Biden’s Involvement is Weakening Israel, Not Strengthening It
The Biden administration makes itself into a hostage and then rewards the hostage takers.
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What was to have been a rapid response to the Hamas massacre has become bogged down. Israel has mobilized 300,000 men for a ground assault that isn’t happening because of the Biden administration.
The initial show of support from Washington D.C. has instead become a hostage situation with the Biden administration delaying a response to let Qatar, a state sponsor of Hamas, negotiate some more for the release of the hostages.
Additionally, D.C. is concerned about its image in the Muslim world and would like Israel to avoid civilian casualties (all but impossible when fighting a terror group that hides behind civilians and sets up its infrastructure in hospitals, schools and mosques) and anything that will reflect badly on it.
Iran’s allies attacked U.S. embassies which means that the ground invasion must also be delayed to give D.C. time to fortify embassies in the region. How long will that take? Who knows. After the 9/11 attacks on embassies in Benghazi, Cairo and Tunis, you would think they would have been turned into fortresses a long time ago.
Iran’s Shiite allies, the PMUs, also began shelling American targets in Iraq. So more resources are needed to defend American interests there.
Considering the number of U.S. interests in the region, Iran has a lot of targets to choose from. And putting the United States on the defensive is then linked, wrongly, to delaying an Israeli ground assault.
The reality is that the only reason U.S. interests are being attacked is to get the White House to delay an Israeli ground operation.
The Biden administration chooses to make itself into a hostage and then rewards the hostage takers by giving them what they want. This defeatism all but ensures more of the same and makes the survival of Hamas all the more likely.
Tehran has this administration’s number. It’s been badly compromised by Iranian agents who are inside our OODA loop and know how to snarl it and loop it back on itself so that nothing gets done.
Israel has to break free of this Mobius strip because Biden won’t.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Nolte: Joe Biden Risks Losing Support of Anti-Israel Moneymen Among Arab-Americans
His Fraudulency Joe Biden is losing support from Arab-American fundraisers because he is kind of standing by Israel in that country’s war against the Islamic terrorists in Hamas.
This story from the far-left Politico can only be read between the lines:
Biden is “facing anger from many Arab Americans, Muslims, and their progressive allies over what they see as an uneven response and failure to push for de-escalation,” Politico writes.
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Increasingly, they have amplified their warnings, telling Biden’s team that frustrations among Arab Americans and Muslims could hurt him in the presidential race next year. While those voters make up a small portion of the electorate, they can be a key bloc in tightly contested battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania. Exit polls show a clear majority of Muslims voted for Biden in 2020.
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“The voters are heartbroken. They don’t want to vote for Trump. But right now they’re asking themselves, ‘How can we vote for the other side given the refusal to call upon Israel to abide by a ceasefire and the continued rhetoric that we’re seeing here domestically?’” said Wa’el Alzayat, CEO of the Muslim advocacy group Emgage. “What I’m most concerned about is actually not whether they’re going to vote for Trump or not, but whether these voters are going to stay home.”
The “Palestinians” voted overwhelmingly to put Hamas in power. Hamas launched a savage attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 — something they were so proud of they live-streamed their atrocities. And a key part of Biden’s support in two swing states believes 1) this savagery was justified, and 2) Israel should shut up and accept 1,400 dead, tortured, raped, and desecrated civilians by agreeing to a cease-fire.
White, Arab, yellow, purple, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Satanists… I don’t care. Anyone who believes such things has no place in a decent society. They must be blacklisted, and those who are not citizens must be deported.
And who do these modern-day terrorist apologists in the Arab-American world support? Joe Biden. They support Democrats like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), who watched in real-time as Hamas unleashed horrors unseen since the Holocaust and would only comment on “what’s happening in the region.”
What happened on October 7 was something beyond an act of war against Israel, and moral clarity demands two things: 1) Hamas surrender unconditionally, and 2) if Hamas does not surrender unconditionally, Israel must make war against Hamas until it no longer has the capacity to hurt another Israeli civilian.
But that’s not what these monstrous Arab Americans want. They want Biden — who is already stalling Israel’s necessary ground invasion of Gaza — to take their position that Israel had it coming —which is what a cease-fire says and what it is meant to say.
A cease-fire would humiliate Israel, and right now, that’s precisely what Biden is aiming for. Why? Only to appease those who watched rapes, the decapitating of babies, mass murder, and the kidnapping of children and the elderly and then chose to side with the terrorists.
