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This week, the Democratic Party was unable to pass a watered-down, platitudinous resolution condemning anti-Semitism, due to “fierce backlash” from presidential candidates, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and the now-powerful progressive base. Rather than censuring Rep. Ilhan Omar, the intellectually frivolous, Hamas-supporting freshman representative from Minnesota, she was rewarded and inoculated from party criticism.
More consequently, the Democrats deemed Protocols of Zion-style attacks a legitimate form of debate. That’s because Omar, despite what you hear, has repeatedly attacked Jews, not only Israel supporters, and certainly not only specific Israeli policies.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who would finally bring an “All Lives Matter” resolution to the floor, told reporters she didn’t believe the congresswoman’s comments were “intentionally anti-Semitic.” No educated human believes Omar inadvertently accused “Benjamin”-grubbing Rootless Cosmopolitans of hypnotizing the world for their evil. These are long-standing, conspiratorial attacks on the Jewish people, used by anti-Semites on right and left, and popular throughout the Islamic world.
Even the Democratic Party activist groups that typically cover for the Israel-haters, like the Anti- Defamation League, have condemned Omar. Yet it was the lie that coursed through the Democratic Party’s defense of Omar.
Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren claimed that “branding criticism of Israel as automatically anti-Semitic has had a chilling effect on our public discourse and makes it harder to achieve a peaceful solution between Israelis and Palestinians.” Either Warren believes that accusing Jews and their supporters of dual loyalty and sedition is a legitimate criticism of Israel, or she is deliberately mischaracterizing Omar’s comments to gain favor with the growing faction of anti-Semites in her party.
“We must not,” the socialist Bernie Sanders argued, “equate anti-Semitism and legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel” because such a thing would be “stifling” debate. Does anyone believe that if left-of-center Kahol Lavan were running Israel, Omar would be less inclined to smear the bipartisan squishes at AIPAC?

Omar has mentioned Benjamin Netanyahu (who, incidentally, is in every way more of a genuine liberal than either Sanders or Omar) once in her Twitter feed, and then only to use this very talking point to defend her comments. As a political matter, no major party in Israel is going allow an independent Palestinian state run by theocrats and terrorists to exist, so Omar and her allies will never be appeased.
Of course, no one argues that Omar’s speech should be curtailed or stifled. The same can’t be said of her defenders, however, who not only falsely claim criticism of her tropes is “chilling speech,” but also decided to transform this 38-year-old firebrand into a helpless, childlike victim.
“We all have a responsibility to speak out against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and all forms of hatred and bigotry, especially as we see a spike in hate crimes in America,” said Sen. Kamala Harris, who, like many Democrats, tried to dilute criticism of anti-Semitism in a torrent of phobias. “But like some of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus, I am concerned that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk.”
We shouldn’t exaggerate the prevalence of hate crimes in America, which is low, but it’s certainly worth pointing out that Jews are the target of 60 percent of those crimes—a far larger percentage than anyone else. In New York City, there have been at least 36 hate crimes against Jews so far this year so far. Shouldn’t Harris be more concerned about Omar’s rhetoric?

As Gad Saad noted yesterday, Omar’s brand of Israel criticism “is almost ALWAYS a cover of existential and definitional Jew-hatred.” This anti-Israel sentiment—opposition to the idea of a national Jewish state—is the most consequential form of anti-Semitism that exists in the world today. It has done more to undermine Jewish safety than all the dog whistles and white nationalist marches combined. Yet, many Democrats have now seemingly joined Corbynites and leftists around the world perpetuating this radicalism.
The normalization of Omarism is a long time coming. Omar’s defenders have been praising and participating in the Women’s March, led by Louis Farrakhan acolytes who believe Jewish people bear a special collective responsibility “as exploiters of black and brown people,” since Trump was elected. But it goes even further back.
When leaving the CBC meeting, “members formed a circle around Omar and Marcia Fudge literally stuck her arm out to prevent reporters from asking her questions. Then a few members hugged Omar, including Al Lawson.” It is unsurprising that Omar, who has great trouble answering simple questions, has the CBC running interference for her hatred. At least seven members of the CBC—a group seemingly immune from criticism—have coordinated and worked with Farrakhan, the anti-Semite preacher who believes “satanic” Jews are “termites” who “deserve to die.” Liberals keep telling me Farrakhan is just a conservative boogeyman, and yet his contingent is growing as Omar and allies like Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez join the ranks.
Democrats’ allies in media quickly came to Omar’s rescue, as well. The Washington Post ran three articles after Omar’s initial comments this week. All three defended her. “Want to combat hate? Stop the hazing of Ilhan Omar and start listening” wrote Wajahat Ali and Rabia Chaudry. Not only shouldn’t Jews censure Omar, the authors argued, they should shut up and listen to her wisdom. In the progressive worldview, Jews, who are successful and predominately white, should put up with a little bigotry for the common good.

