Monthly Archives: July 2019

3rd CAMH patient to go missing this month has history of sex offences

A man who has become at least the third detained patient to disappear from a Toronto mental health treatment centre in the past month has a long history of sexual offences against strangers and is considered a risk to the public, documents on his case show.

 

Somali Refugees and ISIS Supporters Arrested This Week Joined a Gym So They Could Do Beheadings

Those heads aren’t going to lop themselves off

Jerusalem as a Muslim holy city is the oldest Fake News in history

12 Comcast/NBC Execs Funded Harris Campaign Before Debate

Not only did NBC debate moderators give California Sen. Kamala Harris extra time during its June debate, it turns out twelve executives from NBC Universal and parent company Comcast gave her campaign cash too.

NBC was ready to crown Harris the victor after its two-night, Democratic debates June 26 and 27. In various programming the network heaped praise on the “breakout star,” calling her “brave” and “powerful.”

But NBC’s moderators broke their own debate rules by giving Harris more time than she was supposed to get, some of which she used to attack former Vice President Joe Biden and accuse him. The resulting exchange caused MSNBC host Chris Matthews to wonder if Biden could survive Harris’ “amazing night in history.”

Now, recently released Federal Election Commission data revealed Harris had another kind of help from NBC.

Money.

ACLU Stumps for the New Transgender Patriarchy

The ACLU wants you to sign a pledge showing support for your neighbor’s son to have the right to dominate your daughter in sports.

How woke of them.

Illegal Immigrant Bought Baby For $80 In Guatemala To Get Priority Release In US

Children are being rented, bought, recycled, and kidnapped so that single adults, mostly men from Central America, can gain quick release into the United States after crossing the border illegally.

The cost of renting a child varies.

“We’ve had indications … that it could cost anywhere from a few hundred—or even in some cases, less than $100—up to $1,000 or more,” said Kevin McAleenan, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), during a congressional hearing on July 18.

McAleenan said in one case, a 51-year-old illegal alien had purchased a 6-month-old baby for $80 in Guatemala so that he could easily get into the United States. The man, a Honduran national, confessed to border agents when he was faced with a DNA test.

“We’ve seen all manner of smuggling organizations communicating to potential customers and to those crossing the border how to bring a child with them to be allowed to stay in the United States,” McAleenan said. “They’ve been active in advertising, literally on Facebook and on the radio in Central America.”

Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE, sent 400 agents to El Paso and Rio Grande Valley, Texas, in mid-April to interview families that Border Patrol suspected were fake. In the last eight weeks, HSI special agents have identified 5,500 fraudulent families—about 15 percent of all cases referred.

McAleenan said agents have uncovered 921 fake documents and 615 individuals have been prosecuted for trafficking or smuggling a child.

“That tells me that we might be scratching the surface of this problem and the number of children being put at risk might be even higher,” he said.

“Everybody knows that if they bring a child, they’ll be allowed to stay in the United States—they call it a ‘passport for migration.’ I heard that directly from a gentleman from Huehuetenango, the western-most province of Guatemala.”

He said almost every summary of the cases he has seen mentions the same thing:

“The subject stated that he made the attempt because he heard in his hometown that anyone traveling to the United States with a child will be released.”

The southern border has become so overwhelmed that most illegal aliens don’t even claim credible fear for asylum anymore, knowing they’ll still be released expeditiously into the United States—especially if they have a child.

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Man Allegedly Behind 9/11 Willing to Help Victims’ Lawsuit to Avoid Execution

Looks like he no longer has interest in becoming a martyr.

Farrakhan: Talmud Permits Sex Crimes

Nation of Islam leader and notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan has blamed “Talmudic, satanic Jews” for the sex scandals surrounding Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, claiming the Talmud makes such conduct “lawful to them.”

In a video posted to Twitter by the Team Farrakhan fan account, Farrakhan can be seen speaking at the Nation of Islam’s headquarters on July 21.

