Not a single 2020 Democrat candidate from the massive field spoke at AIPAC’s pro-Israel summit in the spring. But 5 of the 2020 Dems, Sanders, Buttigieg, Castro, Klobuchar, and Bennett, were featured at the J Street conference alongside anti-Israel activists, BDS supporters, and terrorists.
Those 2020 Dems who couldn’t attend the anti-Israel hatefest in person sent video messages.
Elizabeth Warren sent in a video message threatening to cut off aid to Israel unless it surrenders to Islamic terrorists. Then she promised to divide Jerusalem, turning half the ancient holy city into a killing ground for the murderous terrorists already occupying Gaza and portions of the West Bank.
Joe Biden, Beto O’Rourke, Marianne Williamson, and even Andrew Yang joined her in sending messages of support and friendship to the anti-Israel group which has featured BDS supporters and terrorists.
The majority of the 2020 Democrat field have aligned with an anti-Israel organization.
J Street’s conference speakers included Osama Qawasma, a Fatah spokesman, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, and an advisor to PA terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas. Osama had claimed that Israel “rules” over America, that it’s worse than Hitler, and is plotting against all the Arab countries.
Osama had defended Palestinian Authority laws that would sentence any Muslim who rents a home to Jews to a lifetime of hard labor, and ranted, “Those traitors are destined to die a humiliating death.”
The J Street speaker had also stood in solidarity with Hamas. “We firmly oppose the American-Israeli attempts to denounce Hamas as terrorist,” he had declared.
None of the 2020 Dems had spoken at AIPAC. But they were happy to stand with J Street and Hamas.
Another terrorist at the J Street conference was Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee, who has defended Hamas and insisted that his terror group will go on funding terrorists.
Also speaking at the anti-Israel hatefest was Ayman Odeh who heads the Joint List: a coalition of four anti-Israel Arab Islamic parties including Hadash, formerly the Israeli Communist Party, which supports Assad, and the United Arab List, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Movement.
Hamed Abu Daabas, the head of the “moderate” Southern branch of the Islamic Movement, had said that, “ISIS raises reasonable demands like the establishment of an Islamic state, but their methods for reaching their objective raise concern in many nations across the world.”
He had argued that, “If it were not for the shocking ways in which they kill, it would be possible to see ISIS like any other Jihadi organization.”
Odeh had tweeted that he had called Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, to congratulate him.
This is what Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Marianne Williamson, Michael Bennett, Andrew Yang, aligned themselves with at J Street.
Israel is out. J Street, Hamas, and ISIS are in.
There were loud cheers when the 2020 Democrats were urged to cut off aid to Israel, but there was only tepid applause when the death of the ISIS leader was mentioned. It was clear whose death the J Street audience really wanted. They didn’t want the destruction of the Islamic State, but of the Jewish State.
Warren’s video message blasted Israel, but did not offer a single word of criticism of the Palestinian Authority and its terrorists. She threatened to pressure Israel, while promising to welcome back the Palestinian Authority’s delegation back to D.C. Warren’s frantic pandering to the terror lobby was only outdone by her even more radical rival, Bernie Sanders, who vowed all out war on the Jewish State.
Bernie Sanders, to thunderous applause from anti-Israel activists at J Street, vowed to redirect foreign aid from Israel to Hamas-run Gaza. He then spent several minutes ranting about the Jewish State.
“If you want military aid, you’re going to have to fundamentally change your relationship to the people of Gaza,” Sanders said, referring to the Islamic terror state that is constantly trying to murder Jews.
He also claimed that Israel was “laying the groundwork for future violence” by blocking Gaza’s terrorists.
Bernie’s previous conference appearance, before J Street, had been at the Islamic Society of North America at a presidential forum moderated by Salam Al-Marayati, who has defended Hamas.
His campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, had been the co-chair of Islamic Awareness Week, an event that had included a fundraiser for a Hamas front group.
And Bernie made it clear what he has to offer to the Hamas supporters of America.
“Being Jewish may be helpful in that regard,” he suggested. “It’s going to be very hard for anybody to call me, whose father’s family was wiped out by Hitler, who spent time in Israel, an anti-Semite.”
The term Bernie is looking for is “collaborator”. He can ask George Soros for some helpful tips.
