Fauxcahontas has her Marie Antoinette moment

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is now auditioning for the role in the great 401(k) private equity food fight, and the hypocrisy is so rich you could spread it on a baguette and call it a three-Michelin-star dessert.

Call her Sen. Antoinette. While lecturing average American workers to content themselves with sad little index funds that go nowhere, Warren herself dines on higher-returning private investments like a Roman emperor at an all-you-can-eat toga party.

In other words, Warren wants to deny regular Americans the investment opportunities she uses to get even richer than she already is.

The mythology around Marie Antoinette claims the French royal was so hilariously detached from the starving peasants that she supposedly shrugged and said, “Let them eat cake.”

The senator is currently throwing a hissy fit over the Trump administration’s Labor Department rule, now open for public comment, that would finally let regular 401(k) holders get a taste of private-market investments instead of being trapped in the public-stock-and-bond kiddie pool forever.

Independent Women is bravely submitting comments and rallying others before the June 1 deadline to support the rule, because apparently someone has to stand up for the little guy against the lady who wrote a book about standing up for the little guy.

Warren recently badgered Empower Retirement, the nation’s second-largest retirement provider, for daring to suggest that maybe, just maybe, working people could benefit from private equity and private credit. She called private equity a “Wall Street time bomb” and darkly warned that letting actual workers near these things would only benefit... “private funds.”

The senator from Massachusetts has declared herself the self-appointed Protector of the Little Guy’s Nest Egg™. There’s just one teensy problem: the little guys aren’t allowed to have what she has.

Start with Warren’s own financial disclosures. Her largest retirement asset, valued between $1 million and $5 million, is parked in TIAA-CREF Traditional, a magical guaranteed-principal fund basically reserved for university professors and other academic nobility. It promises you’ll never lose a dime, offers a guaranteed minimum interest rate, and even throws in a lifetime income stream. Warren pulled in $88,423 from it in 2024 alone. That’s not a retirement plan. That’s a golden parachute made of Ivy League tears and tenure.

Pure, chocolate-covered hypocrisy: Among her holdings is a TIAA Real Estate Account worth between $500,000 and $1 million. You know, a private real estate fund. An alternative investment. The exact category she insists is far too scary, too opaque, and too “Wall Street” for the unwashed 401(k) masses. Sen. Antoinette feasts on alternatives while ordering the drawbridge raised and the moat filled with regulatory alligators for everyone else.

And it gets better. Massachusetts, the state she represents, has private equity swimming all through its public pension system. Harvard — where she built her entire brand — has a whopping 39% of its bloated endowment in private equity, overseen by a board crawling with Blackstone and General Atlantic execs. The same industry she demonizes daily from the Senate floor.

Private equity for me, but not for thee. Classic.

Nationally, about 89% of public pension funds are happily slurping up private equity returns. Thirty-four million public-sector workers — teachers, firefighters, cops — rely on that sweet 13.5% median annualized return over the last decade that crushed every other asset class, according to the American Investment Council.

But private-sector workers? Sorry, plebs. You get whatever sad menu your employer offers. President Trump’s executive order seeks to fix that by letting everyday Americans access alternatives under actual fiduciary rules and professional management.

Sen. Antoinette has yet to explain why a Massachusetts schoolteacher’s pension deserves those juicy returns while a Massachusetts factory worker does not. Or why her own TIAA Real Estate Account is sophisticated prudence but the same thing in a 401(k) is a “time bomb.” 

She simply cannot address the multi-tiered retirement caste system she’s defending: public employees, Ivy League royalty, and wealthy elites get the good stuff. Everyone else gets “protected” from it for their own good.

Sure, there’s a real conversation to have about fees, liquidity, and safeguards. But Warren isn’t interested in responsible access. She just wants the door slammed shut.

The woman who built her entire career railing against a “rigged system” that protects the connected class has become the rigged system. Guaranteed returns for her. Private real estate for her. PE-backed pensions for her and her public-sector pals. Index-fund gruel for thee.

