GAY ANTISEMITISM

There one group in the LBGTQ community is discriminating against Israel. They forget that Israel holds a Gay Pride Parade each year in Tel Aviv and many American Members of the LBGTQ community not only attends but participate is this colorful event regardless what Religion or Race people are. 

The Palestinian community in Gaza and the West Bank do not. In fact, if they found out a person is gay, they are murdered. The LBGTQ communities  want Jewish support from Jewish Senators and House Representative because they are discriminated against by the Conservative Republicans who feel that the LBGTQ communities are deviants, who don't deserve to have families, medical care for them and their families, and should be eliminated in a form of genocide. The Jewish community has always supported people who have been discriminated against and so has the country of Israel. Yet not all in the LBGTQ community have not been educated on the history of Israel and the massacres that recurred during the Ottoman Era which the entire Middle East was subjected to and under control.

My family (on both sides) left the Middle East in 1834. The story of the Jewish communities in the Middle East has never been told but there was a Massacre of Jews in 1834 because they were Jewish. No other reason. It is time to expose the truth.

1517 Hebron attacks occurred in the final phases of the 1513–17 Ottoman–Mamluk War, when Turkish Ottomans had ousted the Mamluks and taken Palestine. The massacre targeted the Jewish population of the city and is also referred to as a pogrom.

Events

An account of the event, recorded by Japheth ben Manasseh in 1518, mentions how the onslaught was initiated by Turkish troops led by Murad Bey, the deputy of the Sultan from Jerusalem. Jews were attacked, beaten and raped, and many were killed as their homes and businesses were looted and pillaged. It has been suggested that the stable financial position of the Hebronite Jews at the time was what attracted the Turkish soldiers to engage in the mass plunder. Others suggest the pogrom could have in fact taken place in the midst of a localised conflict, an uprising by the Arabs against the new Ottoman rulers. Those who survived the calamity fled to Beirut and Jews only returned to Hebron 16 years later in 1533.

The 1834 Hebron Massacre

Caught between the Egyptians, the Ottomans, and the Bedouins, the Jewish community struggled, but survived.

PHOTO: "Jews in Jerusalem, 1895." Source: The Jewish Encyclopedia / Wiki Commons.)

The invasion of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt stirred up conflict in the Ottoman controlled land of Israel, leaving many Jewish civilians dead in its wake. Riots took place in Jerusalem, Tzfat and Hebron in what is now called by historians the Peasants' Revolt. 

 

The violence began on July 24, 1834 when the forces loyal to Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt attacked the city of Hebron in order to crush the Peasants' Revolt and massacred the Jews while doing so. The calamity was remembered by the Jews of Hebron as Yagma el Gabireh, or the "great destruction," as noted by Hyam Zvee Sneersohn in his 1872 book Palestine and Roumania, a description of the Holy Land.

 

Although the Jews had not been involved in the rebellion, the Egyptian soldiers who entered the city made no distinction between the inhabitants. For three hours, troops plundered, killed, raped and maimed Muslim and Jew alike.

The book Annals of Palestine, 1821-1841, by the Jerusalem-based monk Neophytos of Cyprus,  discusses atrocities committed by both the "Fellaheen" or Arab peasants, and Egyptian soldiers against the Jewish community, as well as pillaging and rioting in Jewish communities of Jerusalem, Tzfat, Nablus and other places. 

 

Isaac Farhi also described the violent attacks on the Jews of Hebron committed by the Egyptian soldiers. He writes that the pogrom in Hebron was even worse than the Plunder of Tzfat which began on June 15, 1834, the day after the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, and lasted for 33 days. 
 

In Hebron, the troops "vented their anger on the Jewish quarter which they pillaged with terrifying cruelty." He reports of the desecration of Torah scrolls and the decapitation of an aged sage, Rabbi Issachar Hasun, the cantor of Hebron, while he lay ill in bed. For twenty hours they "slaughtered European Jews and publically raped their wives."

 

Synagogues were desecrated, their houses were ransacked and plundered, and valuable items, including gold and silver, were stolen. None of their plundered possessions were returned, neither did they receive any compensation. The Jewish community of Hebron was left destitute and their number "greatly reduced." 

 

According to Louis Finkelstein in his book The Jews: their history, culture, and religion. (1960 Harper. p. 674.) "During the war of Ibrahim Paha, when the Arabs of Hebron revolted against the Egyptians, the Jews of Hebron suffered more than any other Jewish community in the land. Ibrahim Pasha ordered his troops ruthlessly to supress the revolt, and when they attacked the city with permission to plunder and slaughter at will, they did not distinguish between Arabs and the Jews, who had no part in the rebellion. This calamity united the Hebron Sephardim and the Habad Hasidim, and in 1834 they jointly sent Rabbi Nathan Amram to seek aid in Western Europe for Jewish Hebron. The community did not fully recover until Rabbi Elijah Mani arrived in the city in 1858."

Sherman Lieber author of Mystics and missionaries: the Jews in Palestine, 1799-1840 (1992 University of Utah Press. p. 217.) states: "During a ferocious onslaught of three hours, Ibrahim Pasha allowed his troops to slaughter Muslims, plunder the population, and defile the women. When Muslims sought safety in the Jewish quarter of Hebron, the soldiers pursued them, indiscriminately killing and looting all in their path."

 

Edward Robinson states in his 1841 book Biblical researches in Palestine, mount Sinai and Arabia Petrea, "Many were slain; and the Jews especially are reported to have suffered the most cruel outrages from the brutal soldiery."

