Journalist thrown in jail after reporting on pro-Hamas rally in Canada: 'Because I'm a Jew'



Canadian police arrested a Jewish journalist Sunday after pro-Hamas radicals made clear that his presence would not be tolerated in a public space.

Ezra Levant, the conservative publisher of Rebel News — one of the few media outfits in Canada that does not receive funding from the Trudeau government — was reporting on a pro-Hamas demonstration near Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue, a historically Jewish neighborhood in Toronto. Levant was keen to capture some of the radicals' comments and costumes on film, including one demonstrator who dressed up as Yahya Al-Sinwar, the terrorist leader of Hamas whom Israeli forces killed in October.

Pro-Hamas radicals at the rally also held signs featuring the inverted red triangle, a symbol used by Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades to identify Israeli military targets.

In footage from the pro-Hamas rally, which took place opposite a pro-Israel counter-demonstration, radicals can be heard condemning Israel as well as celebrating Hezbollah, even though, like Hamas, the group is currently listed by the Canadian government as a terrorist entity.

Although Levant was lawfully exercising his rights in a public space, police swooped in to remove him when it became clear he had prickled the mob with his efforts to peacefully chronicle the event.

"Police arrested me for 'causing a disturbance' when I was silently filming a pro-Hamas protest in a Jewish neighborhood in Toronto," Levant told Blaze News. "The cops said that my mere presence was causing a disturbance because the pro-Hamas people didn't want me there."

'I am the law.'

Officers swarmed Levant then forcefully carted him away while pro-Hamas radicals yelled, "Get him out! Get him out!" and "Go home!"

"Since when do foreign provocateurs, promoting a banned terrorist organization, get to veto who can and can't walk on a sidewalk?" Levant told Blaze News. "Outrageous."

Blaze News reached out to the Toronto Police Services for comment but did not receive a response by deadline. When asked for comment, the City of Toronto referred Blaze News to the TPS.

In the lead-up to his arrest, Levant can be seen in one video discussing the absurdity of his removal with an officer who told him, "Look around you. They're not happy that you're here."

"You know you're a disgrace," Levant told the officer. "You're a coward also. You'll do what they say because it's the path of least resistance."

When instructed to leave the area, Levant, a former lawyer, told the officer, "You're violating my Charter rights."

The officer responded by insinuating Levant was inciting the mob, then informed the journalist, "I am the law."

Another officer chimed in, asking Levant, "So you're refusing to leave? ... Why?"

"Because I'm a Jew, I'm a citizen, and I'm your boss," said the journalist.

"You know what?" responded the officer. "In the interest of keeping peace here, public safety, you're under arrest for breach of the peace."

Pro-Hamas demonstrators cheered while police handcuffed Levant and carted him away.

Levant, appearing somewhat shaken by the turn of events, told his cameraman, "I'm being arrested because I'm standing on a sidewalk in my city. I'm a Jew who lives in this neighborhood, and I'm being arrested because the police say that that's the path of least resistance."

Levant told Blaze News, "Police handcuffed, searched and jailed me for a few hours, but in the end they declined to press charges. It was obviously 'the path of least resistance.' They knew I’d be compliant, whereas the pro-Hamas thugs have been on a rioting rampage in Canada recently (e.g. in Montreal)."

Pro-Hamas and anti-NATO radicals backed by over 25 leftist groups took to the streets of Montreal Friday, launching incendiary devices, torching vehicles, attacking first responders, and vandalizing storefronts while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — whose electoral district, or riding, is in the city — was busy dancing at the Taylor Swift concert in Toronto.

David Menzies, a reporter at Levant's Rebel News, was similarly arrested earlier this year on multiple occasions for daring to cover pro-Hamas rallies, including one at Toronto City Hall.

'It's a public place!'

Thousands of people, including Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, gathered for an event on April 7 focused on demands for the release of the remaining Israeli captives taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023. Anti-Israel demonstrators tried to crash the event.