Australia’s Largest Casino Exposed: Chinese Whales Washed Money With Triads & Drug Traffickers

Not just in Canada

SECOND CNN STAFF MEMBER FOUND MAKING ANTISEMITIC TWEETS

“I love you Hitler”

When ‘Ethics Review’ Becomes Ideological Review: The Case of Peter Boghossian

On Tuesday, Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University (PSU) in Oregon, publicly shared a letter he’d received from his employer, outlining the results of an academic misconduct investigation into his now-famous 2018 “grievance-studies” investigation. As was widely reported in the Wall Street Journal, Quillette and elsewhere, Boghossian, researcher James Lindsay and Areo editor Helen Pluckrose submitted nonsensical faux-academic papers to journals in fields such as gender, race, queer and fat studies, some of which passed peer review—and were even published—despite their ludicrous premises. The project was defended by 1990s-era academic hoaxer Alan Sokal, who famously performed a somewhat similar send-up of fashionable academic culture two decades ago. While many cheered Boghossian’s exposé, some scholars within these fields were horrified, and it has long been known that Boghossian, by virtue of his PSU affiliation, would be vulnerable to blowback.

PSU’s Institutional Review Board decided that Boghossian has committed “violations of human subjects’ rights and protection”—the idea here being that the editors who operate academic journals, and their peer reviewers, are, in a broad sense, “human subjects”—and that his behavior “raises concerns regarding a lack of academic integrity, questionable ethical behavior and employee breach of rules.” As punishment, he is “forbidden to engage in any human-subjects-related [or sponsored] research as principal investigator, collaborator or contributor.”

This is a bit rich, of course, since the point of Boghossian’s project was to expose the lack of “academic integrity” in whole academic fields.

Twitter reverses ban of Lindsay Shepherd after international outrage

In an unexpected move, free speech activist and Post Millennial columnist Lindsay Shepherd has been reinstated by Twitter. 

Your daily installment of Jew hatred in Germany

A 25-year-old Jewish man was verbally assaulted and spat on by two Syrian refugees who spotted his kippah in the German city of Potsdam

VIDEO: Veiled Muslim Woman Goes at It With LGBT Rainbow Flag Marcher

Now what, libs?

How White Liberals Profit From Pushing ‘White Privilege’

White liberal academics can earn more in a day lecturing about their own “white privilege” than the median black household makes in three months, public records obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation and U.S. Census data show.

Left-wing academic Robin DiAngelo is renowned in social justice circles for crafting the “white privilege checklist” and for coining the term “white fragility.” Listening to her speak comes at a steep price.

DiAngelo, who is white, charged the University of Kentucky $12,000, not counting travel expenses, housing accommodations and meals, for a two-hour “Racial Justice Keynote and breakout session” in March, according to a copy of the speaking contract obtained by the DCNF through public records requests.

“Dr. DiAngelo’s schedule cannot accommodate phone calls related to services,” the contract states, instructing that all communications be sent via email or through DiAngelo’s assistant. “If phone calls are deemed necessary, they will be charged at a rate of $320 per hour.”

DiAngelo’s fee for the event was more than a quarter of the annual median income for black families which is just over $40,000, according to U.S. Census data.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY ARE BECOMING ALLIES

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CAMH failing to protect public from delusional stalker: Victim

Fugitive meat cleaver killer Zhebin Cong and delusional stalker Bartosz Gajewski are just two glaring examples of CAMH’s failure to control dangerous detainees and protect the public, the stalker’s victim and a Toronto criminal defence lawyer claim.

Both men were found not criminally responsible (NCR) due to mental illnesses for violent crimes and ordered detained at CAMH.

Cong, who was charged with the second-degree murder of his roommate in 2014, took off July 3 while out on a pass in the community and it’s believed he flew to his native China.

Gajewski, who continues to believe in the same delusion that led to the failed abduction of Katherine Newman in 2009, remains a forensic patient at the hospital near Queen St. W. and Ossington Ave.

Newman, 53, still lives in fear her stalker might finish his sinister goal while he is under a detention order, which enables the hospital to grant or deny passes.

“There’s a complete and utter disregard for my safety,” she said. “It’s unfathomable. I am at risk today because his delusions are still intact.”

