Ilhan Omar

This week I opened up the phone lines and did a call in show. We had friend of the show Jon Gold call in to discuss the recent attacks on Ilhan Omar and the continued exploitation of 9/11 trauma. Jon talked about the recent spate of politicians and media figures invoking 9/11 and the “Never Forget” mantra to score political points. Later Kai called in to talk about the political situation in Sudan. We discussed the recent coup which has removed long time leader Omar al- Bashir, and the grassroots protest movement that fomented this change.

Following the smear campaign pursued against US congresswoman Ilhan Omar for questioning the influence of Israeli Lobby groups over US foreign policy and now the Islamophobic attacks upon her, it’s important to contextualize why and how pro-Israel Lobby groups can/have caused damage to the United States.

WASHINGTON (Opinion) — Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — Congress’ fiercest critic of the Zionist lobby and the apartheid policies of Israel — has come out in support of a two-state solution, a weak and outdated proposition that has long been doomed.
Increasingly, Palestinians are recognizing that a single secular democratic state with equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis is the only way forward — and so too are advocates in the West, including American Jews. We welcome Rep. Omar to join us in this righteous cause with open arms.

As death threats against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) continue to mount, President Racism continues to fan the flames of hate.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump spoke to an audience of staunch, right-wing Zionists with the Republican Jewish Coalition. It had all the elements one would come to expect of such an event: casino magnate and political mega-financier Sheldon Adelson was given a standing ovation and left-wing Jewish anti-occupation groups protested the president.

We've covered her quite a bit before but in case you've forgotten, Brandy X. Lee is a forensic psychiatrist at Yale, best known for the bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Friday she penned an OpEd for the New York Daily News, Trump’s mental condition seems to be getting worse: He should subject himself to a rigorous assessment now.

Analysis — From Hebron to Bethlehem and from Jerusalem to London and Washington, the fight for justice in Palestine is being fought on many fronts. Israel and its agents everywhere are operating in full force to win supporters and delegitimize anyone who opposes Israel.
 

You probably already know that Republicans have launched a new super-PAC, ostensibly to oppose Ilhan Omar's reelection, the Defeat I.O. PAC. But the superPAC is probably more a vehicle to enrich the people running it than to defeat Ilhan. Don't get me wrong; I'm sure they mean her nothing but ill.

Mainstream media outlets are ignoring evidence that Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia, married her own brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Journalist, David Steinberg, says that Omar's motives for marrying Mr. Elmi may have been to commit student-loan fraud and immigration fraud.

Adam Millstein is a super-wealthy-- and crooked-- Israeli real estate developer who moved to the U.S. in 1981 when he was 30 and took out American citizenship while holding onto his Israeli citizenship as well.

America is lucky to have these 2 extraordinary young women in CongressEarlier this week, Vanity Fair published a profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Abigail Tracy, "I Felt Like I was Being Physically Ripped Apart": Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Her New Fame, Trump, And Life In The Bubble.