Time to end the double standard and let everyday Americans have retirement freedom instead of another helping of Sen. Antoinette’s famous cake.

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Iran Claims Virtually Entire Strait Of Hormuz Is Now Under Its Control In Newly-Released Map

TEHRAN—In a bold strategic masterstroke that military analysts are calling “both hilarious and completely insane,” Iran’s newly created Persian Gulf Strait Authority released a map Wednesday claiming control over a massive “maritime supervision zone” in the international waterway Strait of Hormuz, an area so humongous that ships would reportedly be unable to pass through the critical waterway without entering territory now claimed by Tehran.

According to the statement issued by the authority on X, the regime defined the boundaries of its claimed control zone using geographic lines stretching from the Iranian coast to parts of the United Arab Emirates, because nothing says “regional superpower” like drawing on a map with a crayon and declaring victory. It's like a wet caliphate.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has defined the boundaries of the Strait of Hormuz management supervision area,” the statement said, outlining a maritime corridor extending from Kuh Mobarak in Iran to southern Fujairah in the UAE and westward toward Umm al-Qaiwain.

Iran also declared that vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz must now coordinate with the Persian Gulf Waterway Management authority and obtain permits before passage, or face the terrifying consequences of strongly worded letters and possibly a very angry tweet from the Supreme Leader.

“Passing through the Strait of Hormuz require[s] coordination with the Persian Gulf Waterway Management and a permit from this entity,” the statement said.

At press time, the U.S. Navy was reportedly updating its “How To Sail Through Iranian Fantasy Maps” training manual while quietly loading extra ammunition, just in case the mullahs decide their imaginary lines need defending with real boats.

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Daycare Owner From Viral "Totally Legit And Not At All Empty" Video Charged In $4.6 Million Kiddie Fraud Scheme, Prosecutors Say

Fahima Egeh Mahamud, left, and Nick Shirley, right.
 (Getty Images; Hennepin County jail)

A woman allegedly tied to Minnesota's massive "Feeding Our Future" scandal has been charged in a daycare fraud scheme after being featured in a viral video by influencer Nick Shirley, authorities said.

She is accused of pocketing millions of dollars meant for children's meals, which is apparently much easier when the children are busy not existing.

Fahima Egeh Mahamud was charged Wednesday with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents.

Earlier this year, Mahamud was indicted for her alleged role in the initial $250 million "Feeding Our Future" scheme. Prosecutors allege she enrolled Future Leaders Early Learning, a Minneapolis daycare where she served as CEO, into the federal child nutrition program, falsely claiming to serve thousands of meals at her childcare center. Sources confirm the meals were delicious, invisible, and enjoyed by exactly zero actual kids.

In addition to her involvement in the nutrition program fraud, Mahamud was federally charged Wednesday with a secondary scheme to defraud the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), which provides daycare assistance to low-income families.

Between October 2022 and December 2025, she allegedly submitted over 13,000 fraudulent claims to CCAP totaling approximately $4.6 million. Prosecutors state the claims were fraudulent because she falsely certified that she had collected mandatory co-payments from families, which is a material requirement for federal reimbursement. In her defense, collecting co-payments from families that don't show up is basically impossible, especially when the building is quieter than a Biden press conference.

The Future Leaders Early Learning center was featured in Shirley's viral video, FOX 9 Minneapolis reported, which showed him visiting apparently empty, Somali-run childcare centers in and around Minneapolis while alleging widespread fraud. The video captured the shocking sight of tumbleweeds rolling through playrooms and staff staring at walls, proving that sometimes the most efficient government program is the one that doesn't bother with the children part.

The video served as a catalyst for an immediate and aggressive multiagency crackdown by the Trump administration, because apparently it takes a viral YouTube exposé to notice that millions are vanishing into thin air while zero toddlers are learning their ABCs.

