The Democratic party’s embrace of bigotry does not bode well for its long-term prospects thanks to the three-headed monster of its vaunted freshman class.
The controversy over the Democrat leadership’s move to sugar coat the raging anti-Semitism that is taking over the party by firmly rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar for her unrepentant hatred of Israel and Jews continues to swirl with many liberals not pleased over Nancy Pelosi’s protection of the freshman.
Some would argue that it’s really not much of a shock that a party that has been consumed by hatred of President Trump ever since Hillary’s stunning loss would eventually come to embrace the historic evil of Jew-hatred as logical progression and while Pelosi has appeased the worst elements of society that now are members of Congress, some are inching closer to abandoning ship.
One of those whose hatred for President Trump has burned with an incandescent heat is New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a man who has spent decades as a shill for globalism and has been revered by the establishment.
The author of The Lexus And The Olive Tree and The World Is Flat has now expressed his dismay for the hijab-clad hatemonger who he is calling a “bridge destroyer” who has squandered her opportunity to unite Muslims and Jews.
“She was perfectly poised to be a bridge builder between Muslims and Jews, between Arabs and Israelis. … She has come to be a bridge destroyer,” New York Times columnist Tom Friedman tells @smerconish about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s controversial Israel comments https://t.co/msphDlebuV pic.twitter.com/sqIzxmCEWI
— CNN (@CNN) March 9, 2019
Via The Hill, “NY Times columnist on CNN: Omar ‘has come to be a bridge destroyer'”:
A New York Times columnist argued Saturday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) missed an opportunity to build bridges between Muslims and Jews in the U.S. with her recent comments about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israel.
In an interview on CNN’s “Smerconish,” Thomas Friedman said Omar’s district, which is composed of sizable Jewish and Somali-American Muslim populations, had teed up the rookie representative to build relationships between the two communities.
“Ilhan Omar represents, I believe, the biggest Jewish community in the whole upper Midwest,” Friedman said Saturday. “She represents that community. She also represents a Somali immigrant community that’s come to our city since then and added their voice and their richness and their color.”
“She was perfectly poised to be a bridge builder between Muslims and Jews, between Arabs and Israelis,” Friedman continued. “And rather than come to Washington and be a bridge builder, she has come to be a bridge destroyer.”
I love the Israelis and the Palestinians, but God save me from their American friends. When they recreate and fuel their conflict here in America, and on college campuses, they only sow more division https://t.co/lekSHeyy9W
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) March 6, 2019
Freidman expressed his dismay with Omar in a recent column at that NYT entitled “Ilhan Omar, AIPAC and Me”:
But I come back to Omar. She is a brand-new member of Congress. She is free to raise any issues she wants. And one issue she seems to have seized on is the alleged dual loyalty of Jews to America and Israel. I am not dual loyal. I always put America first, but I want to see Israel thrive — just like many Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Indian-Americans and others feel about their ancestral homelands.
When I see that dual-loyalty charge coming from a congresswoman who first signaled opposition to B.D.S. and then support for it, when I see it coming from a congresswoman who has never been to Israel, when I see it coming from a congresswoman who, to my knowledge, has never criticized the Palestinian leadership for its corruption and failure — time and again — to seize on peace overtures from Israeli leaders who, unlike Netanyahu, actually wanted to forge a two-state solution, when I see it coming from a congresswoman who seems to be obsessed with Israel’s misdeeds as the biggest problem in the Middle East — not Iran’s effective occupation of four Arab capitals, its support for ethnic cleansing and the use of poison gas in Syria and its crushing of Lebanese democracy — it makes me suspicious of her motives.
Not good news for Nancy Pelosi whose appeasement of anti-Semites is now threatening to fracture the party into warring tribes.
Omar may have won the lasting admiration of former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke but she may have lost the New York Times and this is a potentially devastating omen for her future.
