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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2019 4:04:15 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 4, 2019 7:52:16 GMT -6
So, this is why AOC's Chief of Staff resigned: www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-04/and-here-it-aocs-just-resigned-chief-staff-under-federal-investigationIt looks like we have an answer for why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief-of-staff abruptly resigned on Friday; he's under federal investigation. According to the New York Post, Saikat Chakrabarti - the architect behind AOC's meteoric rise from bartender to ball-buster, is being investigated in connection with two political action committees he founded. nypost.com/2019/08/03/feds-probing-aocs-chief-of-staff-saikat-chakrabarti-after-sudden-resignation/The two PACs being probed, Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, were both set up by Chakrabarti to support progressive candidates across the country. But they funneled more than $1 million in political donations into two private companies that Chakrabarti also incorporated and controlled, according to Federal Election Commission filings and a complaint filed in March with the regulatory agency. In 2016 and 2017, the PACs raised about $3.3 million, mostly from small donors. A third of the cash was transferred to two private companies whose names are similar to one of the PACs — Brand New Congress LLC and Brand New Campaign LLC — federal campaign filings show. -New York Post As the Post notes, PACs are required to adhere to stringent disclosure rules, while the private companies Chakrabarti funneled money into are not. Legal and Policy Center, Chakrabarti's LLCs appear to have been specifically designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements. As noted by the Washington Examiner in March:
The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics.
Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.
The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. -Washington Examiner
According to the Post, "Federal authorities are looking at new salary rules imposed by Ocasio-Cortez when she took office earlier this year, and whether they were put in place to let Chakrabarti dodge public financial-disclosure rules, according to sources."
Interestingly, the Harvard-educated Chakrabarti agreed to take a massive pay cut this year - taking in just $80,000, while the average pay for his position is $146,830. With a salary below $126,000, he was not required to disclose his outside income. And now, he's under federal investigation.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 13, 2019 10:43:45 GMT -6
Another ICE facility attacked:
Also add the sycophants in the MSM.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 13, 2019 16:54:59 GMT -6
Another ICE facility attacked: Also add the sycophants in the MSM. We need to stop arresting these people and simply fire back.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 14, 2019 3:57:59 GMT -6
One day before the ICE facility in San Antonio was shot, in Florida, this happened: www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/13/exclusive-watch-leftists-threaten-before-shooting-at-ice-facility-we-know-where-all-your-children-live/A group of open borders activists threatened employees of a government contractor in Florida that provides facility space for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to detain border crossers and illegal aliens the day before a shooting at the contractor’s offices in Texas. In exclusive footage captured by Matt Perdie of Breitbart News, protesters with Never Again Action, Miramar Circle of Protection Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees, Food Not Bombs Fort Lauderdale, Students Working for Equal Rights, and the Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward County shouted threats at workers and former employees of the GEO Group, a private contractor used by ICE for facility and detention space. One protester specifically threatened GEO Group’s former general counsel John Bulfin, shouting the locations and addresses of where his children live in the United States.
We know where all your children live throughout the country … John Bulfin you have kids in [bleeped out], you have kids in [bleeped out],” the protester shouted. “We know everything about you and you won’t just be seeing us here.”
We know where you sleep at night,” another protester shouted. “We know what kind of dog food you buy your dogs.”
