The reason why Israel is banning Al Jazeera – they don’t want the world to witness their war crimes…
Nuclear Saber Rattling
Nuclear escalation. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary, directly stated that Russia conducts tactical nuclear weapons exercises taking into account two new factors.
1. Statements by the President of France about the beginning of the massive sending of NATO troops to Ukraine.
2. Statement by the British Foreign Minister that long-range missiles will be transferred to Ukraine and Britain is lifting the ban on strikes at strategic depths in Russia. They plan to fire missiles at Moscow.
In return, with the threat of tactical nuclear weapons, Russia is trying to stop a new stage of NATO aggression.
Moscow emphasizes that tactical nuclear weapons will strike not only against NATO troops on the territory of Ukraine, but also against military facilities on the territory of NATO countries. Dmitry Medvedev stated this. And this was stated by Dmitry Trenin, one of the leading military-political experts, who is close to the Ministry of Defense, as many believe.
What kinds of tactical nuclear weapons does Russia have?
Russia’s military is planning tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) drills in response to “provocative threats” by NATO about deploying troops in Ukraine.
What are tactical nukes?
TNWs, or ‘battlefield’ nuclear weapons are a class of nukes first developed by the US in the 1950s for use against enemy troops and other ‘tactical’ targets. The USSR created its own lineup of TNWs, many of them standardized with conventional weapons systems.
Modern TNWs’ explosive power ranges from fractions of a kiloton to about 50 kilotons. For comparison, the US nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotons.
How many TNWs does Russia have?
The size of Russia’s TNW stockpile is kept under wraps, but the Federation of American Scientists estimates it to be between 1,000-2,000 nukes total (down from 22,000 in 1991). These weapons are not subject to treaty restrictions that affect strategic nuclear arsenals.
What means does Russia have to use its tactical nukes?
Russia has an array of means to deliver TNWs, including:
ground-based Iskander-M missile systems
ship and air-launched Kalibr and Kh-59 cruise missiles
missiles and free-fall bombs launched from warplanes including the Su-34, Tu-142, Tu-22M3, Su-24, Su-25, MiG-31K and Su-57.
Yasen-class cruise missile subs can theoretically carry TNWs.
Smaller TNWs can be fired by standard 152 mm Russian howitzers, like the Msta-S/B, Akatsiya and Giatsint-S. Specially-developed nuclear artillery rounds for the 203 mm Pion/Malka cannon and 240 mm Tulpan mortar system were created.
“People Will Be Teleporting Between Planets” Before California Finishes High-Speed Rail Project
X users mocked the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s post on the social media platform, which celebrated building a bridge that goes nowhere.
“The Fresno River Viaduct in Madera County is one of the first completed high-speed rail structures. At nearly 1,600 feet long, high-speed trains will travel over the riverbed and will run parallel with the BNSF Railroad,” CAHSR wrote on X.
“The Fresno River Viaduct in Madera County is one of the first completed high-speed rail structures. At nearly 1,600 feet long, high-speed trains will travel over the riverbed and will run parallel with the BNSF Railroad,” CAHSR wrote on X.
Billy Markus, the co-founder of Dogecoin, joked, “This is the most remarkable human achievement ever, 1600 feet of high-speed rail after 9 years and 11 billion dollars.”
Venture capitalist David Sacks said, “Building products on time and on budget requires a monomaniacal leader who kicks asses to make things run right. Government, which is based on lobbying, backscratching and committee-based decision-making, is uniquely unsuited for this.”
“People will be teleporting between planets by the time California achieves high speed rail service from Merced to Bakersfield,” one X user quipped.
Another user said the partially built Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail project could accommodate the homeless and migrants.
Perhaps California officials should stop gaslighting taxpayers about a decade of work and billions spent – only to come up with a bridge to quite literally nowhere. Big government is inefficient and wasteful. The state controlled by radical progressives is a trainwreck.
“The Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023“
Oval Office in the White House on April 5, 2020.
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
In my last article I discussed the new Bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passed this week titled “The Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023“, which had bipartisan support. See:
Zionist Christians Get Wake-up Call: New Law Defining “Antisemitism” Means Denying the Biblical Record that Jews Condemned Jesus to Death!
As you can observe from the title of the Bill that now heads to the Senate, the language for this Bill was written last year, 2023, after the Hamas military attack in Israel, and pre-dates the current student protests over the war in Gaza that began a few weeks ago.
