Friends of the Israel Defense Forces

Mission

To offer educational, cultural, recreational, and social services programs and facilities that provide hope, purpose, and life-changing support for the soldiers who protect Israel and Jews worldwide.

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) is a non-political, non-military organization that provides for wellbeing of the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), veterans and family members. We are the single organization authorized to represent the IDF across the United States and Panama, as designated by Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, IDF Chief of the General Staff in March 2017 and by Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, IDF Chief of the General Staff in February 2019.

The Israeli government is responsible for training IDF soldiers and providing them with the necessary tools for their service. FIDF is committed to providing these soldiers with love, support, and care to ease the burden they carry on behalf of the Jewish community worldwide.

Established in 1981 by a group of Holocaust survivors under the leadership of John Klein z'l, FIDF is a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation that operates 20 regional offices in the United States and Panama, with headquarters in New York City.

How We Rank

FIDF has consistently received the highest ratings for accountability and transparency from two of the leading independent charity evaluators: Charity Navigator and Charity Watch. FIDF received the highest 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for the 9th year in a row now—a feat accomplished by only 2% of charities in America, and Charity Watch has bestowed FIDF with their “Top-Rated” seal.

“Based on the most recent information available, we have issued a new rating for your organization. We are proud to announce Friends of the Israel Defense Forces has earned our ninth consecutive 4-star rating. This is our highest possible rating and indicates that your organization adheres to sector best practices and executes its mission in a financially efficient way. Attaining a 4-star rating verifies that Friends of the Israel Defense Forces exceeds industry standards and outperforms most charities in your area of work. Only 2% of the charities we evaluate have received at least 9 consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that Friends of the Israel Defense Forces outperforms most other charities in America. This exceptional designation from Charity Navigator sets Friends of the Israel Defense Forces apart from its peers and demonstrates to the public its trustworthiness.”

• Michael Thatcher, President and CEO of Charity Navigator

https://www.fidf.org/about-fidf

Cause 38 billion is not enough, how sold out to Rothschild is the US???

The Chief of Staff for Obama’s Former AG Eric Holder Met With Sally Yates the Day After General Flynn Was Set Up in the White House

President Obama’s first Attorney General, Eric Holder, left a corrupt life in public office and returned to the law firm Covington but he may not have left his corrupt work behind. Today we have more information connecting Holder to the the Russia Collusion hoax.

We noted in April, 2020 that while at Covington, lawyers from Holder’s firm represented General Mike Flynn and requested dirt on President Trump while withholding important information from General Flynn.

After working for President Obama for six years, Attorney General Eric Holder returned to the law firm where he had previously worked, Covington, where he became a partner in 2015.

Many, including the Heritage Foundation in 2014, identified how corrupt Holder was as AG [emphasis added]:

… the American people recognize that Mr. Holder is an ideologue who considers himself part of Mr. Obama’s political team first and the attorney general a very distant second. His first loyalty has been to helping the president break, bend, ignore or fail to enforce the law, doing untold damage to our constitutional system and the rule of law.

As former Justice Department prosecutor Andy McCarthy has said, the Justice Department under Mr. Holder has become “a sort of full-employment program for progressive activists, race-obsessed bean counters and lawyers who volunteered their services during the Bush years to help al Qaeda operatives file lawsuits against the United States.”

There is no way to know how long it will take to repair the damage that Mr. Holder has done to the management and operation of the Justice Department. One thing we do know for sure — it will take a great deal of work by a new attorney general who is willing to take on the activists that Mr. Holder will leave embedded within the career civil service ranks of the department. And it will take political willpower and steadfastness of a kind that is rarely seen in Washington.

Through his numerous actions as Obama’s AG, Mr. Holder proved that he was not concerned with law and the constitution, he was concerned with power.

Enter General Mike Flynn

General Michael Flynn obtained attorneys from Covington to represent him in the filing of a FARA form in December of 2016, shortly after the 2016 election. A few months later, General Flynn’s life was turned upside down and he hired Covington to represent him in charges being leveled by the Mueller gang. Eventually, the Covington lawyers working for the General coerced him to sign a guilty plea on charges he did not believe he was guilty of performing. He agreed to the plea in part because the Mueller gang was threatening his son.

