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Michigan Woman Awarded $12 Million After Being Fired for Refusing COVID Shot

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Michigan Woman Awarded Million After Being Fired for Refusing COVID Shot

A former Blue Cross Blue Shield employee was recently awarded $12 million by a federal jury in Detroit when she sued the insurance company for religious discrimination. Lisa Domski had worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield for almost 40 years when she was denied a religious exemption to the employee COVID-19 shot mandate.1 2

Although Domski informed her employer that her Catholic faith prevented her from complying with the vaccine mandate, Blue Cross Blue Shield never followed up with her or her priest to confirm her devout religious beliefs.3 The insurance company refused to grant her any accommodations as required under Title VII and fired her.

Shots Required for Employees Working from Home

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, protects employees from religious discrimination in the workplace. Employees who inform their employer that their sincerely held religious beliefs prevent them from complying with a mandatory work requirement are protected from discrimination and retaliation in the workplace under Title VII. Employers have an affirmative obligation to seriously consider the request, enter into good faith talks and offer appropriate accommodations.4

In this case, Domski, an IT specialist, worked remotely 75 percent of the time prior to 2020 and 100 percent of the time during the pandemic. Rather than allowing Domski to continue to work remotely 100 percent of the time, the insurance refused to provide her any accommodations for her religious beliefs and fired her.

Jon Marko, Domanski’s attorney, explained:

This was a woman who was working from home in her basement office who wasn’t a threat to anybody and had been completely fulfilling all of her job obligations for 38 years.5

Blue Cross Blue Shield denied any religious discrimination and questioned the sincerity of Domski’s religious beliefs. The jury awarded Domski $10 million in punitive damages together with $1.7 million in lost wages and $1 million in non-economic damages.6
Blue Cross Blue Shield’s statement in response to the extraordinary verdict read:

Throughout the pandemic, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, together with its employees, worked to promote the health and safety of our colleagues, stakeholders, and communities.7

Jon Marko said:

Our forefathers fought and died for the freedom for each American to practice his or her own religion. Neither the government nor a corporation has a right to force an individual to choose between his or her career and conscience. Lisa refused to renounce her faith and beliefs and was wrongfully terminated from the only job she had ever known. The jury’s verdict today shows BCBSM that religious discrimination has no place in America and affirms each person’s right to religious freedom.8

More Religious Discrimination Lawsuits to Follow for Blue Cross Blue Shield

Tanja Benton, another remote employee of Blue Cross Blue Shield, was also recently awarded $700,000 by a federal court in Tennessee after being fired by the insurance company for refusing to comply with their COVID shot mandate due to her religious beliefs. Jon Marko shared that he is representing 170 other plaintiffs in wrongful termination cases against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.9

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1 Adeosum A. Woman Fired For Refusing Covid Vaccine Wins Record $12 Million. Newsweek, Nov. 10, 2024.
2 Halon Y. Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court. Fox News Nov. 11, 2024.
3 Adeosum A. Woman Fired For Refusing Covid Vaccine Wins Record $12 Million. Newsweek, Nov. 10, 2024.
4 Hendler C. 1964 Civil rights Act protects Some healthcare Workers with Religious Objections to employer Flu Shot Mandates. National Vaccine Information Center Aug. 22, 2019.
5 Halon Y. Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court. Fox News Nov. 11, 2024.
6 Ibid.
7 Halon Y. Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court. Fox News Nov. 11, 2024.
8 Booth-Singleton D. Former Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan employee who refused COVID-19 vaccine awarded $13 million. CBS News, Nov. 8, 2024.
9 Halon Y. Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court. Fox News Nov. 11, 2024.

Help Is NOT On The Way! Oakland, CA Woman Brutally Attacked ~ VIDEO

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SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/10/help-is-not-on-the-way-oakland-ca-woman-brutally-attacked; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

“Disappointment results from the removal of illusion” ~ Chogyam Trungpa.

Help is not on the way!

A “gang of youths” exited their vehicles and executed a coordinated, vicious attack on an innocent woman in Oakland, CA, last Friday evening.