“We’re not actually joking,” the protester said before shouting the location of where Bulfin lives. “John Bulfin you go to [bleeped out], you go to church on [bleeped out], you live on [bleeped out the] road. We are not joking.”The threats came just a day before gunmen allegedly fired shots into local ICE offices and GEO Group offices in San Antonio, Texas in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is describing as a “targeted attack.” ....... In an interview with Breitbart News, GEO Group VP of Corporate Relations Pablo Paez said the protest threatening the contractor’s employees is “incredibly reckless.” “The safety of our employees is our top priority and we will do whatever it takes to ensure that their safety and their security remains our top priority,” Paez said. He went on: These are politically motivated attacks. We have been a services provider to the federal government for over 30 years. The fact is that the services we provide in our facilities today are in no way different than the high quality, professional services under the same standards that we provided for eight years under President Obama’s administration. So where was the outrage then? Last year, “abolish ICE” protesters targeted agents in the city of Portland, Oregon, shouting racial slurs at Hispanic and black American ICE officers, Breitbart News reported. Those same abolish ICE activists also videotaped themselves beheading a doll of President Donald Trump. The images depicted Trump’s head being chopped off with a guillotine.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 14, 2019 4:28:34 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/13/ocasio-cortez-i-dont-regret-it-at-all-comparing-migrant-detention-facilities-to-concentration-camps/In a recent interview with Eyewitness News ABC7NY, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she has no regrets about comparing immigrant holding facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border to Nazi-era concentration camps. A partial transcript is as follows: ABC7NY REPORTER DAVE EVANS: On Israel, you said [the Trump] administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized in dehumanizing conditions and dying. You got a lot of grief for using the word “concentration camps.” Do you regret that or do you think people misinterpreted that? REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): I don’t. Yeah, I think there’s a few things at play. One, I don’t regret it at all. A group, in fact, I think of at least 200 historians, rabbis, academics have come together in support of this term— EVANS: —But you think conditions are that bad at the border? OCASIO-CORTEZ: Yeah, I’ve been there. I’ve seen it. I sat on concrete floors with women whose hair was falling out and they were developing soars in their mouth. Parents are dying with their children watching them. And all without a trial, all with just an accusation, and all with the intent to dehumanize. EVANS: And again, this may be part of what the Republicans want to do, but they painted that as antisemitic. OCASIO-CORTEZ: Which is ahistorical. If we study our history, which, we’re supposed to study our history, especially as elected officials, I think we have a unique responsibility to study history. And what we see is concentration camps are not unique to any one period of time. We, in the United States, have a history of concentration camps with Japenese interment, in South Africa. They were part of a larger process in the Holocaust, but they were not unique, nor were they the actual death camps in the Holocaust either. Concentration camps are a facility when people are targeted by their identity and held without trial.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 14, 2019 7:30:49 GMT -6
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Post by wishboned on Aug 14, 2019 20:01:21 GMT -6
She looks like she’s about to deep throat that mic.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 15, 2019 8:51:36 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 15, 2019 14:22:08 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 15, 2019 16:17:33 GMT -6
Predictable: Hamas-Linked CAIR Defends Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s Entry into Israel While Pushing Legislation to Destroy Israel
CAIR President:
And of course, it’s all Trump’s fault.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 15, 2019 16:20:30 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 15, 2019 20:05:39 GMT -6