Toronto police seek 3 suspects wanted in connection with alleged fraud involving pizza deliveries

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When You Understand Israel’s May 1948 Borders, You Understand There is No “Occupation”

There are really only two ways to consider the borders of Israel when it declared independence in May 1948: the entirety of the Palestine Mandate OR the proposed border put forward by the United Nations General Assembly in 1947.

As discussed below, only one of these is legally valid, while both options demonstrate that Israel does not occupy any “Palestinian Land.”

Border Patrol Arrests 7 Migrants Who Entered Maine Illegally From Canada

Four of the vehicle’s passengers were charged with a misdemeanor for entering the United States illegally, and three others were charged with felonies for illegal re-entry, according to Border Patrol. Illegal re-entry is a class E felony that is punishable by “a fine under title 18, imprisonment for not more than 2 years,” according to the Department of Justice.

All of those arrested were confirmed to be Mexican nationals, according to the County.

British woman who accused 12 Israeli teens of gang-raping her in Cyprus is ARRESTED for ‘making false allegations’ and ALL the men who were arrested over the ‘attack’ are released

A British woman who claimed she was gang raped has been arrested for making false allegations against 12 Israeli teenagers who have now all be released.

In a dramatic development police in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, said the seven men still held on suspicion of rape would be freed today.

And officers have now confirmed that their accuser has been arrested for making a false rape claim.

The 19-year-old Briton, who has not been named, is expected to appear in court on Monday.

Police sources said she had retracted her statement after being further questioned by detectives over the weekend following the examination of DNA results.

Doubts about her story began after one of the teens she identified as taking part in the gang rape was able to prove he was in bed with his girlfriend who had taken a selfie.

A police spokesman in Nicosia said:’ A 19 year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of making false allegations ‘

Yaniv Habari, a lawyer for some of the now freed men, told MailOnline: ‘The woman has changed her story. Those in custody will be released and allowed to leave.’

He said the accuser ‘regretted what she said and now she’s being interrogated, and most likely she will be referred to court tomorrow.’

The Yaniv outrage has left Canada, rightly, the laughing stock of the world

The silent passing over of this story is journalistic cowardice, the fear of offending the passing pieties of militant progressivism.

CTV, CBC, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star? Silence.

Norm tells a Bob Uecker story

Rashida Tlaib’s History of Antisemitism

Disgusting excuse for a human being

New PA textbooks are worse than the old ones

Over the past three years the P.A. has released the full set of new textbooks – and they are even worse than the old ones in teaching Jew-hatred, fictionalized history and a profound glorification of martyrdom, terrorism and hate. 

Snopes Fact-Checks a Satirical Website (Again)

Fact-checking website Snopes targeted an article published by the satirical website Babylon Bee, clarifying that a piece published by a website that claims to be the “world’s best satire site” was false.

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Ehab Lotayef of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy is very concerned

The crack journalists over at the National Post won’t tell you anything about good ol’ Ehab and his vile support for Muslim Brotherhood terrorists

 

UN Singles Out Israel as World’s Only Violator of Women’s Rights; Iran, Saudi Arabia & Yemen Among the Voters

“The UN reached new heights of absurdity by singling out Israel alone on women’s rights, yet saying nothing on Iran holding women’s rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh behind bars, Saudi Arabia jailing and torturing women’s rights activists, and subjugating women under harsh male guardianship laws, or on Yemen denying women hospital treatment without the permission of a male relative,” Neuer said.

“When you have Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen among the UN council members accusing Israel of violating women’s rights, you are in the theater of the absurd.”

Twitter Is Enabling A Predator And Silencing The Women Who Stand Up To Him

Yaniv has been surprisingly upfront about his real intentions. He has repeatedly expressed interest in meeting young, menstruating girls in the bathroom, and wondered whether he might have the opportunity to help them with their pads and tampons. He has also reportedly been caught taking pictures of young female beauty pageants at a hotel — an incident so terrifying for the pageant organizer that she threatened to call the cops if he returns. Most disturbing of all, Yaniv wants to have a pool party for kids 12 and over. And he has made two stipulations about this pool event: The kids can be topless, and parents are not allowed to attend.