The victim was savagely beaten.

Follow the silence:

Local media carefully avoids mentioning the ethnicity of attackers and victims. Yet, attackers yelled, “Die fat bitch,” but that was not reported on most “news” outlets.

No one witnessing the attack stepped in to assist the victim. No surprise there!

Bystanders who do try to help in these kinds of instances are promptly pilloried as “vigilantes” by our self-righteous media and then, without delay, victimized themselves by leftist politicians.

Look at the local hero Daniel Penny’s current plight in NYC!

A police investigator told this victim (while she was subsequently confined to her hospital bed) that her case is #15 in the queue and added, “… and this kind of violence is common in Oakland.”

I’m sure that was a great source of comfort!

This appears to be a “hate crime,” but it was carried out by members of a “protected class” against a white female, who apparently lacks membership in such a “protected class” but rather finds herself a hapless denizen of an “abandoned class.”

This is a logical consequence of “identity politics,” but of course, I’m a “racist” for even saying that!

There have been no arrests so far. When arrests are made, charges are promptly reduced to misdemeanors, so these violent but “protected” felons have little to fear from the CA judicial system, and they know it.

The victim did respond by biting one of her assailants in “through his calf,” as she was on the pavement being stomped. That single act seems to have cooled things down, maybe saving her life.

So much for all that “expert” advice to “never fight back” and just give the bad guys what they want, even when “what they want” is to beat you to death.

We’re on our own!

“… the ‘Right of Self-Defense’ is the foundation of both individual and national rights.

By contrast, for liberals, ‘grievance-based violence’ (which they promote and of which they approve) opens the door to the progressive tyranny they long for” ~ Dan Greenfield.

/John

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COVID-19 Shots Linked to Higher Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease~Florida Surgeon General Warns Against mRNA COVID Boosters~California Woman Accuses Hospital of Requiring Her Take Three Vaccines

My ears are probably some of the worst part of it. One of the doctors told me I might need to do something like plastic surgery on my ears and reconstruct them because of how my ears have blown up. Obviously, the story is hard to look at… 23-year-old Alexis Lorenze has been sharing her struggles with followers on TikTok. This comes after she was admitted to UCI Medical Center in Orange [County] for a rare and life-threatening blood disorder. For religious reasons, Alexis and her family have long abstained from vaccines. However, she says the hospital informed her that continuing treatment required vaccinations. Alexis says she reluctantly accepted, but says her body had extreme adverse reactions, leaving her battling for her life.

 

FOX Weather’s Bob Van Dillen Rescues Woman From Atlanta Floodwater

FOX Weather Meteorologist Bob Van Dillen found himself in the middle of a harrowing rescue mission during Hurricane Helene. Conditions deteriorated rapidly in the pre-dawn hours around Atlanta, with millions facing the threat of life-threatening flooding. On Friday morning, the city was placed under its first-ever Flash Flood Emergency, as Atlanta endured its wettest three-day period in 104 years. While covering the storm's aftermath, Van Dillen, a journalist from the area, heard a woman's desperate cries for help along Peach Tree Creek. She had driven into floodwaters and was trapped in her car before sunrise.

U. Minnesota Dept. of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies: A Vile Font of Jew Hatred

Oct. 7 was about “Hamas fighters” who “brought down border fences.”

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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/u-minnesota-dept-of-gender-women-and-sexuality-studies-a-vile-font-of-jew-hatred/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

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Editor’s note: Since the barbaric Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7th, American universities have become an undeniable locus of Jewish hatred within our nation. Much attention has deservedly been paid to radical campus groups like Students for Justice in Palestine who call for the genocide of the Jews and cheer the terrorists of Hamas. What has received less attention—but should in fact rank as the universities’ worst offense—is the Jew hatred promoted by official departments and institutes of the universities themselves. In the case of our campuses, Jewish hatred is “the call coming from inside the house.”

The Freedom Center is exposing these academic institutes and programs as “The Top Ten Jew-Hating Academic Departments” in a new report. We will be publishing one school per day as a series on Frontpage. The Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota is #5 on our list.  

