Treat Campuses Like Terrorist Training Camps

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

A day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the 2026 Free Speech Rankings, a FIRE survey of 68,000 college students at 257 universities, was released and it revealed that 1 in 3 students believed that using violence to stop a speaker they disagreed with on campus was acceptable.

2% or 1,360 students believed that violence to stop speech they opposed was “always acceptable”. 13% found it “sometimes acceptable” so that over 10,000 students find violence against campus speakers acceptable some of the time. When combined with the 19% who say violence is rarely, but sometimes, acceptable, that’s over 23,000 college students who were willing to answer that using violence against speakers they disliked was a valid option.

Projecting and generalizing this large sample size to the much larger number of 18 million of college students across the country would translate into support for violently shutting down campus speakers by between 2.7 million and 6.1 million college students.

Another 54% or more than half, support blocking students from attending campus speeches they oppose, and 71% back shouting down speakers.

A majority of college students not only oppose free speech, but support intervening to stop it.

What kind of views do they support shutting down by any means necessary? 74% believe speakers who view transgenderism as a mental illness should 60% believe in blocking abortion opponents. 76% believe in banning anyone who says BLM is a hate group.

Charlie Kirk believed all of these things and was willing to come to campus and say it, challenging students to come and debate him, until the debate was ended finally and fatally.

He’s dead because 1 in 3 students support using violence to silence opposing speakers.

His killing though was not some aberration. It was not, no matter how much the media will try to portray it, the equivalent of John Hinckley shooting Reagan. One killing anywhere can be an aberration but generations of violence incubated by professors and deans on campus, some of whom openly admire terrorists and urge students to imitate them, is not random chance.

It’s a culture of terrorism that is now approaching its murderous apex.

A generation before Kirk’s murder, conservative speakers were already learning to avoid campuses. When David Horowitz toured college campuses, he faced harassment, threats, and attacks, forcing him to invest in expensive security. By the time a new generation of speakers like Ben Shapiro were coming to campuses, security expenses had skyrocketed and colleges routinely used the threat of violence by their own students to shut down conservative events.

The media attacked Horowitz, Kirk and other campus speakers as ‘provocateurs’ as if they were the ones bringing the violence to campus, rather than exposing the readiness of all too many college students to turn to violence in order to stop them from being heard by other students.

Ignoring this state of affairs led to a wave of assaults against faculty, not only conservatives, but liberals who dissented in some way from political dogma. And deans stood by and said nothing as college campuses became not only a political monoculture, but a radicalized one where professors were prevented from teaching their classes if they were targeted by leftists.

The next stage of campus radicalization were the Hamas encampments after Oct 7.

Now the assassination of Charlie Kirk is the next stage as campuses have grimly followed the course that they began during the counterculture movement a few generations ago as organizing centers, staging grounds and finally front lines in the leftist war on America.

Some have said that President Trump has been too hard on campuses like Harvard, Columbia and UCLA after the Hamas encampments. The sad truth is that he hasn’t been hard enough.

College campuses have become terrorist training camps and should be treated like them.

During the Civil Rights movement, certain parts of the country were treated as dangerous hateful places whose authorities were suspect and which required extensive monitoring. Unfortunately the parts of the country, college campuses, that needed that treatment, didn’t get it, resulting in a wave of violence, extremism and domestic terrorism that has become a multigenerational legacy as that generation of radicals has taught generations more.

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, it must end.

Colleges must be ‘deradicalized’ the way that Germany was ‘denazified’. There can be no more room for faculty or students who preach violence. And the militant defenses of even foreign nationals who rallied for Islamic terrorists on college campuses by universities, by the media and by top Democrats show how terrorism goes from the top down through the movement.

American taxpayers remain the primary funders of the college system. Mostly involuntarily. They’re funding a system that has failed, by every objective metric, at its stated goal of education, but succeeded brilliantly at its actual goal of radicalization and indoctrination.

The radicals who poisoned every soft science moved on to fatally taint any cultural field and have lately been rampaging through the sciences. The assaults on conservative speakers, beginning with David Horowitz, and climaxing in Charlie Kirk’s murder, show that this is not just politics, it’s terrorism and unless we deal with the campus, we will be dealing with a civil war.

The 2026 Free Speech Rankings show that it may already be too late for American academia.

But these may be the final years in which something may be salvaged from the cultural wreck before we really have to start treating Ivy League campuses like Jihadi camps in Afghanistan.

The radicals in control of college campuses have escalated from targeted harassment to terrorist encampments to murder. And worst of all, the majority of college students have been indoctrinated into supporting these crimes. If that is what the multi-trillion dollar edifice of higher education gets us, then as a country we may be better off without it.

In 1910, there were only 332,000 college students in the whole country. By 1931 there were a million, by the 1950s there were 2.5 million, by 1970 there were 8.5 million, by 1984 there were 12.5 million and we now approach 20 million. The question is are we better off for it?

The college boom was driven by the conviction that the bright shiny future required a top-ranked class of experts who could figure out everything for us. But instead college has become an elite overproduction factory churning out mediocre paper fillers even as the science and tech talent is increasingly coming from Asia.

Higher education is bad enough as a great ripoff that has saddled a generation of parents and children with endless debt, but worst of all, it’s become a training ground for tomorrow’s terrorists. Instead of treating colleges as the bright promise of tomorrow, treat them like the terrorist training camps they’ve become. End the violence and hold them accountable.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Concertgoers Cheer Muslim Terrorists Killing Them

By Daniel Greenfield, @ Sultan Knish Blog

On Nov 13, 2015, Muslim terrorists attacked a concert at the Bataclan theater in Paris, opening fire on the crowd while shouting, “Allah Akbar.” The Muslim attackers took 20 hostages, killed 90 concertgoers and left hundreds wounded. A year later the theater reopened under new ownership with ‘Insallah’ or ‘If Allah Wills” by Sting to support the Muslim migrants invading Europe. One of the members of the American band that had been playing during the attack was banned from attending the commemoration because he had been accused of ‘Islamophobia’.

A few years later, there was a Bataclan concert featuring a Muslim rappers supporting Jihad. After Oct 7, the Bataclan was filled with shouts of ‘Free Palestine’ at yet another Islamic concert.

By then Muslim terrorists had racked up multiple concert massacres at the Open Festival suicide bombing in Germany in 2016, the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 which killed 22 people, some of them children, and wounded over 1,000, the Nova festival massacre which killed nearly 400 people and the Moscow concert hall attack in 2024 that killed 145 people and wounded over 500.

Last year, Muslim terrorists plotted an attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.

Add nightclubs to the toll, and you have the Dolphinarium discotheque bombing in Israel by Hamas in 2001, which killed 21 people, most of them teens, the Pulse nightclub massacre which killed 49 people in Orlando in 2016 and the Istanbul nightclub shootings in 2017 that killed 39 people.

With over 800 concertgoers killed in Muslim terrorist attacks since 9/11, you might think that concertgoers would have some sense of vulnerability and outrage, but just the opposite. Concerts of the ‘trendier’ kind have become venues for celebrating Islamic terrorism. Not only wasn’t Bataclan going from a terrorist target to a terrorist rallying ground an exception, but Glastonbury with its terror flags and cries of support for Islamic terrorists is commonplace.

And while that sort of behavior is associated with expensive venues for trendy acts these days, a decade ago, New York’s Metropolitan Opera put on a production of The Death of Klinghoffer, justifying the Muslim terrorist killing of an elderly Jewish man in a wheelchair. Despite outrage and muted protests from the Jewish community, the show went on. The terrorist production is now due to open at Florence’s Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre next year.

