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Kamala’s radical dance with anti-Israel activists

August 30, 2024
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The Democrats simply cannot afford to lose the anti-Israel vote, even if it means turning a blind eye to the vast web of pro-Hamas organizations that showed up in Chicago.

Late last month, anti-Israel protest groups raged through Washington, D.C., to disrupt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official visit and speech to Congress. They ripped down American flags, burned them, and replaced them with Palestinian flags. They dumped maggots in the hotel where Netanyahu was staying. Among several instances of vandalizing federal property, they defaced the Columbus Memorial Fountain outside Union Station, spray-painting in big red letters, “Hamas is coming.”

Yes, Hamas is indeed coming for Democrats, but not in the sadistic way that Hamas is coming for the Jewish people. They’re coming for Democrats through countless intermediary support groups because they know Democrats are most likely to give them what they want. Despite their best attempts to paint themselves as freedom-loving moderates during the Democratic National Convention, Democrats are and have always been the haven for extremists in American politics.

It’s amazing how quickly Democrats get behind law and order when it suits their agenda. They tolerate chaos and destruction in the streets except when it hurts their public image.

This is the party that has catered to elite universities across the nation over the past year that have encouraged and facilitated anti-Semitic student protests, encampments, and even the attempted takeover of administration buildings.

Last week, a congressional report from the House Education and Workforce Committee revealed that out of the 22 anti-Israeli students at Columbia University who were arrested for breaking into and occupying a campus building, 18 of them remain in good standing with the school and will return to campus for the fall semester. Three are on interim suspensions, and one is on probation. Columbia initially said those 22 students would be expelled.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are also pro-Iran, a regime whose intentions toward Israel couldn’t be clearer. The Biden-Harris administration recently waived sanctions on Iran’s state-controlled media outlet, which airs a constant stream of anti-Jewish content.

There were major anti-Israel protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but Democrats weren’t about to let them steal the show or do anything to disrupt Kamala’s coronation. It’s amazing how quickly Democrats can get behind law and order when it suits their agenda. They tolerate chaos and destruction in the streets except when it hurts their public image.

They built a giant fence-wall around their arena to keep the protesters at bay. What were they afraid of? The Chicago area has one of the largest Palestinian communities in America, and thousands of activists poured in from all over the country. What could possibly go wrong?

Shamelessly pro-Palestinian

The destruction in Washington, D.C., last month was a preview. Many business owners in downtown Chicago boarded up their windows.

On day one of the DNC, the Hamas flag was proudly flown, just in case there is any doubt about whose side these protesters are on. One of the people waving the Hamas flag asked a Fox News reporter, “What’s wrong with October 7?” He proceeded to defend the terror attacks that mutilated, tortured, and killed 1,200 Israelis, including the elderly, women, children, and babies. Protesters then bashed their way through the perimeter fence outside the convention center.

On day two, protesters charged the police line outside Israel’s Chicago consulate. Seventy-two people were arrested. On the same day that these protests began, Israel recovered the bodies of six dead Jewish hostages found in a hidden passage during a raid on part of the Hamas tunnel system in Gaza. There are still 71 hostages being held by Hamas, including eight Americans.

The day before the convention began, Hamas took credit for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. On day three of the DNC, Israel and Hezbollah traded cross-border missile strikes. In addition, the ongoing threat of an attack by Iran on Israel is always imminent, along with Iran’s developing nuke program.

Earlier this month, a Palestinian man on the U.S. terror watch list was apprehended at the border in New Mexico. If Harris and Walz have any say in the matter, he probably has a house, free health care, and a driver’s license by now. Meanwhile, Biden defended the pro-Hamas protesters, saying that they “have a point.” What exactly is their point? That the October 7 terror attacks were justified given their context?

America’s pro-Hamas crowd will align themselves with any group to support their terrorism. They will link arms with groups who claim to be for women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, abortion, even though none of those rights exist in Gaza. Leftists are so blinded by their own devotion to those issues that they’re willing to look the other way when it comes to support for anti-Semitism and terrorism.

Secret meetings

The Treasury Department under the Biden-Harris administration has stonewalled the congressional probe into nonprofit groups that are financially supporting pro-Hamas “illegal and anti-Semitic activities” across the United States over the past year. In May, the House requested suspicious activity reports on organizations including Students for Justice in Palestine and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The Treasury Department has not handed over a single document. Last Wednesday, the House sent a letter to Secretary Janet Yellen threatening a subpoena.

The week before the convention, Kamala Harris appointed Nasrina Bargzie to be head of Muslim outreach for her campaign. Bargzie has a history of less-than-favorable views toward Israel, including defending Students for Justice in Palestine, one of the radical groups under congressional investigation.