Just a glance at the website for the University of Minnesota Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies reveals it to be a highly politicized unit of the wider university, dedicated to progressive activism. The site declares that “As a place where research, education, and social change go hand in hand, GWSS identifies, analyzes, and challenges structural inequalities, while imagining and creating just and transformative futures for all.” Instead of searching for truth and knowledge, the Department openly acknowledges that its vision includes “social change,” “challeng[ing] structural inequalities,” and “creating just and transformative futures for all.”

So it should come as no surprise that, like much of the progressive left, the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (DGWSS) is a vile font of Jewish hatred on the University of Minnesota campus.

Just six days after the brutal and barbaric Hamas attack on Israel, in which innocent civilians were brutalized and raped, parents killed in front of children, children killed in front of parents, bodies gleefully mutilated by terrorists on camera, DGWSS released a “Faculty Statement on Palestine” in which they described the massacre as “Hamas fighters” (not terrorists) who “brought down border fences.” The statement went on to demonize Israel and its defensive response to the worst attack in its history as “not self-defense but the continuation of a genocidal war against Gaza and against Palestinian freedom, self-determination, and life.”  The statement declared “We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and with Palestinian scholars and organizers.” DGWSS might as well have said, “We stand with Hamas.”

The statement goes on to make clear that the Department stands for Palestine, and only Palestine. “We strongly reject media coverage that condemns either side or seeks to tell a one-sided story of an unprovoked terrorist attack,” it states. “Israeli leaders are wielding a violent power that subjugates the Palestinian people and constructs them as dehumanized terrorists, upon whom any bloodshed can be meted out.”

Ironically, the Department even claims that its glorification of Hamas “fighters,” who raped and brutalized innocent Israeli women en masse is a stance for feminism. “As scholars and solidarity workers who seek justice everywhere, we respond to the call of Palestinian feminists and Palestinian freedom fighters for transnational solidarity and assert that Palestine is a feminist issue,” claims the statement. “None of us will be free unless the Palestinian people are free and Palestinian land is liberated.”

Unsurprisingly, the statement goes on to “reaffirm support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement,” a genocidal attempt to isolate and destroy the world’s only Jewish state.

At the very end of the lengthy diatribe against Israel, one sentence appears to apparently mediate the clear tension created by an academic department putting forth such a horrific and anti-Semitic tirade: “This statement reflects our individual views and we do not purport to speak for the University.”  This caveat is obviously a lie. Individual professors in the department could have put out a statement under their own auspices and promoted it on their personal social media accounts. Instead, DGWSS chose to place it prominently on the official department webpage of the University of Minnesota website, where it remains several months later, amended only by a brief note, added on November 20th, 2023, which states, in part, “This statement was written collectively by the tenured core faculty of the Department of Gender Women and Sexuality Studies." This statement does not reflect the position of the University of Minnesota.”  That legalistic note seems unlikely to reassure Jewish and Israeli students who are forced to take classes within the Department.

Largely in response to the DGWSS statement, the U.S. Department of Education is now conducting an investigation into whether the University of Minnesota has violated federal anti-discrimination law due to anti-Semitism on campus.

The investigation was prompted by a letter sent to federal officials by former University of Minnesota regent Michael Hsu and law professor Richard Painter who argued, according to MPR News, that the DGWSS statement “is antisemitic because it condemns Israel while justifying the terrorist attacks by Hamas.’”

“This is not about being pro-Palestinian,” Painter told MPR News. “This is about official statements of departments on websites paid for by the Minnesota taxpayers that justify the actions of Hamas.”

For its politicized use of official university resources to promote anti-Semitism and glorify Hamas, the University of Minnesota Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies belongs on the list of the worst Jewish-hating academic departments in America.

Previous articles in the series:

[1] ‘Jew-Hating’ Asian American Studies Program is Exposed at Northwestern University.

[2] UIUC’s Department of Latino Studies Endorses ‘Jew Hatred’.

[3] U. Maryland Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Case Study in ‘Jew Hatred’.