Following its release, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) froze roughly $185 million in federal childcare funding to Minnesota. Additionally, over 2,000 federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were deployed to the Twin Cities to escalate investigations and enforcement, proving that sometimes the best way to fix a broken system is to stop funding ghost daycares and start asking basic questions like "Where are all the kids?"

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Ilhan Omar Goes Full Ghost Mode When Asked About Massive Minnesota Feeding Scam She Helped Supercharge

She knows we know, but thinks she's untouchable

Rep. Ilhan Omar (Socialist-MN) had nothing to say when Fox News Digital asked her point-blank if she would cooperate with the investigation into Minnesota's massive "Feeding Our Future" scandal. The far-left lawmaker faces accusations of ties to those at the center of a scheme federal prosecutors say ripped off taxpayers for roughly $250 million. Yet when pressed on those connections, Omar went radio silent.

(H/T Fox News Digital)

"Did you ask Minnesota Democrats to block the subpoena for the investigation of Feeding Our Future on the state level?" she was asked in the halls of Congress on Monday. No response. She also blew off the follow-up: "Would you cooperate with that subpoena and provide documents if they request it here in the House Oversight Committee?"

After the story ran, Omar's office coughed up a statement to Fox News Digital denying any involvement.

"Any claim that I had knowledge of this scheme is flat-out false," Omar said. "The MEALS Act was signed into law by President Trump and passed with bipartisan support as part of a broader legislative package. Trump’s USDA Secretary set the regulatory framework during the rollout of the program. I have always championed feeding kids and will continue to ensure our children do not go hungry."

Omar continued, "The moment this fraud came to light, I immediately sent a letter to the USDA Secretary demanding answers and accountability. As I stated from the beginning, stealing millions of dollars under the guise of feeding hungry children to bankroll lavish lifestyles and extravagant expenses is reprehensible. I’m grateful that Aimee Bock and every individual involved in this abhorrent scheme are being held accountable for defrauding taxpayers and betraying vulnerable children."

Her MEALS Act, the 2020 COVID relief bill she sponsored, is widely viewed as a key link to the scandal. Republicans argue it supercharged the fraud by fast-tracking USDA waiver authority for meal sites and gutting basic safeguards.

Despite months of dodging questions and refusing to provide information on her documented connections to some of the convicted players, Omar continues to play coy.

The Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee invited her to testify this month and requested documents related to the scandal. She missed the deadline, which led to a subpoena vote that fell short after Democrats blocked the GOP push. It needed six votes to pass and got only five.

"She didn't even respond, ghosted us," state Rep. Kristin Robbins, chair of the committee, told Fox News Digital back in April. The committee wanted communications showing how Omar pushed expanded access to federal child nutrition programs, including emails, texts, and meeting records with the Minnesota Department of Education and constituents. They also asked about her public promotion of a Minneapolis restaurant later tied to the program, including a Somali-language TV spot where she highlighted Safari Restaurant as a meal site.

Records of contact with Aimee Bock and dozens of other charged or implicated individuals were also requested. Bock, the nonprofit founder, is staring down a possible 50-year prison sentence."A lot of the sites were working directly with her, being that a lot of the operators were from the same Somali community," Bock said about Omar in a recent jailhouse interview with the New York Post. "There were a lot of people that had been reaching out to her office and staff, and I presume her personally, to work through some of those gaps with the waivers."

Just last week, the committee dropped an 84-page report slamming Gov. Tim Walz's administration for creating a "culture of tolerance" that let fraudsters loot billions in taxpayer funds. The findings followed two dozen hearings and hundreds of whistleblower tips about ignored warnings and oversight breakdowns.

An estimated $300 million in federal meal program fraud and up to $9 billion in Medicaid fraud were stolen, according to the report, far higher than initial figures.

It also points directly at Omar's MEALS Act for loosening anti-fraud protections in nutrition programs, making it much tougher to confirm whether kids were actually being fed.