Two weeks before the DNC, Harris also met with Layla Elabed, who is a co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement. Her sister is Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). The Uncommitted National Movement is working to convince voters not to support Harris unless she backs anti-Israel polices. After their brief meeting, Elabed claimed that Harris is open to an embargo on arms for Israel, but Harris’ campaign immediately stepped in to bury that story.

Harris’ campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, flew to Detroit ahead of the Chicago convention to meet privately with Abbas Alawieh, Elabed’s co-founder and partner. According to a Washington Post report, the Harris campaign provided “extra passes for staff and friends” of Uncommitted to attend the DNC and even gave them space to hold a news conference.

And during her trip to Michigan two weeks before the convention began, Harris also met in secret with Abdullah Hammoud, the 34-year-old mayor of Dearborn, to appeal to the Detroit suburb’s largest population of Arab-Americans in the United States.

Perhaps some kind of deal was struck in these meetings. Harris would keep her comments balanced about Israelis and Palestinians, and they would keep their people from burning down Chicago during her coronation. We don’t know if a deal like that was struck, but after emphasizing her support for Israel’s right to defend itself, Harris railed against Israel’s attacks in Gaza.

Democrats historically have built coalitions of seemingly conflicting groups with overlapping interests, threading them together with some form of oppression identity. But why are Democrats so eager to tolerate anti-Israel groups that justify terrorism? Do you think Kamala Harris is really anti-Semitic when her husband is proudly Jewish? It boils down to the one thing that brings strange bedfellows together and breeds compromise: votes.

Anti-Israel voters have one major point of leverage right now in the Democratic Party: They’re most heavily concentrated in Michigan, which is a crucial battleground state. Democrats simply cannot afford to lose the anti-Israel vote, even if it means turning a blind eye to the vast web of pro-Hamas organizations that showed up in Chicago.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on TheBlaze.com.

The Deep State's NEW plan to backstab Trump

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We cannot make the same mistake we made in 2016 — celebrating victory while the deep state plots its next move.

In 2016, Donald Trump shocked the world by defeating Hillary Clinton. Conservatives cheered, believing we’d taken back the reins of our country. But we missed the bigger battle. We failed to recognize the extent of the damage caused by eight years of Barack Obama and decades of progressive entrenchment. The real war isn’t won at the ballot box. It’s being waged against an insidious force embedded deep within our institutions: the administrative state, or the “deep state.”

This isn’t a new problem. America’s founders foresaw it, though they didn’t have a term for “deep state” back in the 1700s. James Madison, in Federalist 48, warned us that combining legislative, executive, and judicial powers in the same hands is “the very definition of tyranny.” Yet today, that’s exactly where we stand. Unelected bureaucrats in agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Justice hold more power than the officials we vote for. They control the levers of government with impunity, dictating policies and stifling change.

This is the fight for the soul of our nation. The founders’ vision of a constitutional republic is under siege.

We’ve felt the consequences of this growing tyranny firsthand. During COVID-19, so-called experts ran our lives, crushing civil liberties under the guise of public safety. Our intelligence agencies and justice system turned into weapons of political warfare, targeting a sitting president and his supporters. Meanwhile, actual criminals were given a pass, turning American cities into lawless war zones.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816 that “the functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.” Today, we see Jefferson’s prophecy fulfilled. The deep state exercises unchecked power over our freedoms, and information itself is controlled by the fourth branch of government: the legacy media.

Even when we win elections, the deep state doesn’t concede defeat. It switches to survival mode. Trump’s first term proved this. Despite a historic mandate to dismantle the bureaucracy, the deep state fought back with everything it had: leaks, investigations, court rulings, and obstruction at every turn. And now, with the possibility of Trump returning to office, the deep state is preparing to do it again.

Progressives are laying out their attack plan — and they’re not even hiding it.

U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.) recently boasted about forming a “shadow cabinet” to govern alongside the deep state, regardless of who’s in the White House. Nickel called it “democracy’s insurance policy.” Let’s be clear: This isn’t insurance. It’s sabotage.

They’ll employ a “top down, bottom up, inside out” strategy to overwhelm and collapse any effort to reform the system. From the top, federal judges and shadow officials will block Trump’s every move. Governors in blue states like California and New York are gearing up to resist federal authority. During Trump’s first term, California filed over 100 lawsuits against his administration. Expect more of the same starting January 20.

From the bottom, progressive groups like the American Civil Liberties Union will flood the streets with protesters, much as they did to oppose Trump’s first-term immigration reforms. They’ve refined their tactics since 2016 and are prepared to unleash a wave of civil unrest. These aren’t spontaneous movements; they’re coordinated assaults designed to destabilize the administration.