"Incredibly, there was a protest of a few dozen people — the pro-Hamas types — which was particularly gross because to me this was like crashing a funeral," Menzies told Blaze News following his release. "They're spouting their rhetoric, which by the way includes calls for genocide like, 'from the river to the sea,' and 'intifada.'"

Menzies attempted to interview elements of the mob outside of city hall but was allegedly assaulted. Police intervened — not to help but to arrest the reporter.

"It's a public place!" Menzies told one of the arresting officers in an apparent state of disbelief. "This is literally the public square."

Menzies later told Blaze News he was charged for alleged breach of the peace and trespassing.

Menzies, like Levant, is accustomed to abuse by the state. After all, he was allegedly assaulted by Trudeau's bodyguards in 2021; roughed up by an RCMP officer, then carted away by York Regional Police after asking Trudeau's deputy minister questions in January; and arrested both on Nov. 11 and in March for asking pro-Hamas protesters questions.

Canada is hardly the only Western nation where the sensitivities of pro-Hamas activists and other radicals are given priority over other citizens' rights.

Blaze News reported earlier this year that London's Metropolitan Police threatened to arrest Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, if he remained in an area of the city where pro-Hamas demonstrators were marching.

'Sir, you are quite openly Jewish.'

Footage of the confrontation showed Falter, wearing a kippah, ask a police sergeant, "So basically, because I'm Jewish, I can't cross the road today?"

"Because of the march," said the sergeant.

Falter pressed the issue, saying, "Yes, because I am Jewish?"

"That is part of — unfortunately part of the fact," said the sergeant.

The sergeant, who ultimately threatened to arrest Falter for breach of the peace, made a point of noting, "At the moment, sir, you are quite openly Jewish."

Last week, Barbara Slowik, Berlin's chief of police, admitted to the German newspaper Berline Zeitung that "there are areas — and we have to be honest here — where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay or lesbian to be more alert."

Slowik said she wouldn't "defame any groups of people here" but acknowledged that "there are certain neighborhoods where the majority of people liv[ing there] are of Arab descent, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups."

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Tim Walz’s Education Initiatives Show His Goal For America Is To Destroy It

There exists in America an enemy regime that wants to destroy us.

Salon goes off the deep end, claiming Trump 'plans to turn America into a type of Fourth Reich'



The foreign-owned blog Salon has a reputation for publishing fake news and leftist rage fantasies.

It was, therefore, par for the course when in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, Salon ran a piece suggesting that the Republican Party and Hamas are "both terrorist groups — it's just a matter of degree."

Salon went further off the deep end this week, making clear with an unhinged article Thursday that it would not be outdone in absurdity by the Washington Post, which told its readers not to "scoff at the Hitler comparisons" made against former President Donald Trump.

Salon's politics blogger Chauncey DeVega claimed that "Trump and his surrogates are continuing to channel and amplify Nazism and Adolf Hitler" in an effort to "turn America into a type of Fourth Reich," complete with a "concentration camp system."

DeVega, a critic of the right-wing media's supposed radicalization of white men, claimed that Trump is channeling the identitarian socialists of yesteryear by bemoaning the rape of American girls by illegal aliens; by planning to deport noncitizen criminals and terrorists; by suggesting that migrants from a failed state where cannibalism has been documented may be eating local pets; and by planning to ban mortgages for illegal aliens.

DeVega — who appears keen to furnish fellow travelers and potential would-be assassins with more hate-fuel less than two weeks after the most recent Democratic apparent attempt on Trump's life — further accused the Republican president of white supremacy, misogyny, and anti-Semitism.

This last allegation in particular might surprise Trump's Jewish family members and supporters as well as the beneficiaries of his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and his multiple efforts to broker peace agreements between Israel and Muslim nations.

'I'm angry about young American girls being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens.'

After doing his best to provide Salon readers with a history lesson about Adolf Hitler — neglecting to mention the leftist roots of Nazism — DeVega claimed that "Nazism and the various forms of racial fascism, and the other antidemocratic and illiberal political belief systems and ideologies in its orbit" are "resurgent in the form of Trumpism."