As Rep James Clyburn (D-SC), who once also shared a stage with Farrakhan, noted, Omar should be given a free pass because she fled Somalia. “There are people who tell me, ‘Well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.’ ‘My parents did this.’ It’s more personal with her,” he explained. It’s personal to hate Jews when you fled Somalia? The number of people defending Omar on the risible grounds that Muslims should be immune from criticism isn’t surprising when you realize that identity politics demands strict adherence to the hierarchy of victimhood.
When New York Times reporters Sheryl Gay Stolberg (whose article in the aftermath of Omar’s dual loyalty remarks asked if Jewish people had too much power in Washington) and Glenn Thrush (who may or may not be taking diction from the Democratic National Committee) authored a piece about the resolution fight, they spent a large chunk of their space letting everyone know that President Donald Trump—whose daughter converted to Judaism and who moved the American embassy to Jerusalem and who stopped coddling the world’s most dangerous anti-Jewish terror-state—had also used anti-Semitic tropes.
While it’s not worth again debunking the fact that Trump never said neo-Nazis were “very fine people” or pointing out that most of the Jews at the Republican Jewish Coalition laughed at his jokes, it is worth mentioning that Democrats have embraced the worst kind of “whataboutism.”
NBC’s News’ Chuck Todd, in his “I’m obsessed with” segment, offered a jaw-droppingly misleading lecture accusing both parties of having an anti-Semitism problem by comparing elected officials like Omar and Tlaib — who have been embraced by their party, take part in policy making, and now widely defended on the mainstream left — to a fringe Nazi murderer who shot up a Pittsburgh synagogue, whom not a single Republican supports and has nothing to do with the GOP. The very fact that Todd was forced to shoehorn these comparisons is revealing.
In truth, Pelosi’s first watered-down resolution would have passed with most Republicans voting for it, and a number of Democrats defecting. This would have been embarrassing. So she promised to dilute it, and even that wasn’t enough for Democrats. Now, leadership is poised to pass some pointless resolution condemning all hatred.
Omar, an intellectual lightweight, is certainly a problem for America. But the fact that Democrats apparently believe what she says is fine is an absolute disaster.

(If you needed further convincing that non-white supporters of Trump are crazy, here's an interview with rather well-known japanese right-wing youtube personality, Yoko Mada, known as randomyoko2 on youtube.)

With the notable exception of author and former television announcer Yoshiko Sakurai, the right-leaning camp in Japan has long been a man’s domain. Not anymore. Yuriko Koike is governor of Tokyo, Tomomi Inada is minister of defense, and Mio Sugita is a rising star in parliamentary politics from Kobe. These women are leading the conservative charge inside the political world.

On the internet, though, no conservative is busier, more popular—or funnier—than Yoko Mada, known to her legions of fans as “Random Yoko.”

Mada was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985. A graduate of Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka majoring in English, Mada began posting videos to YouTube in 2006. In 2011, she won the first YouTube NextUp award. Her YouTube channel on politics and history, randomyoko2, has more than 50,000 subscribers and has been viewed more than 6.5 million times. She has appeared in numerous print, online, and television outlets, and has published a book on the subject of patriotism: Shin Aikokuron.

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Q: That is truly impressive. You are increasingly becoming a respected pundit on historical and political issues. Were you interested in those things from a young age?

