New York Launches Unsecured Online 'Portal' For Requesting Absentee Ballots

As New York, which successfully managed to hold most of its primary votes mostly by mail, has opened an online portal allowing residents to request an absentee ballot.

Gov Andrew Cuomo acted unilaterally to allow any person concerned about COVID-19 risk to request an absentee ballot, even as some southern states rule that COVID-19 fears aren't a valid reason to vote absentee. ;

NYers have until Oct. 27 to mail in their ballots.

The absentee ballot portal went live Tuesday, and Cuomo heralded the launch as a move toward ensuring free and fair elections.

"As the November election approaches, we know that many voters feel vulnerable in the midst of this pandemic," he said. "In line with the sweeping reforms we have implemented to make it easier for New Yorkers to exercise their right to vote, today we launch the online portal through which every registered voter concerned about COVID-19 can obtain an absentee ballot."

USPS has advised Americans to request ballots no later than 15 days before the Nov. 3 vote.

To request a ballot, users must enter their birth date, county and ZIP code to confirm that you are already registered to vote. You are then taken to a page where you decide how you want the absentee ballot delivered.

Interestingly, when we tested the portal, we found that it didn't include any requests for sensitive private information like an individual's social security number. An individual could request an absentee ballot simply by entering in another individual's birthday, address and zip code - all information that's easily attainable.

We sincerely hope this doesn't create a massive crush of fraudulent requests, as any motivated individual could use social media to fraudulently apply for absentee ballots, if only to prove a point.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-launches-unsecured-online-portal-requesting-absentee-ballots

“You’re Nothing But a Stooge!” – OUCH! CNN’s Brian Stelter Goes on CSPAN – Callers Chew Him Up and Spit Him Out

Hack reporter Brian Stelter went on C-SPAN to promote his new book about FOX News and President Trump.

He was wanting to promote his book.

He did not expect this…

A second caller attacked Stelter and his network calling him “Humpty Dumpty” on the air.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/humpty-dumpty-know-not-reliable-ouch-cnns-brian-stelter-goes-cspan-callers-chew-spit-video/

President Trump on Drug Testing Joe Biden: “He’s on Some Kind of an Enhancement”

Something is going on with Joe Biden. We can all see it.

President Trump sees it too which is why he is calling for drug tests before the 2020 Presidential debates.

Last week President Trump called for Biden to be drug tested before their debates this fall.

On Tuesday, in his interview with Laura Ingraham, President Trump said he believes Joe Biden is on some kind of enhancement.

President Donald Trump: I watched Biden in the previous debates and he was horrible. And then I saw him in the Bernie debate and he was normal. It was sort of like a normal deal. He got by. And I said that was a different guy than the guy that was in the debate with Kamala. Now, Kamala is just horrible… I’ll tell you what he’s on some kind of enhancement in my opinion.

The Biden camp can deny it but they will need to prove it with a drug test!

Via The Ingraham Angle:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/boom-president-trump-drug-testing-joe-biden-kind-enhancement-video/

Australia Plunges Into First Recession In 29 Years Following Biggest GDP Drop On Record

Nothing good lasts forever, as Australia just discovered when after seemingly defeating the gravity of the business cycle and lasting a record 29 year without an economic contraction, the country tumbled head first into its first recession in almost 30 years, which also happened to be the worst on record as its Q2 GDP plunged -6.3% Y/Y, worse even than the consensus estimate of a -6.0% drop.

GDP plunged 7% sequentially from the first three months of the year - hammered by the renewed Covid outbreak and lockdown in Victoria state - the first back-to-back quarterly declines since 1991. The sequential drop also was larger than economist forecasts of a 6% drop.

As Bloomberg notes, "Australia’s record run of avoiding two consecutive quarters of negative GDP, which included avoiding recessions during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the Dot Com Bubble and the 2008 global financial crisis, has come to an end with the largest contraction on record according to ABS data dating back to 1959. It now joins much of the world in succumbing to a pandemic-induced downturn."