 

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1836) said: "After the battle the city was given up to the plunder and licentiousness of the soldiers. They fell upon the poor Jews with special violence, the rebels having made their strongest resistance in the Jewish quarter of the town fighting from…"

Joseph Schwarz in his 1850 publication "A descriptive geography and brief historical sketch of Palestine states:

 

"In 5594 (1834), Hebron met with a heavy calamity, since it was taken by storm on the 28th day of Tamuz (July), by Abraim Pacha, and given up to his soldiers for several days. One can better imagine than describe the scenes which were then enacted. Nearly all the Mahomedan inhabitants fled into the depth of the mountain range, but the Jews could not do this; besides which, they entertained but little fear, since they could not be viewed as rebels and enemies by Abraim, wherefore they fell an easy prey into the hands of the assailants. When the Pacha marched out to take Hebron, a petition was presented to him by the officers of the Jewish congregation in Jerusalem to take these unfortunate people under his protection, which he faithfully promised to do; but, notwithstanding this, they were not spared at the taking of the town, so that five Jews were purposely murdered, and all their property which had not. been buried under ground was either stolen or destroyed in the most wanton and cruel manner."
 
"Abraim did then indeed place a guard around their quarter of the town, but it was too late; and he said, "Whatever is already in the hands of the conquerors, the soldiers, cannot be demanded back again of them;" wherefore the whole Jewish community was sunk into poverty."

 

John D. Paxton wrote in his 1839 Letters on Palestine: "A few years ago, when Ibrahim Pasha's troops took Hebron, they comitted great outrages on the Jews, by plundering them of all they could find. They broke into their synagogue, and opened all parts of it in which they thought anything could be found, mutilated and tore their roll of the law, and perpetrated many other enormities."

 

John Lloyd Stephens noted in his Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land  published in 1837: "...during the revolution two years before, when Ibrahim Pacha, after having been pent up several months in Jerusalem, burst out like a roaring lion, the first place upon which his wrath descended was the unhappy Hebron ; and while their guilty brethren were sometimes spared, the un-happy Jews, never offending but always suffering, received the full weight of Arab vengeance. Their houses were ransacked and plundered ; their gold and silver, and all things valuable, carried away ; and their wives and daughters violated before their eyes by a brutal soldiery."

Then we had the Hebron Massacre of 1929

For many years, the small Jewish community in the ancient city of Hebron lived in peace with their tens of thousands of Arab neighbors. But, on the night of August 23, 1929, the tension simmering within this cauldron of nationalities bubbled over and for a period of three days, Hebron turned into a city of terror and murder as the Arab residents led a rampaging massacre against the bewildered and helpless Jewish community.

By the time the massacre ended, 67 Jews lay dead - their homes and synagogues destroyed - and the few hundred survivors were relocated to Jerusalem.  The aftermath left Hebron barren of Jews for the first time in hundreds of years.

The summer of 1929 was one of unrest in Palestine as Jewish immigrants were arriving in increasing numbers and the agitations of the mufti in Jerusalem spurred on Jewish-Arab tensions. Just one day prior to the start of the Hebron massacre, three Jews and three Arabs were killed in Jerusalem when fighting broke out after a Muslim prayer service on the Temple Mount. Arabs spread false rumors and libels throughout their communities, saying that Jews were carrying out "wholesale killings of Arabs."

Hebron had up until this time been outwardly peaceful, although tensions hid below the surface. The Sephardi Jewish community (Jews who were originally from Spain, North Africa and Arab countries) in Hebron had lived quietly with its Arab neighbors for centuries. Theses Sephardi Jews spoke Arabic and had a cultural connection with the the Arabs of Hebron. In the mid-1800s, Ashkenazi (native European) Jews started moving to Hebron and, in 1925, the Slobodka Yeshiva - officially called the Yeshiva of Hevron Knesset Yisrael-Slobodka - was opened.

Yeshiva students lived separately from both the Sephardi Jewish community and from the Arab population.  This isolation fed the Arab views that these "Zionist immigrants" were suspicious and thus hated. Despite the general suspicion, however, one yeshiva student, Dov Cohen, still recalled being on "very good" terms with the Arab neighbors. He remembered yeshiva boys taking long walks late at night on the outskirts of the city and not feeling afraid even though only one British policeman guarded the entire city.

On Friday, August 23, 1929, that tranquility was lost.

Arab youths began the riots by hurling rocks at the yeshiva students as they walked by. That afternoon, student Shmuel Rosenholtz went to the yeshiva alone. Arab rioters broke in to the building and killed him. Rosenholtz's was but the first of dozens of murders.

On Friday night, Rabbi Ya’acov Slonim’s son invited any Jews fearful of the worsening situation to stay in their family house. The rabbi was highly regarded in the community, and he kept a gun. Many of the Jews in the community took this offer for shelter. Unfortunately, many of these people were eventually murdered there.

Destruction at the Avraham Avinu Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter

As early as 8:00 a.m. on Saturday morning - the Jewish Sabbath - Arabs began to gather en masse around the Jewish community. They came in mobs, armed with clubs, knives and axes. While the women and children threw stones, the men ransacked Jewish houses and destroyed Jewish property. With only a single police officer in all of Hebron, the Arabs were able to enter Jewish courtyards with literally no opposition.