The latest development is horrifyingly predictable. A woman has come forward, with screenshots, to allege that Yaniv sexually harrassed her online when she was only 15 years old. His alleged comments to her make the skin crawl. Among other things, he requests to see a picture of her used tampon.

It is bad enough that a man like Yaniv is operating in this world. What makes it a travesty and an outrage is that powerful forces are enabling him. The Canadian government should be investigating Yaniv’s apparent interest in naked children, but instead it is investigating the women who refused to handle his genitalia. And then there is Twitter, a company that claims to have zero tolerance for harassment, bullying, and child sexual exploitation, but which has provided a platform for a man who seems to engage in all three. Worse still, Twitter is actively banning accounts — especially those run by women — that stand up to Yaniv’s disgusting behavior.

15-year-old alleged victim of Jessica Yaniv speaks out

A young woman has come forward with serious allegations of abuse against Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv.

Yaniv, a male-to-female transgender, has recently risen to infamy for the human rights tribunal suits she has taken out against 16 estheticians for declining to perform waxing services on her male genitals. While the suits are ongoing, a publication ban on Yaniv’s name and the content of her case and history was lifted during recent hearings, allowing details of her disturbing past behaviour to come to light.

Twenty-year-old Jessica Rumpel of Sammamish, Washington State has disclosed details to the Post Millennial of her encounters with Jessica Yaniv.

Rumpel was just 14 years old at the time of the interactions, turning 15.

Sky Islamic channel PEACE TV faces ban in Britain for saying gay people are worse than pigs and magicians should be executed

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The Farhud: The Massacre that Ended Iraq’s 2,600-Year-Old Jewish Community?

Up until midway through the 19th century, the Iraqi Jewish community was one of the oldest continuous communities in the world and the oldest such community outside of Israel, with a proud history spanning over 2,600 years. Today, fewer than ten Jews remain in the country. While there are many reasons for the decimation of this community, one event in particular stands out: The Farhud, the unprovoked massacre of Jewish Iraqis by their fellow compatriots in a frenzy of nationalist, pro-Nazi rage.

Forbes, HuffPo, National Review Delete Pro-Epstein Propaganda

HuffPo, Forbes and the National Review published posts characterizing Epstein as a wealthy businessman with a passion for science in the years following his release, without any mention of his criminal past.

Oliver Stone asks Vladimir Putin to be his 22-year-old daughter’s godfather

In 2013, Stone defended the “magnanimous, warm” dictator Hugo Chavez. Some things never change when it comes to his love for commies.

Ricky Gervais Called ‘Transphobe’ For Defending Women Refusing To Wax Trans Woman’s testicles

“How did we get to the point where women are having to fight for the right to choose whether they wax some big old hairy cock & balls or not? It is not a human right to have your meat & 2 veg polished.”

The New Yorker Finally Sees the Light on Due Process — to Defend Al Franken

After years of pretending that due process is a thing of the past and all we need is to #BelieveWomen, the Democrats have decided that conservative women should be thoroughly investigated when they make #MeToo claims, (especially if the claims bring down a Democrat).

Al Franken was forced by fellow Democrats to resign his Senate seat over a photo of the former comedian appearing to grab the breasts of a conservative talk show host while she was sleeping. She also accused him of forcing a kiss on her that was unwanted that he had written into a skit for a USO tour she performed with the former senator. After “rushing to judgement” as they now claim they did, the Democrats have unleashed the far-left New Yorker to tear conservative talk show host Leeann Tweeden’s life apart. Seven Democrat lawmakers now say they regret urging Franken to resign and, magically, there is a painfully long exposé to go along with their confession in the New Yorker by Jane Mayer.

The microscope was turned up to full power as the crack reporters at the New Yorker turned their fury and rage over losing Franken onto a woman who had actual photographic evidence of the abuse she says she suffered (unlike any of the other accusers in the #MeToo scandals, including their favorite victim, Christine Blasey-Ford, who never had any evidence).

