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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

02/21 Links Pt2: US Supreme Court turns down appeal to Arkansas Israeli boycott law; Princeton Fetes an Anti-Semite; ‘South Park’ delivers a strong satire of Kanye West’s antisemitism

From Ian:

US Supreme Court turns down appeal to Arkansas Israeli boycott law
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a newspaper's challenge on free speech grounds to an Arkansas law requiring state government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, a policy the publication's lawyers called a threat to a constitutionally protected form of collective protest.

The justices turned away an appeal by the Arkansas Times, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, of a lower court's ruling dismissing its lawsuit that claimed that the measure punishes participation in political boycotts based on the viewpoint expressed in violation of the US Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of free speech.

The Arkansas law, passed in 2017, requires public contracts to include a certification that the contractor is not engaged in a "boycott" of Israel, which includes "actions that are intended to limit commercial relations" with Israel or "Israeli-controlled territories." It applies to contracts worth at least $1,000.

More than half of US states have similar laws barring contractors that refuse to do business with Israel, including as part of the international "boycott, divestment and sanctions" movement that seeks to pressure Israel economically over its treatment of the Palestinians including Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Israel has called such boycotts discriminatory and antisemitic.

The Arkansas Times sued in 2018 after it was informed that in order to run advertisements for the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College, an institution with which it had advertising contracts for years, it would have to sign the certification.


Princeton Fetes an Anti-Semite
A dust-up at Princeton University is revealing precisely what it takes to turn campus censors and paragons of "antiracism" into champions of free speech.

The root of the controversy is the English department's decision to host, for its Edward Said Memorial Lecture, the anti-Semite Mohammed El-Kurd. No, there is no reason you would know him. As "Palestine correspondent" for The Nation, he has distinguished himself chiefly for his slanders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state, including the claim that Israelis "harvest organs" of martyred Palestinians to "feed their warriors."

On stage at Princeton—after university professor Zahid Chaudhary heralded him as a "truth teller," according to audio of the remarks reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon—El-Kurd told the crowd that Palestinians have no choice but to resort to violence against Israelis. "What else would you do if there is an occupying power in your backyard beating the shit out of your family? Of course you're gonna throw stones," he said to raucous applause. "I can just see that as a headline: 'Of course you're gonna throw stones.'"

El-Kurd is allowed to be a bigot and a moron, and Princeton to celebrate and honor his work.

But his presence on campus, and his reception by some of the school's professors and administrators, are hard to square with their devotion to "antiracism." In a statement signed by acting department chairman Jeff Dolven, the English department has pledged "to investigate racist beliefs and practices with rigor and compassion." Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber sounded a similar note when he told Princetonians, in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020, "We all have a responsibility to stand up against racism, wherever and whenever we encounter it."
Minters cuts ties with Adelaide Festival over Palestinian writers
Australia’s largest law firm, MinterEllison, will cut ties with the Adelaide Festival over the inclusion of two Palestinian writers with a track record of hostility against Jewish people and Ukraine.

Minters chief executive Virginia Briggs said in statement on Tuesday morning that the firm had not only withdrawn its support for the Writers’ Week part of this year’s festival, but also the entire program which covers all areas of the arts.

She also said the firm would boycott all festival events.

“We have made the decision to remove our presence and involvement with this year’s Writers’ Festival program,” Ms Briggs said.

“In addition, as these speakers are associated with the festival, we will be removing our branding from the broader festival program [where feasible] and not be attending any events of the festival.”

Louise Adler: “I don’t want us to be party to cancel culture.”

Minters has been under pressure since it emerged that Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd and Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa were invited to speak at Adelaide Writers’ Week, which begins on March 4.

Writers’ Week director Louise Adler has resisted pressure from South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas and Jeremy Leibler, a partner of law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler and president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, to drop Mr El-Kurd and Ms Abulhawa from the program. “I don’t want us to be party to cancel culture,” Ms Adler said.

The Adelaide Festival, which runs from March 3-19, has backed Ms Adler. This led to Minters broadening its stance on the full festival.

