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Even as President Joe Biden was delivering his perfunctory Holocaust Remembrance speech earlier this week, decrying the “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and prattling on about how he would never forget the Oct. 7 attack—which saw well over 1,200 Israelis murdered, raped, and/or kidnapped—the president was planning to stop the Jewish state from destroying modern-day Nazis. On Wednesday, Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett that if Israel invades the city of Rafah in Gaza— where remaining battalions of Hamas terrorists are holed up behind civilians—the U.S. would stop supplying Israel with offensive and precision weapons. This is a historic moment, as it is surely the first time a president has sold out a stalwart U.S. ally to save a terrorist organization. Not just any terror organization, but one that murdered, sexually tortured, and/or kidnapped American citizens, and still holds some hostage. Biden has sacrificed them to the mobs of Columbia University and Dearborn, Michigan, and The Washington Post editorial board. Biden could have given Israel this ultimatum privately. But he went on TV to do it precisely because it is meant for the ears of Israel haters. You may recall, only a couple of weeks ago Democrats insisted on attaching Israeli aid to Ukrainian aid as a means of garnering the votes to pass a foreign assistance bill. Biden is now pausing the congressionally approved delivery of weapons to one ally to bolster his domestic election prospects by appealing to campus radicals and antisemitic enclaves. In 2019, then-President Donald Trump was impeached for “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress” for merely threatening Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on a phone call with the same behavior. This is far worse. Not only is Israel a longtime ally, it is also, in every way imaginable, a better “democracy” than Ukraine. It should not be lost on anyone that Biden is only incentivizing more demonstrations and violence from the communists, Islamists, and well-funded Hamas cosplayers. The next time a Jewish kid is accosted on campus, Biden can take some credit. Then again, the president’s donors are also the patrons of these America-hating revolutionaries. And they have, by any measure, succeeded. Biden is also willing to sacrifice the remaining American hostages to placate the mob. If Israel submits to the president’s demands, it will have been stripped of any leverage in hostage negotiations. Why would a terror organization hand back any Jews, knowing that the Israelis are being leashed by the United States? All they had to do was wait it out. It is almost surely the case that Biden’s feckless, unprincipled nature allowed him to be cowed by the pro-Iranian Obamites who now infest the American government and institutions. We learned Monday that Rob Malley, a man who brought Iranian assets into the United States government, was suspended for allegedly sending classified documents to his personal email account and downloading them to his personal phone. Weird, right? Yet, not even former President Barack Obama, who had been chummy with black supremacists and other antisemites for decades before reaching the White House, cut off aid to Israel. Democrats continue to lurch toward the hard left. And where are the Jewish Democrats decrying this development? Probably blaming their straw man, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom they frame as some kind of warmongering fascist. In reality, the unity government war council of Israel includes the opposition leader. Netanyahu has less power to act unilaterally than the American president. There is no responsible government in Israel, much less the world, that would permit Hamas to skate. Well, perhaps the one run by the person who opposed the bin Laden operation. In the end, Biden has also prolonged the suffering of Palestinians. Hamas knew there would be retribution after Oct 7. They knew thousands of Arab civilians would die, because they seek as many martyrs and as much suffering as possible. Biden only extended that reality by allowing Islamists to hold power. Rather than planning for a post-Hamas Gaza and Israel-Saudi normalization, Biden is choosing to save Iranian proxies in the region. Democrats like to argue that Israel shouldn’t be given a “blank check,” which implies that the Jewish state is indiscriminately killing people without any legitimate plan or goal. There is no blank check. Israel’s mission is well defined. Biden is micromanaging the military operations of an ally and limiting categories of weapons to stop Israel from eliminating Hamas—designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. It is scandalous and corrupt. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. The post Joe Biden Is Selling Out Israel to the Antisemitic Mob appeared first on The Daily Signal.

