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A2. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017OpinionSupreme Court Will Likely Uphold Most ofTrump Travel BanALAN DERSHOWITZB O ST ONThis article previously appeared in FoxNews.The Supreme Court’s decision to heararguments in October regarding PresidentDonald Trump’s second travel ban may not itselftell us much about the likely outcome of thecase. But the high court’s decision to allow partsof the ban to go forward now — even beforehearing the arguments — strongly suggests thatthere are a majority of justices who will upholdthe most important parts of the ban.The Supreme Court decided to permitenforcement of the ban “with respect to foreignnationals who lack any bona fide relations witha person or entity in the United States.”The justices thus drew the distinction Ihave been urging since the president issuedhis initial ban. In a series of columns and TVappearances, I urged the president to withdrawthe first ban and substitute a version thatexcludes only individuals who do not have agreen card or other connections to the UnitedStates. The Constitution accords very differentprotections to US persons — including greencard holders — than to individuals with nolegal status in the United States. The example Igave was of a man from Yemen who had nevervisited this country and has no connection toit, but would like to take a trip to Disneyland.Such a person has no constitutional right tocome into our country and he can be excludedfor virtually any reason.This does not mean that the courts woulduphold a ban that expressly discriminatesagainst Catholics, Jews or Muslims. But a banthat applies to countries that have a seriousproblem vetting potential terrorists would bevalid even if all of those countries had Muslimmajorities. The president has a right to focuson Islamic terrorism as a primary source ofdanger to Americans, and Islamic terrorismcomes disproportionately from Muslimmajority countries.When Willie Sutton was asked “Why doyou rob banks?,” his answer was, “Becausethat’s where the money is.” Of course, not allthe money is kept in banks, and not all terrorists come from Muslim-majority countries.But the president has wide authority to pickand choose among countries. Moreover, thecountries selected by President Trump wereall previously selected by former PresidentBarack Obama for a related purpose.President Trump recently announcedthat he regretted substituting the secondexecutive order for the first one, calling thesecond one a politically correct watered downversion. The Supreme Court’s decision showsthat he was wrong, and that I was right inurging the administration to make the substi-tution. It also shows that many of the pundits,including lawyers and law professors, werewrong when they predicted that the entire banwould be found unconstitutional. These goodand decent people tend to substitute wishfulthinking for hard constitutional analysis. Butas Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once putit: The job of the lawyer is to predict what thecourts will do in fact.But it is always difficult to predict howthe justices will divide over a contentiousissue such as the travel ban. The lower courtsrelied heavily on what Trump had said as acandidate with regard to banning Muslimsfrom entering. The decision to allow part ofthe ban to go forward suggests that Trump’sstatements will not be accorded the sameweight by the Supreme Court that they wereaccorded by the lower courts. The high courtwill recognize the implications of striking anotherwise legitimate ban because of what apresident said when he was a candidate. Tofollow the lower court reasoning, the verysame ban could be constitutional if issued byone president and unconstitutional if issuedby another. That is not the way the law generally operates in this country.So the travel ban will now go into effectwith regard to non-American persons. It isimpossible to know whether this will have anypositive effect on reducing terrorist attacks inthe US. But under our law, the president hasno burden to prove that he is right as a matterof policy — only that he had the authority toThe US Supreme Court building inWashington, DC. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.make the decision.The court is likely to find that he had thatauthority. There are parts of the travel ban thatmay face some criticism from the justices. Butit is likely that the core of the ban will be upheld.The president should not take this as asign that he was correct in wanting to reissuethe initial ban. The Supreme Court hassignaled that at least parts of the initial banwould raise serious constitutional issues.Notwithstanding these early signs, it is stillimpossible to predict with certainty what theSupreme Court will do after hearing argumentsin October. We cannot even be certain of thecomposition of the Supreme Court in light ofpersistent rumors regarding resignations. Butright now, if I had to bet widows and orphansContinued on Page A4It’s Time to Talk About Yves EnglerBEN SHACHARtheNE W YORKAlgemeiner Journal(USPS 927800) is published weekly(except for the week of Passoverand Succos)Subscription rate 40 per yearAlgemeiner Journal508 Montgomery StreetBrooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023Periodicals PostagePaid at Brooklyn, N.Y.and at additional mailing officesPOSTMASTER:Send address changes toAlgemeiner JournalP.O. Box 250746Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023Let your voice be heard!Letters@algemeiner.comTo advertise inthe new Algemeinere-mail: ads@algemeiner.comor call718-771-0400Yves Engler is an author and formerstudent activist whose writing frequentlyappears on Rabble, The Huffington Post andCounterpunch. A darling of the far-left, Englerhas been heralded as “Canada’s version ofNoam Chomsky.”Engler is also an antisemite. There mustbe no beating around the bush, no equivocation and no softening of the language: for years,Engler has used “progressive” publications topeddle his own vile brand of antisemitism.Take Engler’s May 2016 article titled,“Why I am a bit wary when sports networksstart speaking for the ‘Holocaust industry.'” It’shis response to a video feature that The SportsNetwork (TSN) aired the day before YomHaShoah about Holocaust survivor HankRosenbaum’s story of survival — and Rosenbaum’s embrace of hockey in his adoptedcountry of Canada.Engler argues that this seven-minutevideo is intended “to defend the status quoand support the powerful against the weak.”He suggests that the video is symptomatic ofthe “Holocaust industry,” the Jewish establishment’s purported exploitation of theHolocaust “for economic and political gainand to further the interests of Israel.” Englergoes on to link the Rosenbaum feature toIsrael advocacy, criticism of the leadershipof the UK Labour Party’s Jeremy Corbyn andcondemnation of Hugo Chavez’s government.The entire article reads like the feverdream of a reprobate teenager who justfinished reading Henry Ford’s “The International Jew.” Nowhere in the video is there anymention of Israel or Zionism. Not one. Thevideo is completely apolitical.This begs the question: How does ashort video about a Holocaust survivor’sconnection to hockey draw conclusions thatare so far-fetched and insidious? How is avideo that is devoid of any reference to Israel“motivated by Israeli nationalism”?Such a warped analysis could onlyhave been crafted by Engler’s diseasedantisemitic brain.Engler concludes the article on a conspiratorial note, chastising TSN for neglecting tomention that Rosenbaum is co-president ofthe Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors andDescendants group, which (gasp!) is affiliatedwith the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.Engler also casts aspersions on the validity ofRosenbaum’s lived experiences, noting that heYves Engler. Photo: Youtube screenshot.only began his Holocaust advocacy work afterwatching “Schindler’s List.” This final figurative kick in Rosenbaum’s groin serves as a fineaccompaniment to the actual, physical kickin the groin that Holocaust survivor ThomasHecht received in 2002 during the anti-Israelriots at Concordia University, which Englerhelped incite.This antisemitic article was not a one-offfor Engler. Rather, it was emblematic of hislarger body of work. Themes of Jewish overrepresentation in the political sphere, Jewishfinancial prowess and Jewish privilege featureprominently in Engler’s writing.Consider his April 2016 Rabble article,“The most abused term in Canada today:Anti-Semitism,” in which Engler asserts thatthe term “antisemitism” is “primarily invokedto uphold Jewish and white privilege.” Englerbemoans the fact that “there is little discussion of Canadian Jewry’s actual place inCanadian society” and proceeds to rattle offthe usual tired tropes about Jews in Westernsocieties: “Among elite business, political andprofessional circles Jewish representationfar surpasses their slim 1.3 per cent of theCanadian population. Studies demonstratethat Canadian Jews are more likely thanthe general population to hold a bachelorsdegree, earn above 75,000 or be part of thebillionaire class.”Several other Engler pieces replicatethese exact same statistics, betraying a pointof obsession.In his October 2016 article “Quebeckersand Jews share an empowered sense ofvulnerability. And it’s not warranted,” Engleragain cited these facts to dismiss the conceptContinued on Page A4