On the festival website, MinterEllison is listed as a major partner along with the University of Adelaide, aged care provider Askech and The Adelaide Advertiser. Presenting partners include Nine, publisher of The Australian Financial Review, and The Australian newspaper.


[ A journalism academic defends El Kurd ]
Are calls to cancel two Palestinian writers from Adelaide Writers’ Week justified? Denis Muller Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne:
El-Kurd’s case is more complex: some of what he has tweeted has been denounced by the Anti-Defamation League as antisemitic.

In particular, the league has objected to his accusing Zionists of eating the organs of Palestinians and of lusting for Palestinian blood, and to his comparison of the State of Israel to the Nazi regime.

Some of what Mohammed El Kurd has tweeted has been denounced by the Anti-Defamation League as antisemitic.

By any objective test, these accusations are grossly offensive to a reasonable person of ordinary sensibilities, and civilised societies are rightly vigilant to challenge speech that creates any equivalence with the Holocaust.

However, are they antisemitic? The Anti-Defamation League says they are, and the league’s point of view must be respected.

But a counterview is that El-Kurd’s comments are directed at Zionists and at the State of Israel specifically, rather than at Jews as a people, and that therefore they are political in nature rather than racist.

This is a distinction on which people of goodwill can differ.


"Chicago PD Warns Jews about ‘Day of Hate’ this Shabbat"
The ADL tweeted on February 9 that it had been “monitoring plans for a day of antisemitic action set to take place nationwide on February 25. This day may include antisemitic and white supremacist propaganda distributions and banner drops. At this time, ADL has not tracked any direct or specific threats of violence.”

On Monday night this week, two Chicago media outlets reported that the CPD’s 24th District, which includes West Ridge and Rogers Park, the two largest Jewish neighborhoods in Chicago, has sent out a warning to residents to be “situationally aware” of an extremist group’s planned antisemitic “day of hate” on February 25.

Officers Michael Specht and Roger Heath (I checked – they are real, and listed as serving at the 024 District – DI), disseminated the community alert below:


The alert was emailed to synagogues and individual Jewish residents throughout the Chicago area.
Honest Reporting: NGO Monitor Letter to Suzanne Nossel on PEN America support for Ken Roth (vs. Harvard)
Dear Ms. Nossel,

I am writing regarding your statement expressing “dismay … over the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s decision to deny a planned fellowship for Ken Roth, reportedly due to Roth’s criticisms of Israel’s human rights record.”

This statement raises a number of questions:
1) You repeat the accusation that Roth was denied a fellowship due to “criticisms of Israel’s human rights record,” echoing the The Nation and repeated in various forms. The only source for this claim is a meeting between Dean Elmendorf and “Carr Center leaders,” as reported by Roth’s supporters. Prof Katheryn Sikkink is also quoted as claiming that “Roth’s tweets on Israel were of particular concern.”

Perhaps these are paraphrases or interpretations. He might have referred to Roth’s highly disproportionate (obsessive might be more accurate) focus on Israel and vitriol in denouncing “die hard see-no-evil defenders of Israeli repression”, in some cases, specifically in reference to me and my research.

Dean Elmendorf might have also noted the documentation showing that many of Roth’s allegations, including HRW publications for which he is accountable, regarding Israel are false (lies), highly distorted, or unverifiable. Or the numerous instances in which Roth has crossed the line into promoting or justifying antisemitism, and blaming Israel for violent attacks against Jews. The allegation that Jewish donors to Harvard led a conspiracy to block Roth, as emphasized in The Nation, and for which there is no evidence, is another example. In his Guardian oped, Roth wrote “As best we can tell, donor reaction was his [Elmendorf’s] concern.

At what point does mere “criticism of Israel’s human rights record” become obsessively discriminatory, and at what point do these central aspects of Roth’s 30 years as the head of HRW disqualify him from a fellowship at an academic center? The same question would apply to someone who, in the course of a career outside academia, promoted discrimination against other groups – Blacks, women, Hispanics, Mormons, the LTGB community, etc.