Rabbi Slonim, who had tried to shelter the Jews, was approached by the rioters and offered a deal. If all the Ashkenazi yeshiva students were given over to the Arabs, the rioters would spare the lives of the Sephardi community.

Rabbi Slonim refused to turn over the students.  The Arabs killed him on the spot.

By the end of the massacre, 12 Sephardi Jews and 55 Ashkenazi Jews were murdered.

A few Arabs did try to help the Jews. Nineteen Arab families saved dozens if not hundreds of Hebron's Jews. Zmira Mani wrote about an Arab named Abu Id Zaitoun who brought his brother and son to rescue her family. The Arab family protected the Manis with their swords, hid them in a cellar along with other Jews they had saved, and eventually found a policeman to escort them safely to the police station at Beit Romano.

Jewish Home in Hebron Plundered

The Beit Romano police station turned into a shelter for the Jews on the morning of Saturday, August 24. It also became a synagogue when the Orthodox Jews gathered there said their morning prayers. As they finished praying, they began to hear noises outside the building. Thousands of Arabs descended from Har Hebron, shouting "Kill the Jews!" in Arabic. They even tried to break down the doors of the station.

For three days, the Jews were besieged in Beit Romano by the rampaging Arabs. Each night, ten men were allowed to leave the building and go to Hebron’s ancient Jewish cemetery to conduct a funeral for any Jews murdered that day.

Violence throughout Palestine instigated by the Arabs resulted in the death of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs (most killed by British security forces).

Three days after the massacre, the British evacuated the 484 survivors, including 153 children, to Jerusalem. A number of Jewish families tried to move back to Hebron, but were removed by the British authorities in 1936 at the start of the Arab revolt.

In 1948, Israel gained its independence from Britian, but Hebron was captured by King Abdullah's Arab Legion during the War of Independence and ultimately annexed to Jordan.

When Israel finally regained control of the city in 1967, a small number of survivors from the massacre again tried to reclaim their old houses. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan supposedly told the survivors that if they returned, they would be arrested, and that they should be patient while the government worked out a solution to get their houses back. Years later, settlers moved to parts of Hebron without the permission of the government, but for those massacre survivors still seeking their original homes, that solution never came.

Now give the reason why Jews can not display their Star Of David Flag during this parade? Unless these people who are in charge of this Parade are Gay Nazis!

From https://www.jta.org/

The controversy over the DC Dyke March, Jewish stars and Israel, explained

The alternative LGBTQ parade is banning rainbow flags with Jewish stars at their center. Critics say that’s anti-Semitic.

(JTA) — Is an LGBTQ parade banning flags with Jewish stars?

Yes. Not really. Kind of.

The D.C. Dyke March, a social justice-focused parade for, in its words, “queer liberation” happening Friday, announced that it is not welcoming any “nationalist symbols.” That includes Israeli flags and American flags, the only two mentioned specifically in their ban. More controversially, rainbow flags with Jewish stars in the center will be banned because, according to organizers, they look too much like Israeli flags and are thus a symbol of “violent nationalism.”

Palestinian flags will be allowed.

Critics of the policy are calling it not just anti-Israel, but anti-Semitic. Some activists plan to bring the flags despite the policy, come what may.

So why does the policy exist? Is the policy anti-Semitic? What will happen if the flags show up?

Here’s what you need to know.

What is the DC Dyke March?

The DC Dyke March is an alternative parade to the main LGBTQ parade taking place this weekend in Washington, D.C. Its politics have traditionally been to the left of more mainstream pride marches. It’s one of a movement of Dyke Marches that have taken place nationwide.

The Dyke March’s description on its fundraising page says it’s focused this year on combating gentrification and displacement.

“Our goal is to encourage activism within our community and center transwomxn, queer womxn, nonbinary, lesbian, and other dyke identities who are oft-marginalized by the mainstream LGBTQ movement,” the webpage says, using an alternative spelling for “woman.” “We believe Dyke is not a sexuality, but a political identity centered on solidarity in each other’s struggles and a belief that none of us are free until we all are.”

If it’s focused on gentrification, why is everyone talking about Israel and Jewish stars?

One of the march’s policies is to discourage “nationalist symbols.” According to organizers of the march, that includes Israeli flags and American flags, which are the only ones they have mentioned specifically.

But the organizers are taking that policy one step further, and asking marchers not to bring a longtime symbol of LGBTQ rights, rainbow flags, with Jewish stars superimposed on the center. March organizers say those flags are reminiscent of the Israeli flag, which they say could feel threatening to Palestinian marchers. “We choose to prioritize Palestinian lives and justice in Palestine over lazy symbols,” organizers write.

The policy is the latest instance of a progressive group saying that showing support for Israel in any form is incompatible with their politics. While a majority of American Jews lean left politically and support the state of Israel, the hard left increasingly embraces a boycott of Israel and views it as a violator of human rights, if not illegitimate.

So the march is banning Jewish stars?

No, though they are restricted from that flag design. Jill Raney, a Dyke March organizer who’s also a member of IfNotNow, a Jewish leftist group critical of Israel, said that other Jewish symbols are welcome, as are Jewish stars in any other context. Raney said that a rainbow flag with a Jewish star in the corner would also be fine.

The march’s Jewish organizers, Raney said, are the ones who formulated the policy.

“I am so sympathetic to the frustration and the anger and the hurt that a lot of Jewish dykes are feeling about why can’t we have our symbols exactly how we want to,” Raney said. “Some folks have legitimate fear and frustration around the reality that the Israeli government took these Jewish symbols and tied it so profoundly to a lot of violence.”

