Qatar's (HOME TO HAMAS LEADERSHIP) longstanding efforts to buy influence in the United States have, quite unsurprisingly, included substantial donations to the Clinton Foundation. In 2011, for example, the foundation accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar in honor of former president Bill Clinton's 65th birthday. Hillary was serving as secretary of state at the time, but failed to disclose the massive donation to the State Department despite her pledge to keep the agency apprised of the foundation's foreign donors.
JOE, THE SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER WILL ALWAYS BE ON THE OTHER SIDE!
Biden’s State Department Refusing to Revoke Visas for Pro-Hamas Foreign Nationals in U.S.
President Joe Biden’s State Department is refusing to commit to revoking visas for those foreign nationals in the United States who are espousing support for Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization.
Last month, as Breitbart News reported, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting the agency use existing federal immigration law to revoke visas of foreign nationals in the U.S. participating in pro-Hamas rallies.
“Per 8 U.S.C. 1182, an alien is inadmissible into the United States should they represent ‘a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity,'” Rubio wrote:
Hamas’ designation as a [foreign terrorist organization] makes this a clear directive to institute a thorough review of all visa holders and applicants. This should include coordination with law enforcement, both federal and state/local, as well as universities. [Emphasis added]
In response, State Department officials wrote to Rubio that the agency does, in fact, have “broad authority” over revoking visas but failed to commit to actually doing so.
“The Department of State also has broad authority under the [Immigration and Nationality Act] to revoke visas,” State Department officials wrote to Rubio:
We exercise that authority when there is information or evidence indicating a visa holder may be ineligible for a U.S. visa. When we receive derogatory information that indicates potential visa ineligibility, we take immediate actions, such as entering the information U.S. government databases and revoking visas if deemed appropriate. [Emphasis added]
Previously, National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby said the Biden administration would not revoke visas for pro-Hamas foreign nationals in the U.S.
“I would just tell you that you don’t have to agree with every sentiment that is expressed in a free country like this to stand by … the idea [of] the First Amendment and the idea of peaceful protest. I’ll leave it at that,” Kirby said when asked about calls from Republicans for Biden to take such action.
In Fiscal Year 2022, alone, the federal government provided green cards and nonimmigrant visas, including F-1 student visas, to foreign nationals from some of the most pro-Hamas countries in the world.
For example, more than 8,300 Iranians arrived in the U.S. last year on nonimmigrant visas. In addition, the government gave more than 8,000 green cards to Iranians in Fiscal Year 2022 — including more than 800 who arrived on the Diversity Visa Lottery and more than 520 who arrived as refugees.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Temple Terrace, Florida Mayor & Police Stand with Those Linked to Palestinian Terror Orgs
A disturbing photo is posted by Islamic Jihad’s Hatem Fariz, days after October 7th attacks.
Temple Terrace, Florida, a suburb of Tampa, has the inauspicious distinction of having been the location of a US network for the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The ringleader of the network has since been deported, but significant elements of the network yet remain. Days after Hamas’ barbaric attack on Israeli civilians, a photo was posted on social media of the Temple Terrace Mayor and his police chief meeting with one of the town’s PIJ remnants, Hatem Fariz, and operatives from the Hamas-tied CAIR. The curious event showed that the network and its dangerous friends possess undue influence over local government and law enforcement.
Sami al-Arian was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents and spent the latter part of his childhood in Cairo, Egypt. He arrived in the United States as a student, in 1975. Four years later, he was back in Egypt to marry his best friend Mazen al-Najjar’s sister and help lay the groundwork for what is known today as “Palestinian Islamic Jihad.” Both al-Arian and al-Najjar would create a PIJ infrastructure within Temple Terrace, consisting of a think tank, World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), a charity, Islamic Concern Project (ICP), a mosque, Islamic Community of Tampa (ICT), and a children’s school, Islamic Academy of Florida (IAF).
In February 2003, al-Arian was indicted along with seven others – half of whom were overseas and not subject to extradition – on charges of “operating a racketeering enterprise… that supported numerous violent terrorist activities associated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.” Following a long-drawn-out trial, al-Arian and one other defendant, Hatem Naji Fariz, were convicted of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
According to the indictment against him, Fariz “was a PIJ member” and did “conspire… to commit offenses against the United States… by making and receiving contributions of funds, goods, and services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.” Among other things, the indictment discusses how Fariz laughed and made light of a June 2002 PIJ suicide bombing that had just taken place in northern Israel, which ended the lives of 17 people and which his PIJ colleague described to him as being “successful.”
After serving out his sentence, Fariz was named Director of ICT. The mosque also goes by the title Masjid al-Qassam, named after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the Palestinian religious and jihadist icon and key inspiration for PIJ.
On October 11, 2023, merely four days after the horrific attack on Israeli civilians that was organized and staged by Hamas and aided by PIJ, Fariz posted a photo on his social media of himself standing alongside Temple Terrace Mayor Andy Ross, Temple Terrace Police Chief Kenneth Albano, and Temple Terrace Police Deputy Chief Rob Staley. Also standing with the smiling Mayor and police in the photo were the Executive Director of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Abdullah Jaber and former CAIR-Florida Interfaith and Youth Program Director Aida Mackic.
CAIR was founded, in June 1994, as a part of a Muslim Brotherhood umbrella organization led by then-global head of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzouk. CAIR’s seed money came from the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), a Hamas charity that would be shut down shortly after the September 11th attacks. CAIR used its websites to raise money for HLF, and when HLF and its leadership were being prosecuted by the US government, CAIR was named a party to the crime as an “unindicted co-conspirator.”
When it comes to Palestinian terror, there is no daylight between CAIR’s parent organization and its Florida chapter. In July 2014, CAIR-Florida co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally, where rally goers chanted “We are Hamas” and “Let’s go Hamas.” The group has defended the convicted leaders of HLF and Sami al-Arian, as well. And when it comes to al-Arian’s mosque, then-CAIR-Florida Executive Director Hassan Shibly stated, at a 2017 CAIR media brunch, that the group depends on ICT for “programs, fundraising” and more. He said, “Really, we couldn’t do the work without the tremendous support we get from the mosque.”
In May 2021, when Israel was previously at war with Hamas, Hatem Fariz and CAIR-Florida joined forces to organize anti-Israel rallies. One of the rallies was held outside the office of US Representative Kathy Castor, who upset the rally organizers by condemning Hamas and tweeting that Israel “has a right to defend itself.” At the rally, standing together with others behind the podium were Fariz, Abdullah Jaber and Aida Mackic, who was then-part of CAIR and, along with Fariz, a contact for the rallies.
Ironically, now, Mackic is, once again, upset at a Castor for support of Israel. This time, it is Tampa Mayor Jane Castor (no relation), who has borne the brunt of Mackic’s ire, for lighting up City Hall in royal blue and posting a photo of it on Facebook. Castor wrote, on October 14th, “Old City Hall will be lit up again in the colors of Israel as we stand in solidarity.” Mackic replied to the Mayor, quoting numbers of Palestinian deaths, while mentioning nothing about the brutality of Hamas that was the cause of those deaths along with well over 1000 Israeli – mostly civilian – brutal murders.
This episode shows a stark contrast between the Tampa Mayor, who along with her police department helped provide supplies to Israeli troops, and the Temple Terrace Mayor and police, who stand with those associated with the terrorist groups that have raped, burned and beheaded Israelis, in the worst violence committed against Jews since the Holocaust.
Embracing individuals like Hatem Fariz and groups like CAIR is not just a dereliction of duty on the part of Mayor Ross and Police Chief Albano, but it is a threat to our nation’s security.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
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Rashida Tlaib: A Palestinian?
What exactly is Palestinian about her?
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was censured by the House of Representatives for words implying the destruction of America’s ally, the born-again Jewish state. She also could be censured for her mendacious claim to being a Palestinian when there is nothing Palestinian about her.
While the Education department in the Palestinian Authority created by Israel’s Marxist leaders thirty years ago, Isaac Rabin and Simon Peres, teaches its school children that the Palestinians have been living in Palestine for five thousand years, Tlaib surely knows not one word of the language they spoke because there never was such a language.
Her religion also is not native to what the world calls Palestine but to the Arabian Peninsula where Islam’s holy city is some 770 miles from the Jews’ holy city that the Palestinians claim is their historic, eternal capital?
For sure, Tlaib’s wardrobe also contains not one garment uniquely associated to her Palestinian nation, like the Japanese kimono, Scottish kilt, or Mexican sombrero.
And also for sure, she has not read even one book on the history of her “Palestinians” prior to the 20th century because there is no such book on any shelf in any library or book store on the planet; and there never will be.
No less in matters gustatory, with so many national cuisines found in the best restaurants in world capitals, who has ever eaten in a “Palestinian” restaurant serving down-home “Palestinian” cooking?
But in defense of Tlaib, she is hardly alone in claiming to be a child of a putatively primeval Palestinian nation. Consider the life of the late Edward Said (1935-2003), arguably in his day the foremost propagandist for Palestinian Nationalism in the English language. In 1966, one year before Israel’s miraculous Six-Day War, Said was an unknown, 33-year-old assistant professor at Columbia University, working on a PhD at Harvard, teaching a course on 18th century English Literature who told his curious English major students – a high percentage of them Jews — one of them this writer — that although he was born in Jerusalem, he was a Lebanese Christian who grew up in Cairo.
Only after the ’67 war did Assistant Professor Said morph into an “Ancient Palestinian refugee” claiming to have been robbed of his family manse in Jerusalem by the evil Zionists. Shortly before his death, Said published an autobiography that unwittingly exposed this lie. The man was an imposter, a complete fraud, as the movement he flacked for has been.
Ironically, Said’s dissertation was on Joseph Conrad, a Pole who wanted to be an Englishman, which treatise Said entitled The Fiction of Autobiography, wittingly or otherwise resonant with the fiction of his own biography and that of his father who became an American citizen during WWI. Said pere joined the Church of England, and named his son after no Ancient Palestinian hero in history but Edward, the Prince of Wales.
Little Edward Said was brought up in the upscale Zamalek neighborhood in Cairo where his father had a successful stationary business, supporting a car and driver. Little Edward was educated in an English language school and at home in the family all spoke English. For this, his own Arabic was rudimentary. Only in 1967 did Edward Said transform himself into an Ancient Palestinian Jerusalemite tragically expelled by the racist, fascist, capitalist, imperialist, neocolonial Jews.
So, in defense of Rashida Tlaib, born in Michigan in 1976, she was probably told by her parents she is a Palestinian, and if memory serves, she has whined about a grandmother in the “West Bank,” which very name is evidence of the fact the Muslims like her never in history had a name for these lands, what on all maps for millennia had labeled “Samaria and Judaea.”
Indeed, in the UN Partition Plan of 1947, those were the terms used. Not until after the Six-Day War did “West Bank” become common usage, which is a no-name name, a topographical description, versus the practice of authentically indigenous peoples who give names to their homeland’s natural features, e.g., lakes, rivers, mountains. Before the Six-Day War, the Arab and Muslim worlds had no name for what became the “West Bank.” In 1950, Jordan annexed these territories and until 1988, the kings in Amman never thought the Arabs there were another nationality besides “Jordanian” deserving of their own independent state. Indeed, these kings ruled by virtue of direct descent from Prophet Mohammad, and they did not think the Arabs on the west bank were of a different nation than those on the east bank, site of Amman, their capital.
After the 1990-91 Gulf War, this writer was commissioned by the office of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir to do a statistical analysis of voting patterns in the UN because President Bush, 41 and Secretary of State Baker, no friend of Israel, were pushing for a peace conference under UN auspices, and Israel needed ammunition to oppose the initiative and expose the UN as an antisemitic hot air factory.
The project entailed reading 870 UN resolutions in the Security Council and General Assembly from 1945 to 1989, which produced such statistics as: the UN Security Council in that period condemned Israel — its highest rebuke — 49 times but never an Arab state. In the General Assembly too, no Arab state was ever condemned, but Israel 321 times.
Overall, in the UN’s first four decades, the number of individual member-state votes over those 870 documents against Israel came to 55,642.
But apart from doing the work commissioned, this writer kept an eye out for the first-ever document referencing “the people of Palestine” and found it: GA Res. 2628 of December 1970. Before then, the Palestinian nation did not yet exist within the halls of the United Nations or was a concern in international diplomacy. In the UN’s first quarter-century, including Arab and Muslim member-states, there was not one resolution on behalf of a people called “Palestinians” pining for a state.
In 1972, Yasir Arafat, a native Egyptian raised in the Muslim Brotherhood, and Mahmoud Abbas, planned the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games, when the 11 Israeli athletes were corralled into one room and the Muslims exulted in their domination of them by castrating the weight lifter.
In 1972 as well, the PLO massacred air travelers in the arrivals’ hall in Israel’s one international airport. In May 1974, a PLO gang massacred 22 Jewish school children at Maalot, Israel, which did not stop the UN that November from inviting the mass murderer Arafat to address the UN General Assembly and receive a standing ovation.
By 1980, after a dozen years of bloody terror in Europe, the European Community (not yet the EU) at Venice recognized Arafat’s Fatah, founded by eight graduates of the Muslim Brotherhood Youth Organization, as a legitimate political entity fighting a legitimate war of national liberation. And the rest is history.
The Palestinian National Movement for the Liberation of Palestine has been the greatest historical hoax in history though now superseded as a political force by Islam. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was a front for more than a dozen terror clubs with faux-political names like the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) or its breakaway group the DPFLP, (Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) whose terrorists presumably broke away because the PFLP wasn’t democratic enough.
Today, in the “West Bank” and Gaza, the two principal Jew-killing fraternities are the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad; and notice there is nothing Palestinian about either name.
