On Wednesday, a member of the British Parliament who has served in that august body for 32 years and been a member of the Labour Party for 55 years wrote a searing condemnation of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as she announced her resignation from the party.
Dame Louise Ellman, who was raised in an observant Jewish home, denounced Corbyn for his toleration of anti-Semites and his consorting with, and never confronting, antisemites, Holocaust deniers, and terrorists. Ellman is the Chair of the All-Party Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and the Labour Friends of Israel as well as serving as Honorary President of the Jewish Labour Movement, as the <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-labour-mp-louise-ellman-20637870">Mirror</a> noted.
Last week, activists in her home constituency in the  Liverpool Riverside area called on her to resign, stating, “We have no confidence that our MP Louise Ellman will carry out the wishes of our CLP (Constituency Labour Party) and our Riverside constituency or that she will follow Labour Party policy. This branch therefore call on our Riverside MP, Louise Ellman, to resign.”
In June, Ellman wrote, &#8220;It is time Jeremy Corbyn acted on Labour&#8217;s antisemitism crisis.&#8221;
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It is time Jeremy Corbyn acted on Labour&#39;s antisemitism crisis. Here are four practical steps that must be taken now. Let&#39;s make progress! <a href="https://t.co/TFf1LYdH9q">pic.twitter.com/TFf1LYdH9q</a>
&mdash; Louise Ellman MP (@LouiseEllman) <a href="https://twitter.com/LouiseEllman/status/1152166541795966977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday, Ellman stated:
<blockquote>I have made the truly agonizing decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997.</blockquote>
She wrote:
<blockquote>I believe that Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to serve as our Prime Minister. With a looming general election and the possibility of him becoming Prime Minister, I feel I have to take a stand. I cannot advocate a government led by Jeremy Corbyn. Under Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s leadership, antisemitism has become mainstream in the Labour Party. Jewish members have been bullied, abused and driven out. Antisemites have felt comfortable and vile conspiracy theories have been propagated. A party that permits anti-Jewish racism to flourish cannot be called anti-racist …
Jeremy Corbyn — who spent three decades on the backbenches consorting with, and never confronting antisemites, Holocaust deniers and terrorists, has attracted the support of too many anti-Semites.
The Labour Party is no longer a safe place for Jews and Jeremy Corbyn must bear the responsibility for this. We cannot allow him to do to the country what he has done to the Labour Party.
The overwhelming majority of the Jewish community is fearful of what a Corbyn government might mean for Britain’s Jews. I share those concerns. But this issue is not simply about the Jewish community. This is about the nature of our society. Jeremy Corbyn’s seeming tolerance of anti-Semitism would embolden racists, poison our public debate, and damage the social cohesion of our country.
My values — traditional Labour values —have remained the same. It is Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn, that has changed. He has presided over a culture of hatred, fear, and intolerance in the Labour party.
But this issue is no longer about the Labour Party — it is about the threat a Jeremy Corbyn premiership could pose to the country.</blockquote>
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I have made the truly agonising decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997. <a href="https://t.co/3BTzUacZvo">pic.twitter.com/3BTzUacZvo</a>
&mdash; Louise Ellman MP (@LouiseEllman) <a href="https://twitter.com/LouiseEllman/status/1184575029276745730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talks about the recent synagogue shooting in Germany and the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. Video and partial transcript below:
Over Yom Kippur, there were a bevy of anti-Semitic incidents — as we have become used to. In the United States, there [was] apparently a fire set on the grounds of a synagogue in Brooklyn, which has become sort of rote, frankly. We&#8217;ve seen a bunch of these sorts of attacks in New York, this Brooklyn synagogue was apparently — again somebody who set a fire, right there on the front steps during Yom Kippur, according to the police. New York City has seen a massive surge in hate crimes, many of them have been targeting Jews. 
Also over Yom Kippur, there [was] an attack on a shul in Germany. The attack on the shul in Germany was by a white supremacist, who [livestreamed] this thing on Amazon. It was hideous, obviously. According to the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7554173/Gunman-shoots-dead-woman-outside-German-synagogue-goes-run.html">UK Daily Mail</a>: 
<blockquote>A gunman in a German synagogue rants about feminism, immigration and the Holocaust before he shot two people dead in a live-streamed, anti-Semitic rampage on Judaism&#8217;s holiest day. 
The shooter killed a man and woman, threw a grenade into a Jewish cemetery, and left explosives near the synagogue in Halle after failing to force his way inside while worshipers prayed on Yom Kippur &#8230;
[The suspect] was later arrested after trying to flee in a taxi, according to German media.
Germany&#8217;s interior minister said it appeared to be an anti-Semitic attack, possibly motivated by right-wing extremism, while Chancellor Angela Merkel offered her &#8216;deep sympathy&#8217;. 
[The suspect] was wearing military fatigues and a helmet camera, and he shot a woman dead in the street after she confronted him outside the synagogue where about 80 people were praying.</blockquote>
Now I happen to be in Israel right now, and I will just note that many of the same people who claim that Israel is the rationale for anti-Semitism — the reason people hate Jews is because of Israel, because Israel is so cruel and terrible, and because of how they treat the Palestinians and all of us — these are the same people, where if Israel didn&#8217;t exist, people would still be shooting Jews, there would just be no place for Jews to go. The fact is that thousands of Jews every year are leaving Europe, and good for them, because Europe is becoming a hellhole for Jews. 
Everybody knows this. The Wall Street Journal has reported on it, the New York Times has reported on it. It is not safe for Jews in places like France. It is increasingly not safe for Jews in places like Sweden, places like Germany, [and] places like Great Britain. People are leaving en masse, [and] where they are going is to the state of Israel because the state of Israel is still a safe haven for the Jewish people. And the same people who are claiming that it&#8217;s only Israel&#8217;s presence that is causing anti-Semitism seemed to forget that Jews were killed in the millions when Israel didn&#8217;t exist, specifically because no country would take in the Jews, and because the Jews had no place to go. The British Empire was banning the Jews from entering the nascent State of Israel, before it was the state of Israel — from entering British Palestine during the actual holocaust itself. 
So for all the talk about why Israel was bad, why it shouldn&#8217;t exist, why Israel is terrible and horrible and all of us; the reason that Israel exists is because of stuff like this. It&#8217;s because Jews have been the victims of anti-Semitism, will continue to be the victims of anti-Semitism, and so long as people keep maintaining the absolute stupid fiction that if Israel didn&#8217;t exist everybody would be nice to the — you know how historically accurate you&#8217;d have to be to actually believe that, if Israel didn&#8217;t exist, everyone would be nice to the Jews? 
Within living memory, three-quarters of the Jewish population on planet Earth was slaughtered. So I&#8217;m going to go &#8220;no&#8221; on that. The state of Israel wasn&#8217;t there then. It&#8217;s a &#8220;no&#8221; on that. It&#8217;s just it&#8217;s absurdity at the highest level. Israel is not the cause of anti-Semitism; Israel is a place where people are fleeing anti-Semitism, and that continues to be the truth, certainly in Europe.
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Authorities say that two people are dead after what early reports suggest are multiple suspects — at least one wearing tactical gear — opened fire at multiple locations near a synagogue in the German town of Halle on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
&#8220;According to initial findings, two people were killed in Halle. There were several shots,&#8221; local police said in a tweet reported by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-synagogue-attack-halle-grenade-reportedly-thrown-jewish-cemetery-today-2019-10-09/">CBS News</a> early Wednesday.
In follow-up tweets, authorities said that they had detained one suspect they believed to be connected to the attack but urged citizens to stay vigilant. Statements by officials indicate that multiple suspects were involved.
&#8220;According to initial information, two people have been killed in Halle,&#8221; a law enforcement spokesperson said in a statement reported by the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-shooting-synagogue-attack-latest-halle-today-shooter-death-toll-grenade-a9148791.html">Independent</a>. &#8220;Several shots were fired. The alleged perpetrators are fleeing in a vehicle. We are asking the public to stay in their homes.&#8221;
Witnesses told German media they saw at least one of the attackers, dressed in tactical gear, open fire and then flee to a car, CBS reports. Video posted on social media appears to confirm the witness accounts, showing a suspect in &#8220;tactical gear including body armor and a helmet firing several rounds&#8221; with an unidentified weapon, the network notes.
Video has emerged showing a man dressed in tactical gear getting out of a silver car and firing what appears to be a shotgun down the street multiple times (via the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7554173/Gunman-shoots-dead-woman-outside-German-synagogue-goes-run.html">Daily Mail</a>):
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Authorities say there were at least two locations targeted around the Anschlag vor Synagogue in Halle, resulting in two fatalities. According to <a href="https://www.mz-web.de/halle-saale/schiesserei-im-paulusviertel-polizei---hallenser-sollen-in-ihren-wohnungen-bleiben-33289538">local media</a>, after reportedly attempting to break into the synagogue, which holds around 80 worshippers, one suspect reportedly shot and killed a passerby outside.
&#8220;The <a class="body-link" href="https://www.bild.de/regional/sachsen-anhalt/sachsen-anhalt-news/schiesserei-in-halle-mindestens-ein-toter-65233386.bild.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-vars-item-name="BL-9148791-https://www.bild.de/regional/sachsen-anhalt/sachsen-anhalt-news/schiesserei-in-halle-mindestens-ein-toter-65233386.bild.html" data-vars-event-id="c6">Bild </a>newspaper reported that the attacker used a submachine gun in the assault, and threw a hand grenade into the cemetery,&#8221; the Independent reports.
Another victim was found at a nearby kebab shop.
&#8220;Konrad Rösler, a 28-year-old railway worker interviewed on German TV, said that he had been in a kebab shop when he saw a man with a helmet and military jacket launch the attack,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7554173/Gunman-shoots-dead-woman-outside-German-synagogue-goes-run.html">Daily Mail</a> reports. &#8220;Rösler said the attacker threw a grenade at the shop, which bounced off the door frame, before he fired shots into the shop. He said he locked himself in the toilet and heard several more loud bangs before police arrived.&#8221;
In the town of Landsberg, about 20 minutes away from Halle, another shooting was reported when a taxi driver was injured after an attempted hijacking, <a class="body-link" href="https://www.bild.de/regional/sachsen-anhalt/sachsen-anhalt-news/schiesserei-in-halle-mindestens-ein-toter-65233386.bild.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-vars-item-name="BL-9148791-https://www.bild.de/regional/sachsen-anhalt/sachsen-anhalt-news/schiesserei-in-halle-mindestens-ein-toter-65233386.bild.html" data-vars-event-id="c6">Bild</a> reports. The Independent notes that police have not confirmed a connection between the incidents.
A police spokesman told the press that they do not yet have &#8220;any indication about the motive of this act.&#8221;
As reported by CBS, the attack comes amid an <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rise-of-extreme-nationalist-groups-in-germany-return-of-anti-semitic-acts/">increase in anti-Semitic acts</a> in Germany, authorities citing over 400 reports of anti-Semitic attacks in the first half of 2018, which constitutes a 10% increase over the previous year. CBS links the attacks to &#8220;a marked rise of extreme nationalist groups in Germany.&#8221;
The Independent reports that the attack comes two days after a 32-year-old Syrian man allegedly hijacked a truck and deliberately drove it into victims, resulting in multiple minor injuries and an investigation into possible Islamist motivations.
This is a developing story; updates to come as more information comes to light.