The first example the Salon blogger provided to support his thesis that Trump is Hitler reborn was the Republican's suggestion that Haitian migrants have been consuming pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Sen. JD Vance's (R-Ohio) told reporters ahead of Trump's debate with Kamala Harris that locals reached out to him, claiming some of the 20,000 Haitian nationals who have poured into their city of less than 60,000 have been swiping up wildlife and pets.

In the debate, Trump said that migrants were "eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there."

Democrats and their media allies have disputed the claims. However, when meeting with residents in the area, Blaze News' Julio Rosas was not only shown possible signs of wildlife consumption but more damning signs of the fallout of the migrant surge.

DeVega suggested further that Trump's stated intention to deport terrorists, criminals and the mentally insane who are in the country illegally sounds like proto-Nazi literature — apparently not unlike the kind advanced by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

Trump's offending post said:

OUR BORDERS MUST BE CLOSED, AND THE TERRORISTS, CRIMINALS AND MENTALLY INSANE, IMMEDIATELY REMOVED FROM AMERICAN CITIES AND TOWNS, DEPORTED BACK TO THEIR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN. ...THE WORLD IS LAUGHING AT US AS FOOLS, THEY ARE STEALING OUR JOBS AND OUR WEALTH. WE CANNOT LET THEM LAUGH ANY LONGER. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

The lawful removal of foreign nationals violating American immigration law and sovereignty would apparently amount to an "ethnic cleansing."

It is worth noting that where the ellipsis appears in this Trump quote, DeVaga omitted the line, "WE WANT PEOPLE TO COME INTO OUR COUNTRY, BUT THEY MUST LOVE OUR NATION, AND COME IN LEGALLY AND THROUGH A SYSTEM OF MERIT."

'The 2024 election is a referendum on democracy.'

The Salon blogger appeared similarly troubled by Trump's condemnation of illegal aliens raping and murdering American girls, likening his language to that historically "used to justify the lynchings" of black men.

When quoting Trump's remarks at a rally earlier this month in Arizona, DeVega inserted the word "white" in an effort to insinuate a racist meaning.

What Trump actually said was, "I'm angry about young American girls being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens. I'm angry about rampant inflation destroying our middle class, and the American people are also very angry about that and every other thing that we’ve had to endure for three and a half years."

Although Trump's remarks angered the blogger, they may alternatively resonate with Americans in New York City, whose sanctuary jurisdiction for illegal aliens recently reported a significant spike in reported rapes.

For example, Christian Inga, a 25-year-old illegal alien, was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint in New York City on June 13.

Toward the end of the piece, DeVega leaned hard into the same Democratic talking points that helped set the stage for two assassination attempts, even turning out a rephrase of a go-to Kamala Harris line adopted by suspected would-be assassin Ryan Routh: "The 2024 election is a referendum on democracy and a test of the American people's character, morality, intelligence, and courage."

Alarmist rhetoric like DeVega's on the left might account for why nearly 3 in 10 Democrats polled by RMG Research earlier this month indicated they believed it would have been better if Trump had been slaughtered on Sept. 15.

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Time magazine tries defending Harris by fact-checking Trump — then forced into all-time correction



During Tuesday's debate, President Donald Trump said that Kamala Harris "wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison," adding, "This is a radical left liberal that would do this."

The liberal media dutifully rushed to defend the vice president, claiming that Trump's assertion was false — which it is not. In doing so, misleading publications like the New Yorker not only drew greater attention to Harris' desire to mutilate illegal aliens' genitals using taxpayer money, but to their own propagandic nature.

Time magazine, another publication whose writers evidently underestimated Harris' radicalism, was among the offenders. Confronted with the truth of Trump's claim, it had to issue an embarrassing correction Wednesday.

'The truth was too crazy for the fact checkers.'

On Monday, CNN's investigative outfit KFile unearthed an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire completed in 2019 by then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), which revealed several of Harris' extreme positions and goals.

