While people are still trying to identify the incinerated and butchered Israeli bodies from the grisly Palestinian Arab October 7 terrorist attack, the Palestinian Authority thought it an appropriate time to ask the United Kingdom to recognize Palestine as a country.
On November 24, 2023, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the PA headquarters in Ramallah. Abbas lectured the visiting British diplomat, as though Palestinian Arabs had not recently conducted the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, November 24, 2023
As reported by WAFA, the Palestinian official news agency, after lecturing Cameron about Israel’s actions, Abbas “urged the British Foreign Secretary to recognize the State of Palestine and help it gain full membership in the United Nations.”
Not wanting the message to slip through the cracks, PA Prime Mohammed Shtayyeh followed, and similarly “called on the British Foreign Secretary to support the Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations.”
The ruling Palestinian Authority is very unpopular and viewed as deeply corrupt by Palestinian Arabs. Abbas’s four-year term as president expired in 2009 and he has refused to conduct elections as he knows that he will be trounced by Hamas.
As it currently stands, the political-terrorist party Hamas controls Gaza and controls 58% of the Palestinian parliament. After Hamas’s heinous October 7 massacre, the group’s popularity has skyrocketed, with 75% of Palestinians supporting the attack, and a similar percentage looking to destroy Israel and replace it with an Arab state.
As Palestinian Arabs demonstrate to the world that they are capable and desirous of slaughtering Jews and launching a war on the only Jewish State, they are asking the western world for its blessings, to recognize the State of Palestine and usher it into the United Nations.
And rather than storm out the door, Britain announced it would send £30 million additional aid funding to Gaza.
Palestinians have a demonic but selfish motivation for slaughtering Israelis as they invade the first world country next door but what is motivating the United Kingdom to support such barbarity?
ACTION ITEM
Contact David Cameron “The Palestinian Arabs have shown that they support the butchering of Jews and desire to destroy the Jewish State. The British government must make clear that it firmly rejects the so-called “right of return” of Palestinian Arabs into Israel, and that any future settlement of the conflict will require a demilitarized Arab state to which the descendant of refugees and internally-displaced people may settle. Further, until Hamas is removed from power, there will be no aid sent to the Palestinian Authority.”
An estimated 240 people in Israel were ripped from their homes on October 7, 2023. Many witnessed the brutal slaughter of friends and family before they were taken to the terrorist tunnels of Gaza by Hamas.
On November 22, a deal was announced to return the hostages to Israel in exchange for 150 Palestinian Arab terrorists held in Israeli jails, a “humanitarian pause” to the fighting and sending in various items to Gaza including fuel and food.
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was happy at the announcement and issued a short statement:
“The Secretary-General welcomes the agreement reached by Israel and Hamas, with the mediation of Qatar, supported by Egypt and the United States. This is an important step in the right direction, but much more needs to be done.
“The United Nations will mobilize all its capacities to support the implementation of the agreement and maximize its positive impact on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.“
Even as roughly 200 people remain in the clutches of the Palestinian political-terrorist group Hamas, the United Nations still cannot prioritize their well-being and urge their release and instead will only focus on Gazans.
It underscores the imperative for the United States and the western world to stand solidly behind Israel as the UN remains a highly biased anti-Israel organization.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres
ACTION ITEM
Write White House on form: “The United Nations continues to ignore Palestinian terrorism and does nothing to push for the release of the remaining hostages who were ripped from their homes in Israel. In this world which only advocates for Palestinian Arabs, it is imperative for the United States and western countries to stand solidly behind Israel in this very difficult time.”
Israel and Hamas are reportedly ready to commence an exchange of 50 Israeli hostages for 150 Palestinians held in Israeli jails. All of the people on both sides are reported to be women and children. The public has not heard who will be released but the information thus far has completely omitted the mention of two particular names as part of the transaction: Ahlam al-Tamimi and the Palestinian Authority.
Ahlam al-Tamimi
Ahlam al-Tamimi remains on the United States most wanted list for her role in killing 15 people, including a pregnant woman and seven children in a bombing in Jerusalem, Israel in August 2001. The casualties included three Americans.
When Yael Lampert was in her confirmation hearing on May 4, 2023 to become the United States’ Ambassador to Jordan, she said (1:08:00) that “I will do everything in my power to ensure that Ahlam al-Tamimi faces justice in the US for her horrific crimes.” In response to possible US action, Jordan was rumored to look to transport Tamimi to either Iran or Qatar, possibly at the direction of Hamas.
Tamimi continuing to walk free under protection of the king of Jordan is an atrocity. The evil axis of Hamas, Iran and Qatar are continuing their carnage and protecting the murderers around the world, and Israel and the US are willing dupes.
As part of this hostage-prisoner exchange, the United States should insist that Tamimi be extradited to face justice for her crimes.
The Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority is viewed by everyone – including Palestinian Arabs – as completely corrupt and inept. Yet the United Nations and the world advance the idea that the PA should rule Gaza after the current war.
