'F*** Israel and f*** you too!' NYC transportation boss caught on video cursing allegedly at Jewish woman waving Israeli flag



A New York City transportation supervisor was caught on video cursing allegedly at a Jewish woman waving an Israeli flag on a Manhattan street earlier this month, the New York Post reported.

Kenneth Foster in the clip can be heard saying, "F*** Israel and f*** you, too," the paper noted, adding that he also told the unidentified woman, “I got the right to say what the f*** I want, I’m American.”

Foster, 57, said in an interview with the Post that on Nov. 11 he was walking down Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side with his mother when the woman’s flag “almost hit” him.

A video of Foster cursing and issuing a middle finger was posted on Instagram; a panel on the Instagram post also claims Foster was "spotted intimidating and harassing Jews hanging up posters of kidnapped hostages taken by Hamas on October 7th." Foster, however, told the paper he was unaware of any posters.

“I stated, ‘Why are you waving that flag that is part of an apartheid state?'” Foster told the Post. “So she got mad, like they mostly always do when you talk about Israel. I said, ‘F you’ and ‘F Israel.’ I didn’t say nothing about Jews to her ... now I have to defend myself."

Foster added to the paper that he has nothing against Jewish people and should have “just walked away.”

“I’m against oppression of anybody because I’m black, so I know what oppression is,” he added to the Post.

Foster told the paper he's worked for the MTA for 36 years; the Post added that he earned just over $143,000 last year for managing track maintenance and construction.

The paper said Foster has shared pro-Palestinian posts on his public Facebook page since Oct. 7.

An MTA spokesman told the Post that the transportation agency "has no tolerance for hatred or discrimination" and that it has "begun an investigation to determine all the facts.”

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Virginia's Cuban-American AG hammers Jim Acosta for 'Soviet-style police state' remark: 'Take some history classes'



Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares skewered CNN talking head Jim Acosta for comparing the state's new tip line for concerned parents to the police state of the former Soviet Union.

On Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a new email tip line for parents to report any violations of students' "fundamental rights" and any "divisive practices" in schools.

"Helpeducation@governor.virginia.gov, for parents to send us any instances where they feel that their fundamental rights are being violated, where their children are not being respected, where there are inherently divisive practices in their schools," Youngkin said, according to WJLA-TV. "And we're asking for input right from parents, to make sure that we can go right to the source, as we continue to work to make sure Virginia's education system is on the path to re-establish excellence."

Youngkin referenced a public school class in Fairfax County that recently had students play "privilege bingo." The controversial assignment had children acknowledge their privileged classes, such as those who are white, Christian, male, cis-gendered, able-bodied, have never been racially profiled, and belong to a military family.

This is over the top - time for FCPS to get away from identity politics and back to teaching our kids.pic.twitter.com/WtB2DLuhgH
— Supervisor Pat Herrity (@Supervisor Pat Herrity) 1642606084

The new "Help Education" tip line sparked a backlash from liberals, including singer John Legend.

"Black parents need to flood these tip lines with complaints about our history being silenced," Legend instructed his nearly 14 million followers on Twitter. "We are parents too."

Black parents need to flood these tip lines with complaints about our history being silenced. We are parents toohttps://twitter.com/rmc031/status/1485775829539991552\u00a0\u2026
— John Legend (@John Legend) 1643081795

Another outspoken critic of Youngkin's tip line was CNN personality Jim Acosta.

"You know, I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia," Acosta said on Tuesday night during a CNN special titled "Democracy in Peril." "He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington."

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares fired back at the comparison of the Virginia government to a Soviet-style police state.

"I think what Jim Acosta said — listen, my family fled Communist Cuba. You want to talk about what 'Soviet-style' looks like? It's the opposite of freedom," Miyares said during a Wednesday appearance on "Hannity."

"My mother has distinct memories of being forced to take classes in Marxist-Leninism," the Cuban-American AG explained.

He noted that his uncle was arrested in the middle of the night by now-deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's secret police then detained without due process. Miyares said his family's home was "nationalized: in the name of fairness and equity."

"So clearly, Jim Acosta maybe needs to take some history classes of what Soviet-style communism actually looks like. And [Virginia is] the opposite," Miyares proclaimed.

