Over the last two weeks, the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial has been mentioned over 600 times in various news media outlets. During the same period, the Islamic terrorist massacres of Christians in Nigeria have only been mentioned around 40 times.

Why is the status of the algae in the reflecting pool more important than the lives of dozens of human beings? Part of the answer may lie in the inconvenient truth about who is doing the killing in Nigeria and who is being killed, but the other is Trump Derangement Syndrome in liquid form.

The renovation of the reflecting pool should be as apolitical as anything gets. Critical race theory has thus far failed to connect the reflecting pool to systemic racism (though no doubt if asked, its professors will claim that it was built by slaves), gender critical theory has nothing to say about the reflecting pool and ‘heteronormativity’ and the Marxists have failed to connect it to capitalism. Even the Hamas supporters have failed to show up waving their terrorist flags.

Unlike White House renovations and the battles over the renaming of the Lincoln Center, fixing the reflecting pool offers no specific benefits to Trump. And renovating it ought to have been a completely apolitical bipartisan issue with Democrats and Republicans agreeing to fix it up.

When the pool was previously renovated under Obama, Republicans did not jeer or complain even though the repairs proved woefully inadequate and shortly after the pool opened, it had to be closed again and cleaned of a massive algae outbreak that turned the whole pool green.

Republicans and conservatives did not view the algae outbreak as some sort of vindication and FOX News did not run minute-by-minute coverage of the color of the reflecting pool because they wanted a good, clean reflecting pool, and understood that a nearly century old pool was difficult to maintain, and that the challenges were not reflective of a particular administration.

That’s in sharp contrast to the media mania surrounding Trump’s renovation of the pool.

What the reflecting pool really reflects then is Trump Derangement Syndrome in its purest state. There is nothing to muck the waters with except the obsession with opposing anything that President Trump does simply because he’s doing it. And the fact that the media has provided more coverage to the reflecting pool than some regional wars shows what its base looks like.

The media is now filled with headline coverage from major media stories such as “What Color Is the Reflecting Pool? An Investigation” from The Atlantic, “Reflecting Pool woes: Trump administration turns to hydrogen peroxide in latest bid to beat back algae” from CNN, “Why the Washington DC Reflecting Pool became a global talking point” from the BBC and “What I Saw at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Monday Afternoon” from the Wall Street Journal.

Two weeks of relentless media coverage of the reflecting pool reflects the fact that the media caters to a demographic that is obsessed with the most minute and petty score settling with Trump and that any story no matter how objectively unimportant can be blown up for its sake.

The media’s radical leftist turn has left it dependent on two demographics, the smallest one of leftists, and the larger one of older white liberals who are obsessed with social media narratives about Trump even while caring very little about the socialist policy agitprop that drives the Left.

It’s this latter demographic that pushes the media into orgies of idiocy that have to be seen to be believed. The Left wants to contend that Trump is a manifestion of heterocapitalist white supremacy, while the TDS’ers want stories about how Trump lies about his weight, has trouble walking down the stairs, drinks too much diet coke, raped everyone between New York and California, and how he ruined the reflecting pool. And since this is the demographic that keeps the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC (MS NOW) and CNN afloat, the end result is not only a wildly biased media, but a fundamentally malicious and unserious one.

Jeering the renovation of the reflecting pool isn’t progressive: it’s the kind of thing done by those who no longer know the difference between defeating their political opponents and defeating America. Leftists hate Trump because they hate America while TDSers hate America because they hate Trump. It’s why polls show that this particular demographic answers that it’s not proud of America when Trump is in office, but has pride in America when Democrats take power.

The leftist hostility to America at least reflects a consistent philosophy while TDS is a kind of social contagion primarily manifesting among older white female liberals whose worldview is derived from social media and whose politics comes down to opposing anything Trump does.

That includes renovating the reflecting pool.

The Lincoln Memorial and the reflecting pool have arguably played more of a cultural role in liberal events with numerous rallies trying to recapture the spirit of MLK’s speech. Liberals should want to see the pool restored to its original reflective quality, ‘reflecting the heavens’ and the Washington Monument, testifying to George Washington’s role in envisioning reflecting pools in the local architecture, and providing a majestic setting for national events.

When liberals root for the restoration of the reflecting pool to fail, they’re telling on themselves.

The reflecting pool started life as a vision, but also as a way to drain the swamps of D.C. and capture the excess water. The difficulty in maintaining the massive pool has posed a challenge for over a century, but it’s also a testament to the idea that Washington D.C. could be cleaned up. Today, liberals seem to celebrate the idea that it has to stay dirty and jeer Trump for trying to clean up its crime problem, its filth and waste and the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.

But the pool is also a promise. It offers us a chance to see America and some of its greatest landmarks as they should be. The pool can reflect the petty hatreds, the small-minded malice and miserable schadenfreude of Trump Derangement Syndrome or a bright American future.

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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“A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears,” Houston’s PBS station reported.

“They’re Conservative, Vote Republican, and Love America. The Texas GOP Wants Them to Leave,” a Texas Monthly story complained.

The story of how the supposed “patriotic” Republican Muslims were being kicked out made the rounds of the media.

There was one little problem. None of it was true.

According to the Texas Monthly story, Tarek Hussein is a Republican who believes in “liberty, freedom, and small government” and saw the convention as a “a terrifying sign of where his once-beloved party is heading”.

FEC donations however show that Hussein contributed to the political campaigns of Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Al Green, Rana Abdelhamid, Rep. Shri Thanedar, Sri Kulkarni, and even further leftists like Pervez Agwan, along with Keith X. Ellison. They all have something in common and it isn’t “liberty, freedom and small government”.

Hussein had also donated to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, as well as Cynthia McKinney’s campaign and Lyndon LaRouche’s campaign. FEC records show him making periodic donations to the RNC and Republican committees, a useful way to build influence in the party, but his last recorded FEC donation to a Republican candidate was back in 2012.

This shouldn’t be too surprising because Hussein, an Egyptian immigrant and Islamist activist, is actually the co-founder of the Houston branch of CAIR. While media accounts misleadingly describe CAIR as a “civil rights group”, it’s actually an unindicted coconspirator in funding Islamic terrorists, and publicly supported the Hamas attacks of Oct 7 and other terrorists.

According to Texas Monthly, Hussein was joined by his son who, “like his father, Mohamed Hussein is a sterling Republican.” Just as ‘sterling’ since the only individual FEC donations showing up for Mohamed Hussein are to Rep. Al Green and Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign in Michigan. There are also five unnamed ActBlue donations and two WinRed ones.

Texas Monthly, Texas Tribune and the rest of the media that picked up the story could have done the same 5 minute FEC search, but that would have ruined their false narrative.

The Texas Tribune also profiled the supposed agony of a Muslim husband and wife, Amjad Muhtaseb and Samar Halabi, who were at the GOP convention as delegates and claimed to be Republicans and conservatives.

“We believe in Adam and Eve,” Amjad Muhtaseb claimed. “We don’t believe in this, multiple gender. We don’t drink. We don’t gamble. We are against pornography.” They supposedly ‘hope to bring more Muslims into the Republican Party.’

The only FEC donations for a man of that name are to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Harris County Democratic Party, ActBlue and a Democrat candidate.

Only afterwards does the Texas Tribune story mention that Muhtaseb heads the Houston branch of the Muslim American Society. The MAS emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent organization of Hamas and Al Qaeda, and is an organization with destructive ambitions.

The actual buried lede is that officials from Islamist groups that have terrorist connections attended the Texas GOP convention and there were calls to kick them out. Despite headlines and stories claiming that they were “patriotic”, “sterling Republicans” and “love America”, they have mostly donated to Democrat candidates and especially to Islamist political candidates.

These activists managed to get into a Republican convention and then staged tearful confrontations, hysterical outbursts and claims of victimhood that the media then ate up while failing to report that the activists were leaders of hate groups and aligned with the Democrats.

The media in this case is the Texas Tribune, a left-wing agitprop site funded by the Ford Foundation, the Gates Foundation and other lefty groups, whose former reporter Robert Downen, “a reporter covering democracy and the threats to it, including extremism, disinformation and conspiracies”, seeded the same fake news into Texas Monthly.

But there are some questions here that serious reporters might have wanted to ask. The Texas Monthly profile of Tarek Hussein claims that “in 1992, the Egyptian-born physical therapist left a job teaching kinesiology at the prestigious Cairo University to move to Texas with his wife.”

The donations for Tarek and Mohamed appear to be associated with a home health care company known as ‘All About Home Care’. Tarek, who claims to have a BA and PhD in physical therapy from Cairo was also listed as the CEO of something called “Luxur Health Services” that also provides home care, occupational therapy and skilled nursing. Another record suggests that he’s also the CEO of All Health Services, which has a different address and phone number.

That’s a lot of hats for one man to wear.

When Tarek Hussein isn’t involved in his multiple health care companies, in his role in CAIR or in trolling the GOP convention, he’s a preacher at the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, a co-founder of Iman Academy and the Clear Lake Islamic Center where the imam had hailed the Oct 7 attacks and mourned the death of a Hamas leader.

The Clear Lake Islamic Center has been the subject of controversy because of its support for terrorism and government funding. The Islamic Society of Greater Houston network of mosques had been attended by New Orleans Car Jihad terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar who killed 14 people and wounded 27 in his New Year’s terrorist attack. The imam at the mosque had described non-Muslims as “worse than animals.”

Attendees at the GOP convention who were ambushed by Hussein and other Islamists occupying parts of Texas might have asked them about these hateful views, and perhaps they did, but the same media that pretended the Islamists who donate to Democrats were really “sterling Republicans”, would have lied about it anyway.

As a paper presented by Tarek Hussein to The Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America at their Imam’s Conference in Dallas stated, Hussein’s mission is “to promote justice, understanding, and Islamic values in American society.” The incident at the GOP convention once again showed how those values interact with American society. And the price we pay for those values.

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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“It’s a front-row seat to history, no matter where you are,” the Obamas promised everyone coming to the opening of their grim towering $850 million Obama Presidential Center.

But much like Barack Obama’s famously cynical slogan, “we are the ones we have been waiting for”, some had actual front row seats to the Obama post-history while others were out back.

Most of the three thousand or so people who flocked to serve as human props for the official opening of the massively ugly addition to the Chicago skyline were forced to squat in camp chairs on the dying grass of what remained of a once beloved neighborhood park, burning in the hot sun, while their betters, politicians and celebrities, watched the spectacle up close.

Media reporting spent a good deal of time spotting celebrities in the VIP section. There was a sprightly Tom Hanks in sunglasses, there was Oprah, on her fortieth diet, and girlfriend Gayle King, and there was Stephen Colbert, both of whose tenures at CBS had crashed and burned, and there was LA Mayor Karen Bass who had to return home after Los Angeles burned down again which seems to happen every time the politician with a 31% approval rating leaves town.

And then again there were the people who actually mattered, who had made Obama and the era of radicalism he brought into national politics, which has only intensified since, happen.

“Dig it!” the old woman in the third row of the Obama Presidential Center, had once gloated over the brutal murder of Sharon Tate by the Manson Family. “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!”

“Kill all the rich people,” the old man wearing the Communist ‘red star’ had defined his radical movement. “Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents.”

Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (pictured above from 2009), the former terrorist leaders of the Weathermen and the Chicago power couple who spotted Obama and moved him up the political ladder getting third row seats to the opening of the Obama Presidential Center spoke more eloquently about what Obama represented than any of the hollow political speeches and media press releases.

“We want to find a way to turn toward each other again,” Barack Obama claimed, insisting that he stood for the traditional American values of ,“fairness and common sense and mutual respect.”

But what he actually stood for was sitting in the third row and wearing the Communist star. The same media that could see Nazi symbols at every conservative event (but somehow can’t process a Nazi SS tattoo when it’s worn by their senate nominee in Maine) didn’t even believe that Obama’s mentor getting a front row seat to the opening of his presidential center while wearing the symbol of a movement responsible for the mass murder of millions mattered.

Bill Ayers was pretty clear about what Obama represented. Far more than Obama will ever be.

“The people who tried to say that Obama palled around with terrorists, that he had Palestinian friends, that he had a black nationalist minister, none of that s___ worked,” Ayers told the one reporter who stopped him to chat. And it’s true.

Obama didn’t represent American values, but the destruction of American values.

Without Obama, Congress wouldn’t include a Somali mass murderer’s daughter and an open apologist for Islamic terrorism, and the next Congress wouldn’t likely include an associate of the World Trade Center bombing’s religious leader, Hisham ‘Adam’ Hamawy, or a woman who celebrated Oct 7, co-founded an organization that tweeted ‘Death to America’ and who bragged about wiping her hands on the American flag (courtesy of her political backer, Zohran Mamdani.)

None of this is about turning “towards each other again”, but Obama’s reconciliation shtick has always been phony. The same man who claimed, “There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America” once in power, built his political machine around racial grievance, urging minorities to “punish our enemies.”

In an ironic note, Barack Obama referenced that line again in his speech, decrying Republicans for supposedly seeing “some groups and some people as more equal than others and see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils and punish enemies.”