No one sitting in their box seats in Florence or jumping up and down at $500 a pop concert venues in Europe ever considers that at any point the sounds of “Allah Akbar” and gunfire could pierce their world. The whole point of terrorist propaganda from Kneecap, Bob Vylan or The Death of Klinghoffer is to believe that the victims of terrorism have it coming. And that they can enjoy the spectacle from the comfort of the concert without terror ever touching them.

The music scene values what’s edgy and planting nails in the faces of children, as Muslim terrorists did in Manchester, people dangling from windows at the Bataclan or a bar full of bodies at Nova are certainly edgy. Enjoying the scenes of horror requires maintaining a sense of distance from the dead mediated by narratives that make them objects in a terrorist victory.

The purpose of terrorist propaganda is not just to demonize Israel, America, the UK or any other nation affected by Islamic terrorism, but to manufacture the illusion that the terrorists are members of the same ‘tribe’ as the half-naked white concertgoers bopping to their hate, that the ‘victories’ of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are their triumphs, and that their support for the cause somehow insulates them so that the bullets and bombs will never fly their way.

Indoctrination is also insulation. Even seeing people just like them bleed and die from Manchester to Nova to Bataclan, bodies falling from balconies, women being raped in the dirt, the wounded lying in the open and hoping the terrorists don’t realize they are still alive, doesn’t get through to them as they watch colorful flags with Arabic curlicues which translate into death wave overhead. At least not until the moment it happens to them. And maybe not even then.

The concertgoers who cheer for the Muslim terrorists murdering concertgoers somewhere else, in Israel, or at another place, like the Manchester Arena, or another time at the Bataclan, are a microcosm of members of a suicidal hipster left who dismantle public safety in the name of social justice, and won’t believe until the last second that the monsters can come for them.

They walk the streets of New York City, San Francisco or London after unleashing criminals and terrorists while feeling invulnerable behind their virtue signaling shielding. Surely the murderers, terrorists and the rapists who were only victims of an unjust system won’t harm them too.

Surely destroying America, Canada, Israel, England and all of Europe and turning their cities over to mobs, monsters and killers will make the world a better place and the cafes will stay open, the concerts will go on and the only ones who will die will be the bad people. Not them.

“Violence is a construct,” Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Democrat Muslim mayoral nominee, said. Personal liberty, the nation state, bodily integrity and nearly everything else are constructs too. Through the fog of academic theories detached from daily realities, everything becomes an unreal theory, but when the shooting starts and the bombs go off, constructs have a way of becoming blindingly painful realities and life boils down to fight or flight imperatives.

“We are here to kill you,” the Bataclan Muslim terrorists said to their victims. That was a truth that clears away all the talk of constructs, the academic lenses and the distancing of pop culture propaganda that makes concertgoers cheer for those who kill other concertgoers elsewhere.

The undergrown men and women cheering for Islamic terrorism at Glastonbury and at other concert venues might be the ones running for cover and slipping in their own blood on the next leg of the festival tour once they realize that Muslim terrorists really are here to kill them too.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

We Don't Need To Welcome In People Who Hate Us

June 02, 2025 Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

Yesterday in Boulder, Colorado, a perpetrator sprayed a flammable liquid on a group of mostly elderly Jews protesting the continued holding of hostages in Gaza. Then he threw Molotov cocktails to set several of the demonstrators on fire. The New York Post reports here that 8 were injured, ranging in age from 52 to 88 years old. Police arrested a man named named Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who was caught on video committing the acts. Oh, and also shouting slogans, including “They are killers! How many children you killed?” and “End Zionists.”

It quickly emerged that Soliman was an Egyptian illegally in the country. He had originally entered legally in 2022 on a tourist visa, but then overstayed. In 2023 he was granted a permit to work in the U.S. by the Biden administration. That expired in March 2025, after which he stayed on illegally.

Which raises the question, why was Soliman in the country in the first place, or granted permission to stay and work, or not thrown out when the permission expired? Whatever you might think about the illegal immigration situation, why on earth do we welcome into the country people who hate us? Did anybody vet this guy, even a little?

Add Soliman to a long list of Middle Easterners in the U.S. at the grace of the government who make no secret of their hatred of the U.S. and of Israel. And who are only too happy to lead groups in acts of trespass, vandalism, and violence. To refresh you on some of the names and roles, here is a May 15 piece from Al-Jazeera with a brief list of some of the most prominent:

Mohsen Mahdawi, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri are among the students targeted by US President Donald Trump.

These four are all student leaders of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and pro-BDS movements at elite university campuses — Mahdawi and Khalil at Columbia, Ozturk at Tufts, and Suri at Georgetown.

Consider Khalil. Al-Jazeera identifies him as the “lead negotiator” for the group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Isn’t “lead negotiator” the same thing as head of the group? Looking around, I can’t find the name of anyone else owning up to being the leader of this group, and it looks to me like calling himself “lead negotiator” is a thinly-veiled way to preserve some kind of argument that he can avoid responsibility for acts of violence and vandalism carried out by the group.

What has CUAD been up to this past year or so? Read articles about the mayhem at Columbia since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacres, and you find CUAD intimately involved in all of it. For example, there was the statement put out by CUAD on the one-year anniversary of the massacre, as reported in the New York Times of October 9, 2024:

“We support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance,” the group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest . . . . The group marked the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by distributing a newspaper with a headline that used Hamas’s name for it: “One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood, Revolution Until Victory,” it read, over a picture of Hamas fighters breaching the security fence to Israel. And the group posted an essay calling the attack a “moral, military and political victory” and quoting Ismail Haniyeh, the assassinated former political leader of Hamas.

In January 2025, as reported here in the Columbia Spectator, a Columbia building called Kravis Hall, housing the business school, was vandalized by protesters pouring a cement-like substance down multiple toilets all over the building. Somebody just happened to record an anonymous video of the vandalism, which then got posted on the Instagram accounts of CUAD and another group called New York City resists. Text accompanying the Instagram post described the vandalism as some kind of righteous response to actions of the Israeli military in Gaza.

Or, just a few weeks ago, in early May, protesters occupied Columbia’s main library in the middle of exam time. Here is a May 8 report in Time Magazine. Excerpt:

A Substack post that appeared to be from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student groups supporting the Palestinian cause, said the protesters “renamed” the library the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University” after a Palestinian activist and writer who died in 2017. “The flood shows that as long as Columbia funds and profits from imperialist violence, the people will continue to disrupt Columbia’s profits and legitimacy,” the Substack post added, also reiterating calls for the University to divest from companies with business links to Israel.

Time reports that several Columbia public safety officers were injured attempting to restore order.

These are just examples of numerous disruptive and violent activities at Columbia in which CUAD appears to be intimately involved.

According to the Al-Jazeera piece, Mr. Khalil was granted a green card at some point. I can’t imagine why. Now that the Trump administration is seeking to revoke that and deport Mr. Khalil, his attorneys are spinning the situation as an issue of “free speech.”

I disagree. American citizens are completely entitled to express views that are anti-Israel, anti-semitic, and pro-Hamas (short of the First Amendment limit, which is something like immediate incitement to violence). They are entitled to hate the United States, and to say so. But there is no reason that we must be required to invite foreigners and aliens who express such views into the United States.

The individuals listed in the Al-Jazeera article are people who are here on visas, and who have expressed their hatred of the United States, and whom the Trump administration now wants to deport. Multiple judges have stayed the deportations, at least until the cases are fully heard. Ultimately, I don’t think this is a close issue. The United States is under no obligation to welcome into the country people who hate us. It is high time that applicants for visas of any type get thoroughly vetted for anti-U.S. views.

The U.S. Sent Over $3 Billion to Hezbollah’s ‘Army’

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

In 2006, after a Hezbollah invasion, Israel launched a military campaign against the Islamic terrorist group. After a month of fighting, the Bush administration forced a ceasefire under UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that required the disarmament of Hezbollah and its replacement by the Lebanese Army and a United Nations ‘peacekeeping’ force.