From Jesse Jackson to Rep. Ilhan Omar, and from the Sandinistas to the Soviet Union to Hamas, Bernie Sanders has always stood with anti-Semites and against Jews. At J Street, the radical leftist clarified his formerly unspoken despicable trick of using his accent and last name to shield the anti-Semites plotting to aid terrorists and kill millions of Jews from accusations of anti-Semitism.
Marianne Williamson condemned Israel’s “occupation” of the Golan Heights, and announced that she would not recognize its annexation, despite the fact that the United States has already recognized it. The creepy leftist cult leader also insisted that blockading Hamas terrorists in Gaza was “morally wrong.”
Amy Klobuchar condemned Israel for keeping out Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib. And she did not rule out an aid cutoff.
Julian Castro said that he wouldn’t take a cutoff of aid to Israel “off the table.” Like, Elizabeth Warren, he called for dividing Jerusalem between Israel and an Islamic terrorist state. He also vowed to restore U.S. foreign aid to the terrorists which they have been using to reward the killers of Israelis and Americans.
Cutting aid to Israel and giving money to the terrorists was the major theme of 2020 Democrats.
Not just Castro, but nearly every 2020 Democrat called for restoring aid to the terrorists. And that means that the Palestinian Authority and Hamas will have more funds at their disposal for killing Israelis.
J Street events are always festivals of anti-Israel hatred. But this time, all the Dems were on board.
Aside from the 2020 contenders, both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke at the hatefest featuring BDS and terror supporters. The Democrat leadership, of the Senate, the House, and, aspirationally, the White House, were all in on J Street and against Israel.
J Street had been set up by George Soros and other anti-Israel figures to destroy support for Israel among Democrats. The J Street conference makes it abundantly clear that they have succeeded.
And that pro-Israel Democrats, who have tried to stop their party from going dark, have lost.
What was once a fringe view has become the default position of the Democrat Party. Despite the usual rants about AIPAC’s influence, the talking points for the Democrats are coming from J Street.
That was abundantly clear at the J Street conference as Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Iran smear artist, and Tommy Vietor, pressured 2020 Democrats to say that they would cut off aid to the Jewish State. J Street aggressively promoted its call for embedding opposition to Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria, which they falsely described as the “occupation”, into the party platform of the Democrats.
J Street didn’t make this happen. The radicalization of the Democrats did. The conference was just a symptom of how extreme and extremely anti-Semitic the radicalized party has become.
The J Street conference with its terrorists, activists, and apparatchiks is the new face of the Democrats.
Frank Anderson says
I still cannot understand how, according to Jewish publications, 75 percent of US Jews vote straight Democrat tickets. They are voting for their own destruction and for the destruction of Israel. Don’t look at me: I vote for the “other” party. “There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.”
Rarely says
True. Surprising that, under the circumstances, any Jewish person would support the Democrats. Equally true however is why ant Christians or Hindus would either. It’s just a bit clearer for Jews.
Frank Anderson says
My strong affinity for Judaism and its teachings should be clear from my comments. With all I have read and learned in over 50 years of intense thought and study I don’t see how the frequent message of Holocaust Remembrance is either lost or ignored. Half of Nazi Germany’s Jews got the message in time to at least try to get out, The other half did not. “Those who cannot [or refuse to] remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them.” Jorge Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905). To me, Jews represent our present “canaries in the coal mine” of Islamic intentions of murder and conquest. How can we help others see what is planned?
Sheri Cline says
Well said and thought provoking.
Frank Anderson says
In spite of the apparent failure to make impressions on others, Holocaust Remembrance services and events made an impression on me.
Rarely says
Some people find it difficult, if not downright impossible, to believe how evil some people can be.
From your study of Jewish history you are doubtlessly aware that more often than not Jews in Europe being persecuted had no place to go and had insufficient numbers to put up much of a resistance and, consequently, had to “ride it out”.
As for WWII, specifically, it was less a matter of denial and more a matter of no place to go. Canada had an immigration policy that “one Jew was too many to let in”. The USA wasn’t much better Those who fled Germany for other European countries (Anne Frank for example) did not flee far enough. Shanghai, surprisingly, took quite a number (in the range of 25,000, I believe).