CAMERA Op-Ed On Israel, the Washington Post ‘Moves Beyond Objectivity’
In journalism, standards and objectivity are passé. That is the message of a recent Washington Post opinion piece by the newspaper’s former executive editor. And the Post’s recent reporting on Israel illustrates that they’re happy to take his advice.

On Jan. 30, 2023, the Post published, “Newsrooms that move beyond ‘objectivity’ can build trust.” The op-ed was authored by Leonard Downie, Jr., who served as the Post’s executive editor from 1991 until 2008.

Downie first joined the newspaper in 1964 and was on staff when fellow reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward helped unravel the Watergate scandal, an event that culminated in the resignation of then-President Richard Nixon and garnered plaudits for the Post. But that was then. This is now.

Ironically, Downie’s argument that the media should set aside objectivity came shortly after Woodward slammed the Washington Post for the Russiagate controversy, in which the newspaper chose to embrace narrative-driven reporting at the expense of both facts and common sense.

A veteran journalist and former executive editor of one of the world’s largest and most influential newspapers calling to discard objectivity is disturbing. One expects it from some of the newer “journalists” like Taylor Lorenz, but it is shocking to hear such a take from someone of Downie’s generation and experience.

Yet, for those who closely follow The Washington Post’s coverage of Israel, Downie’s advice isn’t surprising. When it comes to the Jewish state, the once esteemed media outlet has long since dispensed with objectivity and impartiality.
CAMERA The BBC's Islamist Insiders with Adam Levick of CAMERA UK
Abdel Bari Atwan is the London-based editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Rai al-Youm and someone with a long, well-documented record of antisemitism and support for anti-Israel violence. He had been a frequent guest discussing the Middle East on the BBC – until CAMERA UK's exposure ended that. But Atwan is just one of many Islamists featured by the BBC. Why does the network have a penchant for Islamists? With recent changes, might it turn over a new leaf? What can politicians do about this problem?


BBC again bases report on Syria strike on regime claims
The BBC’s report makes no effort to inform readers of the nature of that “heavily guarded security complex” or those “security agencies” located in a civilian neighbourhood.

Chatterjee had apparently read a Reuters report on the incident before writing his own:
“Israel’s military declined to comment on the strike when approached by Reuters news agency.”

Reuters was however able to provide its readers with more information concerning those “security” sites, as were other media outlets:
“An Israeli rocket strike early on Sunday hit a building in central Damascus, killing five people and damaging several buildings in the densely populated district, witnesses and officials said.

The strike hit near a security complex around which Syria’s ally Iran has installed bases, two intelligence sources said. […]

It was not immediately clear whether the Israeli strike was aimed at a specific individual, but two Western intelligence sources said the target was a logistics centre in the building run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).”


The BBC’s article has not been updated to include reports from Reuters and additional sources that some of the damage in the neighbourhood – and possibly one of the casualties, according to Syrian opposition sources – was caused by Syrian anti-aircraft fire.

The BBC’s report concludes:
“Israel has previously acknowledged that it targets the bases of militant groups loyal to Iran.

The two countries are arch-foes and in recent years have been engaged in what has been described as a “shadow war” of unclaimed attacks on each other’s assets, infrastructure and nationals.”


Notably, the story presented by the BBC as an Israeli attack on a residential neighbourhood in which four civilians and one soldier were killed does not make any mention of the presence of the IRGC military installations in that neighbourhood and elsewhere in Syria, despite being tagged ‘Iran’.

This is of course by no means the first case in which BBC reporting on incidents in Syria has been sourced from a regime notorious for its propaganda, despite the corporation’s supposed editorial commitment to accuracy and impartiality.


‘South Park’ delivers a strong satire of Kanye West’s antisemitism
South Park is known for being quick with the news cycle. When it came to Kanye West’s multi-month antisemitic meltdown, they had a bit more time.

Thursday’s season 26 premiere lampoons the rapper’s Twitter screeds and infamous appearance on InfoWars by having Eric Cartman serve as Ye’s mouthpiece. Or, more specifically, as the mouthpiece of the cherub over his shoulder, “Cupid Me,” who recently found Jesus and rebranded as “Cupid Ye.”

