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Super Bowl Ad Countering Antisemitism Will Feature MLK’s Speechwriter Clarence B. Jones
Viewers tuning into the 58th Super Bowl contest on Sunday night between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will see a 30 second ad condemning antisemitism that features the lawyer who assisted Dr. Martin Luther King in the writing of his legendary “I Have A Dream” speech.
The ad is sponsored by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, founded in 2019 by New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft. Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer who worked closely with Dr. King, warns against rising antisemitism and hatred in America.
A video showing Kraft calling Jones to tell him that the ad will be broadcast was released on Friday.
“I want to refresh your memory because I told you how much I enjoyed our time together and our meeting,” Kraft says at the top of the ad. “Well, let me tell you something. We’re going to run your ad during the Super Bowl.”
In a moving response, a tearful Jones — who met King in 1960, when he helped the civil rights leader win a victory in a tax fraud trial — answers, “You know how to make a 93-year-old man cry.”
He adds: “You have Clarence B. Jones in your life and all of the love and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. He would have loved you.”
A visibly emotional Kraft responds with a Hebrew word, saying “I feel his ruach, his spirit is with us. What we’re going to do after this ad is build bridges to get more love and subdue the hate that’s going on.”
A record 200 million Americans are expected to watch this year’s Super Bowl.
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250 Hezbollah Terrorists Including 21 Commanders Eliminated in Ground Op
i24 News – The Israeli military eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists including 21 commanders in four days of ground combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday.
IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered vast caches of weapons and munitions in civilian residences, showing how central embedding within civilian population is to Hezbollah’s mode of warfare.
Meanwhile, heavy strikes targeting the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut were ongoing, Lebanese media reported.
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Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says
Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said.
Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added.
Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.
Al Masirah TV reported that the strikes had been carried out by the United States and British forces, but a British government source said Britain was not involved.
Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since last November in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel‘s war with Hamas.
The attacks have drawn US and British retaliatory strikes and disrupted global trade as ship owners reroute vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal to sail the longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Following the airstrikes, a Houthi spokesman called the attack “a desperate attempt,” adding that “Yemen will not be deterred by these attacks and will continue its steadfastness in confronting the enemies.”
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IDF Kills Hamas Commander in Tulkarem
JNS.org – An Israeli Air Force fighter jet conducted a rare strike in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Thursday night, targeting top Hamas terrorist Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
The Palestinian Authority reported at least 18 fatalities in the strike, with a local security source telling Agence France-Presse it was the deadliest in Judea and Samaria since the Second Intifada.
Ayyth Radwan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarem branch, was also reportedly killed.
Oufi was planning a terrorist attack “in the immediate time frame,” according to the Israel Defense Forces, and directed the thwarted car bombing last month near Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria.
There were no casualties in the incident, which Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”
The IDF said Oufi was involved in smuggling weapons to terrorists who perpetrated several recent attacks against Israelis, including some that resulted in injuries to civilians.
He also “worked to establish terrorist networks on behalf of Hamas and assisted terror operatives in the area to carry out significant shooting and explosive attacks,” added the military.
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