More

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/breaking-chief-staff-obamas-former-ag-eric-holder-met-sally-yates-day-general-flynn-set-white-house/

https://www.scribd.com/document/444791080/Flynn-Declaration#from_embed

"End School To Prison Pipeline" - New Kim Klacik Ad Highlights How Liberals Destroyed Baltimore

Readers may recall, in mid-August, we pointed out Kim Klacik, the GOP congressional candidate from Baltimore, is attempting to take late Elijah Cummings' congressional seat in Maryland's 7th congressional district.

However, there just one problem, she's a Republican, nevertheless, a young black millennial, who has been embraced by President Trump and top Republicans.

For more color on Maryland's 7th District, which covers the northern and eastern boundaries of Baltimore County, the majority of Howard County, and a decent chunk of eastern and western parts of Baltimore City, which have been dominated by Democrats for a little more than half a century.

Klacik was propelled into the spotlight in August when her campaign released a video of her walking the streets of Baltimore. She showed people "the real Baltimore," outlining how decades of Democratic policies have imploded communities:

"Democrats don't want you to see this. They're scared that I'm exposing what life is like in Democrat-run cities. That's why I'm running for Congress Because All Black Lives Matter Baltimore Matters And black people don't have to vote Democrat."

Two weeks later, in early September, Trump tweeted that he "fully endorsed" Klacik.

Now the Baltimore-based GOP Congressional candidate is out with another political ad bashing Baltimore liberals for destroying the city. She focused on Baltimore's trash problems, dilapidated row houses, and the "black struggle of people in Baltimore."

"I see a Baltimore that picks up trash," Klacik said. "There are piles of garbage all around Baltimore. It makes life unsafe for our families. I'll work with city leaders to get Baltimore Solid Waste Bureau the resources it needs to take out the trash."

Tens of millions of you have shared the struggle of black people in Baltimore. You cared about our black lives more than our own leaders.

They have done nothing for us.

Now they can’t hide.

We are the change.

Please support our movement:https://t.co/8yLL5VmMSU pic.twitter.com/1sGyqXHpzt

— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) September 20, 2020

"Our streets should be a reflection of our leaders: clean, not dirty," she said, adding that she wants to "end school to prison pipeline" and introduce the school choice plan, a program backed by Trump.

Klacik said there are more than 17,000 vacant row houses in the city, calling them a "scar on the face of our city" (read: "Baltimore Continues To Struggle With Thousands Of Vacant Homes").

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/end-school-prison-pipeline-new-kim-klacik-ad-highlights-how-liberals-destroyed-baltimore

Ilhan Omar: Hate for Me Is ‘Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Black, Sexist’

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) touted her intersectional oppression in a recent interview with the New York Times, lamenting that she constantly has to “deal with the hate of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-blackness, but also with sexism” in the United States.

Omar made the remark when asked about a controversial passage in her autobiographical book — This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman — in which she wrote: “I am, by nature, a starter of fires. My work has been to figure out where I’m going to burn down everything around me by adding the fuel of my religion, skin color, gender or even tone.”

“Couldn’t that kind of language be interpreted as a form of demagoguery?” the Times asked.

Omar replied:

It’s metaphorical. There are many times when people will say, “Something you said has agitated this space.” And it’s like, no, it’s me just showing up that did it. There are times when I will choose to not show up, because I know that my presence brings about intensity that isn’t going to be helpful. There’s no one else that exists in a space where they have to deal with the hate of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-blackness, but also with sexism. People will say it’s my “tone.” I’m like, you’re agitated by my tone because you think people like me should be sitting in a corner, not heard and not seen. Everything that comes out of my mouth is going to be filtered through the lens of you despising my existence.

Omar, who was born in Somalia and lived in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the U.S. in the 1990s, has previously accused the U.S. of virtually being a fundamentally bigoted country. In March, Omar claimed that American power comes from racism and that “our history is built on the oppression of black bodies.”

“From slavery to Jim Crow to redlining to mass incarceration to voter suppression, racism is part of the foundation of American power,” she said during a Capitol Hill panel on “racial justice.”

In October 2019, Omar attacked the U.S. and its foreign policy, saying Americans don’t like being reminded that “we have been a villain” in other parts of the world.