Have any of these women done anything Congress related since taking office?
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 16, 2019 7:30:24 GMT -6
Leftists meltdown over Israel barring Omar & Tlaib from entering the country. Turns out, they planned to meet with terror-promoting/associated groups, including one that promoted Neo-Nazi screed,(was going to be their tour guide). I'll wait for them to apologize to Israel,(Yes, I'm fully aware I have better odds of hitting both the Powerball & Mega Millions jackpot four consecutive times than that happening). www.dailywire.com/news/50702/omar-tlaib-planned-meet-terror-promoting-groups-ryan-saavedraIsrael banned anti-Semitic Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Thursday from entering the country, stating that the two far-left members of Congress planned to harm Israel, increase incitement against it, and planned to meet with organizations that have expressed support for terrorism against it. "Netanyahu issued a statement saying that no country in the world respects the US Congress more than Israel, but that Israeli law prohibits entry to those calling for a boycott of the country," The Jerusalem Post reported. "He said that other countries as well — including the US — bar entry to those who are perceived to want to harm them." Omar and Tlaib are both supporters of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is a campaign designed to destroy the nation of Israel. The Office of the Prime Minister of Israel revealed that Omar and Tlaib had also planned on meeting with organizations during their visit that have expressed support for terrorism against the nation. "However, the itinerary of the two Congresswomen reveals that the sole purpose of their visit is to harm Israel and increase incitement against it," the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel tweeted. "In addition, the organization that is funding their trip is Miftah, which is an avid supporter of BDS, and among whose members are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel." Omar and Tlaib had described their trip as a "Delegation to Palestine," even though Palestine does not exist legally, and they did not request to meet any Israeli officials. A closer examination of Miftah, which Israel's PM noted was funding Omar and Tlaib's trip, reveals that the non-governmental organization (NGO) is extremely anti-Semitic, has ties to terrorist sympathizers, and has falsely accused Jews of using "the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover." Miftah has also reportedly praised suicide bombers and deems terrorists as being national heroes. One of the most stunning findings on the group is that they have, on their website, promoted content from a neo-Nazi organization which promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Jews control the media. The author of the article is "the Research Staff of National Vanguard Books," which the Southern Poverty Law Center notes is a neo-Nazi organization. A closer look at the travel itinerary for Omar and Tlaib shows that they also planned on meeting with additional extremist organizations, including the Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCI-P), which has ties to terrorism. NGO Monitor reports the following about the activities of the DCI-P: DCI-P leads the campaign exploiting children to promote demonization of Israel, and is linked to the PFLP terror group. Many of its allegations are false and part of attempts to smear Israel with allegations of 'war crimes' and promote BDS. Several past and current DCI-P board members and employees have apparent ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization designated as such by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel....[DCI-P] supports BDS (boycotts, divestments and sanctions) campaigns against Israel and is an active participant in lobbying the UN, EU, foreign governments, and other international bodies to promote this agenda. Seth Mandel, the Executive Editor of the Washington Examiner Magazine, weighed in on the revelations, tweeting: "One reason you won’t see coverage of the org funding Tlaib and Omar's trip is that it'll undermine the narrative that this is about 'criticism of Israeli policy.' And it'll show the true face of BDS — blood libels, Nazi screeds, celebration of terrorists."
