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Legacy media outlets and left-leaning nonprofits may seek to distance themselves from the anti-Israel protests on college campuses and in Washington, D.C., many of which have devolved into outright antisemitism. Yet influential outlets and activist groups have at least one key tie to a notorious group supporting the anti-Israel protests, and an organization that represents more than 2,000 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is sounding the alarm. Despite its anodyne name, Jewish Voice for Peace enflames anti-Israel sentiment. On the very day that Hamas terrorists raped, murdered, and took hostages in Israel (Oct. 7, 2023), JVP leaders blamed “Israeli apartheid and occupation” as “the source of all this violence.” In the weeks afterward, Jewish Voice for Peace rallygoers in Providence, Rhode Island, chanted, “Hey hey, ho ho, the Yahudi [Jews] have got to go!” JVP speakers in Philadelphia stated: “The anticolonial armed resistance out of the Gaza Strip was provoked by decades of Israeli state-sanctioned violence and to report it otherwise is false and misleading.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, which monitored these and other incidents, Jewish Voice for Peace “considers supporters of Israel, or even critics of Israel who do not hew to JVP’s own extreme views, to be complicit in Israel’s purported acts of racist oppression of Palestinians.” Jewish Voice for Peace hosted a protest July 23 in the Cannon House Office Building ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress. U.S. Capitol Police told The Daily Signal on Friday that the agency arrested 248 protesters that day, charging them with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding under D.C. Code Section 22-1307. Jewish Voice for Peace did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The Washington-Baltimore News Guild Amid a resurgence of labor unions on the Left, many nonprofit organizations have unionized. Jewish Voice for Peace is no exception. Although Americans traditionally associate unions with physical labor and for-profit companies, the labor movement has struggled in the private sector even as it grows and thrives among government employees and nonprofits. Nonprofit employees, who ostensibly work to advance a cause rather than their own pocketbooks, seem an odd fit for unions. Employees at Jewish Voice for Peace, however, unionized in August 2020. The Washington-Baltimore News Guild, which came about as a 1964 merger of the Washington Newspaper Guild (founded in January 1934) and the Baltimore Newspaper Guild, represents a broad swath of news outlets and left-leaning nonprofits. The list includes two American Civil Liberties Union chapters (North Carolina and West Virginia); the AFL-CIO; the American Nurses Association; the Democratic Socialists of America; the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers; the LGBTQ group Lambda Legal; the environmentalist group League of Conservation Voters; the National Abortion Federation; and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The guild also represents news outlets including Politico; Raw Story; the Baltimore Sun; The Charlotte Observer; the Richmond Times-Dispatch; and The Washington Post. None of these nonprofits and news outlets responded to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment about their relationship with Jewish Voice for Peace. Communication Workers of America, the umbrella union under which the Washington-Baltimore News Guild falls, did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Loud Condemnations of Anti-Israel JVP The Coalition for Jewish Values, which represents more than 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis in American public policy, asked the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, known as WBNG, to stop representing employees of JVP. “There are two compelling reasons why the Coalition for Jewish Values unequivocally calls on the Washington-Baltimore News Guild to stop representing Jewish Voice for Peace employees,” Rabbi Ze’ev Smason, midwest regional vice president for the coalition, told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Wednesday. “JVP is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism,” Smason said. “JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel. Furthermore, the spread of JVP’s most inflammatory ideas can help give rise to antisemitism.”  “As the ADL has documented, JVP leaders blamed ‘Israeli apartheid and occupation’ as ‘the source of all this violence’ on the very day that Hamas terrorists raped, murdered, and took hostages in Israel,” the rabbi added. “Therefore, representing JVP employees is tantamount to representing the hate-filled, anti-Israel, antisemitic ideas and actions that JVP has engaged in and promotes.” Smason also noted that WBNG states on its website: “Together, we hold our employers accountable and ensure that our workplaces reflect our values, which include ensuring everyone is free from harassment and retaliation, earns equal pay for equal work and has a voice in their workplace.” “It is hard to imagine an organization more antithetical to the values of ‘ensuring everyone is free from harassment and retaliation’ than JVP, that openly espouses anti-Israel sentiment and unabashedly supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel,” Smason said. “Based upon the hateful actions and incendiary, anti-Israel ideals of JVP, and the avowed inclusivity mission of WBNG, the Coalition for Jewish Values emphatically calls upon WBNG to disassociate itself from the representation of JVP employees.” The New Tolerance Campaign, which publishes a “hate map” to track “hate and hard left extremism” across the United States, has put four chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace on its map. “The Washington-Baltimore News Guild is free to engage with whichever groups they like under the union banner, but they can’t do so without question—and there are a lot of questions surrounding Jewish Voice for Peace, their methods, and JVP’s associations with groups engaging in political violence,” New Tolerance Campaign President Gregory Angelo told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Wednesday. “Is this really a group WBNG wants carrying their banner—literally—into campus riots this fall?” An Unofficial Response Although none of the involved nonprofits and news outlets responded to The Daily Signal, an employee of the ACLU of West Virginia did send an unofficial response. Kyle Vass, whose profile on the ACLU of West Virginia’s website identifies him as an investigative reporter who launched the website Dragline, posted an unofficial response to The Daily Signal’s request for comment on the social media platform X. The ACLU of West Virginia didn’t respond, neither to requests for comment for this story nor to a request to confirm that Kyle Vass represents the organization’s union. Vass identified himself as “the union steward for our collective bargaining unit,” and gave what he characterized as “my official statement from our staff union” on X. “Shaking down nonprofits for falling under the same union as an org you oppose highlights why companies like The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation are enemies of the working class,” Vass wrote. “ACLU-WV Staff United opposes this thinly veiled effort and stands in solidarity with WBNG.” "Shaking down nonprofits for falling under the same union as an org you oppose highlights why companies like the Daily Signal and the Heritage Foundation are enemies of the working class.ACLU-WV Staff United opposes this thinly veiled effort and stands in solidarity with WBNG."