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Bad Data Analysis and Psychology’s Replication Crisis

For almost a decade now, psychological science has been undergoing a significant replication crisis wherein many previously held truisms are proving to be false. Put simply, many psychological findings that make it into headlines, or even policy statements issued by professional guilds like the American Psychological Association, are false and rely upon flimsy science. This happens for two reasons. The first is publication bias wherein studies that find novel, exciting things are preferred to those that find nothing at all. And second, death by press release, or the tendency of psychology to market trivial and unreliable outcomes as having more impact than they actually do.

Study: White police officers in the United States are no more likely to shoot dead minorities than black or Hispanic officers

The report from researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park was published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

It follows a number of police shootings of unarmed black men over the last few years that have triggered protests and stirred concerns about police use of force against minorities.

“Those kinds of cases, they get a lot of attention and it’s right that they get a lot of attention because they’re really tragic cases,” said Joseph Cesario, associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University and the senior author of the report.

“But they aren’t representative of what most police shootings are like,” Cesario said.

Cesario’s team relied on databases of 2015 police shootings from the Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers and gathered information on the officers involved in those shootings, including their race. The dataset the researchers used had more than 900 fatal officer-involved shootings.

In the vast majority of cases, the person killed was armed and posed a threat or had opened fire on officers, Cesario said.

“We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers,” the authors wrote.

Singapore seizes 8.8 tonnes of ivory from nearly 300 elephants

Infuriating and sickening

Political advocacy group North99 uses misleading petitions to gather voter data

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Family of Murdered Chicago Teen Holds Peace March in His Honor – Suspected Killer Crashes the March, Grins and Flashes a Pistol at Protesters

Are we allowed to call Chicago a shithole?

Cuz it sure seems like one

 

Cow slaughtered in Home Depot parking lot after escaping meat market

What the halal?

Seems like a good time for regime change

It’s time for the world to destroy these terrorist savages, once and for all.

How the Left Turned Words Into ‘Violence,’ and Violence Into ‘Justice’

Responding to news that journalist Andy Ngo had been beaten by antifa protestors in Portland last month, a woman named Charlotte Clymer tweeted that “Ngo intentionally provokes people on the left to drive his content. Being attacked today on video taken by an actual journalist (because Ngo is definitely not) is the greatest thing that could have happened to his career. You know it. I know it. He knows it. We all know it. Violence is completely wrong, and I find it sad and weak to allow a sniveling weasel like Andy Ngo to get under one’s skin like this, but I’m also not going to pretend this wasn’t Ngo’s goal from the start. I mean, let’s cut the shit here. This is what they do.”

Who is Charlotte Clymer? She is an activist who works at the Human Rights Campaign, America’s “largest LGBTQ civil rights organization,” which supposedly “envision[s] a world where LGBTQ people are ensured equality at home, at work [and] in every community.” Andy Ngo, who has written for Quillette, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and other publications, happens to be gay. So this is where we are right now: A staffer for a human-rights organization dedicated to helping gay people is publicly cheering the beating of a gay man. This should raise an eyebrow.

Ilhan Omar Marriage Flummoxes Media Fact-Checkers

Media outlets scrambled to prove false the accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother after President Donald Trump mentioned it, but none have been able to definitively reach an answer, largely due to Omar’s unwillingness to provide information.

Trump was asked about the accusation that Omar’s husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was also her brother during a scrum with reporters last Wednesday and said he had heard talk that she married her brother but knew “nothing about it.”

National media had largely kept away from judging the merits of the accusation that she was related to her second husband, which have circulated since her entry into politics in 2016, but after Trump’s comment many came to quick conclusions. CNN’s Jim Acosta jumped in immediately to criticize Trump for diving in on “disgusting lies.”  The Daily Beast‘s Will Sommer published a lengthy piece on Friday that did little to nothing to debunk what he calls a “baseless smear.”

The closest thing to evidence against the claim presented in Sommer’s piece is a reference to a time Omar showed a Star Tribune reporter pictures on her cell phone of immigration documents with a list of members of her family. Sommer’s piece fails to mention that Omar declined to provide copies of any of the documents to the reporter or allow him to make record of the information he was briefly allowed to view.

Omar didn’t respond to requests for comment from the Daily Beast. Her congressional office currently is alerting reporters through auto-reply that it’s not responding to press inquiries, including one from the Free Beacon, into whether any other outlets have been shown documents Omar purports to be evidence against the claim she married her brother.