“We’re very comfortable being the hero in every story,” the lawmaker told TBS’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.”We are not comfortable anytime somebody reminds us we have been a villain. It’s my job to make sure we can end this story as a hero.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/21/ilhan-omar-hate-for-me-is-anti-muslim-anti-immigrant-anti-black-sexist/

Nope it's because your a divisive cunt

Former Premier's extraordinary rant

Daniel Andrews has copped an absolute roasting from a former Premier, who says he can't believe what he's seeing in Victoria.

Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett has launched into a ferocious attack on Daniel Andrews after the state's hotel quarantine inquiry reached farcical levels.

The inquiry revealed Daniel Andrews right-hand man Chris Eccles simply “can’t recall” who ordered security guards to man the hotels of returned travellers.

On the Today show this morning, Mr Kennett described the revelations as “extraordinary”.

“We are in this strange position here in Victoria where no- one knows anything,” he said. “We just seem to operate on osmosis.

“No politician will accept responsibility.It is the most extraordinary situation and bear in mind, the failure at those quarantine hotels led to the second wave here which to date has taken over 750 lives.

Premier Daniel Andrews is giving evidence tomorrow, but Mr Kennett predicted he won’t “know anything” either.

“No-one knows. This has just happened. I’m surprised anyone knows we have got coronavirus down here,” he said. “No politician has accepted any responsibility for any act that has occurred.”

Despite the criticism, the latest polling shows support for Mr Andrews has surged.

Mr Kennett however said he wasn’t surprised.

“When you have people in situations of stress they always look to their leaders to actually be able to guide them to a safe place,” he said.

“We are being guided because the government has failed and I’ve always said that the aftermath of the coronavirus is going to be a lot more serious than, in fact, the coronavirus itself.”

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/coronavirus-victoria-live-updates-now-is-the-time-daniel-andrews-under-pressure/live-coverage/6ccb192f98c616d347336b0fedd72982

Mass whale strandings in Tasmania are not uncommon and pilot whales are the 'main culprits', scientists say

Rescuers are preparing to save a large pod of whales stuck on a sandbank off Tasmania's West Coast, with researchers labelling the state a "global hotspot" for mass strandings.

On Monday, around 270 pilot whales got into difficulty on a sandbank at Macquarie Heads, near Strahan on Tasmania's west coast, about 190 kilometres from Hobart.

The Department of Primary Industry, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) said the whales were stranded at three different sites, with dozens appearing to be dead.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-22/mass-whale-strandings-in-tasmania-are-not-uncommon/12686734

Another Bloody Chicago Weekend Sees Almost 40 Shot, With Homicides Up 50%

Another grim weekend out of Chicago as the Sun Times reports at least 36 total shot, including 9 fatalities across the city after total figures were tallied Monday.

This is slightly down from the prior weekend which included 42 people shot, 12 of which died of their wounds.

The windy city has seen shocking numbers nearly every weekend over the past months, also earlier this month over a bloody Labor Day holiday weekend which saw a whopping 51 shot, including 10 deaths.

The deaths remain relatively young black males, with this weekend's homicides all being male victims between the ages of 17 and 47 years old. A 16-year old was also shot, but is expected to survive:

The weekend’s youngest victim was a teenage boy critically wounded early Saturday in South Chicago. The 16-year-old was standing on the sidewalk about 2:15 a.m. in the 5000 block of West Monroe Street when someone fired shots from a dark blue vehicle in an alley, according to police. He was hit in the chest and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.

Chicago police have that tallied shootings are up 50% compared to this time last year. Here are the numbers according to local reports:

But, overall, shootings and murders are up 50% compared to last year, according to Chicago Police Department statistics. Through Sept. 13, police have recorded 544 murders in 2020 compared to 364 murders during the same time in 2019.

The same increase applies to shootings. The city has seen more than 2,220 shootings in 2020 compared to about 1,500 over the same time in 2019, according to the statistics.

The weekend period running late Friday into Monday morning remain the deadliest portion of the week, with warm weekend holidays typically witnessing the worst numbers.

And this particular weekend, 30 among the 36 victims were reported shot Friday evening into Sunday morning alone in Chicago.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-bloody-chicago-weekend-sees-almost-40-shot-homicides-50