Many LGBTQ Jews and their allies say the effect of the policy is anti-Semitic. Writes Peter Fox in the Forward: “What the march has done is ban all queer Jews who feel any connection to Israel — which is itself anti-Semitic given that Jews are not collectively responsible for the actions of other Jews or for the Israeli government, any more than Muslims, blacks, Asians or any other group of people are.”

Is the march restricting any other religious symbols, or banning any other flags?

Raney was focused on crafting policy around Jewish symbols, and is unaware of any policy about, for example, a Christian cross or Muslim crescent, although those appear on dozens of countries’ flags. And the march does not maintain a list of accepted and rejected national flags, though American flags would also be restricted because, Raney said, the United States commits human rights abuses.

But one flag that is allowed, Raney said, is the Palestinian flag.

“Palestinian flags are allowed because we believe they represent the hope for freedom for the Palestinian people,” Raney said. “The symbols of liberation are the whole point of Dyke March. Symbols of governments that cause human rights abuses are not welcome.” She didn’t explain how the Palestinian flag is not nationalist.

Rae Gaines, Sarah Beth Alcabes, Jill Raney and  Hannah Perry, participants in the DC Dyke March (right to left) are members of IfNotNow, a leftist Jewish group critical of Israel. (Courtesy of IfNotNow DC)

How is the Jewish LGBTQ community responding?

Many groups are aghast. While the Jewish star is a central symbol of Israel, it’s also a longtime symbol of Judaism that long predates Zionism or a modern Jewish state. And LGBTQ leaders say placing the central symbol of one’s community at the center of a rainbow flag is standard practice in the queer community.

“The star of David, while it has been used in a political context, is a cultural, religious and spiritual symbol,” said Patti Nelson, secretary of the board of Bet Mishpachah, a D.C. LGBTQ synagogue. “It is a symbol that has been used for centuries to unite us. It’s also a symbol that’s been turned against us and that we’ve re-embraced to represent our Jewish community, which is vast and diverse.”

Local and national Jewish organizations have also released statements criticizing the flag restriction. And the National LGBTQ Task Force withdrew as a partner organization from the march due to the policy.

“The Jewish Pride Flag is a symbol that represents the greater LGBTQ Jewish community – around the world and of many perspectives,” the Task Force said in a statement. “Additionally, we are disappointed that this action distracts from the appropriate and needed focus on DC residents and housing policies that favor gentrification.”

Hasn’t this happened before?

Yes. The Chicago Dyke March asked marchers to leave in 2017 because they carried rainbow flags with Jewish stars, sparking a similar debate. The following year, marchers at the Chicago Dyke March carried Palestinian flags.

So what’s going to happen at this march?

A contingent of people plans to march with the Jewish Pride flags anyway. A.J. Campbell, one of the first marchers to inquire about the policy, said she feels it is making her choose between her Jewish and queer identities.

“The march belongs to all of us,” she said. “I’m hoping for something like a reconciliation here. I actually hope that we can, after the march, talk about this and see if there’s some ground we can cover together.”

Zioness, a women’s group that demonstrates openly as pro-Israel activists in progressive spaces, will be organizing a contingent.

“[T]here will always be individuals seeking to drive artificial wedges between coalitions of solidarity,” Zioness said in a statement co-signed by the Jewish Democratic Council of America and A Wider Bridge, an organization that supports Israel and its LGBTQ community. “Today, those individuals seek to undermine queer, Jewish and Muslim voices working to advance all of our communities, using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a pretext for division.”

Raney said that if people do bring the flags, there will be a group of “trained marshals who are Jewish” who will ask the marchers to put the flags down and, if necessary, leave the march, though Raney added that they will not use force to remove the flags or marchers.

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'We are not scared to be visibly queer': Defiant American woman who was left with a broken jaw after she and her girlfriend were punched and robbed on London bus for refusing to kiss each other for their attackers' entertainment speaks out

• Melania Geymonat was out with girlfriend Chris in North West London on May 30
• She claims a gang of young men attacked them during the early hours on the bus
• And that group had asked them to kiss 'so they could watch' but she had refused 
• Chris has now spoken out saying 'I was and still am angry' about the vile attack  
• Miss Geymonat has also released an image of their injuries to raise awareness
• Four teenage boys, aged between 15 and 18, have now been arrested by police 
• ** Do you know either of the victims? Please email: tips@dailymail.com ** 

By MARK DUELL and JAMES WOOD FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 21:11 EDT, 6 June 2019 | UPDATED: 17:54 EDT, 7 June 2019

An American woman who was left with a broken jaw after she and her girlfriend were punched and robbed by a gang of men on a London bus for refusing to kiss has spoken out following the ordeal, defiantly saying 'we are not scared to be visibly queer.' 

Melania Geymonat, 28, and her American partner Chris, 29, were left bloodied and bruised after being attacked following an evening out in West Hampstead, north west London, in the early hours of May 30. 

Chris has now revealed in shocking detail the vile attack the pair were subjected to, describing how a gang of young men saw they were a couple - as they were holding hands - and started to demand they kiss while making crude sexual gestures.

She told BBC London News: 'They got up out of their seats and walked over to where we were and started very aggressively harassing us. One of them stayed a couple of rows behind and was throwing coins at us.

