Things are getting weird in Virginia.
Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has made his campaign all about Trump, and -- secondarily -- about the Charlottesville riot of August 2017, where the "fine people hoax" was born. (Trump never called the neo-Nazis "very fine people," but the Democrats and the media pretended he had -- for several years.)
So... it reeked of desperation when five individuals (including a woman and a black guy) dressed as "white supremacists" from Charlottesville, with tiki torches and all, and crashed a rally for Glenn Youngkin (R). The McAuliffe campaign suspiciously treated the five as if they were real, and one campaign spokesperson called them "disqualifying."
Then the prank began to unravel, and it looked as though the five might be Democrat staffers. The Virginia Democrats denied any involvement, and -- lo and behold! -- the anti-Trump "Lincoln Project," who purport to be some kind of Republicans, claimed responsibility.
Call it the "fine people hoax," hoax.
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- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