In fact, the language for this Bill was drafted under President Donald Trump, written by his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and was then enacted as a Presidential Executive Order on December 11, 2019.
Here is the 24-minute video of the entire ceremony from that day:
Trump signs executive order combating anti-Semitism
At around the 17-minute mark in this video, you can listen to Trump thank the “Evangelical Pastors” who were there, and he specifically mentions Pastor Robert Jeffress, who is the Pastor of the First Baptist Mega Church in Dallas Texas, one of the largest Zionist churches in the U.S.
As Trump introduces him, he says:
I didn’t know him, but I watched him, and I’d watch him on different shows and I said: I like that guy. Man he talks really great about me, and I like people who talk well about me.
He was saying, “you know he may not be the greatest Christian I have ever seen, he may not know the Bible quite as well as the rest of us, in fact, he may not know it very well at all, but that guy’s a real leader, and he’s gonna do a job.”
I appreciated that statement.
Then, after admitting that Trump was ignorant about what the Bible says, Pastor Jeffress states:
I believe President Trump is the most pro-faith President in history.
Why would he say that of a man who doesn’t even know what the Bible says?
Because Donald Trump furthered the Zionist agenda more than any other president before him. The text for that executive order that criminalizes “antisemitism” had never been able to be passed as law in the U.S. Congress, because it basically renders the First Amendment as null and void, and so by Trump’s own admission in this video, he stated that he just did it himself anyway, because as President of the United States, he now had the power to do so.
Trump’s Executive Order Still Stands – So Why the Need for this Bill that Mike Johnson Introduced?
I checked to see if Trump’s executive order on antisemitism from 2019 had been revoked by President Biden, and it has not.
So this begs the question: If Trump’s EO on antisemitism is still in effect, then why did the Zionists need this new Bill introduced to the House by Rep. Mike Johnson, which easily passed with bipartisan support?
The reason seems to be that under the Biden administration, Trump’s EO is being used to represent not only Zionist Jews who feel they are being discriminated against on college campuses, but also students of other faiths as well, such as Arab Muslims, who are also using Trump’s EO to file discrimination lawsuits.
This is apparently because Trump linked his EO to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
As campuses across the country continue to erupt in protests over the Israel-Hamas war, a little-known 2019 presidential executive order is expected to fuel a flood of student legal claims against universities.
Attorneys — from a mix of white-shoe corporate firms to Jewish advocacy groups — are meeting with students who say their schools are failing to protect them from antisemitic or anti-Israel conduct.
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump signed an order instructing federal officials to expand the interpretation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include “discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism” as a form of discrimination based on race, color and national origin — prohibited behavior for programs that get federal funding. Trump signed the order amid a series of violent incidents against Jews, including the 2018 killing of 11 congregants in a Pittsburgh synagogue and a 2019 attack that killed three inside a Kosher supermarket in New Jersey.
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not include the word “religion” as a subject of discrimination. Because the law does not list religious characteristics, legal experts say, federal officials have gradually expanded interpretations to include ethnoreligious groups.
“Oh, my God, I can’t tell you how many campuses we’re dealing with every single day. We have never been so inundated with cases,” said Marcus, who now runs the Brandeis Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit group focused on protecting the civil rights of Jews.
For years, Marcus has also been fighting to broaden Title VI protections to members of other ethnoreligious groups. He said prior to the Trump administration, he wrote guidance memos that said Title VI could be interpreted to include protecting members of other ethnoreligious groups such as Sikhs and Arab Muslims. But in 2019, Trump kept his executive order focused on protecting Jews.
In September, President Joe Biden issued a statement noting that Title VI also prohibits Islamophobic activities in federally funded programs. But the Department of Education has not released a detailed memo that defines Islamophobia as it has done for antisemitism.
Gadeir Abbas, a senior litigation attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said his team is preparing discrimination complaints on behalf of Muslim and pro-Palestinian students, who he says are being unfairly labeled as Hamas sympathizers or unfairly accused of providing support to terrorists.
“I think that pro-Israel groups, groups that are seeking to marginalize Palestinian voices on campus, see the Title VI claim as a way of attacking not the administration, but the other student groups,” Abbas said. “The idea is that [they’re] going to censor or penalize or punish any advocacy for equal rights of Palestinians.”
As a result, he said, Palestinian students — or students who say they support Palestinian civilians in Gaza — feel vulnerable on campus and in their communities, and some are considering filing their own Title VI claims. (Full article.)