In an effort to break up Kyle Broflovski’s new friendship with Tolkien Black, Cartman spreads a rumor that Kyle controls Hollywood and, to try and make it personal for Tolkien, that Jews are imposters who stole Black identity.

Immediately these beliefs, delivered by the school’s most accomplished antisemite, scan as ludicrous and incoherent — but people still buy into them. Students start pitching their films to Kyle in the hallway. Randy pleads with Gerald, Kyle’s dad, to make the industry less “woke.” But the Black-Jewish friendship of Tolkien and Kyle proves pretty resilient.

It’s only when Cartman, under the influence of Cupid Ye, makes a TV appearance (dressed in the masked getup Ye wore to Alex Jones), that things begin to fray. As Cartman titters behind a hedge, a point is made: when Jewish people and Black people are pitted against each other, it’s the bigots who win.

A more trenchant note is also being sounded throughout, as Cartman says he is acting as a “good Christian” in promoting these libels. Matt Stone and Trey Parker aren’t afraid to suggest that Ye’s antisemitism and his Christian awakening may be linked — or even that some expressions of Nazism are rooted in Christianity.

“It’s the same thing! Christian message, Nazi message,” Cupid Ye says at one point, in a remark that is too much even for Cartman.
‘Kanye West!’: Jewish Basketball Players in Los Angeles Taunted During Game
Chants of “Kanye West!” and pictures of swastikas and the Palestinian flag were used in Los Angeles on Saturday night to taunt Jewish female basketball players during a game between the Shalhevet Firehawks and the Buena Park Coyotes, according to local reports.

“I started to feel really unsafe,” an anonymous student of Shalhevet School, a Modern Orthodox preparatory academy, told the California-based Jewish Journal on Sunday. “The game got very hectic. When our girls were shooting foul shots, some Buena Park students held up pictures of swastikas on their phones to distract them.”

Others heckling at Jewish spectators created an “unsafe” environment, the student added, explaining that supporters of the Coyotes chanted “Kanye West” at a Shalhevet student and threatened a post-game brawl. After the match, which Shalhevet lost by four points, the confrontations continued outside the gymnasium, with “yelling and screaming at one another” and Buena Park students “showing the Palestinian flags on their phones.”

Rabbi David Block, Shalhevet’s Head of School, told the Jewish Journal that high school sports is often fraught with emotion.

“At the beginning, we all sang Hatikvah, and everybody was respectful,” he said. “I didn’t personally experience any antisemitism at the game, which doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

Rabbi Block added that Shalhevet will soon hold an assembly “where students can express their feelings with out faculty, staff, and guidance counselors.”

Saturday’s game is the second sports related antisemitic incident in the last week.
Essex cricket chairman resigns following JC investigation
The chairman of Essex County Cricket Club has decided to step down following an investigation into social media posts sparked by a JC investigation.

Azeem Akhtar endorsed comments that the “Zionist lobby” has “oversized” control of the media and a string of other inflammatory social media posts.

The former board member of Sport England also “liked” on Twitter a defence of comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, and another post that celebrated athletes boycotting the Jewish state.

In a statement published on Monday, Essex said they respected Mr Akhtar's "integrity" and stressed their due diligence process had found "no evidence" of antisemitism or racism by him."

It added: "The Club acknowledges again Azeem’s all-round skill set and strength of character for the leadership role for which he was selected and is sorry to announce his resignation."

After Mr Akhtar's social media activity was revealed by the JC in December of last year, Essex launched an independent review while he stepped aside.
Police Search for Man who Left Swastika Flag at North Carolina Synagogue
Police in Boone, N.C., have released images of a man they allege waved a flag with a swastika on it outside of the Temple of the High Country on Feb. 15.

According to a statement on the synagogue’s home page, several people reported the incident and the man to authorities. A short time later, two members of Appalachian State University’s AEPi chapter saw the hateful flag draped over the synagogue’s sign and removed it.

Boone police said they were “disheartened” by the incident.

