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JERUSALEM – Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has joined a cacophony of voices in the Middle East criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion of repatriating – at least temporarily – hundreds of thousands, perhaps even a million plus people from Gaza while its reconstruction is undertaken – by countering with a proposal that Israelis should be resettled in Greenland.
"My suggestion is different. Instead of Palestinians, expel Israelis and send them to Greenland so they can kill two birds with one stone," Araghchi said in an exclusive interview with Sky News.
The suggestion is a kind of Frankenstein's monster of two of Trump's recent pronouncements, the first being the desire to purchase Greenland from its current owner Denmark – a hangover from his first term – and the other idea concerning where Palestinians in Gaza should live following the widespread destruction caused during the paused Hamas-Israel war.
Although Trump's words are music to the ears of Israel's right-wing, many of whom have never forgiven former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's decision to unilaterally pull out of Gaza in the fractious 2005 Disengagement, there are others who are skeptical it is a workable plan.
On Saturday, Trump said he had spoken with Jordanian King Abdullah II about the idea of getting some 1 million Palestinians out of Gaza to neighboring nations. He was set to speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a day later about the same issue. Both countries gave the president's suggestion short shrift.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority, whose very legitimacy is seemingly coming under increasing threat as Hamas and other militant Islamist groups – with significant Iranian backing – stir trouble in Judea and Samaria, immediately rejected the idea saying it would "violate red lines."
"You're talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing," the president also told reporters over the weekend.
Araghchi was also asked about whether there might be negotiations with the U.S. over Iran's nuclear program. He said while Tehran was willing to hear President Trump out, it would be more difficult to reach an agreement than in 2018, when the-then commander-in-chief pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal thrashed out under President Obama in 2015.
Earlier this week, Trump refused to be drawn on whether he would back an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, which it insists is for peaceful civilian use, although this was drawn into question when in its widespread October strike following Iran's second ballistic missile attack, Israeli warplanes badly damaged an undeclared top-secret Iranian nuclear site. The president went on record saying, "It would be really nice if that could be worked out without having to go that further step."
Iran's foreign minister was more strident in his response. "We have made it clear that any attack on our nuclear facilities would be faced with an immediate and decisive response," Araghchi said in English. "But I don't think they will do that crazy thing."
"This is really crazy. And this would turn the whole region into a very bad disaster," he added. But he insisted that Israeli saber-rattling "was not a real threat."
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JERUSALEM – Details of the appalling conditions in which the released female IDF spotters were kept began to emerge Tuesday, as the military permitted a slow drip of certain information relating to their treatment at the hands of their kidnappers.
On Monday, an Israeli general said some of the hostages released from Gaza had been held in Hamas tunnels for up to eight months straight, deprived of daylight, and with little to no human contact during that period. The deputy chief of the Israeli military's medical corps, Col. Dr. Avi Banov said those who had been kept with others were in better – although this is relative – shape than those who were kept in solitary confinement.
The Israeli military oversees the initial health assessments of the released hostages.
All the former captives reported an improvement in their conditions in the days leading up to their release, such as more frequent showers, changes of clothes, and provided with more and better food.
Banov noted, however, some hostages had not received adequate care for wounds sustained on Oct. 7 during the Hamas attack, while a few showed signs of "mild starvation." Emily Damari lost two fingers as a result of being shot in the hand, while Danielle Gilboa still has a bullet in her leg, which is due for removal in the near future.
The three civilian women released on the first day of the ceasefire on Jan 19. were discharged from Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv on Sunday, while the four female soldiers freed on Saturday are still receiving medical care at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah – a city in central Israel.
Since their release on Saturday, the IDF spotters have apparently been telling their families in some detail about their ordeal, out of a sense they need to express their experiences with their loved ones to help them process. It is said they were aware of the magnitude of Oct. 7, because they witnessed the scale of the attack and were abducted relatively late on. They acknowledged their being in the shelter and watching friends be murdered and slowly dying had a profound effect on them.