So having failed to meet their objectives with the Trump EO from 2019, the Zionists are trying, once again, to codify the meaning of “antisemitism” and criminalizing anyone who does not comply with their definition of “antisemitism”, which includes denying that Jesus Christ was the Jewish Messiah.
What are the Noahide Laws?
As I reported in my last article about this new House Bill that is now heading to the Senate, every U.S. President since 1991 has signed a proclamation affirming the Jewish Noahide laws on the “Day of Education and Knowledge Sharing in the United States” just before Passover.
Here is a description of the original proclamation which has been signed by every U.S. President since Jimmy Carter.
Education and Sharing Day is a day established by the United States Congress in honor of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
It calls for increased focus on education, and recognizes the lifelong efforts of the Rebbe for education.
Since 1978, Education & Sharing Day, USA, has been proclaimed by the president each year on the Rebbe’s birthday on the Jewish calendar, 11 Nissan, which is four days before Passover and thus generally can fall between March 21 and April 21 on the Gregorian calendar.
President Ronald Reagan wrote in his proclamation of 1982:One shining example for people of all faiths of what education ought to be is that provided by the Lubavitch movement, headed by Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, a worldwide spiritual leader who will celebrate his 80th birthday on April 4, 1982. The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s work stands as a reminder that knowledge is an unworthy goal unless it is accompanied by moral and spiritual wisdom and understanding. He has provided a vivid example of the eternal validity of the Seven Noahide Laws, a moral code for all of us regardless of religious faith. May he go from strength to strength.
In recognition of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s 80th birthday, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled have issued House Joint Resolution 447 to set aside April 4, 1982, as a “National Day of Reflection.”President George H. W. Bush wrote in his proclamation of 1989:
It is fitting that we honor Rabbi Schneerson and acknowledge his important contributions to society. Our great Nation takes just pride in its dedication to the principles of justice, equality, and truth. Americans also understand that we have a responsibility to inspire the same dedication in future generations. We owe a tremendous debt to Rabbi Schneerson and to all those who promote education that embraces moral and ethical values and emphasizes their importance.
In recognition of Rabbi Schneerson’s vital efforts, and in celebration of his 87th birthday, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 173, has designated April 16, 1989, and April 6, 1990, as “Education Day, U.S.A.President Bill Clinton wrote in his proclamation of 1995:
“Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, well understood the importance of nurturing the heart along with the mind. Throughout his long and rich life, he believed that the education of our young people would only be successful if it sought to build character as well as intellect, if it taught the lessons of honesty, tolerance, and good citizenship, as well as language, math, and science.
This year, let us rededicate ourselves to teaching the love of learning that was championed by Rabbi Schneerson and is strengthened by caring leaders like him throughout our Nation. As we provide our students with the information and practical tools they need, let us also pass on to them the capacity for understanding that can help to give fuller meaning to their lives.”President George W. Bush wrote in his proclamation on Education and Sharing Day 2007:
“Education and Sharing Day honors The Rebbe and emphasizes our commitment to teach the next generation of Americans the values that make our country strong. The Lubavitcher Rabbi believes that society should ‘make a new commitment to kindness,’ and he helped to establish education and outreach centers offering social service programs and humanitarian aid around the world.”
President Barack Obama wrote in his proclamation on Education & Sharing Day 2009:
“Few have better understood or more successfully promoted these ideas than Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who emphasized the importance of education and good character. Through the establishment of educational and social service institutions across the country and the world, Rabbi Schneerson sought to empower young people and inspire individuals of all ages. On this day, we raise his call anew.”
President Donald Trump wrote in his proclamation on Education & Sharing Day 2017:
“Education and Sharing Day recognizes the remarkable efforts of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, to use values-based education to drive our Nation’s children toward the American Dream. As an educator, Rabbi Schneerson understands that education is incomplete if it is devoid of moral development. Working through a spirit of optimism, he strived [sic] to teach children to be honest, civil, respectful of differences, and self-disciplined, in addition to being intellectually rigorous.”
President Joe Biden wrote in his proclamation on Education and Sharing Day 2022:
“The Rebbe’s work reminds us, in the words of the Prophet Amos, to “hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the gate.” We each share a responsibility to live up to those words — in and out of the classroom — and to plant the seeds of love, kindness, and empathy in the hearts and minds of every child in America…Today — on what would have been the Rebbe’s 120th birthday — let us celebrate all the educators, advocates, and pioneers who teach young people the lessons that create caring neighbors and closer communities.”