Likewise, in 1948, the aggression against Israel was labeled the “Arab-Israeli Conflict,” which in the 1970s was rebranded its conceptual opposite, the “Israeli-Palestinian” Conflict. In the first formulation, the Arabs with their 30,000,000 people and armies three times larger than those of 650,000 Israels, were “Goliath,” and Israel “David.” In the second formulation after 1967, Israel moved into the superior first position, the superpower bully oppressing its stateless “Palestinian” victims.
From day one, the “Palestinian nation” has been a fraud. In Israel recently, one popular Jew-killing technique among the Muslims has been driving a car into a group of people waiting, say, at a bus stop, killing some that way, but then the driver jumps out with a knife to stab the still living while shouting “Allahu Akbar!” There is no record of even one of them ever shouting, “Long Live Balestine!” (sic)
Tragically for Israel, the Jews themselves have been a major purveyor of the lie thanks to the Marxists, a.k.a. the atheists for whom religion was superstition and should play no part in Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbors. Indeed, the architect of the so-called Oslo Peace Process, Yossi Beilin, speaking for his slice of anti-religious Israeli leftists said, “If we define the conflict as religious, there can be no peace, so let’s call it a political conflict between two nations,” which then required inventing this phantom nation, when for forty years after WWI, the murderous Grand Mufti in Jerusalem said there never was such a country as Filastin and over Islam’s fourteen centuries he was right.
Factually, the “father” of the new “Palestinian identity” was Egypt’s modern pharaoh Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) who in an Arab League meeting on March 29, 1959, in imitation of the situation in Algeria in its fifth year of intifada against the French, promoted the idea of a “Kiyan Filastini”/ “Palestinian entity.” In Algeria in 1954, the Muslims there revolted after 124 years of French rule, and had the brains to appeal for political support aboard not as Muslims but “freedom fighters” in a “war of national liberation.” They knew that if they cast their rebellion in religious terms, this would not win support in the France of post-religious Existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone DeBouvoir.
Nasser had been an active supporter with weapons and other assistance to the terrorist FLN in Algeria and thought transforming the “Arab refugees” of the war with Israel into a “Palestinian” nation was the way to go. Since the ceasefire with Israel in 1949, the whole world, Muslim and Arab states included, referred to the “Arab refugees” as just that, generically, because most were migrant workers from the all over the Middle East working in Mandatory Palestine who ran from the fighting with nothing “Palestinian” about them.
The “Palestinian people” is a verbal hologram, which is something that looks like it is there, but really is not. In effect, the Muslim butchers in Gaza on October 7 were the same people who brought down the World Trade Center in 2001; massacred US officers at Fort Hood in 2009; bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013; massacred a Christmas Party in San Bernardino in 2015; massacred hundreds at the Bataclan Theater in Paris that same year; massacred people in Berlin at the Christmas market; massacred scores in Nice, France in 2016, and so on and so forth ad nauseum.
Rashida Tlaib, unlike the imposter Edward Said, may be forgiven for having been lied to from the day she was born, but not for her classic, age-old, Islam-based Jew-hatred. On October 7, those maniacs were not “Palestinian freedom-fighters” but Muslim holy warriors.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was censured by the House of Representatives for words implying the destruction of America’s ally, the born-again Jewish state. She also could be censured for her mendacious claim to being a Palestinian when there is nothing Palestinian about her.
While the Education department in the Palestinian Authority created by Israel’s Marxist leaders thirty years ago, Isaac Rabin and Simon Peres, teaches its school children that the Palestinians have been living in Palestine for five thousand years, Tlaib surely knows not one word of the language they spoke because there never was such a language.
Her religion also is not native to what the world calls Palestine but to the Arabian Peninsula where Islam’s holy city is some 770 miles from the Jews’ holy city that the Palestinians claim is their historic, eternal capital?
For sure, Tlaib’s wardrobe also contains not one garment uniquely associated to her Palestinian nation, like the Japanese kimono, Scottish kilt, or Mexican sombrero.
And also for sure, she has not read even one book on the history of her “Palestinians” prior to the 20th century because there is no such book on any shelf in any library or book store on the planet; and there never will be.
No less in matters gustatory, with so many national cuisines found in the best restaurants in world capitals, who has ever eaten in a “Palestinian” restaurant serving down-home “Palestinian” cooking?
But in defense of Tlaib, she is hardly alone in claiming to be a child of a putatively primeval Palestinian nation. Consider the life of the late Edward Said (1935-2003), arguably in his day the foremost propagandist for Palestinian Nationalism in the English language. In 1966, one year before Israel’s miraculous Six-Day War, Said was an unknown, 33-year-old assistant professor at Columbia University, working on a PhD at Harvard, teaching a course on 18th century English Literature who told his curious English major students – a high percentage of them Jews — one of them this writer — that although he was born in Jerusalem, he was a Lebanese Christian who grew up in Cairo.
Only after the ’67 war did Assistant Professor Said morph into an “Ancient Palestinian refugee” claiming to have been robbed of his family manse in Jerusalem by the evil Zionists. Shortly before his death, Said published an autobiography that unwittingly exposed this lie. The man was an imposter, a complete fraud, as the movement he flacked for has been.
Ironically, Said’s dissertation was on Joseph Conrad, a Pole who wanted to be an Englishman, which treatise Said entitled The Fiction of Autobiography, wittingly or otherwise resonant with the fiction of his own biography and that of his father who became an American citizen during WWI. Said pere joined the Church of England, and named his son after no Ancient Palestinian hero in history but Edward, the Prince of Wales.
Little Edward Said was brought up in the upscale Zamalek neighborhood in Cairo where his father had a successful stationary business, supporting a car and driver. Little Edward was educated in an English language school and at home in the family all spoke English. For this, his own Arabic was rudimentary. Only in 1967 did Edward Said transform himself into an Ancient Palestinian Jerusalemite tragically expelled by the racist, fascist, capitalist, imperialist, neocolonial Jews.
So, in defense of Rashida Tlaib, born in Michigan in 1976, she was probably told by her parents she is a Palestinian, and if memory serves, she has whined about a grandmother in the “West Bank,” which very name is evidence of the fact the Muslims like her never in history had a name for these lands, what on all maps for millennia had labeled “Samaria and Judaea.”
Indeed, in the UN Partition Plan of 1947, those were the terms used. Not until after the Six-Day War did “West Bank” become common usage, which is a no-name name, a topographical description, versus the practice of authentically indigenous peoples who give names to their homeland’s natural features, e.g., lakes, rivers, mountains. Before the Six-Day War, the Arab and Muslim worlds had no name for what became the “West Bank.” In 1950, Jordan annexed these territories and until 1988, the kings in Amman never thought the Arabs there were another nationality besides “Jordanian” deserving of their own independent state. Indeed, these kings ruled by virtue of direct descent from Prophet Mohammad, and they did not think the Arabs on the west bank were of a different nation than those on the east bank, site of Amman, their capital.
After the 1990-91 Gulf War, this writer was commissioned by the office of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir to do a statistical analysis of voting patterns in the UN because President Bush, 41 and Secretary of State Baker, no friend of Israel, were pushing for a peace conference under UN auspices, and Israel needed ammunition to oppose the initiative and expose the UN as an antisemitic hot air factory.
The project entailed reading 870 UN resolutions in the Security Council and General Assembly from 1945 to 1989, which produced such statistics as: the UN Security Council in that period condemned Israel — its highest rebuke — 49 times but never an Arab state. In the General Assembly too, no Arab state was ever condemned, but Israel 321 times.
Overall, in the UN’s first four decades, the number of individual member-state votes over those 870 documents against Israel came to 55,642.
But apart from doing the work commissioned, this writer kept an eye out for the first-ever document referencing “the people of Palestine” and found it: GA Res. 2628 of December 1970. Before then, the Palestinian nation did not yet exist within the halls of the United Nations or was a concern in international diplomacy. In the UN’s first quarter-century, including Arab and Muslim member-states, there was not one resolution on behalf of a people called “Palestinians” pining for a state.
In 1972, Yasir Arafat, a native Egyptian raised in the Muslim Brotherhood, and Mahmoud Abbas, planned the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games, when the 11 Israeli athletes were corralled into one room and the Muslims exulted in their domination of them by castrating the weight lifter.
In 1972 as well, the PLO massacred air travelers in the arrivals’ hall in Israel’s one international airport. In May 1974, a PLO gang massacred 22 Jewish school children at Maalot, Israel, which did not stop the UN that November from inviting the mass murderer Arafat to address the UN General Assembly and receive a standing ovation.
By 1980, after a dozen years of bloody terror in Europe, the European Community (not yet the EU) at Venice recognized Arafat’s Fatah, founded by eight graduates of the Muslim Brotherhood Youth Organization, as a legitimate political entity fighting a legitimate war of national liberation. And the rest is history.
The Palestinian National Movement for the Liberation of Palestine has been the greatest historical hoax in history though now superseded as a political force by Islam. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was a front for more than a dozen terror clubs with faux-political names like the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) or its breakaway group the DPFLP, (Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) whose terrorists presumably broke away because the PFLP wasn’t democratic enough.
Today, in the “West Bank” and Gaza, the two principal Jew-killing fraternities are the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad; and notice there is nothing Palestinian about either name.
Likewise, in 1948, the aggression against Israel was labeled the “Arab-Israeli Conflict,” which in the 1970s was rebranded its conceptual opposite, the “Israeli-Palestinian” Conflict. In the first formulation, the Arabs with their 30,000,000 people and armies three times larger than those of 650,000 Israels, were “Goliath,” and Israel “David.” In the second formulation after 1967, Israel moved into the superior first position, the superpower bully oppressing its stateless “Palestinian” victims.
From day one, the “Palestinian nation” has been a fraud. In Israel recently, one popular Jew-killing technique among the Muslims has been driving a car into a group of people waiting, say, at a bus stop, killing some that way, but then the driver jumps out with a knife to stab the still living while shouting “Allahu Akbar!” There is no record of even one of them ever shouting, “Long Live Balestine!” (sic)
Tragically for Israel, the Jews themselves have been a major purveyor of the lie thanks to the Marxists, a.k.a. the atheists for whom religion was superstition and should play no part in Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbors. Indeed, the architect of the so-called Oslo Peace Process, Yossi Beilin, speaking for his slice of anti-religious Israeli leftists said, “If we define the conflict as religious, there can be no peace, so let’s call it a political conflict between two nations,” which then required inventing this phantom nation, when for forty years after WWI, the murderous Grand Mufti in Jerusalem said there never was such a country as Filastin and over Islam’s fourteen centuries he was right.
Factually, the “father” of the new “Palestinian identity” was Egypt’s modern pharaoh Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) who in an Arab League meeting on March 29, 1959, in imitation of the situation in Algeria in its fifth year of intifada against the French, promoted the idea of a “Kiyan Filastini”/ “Palestinian entity.” In Algeria in 1954, the Muslims there revolted after 124 years of French rule, and had the brains to appeal for political support aboard not as Muslims but “freedom fighters” in a “war of national liberation.” They knew that if they cast their rebellion in religious terms, this would not win support in the France of post-religious Existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone DeBouvoir.
Nasser had been an active supporter with weapons and other assistance to the terrorist FLN in Algeria and thought transforming the “Arab refugees” of the war with Israel into a “Palestinian” nation was the way to go. Since the ceasefire with Israel in 1949, the whole world, Muslim and Arab states included, referred to the “Arab refugees” as just that, generically, because most were migrant workers from the all over the Middle East working in Mandatory Palestine who ran from the fighting with nothing “Palestinian” about them.
The “Palestinian people” is a verbal hologram, which is something that looks like it is there, but really is not. In effect, the Muslim butchers in Gaza on October 7 were the same people who brought down the World Trade Center in 2001; massacred US officers at Fort Hood in 2009; bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013; massacred a Christmas Party in San Bernardino in 2015; massacred hundreds at the Bataclan Theater in Paris that same year; massacred people in Berlin at the Christmas market; massacred scores in Nice, France in 2016, and so on and so forth ad nauseum.
Rashida Tlaib, unlike the imposter Edward Said, may be forgiven for having been lied to from the day she was born, but not for her classic, age-old, Islam-based Jew-hatred. On October 7, those maniacs were not “Palestinian freedom-fighters” but Muslim holy warriors.
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The Biden Admin Just Made It Easier for Terrorists To Enter the United States
Lawmakers, former officials say change will let Iranian terrorists come to US
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps / Getty ImagesAdam Kredo • June 29, 2022 5:00 am
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The Biden administration altered federal law to make it easier for individuals who have worked with designated terrorist groups to legally enter the United States.
The State and Homeland Security Departments last week amended federal immigration laws to allow foreigners who provided "insignificant material support" to designated terror groups to receive "immigration benefits or other status," according to the policy published in the Federal Register. Examples of individuals who would fall into the new category, according to the announcement, include individuals who provided "humanitarian assistance" or "routine commercial transactions" to terror groups.
The policy shift is fueling concerns that the Biden administration wants to make it easier for individuals who work with or for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the country's paramilitary fighting force that has killed hundreds of Americans, to enter the country. Notice of the change came several days before the Biden administration and hardline Iranian government resumed talks aimed at securing a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear deal.
A State Department spokesman said the law was amended to help vulnerable Afghans, who might have inadvertently worked with terror groups, gain refuge in the United States following the Biden administration's bungled withdrawal that left the Taliban in power. Lawmakers and former U.S. officials, however, say the new regulations are so broadly written that they would apply to organizations like al Qaeda and the IRGC. The policy change is also raising red flags as U.S. officials, including former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, face credible death threats from Iran.
