As Twitchy told you, Ilhan Omar is dedicating her Twitter feed to day to complaining about AIPAC and Israel’s obsession with her (and no, the irony is not lost on us). Included in her thread was this tweet about the importance of calling out hate and bigotry on all sides:
To confront hate and bigotry in all its forms, we must understand that they are all related. We cannot call out one form of hate while turning a blind eye to another.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) March 26, 2019
In that case, we can’t wait to see her confront the hate and bigotry emanating from the chairman of a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand:
"I'm listening….:" – Ilhan Omar. https://t.co/gM3fwCrA5I
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 26, 2019
well, since @IlhanMN is tweeting about the rise in anti-Semitic hate around the world right now, maybe she can address this ==> https://t.co/pqZpVbNq8p
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) March 26, 2019
We’d love to get her thoughts on this:
Unbelievable that a community leader unashamedly blamed Israel for the Christchurch terror attack in front of 1k people, a crowd member loudly agreed, and there was no challenge to the conspiracy theory.
Is this inflammatory hate speech endorsed by @FIANZ_NZ or rally organisers? pic.twitter.com/rsUx1RADez
— David Cumin (@KiwiDaveC) March 25, 2019
New Zealand mosque chairman: “I am not afraid to say I feel Mossad is behind [the mass murder of Muslims in Christchurch]” pic.twitter.com/IZis0Tf4u7
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 26, 2019
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On Saturday, a group called Love Aotearoa Hate Racism organised a rally for the victims in Auckland’s Aotea Square.
Ahmed Bhamji, chairman of the Mt Roskill Masjid E Umar, gave a speech questioning where the gunman got his funding from. He said he suspected it came from “Mossad” and “Zionist business”.
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Newshub contacted Bhamji, who accused Newshub of singling him out.
“I made a statement, a lot of other people made statements,” he said.
He continued to defend his speech, saying we need an inquiry into where the gunman got his money from. He didn’t offer any proof to his speculation Mossad had given him it.“Mossad is up to all these things,” he said. “When I talk about Mossad, why should the Jews be upset about it? Give me an answer?”
Oh.
oh goody https://t.co/ULzMe2GO9g
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) March 26, 2019
Great. https://t.co/yH4mQSS14i
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) March 26, 2019
Classsssiccccccc https://t.co/BNDyiPxjTN
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) March 26, 2019
Gross.
This is unhelpful, to say the least.
— Jam Today (@liddlelamzydive) March 26, 2019
Awful
— mary johnson (@BtMtjohnson) March 26, 2019
Oh no. That’s just disappointing for so many reasons.
— Daniel Winter (@winterbiz) March 26, 2019
This is terrible.
— @identitypolitique How's that revolution going? (@femocratsrisin1) March 26, 2019
This is beyond depressing https://t.co/2TgN2dqE2K
— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) March 26, 2019
This is just too terrible to watch and hear. How depressing to take such bigotry from so great a tragedy.
— Daniel Peltz OBE (@danielpeltz) March 26, 2019
That’s disgusting. He’s only using those poor victims as an excuse to have a go at Israel. He’s showing no concern for the deaths and injuries, or the grief their families and friends are going through. He’s just using them to further his warped agenda. He should be ashamed
— Rory Cowan (@1rorycowan) March 26, 2019
You can’t shame the shameless anti-Semites.
But hardly surprising
— whoislukecusick (@whoislukeagain) March 26, 2019
But not surprising
— harrison bergeron (@harrisonberger0) March 26, 2019
I am unsurprised. https://t.co/LIsivT7Ncc
— You were at my wedding you bitch. (@MangyLover) March 26, 2019
It’s certainly not surprising given the increasingly public displays of anti-Semitism around the world — and by some of the Democratic Party’s rising stars. Bhamji’s certainly not the first anti-Semitic scumbag to suggest that the Jews were behind the Christchurch massacre.
A conspiracy theorist, drunk on wicked fantasies about the hidden hand, slaughters Muslims, who he thinks are the Devil’s agents.
Some of the victims, identifying different Devil’s agents, spread conspiracy theories, inciting people to slaughter Jews.https://t.co/wcPsvJNyBT
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 26, 2019
To understand how anti-Semitism and conspiracism are entwined like DNA–and the consequences for Jews–here's a piece where I go into it at length.https://t.co/nGuvV5GLSG
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 26, 2019
One of the big Holocaust cliches: "How could this happen?"
Well, this thread contains your abbreviated answer: conspiracism, frightened and spellbound masses, and no one lifting a damn finger against it.
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 26, 2019
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