The report also showed:

Household spending plunged 12.1%, subtracting 6.7 percentage points from GDP; government spending rose 2.9%, adding 0.6 percentage point

Investment in new and used dwellings fell 7.3% in the quarter

Net exports contributed 1 percentage point to GDP

Just like in the US, the savings rate soared, hitting 19.8%, the highest rate since 1974

Australia’s desire to declare an early victory against covid which was accompanied by an early lifting of restrictions and reopening of its economy, proved catastrophic and has been offset by an almost two-month lockdown in Melbourne, the nation’s second-largest city with about 5 million people, crushing any hopes of a recovery.

In March, Australia's Reserve Bank cut its cash rate to a record-low 0.25% and set the same target for the three-year bond yield as it aims to lower borrowing costs across the economy. As Bloomberg notes, the RBA predicts the renewed lockdown will lift unemployment to about 10% later this year.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/australia-plunges-first-recession-29-years-following-biggest-gdp-drop-record

Bloomberg-Funded Group: Trump May Win Election Night, But Joe Biden Will Win Days Later Due to Mail-in Votes

An analytics firm bankrolled by billionaire Michael Bloomberg is predicting that while President Trump will appear to win on November 3, Democrat Joe Biden will actually win the election days later due to mail-in voting.

Josh Mendelsohn, the CEO of Hawkfish — funded by Bloomberg and currently working for various pro-Biden super PACs — told Axios that his firm predicts a “red mirage” where Trump wins on election day but Biden wins the election days later when mail-in votes are counted:

The reason we talk about a red mirage is in fact because we believe that on election night, we are going to see Donald Trump in a stronger position than the reality actually is. We are sounding the alarm and saying that this is a very real possibility, that the data is going to show on election night an incredible victory for Donald Trump. That is likely to be what we see.

Mendelsohn claims it could take weeks before Trump’s election night victory is chipped away at by mail-in votes that will show Biden as the winner.

Specifically, Hawkfish’s models predict that 4-in-10 voters this year will vote by mail. Electorally, Hawkfish’s models predict Trump could win 408 electoral votes on election night to Biden’s 130 if 15 percent of total mail-in votes are counted.

After 75 percent of mail-in votes are counted, days and potentially weeks later, Hawkfish’s models predict the race may flip to put Biden in the lead. This particular model has Biden with a blowout victory of 334 electoral votes to Trump’s 204. Mendelsohn said:

When every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day, which will be Sunday after election day, it will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage. It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted.

Hawkfish’s claims come as a Democrat operative detailed large-scale mail-in voting fraud conducted for years by him and staff in states like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. Part of the operation includes rigging elections for Democrats through paying homeless voters off, taking advantage of the elderly, posing as registered voters, and printing up fake ballots.

Democrats have fought to implement universal mail-in voting, where every registered voter on state voter rolls is mailed a ballot unsolicited, though many efforts are being challenged in court.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/09/01/bloomberg-funded-group-trump-may-win-election-night-but-joe-biden-will-win-days-later-due-to-mail-in-votes/Specifically,

We Got Our Hands On Trump’s Internal Issue Polling — Jobs, Economy And COVID Take Priority Over Racial Issues And Law & Order

The Daily Caller has obtained a poll commissioned by America First Priorities (AFP), a non-profit group aligned with President Donald Trump’s reelection effort, showing that likely voters still care significantly more about jobs and the economy than any other issue heading into the 2020 election.

Twenty percent of all respondents listed “Jobs/The Economy” as their most important issue, while 16 percent said the same of “Fighting COVID-19.” Notably, only 3 and 4 percent listed “Upholding Law and Order” and “Stop Racial Injustice” as the top election issue respectively. 61 percent either didn’t answer, don’t have a preference, or named an issue outside the the 8 listed survey options as their most important issue.

The ideological breakdown showed Independents’ issue choices aligning more closely with those of Republicans than Democrats. 23 percent of Independents listed jobs and the economy as their top issue, 15 percent said fighting coronavirus, 4 percent selected law and order, while just 2 percent are most concerned with stopping racial injustice. The Republican and Democrat splits for those issues were 28-8-7-1 and 11-24-1-6 respectively.

Additional questions showed potential problems for Democrats. Respondents gave Trump a +14 economic job approval rating (56-42), while Republicans earned an 8 point advantage (50-42) over Democrats when survey participants were asked which party “they trust more to rebuild the economy following the COVID-19 pandemic.”

