@gjohnsit  
because it’s non-Orthodox.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-chief-rabbi-refuse...

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/israeli-chief-rabbi-doesnt-name-pit...

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Trump has, in turn, looked to Israel to model his policies of intensified militarisation of the US-Mexico border, his authoritarian threats against asylum-seekers and immigrants, and his open embrace of nationalist figures and right-wing legislators.

Notorious white supremacist Richard Spencer, speaking about his dream to make the US a European ethno-nationalist state, for example, has said he sees Israel as the ideal model.

Spencer has even dubbed his project for an Aryan state "white Zionism."

Brazil's president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right extremist who has promised to treat social movements as terrorist organisations and wage a war on poor and indigenous communities, has also embraced Israel and says he will - like Trump - move his country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Israeli flags were prominently waved during rallies celebrating Bolsonaro's win on Sunday, a chilling symbol of Israel's popularity in fascist political movements.

But there is another reason Israel is embracing today's white nationalists.

Right-wing extremists openly yearn to push Jewish people out of the US and Europe - a fantasy shared by Israel's top leadership. The appeal to Jews to leave their homes and settle in Israel - on Palestinian land - is a main tenet of Zionism, Israel's state ideology.

But only a tiny number of ideologically motivated Jews are prepared to leave the safety, prosperity and comfort they enjoy in their home countries in North America and Europe for a hard life in Israel. Meanwhile, many Israeli Jews, especially the young and most educated, are leaving - a drain Israel is hard pressed to stop.

So unable to attract Jews from abroad, Israeli leaders must convince Jewish people that they are unsafe and unwanted everywhere - everywhere except for Israel. Just like Trump, Israel's main weapon is fear.

Israeli politicians like opposition leader Avy Gabbay - who on Sunday urged American Jews, in grief and traumatised by the Pittsburgh massacre, to emigrate to Israel - seek to deliberately weaken the safety and diversity of communities in which Jewish people around the world are rooted.

Israel's education minister Naftali Bennett, an extreme right-wing supporter of Israel's settler population who has bragged about killing Arabs, used the massacre of Jewish worshippers to dehumanise Palestinians.

The efforts of Bennett and Gabbay did nothing to assuage the Jewish community's fears, but they did exploit anti-Semitism for Israel's gain - and they gave Trump yet another tacit endorsement of his policies.

Instead of fighting to make the world a safer place for Jews - for everyone - wherever they live, wherever they make their home, Israel's leaders and their supporters align openly with Trump's agenda even when it means siding with white nationalist movements who espouse deep anti-Semitism.

It's a horrifying and stark reality and one that Israeli leaders can only try to cover up by falsely deflecting the blame for the lethal anti-Semitism that visited the Tree of Life synagogue onto anti-racist activists and even left-wing Jewish groups.

Israel and its lobby have spent millions of dollars in recent years on campaigns to conflate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, especially on US college campuses. They are trying to suppress the nonviolent, anti-racist boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights by smearing it as anti-Semitic, while giving actual cover to anti-Semitism across the US.

Israel's hardline advocates show deep contempt for American Jews who stand with the marginalised and oppressed, who reject Israel's unmitigated violence against Palestinians, who remain grounded in our communities fighting against systemic racism and injustice propagated by Trump and his authoritarian allies in Israel.

@Bollox Ref
talking about schuette? Of course you are.
I dont believe whitmer is all that hot either so none of the above.

more-of-the-same candidates being offered here, but I will be voting against the neo-fascist asshole who wants to be attorney general. A definite scumbag who needs to go no further.

@snoopydawg She talks like a progressive but acts like a neoliberal. This Native American dna thing is so silly but maybe it’ll make people take a closer look at the politician behind the words.

But for the wrong reasons in my opinion. She comes across for me as a fake progressive. Sure she came on to the scene and gave fiery speeches against the banks, but when it came time for her to show who she really is she failed. When Israel was bombing Gaza in 2014 they ran out of bombs and had to petition congress for more. The vote was overwhelming in favor including Warren. She railed against Hillary's vote for the bankruptcy bill and some others, but again when it came time for her to show where she stood during the primary she just sat there and didn't declare for Hillary until after Bernie folded. Is this why people don't think that she's the cat's meow? Nope. It's because of her DNA test that showed that she has some Native American blood.

Elizabeth Warren’s political path faces roadblocks

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren appears headed for a costly re-election victory, one in which even her own supporters are rejecting her national ambitions and still expressing doubts about her claims of Cherokee ancestry.

Warren holds a comfortable 20-point lead over GOP opponent Geoff Diehl heading into Tuesday’s election, but landing just a few points above 50 percent is not especially impressive in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 3-1 margin. Apparently she is facing an ethics complaint for fundraising off trying to stop Kavanaugh*.

Warren was hoping for a rousing mandate from voters to propel her into her next step — a run for the White House. But her unpopularity in Massachusetts actually appears to be ticking up a bit. Nearly four in 10 voters have an unfavorable view of the Cambridge Democrat, according to the latest Suffolk University poll.

@Mickt
If the voting process was seriously rigged, Kemp and the rest of them wouldn't put so much effort into supressing the vote. All people have to do is come together and face our common enemies instead of each other, despite the billions spent to get us fighting each other, and then we'll win. Labor leader Nicolas Klein said in a quote that's been mangled and falsely attributed to Ghandi:

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

Maybe that quote isn't so relevant but I found it interesting that the Ghandi quote came from that.

Here in Georgia the Sec of State is the Republican running for governor. Oddly enough he has already been blocked from trying to remove polling stations in African-American rural areas. Conversely, where I live they make sure early voting is done. Big signs for the voting location. Of course this early voting location is on Ronald Reagan Drive.

I have never had to wait to vote. My mother-in-law lives in different district that is more African-American. She routinely waits hours to vote.

It is one of the reasons I don't see the U.S. promoting Democracy abroad. We have so many tricks to rig an election at home. The gerrymandering is ridiculous. They look at who is running in the districts then redraw the map to make sure the Republicans make use of every vote. I'm sure the Dems do the same where they are in charge. The leaders are afraid of Democracy. Hillary even said about the Palestinian vote that had she known who was going to win, she wouldn't have allowed it. Some Democracy.