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You may have read about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/devlin-californias-new-ethnic-studies-model-bradley-devlin">proposed ethnic studies curriculum</a> developed for California public high schools, which caused an uproar because of its biased treatment of Jews and Israel, support for the <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/boycott-divestment-sanctions-movement-bds">Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions</a> movement against Israel, and fear that it fomented anti-Semitism. That is one of many battles over curricula as Islamists attempt to rewrite history and erase any mention of Islamic extremism.
The “Islamophobia” industry is engaged in a systemic effort to whitewash the history of Islam and perpetuate the myth that Islam has always been nothing but peaceful toward non-adherents. These propagandists seek to silence and smear their critics as “Islamophobic.”
We have seen this effort across college campuses, which have received nearly $3 billion since 2012 from Arab/Muslim states and individuals who hope to influence the next generation of Americans to adopt their view of Middle East geopolitics. These investments have paid off via the hiring of apologists for Islamist terror who teach, write textbooks, and serve as sources for the media.
Historian Martin Kramer has <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jihad-as-unarmed-struggle">noted</a> how American scholars have made “a deliberate effort to &#8230; turn Islam into a pacifist faith — a kind of oriental Quakerism.”
Equally disturbing, as I wrote in my book <a href="http://mitchellbard.com/lobby.html">The Arab Lobby</a>, is an increasing effort to shape the views of children from kindergarten through high school. The 9/11 terror attacks provoked fear and misunderstanding about Muslims and Islam, while political correctness allowed the lobby to present its sanitized version of events aimed at downplaying Arab/Muslim distinctions, ignoring differences in values and interests, and dismissing links between radical Islam and terror.
U.S. taxpayers underwrite some of these efforts through government-funded Title VI Middle East Studies centers at major universities. Today’s “Islamophobia” lobby has an exponential impact through these centers, whose mandate is to educate teachers about the region. As I’ve <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/11/08/taxpayer-funded-bias-on-middle-east-invades-k-12-classrooms/">documented</a>, as part of their obligation to engage in outreach, these Title VI-affiliated centers often produce materials that reflect the lobby’s views. Teachers then pass on these views to their students.
Advancing the same politicized agenda that rules academia, Islamist organizations have allied with left-wing interest groups and pressured publishers to revise textbooks to better reflect multicultural ideologies. The result is a reluctance to discuss negative aspects of sharia law (such as the discriminatory treatment of non-believers, women, and gays), the role of radical Islam in pervading terrorism, and the Islamist animus toward the United States, Israel, and the West. A 2008 <a href="http://mylifepath.info/library/index.php?keyword=The+Trouble+with+Textbooks%3A+Distorting+History+and+Religion&amp;subid2=2019-08-28&amp;first_subid=34-290-201909290545463ac5b6ddc">study</a> by Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra concluded:
<blockquote>Discovering in our schools a pervasive set of erroneous beliefs about such a vital topic should alarm every taxpayer, every parent, and every school official. To allow biased textbooks and outright propaganda in supplemental materials into the schools is to pervert the very purpose of public education and a misuse of our democratic system.</blockquote>
One such battle occurring in Virginia’s Loudoun County centers around the misrepresentation of the meaning of jihad. Loudoun’s presentation of <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jihad">jihad</a> and Islamic terrorism were criticized for bias. While it is understandable that American Muslims would not want their religion associated with radicalism, teaching that jihad is a wholly benign concept related to a believer’s internal struggle distorts the term’s meaning by ignoring its relationship to extremism, even as terrorist organizations — such as <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/palestine-islamic-jihad">Palestine Islamic Jihad</a> — use the very word itself to convey their malignant mission.
As Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis once <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-evolution-of-the-concept-of-jihad">explained</a>: “Conventionally translated ‘holy war,’ [jihad] has the literal meaning of &#8230; ‘striving in the path of God’ (fi sabil Allah). Some Muslim theologians … have interpreted the duty of ‘striving in the path of God’ in a spiritual and moral sense. The overwhelming majority of early authorities … discuss jihad in military terms.”
The “Islamophobia” lobby could veto Lewis, a Jew smeared by critics as a Western-oriented propagandist. But textbook authors could also cite the medieval Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun, who <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/org.oclc.lac.ui.DialABookServlet?oclcnum=318070877">wrote</a>: “In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the (Muslim) mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.”
Students can find a more contemporary definition in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, where Emile Tyan <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jihad-as-unarmed-struggle">wrote</a>: “Jihad consists of military action with the object of the expansion of Islam.”
Learning the meaning of jihad is also key for students to understand the Middle East today, where the commitment to jihad by terrorist organizations such as Palestine Islamic Jihad and Hamas perpetuates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Students should learn, for example, that Palestine Islamic Jihad considers jihad the only way to liberate Palestine. A Tel Aviv University analysis explains how the group believes that a “Muslim victory and the elimination of Israel are foreordained by God’s words in the Quran.”
By reading primary documents, students can see for themselves the true meaning of jihad. To understand the ideology of <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hamas-table-of-contents">Hamas</a>, teachers can direct them to the group’s <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hamas-covenant-full-text">charter</a>, which states that “[t]here is no solution for the Palestine question except through jihad” and calls on Muslims to “raise the banner of jihad” to “rid the land and the people of their uncleanliness, vileness and evils.”
American public schools could also use material taught about Islam in Muslim schools. A <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/a-survey-of-saudi-textbooks">study</a> of Saudi textbooks, for example, found that many “encourage both violent and non-violent jihad against non-believers.”
A Palestinian <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/palestinian-textbook-calls-for-jihad-and-martyrdom-november-2003">textbook</a> for eleventh graders offered a definition of jihad very different from the one proposed for Loudoun school children: “Jihad is an Islamic term that equates to the term war in other nations. The difference is that jihad has noble goals and lofty aims and is carried out only for the sake of Allah and for His glory.”
Unquestionably, students should learn more about Islam. But they should learn it from unbiased sources, not from apologists for Islamism. It is a disservice, and intellectually dishonest, to teach them a sanitized version of history that whitewashes the extremist elements of the religion. If the “Islamophobia” lobby has its way, the next generation will grow up unaware and unprepared to face the danger from Islamists who threaten American lives, values, and interests.
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Mitchell Bard, a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/fellows.php">Campus Watch Fellow</a> with the <a href="https://www.meforum.org">Middle East Forum</a>, is the author/editor of 22 books, including the 2017 edition of Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, The Arab Lobby, and the novel After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine.

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Two U.S. congressmen are asking the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission to reveal the details of its investigation into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kids-philadelphia-muslim-society-we-will-ryan-saavedra">April 2019 video</a> of Muslim children from a Philadelphia mosque performing anti-Semitic skits and singing violent songs.
<a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/children-philadelphia-muslim-society-we-will-sacrifice-ourselves-al-aqsa-will-chop-their">The shocking video</a> was presented by the Muslim American Society Islamic Center and Masjid A-Hidaya Mosque in Philadelphia in celebration of “<a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/ummah_day_in_philadelphia.html#ixzz60XAmVhmX">Ummah Day.</a>” As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kids-philadelphia-muslim-society-we-will-ryan-saavedra">reported</a> at the time by The Daily Wire, the video featured Muslim children singing,
<blockquote>We will chop off their heads … we will lead the army of Allah fulfilling his promise, we will subject them to eternal torture … we will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies … sacrifice our souls without hesitation.</blockquote>
Following multiple press articles, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations <a href="https://www.apnews.com/d3c30af9eb174e78a8b04ae201ac509b">announced</a> an investigation into the event.
But more than five months have elapsed — with no follow-up from the Commission regarding its findings. Recently, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) sent a <a href="https://zeldin.house.gov/sites/zeldin.house.gov/files/09.12.2019-FINAL_0.pdf">letter</a> to the Commission’s executive director, Rue Landau, requesting an update of its findings and asking whether further investigation needs to be made by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The letter also informed Landau of the Muslim American Society’s (MAS) role as an “overt arm” of the Muslim Brotherhood and notes that “several senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood are designated as terrorists.” Perry and Zeldin also noted that, given the Muslim American Society has 50 chapters throughout the United States, the results of the Philadelphia investigation are of national importance in trying to understand the role played by the organization and similar groups in indoctrinating American Muslims children towards <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lee-baird-recent-conference-highlights-emboldened-martha-lee">extremist Islamism</a>.
Contacted about the letter, Landau did not respond.
The disturbing video received both local and national attention at the time, but why is there only continuing interest in the results of the Commission’s investigation from a congressman from New York and a congressman from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania?
Where are the voices coming from lawmakers in Philadelphia — or the voices from local Muslim organizations purporting to be advocates for human rights?
The Philadelphia City Council has not taken action, either. While Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones <a href="http://legislation.phila.gov/transcripts/Stated%20Meetings/2019/sm040419.pdf">prepared a city council resolution</a> in outrage over Pennsylvania Representative Delegate Stephanie Borowicz’s references to Jesus in a State House invocation during the swearing-in of Muslim State Representative Movita Johnson-Harrell, there has been no similar resolutions or outrage over the Muslim American Society’s promotion of songs about beheading Jews. Calls and emails to Jones and other councilmen asking if they too would add their voices in requesting an update from the Commission were ignored.
The Masjid Al-Hidaya Mosque, where the video was filmed, sits in the congressional district of Congressman Brendan Boyle and neighbors the district covered by Congressman Dwight Evans. Calls to each congressman’s local office revealed no awareness of the Zeldin/Perry letter, although staffers suggested they would investigate the matter further.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)’s Philadelphia chapter responded to MAS’ head-chopping video with a press release at the time: “<a href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=536562&amp;f=87515&amp;s=92595&amp;m=992797&amp;t=fb532d90aa0066a36ae360a77a2789125f87202761881ec465f4ea390c6c3700">Muslim Community Condemns Anti-Semitism</a>.” CAIR-Philadelphia executive director Jacob Bender was careful to add: “We should be careful, however, not to conflate criticism of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians with anti-Semitism. Thousands of American and Israeli Jews like myself are critical of the oppressive policies of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.”
The CAIR-PA’s <a href="https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/cair-philadelphias-distorted-view-of-children-singing-about-beheadings-and-of-the-san-diego-synagogue-attack/">weak response</a> is a reminder of the historic relationship between MAS and CAIR. As federal prosecutors have <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA-Plaintiff-Appellee-v-Sabri-BENKAHLA-Defendant-A....pdf">previously argued:</a>
<blockquote>CAIR and MAS omit reference to a shared background that limits their membership to those of a particular political bent, and undercuts their credibility. The Muslim Brotherhood is a generally covert international organization whose credo is ‘Allah is our goal; the Qur&#8217;an is our constitution; the Prophet is our leader; Struggle is our way; and death in the path of Allah is our highest aspiration.’</blockquote>
CAIR-Philadelphia has a history of running substantial campaigns whenever they wish to highlight issues of concern to them. That includes a <a href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=536562&amp;f=87515&amp;s=92595&amp;m=996529&amp;t=fb532d90aa0066a36ae360a77a2789125f87202761881ec465f4ea390c6c3700">recent effort targeting Starbucks</a> over the name on a Muslim man’s coffee cup. But they have issued no apparent follow-up regarding the MAS video — or the remedial training CAIR was <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/video-muslim-american-society-children-violent-mosque-philadelphia-20190515.html">supposed to have provided </a>to following the incident.
The Zeldin/Perry letter seeking disclosure of the Commission’s findings regarding MAS is a worthwhile effort. It’s a shame that local officials do not seem nearly as motivated in responding to an incident that has tarred Philadelphia’s reputation and raised serious questions about growing levels of Islamist anti-Semitism in the City of Brotherly Love.
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Leonard  Getz, CPA, is an associate in Philadelphia for <a href="http://www.counterislamist.org/">the Counter-Islamist Grid (CIG)</a> and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The American Thinker, The Algemeiner, PJMedia, Lifestyles Magazine, Nostalgia Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere.