In related news, sources confirm Omar is currently hard at work on new legislation titled the "No Questions Asked Feeding Freedom Act," which would replace all remaining oversight with strongly worded statements and inspirational Instagram posts.

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Planned Parenthood botched abortion, killed woman and tried to cover it up

Lexi Arguello, 

If there’s one thing the abortion lobby and its media stenographers hate more than transparency, it’s transparency that wrecks the narrative. That’s why officials in Colorado were apparently working overtime to keep details about 18-year-old Lexi Arguello’s death under wraps after a second-trimester abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins.

A newly unredacted autopsy report, obtained by the pro-life groups Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation, confirms that Ms. Arguello died from complications related to the botched abortion procedure.

The county coroner tried to keep the abortion details redacted, citing “Colorado’s strong public policy in favor of protecting reproductive healthcare [sic],” because apparently the public learning what actually happened might make women think twice. Can’t have that. A judge, however, ordered the records released because laws are still occasionally a thing.

According to the Larimer County coroner’s report, Arguello “died of complications of surgical pregnancy termination, including disseminated intravascular coagulation,” which is a severe and potentially deadly blood-clotting disorder. The report also listed “probable amniotic fluid embolism, refractory shock, and multiorgan failure” as “significant contributing conditions.”

Arguello was nearly 22 weeks pregnant when she underwent a D&E dismemberment abortion at the Planned Parenthood facility in Fort Collins. After the procedure, she reportedly developed low blood pressure and a rapid heartbeat while in recovery.

D&E stands for Dilation and Extraction in which the cervix is softened and dilated over hours or days with medications (e.g., misoprostol). Then evacuation is done using anesthesia (local, sedation or general), then vacuum aspiration is done to remove amniotic fluid and some baby tissue, followed by forceps or other instruments to extract the remainder of the baby's body and placenta tissue. Ultrasound guidance is often used.

In many D&E cases (especially later in the second trimester), the fetus is removed in parts ("piecemeal") because it is too large to pass intact through the dilated cervix. This involves grasping and removing limbs, torso sections, or other parts.

Last year, SBA Pro-Life America reported disturbing details from Lexi’s grandparents:

“According to Lexi’s grandparents, instead of calling for an ambulance immediately, Fort Collins Planned Parenthood admitted they waited too long to call for help and they specifically requested no sirens on the ride to the hospital.”

Nothing says “trust the experts” quite like allegedly delaying emergency care and asking the ambulance crew to keep things quiet.

Despite receiving a blood transfusion, Arguello died at the hospital on February 6, 2025.

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser responded to the report:

“Lexi Arguello’s autopsy is definitive: Another young mom has been killed by abortion and Planned Parenthood. Arguello’s death isn’t just a tragedy, it is a pattern of callousness on the part of America’s largest abortion business. Even The New York Times now admits Planned Parenthood provides shoddy so-called ‘care’ and harms women, on top of ending a record 434,000 unborn lives in a single year. Pro-life laws protect unborn children and women, but the Big Abortion industry doesn’t care about babies or mothers – they care about their profits. How many more victims are out there, whose names we do not even know, thanks to officials like the coroner who are more concerned about running cover than letting the truth come out?”

She also pointed directly at Colorado’s abortion laws and Democratic leadership:

“Colorado’s extreme all-trimester abortion laws allowed this to happen. Under Democrat Governor Jared Polis, Colorado is one of nine states and D.C. that have no limits on abortion at any point in pregnancy. In any of these locations, the barbaric late-term dismemberment abortion that killed Lexi and her baby is 100% legal today. At almost 22 weeks, unborn babies respond to sound like mom or dad’s voice, feel pain, and may even survive outside the womb – and as longtime Colorado abortionist Warren Hern knew well, most abortions regardless of gestational age involve healthy babies and healthy moms. Women, however, are at significantly more risk of dying in late-term abortions. If that wasn’t enough, just weeks after Lexi’s death, Colorado Democrats passed a law forcing taxpayers to pay for even more abortions in Medicaid and in health coverage for children.”

