Threats from Ilhan Omar will never silence us

Jerusalem Post ^ | May 6, 2019 | Shmuley Boteach

[SJackson]

From the age of 14, I followed the lead of my mentor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and chose to dedicate my life to the Jewish people.

To Ilhan Omar’s photographer:

I first heard of you when one of our staff members told me that someone had called looking for the person he needed to sue. It was a strange and disturbing phone call which seemed to traumatize our staff.

As you well know, Jews are under attack the world over, and threatening phone calls are unwelcome at the best of times but particularly now.

You could have just asked for me by name.

I’m Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, founder and CEO of The World Values Network, a not-for-profit NGO primed to defend the Jewish people and Israel in mainstream media. I am also the proud father of nine children and five grandchildren, thank God. I am a rabbi. I am a writer and TV host on marriage, sexuality and relationships. I am an activist, a political commentator and professionally, above all else, a writer.

All of these facets of my identity, however, boil down to one: I am a Jew.

From the age of 14, I followed the lead of my mentor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and chose to dedicate my life to the Jewish people and to humanity at large. At the time, I thought that would mean only the study and dissemination of the timeless wisdom offered by the Torah. Today, tragically, it has also come to mean defending my people from relentless attack and a tsunami of antisemitism.

In the past 10 days alone, America witnessed its second synagogue shooting in six months, The New York Times admitted to printing a vile antisemitic cartoon, and the Anti-Defamation League warned in its annual report that American Jews are facing “near historic levels of hatred.” As I write this, hundreds of rockets are falling down upon Israel, where two of my children live, and where they both served courageously in the Israel Defense Forces as young soldiers.

The full-page color ad we ran in The Washington Post calling out the antisemitism of Rep. Ilhan Omar – the one over which you’re suing me (and I find it interesting that you’re suing only the Jewish organization that ran the ad but not The Washington Post, which published it) – presents yet another example of the threats we face.

For a political figure barely six months in Washington, Omar has managed to cram an astonishing amount of frightening rhetoric into the American political honey jar, demonizing the Jewish people with all three legs of the antisemitic stool – those of Jewish hypnotic control, Jewish money control, and Jewish dual loyalties.

In 2012, as huge numbers of rockets rained down on Israel, Omar took to Twitter to make the disgusting, repulsive claim that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” This year, she made it clear that the America-Israel alliance was motivated not by shared interests and values but by Jewish money which buys politicians. She singled out AIPAC in particular as being guilty of a Jewish money conspiracy. And notice, she didn’t say that the America-Israel alliance is in part “about the Benjamins.” No, she said it was “all [my emphasis] about the Benjamins.” By doing so, she not only vilified Jews with a charge straight out of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but impugned the integrity of her colleagues in the United States Congress by implying that they were all bought off and bribed. Then, during a discussion about American support for Israel, she stewed over a certain group of Americans who were “pushing for allegiance to a foreign country.”

Put yourself in our shoes. How would you feel if someone said you were a traitor to America because you’re a Jew? “The most exciting things happen when people are extremely uncomfortable,” Rep. Omar said in an article headlined by the herculean photograph you took of her. I don’t know what “exciting things” Omar has planned, and I hope I never do. But I do know that she’s unleashed this crusade of making people “extremely uncomfortable” mostly on American Jews. She’s also making us Jews feel uncommon, unwelcome — even un-American.

Worse than being an antisemite (we’re used to those), Omar has become a celebrity antisemite.

Despite the fact that leaders from all sides of the political spectrum have come together to condemn her, there are those who can’t stop celebrating Omar, regardless of her irrepressible antisemitism. Omar has graced the front covers of Time, Rolling Stone and even the latest edition of Newsweek. She’s the subject of a documentary that premiered at Tribeca, and even made a cameo in the music video for the Maroon 5’s hit “Girls Like You,” which has two billion views on YouTube. Rolling Stone even listed her, along with Nancy Pelosi, as one of their four “Women Shaping America’s Future.” Recommended videos Powered by AnyClip Justice Department And FTC Announce Antitrust Probes Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:37

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American Jews would be wise to ensure she doesn’t. They’d also be wise to ensure all Americans know what Omar believes – namely, that we use our money to manipulate our government into being allegiant to a foreign nation that has in its arsenal the ability to hypnotize the world.