How can Hezbollah claim victory, President George W. Bush wondered, when they were “going to be replaced by a Lebanese Army and an international force?”

The answer was quite obvious. The Lebanese Army and UNIFIL didn’t replace Hezbollah, they were co-opted by it. And nearly two decades later, Hezbollah had far more firepower and attempted to launch its own version of Oct 7 until Israel neutered it with its pager operation.

And then the Biden administration negotiated another ‘ceasefire’ under which Hezbollah is supposed to be replaced by the Lebanese Army and a UN peacekeeping force. Just like Hezbollah, the LAF and UNIFIL were supposed to have done 18 years ago. But didn’t.

To disarm Hezbollah, the Lebanese Army would need permission from a cabinet that includes Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is not likely to authorize a government it controls to disarm it.

Hezbollah spokesman Mohammad Afif responded by bragging that no one would be “able to sever the connection between the army” and the terror group which is “strong and solid and will remain so.” Sizable portions of the Lebanese Armed Forces are loyal to Hezbollah including officers trained by Hezbollah or in Syria so that by funding LAF, we’re funding Hezbollah.

And the United States not only made the mistake of falling for the same failed policy again, but since 2006, Americans have provided over $3 billion to the Lebanese Armed Forces.

That money was not used to disarm or replace Hezbollah. It was not used to bring peace to the region. Even the LAF and Hezbollah campaign against ISIS in 2017 ended with a ceasefire agreement between the Sunni and Shiite Islamic terror groups while the LAF looked away.

And the United States had to fight the ISIS terrorists because the LAF and Hezbollah wouldn’t.

During the same period in which the U.S. poured over $3 billion into the LAF, Hezbollah’s arsenal rose from 15,000 rockets to over 150,000. The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated that Hezbollah had “dramatically improved its military since 2006” and while much of that assistance had come from Iran, it is all too likely that American military training and weapons provided to the LAF also ended up directly or indirectly benefiting Hezbollah.

Israel’s 2024 conflict with Hezbollah conclusively demonstrated that UN Resolution 1701, the LAF and UNIFIL not only did not disarm the Islamic terror group, but covered up for it. Despite that, the Biden administration turned around and forced a nearly identical agreement on Israel.

What had not worked for the last 18 years was somehow going to work this time around.

After over $3 billion which did nothing but prop up Hezbollah’s front army, the Biden administration pulled money from military aid to Israel and diverted it to the LAF, reprogramming $95 million in security assistance from Egypt and $7.5 million in security aid to Israel to the LAF.

Last year, Rep. Greg Steube introduced the PAGER Act (Preventing Armed Groups from Engaging in Radicalism) to stop “sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to Lebanon when they are complicit in empowering a terrorist organization whose primary mission is to destroy America and Israel.”

“For two years I filed an amendment to the annual State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations bill to eliminate funding to the Lebanese Armed Forces, as the money goes to Hezbollah. Republicans and Democrats continue to vote it down,” Rep. Steube complained.

The State Department has spent nearly two decades selling the myth that empowering the LAF will weaken Hezbollah, but after $3 billion in spending, Hezbollah is more powerful than ever, while American taxpayers are stuck with financing its auxiliary force in the hopes of defeating it.

Hezbollah won’t disarm, nor will the LAF disarm it or prevent it from attacking Israel, because Lebanon’s entire balance of power depends on aiming Hezbollah’s weapons at Israel.

Under the 1989 Taif agreement, all of Lebanon’s militias were supposed to disarm and cede power to the LAF. That’s the basis for UN Resolution 1701 and the latest ceasefire deal. Hezbollah’s basis for an exemption from the Taif agreement is its campaign against Israel. By waging war against Israel, Hezbollah secures its legal right to run a separate army.

If Hezbollah really stopped attacking Israel or if the Lebanese government secured the border, Hezbollah would lose its legal basis for having an army. Then either the Lebanese government would have to disarm Hezbollah or admit that the Taif agreement was a charade that turned over Lebanon to Hezbollah, and to its backers in Tehran. And Hezbollah would have to admit that the real purpose of its military is to dominate Lebanon’s Christians for the Shiites.

Everyone in Lebanon knows all of these things are true, but no one can say them out loud.

Allowing Hezbollah to control the border and attack Israel is the price for keeping the Hezbollah puppet regime in power in Beirut. It allows the various players in the government, including Hezbollah and its Christian Dhimmi puppets, to pretend that Hezbollah doesn’t rule Lebanon.

Actually disarming Hezbollah would lead to another civil war. One that without Israeli military intervention, the terrorist group would win, and that would officially turn Lebanon into another Iran, Syria or Iraq: a nation ruled by Shiite clerics and their terrorist militias. Eventually that day will come, but maintaining the illusion that Hezbollah is an anti-Israel “resistance” movement allows the other factions to delay the moment of truth for a few more years.

Regular wars with Israel are part of the price that they pay for this arrangement.

The $3 billion dollars that America squandered on the LAF, like the even larger sums wasted on arming and training the Iraqi military, didn’t counter Shiite Islamic rule, it enabled it.

Rep. Steube’s PAGER Act would cut off further funds to the LAF until the “Lebanese Armed Forces ceases coordination and support with Hezbollah” and the “Lebanese Armed Forces cease coordination and support with Iran”.

If the LAF is really a counterweight to Hezbollah, then why oppose the bill?

The only reason for opposing the PAGER Act is because the politicians know quite well that the LAF coordinates with Hezbollah, and are content to keep sending money based on the promise that if we arm the Lebanese military enough, it will one day be ready to take on Hezbollah.

That day has not come for 18 years. It will not come. Ever.

The LAF is perpetually short of money, renting out its helicopters for sightseeing tours and delaying payments to soldiers, forcing us to step in and write more checks, because it’s a corrupt organization of toy soldiers who do almost no actual fighting, and are there to shield the terrorists. Lebanon’s government is a Hezbollah puppet regime. The LAF is a puppet army.

It’s time to take away the shield, the excuses and stop sending more money to terrorists. Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. 

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USAID Sent $9.3B to Islamic Terror States That Killed 3,000 American Soldiers

And over $18 billion to Islamic terrorist 

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

“It is really, really a sad day in America,” Rep. Ilhan Omar declared at a rally protesting the reconstruction of USAID.

It wasn’t a sad day for America, but it was so for Somalia.

Over the last two years, USAID doled out $2.3 billion in “humanitarian assistance” to Omar’s native Somalia. Last year it reported a request for $1.6 billion in aid and even in December 2024, with the Biden administration on the way out the door, it sent an additional $29 million.

USAID support for Somalia had doubled under the Biden administration and with $3.3 billion from USAID allocated in the last 5 years. the threatened withdrawal of funding must have been a painful blow for Omar, who is very close to the Somali regime. Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire had stated “the interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people and Somalia.”

Somalia, along with other Islamic terrorist entities, including the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza, were among the top beneficiaries of USAID cash.

USAID sent $2.1 billion to Gaza and the West Bank since the Hamas attacks of Oct 7. In 2024 alone, $917 million was programmed for the terrorist areas occupying Israel.

USAID provided over $3.7 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over with $832 million in the previous fiscal year alone. The money was so unaccountable that USAID refused to cooperate with SIGAR: the government watchdog tracking spending in Afghanistan intent on blocking money from aiding terrorists.

Even while the United States of America was at war with the Houthis, the Islamic terrorist group firing on US Navy vessels out of Yemen, USAID continued to direct billions of dollars to Yemen. In 2024, USAID announced a $2.7 billion aid request for Yemen and allocated $753 million. Over the last 5 years, it doled out $3.4 billion.