— Kyle Vass (@WilliamKyleVass) August 14, 2024 Vass did not comment on Jewish Voice for Peace’s anti-Israel activism nor respond to concerns about organizations that unionize alongside JVP. 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A former Donald Trump advisor said FBI agents raided his Virginia home this week. Dimitri Simes, a policy analyst who hasn’t been in the United States since October 2022, spoke out against the raid. Simes, a Russian TV Channel One presenter and founder of the US-based think tank Center for the National Interest, spoke with Sputnik about the raid. “My suspicion is that instead of trying to get me to come to the United States and to interrogate me or even to arrest me, their real purpose is to make sure that I would not come back to the United States. They want to block any attempt to have a Russian-American dialogue,” he told the outlet. “Simes revealed that in addition to the FBI raid on his home in Virginia, the bank account that he uses to pay his mortgage was also frozen. Despite this series of escalatory moves, the US Department of Justice have yet to notify Simes or his lawyers about ‘what is going on and about any problems they may have with me,'” Sputnik noted. “Simes emphasized that there was little of informational value in the house since he has been living and working in Russia since October 2022,” the outlet added. Simes said he thinks the FBI is trying to punish him for his commentary on Russian television, which often criticizes Biden’s Ukraine policy. “In my view, this is clearly an attempt, to frighten me, to discredit me, and to do damage to my ability to live in the United States or even visit the United States, and to do damage to my finances,” he said. “They clearly are trying to create the situation when they’re not luring me to come to the United States to face the American justice system. But on the contrary, they’re doing everything possible to make it very difficult, or indeed impossible, for me to come to the United States. That clearly cannot be right,” he added. ‘They don’t want me back in the United States’: Dimitri K. Simes speaks out about FBI raid “My suspicion is that instead of trying to get me to come to the United States and to interrogate me or even to arrest me, their real purpose is to make sure that I would not come back… pic.twitter.com/AP91x1ySpZ — Sputnik (@SputnikInt) August 16, 2024 From the New York Post: Dimitri Simes, whose name came up over 130 times in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report into Russian interference in the presidential election, told the Rappahannock News he was out of the U.S. and wasn’t notified ahead of Tuesday’s search. He also insisted he’s not aware of being the focus of any law-enforcement investigation. The Russian-born policy analyst advised Trump’s 2016 campaign. The raid “clearly is an attempt to intimidate, not only somebody from Russia, but just anyone who goes against official policies and particularly against the deep state,” he later told the Russian government-owned Sputnik News. FBI raided Rappahannock County property owned by Dimitri Simes, who is currently in Russia. https://t.co/YzDkbxhkPE via @rappnews — Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 15, 2024 Per Sputnik: Sputnik: It is obvious that you didn’t do anything legally wrong. So you are being punished for your opinions. What will be your next steps in this situation? Does it make sense to resist, to seek the defense of the law? Dimitri K Simes: Well, let me start by saying that I do not know what I am being charged with. I don’t even know if I am being charged with anything. Is it the FBI [pursuing me], or am I charged by the Department of Justice or any other US government agency? They did not notify me or my lawyers about what is going on, or about any problems they may have with me. The only comment we have from them so far is a comment they made to a local paper in Rappahannock County where the house is located and they told the paper that, indeed, they’re conducting a law enforcement investigation, and they are not in a position to say anything more because the investigation is not complete. This is the fourth day of their operations in the house already. We’re being told that they’re moving things out of the house. What are they doing? Which things are they moving? I have no idea. It is suffice to say that I was not in the house. I have not been to the United States since October 2022. So there is absolutely nothing that can be there that is connected to my current professional life or my other activities. It was reported to me by the neighbors, who were not on my territory themselves, but who observed it from the outside, that there was quite a crowd [during the raid]. About 40 people, perhaps more. And, what was remarkable, many, even most of them, have arrived in private cars, which obviously is against the rules. Normally you would not have an FBI agent arrive at a [facility] he or she is going to search in a private car. Because if they use private cars, these FBI people would be very easily identified and suffer [the] consequences. So, I really would be curious to know who these people are. These people could actually be not FBI agents, but some kind of anti-Russian Ukrainian activists. We did have a precedent before when these [so-called activists] tried to enter my property, but because they were not with the FBI, these people were stopped. That happened in the past. If needed, I obviously will defend my interests. I will do it quite aggressively, but I repeat: it will be done if needed. There were a lot of fairly good paintings. Some of them belonged to my late parents. These were gifts from prominent Russian avant-garde artists. And, obviously, if they were taking them during the search, I would consider it theft. Well, if they just took the paintings for examination, I think it would be totally inappropriate and unnecessary. But if they would try to keep the paintings, most definitely it would be theft, in my view. As for my bank accounts, it’s an interesting story. They froze my accounts last night but today one of these accounts, which I use to receive my Social Security pension, was, unfrozen. So, I can receive my small Social Security pension. But my main account, which I use to pay for my activities in the United States, the most important account for my family, it stayed frozen. I use it to pay my mortgage.

Mutation L108F in MPXV is a ‘gain-of-function’ mutation, which most likely enhances processivity, changes sensitivity to nucleoside inhibitors, and fidelity of DNA synthesis. The following information comes via Dr. Peter McCullough’s substack and the Kanan study. In 2022, HHS Secretary Becerra declared US Monkeypox a public health emergency. Monkeypox occurred almost solely in gay or […] The post Gain-of-Function Mutation Found in Monkeypox appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.