The LA Times reports that California is now subsidizing homebuyers who are in the United States illegally:

Assembly Bill 1840, first introduced in mid-January, changes existing law to allow illegal immigrants to be eligible for the California Dream for All Fund, which provides interest-free loans for a down payment no greater than $150,000 on a home for first-time buyers.

Qualifying homebuyers repay the loans when selling or transferring the property plus 20 percent of any appreciation in its value. Applicants who earn less than their county’s area median income get a slight break, having to pay 15 percent of the appreciation. If a home doesn’t appreciate in value, only the principal will be paid back, meaning the loan is technically interest-free.

The proposed bill seeks to amend Section 51523 of the California Health and Safety Code to include a subsection that reads: “An applicant under the program shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.”

Unfettered immigration subdues unemployment & wage inflation and gives legitimacy to massive welfare projects and the profligate deficit spending that helps asset prices.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-27/undocumented-immigrants-in-california-could-have-a-new-path-to-homeownership

✡️ Former ADL head Abe Foxman: ‘Israel has become the Jew among the nations’

The antisemitism expert is shocked by the intensity of the hate that has surfaced post-Oct. 7, says Biden ‘is weak and has been politicized,’ and Netanyahu has ‘become a liability’

Emeritus Anti-Defamation League (ADL) director Abe Foxman said two things keep him up at night these days.

“The deteriorating relationship between Israel and its one-and-only most important ally, the United States, and how the Jewish people will react to this explosion of antisemitism at the end of the day,” Foxman told The Times of Israel.

“We’re fine now, but what happens if it continues? How will it end, and how will we survive?” he wondered on the eve of the centerpiece events of the ADL’s “Never is Now” conference in New York this week.

“After 50 years of dealing with this subject, the answer is no, I’m not surprised — because those of us dealing with the subject professionally understood a long time ago that antisemitism is a disease without an antidote and without a vaccine. We reported on it, we monitored it, we recorded it… we knew that it was there, that it was deep, and that it was serious.

“The organized Jewish community developed a containment strategy — if we can’t eliminate antisemitism, at least let’s contain it,” Foxman said. “Keep it in the sewers with the cover on. [This means] using every means available: media, coalitions, memory of the Shoah, the truth, threats of litigation.”

This “containment” strategy, Foxman contends, fell apart because of two major factors: the internet and an endorsement of the end of civility in American discourse. Foxman called the internet “probably the most significant instrument that has given legitimacy to antisemitism — it’s given it a superhighway, and a level of anonymity more than we ever could have imagined.”

When it comes to civility in America, Foxman isn’t afraid to use the “T” word — “Trump.”

“The lack of civility in America came as a result of Trumpism — Trump legitimized it,” Foxman said. “Once he broke all the taboos of what’s acceptable and what’s not, we [the Jews] were the first to go.”

“I’m shocked by the intensity of the hate,” Foxman said. “We studied it, we knew it was coming from left and right, but what surprised me was the intensity of the hate and the intensity of the silence. I’m shocked that you cannot find 10 organizations that we, the Jewish community, have stood within the last 50 years who stood up clearly with us in this moment.”

“I’d hear of a Jewish person donating $20 billion to a university and ask them, ‘What condition did you put on it?’ and they’d say, ‘None,’” Foxman said. “’You didn’t ask for Jewish studies, Holocaust studies, Israel studies?’ ‘No.’ So that’s our failure, but we should understand that this is a result of 20, 30, 40 years of investment by the Arabs.”

Foxman attributes current antisemitism on campus to “a failure of administrative guts” on the part of university administrations.

“I think we need to come together and build a new containment strategy,” Foxman said. “I’m not sure I know what it is, because many of the elements that worked for us before no longer exist. The most important of those is truth — antisemitism is the big lie, and you answer the big lie with the truth. But Trumpism destroyed truth.”

Foxman added that the disintegration of the media and civility also stripped those who would combat antisemitism of two important previous avenues of redress.

“Coalitions are gone because we’re tribalistic. Civility is gone,” he said. “To build a new strategy will take an awful lot of creativity and putting back some of the things that we’ve lost.”

🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-adl-head-abe-foxman-israel-has-become-the-jew-among-the-nations/

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