"In no other situation would the equivalent *not* be treated as a major scandal," Mandel added. "But ask yourself how many journalists and commentators and diplomats you've seen today even mention it. Count em. That's how many intellectually honest ppl in the industry. It's not a lot, is it?"
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 16, 2019 8:57:35 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 16, 2019 9:02:08 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 16, 2019 9:03:28 GMT -6
Liz Cheney hit AOC right between the eyes with her rebuke:
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2019 6:46:55 GMT -6
President Trump summed it up perfectly: For all the drama about Tlaib and how close she is to her grandmother, her uncle told Reuters Tlaib has not seen her grandmother since 2006. Reuters sent a reporter to interview Rashida's Grandmother & ,(of course), she cursed President Trump,(because Orange man bad). www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/may-god-ruin-trump-tlaibs-grandmother-says-idUSKCN1V70ELNinety-year-old Muftia Tlaib, sitting in her garden in the village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa, was not impressed. “Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming,” she said. “May God ruin him.” Her son, Rashida’s uncle Bassam Tlaib, said the women had not seen each other since 2006: “She was going to slaughter a sheep when Rashida arrived and prepare her favorite food, stuffed vine leave. “Rashida sees her granny as a second mother, she has always supported her. Rashida says she owes her success to her grandmother.” …“Trump has told Rashida and Ilhan to go back to their home countries. What a contradiction, yesterday he asked them to leave and today he asks that they aren’t let in,” said Bassam Tlaib. Still, the grandmother is hopeful: “My heart tells me that she will come.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2019 6:49:39 GMT -6
Buried at the end of Tlaib’s statement is her real agenda where she calls for a “re-evaluation of our unwavering support for the State of Israel.” Also, there are reports/rumors circulating that Rashida is married to her uncle.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2019 6:54:42 GMT -6
So, Omar & Tlaib share a cartoon from a prominent anti-Semitic cartoonist who hates Israel. dailycaller.com/2019/08/17/omar-tlaib-ilhan-omar-trump-netanyahu-cartoon-carlos-latuff/Rashida Tlaib of Michigan shared a meme on their Instagram stories Friday from cartoonist Carlos Latuff, who’s work has been accused of being anti-Semitic and has trivialized the holocaust. The meme featured Latuff’s cartoon of President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu covering the congresswomen’s mouths, accompanied by a Star of David. (RELATED: Netanyahu Takes Shot At Obama In Campaign Ad) “The more they try to silence us, our voices rise,” Tlaib wrote in her caption. “The more they try to weaken us, the stronger we become. The more they try to discredit us, the truth prevails.” The post comes days after Omar and Tlaib were denied entrance into Israel due to their support for an international boycott of the Jewish state. Tlaib was granted a humanitarian visa to visit her 90-year-old grandmother, but turned it down, claiming that Israel was trying to silence her. (RELATED: Ilhan Omar To Introduce Resolution Supporting BDS) Latuff is a staunch critic of Israel and has frequently made cartoons mocking survivors of the Holocaust. Latuff has compared the state of Israel to Nazi Germany, something for which he has drawn praise from anti-Israel countries in the Middle East. A 2006 cartoon of Latuff’s was awarded second place in the Iran Holocaust Cartoon Contest for which he was awarded $8,000. Since being sworn into Congress earlier this year, Tlaib and Omar have both come under fire for comments and actions widely perceived as anti-Semitic. Omar received criticism from Republicans and Democrats in February after she claimed that U.S. support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins,” a comment her detractors claimed played on anti-Jewish stereotypes. Following her comments, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning all forms of bigotry, although the resolution did not single out Omar specifically.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2019 6:59:46 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 18, 2019 7:14:28 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2019 7:33:33 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/08/16/rashida-tlaib-begs-to-enter-israel-then-rejects-invitation/Rashida Tlaib Begs To Enter Israel, Then Rejects Invitation AUGUST 16, 2019 By Chrissy Clark After Israel granted access to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., so she could visit her grandmother, Tlaib released a statement saying she would not be visiting Israel because of the “oppressive conditions.” Tlaib pleaded her case to Israel’s interior minister, Aryeh Deri, asking for permission to visit her 90-year-old grandmother in the West Bank. Tlaib said it may be the last time she sees her grandmother. Tlaib’s letter reads: Minister Deri: I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother, who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fouqa. This could be my last opportunity to see her. I will respect any restriction and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit. In the letter, Tlaib acknowledged she would not promote her boycott, divestment, and sanctions platform against Israel during her visit. After Israel granted Tlaib approval, she released a statement saying she would no longer be visiting her grandmother, in an effort to prove a point about Israeli oppression. Deri tweeted about the encounter, saying he approved Tlaib’s request to visit Israel as a “gesture of goodwill on a humanitarian basis.” However, when Tlaib declined the invitation, Deri ripped into Tlaib, saying, “Apparently her hate for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother.” In the letter, Tlaib said the Israeli government is oppressing her because it is fearful of what oppression she might expose during her visit. This is nonsense. Even if Tlaib were to see happiness and peace in Israel, she likely would still find a problem with the Israeli “occupation.” She continued by saying, “I have therefore decided to not travel to Palestine and Israel at this time. Visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me would break my grandmother’s heart.” Tlaib tweeted that when she won her congressional race, she gave the Palestinian people hope that someone would speak the truth about their inhumane conditions. Tlaib, however, was elected to represent the 13th District of Michigan, not the people of Palestine. After a fight for access to Israel, Tlaib has now declined this invitation solely to portray the Israeli government as oppressive. No information that has been brought to light thus far, however, shows any indication of oppression. Far be it from me to suggest, as Deri has, that Tlaib cares more about this political spectacle than her own grandmother, but whatever the case, Israel opened the door, and Tlaib refused to walk through it.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2019 9:10:05 GMT -6
