Vox Sentences: An attack on Jerusalem's Pride parade

6 stabbed at Jerusalem's pride parade; what Bernie Sanders's opposition to "open borders" does and doesn't mean; and the US Fish and Wildlife Service thinks the man who killed Cecil the Lion may have broken US law.

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Attack at Jerusalem Pride

(Getty/Kitra Cahana)

• Six people were stabbed in an attack at Jerusalem's Pride parade Thursday.

  [BBC]

• The alleged attacker, an ultra-Orthodox man named Yishai Schlissel, is now in police custody.

• Schlissel had recently completed a 10-year prison term after stabbing three people at the 2005 Jerusalem Pride parade. According to prosecutors in that case, Schlissel told police that he had come "to kill in the name of God."

  [BBC]

• Several weeks ago, in an interview with an ultra-Orthodox radio station after his release from prison, Schlissel said that "if a single person comes and wants to hold the parade...something extreme is necessary" and "I have to stop this parade."

  [Times of Israel]

• Many Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Israelis oppose Pride, though they've been quick to denounce the attack. One ultra-Orthodox paper's coverage quoted "Thou shalt not kill," but also called the event an "Abomination March."

  [Times of Israel]

• At the same time, though, Israel's vibrant LGBTQ community is an important part of the country's self-image as a defender of liberal democracy in the Middle East — though some activists feel the government uses its gay-rights record to "pinkwash" abuses in other areas.

  [USA Today / Michele Chabin]

• This feature has more on the status of LGBTQ Israelis, which one activist describes as "informal" equality.

  [The Tower / Liam Hoare]

Give me your tired, your poor

(Vox/Joe Posner)

• Bernie Sanders is getting some pushback for calling opening the US borders to immigrants a "Koch brothers proposal" in his interview with Vox's Ezra Klein.

  [YouTube / Vox.com]

• Immigration reform advocacy group FWD.us, in particular, blasted Sanders's remarks, saying he "accepts the false premise that our economy is zero-sum."

  [FWD.us / Todd Schulte]

• Sanders defended and expanded on his remarks to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Thursday, saying he supported citizenship for immigrants already in the US, but opposed bills that put "too much emphasis on bringing low-wage labor into the country."

  [Washington Post / Dave Weigel]

• This isn't actually a strange position to hold. It's an old-school Democratic and labor one.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• There are good economic and moral reasons to support "sharply increased immigration" as a way to reduce global inequality, and Dylan Matthews lays them out here.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

• Meanwhile, in America as it exists today, a plurality of Americans want to reduce immigration into the US, and are less concerned about immigrants taking jobs than diluting American culture.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

Paging Dr. Palmer

(Minneapolis Star-Tribune/Glen Stubbe)

• The US Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion, in what has become an unexpected international outrage.

  [Quartz / Sasha Zients]

• (That international outrage, it's worth noting, isn't much felt in Zimbabwe, where residents are wondering why no one gets this mad when lions kill people.)

  [Reuters / MacDonald Dzirutwe]

• Palmer might have violated the US Lacey Act, which prohibits importation of illegally killed wildlife.

  [Reuters / Ayesha Raskoe and Barbara Liston]

• You might remember the Lacey Act as the reason for the federal raids on the Gibson guitar company in 2011. Gibson settled with the government over violations in wood imports.

  [NPR / Craig Havighurst]

• The Gibson raids made the Lacey Act a particular target of conservative opponents of criminalization of regulatory violations.

  [Heritage Foundation / Paul Larkin]

• Problem, though: The US Fish and Wildlife Service doesn't appear to be able to find Palmer.

• So if you are Walter Palmer "or his representative," the US Fish and Wildlife Service is waiting by the phone for your call.

  [Newsweek / Lucy Westcott]

• If you aren't, but you eat chicken, Vox's Dylan Matthews wants to remind you that's probably even worse.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

MISCELLANEOUS

• Why flavor is so important to the obesity debate.

  [(Vox / Julia Belluz)]

• Did the governor of Texas veto a bipartisan mental health bill as a favor to the Church of Scientology?

  [Newsweek / Taylor Wofford]

• Maryland is closing the Baltimore City Detention Center, which you might remember as the site of a massive racketeering operation involving the Black Guerrilla Family colluding with (and impregnating) several female guards.

  [Baltimore Sun / Justin Fenton]

• This is the first time Donald Trump appeared in the New York Times. It was 1973, and he was being "accused of antiblack bias."

  [New York Times / Morris Kaplan]

• In Illinois, a drug-sniffing dog has been basically disbarred (desnouted?) for having an accuracy rate "not much better than a coin flip."

  [Slate / Ben Mathis-Lilley]

• What it's like to be on a Monsanto press tour-slash-fellowship-slash-junket.

  [Eater / Jesse Hirsch]

VERBATIM

• "'Being called a hero was cool,' Gibson told BuzzFeed News during a May interview at the prison. 'I’ve missed out on a lot being up in here.'"

  [BuzzFeed / Joel Anderson]

• "Planning out Grayson’s second birthday party, Ms. Dobra chose a different theme, one that reflected her little boy’s most passionate interest: New Orleans personal injury lawyer Morris Bart."

  [WSJ / Jacob Gershman]

• "In 1831 the South Carolina Medical School began advertising its ready access to African-American corpses."

  [Primer / Colin Dickey]

• "We did plan to do a museum about social history of women but as the project developed we decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper."

  [Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe via The Cut / Jessica Roy]

• "It is certainly my intention to be very nice & highly respectful of the other candidates."

  [Donald Trump via Twitter]

WATCH THIS

(Vox / Johnny Harris)

• Why are weddings so damn expensive?

  [YouTube / Johnny Harris]

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