It’s always been the Obamas who are out to punish enemies, making a point of not inviting President Trump to the opening of their center, and then launching attacks at him anyway.

The resentment was never far from the surface. In her remarks, Michelle Obama ranting to her husband about conservatives who questioned “your birthright and your faith and your patriotism.” How could anyone possibly question the patriotism of a man who not only invited domestic terrorists to the inauguration of his presidential center, but gave them front row seats.

It wasn’t the suckers in the camp chairs on the lawn still pining for the vanished Obama charm in between ‘No Kings’ rallies and New York Times op-eds and Wordle puzzles who had the ‘front row seat to history’ promised by the Obama Presidential Center, but Ayers, whose alum had served two terms in the White House and whose other alum was the LA mayor.

Ayers had bragged about sending members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. Former Rep. Karen Bass had gone to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. That Castroite connection had reportedly caused the Biden team to turn her down for the VP slot that eventually went to Kamala, but she still took over Los Angeles.

And now showed up to party with the Obamas and watch her city burn from a distance.

None of this is the story that was told by the Obamas, their political allies or the media. But that political narrative in which the Obamas represented the best of America, bringing us together before Trump tore us apart, is just more propaganda wallpaper slapped over bloody walls.

The Weathermen were a murderous Marxist terrorist organization dedicated to bringing down the United States. After they realized that planting bombs wouldn’t work, they turned to politics.

And the Left accomplished with politics what it never managed to do with explosives.

“We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men,” Prairie Fire, a book co-authored by Ayers, Dohrn and other radicals declared. “Revolutionary war will be complicated and protracted. It includes mass struggle and clandestine struggle, peaceful and violent, political and economic, cultural and military, where all forms are developed in harmony with the armed struggle.”

The political struggle represented by Barack Obama, Bass and so many of the other radicals is just one element of a campaign to bring down America, carried out “in harmony” with terrorism.

Barack Obama may have seated his two terrorist mentors in the front rows, but he made no direct reference to them, except for having “found my community here, friendships that would last a lifetime.” Those friendships and that community are still aimed at the same mission.

The Obama Presidential Center opening with the grim post-modernist prison block of a tower, the celebrities and radical elites, is deliberately meant to contrast with the upcoming traditional celebrations of America for the 250th anniversary of its bid for freedom. America has a choice between the radical vision of national destruction and the foundational one of national liberation.

It’s a choice between two revolutions, between “all men are created equal” and “kill your parents”. No matter how much Obama pretends that he represents the former, by placing the Weathermen up front, he made it clear that all these years later, he still represents the latter.

“Happy Birthday, Ho Chi Minh!!” Ayers had posted a month earlier. “Happy Birthday Cathy Boudin!! LIVE LIKE THEM! We love, love, love you!!!!”

Kathy Boudin had been a member of the Weathermen who, along with the May 19th Communist Organization, had distracted two police officers while her associates murdered them. No word on whether Boudin, now, like Ayers, an academic, was at the Obama Presidential Center opening, but like Ho Chi Minh, she was there in spirit.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

The memorandum of understanding or MOU of the first phase of the new Iran Deal contains 14 points. Of those 14 points, 5 of them (4, 6, 7, 10, 11) represent unilateral commitments being made by the United States to Iran including the suspension of a naval blockade, all sanctions, and $300 billion in financing, while only 1 (5) represents a commitment by Iran to end its blockade, not to the United States, but to regional Muslim countries with whom it will negotiate.

Two of the financial clauses benefiting Iran (10,11) that allow Iran access to its frozen funds and provide waivers for its oil exports are to be immediately activated after the MOU is signed. Two others (6,7) offering $300 billion in investment capital and an end to all sanctions are to be potentially given to Iran as part of a ‘final deal’ that is to be reached in 60 days or later. This in theory makes these two clauses contingent on some hypothetical Iranian nuclear deal.

Iran makes no unilateral commitments to the United States. It does not commit to ending its nuclear program. It does not promise to stop financing attacks by its Iraqi and Yemeni terrorist proxies against the United States which have killed multiple American military servicemembers well before the current conflict. Terrorism isn’t even mentioned in the MOU even though virtually all of Iran’s attacks on Americans have taken the form of proxy terrorist attacks worldwide.

The deal has the United States and Iran agreeing not to use military force, an area where we are strong and Iran is weak, with no mention of ending proxy terrorist attacks, an area where they are strong and we are weak, so that even the central multilateral commitment is heavily skewed to favor Iran, allowing its terrorists to operate, while our military stands down.

After multiple Iranian terrorist plots in the United States, including against President Trump and members of the Trump administration, the MOU does not even technically secure a promise not to carry out more attacks. The MOU only mentions an end to “military operations” or “use of force” that Iran can plausibly argue do not cover terror plots by its proxies. Nor do they cover Iran’s efforts to rig past presidential elections with hacking plots aimed at Trump officials although the second clause can technically be used to argue that would be a violation.

The only thing Iran commits to is opening up the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for immediate access to billions in frozen cash, waivers for oil exports and diplomatic protection from the United States for its Hezbollah proxies in Lebanon responsible for the torture, kidnapping and killing of hundreds of Americans, including 220 Marines in Beirut, with the eventual promise of an end to U.S. and UN sanctions and $300 billion in ‘investments’ to be promoted by us.

None of these are opinions; they are simple facts that anyone can read for themselves.

Iran gets every single thing it could want from this deal. The only thing we get from it is the reopening of the Hormuz Strait. And we don’t even get to negotiate the terms directly with Iran. And Iran has shown it will close the strait any time it likes to blackmail us.

The idea here is that Iran gets billions of dollars up front and the promise of $300 billion and an end to sanctions if it reaches a final deal with us. This is the kind of deal that makes sense to the businessmen who negotiated it, but is completely clueless about the beliefs and motivations of the Islamic terrorists who run Iran, as they were about the motivations of the Taliban.

But even from a business side, the negotiating strategy is as lopsided as anything Kerry did.

The MOU already spells out American concessions for the final deal, ($300 billion and an end to sanctions) while Iran does not offer any final deal concessions. It only “reiterates” that it will not develop nuclear weapons. J.D. Vance and proponents of the deal have already stated that Iran’s ballistic missile program, already the subject of sanctions, will be off the table in a final deal.

That means that Vance has already made a huge concession to Iran ahead of the final negotiations. And Iran has made no similar concessions which means that if we go by its past actions under Obama and Biden, it’s going to want even more concessions at the table.

Whatever one may think about a war with Iran, none of this is objectively good dealmaking.

The nuclear agreement in the final deal, as laid out in the MOU, will in theory deal with Iran’s stockpiled enriched nuclear material by ‘downblending’ it on site under the supervision of the UN’s IAEA nuclear agency. The IAEA has not proven to be especially credible and the ‘downblended’ material will presumably remain in Iran where it can be enriched again.

In the best case scenario, this resets the clock a bit, and the MOU leaves open the door to further Iranian enrichment (8) “the two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear needs.”

Iran has no ‘nuclear needs’. It’s an energy superpower. It wants nuclear weapons. Allowing it any nuclear capability opens the door to nuclear weapons and ‘dirty’ nuclear bombs.

And the deal is potentially even worse than we know.

Just as in the Obama Iran Deal, there are secret ‘side deals’ that J.D. Vance is calling ‘Gentleman’s Agreements’. These agreements between Iran’s terror regime and the administration are currently being kept secret from the American people. While it would be nice to trust the administration, it already lied to us that the leaked copy of the MOU that appeared in the media was not the actual agreement. Now we know that it was the same basic deal.

The MOU is a humiliating surrender to Iran, but the next step is a ‘final agreement’ that would be binding through the mechanism of a UN Security Council resolution. That means President Trump or any future administration would potentially be in violation of a UN resolution if hostilities resumed with Iran. There is no mention of such a final agreement however serving as a treaty to be ratified by the Senate. Just ratified by the United Nations.

That’s the same unconstitutional gimmick used by the Obama administration for its Iran Deal.

It’s pretty obvious why the Trump administration is doing this. President Trump became frustrated because the war was taking longer than expected and rising oil prices were wreaking havoc on the economy and on poll numbers ahead of the midterm elections. He once again listened to people who were giving him bad advice and Witkoff and Qatar got Iran its best deal.

J.D. Vance and the administration have put forward no argument for the deal on its merits, only accusing opponents of “misinformation” and demanding to know what their ideal of a better deal is. This argument is borrowed chapter and verse from the Obama sales pitch for the Iran Deal.

Now that the MOU has been signed, the administration will do its best to make it seem like a good thing, and Iran, as it has every time before, will take advantage of that to humiliate the administration and extract as much as possible from the negotiations while giving nothing.

Iran has now demonstrated that it can turn the flow of oil on or off and force the United States to its knees. Now it’s going to push to expand its regional hegemony. The first step is in the MOU (1), which calls for a “permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon”. The United States is not involved in a conflict in Lebanon, but Israel is, with Hezbollah terrorists. The first clause already allows Hezbollah to attack Israel, but demands that the United States stop Israel from striking back. This is a template intended to go beyond Israel, but across the entire region.

Iran’s Islamic terrorist proxies in Iraq, Yemen and anywhere else will be given a free hand to attack while the United States will be obligated to prevent its allies, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and others to sit back and take it lest the agreement and the negotiations be broken off.

The longer Iran stretches out the negotiations, the longer it can deploy its terrorist shield.

Iran will be able to take over much of the region and break up any American alliances because our allies will have a choice between fighting back, cutting a separate deal with Iran or breaking their ties with us. Much like the Cold War collapses under Truman, Nixon and Carter, the United States will end up betraying our allies and handing entire regions over to our enemies.

The Iranians have clearly studied that history and just as clearly, our negotiations haven’t.

There has been a lot of hysteria about the Iran Deal from both sides. That’s why it’s important to look at the basic facts of the memorandum of understanding and translate them into the real world. The answer isn’t to ‘trust the plan’, but to stop making deals with Islamic terrorists.

The Trump administration has done important work in cutting down on Islamic mass migration and cracking down on its networks in this country, but there is much still to be done, and the greatest tragedy is that despite vital clarity from President Trump on Islamic terrorism, his administration lacks anyone with an actual understanding of Islam and its motivations. Instead our diplomatic maneuvers continue to be handled by American businessmen like Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner who have financial ties to the state sponsors of Islamic terrorism.

That’s bad news for America. And it’s bad news for the Trump administration which needs to clean out the useful idiots of Islam, instead of putting them in charge of our foreign policy.

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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In the four years before President Trump returned to the White House, the United States of America experienced an unprecedented mass migration. From millions of ‘migrants’ crossing the border to six figures worth of unvetted Afghans being brought here illegally, the invasion wrecked entire cities, cost local communities untold billions and led to crime and violence.

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The first known Pakistani Muslim rape grooming gang incident in the UK took place in 1955 and involved Pakistanis in Bradford and a 15-year-old girl. As the latest grooming gang inquiry notes, this took place after the British Nationality Act 1948 enabled mass migration to the UK.

More cases involving girls as young as 11 years old began to pop up in the sixties, often centering around Bradford, with headlines such as “Girl Mauled by Pakistani in Trafalgar Square” (1961) and “Pakistani Indecent Assault on 11 year old in Leicester” (1962) and then on through the years and the decades of Islamic systemic trafficking of underage girls in the UK.

The latest inquiry into the Muslim sex grooming gangs conducted by MP Rupert Lowe estimates 250,000 as a low figure for the number of mostly white English girls assaulted in 149 districts making up nearly 40% of such districts in the UK. in which the perpetrators range from a British Muslim ‘lord’ to police officers, taxi drivers and restaurateurs who helped traffic the victims.

The 70 years of Muslim rape gangs represent not just individual crimes or even gang crimes, but a systemic ‘Rape Jihad’ akin to the systematic Muslim sexual assaults during the Armenian genocide, the mass abductions of women and girls from Europe under the Ottoman Empire, the Hamas sexual assaults of Oct 7, and the sexual assaults on Iranian protesters by ‘police’.

As the report notes, “250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.”

The 219-page report makes it clear that these attacks were driven by a cultural ‘honour- and shame-based clan code’ among Pakistanis and other Muslims, as well as by “theological and legal aspects of Islam” that demand “enmity towards non-Muslims”, “a system of sex slavery that authorises sexual relations with non-Muslim captives, and a religiously sanctioned social hierarchy that subjugates conquered non-Muslims.” These are the essentials of Islamic life.

“Before they raped me, they would chant, ‘In the name of Allah the most merciful,’” one victim described. In other cases, “perpetrators shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and boasted of racial supremacy.”

Victims of the Muslim rape gangs testified that the perpetrators justified the abuses in Islamic terms. “Many times I was told that the Quran says, ‘If one of your wives disobeys you, beat her. This was often quoted to me before they beat me with their hands. They believed they had a position of religious moral superiority over ‘nonbelievers.’ They believed it was their duty to punish us, as they believed that doing so made them good Muslims.”

This is the same thing that the girls raped by ISIS reported. A 12-year-old Yazidi girl enslaved by ISIS remembers her Muslim rapist telling her that his rape is an act of worship and that by raping her, “he is drawing closer to Allah.” Another told a 15-year-old girl that his rape is a “prayer to Allah.” But ISIS sex slavery has been happening all along across the UK.

