As previously discussed, America’s recent civic convulsions following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd has demonstrated the unifying hatred of America and its allies like Israel by Leftists and Islamists. Their copious, ideologically warped tweeting on these events provides revealing insight into the dark views of individuals prominent in academia and politics.
Some tweets show acceptance of rioting and looting as a form of revenge for American racism, even though many perpetrators (including white Antifa members) are not black. Rather than any “riot,” anti-Semitic Palestinian-American comedian Amer Zahr, a Bernie Sanders supporter, saw a “disproportionately low display of justified anger.” Zahr rejected any talk of supporting “protesters, but rioting and looting is not the way,” as “distraction & diversion.”
Stockton University Professor Nazia Kazi, an “Islamophobia” scam artist known for unhinged anti-American rants, likewise promoted a tweet by University of New Mexico professor Nick Estes. Somehow this Native American connected the destruction of Minneapolis businesses, such as a bar built with the life savings of a retired black fireman who had no insurance, with the expulsion of Dakota Indians from Minnesota to the Dakota Territory after their 1862 uprising. “What the people of Mpls are doing isn’t ‘looting,’ it’s closer to justice,” he wrote.
Ariel Gold, an “exemplary Jewish useful idiot” and co-director of the Leftist, Israel-hating Code Pink, downplayed American rioting damage with screeds against the “world’s biggest looters.” This included Israel for “theft and destruction of Palestinian land from 1948 today.” She added, “Walmart—no explanation necessary,” as successful businesses upon which modern life depend apparently deserve anarchic destruction.
Tweeters such as Gold imagined Americans’ own government as an enemy, for the “police/US military have declared war on the American people.” Mobashra Tazamal, a researcher against “Islamophobia” for the Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University’s Saudi-established Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (AMCU), concurred. The “police are not serving & protecting,” but “terrorizing the people,” she tweeted, in the name of “enforcing white supremacy,” America’s “foundation.” A Bridge Initiative statement by the organization’s director, Georgetown professor Tamara Sonn, declared without evidence that Floyd’s death was the result of “systemic institutional brutality.”
Michael Prysner, who produces anti-American and anti-Israeli screeds for the Empire Files and is a regular contributor to Russia Today (RT) media, a registered foreign agent of Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship, chimed in on the cop-hatred. “Police culture is a deep embrace of racism” and valorization of killing,” stated this Russian police state lackey, a “secret society of celebrating hate & violence.” While major police departments like in Los Angeles are actually majority non-white, he mythologized an “epidemic of racist police murder.”
Accordingly, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Deputy Director Rabbi Alissa Wise, Gold’s fellow fringe Jewish supporter of Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, described the lawlessness on America’s streets as an “uprising.” Rutgers University law professor Noura Erakat, the niece of Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erakat and anti-Israel bigot, described a “people’s liberation.” “Military helicopters are in the empire’s capital to quell an unarmed rebellion,” darkly intoned Omar Baddar, formerly the deputy director of the Arab American Institute.
Palestinian-American Steven Salaita, who now drives a school bus after anti-Semitic tweets cost him his academic career, rejoiced in the arson of a Minneapolis police station. “Burning down a police station scared the ruling class more than any electoral revolution ever has—or ever will,” this incessant socialist foamed at the mouth once again. This supposed expert on indigenous peoples such as the “Palestinians” gushed about an “inspiring, meaningful insurgency.”
The University of Detroit Mercy law professor Khaled Beydoun, another “Islamophobia” pontificator and BDS supporter, reflected upon the “Arab Spring” a decade ago and America’s supposedly “deeply embedded racism” today. Just as a June 6, 2010, Egyptian police killing “spurred the Egyptian revolution” that ended in a Muslim Brotherhood takeover, he found “so many feelings and parallels with what’s unfolding on America’s streets.” This law professor, meanwhile, showed no qualms about suggesting that urban revolts would follow any unpopular legal judgment concerning the police officers implicated in Floyd’s death. “If no charges are brought against the police that killed George Floyd—brace yourself Minneapolis,” he tweeted, words that only received a more ominous connotation by his quotation of communist radical Angela Davis.
Yale University professor Zareena Grewal decided that what America needs is more lawlessness. She complained that business owners including the Muslim Palestinian-American convenience store owner who called the police after Floyd tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill, a “petty shit” offense, “have a degree of complicity in this murder.” Rather than amputate thieves’ hands under sharia, as in Saudi Arabia or Iran, she wanted “to see mosques lead efforts to have shop-owners make community contracts to NOT escalate & call the cops over petty shit” under pain of boycotts. She offered no clear distinction between minor and major crime, nor did she refute concerns that crimes of varying degrees can be interconnected, for example according to the Broken Windows theory of policing.
No such twitter bonfire of revolutionary vanities could be complete without attacking the Bad Orange Man himself, President Donald Trump. Beydoun regurgitated the standard Leftist lie that Trump had praised “white supremacists” as “fine people” at a violent Charlottesville, Virginia, protest in 2017.
Trump’s June 1 public appearance with a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church across Lafayette Park from the White House was an occasion for hyperbolic outbursts. Many would actually consider this a commendable display of resolve, after rioters had set the church on fire. Yet Rutgers University law professor Sahar Aziz, another BDS supporter, went into a tizzy. Trump manifested a “toxic combination of religion, fascism, and militarism. America is sliding into the abyss under this #dictator who will do anything to stay in power.”
Long Island University political science professor Dalia Fahmy sounded similar alarms of impending doom with a hypothetical analogy between Trump and a Muslim leader. But she had no self-awareness that Muslim theocratic regimes around the world, such as Iran’s Islamic Republic, regularly invoke religion, all the while committing horrendous atrocities, including using live ammunition against protestors.
In this milieu, it is not surprising that Jeremiah Ellison, the son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Muslim convert with a radical background, would declare his support for Antifa against Trump, the “white power terrorist.”
Leftist and Islamist denigration of American ideals and institutions is bad enough, but it exists within a wider set of twisted views. As this series’ final article will examine, these radicals pair demonization of Israel with a whitewashing of Islam.