The 1991 bill described the Noahide Laws as the “ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded”. (Source.)
It was difficult for me to locate a copy of these Noahide Laws in English, but they were documented at JewishEncyclopedia.com, although that entry has now apparently been deleted.
There is a copy on Archive.org.
The Noahide Laws are allegedly from the Babylonian Talmud. The Noahide Laws are stated to be universal and binding upon “Gentiles” (non-Jews) only.
They state:
With but a few exceptions, the punishment meted out to a Noachid for the transgression of any of the seven laws is decapitation, the least painful of the four modes of execution of criminals.
“Idolatry and blasphemy” are Noahide Laws that are punishable by death, and within the definition of idolatry and blasphemy is the belief that Jesus Christ was the Jewish Messiah.
Here is a video of a policeman in Israel who admits to following these laws, and that if a Sanhedrin was in session, it would be his duty to kill idolaters, such as Christians.
A Zionist Jew named Amy Reissner recently emailed me and stated that the Noahide Laws are real.
One of the hallmarks of Judaism is the Torah given to the Jewish people. Jewish people who are Torah observant live by the covenant and try to perform the 614 commandments. We were given the Torah to bring G-D’s light to the world.
The Noahide laws, which include the 10 commandments are for people not of the Jewish faith. Not sure where you get your beliefs from but Jesus was Jewish and he was not and is not the messiah. Once meshiach comes, the Divine light of peace and holiness and salvation will arrive on Earth.
(Source: Personal email sent to Brian Shilhavy as Editor of Health Impact News.)
And as the Noahide Laws indicate, execution is by decapitation.
Revelation chapter 20 verse 4 states:
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge.
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. (Revelation 20:4)
Altiyan Childs, the Australian Freemason whistleblower, discusses this in his 5-hour+ documentary on Freemasonry.
I clipped out this section into a separate video that is just over 4 minutes long:
Altiyan Childs also discusses the film “Grey State” that he says exposed Freemason Zionist intentions. But the film was never released, because the producer, David Crowley, who was an Iraq War veteran, was found dead with his wife and young daughter.
The trailer from 2012 is still found on YouTube, and many of the scenes in this fictional film actually came true in 2020-2021 with COVID:
Zionist Jews believed that Donald Trump was the “Champion of Noahide Law” while President, and they want him back in office.
Donald J. Trump: Champion of Noahide Law
‘During his almost four years in office, Donald Trump has been the greatest supporter of Noahide law in US history.’
This article is dedicated to observant and traditional Jews, to the growing Noahide movement in the US, and to all Americans of faith.
My call to all of you is to personally go to the polls on Tuesday and to support President Donald Trump for reelection.
During his almost four years in office, Donald Trump has been the greatest supporter of Noahide law in US history and he must be reelected if only for that reason. (Source.)
The Claim that Donald Trump Converted to Judaism and that Jared Kushner is the Jewish Messiah
If you watched the video above from Fox News on Trump’s ceremony at the White House when he signed his Executive Order on antisemitism in 2019, he almost admits that he is a Jew, but comes just short of that claim by stating that:
“I’m very proud that the Jewish faith is a cherished part of our family. Very proud of it.”
There had been rumors among some Zionist Jews that Donald Trump had converted to Judaism in 2017, but was afraid to go public with his conversion due to the backlash he would have received from Evangelical Christians.
The source was allegedly a Jewish woman who worked for Trump in the White House. The main source for this information was from a man named David Goldberg, and Henry Makow claims that this man was a Mossad Jewish agent sowing disinformation.
But the rumor also stated that Jared Kushner, who openly admits he is a Jewish member of the Chabad Lubavitch sect, and is the son-in-law of Donald Trump, is the prophesied Jewish Messiah.
This rumor actually has some evidence to back up this claim, and a video produced in Hong Kong presents a lot of this evidence.
I don’t agree with everything in this video in terms of eschatology (the study of the end times), but the video footage and news articles that they document are very impressive.
It is an incredible production, and it is just under 20 minutes long.
One thing I learned from this video is that Jared Kushner paid $1.8 billion to acquire the building 666 on 5th avenue in New York just across from the Rockefeller Center, which at the time was the largest sum of money ever paid for a single office building in the U.S.