How is that remotely possible? Will the PA suddenly be viewed as competent after the evil axis of Hamas, Qatar and Iran run the chessboard?
The PA must be inserted into the dialogue to give them some shred of credibility for the day after.
Hamas is only agreeing to the prisoner swap now in a sign of weakness, and Israel is engaging in it due to pressure from the United States because of the horrible civilian death toll in Gaza. Rather than use the current dynamic to set a future course where the Palestinian Authority has a pathway to leadership and Hamas understands that its terrorists will never escape justice, even and especially when so many are being released – including women, the Evil Axis is seizing victory from defeat.
Its like rewatching former Secretary of State John Kerry botch negotiations on both the Iranian nuclear deal and Israel-PA peace process in 2014-15, setting the region on a pathway for violence.
The evil axis of Hamas/Iran/Qatar beat Israel in the initial battle of the 2023 Gaza War by butchering 1,200 people in Israel. The United States is responsible for the second loss, setting the stage for a future where terrorism is allowed to win.
ACTION ITEM
Write White House on form: “Demand the extradition of Ahlam al-Tamimi as part of the hostage-prisoner exchange, and find a role for the Palestinian Authority to play for there to be a chance to peace. The current dynamic leaves the Evil Axis of Hamas, Iran and Qatar running the region.” one-click
The world is full of ignoramuses, and Hollywood has more than its fair share. Idiots like Susan Sarandon not only make horrible personal comments about Jews but suggest false information.
The simple facts are that Jews are much more persecuted than Muslims in the United States by a large margin.
Hate crimes against Jews have always been much higher than for Muslims or Arabs in every year for the past twenty years according to the FBI. The two groups started to converge around 2014 to 2016 as crimes against Jews started to decline and those against Muslims began to increase, but those trendlines reversed.
According to the raw FBI data, there were 6.3 times more hate crimes committed against Jews than Muslims in 2020. In 2008, the ratio was an astounding 8.6 times and got as low as 2.2 times in 2016.
When adjusting for the relative population of Jews and Muslims, assuming 5.7 million American Jews and 3.3 million American Muslims, the conclusion remains the same that Jews are targeted for hate crimes much more than Muslims or any other group, including Blacks.
Even before the terrible spike in American antisemitism in the wake of the most heinous slaughtering of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7, Jews were the most persecuted people in the country. Attacked by the alt-right, jihadists and the alt-left, and vilified by professors and politicians like Rep. Rashida Tlaib who claims that Jews in the United States and Israel are greedy conniving creatures who steal land and make money off of racism, Jews have become the global pinata.
American Jews are finding few allies and an array of enemies. It is well past time to prepare.
The United Nations Secretary General issued a statement on November 19, 2023 that he was “deeply shocked that two United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) schools were struck in less than 24 hours in Gaza.” He added “I reaffirm that our premises are inviolable.”
Does the UNSG think that Israeli nurseries are similarly inviolable, never to be infringed or dishonored?
Bloody nursery in Israel after Hamas October 7 massacre
Does the United Nations think that Jewish children in Israel should be allowed to go to school without the ruling government of a neighboring territory invading the country, storming the building and shooting children?
Israeli school riddled with bullets shot by Palestinian Arabs on October 7
Are the playgrounds of Israeli children inviolable, or are Palestinians living nearby allowed to enter and burn children alive?
Israeli classroom soaked with blood after the popular ruling Palestinian party stormed the building and butchered teachers and children on October 7
The fact that UNSG Antonio Guterres refused to demand that Hamas be held accountable for its actions gives an indication that he believes that Israeli schools, playgrounds and nurseries are not protected spaces.
When Guterres concluded his latest statement, “I also want to express my deep appreciation for all the mediation efforts led by the Government of Qatar,” the government which is the main sponsor of Hamas and the leading funder of jihadists in American schools, he also let the world know that Jews in schools everywhere are fair game for jihadi terrorism.
College is the first time that many young people live away from home. Young adults find new friends and community to experience learning and fun for several important formative years.
Alas, it is not always simple for Jews at universities.
Campus antisemitism has been a growing issue, and after the October 7 Hamas massacre, it has escalated and made Jewish students fear for their basic safety. Threats against students at Cornell, Cooper Union, New York University, Columbia and Hunter College are seemingly mentioned daily.
And that’s just in New York, home to the largest population of Jews outside of Israel.
As the current Gaza War is likely to go on for some time, it is likely that the tepid reaction of universities will enable more antisemitism on campuses, so this article is meant as a guide for how to ingest the latest incidents.
First Framework: 98% and 2% of Campuses with Jews
In the United States, there are roughly 5,300 colleges. Of those, roughly 100 have a Jewish presence of note, whether by number of Jewish students, percentage of Jews or those with a visibly Orthodox presence. That means that 98% of American colleges might have antisemitic incidents that do not actively harm Jews at that moment in time. While the toxicity of antisemitism spreading should not be overlooked, the antisemitism may go unnoticed and unreported.