Other Islamic terrorist states that have heavily drawn on USAID include Pakistan which harbored Osama bin Laden, but benefited from $600 million in the last 5 years. While some American towns and cities lacked clean drinking water, USAID labored to build plants for Pakistan’s majority Muslim population even while it engaged in the persecution of Christians.

USAID spent over $700 million on Iraq during the last 5 years even though the country has long since been governed by Iranian puppets whose militias have been firing on American soldiers.

$3.4 billion was directed to Syria over the past 5 years by USAID even as it was caught in a civil war between Shiite Islamists aligned with Iran and Sunni Islamists aligned with Al Qaeda.

USAID allocated $1.1 billion to spend on Lebanon even as the country was run by Hezbollah.

While USAID is unable to function in Iran, between Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, over $8 billion was sent to Iranian puppet regimes aligned with terrorism.

USAID had spent some $18.5 billion on Islamic terror states over those 5 years.

This is not a full list of USAID spending in Muslim countries, but only those countries whose governments are closely interlinked with terrorists, sponsor terrorist groups or serve as puppets of terror groups and states. Some of these countries are actively in conflict with the U.S. They include countries responsible for the murder of American soldiers and terror attacks in America.

USAID has sent $9.3 billion to Islamic terror states collectively responsible for killing over 3,000 American soldiers. Not only did Islamic terrorist states and groups kill us, but in the ultimate obscenity, we have rewarded them with millions of dollars for each of our murdered soldiers.

The reconstruction of USAID under the full umbrella of the State Department rather than as a ‘super-NGO’ advancing anti-American interests across the globe has been met with outrage by critics claiming that foreign aid advances our national security.

But is sending $18 billion to Islamic terror states really helping our national security.

USAID has provided massive amounts of funding for the UN and NGO ‘non-profits’ which operate inside terrorist areas with little to no oversight. Special exemptions have been handed out to allow distributors of ‘humanitarian aid’ to partner with and do business with terrorists.

Including some of the Islamic terrorist groups that America is still at war with.

USAID’s partnerships with foreign governments, and with large unaccountable organizations including the UN and the World Bank, have raised concerns of money laundering. The revolving door between USAID personnel and some of the non-profit and for-profit groups who all profit from it has also raised questions about the legitimacy of those arrangements. And USAID’s active efforts to deny information about its activities to SIGAR, the U.S. government’s Afghan war watchdog, as well as to the incoming Trump administration, makes it a rogue agency.

It may never be fully known how much of our foreign aid went into the pockets of Islamic terrorists, but the USAID freeze and consolidation under the State Department can help make sure that the aid pipeline stops being a way to fund the Islamic terrorists killing Americans.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

Dead Girls, Islamic Terror and Government Crackdown

Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

On August 8, Bernadette Spofforth, a 55-year-old British Twitter user, was dragged out of her home, arrested and held for 36 hours for posting that the murderer of 3 girls in Southport was a Muslim terrorist. The charge she was held under was “posting inaccurate information”.

Bernadette was one of thousands of people arrested in a massive crackdown by the Starmer government aimed at suppressing political dissent over its open borders migrant policies.

After Axel Rudakubana, a Muslim terrorist, entered a children’s Taylor Swift dance workshop and stabbed 11 little girls, killing 3 of them, British authorities declared an emergency. The emergency was not the latest act of horrifying Muslim terrorism targeting local children.

It was that some of its citizens had noticed the latest Muslim terror attack and were outraged.

These included the the Dublin stabbing of children outside a Catholic school by Riad Bouchaker, an Algerian Muslim or the Manchester Arena bombing at an Arianna Grande concert by the Muslim Abedi family which wounded over 1,000 people and killed 22 people, many of them children, forming a consistent pattern of Muslim child killing.

The Southport stabbing at a Taylor Swift dance workshop fit the pattern. So did the immediate torrent of media disinformation accompanied by police threats and government crackdowns.

British authorities, which usually make a point of withholding the names of Muslim terrorists for as long as possible, released Axel Rudakubana’s name even though he was underage. Axel’s name and his Rwandan background were used to mislead the public into believing he was not a Muslim. In reality, the authorities knew he was a Muslim convert and did not reveal that.

Instead the authorities began arresting people for describing the stabbings as a Muslim terrorist attack. Media outlets, including Sky News, conducted ‘analyses’ of ‘misinformation’ denouncing trending hashtags like “Southport Muslim”. PM Starmer demanded an immediate crackdown on such ‘misinformation’ as posing a threat to public safety and the justice system.

While the Starmer government and British authorities had tolerated and continued to tolerate widespread Muslim terrorist rallies calling for the murder of Jews at which the flags of known terrorist organizations are waved, they declared an emergency over open borders protests.

Dystopian scenes were televised of police raiding people’s homes for “spreading misinformation”. Over 1,000 people were arrested for protesting and speaking their minds. In the same nation where police stood by while Muslim waved Hamas flags, shouting “who the f___ is Allah” earned a 61-year-old British man over a year in prison for opposing open borders.

This was in sharp contrast to the soft treatment meted out to Muslim terrorists like Mohisnath Chowdhury, who had attacked police officers with a sword outside Buckingham Palace while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and spent only a year in prison, before being released, and then arrested yet again for another terrorist plot targeting British people and tourists in London.

Much as in Dublin, the emergency was not a brutal attack on little girls, but criticism of Islam.

Even as PM Starmer demanded censorship of ‘misinformation’ and Justice Minister Shabana Mahmood, a Pakistani Muslim with her own extremist views, unleashed a ruthless crackdown on the British people, the regime was undoubtedly aware of the truth about the terrorist.

After denying that Axel Rudakubana was a Muslim terrorist and arresting people for saying that he was, the police have finally admitted that he possessed an Al Qaeda manual titled ‘Military Studies in the Jihad’ and, like a number of previous Al Qaeda terrorists, had been making Ricin in an attempt to produce a biological weapon.

“You may have seen speculation online that the police are deciding to keep things from the public. This is certainly not the case,” Chief Constable Serena Kennedy claimed of the new charges. “At this time, Counter Terrorism Policing has not declared the attack on Monday 29 July a terrorist incident. I recognise that the new charges, may lead to speculation… for a matter to be declared a terrorist incident, motivation would need to be established. We would strongly advise caution against anyone speculating as to motivation in this case.”

It took the police nearly four months to reveal that the Muslim terrorist possessed an Al Qaeda manual, but the authorities are still denying that he stabbed the little girls in the name of Islam. The authorities deem this to be “transparent” and continue to warn the public about “speculating” about the motive of a Muslim terrorist who was getting his ideas from Al Qaeda.

“Don’t engage in rumour and speculation and don’t believe everything you read on social media,” Kennedy insisted.

Social media is unreliable, but the authorities are more so. Social media may have gotten the name wrong, but it got the essential truth of the story right. And social media does not engage in sustained cover-ups or break down your door to arrest you to protect those cover-ups.

In “early August”, the authorities had turned up the Ricin. The Al Qaeda file probably came up even earlier. While the authorities were arresting people for describing Axel as a Muslim terrorist and warning about the dangers of misinformation, they were well aware of what he actually was.

Was the media aware of the truth even while it was warning about “misinformation”? Likely so.

Over the course of the ruthless government crackdown that followed, the media became the main source of ‘disinformation’, falsely claiming that Axel was not a Muslim, demanding urgent censorship and arrests of anyone who told the truth, and even attributing it to Russia.

All of these were not only lies, but calculated lies used to aid a government cover-up.

Few media platforms, even the more prestigious and conservative ones, have corrected their false claims that Axel was not Muslim. For example, the Financial Times continues to falsely claim that Axel “is not Muslim” even as it urges greater censorship. The FT quoted a professor employed by the Islamic terrorist state of Qatar, to bolster its claims about ‘misinformation’.

