Five Towns Jewish Home - 4-22-21

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APRIL 22, 2021 | The Jewish Home

mask mandate had become the most ubiquitous symbol of the COVID-19 period. But in recent weeks, enforcement of the mandate had essentially ended as police turned a blind eye to flagrant mask-violators.

The decision to end the mask mandate came amid plunging infection rates and rapidly-dropping daily COVID-19 cases resulting from Israel’s world-leading vaccination campaign. As of Monday, 54% of Israelis received both jabs of the Pfizer vaccine while the daily infection count dropped to 100, down from 10,000 in January.

On Sunday, Israel’s entire education system also returned to in-class learning for the first time in more than a year. Since the onset of the pandemic, grades 5-9 had studied either on Zoom or in alternating “pods.”

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Maxine Waters Stokes Violence in MN

Last weekend, Congresswoman Maxine Waters openly urged protesters in Minneapolis to continue their rampant street violence should ex-cop Derek Chauvin go free.

Chauvin is currently on trial for manslaughter charges relating to last summer’s death of George Floyd.

Upon meeting with protesters in nearby Brooklyn Center on Saturday, Waters urged the crowd to get “confrontational” in the event that Chauvin was found innocent.

“We’ve got to stay on the street, and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” Waters told a reporter.

Urging demonstrators “to remain on the street” and defy the 11 PM curfew, Waters brushed off calls to quiet down the week-long rioting in Brooklyn Center.

“I’m going to fight with all of the

people who stand for justice,” Waters said. “We’ve got to get justice in this country, and we cannot allow these killings to continue.”

Brooklyn Center has been the scene of spiraling violence ever since a policewoman mistakenly shot and killed Daunte Smith during a traffic stop last week. The rioting had already destroyed dozens of stores and came as Chauvin’s attorneys made their closing arguments on Monday.

The congresswoman was lambasted by GOP lawmakers, who accused her of “fanning the flames” with her “violent rhetoric.”

“Telling rioters who have burned buildings, looted stores, and assaulted journalists to get ‘more confrontational’ is incredibly irresponsible. Every House Democrat should condemn Maxine Waters’ call for violence,” said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Berg.

“Why is Maxine Waters traveling to a different state trying to incite a riot? What good can come from this?” tweeted Rep. Lauren Boebert. Waters hails from California.

In an unsigned editorial, the New York Post called on Congress to “impeach and remove Maxine Waters” for “pouring fuel on the fire in Minnesota.”

The veteran Democrat has a long history of inflammatory statements during her three decades in Congress.

In 2018, Waters famously called on her supporters to harass Trump administration officials spotted during everyday activities such as shopping and stopping for gas.

“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” she said at the time.

Derek Chauvin Found Guilty

On Tuesday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges against in connection to George