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The K-8 school River City Science Academy in Jacksonville, Florida, has declined to make any public statements to their constituents — parents, community members and students — after their Palestinian afterschool educator went on a viral rant against Jews last month.

Netizens have responded by making petitions against the self-described substitute teacher, calling for the school to fire her, and demanding that the school make a public statement condemning their educator’s antisemitism.

“An investigation is not enough. What we need from River City Science Academy is accountability. Accountability means being transparent not just with the media, but to the Jewish taxpayers of Florida that help fund this school” one netizen wrote on Instagram.
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The controversy began when Jaden Salameh, a Florida TikToker and self described K-12 teacher uploaded a video to TikTok titled “My controversial opinions that are 100% correct” on August 6th.
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In her video — which has now been viewed over 372,000 times — Jaden Salameh argues a litany of antisemitic tropes. “There’s one group of people who own literally everything,” “they own the banking system, the White House, the legislative, executive, judicial branch.”

“We send all of our money to this country,” she claims, adding that Israel was “literally curated out of thin air.”

Here’s the claim House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries made on X in a September 26 tweet: “Republican policies have tanked the economy. And the American people know it. Time for dramatic change.”

Whenever I run across a nonsense claim like this from officials in either of America’s two major political parties, it’s hard to decide if I should laugh, cry or just shake my head in puzzled amazement.

Whatever option you take on this particular Jeffries comment, Just Facts Daily has the correction that you will never hear out the Minority Leader’s mouth, uttered by any talking head on CNN or MS Now, or read on the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. etc. ad nauseum Mainstream Media:

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• Average annual inflation during Trump’s second term (with Republicans controlling both the House and Senate) has been 2.9%, which is 41% below the 5.0% average under Biden and 55% below the 6.5% average under Biden while Democrats controlled both the House and Senate.

• Real median household income, which is published only on an annual basis, grew from $85,210 to $87,460 during the first year of Trump’s second term, or by 2.6%, which is 445% higher than the average annual growth rate of 0.5% under Biden and markedly better than the average annual decline of 1.3% under Biden and Congressional Democrats.

• The poverty rate, which is published only on an annual basis, was 10.2% during the first year of Trump’s second term, which is the lowest level ever recorded in U.S. history, 9% below the average annual rate of 11.2% under Biden, and 13% below the average annual rate of 11.6% under Biden and Congressional Democrats.

• Because association doesn’t prove causation, the data above cannot prove which politicians have done a better job on the economy, but they do deflate Jeffries’ rhetoric.

• In prior election cycles, major media outlets, in concert with leading Democrats, have misled the American people by talking down the economy despite robust economic indicators during Republican presidencies and then talking up the economy with similar indicators during Democrat presidencies.”

Reading some online responses after the rescue of the FlyDubai flight from a near-disaster by a courageous Indian pilot and Israeli passengers, it struck me that antisemitism has turned into a kind of business and has been that way for some time.

Bigotry pays—in some cases, big time.

CAM (Combat Antisemitism Movement) immediate report on September 30 illustrates the extent and immediacy of this bigotry business:

FlyDubai flight on Wednesday, antisemitic conspiracy theories were already spreading online claiming the incident was a “false flag” operation orchestrated by Israel.

The first X post making such an assertion was recorded by CAM’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) at 2:28 ET, just 67 minutes after the plane sent its first emergency distress signal.

Within five hours, the ARC documented 1,000 hostile posts, and over the full 12-hour monitoring period a total of 2,963 posts were identified attributing the incident to Israel, the Mossad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Zionists, or Jews.

The posts generated at least 30,000 likes and three million views.

That’s a lot of propaganda, but also a lot of money because, as we all know, clicks equal money, either in the short term or the long term, often both.

I asked ChatGPT who the first scandalmongers were out of the barn and got a not-very-surprising response: Nick Fuentes, Jackson Hinkle, Sneako, Ana Kasparian, and the man with the X handle “Power to the People,” actually a former Hillary Clinton Democrat turned socialist, Ryan Knight. Knight wrote: “The false flags are way too easy to spot.”

And then, of course, there is Hasan Piker, living the millionaire’s life in LA, about whom we have heard a lot lately. I will get back to him.

India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, used the U.N. General Assembly gathering to say something that climate scaremongers like Al Gore and John Kerry have spent three decades excluding from the conversation: “Energy security is at the heart of development. Availability and prices should not be manipulated for political ends.”

The developing world, he said, needs “fair economic and trade practices which enhance our production capabilities and do not reduce us to mere consumers. Our right to industrialize must not be denied.”

Dr. Jaishankar’s statement is a rebuke to climate campaigners who once envisioned India as the poster child of the “green” transition, the manipulators of energy “for political ends.” Those would be the anti-fossil fuel governments that themselves grew rich on coal, oil, and natural gas and now demand that others pursue their own prosperity with inferior energy sources like wind and solar.

The minister knows that a nation without the capability to make steel, cement, fertilizer, and electronics stays a buyer of other people's goods. That is the future of "mere consumers" that he refuses to accept on behalf of India and the rest of the Global South.