More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote on May 13 through 17 on whether to join the United Auto Workers, and German activist unions are pressuring them to get on board. The Alabama and South Carolina plants are the only Mercedes plants in the world not to be unionized, and IG Metall, the powerful German labor union, is trying to change that—even if it means not playing fair. “We encourage our colleagues in Tuscaloosa to make history by exercising their right to vote and voting to form a union,” said Ergun Lümali, union representative at IG Metall and chairman of the Mercedes-Benz Works Council, a worker group that coordinates with the union. “We are closely monitoring the UAW’s activities and company conduct in Tuscaloosa.” Lümali said that after successfully voting for the UAW, Tuscaloosa would become a “full member of the World Workers’ Council.” IG Metall sees its job as recruiting American workers to socialist workers’ councils. When the powerful German union found that Mercedes had hired communications advisers to craft messages to counter the UAW, as Mercedes is entitled to do under U.S. law, IG Metall complained to Mercedes, and Mercedes fired the individuals. “Europeans are trying to infringe upon American employees’ freedom of choice on whether to unionize,” one of them told me. “By removing the right of free speech, the employee is denied important information to evaluate in making a very personal critical decision that impacts the employee and their family. This is not the equitable process that we hold dear in America.” Generally, when a union files a petition to unionize the workforce, the company holds meetings to inform workers of the disadvantages of union representation, such as the payment of dues and promotion on the basis of seniority, rather than merit. But due to German union pressure, Mercedes is only allowing pro-union material and UAW representatives to walk the halls speaking to employees, according to news reports. That’s most unusual. Just as employers are supposed to allow union advocates a chance to make their case to workers, so they are supposed to allow union opponents. Mercedes workers in Alabama have many reasons to reject the union, free of foreign interference. Employment at the Big Three automakers represented by the UAW has declined, and auto jobs have moved to China with vehicle electrification. UAW membership fell from 1.5 million in 1979 to 370,000 in 2023. Hence, the UAW needs new members to pay dues to fund union bosses’ salaries and pensions for retired union members in Detroit. Dues for UAW hourly workers are 2.5 hours of pay per month. With average wages of $36 an hour, that’s $90 a month in dues, or over $1,000 a year. That would help shore up the pensions of the UAW’s 580,000 retirees and pay the salaries of the union officials. UAW President Shawn Fain earns more than $220,000 per year, more than six times Mercedes workers’ average wages of $36,000. Fain flies to lavish events such as the UAW National Stellantis Council Meeting in March in Puerto Rico with other union officials. Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama shouldn’t have to pay for union bosses’ perks or legacy pensions in Detroit, and unionizing the plant goes directly contrary to workers’ interests. Unionization would raise the cost of vehicles, undercutting Mercedes’ competitiveness relative to the auto companies that were not represented by unions. For instance, Jim Farley, Ford’s CEO, said earlier this year that Ford had a $7 billion to $8 billion cost disadvantage over other carmakers due to higher costs. Higher costs from unionization are one reason that Ford, Stellantis, and GM are announcing layoffs. The UAW has not succeeded in reversing commitments from the Big Three automakers to go all electric by 2035—which results in job losses for its members and job gains for Chinese workers who make the batteries and other EV components. Just as foreign countries shouldn’t interfere in U.S. presidential elections, foreign actors shouldn’t interfere in American union elections. Foreign unions don’t have American workers’ best interests at heart. If Mercedes wants to operate in America, it should follow American law and not cave to IG Metall. The post German Group Unfairly Pressuring Benz Workers in Alabama to Unionize appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Here’s the 7,325,793,257th reason I plan to homeschool my children. Rebecca Joynes, a math teacher in Manchester, UK, just had a baby with a teenager she slept with. She did so while out on bail for sex with a different one of her students. I guess raping one kid just wasn’t enough for Miss Joynes. Manchester Evening News reported that Joynes gave the first boy ten digits of her phone number and had him try to guess the 11th. Joynes then coerced the boy with a shopping trip, which CCTV footage confirmed, where she bought him a Gucci belt after picking him up at his house. That evening Joynes allegedly brought the student back to her apartment to rape him two times when he spent the night at her house.  