Banov said out of respect for the hostages' privacy he would not discuss whether any of the seven former captives released within the last 10 days or so bore any signs of torture or abuse. There was particular concern for the female soldiers as at the time of their capture, the terrorists who abducted them were heard to say, "these are the ones who can get pregnant."
Two women – Arbel Yahoud and Agam Berger, a civilian and the final female IDF spotter – are due to be released Thursday with another unnamed man. A further three are abductees are due to be released on Saturday. Their names have yet to be released.
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Now President Donald Trump, whose agenda includes "Drill, baby, drill," approval for exploration and mining, new energy pipelines, and much more, has been described as "the greatest environmental hero" of this century.
It is Marc Morano, the chief of the Climate Depot website for energy and environmental news, who gave him the label.
"This man has powers and abilities far beyond mortal men — Donald Trump," he explained.
His comments came in an interview on Fox.
He explained, "Who would have thought that the Audubon Society, Greenpeace, and the Sierra Club — would be silent on whale mortality and bird mortalities? Donald Trump is turning out to be the greatest environmental hero of the 21st century. And I don't mean — about endangered species in terms of offshore wind and whales, but even for those worried about global warming.
"Trump's a climate champion because he's bringing in more fossil fuels from the Western world, where we have the highest environmental standards, the highest technological advances, and the cleanest way to make energy. We're relying less on China, the Middle East, Venezuela, and Russia. This is how it's done. The climate activists should be embracing Trump."
He wondered where are the "Volvo-driving, the 1970s save-the-whale liberals? The artist formerly known as the bad Orange man — Donald Trump is now their champion. It is amazing."
He cited the failings of the so-called green wind power, as well as solar.
Worldwide they're only 14% of electricity "despite trillions in subsidies."
"Donald Trump is just saying the emperor has no clothes when it comes to wind and solar."
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One day after being sworn in as president and vice president, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance attended a prayer service at one of the most iconic churches in the country, Washington, D.C.'s massive National Cathedral. There they found themselves being personally insulted and vilified from the pulpit by Episcopal Bishop Marianne Budde.
According to the preacher, now that Trump is again in the White House, "gay, lesbian and transgender children … fear for their lives." Same thing with illegal aliens, who according to Budde do most of the real work in this country: They "pick our crops, and clean our office buildings," they "labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants," and "wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals." So what if they aren't "citizens or have the proper documentation," declared Budde. Don't deport them, she pleaded.
Trump and Vance pretty much maintained their composure, but could clearly be seen rolling their eyes. (Trump later referred to Budde on Truth Social as a "so-called Bishop" and "Radical Left hard line Trump hater.")
"Woke" Christianity is increasingly widespread in America. In Texas, an openly transgender pastor proclaimed "God is transgender!" while another, claiming to be a Lutheran "trans" minister, recently told CBS News, "It's hard to relate [the Bible] to modern-day times because it wasn't written for 2024. It was written for then." Uh huh.
Meanwhile, in Maryland, ordained Christian ministers recently have been publicly burning incense, performing religious rituals and praying so as to officially "bless" a local abortion clinic for all its hard work killing preborn babies.
On and on it goes. Something increasingly weird has been going on with the Christian church in America for the last couple of generations, but it's on full display now.
Fortunately, America's 224 million Christians – that's more than in any other nation in the world – clearly were responsible for Trump's election victory. Yet, millions of other nominal Christians voted for Kamala Harris, even though she was one of the most openly Marxist, anti-Christian and frankly idiotic presidential candidates in the nation's history. Remember, the final popular vote tally was 77,301,997 votes for Donald Trump versus 75,017,626 votes for Kamala Harris. Statistically that means tens of millions of "Christians" voted for the candidate Elon Musk correctly pegged as "quite literally a communist."
On top of all that, another estimated 32 million Christians couldn't even be bothered to vote at all! What's up with that?
What's up, of course, is that despite Trump's stunning re-election victory, America remains engaged in what amounts to an ongoing civilizational war. A war not merely political in nature, but cultural, ideological, psychological and ultimately spiritual – a long-term struggle between forces of decency, morality and sanity on one side and astonishing deception and evil on the other. And logically, one of evil's key targets would have to be the Christian church.