Some of the victims in the UK were put through Islamic ‘marriage’ ceremonies in the presence of Imams and received ‘conversion certificates’ from mosques before they were raped.

But this systemic assault on hundreds of thousands of women and girls could not have happened without the complicity of leading Muslim and non-Muslim government officials.

The latest inquiry points the finger at London Mayor Sadiq Khan and even the prime minister, noting that “while Sir Keir Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions, it has been reported that 13,000 suspected rape gang members and paedophiles were let off with warning letters.”

The report mentions Lord Nazir Ahmed who was “convicted in 2022 of multiple child sex offences, including rape of a 13-year-old girl” and noted that “survivors described him as part of the same networks that enabled Rotherham’s grooming gangs” with thousands of victims.

The cover-up of the systemic assaults and trafficking was equally systemic with the media teachers, police officers, social workers and medical professionals choosing to look away from the assaults, from severe genital trauma in little girls, from trafficking hubs in social services settings, from Muslim police officers warning victims and parents not to report the assaults.

One victim who was forcibly converted, forced to learn the Koran and undergo eight forced abortions, tried to report what was happening to the police. “She was interviewed by a Muslim officer who switched off the tape recorder and instructed her to drop her allegations because of ‘lack of evidence.’ She later learned that this officer was imprisoned for child sex offences.”

Some girls who may have been trafficked to Muslim countries are likely lost beyond recovery.

Muslim and allied police officers and social workers reported the girls to the gangs who then committed horrifying abuses to make examples out of them. “One of the worst punishments I ever witnessed involved another girl who was accused of reporting one of the men to the police… I then witnessed an iron being used on the girl’s back while it was hot. I remember seeing severe burns and skin damage to her back. My recollection is that the girl later died. I remember seeing her being strangled afterwards in that room.”

And the cover-up still continues. Even though the report notes that “87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation cases bore distinctively Muslim names”, the Starmer government and UK elites continue to deny the Islamic component of the assaults.

The report confirms that “the overwhelming majority of the rape gang networks consisted entirely of men from Muslim backgrounds – predominantly of Pakistani heritage, although smaller groups from Somali, Iranian, Syrian, Turkish, and other Muslim origins were also involved.” The assaults were motivated by racial and religious prejudices with the victims taunted about their race and religion. One victim was “mocked for wearing a cross and being told that ‘her Christian faith offered her no protection.’” Not in the UK, it certainly didn’t.

One single racially motivated rape of a Muslim would have set the UK on fire with investigations, trials and huge prison sentences. Yet over 250,000 Muslim rapes of non-Muslims who were told that they were worthless “white trash” or “kuffar” have led to little except more cover-ups.

And there is every reason to believe that the Mohammed Class in the UK is getting away with it.

This isn’t mere crime. This is a systemic ethnic cleansing in which the perpetrators target a racial and religious group by going after its women and girls, and enslave or convert them similar to the ‘Love Jihad’ in India or the abductions of Christian girls by Muslims in Nigeria.

This is genocide.

The earliest reported Pakistani Muslim sexual assault on an English girl took place in 1850. The earliest known Muslim sex grooming gang assault happened in 1955. 70 years later it’s still going on. The Mohammed Class is still raping girls just like these somehow across the UK.

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Zohran Mamdani is promising free grocery stores, free housing and free everything, but the only free thing New Yorkers can really count on getting for free is an infectious disease.

And flavored condoms for the sickest city in America.

Gonorrhea rates in New York City have more than doubled in a decade and syphilis is ‘surging’ statewide. Mamdani’s Department of Health has responded to this crisis by rushing a free supply of lubricant and chocolate flavored condoms.

“Providing high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare services is a priority for the Mamdani Administration,” explained NYC Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Helen Arteaga, an Ecuadorian immigrant who had been the CEO of a disastrous Queens city hospital where over a dozen patients had died of COVID in one day. “Making safer sex products more accessible to the most affected and vulnerable communities is a critical public health need.”

Councilwoman Pierina Sanchez, a Mamdani ally, explained that the free chocolate flavored condoms were necessary because “inequities persist among women, low-income households, and Black and Latino New Yorkers.”

The free condoms are coming from Karex, a Malaysian company operating under the ONE name in the United States which has been accused of slavery after workers claimed that there were no working toilets and poisonous snakes. That seems a lot more like real inequity than the people who claim to be victims getting free chocolate flavored condoms from the government.

But supplying chocolate flavored condoms to the “vulnerable” doesn’t seem to have helped.

Ahead of the World Cup and Pride Month, New York State’s Department of Health is warning about “a rise in sexual activity and sexually transmitted infections” and offering medications for anyone “with chlamydia, gonorrhea, and/or trichomoniasis to deliver to their sex partner” without the need for an actual doctor visit. And NYC hospitals are on alert for hemorrhagic fevers, RSV, tuberculosis, measles, varicella, hepatitis A, typhoid, malaria, SARS, hantavirus and Ebola, but for any foreign visitors bringing in diseases, that’s a little like sending coals to Newcastle.

Despite a massive public health infrastructure that got a huge shot of steroids during COVID, the city has become ground zero for disease outbreaks so much so that when the CDC recently provided an update on measles outbreaks in the country, New York City was listed separately from New York State: the only city in the country to receive this dubious honor.

And indeed, New York City is on its sixth case of measles so far this year, including one case in Manhattan by a person who had visited Mexico and then stopped by the Met to take in a performance of La Bohème about 19th century hipsters dying of tuberculosis.

Speaking of TB, NYC’s Health Department had marked ‘World Tuberculosis Day’ by confessing to 743 cases in the city along with 10 of the most feared ‘drug resistant strains’ and blaming racism because “TB continued to disproportionately affect non-Hispanic black and Hispanic people”. But whose fault is that when Mamdani’s Health Department is run by Alister F. Martin, a Kamala advisor famous for creating Vot-ER to register patients visiting an ER to vote.

“Sorry Timmy, you’ve got TB. But now that you’re in the ER, let me register you to vote for my political party. The one on the bottom is your ‘Do Not Resuscitate After Election Day’ form.”

Then, lest anyone be concerned about how seriously the NYC Health Department was taking the TB outbreak, it promoted a TB conference that it was co-hosting in New Jersey, where attendees are less likely to get TB, featuring cast members from ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical.’

Of course, Mamdani’s Health Department has its hands busy with all the diseases, of which measles and TB are just the tip of a very infectious iceberg. After a Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in city buildings in Harlem killed 5 people last year, several residents in Manhattan public housing came down with the disease this year. Residents in public housing were told to stop taking showers and fill up bathtubs very slowly as they try to figure out what’s causing it.

Health officials hadn’t gotten around to issuing this warning until the second person came down with the disease, but that’s a step up from last year when the source of the outbreak turned out to be the site of the New York City Public Health Laboratory: a ‘state of the art’ $454 million glass and steel tower whose bureaucrats would be “tasked with protecting and promoting the health of all New Yorkers and keeping the city at the forefront of disease response and investigation” which instead infected around 100 people with a disease.

New York City residents would have been healthier without blowing half a billion dollars on a new building to stay at the forefront of disease responses by infecting people with the diseases.

Much like firefighters starting fires, that is one way to stay at the forefront of disease responses.

What ought to have been a national news story and laughingstock stayed quietly local to avoid embarrassing the inept public health bureaucracy any further after the COVID years.

At least the Hepatitis A outbreak in NYC wasn’t caused by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, but by shellfish from NYC Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Helen Arteaga’s native Ecuador. The outbreak currently covers Brooklyn and Queens where Mamdani’s base lives and where people died in the hospital being run by Artega.

Still, in exciting disease news, New York City registered its first case of monkeypox or ‘Mpox Clade I’ (which sounds much more chic) shortly into Mamdani’s term in office as part of the 79 people in the city who have tested positive for monkeypox so far this year. Mpox Clade I is considered deadlier and only 20 cases have been recorded in the United States.

What were the odds that New York City would make the list?

NYC health city authorities are urging anyone who may “identify as male, trans, nonbinary, genderqueer or gender non-conforming” and plan to visit a monkeypox country and “anticipate sex with a new partner while traveling” to get vaccinated.

And if they get taken to an ER with monkeypox, they’ll be sure to get registered to vote. And whether or not they live long enough to vote, their vote will be counted. Over a dozen times.

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Pope Leo XIV, the first American born pope, will not celebrate July 4th in America, but will instead continue his trip to promote mass migration to Europe and will accept the Liberty Medal over Zoom from the National Constitution Center (past recipients include Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Vladimir Zelensky) while on the Muslim migrant overrun Italian island of Lampedusa.

The timing is no accident. Neither is the pope’s current trip to Spain to prop up its corrupt leftist government, much of which is facing potential prison time after a series of police raids and investigations, to protect its globalist project of opening up Spain to mass migration.

“Dear migrants, before saying anything else to you, I want to bow before your dignity,” Pope Leo told the invaders who had overrun Spain’s formerly placid Canary Islands.

“Human dignity has no passport,” he insisted, a sentiment more fit for a John Lennon song than the pontiff of a church that would not exist but for a Christendom built on nations with borders and passports. But a day earlier, the pope had also insisted that “we cannot believe in Jesus and promote war” a sentiment not only foreign to the Catholic Church for the vast majority of its history, but which would have ensured the fall of Vienna and Europe to Islamic invaders.

And Rome would then have become one with Byzantium leaving the church a tiny remnant.

But at the docks of Arguineguín, a Canary Islands port that witnessed Muslim migrant mass invasions so severe that over 1,000 invaders entered in only 3 days in 2024 and on some high points in earlier years as many as 1,000 had invaded in only a single day quickly overwhelming the resources of Gran Canaria where the economy is heavily dependent on tourism.

The inability of the poor island to adequately house the invasion attracted parasitic NGOs who blasted it as the “port of shame” and organized boat pickups of invading migrants and rallies to protest because the migrants did not have the kind of ideal accommodations they deserved.

Pope Leo echoed that message, arguing that the “drama of migration” was “an appeal to the conscience of Europe, which cannot claim to uphold human dignity” and which he contended was defined by, among other things, “legal and safe pathways” to invade Europe.

“Today, here by the sea, every individual that arrives asks us what remains of our humanity,” he castigated an island that had already suffered so much at their hands. “Sooner or later, it will be known whether we protected life or whether we yielded to indifference.”

One woman at least had taken that message, the same one put out by Pope Francis, to heart.

We don’t know her name, but we do know that the Irish woman saw four Muslim migrants camping out in a city park twenty miles from where the pope is now making his appearance. It was at the height of the mass invasion of the island and she asked if she could help them with anything.

And in response they attacked her and gang raped her.

One of the Muslim rapists had previously been arrested in the area for another sexual assault before being released. Such stories have become all too commonplace in the Canary Islands where a Danish tourist was raped by 4 Moroccan Muslims, before managing to fight off the fifth man, the media noted tha there were already 16,000 Moroccans living on the Canary islands.

But the difference is that the woman had been doing what progressive politicians and clerics had been telling her to do, to show concern and to avoid indifference at the plight of migrants.

And was gang raped by them for it in a painfully apt metaphor for what is happening in Europe.

Pope Leo had no words to spare for that woman and her “human dignity” or for any others who had suffered from the mass invasion of an island, a nation and a continent by a hostile culture and religion.

The invasion, he argued, “asks us if we have recognised Christ in those who disembark.” Or perhaps, somewhat more likely, Mohammed, who also began his invasions with rape, robbery and murder. But a better question still might be whether he sees a future for Christianity in a Europe that opens its doors and its ports to Islamic mass migration.

Since the Islamic Federation of the Canary Islands was established in 2015, it now claims to have 40 mosques headquartered, ironically, in Los Cristianos. Spain now has some 2,000 mosques that grow even as the share of Catholic churches continues to decline.

Only a minority of Spanish people 18-29 describe themselves as Catholic in what was once one of the most Catholic countries in the world. There are 2.5 million Muslim settlers in Spain and in some areas like Catalonia, their numbers are approaching 10% of the population.

“From this island, I would like the voices of those who spoke today to reach those who hold significant positions of responsibility — civil authorities, parliaments, governments and international organizations — as well as Christian communities… every boat that arrives brings a question along with the migrants: what kind of world have we built?” Pope Leo asked in his address at Arguineguín.

That is a good question. And one worth asking, not with the globalist facetiousness that treats all local crises as global ones and asks us all to take responsibility for the world, rather than for our countries and our families, but that asks what kind of future has been built for Christianity and the Catholic Church in Spain?

And across Europe.

When the leader of the Catholic Church prioritizes the mass migration of Islam to Europe rather than building up Christianity even in the face of the prospect of the church becoming a minority religion, what is really being built and what is really being lost? When that same leader skips the July 4th celebrations in America, a country where the Catholic Church’s survival depends on beating the cultural odds, and instead stumps for Muslim migrants invading Italy, what is that?

We should indeed all ask ourselves what kind of world and what kinds of nations we want.

Is it one where well-meaning women are gang-raped and then forgotten again because they have been taught that helping Muslim migrants is more important than keeping themselves, their families, and their countries safe? Is it a world where western civilization has a future?