[4] University of Colorado-Boulder Ethnic Studies Department: Shilling for Hamas.

[5] UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies: Celebrating October 7th.

Mother of Israeli woman killed by Hamas slams AP for giving award for photo of jihadis with her body

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/mother-of-israeli-woman-killed-by-hamas-slams-ap-for-giving-award-for-photo-of-jihadis-with-her-body; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

If Shani Louk had been anything but Israeli, the AP would not have given the photo any award.

“Hamas victim Shani Louk’s grief-stricken mother reveals how an award given for a photo of tattoo artist’s naked and mutilated body being paraded by terrorists forces her family to relive her murder on October 7,” by Dan Grennan, Daily Mail, April 7, 2024

The grief-stricken mother of Hamas victim Shani Louk has revealed how an award given for a photo of her daughter’s half-naked and mutilated body forced her family to relive the trauma of her murder.

The 22-year-old German-Israeli was one of 364 people killed at the SuperNova Festival, which she was attending with her boyfriend, in the October 7 attacks.

The picture shows four Hamas militants celebrating as they brandish a rocket launcher and guns while sitting on top of Shani Louk’s body, which is lying face down in the back of a pickup truck.

The photo, taken by freelance photographer Ali Mahmud, was the centerpiece of the submission that won photo agency AP the Team Picture Story of the Year category from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Now Shani’s mother, Ricarda, has revealed the award has forced her family to relive the trauma of her daughter’s murder.

She told the Telegraph: ‘[It is] ‘traumatic for all of us. Just try to imagine seeing your beloved girl lying half-naked and lifeless on the truck with those savages around her.’

The tattoo artist was still wearing the clubbing outfit she had on while attending the music festival in the picture.

Separate footage recorded in the hours after the photo was taken shows her body being paraded around the streets of Gaza, with some passers-by spitting on her.

‘Seeing those pictures again because of the contest makes our family relive the pain,’ said Ms Louk.

The 53-year-old added that her family were not told in advance that the photo was being put forward for an award, which she said ‘made me angry’.

The fact they celebrated this photo with a prize makes us hurt even more because really, it’s like celebrating that they were killed.

I mean, the whole massacre is celebrated. It’s not by chance that they chose this picture so it hurts us even more….

Tlaib refuses to condemn Hamas for rape of Israeli women

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/02/tlaib-refuses-to-condemn-hamas; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

The barbarians aren’t at the gates. They’re in Congress. But Tlaib can’t condemn Hamas’ behavior because she supports Hamas, and because the sexual use of infidel women is allowed in the Qur’an (4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30).

“Tlaib ‘present,’ as House votes unanimously to condemn Hamas for rape,” by Menachem Wecker, JNS, February 14, 2024:

The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously, 418-0, to condemn Hamas terrorists for rape and sexual violence on Oct. 7.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a progressive member of the “Squad” who has a long history of antisemitic comments, voted “present,” as the House passed H.Res.966 on Wednesday.

“The brutality was planned and calculated,” Frankel added. “Sadly, Hamas’s savagery has been met with a shrug—and even denial—from many corners of the world. Our resolution loudly and clearly condemns all rape and forms of sexual violence as weapons of war, including those acts committed by Hamas terrorists on and since Oct. 7.”

Frankel introduced the resolution, which received 200 co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle, with Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) and Jen Kiggans (R-Va.).

The resolution condemns all rape and sexual violence “as weapons of war,” including those Hamas committed on and after Oct. 7; calls on all countries to criminalize rape and sexual assault and hold both state and non-state armed groups accountable for such attacks; and tells international groups to “unequivocally condemn the barbaric murder, rape, sexual assault and kidnapping by Hamas and other terrorists on and since Oct. 7 and hold accountable all perpetrators.”

It also reaffirms the U.S. government’s “support for independent, impartial investigations of rape and sexual violence committed by Hamas on and since Oct. 7” and “reaffirms its commitment to supporting survivors of rape and sexual violence, including those brutalized on and since Oct. 7.”…