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/01/donald-trump-internal-poll-likely-voters-jobs-economy-coronavirus-covid-law-order-racial-injustice/

https://www.scribd.com/document/474474149/National-Survey-8-20-AFP-FINAL#from_embed?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=94434X1548854X734d2ba5fb1f3cec64d99181837359d2&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate

Kamala Harris ancestor was slave owner in Jamaica, her father says

Donald Harris says his roots go back to Hamilton Brown, an infamous, Irish-born, slave-owning British planter in Jamaica.

My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown), descendant of Hamilton Brown, who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown's Town," wrote Donald J. Harris in a 2018 essay for Jamaica Global.

Harris is an economist, scholar, and professor of economics, emeritus at Stanford University, according to his Stanford bio. And he is the father of Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

"The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural 'produce' exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown's Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte)," added Harris.

Hamilton Brown was born in County Atrium, Ireland in 1776. He owned several sugar plantations in Jamaica across St. Anne's Parish and represented the parish in the Jamaican House of Assembly for 22 years.

Hamilton owned over 1,100 slaves over the years. According to Jamaican slave registers from the National Archives, London going back to the early 1800s, Hamilton owned babies as young as the one-month-old recorded in an 1817 registry.

In two slave registers excerpted from the archives, Hamilton swears to inventories of Creole and African slaves — identified by name, age, "color," and mother, if known — belonging to two of his plantations. One register lists 86 slaves, the other 124.

At the bottom of the lists, current as of June 28, 1817, Brown swears to their accuracy:

"I Hamilton Brown do swear that the above list and return consisting of two sheets is a true perfect and complete list and return, to the best of my knowledge and belief in every particular therein mentioned of all and every slaves possessed by me as owner, considered as most permanently settled, worked and employed in the Parish of Saint Ann …"

Hamilton lent his name to Hamilton Town in St. Anne's Parish, which he founded and which is called Brown's Town today. Hamilton not only built St. Mark's Anglican Church, he is buried in its graveyard with an imposing statue.

After the U.K. Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, the Slave Compensation Act, which compensated slave owners, was passed in 1837.

Caribbean plantation owners were opposed to the abolition of slavery. They were represented at the time by the London Society of West India Planters and Merchants, which fought in favor of slavery for decades in London.

The 1837 Act paid substantial sums of money to the former slave owners, but nothing to the liberated former slaves.

According to Legacies of British Slave-Ownership at the University College of London, Brown was awarded the equivalent of over $3 million in 2020 dollars for the slaves on his plantations in St. Anne Parish.

After the African slave trade was shut down by the U.K. parliament, Brown began to bring Irish immigrants to Jamaica. The Irish government stopped it because Brown was turning the Irish immigrants into slaves.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/hold-kamala-harris-father-claims-his-family-descends-irish-slave-owner-jamaica

Battleground Michigan: Lawsuits challenge state's coronavirus restrictions, ballot rules

State is 'effectively under the personal rule of a single official,' suit argues.

A pair of lawsuits filed against top-ranking state executives in Michigan seek to challenge the recent policies the two Democrats have put in place as part of their efforts to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak there.

The suits, filed by the Thomas More Society on behalf of several Michigan plaintiffs, argue that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson have, respectively, suppressed political speech and unlawfully altered the state's absentee voting system, according to a press release from the Thomas More Society.

One of the suits, filed in federal court, seeks to challenge several COVID-19 restrictions Whitmer has imposed via executive order on the state, namely limits on both indoor and outdoor gatherings; specifically, Whitmer has banned indoor gatherings that exceed 10 individuals and outdoor gatherings than exceed 100.

Those limits apply to any sort of gathering regardless of its purpose, but the nonprofits Election Integrity Fund and One Nation Michigan argue that Whitmer's order functions as an abridgment of their right to free speech and assembly under the U.S. Constitution.

Whitmer's orders "constitute direct restrictions on [the groups'] right to engage in protected speech and assembly and therefore violate the First Amendment,” the suit argues, stating that any restrictions on constitutional rights "must be narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling government interest."