The figures may hold true for other countries with large Jewish populations including Canada, United Kingdom and France. While there are many fewer universities there, it is likely that 90%-plus percentage of them have under-reported antisemitic occurrences.
Second Framework: The Three Groups of Antisemitic Actors
Antisemitism at universities have three principle actors: the alt-right, jihadists and the alt-left.
The alt-right and neo-Nazis were historically viewed as the classic antisemites. While the alt-right continues to taunt and attack Jews, they have a quiet presence thus far at the two percent of universities where most Jews attend. They have greater voices in the other 98% of campuses so that antisemitism is often unreported.
When White Supremacists marched at the University of Virginia in 2017, the world took notice. There wasn’t a need for the Hillel, which claims there are 1,000 Jews at UVA, to alert the press as everyone was shocked by the scale of the provocative march meant to intimidate the relatively small Jewish population and other minorities.
The jihadists have been gaining significant ground since the turn of the century. Led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the pro-Hamas group has roughly 250 chapters around the United States, including almost all of the 2% schools which Jews attend including the large state universities (Florida, Michigan, Maryland, Indiana, Wisconsin), the City of New York/ State of New York and University of California school systems, as well as the Ivy League schools. Their presence on campus directly correlates to more antisemitic actions on campuses as shown by work done by the AMCHA Initiative.
In the current environment after the October 7 Hamas attack, they are a leading cause of anti-Jewish hostility on campus, and Jews are directly feeling the brunt of their extremism and hatred.
The third category of antisemites comes from the alt-left, such as groups associated with the Democratic Socialists of America. They are profoundly anti-Zionist, and have falsely labeled Israel as a “settler colonial state”, denying Jews their history and heritage in the holy land. Since the 2014/15 Black Lives Matter protests, socialists have bonded with the jihadists in coming for Jews and Zionists. Like the jihadists, they are found in almost school where Jews are located.
The cumulative effect is that one doesn’t hear much about campus antisemitism from the alt-right, especially during conflicts in the Middle East. If one hears about it at all, it will be from something major like the “United the Right” UVA march which included many people from outside the university.
In contrast, jihadists feel uncomfortably close with their daily confrontations with Jews and the spectacle is frightening.
The alt-left socialists feel even closer for progressive Jews. They belong to the same clubs and advocated for many of the same causes. To see them celebrating the murder and butchering of Jews is deeply hurtful and shocking.
Third Framework: The Three Levels at Universities
The third way to consider antisemitism is understanding the three tiers of a university: the institution, the teachers and the students.
Groups like SJP are made up of students and tend to be the most vocal actors on campuses. They stage die-ins, put on Israel Apartheid Weeks and are the ones generally responsible for vandalism. The university has little sway over them, other than the ability to not officially recognize them or allow them to hold events on campus grounds, or expel them if they go against rules of conduct.
Teachers are directly employed by the university so the institution has much greater influence on them. However, once a teacher gets tenure, it becomes very difficult to discipline them unless they do something egregious.
The institutions are businesses, whether they are not-for-profit or for-profit, public or private universities. They need funding, students, professors, accreditation, real estate and many other things to operate. As such, it is possible to impact their direction by donors and federal mandates.
Using these three lenses about universities, one can better evaluate the impact of campus antisemitism.
Examining Donors Via The Frameworks
Many wealthy Jewish university benefactors lashed out about the state of antisemitism on campuses. Marc Rowan, Bill Ackman, Leon Cooperman, David Magerman and others stated that they will no longer send universities millions of dollars as they have in the past.
It matters much less than they think. Not only do the universities have billions of dollars already in endowments, but the monies those benefactors spent were on hospitals and center for the arts and to put their names on buildings. The Jews gave money at the institutional level.
That is in sharp contrast to the Gulf states including Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Foreign forces gave over $10 billion to American universities at every level including the student and professor levels. At the institutional level, they spent money opening up campuses in their kingdoms to legitimize their autocratic regimes.
At the student level, the governments sent tens of thousands of students onto American campuses, changing the nature of the schools. The universities appreciate the fully-funded tuitions and the ability to appear diverse and international. In the 2015/6 school year, over 61,000 Saudi students attended American schools. That represented 0.2% of the entire population of Saudi Arabia to a single country. By way of comparison, the ENTIRE American students abroad cohort all over the world is around 162,000, or 0.05% of the U.S. population. Imagine 650,000 American college students all going to Brazil for college, and you get the absurdity of what transpired on American campuses with petrodollars.
The Gulf money also funded professors and chairs of departments. In July 2000, the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, donated $2.5 million to the Harvard Divinity School to endow the Sheik Zayed Al Nahyan Professorship in Islamic Religious Studies. Within a short period of time, the Zayed Center became a noxious fountain of anti-Semitic screed complete with Holocaust denials and blood libels. It took the non-profit group The David Project and a student at the Harvard Divinity School, Rachel Fish, to loudly protest the donation and Center itself.
