Comments on: The Richmond, California City Council dabbles in foreign policy and Orwellian “virtue”-signaling

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:19:54 +0000

It’s as if these clowns didn’t track what happened in the virtue-signaling “sanctuary” cities.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 14:42:01 +0000

It appears that a not insignificant fraction of the worlds population is ok with lying, cheating, stealing and murder as long as they get what they want.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 14:33:33 +0000

I can’t understand why any high profile person in or out of government would publicly support extrajudicial killing lest some loon acts on “you first MF”.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 13:11:52 +0000

Leo Strauss, Hillel Foundation at University of Chicago, Feb. 4, 1962: Why We Remain Jews, Part 1 of 2 (Lecture, 1:19:30) Why We Remain Jews, Part 2 of 2 (Question period/discussion, 1:06:05)

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 13:02:27 +0000

https://revolver.news/2023/10/this-is-so-fishy-and-darren-beattie-is-all-over-it/

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:48:07 +0000

miguel, I think the Episcopal Church also has a “resettlement ministry” dealing with illegal immigrants. You know the federal government pays churches to do this. Business is business.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:34:32 +0000

Episcopalians on the whole don’t seem worth all the candle, that Henry Tudor put in the work for, but the Lutherans are intent on flooding the country with Moslem immigrants,

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:25:42 +0000

Thanks for the citation, AesopFan, and you are right. I am not familiar with any Christian denomination of any size which teaches that Jews today are responsible for the mob outside Pilate’s palace two millennia ago. And clearly Pilate ordered the crucifixion, carried out by Roman soldiers.

However, leftist Christian groups, which includes now pretty much all of the old Protestant mainstream, have anti-Israel sentiments which come out of liberation theology and critical theory. They entirely accept the Palestinian propaganda re-writing of the history of the area. Any Lutherans here? The ELCA’s Presiding Bishop, Elizabeth Eaton, issued a statement which decried the “egregious acts of Hamas” but says “at the same time the ELCA denounces the indiscriminate retaliation of Israel against the Palestinian people, both Christian and Muslim…We must also call a thing a thing. The power exerted against all Palestinian people — through the occupation, the expansion of settlements and the escalating violence — must be called out as a root cause of what we are witnessing.”

https://elca.org/News-and-Events/8207?_ga=2.130849999.1594872155.1698495254-922958515.1698071780

By: Bill K

Bill K — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:41:00 +0000

sdferr, per your link on Michael Oren, “And who will be astonished when Diaspora Jews in increasing numbers say they feel more secure in embattled Israel than on the streets of London, Paris, or New York? …The war between Hamas and Israel, involving the largest and cruelest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust, is a war against Jews everywhere.”

I suspect his point will lead to increased aliyah and the regathering of Jews in Israel. Hmmm.

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:07:27 +0000

I used to live in Richmond. The population ranges from extremely poor to pretty damned wealthy. There’s horrendous crime in some parts. Most of it is just working class.

Why did the city council decide to do that? Because no one pays attention to who they vote for. I think most people walk into voting booths and might as well roll dice. And the people who are most into running for office in places like that tend to be leftists — they know that a lot of voters don’t care and that is the easiest place to get elected.