Dannenfelser finished with a call for federal action:

“This is a national disgrace that calls for national leadership and solutions. Abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood don’t deserve a dime of taxpayer dollars. We thank House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune for their work to defund [JD1]Big Abortion in reconciliation. We also strongly support legislation in Congress to ensure that dangerous, inhumane dismemberment abortions cannot happen anywhere in our great nation. In America, where you live should not determine whether you live.”

And to think, Planned Parenthood still receives taxpayer money to end lives, both legally and incompetently.

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NBC News sides with Chinese agent, worried her arrest would cause racial backlash

Well, this headline from NBC News proves that the brain rot on our college campuses seeps into the workplace—you already knew that. You saw glimpses of it at The New York Times when they forced Bari Weiss, a liberal by the way, out of her job over her pro-Israel and free speech stances. 

When an elected official is busted for being a foreign agent, that’s a problem. It’s a story. What’s not a story is the speculation that some racial backlash could happen. Alas, that’s what the outlet found to be the most pressing matter (via NBC News):

The resignation of a Southern California mayor who pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent for China has sparked backlash and reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination.

Earlier this week, Eileen Wang, 58, admitted to federal law enforcement that she “secretly served the interests of the Chinese government,” according to the FBI. She agreed to plead guilty to a single count of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government and resigned as mayor of Arcadia, a predominantly Asian city in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles.

Political figures including Bernadette Breslin, a spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said the indictment was another example of Chinese-led plans to weaken the United States from within.

But racist comments began to appear on social media feeds soon after FBI Director Kash Patel announced on X the case against Wang. Many replies to Patel’s post announcing the charges suggested investigating other prominent Asian American women political figures. Others suggested violent punishment for her.

Advocates said they are concerned that this rhetoric is part of a long history of fear and discrimination that has proliferated for generations in regard to Asian communities, especially Chinese immigrants. Experts who spoke to NBC News said Asian people in the U.S. are often treated as perpetual outsiders, which can motivate violence in some cases.

It seems that those perpetrating acts of political violence are anti-Trump leftists, but it obviously goes against the narrative.

Brain Flushings tried to reach Eric Swalwell for his take on the situation, but he was indisposed with someone who goes by the name Fang Fang--just kidding, sort of.

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Union Boss Randi Weingarten Uses Members' Dues To Self-Publish Manifesto Explaining Why Everyone Who Disagrees With Her Is Literally Hitler

WASHINGTON—In a stunning display of fiscal responsibility that would make any taxpayer weep with joy, American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten tapped hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her controversial book, working with a team that raked in more than $1.4 million from the labor group, a new analysis found. Weingarten used the abundance of union-fueled resources for the liberal agenda-pushing “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy,” then pocketed a portion of the proceeds, the Freedom Foundation claimed in a new report.

Why isn't she being investigated?

Her team included an attorney who supposedly worked on the book pro bono but whose firm raked in $977,000 for various work for AFT, as well as a supposed “ghost writer” who earned over $400,000 overall from the union, the report said. The union also forked over more than $11,000 to two people who “fact-checked” and apparently took photos of the labor big for the tome, which was heralded by the publisher as a [Communist] “manifesto for our time.”

“Most AFT members pay dues in exchange for workplace representation, not to fund the union president’s literary pursuits,” said Maxford Nelsen, the Freedom Foundation’s director of research and government affairs.

“However, AFT appears to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in members’ dues on top-tier consultants, lawyers, and agents to get WFFT published,” Nelson went on. “Indeed, the wide range of expenses borne by AFT suggests that Weingarten may not have contributed anything at all financially to the enterprise.”

Weingarten is paid $469,442 by the AFT, which boasts 1.8 million members across 3,000 local affiliates. She admitted to sharing royalties with the union and its nonprofit affiliates, not to mention what she put in her own pocket.