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The progressive Democrats&#8217; coordinated attempt to take down the relatively moderate Democratic frontrunner has ratcheted up in recent days, and freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar is adding her radical left voice to the anti-Joe Biden chorus.
As a recent poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers found Biden now losing to progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Iowa, the more radical wing of the party held a &#8220;people&#8217;s forum&#8221; in the state Saturday put on by various far-left grassroots groups designed to serve as an &#8220;antidote,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/22/ilhan-omar-joe-biden-iowa-peoples-presidential-forum">The Guardian</a> put it, to the Polk County Steak Fry, a much larger event which drew 17 of the Democratic presidential candidates and some 12,000 attendees.
Among those at the Iowa People&#8217;s Presidential Forum were Warren, democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former housing secretary Julián Castro. Notably absent from the progressive grassroots event was Biden, who wasn&#8217;t invited by the event organizer, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action, after his campaign failed to fill out a questionnaire.
In comments that quickly made headlines, Rep. Omar, who has repeatedly come under fire for anti-Semitic comments and her openly hostile stance toward Israel, offered her rather blunt opinion on Biden as the potential Democratic nominee to The Guardian.
In her remarks at the event, Omar declared that the Democratic Party needs &#8220;a president who realises we are not just fighting for one election, we are fighting for the very soul of our democracy and what society we want to become.&#8221;
When The Guardian asked Omar if Biden could fill that role, she made clear she does not believe he could.
&#8220;There are few people who fit into the kind of progress that we all want to see in this country. And I would say he is not one of them,&#8221; she told the outlet.
&#8220;I think it has been very clear to many of the people who have been creating the kind of movement that is exciting generations, that we want somebody who really has a plan that is going to tackle a lot of the systematic challenges that we have, and he doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; she added.
In its report on Omar&#8217;s comments, The Guardian describes her as &#8220;one of four new members of the House of Representatives racially abused by Donald Trump,&#8221; an apparent reference to Trump telling the four radical congresswomen known as &#8220;The Squad&#8221; to &#8220;go back&#8221; to where they came from (Omar alone of the four is an immigrant). The Guardian notably fails to mention Omar&#8217;s own <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49607/ilhan-omar-introduce-pro-bds-resolution-bds-ryan-saavedra">racially inflammatory rhetoric and actions</a> directed at Jews and Israel.
A new <a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/09/21/desmoinescnnpoll.pdf%E2%80%8B">Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom</a> poll of &#8220;likely Democratic caucusgoers&#8221; in Iowa released Saturday found Warren surging ahead of Biden for the first time.
&#8220;Sen. Elizabeth Warren came out on top with 22% of respondents selecting her as their first choice, and 20% as their second choice,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52095/poll-elizabeth-warren-blows-past-joe-biden-iowa-frank-camp">The Daily Wire</a> reported. &#8220;Former Vice President Joe Biden, long considered the front-runner of the Democratic race, came in second, with 20% of respondents selecting him as their first choice, and only 10% as their second choice. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came in a distant third place, with just 11% selecting him as their first choice, and 10% as their second.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50823/palestinian-authority-cracks-down-lgbt-group-ilhan-james-barrett">Palestinian Authority Cracks Down On LGBT Group; Ilhan Omar Responds By Bashing Israel</a>

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Ilhan Omar Declares War On Joe Biden

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Elizabeth Warren

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Donald Trump Jr. slammed another editor for The New York Times on Sunday after a news report revealed that the editor had made numerous racist and anti-Semitic comments on Twitter.
Jazmine Hughes, an editor at The New York Times Magazine, made the remarks according to a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/09/22/another-new-york-times-editor-made-racist-anti-semitic-comments/">report</a> from Breitbart News, which noted that Hughes&#8217; &#8220;most recent project for the Times&#8217; magazine was the 1619 Project, a comprehensive series of articles and essays arguing that slavery was the institution that fundamentally shaped the modern United States.&#8221;
Hughes made numerous condescending remarks about white people and promoted anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish people and money.
Trump Jr. tweeted: &#8220;I started to make a list of all the racist, anti-Semitic @NYTimes employees who&#8217;ve made cookie-cutter &#8216;apologies&#8217; and kept their jobs &#8230; But I quickly realized there just aren&#8217;t enough hours left in the day.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I started to make a list of all the racist, anti-Semitic <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYTimes</a> employees who’ve made cookie-cutter “apologies” and kept their jobs&#8230; But I quickly realized there just aren’t enough hours left in the day. <a href="https://t.co/LkA0RME4TI">https://t.co/LkA0RME4TI</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1175942254265020419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The uncovered tweets come less than a week after more bigoted tweets from New York Times fact-checker Gina Chérélus were unearthed, which Trump Jr. also called out on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Another day, another bigot exposed at the @nytimes. Are they ever going to do anything to address the rampant hatred at their paper?&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Another day, another bigot exposed at the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>. Are they ever going to do anything to address the rampant hatred at their paper? <a href="https://t.co/FfFSrkjC7l">https://t.co/FfFSrkjC7l</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1174108528728039424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The tweets from Chérélus featured &#8220;homophobic and racial slurs as well as animus toward other racial groups dating back several years ago,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51906/trump-jr-blasts-new-york-times-after-more-bigoted-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>.
The bigoted tweets from Chérélus came after another New York Times editor, Tom Wright-Piersanti, had his old anti-Semitic tweets <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/22/exclusive-crappy-jew-year-new-york-times-editors-antisemitism-racism-exposed/">published</a> by Breitbart News late last month.
So far it does not appear that The New York Times has taken any action against any of their employees whose bigoted tweets have surfaced.
Ben Domenech, co-founder of The Federalist, wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Was anyone held accountable for the obvious NYT social media and opinion failures in the past week? Anyone?&#8221;
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— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1175934541149679616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The New York Times had to face charges of racism against white people last year after they hired Sarah Jeong to be on their editorial board and numerous bigoted tweets from her were unearthed and instantly went viral,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported. &#8220;The New York Times has also has also faced recent scandals over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46501/nyt-ripped-anti-semitic-cartoon-non-apology-ryan-saavedra">anti-Semitic</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46523/anti-semitic-new-york-times-runs-another-cartoon-hank-berrien">cartoons</a> it has published and over offensive tweets about <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/09/11/new-york-times-deletes-tweet-saying-airplanes-took-aim-at-towers-on-9-11/">9/11</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-deletes-tweet-calling-mao-zedong-one-of-historys-great-revolutionary-figures">Mao Zedong</a>, and <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/09/17/ny-times-reporter-who-co-wrote-kavanaugh-book-cops-to-writing-penis-tweet/">sexual assault</a>.&#8221;
The latest series of bigoted tweets to surface from New York Times employees comes after &#8220;Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, said recently that, after the Mueller report, the paper has to shift the focus of its coverage from the Trump-Russia affair to the president&#8217;s alleged racism,&#8221; The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/new-york-times-chief-outlines-coverage-shift-from-trump-russia-to-trump-racism">reported</a>.
The drama involving the Twitter accounts of the newspaper&#8217;s employees comes as the newspaper also has dealt with more than a week of fallout over its failed attempt to smear Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The allegation, contained in a new book, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51805/breaking-new-york-times-adds-correction-kavanaugh-ryan-saavedra">published</a> by The New York Times on Sunday: &#8220;We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez&#8217;s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.&#8221;
The Federalists&#8217; Mollie Hemingway noted: &#8220;The book notes, quietly, that the woman Max Stier named as having been supposedly victimized by Kavanaugh and friends denies any memory of the alleged event. Seems, I don&#8217;t know, significant.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">The book notes, quietly, that the woman Max Stier named as having been supposedly victimized by Kavanaugh and friends denies any memory of the alleged event. Seems, I don’t know, significant.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1173203831397801984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times was later forced to issue a correction to their reporting: &#8220;An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book&#8217;s account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.&#8221;
The reporters then went on a media tour where they deflected blame for the smear article onto their editors and were again caught spreading more lies, as noted by Hemingway.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">NYT authors <a href="https://twitter.com/rpogrebin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rpogrebin</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/katekelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katekelly</a> conceded the lack of evidence for anti-Kavanaugh forces, but said that their &#8220;gut&#8221; told them to believe them. One &#8220;reason&#8221; they cited? Pro-Kavanaugh witnesses &#8220;kept mum.&#8221; That was yet another lie they spread. <a href="https://t.co/N5q3SJCrhB">https://t.co/N5q3SJCrhB</a>
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1174174388813467649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump Jr. Rips Another New York Times Editor Over ‘Racist,’ ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweets

Media

New York Times

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) rushed to the defense of a woman voted on to and then promptly voted off of the Women&#8217;s March board this week, calling the campaign to fire Zahra Billoo, who is accused of making anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements, a product of &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;
Last week, the Women&#8217;s March made headlines for cutting ties with three embattled founding members of its board — Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Bob Bland — all of whom were accused of making anti-Semitic remarks or supporting anti-Semitic statements within the March&#8217;s leadership, forging and maintaining ties between the Women&#8217;s March and the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, and, as was revealed in a New York Times expose last year, making life uncomfortable for Jewish women in the March&#8217;s upper eschelons.
Bland was with the Women&#8217;s March from the beginning and is widely regarded as instrumental in the March&#8217;s initial success. Sarsour and Mallory joined the board after the March had been founded, but quickly took to defining the March&#8217;s public face. Sarsour is a longtime supporter of the anti-Semitic &#8220;boycott, divest, and sanction&#8221; movement and has made plenty of questionable public statements about Israel. Mallory is closely connected to the Nation of Islam and its virulently anti-Semitic preacher, Louis Farrakhan, and repeatedly refused to distance herself from his anti-Jewish statements and beliefs.
Last week, the March, facing declining membership and embarrasingly low turnout for its last several national events, cut ties with the three women, adding in a statement that the trio are moving on to other things.
&#8220;Bland and Mallory, who served as co-presidents of the organization, will be formally replaced when the new board convenes for its first meeting this month,&#8221; the organization said, adding that they plan to &#8220;transition &#8216;onto other projects focused on advocacy within their respective organizations.'&#8221;
Unfortunately, the move did little to cleanse the organization of anti-Semitism. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51848/womens-march-cuts-ties-old-anti-semites-brings-new-hank-berrien">They quickly picked up Zahra Billoo</a>, the leader of San Francisco&#8217;s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and herself a noted anti-Israel activist and supporter of BDS.
After Billoo&#8217;s commentary came to light — commentary that included claims that Israel &#8220;commits war crimes as a hobby&#8221; and &#8220;kills children as a hobby&#8221; — she was also booted from the Women&#8217;s March board. She took to Twitter to denouce the move as driven by &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in a 25-plus-tweet social media tantrum.
Her ouster, she claimed, was &#8220;driven by people who oppose me and my work challenging the occupation of Palestine, our country&#8217;s perpetuation of unjust and endless wars, and law enforcement operations targeting the American Muslim community.&#8221;
Always one to rush to the defense of a fellow anti-Israel activist, Tlaib voiced her own concerns about the Women&#8217;s March&#8217;s Islamophobia on Saturday. Quote-tweeting Billoo, Tlaib claimed, &#8220;we have the truth on our side.&#8221;
&#8220;#FreePalestine always sis! They won&#8217;t silence us for speaking out against human rights violations. They will lie, smear our names and call us anti this and that, but we always be pro- humanity &amp; we have the truth on our side. Stay strong @ZahraBilloo,&#8221; Tlaib tweeted.
Rashida Tlaib is, of course, no stranger to anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments. She&#8217;s been repeatedly accused of espousing anti-Semitic sentiments and openly supports the BDS movement. She&#8217;s also rushed to the defense of others who share her beliefs, including notorious Palestinian activist Abbas Hamideh, who worked on Tlaib&#8217;s campaign and attended exclusive events to mark her inauguration.

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Rashida Tlaib DEFENDS Latest Women’s March Board Member Voted Out Over Anti-Semitic Comments

Linda Sarsour

Rashida Tlaib

Social justice activist and MSNBC host Al Sharpton testified on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee as an &#8220;expert&#8221; witness on policing practices in the United States, but when a Republican congressman from Florida asked about a resolution submitted in 2000 by former Rep. Joe Scarborough, now one of Sharpton&#8217;s fellow MSNBC hosts, the hearing quickly unraveled.
When given a chance to asked Sharpton a few questions Thursday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) pulled out a copy of Scarborough&#8217;s House Concurrent Resolution 270 &#8220;Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton,&#8221; which Scarborough submitted to the Judiciary Committee back in March of 2000 (full text below).
&#8220;Mr. Scarborough&#8217;s resolution began by saying, &#8216;Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as &#8220;bloodsucking [J]ews&#8221;, and &#8220;Jew bastards&#8221;,'&#8221; Gaetz read. &#8220;My question to you is does Mr. Scarborough&#8217;s assertion that you said these things, is that true or did you not say those things?&#8221;
&#8220;They are patently untrue,&#8221; said Sharpton, clearly agitated by the question.
As Sharpton and Gaetz begin to talk over each other, Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) sided with Sharpton, saying since &#8220;aspersions&#8221; had been cast against him, he should be allowed to speak.
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m sorry, Mr. Chairman, aspersions weren&#8217;t cast,&#8221; countered Gaetz, noting that he was asking Sharpton if the claims in the resolution submitted by Scarborough were true.
Appearing to be increasingly annoyed, Nadler brought the gavel down again, this time with a little more force, and again gave the floor to Sharpton.
&#8220;The answer is no, that was not true,&#8221; said Sharpton of the infamous comments. He then noted that he and Scarborough are now colleagues at MSNBC.
But Gaetz wasn&#8217;t done. He then asked Sharpton about the resolution&#8217;s assertion that he &#8220;has referred to members of the Jewish faith as &#8216;white interlopers&#8221; and &#8216;diamond merchants,'&#8221; a reference to inflammatory rhetoric Sharpton made amid the ultimately deadly <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/why-is-al-sharpton-inciter-of-crown-heights-speaking-at-a-jewish-conference-in-washington">Crown Heights riots</a>.
&#8220;No, sir,&#8221; said Sharpton. &#8220;I referred to one [Jewish man] in Harlem, an individual, who I didn&#8217;t even know was Jewish, as an &#8216;interloper,&#8217; and said I never should have referred to his race.&#8221; He went on to explain why he cited &#8220;apartheid diamonds&#8221; in his famous comments at a funeral in Crown Heights.
Gaetz went on to ask Sharpton about more of his past statements documented in the resolution, eventually stating, &#8220;Reverend Sharpton has come before the House Judiciary Committee as a purported expert on policing. Yet his bigoted statements undermine the bipartisan work we should be doing to ensure that all citizens are able to come together and have safe communities.&#8221;
Sharpton swiped back at Gaetz, stating, &#8220;Yelling, and getting upset is beneath your office. You should calm down.&#8221;
At one point, Democratic Florida Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee interrupted to declare the questions an &#8220;outrage.&#8221; Nadler condemned Gaetz&#8217;s questions as &#8220;obnoxious,&#8221; but admitted that he had to allow him to ask his questions.
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Below is the full text of Scarborough&#8217;s <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/270/text">House Concurrent Resolution 270</a> &#8220;Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton&#8221; submitted to the Judiciary Committee on March 8, 2000:
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Whereas the Congress strongly rejects the racist and incendiary actions of the Reverend Al Sharpton;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as &#8220;bloodsucking [J]ews&#8221;, and &#8220;Jew bastards&#8221;;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as &#8220;white interlopers&#8221; and &#8220;diamond merchants&#8221;;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton was found guilty of defamation by a jury in a New York court arising from the false accusation that former Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones, who is white, raped and assaulted a fifteen year-old black girl;
Whereas, to this day, the Reverend Al Sharpton has refused to accept responsibility and expresses no regret for defaming Mr. Pagones;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton&#8217;s vicious verbal anti-Semitic attacks directed at members of the Jewish faith, and in particular, a Jewish landlord, arising from a simple landlord-tenant dispute with a black tenant, incited widespread violence, riots, and the murder of five innocent people;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton&#8217;s fierce demagoguery incited violence, riots, and murder in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, following the accidental death of a black pedestrian child hit by the motorcade of Orthodox Rabbi Menachem Schneerson;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton led a protest in the Crown Heights neighborhood and marched next to a protester with a sign that read, &#8220;The White Man is the Devil&#8221;;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has insulted members of the Jewish faith by challenging Jews to violence and stating to Jews to &#8220;pin down&#8221; their yarmulkes; and
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has practiced the politics of racial division and made inflammatory remarks against whites by characterizing the death of Amadou Diallo as a &#8220;racially motivated police &#8216;assassination&#8221;&#8217;:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That the Congress&#8211;
(1) condemns the practices of the Reverend Al Sharpton, which seek to divide Americans on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion;
(2) expresses its outrage over the violence that has resulted due to the Reverend Al Sharpton&#8217;s incendiary words and actions; and
(3) fervently urges elected officials and public servants, who have condoned and legitimized the Reverend Al Sharpton&#8217;s incendiary words and actions, to publicly denounce and condemn such racist and anti-Semitic views.
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WATCH: Hearing Explodes When Republican Asks Sharpton About Past ‘Racist And Anti-Semitic’ Statements