The suit requests that the governor be enjoined from enforcing the order and that the order itself be voided.

"The rights of the citizenry to assemble and speak in pursuit of jointly held political goals as enshrined in the First Amendment are essential to our democracy," Phill Kline, the director of the Thomas More Society's Amistad Project, said in the organization's press release last week. "Particularly in a year in which our nation will select a president, safeguarding these rights is of fundamental importance."

Second lawsuit challenges relaxation of absentee-vote signature rules

Another lawsuit, also filed on behalf of the Election Integrity Fund, argues that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's recent online absentee ballot application violates state law and opens the door for possible widespread election fraud.

Benson's office in June launched an online application portal where Michiganders can apply for a mail-in ballot using their driver's license and part of their social security number.

State law normally dictates that absentee ballot requests must be accompanied by a voter's signature as an anti-fraud measure. Benson's new system allows voters to "borrow" pre-existing signatures from driver's licenses or state IDs in order to complete the application.

"The applicant need not upload a signature, provide an electronic signature, or otherwise provide a contemporaneous signature at the time of the application," the suit asserts. Rather, "a person need only have the limited personal information required by the online system to request an absentee ballot on behalf [of] another."

The suit further points out that "at least some of" the borrowed signatures are also the ones used to match the voter's signature on the absentee ballot itself — meaning the state could end up verifying absentee ballots by matching "merely a reproduction of the same signature" rather than two unique signatures from the same individual.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/lawsuits-against-michigan-governor-seek-protect-political-speech-challenge

Victorian restrictions to cost Australia up to $12 billion

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has shared Treasury estimates of the economic impact of Stage Four COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria.

He said Treasury estimates the restrictions will blow a $12 billion hole in the nation's September GDP figures.

Additionally,he expects up to 400,000 Australians to lose their jobor have their hours reduced to zero as a result of the restrictions.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-live-updates-september-2-victoria-state-of-emergency-nsw-border-restrictions-covid19/49c239e3-ba1a-4183-9511-2d62f2e30dd6#post=9feebb90-f593-44ee-ba5c-662d8231720a

Acting Assistant Attorney General Ethan P. Davis Announces Departure from Civil Division

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/acting-assistant-attorney-general-ethan-p-davis-announces-departure-civil-division

Lebanon Erupts In Violent Protest As Political Factions Appoint New Prime Minister

Demonstrators gathered in Lebanon to denounce the formation of a new government by Lebanon’s long-time political barons, declaring that a solution to Lebanon’s multiple crises cannot be solved by the same groups of political and bureaucratic elites that have been systematically plundering the country’s resources for decades.

The demonstration that formed near the parliament building almost immediately turned into disturbances. Demonstrators started throwing stones and explosives at the police and tried to pass over the barriers placed in front of the parliament building.

Demonstrators destroyed traffic lights and the surveillance cameras placed on office buildings. In response, police used tear gas.

The disturbances have been contained, and all central squares and the streets leading to those squares are under the control of the army. Based on the data provided by Lebanon’s MTV, approximately 20 people were injured as a result of the clashes

One of the actions widely denounced by protestors was the appointment on Monday of a new prime minister, little-known diplomat Mustafa Adib, just hours before the arrival to Lebanon of French president Emanuel Macron.

Macron appeared in the country as some type of latter day emperor, meeting with key personalities from most of the political cliques and factions before demanding reforms on behalf of Western creditors.

“We demand progress in the next few weeks,” Macron said during a press conference from Beirut during his second visit in less than a month.

The French president said business would not “be as usual” among Lebanese leaders and that they had promised to implement widespread reforms to address the country’s unprecedented economic and financial crisis. **

As for the new government, Macron said he expected reforms to materialize within four weeks after its formation. If this does not occur, the international community will not release any aid and there will be ‘consequences’, he said.

Macron raised the possibility of sanctions on Lebanese leaders accused of corruption. Such measures will be coordinated with the European Union. No mention was made of whether the Western financial and corporate sector entities that have enabled and managed much of the systematic financial plunder of Lebanon could also face sanctions.

