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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son ripped "neo nazis scums" in a Facebook post Wednesday, but also took leftist "thugs" to task in his response to the violent rally in Charlottesville, Va.

"To put things in perspective. I'm a Jew, I'm an Israeli, the neo nazis scums in Virginia hate me and my country. But they belong to the past. Their breed is dying out," Yair Netanyahu said.

The 26-year-old echoed President Trump's sentiments, saying radical leftist groups such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa have become mainstream on America's college campuses.

"The thugs of Antifa and BLM who hate my country (and America too in my view) just as much are getting stronger and stronger and becoming super dominant in American universities and public life," he continued in his post.

Sources close to the prime minister told the Times of Israel that "Yair is an adult and his views are his alone."

Benjamin Netanyahu faced criticism for remaining largely silent in the immediate aftermath of the attack that claimed the lives of two state police officers and 32-year-old Heather Heyer. He later responded in a tweet condemning expressions of anti-Semitism.

"Outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred," Netanyahu tweeted Tuesday.

Netanyahu's Likud Party has roundly supported Trump's stance that there is "blame on both sides" for the violent demonstration, despite consternation Trump has faced from lawmakers within his own party.

"Violence and extremism on any side is forbidden and demands condemnation. That doesn't matter to the bleeding hearts on the Left and in the media. After all, they believe that only the Right is extremist and violent," Likud Knesset Member Oren Hazan said.

Former Netanyahu opponent Tzipi Lvini struck a more critical tone of Trump's statements, arguing neo-Nazism should not be equated with leftist counter-protesters.

"When it comes to racism, anti-Semitism and Nazism, there are never two equal sides. There's good and there's evil. Period," Lvini, a Zionist Union MK, said in a statement Wednesday.

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Benjamin Netanyahu's son rips growth of Black Lives Matter and Antifa on US campuses - Washington Examiner

The author of a racially charged email forwarded by President Trumps lawyer said he sent the message in hopes it would help Trump defend his response to Charlottesville, and give the president fodder to go further in condemning groups on the left.

I wanted to help him. This whole political bread and circuses needs to stop, Jerome Almon told The Washington Post. Black Lives Matter is just as racist as the Nazis or the KKK or anyone else.

Almon, 52, who is black, has promoted a range of conspiracy theories online, and claims to have predicted several past terrorist attacks. But he said he crafted his email which was circulated wider Wednesday by Trumps lawyer, John Dowd out of worries that Trump could be taken down over his response to Charlottesville.

Were going to end up in a violent civil war, Almon said. Trump is our last chance or the violence you saw in Charlottesville is going to get worse.

Almons email advocated protection of some Confederate monuments and claimed that the protest group Black Lives Matter had been infiltrated by terrorists.

President Trump on Aug. 15 said that theres blame on both sides for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)

The email concluded: The President should confront the opposition with the facts ... his advisers are moving way [too] slow, and are not aggressive enough.

Dowd received the email Tuesday night, according to a copy Almon provided to The Post. Dowd forwarded the message to administration allies in Washington.

The contents of the email, and the fact that Dowd shared it with government officials, conservative journalists and others, was first reported by the New York Times.

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Dowd, 76, told The Post that he shares a lot of things with people over email and said it was unfair to equate forwarding one message with espousing its contents.

Dowd was recently hired to help Trump respond to an investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He sent the email to administration allies and journalists amid a firestorm over the presidents remarks about the deadly weekend protests in Charlottesville.

The email titled The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville appeared to echo and applaud the controversial claim the president has made in defending a central goal of the protest led by white supremacists. The group said it rallied in the hometown of the University of Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Trump said at a Tuesday news conference that white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members were not entirely to blame for the violent turn of events in Charlottesville on Saturday, where a counterprotester was killed and 19 were injured. Trumps comments and his reluctance to back off from those statements have led to a political backlash.

The email forward by Dowd may raise fresh questions about the way information travels in the orbit of advisers surrounding the president.

In the phone interview Wednesday night, Almon claimed to have previously met Trump, including when Almon was an activist opposing casino development in Detroit.

I believe President Trump probably remembers me, and probably recognizes me, and that was the whole thing I wanted to help him, Almon said. Prior encounters between Almon and Trump could not immediately be verified.

A onetime Obama supporter, Almon said he had come to support Trump because hes far more right than he is wrong, and hes done far more on average than his opponents.

Almon said he sent the email because he felt the president needed more historical facts to buttress his argument about Charlottesville.

His email at one point equates George Washington with Lee: Both owned slaves. Both rebelled against the ruling government. Both mens battle tactics are still taught at West Point. Both saved America.

Almon has a registered business under the name Murdercap Records and was profiled by Rolling Stone in 2007 after he filed an eyebrow-raising $900 million federal lawsuit against the Canadian government, the State Department and then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Almon claimed to have documentation of being racially profiled while trying to cross into Canada. The lawsuit was dismissed, according to federal records.