Miyares said parents under Youngkin's governance have the option of masking their children or not.

"What we have said is parents matter. Listen, if you're a parent and you want to mask your child for six, seven, eight hours a day, you absolutely have that right. That's your individual decision," he told Fox News host Sean Hannity. "The great irony of all this, is in Soviet-style communist states like Cuba, the state diminishes parents. They say, ‘Your loyalty is to the state,’ and parents have less control. This is about parental empowerment."

In a Fairfax County Times article from October, Miyares explained how his mother fled from Castro's Cuba in 1965.

"My mother escaped Communist Cuba when she was only 19 years old, legally immigrated to the United States homeless and without a penny to her name," Miyares noted. "While in Cuba, her brother, my uncle, suffered the humiliation of a mock execution for being an anti-communist and she saw her house and every other personal artifact become the property of the Cuban Government."

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LA County official votes to ban outdoor dining at restaurants over COVID-19 — then dines outdoors just hours later



A Los Angeles County supervisor voted to ban outdoor dining at restaurants over COVID-19 concerns — and then just hours later dined outside a Santa Monica eatery, KTTV-TV reported.

What are the details?

The station said it received multiple tips that shortly after her vote last Tuesday, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl was seen dining outside Il Forno Trattoria, an Italian restaurant near her home that she's described as one of her "favorite" places to dine.

While restaurant managers had no comment for KTTV, a Kuehl spokesperson offered the station the following statement: "She did dine al fresco at Il Forno on the very last day it was permissible. She loves Il Forno, has been saddened to see it, like so many restaurants, suffer from a decline in revenue. She ate there, taking appropriate precautions, and sadly will not dine there again until our Public Health Orders permit."

Image source: KTTV-TV video screenshot

At last week's L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting, Kuehl referred to outdoor dining as "a most dangerous situation" due to the risk of servers being infected by unmasked patrons, KTTV reported.

"This is a serious health emergency, and we must take it seriously," Kuehl said, according to the station. "The servers are not protected from us, and they're not protected from their other tables that they're serving at that particular time, plus all the hours in which they're working."

Kuehl voted to ban outdoor dining in the county, and the measure passed 3-2, KTTV said. The ban will last for three weeks, the station said in a previous story.

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Kuehl's visit to the restaurant came before the outdoor dining ban took effect Wednesday evening, but her decision is likely to draw criticism from those who have grown frustrated with elected officials taking a hypocritical approach to what they have preached, as Kuehl dined at the restaurant a mere hours after she said doing such a thing was unsafe and could contribute to the surge in COVID-19 cases.

L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn who strongly opposed the decision to ban outdoor dining reacted to our reporting tonight on FOX 11's Special Report with Elex Michaelson.

"We have to remember that we who are in public office are held to a very high standard, as we should be, and one of the things I'm realizing with some of these new restrictions: if we can't garner the trust of the public to be with us in this fight against the virus, then we've lost a big battle, and I'm feeling that now ... nine months into this is we're beginning to lose the trust of the public," Hahn said, according to KTTV.

What did restaurant owners have to say?

Local restaurant owner Michael Voltaggio told the station he's stunned by Kuehl's actions: "That sends a message that we're getting direction from people that aren't really believing in the decisions that they're making."

"For me it's just proof of the continuous hypocrisy and just the lack of leadership and education as to what's happening right now in this sort of shoot-from-the-hip mentality that's not doing anyone any good," he added to KTTV.

Josiah Citrin, who owns multiple restaurants across L.A. County, told the station, "I'm like, 'Wait a minute, restaurants are so dangerous, but you're gonna go eat in a restaurant?' I mean, to me it just blows me away."

Anything else?

Kuehl also co-authored a measure that supervisors voted to place on last month's ballot aimed at redistributing nearly $1 billion in funding from county law enforcement to "social programs." County voters approved Measure J, KABC-TV reported.

"It's time to bring our budget into alignment with our actions, intentions and vision," Kuehl said of her measure. "The supervisors have said we want to move people from custody to care, and our constituents are pleading with us to expand housing and treatment options and stop relying on punitive, outdated law enforcement tactics."