'I did not engage with him at all. Initially Melania was trying to deescalate the situation. She was being friendly but trying to keep them at bay.'

When the couple refused to do as the gang asked, they were subjected to a vile attack. Both were left with facial injuries, and were robbed during the assault - which took place as the pair were travelling to Chris' home in Camden.

She continued: 'Fighting broke out and I don’t know how we got from fighting on the top of the bus down to the lower deck but in that time frame they took my phone, her bag and they ran off the bus.'

Chris was left with a broken jaw following the attack, and Miss Geymonat sustained a broken nose. Their injuries were still visible today as they spoke on camera.   

It comes as figures from the Metropolitan Police show an 18 per cent rise in homophobic and transgender attacks on last year - from May 2017 to April 2018. 

Chris continued: 'I was and still am angry. It was scary, but what is still making me angry is that this is not a novel situation. There are more hate crimes being committed. We’re just one anecdote.'

And Miss Geymonat added: 'The violence is not only because we are women who are dating each other. It’s also because we are women.' 

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Miss Geymonat is a Ryanair flight attendant. She has been in the position since February of this year

Defiantly standing up for herself following the attack - and asked what people should take from the incident, Chris said: 'I'm not scared about being visibly queer.  

'There are a lot of people’s rights at risk and people’s basic safety is at risk. 

'I want people to feel emboldened to stand up to the same people who feel emboldened. I want people to stand up for themselves and each other.'        

Scotland Yard today confirmed it was investigating the 'homophobic attack' which saw a phone and bag stolen during the assault on the N31 bus at 2.30am. 

Detectives said four teenage males, aged between 15 and 18, have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and aggravated GBH following the vile attack.      

Miss Geymonat, a young doctor originally from Uruguay but currently working as a stewardess on a sabbatical to Europe, also recalled the shock attack - moments after she refused to kiss for the gang.     

'The next thing I know is I'm being punched. I got dizzy at the sight of my blood and fell back. I don't remember whether or not I lost consciousness,' she said.      

Recalling the gang's demands Miss Geymonat added: 'They wanted us to kiss so they could watch us. I tried to defuse the situation as I'm not a confrontational person, telling them to please leave us alone as Chris wasn't feeling well.'

The gang began throwing things on the bus - which was travelling towards Camden, where Chris lives - and the couple told them to stop.

Both women were taken to hospital for treatment to facial injuries. Miss Geymonat said one of the men spoke Spanish and the others had British accents.

'The next thing I remember was Chris in the middle of them and they were beating her,' added Ms Geymonat, who is originally from Uruguay but now lives in the Essex village of Takeley.

'I didn't think about it and went in. I was pulling her back and trying to defend her so they started beating me up. 

'I don't even know if I was knocked unconscious. I felt blood, I was bleeding all over my clothes and all over the floor.  We went downstairs and the police were there.'  

The pair had decided to sit at the front on the top deck because they both enjoy the novelty of a double decker bus. 

But the journey turned out to be far worse than expected. Miss Geymonat is still waiting to find out if her nose was broken in the vile attack.

The full Facebook post by Melania Geymonat after the bus attack

English & Español, against CHAUVINIST, MISOGYNISTIC AND HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE

Last Wednesday, I had a date with Chris. We got on the Night Bus, heading for her place in Camden Town, climbed upstairs and took the front seats. We must have kissed or something because these guys came after us. I don't remember if they were already there or if they got on after us. There were at least four of them. They started behaving like hooligans, demanding that we kissed so they could enjoy watching, calling us 'lesbians' and describing sexual positions. I don't remember the whole episode, but the word 'scissors' stuck in my mind. It was only them and us there. In an attempt to calm things down, I started making jokes. I thought this might make them go away. Chris even pretended she was sick, but they kept on harassing us, throwing us coins and becoming more enthusiastic about it. The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of the bus fighting with them. On an impulse, I went over there only to find her face bleeding and three of them beating her up. The next thing I know is I'm being punched. I got dizzy at the sight of my blood and fell back. I don't remember whether or not I lost consciousness. Suddenly the bus had stopped, the police were there and I was bleeding all over. Our stuff was stolen as well. I don't know yet if my nose is broken, and I haven't been able to go back to work, but what upsets me the most is that VIOLENCE HAS BECOME A COMMON THING, that sometimes it's necessary to see a woman bleeding after having been punched to feel some kind of impact. I'm tired of being taken as a SEXUAL OBJECT, of finding out that these situations are usual, of gay friends who were beaten up JUST BECAUSE. We have to endure verbal harassment AND CHAUVINIST, MISOGYNISTIC AND HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE because when you stand up for yourself s*** like this happens. By the way, I am thankful to all the women and men in my life that understand that HAVING BALLS MEANS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. I just hope that in June, Pride Month, stuff like this can be spoken out loudly so they STOP HAPPENING!

She said there were at least four of them and one spoke Spanish while the others had a British accent. The attackers allegedly robbed the couple before fleeing. 

Miss Geymonat, who moved to the UK in February and is on a year's sabbatical from her medical studies, said she had felt safe as a gay woman in London. 

But after being stunned by the attack, she released the picture to raise awareness of violence against women and gay people.

Miss Geymonat added: 'It's not something isolated, it's common. We were seen as entertainment, that's what makes me so angry.'

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One programme today, she said: 'We tried to make them go away, but they didn't. They started throwing us coins. The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of the bus and they are punching her.