“It is important however to note the distinction between a hateful act and a hate crime,” it added. “At this time, there is an active investigation to learn more about the person(s) who left the antisemitic flag on the property of the Temple of the High Country and their motives.”

North Carolina Hillel Link at Appalachian State responded to the incident on social media, writing that the synagogue is a “home for Jewish students” at the school and that students were going to walk together from the campus to the synagogue on Friday night for Shabbat services and dinner. “NC Hillel is here for students to be heard and supported [as] they process these incidents, and we work to create a safe and secure community for all students.”


Series of Pop-Up Events in New York Spotlight Israeli Chefs, Cuisine for Local Foodies
A series of pop-up culinary events taking place over the course of three days in New York has chefs from Israel collaborating with local chefs and restaurateurs as a way to introduce foodies to Tel Aviv-inspired cuisine and Israeli products.

Tel Aviv Groove kicked off Sunday night at the kosher restaurant called MEAT in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the restaurant’s chef Roger Mifsud hosted chef Jonathan Sharvit. Together they created an exclusive menu for diners that featured Sharvit’s style of cooking while also highlighting wines, whiskey and award-winning olive oils, all made in Israel. Dishes included beef tartare, amberjack bruschetta, lamb ragout, dry aged tagliata and a chocolate creme dessert that featured whiskey from Israel.

Sharvit was a finalist on the cooking reality show Chef Games. He has worked for a number of establishments in Israel and around the world, including in Italy and Australia, and runs an upscale catering service.

Also on Sunday, the non-kosher ice cream and gelato shop Bambina Blue turned into a pop-up where chef Assaf Maoz hosted chef Yossi Sherf and they jointly created dishes centered on an Israeli olive oil boutique brand, including salty snacks, olive oil cookies and yogurt ice cream with olive oil. A separate event in New York as part of Tel Aviv Groove is an Israeli wine and olive oil tasting workshop where attendees can also talk to two Tel Aviv chefs about Israeli cuisine and enjoy dishes by chef Tal Abaov from the Rothschild TLV non-kosher restaurant in Manhattan.

The first Tel Aviv Groove series of pop-up events took place in Los Angeles in October 2022. Its creator and organizer, Tel Aviv-based Israeli entrepreneur Orly Segal, told The Algemeiner that following its success, she decided to bring the celebration of Israeli food to New York.
Guns N' Roses heading back to Tel Aviv in summer 2023
Rock & Roll hall of famers Guns N’ Roses will be returning to Israel for a show at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv, on June 5.

The Live Nation-promoted concert will be the first Israeli show for the American hard rock veterans since a marathon show before some 60,000 at the same venue, in 2017.

Since guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan rejoined the band and its charismatic lead vocalist Axl Rose in 2015, after nearly two decades apart, the band has become one of the biggest live attractions on the rock music circuit.
‘Golda’ director defends casting Helen Mirren: ‘She’s got the Jewish chops’
Mirren, who won an Academy Award in 2007 for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in “The Queen,” at the time called the questions about being hired for the part “utterly legitimate.”

But Nattiv said Mirren agreed that a focus on identity, a divisive issue in filmmaking, should only go so far. Advertisement

“Helen said something very smart, she said ‘OK so let’s say only Jews can portray Jews but what about Jews… portraying (non-Jews) — is this not allowed anymore?'” he said.

“Around the world you can see that Israeli actors are in international shows and so for me as a Jewish Israeli director I had no problem (with Mirren playing Meir).”

Co-star Lior Ashkenazi said the question of authentic casting could be taken to absurd lengths, imagining a biopic about Jesus Christ. “Who’s going to play him?”

Mirren quipped: “Well it won’t be me.”

Nattiv, whose short film “Skin” about American neo-Nazis won an Oscar in 2019, said he had taken care to ensure that most of the cast and crew was Israeli to steep the film in the nation’s culture and history.

“Golda” shows Meir during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in which Egyptian and Syrian troops attacked on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Nattiv called the conflict “Israel’s Vietnam.”

Mirren, who spent three hours in hair and makeup each morning to look like Meir, said taking the role had been educational.