The rule does not specifically mention Afghanistan but is written to cover all U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, such as the IRGC and al Qaeda, experts told the Free Beacon. The Taliban is not designated as a foreign terrorist organization, leaving lawmakers and former U.S. officials concerned the changes extend far beyond vulnerable Afghans and cover those tied to some of the globe's most violent terror groups.
Gabriel Noronha, a State Department special adviser for Iran during the Trump administration, said that "the Biden administration is claiming this regulation is all about Afghanistan, but they didn't even mention Afghanistan once in their action, and have made no serious attempt to limit the scope to the situation there."
"Instead," said Noronha, who is a fellow with the Jewish Institute for National Security of America think tank, "this looks like a massive watering down of our immigration restrictions against members of terrorist organizations."
The State Department says the changes are limited to Afghanistan, but would not say why the country is not mentioned once in the new order.
The changes "are an effort to address issues related to Afghanistan," a State Department spokesman, speaking only on background, told the Free Beacon. "The circumstances between Afghanistan and Iran are very different." The new rules "are not applicable to people who have received military-type training from [foreign terrorist organizations], including IRGC conscripts." Rather, the administration is trying to make it easier for those tangentially tied to terrorism to legally enter the country, the official maintained.
When the Free Beacon requested additional information and an explanation as to why the IRGC or similar groups would not be covered by the changes, the State Department declined to answer, saying, "We have no further information or comments to share." This lack of clarity is fueling concerns about the policy change.
Noronha and others who spoke to the Free Beacon say the broad reference to "foreign terrorist organizations" leaves open the possibility that groups like the IRGC and al Qaeda would benefit from the relaxed immigration guidelines. The revamped guidelines do not specifically include restrictions on either of these groups. "At best this is a horribly written regulation. At worst, it's an attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of Congress and the American people and make it easier for terrorists to come to America," Noronha said.
Richard Goldberg, who under Trump served on the White House National Security Council as the director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction, said that any effort to loosen restrictions on terror-tied individuals is worrying amid Iran's threats to kill U.S. leaders.
"Given Iran is actively plotting to kill former American officials, the administration should carefully explain if and how this [rule] might apply to a potential affiliate of the IRGC, and provide a high-level commitment to take all necessary steps to bar any potential IRGC associate from admission to the United States," Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, told the Free Beacon.
Republican lawmakers agree with this assessment. Five Republican foreign policy leaders who spoke to the Free Beacon expressed concerns the administration is trying to quietly grant concessions to Iran as it reenters nuclear talks.
"It's outrageous that the Biden administration is lifting the blanket ban on individuals who have provided support to terrorists from entering the United States," Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Free Beacon. "The timing raises concerns coming just a few days before the latest round of Iran talks. President Biden should end these failed negotiations once and for all and return to a policy of maximum pressure, rather than continuing to make concessions to the terrorist regime in Iran."
Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he and his colleagues worry the Biden administration is attempting to grant concessions to Iran via backdoor changes to American laws.
"What do Americans gain by letting members of Iran's terrorist army cross our borders?" Banks asked.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), a combat veteran and also a member of the Armed Services Committee, said the change is purely about "appeasing terrorist groups—whether it's the IRGC, Houthis, or Taliban."
Reps. Lisa McClain (R., Mich.) and Pat Fallon (R., Texas), both Armed Services Committee members, expressed shock at how broadly written the new regulations are.
"In what world is it an acceptable decision to allow terrorists into our country?" Fallon asked the Free Beacon. "Instead of ending the nuclear talks with Iran all together, Joe Biden has decided to bend over backwards to the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. Before it is too late, I urge them to immediately reconsider this foolish decision."
Update June 29, 3:31 p.m.: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the Biden administration made no formal announcement of the policy change.
Yet the same Democrats who obsess over “multiculturalism” and “diversity” and actively encourage foreign nationals to cross our borders illegally were also making the spectacular claim that free speech somehow belonged to American citizens alone during election season.
To protect our security I suspended the entry of foreign refugees from terror afflicted nations. Biden has pledged a staggering 700 percent increase in refugees from the most violent terrorist hotspots anywhere on earth. If you don’t mind I’ll end that. And that was the deal, the manifesto, that he agreed to with Bernie Sanders and AOC+3 [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and three other female “progressive” reps, including Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan]..... The Biden plan would overwhelm your communities … and open the floodgates to radical Islamic terrorism. Raymond Ibrahim
THE ANTISEMITIC DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THEIR MUSLIMS
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-muslim-assault-on-christians-this.html
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
Biden's new press secretary has a problem with Jews
By Edward Davis
Karine Jean-Pierre makes history this week as the first woman "of color" and the first open lesbian to become the official spokesperson for the leader of the free world.
Unfortunately, another characteristic that sets her apart from previous White House press secretaries is her malicious radical activism, which reached its low point when she made fictitious allegations against a moderate, bipartisan pro-Israel organization.
OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely due to the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-disaster-of-barack-obama-democrats.html
Abunimah’s piece -- and Obama’s numerous anti-Semitic associations -- got little attention. Throughout his life Barack Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi and others. PAMELA GELLER
Has the Democrat party converted to Islam?
On October 21, U.S. reps. Ilhan Omar and Jan Schakowsky issued a press release introducing a bill titled the "Combating International Islamophobia Act." According the release, the purpose of the bill is "to address the rise in incidents of Islamophobia worldwide."
Specifically, it would require "the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia, [which would] include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity [sic] in the Department's annual human rights reports."
The bill was supported by the White House, which, notwithstanding its focus on Islam alone, described it as a measure committed to "defending freedom of religion and belief."
On Dec, 14, 2021, the bill, H.R. 5665, passed in the House, 219 to 212. No Democrat voted against it; no Republican voted for it.
Portions of the bill at §3(k) describe its scope:
(1) acts of physical violence against, or harassment of, Muslim people, and acts of violence against, or vandalism of, Muslim community institutions, including schools, mosques, and cemeteries
Under this clause, no reports of any violence and killing committed not against Muslims, but by Muslims against other religious groups, nor the suppression of non-Muslims in Muslim-ruled nations, would be authorized. Only acts against Muslims.
(2) instances of propaganda in government and nongovernment media that attempt to justify or promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against Muslim people
The astute reader will notice a difference between this clause and the press release issued by Omar and Schakowsky. That release did not include any mention of "nongovernment media" — that is, "non-government" newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs, internet, social media — as being within its scope of oversight. The press release mentions the mouse but omits the elephant.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. If English is our language, the term "Islamophobia" means "irrational fear of Islam." So we are facing a rise of irrational fear of Islam? Why would that be of concern to anyone except those who are suffering from such irrational fear?
The press release and bill are not really talking about a fear of Islam; they are talking about a hostility toward Islam, which are not the same thing.
One may fear Muslims but not necessarily hate them, or act violently against them. But, in expressing fears about Muslims, is certainly possible that such fears may lead some persons to hostile acts of violence. Does this mean that such fears cannot be raised? What if they are justified?
The bill does not address this issue; instead, it proceeds as if there could be no rational basis for fear of Islam. That would be a Muslim presumption; if based only on Islamic scriptures, however, such presumption would not be an objective one.
Those Scriptures include biographies of Muhammad, which describe his great achievement of uniting Arabs under the standard of Islam, but which also include accounts of callous and unprecedented assassinations of political and religious opponents in order reach that objective. Nonetheless, in the Quran, at 33:21, Allah names Muhammad as a good example for mankind. It is fair to expect that some Muslims, appalled at the degeneracy of the West, but blind to its virtues, have taken that endorsement to heart. And if assassination is justifiable for what is believed to be a greater purpose, then what isn't?
In short, if there is content in the media that could give rise to fear of Islam, such content is not necessarily "propaganda," as the bill effectively assumes.
Need it be said that H.R. 5665 violates the First Amendment at two different levels? First of all, in addressing not the alleged hostile actions themselves, but rather the media that are supposedly instigating those actions, the bill runs afoul of such media's freedom of speech.
Secondly, in focusing on issues relating specifically to Islam and to no other religion, the bill is "respecting an establishment of religion," which, under the Amendment, is prohibited.
One has to wonder if the 219 House members are aware that we have a Constitution, or whether it has a First Amendment?
In addition to constitutional issues is the one of national sovereignty. Two hundred nineteen Democrats have voted for the U.S. to monitor "international Islamophobia." But the U.S. is not an international institution; Islam is. This is Islam's concern, not America's. Or have the Democrats converted to Islam?
Following its passage in the House, the bill, now as S. 3344, was forwarded to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Because of the 50-50 party split in the full Senate, the membership of the Committee was also evenly split, leaving the bill in a deadlock. If Raphael Warnock wins the Georgia seat, Democrats would have a majority in the committee. If that majority accepted the bill as the House presented it, it could move to the Senate floor for a full vote — one in which, if it is passed, will not need reconciliation with the House, which would no longer be controlled by Democrats.
Republicans might try to filibuster such a vote, but, the filibuster being not a law, but only a Senate rule, it could be terminated by a simple majority of senators. Democrats could possibly have the votes to do that, and then vote S. 3384 into law.
As noted, however, the bill is unconstitutional on at least two levels, and so could likely be challenged successfully in court on such bases. Since Republicans would control the House, Democrats would be unable to pack the Supreme Court in order to prevent such outcome.
Even so, it would be far better if such a challenge did not need to be made at all, for the more legislation the Court must strike down, the greater is the appearance that it is legislating from the bench. In either case, a lot rides on the Dec. 6 run-off election between incumbent Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker.
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David Horowitz Exposes the Leftist Cult of Destruction
A review of ‘The Radical Mind: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left’.
[Today marks the release of David Horowitz’s new book, Order it: HERE.]
On Ivy League campuses radicals cheer Hamas while major corporations like Budweiser and Target lose billions by embracing woke agendas. What explains this cult of destruction that has overtaken our country and our culture? Why are so many so eager to destroy America?
In the 60s and 70s, David Horowitz defined the political spirit of the age in the New Left while in the 80s and 90s, he became the vanguard of the conservative campaign against the Left.
Nearly forty years after he not only publicly rejected the Left, but took the lead in warning conservatives and the rest of the country about the threat that it posed, Horowitz confronts the crisis we face, the abyss beyond and the road ahead in his latest revelatory book about the political war we’re in: ‘The Radical Mind: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left.’
The Radical Mind is in some ways the story of David Horowitz and of America. It exposes the radicals who indoctrinated generations into their destructive ideology and the state of a nation where majorities of a younger generation are Jew-haters, socialists and terrorist supporters.
While many conservatives have become prone to despairing at such spectacles, Horowitz had seen worse and come out of worse. The Left had never been concerned with numbers. Its extremist positions were once so far on the fringe that no one would have imagined they would become mainstream dogma. What the Left had was passion, aggression and a plan of action.
In The Radical Mind, Horowitz continues to develop the message that he has carried for nearly two generations to the conservative movement. And that is that the movement all too often lacks these things: it doesn’t know how to fight and does not even realize that it needs to fight.
“From the moment I joined the conservative right forty years ago, I was impressed – and also alarmed – by the disparity in political rhetoric used by the two sides fighting this fateful conflict. My radical comrades and I had always viewed these battles as episodes in a war conducted by other means – even as our opponents failed to understand that they were in a war at all,” he writes in The Radical Mind.
The conservative movement has traveled a long way since the 1980s and David Horowitz played a major role in waking it up to the reality that leftists were not just political opponents, they were sworn enemies bent on destroying America. Long before it was fashionable, he was out there warning about Marxist indoctrination at universities and the vast network of leftist foundations, including those of George Soros, who were using the nonprofit sector to seize control of the commanding heights of our country. Now, Horowitz is still urging us to fight.
And fight hard.
In The Radical Mind, Horowitz urges “defenders of America” to deploy “stronger rhetoric, along with a more realistic attitude towards the enemy they are facing if America is to survive at all.” He points out that we are still mired in talking about “issues” and complaining about “double standards” rather than recognizing that the Left is not misguided, but maliciously destructive.
Typical of this is the tendency by Republicans to describe Democrats as being“soft on crime.” But, “Democrats – progressives – are not soft on crime, they are pro-crime. They regard crime as a primitive form of ‘social justice.’” This is the kind of bracing rhetoric that made David Horowitz the fighting spirit of the conservative movement whose voice is still badly needed.
And The Radical Mind once again displays Horowitz’s great gifts of describing the reality of the war in enemy as it is, unflinchingly and unapologetically, and tracing the origin of the crisis back to radical figures like Bill Ayers and a leftist movement that had set out to tear down America.
What is the mindset of such people? That is one of the questions that Horowitz tackled in Radical Son, a book that changed lives and made conservatives out of some radicals, and it is the question that he returns to once again in The Radical Mind, writing that, “envy and resentment” are “the key passions of the progressive mind”.
False claims of racism, sexism and all the various forms of oppression channel that envy and resentment, the private passions of the dissatisfied (but often materially wealthy) leftist, into ideologically approved categories making personal resentments into a power grab.
The radicals masquerade in a perpetual state of victimhood because it licenses their destruction. Oppression justifies violence, terrorism and then a total takeover. In The Radical Mind, David Horowitz breaks down the various issues in whose name the leftists are destroying America, especially false claims of hatred and oppression, and exposes the lies behind them.
“For progressives the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution,” he writes. “Every revolution begins with destruction. Every revolutionary is focused on the means to ‘dismantle’ the existing social order, not on devising workable blueprints for the future. Consequently, they are experts at destruction, but criminally incompetent at construction.”
David Horowitz has witnessed and documented the revolutionary destruction across eras and The Radical Mind clearly shows how the Stalinist era, the New Left and now the Woke Left are committed to the same politics of destruction. It is not the poor or the oppressed that they love, but their fantasies of power. The victims of the moment, real or imagined, are just tools to justify their crimes. And once the destruction is successful, the Left does not spare a thought for them.