Al Sharpton

Joe Scarborough

Just days after appointing her, the Women&#8217;s March, which has come under fire for the anti-Semitism of its past leaders, was forced to remove its newest board member, Zahra Billoo, for extreme statements she made on social media. Billoo responded by posting a lengthy thread on Twitter denouncing the group and blaming her removal on an &#8220;Islamophobic smear campaign.&#8221;
The ouster of Billoo came in response to a series of past statements the activist and former executive director at the controversy-riddled Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) made on social media about Israel.
As reported by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/16/womens-march-board-us-military-isis/">The Daily Caller</a>, in 2017 posts on Facebook and Twitter, Billoo defended her decision to boycott &#8220;Wonder Woman&#8221; because it stars Gal Gadot, who once served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). &#8220;I similarly would not watch a movie where the lead actor or actress were proud of their participation in the US military, ISIS, or Al Qaeda,&#8221; Billoo explained. &#8220;Don&#8217;t guess, I&#8217;ll just tell you, I believe all of them are comparably evil.&#8221; She went on to call Gadot a &#8220;murderer&#8221; and to condemn &#8220;Apartheid Israel.&#8221;
In February 2018, Billoo posted on Facebook an account of her encounter with a Marine recruiter in which she compared American military to ISIS and Nazis. &#8220;He explained the promise of the educational benefits lured him in. He was otherwise not going to be able to go to school,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I shared that financial benefits are often a recruiting tactic for groups like ISIS also. That was tricky for me. Gently comparing his experience to that of ISIS fighters. I refrained from comparing him to a Nazi cook, who though a cook, was still part of the Nazi operation. It took a lot to not say it.&#8221;
She also said in May 2018 that she doesn&#8217;t see &#8220;any difference between American youth leaving the country to join ISIS or the IDF,&#8221; declaring, &#8220;Both are murderous, war crime committing, terrorist entities.&#8221; (<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2019/09/16/womens-march-board-us-military-isis/">See the posts here</a>.)
The Women&#8217;s March, which has had to dismiss other high-profile leaders, Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, for their anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions, voted Billoo out just days after voting her in, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2019/09/19/womens-march-leader-zahra-billoo-anti-semitism/">The Daily Caller</a> notes in a follow-up report.
In a 25-tweet thread posted late Wednesday night, Billoo unloaded on the Women&#8217;s March, which she decried as having caved to an &#8220;Islamophobic smear campaign&#8221; and which she denounced as &#8220;unable and unwilling to be an ally during challenging times.&#8221; She also made clear that she stands by her extreme statements that ultimately compelled the group to remove her.
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Since this is going to be in your newsfeeds in the morning &#8211; here&#8217;s a thread about me being voted off the board of <a href="https://twitter.com/womensmarch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WomensMarch</a> tonight 1/
&#8212; Zahra Billoo (@ZahraBilloo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZahraBilloo/status/1174579933642756097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Below is the full text of her tweet thread (formatting adjusted):
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Since this is going to be in your newsfeeds in the morning &#8211; here&#8217;s a thread about me being voted off the board of @WomensMarch tonight.
A few hours ago, I was voted off the @WomensMarch national board. This followed an Islamophobic smear campaign led by the usual antagonists, who have long targeted me, my colleagues, and anyone else who dares speak out in support of Palestinian human rights and the right to self-determination.
The past 48 hours have been a spiral of bad news and smear efforts. Part of the smear campaign is motivated by opponents of the Women&#8217;s March, because the organization has traditionally challenged the status quo of power and white supremacy in our country.
However, much of the campaign is driven by people who oppose me and my work challenging the occupation of Palestine, our country&#8217;s perpetuation of unjust and endless wars, and law enforcement operations targeting the American Muslim community.
The Women&#8217;s March, Inc. is an organization I once held dear. I spoke at the first #WomensMarch, spoke at regional marches every year after, spoke at the #WomensConvention, participated in national actions including the original #Kavanaugh protests, and worked to mobilize Muslim women for their efforts.
During the past few years right-wingers, from the President&#8217;s son to the Anti-Defamation League and troll armies, have targeted the Women&#8217;s March, Inc. For so long, I&#8217;ve admired their resilience in speaking truth to power, in working together, and in never cowering.
Over and over again, the co-founders of Women&#8217;s March, Inc., @lsarsour, @msladyjustice1, @TamikaDMallory, and @bobblanddesign, put their lives on the line, winning power for all women in all of our diversity.
The Women&#8217;s March, Inc. that voted me off its board tonight is one that no longer demonstrates the strength that inspired millions of women across the country. To see and experience its new leaders caving to right-wing pressure, and casting aside a woman of color, a Muslim woman, a long-time advocate within the organization, without the willingness to make any efforts to learn and grow, breaks my heart.
This isn&#8217;t about a lost seat, there will be many seats. The Women&#8217;s March, Inc. has drawn a line in the sand, one that will exclude many with my lived experiences and critiques. It has effectively said, we will work on some women&#8217;s rights at the expense of others.
To be clear, anti-Semitism is indeed a growing and dangerous problem in our country, as is anti-Blackness, anti-immigrant sentiment, Islamophobia, ableism, sexism, and so much more. I condemn any form of bigotry unequivocally, but I also refuse to be silent as allegations of bigotry are weaponized against the most marginalized people, those who find sanctuary and hope in the articulation of truth.
In looking at the tweets in question, I acknowledge that I wrote passionately. While I may have phrased some of my content differently today, I stand by my words. I told the truth as my community and I have lived it, through the FBI&#8217;s targeting of my community, as I supported families who have lost loved ones because of US military actions, and as I learned from the horrific experiences of Palestinian life.
In attempting to heal and build in an expedited manner within Women&#8217;s March, Inc., I offered to meet with stakeholders to address their concerns, and to work with my sisters on the new board to learn, heal, and build together. These efforts were rejected. And in rejecting these efforts, the new Women&#8217;s March, Inc. board demonstrated that it lacks the courage to demonstrate allyship in the face of fire.
I came to Women&#8217;s March, Inc. to work. My body of work has included leading @CAIRSFBA a chapter of the nation&#8217;s largest Muslim civil rights organization for over a decade, growing it now more than six fold. I have led the team that forced Abercrombie to change its discriminatory policies, have been arrested advocating for DACA, partnered w/Jewish organizations including @jewishaction and @jvplive to protect our communities, and was one of the first lawyers to sue the President.
It is not my first time being the target of a smear campaign. The Women&#8217;s March, Inc., more than any place, is where I would have expected us to be able to have courageous conversations and dive deep into relationship building work. I am happy to have as many conversations as it takes to listen and learn and heal, but I will no longer be able to do that through Women&#8217;s March, Inc. This action today demonstrates that this new leadership is unable and unwilling to be an ally during challenging times.
My beliefs drive my work and I am not seeking accolades or positions of power. These past few days have been the greatest test of that. My integrity, my truth, and my strength comes from God and a place of deep conviction. I will continue my work as a civil rights lawyer and a faith based activist. You will find me speaking out against settler colonialism everywhere, challenging Islamophobia and all forms of racism and bigotry, and building with Muslims and our allies in our quest to be our most authentic and liberated selves. Onward, God willing.
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Zahra Billoo executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations San Francisco Bay Area Office

Women’s March Votes In New Leader, Ousts Her Days Later After Extreme Comments Emerge

Feminism

Sexism

Women's March

In a truly saddening but by no means unpredictable development, the <a href="https://amchainitiative.org">AMCHA Initiative</a>, which is a watchdog organization dedicated to investigating and combating anti-Semitism on university campuses across America, reported this week a <a href="https://mailchi.mp/amchainitiative/eliminationist-anti-zionism-report">70% rise</a> over the past year in anti-Semitic incidents directed against pro-Israel students on college campuses. As <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/report-anti-semitic-harassment-at-u-s-college-campuses-hits-historic-levels/">reported</a> by Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon, AMCHA noted a drop in &#8220;classical&#8221; white supremacist-inspired Jew-hatred targeted against Jews on university campuses, but a huge spike in Israel-related acts of harassment against Jews and other non-Jewish Zionists who stand in solidarity with the Jewish state.
The trend is hardly new, and The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38722/pitzer-college-faculty-goes-full-anti-israel-votes-hank-berrien">extensively</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47153/shocking-there-absolutely-appalling-anti-semitism-josh-hammer">covered</a> the years-long development of escalating anti-Semitic incidents on the American campus. Indeed, the <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/30/bds-in-politics-and-on-the-college-campus/">problem has been so bad</a> that a group wholly distinct from AMCHA but similarly dedicated to combating on-campus anti-Semitism was founded in 2015: <a href="https://www.maccabeetaskforce.org">Maccabee Task Force</a>. The question now facing the American Jewish and pro-Israel communities is simple: How can we begin to shift the on-campus narrative away from anti-Semitism and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46068/hammer-yes-united-states-was-right-deny-entry-bds-josh-hammer">Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions</a> movement and back toward a pro-Jewish, pro-Israel stance?
I have personally observed this ongoing fight across numerous college campuses and have been a part of more than one pro-Israel university event that was protested and/or forcibly shouted down by the Jew-hating miscreants of the misnamed hate group &#8220;Students for Justice in Palestine.&#8221; I have seen the vicious faces of those who yell &#8220;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nakba-day-catastrophe-palestinians-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-gaza-west-bank-hamas-a8346156.html">Nakba</a>!&#8221; and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38814/watch-cnns-hill-appears-call-elimination-israel-ryan-saavedra">genocidal eliminationist phrase</a>, &#8220;from the river to the sea, &#8216;Palestine&#8217; shall be free.&#8221; (One must wonder whether these people feel similarly about liberating other legally fictitious locales, such as Mordor or Narnia.) I also have seen many Israeli flag-wielding students push back with hapless pleas for &#8220;peace!,&#8221; &#8220;tolerance!,&#8221; and (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50850/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">unfortunately</a>) &#8220;two states!&#8221;
Do my fellow proud Zionists see the problem here? The Palestinian-Arab side of the argument may be genocidal and jihad-loving, but at least they present a morally framed narrative (no matter how grossly immoral that narrative actually is). The pro-Jewish/pro-Israel side, by contrast, tends toward an overly defensive, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45203/hammer-what-exactly-current-role-aipac-josh-hammer">AIPAC-inspired</a> defensive posture that relies on a non-substantive, purely procedural narrative.
Interestingly, then, the fight against Israel-inspired Jew-hatred on the university campus can actually learn much from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51891/hammer-american-mind-our-constitutional-order-josh-hammer">ongoing conservative dialogue</a> between the New York Post&#8217;s Sohrab Ahmari and National Review&#8217;s David French. Procedure-based arguments, especially when confronted with a substance-based argumentative opposition, are unlikely to be sufficient; the only way to truly make a dialectic dent is to argue on the substantive merits of an issue and argue in overtly moral terms. I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47964/hammer-conservatives-must-make-their-arguments-josh-hammer">wrote as much</a> in June: &#8220;Advocates for Israel on the American university campus must transition away from pleas for &#8216;peace&#8217; and &#8216;tolerance&#8217; and toward arguments grounded in the inherent, biblically derived morality of a Jewish state existing between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.&#8221;
This simply must be the path forward for Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus who are invested in helping to turn back the tide of rising on-campus anti-Semitism. Jewish and Zionist students must make the moral, historically informed case that Zionism &#8212; which is simply the Jewish right to self-determination in the Jews&#8217; biblical, ancestral homeland &#8212; is an inherently beautiful phenomenon. These courageous students must argue that the culmination of Herzl&#8217;s Zionist vision, the establishment in 1948 of a sovereign Jewish state in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israel">Eretz Yisrael </a>for the very first time in millennia, represents one of the most profoundly beautiful developments in human civilization over the course of the last century. These students must advance direct, overt, morally based arguments that defend the beauty of that Zionism. These students must also advance historically and legally informed arguments that rebut the utter <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYZBjoeeehg">mendacity that is &#8220;Nakba&#8221;</a> and other purported Palestinian-Arab <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/why-isnt-there-a-palestinian-state/">&#8220;national&#8221; humiliations</a>.
Appeasement and unilateral disarmament &#8212; here, in terms of the use of overt moral terminology &#8212; never work. The students who take the lead on this initiative will necessarily be bold. They will be valiant. And they will face mighty resistance from the leftist/Islamist alliance all across the nation. But these students will have the benefit of standing for truth, morality, and, fundamentally, justice. It&#8217;s time to get the ball rolling and begin to defeat on-campus Jew-hatred in America.

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HAMMER: How Pro-Israel Students On Campus Can Fight Back Against Jew-Hatred