Biden is in a real political bind. Does he side against these terrorist-appeasing Arab-American moneymen, or does he risk alienating the Jewish-American community by siding with his terrorist-appeasing supporters?
This is what happens when you sell your political soul. When history demands you do the righteous and moral thing, you can’t because it’s too late. You’ve already dealt with the devil, and the devil always demands his due.
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Biden's 'TikTok Army' Uses Hamas-Affiliated Propaganda Outlet To Accuse Israel of 'Genocide'
Citing data from Quds News Network, Gen-Z for Change's Elise Joshi calls for 'Palestinian liberation'
The leader of a group once known as TikTok for Biden is signal boosting a report from a Hamas-affiliated Palestinian propaganda outlet to accuse Israel of "genocide" and call for a "Palestinian liberation."
Elise Joshi, who serves as executive director of the group now known as Gen-Z for Change—which has been dubbed the left's "TikTok army"—cited casualty figures from Palestinian rag Quds News Network to argue that Israel is committing "genocide." Those figures, Joshi argued, stress the need for young activists to "push the Biden administration … to stand for Palestinian liberation."
The Biden campaign during the 2020 election reached out to Joshi's group to form a partnership, which continued after President Joe Biden's inauguration. The Biden administration went on to tap Gen-Z for Change to host a YouTube town hall on the coronavirus vaccine alongside Anthony Fauci. Last year, meanwhile, Biden employed Gen-Z for Change to organize briefings between senior officials and social media "influencers" on the war in Ukraine and Biden's economic policies. Joshi, who has vowed to push "any progressive change, by any means," includes on her Instagram feed photos from the White House with Vice President Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D., Texas).
"I'm feeling hopeless, but we must do everything we can to push the Biden administration," Joshi said last week. "Call. Write. March. Our tax dollars are funding genocide. We have an obligation to stand for Palestinian liberation."
The link between the young TikTok influencer and the Biden administration reflects the octogenarian president's attempts to shore up support with young activists. While those attempts helped Biden defeat former president Donald Trump in 2020, they have also prompted political headaches as young progressives work to push Biden to the left. In addition to her amplification of Quds News Network—a Hamas-affiliated propaganda outlet that was removed from Facebook over its coverage of the terror group's assault on Israel—Joshi in July used her White House access to confront press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over Biden's decision to approve an oil project in Alaska.
Neither the White House nor Gen-Z for Change returned requests for comment.
In addition to her use of Quds News Network stats to rally support for a "Palestinian liberation," Joshi has called Israel a "widely recognized apartheid state," expressed her support for "Palestine and all anti-colonial movements," and labeled Gaza an "open air prison." Joshi on Tuesday, meanwhile, shared a post from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) that falsely claimed Israel bombed a Gaza hospital, killing "doctors" and "children." That post is no longer active on Joshi's account.
Joshi is not the only Gen-Z for Change leader to spew anti-Israel rhetoric following Hamas's terror attack on the Jewish state, which left more than 1,300 Israelis dead, including women and children.
The group's founder, Aidan Kohn-Murphy, shortly after the attack argued that those who support Israel's right to respond to Hamas terrorism are "calling for murder of innocent people." Kohn-Murphy on Sunday also accused Israel's supporters of "dehumanizing Palestinians, showing blatant disregard for Palestinian lives, and making excuses for the murder of Palestinian children." Gen-Z for Change's own Twitter account shared a video post condemning the "bombing of al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza" and calling for an "immediate ceasefire." That video did not mention that a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket caused the blast.
It's unclear how Joshi, who has written for Teen Vogue and boasts more than 160,000 TikTok followers, landed on Quds News Network as a trustworthy source of information on the war in Israel. The outlet, which the Australian Jewish Association has called a "notorious anti-Israel anti-Semitic propaganda platform affiliated with Hamas," does not hide the fact that it opposes Israel's right to exist and supports what it calls the "resistance."
"Our message is twofold," Quds News Network editor Ahmed Yousef said in a 2015 interview with the Associated Press. "Number one is to support the resistance. Second, expose the aggressive acts of the Israeli occupation."
"During this uprising we have to match the mood of the people," Yousef continued, referencing the wave of Palestinian terrorism seen at that time.
Since Hamas's attack, Quds News Network has defended the terror group from accusations that its terrorists raped women and beheaded babies. It has also promoted statements from Hamas in which the terror group called itself "a national liberation movement fighting on our occupied land against a hideous Zionist occupation" and stressed its goal to achieve "an independent state with full sovereignty and with Jerusalem as its capital."