Or is it Gran Canaria, Lampedusa and the other shores where the invasion is underway?

Pope Leo says that, “human dignity has no passport,” but without passports and borders there are no nations, no civilizations and no human dignity, just invasions, robbers and rape gangs.

Or, to put it simply, Islam.

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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Graham Platner, fresh off cheating on his wife with as many as twelve women on an app known as a ‘predator’s paradise’ because of its underage users, and a story that described him manhandling an ex-girlfriend and threatening rape to show dominance, claims that his Maine senate run is about fighting the “Epstein Class”.

Hunter Biden, the disgraced former president’s son, who had been accused of being involved in sex trafficking over his obsessive pursuit of prostitutes, has taken to trying to persuade MAGA to ally with him against the “Epstein Elite Oligarch class”: a group that the globe-trotting nepo baby, who was hooked up with elite oligarchs from Ukraine to China, and profited from being part of a political party funded by Jeffrey Epstein, claims somehow does not include him.

The “Epstein class” taunt had been coined by Rep. Ro Khanna, who ran for office promising to apply the lessons of Reid Hoffman, his billionaire tech backer, who had visited Epstein’s island.

Rep. Khanna replied to Hunter Biden, “I like Hunter Biden your tweak on my Epstein class frame. Epstein Elite Oligarch class! Not bad, my friend.”

Hunter has also talked about his admiration for Rep. Thomas Massie, Khanna’s partner in claiming to care about the Epstein Files only in order to use them to target President Trump.

But considering the role that an Epstein associate played in backing Rep. Khanna’s Epstein rebrand, it was no wonder that he was happy to take Epstein memes from Hunter Biden.

Like Hunter Biden, Hoffman would have been an ideal candidate for the Epstein oligarch class.

Hoffman, a board member at Microsoft, had sent along ice cream to Epstein “for the girls”, dismissed Epstein’s time in prison for sex crimes, “he doesn’t judge people”, and offered to help Epstein with damage control, “Been giving a bit of thought to how I can help with recent press”.

Despite or perhaps because of this horrifying track record, Rep. Khanna and Hoffman teamed up to turn Epstein’s crimes against Republicans. The billionaire Epstein pal spent six figures on a Monday Night Football ad demanding the ‘release’ of the Epstein Files without revealing that the guy paying for the ad had visited Epstein’s Island and that the politician who had coined the term “Epstein Class” was joined at the hip to an actual member of the Epstein Class.

“Epstein Class” was a farce even before it was embraced by a sleazy politician posing in a towel in what looks to be a motel room as a come on for an app known for its sex trafficking and child predator rings and an even sleazier politician’s drug addict son suspected of transactions “linked to what “appears to be an Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”

Hunter Biden had spent $30,000 on prostitutes, many of whom appeared to be coming out of Russia and Ukraine, and received $5,000 from his father while with another hooker, leading Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson to dispatch a letter to the FBI director asking whether the FBI was “investigating Hunter Biden for criminal violations relating to his reported use of escorts linked to human trafficking rings?”

In what world does Hunter Biden get rebranded as a fighter against the “Epstein Class?”

The Epstein Inversion was always an artificial op, funded in part by a billionaire who had visited Epstein’s Island, and witnessed Epstein associates, women who had helped recruit underage girls and women, being rebranded as “Epstein survivors” and made the focus of rallies and ads blasting Trump and Congress for enabling Epstein, allowing the sleaziest Dem sex creeps to reinvent themselves as fighters against the ‘Epstein Class’.

The dual purpose of the op had been to redirect blame away from known Epstein associates like the Clintons and major party donors, like Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman, and at Trump and Republicans, while turning Democrat sex creeps like Graham Platner and Hunter Biden into MAGA influencers.

Hunter Biden has taken to bragging that he’s the “MAGA whisperer” and former Joe Biden spokesman Andrew Bates told the Daily Mail that Hunter Biden’s social media presence is “helpful for the party because he breaks through in a unique way about the historic corruption in Trump’s Washington, on platforms that few Democrats go on.”

Candace Owens took a brief break from her frenzied efforts to destroy Turning Point USA after Charlie Kirk’s murder to invite on Hunter and toss him a few softball questions. Mitchell Jackson, Candace’s publicist, had already written a 2023 op-ed warning Republicans not to challenge Hunter. “Everyone I know in rural America has a friend, brother, daughter, son, or acquaintance who has lost everything because of drugs,” Jackson argued. The publicist who has a BA in Queer Theory from Sarah Lawrence, grew up in “beachside Hollywood” and runs his “boutique PR firm” from Miami with his husband and three dogs, is surely immersed in rural America.

(Jackson used to go by Mitchell Sunderland: the name under which he ran into trouble over his ties to Milo Yiannopoulos who imploded after defending sex between adults and minors.)

As Hunter Biden’s podcast tour continues, he was invited on by Shawn Ryan. The Candace interview with Hunter had apparently only happened because she was asked by Ryan to name her dream guest. And that was Hunter. Some weeks later, Megyn Kelly interviewed Ryan (or the other way around) and asked him what core MAGA was. Ryan sneered, “pedophiles”.

Promoting actual monsters while calling President Trump and MAGA pedophiles isn’t an accident, it’s the entire point of the exercise. The push to rehabilitate Hunter Biden while smearing President Trump as “Epstein Class” is coming out of the sleaziest depths of politics, especially among the tapeworms who crawled into MAGA only in order to co-opt and destroy it.

The party actually responsible for Jeffrey Epstein is now free to pretend to run against the co-founder of the Clinton Global Foundation while blaming the whole thing on MAGA with the assistance of the grifter class of podcasters (Tucker Carlson had been caught privately texting Hunter Biden asking him for favors) who are eager to destroy MAGA, Trump and America.

And these days when you hear “Epstein Class”, you know it’s coming from a member of it.

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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In 2022, with over $100 million spent on a heavily contested mayoral election in Los Angeles, 646,058 votes were cast in the first round of voting

In 2026, with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on an election most people were ignoring, the current totals for the first round is at a staggering 723,472 votes.

And the election isn’t even done yet.

There had been suspicions about an influx of late arriving ballots that put Karen Bass over the top in 2022 and allowed Los Angeles to burn considering that primary turnout in the previous mayoral elections in 2017 and 2013 had been around 400,000. 2026 looks to double that.

It was already pretty impressive when the voter totals rose around 50% in 2022 even as the population increased by less than 3%, but in a truly miraculous event, they’re now about to rise 100% even as the population shrank and even during expected low voter turnout.

All the reporting indicated low early voting in the LA area only to somehow achieve an unprecedented record turnout on behalf of Mayor Karen Bass who, after letting parts of the city burn and then lying about it, enjoyed a 56% unfavorable rating and only a 31% approval rating.

In 2022, Bass had gotten 278,511 votes in the primary. Now, after burning down the city and having the approval rating of a rotten fish, she’s set to blow past her 2022 primary totals.

How does a politician with a 31% approval rating turn out more voters than she did in 2022?

This was already pretty amazing, but then the miraculous really happened when Councilwoman.

Nithya Raman, who spent less time in the city than I did, who had come in third place on Election Day and lost her own district, somehow surged and won majorities of late ballot drops.

Raman began by picking up 40% of late arriving ballots. Sure, we’ve always been told that Democrats benefit from late-arriving ballots because they just can’t be bothered to vote in person or on time, but this was a unique example of the late-arriving ballots benefiting the losing Dem in such a strategic way as to lock out Spencer Pratt: the non-establishment candidate.

The leftist councilwoman doubled her polling numbers in late arriving ballots, she performed better with those late arriving ballots than the Democrat front runner, and outperformed Pratt even while Bass performed just well enough to loosely keep her roughly 35% front slot.

That’s not the kind of outcome that happens organically in a normal election.

The ‘surge’ of late-arriving ballots, which usually boosts the Democrat front runner, instead boosted the Democrat third runner, while making the general election a battle between two leftist Democrats, one of whom supported Communist Cuba, and an even more radical newcomer. More significantly it shuts down Pratt’s critiques of the same broken system.

LA’s last mayoral election in 2022 had a similar enough twist with Rick Caruso, a successful developer, winning both the primary and the general election on Election Day, before more ‘late arriving ballots’ conveniently put Bass over the top.

Caruso went from winning the primary by 5% to losing it by 7% once those ‘late arriving ballots’ showed up. Then he won the general 51% to 49% only to lose it from those same ballots. While Bass lost on Election Day, taking in less than 49%, she picked up around 60% of every subsequent late arriving ballot drop.

That was suspicious enough, especially with turnout somehow up around 50%, but we were told that late-arriving ballots (naturally) favor Democrats, but how does one explain turnout rising by 100% and the late-arriving ballots favoring not just Democrats, but one specific Democrat.

Why would late-arriving ballots behave so differently from all the previous votes that had been cast?

Some have tried to find excuses. They’ve pointed to the one poll that favored Raman. They’ve claimed that she did better with younger voters who voted late. They’ve argued that Democrats were voting ‘strategically’ to box out Pratt. But none of those excuses makes sense. Polls can be wrong, but the poll numbers were reasonably predictive. There was no sign of a surge for Raman anywhere, especially online, where younger voters are more active and reactive. And while the party establishment may have strategic intentions, voters do not cast their ballots ‘strategically’ by voting for a losing candidate on the theory that she would end up in second place out of fear that the candidate they really support might end up losing the election.

The only people who can direct votes ‘strategically’ are the ones who command not individual ballots, but tens of thousands of them, and that is what happened in the mayoral election.

Late voter dumps consisting of harvested ballots and other dubious schemes can be used to make a mockery of elections and representative government, but when ballots are added in such numbers, they distort the overall totals leading to absurdities like voter turnout continuing to increase for Democrat candidates even as the public grows less enthused with them.

Electing Bass in 2022 required faking a massive turnout surge and 2026 has an even bigger surge. As public discontent with the political machine grows, increasingly bigger surges will have to be faked until there will be more voters than there are people living in Los Angeles.

And as the city’s population shows signs of shrinking due to miserable mismanagement by the same political machine rigging elections, that is becoming a very realistic prospect.

Meanwhile with the mayoral race now a contest between two leftists, it will be interesting to see what the turnout numbers for the general look like, and whether one or both sides will perform ballot dumps to change the outcome, and that potential civil war between election riggers will tell us a good deal about who’s rigging elections and how they’re going about doing it.

The lack of any meaningful election integrity means that worthless ballots with no valid signatures can be dumped and counted as long as they put the right people over the top. The ballot dumps for Raman locked out Pratt, but if the Left is serious about replacing Bass with Raman the following months will see an ugly showdown between the city’s top political crooks.

And that may be the only way the machine exposes itself.

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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For generations, millions of Southern Poverty Law Center fundraising letters circulated around the country with pictures of Klansmen burning crosses on the envelope and begged donors for help in fighting the Klan. As it turns out those donors who contributed to the SPLC were paying for the crosses and the hoods as the Justice Department indictment of the organization reveals.

When the Justice Department first secured its case against the leftist organization, the SPLC contended that it had only been paying off informants as part of its effort to monitor hate groups, but the new superseding indictment now reveals that the money paid out had been used to fund rallies, open new chapters, create racist materials and even “purchase materials for cross burnings” and “purchase materials to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods”.

Incredibly, the SPLC reimbursed KKK members for “all expenses they incurred for cross-burning events to include the wood and fuel used.”

Rather than fighting the KKK, donor money had been used to commit hate crimes.

According to the indictment, those on the SPLC’s payroll included the head of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of America who headed an Aryan Nations group with chapters in 17 states while getting a $2,500 monthly salary through a secret SPLC account. While the SPLC aggressively pursued patriotic organizations like the David Horowitz Freedom Center, it collaborated with the Nazi leader, and in an incredible moment, the Nazi leader “asked an SPLC employee to soften the language about him… so that it would scare off new members from joining his extremist organization. The SPLC employee agreed and changed the language.”

Even while fundraising off fighting Nazis, the SPLC provided the Nazi leader with $70,000.

That’s the same organization which had listed my blog along with a bar sign as hate groups.

Contrary to its claims of fighting hate, the Southern Poverty Law Center wasn’t trying to shut down hate groups, it was paying money to keep them going, funding their recruitment and even watering down descriptions of them to encourage new members to join their hate groups.

The SPLC fundraised off fighting another Neo-Nazi leader, the former chairman of the National Alliance, even while paying him $155,000. Other hate group leaders on the SPLC payroll included the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, the National President of the American Front, and an officer of the National Socialist Movement.

While the SPLC claimed to be doing all this to fight hate groups, the indictment documents repeated instances when Nazi and Klan members came to the SPLC trying to leave and were instead encouraged and even paid to stay and continue growing their organizations.

This might seem baffling to those who don’t know that the SPLC was founded by an Alabama lawyer named Morris Dees, who had defended a Klansman before realizing that there was more money to be made on the other side from gullible Northern liberals. Dees, a partner in a direct marketing firm, turned his law firm into the SPLC. His partner founded Habitat for Humanity. Both men were eventually brought down by racial and sexual misconduct allegations.

