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Maine DHHS Highlights Plan to Stop Antisemitism and Hate with Food

Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotDecember 4, 2023Updated:December 4, 202311 Comments2 Mins Read
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In its quarterly newsletter, The Spotlight, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) highlighted the Biden Administration’s plan to combat anti-semitism and hate with food, while displaying a recipe for cheesy potato soup.

The recipe includes bacon, making it unacceptable for religious Jews attempting to follow a kosher diet.

“The President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition is proud to play a role in helping to highlight how social activities such as sports, cooking, and breaking bread together can build community solidarity and counter antisemitism and other forms of hate,” Maine’s DHHS said in its newsletter.

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The Biden Administration published its 60-page plan in May, which highlights the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) role in combating antisemitism, by increasing the availability of kosher and halal foods.

Since the publication of Biden’s plan, antisemitic incidents have increased by 316 percent following Hamas’ terror attacks on Israel in October.

Amidst this staggering rise in antisemitism, including in Maine, both on college campuses and at pro-Hamas protests in Portland, Maine’s DHHS has chosen to combat the issue with food.

It is unclear whether the DHHS’ cheesy potato soup has prevented any antisemitic incidents or reduced hate in any way.

In the same newsletter DHHS highlighted its scent policy, reminding employees to be mindful of how much perfume they wear while in the office.

Read the whole newsletter below.

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Seamus Othot is a reporter for The Maine Wire. He grew up in New Hampshire, and graduated from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where he was able to spend his time reading the great works of Western Civilization. He can be reached at [email protected]

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Ken Frost
Ken Frost
2 years ago

Lol, sadly the jokes on taxpayers

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Mary
Mary
2 years ago

What a ridiculous plan. Biden administration is just horrible who the hell voted for this idiocy???????

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Gordon
Gordon
2 years ago

Truly silly and mindless, but sadly typical of the Biden regime.

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RickyTickySavvy
RickyTickySavvy
2 years ago

…this country is being run by lunatics! Unelected, bogus and verifiable duma$$es!

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Bryan M Dench
Bryan M Dench
2 years ago

This is even worse than the story is saying, because the presence of bacon would also mean it’s unfit for Muslims or Hindus. See the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. So much for the government’s having enough brains to bring people together with food!

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Snead Hearn
Snead Hearn
2 years ago

hopefully, they’ll discover some ethnic food that will cease the kid’s dying in DHHS care(sarc)

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Red
Red
2 years ago

1. The Palestinians are semites too. In fact, Abraham is their ancestor as well.

2. The jews are mass murderers.

3. Stand with Palestine.

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ME Infidel
ME Infidel
2 years ago

For Red the genius: There never was any connection between Abraham and Islam. It’s a myth by promoters of Islam to give the ProMo relevance. For details here’s one of numerous sources:
https://ab-melchizedek.medium.com/can-we-please-stop-calling-islam-abrahamic-7c3e5bd0248f

There is no such thing as Palestine. It was a construct of Arafat and the KGB in the mid 60s.

Islamic scholar, Dr. Bill Warner, has coined the phrase “Tears of Jihad for the 270 million people murdered by Islam since the ProMo fabricated his “religion” beginning @ 610 AD. That’s more than communism, Nazism and Fascism combined. So, you’re saying the Jews are murderers?

The Jews are number about 15 million worldwide and the Muslims are about one-fifth of the world population at @1.7 billion. Yet, Muslims have only been awarded 16 Nobel prizes; the Jews 214 out of a total of 955. Doesn’t bode well for the Muslim gene pool.

The very reason Jews are hated by Islam is that the ProMo hated them for not accepting him as a prophet. There are numerous references to Jew (and Christian) hatred in the “Trilogy” (Quran, Sira and Hadith) which make up the doctrine of Islam also called Sharia Law that are available. Do a little research. Otherwise, STFU!

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Norman Linnell
Norman Linnell
2 years ago

If Charlie Manson had claimed to be a prophet,, would his family been protected as a religion ?

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Jake
Jake
2 years ago

Healthy Recipe? Low-fat milk = more sugar less nutrition! Read up on milk most people who are allergic to milk probably are allergic to A1 milk from Holstein cows. Try whole A2 milk instead. Low fat Cheese? Means more chemicals to make the cheese taste good. Goes to show you that we have people in DHHS that are ignorant to the facts about healthy foods! GET THE FRIGIN GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR PERSONAL BUSINESS AND WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS NONSENSE. Allow the good guys to beat the shyt out of the bullies on the playground and we will cure that problem as well. I’ve had more than my share of sticking up for the underdog at recess – many years ago! GET OUT of our business – and fire at least half of all government employees – then they can do the work that people think the illegal trespassers do!! I AM TIRED of the government know nothings in our business all the time!

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Steve L
Steve L
2 years ago

Another clueless stunt by the Bidum regime and Maine’s criminal Department of hell and human sacrifice DHHS!

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