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Protest

Students

Students for Justice in Palestine

Zionism

A New Jersey councilwoman, defending a colleague who reportedly used the term &#8220;Jew down&#8221; to describe a Jewish attorney&#8217;s negotiating tactics, initially said the term wasn&#8217;t anti-Semitic before outrage erupted and she apologized.
Trenton City Councilwoman Robin Vaughn, protesting that she didn&#8217;t remember Council President Kathy McBride reportedly using the term to describe Assistant City Attorney Peter Cohen&#8217;s successful negotiation with a local resident, saying he was &#8220;able to wait her out and Jew her down,&#8221; still defended McBride, asserting, &#8220;We really need to get a more acute meaning and understanding of &#8216;anti-Semitic.&#8217; I believe her comment &#8216;Jew down&#8217; was more in reference to negotiating, not &#8216;I hate Jews.&#8217; Inappropriate in today&#8217;s PC culture absolutely, but to Jew someone down is a verb and is not anti-anything or indicative of hating Jewish people.&#8221;
<a href="https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/trenton-councilwoman-calls-jew-down-a-verb-says-it-referred-to-negotiating-and-not-hate/?fbclid=IwAR044Ab7m5agT_o5jSBg8xrWaWCoinv4Az-JbSML7Y1gzeIT7Y8g9BeXbGU">The New Jersey Globe</a> reported, &#8220;But Vaughn appears to contradict her own statement, saying that McBride was not talking about a specific person but rather discussing the &#8216;settlement of a low-dollar amount.&#8221; After the New Jersey Globe <a href="https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/trenton-council-president-uses-jew-her-down-slur-in-meeting/">reported McBride&#8217;s alleged statements,</a> McBride stated, &#8220;I am not at privilege to speak about anything at executive session per the law that governs executive sessions. It was an executive session and by the law I am not privy to speak on that per the law.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.trentonian.com/news/trenton-mayor-demands-apology-over-council-president-kathy-mcbride-s/article_32e03d72-d662-11e9-a820-43207c79f7a4.html">The Trentonian</a> reported, &#8220;The Sept. 5 agenda showed the council met in executive session to discuss settling Vivian Soto&#8217;s lawsuit. Soto filed suit against the city in 2017, alleging she was seriously injured when she tripped over a downed tree on a city sidewalk in October 2016. The law department recommended settling the complaint for $22,500, according to a resolution.&#8221;
Councilman Jerrell Blakeley called for McBride&#8217;s resignation. He stated, &#8220;Anti-Semitism has no place in City Hall or anywhere in the world. If she is found to have said this anti-Semitic phrase, I think she should do the responsible thing and resign as city council president. This is not the first time she has used this phrase. I heard her say this same phrase months ago and privately admonished her about the hurt that this term causes to members of the Jewish community.&#8221;
Mayor Reed Gusciora stated: &#8220;As the Mayor of this City that encompasses diverse communities of racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds, I find this to be offensive. This anti-Semitic remark, particularly about an attorney in our law department who happens to be Jewish, should have no place in our public discourse. I hope that after some reflection you would apologize for these remarks.&#8221;
The New Jersey Globe noted that McBride was the third public official to use an anti-Semitic slur in the last month, adding, &#8220;One Tuesday, Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson accused a developer of trying to &#8216;Jew us down&#8217; on a major redevelopment project. Jeffrey Dye was fired from his job at the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development last month &#8211; and forced out of his post as Passaic NAACP president &#8211; after a history of anti-Semitic and anti-Latino comments became public.&#8221;
Vaughn, McBride, and Councilman George Muschal, who reportedly used &#8220;Jew down&#8221; while defending McBride, later apologized. <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/NJ-Politician-Apologizes-for-Using-Anti-Semitic-Trope-560739741.html">NBC Philadelphia</a> reported, &#8220;Councilwoman Robin Vaughn apologized in a statement on Wednesday, saying her comments defending Council President Kathy McBride were wrong and that she was &#8216;sincerely sorry.&#8217; McBride apologized at Tuesday&#8217;s council hearing. Councilman George Muschal, who also used the trope while defending McBride, apologized in a statement early Wednesday.&#8221;

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NJ Councilwoman Says &#8216;Jew Down&#8217; Isn&#8217;t Anti-Semitic, Later Apologizes

New Jersey

Last week, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, who frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">Jewish politics</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43388/hammer-anti-semites-ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-josh-hammer">anti-Semitism</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50850/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">Israel</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9FqCFk1pY">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the news that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) plans to deploy infamous anti-Semite and &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; co-founder Linda Sarsour as a campaign surrogate for his 2020 presidential bid.
Wheeler began by pointing out that the goal of a campaign surrogate is to articulate the goals, ideology, and policy initiatives of the political candidate. Wheeler opined that it is &#8220;pretty terrifying&#8221; for America that a 2020 presidential candidate has employed such an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38460/linda-sarsour-accuses-jews-who-oppose-anti-semitic-hank-berrien">overt</a> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/columnist/301325/omg-just-shut-up-an-open-letter-to-linda-sarsour/">anti-Semite</a>, and that it makes no difference that Sanders himself is ethnically Jewish. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter that he himself is of Jewish heritage,&#8221; Wheeler said of Sanders. &#8220;The policies that he&#8217;s going to be imposing on our nation &#8230; if they&#8217;re anything like Linda Sarsour&#8217;s, then they&#8217;re anti-Semitic.&#8221;
Hammer responded by excoriating Sanders, as he done in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43796/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">numerous</a> Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">op-eds</a>. Hammer also claimed that Sanders is, as Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro might <a href="https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&amp;q=jino%20(from%3Abenshapiro)&amp;src=typed_query">phrase</a> it, a &#8220;JINO&#8221;:
<blockquote>You know, in 2016, when Bernie Sanders was challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, back then he actually got in hot water with even some Jewish Democratic voters for falsifying statistics about the 2014 Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. He <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-accused-blood-libel-over-wrong-gaza-casualty-figures-444968">totally fabricated numbers</a> &#8230; he said that 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza died as a result of the IDF&#8217;s military campaign there [and] that number is off by orders of magnitude. So he has gotten in hot water in the past with Jewish Democratic voters, but this really ought to be a step too far.
He is bringing on someone who is the face of the BDS campaign — that is the same BDS campaign that is the number one leading anti-Semitic movement all across the world. [BDS is] on college campuses, across the U.N., and across the European left — Linda Sarsour is the face of that. And as you say, Liz, it makes no difference that Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Bernie Sanders may be ethnically Jewish, but he is, as my boss Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire might say: He really is a &#8220;<a href="http://twitter.com/search?lang=en&amp;q=jino%20(from%3Abenshapiro)&amp;src=typed_query">JINO</a>,&#8221; a Jew-in-name-only.
He doesn&#8217;t care about Judaism. He cares about leftism and, like so many secularists no matter what [their] purported religion is, Bernie Sanders <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">worships at the altar of the secular state</a>. He&#8217;s a leftist, a socialist to his core. That is his religion — his religion is not Judaism.</blockquote>
Wheeler responded by emphasizing the horrific litany of anti-Semitic things Linda Sarsour has said and the anti-Semitic actions she has taken:
<blockquote>Linda Sarsour supports the BDS movement. You talk[ed] about how she pals around with Rasmea Odeh, a convicted murderer in Israel who bombed students — killed students because they were in Israel. This is a friend of Linda Sarsour. So those are two things. Here are some other things.
Linda Sarsour has palled around with Louis Farrakhan. Louis Farrakhan is one of the most notorious anti-Semites who exists in our country today — who calls Jews &#8220;evil,&#8221; who wants to &#8220;take white men down.&#8221; Louis Farrakhan is a friend of Linda Sarsour whom she has not disavowed. Bernie Sanders himself, by the way, when we&#8217;re talking about views on Jews and anti-Semitism, Bernie Sanders called congresswoman Ilhan Omar and defended her [and] said that he didn&#8217;t think that she was an anti-Semite.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Hammer On ‘Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler’: Bernie Sanders Wants A Jew-Hater To Be His Campaign Surrogate

2020 Election

Democratic Party

Leftism

On Thursday, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, who frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">Jewish politics</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43388/hammer-anti-semites-ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-josh-hammer">anti-Semitism</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50850/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">Israel</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9hH2jloilc">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1170063071752151041">astonishing</a> rise in <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/430477/no-one-cares-about-attacks-against-the-orthodox-because-youve-been/">violent anti-Semitic incidents</a> in New York City in the year 2019.
Over this past week, there have been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beating-of-jewish-man-in-brooklyn-is-fourth-anti-semitic-attack-in-one-week">four violent anti-Semitic assaults</a> in Brooklyn, New York. Wheeler and Hammer discussed why it is the case that anti-Semitic violence may be on the rise and, just as importantly, why political leaders — which, in New York City, are nearly exclusively Democrats — seem to barely be paying attention to the harrowing phenomenon.
Wheeler began by pointing out how &#8220;Democrats, on the campaign trail, constantly condemn hatred and bigotry and violence of any kind — and yet, when this [violence] is in their own district and it&#8217;s anti-Semitism that motivates the violence, we hear nothing from them.&#8221;
Hammer responded by pointing out just how dangerous the current phenomenon is, and also stressed how it is imperative that, no matter one&#8217;s personal politics, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/columnist/294171/why-downplay-hate-crimes-against-jews/">all forms of anti-Semitism</a> must be treated extremely seriously. Hammer singled out feckless Democratic Party leadership for harboring and nurturing toxic anti-Zionism, but also bluntly stated that anyone not treating all forms of anti-Semitism seriously should &#8220;shut up and re-evaluate his priorities,&#8221; Hammer warned:
<blockquote>The Central Council of [Jews] in Germany actually [recently] <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/26/europe/germany-antisemitism-kippah-intl-scli-ger/index.html">advised German Jews to not wear kippahs in public</a> — they literally said you should wear baseball caps for fear of not getting violently assaulted by Syrian refugees. But I didn&#8217;t think we would get to the point where this might be a concern in New York City. New York City has the largest Jewish population of literally any metropolitan area in the world — the entire Jewish population in the broader New York area is almost that of the entire nation of Israel. It is that big. And we&#8217;re getting to the point where it&#8217;s becoming dangerous to literally wear a kippah, tzitzit, or any kind of public demonstration you are Jewish in the city with the world&#8217;s largest Jewish population.
I don&#8217;t know how we got here, but here&#8217;s what we have to do. There are three main types of anti-Semitism in this world. There is far-right, neo-Nazi white nationalist anti-Semitism; there is Islamist, radical Muslim anti-Semitism, and there&#8217;s anti-Zionist anti-Semitism. Anyone who is not taking all three strands seriously should shut up and re-evaluate his priorities, because all three need to be seriously dealt with and combatted. &#8230; Right now, the alt-right, far-right white nationalist strand is the most violent — that&#8217;s what happened in Pittsburgh and at the Chabad of Poway in California, but it is the anti-Zionist strand that is the most pernicious because it is not being quashed. It is not being eliminated, and is only festered and encouraged by the Democratic Party and leftist elites.</blockquote>
Wheeler followed up, asking Hammer whether the reason Democratic politicians are not condemning the rising anti-Semitic violence in Brooklyn is because, were they to do so, they would also have to condemn the anti-Semitism of up-and-coming Democratic stars like Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Hammer responded by discussing how part of the problem is that the identities of the anti-Semitic attackers do not fit a politically convenient narrative for the Left:
<blockquote>So my boss at The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37888/new-york-times-just-made-stunning-admission-about-ben-shapiro">wrote a piece for our site</a> last [November]. The New York Times actually <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/nyregion/jewish-bias-safety-nyc.html">wrote a piece on this last year</a> — they made a stunning admission. The New York Times literally admitted that the reason why anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City are not reported is due to the identity of the attackers — that it doesn&#8217;t fit a convenient narrative. That is just astonishing and you know what? Leftist [Mayor] Bill de Blasio in New York City, I&#8217;m not gonna call him an anti-Semite, but he&#8217;s indifferent at best. At best. It&#8217;s true, he created a new &#8230; task force that allegedly is going to crack down on this, but he&#8217;s at least two years too late.
This year has seen an <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/299369/nypd-83-increase-in-nyc-hate-crimes-in-2019/">83% increase</a> in anti-Semitic hate crimes, year-over-year. Jews already, by the way, Liz, we are less than 2% of the U.S. population — according to &#8230; FBI federal statistics, Jews are <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/topic-pages/victims">58.1% of all religiously motivated hate crimes in America</a>. That is almost shocking: That&#8217;s three and a half to four times more than the second-most &#8220;hate crimed&#8221; group, if we can say, that which is the Muslim community. It&#8217;s just astonishing — this is a huge problem and our politicians are totally feckless and not dealing with it.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Hammer On ‘Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler’: Why Is No One Discussing Rising Anti-Semitic Violence In New York City?