Consider where we are: If the overwhelming majority of Americans really are Bible-believing followers of Jesus (fully two out of every three Americans today, 68%, identify as Christians), how then can it be legal in this de facto Christian nation to amputate the breasts and sexual organs of literally thousands of confused children who are being encouraged, from many directions, to believe they're "trapped in the wrong body"? How can it be legal to butcher and rip limb from limb thousands of beautiful, sacred, fully formed, pain-feeling human babies only weeks before they would have been born? How can "After School Satan Clubs," sponsored by an explicitly satanic organization, be permitted within public schools across the land to recruit America's children? How can the nation's toddlers be subjected to "drag queen story hour" events at public libraries, during which these precious little ones are required to sit at the feet of demonically possessed men dressed as women – and sometimes dressed as demons – who seduce and corrupt these innocents by regaling them with exciting tales of heroic homosexual and transgender youths?
While Christians are winning a few crucial battles – most critically, the life-or-death re-election of Donald Trump – they have been losing most others. The harsh truth is, many Christians are either entirely absent from the battlefield, or worse, have sided with the enemy.
In her recent book, "Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda," journalist Megan Basham documents how many of today's churches – both leaders and congregations – have been seduced and bought off by leftist forces in the ongoing battle over America's future. Chapter by chapter, Basham reveals how leftwing nonprofits pretending to carry the Christian torch have persuaded many evangelicals to embrace a radical climate change agenda under the seductive banner of "Creation Care," to support suicidal illegal immigration policies by repackaging and gift-wrapping them with Bible verses as "Welcoming the Stranger," to champion Marxist critical race theory by vowing to "decolonize discipleship from whiteness." Even to adopt the radical and blatantly unbiblical LGBTQ agenda under the pretext of "challenging the promotion of narrow or hateful interpretations of religious doctrine." And so on – essentially conning Christians into embracing every major leftwing ideological and moral attack on Western civilization and Christianity itself.
This seduction of the church, however, is not a new phenomenon. Far from it.
Four decades ago, shortly before he died, theologian and author Francis Schaeffer, widely regarded as one of the most influential evangelical thinkers of the 20th century, published a book with the spine-straightening title, "The Great Evangelical Disaster." In it, he reflected on the culture wars raging across America – and why Christians were so absent from the struggle.
"Most of the evangelical world has not been active in the battle," Schaeffer lamented, "or even been able to see that we are in a battle. And when it comes to the issues of the day, the evangelical world most often has said nothing; or worse, has said nothing different from what the world would say."
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JERUSALEM – Israel reportedly requested an extra 30 days to complete its withdrawal from southern Lebanon as part of the ceasefire between itself and Hezbollah, amid murmurings U.S. President Donald Trump is determined to rebuff the plea and keep to the current timeline, which would see the IDF vacate the area on Sunday.
The Nov. 27 truce agreement at least paused if not ended the war between Israel and Hezbollah, which started when the Lebanese Iranian proxy group – although in reality at the time the forwardmost unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – began firing missiles into northern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The attacks were in support of Hamas' brutal onslaught across the southern border and the truce deal was supposed to see the IDF cede all of its positions in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese Armed Forces. In tandem, Hezbollah is required to retreat north of the Litani River, some 18 miles from the Israel's northern border.
Israel's political and security cabinets are due to convene this evening local time to discuss the ceasefire agreement, and the fear the country's leadership has about numerous aspects of the situation. One of the concerns is the pace at which the Lebanese Army, which is a distant second in terms of power compared with Hezbollah, is deploying across the region. The IDF, having taken these areas in tough fighting against experienced and seasoned Hezbollah fighters, is understandably loath to surrender these positions in the knowledge the terrorist organization will likely overpower the Lebanese Army and take them back anyway.
In addition, IDF soldiers are continuing to uncover Hezbollah weapons caches in areas covered by the truce, amid IDF reports Lebanon's military is in some locations providing succor for the Iranian proxy.
