PROTESTERS TORCH ISRAELI FLAG OUTSIDE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: People in Israel are used to seeing Palestinians and Iranians burning the Israeli flag. But it was a bit of a shocker to see Americans doing the same. Especially at the national convention of the Democratic Party which so often and so adamantly asserts that it is a true friend of the Jewish state. Left-wing protesters demonstrating outside of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, 26 July 2016, torched Israeli and American flags amid chants of "Long live the Intifada,” a call of support for the Palestinian terrorist campaign plaguing Israel. A day earlier, members of the same “progressive” movement held aloft a Palestinian flag inside the convention center. USA media reported that nearly 2,000 demonstrators marched on the convention to vent their anger over recent controversies that have embroiled the Democratic party. During the convention on Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton officially secured the Democratic nomination in the 2016 White House run.

The Democratic party faced an internal crisis this week after a massive data breach on its national leadership was revealed. A hack of the Democratic National Committee and leak of over 20,000 emails has already claimed the scalp of the party’s chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who was compelled to resign last weekend. The leak revealed bias among top DNC brass on behalf of Clinton during her primary fight against Sanders. (Fox/J.Post/ Israel Today)