As the New York Post indicated, Joynes was “laughing” while having unprotected sex with the student after he “told her he was too young to even drive.”  “She said, ‘Oh shut up’ … ‘Stop saying that,’” the 15-year-old student said. Joynes admits to going to the shop with the boy, and that he visited her house, but denies any sexual activity. While Joynes appeared in court for that case, she was allegedly sleeping with another minor! Joynes was suspended from work over the first instance and apparently thought that her time off from teaching made it somehow okay to have sexual relations with a different young boy.  Supposedly, she and this minor chatted via Snapchat, kissed once and then, as prosecutors mentioned, their relationship became sexual in nature.  As the Manchester Evening News noted, Joynes allegedly told the child it was “almost impossible” for her to conceive since she had polycystic ovarian syndrome. Yet, a baby girl was conceived. Apparently, Joynes gave the baby’s father an item that had “I love you daddy” written on it. On the same night, reports seem to indicate Joynes also “put rose petals down” and had a “scratchcard” from Victoria’s Secret with different sex positions on it for the two to try.  Joynes tried to justify her actions by claiming that she wasn’t a teacher at the time of the rape of this second boy and that he was 16, which is the age of legal consent in UK. However, when it involves a child and a figure of authority, that age is raised to 18. “Ms Joynes, of Pensby Road, Wirral, denies four counts of sexual activity with a child, and two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust,” Manchester Evening News indicated. While this story takes place over in Europe, the U.S. is no stranger to this kind of behavior. A 24-year-old Wisconsin elementary teacher was recently arrested for allegedly “making out” with one of her fifth-grade students. In California, a teacher just pled no contest after being accused of raping a 14-year-old student on his eighth grade graduation. A Minnesota teacher had sex with one of her 18-year-old students and pleaded guilty in February. Earlier that month a different teacher pleaded guilty to sneaking into a 14-year-old student’s home and bed to rape him. A teacher in Iowa pleaded guilty to sex acts with numerous minors like sending nude images to them and “fondling or touching” at least one of them. Mrs. Phillips from Kentucky admitted to having sex with “numerous teenage boys” during her time as a teachers assistant and a Louisiana teacher was arrested in January after allegedly “sexting” a 15-year-old student from her school. Yup, and the worst part is, that’s all only from the first few months of 2024. All that to say, this type of behavior, where someone who’s supposed to be a trusted adult, coerces, grooms and abuses children, has got to come to an end.

With commencement season ramping up, some universities have decided to protect the rights of the vast majority of their students and put swift ends to the anti-Semitic/pro-Hamas mobs that were trying to ruin the special day their classmates had worked toward by calling in the police to break them up. But ABC’s Good Morning America took exception to their efforts and whined that police were using tear gas on the unruly crowds of terrorist sympathizers. “We’re going to turn now to the new clashes on college campuses across the country including the arrests just moments ago at the University of Pennsylvania,” co-anchor Michael Strahan clutched his pearls at the top of the segment. Correspondent Victor Oquendo put the focus on the University of Arizona and decried the cops’ use of tear gas, treating the situation as though the police gassed the crowd with chemical weapons of war: Let's start at the University of Arizona were they are gearing up for their graduation ceremony later today. Law enforcement spring what appears to be teargas on roughly 100 protesters gathered by the university's main gate. This is the second time this month that chemical irritants have been used to disperse protesters on campus.     Along the spectrum of his reaction to the different campus news, Oquendo seemed to hype the mob at George Washington University who were “shutting down traffic and setting up tents” outside the home of the university’s president. “And this comes just one day after police cleared the encampment on campus there,” he added. He also didn’t seem to have a problem with the students of the University of Southern California having their commencement ceremonies canceled: And here in Los Angeles, the University of Southern California canceled the official graduation opting instead to what they called “a celebration” at the L.A. Coliseum. Students there instead of walking and getting their diploma onstage, they were treated to a drone and fireworks show. Over on NBC’s Today, foreign correspondent Richard Engle huffed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down with Dr. Phil for a “non-confrontational interview” and “took aim” at the students siding with terrorists. “You have a lot of ignorant people there whose sense of history, at best, goes back to breakfast, not even that,” the Prime Minister mocked them. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s Good Morning America May 10, 2024 7:05:13 a.m. Eastern MICHAEL STRAHAN: We’re going to turn now to the new clashes on college campuses across the country including the arrests just moments ago at the University of Pennsylvania. Victor Oquendo is tracking the very latest for us. Good morning, Victor. VICTOR OQUENDO: Good morning, Michael. Around the country this morning, tensions ratcheting up across college campuses. Let's start at the University of Arizona were they are gearing up for their graduation ceremony later today. Law enforcement spring what appears to be teargas on roughly 100 protesters gathered by the university's main gate. This is the second time this month that chemical irritants have been used to disperse protesters on campus. Over to George Washington University in D.C., hundreds of protesters gathering on a street that includes the home of the president of the university, shutting down traffic and setting up tents. And this comes just one day after police cleared the encampment on campus there. And here in Los Angeles, the University of Southern California canceled the official graduation opting instead to what they called “a celebration” at the L.A. Coliseum. Students there instead of walking and getting their diploma onstage, they were treated to a drone and fireworks show. Whit. WHIT JOHNSON: All right. Victor Oquendo for us. Thank you.

Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) officially filed one article of impeachment against President Joe Biden on Friday for withholding weapons from Israel. Biden ignited controversy this week after threatening to withhold military weapons from Israel and essentially placing conditions on military aid, warning Israel not to invade Rafah, a major population center in southern Gaza. "... used the powers of the Presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the United States and its ally Israel." "I made it clear that if they go into Rafah ... I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah," Biden said on CNN. The White House confirmed on Thursday that officials have already withheld one shipment of weapons, consisting of 3,500 munitions. The article of impeachment, therefore, accused Biden of "abuse of power," claiming that by conditioning military aid to Israel, the president has engaged in a quid pro quo. The impeachment article states: Using the powers of his high office, President Biden solicited a 'quid pro quo' with the foreign government of Israel by withholding precision guided weapons shipments in order to try an extract military policy changes. President Biden sought to pressure the Government of Israel to take steps by conditioning official United States Government acts of significant value to Israel. Specifically mentioning Biden's remarks on CNN, the article accuses Biden of having "used the powers of the Presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the United States and its ally Israel." "He thus ignored and injured the interests of the Nation," the article alleges. On Thursday, Mills labeled Biden "Quid Pro Joe." The resolution language mirrors the language that Democrats used in their impeachment resolution against then-President Donald Trump in 2019, accusing him of withholding military aid from Ukraine for political reasons. For its part, the Biden administration called Mills' resolution "ridiculous." A White House official said that Israel is receiving all aid that Congress has appropriated to it. "Trump failed to spend dollars appropriated by Congress that he was legally required to spend," that official said. "This is about a purchase made by a foreign government and our decision whether to deliver that purchase right now, which could enable an operation we’ve publicly and privately objected to." Meanwhile, more than two dozen House Democrats sent National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan a letter on Friday urging the administration not to move forward with plans to withhold military aid from Israel. "With democracy under assault around the world, we cannot undermine our ally Israel, especially in her greatest hour of need. America’s commitments must always be ironclad," they said. "We have a duty to continue to equip Israel with the resources she needs to defend herself and crush the terrorists who also seek to do America harm, free the hostages including the Americans, continue delivering critical humanitarian aid to innocent civilians in Gaza, and to stand by our democratic allies around the world." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!