'I immediately went there just by impulse, I didn't think about it, and I tried to pull her out of there. So they started punching me, I don't remember if I was trying to get her out, or I punched somebody – I really don't.

'So they started beating me until I was bleeding. I was really bleeding. We went downstairs and the police were already there. They took our statements and they called the ambulance and everything.'

She added: 'It's a surprise to me. I know that there is a lot of verbal violence all the time, and that's the thing that made me tell the story. Even when these guys came, it was not the first situation when men see two women kissing and they start asking us if we were a show.

'I have gay friends who have been in the streets and they have been punched all over. Now, other people have told me a lot of violence is going on, that we were even lucky that we were on a bus, because if we were in the streets, nobody knows what could have happened.'

She said the police had been 'extremely good' in dealing with the incident. 

Miss Geymonat shared about her experiences on Wednesday in a Facebook post which has now attracted more than 3,700 comments and 9,700 shares.  

Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both condemned the attack.

Mrs May said: 'This was a sickening attack and my thoughts are with the couple affected.

'Nobody should ever have to hide who they are or who they love and we must work together to eradicate unacceptable violence towards the LGBT community.'

Mr Corbyn labelled the attack 'absolutely shocking, saying: 'We must not, and will not, accept this homophobic and misogynist violence in our society.

'Solidarity to Melania and Chris, and to all in the LGBT+ community for everything they endure for simply being who they are.'

London Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted: 'This was a disgusting, misogynistic attack. Hate crimes against the LGBT+ community will not be tolerated in London.'  

Constituency MP Tulip Siddiq added: 'Horrified to see this homophobic attack against two women simply trying to enjoy a night out in West Hampstead.

'There can be no excuses, no space, for such obscene behaviour. My full solidarity is with these women and the UK's LGBT community.'

And Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: 'This is appalling. Everyone has the right to love and I was proud to support equal marriage.'

Miss Geymonat graduated last year as a doctor at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo and had worked at the Hospital de Clínicas Montevideo before moving to the UK.

In an online profile, she said she had been 'motivated by telling stories' since she was a girl, and had also studied acting.

She originally comes from Palmitas, a small town of less than 3,000 people in Uruguay, but later moved to Montevideo. She has also lived in Barcelona, Santiago in Chile and on a boat in Greece. Miss Geymonat also spent time travelling Italy, where her family originally come from. 

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'Police are appealing for witnesses and information after two women were assaulted and robbed in a homophobic attack on a bus in Camden.

'The incident happened at approximately 2.30am on May 30 after the two women, both aged in their 20s, boarded a N31 bus in West Hampstead.

'As they sat on the top deck they were approached by a group of four males who began to make lewd and homophobic comments to them. 

'The women were then attacked and punched several times before the males ran off the bus. A phone and bag were stolen during the assault. Both women were taken to hospital for treatment to facial injuries.'

Siwan Hayward, director of compliance, policing and on-street services at Transport for London, said: 'This sickening attack is utterly unacceptable. Homophobic behaviour and abuse is a hate crime and won't be tolerated on our network. 

'All of our customers have the right to travel without fear of verbal or physical assault and we are working with the police to stamp out this behaviour on our transport network. We will do all we can to support the police investigation of this incident.'

** Do you know either of the victims? Please email: tips@dailymail.com ** 

Anyone who witnessed the incident or who has information that could assist the investigation is also asked to contact police on 101 or tweet @MetCC and quote CAD737/30May. Alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 

Stand in line for gas.. Sounds like Communist Russia with Donald Trump as the New Dictator

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN THE GAS IS LIMITED AND GOES UP TO $10.00 A GALLON WITH THE TARIFFS?

As tariffs bite, get ready
for a 1970s-style supply shock

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/as-tariffs-bite-get-ready-for-a-1970s-style-supply-shock/ar-AACqHz8?ocid=spartanntp

Market turmoil over mounting U.S. tariffs on China and the threat of the same on Mexico in large part stems from a fear of the unknown:
No one knows what a major trade war would do, as the U.S. hasn’t been in one since the 1930s.
There is, however, a more recent analog: the 1973 Arab oil embargo. Both that embargo and the new tariff barriers represent a supply shock in which a reliable supply of cheap imports—oil then, manufactured goods now—is suddenly curtailed.Prices paid by American consumers and businesses go up, hitting confidence and purchasing power.

The 1973 embargo tripled the price of oil and plunged the U.S. into what was then its worst recession since the 1930s. The circumstances, of course, were different and a similarly severe slump today looks unlikely. Nonetheless, the oil shock provides a useful road map for the present. Perhaps most important: Even after the short-term pain passes, permanently more expensive inputs require costly adjustments to supply chains and business models, weighing on growth for years to come.

In 1973, after Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, the U.S. rushed arms and aid to the Jewish state. In retaliation, Arab oil exporters cut production and suspended exports to the U.S. American business and consumers, long used to plentiful oil for less than $4 per barrel, were utterly unprepared when it rose above $11. The country’s bill for imported oil and related products shot to $132 billion in today’s dollars in 1974 from $28 billion in 1972—a de facto tax increase equal to about 1.5% of gross domestic product. The Federal Reserve initially cut rates, then raised them sharply as oil sent inflation into double digits. Governments compounded the chaos with rationing and price controls, which led to long lines at gas stations.