Harris indicated that she supported the decriminalization of all drug possession for personal use; statehood for Washington, D.C.; the repeal of the Hyde Amendment; ending illegal alien detention facilities; and cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding.

Harris also vowed to ensure that "federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained."

Time magazine, which has previously concern-mongered about "disinformation" and "fake news," originally reported:

The former President repeated a baseless Internet rumor that migrant invaders were killing and eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and falsely claimed that Harris 'wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'

The publication has since updated the article to read:

Trump glowered and grimaced, spewing old grievances and strange new attacks. The former President repeated a baseless Internet rumor that migrant invaders were killing and eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and claimed that Harris 'wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'

The latest version contains a corrective note at the very bottom admitting that Time's original story "mischaracterized as false Donald Trump's statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting 'transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.'"

"As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatment for detained immigrants," added Time's correction.

Donald Trump Jr. noted on X, "Unreal."

Former presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said, "Turns out the truth was too crazy for the fact checkers."

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk tweeted, "Kamala, TIME, and ABC collectively got owned on one simple, easily confirmed fact-check. This is fantastic."

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Even CNN's Erin Burnett shocked by unearthed evidence of Kamala Harris' radicalism: 'She supports that?'



The latest national New York Times/Siena College poll revealed that whereas likely voters feel confident they know who President Donald Trump is, they are still largely unsure about Kamala Harris, her policies, and her plans.

KFile, an investigative outfit at CNN, unearthed a document this week that provides several alarming insights into what the Democratic candidate might actually believe in, including taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens and federal prisoners, eliminating the Hyde Amendment, statehood for Washington, D.C., decriminalizing crack cocaine for personal use, and cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding.

These revelations, contained within an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire completed in 2019 by then-Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), have renewed concerns about the Democrat's radicalism and even managed to surprise CNN's Erin Burnett.

In the questionnaire, Harris vowed to:

  • End private prisons and illegal alien detention facilities;
  • "Support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use";
  • Slash detention in illegal alien detention facilities by at least 50% and halt funding for the construction of new facilities;
  • End the use of ICE detainers;
  • "Pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million-plus people living in our communities";
  • Seek a federal moratorium on the death penalty;
  • "Fight" to make Washington, D.C., a state;
  • "Require states with a history of unconstitutionally restricting access to abortion to pre-clear any new law or practice with the Justice Department before it can be enacted";
  • Repeal the Hyde Amendment and "ensure that all insurers are required to provide full reproductive healthcare services"; and
  • Ensure that "federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained."

The ACLU told KFile that the questionnaire, which has gone relatively unnoticed for years, has been live since 2019. However, the page source for the document — dated August 2024 — indicates that it was uploaded after President Joe Biden was swapped out of the race for Harris. Questionnaires filled out by other 2020 candidates were reportedly not similarly available.

'My values have not changed.'

When confronted with the findings in the questionnaire, particularly about the future border czar's stated intention to decrease funding to ICE, the titular host of "Erin Burnett OutFront" told KFile's Andrew Kaczynski Monday, "That's pretty incredible on its own."

Burnett had Kacyznski repeat himself after he noted Harris supported taxpayer-funded sex-change mutilations for detained illegal aliens.

"Taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants? She actually said she supports that?" said the shocked talking head.

"She both wrote and answered in the affirmative when she was asked that," said Kacyzsnki. "She said she also supported it for federal prisoners."

Kaczynski indicated that Harris had been "trying to get to the left of Bernie Sanders, she was trying to get to the left of Elizabeth Warren" in the 2019 Democratic primary.

"It's pretty incredible stuff," concluded Burnett.

When pressed about whether Harris continues to support these positions — having just recently told CNN's Dana Bash that "my values have not changed" — the Harris campaign told KFile, "The vice president's positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden-Harris administration."

The campaign added, "As president, she will take that same pragmatic approach, focusing on common-sense solutions for the sake of progress."

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Randi Weingarten is euphoric over Walz pick. Betsy DeVos figures that's a bad omen.



Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, has a knack not only for peddling falsehoods but for supporting ruinous policies, identitarian programming, and radical politicians.

Weingarten fought, for instance, to keep schools from reopening in-person learning in 2020, helping to put kids years behind academically and to drive up mental illness, suicide, obesity, and diminished immune systems among American children. She has suggested that parental resistance to leftist curricula "is the way in which wars start" and has likened parental rights advocates to segregationists. Weingarten has also campaigned against arming teachers despite the deterrent it might serve regarding school shootings.

Fully aware of Weingarten's history of radicalism, former Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos expressed concern this week upon seeing how excited the AFT boss was over Kamala Harris' choice of running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

In a video posted by the AFT to social media Tuesday, Weingarten gleefully states, "My phone has been going crazy because we just heard Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' choice for vice president! We're so excited."

"He's a teacher. He's a union member. We have known him for years as a social studies teacher, as a vet, as a union member, as a congressman, as a governor," continued Weingarten. "It is such a great day for America that we're going to have Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on a ticket for the future, for freedom, for opportunity, for America, for Americans' families. I'm sorry, I'm just so, so excited."

Weingarten also tweeted, "As Governor his record has been exemplary including record funding for public education, protecting reproductive rights, expanding collective bargaining, access to affordable childcare & paid family and medical leave. @KamalaHarris made a great choice!"

DeVos responded, "Anyone who makes Randi this excited is a 5-alarm fire for parents and students."

Weingarten's excitement appears to be fed by an understanding that Walz is a kindred spirit.

Besides also having an apparently loose relationship with the truth, Walz has advanced various leftist policies and initiatives affecting schools and children.

Harris' running mate earned himself the nickname "Tampon Tim" for ratifying legislation last year requiring public schools to provide tampons and pads "to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12."

Although state Republicans, cognizant of the fact that only girls and women menstruate, sought to limit the offerings to girls' bathrooms, Walz and his Democratic comrades ultimately got their way such that tampons are now available in the boys' bathrooms as well.

'The future starts here — and we are not going back.'

Walz passed a law in May prohibiting K-12 schools, colleges, and public libraries from complying with book-removal requests, thereby ensuring LGBT propaganda and other content thought inappropriate by parents could remain accessible by students.

Although there was apparently no scientific evidence to support masking children, Walz nevertheless required that kids as young as 5 keep their faces masked at school and on buses — at least in those months where he was permitting them and their families to leave their homes.

In terms of older students, Walz has also ensured that illegal aliens will be able to take advantage of his state's tuition-free college program.

Weingarten indicated in a statement that her apparently ideologically uniform union will easily transition from support for President Joe Biden to support for Harris and will campaign to keep Trump out of the White House.

"AFT's 1.8 million members will stand with Walz and Harris over the next 12 weeks as they campaign to realize the promise and potential of America," said Weingarten. "The future starts here — and we are not going back."

The National Education Association — America's other major radical teachers' union that supports abortion; amnesty for illegal aliens; gun bans; race-based admissions and hiring; LGBTQ activist-dictated pronoun use; statehood for the District of Columbia; making race the crux of all educational considerations; and BLM — has also endorsed Walz.

NEA president Becky Pringle stated, "The 3-million members of the NEA will show their power by turning out, volunteering and making their voices heard because we know that electing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz is the only way we can take America forward."

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CNN's Van Jones has moment of clarity about why Harris didn't pick Josh Shapiro



Vice President Kamala Harris' final decision of running mate came down to the choice between two Democratic governors: Tim Walz of Minnesota, a blue state that Harris was poised to win anyway; and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, a critically important swing state with 19 electoral college votes where President Donald Trump is presently leading in the polls.

Harris ultimately picked Walz — who apparently fabricated details of his military service, prompting allegations of "stolen valor"; allowed BLM rioters to devastate Minneapolis; and transformed his state into a haven for child sex-change mutilations.

While Shapiro has been dogged by an intra-office sexual abuse scandal, CNN talking head Van Jones acknowledged Tuesday that he was likely sidelined for another, "darker" reason.