But the damage is often already done. With an application of two students and approval of a professor, a new SJP chapter comes to campus. The AMCHA Initiative has shown that campuses with five or more professors who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) of Israel and has an anti-Zionist group like SJP on campus, is over seven times more likely to have antisemitic incidents.
These professors actively push the antisemitic narrative to Decolonize Palestine, framing Jews as interlopers and the Jewish State as a European Colonial State. It is inherently antisemitic, as it negates Jewish heritage and history. The professors claim that it is worthy of debate and administrations remain silent.
Ramifications
Historically, Jews focused on choosing schools with a good Jewish campus life. If there was a Hillel, AEPi Jewish fraternity, Chabad or OU-JLIC couple on campus, students and parents felt comfortable with a supportive environment. Walking through campus and seeing Jewish names on buildings like Stern and Lauder gave people comfort that they would not confront antisemitism.
That is simply not the case.
The correct questions are whether the university has an SJP or Jewish Voice for Peace on campus. Does the university take millions of dollars from Gulf states? Are there tenured professors with a history of antisemitic remarks like Columbia’s Joseph Massad? Does it promote the antisemitic libel that Jews have no history in the holy land and that it is noble to “normalize and globalize Hamas” the way Brown University suggests?
Action Items
The jihadists have focused on American universities for twenty years, and the alt-left has long had a hold on campus life but only bonded with the jihadists since 2014/5. It will take time to undo the damage that has been done.
But there are several things which can be effectuated to start the change. For those who don’t want or cannot wait, consider Yeshiva University or Touro which are Jewish institutions with no jihadist groups and very few members of the alt-left.
Get universities to stop taking money from toxic regimes. Qatar openly supports the terrorist group Hamas. Saudi Arabia beheads minors. There must be some human rights bright lines which should block universities from taking money. At a minimum, there should be a cap of say $5 million over any five year period for any foreign government or agency to pour money into American schools.
Label SJP a hate group and kick them off campus. With seven times more antisemitic incidents with their presence, the groups should be blocked from school recognition.
Place a morality clause in all contracts. If misgendering someone can be cause for dismissal, then certainly celebrating the slaughter of babies and raping of women should result in immediate firings.
Get the Biden Administration to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism as it relates to Title VI for universities. The administration already approved it as the best working definition of antisemitism but has not applied it to Title VI which would pull government funding to universities that allow rampant anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
Expel foreign students involved in hate crimes. Universities like MIT have been loathe to suspend foreign students as it would result in their deportation. American Jews should not be forced to endure visiting students’ antisemitism because the university wants to keep the foreign nation’s tuition funnel flowing.
Support Jewish and Israel groups. OU-JLIC, Hillel and other groups need active support, as do external groups which help out university students like StandWithUs and Students Supporting Israel. The infrastructure must be continuously enhanced for a strong Jewish campus life.
Get benefactors to fund Jewish scholarships and Jewish and Israel studies departments. Just like the Gulf states, Jewish benefactors should fund scholarships for Jews to their alma maters as well as professors focused on Jewish studies.
Write about the problem. Penning letters to the school administrators, posting on social media, and telling members of congress and governors about the horrific situation on campuses will help drive change. Write letters to the media that they must cover campus antisemitism more regularly and honestly.
Campus antisemitism is at alarming levels. You can help.
A Palestinian poll about the October 7 Hamas massacre was conducted by the Arab World For Research and Development. It shows Palestinians overwhelming supporting the attack as a war to end the Jewish State and control of the Temple Mount.
Palestinian Arabs think that a Palestinian State covering all of the pre-1948 borders – which will end the Jewish State – is much closer to reality.
A total of 79.5% of Palestinians have become more committed to the dream of taking over Israel after the October 7 attack, while 71.1% have become more committed to that as the final solution to the conflict.
This is a continuation of Palestinian conviction that existed before October 7. In a June 2023 PCPSR poll, a slim majority of 51% believed that Arabs will be “able in the future to regain Palestine and repatriate the refugees.” A December 2022 PCPSR poll noted that “the Palestinian public becomes more hardline while indicating a greater confidence in the efficacy of armed struggle.”
That growing conviction of retaking all of historical Palestine via violence has made Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank very supportive of Hamas and its attack on Israel.
An estimated 59.3% and 15.7% extremely support or somewhat support the Hamas attack, respectively, or 75.0% in total. The percentage was higher in the West Bank (83.1%) than in Gaza (63.6%), as Gaza has been bearing the brunt of Israel’s response to the October 7 attack.
Hamas – and other Palestinian terrorist groups – popularity has skyrocketed, with 48.2% and 27.8% having very positive or somewhat positive views of Hamas, respectively. Once again, the popularity of Hamas in the West Bank (87.7%) was much higher than in Gaza (59.6%).