A: No again! I was basically non-political in college. I was actually anti-Japanese, to tell you the truth. I wanted to cast off my Japanese identity and become American in fashion, speech, mannerisms, everything. I wanted to be able to choose my own country, regardless of where I was born and raised. I like Americans. They’re down to earth, they give you their opinions directly. Even American women have strong views and just come right out and tell you what they think. I liked American independence of thought and expression.

As a typical product of the Japanese education system, I was indoctrinated to dislike Japan. I took in the anti-Japanese propaganda from the schools and the media, and I believed it.

Q: In your book, you appear on the cover in a kimono. You obviously changed your mind about Japan somewhere along the way! When did that happen?

A: It was in 2012. It happened almost overnight. I saw on the news that Chinese people were rioting in the PRC over the Senkaku Islands. I couldn’t understand why. Their actions were only harming their own country—it seemed counterproductive. It was clearly a ginned-up controversy orchestrated by the Chinese government. Anybody could see that. I asked my father what was going on, and he told me. I was amazed.

My father is a very conservative man. He has a whole library of books on history and politics. I always made fun of him for that, and thought he should just get rid of all the books that he had read and that were just collecting dust. But after the Chinese riots, I wanted to know the history that had led to that point, so I went into my father’s library and read everything in it on politics and history. Everything. I chose a different topic each day and plowed through volume after volume.

Q: Just like when you learned English grammar in one week.

A: Yes. I used to think that politics and history were beyond my understanding—too complicated, too involved. But as I read I began to see things very clearly. Shoichi Watanabe-sensei’s books in particular were invaluable. It all made sense. As Japanese, we have all been lied to. I felt betrayed, by the media, by the education system. I was a teacher’s pet in school and I used to love NHK. Looking back, I can see that I just blindly accepted ideology as fact. Almost everyone in Japan did, and does, the same thing. Until recently.

Q: One of your most powerful videos is called “Aikokushin,” “patriotism.” When did you make that?

A: It was late in 2012, I believe. After the turmoil of realizing that so much of what I thought I knew had been false, I had to get off my chest the way I really felt. That video got picked up by other outlets and really seems to have caught on.

Q: Your political views changed. What about you, personally?

A: I haven’t changed as a person, although I’ve come to see the world in a completely different way. Also, by discovering the truth about the past, about Japan, I was able to embrace being Japanese for the first time in my life. I no longer wanted to become an American. I was suddenly proud—and grateful—to be Japanese.

It was from that point that I wanted to work with the US, with patriotic Americans, to fight back against the left-wing brainwashing we all receive through the schools and media in both countries.

Q: You are a big supporter of Donald Trump. When did you start following him?

A: It was actually soon after he announced his candidacy, around September of 2015. When he began to speak of the US-Japan alliance in the summer of that year, I realized that Trump and his supporters in the US were Japanese conservatives’ natural allies. I knew that Trump was serious, even though he was dismissed by nearly everyone in the political establishment. Trump was going to fight them, fight the globalists and the politically-correct powerful elite. We were fighting the same fight in Japan. Making America great again in the way Trump was talking about would help Japan become great again, too.

Q: You seem to have come full circle since your school-age years.

A: I loved the US when I was younger, but not in the right way. The globalists always tell us—and I thought this way, too—that we can become better friends with people in other countries by throwing away our own national identities. I hated being Japanese. I hated being Asian. I hated being a woman, even. I was a tomboy and thought that I could get to know boys better by being more like them. That is just one silly example, but it shows how much socialism, communism, cultural Marxism, Wilsonianism, anti-traditionalism have come to dominate both Japan and the US.

Q: Your eyes have really been opened, it seems.

A: Yes. What happened was that I became an adult. I learned to know and love and tell the truth. I accepted who I am. I stopped being a feminist and became a woman. It was as simple as that. I used to suffer from depression. I was always trying to stamp out who I am inside. Now I am me, and I am happy.

I want to be a role model to everyone else in Japan. Our ancestors were very sophisticated. They knew how to survive in the world by learning other languages, learning about other cultures and ideas, without throwing away their own Japanese heart and soul. One can speak English without becoming American. One can support the US-Japan alliance as a Japanese. We need to be equals with other countries. We cannot always be masochistic about who we are.

I see myself pushing the WAKE UP button inside of Japan. There is nothing more convincing than truth.