Bill de Blasio

Crime

Hate Crime

New York City

Violence

On Wednesday, the Department of Labor, which had come under fire after reportedly pressuring an employee to resign after he had been unfairly accused by a Bloomberg journalist of posting an anti-Semitic message on Facebook, announced that he would be returning to his job.
Leif Olson, a religious Christian who had clearly intended his messages to mock anti-Semites, resigned last Friday after Ben Penn of Bloomberg had maligned him by accusing him of posting the anti-Semitic messages, twisting what Olson said and reporting him to the Department of Labor. As The Daily Wire’s Josh Hammer wrote in a piece <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51335/hammer-disgraceful-reporter-files-ridiculous-hit-josh-hammer">ferociously denouncing Penn</a> for his shoddy journalism and clearly partisan attack:
<blockquote>Penn flagged for DOL a transparently sarcastic Facebook post of Olson&#8217;s dating back to the much-ballyhooed August 2016 Paul Ryan/Paul Nehlen Republican primary race in Wisconsin&#8217;s 1st Congressional District … Paul Nehlen, the reader may recall, was a vile <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/paul-nehlen/551312/">alt-right anti-Semite</a> whose failed insurgent bid to supplant Paul Ryan was vociferously backed by Breitbart and other nationalist populist figures. Prior to his later being banned outright from Twitter in 2018 due to serial peddling of Jew-hatred, Nehlen became notorious for promoting on the platform a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-supremacist-paul-nehlen-loses-gop-house-primary-but-garners-11-of-vote/">list of Jewish journalistic conspiracists</a> against him.</blockquote>
After Ryan destroyed Nehlen in the primary, winning 84% of the vote, Olson sarcastically mocked Nehlen and his alt-right supporters. Penn took Olson’s quotes out of context, alerted the Department of Labor, and voila! he had a political scalp. Penn’s motivation seemed clear enough; he <a href="https://twitter.com/benjaminpenn/status/1168962326340526081">tweeted,</a> &#8220;Lost in all of this is that Olson was part of a team of political appointees tasked with the heavy lift of drafting wage-hour regulations that are high priorities for Trump White House, business community. They&#8217;re now down one adviser.&#8221;
Penn was roundly condemned across the political spectrum, as Hammer and <a href="https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/09/03/dck-move-man-bloomberg-activist-ben-penns-scoop-gets-leif-olson-fired-proving-trump-right-once-again-about-the-media/">Twitchy</a> pointed out. Hammer noted, &#8220;Conservatives ought to be up in arms that DOL, a prominent department of the Trump administration, is so unwilling to defend its own appointees against manufactured smear campaigns.&#8221;
On Wednesday, the Department of Labor <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20190904">published this</a>:
<blockquote>The U.S. Department of Labor released the following update regarding Senior Policy Advisor Leif Olson of the Wage and Hour Division. &#8220;On Friday, August 30, 2019, Senior Policy Advisor of the Wage and Hour Division, Leif Olson offered his resignation and the Department accepted. Following a thorough reexamination of the available information and upon reflection, the Department has concluded that Mr. Olson has satisfactorily explained the tone of the content of his sarcastic social media posts and will return to his position in the Wage and Hour Division.&#8221;</blockquote>
Olson humbly tweeted: &#8220;I’m grateful to be heading back to work. Thank you, Acting Secretary PatPizzella DOL and WHD_DOL Administrator Cheryl Stanton for the opportunity to continue to serve. And to everyone who reached out, and especially to each of you who risked your own credibility and reputation to defend mine: Jo and I can never thank you enough. Each of you is a blessing, and we hope to bless you in return. Thank you, and thank you again.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I’m grateful to be heading back to work. Thank you, Acting Secretary <a href="https://twitter.com/PatPizzellaDOL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PatPizzellaDOL</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/WHD_DOL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WHD_DOL</a> Administrator Cheryl Stanton for the opportunity to continue to serve. <a href="https://t.co/l7syrnVeyo">https://t.co/l7syrnVeyo</a>
— Leif Olson (@olsonleif) <a href="https://twitter.com/olsonleif/status/1169387561212698625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">And to everyone who reached out, and especially to each of you who risked your own credibility and reputation to defend mine: Jo and I can never thank you enough. Each of you is a blessing, and we hope to bless you in return. Thank you, and thank you again.
— Leif Olson (@olsonleif) <a href="https://twitter.com/olsonleif/status/1169388215020773376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump Labor Dept. Appointee Unfairly Accused Of Anti-Semitism Gets His Job Back

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<a href="https://twitter.com/benjaminpenn">Ben Penn</a> of <a href="https://muckrack.com/ben-penn/bio">Bloomberg</a> is a Very Intrepid Journalist™. Ben Penn, you see, is committed to Very Intrepid Journalism™-ing. And because Ben Penn is a Very Intrepid Journalist™ committed to Very Intrepid Journalism™-ing, he decided to launch today a Very Intrepid Piece Of Journalism™ at <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-labor-aide-quits-after-anti-semitic-facebook-posts-surface">Bloomberg Law</a> that regales the reader with the courageous tale of Penn&#8217;s exhumation of a recent U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) political appointee&#8217;s three-year-old &#8220;anti-Semitic&#8221; Facebook post. The oh-so-valiant unearthing of that hitherto buried Facebook post led, you see, to the DOL appointee&#8217;s resignation after less than a month on the job. Surely, somewhere deep in the bowels of the Swamp, Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn is now celebrating his day of Very Intrepid Journalism™-ing.
The careful reader — or, rather, any reader with more than one functioning brain cell — will note that the preceding paragraph utilizes a literary device commonly referred to as sarcasm. We here at The Daily Wire are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50382/walsh-i-disavow-daily-wire-matt-walsh">rather familiar</a> with that literary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47579/last-season-democracy-not-good-others-satire-andrew-klavan">device</a>. But Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn seems less familiar with the literay device of sarcasm than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43796/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">communist</a> Bernie Sanders is with the economic concept of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45542/watch-hammer-fox-friends-start-educating-american-daily-wire">supply and demand</a>.
Leif Olson, a years-long personal friend of your humble columnist and a principled conservative who had recently uprooted his family from the Lone Star State to the nation&#8217;s capital in order to humbly serve in the Trump administration, was forced to resign last Friday after Penn flagged for DOL a transparently sarcastic Facebook post of Olson&#8217;s dating back to the much-ballyhooed August 2016 Paul Ryan/Paul Nehlen Republican primary race in Wisconsin&#8217;s 1st Congressional District. Let us consider Olson&#8217;s underlying satirical post, as well as the leading subsequent sardonic comment that Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn deemed sufficient grist for purposes of nabbing a cheap scalp.
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Paul Nehlen, the reader may recall, was a vile <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/paul-nehlen/551312/">alt-right anti-Semite</a> whose failed insurgent bid to supplant Paul Ryan was vociferously backed by Breitbart and other nationalist populist figures. Prior to his later being banned outright from Twitter in 2018 due to serial peddling of Jew-hatred, Nehlen became notorious for promoting on the platform a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-supremacist-paul-nehlen-loses-gop-house-primary-but-garners-11-of-vote/">list of Jewish journalistic conspiracists</a> against him. I would know because, along with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro and other prominent Jewish journalists such as CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper, I personally appeared on Nehlen&#8217;s list.
Paul Ryan ended up walloping Paul Nehlen in the August 2016 GOP primary for Wisconsin&#8217;s 1st Congressional District by an utterly embarrassing margin of 84% – 16%. Cue Olson, then a civilian, who took to his personal Facebook page to mock Nehlen and his buffoonish alt-right supporters in emphatically sarcastic fashion. As Philip Klein <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/shameful-trump-labor-appointee-forced-to-resign-after-bloomberg-portrays-sarcastic-facebook-post-as-anti-semitic">observes</a> today at the Washington Examiner, it ought to take a complete lack of human sentience to miss the obvious sarcasm here: &#8220;If the over-the-top language isn&#8217;t a tip off, it&#8217;s a fairly dead giveaway that Olson refers to Ryan having &#8216;suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.'&#8221; And as Yair Rosenberg <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/290615/how-the-media-turned-a-trump-appointee-who-mocked-alt-right-anti-semites-into-an-anti-semite">details</a> today at Tablet, Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn &#8220;selectively cropped&#8221; out of his calumnious screed &#8220;relevant omitted portions&#8221; and &#8220;essential context&#8221; that makes it entirely clear that Olson — who I personally know to have a very dry sense of humor — was being sarcastic. In response to one Facebook commenter&#8217;s opining that the Ryan/Nehlen race was &#8220;[n]ot Breitbart&#8217;s best day,&#8221; Olson chimed in: &#8220;Not breitbart-dot-com&#8217;s best series of months, I think you mean.&#8221;
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
That is the entire &#8220;story&#8221; here. And for this, Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn managed to besmirch a good (if perhaps too sarcastic) man as an ignominious Jew-hater — something he manifestly is not. And what of the Labor Department? The cowardly apparatchiks at DOL who folded like a cheap suit and capitulated to Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn&#8217;s disgraceful attempt to claim a political appointee&#8217;s scalp ought to be brought to task and disciplined. This saga does not merely reveal Ben Penn as an opportunistic blunderbuss; it also reveals a truly shameful look for DOL. Conservatives ought to be up in arms that DOL, a prominent department of the Trump administration, is so unwilling to defend its own appointees against manufactured smear campaigns.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Related: What the heck happened at <a href="https://twitter.com/USDOL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USDOL</a> to accept this resignation? Push back against such obviously disingenuous hatchet jobs from journalistic bottom-feeders and defend your political appointees.
Terrible look for the Trump administration.
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1168879269344362496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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But don&#8217;t take the outrage just from me or from <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1168893306471931910">Ben</a>. Take it instead from some of the most prominent blue checkmark left-leaning commentators on Twitter:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Ryan is right about this &#8212; this is actually the rarest of things, a case where someone is unfairly fired for remarks that weren&#8217;t bigoted but interpreted as such. <a href="https://t.co/ilzlBE4ihU">https://t.co/ilzlBE4ihU</a>
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1168907822161158145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I know little about Leif Olson and probably strongly disagree with his policy goals, but it seems highly dubious to report his sarcasm as actual antisemitism—again, the context makes it overwhelmingly clear that he was ridiculing antisemites.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) <a href="https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1168881139433398272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Trump Labor official Leif Olson has resigned due to a putatively anti-Semitic Facebook post. But if you read the post, it appears to be mocking anti-Semitic conspiracy theories: <a href="https://t.co/C9UPvhKbzz">https://t.co/C9UPvhKbzz</a>
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1168860047029538822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">It’s pretty clear based on the context that he was being sarcastic.
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) <a href="https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1168878615632629760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Anti-Semitism in America is, harrowingly, <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/430477/no-one-cares-about-attacks-against-the-orthodox-because-youve-been/">very much</a> on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">rise</a>. It is, increasingly, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46528/hammer-jews-simply-must-arm-themselves-now-josh-hammer">dangerous time</a> to be a Jew — especially a more public-facing Orthodox Jew — in these United States. As a proud Jew and Zionist, I take anti-Semitism as seriously as anyone else. But it is affirmatively harmful to the cause of raising awareness of actual, genuine rises in anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence when tendentious muckrakers like Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn embark on rogue crusades to smear innocent men as Jew-haters for the sake of claiming the scalp of a political opponent. Penn, via his Very Intrepid Journalism™-ing, has tragically undermined the cause of extirpating Jew-hatred in America. Ditto the <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-shame-of-the-anti-defamation-league/">farcical leftist leadership</a> of the Anti-Defamation League, whose spokesperson was quoted by Penn as referring to Olson&#8217;s comments as &#8220;clearly anti-Semitic&#8221; before the organization, tail between its legs, <a href="https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1168960242765484032">apparently came around to feeling contrite and expressed a willingness to retract</a> such a mendacity.
There are no actors who escape from this saga looking clean. Shame on Ben Penn. Shame on Ben Penn&#8217;s editors at Bloomberg. Shame on the U.S. Department of Labor. Shame on the Anti-Defamation League. Shame, indeed, on all those actors who are complicit in the false maligning of an upstanding man and the concomitant harm that such maligning has wrought upon the cause of hunting down and excising real, genuine Jew-hatred in America.
DOL must rehire Leif Olson — and it ought to do so as soon as humanly possible. Indeed, if anyone ought to be fired as a result of this imbroglio, it ought to be Very Intrepid Journalist™ Ben Penn.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed on Thursday that she was &#8220;actively excited to pursue&#8221; a trip to Israel until the country blocked her two far-left colleagues from entering over their avowed support for an anti-Israel movement.
&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez responded to a Haaretz reporter who questioned if the New York congresswoman would be interested in visiting Israel herself.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> tells Haaretz she was “actively very excited” to pursue a trip to Israel before Netanyahu barred entry to <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RashidaTlaib</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> and hopes to have the opportunity to go in the “near future”. This at her Bronx townhall on Public Housing <a href="https://t.co/7kYp4r3mhd">pic.twitter.com/7kYp4r3mhd</a>
— Danielle Ziri (@DanielleZiri) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielleZiri/status/1167258955896242177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I think that that&#8217;s absolutely something that I look forward to and it&#8217;s something that I was actively excited to pursue before the Prime Minister Netanyahu decided to ban Rashida Tlaib, congresswoman Tlaib and Omar from office,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a critically important experience to go visit and see firsthand a lot of what&#8217;s happening. There&#8217;s no way, I think that one can really dig deep without being able to have that experience. It&#8217;s one that I think that&#8217;s extremely important to have and I hope to have in the near future.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s remarks come nearly two weeks after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50657/israel-blocks-tlaib-and-omar-visiting-trump-agrees-molly-prince">Israeli government barred</a> progressive Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from visiting the Jewish state over their advocacy of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to economically and politically starve the country.
The Israeli Knesset enacted anti-BDS legislation in 2017, which blocks foreign activists from gaining entry to the country. Netanyahu cited the law when he confirmed Israel&#8217;s decision.
Ocasio-Cortez, however, accused Israel of discriminating against women of color for banning her fellow &#8220;Squad&#8221; members.
&#8220;[Members of Congress] are frequently asked to visit Israel to &#8216;see things for ourselves.&#8217; But Netanyahu choosing to ban the only 2 Muslim women in Congress from entering tells the US that only some Americans are welcome to Israel, not all,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1162056415206264832?s=20">said in August</a>. &#8220;[President Donald] Trump is exporting his bigotry [and] making matters worse.&#8221;
She later followed up her statement declaring that she would not visit Israel until the country reverses its decision and allows both Omar and Tlaib to enter.
&#8220;Netanyahu’s discriminatory decision to ban members of Congress from Israel harms [international] diplomacy. Visiting Israel [and] Palestine are key experiences towards a path to peace,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;Sadly, I cannot move forward [with] scheduling any visits to Israel until all members of Congress are allowed.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Netanyahu’s discriminatory decision to ban members of Congress from Israel harms int’l diplomacy.
Visiting Israel &amp; Palestine are key experiences towards a path to peace.
Sadly, I cannot move forward w scheduling any visits to Israel until all members of Congress are allowed. <a href="https://t.co/WTP5vnt5IH">https://t.co/WTP5vnt5IH</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1162073287163146240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez had declined to travel to the region with her Democratic delegation earlier in the month, as well as with Omar and Tlaib’s planned trip. It is unclear if she previously had any plans to visit Israel, but she confirmed <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-wanted-to-visit-israel-before-netanyahu-banned-omar-tlaib-she-says-1.7769111">to Haaretz</a> that she doesn&#8217;t intend to plan any trips in the future.
While the freshman congresswoman has previously claimed to have Sephardic Jewish ancestry, she has also made some eyebrow-raising statements downplaying the plight of the Jewish people.
Ocasio-Cortez has compared migrants illegally trying to enter the United States to Jews fleeing the Holocaust, the effects of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt&#8217;s New Deal to the Holocaust, and illegal immigrant detainment centers to Nazi concentration camps.
She also is a member and staunch supporter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1090329128975224832?s=20">Daily Wire uncovered</a> a video of the DSA voting in favor of BDS while chanting &#8220;from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,&#8221; an infamous Hamas rallying cry.
Like Omar and Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez has <a href="https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortezs-activist-group-calls-to-annihilate-Israel-579183">repeatedly praised</a> the anti-Israel BDS movement.

