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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says police will step up surveillance and coverage of hate crime targets following threats against the Jewish network and a mass shooting at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub.
“I asked the NYPD to step up policing and building communities that are potential targets for hate crimes,” Hochul said. “Here in New York, we will not tolerate violence or intolerance against any community. We are united against hate – today and each and every day.
The State Police’s counterterrorism unit conducts outreach activities with synagogues and other Jewish network teams in the state, as well as LGBTQ teams.
Authorities are scouring social media for more threats, Hochul says.
Police arrested two men in New York on Saturday and confiscated weapons, an illegal handgun, after one of the suspects threatened Jews.
Jews are the target of hate crimes in New York City more than any other group, in absolute terms and consistent with capital.
Kanye West, the rapper also known as Ye, appears to be returning to Twitter amid a series of restrictions or suspensions after posting several anti-Semitic tweets.
“Testing to see if my Twitter is unblocked,” he wrote to his 32 million followers, two weeks after his last posts. West repeated his comments and refused to apologize for threatening to “go to death with 3 opposed to the Jewish people. “
– You (@kanyewest) November 20, 2022
Eccentric billionaire Elon Musk, who bought the social media platform last month, welcomed former President Donald Trump to Twitter the day before after it was banned just two years ago.
Americans “cannot and will not tolerate hate,” President Joe Biden said, hours after at least five other people were killed and 18 wounded in a mass shooting at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub.
Biden, stating that the motive for the attack is still clear, nevertheless denounced violence against the LGBTQ community, i. e. transgender women of color, in recent years.
“Places that are meant to be spaces of acceptance and birthday parties never deserve to become places of terror and violence. However, this happens all too often. We will have to eliminate inequalities that contribute to violence against LGBTQI people. “,” he said in a White House statement.
Britain’s national broadcaster, the BBC, does not broadcast the flashy opening ceremony of the Qatar World Cup, broadcasting a story about the host country’s corruption and poor human rights record.
The rite may only be seen on the BBC’s website, but the television network broadcasts an investigation into corruption in Qatar’s bidding process, the exploitation of migrant staff who built the stadiums and the lack of gay rights, women’s rights and lax discourse in the conservative. Muslim nation.
Host country Qatar, the first World Cup host in history to lose its first match of the tournament, collapsed in a 2-0 loss to Ecuador as the centerpiece of soccer began.
Two first-half goals from veteran striker Enner Valencia sealed a well-deserved Group A victory for Ecuador, as Qatar’s first World Cup final ended in disappointment.
Qatari enthusiasts began leaving Al Bayt Stadium well before the final whistle after a dominant display by the Ecuadorians.
Kyrie Irving reflects on the Brooklyn Nets and apologizes to those who felt threatened or harmed when she posted a link to a documentary containing anti-Semitic material.
Irving was suspended from the team on Nov. 3, hours after he refused to say he had no anti-Semitic ideals in a meeting with reporters at the Nets’ school.
Back in construction for the team’s morning shooting, Irving says he’s treated this interview differently.
“I’m not advocating anything that comes close to hate speech or anti-Semitism or anything that opposes the human race,” Irving says. “I think we all have the opportunity to speak for ourselves when things are meant to be us and I think it was obligatory for me to stand here and take on the duty of my actions, because somehow I have dealt with all this and when I look back and reflect when I had the opportunity to express my deep remorse to someone. That they felt threatened or harmed by what I posted was not my goal at all.
Irving missed 8 games of the suspension, which the Nets said would last at least five games.
“I didn’t need to harm anyone, any other people’s organization and yes, this is a wonderful time for me because I can be informed this procedure that the strength of my voice is very strong, the influence I have on me my network is very strong and I must be guilty for it,” Irving said. “To do that, you have to admit when you’re wrong and in cases where you harm other people and that affects them. “
Zionist leader Bezalel Smotrich said his party would meet their demands as coalition negotiations with Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu appear to have run into trouble.
“It’s that every time we don’t pay attention to the demands of the Likud, there are those who make us enemies, incite to oppose us and belittle us,” Smotrich tweeted, sharing a message from a Likud supporter comparing the MK to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Smotrich demanded that he be given the post of defense minister, which Netanyahu opposes, or finance minister, which Shas leader Aryeh Deri refuses to cede, leading to a stalemate in the talks.