Nevertheless, those who fled Germany were fleeing from persecution and not annihilation. The Jews in other European countries had no concept of what was to come until all avenues of escape were closed. Hence the need for a secure safe haven where Jews were not at the mercy of fickle local gov’ts. It’s called Israel.
Today, of course, the Palestinians make no secret of their plans for a new Holocaust so no one can claim ignorance.
At the same time, however, Christians living in many Muslim majority lands are taking a beating — even in Egypt where +/-10%% of the population is Copts. One would think that a large population like that would be somewhat invulnerable but they are not. It’s not a very comfortable thing to be a Hindu living in Pakistan either. So, in no way are the Jews alone.
Welcome to the 21st Century. I could pick a Century out of a hat and it would be better than what this one promises to be.
Frank Anderson says
Rarely, in the more than 20 years I spent as a guest and member of the local Jewish community (before I was ordered to leave for my views concerning islam), at the request of the Rabbi, I recorded dozens of speakers, many in multiple presentations, who were Holocaust survivors. Yes, there were few places then to escape. But many of the speakers talked about their family leaders poo-pooing the danger until it was too late to do anything but die. There is no reason or excuse now to repeat that horrible experience, except the grossest ignorance and betrayal of duty. I grieve for what I am witnessing up close and personally. These are friends of mine who helped me in a time of great hardship. To see them walk arm-in-arm to their deaths and lead others to the same result is tragic beyond my capacity to describe. Judaism and Christianity worship The God of Life and Freedom. Islam worships a god of death and slavery. They are not the same and cannot be reconciled.
“There are some questions in this life for which there are no answers in this life.” Frank Anderson, funeral of Velma Anderson (adopted mother0, July 8, 1989.
Infidel says
For the same reasons, I don’t understand how >65% of Hindus support the Dems, particularly since today’s Dems support the Islamization of the world, and Bernie, for one, has already come out denouncing India
Frank Anderson says
Infidel, there is much wisdom present in Jewish teaching. One example is there are no perfectly good or perfectly bad people. Some people offer examples to follow while at the same time offering other examples to reject. I wrote and conducted my official adopted mother’s funeral 30 years ago, and to this day value every word I said. I would not allow a stranger to conduct the service. Still, after 30 years, I accept that there are some questions for which the answer will be known only when God wishes. How many identifiable groups/communities/sects/populations share the willful blindness that most of the people here do not? Too many! What can we do? Catholic Wisdom: “It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” How can we light some candles today? They will add up!
I have probably written this story before: When the great buffalo herds of the Wild West were driven almost to extinction, hunting parties were sent in all directions trying to find food for the winter. Party after party returned to the camp empty-handed. The last party came back. The leader got down from his horse and walked to the Chief with his head down and shaking, probably in tears. “Chief, I have good news and bad news for you; What do you want first?” “Give me the bad news?” “All we found to eat this winter was buffalo chips” “If the bad news is buffalo chips, what is the good news?” “There are enough buffalo chips to last the winter.” We have an ample supply of people who need the information we have to keep us and all who follow hard at work for many lifetimes. We have a reason and purpose to continue, quite like Viktor Frankl’s observation in the death camps (Man’s Search for Meaning), “I can survive any How if I have a Why!” What can I do today to help one person see what islam intends for the world?
Frank Anderson says
I suggest there is no international expectation that one who advocates the violent destruction of a country is due to be admitted to that country for the purpose of advocating its demise. If Robert Spencer can be excluded from the UK for advocating its security, Israel can bar “people” who support the end of the Jewish state and the death of its citizens.
mortimer says
COMRADES !!! All POWER to the SOVIETS and GLORY to the VANGUARD of the Proletariat !!
ElderlyZionist says
Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar were very clear about that in their speeches the other day. I think Rep. Omar is positioning herself as Sen. Sanders’ VP running mate. She balances the ticket so beautifully with her pretty young brown face smiling next to his pasty sagging commie wrinkles. She’s just what the Dems need to get their base to the polls in 2020, like a young Barry Obama, in a hijab and a dress.
terry kane says
Couldn’t have said it better myself!