Other Palestinian terrorist groups had similar scores. Islamic Jihad support stood at 84.2%, al Aqsa Brigade at 79.8% and al Qassam at 88.6%. Non-Palestinian terrorist groups like Hizbollah also were viewed favorably but much less so at 45.1%.
The parties who have not participated in attacking Israel have limited support among Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority itself stood at 10.3% support, while the Fatah party was at 23.2%. Iran (33.6%) and Turkey (33.9%) were significantly higher with vocal support than were Egypt (14.0%) and Jordan (12.1%), Saudi Arabia (2.9%) and UAE (2.5%). Russia (39.5%) and China (34.4%) scored much higher than countries normalizing relations with Israel. The United Nations was at 9.1%, while the United States was 0.4%
While Palestinian Arabs seem to have greater conviction in the possibility of liberating all of historic Palestine and supporting the fighters who are working to make that a reality, the “Free Palestine” opinion came in second at 29% in polling regarding the reasons for the Hamas attack. The leading belief was to stop the “violation” of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (35% of respondents). That may be because Hamas named the fight the ‘Al Aqsa Flood.’ Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have been falsely claiming for months that Jews are “storming al Aqsa” in “provocations” by simply walking around the compound during normal visiting hours.
Very few Palestinians place Iranian motivation and freeing Palestinian prisoners as the primary reason for the attack. Palestinian Arabs view this fight as an organic Palestinian movement to control Israel. While there is an appreciation for the support of Iran, Hizbollah in Lebanon, Russia and China, it is Palestinians who are leading the charge. The motivation is less about Palestinian people (in jail or otherwise) or for lands under Palestinian control (like ending the blockade of Gaza). This is a Palestinian war for Jerusalem and pre-1948 Palestine for two-thirds of respondents.
This can be seen in the support for various solutions to end the conflict. The vast majority of Palestinians want a Jew-free state “from the river to the sea.” Only 17% prefer a two state solution while 5% prefer a binational state for Arabs and Jews.
Palestinians do not think this is a narrow war between Israel and Hamas (18.6%) but between Israel and Palestinians generally (63.6%). Almost no one thinks this is a broader regional conflict with 5.2% believing this is Israel against the Muslim world and 2.1% thinking it is Israel against the Arab world. Their confidence in coexistence with Israeli Jews has declined by 89.5% since the attack.
Yet, while Palestinians think this is an Israeli-Palestinian war, they believe the western world hates Muslims, Islam and Arabs, even more than liking Israel or having sympathy for Israeli civilians.
They arrive at this conclusion from watching Arab channels such as Al Jazeera, Palestine TV, Maa’an TV and al Aqsa TV. Very few watch international news, and if they do, it is CNN and the BBC. Social media is huge, with Telegram and Facebook leading as the method of getting news.
Almost every single person polled – 98.0% – said that they felt tremendous pride at being a Palestinian right now. An estimated 72.6% believe that Palestinians will beat Israel in this war, with 75.3% believing the blockade of Gaza will end and 79.4% believing that Palestinians will be freed from Israeli jails.
In the end, Palestinians are still hopeful to have a national unity government with both Hamas and Fatah ruling Gaza. They appreciate the global community’s support for the October 7 attacks and are against countries and groups that call Hamas a terrorist organization which must be eliminated.
Palestinian Arabs believe that the armed struggle to destroy the Jewish State has begun in earnest and are embracing countries and groups that support its aims including Iran, Turkey, Russia and China, and American groups like the Democratic Socialists of America and Students for Justice in Palestine. The barbarity of the massacre is a side note for them as is the fate of the 240 hostages. The war to “free Palestine from the River to the Sea” may take years or decades, but the alliances are coalescing now.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY16) has recently been portrayed in the media as a target of Jewish voters for his stance on Israel. That is an incomplete picture.
Bowman is simply unfit to serve anybody for a variety of reasons.
Liar and hypocrite. Bowman voted against Biden’s Infrastructure bill and then told constituents he supported it in his September/October 2021 newsletter. Bowman criticized Sen. Joe Manchin for opposing that bill when Bowman himself voted against it making him a hypocrite as well (December 26, 2021). Bowman continues to lie to his constituents such as claiming that he brought in $100 million into “the District” when only $5.5 million went to Westchester County with the balance going to New York City (January 9, 2023). Similarly, Bowman claimed that the average donation to his campaign was only $40 when it was $607, fifteen times as much (November 16, 2022).
Dangerous. Bowman infamously pulled the fire alarm putting hundreds of people’s lives at risk, just to delay a House vote, and then lied about the episode, even while the entire event was caught on video (September 30, 2023). The offense is a felony but he was able to plead it down to a misdemeanor charge.
Undermines safety. Bowman’s disregard for public safety can also be seen in his calls to “Defund the Police” (August 20, 2020) and to “Abolish ICE” (September 15, 2020).