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The following is satirical.
President Trump made some silly comments about Jews recently, and furious Jewish Americans have sworn to over-react by voting for Democrats who want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
In an absurd off-hand remark, Trump told reporters he thought any Jew who voted for a Democrat would demonstrate, &#8220;either total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.&#8221; The comment absolutely shocked observers who had believed until now that Trump was a careful and considered speaker who would never utter a foolish phrase without fully thinking it through. Those observers are named Cyrus Barndinger and Virgil Snopes. Both men live in Florida.
Jewish Americans struck back immediately. Harvey Bernstein, President of the Association of Jews Who Are Nowhere Near As Smart As Everyone Always Says They Are, issued a statement saying, &#8220;How dare President Trump make this sort of insignificant error? As a self-destructive and none-too-bright Jew, I plan to seize on this irrelevant bagatelle to justify voting for a Democrat Party that is trying to destroy the state of Israel and that can&#8217;t even pass a resolution condemning anti-Semitism without throwing in a lot of chazerai that makes the whole thing meaningless.&#8221; Mr. Bernstein then punctuated his comments by firing a pistol into his foot and slamming his forehead repeatedly into a brick wall.
Trump further infuriated Jews by idiotically retweeting the fulsome praise of a radio host who said Israelis love Trump &#8220;like he&#8217;s the King of Israel or the second coming of God.&#8221;
In an indignant statement released to a group of reporters who despise him, Bernard Mendelsohn, president of the National Association of Jews Dedicated to Taking This Whole Self-Hatred Thing and Really Running With It, said, &#8220;When the president who moved the American embassy to Jerusalem retweets stupid self-praise, I know it&#8217;s time to give my vote to Democrats who sympathize with our homicidal enemies.&#8221;
Meanwhile, The New York Times, a former newspaper, assigned three reporters to misinterpret Trump&#8217;s remarks until they sort of sound vaguely anti-Semitic. They’re still working on the story.

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While criticizing a remark made by President Donald Trump, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) finally acknowledged on Thursday that Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) circulated an anti-Semitic cartoon days earlier.
“The growing anti-Semitism in our political dialogue is repugnant. [Trump’s] comments about disloyalty are a vicious and dangerous anti-Semitic trope,” Nadler said. “And the Carlos Latuff cartoon forwarded by [Tlaib and Omar] can surely be read for its vile underlying message.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The growing anti-Semitism in our political dialogue is repugnant. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdonaldtrump</a>’s comments about disloyalty are a vicious and dangerous anti-Semitic trope. And the Carlos Latuff cartoon forwarded by <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRashida?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRashida</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Ilhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ilhan</a> can surely be read for its vile underlying message.
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1164646317500567552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Nadler’s remarks came roughly a week after the Israeli government blocked the two progressive lawmakers from entering the country over their advocacy of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
At the time, Trump commended the decision. However, Democrats and the left-wing media overwhelmingly condemned it, including Nadler.
“I strongly condemn this decision by the Israeli government, which undermines the ability for our two allied countries to have the frank, open, and, at times, difficult discussions that we must have in order to ensure Israel remains a secure and democratic nation,” he wrote <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1162024956353495040?s=20">in a statement</a>.
Omar and Tlaib subsequently attacked the Jewish state for its “inhumane” treatment of Palestinian-Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank, and further accused the country of being “oppressive” and “racist.”
As part of a days-long rant against Trump and the Israeli government, both congresswomen shared an anti-Semitic image by Carlos Latuff on their social media accounts. Latuff is a political cartoonist who is celebrated for his anti-Semitic and anti-Israel cartoons. He was notably the runner-up in the 2006 Iranian “International Holocaust Cartoon Contest” for a drawing comparisons between Israel’s West Bank and Nazi concentration camps.
The cartoon that Omar and Tlaib circulated only a week earlier showed Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with their hands over the congresswomen’s mouths, forming an Israeli flag.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Oof. Looks like both Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib shared this awful Carlos Latuff cartoon in Instagram stories yesterday. In 2006, Latuff came in second in Iran&#8217;s International Holocaust Cartoon Contest, which is a thing that exists, in case you thought the TL couldn&#8217;t get any worse. <a href="https://t.co/uwyBPAsz7T">pic.twitter.com/uwyBPAsz7T</a>
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) <a href="https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1162898365769748480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The caption read: “The more they try to silence us, our voices rise. The more they try to weaken us, the stronger we become. The more they try to discredit us, the truth prevails.”
In the midst of the media firestorm over Israel’s decision to block Omar and Tlaib, Trump questioned why Jewish Americans would support Democrats, who have elevated a host of anti-Semitic members within the ranks of their party.
“Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they’re defending these to people over the state of Israel?” Trump asked regarding Omar and Tlaib. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or a great disloyalty.”
The president faced immediate backlash from individuals claiming his remarks were promoting the “dual loyalty” trope, an age-old anti-Semitic canard.
While ripping Trump’s comments, Nadler was finally forced to acknowledge the anti-Semitic actions emanating from within his own party.
Nadler notably spoke out against Omar in February after the Minnesota congresswoman claimed that Republicans’ support for Israel is bought by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
“It is deeply disappointing and disturbing to hear Rep. Ilhan Omar’s choice of words in exchange with a journalist yesterday wherein she appears to traffic in old anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1094990643544379395?s=20">said at the time</a>. “Her words are deeply hurtful and offensive, particularly as they build on previous comments she made about Jews ‘hypnotizing’ the world in support of Israel — another old trope born of hate-filled texts like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
However, Nadler has largely defended the two freshman Democrats, who have been embroiled in allegations of anti-Semitism and anti-American sentiments. Collectively, the two members are the first Muslim congresswomen to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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