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The recession ended in 1975, but the reverberations lasted for years. Countless companies and workers found their factories, products and skills—developed for a world of cheap oil—no longer useful. American auto manufacturers never mastered the switch from big to small cars. Productivity growth slowed sharply after 1973 and economists believe the oil shock was a major reason why.

The U.S. until recently was as reliant on cheap manufactured products from China as it was in the 1970s on cheap oil from the Middle East. But just as the U.S. came to regret its dependence on Arab oil, many now want the U.S. to disentangle its economy from China’s as tensions have risen over its trade and technology policies and geostrategic rivalry

Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate U.S. tariffs imposed or proposed on steel, aluminum, solar panels, washing machines and imports from China now equal an annualized $200 billion. Adding all threatened tariffs on Mexico brings that to $288 billion by the end of October. At 1.4% of GDP, that is roughly equivalent to the Arab embargo “oil tax.” That doesn’t include the hit from China’s—and potentially Mexico’s—retaliatory tariffs, as well as severed supplier relationships because of U.S. sanctions on Huawei Technologies Co.

The tariff war’s economic consequences should be milder than those of the 1973 embargo, for several reasons. Most important, the Fed’s preferred measure of underlying inflation is just 1.6%, below its 2% target. So while Goldman estimates the tariffs could add up to 1.25 percentage points to inflation, the Fed is likely to worry more about their impact on growth and cut rates rather than raise them.

The benefit of higher prices on imported oil went to foreign oil producers. By contrast, tariffs are paid to the U.S. Treasury, which could spend the money to offset some harm from the levies.

There’s no panic about shortages and no lineups. There are, of course, de facto lineups at the Commerce Department as American importers file thousands of requests for waivers, in addition to pervasive uncertainty about whether threatened and retaliatory tariffs will be imposed, or existing tariffs lifted, which is chilling investment.

Historically, tariffs were meant to boost domestic manufacturing production by protecting it from cheap foreign competition. But globalized production means that imports nowadays often consist of intermediate goods moving from one stage of a supply chain to another, and there are no U.S. substitutes at the ready.

Rather than manufacture in the U.S., many importers are contemplating shifting Chinese production to Vietnam, raising prices or dropping products most affected by tariffs. Some had planned to shift production to Mexico but they may have to reconsider. As with the oil shock, these adjustments could take years and add countless inefficiencies, chipping away at productivity.

One final lesson from the oil shock: The Arab embargo didn’t change American support for Israel. It did, however, cause the U.S. to build strategic reserves, seek more secure supply in the North Sea, Mexico and Alaska and conserve energy through fuel-economy standards. High prices eventually made the fracking revolution possible and that is on the verge of ending net U.S. oil imports. The U.S. has thus largely insulated itself from the foreign “oil weapon.”

The lesson for today is that tariffs may not change China’s behavior. But by breaking the trade, investment and knowledge chains that tie the two economies together, it may in the long run make the U.S. less vulnerable to Chinese influence, which is what the Trump administration wants.

And, as in the 1970s, disrupting those bonds has a price.



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Trumps Attempt Of Murder On Florida's Tourism Trade.

Burger King Trump had issued his Royal Orders to destroy the Travel Industry. This affects Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, and California directly be banning trips to countries that ain't bowing down to His Majesty. I guess Miguel Díaz-Canel. who is the president of Cuba, won't allow Trump to build a Trump Hotel Casino and Golf Course in Cuba. Therefore, Cuba will become a FAKE country and there will not be any FAKE visits to this Fake place. Meanwhile, those who still have relatives living in Cuba will not be able to have a one on one meeting or reunion with their Fake Relatives.

New Rules on American Travel to Cuba Include Cruise Ban

The Treasury Department said it would crack down on the most popular ways for Americans to visit the island.

A view of Havana’s old city, which Americans will have a harder time visiting. CreditRobert Rausch for The New York Times

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A view of Havana’s old city, which Americans will have a harder time visiting. CreditCreditRobert Rausch for The New York Times

By Tariro Mzezewa

• June 4, 2019

The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed new restrictions on Americans going to Cuba, banning the most common way Americans travel to the island.

Beginning on Wednesday, the United States will not permit group educational and cultural trips known as “people to people” trips to the island unless they were booked before June 5, the Treasury Department said in a statement. Nor will it allow cruises, private yachts or fishing vessels to stop in Cuba. Group people-to-people trips have been used by thousands of American visitors.

The move left tour companies and cruise lines assessing the impact and how they might have to modify their operations in Cuba.

C​ruises have become the most popular way for Americans to travel to Cuba since 2016, when President Obama reopened relations with the island. ​This year, between Jan. 1 and April 30, 142,721 Americans went to Cuba on​ cruises, ​compared to the 114,832 who ​traveled there by plane. Th​ese numbers do not​ ​include Cuban-born Americans visiting family​.

“Cuba continues to play a destabilizing role in the Western Hemisphere, providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua by fomenting instability, undermining the rule of law, and suppressing democratic processes,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement on Tuesday explaining the administration’s move.

Tuesday’s announcement came nearly two months after John Bolton, the president’s national security adviser, said the Treasury Department would crack down on what it called “veiled tourism” and tour operators were not surprised to hear about the changes. But Tom Popper, president of the tour company Insight Cuba called the cruise ban, in particular, “devastating to the travel industry and the Cuban people.

”The federal government has long restricted travel to Cuba, with the rules changing from one presidential administration to the next. Under the changes introduced by the Obama administration, Americans in 2016 were able visit either in groups or individually, as long as they fell into one of 12 categories, including “people-to-people” visits and “support for the Cuban people” trips, the two most popular.