The Radical Mind documents the Anti-War Left’s abandonment of Cambodians to genocide and the abandonment of black teens in inner cities to gang violence. Americans are being divided in workplaces and on college campuses into identity politics groups to tear apart the country. But once the destruction is done, the Left will have no more use for black lesbians or transgenders than it did for millions of murdered Cambodians or the 8 teens shot in an urban ghetto over the weekend.
To the radicals, people are means to an end. And that is where Radical Mind vitally distinguishes the leftist worldview from that of the Constitution its members hope to destroy.
“The attack on the social contract under which Americans have lived for more than 200 years is the core of the current crisis,” Horowitz argues. The Left wants to get rid of the Constitution, not because it actually believes that it’s the illegitimate product of dead white men, but because it wants to dispense with all laws and systems that interfere with the advancement of its revolution.
Horowitz points out that in the case of Roe v. Wade, the leftists were “uninterested in the Roe argument itself – i.e., the actual merits of the case” because they are “ready to dispense with due process – with the agreement to live by a neutral set of rules and deliberative resolutions when an impasse is reached” because their only goal is the “pursuit by any means necessary of a “re-imagined” future, based on untested and discredited ideas.”
The radical goal is revolution. And as David Horowitz comprehensively demonstrates in The Radical Mind: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left’, revolution means destruction.
Is it a wonder then that student radicals and extremist academics cheer Hamas, not despite its atrocities, but because of them, or that woke CEOs shrug off billions in losses? Woke military brass continue to champion racist and divisive policies even as recruitment falls drastically.
The Left does not turn back in the face of destruction because that is exactly what it desires.
The Radical Mind is another invaluable contributor by America’s master chronicler of the Left who, like no other, has shown us what it is and what it intends for us, not in the abstruse language of academia, but in no holds barred testimony ripped from the heart of the beast.
No one understands the radical mind like David Horowitz. And no one can describe it half as well. The Radical Mind is not just a book, it’s another punch in the face of the Left.
[Today marks the release of David Horowitz’s new book, Order it: HERE.]
On Ivy League campuses radicals cheer Hamas while major corporations like Budweiser and Target lose billions by embracing woke agendas. What explains this cult of destruction that has overtaken our country and our culture? Why are so many so eager to destroy America?
In the 60s and 70s, David Horowitz defined the political spirit of the age in the New Left while in the 80s and 90s, he became the vanguard of the conservative campaign against the Left.
Nearly forty years after he not only publicly rejected the Left, but took the lead in warning conservatives and the rest of the country about the threat that it posed, Horowitz confronts the crisis we face, the abyss beyond and the road ahead in his latest revelatory book about the political war we’re in: ‘The Radical Mind: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left.’
The Radical Mind is in some ways the story of David Horowitz and of America. It exposes the radicals who indoctrinated generations into their destructive ideology and the state of a nation where majorities of a younger generation are Jew-haters, socialists and terrorist supporters.
While many conservatives have become prone to despairing at such spectacles, Horowitz had seen worse and come out of worse. The Left had never been concerned with numbers. Its extremist positions were once so far on the fringe that no one would have imagined they would become mainstream dogma. What the Left had was passion, aggression and a plan of action.
In The Radical Mind, Horowitz continues to develop the message that he has carried for nearly two generations to the conservative movement. And that is that the movement all too often lacks these things: it doesn’t know how to fight and does not even realize that it needs to fight.
“From the moment I joined the conservative right forty years ago, I was impressed – and also alarmed – by the disparity in political rhetoric used by the two sides fighting this fateful conflict. My radical comrades and I had always viewed these battles as episodes in a war conducted by other means – even as our opponents failed to understand that they were in a war at all,” he writes in The Radical Mind.
The conservative movement has traveled a long way since the 1980s and David Horowitz played a major role in waking it up to the reality that leftists were not just political opponents, they were sworn enemies bent on destroying America. Long before it was fashionable, he was out there warning about Marxist indoctrination at universities and the vast network of leftist foundations, including those of George Soros, who were using the nonprofit sector to seize control of the commanding heights of our country. Now, Horowitz is still urging us to fight.
And fight hard.
In The Radical Mind, Horowitz urges “defenders of America” to deploy “stronger rhetoric, along with a more realistic attitude towards the enemy they are facing if America is to survive at all.” He points out that we are still mired in talking about “issues” and complaining about “double standards” rather than recognizing that the Left is not misguided, but maliciously destructive.
Typical of this is the tendency by Republicans to describe Democrats as being“soft on crime.” But, “Democrats – progressives – are not soft on crime, they are pro-crime. They regard crime as a primitive form of ‘social justice.’” This is the kind of bracing rhetoric that made David Horowitz the fighting spirit of the conservative movement whose voice is still badly needed.
And The Radical Mind once again displays Horowitz’s great gifts of describing the reality of the war in enemy as it is, unflinchingly and unapologetically, and tracing the origin of the crisis back to radical figures like Bill Ayers and a leftist movement that had set out to tear down America.
What is the mindset of such people? That is one of the questions that Horowitz tackled in Radical Son, a book that changed lives and made conservatives out of some radicals, and it is the question that he returns to once again in The Radical Mind, writing that, “envy and resentment” are “the key passions of the progressive mind”.
False claims of racism, sexism and all the various forms of oppression channel that envy and resentment, the private passions of the dissatisfied (but often materially wealthy) leftist, into ideologically approved categories making personal resentments into a power grab.
The radicals masquerade in a perpetual state of victimhood because it licenses their destruction. Oppression justifies violence, terrorism and then a total takeover. In The Radical Mind, David Horowitz breaks down the various issues in whose name the leftists are destroying America, especially false claims of hatred and oppression, and exposes the lies behind them.
“For progressives the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution,” he writes. “Every revolution begins with destruction. Every revolutionary is focused on the means to ‘dismantle’ the existing social order, not on devising workable blueprints for the future. Consequently, they are experts at destruction, but criminally incompetent at construction.”
David Horowitz has witnessed and documented the revolutionary destruction across eras and The Radical Mind clearly shows how the Stalinist era, the New Left and now the Woke Left are committed to the same politics of destruction. It is not the poor or the oppressed that they love, but their fantasies of power. The victims of the moment, real or imagined, are just tools to justify their crimes. And once the destruction is successful, the Left does not spare a thought for them.
The Radical Mind documents the Anti-War Left’s abandonment of Cambodians to genocide and the abandonment of black teens in inner cities to gang violence. Americans are being divided in workplaces and on college campuses into identity politics groups to tear apart the country. But once the destruction is done, the Left will have no more use for black lesbians or transgenders than it did for millions of murdered Cambodians or the 8 teens shot in an urban ghetto over the weekend.
To the radicals, people are means to an end. And that is where Radical Mind vitally distinguishes the leftist worldview from that of the Constitution its members hope to destroy.
“The attack on the social contract under which Americans have lived for more than 200 years is the core of the current crisis,” Horowitz argues. The Left wants to get rid of the Constitution, not because it actually believes that it’s the illegitimate product of dead white men, but because it wants to dispense with all laws and systems that interfere with the advancement of its revolution.
Horowitz points out that in the case of Roe v. Wade, the leftists were “uninterested in the Roe argument itself – i.e., the actual merits of the case” because they are “ready to dispense with due process – with the agreement to live by a neutral set of rules and deliberative resolutions when an impasse is reached” because their only goal is the “pursuit by any means necessary of a “re-imagined” future, based on untested and discredited ideas.”
The radical goal is revolution. And as David Horowitz comprehensively demonstrates in The Radical Mind: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left’, revolution means destruction.
Is it a wonder then that student radicals and extremist academics cheer Hamas, not despite its atrocities, but because of them, or that woke CEOs shrug off billions in losses? Woke military brass continue to champion racist and divisive policies even as recruitment falls drastically.
The Left does not turn back in the face of destruction because that is exactly what it desires.
The Radical Mind is another invaluable contributor by America’s master chronicler of the Left who, like no other, has shown us what it is and what it intends for us, not in the abstruse language of academia, but in no holds barred testimony ripped from the heart of the beast.
No one understands the radical mind like David Horowitz. And no one can describe it half as well. The Radical Mind is not just a book, it’s another punch in the face of the Left.
Daniel Greenfield
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Two Attempts to Attack Jews Inside the United States
Anti-Semitism — the “oldest hate” — is alive and well.
Sometimes life sends along a little something to cheer us up. It did so on November 6, with a news item about a Muslim woman who was determined to harm — possibly even kill — Jews, because she was disturbed at the IDF’s campaign to destroy Hamas. She got in her car, drove to what she thought was a Jewish school because it had a crudely drawn Star of David on its outside door, and proceeded to smash her car right into it. The police soon arrested her. But she then discovered that the object of her murderous hate wasn’t a Jewish school at all. It was a center run by a bizarre group called the Black Hebrew Israelites, an antisemitic group of black Americans whose members believe that they are the true Jews and so-called “white Jews” are fakers, falsely claiming a Jewish identity. More on her tragicomical error can be found here: “US woman drives car into antisemitic group’s building, mistaking it for Jewish school,” Times of Israel, November 6, 2023:
A woman was detained after she drove her car into an Indianapolis residential building used by an antisemitic group on Saturday, mistakenly believing it was a Jewish school.
Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, drove her vehicle into a house used by a sect of the Black Hebrew Israelites…
A local Fox News affiliate said Almaghtheh told police she drove her car into what she referred to as the “Israel school” on purpose after watching news coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas, and that she had referred to “her people back in Palestine.”
The building had a “semblance of a Star of David on the front door” and the words “Hebrew Israelite” on a sign, apparently leading the suspect to believe that the building was connected to the Jewish community or Israel, according to the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council.
Fox 59 said the building housed the “Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge,” and several adults and children were inside when Almaghtheh backed her vehicle into it. The outlet said Almaghtheh was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness, while CBS 4 said she faced a preliminary charge of intimidation, which would be a felony if the threat is for an act of terrorism….
Her act was much more serious than mere “recklessness.” She deliberately drove her car into the building, hoping at the very least to terrorize the “Israelites” inside, and ideally, to injure them. Of course it was an “act of terrorism,” even if she happened, out of her own ignorance, to have chosen exactly the wrong target. Let’s hope she gets the book thrown at her.
Not funny at all, however, was the case of one Sohaib Abuayyash, a Jordanian who has just been arrested for planning to attack a Jewish gathering; the Jordanian had high hopes of dying as a “shahid” or “martyr.” More on his plans, and his likely punishment, can be found here: “Jordanian man planning to attack Jews indicted in Texas,” Jerusalem Post, November
The incident came amid spiking antisemitism as Israel fights the Hamas terror group in the wake of the terror group’s murderous assault on southern Israel communities last month.
In Houston, a Jordanian man was arrested last month for “plotting to attack a Jewish gathering,” a law enforcement source told CNN.
The report said a federal judge in a court order noted that Sohaib Abuayyash, 20, had discussed “martyrdom.”
CNN cited the order of detention pending trial document filed on October 24, in which a judge wrote that Abuayyash “has viewed specific and detailed content posted by radical organizations on the internet including lessons on how to construct bombs or explosive devices; and that Defendant has made statements to others that support the killing of individuals of particular religious faiths.”
Abuayyash had also been studying how to build bombs and posted online about “killing Jews” and about the stabbing death of a six-year-old Muslim boy in Illinois by his landlord, a murder being investigated as a hate crime.
Abuayyash, who was in the US on an expired nonimmigrant visa but had applied for asylum, was ordered detained, pending trial….
Abuayyash’s application for asylum is without merit; he is not fleeing persecution or war in Jordan. His visa had expired and at that point, he ought to have been promptly deported back to Jordan. It’s a failure of our immigration system that he managed to remain in the country after his visa had expired. Now he’ll be in this country for many years as a prisoner, and constitute an expensive drain on the system. The average cost to the government of upkeep for each prisoner is more than $70,000. Assuming a ten-year sentence, and excluding the very great cost of court-appointed lawyers for both the trial and appeals, Abuayyash will cost taxpayers $700,000, before he is freed and deported to Jordan.
Antisemitism- the “oldest hate” — is irrational hatred and fear of Jews. Cabals of powerful Jews are said to control the world’s media, or the financial system, or both, though if they are so powerful, one wonders why they were unable to prevent the Holocaust, or the anti-Israel kangaroo court at the UN.
Similarly, Islamophobia should refer only to “irrational hatred and fear of Muslims.” But the term is applied to anyone, however rational either his hatred or his fear of Muslims may be, who is critical of Islam. Throughout Europe, where tens of millions of Muslims now live, the behavior of Muslims has led to both “fear and hate.” It is reasonable, not irrational, to hate those Muslims who took part in, or gleefully support, the atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7. It is not irrational to hate Muslims who carry out crimes of every kind — street robberies, house burglaries, stabbings and rapes — against the indigenous non-Muslims in whose countries they now live, while taking full advantage of the welfare benefits offered to them in European countries, and at the same time refuse any semblance of loyalty to the Western countries they now live in. Why wouldn’t non-Muslims “fear and hate” Muslims who now openly predict that through demographic jihad, Muslims will eventually take over their countries and impose Sharia? It is reasonable to both “hate and fear” the thousands of Muslims in the U.K., whose grooming gangs have blighted the lives of tens of thousands of young and vulnerable English girls. These reactions do not constitute “Islamophobia.” It’s a weasel word designed to shut down criticism of Muslims and of Islam. Those who fling that epithet “Islamophobic” should be challenged on every occasion.