AMID ALL this, we come across your work of art which, all would agree, lionized Omar. She certainly thought so, considering she posted the photo on Facebook (itself a legal co-owner of the image which we credited for the photo). She even captioned the image with the words of Maya Angelou, “I walk like I got oil wells/ Pumping in my living room.”

In using your photo, we stood entirely within our rights. Firstly, the photo was used in accordance with Facebook standards, which, as you will find on Google, states, “According to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, any image posted with the Public setting carries the implicit acknowledgment that said photo is available for access and use by anyone – including entities not on Facebook. While permission for use is considered polite, it is not a prerequisite.”

But more importantly, art is not protected from parody. Art is not protected from criticism, satire or commentary – better known as fair use.

Considering mainstream America has roundly condemned Omar for using antisemitic tropes, any artwork that serves to promote her is itself controversial, if not a provocation. It should certainly be understood that it will be met with criticism, commentary and parody.

Ultimately, it’s your right to celebrate people who trade in antisemitism, even as I lament your decision to do so. Just don’t be surprised when we respond to your assessments, and don’t try to silence us when we do.

I can assure you that, try as you might, we will neither be silenced nor intimidated, even when we receive threatening letters demanding $150,000 in damages. We will continue to be vocal about Omar and her personal war against the Jewish people. You may seek to stifle our First Amendment rights as a Jewish organization that battles antisemitism. But as Jews are being gunned down in synagogues on American soil over ideas frighteningly similar to Omar’s claims of Jewish “Benjamins” controlling Washington, we will resist and fight back. All the legal threats in the world will not silence us. We will speak out against the demonization of the Jewish people and defend our rights to free speech.

We are, after all, fellow Americans.

I wish you God’s blessings.

Sincerely,

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

[SJackson]

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[SpaceBar]

Threats from Ilhan Omar should earn her a redeye flight to Mogadishu.

[Gene Eric]

U.S. Jews will still vote heavily Democrat.

[KDF48]

How does an illegal alien get removed from office?

[atc23]

How does an illegal alien get removed from office? Nothing worked with Obama, I expect nothing will work with her

[HighSierra5]

Stuffed inside the wheel well.

[Taxman]

She is, of course, advancing the cause for Islam!

</sarcasm>

Hopefully, the American people will come to recognize that Islam is a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO US!

AND NEVER, EVER, ELECT A MOSLEM TO ANY POLITICAL OFFICE AGAIN!

[Its All Over Except ...]

Her real name is Mentally Ilhan Omar.

[upchuck]

See tag.

[Erik Latranyi]

Most muslims are loudmouths with no real courage to back up their words.

Most muslim males run like scared girls when confronted by real men.

Most muslim women are nothing more than the braying goats serving their ball-less male masters’ orders.

Stand up to them with strength (like Israel) and they will fold like Chinese lawn furniture.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Omar is an traitor to America, to decent Moslems, and is a hatemonger on the level of Julius Streicher and Adolph Eichmann.

Time to get her thrown out of Congress and take away any security clearance she should never have had.

Se is the enemy of America, of Jews, of Western Civilization.

If EVIL wears a burqua or hijab, it looks like her inside of it.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Omar is an traitor to America, to decent Moslems, and is a hatemonger on the level of Julius Streicher and Adolph Eichmann.

Time to get her thrown out of Congress and take away any security clearance she should never have had.

Se is the enemy of America, of Jews, of Western Civilization.

If EVIL wears a burqua or hijab, it looks like her inside of it.

[rrrod]

American Jews line up and do as they are told by the Democrats.

[Taxman]

Islam is an evil death cult!

NOT A RELIGION!

[Liz]

A huge problem is the creepy rag-head in Congress describes herself as “an African on a Congressional committee.” You can bet this rag-headed fraud's got a whole bunch of identities......one for every occasion. Tucker Carlson called this Clitless Wonder Muslim woman and self-proclaimd Somali refugee “someone who hates our country” and who came to the U.S. “at public expense,” noting that she “demanding the abolition of ICE, the decriminalization of illegal immigration itself, and an end to all deportation programs. She demands open borders, the unlimited arrival of anyone who wants to come to America, whether they have anything to contribute or not; and taxpayers get to pay for it. And if you don’t want to, according to "the African" you’re a bigot,” Carlson said. Tucker referenced Ilhan Omar as “a symbol of America’s failed immigration system if there ever was one.”