France will host another ‘donor’ conference to evaluate whether Lebanon’s economic reforms satisfy their demands in October. LINK

Meanwhile, in the streets of Lebanon’s capital the protesters that gathered in Beirut on Tuesday called for a ‘new Lebanon’ without its entrenched political leaders, and urged the visiting French president not to cooperate with them.

Clashes erupted in the evening between angry demonstrators and security forces, who responded with tear gas, while earlier in the afternoon, people demonstrating in the capital called for urgent change.

Several held up black versions of the Lebanese flag in mourning for the victims of the massive explosion at Beirut’s port on August 4 that killed 190, injured thousands and ravaged large parts of the city.

https://southfront.org/lebanon-erupts-in-violent-protest-as-political-factions-appoint-new-prime-minister/

Eight Venezuelan Ministers Will Resign to Run in Parliamentary Elections, Maduro Says

A group of eight Venezuelan federal ministers, including the former vice president and minister of communications, Jorge Rodriguez, will leave their posts to participate in the upcoming elections to the National Assembly, President Nicolas Maduro said.

"They consulted with me, and, according to the constitution, must leave their posts three months prior to the election date, 5 September", Maduro said in a televised speech broadcast on his Twitter.

On Monday, the President pardoned more than 50 political figures in opposition parties. Many of those pardoned had been charged for their roles in the series of uprisings against the Venezuelan government in early 2019.

Elections to the Venezuelan National Assembly, led from January 2019 to January 2020 by opposition leader Juan Guaido, will take place on 6 December. A total of 26 opposition parties decided not to run in these elections.

Venezuela is rocked by a political crisis that intensified in January when merely two weeks after Maduro's inauguration for his second term, Juan Guaido illegally proclaimed himself 'interim president' and called on citizens to help him take power in the country.

Guaido immediately received support from the United States and some Latin American countries, including Colombia, while Maduro accused him of trying to stage a coup in Venezuela with the help of the US.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202009021080344503-eight-venezuelan-ministers-will-resign-to-run-in-parliamentary-elections-maduro-says/

University Athletic Officials Slapped With New Charges in College Admissions Scandal

BOSTON – A federal grand jury in the District of Massachusetts returned a second superseding indictment today bringing additional charges against two university athletic officials in the college admissions case.

The second superseding indictment charges Gordon Ernst, the former Georgetown University tennis coach, with three counts of federal programs bribery and three counts of filing false tax returns and charges Jovan Vavic, former water polo coach at the University of Southern California, with conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery. An arraignment date has not yet been scheduled.

The indictment alleges that in addition to accepting bribes from William “Rick” Singer, Ernst also solicited and received bribes from three other prospective Georgetown applicants. Ernst then failed to report a significant portion of those bribe payments on his federal income tax returns. The second superseding indictment also alleges that Vavic conspired to commit federal programs bribery by soliciting and accepting bribes to facilitate the admission of students to the University of Southern California. The new charges are in addition to those brought in an earlier indictment.

Singer previously pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the government’s investigation.

Of the 12 coaches, administrators and employees charged in the initial indictment in March 2019, eight have pleaded guilty or agreed to do so. Defendants Gordon Ernst, Donna Heinel, Jovan Vavic and William Ferguson have pleaded not guilty.

Case information, including the status of each defendant, charging documents and plea agreements are available here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investigations-college-admissions-and-testing-bribery-scheme.

The charge of federal programs bribery provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater. The charge of conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater. The charge of filing a false tax return provides for a sentence of up to three years in prison, one year of supervised release and a fine of $100,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division; Joleen Simpson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations in Boston; and Mark Deckett, Resident Agent in Charge of the Department of Education, Office of Inspector General made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Eric S. Rosen, Justin D. O’Connell, Leslie A. Wright, Kristen A. Kearney, Stephen E. Frank and Karin M. Bell of Lelling’s Criminal Division are prosecuting the case.

https://breaking911.com/university-athletic-officials-slapped-with-new-charges-in-college-admissions-scandal/

California Legislature Softens Sex Offender Registry Requirements For Sodomy With Minors

The California legislature passed a law late Monday relaxing sex offender registry requirements for sodomy and other acts with minors in efforts to end “discrimination against LGBTQ young people on the sex offender registry,” according to the bill’s sponsor.