www.algemeiner.comWorld NewsUK Government Threatensto Cancel Hamas-LinkedEvent Featuring SpeakerWho Called Jews ‘SleazyThieves’BY BEN COHENA Palestinian cultural festival in Londonnext month is set to provide a platform toa group of activists known for their consistent hate speech against Jews and Israel— including one speaker who has describedJews as “sleazy thieves” — unless the Britishgovernment follows through on a threat tocancel the event because of the organizers’support for Hamas.The two-day festival, entitled “PalestineExpo 2017,” is to be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Center in central London on July 8 and9. But the strident support for Hamas of theexpo’s organizers — the “Friends of Al-Aqsa”(FOA), an Islamist organization based in thecity of Leicester — led government ministerSajid Javid to warn in a June 14 letter that hewas considering canceling the event.As secretary of state for the Departmentfor Communities and Local Government, Javidis responsible for the operation of the QueenElizabeth II Center. Revenue from the hire of thecenter is paid directly to the British government.In his letter to the FOA, Javid cited“concerns that your organisation and thoseconnected with it have expressed publicsupport for a proscribed organisation,namely Hamas, and that you have supportedevents at which Hamas and Hizballah — alsoproscribed — have been praised.”The FOA was a sponsor of the recent“Al-Quds Day” march in London, wheredozens of Hezbollah flags were flown.Speakers at the rally which followed blamedthe fire earlier this month that engulfed apublic housing apartment block in westLondon on “Zionists.”If the expo does go ahead, attendees canexpect to hear similarly antisemitic rhetoricfrom many of the invited speakers. The groupincludes Miko Peled — a former Israeli — whocampaigns on behalf of the BDS movementand advocates the destruction of Israel as aJewish state.In September 2016, pro-Palestinianstudents at San Diego State University wereforced to cancel an event featuring Peledafter his antisemitic posts on Twitter werebrought to light, including a reference to Jewsas “sleazy thieves.”In other Twitter rants, Peled has comparedsecurity staff at Ben-Gurion InternationalAirport in Tel Aviv to the “Gestapo” and haswelcomed Hamas rocket attacks on Israel.Other speakers joining Peled includeMalia Bouattia, the former president of theUK National Union of Students (NUS) knownfor her frequent outbursts against alleged“Zionist” political control; Ben White, a Christian BDS advocate and occasional contributorto the Qatari media outlet Al Jazeera, who hasattacked “Jewish privilege” and expressedunderstanding for antisemitic attitudes; andjournalist John Pilger, who has describedIsrael’s military operations against Hamas inGaza as a “holocaust denied.”On Monday, Friends of Al-Aqsaresponded to the government’s threat ofcancellation by publishing the message “TheShow Will Go Ahead” on its website.Jeremy Corbyn (fourth from left), leader ofthe UK Labour Party, carries a “Friends ofAl-Aqsa” banner at a past demonstration inLondon. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.Agence France-Presse (AFP) has apologized to a leading Jewish human rightsorganization for publishing a map on its Twitterfeed earlier this month that excluded Israel.“A regrettable fault was committed whichwas corrected as soon as it was noted,” AFP’sdirector of information, Michele Leridon,wrote to Dr. Shimon Samuels, the SimonWiesenthal Center’s Paris-based director ofinternational relations, according to a translation provided to The Algemeiner by Samuels.“This error was due to the reuse of a mapbackground used for a different subject (thedivision between Shiites and Sunnis in theMuslim world),” the letter continued. “Onlythe names of the countries directly concernedwith this matter were inscribed (in the sameway as if we produced a map of the Eurozone,with the name of Switzerland not appearingon the map of Europe). When we learned ofour error, it was immediately corrected. Amap mentioning Israel was sent to all ouroutlets. We sincerely deplore this incident andpray that you will excuse us.”A3Top Israeli DiplomaticOfficial: PalestinianLeaders PrioritizeDenial of Jewish StateIsraeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely. Photo: Screenshot.BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOYThe blame for the lack of opportunitiesfor everyday Palestinians should be placed ontheir own leaders, not Israel, the Jewish state’sdeputy foreign minister said in a televisioninterview that aired on Sunday in Australia.