Uses vile antisemitic language for theater. Bowman often uses inflammatory language, such as calling Republicans “Nazis” (March 7, 2023) and “terrorists” (May 25, 2023). He’s even taken aim at fellow Democrats including President Joe Biden and other politicians calling them “racists” and “xenophobic” for opposing the Chinese company TikTok (March 22, 2023), which has become the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis according to many.
Race baiter. Bowman relishes his own racism. After a Black man was killed by five Black police officers, he said that the victim was “killed by White supremacy” (February 6, 2023). He took the floor of Congress to say Republicans are too White and racist to understand a Brown Muslim woman (November 7, 2023) and even called the non-partisan filibuster rule in Congress “racist” in June 2023.
Extremist. Bowman is among the least bipartisan Democrats, ranking #396 out of all 435 members of Congress according to the Lugar Center House scorecard. His voting record is nearly identical with extremists Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). In addition to his voting record, Bowman criticized Biden for occasionally moving to the center “to acquiesce to the so-called independent voter” (May 17, 2023), as if bipartisanship and moderation is terrible.
Destroyer of education. Bowman aggressively stands against charter schools (February 3, 2023) which is not surprising as he is heavily backed by teacher unions who advance public school teacher interests over students’ well being. Bowman has also pushed to instill critical race theory throughout the school system (May 3, 2021).
Against capitalism. Bowman has called for a “redistribution of wealth and power” (September 7, 2020) and said “our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name” (December 21, 2020) as well as a “genetic disease” (November 8, 2023). As part of Bowman’s plans for a massive wealth redistribution under the banner of “decolonize wealth”, he wants to cancel all student debt (April 13, 2022), pay “reparations” to Black Americans (June 2023), and to annually tax unrealized gains by 30% (April 14, 2022). Bowman expects the government to simply print trillions of dollars to hand to Black people saying “the U.S. government, we have a fiat currency. It’s not tied to any natural resource like gold, so we can literally spend money into existence” (June 2023), a policy which would destroy the U.S. currency and economy.
Is against citizens in small states. Bowman wants to abolish the electoral college (September 13, 2022) which was instituted to protect small states and communities in rural America.
Packing the Supreme Court. Bowman co-sponsored a bill to stuff several Democratically-appointed judges onto the court (May 3, 2023) which will simply create counter-movements when Republicans are in power.
None of these stances have anything to do with Israel. Bowman is a liar and hypocrite who stokes division and is dangerous for all Americans.
And yes, that includes Jews and Zionists.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman calling Republicans as being too White, stupid and cold to understand a Muslim woman on the House floor
Co-authored resolution calling founding of Israel a “Nakba” on May 17, 2022. The resolution offered no language that Jews should have sovereignty and self-determination in their homeland at the same time, which often happens with “balanced” resolutions condemning both antisemitism and Islamophobia. Instead, Bowman adopted a solely Palestinian narrative, seemingly indicating that he does not believe Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel and should have a Jewish State.
Voted against supporting the Abraham Accords on April 25, 2023, which brought Israel into peace agreements with four Arab and Muslim countries. How could anyone oppose peace agreements unless they have targeted Israel for attack?
Boycotted Israeli President Herzog address to Congress on July 19, 2023, which was highly insulting to American Jews and Zionists, as well as America’s key ally in the Middle East.
Favors conditioning aid to Israel. While President Biden clearly stated he will not condition aid to Israel which is surrounded by terrorist groups and countries sworn to its destruction, Bowman co-authored a resolution to do just that on April 23, 2023.
Does not stand against antisemitism. Bowman has repeatedly shown that he does not care about antisemitism. He did not sign a February 4, 2022 bipartisan letter to the Department of Education to combat antisemitism on college campuses, and on July 18, 2023 he voted against a resolution condemning antisemitism.
Would not condemn Hamas resolution after October 7 massacre. Bowman was one of only a handful of members of Congress to oppose a resolution condemning Hamas on November 2, 2023.
Would not attend synagogue vigils in his district after October 7 massacre. Many synagogues in Bowman’s district held vigils after the Hamas massacre with hundreds of attendees including several dozen politicians. Bowman skipped all of them. His reputation in the Jewish community is so bad, that he held a sham “healing breakfast” regarding antisemitism in a windowless room in his office attended by only a dozen people on November 6, 2023. Not one rabbi in the district attended.
Bowman’s track record is not just disgraceful to the district’s estimated 20% Jewish voters; his policies targeting the economy and education are very scary for Hispanic and Asian constituents.
Many Hispanics in the district come from families which left failing economies in Central America to come to the United States to build a prosperous life. The ideas championed by Bowman to bring socialism to America is appalling to many. The health of the economy is the number one issue for American Latinos and Asian Americans according to Pew Research, and Bowman’s virulently anti-capitalism stances put him at odds with many groups in the district.