Smotrich says his party is “a full spouse of the national camp and the Likud. We will maintain our demands to ensure as soon as possible the status quo of a strong and intelligent government, which will act intelligently and genuinely lead to the right. “WALA policies.
Investigators say last week’s massive component fire in the Gaza Strip was accidentally set by a guy who used gas as part of a sleight of hand, but they don’t know how they came to that conclusion.
The chimney killed 22 members of the same circle of relatives and it is possible that no survivor described the events.
The chimney burst Thursday in the third-floor apartment of the Abu Raya family home in the overcrowded Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Authorities first said another 21 people were killed.
Gaza’s attorney general, Mohammed al-Nahal, said the death toll had reached 22 and gave more details.
He told reporters that Nader Abu Raya invited his parents, siblings and children to celebrate his older brother’s return from abroad. With all the visitors piling up in the circle of relatives back home, Nader began preparing in the living room what was said as a party stunt with gasoline, al-Nahal said.
“The cause of the fireplace was that Nader had used gas in a celebration display with the fireplace on vacation,” the Hamas-appointed attorney general said in a statement. “He lost control and the flame reached the nearby gas can and the chimney burst. . “
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of the Union for Reform Judaism, said giving MK Otzma Yehudit Itamar Ben Gvir the post of minister of public security is like appointing a notorious KKK leader, a notorious white supremacist, to the post of attorney general.
“Appointing Ben Gvir as minister of public security is like appointing David Duke, one of the leaders of the KKK, to the position of attorney general,” Jacobs told Ynet.
“Most American Jews consider someone like Itamar Ben Gvir or Bezalel Smotrich to be the face and voice of fashionable Israel,” he added. “Honestly, it’s a scary thought. “
A rocket fired from Syria wounded three other people at the Turkish border, the official Anadolu news agency reported.
A Turkish soldier and two special forces policemen were wounded after the rocket landed in the Oncupinar border domain near the Syrian border, the firm said.
One student was killed and more than two dozen other passengers and the motive force were injured when a bus returning from a hockey game crashed into a tree in suburban Boston, according to authorities.
Early investigation suggests the bus was returning to Brandeis University after a hockey game at Northeastern University in Boston around 10:30 p. m. Saturday, when it crashed in Waltham, not far from campus, according to a statement from Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Waltham police. Chief Kevin O’Connell.
One student died instantly. The remaining 26 passengers and the bus’s motive force “suffered injuries of varying magnitude” and were taken to area hospitals, he said.
Brandeis says 17 of the injured have been discharged and the rest have been admitted.
“Given the number of injured and the various hospitals they were transported to, it takes time to decipher the prestige of everyone involved, adding passengers who are Brandeis students,” he said.
Six Israeli suspects arrested in connection with yesterday’s violence in Hebron have been released, Channel Twelfth reports.
The violent clashes, in which one soldier and two Palestinians were wounded, came as thousands of Israeli Jews were spending the weekend in the city for an annual pilgrimage.
Giora Eiland, a retired former national security adviser, compares attacks on Palestinians and troops to Kristallnacht.
“Dozens introduced attacks on Palestinian tents, causing damage, and rebelled against any provocation, wounding Palestinians as well,” Eiland told Channel 12. We were on the other side,” he adds.
Eiland says Prime Minister Yair Lapid and IDF leader Aviv Kohavi criticized the attack on soldiers but condemned the unprovoked attacks on Palestinians.
Thousands of Chabad rabbis stationed in more than a hundred countries gather for their annual convention in Brooklyn, New York.
The rally is taking place for the first time since the beginning of the COVID pandemic and brings together some 6,500 people, plus Chabad emissaries and other guests.
The opening rite of the highly anticipated and debatable World Cup has just begun in Qatar.
The rite at the 60,000-seat Al Bayt Stadium will last until the first match of the tournament between the host country and Ecuador.
In Israel, the World Cup is broadcast on the public broadcaster Kan 11.
Shots were fired at the front of a store on Etzel Street in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli police, no injuries were reported.
Police say the company’s door was broken and officials are on site to investigate the incident.
The head of Iran’s boxing federation says he will return home after a tournament in Spain, amid a nationwide wave of protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.
“I don’t have to go back to Iran to be the voice of those whose voices are not heard through the authorities,” Hossein Soori said in a video shared on social media. He pointed “especially to the other people of Sistan-Balochistan. “a province on Iran’s southeastern border with Pakistan, where he said “dozens of innocent people were killed. “
“It may no longer serve my expensive country, in a formula that so gently sheds the blood of human beings,” said Soori, who has led the boxing federation since 2017.
