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While MAGA splinters and attacks each other, the Democrats are backing the Islamification of our biggest cities, still doing DEI, and platforming terrorist supporters. Awesome. Case in point is the Texas South by Southwest Festival that hosted Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University grad student activist who organized the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel group Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
Khalil is Palestinian, with a Syrian passport, who worked for the United Nations arm that's specifically for Gaza and the West Bank. And when he was asked if he would condemn Hamas, he said it was "racist" to ask a Palestinian that. It's never racist to ask a Palestinian what they think outright about the terror group that commits massacres in their name.
A budding terrorist (I jest, I'm sure) lost her bid for Congress in the Illinois primaries last night. Kat Abughazaleh, who was indicted for anti-ICE violence, did not make it through to the next round, though my guess is that Illinois has not seen the last of her. She was one of 15 Democrats running to replace outgoing, retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky. In her speech, Abughazaleh said, "We forced our opponents to the left and to be more aggressive against this administration. We did all of this together from the ground up with everything against us."
"I’m sorry that this sucks," she added through tears. "But f*ck Trump, f*ck ICE, free Palestine, I love you." Cry more, Kat. This was the same candidate who quit a podcast interview when she was asked about being indicted on federal charges over a violent anti-ICE protest.
In the podcast, Tara Palmeri asked the former Media Matters activist turned congressional candidate, Abughazaleh about the indictment, saying "the indictment alleges that you and others, 'surrounded a federal officer's vehicle, banged on its hood and windows etched 'pig' on the side, and impeded movement.' Did you, did you etch the word pig on the side of an, of an officer's car?"
"Tara once again, this is my first time being federally indicted. Like I said, Yeah, I plan on pleading not guilty. The evidence will come out in court, and I plan on winning. Thank you so much for having me," Abughazaleh said before shutting off her camera and ditching the interview.
Libby