Nor is the crackdown by the Starmer government over. The same British establishment which has made few arrests in a year of Hamas riots has announced that months later, “inquiries continue regarding 216 wanted people whom the police are actively seeking to arrest” in the protests against the Islamic terrorist killings of British little girls.

But if there are to be arrests for ‘misinformation’, they should begin with PM Starmer, the authorities and the media which spent months lying to the public and using those lies to justify a crackdown, political persecution, arrests, and the chilling of free speech and protest in the UK.

The Southport crackdown was one of the ugliest periods in British history in this century. And it was all based on a government lie. There must be a reckoning for the illegal arrests, the warnings by police to social media users and the lies spread by the political establishment.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

Meet Kamala’s Palestinian Best Friend Who Changed Her Mind on Israel

By Daniel Greenfield  @ Sultan Knish Blog 

“I say this as someone who’s known her since 1997: She’s trying,” Hala Hijazi assured a panel at an anti-Israel DNC event that once she was president, Kamala would crack down on Israel.

Hijazi, a Jordanian immigrant who has roots in Gaza, is close to Kamala and they both came up through the ranks together. The Muslim official and fundraiser had worked as a special assistant to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown whom she described as a “mentor”.

Hala Hijazi was there for all of Kamala’s races, raising money for her Senate campaign, promoting an event co-hosted by Willie Brown, and promising that one day Kamala would be in the White House. And she can be seen posing in 2004 at the Bimbo’s club with Kamala, who had just begun her political career as San Francisco’s DA, and Obama, running for Senate.

After obtaining American citizenship in 1994, the Muslim immigrant quickly began climbing the political ladder, working for Willie Brown, becoming a ‘human rights’ commissioner, and getting to know everyone in Democratic politics. Hijazi’s social media feed is decorated with photos of her posing with Bill Clinton, Hillary, Pelosi, the Obamas, and above all else, Kamala.

“I’ve raised over $12 million for the Democratic Party,” Hijazi boasted at the anti-Israel panel.

Along the way, Hijazi visited Saudi Arabia by invitation of the royal family, advocated for the Iran Deal, which allowed the Islamic terrorist state to develop its ballistic missile and nuclear program, and condemned efforts to stop Muslim terrorists from coming to America.

And repeatedly denounced the Jewish State. A 2012 Free Beacon article by Adam Kredo profiled Hijazi as an “Obama bundler”, while noting her frequent attacks on Israel.

In old letters to the editor in 2009 when Hamas first attempted to use tunnels to invade Israel, Hijazi, who described herself as a “Muslim Palestinian-American”, claimed that the blockade of Hamas lacked “any moral justification and humanity” and denounced Israel for “destroying places of worship and education.” She had claimed elsewhere that for the Israeli government, “one death of an Israeli soldier equals a thousand Palestinian children.”

After the Hamas massacres of Oct 7, Hijazi relaunched her activism, claiming shortly afterward that 40 members of her family had been killed by Israeli bombing campaigns against Hamas. At the DNC, Hijazi claimed that over 100 members of her family had been killed in the fighting. She provided no further details, but did hold up a photo of a military age man.

A recent report by the Israeli N12 channel revealed that a Hamas official had privately admitted that 80% of the Arab Muslim settlers killed in the Gaza campaign were Hamas members or their families. It’s unknown who Hijazi’s family members are or what their relationship to Hamas may be, but they lived in which Gaza City was a stronghold of Hamas and, if true, the high death toll among her family members would raise the possibility of their links to Islamic terrorist groups.

The Hijazis are a prominent family in Gaza City and their members include Nizar Hijazi: the Hamas appointed mayor. Hijazi is a relatively common name, but a number of Hamas figures, including former commanders Hisham Hijazi, Muwaman Hijazi and Akram Hijazi, shared it.

It’s unknown if any of them are related to Hala Hijazi.

Al Jazeera, the state media arm of Qatar, a sponsor of Hamas, claimed that 141 people from the Hijazi family had died in the fighting. Reports out of Gaza claim that multiple airstrikes hit members of the Hijazi family, not only in Gaza City, but in Rafah and elsewhere. These repeated incidents are unlikely to be a coincidence which raises the distinct possibility that someone close to a presidential candidate is from a Hamas family.

Members of Hala’s family in America engaged in anti-Israel activism including what appears to be her sister who headed a chapter of the Hamas-linked American Muslims for Jerusalem. Hamas terrorists with the last name Hijazi have been fighting Israel going back decades and while it is a common last name, Arab societies are defined by such large interrelated families.

No one in the media was however interested in following up.

Hala Hijazi’s claims quickly made their way to her friend Kamala who took the lead in pulling the Biden-Harris administration away from Israel. In Dubai, Kamala broke with the initial pro-Israel position, complaining that “too many innocent Palestinians have been killed” and set limits on what Israel could do against Hamas.

Her source for this was Hijazi.

On November 2, Kamala Harris told members of the British press that, “I have a friend, who I talked with recently, who has family in Gaza and has lost a number of the members of her family — innocent civilians.” Politico described this as “Harris has suggested that conversations with friends have influenced her thinking about the war.” Either way it was clear that Hijazi was influencing her friend even in the initial weeks of Israel’s response to the Oct 7 attacks.

Hijazi, who had bragged of becoming “a trusted source” for politicians, was succeeding in moving her old friend of over two decades into the anti-Israel camp.

Halal Hijazi has been reluctant to discuss Islamic terrorism or the actual causes of the war. She claims to be an interfaith activist and a “moderate”, but she can also be found moderating an event at the Islamist Zaytuna College in 2019 with Hamza Yusuf and Salam Al-Marayati.

Yusuf, a founder of Zaytuna, had described Judaism as a “most racist religion” and at a cop-killer benefit two days before 9/11 warned that “this country is facing a very terrible fate.”

“I am a citizen of this country not by choice but by birth. I reside in this country not by choice but by conviction in attempting to spread the message of Islam in this country. I became Muslim in part because I did not believe the false gods of this society, whether we call them Jesus or democracy or the Bill of Rights,” Yusuf had admitted.

Salam Al-Marayati had defended Hamas and Hezbollah, and individual terrorists and claimed that Israel was behind 9/11. Among the terrorist attacks he defended was the Hezbollah bombing of the Marine Barracks which killed over 200 American military members.

Marayati had analogized Islamic terrorists to “American freedom fighters hundreds of years ago [who] were also regarded as terrorists by the British.”

Other Zaytuna College faculty include Hatem Bazian, a founder of the anti-Israel campus movement, who targeted Jews during his career, spewed antisemitic hate, described Jewish history as imaginary, and fundraised for a Hamas-linked charity. Bazian had co-founded Students for Justice in Palestine whose chapters have celebrated the Oct 7 attacks.

At the anti-Israel DNC panel, Hijazi claimed that, “I’m a long time Democrat, moderate Democrat”, but there was nothing moderate about her ties to Zaytuna and Yusuf.

Hala Hijazi joined a podcast with Hamza Yusuf to discuss “The Hundred Years War on Palestine”. Yusuf described Hijazi as a “dear friend and her father was a dear friend and they’re from Gaza”.

“She’s been just advocating for decades now, at least a few decades, and has worked in the Democratic Party in particular. But I think she really understands the ins and outs of how this system works,” Yusuf said.

Hijazi described herself as being part of a family that had “been in Gaza for generations”, claimed that she had “been doing this work for 25 years” and laid out her philosophy that America as “this country is built on two numbers, number of votes and numbers of dollars raised.”

Hijazi’s career certainly appears to have been built on that cynical premise.

“It’s a critical time in our country’s history to show our power,” Hijazi urged and then laid out a plan to build up Muslim power over Americans.