So, Bill Mahr comes out and blasts BDS & it's supporters:
Naturally, they are now talking about boycotting his show:
Poor Bill Maher. He breathed life into this hate-infested party. Now they are turning on him. Proof that Karma truly exists.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 19, 2019 4:15:18 GMT -6
So, they want to punish the diplomats and envoys, but do nothing over Omar & Tlaib's blatant anti-Semitic comments, cartoons, etc? Sounds reasonable (to a democrat anyway). www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/08/18/house-democrats-weighing-action-of-israeli-us-envoys-over-tlaib-omar-ban/TEL AVIV – Senior Democratic members of Congress are said to have launched discussions to formally censure the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Jerusalem’s envoy in Washington over Israel’s decision to bar entry to congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Around a dozen lawmakers, several of whom are Jewish, have begun talks to communicate a “deep lack of confidence and trust” in Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer and U.S. envoy to Israel David Friedman, the McClatchy news service reported, citing congressional sources. www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article234095947.html According to the report, the Democrats are considering releasing a statement of no confidence in Dermer and opening an inspector-general investigation into Friedman. Among the twelve are House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, two Jewish lawmakers from New York. “We are reviewing all of our options,” McClatchy quoted a source as saying. “With Dermer, the issue is that there already was a severe lack of trust. But now there is a severe lack of confidence. It is completely unclear that he represents his government given he has made promises that he has not kept and wasn’t clear if he ever had any chance of keeping.” Last month, Dermer assured lawmakers that Omar and Tlaib — open supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel — would be allowed into Israel “out of respect for Congress.” However, on Thursday, Israel said the two would be denied entry. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement defending the decision to bar entry to Omar and Tlaib, said the two intended to use the visit to harm Israel. “Several days ago, we received [Omar and Tlaib’s] trip itinerary,” Netanyahu said, “which clarified that they planned a visit whose sole purpose was to support boycotts and deny Israel’s legitimacy. For example, they called their destination ‘Palestine’ and not ‘Israel,’ and unlike all Democratic and Republican members of Congress before them, they did not seek any meeting with any Israeli official, whether government or opposition.” On Friday, Omar claimed that she had planned to meet with Knesset members and security officials, although the jam-packed itinerary — released days before their planned visit — showed otherwise. The trip, according to the itinerary, would be based exclusively in the Palestinian territories with the exception of the first day that would take place in the primarily Arab-populated eastern area of Jerusalem. The two were slated to meet only with Palestinian officials as well as representatives from human rights groups and other organizations. The congresswomen were scheduled to meet with representatives from Palestinian groups Miftah, a sponsor of the trip, and the Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P), groups that have endorsed terrorism and have ties to terror organizations. “In addition, the organization that is funding their trip is Miftah, which is an avid supporter of BDS, and among whose members are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel,” Netanyahu said. The prime minister said that Tlaib was welcome to apply to visit on humanitarian grounds to see her family, with the caveat that she not engage in promoting boycotts of Israel while in the country. Tlaib acquiesced, and quickly received permission to visit. However, she changed her mind hours later, saying that coming to Israel on its terms would be “humiliating” and she would not “bow down to their oppressive & racist policies.” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who recently led a large Democratic delegation to Israel, issued a statement Thursday censuring Israel over the decision and said it contradicted what he and others had been told by Dermer. McClatchy quoted the source as saying, “Dermer is saying privately that he expects this to go away within a day — it’s a real lack of understanding on the consequences of this.” In the discussions Friday, the lawmakers raised an incident in 1975 in which Henry Waxman, a longtime Democratic congressman from California, was initially banned from Saudi Arabia for his Jewish roots. He was eventually granted entry following pressure from the State Department. Friedman’s endorsement of Israel’s decision to bar Omar and Tlaib’s entry into the country broke with that precedent, they argued, and as a result called for an investigation “into the role the ambassador played in barring them from entering the country,” the report quoted another congressional source as saying. The decision to bar the two Muslim lawmakers from entering Israel came shortly after President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that, in doing so, Israel would be showing “great weakness.” Both Trump and Dermer have denied that the president pressured Israel into backtracking.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 19, 2019 5:33:16 GMT -6
So, Geraldo Rivera decided to jump in with both feet into this issue:
How did that go,(one may ask)? Well........
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 19, 2019 7:13:58 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/08/18/klein-dems-side-with-rabid-antisemites-over-israel/Klein: Dems Side with Rabid Antisemites over Israel Senior Democratic members of Congress have reportedly been in discussion about ways to condemn Israel’s envoy to Washington, Ron Dermer, and the Trump administration’s ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, over their support for the Israeli government’s decision to deny entry to Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Unmentioned in the report is any talk of condemning Omar and Tlaib for their support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, which seeks to destroy Israel and was the very reason for the ban of the two lawmakers in the first place.
This is the same Democratic Party that shamefully abandoned plans to pass a House resolution last March specifically condemning antisemitism even though the resolution was in direct response to Omar’s repeated use of antisemitic tropes.