The other interesting piece of news revealed in this video is that George Soros provided a $250 million line of credit to the Kushner’s company that bought this building. (Source.)
Jared’s father Charles Kushner was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering, and served time in Federal Prison, until President Trump pardoned him on his last day in office.
It was later revealed that one of Trump’s NYC attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, was selling Presidential pardons for $2 million each. (Source.)
Conclusion: Will Zionists Finally Become Successful in Legislating the Noahide Laws?
It will be interesting to see if this Bill just passed by the House of Representatives on a new definition of “antisemitism” will actually become law, as Zionists have been attempting to do this for decades now.
If it does, how many Americans will defy this blatant attempt to nullify the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that protects Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion, and face the consequences, or support the Zionist religious agenda, by pledging their support to Zionism?
This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666. (Revelation 13:18)
Surprise, Pro-Palestinian Protesters Are Backed by Biden’s Biggest Donors
Some of the most outspoken groups against Biden and Israel get funding from foundations attached to some of the biggest names in Democratic circles.
About 40 students at Washburn University stage a protest expressing support for Palestinians in Gaza and calling for a cease-fire in the war there on May 3, 2024, in Topeka, Kansas. | John Hanna/AP
By SHIA KAPOS via Politico
President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Two of the organizers behind protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and it in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. (Gates did not return a request for comment, and Soros declined to comment.)
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.
The trail of donations shows a series of blurred lines when it comes to liberal causes and Democratic politics. Often those missions are aligned, but they also sometimes have different and — particularly when it comes to Gaza — conflicting agendas and tactics. And a small group of wealthy heavyweights are often playing an outsize role funding many of them.
“Why [is the Rockefeller Fund] giving significant grants to Jewish Voice for Peace, [which] blamed the horrific Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the United States rather than Hamas?” said Elisha Wiesel, a Democratic donor who chairs the Elie Wiesel Foundation, an organization that supports anti-genocide work.
Jewish Voice for Peace, which did not return a request for comment, has been a leader in disruptive protests against Biden, including shouting “genocide supporter” at his glitzy fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York in March. It protests on campuses across the country, and its statement immediately following the Oct. 7 attacks said that “the source of all this violence” was “Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression.”
The complex funding system in the nonprofit space sometimes means that groups are funded by grants — or even subgrants — from a larger organization that isn’t involved in granular, day-to-day management of an activist group’s work. In a statement to POLITICO, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund noted it cannot support political activity or campaigns and is not involved in the personal political giving of trustees.
“Our grantees in all three portfolios support a broad range of policy ideas—some align with the Biden administration’s agenda and others conflict. This complexity is part and parcel of our nonpartisan work,” said Sarah Edkins, the fund’s communications director, in a statement.
Some advisers to left-leaning causes say that’s just part of the way things work when it comes to philanthropic giving.
“There may be times where a donor may give to an organization or candidate that sometimes does something that clashes with their personal view,” said Kevin Conlon, who has been a bundler for Biden as well as for Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and now advises nonprofits.
Still, some donors say they feel conflicted as they watch the protests unfold.
“We’re hearing from folks who want to make sure that their dollars aren’t supporting people who are supporting Hamas and shouting antisemitic things,” said Daniel Goldwin, public affairs executive director of the Jewish United Fund in Chicago, which issues grants to small local nonprofits and to larger national nonprofits. “If it’s an organization they’ve been giving to for a long time, we encourage them to call and communicate their concerns.”
Biden is struggling to regain support from young people, who went overwhelmingly for him in 2020, and the protests may complicate that effort. As Israel faces increasing criticism from around the world amid the high numbers of civilian casualties in Gaza, demonstrations in the United States are only growing more intense. Those at Columbia University, in particular, have emerged as a thorn in the side of Biden, who finally weighed in on them on Thursday.
“Destroying property is not a peaceful protest, it’s against the law,” Biden said. “Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation, none of this is a peaceful protest.”
Some Democrats are downplaying the protests as a problem for Biden.
“Elections aren’t determined on foreign policy issues,” said Jill Zipin, co-founder and chair of Democratic Jewish Outreach Pennsylvania, a political action committee that works to elect Democrats in Pennsylvania. “The protest movement and the encampments probably won’t be an issue in November, but it’s really hard to say because things can change quickly.”
The liability for Biden could be more pronounced if the protests continue throughout the summer and fall, as the election draws closer.