When Meta, Facebook's parent company, removed Quds News Network, the rag accused the company of expressing a "standing alongside the Israeli occupation."
"We reject the persecution of Palestinian content, the prevailing bias, and standing alongside the Israeli occupation," Quds News Network said in a statement. "We call for a broad Arab and international campaign of solidarity with the Palestinian people to convey the Palestinian narrative amidst the human rights abuses carried out by the Israeli occupation."
Published under: Anti-Semitism , Gen Z , Hamas , Israel , Joe Biden , TikTok
Report: Muslim Voters in Swing State of Michigan Sour on Biden amid Israel War
Muslim voters in the swing state of Michigan have begun to turn on President Joe Biden amid his unwavering support of Israel following the horrific Hamas terrorist attack, which killed 1,400 Israelis, most of whom were civilians.
Michigan has one of the largest Muslim populations in the country, especially in Dearborn, a state that swung for Biden in 2020, but some leaders in the state have said they may not vote for him a second time around. Per NBC News:
Ahmad Ramadan, a former Biden adviser now leading coalition efforts for the Michigan Democratic Party, called the state party chair to raise the alarm about what he was hearing.
Michigan has one of the largest Muslim and Arab American populations in the country, and they say their support for Biden was instrumental to putting him over the top in the critical swing state in 2020. But now, Ramadan and other Democratic leaders in the state were hearing nothing but frustration with Biden — and threats to not vote for him again.
In a series of more than a dozen roundtable discussions with Muslim community leaders in the two weeks since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Ramadan said the main takeaway is that “people are very disappointed.” They say they “will not forget what President Biden did and why he lied to them,” he added.
Ramadan told the outlet he has been receiving calls from fellow Muslims lamenting their regret of ever voting Biden in 2020. Rep. Alabas Farhat (D-MI) said Biden has “single-handedly alienated almost every Arab-American and Muslim-American voter in Michigan.”
Farahat said he and several other Michigan Muslims have family trapped in Gaza, accusing Biden of abandoning them.
“The Biden administration and Democrats as a whole are going to have to do a lot of work to rebuild some level of trust with my community,” he said. “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”
People demonstrate in support of Palestinians, in Dearborn, Michigan, on October 14, 2023. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
Residents of Detroit and the Arab Community of Dearborn march in support of Palestinians on October 14, 2023 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)
Farahat said Muslims in the state are prepared to leave a blank space on the ballot in protest of Biden come voting day in 2024.
“That’s the plan right now,” Farhat said. “I think there’s going to be a lot of people that remember when you won Michigan years ago by a razor-thin margin, when you won Georgia with a razor-thin margin, when you won Arizona by a razor-thin margin — do not be surprised if there are consequences for your actions.”
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Congress Can End the Nonprofit Status of Pro-Hamas Groups
The IRS has allowed Pro-Hamas groups to benefit from tax-exempt status.
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“We give our heart, we give our life, we give our blood to the Palestinian people,” Manolo De Los Santos of The People’s Forum declared at a pro-Hamas rally in Manhattan. “Continue to resist. We stand with you. By any means necessary.”
“By any means,” the crowd chanted. A code phrase for violence and terrorism.
“We will use whatever we have in our hands,: De Los Santos continued. “A rock or something else. We will defend the Palestinian people.”
DeSantos had previously tweeted a celebratory Hamas video using paragliders and then armed terrorists attacking Israel with the message, “Long Live the Palestinian Resistance!”
In an official statement, The People’s Forum described the Hamas attacks that murdered over 1,000 Israeli civilians, the elderly, women and children, as an “unprecedented liberation struggle” by “Palestinian resistance factions”.
When it isn’t supporting the rape of women and the kidnapping of children, it’s promoting North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba, and celebrating the “hopes and aspirations of more than a million people who joined the American Communist Party.”
And The People’s Forum is also a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit approved by the IRS.
If the name sounds like a Chinese Communist front group, that’s because it’s funded by a Maoist millionaire named Neville Roy Singham who operates out of China and funds a network of organizations like The People’s Forum. Singham’s office faces “a red banner that reads, in Chinese, ‘Always Follow the Party.’ Resting on a shelf is a plate depicting Xi.”