Sometimes life sends along a little something to cheer us up. It did so on November 6, with a news item about a Muslim woman who was determined to harm — possibly even kill — Jews, because she was disturbed at the IDF’s campaign to destroy Hamas. She got in her car, drove to what she thought was a Jewish school because it had a crudely drawn Star of David on its outside door, and proceeded to smash her car right into it. The police soon arrested her. But she then discovered that the object of her murderous hate wasn’t a Jewish school at all. It was a center run by a bizarre group called the Black Hebrew Israelites, an antisemitic group of black Americans whose members believe that they are the true Jews and so-called “white Jews” are fakers, falsely claiming a Jewish identity. More on her tragicomical error can be found here: “US woman drives car into antisemitic group’s building, mistaking it for Jewish school,” Times of Israel, November 6, 2023:
A woman was detained after she drove her car into an Indianapolis residential building used by an antisemitic group on Saturday, mistakenly believing it was a Jewish school.
Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, drove her vehicle into a house used by a sect of the Black Hebrew Israelites…
A local Fox News affiliate said Almaghtheh told police she drove her car into what she referred to as the “Israel school” on purpose after watching news coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas, and that she had referred to “her people back in Palestine.”
The building had a “semblance of a Star of David on the front door” and the words “Hebrew Israelite” on a sign, apparently leading the suspect to believe that the building was connected to the Jewish community or Israel, according to the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council.
Fox 59 said the building housed the “Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge,” and several adults and children were inside when Almaghtheh backed her vehicle into it. The outlet said Almaghtheh was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness, while CBS 4 said she faced a preliminary charge of intimidation, which would be a felony if the threat is for an act of terrorism….
Her act was much more serious than mere “recklessness.” She deliberately drove her car into the building, hoping at the very least to terrorize the “Israelites” inside, and ideally, to injure them. Of course it was an “act of terrorism,” even if she happened, out of her own ignorance, to have chosen exactly the wrong target. Let’s hope she gets the book thrown at her.
Not funny at all, however, was the case of one Sohaib Abuayyash, a Jordanian who has just been arrested for planning to attack a Jewish gathering; the Jordanian had high hopes of dying as a “shahid” or “martyr.” More on his plans, and his likely punishment, can be found here: “Jordanian man planning to attack Jews indicted in Texas,” Jerusalem Post, November
The incident came amid spiking antisemitism as Israel fights the Hamas terror group in the wake of the terror group’s murderous assault on southern Israel communities last month.
In Houston, a Jordanian man was arrested last month for “plotting to attack a Jewish gathering,” a law enforcement source told CNN.
The report said a federal judge in a court order noted that Sohaib Abuayyash, 20, had discussed “martyrdom.”
CNN cited the order of detention pending trial document filed on October 24, in which a judge wrote that Abuayyash “has viewed specific and detailed content posted by radical organizations on the internet including lessons on how to construct bombs or explosive devices; and that Defendant has made statements to others that support the killing of individuals of particular religious faiths.”
Abuayyash had also been studying how to build bombs and posted online about “killing Jews” and about the stabbing death of a six-year-old Muslim boy in Illinois by his landlord, a murder being investigated as a hate crime.
Abuayyash, who was in the US on an expired nonimmigrant visa but had applied for asylum, was ordered detained, pending trial….
Abuayyash’s application for asylum is without merit; he is not fleeing persecution or war in Jordan. His visa had expired and at that point, he ought to have been promptly deported back to Jordan. It’s a failure of our immigration system that he managed to remain in the country after his visa had expired. Now he’ll be in this country for many years as a prisoner, and constitute an expensive drain on the system. The average cost to the government of upkeep for each prisoner is more than $70,000. Assuming a ten-year sentence, and excluding the very great cost of court-appointed lawyers for both the trial and appeals, Abuayyash will cost taxpayers $700,000, before he is freed and deported to Jordan.
Antisemitism- the “oldest hate” — is irrational hatred and fear of Jews. Cabals of powerful Jews are said to control the world’s media, or the financial system, or both, though if they are so powerful, one wonders why they were unable to prevent the Holocaust, or the anti-Israel kangaroo court at the UN.
Similarly, Islamophobia should refer only to “irrational hatred and fear of Muslims.” But the term is applied to anyone, however rational either his hatred or his fear of Muslims may be, who is critical of Islam. Throughout Europe, where tens of millions of Muslims now live, the behavior of Muslims has led to both “fear and hate.” It is reasonable, not irrational, to hate those Muslims who took part in, or gleefully support, the atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7. It is not irrational to hate Muslims who carry out crimes of every kind — street robberies, house burglaries, stabbings and rapes — against the indigenous non-Muslims in whose countries they now live, while taking full advantage of the welfare benefits offered to them in European countries, and at the same time refuse any semblance of loyalty to the Western countries they now live in. Why wouldn’t non-Muslims “fear and hate” Muslims who now openly predict that through demographic jihad, Muslims will eventually take over their countries and impose Sharia? It is reasonable to both “hate and fear” the thousands of Muslims in the U.K., whose grooming gangs have blighted the lives of tens of thousands of young and vulnerable English girls. These reactions do not constitute “Islamophobia.” It’s a weasel word designed to shut down criticism of Muslims and of Islam. Those who fling that epithet “Islamophobic” should be challenged on every occasion.
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Rep. Tlaib Belonged to Secret Pro-Hamas Facebook Group
Who would have guessed?
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a supporter of Islamic terrorism. As is most of The Squad. There’s been little secret of this. Even when there have been some secrets, they weren’t really secret. Like this one.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is part of a secret social media group in which its members have glamorized Hamas in its war battle with Israel after the terror group attacked and killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians last month, Fox News Digital has found.
The Michigan Democrat is a member of the Palestinian American Congress group on Facebook. The group is hidden from non-members and does not appear on the platform’s search engine, though Fox News Digital was able to gain access to it.
The group’s founder, Maher Abdel-qader, who has extensive ties to Tlaib and has also been linked to other liberal politicians, has come under fire in the past for his antisemitic social media posts, including questioning if the Holocaust ever occurred.
This isn’t really new insofar as Tlaib’s ties to Maher Abdel-qader and the Palestinian American Congress were reported back in 2019.
Maher Abdel-qader, a Palestinian activist who fundraised and organized campaign events for Tlaib, shared the content in a “Palestinian American Congress” Facebook group, the Daily Caller first reported Monday. The page is filled with anti-Semitic content, Holocaust denial, and suggestions that Israelis are committing a Holocaust of their own.
Abdel-qader added Tlaib to the group in February 2018, shortly after news broke she intended to run for Congress. Tlaib remained a member as of Tuesday.
In a post written in Arabic, Abdel-qader claimed to have raised over $200,000 for Tlaib’s campaign. If true, this would account for one in every eight dollars raised during Tlaib’s campaign.
Abdel-qader posted last March about receiving a public award from Tlaib’s campaign in recognition of his support. The award, shown in a picture he posted of himself and Tlaib, has his name etched on it.
Tlaib writes glowingly about Abdel-qader in several posts from her personal account. In one, Tlaib names Abdel-qader among her family and friends who “inspire me to stay true to my roots and who I am.”
So Rep. Tlaib had every chance to cut her ties with Abdel-qader, the Palestinian American Congress, and its pro-terrorist Facebook group.
But four years later, here we are.
The Palestinian American Congress group, of which Tlaib is a member, has featured pro-Hamas posts in the wake of the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
It’s not just Tlaib though who is tied to the Palestinian American Congress.
Another Democrat who recently embraced Abdel Qader was Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is running for reelection. Last month, the Palestinian activist posted several pictures on his Instagram page from the New York City fundraiser, including a couple with him and Ellison.
Missouri Rep. Cori Bush took part in a virtual Zoom fundraiser with Abdel Qader last September, his Instagram account shows.
In early November, Abdel Qader posted a Bush fundraising flier for a reception hosted by the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Muslim Community of St. Louis, which solicited donations between $100 and $2,500 for Bush’s campaign, according to the flier. It appears he donated $250 to her campaign for the fundraiser.
This is what happens when you follow the money. The Left is financed by terror cash.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a supporter of Islamic terrorism. As is most of The Squad. There’s been little secret of this. Even when there have been some secrets, they weren’t really secret. Like this one.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is part of a secret social media group in which its members have glamorized Hamas in its war battle with Israel after the terror group attacked and killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians last month, Fox News Digital has found.
The Michigan Democrat is a member of the Palestinian American Congress group on Facebook. The group is hidden from non-members and does not appear on the platform’s search engine, though Fox News Digital was able to gain access to it.
The group’s founder, Maher Abdel-qader, who has extensive ties to Tlaib and has also been linked to other liberal politicians, has come under fire in the past for his antisemitic social media posts, including questioning if the Holocaust ever occurred.
This isn’t really new insofar as Tlaib’s ties to Maher Abdel-qader and the Palestinian American Congress were reported back in 2019.
Maher Abdel-qader, a Palestinian activist who fundraised and organized campaign events for Tlaib, shared the content in a “Palestinian American Congress” Facebook group, the Daily Caller first reported Monday. The page is filled with anti-Semitic content, Holocaust denial, and suggestions that Israelis are committing a Holocaust of their own.
Abdel-qader added Tlaib to the group in February 2018, shortly after news broke she intended to run for Congress. Tlaib remained a member as of Tuesday.
In a post written in Arabic, Abdel-qader claimed to have raised over $200,000 for Tlaib’s campaign. If true, this would account for one in every eight dollars raised during Tlaib’s campaign.
Abdel-qader posted last March about receiving a public award from Tlaib’s campaign in recognition of his support. The award, shown in a picture he posted of himself and Tlaib, has his name etched on it.
Tlaib writes glowingly about Abdel-qader in several posts from her personal account. In one, Tlaib names Abdel-qader among her family and friends who “inspire me to stay true to my roots and who I am.”
So Rep. Tlaib had every chance to cut her ties with Abdel-qader, the Palestinian American Congress, and its pro-terrorist Facebook group.
But four years later, here we are.
The Palestinian American Congress group, of which Tlaib is a member, has featured pro-Hamas posts in the wake of the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
It’s not just Tlaib though who is tied to the Palestinian American Congress.
Another Democrat who recently embraced Abdel Qader was Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is running for reelection. Last month, the Palestinian activist posted several pictures on his Instagram page from the New York City fundraiser, including a couple with him and Ellison.
Missouri Rep. Cori Bush took part in a virtual Zoom fundraiser with Abdel Qader last September, his Instagram account shows.
In early November, Abdel Qader posted a Bush fundraising flier for a reception hosted by the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Muslim Community of St. Louis, which solicited donations between $100 and $2,500 for Bush’s campaign, according to the flier. It appears he donated $250 to her campaign for the fundraiser.
This is what happens when you follow the money. The Left is financed by terror cash.
Daniel Greenfield
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Schools for Hamas-cide
Welcome to the vicious Jew-hatred in many of our schools.
While the slaying of some 1,400 Jews by Hamas is a major tragedy in and of itself, other important facets of the story merit attention. For example, a Harris poll taken after the massacre reveals that 51% of American 18-24-year-olds think the murder of innocent Jewish men, women, and babies was justified, and much of this Jew hatred can be attributed to our nation’s schools.
Rethinking Schools, a radical activist outfit established in 1986, whose products are used by 200,000 teachers and are on university reading lists, asserts that educators have a “moral and educational responsibility” to join and teach about “the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel.”
Also, a wing of Rethinking Schools, the Zinn Education Project,which has developed history curricula since 2008, is used by 155,000 teachers nationwide. On October 10, the organization declared that the terror, violence, murder, and rape we’ve seen in the past week “is the direct result of decades of Israeli occupation.”
In Oakland, the teachers union has accused Israel of carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing. The teachers union in Seattle passed a resolution in 2021 supporting the same lie. In Virginia, a school board member in Fairfax County has, under the banner of culturally responsive pedagogy, pushed for an explicitly anti-Israeli curriculum.
Also, Black Lives Matter, which has had success infiltrating our public schools, insists that the recent events in the Middle East are a “direct result of decades of Israeli settler colonialism, land dispossession, occupation, blockade, apartheid, and attempted genocide of millions of Palestinians.”
Then there are the colleges. The colleges! Yes, the same cohort of far-left, cultural ignoramuses who can’t define what a woman is and offers classes like “Queering Menstruation” and “Anal 101” are now, not surprisingly, weighing in on the Middle East.
In addition to Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion tenets have become de rigeur on college campuses. The DEI-ists see everything in black and white, labeling white people as oppressors and blacks as the oppressed. While DEI typically concerns itself with USA issues, Israel, too, is on the hook, being tarred as a bastion of Jewish whiteness with a racist commitment to shattering the lives of Palestinians, who are considered people of color.
Tabia Lee, a former collegiate DEI director, explains that DEI drives campus antisemitism. She once hosted Jewish speakers on campus with the goal of “promoting diversity and inclusion by sharing different perspectives.” But she was deemed not radical enough, and was told in no uncertain terms that Jews are “white oppressors” and that it was her job to “decenter whiteness.”
At UCLA, immediately after the onset of the invasion, professors gave extra credit to students for attending a “teach-in” pushing anti-Israel propaganda. In New York, the president of NYU’s Student Bar Association wrote that “Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.”
In tune with the regnant campus zeitgeist, 34 student groups at Harvard pledged their support to Hamas. At Columbia, 20 campus groups signed a statement “condoning and justifying Hamas’s atrocities against Jews,” describing the wholesale slaughter of infants and children and the rape of women as “resistance,” all the while blaming Israel and America for the violence.
At UC-Berkeley, a statement from Bears for Palestine and signed by 25 on-and-off campus organizations, brazenly declared their support for slaughter of the Jews. “We invariably reject Israel’s framing as a victim” said the statement which also argued that “[O]ur people’s freedom will not be attainable without revolution,” adding, “We support the resistance, we support the liberation movement, and we indisputably support the Uprising.”