“They choose again and again leadershipthat doesn’t put their positive future next totheir eyes,” Tzipi Hotovely — a member of theruling Likud Party — told Liam Bartlett of NineNetwork’s “60 Minutes” program. “They put thedenial of Israel as the first issue on the agenda.”Palestinian leaders do not give theirpeople “the ability to live under democraticvalues,” Hotovely went on to say. “I mean, youcan’t deny that.”“You can’t deny the fact that the Palestinian leadership, since the beginning of thePalestinian Authority, never spoke aboutdemocratic values as part of the future ofPalestinian society,” she added.ignored and forgotten.”Khamenei went on to praise ShiaMuslims “who take to the streets so magnificently, and express empathy and sympathywith the Palestinians, who are Sunnis.”The 77-year-old ayatollah also stressedthat the Palestinian cause was a religiousduty above all else. “According to the Islamicjurisprudence, in the face of domination of theenemy on the Islamic land, all Muslims areobliged to fight in any way possible, and forthis reason, it is imperative for all Muslims tofight against the Zionist regime,” he asserted.Meanwhile, Rouhani used the occasionof Eid al-Fitr to declare solidarity with theGulf emirate of Qatar — currently facing ahostile coalition of Arab states who objectto its funding for Islamist organizations likethe Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, itsburgeoning strategic alliance with Iran andthe Qatari ruling family’s use of the Al Jazeeramedia network to advance its political agenda.The “siege of Qatar is unacceptable,”Rouhani told Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim binHamad al-Thani, in a telephone call. “Tehranstands with the Qatari nation and government.”“Iran’s air space, ground and sea will bealways be open to Qatar,” Rouhani declared.In a June 7 letter he sent to AFP Chairmanand CEO Emmanuel Hoog, Samuels said that“inaction on this issue will be construed as anAFP endorsement of Iranian-declared policyto exterminate the Jewish state.”“When Iran first wiped the State of Israel offthe map, this was defined by many as genocidalintent,” Samuels wrote, before accusing AFP ofcommitting “the same outrage.”In her response to Samuels, Leridon said,“As regrettable as it may be, this error did notjustify the suspicions you bear towards oureditors nor the extreme terms of your letter.Errors and disagreements may happen, butinsult is not the best way to overcome them.”Commenting on Sunday on Leridon’sletter, Samuels said, “Hardly an amicableapology, but an apology nevertheless. Theycould have simply thanked the WiesenthalCenter for its letter. Bottom line: Israel is backon the AFP map, until the next time. We shallbe monitoring.”Continued from Page A1Muslim UnityTop French News AgencyApologizes to JewishHuman Rights Group OverMap Excluding IsraelBY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017An AFP map of the Middle East published earlier this month that excluded Israel. Photo: Screenshot.

A4 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017World News.Israel Strikes Hamas Targets inGaza in Response to Rocket AttackBY JNS.ORGA past Pride Parade in Jerusalem (illustrative). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.The Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched retaliatory airstrikes on two Hamas terror targetsin Gaza early Tuesday, in response to the firstrocket fired into Israeli territory since March.Palestinian sources said the Israelistrikes hit at least three locations, includingRafah, Gaza City and an open area southeastof Gaza City. A rocket had landed in an openarea Monday in Israel’s northwestern Negev,causing no injuries or damage. A jihadistgroup affiliated with Islamic State claimedresponsibility for the rocket fire, but Israelholds Gaza-ruling Hamas responsible for allrockets launched from the coastal territory.