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Too many ignore "Guidelines." Poor @LouisianaLtGov @BillyNungesser is distraught. In @JewishJournal, @orlipeter tells me why some people won't see danger. And @yaneerbaryam lays out the path to save lives: #lockdownAmerica. Please tell @realDonaldTrump & governors to #shutitdown.
I didn't mean to have the flashes of pink in the video but if they help wake anyone up, flash away.
Urge @realDonaldTrump @VP governors: states must #lockdownAmerica.

I saw this Army enlistee hit up a girl on the steps of Lincoln before returning to his barracks, as tourist PA family pushed stroller.

Read @orlipeter @yaneerbaryam tell you why here👇🏽
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1. Yes I got the permission of the people in this photo to publish the photo.

I asked the young man (left): Why are you out, since there are guidelines in place?"

He said "I'm not threatened by the coronavirus. I've got a pretty good immune system. I live with young people."
2. "Oh you live together?"

"No, we just met."

Oh. Dread filled my heart.

"You live in an apartment building?"

"I live in barracks."

OH.
3. The young woman (right) lived with her brother in Virginia. Fortunately now there are stay at home orders in DC, MD, VA, and we need them nationwide.

The family behind the couple? They had traveled from Pennsylvania for a day trip across state borders.
4. Some conservative pundits demand I remove the photo. Why? So we can turn a blind eye to the reality of a nation that is defying the "Guidelines"?

Are we also going to deny the cries of doctors & nurses that they need reprieve?
5. They say that I am engaging in shaming. Well, we should be ashamed as a nation.

Arrogance, hubris, deniers, truthers on this pandemic have made it so we have doctors and nurses wearing trash bags for protection & dying as they try to save patients. That is shameful.
6. All for what? A utopia where we die on the sword of our public freedoms? I love America. And her freedoms. But I will not stand silent as our healthcare workers risk their lives because we make the situation worse with our community spread & our selfishness.
7. Do the people going out have bad intentions? Absolutely not. But as @orlipeter explains in my piece: In the neurobiology of threat assessment not everyone processes threat appropriately. The appropriate response now to a global, invisible threat is "overreacting." Image
Some people don’t want you to see this photo or read my @JewishJournal appeal to @realDonaldTrump to #lockdownAmerica. This is not about public shaming. It’s about public health, stopping spread, giving doctors, nurses a reprieve. Ratio me. Or save lives.
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Nov 16, 2023
🚨@FairfaxTimes. @FCPSNews suspended a @LangleyHS student who drew a swastika flag as part of anti-Israel protests AND get this: ALSO SUSPENDED an Asian American teen who allegedly blew the whistle on the anti-Jew hate. Jewish parents plan protest Friday.
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EXCLUSIVE at @FairfaxTimes.

The controversy over swastikas at one of America’s top high schools, just down the road from CIA headquarters, brings the contentious global battle over Israel and Palestine from college campuses and the streets into America’s K-12 school system. The Fairfax County walkouts have been led by Muslim Students Association. which are virulently anti-Israel and many allege anti-Jew.

The Langley High School march included the chant: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," which @ADL says is anti-Jew hate calling for the destruction of Jews in the state of Israel, along with the elimination of Israel.

Parents say this latest controversy reveals another failure by @fcpsnews @FCPSSupt Michelle Reid and her board of 12 members, including @AbrarOmeish, who refused to vote for a resolution expressing sympathy for the victims of the Hamas terror attack.

Local Jewish community members and their allies plan a rally tomorrow -- Friday, Nov. 17, at 11 a.m. -- at Fairfax County Public Schools’ Gatehouse headquarters, which they have renamed “Hatehouse,” to protest the retaliation against the Asian American teen and the lack of school district action on anti-Jew hate.

Here is the photo of the @langleyhs teen who drew the swastika flag and his friend who gave it a thumbs up. The two boys were suspended for three days.

@StopAntisemites posted the photo on Saturday, leading to a witch hunt that ended with a third boy -- an Asian American teen and ally of Jewish kids at Langley -- ALSO GETTING SUSPENDED for three days.

Parents are outraged. It's part of a growing anti-Jew hate in the local schools.

At nearby Woodson High School, Jewish senior, Yakov Schwartz, 18, led a group of half a dozen students, carrying two small Israeli flags, to the football field, where about 250 students organized by the Muslim Students Association rallied against Israel. At one point, students tried to grab his flag, and a mass of anti-Israel students rushed the field to hover menacingly over the Jewish students.

Schwartz said the decision by the Langley administrators to punish the alleged whistleblower follows a pattern and practice of retaliation school district officials mete out against Jewish students and their allies when they raise issues about anti-semitism.