That one time Omar allowed a reporter to view documents on a cell phone was also the extent of substantial evidence against the claim presented in the New York Times fact-check of Omar’s marriage. (The Times also uses faulty math to indicate, based on their dates of birth, that it’s impossible for Omar and Elmi to have the same mother. It’s not.)

PolitiFact, perhaps wisely, didn’t dive into the marriage question after Trump’s Wednesday remark, but rather went to the Star Tribune to ask about its attempts to gather facts needed to reach a conclusion. The Minnesota paper’s political editor told PolitiFact his interest in the marriage controversy began because his reporters “were not getting a lot of answers” from Omar on her incorrectly filed tax returns, in which she claimed to be married to her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, when she in fact was not.

“My interest as an editor began with the silence she has maintained about her improper tax filings,” said editor Kevin Diaz. “She would say only that she had corrected the 2014 and 2015 tax filings and would not divulge anything about why she had filed taxes with a man she was not married to when she was separated but still married to someone else.”

After reviewing the dearth of evidence collected by those suggesting that Elmi was Omar’s brother, Diaz assigned two reporters to come to a conclusion.

“We felt as journalists, if there was smoke, it’s our job to look behind it to see if there’s fire,” Diaz said.

The paper’s biggest impediment to finding the truth was Omar, Diaz added.

“What’s really made it hard is that she’s been unwilling to address any of these questions,” Diaz wrote. “That has fueled the controversy.”

“We’ve asked her these questions, and also asked her to make her father available. We’ve tried to reach Elmi. We’ve tried to reach her sisters. Her family could put this (the question of Elmi’s relationship to Omar) to rest easily. No one will talk to us. I wish we could send a reporter to Mogadishu (Somalia) but we don’t have the bandwidth.”

Diaz currently says there is “circumstantial evidence that begs for some kind of explanation from a member of Congress,” but his team is unable to reach a conclusion either way without more information from Omar. The Free Beaconhas also been unable to come to a conclusion.

There is substantial evidence that her marriage to Elmi wasn’t legitimate. Official records show, for example, that Omar continued to live with her current husbandwhile she was married to Elmi, who is now living in the United Kingdom.

There is also a significant amount of evidence, in the form of official documents and scrubbed social media posts, suggesting there’s a lot more to the story.

The Times wrote on Thursday that “no proof has emerged” to substantiate claims regarding Omar’s marriage. It also did not speak to Omar, though it’s unclear whether it requested any information or comment from her for its fact-check.

Omar has consistently been unwilling to answer questions since the allegation first surfaced. Her team’s first on-the-record statement regarding whether she was married to her brother, to a PowerLine reporter in August 2016, was a refusal to answer questions.

“There are people who do not want an East African, Muslim woman elected to office and who will follow Donald Trump’s playbook to prevent it,” a campaign spokesman said, months before she was first elected. “Ilhan Omar’s campaign will not be distracted by negative forces and will continue to focus its energy on creating positive engagement with community members to make the district and state more prosperous and equitable for everyone.”

Continuing her pattern of selectively choosing what she wants to comment on, Omar last week refused to answer whether she would denounce al Qaeda terrorists.

Her office’s only recent comment on the marriage issue has been an attempt to dissuade “legitimate media outlets” from investigating it.

“Whether by colluding with right-wing outlets to go after Muslim elected officials or hounding family members, legitimate media outlets have a responsibility not to fan the flames of hate,” her office said. “Continuing to do so is not only demeaning to Ilhan, but to her entire family.”

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EU PARLIAMENT GIVES PLATFORM TO WELL-KNOWN PFLP MEMBER

This is despite the fact that the group has been designated a terrorist organization by the EU

U.S.: Senators Introduce Resolution to Label Antifa ‘Domestic Terrorists’

“Antifa are terrorists, violent masked bullies who ‘fight fascism’ with actual fascism, protected by Liberal privilege,” he said. “Bullies get their way until someone says no. Elected officials must have courage, not cowardice, to prevent terror.”