The Southern Poverty Law Center claimed that it was trying to destroy the Klan, but it also needed the Klan, the iconic image of a Klansman with a burning cross had earned the organization a fortune, but the trouble was that the Klan was dying out and needed to be kept alive. While the SPLC moved on to Neo-Nazis and then later to ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Transphobia’, targeting the David Horowitz Freedom Center and conservative Christian groups, none of that was nearly as lucrative for direct mail fundraising as the KKK had been.

Having studied the Southern Poverty Law Center’s marketing over the years, it was abundantly clear that the organization was constantly fundraising off manufacturing supposed increases in hate groups. These increases, as we had exposed in the past, were often faked in transparently fraudulent ways, like the SPLC’s decision to suddenly count every single chapter of an organization as a separate hate group, but they also testified to the SPLC’s real agenda.

The SPLC wasn’t making money or gaining power from eliminating hate groups, but creating them. And the superseding indictment shows that in some cases the SPLC was literally backing some of the worst and ugliest organizations in the country, including Nazis, for its fundraising.

The problem wasn’t simply that the SPLC was rotten, everyone in the industry knew that, but that law enforcement and the media insisted on taking it seriously, liaising with it, running its press releases as news stories, and refusing to question any of its abusive and corrupt behaviors. When Dees and the SPLC’s leadership were finally toppled, it was under the cover of a BLM and #MeToo reckoning, rather than an admission that the organization was built on lies, and key employees migrated to other organizations with similar fradulent business models.

The federal government may be working to take down the SPLC, but clones of it began popping up everywhere in the last decade as interest in fighting ‘misinformation’ and censoring speech online burgeoned. The Southern Poverty Law Center is finally facing its reckoning, but how many other organizations are out there also funding hate in order to fundraise off fighting hate?

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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Allah may have to go back to Afghanistan.

The local media has done its best for him. The newspapers in upstate New York argue that it’s been years since he stabbed anyone and since then he’s been keeping busy selling Halal food.

Also he’s a refugee.

The trouble began when Allah and Mohammed (full name: Waheed Allah Mohammad) stabbed his sister. His sister was looking to move to New York City and was waiting on a ride. Allah decided that she wasn’t a good Muslim girl, got a knife from his car and started stabbing her.

Later, the Afghan refugee named after both of his religion’s holy figures explained to the local cops in Monroe County that his sister was a “bad Muslim girl” who had disgraced the family by wearing immodest clothes (potentially anything short of a burka) and going to clubs.

So what was an Afghan named Allah to do?

By then it was the second case in Monroe County (named after the fifth president, who’d never had to worry about Afghans stabbing their sisters near Lake Ontario) where refugee resettlement had taken its toll and Afghans were dumped in the county over the last twenty years. It’s gotten bad enough that the New York State’s Office of Mental Health has an ‘Afghan Refugee Health Program’, but can’t help a man who wants to stab his sister for Allah.

By then, Monroe County cops had been getting used to that sort of thing after Ismail Peltek, a Turkish Muslim, went after his wife and two daughters with a hammer and a knife because his brother had raped them. He beat his wife over the head with a hammer and stabbed her to death, he fractured the skulls of his wife and daughters, and even attacked his 4-year-old daughter because a doctor gave her a gynecological exam in case she had been molested.

“I was concerned that my family’s honor was taken,” Ismail explained to the cops.

“If you had the opportunity to kill the family again, would you?” he was asked.

“My female family, yes. My male family, no,” the Muslim immigrant explained.

Incapable of processing behavior that is entirely routine in the Muslim world, the authorities decided that Ismail must be crazy because surely no culture or religion could act this way.

A year before Allah went after his sister with a knife in the name of his family honor, the court allowed Ismail to plead not guilty by reason of insanity and be institutionalized until he is no longer a danger to any female family members or anyone else. No word on his whereabouts.

“Unless you have experienced my culture firsthand, you would have no way of comprehending why my brother did what he did,” Allah’s sister had explained to the court.

Allah got ten years, served eight of them, got out, opened a Halal place and now ICE wants him out. The media is however providing Allah with lots of sympathetic coverage.

“This criminal illegal alien tried to kill his own sister,” ICE Director Todd Lyons said. “We’re conducting targeted enforcement operations to arrest and remove convicted criminals like Mohammad who pose clear threats to their families, communities and states.”

Well, the male part of the family, not the female part, as Ismail had already explained.

“He served his time. He got the right paperwork done. Now they’re going around calling him a dangerous illegal alien,” Reza Mohammad, Allah’s brother, complained.

You go around stabbing one person and suddenly people act like you’re dangerous. Even when you have all the right paperwork done.

“ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE & FELONY ASSAULT,” was how ICE put it. “We arrested Afghan criminal illegal alien Waheed Allah Mohammad during a targeted operation on New Year’s Day in Rochester, NY. He has a final removal order and was previously sentenced to 10 years in prison for his 2008 attempted homicide and felony assault convictions.”

The Democrat and Chronicle story filled most of the space with objective quotes from his brother, who described Allah as “a hard worker” who is “always laughing and joking and making our customers feel like family.” The story spent a lot of time discussing the highly relevant topic of the Halal place’s menu (chicken makhani) but much less time discussing the actual crime.

Locals, even those not fond of ISIS, were less enthused about Allah sticking around.

“This guy stabbed his sister repeatedly in an attempt to carry out an honor killing because of the way she dressed. I’m not sure why he wasn’t deported immediately upon his release from prison,” a commenter said. “I don’t agree with anything the federal govt is doing but I suggest that there are better causes for us to take up than supporting a dude trying to practice sharia law in our community.”

But since protecting Muslim terrorists and assorted misunderstood lads like Allah has currently eclipsed both Drag Queen Story Hour and Black Lives Matter in the pantheon of progressive causes, supporting a ‘dude’ stabbing his sister over the way she was dressed became a cause.

The Honorable (hopefully not in the family stabbing sort of way) Judge Lawrence J Vilardo, appointed by Barack ‘The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Would Deport Sister Stabbers Named After the Prophet and Deity of Islam’ Obama, predictably ruled in favor of Allah and the rights of Sharia sister stabbers to stick around. Judge Vilardo also barred the government from putting an ankle monitor on Allah just in case the stabbing Sharia spirit comes on him again.

Perhaps eventually the government will prevail in its case to send Allah and Mohammad back to Afghanistan, enforcing the pre-existing removal order, and letting him sell Halal food, stab sisters and do whatever his religion and culture tell him to do back home in Talibanistan.

For now though, the progressives have made New York State safe for Allah and Mohammed. And for honor killings too. As another guy named Mohammed who crashed a plane into a building further down in New York advised, “Shout ‘Allah Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” Not to mention the sisters of the believers looking to get away.

Because as long as ‘Allah’ and ‘Mohammed’ occupy New York and America, no one is safe.

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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In 2018, there were 870,044 people in San Francisco and after years of decline, that number fell to an estimated 826,079 last year. A 5% population decline should have led to a spending decline, but instead the city budget shot up from $11 billion to $16 billion.

This was up from a $6.8 billion budget in 2012 for a roughly similar population of 828.963.

San Francisco had gone from spending $8,203 per person in 2012 to spending $12,643 per person in 2018 and is now at $19,369 per person. Not only did San Francisco’s budget more than double, but accounting for the population drop, its per person spending will soon triple.

Politicians like former Mayor Gavin Newsom could get away with skyrocketing budgets when the metropolitan population was rising, but the budgets keep rising even when people leave.

Even accounting for inflation, San Francisco’s budget is up 67% in 15 years while most residents believe that city services and quality of life have grown that much worse since then.

Where has all that money been going? The 2025 budget allocated $1.6 billion to grants, much of it going to homeless services, preschools and other welfare programs rife with fraud. In 2023, $125 million went to non-existent non-profits. The actual numbers are likely to be far worse.

The growth in spending isn’t driven by actual ‘per-person’ spending, but by welfare spending directed at the most dysfunctional elements of the population but actually going to politically aligned non-profits and community groups as well as the larger social services bureaucracy. None of this spending has made any measurable progress, but its real purpose is worsening social crises to justify the rising budgets when measured against a declining population.

Los Angeles County recently made headlines for suffering the nation’s leading population decline. The county’s population hit its peak of over 10 million in 2017 when the budget was at $31.6 billion. After dropping down 200,000 residents to around 9.8 million, the budget now stands at $45.4 billion. That’s an increase of nearly 50% despite the declining population.

The budget site for the County keeps the fiction alive by claiming that it needs the money to “meet the needs of our diverse community of 10 million residents.” The actual figures show that per person spending has increased from $3,160 to $4,592 even while the population dropped.

Last month, the notoriously corrupt LA County Board of Supervisors, which had removed an independent sheriff and hijacked his powers after he raided one of the supervisors, approved an $843 million Homeless Services budget. That’s up from a nearly $600 million homeless budget.

While the overall population of Los Angeles County has declined, the homeless population is up from 34,701 in 2016 to 72,195 in 2025. And that justifies spending nearly $1 billion on them.

The actual number of ‘homeless’, generally drug addicts and the mentally ill, is unknown. The homeless count conducted by ‘volunteers’ associated with homeless non-profits is generally considered worthless, but then again their dysfunction is just the cause for massive fraud.

An audit found of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, run by a crony of Mayor Karen Bass, found that it couldn’t account for $2.5 billion in spending, (not counting its CEO’s $430,000 salary) leading to the agency’s hijacking by the equally corrupt LA County Board of Supervisors which is already ramping up the spending to new levels, and San Francisco’s previously arrested homelessness non-profit CEO was arrested again and accused of misappropriating $1.2 million and driving around with a “a trunk full of high-priced jewelry”. Her big innovation had been a ‘safe sleeping’ tent program for the homeless at $61,000 per tent.

Back in Los Angeles, Mayor Bass’s highly touted $300 million ‘Inside Safe’ program for the homeless has a failure rate of 40%.while Gov. Gavin Newsom’s similar HomeKey initiative in Los Angeles is running as high as $1.5 million per room with over 1,000 units still vacant.

While homeless spending isn’t solving homelessness, it’s moving a lot of money around.

Creating social problems and then monetizing them has allowed California, San Francisco, Los Angeles County, and Los Angeles to continue spending money despite a falling population.

And the population drops are worse than state and local government authorities will admit.

After Trump shut down open borders, San Diego County had the sixth worst decline of any country in the country. The decline was driven by illegal alien migrants. Subtract illegal aliens and population declines across California would be showing up much more broadly. Those same illegals also help drive demand for more of the social services that drive spending.

The worse a program intended to solve a social problem performs, the more is spent on it.

The FBI recently raided the home and the school district office of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) while the local DA came after its technical project manager over an alleged $22 million money laundering scheme. Carvalho had warned that LAUSD was facing a $1.6 billion deficit with an $18.8 billion budget.

That’s up from only $7.5 billion in 2017.

With numbers like that, you would think that the LA school district is booming and having to turn away students, but it actually suffered a 46% decline in enrollment since 2001.

In 2004, enrollment peaked at 750,000 students. It’s now down to 392,654. That’s down from 409,108 last year.

Superintendent Carvalho blamed the decline on ICE raids, but LAUSD enrollment was falling off a cliff back when Trump was a real estate tycoon. The truth is that LAUSD is a patchwork of half-empty schools kept afloat by demands from teachers’ unions and community pressures.

LAUSD spends $24,000 per pupil even as 53% of students don’t read at grade level while only 36% met math proficiency rates. These numbers were so spectacular they were celebrated.

“This is a proud moment,” Gov. Newsom held a press conference with Carvalho to announce the results that barely a third of the students in the nearly $19 billion school system can count.

“Los Angeles Unified is having a very special moment in history, one without precedent,” Carvalho claimed.

It’s understandable why a corrupt system spending more money on fewer people for worse results would be celebrating the fact that the next generation is incapable of basic arithmetic.

California has lost 200,000 people since 2020. Its budget climbed from $215 billion to $322 billion. Spending under Newsom is up 63%, his chief-of-staff, who effectively ran the state while he was prepping a presidential run, was recently raided by the FBI in a case that involved money being moved from the state’s former attorney general, now running to replace Newsom, while the current attorney general isn’t running after being entangled in another investigation.

576 California officials were convicted of federal crimes in just the last decade. Its legislature hides FBI investigations in the “public interest” and forces personnel to sign non-disclosure agreements. That’s why budgets continue to rise even as the population decreases, and why social crises, failing schools, homelessness, mass migration, are used to prop up that spending.

The worse the crises get, the more money California politicians and special interests make.

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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Sen. Bernie Sanders, an 84-year-old socialist, has never seen anything he doesn’t want to seize, whether he understands it or not. Despite having very little understanding of computers or the internet, let alone AI, Sanders decided that AI is the latest front in his socialist campaign.

Sanders recently joined Communist China’s campaign against American AI with a Chinese Communist conclave on Capitol Hill urging that the PRC be included in global AI regulation. Now, Sanders has come out with an op-ed in the New York Times urging that the government seize 50% of AI companies. The op-ed is naturally decorated with Communist art of activists with red flags covered in ones and zeroes demanding the nationalization of another technology.