The book was promoted by the publisher as “a manifesto for our time” and caused a stir when critics said the author suggested President Trump is a fascist. The labor leader, herself a Jew, also invoked Hitler in the book.

“Those hell-bent on unraveling democracy, pluralism, and opportunity have always attacked teachers and education,” Weingarten wrote in her book. “It’s a very old playbook. In the 1930s, Hitler and Mussolini persecuted teachers and tried to control the curriculum.”

Weingarten had pushed back on the claims and said she was describing fascistic behavior and not accusing Trump or his cabinet members of being fascists.

The Freedom Foundation analyzed AFT’s financial report, an LM-2 filed with the federal government that covered the period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025.

The group found that Weingarten noted in the book’s acknowledgments that writer Sally Kohn, a union consultant, was “indispensable as a day-to-day thought partner and collaborator.” 

The AFT paid Kohn consulting fees of $400,270 in two separate installments, according to financial records, more than triple what the union paid her in previous years.The Freedom Foundation claimed Kohn was being paid for “ghostwriting” or assisting Weingarten in writing the book, as that is a service Kohn advertises, but Weingarten’s camp pushed back and said she has worked on a number of union projects, including a union “Reconnecting McDowell” newsletter.

Weingarten’s acknowledgments also shout out fact-checker Emily Krieger. The report noted AFT paid $6,000 to Emily Krieger Editorial LLC in Bozeman, Montana. On the portfolio section of her website, Krieger says she “fact-checked” Weingarten’s book.

In her book’s acknowledgments, Weingarten also thanked attorney Charles Moerdler, counsel at Patterson Belknap Webb and Tyler LLP, for his legal review of her manuscript.

Meanwhile, AFT reported $838,039 in payments to the firm for “Legal Fees and Expenses” for “Representational Activities.” It disclosed another $139,236 in payments to Patterson Belknap for “Legal Fees and Expenses” under “Union Administration.” It almost sounds as if Weingarten bought a book, rather than have written one.

That’s a combined $977,275 in payments to Moerdler and his firm. The foundation claimed at least a portion of the costs likely covered Moerdler’s work on the book but Weingarten said he helped on a pro-bono basis.

The longtime AFT lawyer’s firm had been involved in the union’s litigation against a “divisive concepts” law in New Hampshire and establishing the union’s AI Academy, a spokesperson said.

The AFT also disclosed making $64,090 in payments for “publication expenses” to “InkWell Management, Penguin Random House Co.” InkWell lists Weingarten as one of its clients.

While not separately itemized on AFT’s financial report, Weingarten’s book also acknowledged the contributions of nearly 30 AFT staff members who helped with the book.

“Also undisclosed, but potentially substantial, is the amount AFT likely paid in travel expenses and other costs associated with Weingarten’s nationwide tour to promote her book,” Nelson said.

The analysis also questioned the destination of all proceeds and royalties from Weingarten’s book. Weingarten publicly stated that some of the proceeds would go back to the AFT, the AFT Disaster Relief Fund and the AFT Educational Foundation, because she is just so darn generous. 

But the report also disclosed two “royalty payments” totaling $125,000 to a Weingarten-controlled entity called “Teachers Want What Kids Need, LLC,” which the analysis points out is not a tax-exempt charity but “an opaque corporate entity incorporated in Delaware.”

“It has no website or discernible public-facing presence of any kind,” the Freedom Foundation said in its report. Weingarten panned the group’s analysis as a “fishing expedition” by a right-wing group but admitted that the proceeds of the book are “shared equally” between her and the union. She claimed she never hid that she would split the proceeds.“This desperate fishing expedition by a far right group that refuses to disclose its donors only proves my book’s point, that Fascists Fear Teachers,” Weingarten told The Post.

“Educators need people making the public case for them, for critical thinking and for public schools. I am glad to have been in full partnership with the union on this project, and any and all proceeds from the book are shared equally.”The Freedom Foundation is a conservative think tank whose mission is to challenge “entrenched power of left-wing government union bosses who represent a permanent lobby for bigger government, higher taxes, and radical social agendas,” its website says.