Under “support for the Cuban people” category, individuals can travel to Cuba, but they must have an itinerary filled with meetings and visits with local business owners, artists or others. They must plan on participating in local activities and staying in a private home, instead of a hotel.

“You have to have a full schedule of activities like going to meet with one community project and then another,” Mr. Popper said. “Going to hang out at the beach in the afternoon won’t cut it.”

Mr. Popper said his company is changing its tours from “people-to-people” to “support for the Cuban people,” a shift other tour providers will likely make.

“As we’ve done in years past — we’ve been providing Cuban travel for five presidents now — we’ll change what we do to remain legal, remain compliant and show Americans an amazing side of Cuba,” Mr. Popper said.

ViaHero, an online platform that connects travelers with locals to plan personalized trips, said the new regulations could help bolster business for tour providers who already give “support to the Cuban people” tours and for local businesses.

“We’ve been operating in the ‘support for the Cuban people’ category for three years and don’t have to make changes to our operations,” said Greg Buzulencia, C.E.O. of ViaHero. “And more people will use this category, which should help locals by making people book casa particulares.” Those are small-scale lodgings that are run by individuals, not the Cuban government. Many of them are listed on Airbnb and other online booking platforms.

Major cruise lines like Carnival and Royal Caribbean operate trips to Cuba. They did not respond to requests for comment. But Pedro Freyre, a lawyer who represents cruise lines that travel to Cuba, said that, “If you have a cruise booked for Thursday, you should check with the cruise line; you might not be able to go.” He noted that people who planned to fly and who had booked before June 5 would be allowed to go, even if they fell into the “people-to-people” category.

JetBlue, American Airlines and Southwest are some of the largest American carriers with flights to Cuba. JetBlue and American, as well as United, said they were reviewing the order.

Frank Del Rio, the president and chief executive of Norwegian Cruise Lines Holdings, summed up the Cuba situation in an earnings call last month, as reported by Seatrade Cruise News. When it came to Cuba cruises, “It’s business as usual until it’s not," Mr. Del Rio said.

This is why Florida needs jobs that are not related to the Tourist industry and pay higher then the tourist industry pay. All wages are regulated by Walt Disney World and Resorts. In 2021, according to the "Contract", Disney is suppose to increase the Wage. The new contract would gradually raise the minimum pay in $1 increments. By September of 2019, the starting wage will reach $13 an hour, followed by $14 in October 2020 and $15 in October 2021, the Service Trades Council Union said in a statement. Those who make more than $10 an hour will receive at least $4.75 in raises by October 2021, the statement said.

But with the Trump tariffs on China and Mexico food, gifts, and other items sold in shops will increase and their will be less sales and more people will be forced to leave (Disney calls it a layoff) with the excuse of budget cuts . Disney has raised their tickets, raised their price in hotels, raised their price in parking, and raised their prices in food and they make Billions per day. During the Budget Cuts, CEO Bob Iger received a $65 million pay package. 

The only people who will make money on these tariff cuts will be big corporations and the Republican party supports big corporations, not the average person. We are heading into a DEPRESSION! 

Christian Group hiding under the name of 1st Amendment Rights.com

There is a Christian Group hiding under the name of 1st Amendment Rights and this group's rights are only for Christians not Jews not Muslims not Hindus etc.

There main goal is to force everyone to follow their Christian path and leave your religion. These are the same ideas, concepts, and ignorances I fought against when my son was growing up in allowing him to take off on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and eat foods for Passover without being discriminated against.

When I was growing up in Philadelphia Pa in the 1950's and 1960's, I heard: "I am a Jew. You need to sing Christmas songs and if you don't sing them you will flunk your grades." I didn't sing. I refused. I am not going to say Jesus is my savior or my G-d. They refused to sing Hanukkah songs telling me Jews killed Jesus. I was sent many times down to the Principal because I refused to read the prayers from the Christian Bible. I was told I needed to write on the black board Jesus was my Lord and Savior. I refused this. This was in public school in Philadelphia.

From my experience I decided from that day on my children would never go through what I did growing up in an the Anti-Semitic public school in Center City Philadelphia. I was going to change this. I am a Jew, I am a Zionist.

This group wanted me, a Jew, to help them eliminate Islamic Prayer in the schools or in international airports. If I do this I am also eliminating Jewish Prayer before boarding the planes, eliminating Jewish Prayer and Jewish Holidays in the schools. I want to eliminate all religion in all government functions or any Political Party that gets government funding or grants. This country is not a Christian Country but a country of many religions.

This is what was sent to me hiding under 1stAmendmentRights@1stAmendmentRights.org

Christian Student Forced to Write Islamic Conversion Creed
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Date:	Fri, May 24, 2019 6:36 pm

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Christian Student Forced to Write Islamic Conversion Creed During the 2014-2015 school year, a Christian teenage girl was forced to recite the Islamic conversion creed -- the Shahada -- in writing for her 11th-grade class. She was also taught that "Most Muslims' faith is stronger than the average Christian." The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) sued the school responsible, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled with the school. TMLC appealed to the Supreme Court, filing a Writ of Certiorari on Monday. Under the guise of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion," TMLC President and Chief Counsel Richard Thompson said in a statement. "I'm not aware of any school which has forced a Muslim student to write the Lord's Prayer or John 3:16. Read more...

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