“Fairfax County Public Schools doesn’t truly care about making schools safe for every student,” he said.

“The student who drew the swastika flag not only threatened Jewish students but he also defaced the flag of his country. It’s a disgrace to our flag, our country, and its people,” said Schwartz, who now carries extra Jewish prayer caps, or kippahs, in his backpack to give to friends to wear as an expression of support for Jewish students, especially younger ones still finding their way at the school.

@JasonMiyaresVA @GlennYoungkin @WinsomeSears have made fighting anti-Jew hate a priority in his campaign. Will they be able to protect this Asian American teen, interrogated by school administrators and his phone searched for evidence to use against him -- all without his parents present, according to people familiar with the situation.

cc: @libsoftiktok @JGunlock @bariweiss @ChayaRaichik10
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Students have posted countless photos and videos from anti-Israel rallies over the past month but Fairfax County Public Schools used this line in the Students Rights and Responsibilities to single out, intimidate and suspend the Asian American @langleyhs student for allegedly raising the alarm about the swastika flag photo: “Digital Citizenship and Security…Students are prohibited from posting information if it violates the privacy of others, jeopardizes the health and/or safety of students, is obscene or libelous, intended to be threatening, bullying or hateful in nature, or causes disruption of school activities.”
@StopAntisemites @fcpsnews @fcpsnews @GlennYoungkin @WinsomeSears @JasonMiyaresVA @ADL @JGreenblattADL

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Nov 5, 2023
🧵 Remember this day. Nov. 4, 2023. 5:41 PM. The Woke Army is at the White House. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” they bellowed in the war chant that means only one thing: the annihilation of Jews in the state of Israel.

I stood with my back pinned against the black steel fence between the crowd on Pennsylvania Avenue and the White House, as the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas crowd chanted, “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!” Allah is great.

They shouted the shahada, the Muslim proclamation of faith, too. The call to prayer for the maghrib sunset prayer broke through the chants. And the crowd held signs from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. They shouted for the intifada. And trashed the White House lawn with water bottles and posters thrown over the fence. They painted the pillars to the security gates with red paint of “blood” hand prints.

There is a bloodlust for Israel and Jews. It made my eyes widen, my stomach sick and my heart pulse. It’s staged political theater, socialists bussed in from New York and Muslims ascending from mosques.

We Muslim reformers and ex-Muslims @DrZuhdiJasser @Ayaan @YasMohammedxx @Raheelraza @TheMuslimReform @CLARITyCoaltion tried a 1,000 times to warn the Democratic Party and liberals they had forged an unholy alliance with Islamists but they did it. Now the crowd has a bloodlust for “Genocide Joe” Biden. I’ll put the snapshots from the day here.

If you had any naïveté that Jews or Israels could negotiate with the revolutionaries in the red-green alliance of leftists and Islamists, I can tell you: no way. The Biden administration will have to surrender Israel and Jews to the Woke Army. That’s the only deal they will accept. There is no negotiation. There was not a single word for the Jews slaughtered by Hamas.

I know this after today: the Hamas terrorist murders did not result in shame; it stoked a blood lust among anti-Israel groups from the Socialists to the Islamists to destroy Israel. There is no middle ground with them.
I wear a uniform covering these anti-Jew, anti-Israel protests: my newspaper print jacket over my @IDF hoodie purchased in the West Bank at a Palestinian second-hand store, my book, #WokeArmy—and my war paint: black eyeliner to protect me from the evil eye.

The Woke Army? They went with red paint to ruin the pillars to the White House security gate to symbolize “blood” on the hands of Biden, signs and water bottles they trashed on the White House lawns, stickers they put on the metal fence “F*ck Fascists Nazi Netanyahu + Genocide Joe”— all for taxpayers to clean up.



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Be really clear this is NOT a spontaneous protest — this is an organized campaign of the hundreds of organizations in the Woke Army. They include: @AMPalestine @CAIRNational @codepink @MPower_Change @Dreamdefenders @DemSocialists @pslnational @omarsuleiman504 @NihadAwad @NationalSJP, or Students for Justice in Palestine, which hosts pro- Hamas rallies from @columbia to @harvard and @tulane — 100s with combined budgets of at least $500 million in annual revenues, based on my calculations.

They came with expensive banners and megaphones, sound systems and at least five giant TV screens for the crowd to watch the rally.

I’ve been reporting in DC since I was 18 — it’s been 40 years. I’ve never seen a protest at the White House allowed to fly flags over the White House lawn or allowed to throw water bottle projectiles over the fence. I thanked the @SecretService officers I saw for handling this protest with professionalism. “We protect the First Amendment,” an officer said.

