Wedding bliss for Prince Harry and his “Jewish American Princess”? and JdN now on GAB!

May 19, 2018 John de Nugent English, News 2

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https://forward.com/schmooze/372756/is-meghan-markle-prince-harrys-jewish-princess/

Jewish and black girls have been mocked for their hair, their bodies and their other-ness. But they might be about to get a heroine at Buckingham Palace.

ROYAL WEDDING UPDATE!! They tied the knot!

It’s a real-life fairy tale for everyone who has been feeling like a pre-ball Cinderella in the Trump era: Prince Harry, the international playboy and longtime sex-symbol who is fifth in line for the British throne, has announced his engagement to Meghan Markle, an American actress.

Markle is known for her work in the American TV show “Suits”. Her mother is black and her father is white. And though many publications have reported that Markle’s father is Jewish, a publicist denied that she herself is a member of the tribe.

“Just to clarify…she is not Jewish,” said Chantal Artur, the publicist, in an email, without elaborating.

Markle, who told Elle that she answers the question “What are you” every single week of her life, has not spoken to the media about her religious background or that of her father.

But she has given some serious Queen Esther vibes. Here are 4 kind of, sort of Jewish things about her:

  • Her real name is Rachel. While we have all met 90-100 wonderful Megans, Meagans, and Meghans at Jewish summer camp, ‘Rachel’ is straight out of Genesis and totally the kind of name your dad would give you if he was trying to subtly imbue your identity with your religious heritage. Plus, changing your name (or in this case, taking your middle name as a stage name) is a classic rite of passage for Jewish performers. Just ask Natalie Hershlag and Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.
  • Markle’s first marriage was to film producer Trevor Engelson, a Jewish man from Great Neck, New York. Their wedding involved what The Sun tersely referred to as a “traditional Jewish chair dance”.
  • She has said that she is sometimes labeled “Sephardic” at auditions. Think about it—36-year old actresses and lifestyle gurus don’t throw around the word Sephardic unless they are Sephardic. She might as well change her name to “Kitniyot Markle”.
  • Disney has had a frog prince, a lion king, and a royal mermaid, and all we’ve had is the Crusades followed by the Inquisition. A Jewish princess just seems fair.

If it were only the name Rachel, dayeinu. If it were just the “Jewish chair dance”, dayeinu. But the greatest evidence in this biur chametz-like hunt for crumbs of Markle’s Jewish identity is that a spokesman for Westminster Abbey confirmed on behalf of the Church of England that, if they choose, Markle and Prince Harry will be able to marry within the church in an “interfaith” marriage, regardless of Markle’s “Jewish background”.

This brings us to the next booshah-turned-equality-milestone, which is that Markle has been married and divorced. And according to the Church of England, if that’s good enough for Henry the VIIIth, it should be good enough for his fellow ginger ladykiller (so to speak,) Prince Harry.

So, when Markle and Harry marry, Markle will be the first black, Jewish, divorcee, American princess in English history. It’s worth noting that Markle is also three years older than the Prince, making their marriage a triumph for several pie slices in the chart of disadvantaged identity groups.

This may also be the first time an actress famous for a movie called “Horrible Bosses” gets to meet the Queen of England.

It’s a shehechianu moment to beat all shehechianu moments.

The cherry on top of the sufganiyot-Kwanzaa-cake hybrid? Markle is a noted feminist. She serves as a UN Women advocate and an ambassador for World Vision.

As they say in another story of unlikely royalty, “The Prince of Egypt”: “There can be miracles when you believe”.

Read more: https://forward.com/schmooze/372756/is-meghan-markle-prince-harrys-jewish-princess/

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A Royal Disgrace

…..with Twitter deleting rightists, try GAB!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)

Gab (social network)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gab AI, Inc.
Official Gab Social Network Logo.png
Type of site
 Social networking service
Available in English
Headquarters Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States[1]
Founder(s) Andrew Torba
Ekrem Büyükkaya
Industry Internet
Website gab.ai
Alexa rank Increase 12,870 (Global, March 2018)[2]
Registration Required
Users 465,000[3]
Launched August 2016; 21 months ago(beta)[4]
May 2017; 12 months ago(open registration)
Current status Active
Written in PHP, Laravel[citation needed]

Gab is a Philadelphia-based social networking service formerly based in Austin, Texas.[5][1] It was created as an alternative to Twitter and promotes itself as supporting free speech.[6] Gab has been described as a platform for white supremacists and the alt-right.[7][8][9][10][11]

It allows its users to read and write messages of up to 300 characters, called “gabs”. The site also offers multimedia functionality.