According to Sen. Sanders, the government has the right to seize half of AI companies because “Artificial intelligence was not created out of thin air. The data and language used by generative A.I. tools didn’t just pop into Sam Altman’s head or Elon Musk’s imagination. A.I. is built on our collective intelligence: our books, songs, artwork, journalism, computer code, scientific research, videos, conversations, images and ideas spanning generations.”

That is obviously true of AI and of any kind of computer technology and of all human knowledge in general. There are no tabula rasa inventions. Whether it’s Newton’s laws of motion or Einstein’s theory of relativity, or the works of Rembrandt, the plays of Shakespeare and the symphonies of Beethoven, all human inventions are built on the sum of human thought.

These inventions and innovations then in turn also add to collective knowledge of civilization.

How Sen. Bernie Sanders decided that the collective knowledge of the human race is the rightful property of the United States government and that it has the power to seize 50% of anything based on that collective knowledge is a little unclear, but the implications of it would also allow the government to seize 50% of anything that wasn’t “created out of thin air”.

That’s 50% of every invention, book, sickle, hammer, kettle, car, building, and song too.

AI has been trained on human knowledge, and in cases where that human knowledge has been copyrighted, patented or otherwise restricted for use, the legal owners of it may have a case, but in no way shape or form do Sen. Bernie Sanders and his political allies have any legal claim on the sum of human knowledge, let alone the right to take possession of anything in its name.

Sen. Bernie Sanders claims to oppose AI, but his op-ed shows that it really excites him because he likes the idea of the collectivization of human knowledge. If he really opposed AI, he wouldn’t be trying to socialize it and seize half of it. Instead, he supports stripping individuals of their creativity as long as he can then assign half of it to a regime run by his political allies.

“Tech oligarchs have fed this knowledge into their A.I. models without permission, without acknowledgment, without compensation. In other words, the creative work of millions of people — writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary citizens — has essentially been stolen by some of the wealthiest people in the world. It’s time for us to reclaim it,” Bernie argues.

But who is “us”? Is Bernie’s “us” the people who created it, or is the state which has done far less than any of the AI pioneers to create it or to create anything else. Sen. Sanders argues that AI shouldn’t benefit Elon Musk, Sam Altman or “venture capitalists on Wall Street”, it should instead become the property of the state under the authority of politicians like him.

But if Musk and Altman shouldn’t be repeating the benefits of AI, why should Bernie Sanders?

Socialists claim that they want to remedy the abuses of capitalism, but their proposed remedies invariably involve the consolidation of human activity under an even more abusive state. Rather than restoring control over creative products to the individuals who created them, Sen. Sanders just wants to seize AI in their name and make off with it in the name of the creative proletariat, the “writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary citizens”, and then hand it over to politicians and bureaucrats, much like the Soviet Union he admired promised to turn over land to the citizens, then banished the peasantry to neo-feudal collective farms, and instead made sure that no one except elites in their dachas had any land to call their own.

Bernie’s call for grabbing 50% of AI because it comes from the sum of human knowledge embodies the classic socialist fallacy that everything is collective and that the collective is the same as the government. If something emerged from humanity, then it isn’t the work of individuals, but of the group, and the group is represented by radical leftist governments.

The socialist politician’s op-ed promises that if the government can seize 50% of AI, “the trillions of dollars potentially generated by A.I. are used to improve the lives of all of us — not simply to make the richest people in the world even richer”. But who’s kidding whom?

Seizing 50% of AI will ensure an exodus of investors from American AI firms and the exodus of AI companies from America to the delight of Bernie’s new Chinese Communist allies. And the idea that putting more money into the hands of the government will “improve the lives of all of us” is a lie that can be discredited by even the briefest visits to the most government subsidized parts of New York City, Chicago or Los Angeles, where generational misery is a fact of life, or conversely to the wealthy bedroom communities of Washington D.C. where the money goes.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who never managed to successfully hold down a productive job before politics, became a millionaire in ‘public service’. He and his wife have allegedly managed to divert sizable amounts of money and jobs to their children. The difference between Bernie’s wealth and that of Elon Musk is that the senator has done nothing to deserve it except gain power.

Having the government seize 50% of AI will improve the lives of Bernie’s kids, never ours.

In his op-ed, Bernie repeatedly uses Alaska’s Permanent Fund as his model. That’s a better example than he realizes because the PFD has been notorious for its corruption, lack of transparency and general mismanagement. Socialists continue to use Alaska and Norway’s fund, also mentioned by Bernie, as prototypes for universal basic income without considering that areas with low populations and high energy exports are poor models for America.

But if what Bernie really wants is to turn Americans into shareholders, a significant percentage of the country already owns shares of publicly traded companies pursuing AI. Anyone can buy shares in these companies. Furthermore if what Bernie Sanders really wants to do is seize 50% of company stock in the name of the public, he could then propose redistributing the shares.

That’s not what his proposal says. What he’s after is governance and not by the public either.

How successful would AI companies with government governance or in which the government has a significant share be? Apart from being magnets for corruption, something the Sanders family knows quite a bit about, the government takeover of GM cost taxpayers some $10 billion in losses, and its revenues last year were lower than they were in 2006. GM has wasted countless billions on politically correct programs like EVs while failing to compete in the market.

Government governance would kill even the most promising company. Just ask New York City’s Off Track Betting (OTB) which managed to go bankrupt under Mayor David Dinkins, the role model for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who in turn has been the role model for Zohran Mamdani.

But give Bernie credit for a whole other level of ambition by laying claim to the entire creativity of mankind. Individual creative works may draw on the collective knowledge of mankind, but that doesn’t mean that they belong to the government let alone to a politician so uncreative that all he can do is recycle 19th century political cliches and slap them on any modern technology.

AI is dangerous enough without putting it in the hands of Sen. Bernie Sanders or his allies in Communist China who are busy training AI to spot political dissidents in the name of ‘the people’ who are never actually allowed a say in the socialist crimes carried out in their name.

Creativity, like constitutional citizenship, is our individual birthright, not a collective.

That is how millions of farmers were murdered in the Soviet Union, Communist China and across the Communist world. It’s why commissars could tell writers what to write and artists what to paint. When a Soviet judge demanded that Joseph Brodsky tell him, “who recognized you as a poet? Who enrolled you in the ranks of poets?” Brodsky replied with, “No one. And who enrolled me in the ranks of humanity?” His poetry, he argued, came from God.

Sen. Bernie Sanders however believes in another god. His god is the government. All of human history, its creative energies and inventions, are just meant to be sacrificed to his terrible deity.

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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Americans have been told that deporting illegal aliens is racist, and now that it’s even bad for the planet, but the actual numbers show that if liberals were serious about saving the planet, they wouldn’t be protesting ICE, they’d be protesting for it and even joining it in huge numbers.

According to Human Rights First (HRF), an organization formerly known as The Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, a spinoff of The International League for Human Rights, which was in turn a spinoff of the Human Rights League: a French Communist front group, all the flights carrying deported illegal aliens are causing even more global warming.

“Climate change is a driver of migration,” Brett Heinz, with the American Friends Service Committee, whose history of Communist ties goes back a century, complained. “The United States is accelerating climate change in an attempt to remove these immigrants seems like a vicious cycle in a very real way, where we are creating more undocumented immigrants through this pollution.”

But what’s the carbon footprint of millions of illegal aliens traveling thousands of miles to enter the United States in the first place?

Migrant invaders to the United States come from different places, traveling from between 500 miles out of Mexico to over 8,000 miles from China or Afghanistan. Some move overland while others use a combination of air, sea and land travels amounting to between 150 to 1,250 kilograms of CO2. 1 million migrants produce between 200,000 to 1,000,000 metric tons of CO2. Under Biden, around 11 million migrants tried to invade the United States for a grand total of between 2,200,000 and 11,000,000 million metric tons of CO₂ .

That’s a Godzilla sized carbon footprint.

By comparison the open borders lobby is complaining that the deportation flights produced 370,240 tons of CO2 or a mere 3.37% of the ‘carbon emissions’ produced by the mass invasion of illegal aliens during the Biden administration.

Environmentalists complain about melting ice caps, but it turns out ICE is saving the planet.

Deportation creates a vital deterrent effect. Every illegal alien deported prevents tens of thousands more from trying to enter the United States. The number of migrant encounters at the southern border dropped from over 2 million in 2023 and 1.5 million in 2024 to 237,538 in 2025 and so far only 51,000 in 2026 due to the aggressive deportation policy under the Trump administration. The carbon savings from Trump’s deportations deterrent factor is huge.

The drop in mass migration between 2023 and 2025 amounts to a net carbon savings of between 271,245 and 2,260,375 metric tons of CO2. If the numbers for 2026 hold steady, then the net carbon savings for the year rise to between 293,581 and 2,446,508 metric tons.

It would take over 21 square miles or 13,980 acres of utility-scale solar panels to achieve the same effect. That’s the equivalent of covering the entire island of Manhattan or 10,575 football fields with solar panels to achieve the same carbon reduction that Trump’s deportations did.

This just accounts for the drop in illegal alien invasions between the Biden and Trump years, it doesn’t account for the growth in invasions had the border stayed open. In one survey, over 100 million people wanted to move to the United States. That’s more than ten times the number who did invade under Biden resulting in between 20,000,000 and 100,000,000 metric tons of CO₂.

It would take almost 140,000 acres of solar panels, or approaching a third of the country’s solar capacity, to account for the savings from President Trump’s deportation deterrents.

But the journeys of migrant invaders represent only a fraction of their environmental impact (never mind the incredible actual environmental damage that they engage in along the way, ravaging Mexico’s landscape and leaving filth in their wake) once they reach the United States.

The average American’s carbon footprint is 4 times the size of a Mexican’s carbon footprint, 5 times that of a Venezuelan’s, 12 times that of a Guatemalan’s, 15 times that of a Nicaraguan, 45 times that of a Haitian’s and 60 times that of a migrant from Afghanistan.

Calculating just the migrant encounters from 2023, assuming that the migrant invaders remained in the United States, that added 24 to 28 million metric tons CO₂ annually.

That’s every year they’re not deported.

And open borders activists are complaining about a mere 370,240 tons of carbon emissions from deportation flights.

An extensive campaign of lawfare has been fought to keep Haitians from being deported back to their country, but the 124,000 Haitians from 2023 remaining in the United States are adding 1.32 million metric tons CO₂ to the ‘planet’ every year that they remain here.

Every year that Mexican migrants who invaded America in 2023 remain undeported adds 5.7 million metric tons of CO₂ and every year that Guatemalans from 2023 are still not deported contributes nearly 3 million metric tons of CO₂.

To put that into perspective, New York City banned plastic bags, creating massive amounts of difficulty and inconvenience, just to save less than half a million metric tons of CO₂. The city of Austin, Texas, mandated solar panels on new buildings to save around 100,000 tons annually. There are similar figures for Chicago and New York City.

If they really wanted to cut CO₂ emissions, they’d be turning in every illegal alien to ICE.

The total solar residential capacity in the United States reduces 37 million metric tons of CO₂. The Biden open borders invasion continues to add between 50 million to 85 million metric tons of CO₂ every single year with a cumulative impact of as high as 600 million metric tons.

What that means is that we could tear down every single residential solar panel, legalize plastic bags and anything else because all those environmental austerity measures don’t even come close to the nuclear impact of mass migration. The annual savings from every single electric car and vehicle in the country is between 10 to 25 million metric tons of CO₂.

All of that was undone by just one single year of Biden’s open borders mass migration.

We wouldn’t need a single electric car or solar panel, if we just secured the border.

If liberals really believed that carbon emissions were on the verge of destroying the planet, they wouldn’t be protesting ICE, they would be joining it. Environmentalists would be rallying in the streets of every major city, demanding that ICE deport more migrants and move them out faster.

And once upon a time, environmentalists, including the Sierra Club, opposed open borders because of the environmental impact. Now Ben Jealous, former NAACP CEO, and until last year the executive director of the Sierra Club, was on the board of Human Rights First.

But the numbers are clear. Anyone who truly wants to cut carbon emissions, has to support an end to mass migration and mass deportations. Anything else is just ‘destroying the planet’.

Save the planet. Deport illegal aliens.

(* Carbon is not a pollutant. The notion of a carbon footprint is an Orwellian absurdity.)

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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On Memorial Day, Minnesota Democrat officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, dumped the troops and headed to the eyesore known as ‘George Floyd Square’, an epicenter of the BLM riots, to groove along with the ‘Brass Resistance Band’ and a DJ in honor of the fallen violent criminal who had died of a drug overdose while resisting arrest.

“Today, we remember George Floyd,” Mayor Frey tweeted. “The weight of what happened is still with our city six years later – and the responsibility to keep moving forward together is too. I know we can keep building a Minneapolis that is safer, more accountable, and more worthy of the people who call it home.”

Initial plans for ‘George Floyd Square’ were to make it an Antifa-BLM secessionist no-go zone and then there has been an effort to turn it into a pedestrian mall. (“There on the right is where they set all the fires and there on the left you can get a Fendi handbag for only $3,000.”)

And the BLMers and assorted racial grifters obviously weren’t going to be kept out of the deal.