"Under the ceasefire agreement, Israel is entitled to act against immediate threats posed by Hezbollah, but must forward complaints about longer-term threats to an oversight committee composed of representatives from the U.S., France, Lebanon, and the international observer force UNIFIL," according to the Times of Israel.
According to Israel's outgoing ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog – brother of the country's president Isaac – Jerusalem and Washington are in talks to delay Israel's withdrawal. He said he believed the two would "reach an understanding," although this did not seem to be the messaging emanating from the White House, according to Israeli radio.
Israel intimated it had such an understanding with the recently replaced Biden administration and clearly hoped this – in conjunction with what it says is clear evidence of Hezbollah's consistent breaking of the terms – would secure it more time to try and secure its border, and with many thousands of the country's northern residents yet to return to their homes.
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden must "know something" that made him think that his family needed presidential pardons, which Biden essentially slipped under the door on his way out of the White House.
"You must know something that other people do not, and what?" McCarthy explained. "Why do you wait until 30 minutes before? Why did you tell the American public you would never pardon your son, and you do it now?"
McCarthy explained the pardons "suggest that members of Biden's family have done 'something wrong,'" the report confirmed.
"Terrible. Terrible. Think about what everybody else had gone through. Why pardon your family? It makes no sense to me. … All it does is put a cloud over that you did something wrong."
In fact, Biden son Hunter was pardoned Dec. 2 after he had been convicted of gun felonies and after he had pleaded guilty to tax charges. He was facing up to years in prison.
Joe Biden had multiple times promised Americans he would let the juries and judicial system decide Hunter's fate, then he pardoned him from all crimes for more than a decade.
Then just hours before his presidency ended, Joe Biden pardoned brothers James and Francis Biden, James' wife Sara, his sister Valerie Owens and her husband John Owens.
"The difference here is whether you agree or disagree about what President Trump's going to do, he told the American public ahead of time," McCarthy said. "They put that into consideration whether they vote for him for president, so he's just keeping a campaign promise."
The Washington Examiner reported McCarthy cited a "double standard" for Biden's pardons for family members and President Trump's pardons for J6 protesters.
He said in an interview with NBC, "This is the difference. This president told the American public, while he was campaigning for office, 'If I'm elected president, I will pardon these people.' Compare this to Joe Biden, who said he would never pardon his son, who now, on the very last day in the last 30 minutes, pardons his entire family.
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A federal judge is allowing to move forward a lawsuit over the Biden administration's decision to deregulate an abortion chemical that is used to kill unborn babies.
The ruling comes from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, and allows the states of Missouri, Kansas and Idaho to continue their claims against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's anti-life agenda.
Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver said, "The FDA must be held accountable for its dangerous and unlawful actions. The FDA should no longer be allowed to circumvent safety laws to allow a eugenic drug to destroy innocent children and harm women. Abortion drugs have never been safe and harm women and kill children."
At issue is access to the dangerous Mifepristone drug, and the feds' decision to allow the drug to be shipped into those states and undermine their prolife legal frameworks.
"The ruling denied the FDA's request to dismiss the case and granted the states more time to amend and strengthen their complaint," explained a report from Liberty Counsel.
The states now can transition from a previous case brought by a group of pro-life doctors, who the Supreme Court said didn't have legal standing to use.
The new, and amended, claims, "could end up back at the Supreme Court in the future," the report said, as "The states assert they have the legal standing to sue the FDA because its relaxed restrictions involving a dangerous drug like Mifepristone puts lives and health at risk and undermines state pro-life laws protecting women, girls, and unborn children."
The focal point of the case is the FDA's allowing of the drug to be handed out via telehealth, without the patient ever seeing a doctor in person. Then the drugs are delivered by mail.
The report explained, "In April 2023, Judge Kacsmaryk presided over the original abortion pill case from the pro-life doctors and determined that the FDA shouldn't have approved Mifepristone for public use in 2000 and voided its approval. He noted the agency approved the abortion pill under political pressure, its safety studies were improperly conducted, and that the FDA's regulatory decisions allowing them to be prescribed via telemedicine, sent by mail, and dispensed at retail pharmacies were unlawful."
