'Not kosher'? Jewish-only section of Germany's right-wing AfD raises eyebrows

The anti-migrant Alternative for Germany is routinely accused of anti-Semitic views, but its Jewish supporters have just subverted expectation by forming a faith-based group within the party. Some Jews are not OK with that.

The group of Jews within the AfD is aiming to hold its inaugural meeting in the German city of Offenbach on October 7, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing a letter written to the paper.

The Jewish group will be an addition to the already existing Christian section of the AfD – the leader of which maintains that despite widespread claims, the party is not anti-Semitic.

"That doesn't apply at all to what we are. The AfD is not an anti-Semitic party; we do not tolerate any anti-Semitism in the party. If that arises, if we notice it, then these people are thrown out," Joachim Kuhs said, according to Deutsche Welle.

Still, the report seems to be a rare instance of "AfD" and "Jews" not appearing as two opposing sides in the media, which have often accused the party of having neo-Nazi links, harboring anti-Semitic views, and downplaying the horrors of the Holocaust. In June, AfD co-leader Alexander Gauland referred to the Nazi era as a "speck of bird s**t in over 1,000 years of successful German history." Just last month, a local AfD leader came under fire after referring to man who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler as a "coward" and a "traitor."

Dimitri Schulz, a founding member of the planned Jewish AfD section, agrees with Kuhs, telling DPA news agency that the AfD "is the only party in Germany that makes anti-Semitism by Muslims a topic without trivializing it."

Not everyone is convinced, however – including many Jews in Germany who can't quite wrap their heads around why anyone from their faith would associate themselves with the AfD.

Among those angered by the news are members of the Jewish Students Union of Germany, one of whom told AFP that the party is "one of the biggest threats to Jewish… life in Germany.''

"The AfD is not getting a kosher certificate from us,'' said the leader of the group, Dalia Grinfeld, who said her group is urging all Jews in Germany to join a protest in Offenbach to rally against the creation of the AfD's Jewish section.

The row comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic crimes in Germany, with police data showing that such attacks rose by 10.7 percent in the first half of 2018, compared to the same period last year.

https://www.rt.com/news/439567-germany-afd-jewish-group/

Top US General Says Troop Readiness In Korea Facing "Degradation" After Trump Suspended Exercises

As part of the White House's ongoing attempts for North Korean denuclearization and as relations continue to thaw between Pyongyang and Seoul, President Trump last month cancelled previously scheduled US military exercises with South Korea's armed forces.

But a top general has testified before Congress that this pause in joint military exercises is hurting American troop readiness in the region.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-25/top-us-general-says-troop-readiness-korea-degraded-after-trump-suspended-joint

BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee Interviewing 2 Men Who Believe They Had “Encounter” With Ford, NOT KAVANAUGH

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed late Wednesday evening that they are talking to two men who think they forced themselves onto Christine Ford, not Brett Kavanaugh.

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a Brett Kavanaugh investigative summary late Wednesday.

In the summary, a 6th anonymous accuser who signed a letter as “Jane Doe” alleged Kavanaugh raped her in the back seat of a car.

The Committee also has a second interview lined up with a man who says he’s the one who forced himself onto Ford.

Congress reporter for Politico Burgess Everett reported: Judiciary is also talking to someone who thinks he forced himself on Dr. Ford not Judge Kavanaugh.

For people asking for more info, this is from A long investigation summary from Judiciary Republicans distributed tonight. These interviews happened this week, according to the committee, reported Burgess Everett.

The Senate Judiciary Committee spoke to a second man who described the encounter with Ford in great detail and offered a written statement.

Christine Ford accused Brett Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge of sexual abuse 36 years ago at an unknown place or time.

Since then her named witnesses, including a female friend, have ALL denied the woman’s accusations.

Mr. Kavanaugh has categorically denied the allegations against him and said he looks forward to clearing his good name on Thursday.

In Brett Kavanaugh’s prepared testimony which was released earlier Wednesday, he said Christine Ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person at some time, but reiterated he is innocent of this crime.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/senate-judiciary-committee-interviewing-2-men-who-believe-they-had-encounter-with-christine-ford-not-brett-kavanaugh/

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The Battle For Our Minds

There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds…

After reading The New York Times piece “The Plot to Subvert an Election” I put the paper down with a single question.

Why, after two years of allegations, indictments, and claims to proof of this, that, and the other did the newspaper of record—well, once the newspaper of record—see any need to publish such a piece? My answer is simple: The orthodox account of Russia-gate has not taken hold: It has failed in its effort to establish a consensus of certainty among Americans. My conclusion matches this observation: The orthodox narrative is never going to achieve this objective. There are too many holes in it.

“The information age is actually a media age,” John Pilger, the noted British–Australian journalist, remarked during a symposium four years ago, when the Ukraine crisis was at its peak.

“We have war by media; censorship by media; demonology by media; retribution by media; diversion by media—a surreal assembly line of obedient clichés and false assumptions.”

Pilger revisited the theme in a piece last week on Consortium News, arguing that once-tolerated, dissenting opinion has in recent years “regressed into a metaphoric underground.”

There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-26/battle-our-minds