Ilhan Omar and company were elected because of their bigotry, tragically enough
2 Comments Published by Avi Green on Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 1:22 PM.
Caroline Glick says the modern conduct and beliefs in the Democratic party are exactly why Ilhan Omar and others like her were elected to Congress:
Update: here's more on the case from Alex Grobman.
Rep. Ilhan Omar is an antisemite and, as the actions of the congressional Democratic leadership last week made clear, hating Jews is a perfectly acceptable position in today’s Democratic Party.Read it all to understand more.
Consider the chronology of events. Last month, Rep. Steven King (R-IA) was stripped of his committee assignments following a statement he made to the New York Times where he seemed to legitimize white supremacism. (King insists his remark was deliberately taken out of context).
Last week, Rep. Omar tweeted another statement that was inarguably antisemitic. Omar argued that the only reason that Congressional Republicans seek to censure her and her colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for their anti-Jewish bigotry is because Jewish money dictates their actions.
That is, she defended herself against allegations of antisemitism by proving, yet again, that she is an antisemite.
The Congressional Democratic leadership responded to Omar’s statements not by censuring her, let alone stripping her of her committee assignments – including her membership on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Rather Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and their colleagues reacted to Omar’s presentation of further proof that she hates Jews and sees the world through the distorted lens of antisemitism by asking her to apologize.
That is, she was allowed to get away with it.
Indeed, when Omar was asked if she feared that her bigotry would cause her to be stripped of her committee assignments, she responded confidently, “Absolutely not.”
In the event, Omar issued a self-evidently fake apology, in which she effectively repeated the antisemitic slur that Jews dictate policy through the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), for which she was apologizing. She then proceeded to re-tweet a post that backed up her contention that Jews control U.S. policy with their money.
What does the Democratic leadership’s decision to give her a pass for bigotry tell us about the nature of today’s Democratic Party?
Hoyer as well as Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Elliot Engel (D-NY)are strongly pro-Israel. Pelosi, while less outspoken, has never been a foe of the Jewish state or of American Jews who support Israel and seek to secure continued bipartisan support for a strong U.S. alliance with the Middle East’s only democracy.
And yet, all of these leaders gave a pass to a woman who effectively said that American Jews exert malign and all-powerful influence over the Congress with their “Benjamins,” (which we now all know, thanks to Omar’s slur, refers to $100 bills).
Update: here's more on the case from Alex Grobman.
Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, political corruption, terrorism, United States, US Congress
Winston Churchill said [in year 1955 CE]:
“You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem;
it is they who made it famous.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 26, page 292) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007 CE
CHRONOLOGY:
Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.
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… [Franklin D.] Roosevelt was stubbornly pro-Zionist,
and had a difficult time with [King] Ibn Saud
[King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 until his death in 1953]
when he tried to persuade the king to accept 10,000
more Jews in Palestine.
The king responded emphatically in words that
Roosevelt would not repeat when he talked to
reporters on the [war ship] Quincy*:
“It was perfectly terrible.”
[King] Ibn Saud retorted that the Jews
should return to live in the countries
from which they had been driven.
CHRONOLOGY:
Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the
United States of America from 1933 to 1945.
SOURCE: Franklin D. Roosevelt:
A Rendezvous with Destiny (chapter 42, page 594)
by Frank Freidel, published in year 1990
by Little Brown and Company
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At a 1937 [CE] lecture to the British Foreign Ministry,
the King of Saudi Arabia said:
“Verily, the word of Allah teaches us,
and we implicitly believe this…
for a Muslim to kill a Jew…
ensures him immediate entry into Heaven…”
SOURCE: The Holocaust’s Most Vicious Killers
by Edwin Black, The Jewish Press, 2011/1/21, pages 1 and 91.
PERSONAL COMMENT:
Notice that those words were spoken BEFORE
year 1967 CE and BEFORE year 1948 CE.
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Louis René Beres said:
“For Hamas, the Israeli enemy is more than just a geo-strategic opponent.
It is, rather, a delegated religious target slated for annihilation,
one whose obligatory and violent elimination will confer
blessedly eternal life upon the Islamic sacrificer”.
SOURCE:
Radical Islam: Terrorism as Power Over Death
by Louis René Beres, 2019 January 3
www.algemeiner.com/2019/01/03/radical-islam-terrorism-as-power-over-death/
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If you want the truth about Israel
and the Middle East, then do not waste
your time with the FAKE NEWS
of The New York Times and the
Israel-bashing mainstream-news-media.
Instead, visit these web sites:
www.jns.org
www.algemeiner.com
www.memri.org
www.aish.com
www.DanielPipes.org
www.camera.org
www.UKMediaWatch.org
www.HonestReporting.com
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Who are the Palestinians?
www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/14/the-invention-of-palestinians/
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/06/who-are-palestinians.html
Eric Starkman (a Los Angeles-based
writer and journalist) said:
“The mainstream media has abandoned
all pretense of objectivity.
Whereas in the past journalists viewed
themselves as unbiased chroniclers
of the news, their focus today
is on manufacturing it and dominating
the ensuing conversations.
A journalist’s influence today isn’t
determined by the quality or accuracy
of their reporting, but rather the size
of their Twitter following and the
frequency of their television appearances.”
SOURCE:
Why Crown Heights Hate Crimes Aren’t Newsworthy
by Eric Starkman, 2019 February 17, in The Algemeiner
www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/17/why-crown-heights-hate-crimes-arent-newsworthy/