The Obama and Biden bundler advised Muslims to start at the bottom, focus on school board races “because they end up running for mayor, assembly and state senate.”

Muslim parents should consider getting “our little children to start thinking about being a journalist or working for the government” to create a pipeline for anti-Israel PR.

Hijazi strategically told Muslims to start befriending non-Muslims, blacks and Latinos to cultivate allies because “this is where we are at a disadvantage where the other folks, that’s what they’re doing. This is where we are at a disadvantage, where the other folks that’s what they’re doing. They’re everywhere. And they look like they’re the hospitable ones and the righteous ones.”

Who are the “other folks”? Presumably the Jews.

In more strategic benevolence, Hijazi told Muslims to start doing “philanthropy”. Research had shown, she claimed, that the Jewish and Muslim communities “were the most giving and generous communities in this country. And the problem with us is that we’re mostly giving it to Muslims organizations and mosques. And to Muslim causes. But we also need to start showing our power and our strength by giving money also elsewhere so that we can cultivate those relationships. And again, all this is political, like again, everything we’re doing is political.”

Charity was the most political of all.

“We need to start doing more with the American Red Cross or the American Cancer Society. You guys say, well that’s not politics, but it is. This is where a lot of these major sponsors, fundraisers and donors to buildings and to City Hall and to politicians are also the chairs of these organizations.”

This may shed some light on why Hijazi is on the board of directors of the American Red Cross in Northern California.

Building political power, Hijazi explained, was about building relationships that could suppress criticism of the Hamas mobs.

“In San Francisco, we have regular meetings with the District Attorney’s office, we have regular meetings with the police chief, we have regular meetings with the FBI, we have regular meetings with the Attorney General. So when someone like me sees a crazy post by an elected official, I can call them on their cell phone and say, ‘Hey, do you understand that either you or your staff just tweeted something racist, Islamophobic’, and calling our protesters pro-Hamas protesters is an abomination to anything democratic.”

Denouncing the Hamas mobs in the streets was an example of the kind of thing that Hijazi and her allies could get politicians to suppress.

“Whether it started on October 7 or starting tomorrow, you guys need to start now,” she urged Muslims.

“They,” she said, meaning the Jews, “they have an ADL, and AIPAC and JCRC”.

Muslims needed to build up their power over American cultural and political life.

But Hala Hijazi’s closeness to Kamala Harris raises questions not only for Jews but for all Americans. The Muslim bundler had fumed over the Trump administration’s efforts to keep Muslim terrorists out of America, and furiously denounced a minority of patriotic Democrats who had voted for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act that required vetting Syrians and Iraqis for terror ties before allowing them to penetrate the United States of America.

What sort of influence would Hijazi’s friend exercise over a Kamala Harris administration? And how many Americans and Jews will die because of it just as they are dying now in Israel?

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.Thank you for reading. 

 

Kamala, Antifa, Pedophiles and Terrorists Share Platform

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

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 During the 2020 election, the DNC announced a partnership with the Action Network, a leftist nonprofit, aimed at raising money to “elect Democrats up and down the ballot”.

Now the Action Network is boasting that “in the first 24 hours after President Biden endorsed Vice President Harris, organizations raised over $70 million using Action Network.”

“Action Network has been foundational to the DNC’s fundraising and organizing success over the years,” a DNC official gushed.

Action Network was also crucial to the fundraising of Antifa.

Going by the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund on the Action Network, the mostly peaceful but also mostly violent street riot group was fundraising with a banner carrying the black and red Antifa logo and a sign demanding “Free All Antifa Prisoners”.

The Anti-Fascist Defence Fund was using the DNC partner group to raise money for, among other matters, “replacing damaged/stolen property” and “antifa prisoner support”. The Antifa fund claimed to have raised $250,000 and disbursed it to “more than 760 antifascists in 26 different countries.” Based on its chart, which was posted on Action Network, around $40,000 had been raised in 2023-2024.

Where is that money going?

One of the beneficiaries of the Antifa fund on Action Network was Daniel Baker, a Florida anarchist who was locked up after posting a “Call to Arms” urging a confrontation with conservatives in which Antifa would “encircle” the State Capitol and “drive them out with every caliber available.”

Despite the recent Trump assassination attempt, the Action Network has taken no action.

Since Freedom Center Investigates reported last year on the dual use of Action Network by the DNC and Antifa, Democrats have not stopped using it for fundraising purposes and Action Network has taken no steps to remove extremist and terrorist groups from its platform.

And now the Kamala Harris campaign has collected $70 million and maintains its own page on a platform used by Antifa and domestic and international terrorist organizations.

In addition to Antifa, the Action Network is being utilized by Samidoun, designated by Israel as a front group for the PFLP, which fundraises and works on behalf of terrorists. Action Network also allows a variety of pro-PFLP propaganda on the site. That includes the Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America fundraising for their Palestinian Liberation Political Education Series which features materials from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a murderous terrorist organization responsible for killing Jews, Americans and Israelis, which the DSA describes as “the most important Palestinian socialist resistance organization.”

Also advertised on Action Network was an event by the East Bay DSA titled “Putting Hamas In Context” offering a “discussion on primary texts related to October 7th and Hamas, for a discussion on the history of Palestinian resistance of the zionist occupation.”

Action Network hosted a petition complaining about the “racist double standard” against Hamas. “The unfolding horror in Ukraine has exposed the racist double standard embedded in Western political and media discourse. Ukrainians who take up arms against Russian oppression are lionized; Palestinians who take up arms against Israeli oppression are vilified.”

These are only a few of the fundraisers, petitions and documents in support of terrorism on Action Network. The official partner site of the DNC and a host of the Harris-Walz campaign has no apparent objection to Antifa, Islamic terrorist groups who murder Jews, or any terror groups.

Just Stop Oil, an eco terrorist network which has been responsible for vandalizing classical art in museums around the world, Stonehenge and the United States Constitution, is active on the Action Network. As are the Atlanta Forest Defenders and associated groups who were labeled as Domestic Violent Extremists for the anti-police riots which resulted in injuries and one death.

Indeed it’s hard to find a single extremist wing of the Left that isn’t represented on the DNC partner site. Even Prostasia which provides support for “Minor Attracted Person” or more simply, pedophiles, which was raising money for “research” into “the use of fictional or fantasy sexual outlets (e.g., sex dolls, cartoons, fictional stories) among people who have sexual attractions to children” to “promote greater wellbeing among individuals attracted to children”, is active there.

A presidential candidate making use of a fundraising and promotional platform shared with terrorists and pedophiles is troubling, but Action Network’s DNC partnership makes it more than a platform. It’s become, as the DNC put it, “foundational” to the party’s fundraising.

In the 2024 election cycle, the now-defunct Biden for President has already paid out over $1 million to Action Network. The Kamala campaign will presumably be doing likewise.

Large amounts of money are being moved to and around a platform that has become associated with extremist groups. And that platform has not only partnered with the DNC but with the IRS. The Action Network operates both a 501(c)(4) political nonprofit and the Action Network Fund, a 501(c)(3) charity which works to aid the unions that are a vital part of the Democrat base. The Action Network Fund claims that its goal is “to build progressive power.”

The IRS could put a stop to this, but it’s choosing not to, while protecting a fundraising platform used by the Harris-Walz campaign and the DNC. And in the process it’s also protecting a platform used by Antifa, domestic and foreign terrorists, art vandals and even pedophiles.

   

 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

Flight Attendants for Islamic Airline Hijackers

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog  

 

Karen Martin was the first of the flight attendants to be attacked by Islamic terrorists on September 11. While the head flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 lay bleeding after being stabbed, the rest of her team, Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney, remained collected and provided the first reports about the hijacking. By the time the 9/11 attacks were over, 25 flight attendants would be among the nearly 3,000 killed by Arab Muslim terrorists.

