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| US anti-Israel activists blame Israel for Los Angeles wildfire crisis |
| 2025-01-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] Far-left groups Code Pink and Jewish Voice for Peace tie catastrophic fires to funding for Israel, prompting condemnation from Jewish groups US Jewish groups condemned anti-Israel activists on Thursday for blaming the Los Angeles wildfire crisis on Israel. Several anti-Israel groups and commentators linked the war in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... and US military spending on Israel to the catastrophic fires. Code Pink ... a U.S. anti-war group. The group describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities.It was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and of the other usual antiwar suspects. Its website lists hysterical allegations of US war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Maybe it was millions. Benjamin was a 2000 candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket. She lost... , a far-left activist group, said on Instagram, "When US taxes go to burning people alive in Gaza, we can’t be surprised when those fires come home." That sure sounds like a threat that pro-Hamas types are setting fires as punishment. Something for the new head of the FBI to look into? The group also said it was pressuring Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Senator Alex Padilla at his Washington, DC office, tying the war to climate change.The New York branch of the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace, in an Instagram post about the fires, said, "Instead of putting resources toward making our country livable, our government is putting billions toward Israel’s genocide of Paleostinians in Gaza." Fatima Mohammed, a leader of New York’s hardline anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime, posted an image of the fires and said, "The flames of Gaza will not stop there." "Dropping hundreds of thousands of bombs on Gaza, turning it into a blazing inferno, has consequences," she said. "There are climate consequences that will find us all." Commentator Mehdi Hasan also linked US military aid to Israel to the Los Angeles fire department’s budget. The Los Angeles Fire Department is mainly funded by the city of Los Angeles, while military spending for Israel comes from the federal government. Anti-Israel activists have previously tied funding for Israel to unrelated issues, such as New York libraries. New York Congressman Ritchie Torres, one of Israel’s most outspoken supporters in Washington, lashed Code Pink for blaming Israel for the fires. "The nature of Antisemitism is to scapegoat the Jewish People and the Jewish State for everything wrong in the world — no matter how tenuous the causal connection," he said on X. "The modus operandi of Antisemitism is slanderous scapegoating: when in doubt, blame the Jews." "Codepink’s rabid anti-Zionism and insatiable animosity toward Israel drives them to make an absurd, incomprehensible claim," the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, said on X. "What does it say about a group that will find a way to use any tragedy to foster incitement and antisemitism?" Amy Spitalnick, the head of the progressive Jewish Council for Public Affairs, called the Code Pink statement "the latest example of a relentless scapegoating of Israel or Jews for virtually any global problem." Spitalnick also warned against right-wing rhetoric blaming the fires on diversity initiatives. Elon Musk, in a post on X about the fires, said, "DEI means people DIE." 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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Not the hundreds of $billions to war in Ukraine, Code Pink? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-01-10 13:00 |
| #3 All the Left really has to offer is hate and death. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-01-10 07:38 |
| #2 More proof that the Left has become a collection of social agenda idiots, always looking for something to whine about for attention and $$$$$. BTW: Imagine Code Pink'ers under Islamic rule for a sec. If they were lucky, they would be publicly flogged, and placed in prison for gang raping. Otherwise, just a big sword swinging in a public execution. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-10 05:02 |
| #1 But of course! |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2025-01-10 01:32 |