Democratic California state Sen. Scott Weiner, a gay politician who represents San Francisco, first introduced SB 145 in January 2019. The bill “would exempt from mandatory registration under the act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person to register,” according to the text of the legislation.

Under the new bill, which has not been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, adults less than 10 years older than the minor who are convicted of having anal or oral sex with that minor would not automatically be added to the sex-offender registry, the San Fransisco Chronicle reported.

Current California law requires that adults must register as sex offenders if they are convicted of having anal or oral sex with a minor, though a judge may decide whether to place an adult male not more than 10 years older than the minor on the registry if he has vaginal intercourse with a teenaged girl, according to the Chronicle.

In 2015, the California Supreme Court argued that vaginal intercourse can lead to pregnancy and that requiring a father to register as a sex offender may inhibit his ability to support his child and find a job through social stigmatization, according to the Chronicle.

SB 145 passed the California Assembly by a bare minimum vote of 41-18 before passing 23-10 in the state Senate, the Chronicle reported, though some lawmakers raised concerns that the bill allows for mistreatment of minors.

“I cannot in my mind as a mother understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual, how it could ever not be a registrable offense,” Democratic California state Rep. Lorena Gonzalez said, according to the Chronicle. “We should never give up on this idea that children should be in no way subject to a predator.”

Though minors cannot legally consent to sex in California,Wiener’s bill would allow a judge to decide whether or not to place an adult on the sex-offender registry if a teenager between the ages of 14 to 17 had sex with that adult.

“SB 145 ends discrimination against #LGBTQ young people on the sex offender registry,” Weiner said in a Tuesday tweet. “Currently, these youth are forced onto the registry for consensual sex — even if a judge doesn’t think it’s appropriate — in situations where straight youth are not. This discrimination destroys lives.”

Wiener did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/01/california-legislature-sex-offender-registry/

He also worked on the bill to lower the penalty for people knowingly spreading HIV.

https://twitter.com/maggmountains/status/1301002080010694656

COVID-19 'became opportunity for hatemongers' – deputy antisemitism envoy

US assistant special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism Ellie Cohanim spoke in a webinar hosted by the Hudson Institute, and addressed the challenges of fighting global antisemitism.

Ellie Cohanim, the US assistant special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, said on Tuesday that COVID-19 "became an opportunity for the hatemongers."

In a webinar hosted by the Hudson Institute, Cohanim addressed the challenges of fighting global antisemitism. "It's a sad shame that people would use a pandemic as an opportunity to spread hatred of Jews," she said.

"What happened when the virus came out was that we saw forces either spreading conspiracy theories that Israel or the Jews somehow created the virus or that they were going to somehow profit from the virus. No matter that we know this virus emanated from Wuhan, China," said Cohanim.

She noted that the unfortunate thing was that a lot of these conspiracy theories emanated from government officials as well. "We saw that coming out of the Palestinian Authority, from Turkey, and from Iran as well. Ayatollah Khamenei posted a tweet in which he used the hashtag 'COVID 48,'" she continued. "We all know that what you need to do with the coronaviruses is to wipe it out. And so obviously, he was, again, advocating for the wiping out of Israel with this COVID 48 hashtag."

Addressing remarks and tweets by Iranian officials, Cohanim said that "the regime thinks that by scapegoating Israel, by scapegoating the Jewish people, they're going to somehow fool their people into not recognizing the tremendous problems that they have in their own society. And also the regimes' failure to really address the pandemic in a strong way."

She mentioned the quiet reaction in the Arab world after US President Donald Trump decided to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and said that the Arab street “is no longer buying it.”

“They're not buying the scapegoating of Israel and the Jews for the problems that they have internally, and the normalization that we see with Israel, I think also is a recognition from many governments in the region that they are on the same side with Israel,” Said Cohanim. “I think that Israel's neighbors, certainly the Gulf Arab countries, they all recognize that Iran is the threat in the region. And they're willing now to more openly work with Israel and work together to counter that shared threat.”

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/covid-19-became-opportunity-for-hatemongers-deputy-antisemitism-envoy-640782

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AG today says they a monitoring video feeds to identify rioters post events then making arrests