History[edit]

Gab was created in August 2016[4] as an alternative to the popular social network Twitter.[12] Founder and CEO Andrew Torba cited “the entirely left-leaning Big Social monopoly” [12] as part of the inspiration for Gab, which he created “after reading reports that Facebook employees suppress conservative articles”.[13] Torba said in November that the site’s user base had expanded significantly following censorship controversies involving major social media companies,[14] including the permanent suspensions from Twitter of several prominent alt-right accounts.[15]

In December 2016, Gab.ai’s submission of its app to the iOS App Store was declined by Apple. Apple cited pornographic content as the reason. At the same time, Twitter also cut off access to its API without specifying a reason.[16][17] A resubmitted version of the app which blocked pornography by default was also rejected for violating Apple’s rules on hate speech.[18]

After 9 months of closed beta testing, as of May 2017 the site is open to anyone registering with an email.[19]

On July 22, 2017, the site added Pro accounts and on August 1, 2017, Gab TV was opened up to Pro members.[20] It was described as a service for creating Periscope-like video streaming channels. According to Andrew Torba, the site was hit with a DDoS attack soon afterwards.[21]

On August 17, 2017, Google removed Gab’s app from the Google Play Store for violating its policy against hate speech.[17] Google stated that the app did not “demonstrate a sufficient level of moderation, including for content that encourages violence and advocates hate against groups of people.”[22] In September 2017, Gab filed an antitrust suit against Google for their removal of the Gab app from the Google Play Store[23] but dropped the suit on October 22, 2017.[24]

In September of 2017, Gab faced pressure from its domain registrar to take down a post by Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin.[25] Danny O’Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation commented that this pressure was part of an increase in politically motivated domain name seizures.[6]

Users[edit]

The site has been described as a favorite of alt-right users who have been banned or suspended from other services,[15][26] including former Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos,[27] formerly anonymous Twitter user “Ricky Vaughn”,[13][15] and white supremacists such as Richard B. Spencer,[4][13] Tila Tequila,[14] Vox Day,[28] and Britain First.[29] Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab.ai, was himself removed from the Y Combinator alumni network because of harassment concerns, starting when he used “build the wall” to insult a Latino CEO.[30][31] Torba has been described as “a registered Democrat until 2016” despite voting for Donald Trump and other Republicans.[32]

Other alt-right and conservative media personalities, including Carl Benjamin, Ann Coulter, Alex Jones, Stefan Molyneux, Lauren Southern and Paul Joseph Watson[33], were found to be among Gab’s most popular users in a 2018 study of the platform.[34] The authors also performed an automated search using hatebaseand found “hate words” in 5.4% of Gab posts, which they stated was 2.4 times higher than Twitter and 2.2 times lower than 4chan’s politically incorrect board.

Notable former users include white nationalist political candidate Paul Nehlen, who was kicked-off the site for doxing Ricky Vaughn,[35] and blackhat hacker Andrew Auernheimer (known as weev) who was banned for calling for genocide against Jews and endorsing terrorist Timothy McVeigh.[6] Auernheimer’s activity prompted threats from Gab’s then webhost Asia Registry to remove the comments or they would refuse to host the site. Gab has since found another host.[6]

Reception[edit]

Gab has been described as “Twitter for racists” by Salon, a “hate-filled echo chamber of racism and conspiracy theories” by The Guardian, and “safe haven for banned Twitter trolls, Gamergaters, Pizzagaters and high-profile white nationalists” by Mic.[32][36][37] An editorial in Wired criticized Gab for not explicitly prohibiting hate speech.[11] The only restrictions on expression on the site are on threats of violence, promotion of terrorism, child pornography, revenge porn and doxing.[38][1]

Torba has denied that Gab is “designed specifically for conservatives” and has stated that “we welcome everyone and always will”.[14][4] He has further said that “We want everyone to feel safe on Gab, but we’re not going to police what is hate speech and what isn’t”.[11] In response to criticism, in March 2017, Gab announced its plans to make the site more diverse by removing the downvote button. According to Torba, this feature was also being abused by “social justice warriors”.[32]

Revenue[edit]

Gab does not use advertising. The site began offering a premium subscription service for Gab named “Gab Pro” in April 2017. Gab Pro has a monthly option for $5.99 a month. The subscription allows users to have private chats for up to 25 people, which was later added for all users with two users maximum and Gab Pro with 50 maximum. Messages are deleted after 24 hours. Gab Pro subscribers can also view a topic breakdown for other users, make lists of users to sort their home feed, livestream on GabTV (Gab’s video-sharing service), and more easily get their profile verified. Subscribers also get a “PRO” badge next to their posts. In July 2017 Gab also started an investment project which met its goal of $1.07 million on August 19, 2017.[39][25]

On August 15, 2017, Torba announced plans for its own cryptocurrency, expecting Gab to be subject to “blacklisting” by third-party payment processors.[40]

Design[edit]

