Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Republican elected Portage County, Ohio Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski used their free speech to attack someone else's free speech.
With elected figures like this, who needs Donald J. Trump?
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has handlers everywhere. The president, Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, J.D. Vance, Tim Walz and former president Donald J. Trump back Israel. Torres and Fetterman openly and unabashedly support Israel.
They support Israel so much, they want to push for jailing critics of the apartheid ethnostate. Fetterman, Ritchie, Sen. Join Ernst (R-IA), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), Rep. Mike Lawler (D-NY) and Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-IA) cheered the terrorist attack on Beruit by Israel.
Israel used electronic devices as bombs and it exploded killing over 100 people and injuring thousands. It was one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern history.
The junk food media keeps saying it was explosions and refuse to acknowledge it was a state act of terror.
Fetterman got his panties twisted over a professor at Cornell University being reinstated to his position. Mind you, Ithaca, New York is not Pennsylvania and this oaf wants to punish free speech on behalf of a foreign country.
The gay lawmaker Ritchie Torres insults constituents who oppose Israel. |
History professor Russell Rickford took a leave of absence from the school in October. The move followed him calling the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel “exhilarating" at an off-campus rally.
The remark sparked backlash, with a petition calling for Rickford's dismissal earning over 11,000 signatures at the time. The professor was forced to apologize for the remark, writing in an op-ed he "intended to stress grassroots African American, Jewish and Palestinian traditions of resistance to oppression."
Cornell at the time condemned Rickford's comment, calling it "reprehensible." However, when inquired about Rickford's employment status Monday, the school's media relations team directed The National Desk (TND) to a statement from Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina saying the remark is considered protected free speech.
“Consistent with well-established principles of academic freedom, Cornell has a process for considering whether public statements such as those expressed off campus by Professor Rickford at a political rally fall under the category of protected speech, or rather demonstrate prohibited bias, discrimination, or harassment,” it reads. “Given that Professor Rickford’s comments were made as a private citizen in his free time, the university’s academic leadership has concluded that Professor Rickford’s conduct in relation to this incident did not meet that high bar.”
Fetterman responded through Twitter his outrage.
“[Rickford] found the 10/7 massacre, rape and torture of 1,200 civilians as ‘exhilarating,’" the senator lamented. “Unsurprisingly, he was welcomed back. This is the personification of elite educational rot and antisemitism at the core of so many anti-Israel campus protests.”
The senator has repeatedly shown support for Israel amid its war with Hamas terrorists, a stance not taken by some of his more progressive colleagues. Sen. Fetterman in June visited Israel, where he was honored by the war criminal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We’ve been through dark times in these months of anguish war,” Netanyahu said. “During that time, I can say Israel has had no better friend than Senator John Fetterman.”
“I want to thank you for your courageous statements that show moral clarity and moral courage and you just say it the way it is,” he added to Sen. Fetterman.
Cornell Board of Trustees Member Emeritus Jon Lindseth in January called on the school to oust its former President Martha Pollack and former Provost Michael Kotlikoff over their alleged failure to condemn antisemitism. Kotlikoff became the school’s interim president in July after Pollack announced her retirement.
In the span of only 35 seconds, Sarah Friedland manages to accuse Israel of genocide; demonize Israel’s existence as a 76-year occupation; and romanticize the “struggle for Palestinian liberation” all without condemning the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) September 16, 2024
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I am calling upon every college and university to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which recognizes that Anti-Zionism is or can be a form of antisemitism. If you’re targeting a Jewish institution, like Hillel, simply for being Jewish, you’re guilty of antisemitism. If… pic.twitter.com/jc1emqJz7o
— Rep. Ritchie Torres (@RepRitchie) September 15, 2024
After speaking at a conference about climate change, I found myself accosted by an Anti-Israel extremist who kept following me and foaming at the mouth like a raving lunatic.
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) September 25, 2024
I refuse to be bullied and intimidated by the extremes of American politics. My support for the… pic.twitter.com/6sVQIsdZ3C
Torres has openly called for Congress to pass the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism to criminalize criticism of Israel. It is an insufferable bill passed by the House.
It was introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME), Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ). The bill is stalled along with the yearly funding bill which keeps the government open for the fiscal year.
Republicans are pushing for a broad bill to restrict immigrants from voting, mandatory voter ID, dropping voters who haven't participated in a year and voting restrictions. They want to push it along with the IHRA Anti-Semitism Bill.
Bisan Atef Owda was nominated at the 2024 Emmy Awards for News & Documentary with AJ+ in the category of outstanding hard news feature story: short form for their series “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive.” Nominations were announced on July 25 and the winners will be presented in two ceremonies on Sep. 25 and 26 in New York.
Owda won a Peabody Award in June for “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive,” in which she reports from the Gaza Strip and documents what Palestinian civilians are experiencing during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. She dedicated her award to pro Palestinian college students protesting on their campuses around the world and those who support a boycott of Israel.
Portage County, Ohio Sheriff is another all hat and no bull. Like Butler County's Richard K. Jones, Bruce Zuchowski wants to be the tough guy.
Former Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke was another example of that all that and no bull. The former Democratic now Republican based conservative agitator talked a lot of bullshit. He is African American and one of the many Black conservatives who thought slavery was a good thing.
Zuchowski was posting on social media about Harris-Walz signs in his county. The sheriff thought it be a good time to round up immigrants from the border and place them at the doorstep of those who have them signs in their front yards.
In a public Facebook post Friday, Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski used anti-immigrant rhetoric and denounced both Harris and her supporters.
"When people ask me...What’s gonna happen if the Flip — Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say...write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards! Sooo...when the Illegal human ‘Locust’ (which she supports!) Need places to live...We’ll already have the addresses of the their New families...who supported their arrival!" the post said.
Ohio sheriff wants to punish Harris-Walz supporters. |
Zuchowski, the sheriff’s office and the Harris campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday afternoon.
The post Zuchowski shared also included TV images mentioning Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio — towns that have become flashpoints in the immigration debate.
Springfield in particular has been subject to security threats amid baseless claims about Haitian immigrants living there. former President Donald Trump amplified the claims at Tuesday's presidential debate, which drew more than 67 million viewers, when he said, “They’re eating the pets.”
Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, has made similar remarks on social media, and he doubled down on them in an interview Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press."
Springfield Mayor Rob Rue has said "a lie" is tearing apart the city of nearly 59,000 residents. "We'd like that to stop," he said Saturday.
Springfield is a little less than 200 miles southeast of Portage County.
Zuchowski's Facebook page includes a photo of him with Vance and other pictures of him with Trump allies such as former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. M
The photo with Vance is dated July 15. One of the photos with Flynn is dated June 13, and the other is dated March 30 and includes Ramaswamy.
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