Finally, from the inside, the deep state will continue its mission of self-preservation. Agencies will drag their feet, leak sensitive information, and undermine policies from within. Their goal is to make everything a chaotic mess, so the heart of their power — the bureaucratic core — remains untouched and grows stronger.

We cannot make the same mistake we made in 2016 — celebrating victory while the deep state plots its next move. Progressives never see themselves as losing. When they’re out of power, they simply shift tactics, pumping more blood into their bureaucratic heart. We may win elections, but the war against the deep state will only intensify. As George Washington warned in his Farewell Address, “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force; and force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

This is the fight for the soul of our nation. The founders’ vision of a constitutional republic is under siege. The deep state has shown us its plan: to govern from the shadows, circumventing the will of the people. But now that the shadows have been exposed, we have a choice. Will we accept this silent tyranny, or will we demand accountability and reclaim our nation’s heart?

The battle is just beginning. We can’t afford to lose.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on TheBlaze.com.

Drone mystery exposes GLARING government incompetence

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The drone issue is getting way out of hand.

Earlier this month, Glenn first reported on the mysterious drones stalking the night sky over New Jersey, but the situation is increasingly concerning as the sightings have escalated. Not only have drones been seen across the Northeast Coast, including over New York City, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, but recently, they have been spotted over the night skies of San Diego and other parts of Southern California.

It doesn't take an expert to identify the potential dangers and risks that dozens of undetectable, unidentified six-foot or larger drones pose to national security. Yet, our government's response has been one of unimaginable incompetence, leaving us to speculate on the origin and intention of these drones and wonder in astonishment at the government's ineptitude. Here are three examples of the government's lackluster response to the mystery drones:

Iranian Mothership and Missing Nuclear Warheads

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After several weeks of hubbub, New Jersey Representative, Jeff Van Drew gave an interview on Fox News where he claimed that the drones originated from an Iranian "mothership" off the East Coast of the United States. This theory has since been disproven by satellite images, which show that all Iranian drone carriers are far from U.S. shores. Another theory suggests that drones may be equipped with sensors capable of detecting nuclear material and that they are looking for a nuclear warhead that recently went missing! With these apocalyptic theories gaining traction in the absence of any real answer from our government, one can't help but question the motive behind the silence.

Pentagon's Limp Wristed Response

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In a recent press conference, national security spokesman John Kirby responded to reporters demanding answers about the government's lack of transparency, which has caused increasing public anxiety. He insisted that the drones did not pose a threat and were not assets of a foreign power, such as from Iran or China--even though he is still uncertain about their identity and origin. He also claimed that many of the sightings were simply misidentifications of normal aircraft.

This lackluster answer has only further inflamed national anxieties and raised even more questions. If the government is unsure of the identity of the drones, how do they know if they are a threat or if they aren't foreign assets? If they aren't foreign, does that mean they are U.S. assets? If so, why not just say so?

The Pentagon has also stated that they are leaving it up to local law enforcement to spearhead the investigation after concluding that these drones pose no threat to any military installation. This has left many feeling like the federal government has turned a blind eye to a serious issue that many Americans are very concerned about.

Where's Pete Buttigieg?

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We are in the closing weeks of the Biden administration, and with the finish line in sight, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg probably figured nothing else could go wrong on his watch—but boy was he wrong. As Secretary of Transportation, Buttigieg is in charge of the FAA, the agency responsible for managing all air traffic across the nation. One would think that mysterious, 6-foot-long, seemingly intractable drones are invisible on radar and flying above major cities would pose a serious threat to the myriad of legal aircraft that traverse our skies. Yet, Buttigieg has been silent on the issue, adding another failure to his resume which includes: malfunctioning airplanes, the train derailment in Ohio, and the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse, just to name a few.

Glenn: How Alvin Bragg turned hero Daniel Penny into a villain

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We cannot allow corrupt institutions to punish those who act to protect life and liberty.

America no longer has a single, shared understanding of justice. Two Americas now exist, each applying justice differently depending on who you are and where you live. One America, ruled by common sense and individual courage, praises heroes who stand up to protect others. The other, driven by political agendas and corrupted institutions, punishes those same heroes for daring to act.

This stark division couldn’t be clearer than in the case of Daniel Penny, the Marine whose trial in New York City this week drew strong reactions from both sides across the divided line of justice.

If we let this slide, we accept a world in which heroes are treated as criminals and the law is a weapon for ideological warfare.

Penny was on a subway train last year when Jordan Neely — a man suffering from severe mental illness and reportedly high on drugs — began threatening passengers, saying, “I’m going to kill you all.” The fear on that subway car was palpable, but nobody moved. Nobody, that is, until Penny did what needed to be done. He took action to protect innocent lives.