CNN host Jim Acosta asked Jones whether he thought it was "a little risky that [Harris] didn't go with Shapiro to kind of lock down Pennsylvania."

Jones responded, "The conservatives, the right wing, the Republicans — they were chewing their fingernails down to the knuckle because they were afraid of a Josh Shapiro, they were afraid of a Mark Kelly. They are not as afraid of this new governor because they think they can define him."

"So here's the challenge you've got in this party, and people don't want to talk about it. We got to talk about it," continued Jones. "On the one hand, you have a lot of young people concerned about Gaza. You have a lot of Muslims and Arabs and others. They have not felt seen by the Biden administration. You started hearing that 'Genocide Joe.' That was building."

'You also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party.'

According to Jones, "those folks needed to have a candidate that they could feel comfortable with."

Whereas Walz is a leftist Lutheran who has expressed support for a peaceful solution to the Israel-Hamas war, Shapiro is a proud Jewish American who let people believe for decades that he volunteered for the Israeli military and has reportedly compared anti-Israel protesters to the KKK.

Leftists seized upon Shapiro's identity and support for Israel after learning Harris was considering him as a running mate and quickly transitioned from their "Genocide Joe" campaign to a "Genocide Josh" campaign.

The website for the "No Genocide Josh" campaign stated, "Electing a Vice Presidential nominee with anti-Palestinian and pro-war views will depress turnout among Muslim, Arab-American, and young voters, and greatly reduce the excitement that comes with a new nominee."

"It is in Harris's and the Democrats' best interests to listen to their base and ensure that both their new VP pick and their platform support the majority of Democrats and Americans who want social and economic justice for workers and an immediate ceasefire in Palestine," added the anti-Shapiro site.

Although Walz has condemned anti-Semitism in the past, expressed support for Israel as "America's truest and closest ally" in the Middle East, and spoken out about pro-Hamas supporters' antagonism of Jewish students, Jones intimated that prospective Harris voters' prejudice might cut deeper than policy positions.

"You also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party," said Jones. "You can be for the Palestinians without being an anti-Jewish bigot, but there are some anti-Jewish bigots out there."

"And there has to be conversations about how much of what just happened is caving into some of these darker parts in the party. So that’s going to have to get worked out. It's going to have to get talked through," added Jones.

Jones is neither the first media personality nor the first Democrat to admit the Democratic Party has a major anti-Semitism problem.

In May, comedian Bill Maher noted that while there might be anti-Semitism on both sides of the political spectrum, "The left wing is even worse."

Michael Rapaport, who was in recent years one of Trump's most outspoken critics, indicated earlier this year that he was considering voting for the Republican in large part because of the left's growing antagonism toward Israel and Jews.

After spending a lifetime as a Democrat, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind joined the Republican Party last year, stating, "The Democratic Party has become so radicalized, so radical, run by the radicals, that people who are moderates or conservative Democrats are not welcomed in the Democratic Party."

Jones is also not alone in suspecting that Shapiro was kicked to the curb in order to appease anti-Semites in the Democratic Party.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) told CNN Monday, "Those in the overly online left who are attacking Josh Shapiro's pro-Israel positions in a different way than they are attacking non-Jewish veep contenders' positions, they're just telling on themselves. There's a strong undercurrent of antisemitism."

"Every contender's positions on all policy issues, their track records in elective office, all of that is fair game. That is totally open to be subjected to interrogation and to questioning by the Harris team, by observers. But holding him to a different standard because of his religion just simply isn't who we are as a Democratic Party," continued Auchincloss.

Evidently Auchincloss was off in terms of his optimistic assessment of his party.

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A college program that linked conservative groups to Nazis secured a DHS grant. The Heritage Foundation is suing for answers.



The Heritage Foundation has taken legal action against the Biden administration for allegedly withholding answers about an anti-terrorism grant program that funded a group ostensibly hellbent on demonizing conservatives.