“I didn’t realize until we made the film what was the impact of the loss of this generation of young men on Israel because there were so few young men in Israel — it was a very young country,” she said.

It was “just absolutely traumatizing for this little country and Golda took the weight of that on her shoulders.”

“She never tried to put the blame on anyone else,” Mirren said. “She squarely faced it.”


'Bafflingly dull' Critics pan new Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren
The highly-anticipated dramatisation of Israeli PM Golda Meir's leadership during the Yom Kippur war had its first showing last night at the Berlin Film Festival - and it was far from well-received.

Golda - starring Dame Helen Mirren in the title role of Golda Meir - follows the challenging and sometimes controversial decisions Israel's first and only female prime minister had to make during the 1973 war against Arab armies in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.

The film was controversial before it even started shooting, with Dame Maureen Lipman questioning why a Jewish woman was not cast to play the 'Iron Lady of Israel'.

It turned out that Mirren had posed that question to the director when she was cast, acknowledging Lipman's “utterly legitimate” complaint, but said the director was set on her playing the role, and she accepted.

Ahead of its scheduled cinematic release later this year, the film was screened last night at the Berlin Film Festival, but the reviews are not altogether positive.

From Mirren's prosthetics hiding her emotions and expressions, to a lack of compelling narrative and repetitive scenes, critics were not enthralled with the portrayal of the war that led to Egypt becoming the first Arab state to recognise Israel.

From the critics who were there, here is a roundup of the top reviews.
Reformed Moroccan textbooks embrace Jewish life
Peace and tolerance are central themes in the Moroccan curriculum and promoted in textbooks across multiple grades and subjects, a new report finds.

“Students learn about practical conflict resolution, and Islamic scripture is used to highlight religious tolerance and peacemaking,” a summary of the document states.

The report also found that Morocco’s Jewish community is treated with sympathy and respect in textbooks. The Jewish community is represented as an “inseparable part of Morocco,” and government efforts “to preserve Jewish heritage are highlighted.”

Marcus Sheff, CEO of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), said: “We are struck by this unique embrace of Jews and Judaism in the reformed Moroccan school curriculum, a project of King Mohammed VI.

“The affection through which Morocco’s Jewish community and its customs are represented as well as the lives of individual Moroccan Jews is heart-warming. We are welcomed into the homes of the Jewish community through the textbooks and learn that Jews are entwined in the national and cultural fabric of Morocco,” he added.

Among the positive depictions are a Jewish boy hosting his Muslim friends for Shabbat dinner; a Jewish family hosting guests for Mimouna, a festival held by Moroccan Jews on the evening and day after Passover; a sixth-grade text introducing Bayt Dakira (“the House of Memory”), a museum for Jewish heritage located in Essaouira, a city in Morocco known until the 1960s as Mogador; and a fourth-grade Arabic textbook teaching about the importance of Jewish Moroccan music to Moroccan musical tradition.
Israeli family discovers ancient Byzantine relic on Shabbat walk
Part of a Byzantine candle holder was found in the Israeli town of Tzur Yitzhak south of Modi'in on Saturday, by a family who went out for a Shabbat walk.

According to a release from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the family noticed a small clay face in the ground, which appeared to be looking up at them. Doron Lavi, the father of the family, reached out to the IAA and archaeologist Issy Kornfeld came to pick up the "photogenic" find.

Researchers at the IAA examined the item and determined that it is the decorative handle of a candle holder from the 6th or 7th century CE.

Not rare, but pretty
"Although it is not a rare find," explained Kornfeld, "the item certainly is lovely. The clay lanterns were used for lighting, and are a typical find for those periods. However, not every lantern had a handle, and certainly not a[n intricately] designed one. The candle holder this belonged to was used for the function of light, but also as an ornamental object."

Eli Escusido, head of the IAA, said: "We thank the Lavi family, who demonstrated good citizenship and handed over the beautiful item to the state treasury. The rains of storm 'Barbara'...brought ancient findings to the surface. We call on the public to be vigilant, and if they come across an ancient artifact to leave it where it is and call the IAA to come get it. The exact context in which the item is found provides valuable information for research."






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