Almon said he hopes his email refocuses those who read it on more important problems.

We have very serious issues. If you want to get Trump on the issues, fine. Thats what should happen. On the economy? Policy? Fine. But taking him down over statues, when were $20 trillion in debt and about to go to war over North Korea, I cannot take that seriously.

Carol Leonnig and Amy Brittain contributed to this report.

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The group plans to protest at the site of a confederate statue downtown.

The Houston chapter of Black Lives Matter will hold a rally at Sam Houston Park on Saturday, August 19th, according toAshton Woods, a representative of the organization in Houston.

The rally will take place at 3:00 p.m., to demand that the City of Houston takes down The Spirit of the Confederacy statue and other Confederate monuments located on public property, Black Lives Matter says.

In response to this, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Thursday that the Houston Police, who handled protests during the Super Bowl earlier this year, are prepared for this one as well.

I just hope people will be respectful and follow the laws and will act in a very civil way, Turner said. You know, people have the right to voice their First Amendment. But I have so much confidence in HPD in making sure that everything is handled in a very orderly and respectful fashion.

Turner said he doesnt anticipate any violent demonstrations in Houston, and that he will continue with his plan to consider the removal of Confederate monuments located on public property.

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North Carolina state Sen. Dan Bishop (North Carolina General Assembly)

After the deplorable racist and violent incidents that happened over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., many have spoken out against the white supremacists involved and called for action to be taken. One state senator in North Carolina took it a step beyond by calling Black Lives Matter a violent, racist movement and comparing it to those waving Nazi flags.

Dan Bishop is a Republican who represents Senate District 39 in Mecklenburg County. On Sunday he took to his Twitter account to condemn the events that happened in Charlottesville, which he called terrorism. He then said that those involved must be stopped, right along with members of the anti-fascist and Black Lives Matter movements.

Must declare even if unilaterally, Biship wrote. 1) That was terrorism 2) Racist alt-right must be condemned 3) Antifa, BLM also.

Bishop ended his tweet with the #Charlottesville hashtag.

Twitter user Jeb Stuart (@jebstuart) immediately asked Bishop if he was equating Black Lives Matter with those waving Nazi flags.

Yes. Both violent, racist movements, Bishop replied.

What is racist about acknowledging the humanity of black people? Stuart asked.

I had in mind their chant: pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon. But knew better than to expect reciprocal decency, Bishop wrote.

Stuart went on to ask Bishop if the fundamental purposes of the two movements are morally equivalent. Bishop never answered that question.

Im going to guess that the reason Bishop avoided answering that question is that he knows the two movements are nothing alike, and this latest push to create fault on both sides is just another derailment meant to make the racist right look less evil than it really is.

The whole pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon is nothing that I have ever heard chanted at a Black Lives Matter demonstration, and Ive been to plenty of them. It is an overused rumor meant to cast a negative light on a movement that simply wants acknowledgment that black people deserve to live just like everyone else.

No one is ever able to point to any concrete evidence of BLM demonstrations actually using that chant; nor are they able to list any any actual acts of domestic terrorism committed by any member of Black Lives Matter.

We do have, as Twitter user @NCleftist points out, a real list of acts of domestic terror committed by right-wing terrorists60 of them since 1995, to be exact.

People who see Black Lives Matter as a racist group just by virtue of the name are, in fact, racists themselves.

If the fight for the humanity of black people is one that disturbs you, you need to analyze your own problems and leave the rest of us alone.

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Singer Kat Grahams chance encounter on aflight to Atlanta led her to help create a bold new public service announcementfor Black Lives Matter.

The concept of the chilling campaign, which features the parents and teacher of Josh, who made one wrong decision that led to his death, was the idea of J. Walter Thompson Chief Creative OfficerVann Graves.

Graves explained that he was inspired to write the concept in 2014 when his wife was pregnant with their first child, Graham wrote on Instagram Wednesday, Aug. 16. In the days before the birth of Graves son, both Laquan McDonald and 12-year-old Tamir Rice were killed by police officers. His frustrations and concern for his sons future sparked this idea to use his creative platform to raise awareness for the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Graham, who first met BLM founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometilast year at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards, identified with Graves concerns. She produced the spot, which is titled At-Risk Youth and features civil rights activistRev. Raphael G. Warnock, Ph.D.

Every single murder that happens where these officers are exonerated and theres no justice served, I felt gutted, Graham told Essence.

This is not about all white cops wanting to kill Black people, but moreso about the value of Black lives, said Graves, who is the most successful Black ad agency executive in the country, to Essence. Black lives do matter and it has begun to feel that we are disposable.

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Singer Kat Graham On Black Lives Matter PSA: 'I Felt Gutted' - Atlanta Black Star