A sinkhole was discovered at a busy Tel Aviv intersection, leading to road closures and expected traffic.
Police were alerted to the abyss at the corner of the city’s Ibn Gabirol and Zeitlin streets, just off Rabin Square. Police say engineers are on and two lanes have been closed. They ask drivers to search for preferred routes.
Several sinkholes have been discovered in Israel in recent months, and one was added that closed the exit ramp of a main road for two weeks.
Overnight, Turkish airstrikes killed at least 31 other people in northern Syria, most commonly in positions occupied by Syrian Kurdish forces, according to a Britain-based war monitoring group.
About 25 movements hit Raqqa, Hassakeh and Aleppo provinces, killing 18 members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, 12 members of the Syrian army and one journalist, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition organization of dubious veracity. .
The outgoing government has “done a lot for the well-being” of Palestinians, national security adviser Eyal Hulata told delegates at the annual Manama Dialogue convention in Bahrain.
“More personnel in Israel, whether from the West Bank or Gaza,” Hulata continues, in response to pressing questions about Jerusalem’s policy toward the Palestinians. There were no situations for a political procedure or progress. “
One of the Emirati delegates, the head of the think tank Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, worries about the effect Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition partners, what she calls “Jewish Salafists,” will have on the Abraham Accords.
White House coordinator for Central and North Africa Brett McGurk told the convention that the United States is deterring “imminent threats” in the region.
“The United States is now actively building and enabling an air and sea defense architecture embedded in this region,” McGurk said. “Something that has been talked about for a long time is being done, thanks to cutting-edge partnerships and new technologies,” he adds, without elaborating.
In response to a question about Israel’s policy in the Russian-Ukrainian war, Hulata said Israel “collaborates with the Ukrainians on many problems and [I] will leave it at that. “
The three-day Manama Security Conference meets to discuss urgent situations demanding security in the Middle East, with many senior officials and academics involved from dozens of countries.
Ukraine’s Energoatom nuclear force firm said Russia bombed the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, some time after Moscow accused Kyiv of attacking the plant site.
“On the morning of November 20, 2022, as a result of Russian bombings, at least 12 hits were recorded on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant,” says Energoatom, accusing the Russians of “once again. . . put the global total at risk. “
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, transitory until the committee’s appointments are finalized, will meet to vote to approve Likud MK Yoav Gallant as the new leader.
Gallant, the former head of the IDF’s Southern Command, was through the Settlement Committee, which is guilty of forming the parliamentary panels of the 25th Knesset.
The Likud MK also stands out as one of the leading candidates for defense minister, in which case the committee would have a new leader.
The Russian military accuses Kyiv of bombing the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant it controls in southern Ukraine.
Kyiv “avoids its provocations aimed at creating the risk of a man-made crisis at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” it said in a statement. Despite the Nov. 19 and 20 bombings, radiation degrees “remain normal,” he added.
Israeli army leader Aviv Kohavi lands in the United States ahead of a five-day vacation in which he will meet with U. S. officials about the Iranian threat.
This is Kohavi’s last official as a staff leader, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Kohavi’s term is scheduled to end on 17 January.
Kohavi is scheduled to meet with U. S. national security adviser. U. S. Secretary of State Jake Sullivan, CIA Director William Burns, the leader of the U. S. military. U. S. Secretary of State Mark Milley and U. S. Central Command leader Mark MilleyU. S. Secretary of State Michael Erik Kurilla, among senior defense officials.
He will meet with Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, according to the IDF.
“During the visit, they will discuss issues similar to demanding security situations in the region, basically the Iranian threat, and problems similar to strengthening cooperation between the militaries,” the IDF said in a statement.
Kohavi is joined by his wife, Yael Kohavi, and Hidai Zilberman, defense attaché in Washington; Effie Defrin, Commander of Army International Cooperation; an anonymous senior intelligence officer and an officer from the IDF Spokesman’s Unit.
The far-right faction in the Knesset is divided into 3 parties, splitting the electoral alliance into its constituent elements.
While the unified party had 14 seats, Zionism now has 7, Otzma Yehudit 6 and the small Noam faction one seat, after the Knesset Arrangements Committee approved Otzma Yehudit and Noam’s demands to break away from the primary party.
Party leader Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir have promised to negotiate their long-term access to government as a unit, but have held separate coalition talks with Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.
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