Airline passengers however recently noted the shocking images of some flight attendants wearing PLO pins. Islamic terrorists claiming to represent the cause of the Arab Muslim colonists in Israel who called themselves ‘Palestinians’ had innovated the practice of the mass hijacking of airplanes. There was a direct line between the Dawson’s Field hijacking of four airplanes in 1970 and the hijacking of four airplanes by Al Qaeda on September 11.

In 1970, a plane headed to New York City was hijacked by a terrorist holding a gun to a flight attendant’s head. While an Israeli steward helped end a hijacking attempt on one of the planes, the captured terrorists were traded in exchange for the hostages. And one of the terrorists, Leila Khaled, would go on to become a popular figure in the campus anti-Israel movement.

Flight attendants supporting Islamic terrorists would seem to be suicidal, but they’re not alone.

The Association of Flight Attendants CWA recently announced that it had joined other radical unions in bailing out Hamas by calling for an end to Israeli attacks on the Islamic terrorist group.

The AFA-CWA has taken to trying to ‘organize’ Delta workers into joining its radical union and has championed the wearing of PLO flag pins as a sign of what it can do for flight attendants..

When Delta reacted by banning any pins other than the American flag, an AFA-CWA video furiously blasted the airline for taking a stand for America and against support for terrorists.

The video claimed that opposing terrorist flag pins was “racist” and urged flight attendants to join the union which would protect them from “harassment” by passengers opposed to terrorism.

Other flight attendants wearing terrorist flag pins were seen on Spirit and JetBlue: whose flight attendants are represented by AFA-CWA. JetBlue was accused of “blatant antisemitism” after calling the police on a Jewish passenger after he objected to a terrorist flag pin.

The AFA-CWA may be ‘ground zero’ for the explosion of terrorist flag pins on planes.

Sara Nelson, the president of AFA CWA, had previously weaponized the union for partisan attacks, but this is the first time a union of flight attendants is working to help terrorists.

Some of the same Islamic terrorists who butchered flight attendants on September 11.

Hamas, which the AFA CWA is trying to save as part of the so-called National Labor Network for Ceasefire (NLNC), is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. As was Al Qaeda whose core emerged out of a splinter group of the Muslim Brotherhood. Osama bin Laden had been a member of the Brotherhood. Intervening to save Hamas in Gaza is the same thing as saving Al Qaeda.

The AFA-CWA press release described President Sara Nelson as a “a consistent social justice supporter” and claimed that the union was trying to stop Israel’s attacks on Hamas because “aviation’s first responders bring people together around the world. Saving lives comes first.”

As Americans found out on September 11, saving lives in the air requires fighting terrorists, not surrendering to them. The AFA-CWA’s attempt to save terrorists will only cost more lives.

Including those of flight attendants.

Unlike the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which is an independent union that represents American Airlines flight attendants and maintains a memorial to the heroic flight attendants killed on 9/11, the AFA-CWA is an extremist organization linked to the far left.

While the AFA part stands for the Association of Flight Attendants, the CWA part means that the union is actually a subset of the Communications Workers of America. The CWA had already issued its own demand that Israel stop attacking Hamas. As has the AFL-CIO that the CWA is affiliated with. Rather than representing flight attendants, the AFA-CWA is part of a larger leftist political machine whose roots are not in the workplace, but in the government-union complex.

AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson, who was being considered for a ‘labor’ cabinet position in the Biden administration, has done quite well at the expense of actual labor. Records show that while the average flight attendant earns less than $70,000, Nelson made nearly $180,000.

Nelson is married to fellow union honcho, David Borer, who is the general counsel for the American Federation of Government Employees. Borer’s salary has been estimated at $290,000. Together this ‘union household’ pulls down nearly half a million dollars a year.

That may explain how Sara Nelson and David Borer’, whose unions are both under the AFL-CIO umbrella, can afford to live in Chevy Chase, an extremely wealthy D.C. area neighborhood where the elite reside and other political government operatives make their home.

Nelson is an ally of Sen. Bernie Sanders who has repeatedly attacked Israel for defending itself. And like Sanders, Nelson has learned to live quite well while shouting about class warfare.

The AFA CWA’s efforts to save Islamic terrorists, who murder flight attendants, show that the union no longer represents flight attendants or Americans, but a class of radical activists who hate America and support its enemies. And they want to fly the colors of those enemies.

Flight attendants, like all of us, have a choice. We can be like Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney who resisted the Islamic terrorists on September 11, or like Sara Nelson who defends them.

On September 11, Arab Muslim had to hijack planes to fly them into buildings. But now there are radical flight attendants who don’t even need to be hijacked to support airline hijackers.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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Smuggled Gold Bars, Bloody Foreign Money and the Selling of Joe Biden

The strange, true story of Biden family corruption that no one will discuss.

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

On March 1, 2018, Joe Biden got a $200,000 check. The story of where that check came from involves everything from “bloodstained currency” to smuggled gold bars to ‘The Exorcist’. But above all else it involves an enemy Muslim tyranny with ties to 9/11 and Hamas.

When I first broke the story a week before Election Day, it was about how hospital patients in smaller poorer hospitals, including one that had inspired ‘The Exorcist’, had suffered because of the corrupt greed of the Biden family. But even then there was a strange element which led to one of the key figures in the case receiving “blood-stained currency from a Middle Eastern country” and a “torture ticket” after suing James Biden: Joe’s brother.

Four years later, in the midst of the Hamas war, the identity of the “Middle Eastern country” behind the Biden business takes on new importance because it is a state sponsor of Hamas.

And congressional investigators and investigative journalists have also traced a trail from Qatar, through James’ health care business to that $200,000 check he sent to Joe Biden.

The health care business that brought together the Biden family and an Islamic terror state had targeted stricken rural hospitals in Kentucky, Missouri and Pennsylvania.

Americore’s CEO was introduced by James Biden to Joe at a fundraiser for the Beau Biden Foundation: co-chaired by Hunter Biden whose infamous laptop bore the foundation’s sticker.

James Biden allegedly promised that Joe would get behind the company, join its board and that the company’s work would even “help his brother get elected.”

“There’s not a single door in the country that we can’t open,” James promised the company.

But the money wasn’t coming in and James Biden was taking out major personal loans from the company that was supposed to be managing struggling hospitals. And with Joe out of the White House, there wasn’t going to be any government bailout of Americore any time soon.

James Biden didn’t set out to open doors in this country, but in an enemy of the United States.

The Americore pitch sought $30 million to buy up hospitals and named Jim as the “Brother and Campaign Finance Chair of former Vice President Joe Biden.” Internal documents showed that this resulted in a meeting with a Qatari “minister”. While the Qataris had plenty of money to burn, getting it to America involved conspiracies more often associated with drug dealers.

A “former executive recalled discussion at one point of trying to move money across a Middle Eastern border in the form of gold bars”.

Qatar’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent organization of Hamas) and Iran had led to an embargo by its neighbors. And Qatar’s ties to terrorists, including to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, who hid out there until he was allegedly tipped off by a member of the Islamic tyranny’s royal family that America was coming to get him, may have complicated the proposed investment funding mechanisms.

The next stage of the plan involved James Biden becoming the “chief global banking emissary” for Billerfy which processed payments for a cryptocurrency exchange known as Quadriga that traded money for crypto. Later that year, Billerfy’s accounts were frozen and millions were found in a personal account. Six days later, Quadriga’s 30-year-old CEO suddenly died in India, locking up $70 million in cash and $191 million in crypto. Another co-founder, Michael Patry, whose real name turned out to be Omar was raided and authorities discovered gold bars in a vault. The whole operation was then exposed as a massive ponzi scheme.

