregator service was used to compile the links, and that the article in question was “updated” the day after the newsletter was released on April 16. A cached version of the webpage, however, does not show any updates to the headline since the article was first published in February.
Gosar’s staffer added that they would not link to Veterans Today in future newsletters, that Gosar himself did not mention Blinken’s or Nuland’s religion, and that he is “well known as one of the top advocates of the State of Israel and a defender of those of the Jewish faith across the world.”
Rep. Gosar did not immediately respond to The Algemeiner’s request for comment.
Gosar’s associations with the alt-right and racist groups has raised criticism in the past.
In 2021 Gosar was the keynote speaker at the America First Political Action Conference organized by the Holocaust denier and alt-right commentator Nick Fuentes. Later that year he appeared in fundraising materials with Fuentes, but then denied knowledge of the event.
Gosar was censured by the Democratic-majority House in November 2021 and stripped of his committee assignments, which were restored in January when Republicans retook the chamber after the 2022 midterms.
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