Gab’s color theme is a minimalist combination of black text on white panels with pink hashtags and usernames. Pro users have a contrasted top bar in dark blue closer to that of Facebook. The interface “behaves like a Twitter-Reddit hybrid”,[15] displaying messages in a Twitter-like vertically-scrolling timeline format with a Reddit-like option to upvote or downvote each post. The site also aggregates popular posts and trending topic hashtags.[14][15][11] Users can sort comments and posts in a subject by time or score. Default biographies for new users display a randomly chosen quotation about the importance of free speech.[32]

When writing a gab, Gabbers without a Pro subscription can post up to 300 characters of plain text, while those with a Pro account can write up to 3,000 characters per gab.[14] The first 300 characters of a gab appear in the timeline, with an option to read the rest of a gab if it is longer.[41] Additional functionality is similar to Twitter, using # to create hashtags and @ to reference other users by username. Gabs can embed some multimedia, currently limited to emoji, photo upload, and Giphyanimated GIFs. In addition, hyperlinks can be embedded, with some content such as YouTube videos displaying a thumbnail preview. Each Gab account can optionally be linked to a Twitter account for cross-posting, which can be enabled or disabled before a gab is published. When enabled, the gab is tweeted up to around the first 100 characters, along with a link to the gab.

In July 2017, Gab implemented a system where people who downvoted others (through spamming) would have their account downvoted too and their ability to leave downvotes revoked.[42][43][44][45] Downvotes were subsequently removed entirely. Gab CCO Utsav Sanduja explained that downvotes were being used to drive female users off the site.[32] Downvoting was later reinstated; as of December 2017 both upvotes and downvotes are possible, but the totals are tracked and displayed separately rather than being combined into a single score.

A frog named “Gabby”[13] is the current logo of Gab. Torba has said that the frog logo was inspired by Bible verses (Exodus 8:1-8:12 and Psalms 78:45) and various other traditional symbolic meanings. The logo has been compared to Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character commonly used as a meme by the alt-right.[13][36]

See also[edit]

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  1. The mother of Prince Harry and Prince William – the late Princess Diana, was likely Jewish, which, by Talmudic law, makes both of her sons Jewish, although they were born of different fathers – Prince Harry’s real father was the result of Diana’a affair with her horse-riding instructor, James Hewitt:

    https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a19586455/prince-harry-real-dad-james-hewitt-rumors

    Princess Diana was Jewish:

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernard-starr/a-jewish-king-and-queen-o_b_876455.html

    From the above article:

    “But wait, the plot thickens. Could Princess Diana, William’s mother, have been Jewish? One source maintains that Princess Diana’s mother, Frances Shand Kydd, was Jewish — born Frances Ruth Burke Roche, a Rothschild.

    If factual, that would be sufficient for Princess Diana to be certified Jewish, as well as her son, William, the future King of England. Another investigation of ancestry details a strong Davidic connection for Frances and her descendents

    Other intriguing bits of “evidence” and speculation have been cited in the London Daily Mail, which quotes sources that claim that Diana was conceived during her mother’s affair with the Jewish banker tycoon Sir James Goldsmith (originally Goldschmidt and no apparent relationship to Carole Goldsmith). The report says that Frances was estranged from her husband, Earl Spencer (Viscount Althorp), and had an affair with Sir James Goldsmith just at the time that Diana was conceived. Strengthening the case, a report points to striking resemblances between Princess Diana and Sir James Goldsmith’s other three children, Zak, Ben and Jemima Goldsmith.

    If these tidings are true then Diana would be thoroughly Jewish with a Jewish mother (Frances Ruth Burke Roche aka Rothschild) and a Jewish father (Sir James Goldsmith). In turn William, the future King of England, would have deep Jewish roots.”

    Below is the source article referenced in the above article. The photo of Princess Diana next to her alleged half-brother Zac Goldsmith is telling – they definitely look like brother and sister:

    http://www.helpfreetheearth.com/news305_wedding.html

    From the source article:

    “Officially, Diana was the daughter of the Earl Spencer and Frances Shand Kydd…but sources maintain that James Goldsmith had a long term affair with Frances around the time that Diana was conceived.

    Nobody denies that the affair took place “at a time when Frances was deeply unhappy in her marriage to the Earl Spencer, who was ‘drinking heavily’ and ‘being beastly towards her'”. She divorced him and remarried in 1969. Diana was not only like James Goldsmith in looks, “but also in her charisma and her sexual appetites…”

    Diana’s mother Frances Shand Kydd was Jewish. She was born Frances Ruth Burke Roche.”

    So, I don’t get too worked up over the fact that Prince Harry married a mystery-meat Sephardic Jewess, because the entire royal family is Jewish. They’re just keeping it “all in the family.”

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