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b"This week we are joined by Erin Riley and KC Hunt and talk about the difference between Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, a school contractor in Texas getting fired for refusing to sign a pro-Israel pledge, the government shutdown over Trump's wall, a West Virgina mom's lawsuit over Bible in the Schools, and more. Patrons also get our 2019 predictions.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nEmail us at contact@htotw.com\\u201d or leave us a voice message at (541) 203-0666 or htotw.com/speakpipe\\nSupport the show at htotw.com/donate\\nSubscribe at htotw.com/subscribe\\nTake the listener survey by January 5 at htotw.com/survey\\n\\n\\n\\nDustin\\u2019 Off the Degree - Antisemitism vs Anti-Zionism\\n\\n\\n\\nSince Trump\\u2019s election we\\u2019ve seen quite the rise in antisemitism, but we\\u2019ve also seen a large increase in calling the wrong thing antisemitism.\\n\\n\\n\\nNEWS\\n\\n\\n\\nSchool Contractor in Texas Denied Work Over Pro-Israel Loyalty Oath\\n\\n\\n\\nWe\\u2019ve previously talked about these bizarre attempts to pass laws that would criminalize or at least punish people for boycotting Israel, we\\u2019ll, now we have a story where it\\u2019s not abstract.\\n\\n\\n\\nBahia Amawi is a speech pathologist who has worked on a contract basis for a school district in Austin, TX serving children from the area\\u2019s growing Arabic speaking community since 2008. Then in August the district sent her the standard contract renewal, except there was something different this time. It included a pledge that she is not current boycotting Israel and will not do anything \\u201cthat is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel, or with a person or entity doing business in Israeli or in an Israel-controlled territory.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nLindsey Graham claims Trump\\u2019s wall is defense against Islamic terrorism\\n\\n\\n\\nBy now you should all be aware that several departments of the US government are shut down, in some cases this means people aren\\u2019t working, like at the National Parks, and in others it means they have to keep working with no idea when they\\u2019ll get paid as in the case of Dan Ellis of The Godless Rebolution Podcast.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe reason for the shutdown is the Senate rejected the House passed bill that would have funded these departments as well as funded Trump\\u2019s border wall and repealed the Johnson Amendment. Trump is doubling down saying that he won\\u2019t sign a spending bill that doesn\\u2019t fund the wall and Senator Lindsey Graham is backing this up claiming that the wall is needed as a our \\u201clast line of defense\\u201d against Islamic terrorism.\\n\\n\\n\\nW.Va. mom says her daughter was bullied after they balked at Bible classes in public school\\n\\n\\n\\nIn first grade Jessica Roe and another girl was sent to a coat closet with another girl and some iPads when her teacher discovered she didn\\u2019t have the permission slip required to take part in the pastor lead \\u201cBible in the Schools\\u201d class. By third grade the bullying over this separation got bad enough that classmates were telling her she was going to hell and slapping Harry Potter books out of her hands. That\\u2019s when her mom transferred her to another school and filed a lawsuit in federal court.\\n\\n\\n\\nIn response to the lawsuit the school suspended the program and the judge dismissed the case since the child was no longer enrolled in the school and the program was not being actively run. A three judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously decided that the cases dismissal was in error, so the case challenging the constitutionality of Bible in the Schools programs will go on. \\n\\n\\n\\nA Catholic Hospital in Iowa Won\\u2019t Perform Vasectomies or Tubal Ligations Anymore\\n\\n\\n\\nWheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Iowa a part of Mercy Health, announced at the end of the day on Friday December 14 that they would no longer be allowing vasectomies or tubal ligations to be performed in the hospital. They also included that the press release would be the only public communication about this.\\n\\n\\n\\nGermany to curb mosque funding from Gulf states\\n\\n\\n\\nUnder new rules the German government is using their intelligence services to closely ..."