Eventually, in a move described by the Associated Press as an “embarrassing misstep for Democratic leaders,” House Democrats last March passed a watered-down resolution generally condemning “hateful expressions of intolerance” instead of a strong statement against antisemitism. The Republican-controlled Senate responded to the Democrat’s inexcusable failure by immediately unanimously passing a resolution explicitly condemning antisemitism.Now the Democrats are back at it, according to a report in McClatchy. The news outlet cited “two sources familiar with the discussions” as saying that “about a dozen lawmakers, including senior Jewish members, began discussions on Friday morning over ways to communicate a ‘deep lack of confidence and trust’” in Dermer and Friedman. Their alleged crimes? Friedman expressed support for Israel’s decision to ban the two extremist Congressional leaders from a trip clearly designed to be an anti-Israel propaganda tour aimed at promoting BDS, which wages economic warfare against Israel’s economy and is allied with terrorist organizations. Dermer, for his part, is reportedly being singled out because a few weeks prior to Israel’s decision to reject Omar and Tlaib’s trip the Israeli ambassador had assured House Majority Leader Hoyer that “out of respect for the U.S. Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to any Member of Congress into Israel.” Never mind that Dermer made those statements before Israel obtained the two antisemitic lawmakers’ itinerary showing Omar and Tlaib’s intention to use the trip to harm Israel’s reputation and support boycott Israel ideology. The cancelled visit was partially organized and co-sponsored by Miftah, an anti-Israel organization that itself supports BDS. NGO Monitor, a watchdog on extremist nonprofits, notes that Miftah has accused Israel of committing “massacres,” “apartheid,” “summary executions” of Palestinian youth and “Judaizing” Jerusalem. It has also accused Israel of “ethnic-cleansing of Palestinian-Israeli Arabs.” Meanwhile, ever since Israel’s decision to nix the hostile visit last week, Democrats have been outdoing themselves in defending Omar and Tlaib and criticizing Israel for a ban that is in keeping with a law that allows the country to deny passage to BDS leaders given that the movement acts to delegitimize the Jewish state. And make no mistake about it, Omar and Tlaib are the leaders of that movement in Congress. Only a few weeks ago, the duo introduced a Congressional resolution aimed at supporting the antisemitic BDS Movement. Democrats may want to do some soul searching about what is driving them to align against the Mideast’s only democracy and instead side with antisemites who promote the boycott of Jews. Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @aaronkleinshow. Follow him on Facebook.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 19, 2019 7:21:08 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/08/19/media-wont-report-tlaib-omars-israel-trip-planned-pro-terrorist-group/Media Won’t Report That Tlaib And Omar’s Israel Trip Was Planned By A Pro-Terrorist Group The establishment press must be getting quite a crick in its collective neck from having to look away so often from the antisemitic elements of the left, including within the Democratic Party. Warren Henry By Warren Henry AUGUST 19, 2019 Amid last week’s debate over whether Israel should have issued waivers to Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, and allowed them to promote the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement from within Israel, two scandals went largely unreported. The first scandal is that Tlaib and Omar’s trip was planned by the antisemitic, pro-terror Miftah organization. The second scandal was the establishment media’s whitewashing of the first scandal. It fell to the Elder of Ziyon blog to remind everyone on Twitter that in 2013, Miftah published a blood libel against Jews. The term “blood libel” has been applied in other contexts in recent years, but Miftah claimed Jews have murdered Christian children to use their blood for baking matzos at Passover. Historically, blood libels resulted in pogroms, including in England, Poland, and Russia; they contributed to the expulsion of Jews from England from 1290 to 1657. Jews were tried. Confessions were extracted by torture. When Miftah published its lie, the final blood-libel trial of a Jew in Western history was only 100 years past. When their essay was publicized, Miftah first tried to attack those who exposed them, then apologized—but only in English, not in Arabic. Miftah also re-published (and later deleted) a column titled “Who Rules America: The Alien Grip on Our News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken.” Vox’s Jane Coaston (one of a few exceptions among the media last week) noted the original source was National Vanguard, a neo-Nazi group founded by members of the National Alliance—once the best financed and organized white nationalist groups in America. The group’s founder, William Pierce, authored “The Turner Diaries,” a book that inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The essay Miftah reprinted asserted in part: “The Jew-controlled entertainment media have taken the lead in persuading a whole generation that homosexuality is a normal and acceptable way of life; that there is nothing at all wrong with White women dating or marrying Black men, or with White men marrying Asian women; that all races are inherently equal in ability and character — except that the character of the White race is suspect because of a history of oppressing other races; and that any effort by Whites at racial self-preservation is reprehensible.” Given its antisemitism, it is not surprising Miftah also has supported Palestinian terrorism against Israel. In a 2017 interview, Miftah founder and chairwoman Hanan Ashrawi defended such attacks, stating they “are seen by the people as resistance. And you cannot somehow adopt the language of either the international community or the occupier by describing anybody who resists as terrorist (sic).” Miftah also described one of the first female Palestinian suicide bombers as “the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause.” In reporting on Israel’s exclusion of Tlaib and Omar, The New York Times described Miftah only as “an organization headed by a longtime Palestinian lawmaker.” The Times editorial board called Miftah a group “that promotes ‘global awareness and knowledge of Palestinian realities.’” The Times, after publishing an antisemitic cartoon in its international edition a few months ago, editorialized it is a “dangerous mistake“ to dismiss antisemitism as a fringe element in society, but on Miftah, Tlaib, and Omar the paper continues to fall painfully short of “unblinking journalism and the clear editorial expression of its values.” Or its values seem to require a certain amount of blinking. Other media outlets fared no better. The Washington Post called Miftah “a nonprofit organization headed by Palestinian lawmaker and longtime peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi.” The Los Angeles Times editorialized that “[t]he only disgrace here is Trump’s behavior” in encouraging Israel to exclude Tlaib and Omar, noting in passing “[t]he trip of the two congresswomen was being arranged by Miftah, a nonprofit organization headed by a Palestinian lawmaker.” CNN’s story avoids mentioning Miftah altogether. Arguably the worst coverage appeared in Politico’s “Playbook” column. Politico actually highlighted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement characterizing Miftah as “an avid supporter of BDS, and among whose members are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel.” But Politico played this as a “gotcha” because Israel allowed a Miftah-sponsored group of congressmen into Israel in 2016. Indeed, Politico’s Brad Sherman tweeted: “Israel allowed a Miftah trip in 2016 when it was a group of 5 Dem male members,” as if there were some sex discrimination at work. The Politico item leaves out a few things. First, as Jerusalem Post Senior Contributing Editor Lahav Harkov responded, “The law to bar boycott advocates wasn’t on the books in 2016, which you could have found out with a quick google search.” Sherman dismissed the criticism: “Yes, but Netanyahu took issue with Miftah in addition to its support of BDS.” Given the controversy surrounding Israel’s decision to exclude Tlaib and Omar legally, it is frankly absurd to suggest Netanyahu should have made the 2016 trip an issue when he lacked the legal power to stop it. But the Politico article is even worse than that. In 2016, Miftah invited more than 70 members of Congress, of whom only five accepted. And while Politico hyperlinks to their itineraries, the column omits mentioning they met with Shawan Jabarin. He is identified in the itineraries in his capacity as director of the Palestinian “human rights” organization Al Haq, which advocates for the anti-Israel boycott. Jabarin is also an alleged long-time activist for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization in the United States, Canada, and European Union. He was convicted in 1985 of recruiting for the PFLP. When he was detained in 1994, Israel claimed he “had not discontinued his terrorist involvement and maintains his position in the leadership of the PFLP.” Jordan cited similar security concerns in barring him from entry in 2003. Of the four current congressmen on that 2016 Miftah trip, Rep. Marc Pocan was one of the 16 votes (along with Tlaib and Omar) against a July resolution condemning BDS. Another, Rep. Hank Johnson, abstained from that vote; he previously had to apologize for likening Israeli settlers to termites. A third, Rep. Dan Kildee, has defended Omar’s dual-loyalty smears. In context, the 2016 Miftah trip looks much less like a “gotcha” of Netanyahu than a milestone on the path to Israel passing the law allowing them to exclude BDS advocates, particularly those affiliating with Miftah. Beyond Miftah, Omar, and Tlaib, the same media whitewash occurs regarding the antisemitic BDS movement. Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the movement, compares Israel to the Nazis, claims Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian children “for sport,” denies that Jews are one of the indigenous peoples of the region and have no right to self-determination—sometimes all in the same speech. The basic history of the movement and its leaders will be found nowhere in the BDS explainer published by The New York Times, perhaps because the paper recently published a wildly dishonest op-ed by Barghouti himself. The establishment press must be getting quite a crick in its collective neck from having to look away so often from the antisemitic elements of the left, including within the Democratic Party. It is a case where biased journalism slouches into bad citizenship. The Corbynization of Britain’s Labour Party happened in large part because the local media tended to ignore it. The left vehemently disagrees, but when you read the account of Josh Glancy, the New York correspondent for The Sunday Times of London, it is difficult to miss how much denial within the media aided Corbyn until it was too late. Allowing antisemitism to fester within the Democratic Party and defending obviously antisemitic Democrats is bad for the country. And looking at the current struggles of the Labour Party, it is likely to be toxic for Democrats most of all. Even a biased press corps ought to recognize that much.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 19, 2019 9:10:30 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 19, 2019 14:41:46 GMT -6
Someone needs to ask the squad for their thoughts on this,(just for the S&G alone). www.foxnews.com/world/palestinian-authority-bans-lgbtq-west-bankThe Palestinian Authority has reportedly banned members of a Palestinian LGBTQ community from holding events in the West Bank, and further threatened to arrest members for activities authorities called “harmful” to the ideals of society. The ban Monday comes after the Palestinian Authority learned that Al-Qaws, a Palestinian group that supports sexual and gender diversity, was planning an event for its members in Nablus, a city in the northern West Bank, the Jerusalem Post reported.
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