The Supreme Court then reversed the judicial course and allowed the deregulation scheme to remain.
"The states now want a ruling, including a preliminary injunction, that restores regulations on Mifepristone, including a plan for follow-up visits by the patient with a doctor, limiting the use of the drugs on unborn, restoring a requirement that doctors be involved, and demanding all serious and non-fatal adverse events be documented.
In the case, the states charge the federal bureaucrats have disregarded the health and safety needs of Americans, and have created conditions "where women and girls can face severe and life-threatening complications due to easy access to the drugs through the mail and little to no medical oversight while taking them – conditions that bypass state pro-life protections and send women and girls to emergency rooms."
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GOLAN – As Israel's seven-front war approaches 470 days and with more than 800 IDF soldiers and security forces killed, the tiny Jewish state has been stretched thin. Hamas has been all but eliminated in Gaza, and likewise, Hezbollah in Lebanon. The murderous Assad regime in Syria fell with minimal action by the IDF, but solutions for what comes after are still a quandary and the path to any kind of lasting peace is still unclear.
While morale remains high among the troops, many reserve soldiers have been away from their families and careers with little respite for a year and a half. This has taken a personal toll on the lives of Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Many Israelis have compared the current conflict with the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Israel's security establishment was caught off guard and forced to pay a heavy price in a multi-front war for the country's survival. Other similarities reflecting the mental state and attitude of Israelis are becoming apparent.
One symptom common to both wars is emigration. Immigration to Israel is referred to as "Aliyah," literally "ascending," hinting at the perception that moving to Israel is a spiritual ascension. Conversely, emigration is referred to as "Yeridah" or "descending."
The Central Bureau of Statistics reported that last year, immigration to Israel, compared to emigration, represented a net loss of 18,200. In 2024, 82,700 residents left Israel, and only 23,800 returned. The number of new immigrants to the country was 32,800, about 15,000 lower than in 2023. In total, during 2024, the population of Israel grew by 1.1 percent, a decrease in the growth rate compared to 2023 (1.6 percent).
Some 117,000 Israeli citizens have left the country for an extended period and have stopped living in Israel since the outbreak of the war on October 7, 2023 – a figure three times higher than from previous years.
According to the data, more Israelis emigrated from Tel Aviv and Haifa, considered secular enclaves, than from any other city.
The country has experienced several waves of emigration associated with wars. In the 1960s, Israel was hit with a crippling recession, leading to a period of increased emigration. The 1967 Six-Day War followed this wave. The most significant wave of emigration in Israeli history followed the Yom Kippur War. This has been attributed to a national trauma intensified by the belief that the government and military establishment failed the nation.
Once the war is over, Israel will need to cope with the economic repercussions of a protracted conflict.
One mitigating factor to emigration might be the high inflation and unemployment in Europe, the U.S., and Canada. This is exacerbated by the preceding period of COVID which also taxed the economy with shutdowns and restrictions.
Shimon (not his real name) has experienced this difficult period firsthand. He is a religious and strongly Zionist husband and father in his 30s. He served in the IDF at 18, completing a course for religious soldiers called Hesder that incorporated periods of learning interspersed with combat service. He also volunteered for a year of "shlichut," acting as an emissary in the U.S. to educate Jews and connect them with Israel. In total, Shimon served six years in the IDF. After his service, he learned Arabic at university, going on to work for the government as a liaison with the Arab community.
His language skills were of enormous value to the IDF, and he became an intelligence officer in the reserves, embedded in a combat unit. On Oct.7, even before the IDF called, Shimon drove to the southern border to join his unit. He described the disorganization which characterized the first days of the war with Gaza.
"In the beginning, things were crazy," Shimon said. "We didn't know for the first 24 hours or so what was really going on. I had no idea what was going on down south, and if I had known what was going on, there is a good chance I would have gotten my gun from a unit and just driven down there, in which case, there is a good chance I wouldn't be alive right now."