Sadly, activity on campuses isn’t limited to groups issuing statements. At the University of Pennsylvania, dozens of flyers depicting the names and faces of the victims that Hamas kidnapped were torn down around campus shortly after being put up. At Drexel University in Philadelphia, an assailant set a Jewish student’s dorm room door on fire. A Jewish student was beaten at Columbia, and Jewish students at Cooper Union had to take shelter in a library to escape a mob chanting, “Free Palestine!” And a student at Cornell threatened to shoot, stab, rape, and slit the throats of his Jewish classmates, prompting classes to be canceled.
There are many things we can do to mitigate the rising tide of Jew hatred – and all the other kinds of bilge that proliferates in our colleges these days. First, wealthy people must stop giving money to colleges that engage in Jew hatred and other forms of extremism, and this is indeed happening. Fox News reports,“Billionaires are pulling back on donations to leading Ivy League colleges amid allegations of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment that have become more visible in the wake of Hamas’ terror attack on Israel.”
Additionally – and this is no easy task – we must get the government out of funding private colleges. (The same crowd that reviles public money going to private schools on the K-12 level in the form of vouchers seems to have no problem with government money flowing into private colleges.) At this time, there are about 4,000 for-profit colleges in the U.S., and they receive the great majority of federal donations for higher education – which is about $201 billion. In fact, there are only 22 colleges in the country that refuse any public funds.
The government should also get out of the student loan business. At this time, the student loan nut is a staggering $1.75 trillion, about 92% of which comes from the feds.
Parents must do their share by not sending their children to a K-12 school or college that subsidizes Jew hatred. Unless your kid absolutely needs a college degree for a chosen career, let them skip the indoctrination-centric universities and join an apprentice program. At this time, the number of apprentices registered with the Department of Labor has surpassed 607,000, which is more than double the number that existed in 2013.
Teachers can do their share by not teaching any curricula that is anti-Jewish or bigoted toward any other group, for that matter. They also should quit their union – like the one in Oakland – if it is openly bigoted against Jews.
While the deaths of 1,400 people is a devastating tragedy, if we don’t learn from our mistakes, we will be doomed to ongoing savagery. Please think about what you can do to stanch the ugliness that is festering in our midst.
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Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network – a non-partisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers and the general public with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues. The views presented here are strictly his own.
Hamas Supporters: Residing in a Neighborhood Near You
While the slaying of some 1,400 Jews by Hamas is a major tragedy in and of itself, other important facets of the story merit attention. For example, a Harris poll taken after the massacre reveals that 51% of American 18-24-year-olds think the murder of innocent Jewish men, women, and babies was justified, and much of this Jew hatred can be attributed to our nation’s schools.
Rethinking Schools, a radical activist outfit established in 1986, whose products are used by 200,000 teachers and are on university reading lists, asserts that educators have a “moral and educational responsibility” to join and teach about “the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel.”
Also, a wing of Rethinking Schools, the Zinn Education Project,which has developed history curricula since 2008, is used by 155,000 teachers nationwide. On October 10, the organization declared that the terror, violence, murder, and rape we’ve seen in the past week “is the direct result of decades of Israeli occupation.”
In Oakland, the teachers union has accused Israel of carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing. The teachers union in Seattle passed a resolution in 2021 supporting the same lie. In Virginia, a school board member in Fairfax County has, under the banner of culturally responsive pedagogy, pushed for an explicitly anti-Israeli curriculum.
Also, Black Lives Matter, which has had success infiltrating our public schools, insists that the recent events in the Middle East are a “direct result of decades of Israeli settler colonialism, land dispossession, occupation, blockade, apartheid, and attempted genocide of millions of Palestinians.”
Then there are the colleges. The colleges! Yes, the same cohort of far-left, cultural ignoramuses who can’t define what a woman is and offers classes like “Queering Menstruation” and “Anal 101” are now, not surprisingly, weighing in on the Middle East.
In addition to Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion tenets have become de rigeur on college campuses. The DEI-ists see everything in black and white, labeling white people as oppressors and blacks as the oppressed. While DEI typically concerns itself with USA issues, Israel, too, is on the hook, being tarred as a bastion of Jewish whiteness with a racist commitment to shattering the lives of Palestinians, who are considered people of color.
Tabia Lee, a former collegiate DEI director, explains that DEI drives campus antisemitism. She once hosted Jewish speakers on campus with the goal of “promoting diversity and inclusion by sharing different perspectives.” But she was deemed not radical enough, and was told in no uncertain terms that Jews are “white oppressors” and that it was her job to “decenter whiteness.”
At UCLA, immediately after the onset of the invasion, professors gave extra credit to students for attending a “teach-in” pushing anti-Israel propaganda. In New York, the president of NYU’s Student Bar Association wrote that “Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.”
In tune with the regnant campus zeitgeist, 34 student groups at Harvard pledged their support to Hamas. At Columbia, 20 campus groups signed a statement “condoning and justifying Hamas’s atrocities against Jews,” describing the wholesale slaughter of infants and children and the rape of women as “resistance,” all the while blaming Israel and America for the violence.
At UC-Berkeley, a statement from Bears for Palestine and signed by 25 on-and-off campus organizations, brazenly declared their support for slaughter of the Jews. “We invariably reject Israel’s framing as a victim” said the statement which also argued that “[O]ur people’s freedom will not be attainable without revolution,” adding, “We support the resistance, we support the liberation movement, and we indisputably support the Uprising.”
Sadly, activity on campuses isn’t limited to groups issuing statements. At the University of Pennsylvania, dozens of flyers depicting the names and faces of the victims that Hamas kidnapped were torn down around campus shortly after being put up. At Drexel University in Philadelphia, an assailant set a Jewish student’s dorm room door on fire. A Jewish student was beaten at Columbia, and Jewish students at Cooper Union had to take shelter in a library to escape a mob chanting, “Free Palestine!” And a student at Cornell threatened to shoot, stab, rape, and slit the throats of his Jewish classmates, prompting classes to be canceled.
There are many things we can do to mitigate the rising tide of Jew hatred – and all the other kinds of bilge that proliferates in our colleges these days. First, wealthy people must stop giving money to colleges that engage in Jew hatred and other forms of extremism, and this is indeed happening. Fox News reports,“Billionaires are pulling back on donations to leading Ivy League colleges amid allegations of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment that have become more visible in the wake of Hamas’ terror attack on Israel.”
Additionally – and this is no easy task – we must get the government out of funding private colleges. (The same crowd that reviles public money going to private schools on the K-12 level in the form of vouchers seems to have no problem with government money flowing into private colleges.) At this time, there are about 4,000 for-profit colleges in the U.S., and they receive the great majority of federal donations for higher education – which is about $201 billion. In fact, there are only 22 colleges in the country that refuse any public funds.
The government should also get out of the student loan business. At this time, the student loan nut is a staggering $1.75 trillion, about 92% of which comes from the feds.
Parents must do their share by not sending their children to a K-12 school or college that subsidizes Jew hatred. Unless your kid absolutely needs a college degree for a chosen career, let them skip the indoctrination-centric universities and join an apprentice program. At this time, the number of apprentices registered with the Department of Labor has surpassed 607,000, which is more than double the number that existed in 2013.
Teachers can do their share by not teaching any curricula that is anti-Jewish or bigoted toward any other group, for that matter. They also should quit their union – like the one in Oakland – if it is openly bigoted against Jews.
While the deaths of 1,400 people is a devastating tragedy, if we don’t learn from our mistakes, we will be doomed to ongoing savagery. Please think about what you can do to stanch the ugliness that is festering in our midst.
* * *
Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network – a non-partisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers and the general public with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues. The views presented here are strictly his own.
Hamas Supporters: Residing in a Neighborhood Near You
The sooner we wake up, the better it will be for humanity.
Deception, misinformation, and incitement are even being promoted by some members of Congress. Rashida Talib, Cory Bush, Ilhan Omar, and others are disseminating lies and deception to incite their audiences and advance the agenda of the radical Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations. These organizations and many others are being nurtured, financed, and trained by the biggest supporter of international terrorism: the aggressive Iranian regime.
One of the most blatant recent examples of the psychological warfare they are employing is the blood libel against Israel. Promoters of this blood libel accuse Israel of intentionally bombing a Gaza hospital and causing hundreds of casualties, despite the overwhelming evidence, which was documented by both Israeli and US intelligence services, that the rocket in question was launched by Islamic Jihad terrorists. This rocket hit the parking lot of the hospital and caused a limited number of casualties.
Obviously, the current attacks on the State of Israel and its citizens are not distinguishing between Jews, Christians, Muslims, or anybody else. But it should not be ignored that the entire free world is also facing the serious long-term risk of incitement of ignorant individuals by the leadership of Radical Islam and other groups promoting radical ideologies.
It was very well-documented that multiple anti-Western entities have been promoting worldwide unrest by exploiting the ignorance of students, journalists, politicians, and others. Hopefully, once all these people realize that their own skin may be in the game, they will wake up and stand up against evil, and support a peaceful coexistence among all people.
As documented by Ben Shapiro and others, some of the most oft-used deceptive claims against Israel include:
1. The lie that the land of Israel was always a Muslim territory.
The land of Israel was historically a Jewish territory, documented clearly in the Bible and with archeological evidence. The Jews entered the land of Israel in 1400 BCE. They established there the kingdoms of King David and King Solomon, they built their two Temples, and much more. The latest Exile of the Jews from their ancestral homeland occurred after the defeat of the Jews by the Romans in about 130 CE. Despite the Exile, throughout the centuries there were always Jews in the Land of Israel. In an attempt to disconnect the Jews from their land, the Romans renamed the Land of Israel “Palestina” and they renamed the city of Jerusalem “Aleah Capitoline.” Islam was founded only during the 7th century CE, which is many hundreds of years after the documented Jewish presence in the land of Israel! The fact is that never, in the history of the world, did a country by the name of “Palestine” exist in the land of Israel!!
2. The lie that Israel refused the partition of the disputed Land of Israel with its neighbors.
In the 1917 Balfour Declaration Britain endorsed the “Zionist aspirations” to reestablish the Jewish homeland in Palestine and promised to “facilitate” the effort. In 1920, the Covenant of the League of Nations adopted this promise and turned it into International Law. In 1920, the Arabs instigated deadly anti-Jewish riots in the city of Jerusalem out of anger at the British presence in Palestine. In 1922, Britain cut off about 77% of the territory of the Palestine Mandate to Jewish people and gave it over to the Hashemites, who, in turn, created the state of Trans-Jordan in 1946. This was essentially a two-state solution, whereby most of the original territory of the British mandate to Palestine, which was supposed to become the modern homeland of the Jewish people, became the state of Trans-Jordan.
In 1937, the Peel Commission recommended a further partition of the remaining 23% of the Land of Israel. In 1939, under Arab pressure, the British further restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine (even from Nazi Germany) on the eve of the Second World War. Despite all this, the Jews supported the British, and most Arabs supported Nazi Germany. In 1948 the British Mandate to Palestine ended. In accordance with the United Nations Partition Resolution, and in accordance with the legal favorable vote by the United Nations, the State of Israel was established on about 10% of the land included in the original British Mandate to Palestine and became an official member of the United Nations. Israel asked the local Arabs to become a part of the reestablished Jewish state in its ancestral homeland, but on the same day, surrounding Arab states, along with many local Arabs, started a war to destroy it.
In 1964, while the Arabs were still in control of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza, the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded, with the intent to destroy the State of Israel. In 1967, Arab countries tried again to destroy Israel, but they were defeated in what was later called the “Six-Day War.” Following the war, the Arab League announced the famous three No’s: No Peace, No Negotiation, and No Recognition of Israel. In 1973, during Yom Kippur, Arab countries launched another all-out war with the intent to destroy Israel once again. Since then, peace agreements were achieved with Egypt in 1979, with Jordan in 1994, and with the UAE, Sudan, Morocco, and Bahrain in 2020 via the Abraham Accords.
Despite the “Oslo Accords,” which were signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1993, the Palestinians continued their traditional hostilities and refused to recognize the Jewish State within any borders. The Palestinians continued with multiple destructive and indiscriminate terror attacks despite very generous peace offers, which included relinquishing to the Arab Palestinians more than 95% of the disputed land. These generous offers to settle the dispute were made by various Israeli Prime Ministers and mediated by various American Presidents, but the Arab Palestinians refused to accept any of them. In 2005, Israel left 100% of the land of Gaza hoping that the Arab Palestinians would create the Singapore or Monaco of the Middle East there, but instead, they created a vicious terror state that did not care about their own people or about any other people. Under the guidance and financial and political support of the biggest sponsor of international terrorism, the Iranian regime, Hamas, and Hezbollah became its ruthless proxies and helped to undermine international stability. Israel was defined as “The Little Satan”, while the USA was crowned “The Great Satan!”
3. The lie about Israel expelling most of the Arab Palestinians from the territories that were held by the British Mandate.
Upon the creation of the modern State of Israel, local Arabs were offered to become equal partners in building the country. In fact, many thousands of Arabs accepted the offer and became citizens of Israel with equal rights, but too many listened to the corrupt Arab leadership’s propaganda and instead became involved in a brutal military confrontation with Israel. Many others just left the country, even before the escalation of the military confrontation, hoping to return after the destruction of the Jewish state. The estimated number of these Arab refugees from the 1948 War was about 500,000. At the same time, the State of Israel absorbed about 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands.
4. The lie that Israel is an apartheid state.
In Israel, all citizens, should they be Jews, Arabs, Christians, or others, have equal rights under the law.
Israel has Arab members of the Parliament. Arab citizens of Israel have served on the Supreme Court and are employed in government positions. Arabs have freedom of speech, can vote freely in parliamentary elections, and can practice any profession they choose.