Also there at the pro-Hamas rally in Manhattan was Nodutdol: a pro-North Korean organization demanding the “reunification” of Korea. South Korea has accused Nodutdol of being controlled by North Korea. The organization has claimed that North Korean defectors who risked their lives to escape are guilty of “imperialist propaganda” and that claims of atrocities are fictional. Despite that Nodutdol is embedded within the DSA and often takes part in pro-terrorist rallies.
On the same day as the Hamas attack, Nodutol tweeted “power to every Palestinian fighting for their freedom, and glory to every martyr who dies fighting. For every martyr that falls, a new one will rise.” Like The People’s Forum, Nodutol is a 501(c)(3) IRS approved tax-exempt charity.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center had previously profiled the IRS decision to continue providing tax-exempt status to the Alliance for Global Justice, a Marxist organization, which uses that status to sponsor Black Lives Matter chapters, the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition in support of a cop killer, as well as bail funds whose mission is freeing rioters and criminals.
Among the organizations AFGJ sponsors is the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network which was banned by Israel as a subsidiary of the PFLP terrorist organization.
Germany has announced that it’s also banning Samidoun as part of its crackdown on all Hamas activities in Germany. Despite that the IRS has yet to pull AFGJ’s tax-exempt status.
Samidoun responded to the Hamas attacks by promoting banners featuring “solidarity with Al Aqsa Flood”, the name of the Hamas operation, a rally calling for “solidarity with the heroic resistance”, and another one urging “let’s celebrate”.
Samidoun’s support for Hamas atrocities, including the kidnapping of Israeli women and children, was made clear in its Instagram post boasting that, “the resistance” is “seizing occupation settlers” and hailed the “resistance operation, titled the Al-Aqsa Flood by Mohammed Deif, commander in chief of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas”.
There is no ambiguity whatsoever about Samidoun’s support for even the worst crimes of Hamas. Despite that it continues to benefit from AFGJ’s tax-exempt status which allows its fiscal sponsor to take in money from George Soros, the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation, and others.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center also exposed the support for Hamas by chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. The national organization of Students for Justice in Palestine praised the Hamas attacks as a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance” and put out a ‘toolkit’ which explained that the Jewish victims were “not civilians” and could be freely targeted. Its poster for a ‘Day of Resistance’ featured an image of the paraglider that Hamas terrorists had used to massacre and rape young Israelis at a music festival.
Despite its support for terrorism, Students for Justice in Palestine enjoys nonprofit status.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a Marxist-Leninist group, which promotes pro-terror content through its Fight Back News, celebrated the Hamas attacks, including the attacks on civilian communities which it cheered as “Palestinians have taken over the armed settlements that surround Gaza.”
“The Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and so many others represent the aspirations of a free people, Palestinians who insist on the end to occupation. Freedom Road Socialist Organization rejects the notion that freedom fighters are terrorists. We are proud to stand with the resistance,” it concluded.
The Communist group is funded through the Lucy Parsons Center, a radical bookstore in New York City named after a Communist activist, which enjoys nonprofit status. also issued a statement to “celebrate Palestinian Resistance!”
These are only a few of the examples of IRS approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit groups or those funded by them celebrating Hamas atrocities. This is in clear violation of the tax code which bars such activities.
IRS regulations specifically state that “exempt purposes may generally be equated with the public good, and violations of law are the antithesis of the public good”. They clearly lay out that, “violation of constitutionally valid laws is inconsistent with exemption under IRC 501(c)(3)” and that “planned activities that violate laws are not in furtherance of a charitable purpose”.
But the IRS has refused to enforce the rules and regulations against Islamic terrorists.
When Lori Lowenthal Marcus, a journalist, applied for tax exempt status for her pro-Israel group, the IRS informed her that it “has to give special scrutiny to organizations connected to Israel.”
Lori Lowenthal Marcus told Front Page Magazine that, “One of the excuses given to Z Street by an IRS official was that the IRS had to make sure we were not ‘engaged in terrorism’ because we mentioned ‘terror’ in our mission statement. The part of Z Street’s mission that mentioned terror? ‘We will not engage with, negotiate with or appease terrorists.’”
Offered clear examples of organizations that actually support terror, the IRS has done nothing.
Congress however could change that by regulating nonprofit groups that support terrorism. Taxpayers should not be subsidizing terrorists and their propagandists. And the tax code on this matter should not consist of general guidelines, but clear and unbreakable laws.
The IRS has failed to act. Congress can hold the IRS and pro-Hamas nonprofits accountable.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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