“Since the terror organization Hamas isthe ruler of the Gaza Strip, it is responsible forThe remnants of a past Gaza rocket fired intosouthern Israel. Photo: Ronit Minaker.UK Haredi Elementary SchoolFails Government Inspection forNot Teaching About SexualOrientation, Gender Reassignment Egypt’s Sisi Approves Deal toHand Over Strategic Red SeaBY RACHEL FROMMERIslands to Saudi ArabiaA haredi elementary school in London hasfailed an inspection for the third time becauseit does not teach students about sexual identityand gender reassignment surgery.Vishnitz Girls School — which hasover 200 students aged three to eight — waswritten up by the non-ministerial Office forStandards in Education, Children’s Servicesand Skills (Ofsted) for lacking a curriculum on“developing respect and tolerance for thosewho may have protected characteristics as setout in the 2010 Equality Act,” which namednine protected identities, including genderreassignment and sexual orientation.The Oftsed report, released earlier thismonth, claimed that students were “shieldedfrom learning about certain differencesbetween people, such as sexual orientation,”which “restricts pupils’ spiritual, moral, socialand cultural development and does notpromote equality of opportunity in ways thattake account of differing lifestyles.”“As a result, pupils are not able to gaina full understanding of fundamental BritishContinued from Page A2Travel Banmoney on the outcome of the case, I would betthat the high court would uphold those parts ofthe travel ban that applies to persons with noconnection to the United States.Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix FrankContinued from Page A2Yves Englerof modern-day antisemitism and to justify“Canadian Jewry’s empowered sense ofvictimhood.”In his August 2014 article “Anti-Semitismas cover for white supremacy,” Engler labeleda Toronto protest against antisemitism “amarch for white supremacy.” He noted thatthe “racially homogenous crowd carriedIsraeli flags,” and he recycled the sameabovementioned facts about Canadian Jewsand downplayed historical antisemitism inCanada. Bizarrely, nowhere in the article doesContinued from Page A1LGBTQ— called on “leaders from LGBTQ and progressive communities to join us in condemningthis exclusion.”Greenblatt praised the Human Rightsvalues,” Oftsed investigators wrote.Inspectors did praise Vishnitz for the qualityof the education, as well as the “school’s culture clearly focused on teaching pupils to respecteverybody, regardless of beliefs and lifestyle.”An Ofsted spokesperson said, “Childrenliving in England deserve the best — the lawexpects schools to demonstrate that they areencouraging pupils to take a respectful andtolerant stance towards those who hold valuesdifferent from their own.”UK private schools that do not meetOftsed requirements must implementchanges or risk being closed.The school could not be reached forcomment.Last month, as the Jewish Chroniclereported, two haredi girls’ schools in theStamford Hill area received positive reportsfrom Ofsted. Inspectors wrote the studentswere being prepared for lives as “responsibleand active citizens in modern Britain.”“Underpinned by their religious ethos andbelief that all people are created in a godly image,leaders actively encourage pupils to respecteveryone without exception,” inspectors wrote.furter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at HarvardLaw School and author of “Taking the Stand:My Life in the Law” and “Electile Dysfunction: A Guide for the Unaroused Voter.”Follow Dershowitz on Twitter @AlanDersh and Facebook @AlanMDershowitz.Engler explain how the protest was indicativeof white supremacy.Rabble and The Huffington Post bothhave clearly articulated journalistic standards.They pride themselves on progressivejournalism and have policies against racistand discriminatory writing. Thus, it bogglesthe mind that they have published Engler’sunabashedly antisemitic screeds for so long.Rabble and The Huffington Post must liveup to their self-stated principles, apologize,and immediately remove Yves Engler as acontributor.Campaign, the largest national LGBTQ civilrights organization, for offering its support.Rabbi Abraham Cooper — associatedean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center — saidthe banning of the Jewish Pride flags “bringsdisgrace to a movement that is dedicated toBY JNS.ORGEgyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisiratified a treaty that hands over two strategicislands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, despiteprotests about the move in Egypt.The deal to hand over the two islands ofTiran and Sanafir was reached in 2016 after avisit to Egypt by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman.Yet the deal has faced widespread opposition and legal challenges by opponents whoaccuse Sisi of selling out the country for Saudimoney. Nevertheless, the deal was approvedby Egypt’s parliament and was signedSaturday by Sisi.The uninhabited islands that sit on theany attempt to harm the state of Israel,” theIDF said Tuesday.In March, the IAF struck targets innorthern Gaza in response to a rocket that hitan open area in southern Israel.southern