The battle is now on between the Minnesota Agape Movement and other groups over how to best develop the ‘People’s Way’, the site of a destroyed gas station off ‘George Floyd Square’ in a way that respectfully pays tribute to a thug who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint.

The Minnesota Agape Movement (“transforming street energy into community energy through advocacy, empowerment, and education”) proposed taking the gas station that had been torched during the BLM riots and putting up a building with a gift shop (“get your George Floyd memorabilia right here, t-shirts, caps and COVID masks stamped with “I Can’t Breathe”), cafe (Fentanycinnos), restaurant (the George Floyd Overstuffed Brisket Sandwich Special) and bar (The George Floyd: a bold, highball cocktail that hits hard, builds pressure, and leaves you fighting for your next breath) and rooftop garden. And that proved to be the winning proposal.

This may be a better replacement for what is currently there, a contaminated spot where junkies have been dying of fentanyl overdoses in what may be an excessively on the nose tribute to Floyd, but not everyone feels that its properly captures the essence of his sacred memory.

The other competitors included Rise & Remember (“The Blueprint is us: no permission needed), another George Floyd nonprofit that was lucky enough to land members of the Floyd family and hosts a ‘Rise & Remember Festival” and the “George Floyd Memorial Design Competition”.

The “George Floyd Memorial Design Competition” proposed a memorial garden with regular “pilgrimages” to the site and a “self-cleaning public restrooms” because the pilgrims can’t be expected to handle basic hygiene when overcome with grief and outrage for BLM’s saint.

But despite representing Floyd’s family, the self-cleaning toilet lost out to the gift shop.

Not only did George Floyd die, but his Memorial Design Competition couldn’t even succeed in George Floyd square, which exists only because he died of a drug overdose there.

Other proposals from the P3 Foundation (“a group of highly qualified professionals in the financial industry who possess a wealth of knowledge in taxable and tax-exempt and financings”) called for an art gallery and “native plants and benches” (you know how much George Floyd cared about native plants) and Urban League Twin Cities (“an unapologetic voice and catalyst for social justice”) had proposed a George Floyd Museum, an “indigenous garden” (whatever that is) and “a free-standing 24-hour public restroom, called ‘The Portland Loo.’”

Perusing the design documents, a reporter gets the sense that while George Floyd may be the pretext, what George Floyd Square needs most is an end to public urination and defecation.

While everyone is dutifully (and inappropriately) capitalizing ‘Black’ and talking about how the area needs to ‘center’ black people, and black organizations are offering their proposals for ‘George Floyd Square’ and the ‘People’s Way’, how black is the Floyd memorialization?

The Floyd family organization, was working with Professor Anjali Ganapathy, Heather Willy, Vora Limpaphayom, Ryan Yin and Julia Gerloff although NEOO Developers, a black firm, was on board as consultants. The Agape proposal featured the Landon Group, almost entirely run by white women, and Victoria Yepez, P3 turned to a California real estate developer best known for building upscale high rises and Urban League to Nawal Noor: a Somali “entrepreneur”.

And none of this (except perhaps the self-cleaning toilets) will solve the real problems here.

The Minneapolis murder rate is still far higher than it was the year before Floyd’s drug overdose death was used as a pretext for massive race riots and so far this year there have been over 4,000 assaults, 800 burglaries, 4,577 thefts, 2,392 stolen cars, 303 robberies, 341 sex offenses, and 1,578 shots fired. This isn’t the story being told to the public by the media in headlines like “Twin Cities see drops in violent crime, but perception remains an issue”. Over 10,000 crimes targeting individuals before the summer has even arrived isn’t a “perception” problem.

But media narratives continue perpetuating the pro-crime lie that the surge in BLM violence was somehow caused by the pandemic and that the only problem in Minneapolis is “perception”.

The ‘perception problem’ also led to an exodus from Minneapolis (or perhaps the exodus itself is a perception problem and the city is both safe and growing even though numbers show the opposite) by its native population even as it’s become more ‘diverse’ courtesy of Somali mass migration. As CBS News summed it up, “Minnesota’s population is getting older and more diverse, but earning less and leaving for other states”. Unless they’re shot in Minneapolis.

But when given lemons, Joseph-Louis Proust created lemonade and when given race riots, Frey and the city of Minneapolis are trying to turn ‘George Floyd Square’ from a mecca for violence into a tourist destination. Social justice tourism has kept 38th Street and Chicago Avenue (who knew a street named after one of the most violent cities in America would breed violence) busy while doing little to help the local black businesses who just wish that the freaks would go away and life would go back to normal. But Minneapolis only has so many tourism destinations.

And so George Floyd must be remembered by more lucrative means like a gift shop where social justice tourists can pick up Floyd bobbleheads, scented candles and molotov cocktails.

Because the struggle is real.

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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On Monday, the European Union announced sanctions on Israelis, including Daniella Weiss, the 80-year-old former mayor of a Jewish community in Judea and Samaria, and on Tuesday, it invited the Taliban, an Islamic terrorist group allied with Al Qaeda, to come to Brussels for talks.

“Extremisms and violence carry consequences,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned Israel. Obviously. And the consequence of extremism and violence is an invite to Brussels.

At least if you’re a Muslim terrorist.

Over the last decade, Islamic terrorists associated with ISIS, an Al Qaeda splinter group, have killed over 34 people in two bombing, four stabbings and one shooting in Brussels. Because of the constant Muslim terror threat, the Belgian army has been deployed to protect train stations, houses of worship and other potential terror targets from the terrorists being invited to Brussels.

Meanwhile the Israeli Jewish people and organizations sanctioned by the European Union like Regavim and Nahala have engaged in dangerous extremist behavior by opening new farms in Israel and suing on behalf of farmers in areas that the Muslim terrorists claim for themselves.

Regavim also had the chutzpah to publish a report disproving the lie that there is a campaign of ‘Jewish settler violence’ which in reality consists of radical NGOs funded by the EU staging clashes with local Jewish farmers and then demanding more money from the EU to fight them.

Even while inviting Islamic terrorists, the EU sanctioned an Israeli group for… writing reports.

The Taliban invite by the European Union Commission comes after the Taliban imposed Islamic Sharia laws banning girls from getting an education above the sixth grade, leaving the house without a male guardian and showing their faces or even speaking aloud in public.

So to accommodate the Taliban, the EU appointed Gilles Bertrand, a man, as its Special Envoy to the Taliban. Bertrand recently paid a visit to the Taliban as did another delegation led by Freddy Rosemont, also a man, and now the Taliban will return the favor by visiting Brussels.

And will hopefully refrain from bombing or stabbing anyone at least on this particular visit.

The European Commission spokesman argued that negotiating with the Taliban as if it were a government does not mean that the EU is actually recognizing the Taliban as a government.

In a technical distinction, the spokesman argued that they were only “technical talks.” But the Taliban have been invited actually, rather than technically, by the actual European Commission.

The same European Commission whose foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who is a woman and so will probably not be visiting the Taliban in Kabul, or will even be allowed to take part in the talks with the Taliban in Brussels, had demanded sanctions on Israeli elected officials and a suspension of some trade with the Jewish State over its fight against Islamic terrorism.

If you fight Islamic terrorists, the EU will sanction you, but if you are the terrorists, it will welcome you over for a visit.

Kallas had previously issued an empty plea to the Taliban, urging that “⁠Afghan territory ‌must not ‌be ​used ‌to threaten or ‌attack other countries” and asking the Taliban, or as she put it, “the ‌Afghan de facto authorities to take effective ⁠action ⁠against all terrorist groups operating in or from Afghanistan.” Since the Taliban are a terrorist group, that sort of thing is their job.

By referring to the Taliban as the “de facto authorities”, Kaja Kallas and the European Union preserve their plausible deniability that they are not ‘formally’ recognizing the Taliban. But the Taliban don’t care about formal diplomatic recognition, they care about money and power.

Much of this terrorism financing is laundered to the Taliban in the form of foreign aid.

The Trump administration shut down USAID and cut off much of the ‘humanitarian aid’ being used to finance the Taliban. (Freedom Center Investigates conducted an investigation documenting how $1.7 billion had been laundered by USAID through the UN through NGOs to a Taliban bank that helped drive the shutdown of USAID after it was seen by Elon Musk and over 1 million people.)

The European Union has however continued providing ‘humanitarian aid’ to Afghanistan with €161 million being dispatched last year as part of over €2 billions Euros since the original Taliban takeover.

Even while the European Union was inviting the Taliban to Brussels, the UN decided to, coincidentally, highlight the EU’s contributions to Afghanistan, including “4,300 Sharia compliant loans”.

Certainly whatever concessions the Taliban extract from the European Union in this latest round of talks will be “sharia compliant”. The Taliban have long maintained a Sharia system taxing American and European NGOs, including the United Nations, as well as other ‘infidels’ and using the revenue from what the United States and the European Union called humanitarian aid and the Taliban called ‘jizya’ or sharia mandated payments to Muslims by non-Muslims to fund its takeover of Afghanistan, its alliance with Al Qaeda and oppression of women.

“It is impossible to provide humanitarian assistance inside Afghanistan without engaging with the de facto authorities,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had already admitted.

The Taliban will ask the European Union for money and will receive it. In exchange the Taliban will take back a 100 or so Afghan ‘migrant’ terrorists and criminals. Then it will send 1,000 back to the European Union and demand twice as much aid in exchange for taking them back.

The process will continue and even more of the European Union turns into Afghanistan.

And the EU will sanction Israel for doing what it won’t by standing up to Islamic terrorism.

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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In March, Australia’s ruling Labor regime censured Senator Pauline Hanson for opposing bringing ISIS members to Australia. According to the senate censure resolution, Hanson’s “inflammatory and divisive comments seeking to vilify Muslim Australians, which do not reflect the opinions of the Australian Senate or the Australian people” who are supposed to love ISIS.

Whether or not the Australian people support Islamic terrorists, the way that the ruling Labor leftist government does, is a matter for the people to decide. And Labor was panicking badly because polls showed that the Australian people were making the ‘wrong’ decision.

The censure bid had been a desperate effort by the left-wing regime to slow down the rise of Hanson, who started out as a barmaid and working in a fish and chip shop, and her patriotic One Nation party which had been polling higher and higher as the public becomes disgusted with PM Anthony Albanese’s corrupt failed government, its lies and its surrender to Islam.

After the latest round of condemnations, Hanson said that she’s sorry if she “offended anyone out there that doesn’t believe in sharia law, or multiple marriages, or wants to bring ISIS brides in, or people from Gaza that believe in a caliphate… but that is what they want — a world caliphate. And I am not going to apologise … I will have my say now before it’s too late.”

Despite, or perhaps because of, the censure resolution, One Nation scored the second highest number of votes in an election in South Australia, giving it a number of candidates. In May, One Nation won its first lower-house seat and polls now speculate that it might be able to form a minority government. Some are describing the populist rise of One Nation as marking the end of Australia’s two-party system.

Thirty years after the more conservative Liberal Party had disavowed Hanson over her opposition to affirmative action for supposed ‘aboriginals’ (quite often white people falsely claiming aboriginal ancestry, much like Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the United States, leading to the bizarre preponderance of ‘fair-skinned white aboriginals’ in academia) and mass migration from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and other neighboring parts of the Islamic world, Liberal voters are choosing One Nation much the way that UK conservatives are looking for options.

Penny Wong, the Malaysian gay immigrant serving as Anthony Albanese’s Minister for Foreign Affairs (representing a joke that no one is allowed to make) had championed Hanson’s censure, contending that she was “sending a message to the people of faith in this country” that “condemning an entire religion is not acceptable.” Unless of course it’s Christianity.

Wong had previously ranted about Christian ‘religious fundamentalists’, complaining about “the application of religious belief to the framing of law in a secular society” and accusing Christians of “deploying the power of the state to enforce one set of religious beliefs”.

“Religion-based moral codes continue to limit the freedoms and the rights of those who, in the view of religious groups, do not ‘conform’ to their views,” Wong had objected.

Then Wong had hypocritically turned around and demanded a censure of Hanson after the patriotic leader had denounced a Pakistani Muslim politician’s contempt for the Anglosphere.

Sen. Mehreen Faruqi, a Pakistani Muslim migrant, had mocked the mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, sneering “I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples”.

Faruqi had also responded to the expressions of sympathy after the brutal Islamic massacres of Jews on Oct 7 by hatefully tweeting, “One colonial government supporting another. What a disgrace.”

Despite that, Faruqi wasn’t censured for siding with Islamic terrorists, but Hanson was taken to court and accused of ‘Islamophobia’, censored and fined for responding with “piss off back to Pakistan”. Then Penny Wong backed Faruqi’s censure of Hanson while whining, “it’s triggering each time you hear it. I’m the Senate leader, I still get triggered.”

“How long do you have to be here and how much do you have to love this country before you’re accepted? How long?” Wong demanded, while speaking in support of the hatred of a Pakistani Muslim who had denounced England and Australia as the products of an evil “racist empire”.

Wong had also backed Islamic terrorists over Israel just as she did in Australia. Hanson, by contrast, had worn an Israeli flag and sided with the non-Muslim victims of Islamic terrorism.