At the same time, the Palestinian Authority practices real apartheid by not allowing Jews to live or buy any property in any area under their control. The Palestinian Authority will give money to terrorists and their families as a reward for killing or injuring Israelis. Despite political differences, the Palestinian Authority supports terror attacks against Israelis, including the most recent unprovoked vicious terror assault on Israel that claimed the lives of more than 1,400 innocent civilians and the abduction of about 240 innocent people. These innocent victims included babies, women, and the elderly.
The bizarre broad international support for the recent unprovoked atrocities that were perpetrated by Hamas terrorists and their supporters is a very clear sign that deception and misinformation are influencing too many ignorant individuals. Unfortunately, many of these people are unknowingly supporting evil, which may ultimately put themselves in danger. We must know the facts and address this problem wisely and as soon as possible in order to save the future of the free world.
The following are a few first steps that we can take to help the free world address these dangerous trends:
1. Show how the anti-Jewish anti-Israel activities, deception, and incitement will cause harm to everybody, including non-Jews. People must understand that should evil prevail, their own skin is going to be in the game. It is not only a Jewish problem – it is a free-world problem.
2. Show who is providing most of the funds to these bad operatives. For example, Qatar, Iran, and their representatives.
3. Show how much of the money, which is used and misused by these bad operatives, will also be directed towards their own benefit. For example, the Hamas leaders Haniyeh and Meshaal are billionaires and live in Qatar.
4. Show how some of the money is being used to deceive, incite, and brainwash the current and next generation, which will end up undermining the stability and welfare of our society. For example, the various related NGOs that operate on universities and college campuses.
5. Show how these self-serving malicious individuals may benefit not only from simple monetary personal gains but also from many other personal privileges and perks.
The sooner that we wake up, expose, and marginalize evil, the better it will be for humanity!
Deception, misinformation, and incitement are even being promoted by some members of Congress. Rashida Talib, Cory Bush, Ilhan Omar, and others are disseminating lies and deception to incite their audiences and advance the agenda of the radical Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations. These organizations and many others are being nurtured, financed, and trained by the biggest supporter of international terrorism: the aggressive Iranian regime.
One of the most blatant recent examples of the psychological warfare they are employing is the blood libel against Israel. Promoters of this blood libel accuse Israel of intentionally bombing a Gaza hospital and causing hundreds of casualties, despite the overwhelming evidence, which was documented by both Israeli and US intelligence services, that the rocket in question was launched by Islamic Jihad terrorists. This rocket hit the parking lot of the hospital and caused a limited number of casualties.
Obviously, the current attacks on the State of Israel and its citizens are not distinguishing between Jews, Christians, Muslims, or anybody else. But it should not be ignored that the entire free world is also facing the serious long-term risk of incitement of ignorant individuals by the leadership of Radical Islam and other groups promoting radical ideologies.
It was very well-documented that multiple anti-Western entities have been promoting worldwide unrest by exploiting the ignorance of students, journalists, politicians, and others. Hopefully, once all these people realize that their own skin may be in the game, they will wake up and stand up against evil, and support a peaceful coexistence among all people.
As documented by Ben Shapiro and others, some of the most oft-used deceptive claims against Israel include:
1. The lie that the land of Israel was always a Muslim territory.
The land of Israel was historically a Jewish territory, documented clearly in the Bible and with archeological evidence. The Jews entered the land of Israel in 1400 BCE. They established there the kingdoms of King David and King Solomon, they built their two Temples, and much more. The latest Exile of the Jews from their ancestral homeland occurred after the defeat of the Jews by the Romans in about 130 CE. Despite the Exile, throughout the centuries there were always Jews in the Land of Israel. In an attempt to disconnect the Jews from their land, the Romans renamed the Land of Israel “Palestina” and they renamed the city of Jerusalem “Aleah Capitoline.” Islam was founded only during the 7th century CE, which is many hundreds of years after the documented Jewish presence in the land of Israel! The fact is that never, in the history of the world, did a country by the name of “Palestine” exist in the land of Israel!!
2. The lie that Israel refused the partition of the disputed Land of Israel with its neighbors.
In the 1917 Balfour Declaration Britain endorsed the “Zionist aspirations” to reestablish the Jewish homeland in Palestine and promised to “facilitate” the effort. In 1920, the Covenant of the League of Nations adopted this promise and turned it into International Law. In 1920, the Arabs instigated deadly anti-Jewish riots in the city of Jerusalem out of anger at the British presence in Palestine. In 1922, Britain cut off about 77% of the territory of the Palestine Mandate to Jewish people and gave it over to the Hashemites, who, in turn, created the state of Trans-Jordan in 1946. This was essentially a two-state solution, whereby most of the original territory of the British mandate to Palestine, which was supposed to become the modern homeland of the Jewish people, became the state of Trans-Jordan.
In 1937, the Peel Commission recommended a further partition of the remaining 23% of the Land of Israel. In 1939, under Arab pressure, the British further restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine (even from Nazi Germany) on the eve of the Second World War. Despite all this, the Jews supported the British, and most Arabs supported Nazi Germany. In 1948 the British Mandate to Palestine ended. In accordance with the United Nations Partition Resolution, and in accordance with the legal favorable vote by the United Nations, the State of Israel was established on about 10% of the land included in the original British Mandate to Palestine and became an official member of the United Nations. Israel asked the local Arabs to become a part of the reestablished Jewish state in its ancestral homeland, but on the same day, surrounding Arab states, along with many local Arabs, started a war to destroy it.
In 1964, while the Arabs were still in control of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza, the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded, with the intent to destroy the State of Israel. In 1967, Arab countries tried again to destroy Israel, but they were defeated in what was later called the “Six-Day War.” Following the war, the Arab League announced the famous three No’s: No Peace, No Negotiation, and No Recognition of Israel. In 1973, during Yom Kippur, Arab countries launched another all-out war with the intent to destroy Israel once again. Since then, peace agreements were achieved with Egypt in 1979, with Jordan in 1994, and with the UAE, Sudan, Morocco, and Bahrain in 2020 via the Abraham Accords.
Despite the “Oslo Accords,” which were signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1993, the Palestinians continued their traditional hostilities and refused to recognize the Jewish State within any borders. The Palestinians continued with multiple destructive and indiscriminate terror attacks despite very generous peace offers, which included relinquishing to the Arab Palestinians more than 95% of the disputed land. These generous offers to settle the dispute were made by various Israeli Prime Ministers and mediated by various American Presidents, but the Arab Palestinians refused to accept any of them. In 2005, Israel left 100% of the land of Gaza hoping that the Arab Palestinians would create the Singapore or Monaco of the Middle East there, but instead, they created a vicious terror state that did not care about their own people or about any other people. Under the guidance and financial and political support of the biggest sponsor of international terrorism, the Iranian regime, Hamas, and Hezbollah became its ruthless proxies and helped to undermine international stability. Israel was defined as “The Little Satan”, while the USA was crowned “The Great Satan!”
3. The lie about Israel expelling most of the Arab Palestinians from the territories that were held by the British Mandate.
Upon the creation of the modern State of Israel, local Arabs were offered to become equal partners in building the country. In fact, many thousands of Arabs accepted the offer and became citizens of Israel with equal rights, but too many listened to the corrupt Arab leadership’s propaganda and instead became involved in a brutal military confrontation with Israel. Many others just left the country, even before the escalation of the military confrontation, hoping to return after the destruction of the Jewish state. The estimated number of these Arab refugees from the 1948 War was about 500,000. At the same time, the State of Israel absorbed about 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands.
4. The lie that Israel is an apartheid state.
In Israel, all citizens, should they be Jews, Arabs, Christians, or others, have equal rights under the law.
Israel has Arab members of the Parliament. Arab citizens of Israel have served on the Supreme Court and are employed in government positions. Arabs have freedom of speech, can vote freely in parliamentary elections, and can practice any profession they choose.
At the same time, the Palestinian Authority practices real apartheid by not allowing Jews to live or buy any property in any area under their control. The Palestinian Authority will give money to terrorists and their families as a reward for killing or injuring Israelis. Despite political differences, the Palestinian Authority supports terror attacks against Israelis, including the most recent unprovoked vicious terror assault on Israel that claimed the lives of more than 1,400 innocent civilians and the abduction of about 240 innocent people. These innocent victims included babies, women, and the elderly.
The bizarre broad international support for the recent unprovoked atrocities that were perpetrated by Hamas terrorists and their supporters is a very clear sign that deception and misinformation are influencing too many ignorant individuals. Unfortunately, many of these people are unknowingly supporting evil, which may ultimately put themselves in danger. We must know the facts and address this problem wisely and as soon as possible in order to save the future of the free world.
The following are a few first steps that we can take to help the free world address these dangerous trends:
1. Show how the anti-Jewish anti-Israel activities, deception, and incitement will cause harm to everybody, including non-Jews. People must understand that should evil prevail, their own skin is going to be in the game. It is not only a Jewish problem – it is a free-world problem.
2. Show who is providing most of the funds to these bad operatives. For example, Qatar, Iran, and their representatives.
3. Show how much of the money, which is used and misused by these bad operatives, will also be directed towards their own benefit. For example, the Hamas leaders Haniyeh and Meshaal are billionaires and live in Qatar.
4. Show how some of the money is being used to deceive, incite, and brainwash the current and next generation, which will end up undermining the stability and welfare of our society. For example, the various related NGOs that operate on universities and college campuses.
5. Show how these self-serving malicious individuals may benefit not only from simple monetary personal gains but also from many other personal privileges and perks.
The sooner that we wake up, expose, and marginalize evil, the better it will be for humanity!
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Images of 9/11: A Visual Remembrance
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These Mosques Pray for the Annihilation of Jews. They Also Receive Money From the Biden Administration.
November 13, 2023A federal program to help nonprofit groups protect against terrorist attacks has given millions of dollars to mosques and Islamic groups that have praised terrorists and called for the destruction of Israel, according to a Washington Free Beacon review.
The Department of Homeland Security awarded the California-based Masjid al-Ansar mosque $100,000 on March 9 under the Nonprofit Security Grants Program. Moustafa Kamel, the imam at Masjid al-Ansar, earlier this year called Jews a "bigoted and arrogant breed of people" and prayed they "will be annihilated" in a war over the Holy Land, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Then there is the Islamic Center of Detroit, which received $150,000 on Oct. 12, 2022. Its head imam, Imran Salha, said at a pro-Palestinian rally days after Hamas’s invasion of Israel that Muslims have a "fire in our hearts that will burn that state until its demise." During a sermon in March, he referred to the "sick, disgusting Zionist regime" and prayed: "may Allah eradicate them from existence."
The rhetoric could fuel the sorts of hate and terrorist attacks that the Homeland Security grants aim to prevent. Anti-Semitic hate crimes have surged 400 percent since Hamas’s attack, in which 1,400 Israelis were slaughtered. A bipartisan group of senators called for additional funding under the program last month to protect against "a potential rise in anti-Semitic threats."
There is little oversight over which organizations receive funding under the program, which is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and state agencies. A majority of the grants have gone to synagogues, churches, mosques, and temples that do not support violence or promote terrorist organizations.
But there are also grants to outfits like the Islamic Center of San Diego, a mosque best known as the home to two 9/11 hijackers. Days after the Hamas attack, Imam Taha Hassane defended the attack on Israel as an act of self-defense.
"When people are occupied, then the resistance is justified," he said in an Oct. 20 sermon. "We cannot accuse somebody who is fighting for his life to be a terrorist. The terrorist is the one who started the occupation, not the one who is defending himself."
The mosque received $150,000 under the grant program on Aug. 15, according to federal spending records.
At the Flint Islamic Center, which received $300,000 in grants on Oct. 12, 2022, an Islamic scholar asserted in a sermon last month that Jews "literally live for the purpose of genocide" of Palestinians.
"These people … their businesses have foundations just to serve their objectives. They literally live for a purpose of genocide in an occupation like this," said Shaykh Adbullah Waheed.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group identified as a co-conspirator of Hamas, has mounted a public awareness campaign to urge mosques and Islamic nonprofits to apply for the Homeland Security grants. CAIR noted that fewer than 50 Islamic organizations had received funding under the program, largely due to "concerns about the potential strings attached" to accepting the federal funds.
CAIR, which received grants under the Homeland Security program, blamed Israel for the "root causes" of the Hamas attack. Its executive director, Nihad Awad, condemned President Joe Biden for criticizing Hamas instead of Israel.
Dar al-Hijrah, the mosque of Al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki and Nidal Hisan, has received funding under the grant program. An imam at the mosque appeared to condone Hamas violence against Israel during a sermon last month, saying: "When the hypocrites say, ‘those people are deluded by their beliefs, they think if they kill their enemies, they go to paradise.’ Well, you don’t have to accept it. It’s not your faith. But we are free to believe what we believe."
The Muslim American Society’s Chicago affiliate, which received $149,000 on Sept. 1, was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Islamist group that spawned Hamas. The Muslim American Society regularly hosts anti-Semitic speakers. Yasir Qadhi, an Islamic scholar who has said that "Hitler never intended to mass-destroy the Jews," is slated to speak at its annual convention next month.
The head imam at the Islamic Organization of North America, which received $450,000 on Nov. 3, 2022, said at a rally last month that Palestinians were being "slaughtered by the Israeli Zionist government." The event was emceed by Amer Zahr, an activist who has said, "We stand with every resistance against Israel and every resistance against the occupation … whether it’s called Hamas, whether it’s called Hezbollah."
Other grants have gone to ICNA Relief USA, whose religious director, Rafiq Mahdi, has expressed "support" for Hamas and said it is "difficult to blatantly condemn [suicide bombers]."
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.
A federal program to help nonprofit groups protect against terrorist attacks has given millions of dollars to mosques and Islamic groups that have praised terrorists and called for the destruction of Israel, according to a Washington Free Beacon review.