THAT IS AMERICA. And that is why this country is to be loved. No Islamic country forget Gaza would allow such protests of its tyrants, dictators and fake kings.

I take you here into the trenches of the #WokeArmy, as they swarm to the White House after a rally and march. I want to assure you: I was never afraid physically.

What I saw terrified me for this nation because of the entitlement that the Woke Army thinks it has got to ignore terrorism and demand the destruction of a nationstate.

That long black banner they put across the fence? It has the names of the “shaheed,” or martyrs, in the fight to destroy Israel.
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Sep 12, 2023
🚨 🧵 @OCRegister, I argue: if @GavinNewsom signs a xenophobic anti-Hindu bill he “risks alienating millions of Indian Americans…and worse, endorsing an insidious slander,” based on a hoax at Cisco. Reply politely to urge him to veto the anti-Hindu bill. ocregister.com/2023/09/11/gov…
2/🚨 Breaking: Just right after publication of my @OCRegister op-ed, I received this comment about California Senate Bill 403 from a spokesperson for Gov. @GavinNewsom: “We don’t typically comment on pending legislation. As with all measures that reach the Governor's desk, the bill will be evaluated on its merits.”

🎯 My point exactly. SB403 is problematic—“on its merits”

🎯 @CalChamber @SVCCofficial should be worried about this bill “on its merits” because the bill makes it open season for anybody to sue others for alleged discrimination based on the very vague concept of “inherited social status.”

🎯 The @AAHOA Asian American Hotel Owners Association (with many Indian American members) has raised alarm bells. Democratic State @SenJoshBecker has asked serious questions about the overreach.

🎯 Here is a link to SB403:

🎯 The Governor’s office said the public can “submit comment re a bill by calling the office at
916-445-2841 or using the online webform (select “an active bill" in the dropdown menu after topics and then select the bill number in the next dropdown menu.) The comments are then routed to our legislative unit.”

Go to:

🎯 @GavinNewsomPres set the standard: and SB403 fails—based “on its merits.”
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3/@GavinNewsom has a decision to make, I say in my op-ed, also published in @WhittierNews.

The bill — #SB403 — awaits his signature, banning so-called “caste” discrimination against Indian Americans – by fellow Indian Americans.

whittierdailynews.com/2023/09/11/gov…
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Jun 28, 2023
Today, at the corner of Campus Drive and Mannakee Street, in Montgomery County, Maryland, woke intersectionalism came to die.

Today, June 27, about 1,000 Arab Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, Peruvian Catholics and so many other brown and black immigrant families outflanked the… https://t.co/G623Q6Sw7xtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
See the diversity in the anti-woke intersectional coalition that wants to opt out kids from age-inappropriate sexual content. Watch the white woke activist shimmy for my camera until she’s warned to stop. Then hear the innocent chant of parents and kids from immigrant families.
@howellsuzy Woke intersectionalism is NOT the all-white rainbow umbrella activists lined up here against the minority black and brown immigrant parents from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Take the L.
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Jun 7, 2023
The #WokeArmy is dealt a lethal blow. The battlefront: Montgomery County, Maryland. TODAY. The hard-left came after the kids and Muslim parents aren’t having it. 🧵

Montgomery County Public Schools recently refused to allow parents to opt out of indoctrination that relates to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Meet one of the lead organizers of the rally — Kareem Monib — an American Muslim engineer, a loving father and son of Oklahoma to parents from Egypt. He is cofounder of a new parents’ group, @CoalitionOfVirtue, that organized the rally. Yes, virtue. It is a value. He introduces… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Meet one of the lead organizers of the rally — Kareem Monib — an American Muslim engineer, a loving father and son of Oklahoma to parents from Egypt. He is cofounder of a new parents’ group, Coalition of Virtue @CoalitionVirtue, that co-organized the rally. Yes, virtue. It is a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Apr 21, 2023
WATCH @FairfaxTimes. I could never have imagined I'd be asking a lawyer for @fcpsnews board members why they are demanding vaginal + anal exams of a former student 'Kate,' now 23 and the alleged victim of rape when she was 11. Here is how @HuntonAK lawyer Ryan Bates responds.
🧵 In Joint Discovery Plan, @fcpsnews said, “Defendants believe that more than one…exam will be necessary given that Plaintiff alleges injuries affecting various different bodily systems—e.g.,…‘internal derangement of her vagina, cervix, uterus & anus…” fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairf…
🧵 Link to Joint Discovery Plan, provided in @FairfaxTimes article: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2378…

1) March 5, 2012 — “Kate” submitted to a Sexual Abuse Nurse Examiner (SANE) exam.
2) 2020 — @fcpsnews board got the SANE report, which documented injuries consistent with anal rape. Image
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