In the America many of us used to believe in, Penny’s response would be heralded as heroic. His actions mirrored the courage of Todd Beamer on Flight 93, who, on September 11, 2001, rallied others with the words, “Let’s roll,” to prevent further tragedy. But in New York, courage doesn’t seem to count anymore. There, the system turns heroes into villains.

Penny subdued Neely using a chokehold, intending only to restrain him, not kill him. Tragically, Neely died. Penny, filled with remorse, told the police he never meant to hurt anyone. Yet, instead of being recognized for protecting others from a clear and present threat, Penny stood trial for criminally negligent homicide.

In Alvin Bragg’s New York, justice bends to ideology. The Manhattan district attorney has made a career of weaponizing the law, selectively prosecuting those who don’t fit his narrative. He’s the same prosecutor who twisted legal precedent to go after Donald Trump on business charges no one had ever faced before. Then, he turned his sights on Daniel Penny.

A jury may have acquitted Penny, but what happened in New York City this week isn’t justice. When the rule of law changes depending on the defendant’s identity or the prosecutor's political motives, we’re no longer living in a free country. We’re living in a state where justice is a game, and ordinary Americans are the pawns.

The system failed Jordan Neely

It’s worth asking: Where were activists like Alvin Bragg when Neely was suffering on the streets? Jordan Neely was a tragic figure — a man with a long history of mental illness and over 40 arrests, including violent assaults. The system failed him long before he stepped onto that subway train. Yet rather than confront that uncomfortable truth, Bragg’s office decided to target the man who stepped in to prevent a tragedy.

This isn’t about justice. It’s about power. It’s about advancing a narrative where race and identity matter more than truth and common sense.

It’s time to demand change

The Daniel Penny case — and others like it — is a wake-up call. We cannot allow corrupt institutions to punish those who act to protect life and liberty. Americans must demand an end to politically driven prosecutions, hold DAs like Alvin Bragg accountable, and stand up for the principle that true justice is blind, consistent, and fair.

If we let this slide, we accept a world in which heroes are treated as criminals and the law is a weapon for ideological warfare. It’s time to choose which America we want to live in.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on TheBlaze.com.

CEO Brian Thompson's killer reveals COWARDICE of the far-left death cult

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Early on the chilly morning of Wednesday, December 4th, Brian Thompson, CEO of health insurance giant, UnitedHealthcare, was walking through Midtown Manhattan on his way to a company conference. Suddenly, a masked and hooded figure silently allegedly stepped onto the sidewalk behind Thompson, drew a 3-D printed, silenced pistol, and without warning fired multiple shots into Thompson's back before fleeing the scene on an electric bicycle. After a multiple-day manhunt, a 26-year-old lead suspect was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania after being recognized by an employee.

This was not "vigilante justice." This was cold-blooded murder.

As horrific as the murder of a husband and father in broad daylight in the center of New York City is, the story only gets worse. Even before the murder suspect was arrested, left-wing extremists were already taking to X to call him a "hero" and a "vigilante" who "took matters into his own hands." Even the mainstream media joined in on the glorification, as Glenn pointed out on air recently, going out of the way to show how physically attractive the murder suspect was. This wave of revolting and nihilistic fanfare came in response to the findings of online investigators who surmised the murder suspect's motives to retaliate against healthcare companies for corruption and denied coverage. The murder suspect supposedly underwent a major back surgery that left him with back pain, and some of his internet fans apparently viewed his murder of Thompson as retribution for the mistreatment that he and many other Americans have suffered from healthcare companies.

The murder suspect and his lackeys don't seem to understand that, other than depriving two children of their father right before Christmas, he accomplished nothing.

The murder suspect failed to achieve his goal because he was too cowardly to try.

If the murder suspect's goals were truly to "right the wrongs" of the U.S. healthcare system, he had every tool available to him to do so in a constructive and meaningful manner. He came from a wealthy and prominent family in the Baltimore area, became the valedictorian at a prestigious all-boys prep school, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's in engineering. Clearly, the murder suspect was intelligent and capable, and if he had put his talent into creating solutions for the healthcare industry, who knows what he could have accomplished?

This is the kind of behavior the far-left idolizes, like communists on college campuses who wear shirts that celebrate the brutal Cuban warlord, Che Guevara. Merchandise celebrating the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect is already available, including shirts, hoodies, mugs, and even Christmas ornaments. Will they be sporting his face on their T-shirts too?

This macabre behavior does not breed creation, achievement, success, or life. It only brings death and risks more Americans falling into this dangerous paradigm. But we still have a chance to choose life. We just have to wake up and take it.