"Thankfully, I followed the plans we had set up, and I went to where the army told me to go in times of emergency and join my assigned unit. But many of the guys in my unit just went down and fought."
Shimon's job was to interrogate prisoners and pass on the information to his officers, a function which kept him busy night and day for several months. Shimon estimates that he has been home for three weeks in the more than 450 days since the war began.
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JERUSALEM – Middle East/Israel Morning Brief
Gaza hostage, ceasefire deal on brink of finalization
Talks for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas continued in earnest with officials from both sides and from mediating countries estimating that a landmark agreement to end the 15-month war was near-finalized, with multiple outlets reporting details of its content.
Key mediator Qatar said Tuesday that a day earlier it had presented both parties with a "final" draft of the agreement. Israel's Channel 12 news reported Monday, Jerusalem considered it broadly acceptable, and senior Israeli officials said they were waiting for Hamas's reaction.
The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Hamas accepted the deal as well, citing two officials involved in the talks. However, CNN later cited an Egyptian official as saying the mediating countries – Qatar, Egypt, and the United States – had not yet received a response from the Palestinian terror group.
Pro-Hezbollah imam to deliver prayer at Trump inauguration
A Muslim cleric who refused to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has a "significant history of extremism" has been tapped to deliver a benediction at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week, the New York Post reported.
Husham Al-Husainy, the imam of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, Mich., is among four religious leaders listed in an Inauguration Day program, obtained by the Washington Reporter on Monday, who are scheduled to speak immediately after Trump's Jan. 20 address.
ICJ judge who pushed back against South Africa's claims of Israeli 'genocide' poised to take over court's presidency
In a significant shift at the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, Judge Julia Sebutinde is poised to assume the presidency, marking another milestone in her groundbreaking career, Israel Hayom reported.
The Ugandan jurist, who recently made headlines for her robust defense of Israel against South Africa's genocide allegations in the Gaza war, will take the helm following current President Nawaf Salam's departure to form Lebanon's next government.
Sebutinde's journey to The Hague reflects a remarkable career in international justice. Her ascent began with her 1996 appointment to Uganda's Supreme Court, where she distinguished herself by leading three pivotal anti-corruption investigations in her homeland.
The judge's international prominence grew with her 2005 appointment to the Special Court for Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal, where she played a crucial role in the landmark trial of Liberian President Charles Taylor. Her appointment to the ICJ in February 2012 broke new ground as she became the first woman from Africa to serve on the court.
Israeli official: Hostage deal won't include return of Sinwar's body
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A parental rights watchdog has filed a new legal action against an Illinois school district that stands accused of discrimination, illegally, against those who are NOT "black, biracial or African American."
The civil rights complaint comes from Parents Defending Education and names the Community Unit School District 308 in Oswego.
The Washington Examiner said the allegations are that the school has used race to determine students' participation in an affinity group that has special benefits.
"It is ridiculous and, frankly, unconscionable that schools like Community Unit School District 308 are creating mentorship and educational opportunities for students based solely on their race," charged Caroline Moore, in an interview with the publication.
She is the vice president of the parents' group.
"Creating situations where students are separated in public schools by race at such a young age perpetuates race biases and discrimination that has no place in public schools in 2025," she explained.
"I look forward to OCR investigating and discontinuing such discriminatory practices that pit kids against each other."
Among the allegations is that the school produced a promotion for an affinity group called Black Students Alliance Buddies, "promoting programming facilitated by a subset of the district's Equity and Engagement Department called the 'Teachers on Special Assignment Division,'" the report said.
Under "Who can Attend" there is a requirement for students to qualify by identifying as "black, biracial, or African American."
The parents' organization said that's a clear violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as the equal protection clause in the Constitution's 14th Amendment because the school is offering benefits "on the basis of race."
The report explained, "The watchdog group cited a 2015 case in which the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights found a school district in violation after holding a 'Black Lives Matter' assembly for 'African American students only.' Just holding a race-exclusive assembly violated Title VI and the equal protection clause, according to OCR, which is why PDE is confident that offering race-exclusive educational benefits presents a similar if not more egregious civil rights violation."