The Media Research Center published documents in May revealing the extent to which the Department of Homeland Security's Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program, used by the previous two administrations to combat actual terrorism, has been "revamped under the Biden administration and renamed to provide funding for localities to combat 'all forms of terrorism and targeted violence.'"

The watchdog report revealed that one grant recipient ran a seminar wherein the Heritage Foundation and other conservative outfits were branded as extremist and depicted as a stepping stones to Neo-Nazism.

The University of Dayton reportedly received $352,109 in fiscal year 2022 to establish the Preventing Radicalization to Extremist Violence through Education, Network-Building and Training in Southwest Ohio project.

"PREVENT-OH" received the grant after holding a seminar called "Extremism, Rhetoric, and Democratic Precarity," where Michael Loadenthal, a University of Cincinnati researcher and self-described Antifa member, shared a chart entitled, "The Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization," which branded the Christian Broadcasting Network, the GOP, the Tea Party, the National Rifle Association, PragerU, Quillette, Turning Point USA, and other conservative outfits as extremist.

Besides this designation, the chart suggested the logical progression for some persons attracted to these groups would be toward becoming Neo-Nazis.

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Extra to the pyramid, the MRC noted that at the seminar Alexander Hinton, an anthropology professor from Rutgers University, compared former President Donald Trump's administration to Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and Nicole Widdersheim suggested that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis might kick off a second Holocaust.

The New York Post reported that a DHS employee participated in the seminar.

The conservative-bashing seminar was ultimately referenced in the Dayton researchers' successful grant proposal for the TVTP.

A spokesman for the DHS told the Post the "seminar was not funded, organized, or hosted by the Department of Homeland Security."

"Similarly, the presented chart was not developed, presented, or endorsed by the Department of Homeland Security, and was not part of any successful grant application to the Department of Homeland Security," continued the spokesman. "DHS does not profile, target, or discriminate against any individual for exercising their constitutional rights protected by the First Amendment."

Dan Schneider, vice president at the MRC, said, "DHS is lying through its teeth once again. ... Laughably, the DHS Ohio grantee quickly scrubbed its website following this report, something innocent groups don't do. But it is too late; we have already copied it. We also have proof that 'PREVENTS-OH' actually hosted the conference and that DHS was an active participant, including featuring a senior DHS official at the conference."

Heritage filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seeking to compel the DHS to comply with its FOIA requests for all records pertaining to the conservative organization. In its complaint, Heritage noted it filed a FOIA request seeking what DHS had on it in late May, but despite some back and forth, has yet to receive anything.

The complaint accuses the DHS of two counts of violating FOIA having "repeatedly failed to respond to Plaintiffs' FOIA Request," suggesting that "[p]laintiffs are thus left with no remedy but this lawsuit to determine if DHS in fact believes Heritage, Fox News, and others to be worthy of being lumped in the same group as Nazis."

Furthermore, Heritage wants "to determine to what extent Heritage has been targeted by DHS and labeled an 'extrem[e]' or 'radical[]' group when it awarded a grant to a program asserting that conservative organizations are the 'base' of a pyramid supporting some of the most foul and noxious organizations in the United States."

Mike Howell, director of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, said in a statement, "We've had enough. We're taking the weaponized Department of Homeland Security to court. They can try explaining to a federal judge why they believe themselves to be above the law and Constitution."

"It's a sad day in America when patriotic citizens have to sue their own government for targeting them," continued Howell. "The subversive element that has taken over the Department of Homeland Security gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to fellow travelers at a university program that labeled us as extremists but illegally refused to comply with the law and turn over documents related to their ridiculous targeting of conservatives."

MRC indicated that as of May 2023, 80 grants totaling just under $40 million had been awarded under the TVTP program to teach "media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives."

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Study: Radical leftism linked to narcissism and psychopathy



Radical leftism is linked to both psychopathic tendencies and narcissism, according to a new study out of Switzerland.

"Individuals with dark personalities – such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits – are attracted to certain ideologies and forms of political activism," said the researchers, citing the 2020 BLM riots as one example.