Infidel says
Bernie would do better to pick AOC, if he gets the nomination. Or, if he has to virtue-signal about having a Muslim VP, pick Rashida. While I disdain them all, Ilhan is singularly retarded and has absolutely no redeeming qualities
Frank Anderson says
If the President must be 35 years of age to qualify, she is not old enough to take office in the event Bernie does not complete his term.
ElderlyZionist says
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was born in 1989 and is too young to serve as President. Rep. Omar, born in 1982 is a naturalized citizen, not natural-born, and so is disqualified. Thankyew Gawd, and thanks, fellas, for pointing out those caveats.
It looks like Rep. Tlaib is Comrade Sanders’ best choice for a running mate, being American-born and of age.
The Dems’ biggest obstacle in 2020 is the known fact, which no one wants to state, that the black and Hispanic voters who turned out in record numbers to elect and re-elect Barry Obama stated home in 2016, and their absence cost Hillary Clinton the election, although she prefers to publicly blame whywimmin. The Dems have to motivate that base to vote in 2020, so will beat the drum of RACISM and WHYPIPO BAD for the next year. Michelle Obama has already started.
The Dems need a young(ish) brown(ish) face to balance the wrinkly old white man or woman who is evidently going to head their ticket. Sanders/Tlaib sounds like an acceptable pairing for 2020.
Frank Anderson says
Elderly, considering the “fast and loose” treatment of the Constitutional requirements applied to BHO, it would not surprise me to see all of the standards of the Founding Fathers ignored or abandoned. According to one source in a previous discussion, “natural born” is defined as having 2 citizen parents. BHO had only one. But nobody made the effort to challenge the issue. Was there a “deal” made?
mortimer says
DELUSION ??? Here is why it is truly a ‘delusion’ …
The ‘Pally’ ethnicity was created by the KGB with the encouragement of Nicolai Ceausescu.
https://www.0censor.com/origins-of-the-palestinian-narrative/
Zuheir Mohsen (Arabic: زهير محسن), top PLO member responsible for Damur massacre, said :
“The Palestinian people DOES NOT EXIST. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for CONTINUING OUR STRUGGLE against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.
In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.
For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva, and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”
James Dorsey, “Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden”, Trouw, 31 March 1977
The founding of the PLO, now known as Fatah had nothing to do with the desire for statehood, throughout the charter it states, again and again, its sole goal is the destruction of Israel, nothing more, thus started the Palestinian Narrative, they needed a story behind their need.
mortimer says
The original PLO Charter does not speak of creating a sovereign state in Israel and does not claim rule over the West Bank or Gaza. It claims the entire territory of Israel as it existed in 1964.
Source: https://www.0censor.com/origins-of-the-palestinian-narrative/
In 1964 the first handpicked leaders of the Palestinian Liberation Organization gathered to create a charter, they at the time demanded that all land control by Israel at the time was theirs, in article 24 of that charter they did say they had no claim on Judea and Samaria, which Jordan by now had renamed the West Bank, nor did they have any historical claim on Gaza.
Article 24: This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields.
Harkabi, Y. The Palestinian Covenant and Its Meaning. London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1979.
What is interesting to note is not only were the PLO interested in their charter in ridding the world and themselves of the nation of Israel, but at no time did they state they wanted to have self-rule or self-determination. Their land claims were only where Israel existed, no place else … not in Gaza nor the West Bank.
The West Bank was only a concern after Israel pushed Jordan out of it, thus cancelling Jordan’s annexation of the West Bank.
The flag of the Pallies is the flag of Jordan minus the royal star.
mortimer says
VOTE BERNIE ! He always stands WITH PRIDE next to the FOES OF ISRAEL !
VOTE BERNIE … A TRUE TROSKYIST !
Glory to the Vanguard of the Proletariat!
roberta says
Watching these weirdos running for the democrat pres. nominee is a good way to kinda take the temperature of just where the democrats are at (mentally).
Fortunately for me, I am not a journalist. I cant imagine having to wake up each day and try and pretend that there is, or make a horse race out of this silliness.
Reading the fake polls about phony people and then come up with a story.
I guess that is why the polls are usually the story, there is nothing else there.
gravenimage says
2020 Dems Stand with J Street, Hamas and ISIS Against Israel
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Just repulsive–but who can be surprised?
Angemon says
Or, in other words, “if you want to defend yourselves from the people trying to exterminate you, you need to give them what they want”…