Almost as important to Hispanic voters in Westchester County is the public school system. Favoring teachers and the powerful teacher unions over students is disgraceful. Public schools are the gateway for many Hispanic children to gain valuable life skills and pathways to a good career. A former principal who cannot recognize a fire alarm does not instill any confidence in Bowman’s capabilities.
Bowman is backed by the powerful American Federation of Teachers, the City University of New York and the socialist group Justice Democrats. He is also closely aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. These are major red flags for District 16’s large Hispanic community.
New York’s Congressional District 16 leans heavily Democratic and the winner of the Democratic primary will almost certainly win the general election in November 2024. Should someone with name recognition like George Latimer enter the race, he should easily gather a massive turnout from the district’s Hispanic, Jewish and Asian communities, due to Bowman’s terrible policies.
The only question that remains is whether the New York Independent Redistricting Committee will artificially try to protect Bowman by redrawing his district into the Bronx and take away voters who support Rep. Ritchie Torres in Congressional District 15. Doing so would be a new form of gerrymandering that would not add a Democratic seat but protect an extremist fringe of the party.
The entire Democratic party may pay a price for artificially seating someone unfit to serve in Congress.
In the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 massacre in Israel and Israel’s response, a number of politicians have opined that there should be a ceasefire and allow a political solution to bear fruit. It is a naive and dangerous suggestion, as are calls to flatten Gaza. The situation requires both a military and a political dynamic, in that order.
The Palestinian-Israel Conflict has two dimensions: a radical jihadi ideology that seeks the destruction of Israel, and a territorial component which parties better understand. The first poisonous jihadi threat must be extinguished and the second matter crafted with care.
Hamas is not only a terrorist group which just carried out the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It is a genocidal antisemitic group which has broad popular support among Palestinians, especially in Gaza. That threat must be destroyed and the evil ideology erased for there to be any hope for calm in the region.
Hamas’s foundational charter is an antisemitic screed calling for the death of Jews and end to the Jewish State. Palestinian Arabs elected Hamas to 58% of the parliament in 2006 with this charter and Palestinians would elect the leader of Hamas to the presidency in latest polls. An estimated 70% of Gazans support killing Jewish civilians inside of Israel in a June 2023 poll.
The United Nations Security Council understands such evil ideology as it voted “unequivocally” to condemn ISIS for a similar violent orientation. On November 20, 2015, the UNSC press stated:
The Security Council determined today that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/Sham (ISIL/ISIS) constituted an “unprecedented” threat to international peace and security, calling upon Member States with the requisite capacity to take “all necessary measures” to prevent and suppress its terrorist acts on territory under its control in Syria and Iraq.
Unanimously adopting resolution 2249 (2015), the Council unequivocally condemned the terrorist attacks perpetrated by ISIL — also known as Da’esh — on 26 June in Sousse, on 10 October in Ankara, on 31 October over the Sinaï Peninsula, on 12 November in Beirut and on 13 November in Paris, among others. It expressed its deepest condolences to the victims and their families, as well as to the people and Governments of Tunisia, Turkey, Russian Federation, Lebanon and France.
The 15-member body condemned in the strongest terms ISIL’s gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights, as well as its destruction and looting of cultural heritage. Those who committed, or were otherwise responsible for, terrorist acts or human rights violations must be held accountable. By other terms, the Council urged Member States to intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters into Iraq and Syria, and to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism.
Following the vote, nearly all Council members took the floor to decry the “barbaric” attacks and hateful world view espoused by ISIL, reaffirming their support in both stemming the threat and bringing perpetrators to justice. In an echo of the sentiments voiced by many around the table Spain’s representative declared: “Today, we are all French, Russian, Malian and Arab,” adding: “It is time to act with a French, Russian, Malian and Arab heart.” The Council had a duty to guarantee the values and principles of the United Nations, and all must close ranks to vanquish terrorism, he stressed.
France’s representative, recalling that Da’esh had perpetrated an act of war against his country on 13 November, said today’s vote signaled recognition of the threat’s exceptional nature. The fight against terrorism could only be effective if combined with a political transition that would eliminate Da’esh, he said, adding that France had obtained activation of the European Union’s mutual solidarity clause.
The Russian Federation’s representative said today’s unanimous vote was a step towards the creation of a broad anti-terrorism front aimed at eradicating root causes. That also had been the aim of a Russian draft presented to the Council on 30 September, he said, describing attempts by some to block his delegation’s efforts as politically short-sighted.
The course of action against Hamas should be the same as taken with ISIL:
decry the “barbaric” attacks and hateful world view
bringing perpetrators to justice / Those who committed, or were otherwise responsible for, terrorist acts or human rights violations must be held accountable
take “all necessary measures” to prevent and suppress its terrorist acts
intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters
prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism
all must close ranks to vanquish terrorism
Hamas must be destroyed militarily and financially with global support.