Those whose authoritarian reflex predisposes them to leftist causes reportedly tend not to care about social justice or equality, contrary to whatever rhetoric they deal in; rather, they gladly partake in coercion, censorship, and violence to satisfy their own "ego-focused needs."

What are the details?

Researchers Ann Krispenz and Alex Bertrams from the University of Bern noted that past research into authoritarianism and the corresponding mindsets has focused almost entirely on rightist political formations.

Past attempts to investigate left-wing authoritarianism have, on the other hand, been downplayed or met with skepticism in the leftist-dominated academy, "even though some empirical studies found evidence for the existence of authoritarianism also on the left side of the political spectrum."

It appears social scientists chose to gloss over the evidence of LWA piled up like cordwood during Vladimir Lenin's Red Terror, Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, Pol Pot's Year Zero, Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, and Fidel Castro's various bloodlettings.

Krispenz and Bertrams turned their attention to LWA after the ruinous 2020 BLM riots, during which leftists championed by Democratic politicians torched American courthouses, police stations, and entire city blocks, incurring nearly $2 billion in damage; killed between 6 and 20 people; killed one police officer and assaulted or injured 2,037 more; and engaged in at least 574 violent acts in over 140 cities.

The makings of a leftist

The researchers defined LWA to be a "tripartite construct comprising of three correlated dimensions: (1) anticonventionalism, (2) top-down censorship, and (3) antihierarchical aggression."

Anticonventionalism is characterized "by the absolute endorsement of progressive moral values," such that leftist authoritarians are not only intolerant of differing points of view but keen on imposing their own values on others.

Top-down censorship amounts to leftists' desire to wield governmental and/or institutional authority to "deal with opposition and ... suppress any speech that is considered as offensive and intolerant."

Antihierarchical aggression, as seen in the use of violence "to fight for social justice," entails "the motivation to forcefully overthrow the established hierarchy and punish those in power."

The researchers noted that the censorious, coercive, and punitive leftist authoritarian simultaneously expresses hostility "towards the present social and moral authorities while feeling morally superior and endorsing the use of violence to reach one’s own political goals."

Bloodthirsty narcissists

Krispenz and Bertrams conducted two studies with 391 American participants in the first and 377 in the second.

The first study indicated there was a strong association between LWA and neurotic narcissism, defined as "individuals who strongly care about what others might think about them, who experience high levels of shame, and have a strong need for admiration."

To the researchers' surprise, they also found that there was no evidence of a relationship between LWA and altruism.

When variables such as age and sex were controlled, the researchers discovered that instead of a neurotic narcissistic link, there was instead a "robust relationship" between LWA and antihierarchical aggression and antagonistic narcissism. "The results of Study 1 suggest that this motivation can be more likely found in individuals who exploit others for their own interests, lack empathy, have a sense of entitlement, are arrogant and manipulative, demonstrate reactive anger and distrust others while at the same time seeking thrill."

The researchers' chief takeaway from the first study appears to have been that "a strong ideological view, according to which a violent revolution against existing societal structures is legitimate is ... endorsed by individuals with ego-focused motives."

The second study showed that "LWA antihierarchical aggression was predicted by psychopathy again above and beyond individuals’ prosocial dispositions (i.e., social justice commitment)."

On the basis of both studies, Krispenz and Bertrams claimed that "individuals with dark personalities – such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits – are attracted to certain ideologies and forms of political activism" on both the right and left.

Accordingly, certain individuals' engagements in violent political theater serve only to boost their ego and emotional needs.

"For example, a highly narcissistic/psychopathic person may participate in a pro-BLM protest pretending to fight against racism while actually using such protesting activities to meet their own aggressive motives and thrills," they wrote.

The radical left is not just populated with narcissistic psychopaths.

TheBlaze previously detailed a Columbia University study that found that liberals tend to be far more depressed and mentally unwell than their conservative counterparts.

The study, entitled, "The politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among US adolescents by political beliefs," was published in the journal Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health in December. It revealed "conservatives reported lower average depressive affect, self-derogation, and loneliness scores and higher self-esteem scores than all other groups."

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