The Department of Homeland Security awarded the California-based Masjid al-Ansar mosque $100,000 on March 9 under the Nonprofit Security Grants Program. Moustafa Kamel, the imam at Masjid al-Ansar, earlier this year called Jews a "bigoted and arrogant breed of people" and prayed they "will be annihilated" in a war over the Holy Land, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Then there is the Islamic Center of Detroit, which received $150,000 on Oct. 12, 2022. Its head imam, Imran Salha, said at a pro-Palestinian rally days after Hamas’s invasion of Israel that Muslims have a "fire in our hearts that will burn that state until its demise." During a sermon in March, he referred to the "sick, disgusting Zionist regime" and prayed: "may Allah eradicate them from existence."
The rhetoric could fuel the sorts of hate and terrorist attacks that the Homeland Security grants aim to prevent. Anti-Semitic hate crimes have surged 400 percent since Hamas’s attack, in which 1,400 Israelis were slaughtered. A bipartisan group of senators called for additional funding under the program last month to protect against "a potential rise in anti-Semitic threats."
There is little oversight over which organizations receive funding under the program, which is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and state agencies. A majority of the grants have gone to synagogues, churches, mosques, and temples that do not support violence or promote terrorist organizations.
But there are also grants to outfits like the Islamic Center of San Diego, a mosque best known as the home to two 9/11 hijackers. Days after the Hamas attack, Imam Taha Hassane defended the attack on Israel as an act of self-defense.
"When people are occupied, then the resistance is justified," he said in an Oct. 20 sermon. "We cannot accuse somebody who is fighting for his life to be a terrorist. The terrorist is the one who started the occupation, not the one who is defending himself."
The mosque received $150,000 under the grant program on Aug. 15, according to federal spending records.
At the Flint Islamic Center, which received $300,000 in grants on Oct. 12, 2022, an Islamic scholar asserted in a sermon last month that Jews "literally live for the purpose of genocide" of Palestinians.
"These people … their businesses have foundations just to serve their objectives. They literally live for a purpose of genocide in an occupation like this," said Shaykh Adbullah Waheed.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group identified as a co-conspirator of Hamas, has mounted a public awareness campaign to urge mosques and Islamic nonprofits to apply for the Homeland Security grants. CAIR noted that fewer than 50 Islamic organizations had received funding under the program, largely due to "concerns about the potential strings attached" to accepting the federal funds.
CAIR, which received grants under the Homeland Security program, blamed Israel for the "root causes" of the Hamas attack. Its executive director, Nihad Awad, condemned President Joe Biden for criticizing Hamas instead of Israel.
Dar al-Hijrah, the mosque of Al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki and Nidal Hisan, has received funding under the grant program. An imam at the mosque appeared to condone Hamas violence against Israel during a sermon last month, saying: "When the hypocrites say, ‘those people are deluded by their beliefs, they think if they kill their enemies, they go to paradise.’ Well, you don’t have to accept it. It’s not your faith. But we are free to believe what we believe."
The Muslim American Society’s Chicago affiliate, which received $149,000 on Sept. 1, was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Islamist group that spawned Hamas. The Muslim American Society regularly hosts anti-Semitic speakers. Yasir Qadhi, an Islamic scholar who has said that "Hitler never intended to mass-destroy the Jews," is slated to speak at its annual convention next month.
The head imam at the Islamic Organization of North America, which received $450,000 on Nov. 3, 2022, said at a rally last month that Palestinians were being "slaughtered by the Israeli Zionist government." The event was emceed by Amer Zahr, an activist who has said, "We stand with every resistance against Israel and every resistance against the occupation … whether it’s called Hamas, whether it’s called Hezbollah."
Other grants have gone to ICNA Relief USA, whose religious director, Rafiq Mahdi, has expressed "support" for Hamas and said it is "difficult to blatantly condemn [suicide bombers]."
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.
Bill Maher Slams Obama’s Remarks on Israel-Hamas War: ‘Enough with the Moral Equivalencies’
5:34The whole world experienced the attacks of September 11, 2001, in real time. Videos, photos, and audio captured the horror inflicted by Islamic jihadists and the heroism displayed by ordinary Americans.
In our effort to never forget, Breitbart News offers you this visual and audial remembrance of that fateful day when the world changed forever.
We will always remember.
***
From the time of its opening in 1973 to that fatal day in September 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center dominated the skyline of Lower Manhattan’s Financial District, as seen in this photo taken on September 5, 2001, just six days before the Towers fell:
Designed by Detroit architect Minoru Yamasaki, the Twin Towers were famously disparaged by New York Times’ architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who offered this eerie and unintentionally prescient prediction in 1966: “The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.”
Those words were long forgotten on that bright September morning before death rained down from cloudless skies.
Betty Ong, the flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11, was the first person to notify authorities about the Islamic hijackers.
The audio of Ong’s call to the American Airlines emergency number was included in this audio/video montage released by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2018 to commemorate the 17th anniversary of 9/11:
The following video captured the moment of impact when Islamic hijackers flew American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center’s North Tower (1 WTC) at 8:46 a.m.
The first images of the burning North Tower quickly flashed across television sets.
This video shows the first five minutes of cable news coverage:
Four minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Christopher Hanley, 35, called 911 from the 106th floor of the North Tower, where he was attending a conference at the restaurant Windows on the World that morning.
This is the audio of his 911 call:
The whole world watched in stunned horror as a second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, flew into the South Tower of the World Trade Center (2 WTC) at 9:03 a.m.
The second plane removed any doubt that this was a terror attack, not a pilot error, and America was indeed at war.
This video shows the ABC News coverage the moment the second plane struck:
President George W. Bush was visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida.
He was informed about the attacks when his chief of staff, Andy Card, whispered in his ear: “A second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack.”
The controversy surrounding the publication of the image below of a man falling from the North Tower, and the subsequent quest to identify the man depicted in this photo, inspired a 2006 documentary called 9/11: The Falling Man. You can watch it here.
At 9:37 a.m., the Islamic hijackers on board American Airlines Flight 77 crashed it into the Pentagon.
The South Tower of the World Trade Center began to collapse at 9:58 a.m.
At 10:03 a.m., United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Were it not for the heroism of the passengers who stormed the cockpit, the Islamic hijackers would have crashed the plane into either the United States Capitol dome or the White House.
At 10:28 a.m., the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.
Democrats and Republicans stood shoulder to shoulder on the steps of the Capitol that evening in a show of national unity.
At the end of their remarks, they sang “God Bless America.”
President Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office that evening.
“Today, our nation saw evil — the very worst of human nature,” he said. “And we responded with the best of America.”
As the nation prayed, the search for survivors began…
On September 14, 2001, President Bush visited the first responders and rescue workers at Ground Zero and delivered an impromptu speech that captured the sentiment of the country:
The massive clean-up efforts at Ground Zero spanned months…
Among the rubble, a cast iron cross was found rising out of the destruction at the World Trade Center. The cross fell intact from Tower One into nearby Building Six on September 11.
In the weeks and months that followed, we buried our dead…
In the years that followed, we sought justice…
Nearly two years after the attacks, the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed was captured in Pakistan on March 1, 2003.
His death penalty trial by military jury is set to start on January 11, 2021, at Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay.
And finally, ten years after the attacks, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was brought to justice.
On May 2, 2011, President Barrack Obama announced to the nation that bin Laden was killed by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs during a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
And over the years, the country rebuilt, the memorials arose, and each year we remember…
The whole world experienced the attacks of September 11, 2001, in real time. Videos, photos, and audio captured the horror inflicted by Islamic jihadists and the heroism displayed by ordinary Americans.
In our effort to never forget, Breitbart News offers you this visual and audial remembrance of that fateful day when the world changed forever.
We will always remember.
***
From the time of its opening in 1973 to that fatal day in September 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center dominated the skyline of Lower Manhattan’s Financial District, as seen in this photo taken on September 5, 2001, just six days before the Towers fell:
Designed by Detroit architect Minoru Yamasaki, the Twin Towers were famously disparaged by New York Times’ architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who offered this eerie and unintentionally prescient prediction in 1966: “The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.”
Those words were long forgotten on that bright September morning before death rained down from cloudless skies.
Betty Ong, the flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11, was the first person to notify authorities about the Islamic hijackers.
The audio of Ong’s call to the American Airlines emergency number was included in this audio/video montage released by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2018 to commemorate the 17th anniversary of 9/11:
The following video captured the moment of impact when Islamic hijackers flew American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center’s North Tower (1 WTC) at 8:46 a.m.
The first images of the burning North Tower quickly flashed across television sets.
This video shows the first five minutes of cable news coverage:
Four minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Christopher Hanley, 35, called 911 from the 106th floor of the North Tower, where he was attending a conference at the restaurant Windows on the World that morning.
This is the audio of his 911 call:
The whole world watched in stunned horror as a second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, flew into the South Tower of the World Trade Center (2 WTC) at 9:03 a.m.
The second plane removed any doubt that this was a terror attack, not a pilot error, and America was indeed at war.
This video shows the ABC News coverage the moment the second plane struck:
President George W. Bush was visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida.
He was informed about the attacks when his chief of staff, Andy Card, whispered in his ear: “A second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack.”
The controversy surrounding the publication of the image below of a man falling from the North Tower, and the subsequent quest to identify the man depicted in this photo, inspired a 2006 documentary called 9/11: The Falling Man. You can watch it here.
At 9:37 a.m., the Islamic hijackers on board American Airlines Flight 77 crashed it into the Pentagon.
The South Tower of the World Trade Center began to collapse at 9:58 a.m.
At 10:03 a.m., United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Were it not for the heroism of the passengers who stormed the cockpit, the Islamic hijackers would have crashed the plane into either the United States Capitol dome or the White House.
At 10:28 a.m., the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.
Democrats and Republicans stood shoulder to shoulder on the steps of the Capitol that evening in a show of national unity.
At the end of their remarks, they sang “God Bless America.”
President Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office that evening.
“Today, our nation saw evil — the very worst of human nature,” he said. “And we responded with the best of America.”
As the nation prayed, the search for survivors began…
On September 14, 2001, President Bush visited the first responders and rescue workers at Ground Zero and delivered an impromptu speech that captured the sentiment of the country:
The massive clean-up efforts at Ground Zero spanned months…
Among the rubble, a cast iron cross was found rising out of the destruction at the World Trade Center. The cross fell intact from Tower One into nearby Building Six on September 11.
In the weeks and months that followed, we buried our dead…
In the years that followed, we sought justice…
Nearly two years after the attacks, the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed was captured in Pakistan on March 1, 2003.
His death penalty trial by military jury is set to start on January 11, 2021, at Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay.
And finally, ten years after the attacks, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was brought to justice.
On May 2, 2011, President Barrack Obama announced to the nation that bin Laden was killed by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs during a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
And over the years, the country rebuilt, the memorials arose, and each year we remember…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Accused of Being Qatari Asset
They groomed her and arranged the foundation, the grounds, for her to get into politics way before she even showed interest.
November 27, 2022 by Daniel Greenfield 7 Comments
It’s an interesting claim.
Qatar is the key backer of the Muslim Brotherhood now, not to mention allegedly tied in with every Islamist terror group from Al Qaeda to the Taliban. There’s little doubt that Rep. Ilhan Omar is an enemy of the United States. However, it’s best to be wary of foreign intel that seems to tell you exactly what you want to hear. The Saudis are fighting Qatar and while they correctly identify Qatar’s role in Jihad, their own hands weren’t all that clean.
So take allegations like these with a grain of salt.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota-5th) was recruited by a foreign government, received funding from a foreign government, and passed sensitive information through intermediaries to Iran, a Florida court has been told, as The Jerusalem Post confirmed.
The claims came during testimony by Kuwati-born Canadian businessman Alan Bender, who was giving evidence in the trial of Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani. The Qatari emir’s brother stands accused of ordering his American bodyguard to murder two people, and of holding an American citizen hostage. His deposition, obtained by Al Arabiya English, was authenticated by the attorney for the plaintiffs, according to the publication.
Speaking from Toronto by video link, Bender told the Florida District Court that he met with Qatar’s Secretary to the Emir for Security Affairs Mohammad bin Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Masnad and two other senior Qatari officials.
According to his sworn deposition, the three officials told him: “If it wasn’t for our cash, Ilhan Omar would be just another black Somali refugee in America collecting welfare and serving tables on weekends.”
Bender testified that the officials asked him to recruit American politicians and journalists as Qatari assets, and that when he objected, was told that several prominent figures were already on the payroll. Omar was described as the “jewel in the crown,” he said.
Qatar “recruited Ilhan Omar from even way before she thought about becoming a government official… They groomed her and arranged the foundation, the grounds, for her to get into politics way before she even showed interest. They convinced her,” he added.
Frankly, Qatar has much better jewels in its crown than a mere congresswoman.
Biden just elevated a Brookings Doha veteran to the closest thing to an ambassador to the “Palestinians”. Qatar asset Jamal Khashoggi became a martyr courtesy of the Washington Post. There are Senate members on both sides of the aisle who spew Qatari propaganda. And there’s been hardly a word of criticism of the Jihadist state from prominent figures in either party with the exception of Senator Ted Cruz or anyone in the media.
I recently ran a story about a much more credible account of how Qatar had spied on Rep. Diaz-Balart and it got almost no play.
Suggesting that Omar is Qatar’s crown jewel in D.C. is like claiming that Manhattan’s crown jewel is a Burger King.
That doesn’t mean that Qatar isn’t recruiting Americans and didn’t groom Omar. Certainly she’s tied in with some of their backed groups. I’m just saying it’s vastly underselling what Qatar has done.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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