entry to the Gulf of Aqaba wereoriginally given to Egypt in 1950 by SaudiArabia, in order to protect them from Israel.Later, the islands played an important role insetting off the 1967 Six-Day War when Egyptclosed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships,preventing Israeli access to the Red Sea andIndian Ocean.United Nations peacekeepers maintaina presence on Tiran Island as part of the1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty. Under thetreaty’s terms, Israel gave its approval forthe Egyptian-Saudi agreement as long asthe Saudis maintained the treaty’s clausespertaining to Israeli shipping through theStraits of Tiran.US Says It Has Evidence Syria’sAssad Is Planning New ChemicalAttackBY JNS.ORGThe White House said Monday it hasevidence that Syrian President Basharal-Assad is preparing to initiate anotherchemical weapons attack against civilians.White House Press Secretary Sean Spicersaid the US has “identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attackby the Assad regime that would likely resultin the mass murder of civilians, includinginnocent children.”equal rights for all. Equal rights that is exceptfor Jews who dare to celebrate their ties totheir people and the Jewish homeland.”Cooper added: “Tel Aviv recently hosteda massive Gay Pride Parade, but a similarevent in Turkey was met with police firinginto crowds of people trying to march. In theJewish State, gays serve in the military. In Iran,gays are publicly hung.”Amy Stoken — Chicago director ofSpicer said the Syrian regime’s activitiesare similar to its preparations for the deadlychemical weapons attack that killed at least 86civilians, including 27 children, in April.“[If] Mr. Assad conducts another massmurder attack using chemical weapons, he andhis military will pay a heavy price,” said Spicer.In April, Israeli leaders welcomed a USmilitary strike on the Syrian airbase fromwhere the regime was believed to havelaunched the chemical attack.the American Jewish Committee (AJC) —described the ejection of the women as a“blatant incident of anti-Semitism.”“An annual march celebrating inclusionand acceptance was hijacked today by thosewho believe Jews do not belong to the LGBTQcommunity,” Stoken stated. “Shame on theorganizers of the Dyke March for not ensuringJewish marchers can participate as freely asany other participant.”

www.algemeiner.comU.S. NewsUS Jewish Leaders ExpressOutrage After Israel’s WesternWall Prayer Plaza DecisionBY JNS.ORGAmerican Jewish leaders reacted with outrage following the Israeli government’s rescindingof a decision to create an egalitarian prayer pavilion at the Western Wall.The pavilion, which was originally approved by the Israeli cabinet in 2016, was slated to beconstructed over a temporary mixed-gender prayer space established in 2013. For years, America’s Reform and Conservative Jewish movements have called for an egalitarian area outside ofthe Western Wall’s main prayer space, which separates men and women in accordance withOrthodox tradition.The Israeli haredi political parties Shas and United Torah Judaism, which form part of PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, have opposed the planned pavilion andGroup of Top Ex-IsraeliSecurity Officials BackUS Legislation to CutFunding of PalestinianAuthority OverTerror PaymentsBY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOYA group of former top Israeli security officials are speakingout in favor of a proposed congressional bill that would cut offAmerican funding of the Palestinian Authority if it continues topay monetary rewards to terrorists and their families.In a letter that was seen by The Algemeiner, Brig. Gen.(ret.) Yosef Kuperwasser wrote that a failure to pass theTaylor Force Act would mark a “surrender to terror.”Providing the PA with money that enables its terrorpayments is “illogical, illegal and immoral,” Kuperwasser said.“Most of all it’s inhuman.”The letter — which Kuperwasser said was cosigned byex-Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and ex-National SecurityAdviser Uzi Dayan, as well as Maj. Gen. (ret.) GershonHacohen and Brig. Gen. (ret.) Oded Tira — was penned inresponse to a missive published last week by Commanders forIsrael’s Security (a group of hundreds of former Israeli securityfigures) that warned of potential negative consequences of theUS legislation, including the harming of Israeli security.In Kuperwasser’s view, however, “there is no reason tobelieve that if the Taylor Force Act is enacted the securitycooperation [between Israel and the PA] is going to s

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