“If it continues through November, then yes, it’s likely to be more salient,” said Omar Wasow, a scholar who studies protest movements and their political effects. “And if it somehow winds down, you see Americans don’t care a lot about foreign policy, and it’s likely to not to play out in the election.”
Many of the nonprofits that receive grants that are now involved in the protests also have missions that are mostly unrelated to foreign policy. But as the conflict in the Middle East takes up a greater space at the center of the nation’s political debates, nonprofits with other missions have been drawn to the cause.
“A lot of our members are supporting actions that are trying to hold Biden accountable, which is not the same thing as opposing Biden. It’s saying we desperately don’t want the alternative,” said Barni Qaasim, a spokesperson for Solidaire Action, a group that funds social justice movements.
Solidaire has received financial support from the Pritzkers, who also founded the Libra Foundation, which funds smaller nonprofits that address criminal justice, environmental and gender justice issues. Susan Pritzker declined to comment for this story. Some of the groups funded by Libra have also been involved in protests against Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
For instance, The Climate Justice Alliance took part in pro-Palestinian marches that have used the phrase “Genocide Joe.” Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, another group backed by the Libra Foundation, promotes pro-Palestinian demonstrations on its website. And a third, the Immigrant Defense Project, was part of a protest in Washington that saw 13 activists arrested by Capitol police after demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
The Tides Foundation, funded by the Prizkers, has also supported the Adalah Justice Project, which has also been part of protests at Columbia University. The group wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that “universities are hedge funds, deeply embedded with weapons manufacturers.” Tides also supports Palestine Legal, a legal defense fund that is offers legal assistance to “students mobilizing against genocide.”
The Tides Foundation issued a statement about funding groups that protest, saying it is “committed to advancing social justice,” adding that its “community of fiscally sponsored projects, donors, and grantees represent a wide range of perspectives on what social justice looks like.”
Palestine Legal has been a fiscally sponsored project of the Tides Center since 2013, and Adalah Justice Project since 2016, according to a spokesperson. Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow “are grantee partners.”
Some donors may use this moment to reevaluate where their money goes, something that Conlon, the Democratic bundler, acknowledged.
“They might be less inclined to give [in the future] if they feel strongly about it. Inevitably, there will be conflicts,” he said. “You’re not going to sync perfectly all the time.”
CLARIFICATION: IfNotNow clarified that is not leading protests at Columbia University.
France Sends Combat Troops to Ukraine Battlefront
by Stephen Bryen via weapons.substack
An honor guard from the French army’s 6th Battalion stands at attention as they await the arrival of Lt. Gen. Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, commander of Joint Forces in Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Shield. The soldier in front is holding a 5.56mm FA MAS rifle, equipped with a bayonet.
France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère).
In 2022 France had a number of Ukrainians and Russians in the Foreign Legion. They were allowed to leave the Legion and, in the case of the Ukrainians, return to Ukraine to join Ukrainian forces. It isn’t clear if the Russians returned home.
The Legion today is run by French officers but the rank and file are all foreigners. Under the curren anonymat (being anonymous) a volunteer who joins the Legion can decide whether to keep his given name or adopt a new one. Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they can ask for French citizenship. If a legionnaire is wounded, he is entitled to gain French citizenship without any waiting period. There are no women in the Foreign Legion.
Troops of Third Infantry Regiment French Foreign Legion in Africa
The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine.
These troops are being posted directly in a hot combat area and are intended to help the Ukrainians resist Russian advances in Donbas. The first 100 are artillery and surveillance specialists.
For months French President Emanuel Macron has been threatening to send French troops to Ukraine. He has found little or no support from NATO countries outside of support from Poland and the Baltic States. Allegedly the US opposes sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine (other than as advisors).
One of the questions to immediately arise from France’s decision to send soldiers from its 3rd Infantry Regiment is whether this crosses the Russian red line on NATO involvement in Ukraine? Will the Russians see this as initiating a wider war beyond Ukraine’s borders?
France itself does not have many troops to put on Ukraine’s battlelines, should the French government want to do so. According to reports, today France cannot support an overseas deployment of a full division and won’t have this capability until 2027 at the earliest.
The decision to send Foreign Legionnaires is, itself, a peculiar French compromise. France is not deploying its home army and, besides the small number of officers, the men sent are not French citizens.
France’s decision has two meanings, beyond the obvious one of potentially triggering a pan-European war.