Hamas terrorist in Israeli kibbutz
Afterwards, the transition to a civil society must include a political component, as noted “The fight against terrorism could only be effective if combined with a political transition that would eliminate Da’esh [Hamas].” Key factors must be present in a new governing entity:
no military capabilities
no intention to destroy Israel
not virulently antisemitic
The last item – of not being antisemitic – is wishful thinking. Palestinians are the most antisemitic in the world according to polls. Regarding stripping military capabilities, that is essential as the amount of Palestinian terrorism with limited capabilities is already terrifying. Think post-WWII Japan.
In regards to a goal of coexisting with the Jewish State, that will require the world – the United Nations and Saudi Arabia in particular – to clearly state that there is no “right of return” for Palestinian Arabs to move to Israel. A two state solution means Palestinian refugees move to a new Palestinian state, not the Jewish state.
If there is a chance for “from the river to the sea, people will live with security,” a decisive military destruction of Hamas as an organization must be followed with bringing a vision of coexistence instead of bloodshed. To get there, the world must unequivocally support Israel in its destruction of Hamas and thereafter, a weapons-free Arab state which will be home to the descendants of Palestine refugees.
During the night of May 10, 1933, tens of thousands of Germans in twenty-two cities gathered books written by Jews and tossed them into huge bonfires. It was part of an emerging effort to remove the supposed “depraved” culture of Germany instigated by Jews and replace it with something more pure.
In Munich, the Ludwig Maximilian University and the Technical University granted state recognition to students’ unions as legal entities in the university constitution, with a stipulation that Jewish students be excluded from these bodies. An estimated 8,000 Germans celebrated the action at a rally and then proceeded to burn books by Jews. An estimated 70,000 onlookers watched the spectacle.
Roughly one hundred book burnings took place from early March and ran through October of 1933. Universities were the main originators of the effort to identify and ban books, which led to libraries and other institutions following suit.
Five and one-half years later, the Nazi machinery had gained momentum. On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazis throughout Germany and Austria burned Jewish stores and synagogues in what became knows as Kristallnacht. Citizens – mostly neighbors – ransacked and looted about 7,500 Jewish businesses, killed at least 91 Jews, and vandalized Jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and cemeteries. Some 30,000 Jewish males aged 16 to 60 were arrested.
Jews were forced to pay for and clean up the carnage from which they suffered. They scrubbed streets on their knees before Nazis and their neighbors, as they had been forced to do for months in public humiliation.
Jews in Vienna, Austria forced to scrub streets with their hands in March 1938
Eighty-five years later, a new generation of antisemites labeled a different Jewish idea as a depravity to terminate and Jews to annihilate: Zionism.
On March 30, 2018, thirty thousand Gazans marched on the fence with Israel in what they billed the “Great March of Return.” They continued to rail against the fence demanding the “right to return” into the land of Israel, where grandparents lived until 1948. Backed by Hamas, the Gazans burned fires and sent burning kites into Israel to torch their fields, as they tried to take down the border fence.
Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.
Hamas Charter
Five and one half years later, on October 7, 2023, over 1,000 members of Hamas and many Gazans effectively stormed and destroyed the border separation and stormed into Israeli towns where they butchered and slaughtered 1,200 people. They made clear that they did not just want to return to Israel but to end the existence of Jews and the Jewish State.
Kibbutz Be’eri after Hamas October 7 Massacre
Both Nazis and Hamas targeted Jews at their inceptions well before 1933 and 2018, respectively. The Nazis gained legitimacy over time through democratic elections and penetrated the mindset of universities. Hamas similarly won Palestinian elections and dominate Palestinian views in a manner that James Zogby of the Arab American Institute called a “deformity in Palestinian political culture.”
Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people.
Hamas Charter
The scary dynamic is that the Palestinian narrative about the evil idea of Zionism is no longer constrained to Arab and Muslim schools but global academia.
Ivy League schools push the idea to “Decolonize Palestine” and paint Jews as foreign invaders with no history in their homeland. They support a global putsch to take down the Jewish State and professors agreed “to recontextualize the events of October 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years. One could regard the events of October 7th as just one salvo in an ongoing war between an occupying state and the people it occupies, or as an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation,” even though Israel left Gaza in 2005.
In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised…. the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis.
Hamas Charter
What is Zionism that so angers Palestinians and university “scholars”? A simple set of beliefs that millions of Jews and non-Jews believe:
Jews are a people, not simply members of a religion
Jews have history and deep ties to their particular homeland in the land of Israel
Jews have a right to self-determination, manifest in establishing sovereignty with the State of Israel
The State of Israel is a safe haven for Jews around the world, all welcome to return
That Jewish State will fight global antisemitism
Nazi Germany moved from burning Jewish ideas to burning Jews in just a few years. Palestinian Arabs and their supporters have similarly targeted Zionism, Jews and the Jewish State. The question is whether the civilized world will turn back the evil.
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