Weingarten previously headed the AFT’s New York City affiliate, the United Federation of Teachers.Sources close to the AFT confirmed the whole thing was just teachers being teachers: using other people's money to explain why other people having money is fascism.

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Tlaib resolution recognizes ‘ongoing nakba,’ calls for ‘right of return,’ that is, the destruction of Israel

Her mouth is cavernous 

The fact that Rashida Tlaib, an agent of the Palestinian jihad that is working for the destruction of Israel, sits as a member of the United States House of Representatives is a stark indication of how profound the rot in American politics has become, and how deeply the forces of jihad have managed to infiltrate the institutions of the republic. She does not recognize, of course, the elementary historical reality that the Arabs left Israel in 1948 because the Arab Higher Committee told them to do so.

The documentation for this is abundant and may be found in The Palestinian Delusion. Yet now she demands a so-called right of return, which this resolution explicitly includes. That would mean flooding Israel with millions of fake refugees, for under the unique and generous definitions employed by the United Nations even the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and beyond of those who left in 1948 count as refugees. The result would be the demographic destruction of the Jewish state and its transformation into a twenty-third Arab Muslim state. This resolution is in effect a call for Congress to endorse the ideology of those who attacked the United States on 11 September 2001.

US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Thursday reintroduced a congressional resolution recognizing the 78th anniversary of what she described as the “ongoing nakba,” using the Arabic term for “catastrophe” deployed by Palestinians and anti-Israel activists to refer to the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. 

The real catastrophe is that the moment Israel became the Jewish State, the Islamic Middle East wanted to destroy it.

The resolution, introduced on the anniversary of Israel’s independence, accuses the Jewish state of carrying out “ethnic cleansing,” “apartheid,” and “genocide” against Palestinians, language that many pro-Israel lawmakers in Congress and advocacy groups strongly reject as inflammatory and inaccurate. Of course, those who make that claim are the perpetrators who make that blame. It seems like the world forgot what happened on October 7, 2023.

Anyway, the measure also calls for renewed US support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), an agency that employed Hamas terrorists and for that reason has faced mounting scrutiny from Israel and several Western governments over those observations.

In a statement announcing the resolution, Tlaib argued that the so-called nakba “did not end” with the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 and continues today through Israeli military operations and settlement expansion.

“War criminal Netanyahu and his cabinet have repeatedly threatened to ethnically cleanse the entire Palestinian population in Gaza, annex the land, and permanently occupy it. Today, they are extending these same threats towards southern Lebanon,” the anti-Semite congressperson said, referring to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and military operations against US-designated terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. “As we mark the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, we honor all of those killed since the ethnic cleansing of Palestine began and all those who have been forced from their homes and violently displaced from their land.”

Activists often invoke the term “nakba” when discussing the displacement of some 750,000 Palestinian Arabs following Israel’s War of Independence, many of whom left the nascent state for varied reasons, including that they were encouraged by Arab leaders to flee their homes to make way for the invading Arab armies. THEY WERE ENCOURAGED TO LEAVE ISRAEL BY ARAB LEADERS.

At the same time, about 850,000 Jews were forced to flee or expelled from Middle Eastern and North African countries in the 20th century, primarily in the aftermath of Israel’s declaring independence.

Tlaib’s disgusting resolution is co-sponsored by several prominent socialists, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Ayanna Pressley (MA), and Summer Lee (PA). 

The resolution also calls for a so-called Palestinian “right of return,” a demand insisting that potentially millions of descendants of Palestinian refugees should be able to return to the land of Israel, a step that, according to proponents, would result in the abolition of the world’s only Jewish state.

While refugees are generally defined as those who flee a country out of credible fear of persecution, UNRWA uniquely defines Palestinian refugees to include all descendants of those who left the land, regardless of where they were born.

Am Yisrael Chai!

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