First of all, it allows Macron to send troops to Ukraine and act like a tough guy without encountering much home opposition. That’s because no French army soldiers are being sent and there is no consequent conscription or other measures in the offing. This clearly reduces the potential fury of Macron’s political opponents.
French Foreign Legionnaires in the desert. Photo: Vanity Fair
The second reason is Macron’s anger at seeing French troops, almost all from the Legion, getting kicked out of Sahelian Africa and replaced by Russians. Control of Francophone Africa, and the riches it provides to French politicians, has been broken by the revolt and revolution in Africa and a decisive tilt to Russia – either directly or through PMC Wagner (the Wagner Group). now clearly under Vladimir Putin’s direct control.
This “humiliation” is felt in the Élysée Palace and particularly by Macron who, his opponents say, has lost France’s influence and harmed France’s overseas mining and business interests.
A particular blow is in Niger, an important supplier of uranium to France. France gets 70 percent of its electrical power from nuclear power generators. Global uranium supplies are tightening and prices rising. With Russia and Kazakhstan, along with Niger, on the top of the heap in terms of supplying uranium for nuclear reactors, France has a home economic security problem. The US decision to ban Russian uranium (but probably not realistically, in the next few years) the Russians could deal a serious blow to France and the United States by cutting off supplies.
French Troops Departing Niger
Given the risk of losing access to uranium, or at least enough of it to supply France’s reactors, Macron has to hope that his troop deployments to Ukraine won’t trigger a Russian embargo on sales to France.
It isn’t clear how the Legionnaires can help the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians know how to operate artillery, and they have sophisticated intelligence support, some of it generated by their own FPV drones and spies and some of it thanks to US and other NATO intelligence and surveillance assets supporting Ukraine.
Anyway, the Ukrainian issue is not about how to use artillery but where the ammunition is supposed to come from. Ukraine continues to complain it lacks adequate supplies for 155mm howitzers.
The decision to put the Legion soldiers in Slavyansk is extremely provocative and goes against statements from the French side, including Macron, to the effect that if France sent troops they would replace Ukrainian army units in western Ukraine who could, therefore, be moved eastward to fight the Russians. As Slavyansk is on the front line, this French image of a soft deployment is turning into a war with Russia directly.
A key question is how NATO will react to the French decision to deploy. As France is acting on its own without NATO’s backing, the French cannot claim support from NATO under its famous Article 5, the collective security component of the NATO Treaty.
Should the Russians attack French troops outside of Ukraine it would be justified because France has decided to be a combatant, and forcing an Article 5 vote would seem to be difficult if not impossible.
Of course, NATO members individually could support the French, either by sending their own forces or by backstopping the French logistically and in communications. For example, there is no way Foreign Legion soldiers can go to Ukraine without passing through Poland. Will the Russians see this as evidence they are at war both with France and Poland?
Right now no one can answer any of these questions with any degree of certainty. It is unlikely the Russians will long tolerate a buildup of French army troops, even if they are Foreign Legion soldiers. What Russia will do in response is not certain.
Stephen Bryen served as staff director of the Near East Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.
This article was first published on his Weapons and Strategy Substack and is republished with permission.
Peace? No Peace…
“The Hamas movement will not agree in any way to an agreement that does not explicitly include stopping the war on Gaza”
⭕️ A leading Hamas source told Al Jazeera:
The occupation is obstructing reaching an agreement by insisting on continuing the war
The Zionist entity seeks to establish a framework agreement to recover its prisoners without linking this to ending the aggression
The enemy bears full responsibility for insisting on entering #Rafah instead of stopping the aggression and comprehensive withdrawal
Our information confirms that Netanyahu personally is obstructing reaching an agreement for personal reasons
The resistance is entrusted with the sacrifices of our people and will not neglect them under any circumstances
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“The US is the number 1 warmonger in the world.
US has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, blatantly interfered in elections in at least 30 countries, and attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.”
— The Chinese Foreign Minister
Breaking News: Israel Folds
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The Saudi news channel reports that Hamas will accept the Egypt’s proposal for a cease-fire and the release of hostages within hours.
Hamas said it has received a promise from the U.S. for a cease-fire and full Israeli… pic.twitter.com/x3QLQzuwlI
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) May 4, 2024
The Slaughter of the Palestinians: 1948
Former Israeli soldiers explain the circumstances of the founding of Israel.