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LOYALTY TO SOMALIA NOT AMERICA---Democrat Omar complained on the floor of the US Congress that President Trump has dramatically intensified American airstrikes in her native Somalia that have killed hundreds of members of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab.

REALITY CHECK I guess her Somali BIL gave her the script. Read on.

Omar’s brother-in-law, a Somalia official, tweeted on March 4: “Road to 2020/21 and national issues in #Somalia - current political agreement (4.5) is decaying, yet main governance systems/structures are not in place: constitution is incomplete, justice system poor, security absent, political parties not there...what gives?!”

This is embedded with some sort of creepy Muslim code......probably for more US foreign aid.....
Omar got her BIL a top job in the Somali administration. Read on.

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Democrat Cong Clyburn said Omar "told him" she was born in Somalia, and had to flee the country to escape Somali violence,
and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to the US.....this according to Clyburn.

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Then why, as a frightened Somali given refuge in America, did she hurry back to Somalia to get her BIL a job?

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This creepy Somali Muslim woman in our Congress has a hidden agenda no one could ever imagine.Omar has world-wide terrorist connections.

BACKSTORY-- Just a few weeks after her election to Minnesota's state legislature,
Ilhan left her American refuge to travel to her homeland she says she "fled in fear".
She was with then-Pres Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a Somali favorite for re-election.
He reportedly invited her to appear beside him prior to the Somali election taking place.
That's the "frightened lady" pictured chit-chatting, setting up her foreign policy $$$$ Somali agenda.

No Longer "Fearful," elected US state rep Omar Endorsed Somalia’s New President. Four Days Later,
Omar's Brother-in-Law Had a Powerful Job in the Somali Administration. The US foreign aid is about to pour in.

What was the deal she made with the corrupt-ridden Somali govt? Are the violent Somalians she once fled,
privy to US security reports from Omar's current position on the Congressional Foreign Affair Committee?

You better believe it, guys.

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A foray into foreign politics, should have disqualified her from getting US security clearance.

Assimilation is never on the agenda.

They get top jobs in govt, even cop jobs, get elected, but the agenda is strictly "Us-First"
......suing, screaming discrimination, throwing down America, and demeaning Americans.

The organized Somali Bund should be registered as foreign agents.

[Liz]

[Liz]

THE BRAZEN COVER-UP-—A PLOT TO ALLOW A SOMALI COP TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER

Bodycam footage (the PTB were loathed to release) shows the Somali killer, Noor, being protected by a colleague,
cautioning the killer to keep quiet. The officer’s compassion is directed at the Somali killer Noor:

‘You alright kiddo?’ the cop says.
‘Yeah,’ Noor replies.

THE L/E COVER-UP BEGINS: The officer then directs killer Noor
to ‘just keep to yourself, keep your mouth shut til you have to say anything to anybody’.

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REALITY CHECK The murdered girl’s fiancé Don Damond criticized the Minneapolis Police Dept.
The cops flaunt the feel-good message. “To protect with courage and to serve with compassion.”

DON DAMOND: “Where were these values that night? She called them because she needed them to protect her with
courage and serve with compassion, but that night there was a tragic lapse of care and complete disregard for the
sanctity of human life.”
Plainly, as the tapes show, L/E concern was for the killer.

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It is damning that the Minneapolis Police Dept has an agenda and it is not to protect innocent people.

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Janine’s grief-stricken father was turned away initially. The Minneapolis Police Dept L/E cabal gave him no help.
He was forced to pursue the case when it became clear the Somali cop was being shielded from prosecution by the cop cabal.

The grief-stricken father commented: ”We believe Noor’s guilty verdict was reached despite the active resistance of
a number of Minneapolis police officers - including the head of their union - and (despite) either the active
resistance or gross incompetence of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension,” he said. “Particularly at the
beginning of this investigation.”

(hat tip KSTP news report——https://kstp.com/news/mohamed-noor-verdict-ruszczyk-family-reaction-minneapolis-police/5336172/)

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The individuals that contributed to this outrageous course of conduct should be summarily fired .....and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

ACTION NOW:
Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 email at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact @POTUS or @realDonaldTrump on Twitter!

US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121

U.S. Department of Justice
Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Switchboard: 202-514-2000

FBI tip line web site——https://www.fbi.gov/tips
FBI electronic fraud unit——www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/internet-fraud
FBI Major Case Contact Center: 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324)

[Liz]