But by then James Biden had already benefited from $600,000 in “personal loans” from the health care company. On March 1, 2018, Americore wired $200,000 to James and he wrote a $200,000 check to Joe. But the loans, according to bankruptcy court documents were conditioned based on “representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could “obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”

Desperate for cash, James Biden traveled to Qatar with the aim of personally presenting to Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi who was later arrested and charged with bribery and laundering over $5 billion and sentenced to 20 years in prison. While little is known about the details behind the internal power struggle in the corrupt terror state, Al Emadi had been accused of “channeling Qatari support to various Islamist groups over the years” as well as subverting American and European institutions with sizable infusions of Qatari money.

As the American end of the deal fell apart in recriminations and lawsuits, one of the litigants received “blood-stained currency” and a “torture ticket” after suing James Biden and his partners. The blood money came from a Middle Eastern country known to be associated with terrorists. But the FBI refused to name the country and insisted the media also hide its identity.

Qatar is one of the few countries with that degree of political influence in Washington D.C.

But the single most shocking document from James Biden’s relationship with Qatar may be a letter that he allegedly wrote to the Qatari leadership on “behalf of the Biden family.”

“We are not particularly close to this administration and have a different vision,” Biden’s brother wrote, accusing the Trump administration of being “fractured” and “beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved.” However he promised that the Biden “family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels that I believe would be worthy of the interest of His Excellency.”

“If this is in keeping with the vision of His Excellency, on behalf of the Biden family, I welcome your interest here,” he concluded.

Even while undermining the sitting administration, Biden’s brother was offering the services of his family to an enemy nation. This has wider implications beyond Qatar’s role backing Hamas.

Qatar was also the central intermediary in the Taliban “deal” and had formed an alliance with Iran. It is difficult to know whether the “Biden family” relationship with Qatar played any role in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and in the sanctions relief offered to Iran.

We do know there was a relationship between the Biden family and a state sponsor of Hamas, which Joe Biden profited from, and that has disturbing implications for our national security.

“We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden,” James Biden once bragged. One of those investors had ties to Iran, Al Qaeda, Iran and Hamas.

 

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Islamic Terrorists Create Famines to Profit From Foreign Aid

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first order of business was taking the Houthis off the list of foreign terrorist organizations. That 2021 decision helped lead to the Red Sea crisis today.

Only four days after being confirmed, the State Department announced that “undertaking an expeditious review”, Blinken had decided that it should be legal to fund the Islamic terror group.

The State Department claimed that it was lifting the terror ban on the Houthis, despite “their reprehensible conduct, including attacks against civilians and the kidnapping of American citizens” because of “the humanitarian consequences” that would take place in Yemen.

Now, even in the midst of the Red Sea crisis, the Biden administration has refused to put the Houthis fully back on the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, instead it listed them under the much weaker Specially Designated Global Terrorist category which does not ban providing material support to them and has delayed imposing even these sanctions for 30 days. .

During this 30-day-period, the Biden administration will listen to complaints and demands from aid groups “crucial to facilitating humanitarian assistance and the commercial import of critical commodities in Yemen.” Special licenses, similar to those allowing USAID and its partners to do business with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Hamas in Afghanistan and Gaza, will be issued to aid groups working with the Houthis. And extra loopholes will be introduced to aid the Houthis.

Even if the sanctions finally take effect on Feb 16, they will protect not only “food, medicine, and fuel” but also “personal remittances, telecommunications and mail, and port and airport operations.” Meanwhile the Houthis will be cutting off traffic and shipping through the Red Sea.

How are a group of terrorists able to keep attacking ships and not be listed as terrorists?

During the Trump administration, Iran and its leftist allies initiated a disinformation campaign claiming that the Saudis and the United States were guilty of causing a famine in Yemen.

This lie was picked up and promoted by pro-terrorist and simply clueless politicians.

In December 2021, fifteen senators demanded that the Biden administration force an end to the Saudi campaign against the Houthis. The signatories included Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Pat Leahy, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Patty Murray, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, and a number of others. They insisted that the Houthis receive fuel, claimed that 230,000 Yemenis had died during the war and warned that Yemen was facing a famine.

The same lies that had been used to save the Houthis and enable them to blockade the Red Sea would be used by many of the same politicians to protect Hamas from Israel’s campaign.

The truth was that the Houthis, much like Hamas, had manufactured the famine by seizing food.

Nearly three years before Sen. Warren and others were spreading these lies, an AP investigation had already revealed that the Houthis were taking and reselling UN food aid.

In one Yemeni province, 65% of residents faced food shortages even though the UN had sent enough food to feed a million people. The Houthis imposed “taxes” on aid workers and then used the food to feed their own terrorists or resell it to finance their operations.

The more food aid was sent, the richer the terrorists got and the worse the famine became.

The Houthis understood that the best way to profit and end the attacks against them was by causing a famine. And that, with the complicity of politicians like Sen. Warren, is what they did.

Hamas had been doing the same thing even longer, seizing food and medicines, and then blaming Israel for shortages of both. No amount of “humanitarian aid” sent into Gaza was ever enough because it was pilfered, resold or repurposed for its terrorist operations.

After the Oct 7 massacres, Hamas allies used the same playbook that had worked in Yemen to force Israel to end the siege of Gaza and allow in massive amounts of foreign aid. The Biden administration had assured Israelis that the aid would not go to Hamas and yet numerous videos show that the terrorist group continues to seize the incoming aid at gunpoint.

Even back in 2021, the State Department had asked for exemptions in Gaza because, in their own words, “we assess there is a high risk Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza.”

In Afghanistan, the Taliban and even Al Qaeda are continuing to benefit from our foreign aid.

The Biden administration has bragged about sending over $2 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover to help with their “humanitarian crisis” including a “famine”. Providing humanitarian aid has required the administration to seize money from 9/11 victims, print money for the Taliban, and issue licenses allowing transactions with the Taliban and the Haqqani Network which has been closely interlinked with Al Qaeda.

Our food aid goes through the Taliban. And the Taliban use aid to pay salaries and those Afghans who want a share of the food aid have to register and work for the Jihadist group.

USAID is aware that the aid we send is being seized by the Taliban because it commissioned a report which warned of “the Taliban’s growing tendency to attempt to increasingly control delivery” and that “the Taliban appear to view the UN system as yet another revenue stream, one which their movement will seek to monopolize and centralize control over.”

But Afghanistan under the Taliban was always facing famine. During the summer of 2001, the UN and international agencies were warning that Afghanistan needed more international aid or five million people faced starvation. The problem went away once the Taliban were defeated and came back when they returned to power. The famine problem is really a terrorist problem.

Terrorist sympathizers claim that fighting Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan, Gaza or Yemen causes famine. The truth is that Islamic terrorists cause famines when they seize power.

Anyone who truly cares about famines in these places wants the terrorists to be defeated.

But most politicians who cry about the famines that terrorists strategically manufacture to extract money and political support from civilized nations don’t care about hungry people. Much as Hamas, the Houthis and the Taliban exploit hungry people, so do politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren who use the famines to prop up Islamic terrorists.

The lies that they tell finance the terrorists who cause the famines and then engage in terrorism.

Foreign aid to Afghanistan before 9/11 helped finance international terrorism. Foreign aid to Gaza before Oct 7 helped build up the Hamas war machine that killed over 1,000 people. The relief and aid provided to Yemen allowed the Houthis to launch their Red Sea blockade. And now the Houthi blockade is preventing actual humanitarian aid from passing through.

Fighting terrorism doesn’t cause famines, letting them remain in power does. Famines end when terrorists are defeated while humanitarian aid to terrorists actually causes famines.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.Thank you for reading.