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Obama Gets Around to Commenting on Hamas at Columbia
American Thinker ^ | 24 Apr, 2024 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 04/24/2024 4:23:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As Columbia University’s most prominent alum, former president Barack Obama would seem to have a moral obligation to speak about what is arguably the most visible outbreak of antisemitism on American soil in his lifetime.

I refer here to the occupation of Obama’s alma mater by Hamas-supporters who have been openly threatening Jewish students, chanting “Kill all Zionists,” and shouting racial slurs like “pig.”

As I sat down to write this, five days into the protest, Obama had said not a word.

By contrast, Obama was tweeting about the August 2017 Antifa/white nationalist brouhaha in Charlottesville, Virginia before the day was through.

SNIP

From the beginning, the media have allowed Obama to conceal his easy tolerance of antisemitism. One journalist who came to Obama’s aid, unapologetically at that, was photographer and occasional National Public Radio (NPR) commentator Askia Muhammad.

In January 2018, as a way of promoting his new book, Muhammad shared with the world a photo he had taken in 2005 at a Black Congressional Caucus event. In the center of the photo is a smiling Barack Obama. Standing right next to him, also smiling broadly, is Nation of Islam honcho Louis Farrakhan. Sensing what might generously be called “bad optics,” a Black Caucus member stopped Muhammad even before he left the building.

“I gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy,” Muhammad admitted thirteen years later. But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was president, it was kept under cover.”

When asked whether he thought the photo, if revealed, would have made a difference in the 2008 campaign, Muhammad said, emphatically, “It absolutely would have made a difference.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: jihad

1 posted on 04/24/2024 4:23:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

What would 0bama say if he stated what he really believes?


2 posted on 04/24/2024 4:23:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

From Kenya to Hawaii.


3 posted on 04/24/2024 4:27:07 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: MtnClimber

If he was Trump, hiding the photo would be election fraud.


4 posted on 04/24/2024 4:54:36 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: MtnClimber
What would 0bama say if he stated what he really believes?

That's easy. He would simply quote Adolph in German from 90 years ago.

5 posted on 04/24/2024 5:02:33 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: MtnClimber

Obamalamadingdong said something. I guess I’ll never know what he said.


6 posted on 04/24/2024 5:27:11 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: MtnClimber
Obama has a plan for America ...AND IT IS NOT GOOD!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/wayne-root-this-is-100-obama-columbia-u/

7 posted on 04/24/2024 5:29:06 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: MtnClimber

In terms of hating Jews and any others, there is not a bit of difference between his “church” and terrorists’ groups. Of course he supports Hamas.


8 posted on 04/24/2024 5:52:45 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: MtnClimber

“Obama’s alma mater”? Obama never went to classes, so how is Columbia his alma mater?


9 posted on 04/24/2024 6:00:50 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: MtnClimber

The College Fix
https://www.thecollegefix.com/

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Concerns raised over universities signing over students’ private FERPA data to voter data companies
https://www.thecollegefix.com/concerns-raised-over-universities-signing-over-students-private-ferpa-data-to-voter-data-companies/

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10 posted on 04/24/2024 6:09:21 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: READINABLUESTATE
If he was Trump, hiding the photo would be election fraud.

And rape

11 posted on 04/24/2024 6:12:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

If Obozo is talking about Hamas, he is talking about his brothers.


12 posted on 04/24/2024 6:21:22 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: subterfuge

I clicked in the link to find it. Would have been helpful if the OP had included the significant part in his excerpt. Here it is :

Obama weighed in with a photo of himself and Michelle at a traditional seder meal from days gone by. In this tweet, marking the beginning of Passover, there is no talk of hate, no mention of Hamas, no reference to Columbia.

“And in a time when there’s been so much suffering and loss in Israel and Gaza,” he writes in his fortune cookie prose, “let’s reaffirm our commitment to the Jewish people, and people of all religions, who deserve to feel safe and secure wherever they live and practice their faith.”


13 posted on 04/24/2024 7:46:17 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: MtnClimber

Pinging you to my #13 as a courtesy just because I referred to you.


14 posted on 04/24/2024 7:47:51 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: MtnClimber
The "student protests" of the 1960s started at Columbia.

The student protestors of that era became the elite of the Democrat party.

Well it worked last time, right?

15 posted on 04/24/2024 9:13:10 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Bigg Red

Lol. “Fortune cookie prose” !!

Hilarious and very accurate. Thanks for the reply BR.


16 posted on 04/24/2024 9:20:10 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s his idea..


17 posted on 04/24/2024 1:29:15 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: subterfuge

Yes, that was a good phrase.

y/w


18 posted on 04/24/2024 5:01:13 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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