Last year, the Australian Jewish Association condemned Wong for “emboldening and legitimising Islamic terrorist groups” and having “chosen to side with those who seek to destroy the Jewish state”, and the AJA praised Hanson, saying, “Thank you for always standing with our community.”

After thirty years of the media and the elites condemning Hanson for making forthright statements such as, “we are in danger of being swamped by Muslims, who bear a culture and ideology that is incompatible with our own”, Hanson and One Nation continue to advance.

And the condemnations are falling into their own political echo chamber.

Poll numbers offer no guarantees even in what are supposed to be ‘democracies’. The Dutch political establishment has repeatedly colluded to block Geert Wilders, despite his party winning the majority of the voters, similar efforts have been used to block Le Pen in France, and are being used in the hopes of replacing Netanyahu with a leftist-Islamist government in Israel.

But the polls show that the public increasingly is with Hanson and One Nation, not Wong, Faruqi, Albanese and the rest of the foreign lobby selling out Australia and killing its future.

And much like President Trump, Hanson has been effective at bypassing a corrupt incestuous media operation to get her message directly out to the public. Last year, she wore a burka to campaign for a ban on burkas. The media hate her, but can’t stop quoting her.

As housing prices soar and Muslim migrants get everything while natives get nothing, the winds of political change are blowing towards Australia. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, like his carbon copies in the UK and Canada, Keir Starmer and Mark Carney, appears ready to fall.

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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When the New York Times published the false claim that Israeli dogs were ‘raping’ Hamas terrorists, it was sourced to a Hamas-linked group that calls itself the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. After Jewish groups condemned it, a radical leftist groups that calls itself the Nexus Project and claims to fight anti-semitism popped up on X to defend the Times smear, which had been circulated to preempt a report about Hamas rapes, calling it “challenging and important”.

What united Euro-Med Human Rights and the Nexus Project is their role in the Soros network.

The Open Society Foundations, the face of the Soros network, had pumped over $2 million into Euro-Med, despite or because of its alleged Hamas links, and $400,000 alone in 2023.

The Nexus Project was created by Jonathan Jacoby, an anti-Israel activist, who had headed Peace Now, which received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Soros network, and was one of the founding members and an executive director of the New Israel Fund, which served as a major vector for Soros money flowing to anti-Israel groups operating inside the Jewish State.

Now Alex Soros, the son of George Soros, a Nazi collaborator who admitted to helping in the confiscation of Jewish property during the Holocaust, has announced that Nexus will be one of the organizations benefiting from a $30 million fund to ‘fight Islamophobia and antisemitism.’

The move is a clumsy one because it exposes the ‘Jewish front groups’ like Nexus that have been advancing the profoundly antisemitic agenda of empowering Islamic terrorism.

Some organizations like Nexus, which work to actively sabotage the fight against antisemitism, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a formerly venerable group hijacked by the Soros network into supporting antisemitic riots on college campuses worked best by hiding their affiliation with one of the primary funders of antisemitism rather than flying it publicly.

Other reported grantees are less of a secret.

Alex Soros personally heads the action arm of Bend the Arc, which has called for an arms embargo on Israel and defended the campus harassment of Jews. After the murders of Jews in D.C. and Boulder, Colorado by anti-Israel terrorists, Bend the Arc responded with a letter to Congress opposing any moves to prevent campus attacks on Jews while complaining that “police actions have been taken disproportionately toward pro-Palestinian protests.”

The Jewish Social Justice Roundtable is a grab bag of leftist groups including T’ruah, an anti-Israel group whose CEO Jill Jacobs had protested Israel and falsely accused it of genocide, and claimed that blowing up Hezbollah beepers was a ‘war crime’, New York Jewish Agenda, an anti-Orthodox and anti-Israel group co-founded by Rachel Timoner, an anti-Israel activist with T’ruah, who also serves as Senator Chuck Schumer’s ‘rabbi’, along with HIAS, the JCPA and other radical leftist groups. Many of these groups were already funded by the Soros network.

The move by Alex Soros has made it publicly obvious what researchers have long known about the Soros network and the coordination between the various anti-Israel elements of the machine. And the announcement has been awkward for some of the front groups leading to ambiguous statements trying to implausibly claim distance from the rest of the Soros network.

“JCPA is​ a legacy Jewish organization [that] already collaborates with other legacy Jewish organizations,” Amy Spitalnick, the CEO of the JCPA claimed. “No grantee of any foundation agrees with every position of every other grantee. We’ve been a clear voice calling out antisemitism wherever it exists across the ideological spectrum.”

That of course is not true.

Spitalnick had formerly served as the spokeswoman for J Street, the first major Soros attempt at creating a ‘Jewish’ anti-Israel front group, and the JCPA stopped being a “legacy organization” in 2023 and is now a Soros-funded anti-Israel and anti-Jewish operation. The JCPA is formally a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which makes it a useful front group for the Soros network, but it coordinates its attacks on Israel and Jews with other Soros network groups like J Street, Bend the Arc, T’ruah and the New Israel Fund.

The JCPA has defended campus antisemitism and issued only two statements condemning the Oct 7 attacks, but three statements condemning Islamophobia after the attacks and five statements condemning the Trump administration’s crackdowns on campus antisemitism.

In the last month, the JCPA has issued press releases condemning the Supreme Court, DHS and defending the SPLC. The closest it came to a Jewish issue was condemning President Trump’s threat to bomb Iran. According to a press release by Spitalnick, “the President’s threats are deeply reprehensible” and that “any suggestion that this advances Jewish or Israeli safety is simply an exploitation of our community to advance horrific war crimes.”

The JCPA, like the rest of the Soros network, does not condemn antisemitism from its political allies, but does condemn any effort by Americans and Jews to fight against Islamic terrorism.

The JCPA issued no statements on the Muslim mob attacks on New York City synagogues, including the Park East Synagogue assault, but did take the time to defend Iran’s antisemitic genocidal terrorist regime. I could find no examples of Spitalnick condemning leftist antisemitism in the past several months, but she took the time to condemn Sid Rosenberg’s comments about Mamdani, and Rep. Randy Fine’s comments about Islam. All this is typical of the Soros network.

But the Soros network however works best when it looks like a facade of organizations who all happen to share the same opposition to Israel and Jews rather than a coordinated machine funded by the same radical billionaire family whose individual components don’t represent the Jewish community or anything greater than the wealth of a billionaire and his son.

These are not ‘Jewish’ groups, no one elected them to do anything, and the only reason they exist is that a small number of wealthy and powerful people, led by the Soros family, hate Israel, and seek to undermine it by creating a network of radical ‘enemy within’ groups to hijack the Jewish community and claim to speak for Jews because they have better media access.

That was something George understood, which is why he avoided posing with politicians and hid his cash backing for J Street, and what his childishly narcissistic son Alex, who inherited the political machine and can’t stop posing with politicians, doesn’t, which is why he put out a press release bragging about the $30 million infusion of cash into his extremist hate network.

Every media outlet has failed the obligatory story about the $30 million to ‘fight anti-semitism and Islamophobia’. Alex Soros has gotten his money’s worth of publicity, but he also exposed the front groups in his network as a coordinated inauthentic campaign funded by one man.

And that’s a mistake that will come back to hurt Soros and his puppet anti-Israel groups.

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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There are two towers in Old Bridge Plaza that are far shorter than the ones they memorialize, but taller than any man, and around them are the names of a dozen victims of the Islamic terror attacks of September 11. East Brunswick has its own two towers standing tall in the center of a garden and wrapped in the flag with eight names carved around them. In Monroe, there are two flags and nine names, and in Plainsboro there are two benches and four plaques, and over in Cranbury, there is a post office named after Todd Beamer who said “Let’s Roll” on Flight 93.

New Jersey, almost more than any other state, is dotted with memorials to the victims of the two Muslim terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in nearby Manhattan, the initial attempt in 1993 and the successful attack in 2001.

Now New Jersey’s 12th congressional district, stretching from Plainfield, less than an hour away from Ground Zero, to the state capital in Trenton, may elect the translator for Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, widely known as the ‘Blind Sheikh’, the Islamic terror leader at the center of the original attack and a follow-up plan to attack the Statue of Liberty, to Congress.

In April, Freedom Center Investigates broke the story that Hisham ‘Adam’ Hamawy, an Egyptian Muslim plastic surgeon running for Congress, had testified for the defense at the Blind Sheikh’s terror trial. Our reporting demonstrated that Hamawy had been part of an entourage driven to a terror-ridden convention for a top Islamic terrorist figure who inspired Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Even while running for Congress, Hamawy has still failed to directly condemn his terror sheikh who was such a crucial figure in the Islamic terrorism world that ISIS had urged kidnapping Americans to hold them hostage in exchange for his release.

Other media outlets, notably the Free Beacon and FOX News, picked up the story and did more digging to discover that Hamawy had enjoyed an even closer relationship with the terror leader and helped him with translations. Rahman’s other translator, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, had confessed at the trial that Rahman had directed him to bomb the George Washington Bridge and other landmarks. At the trial, Hamawy however had been brought in to deny a government informant’s claim that the Blind Sheikh had called for terror attacks, but was forced to admit that he had called for Jihad and “conquering the land of the infidels”.

I reached out to Hamawy and asked him if he had any relationship with Ali, but once again the campaign responded by stonewalling me and fearfully refusing to provide any response.

And yet the congressional candidate was so close to the terror leader that he appeared as Rahman’s translator at a press conference denying his role in the terror attack.

“Two months after six people died in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the infamous ‘Blind Sheikh,’ held a news conference at his Jersey City, N.J., home to deny his guilt. Standing with him that day was a young medical student from New Jersey who had followed the sheikh’s teachings, traveled with him, and had graciously agreed to translate the sheikh’s press release from Arabic to English. The young man was Adam Hamawy, now considered a front-runner in the crowded Democratic primary race,” Tom Moran reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Hamawy claimed that the Blind Sheikh “was a leader of the community” and taught “how to practice as a normal Muslim.” A few years after Hamawy had testified for the terror sheikh, Osama bin Laden had held a press conference featuring two of Rahman’s sons who handed out cards with their father’s picture and his Islamic call to attack America. “A fatwa of the captive Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman … To all Muslims everywhere: Destroy their countries. Tear them to pieces. Destroy their economies, burn their corporations, destroy their businesses, sink their ships, and bring down their airplanes. Kill them in the sea, on land, and in the air.”

Several years later, the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda.

As the revelations about the well-financed candidate, who is backed by $2 million from an Islamic PAC, continue to emerge, Hamawy has claimed innocence and blamed everything on ‘Islamophobia’. An official response from the Hamawy campaign argued that “the initial story was written in FrontPage Magazine, a website affiliated with the anti-Islam David Horowitz Freedom Center, and called it ‘guilt-by-association attacks on Muslim and Arab candidates”.

“As a Muslim, they’re always going to find something to attack,” he had protested to reporters.

But families of the victims in the district that the terror sheikh’s translator wants to represent aren’t buying it.

Of the six victims of the original World Trade Center attack by Rahman’s followers, only William ‘Bill’ Macko, a former Marine, had lived in New Jersey. The assistant chief mechanical supervisor had been killed when the bomb went off and granite from the memorial set up after the attacks (and destroyed on 9/11) was used to build a granite cross for Macko’s family.

Michael Macko, his son, told the Free Beacon, “I would never vote for Hamawy because of this and again, saying that as a lifelong Democrat and someone who really wants to keep New Jersey blue, I would find another Democrat to vote for even if it meant writing in someone. I could not with a clear conscience ever vote for this man. Nor would I encourage anybody else to. Some things are just not forgivable.”

Tom Moran, a former Newark Star Ledger editor, also questioned what was happening. “Getting some flack on this from progressives who are not concerned about his long-ago flirtation with the sheikh. But curious how folks feel about the core question I ask here: What if a candidate had precisely this history with a leader of the KKK? If a candidate followed that KKK leader around, traveled with him, stood with him after he was suspected of murdering black people and helped him write a press release denying his guilt? I think the left would throw that candidate overboard. And the support Hamawy is getting, I fear, gives ammo to critics who say Democrats are not standing up to antisemitism with enough vigor.”

Or to Islamic terrorism.

In Windsor, where Hisham ‘Adam’ Hamawy has his plastic surgery office (which has been the subject of multiple accusations by American patients, complaining that the Egyptian surgeon had left them with disfiguring scars and burns), there is a homemade bridge, two reflecting pools and seven names of those who were lost when the terrorists struck the World Trade Center six years after the candidate testified on behalf of the terror leader at the center of the original attack.

The ‘Blind Sheikh’ had been the key theological figure for Egyptian Islamic Jihad which made up a core of Al Qaeda. ISIS had called for kidnapping Americans to secure his release. His followers joined Al Qaeda and went on killing Americans in his name. Including on 9/11.

“We Will Never Forget,” the West Windsor police department posted last year on the anniversary of the attacks. Hamawy’s campaign is testing whether that’s really so with $2 million in funding from a Muslim PAC misleadingly named ‘American Priorities PAC’ backed by Islamic tech cash that had previously funded Zohran Mamdani in New York City.

Will the 9/11 memorials and the promises that New Jersey, from Monroe to Old Bridge, would not forget its fallen or $2 million in Islamic cash from Silicon Valley prevail?

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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