{"id":1027322,"date":"2021-11-18T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027322"},"modified":"2021-11-18T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:59:21","slug":"college-democrats-in-disarray-accusations-of-bigotry-fly-dnc-considering-disaffiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-democrats-in-disarray-accusations-of-bigotry-fly-dnc-considering-disaffiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"College Democrats In Disarray: Accusations Of Bigotry Fly, DNC Considering Disaffiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-democrats-in-disarray-accusations-of-bigotry-fly-dnc-considering-disaffiliation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One doesn\u2019t often hear about the College Democrats of America (CDA) unless they\u2019re protesting some alleged microaggression on campus, but apparently the organization is in disarray.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is \u201cin turmoil,\u201d according to Politico, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/11\/17\/college-democrats-of-america-dnc-522864\">reported<\/a> that the \u201cgroup\u2019s leaders are publicly firing off accusations of<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>anti-Blackness, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism at each other\u201d largely based on things they tweeted when they were younger teens \u2013 years before college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpeachment proceedings are now in the works against the organization\u2019s new vice president, Nourhan Mesbah, who is Muslim. College Democrats say that screenshots of tweets that their peers sent in adolescence spread rapidly through group texts, which already caused a student running for president of the group to withdraw their candidacy in September. And national advocacy groups for Muslim and Jewish Americans are now weighing in with criticism,\u201d Politico continued.<\/p>\n<p>A Democrat familiar with discussions within the Democratic National Committee (DNC), told the outlet that the national Democrat organization is considering disaffiliation with the CDA and instead partnering with the state groups that fall under the national college organization. As Politico reported, CDC members insisted the internal strife was part of a necessary dismantling of systemic racism, but other Democratic officials told the outlet it looks like a bunch of woke kids playing politics in a destructive way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are caught up in their own drama and playing \u2018Boys State\u2019 government,\u201d the Democrat official told Politico. \u201cThey think they\u2019re the hottest s\u2014 on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unraveling began in September after a 2014 tweet from former CDA vice president Tasneem Ahmad Al-Michael, a Muslim, caused him to abruptly withdraw from running for president. The tweet allegedly included a racial slur and was posted when Al-Michael was 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I said as a 15 year old prior to being in politics was ignorant, inappropriate, and flat out wrong,\u201d he told Politico. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t define me, my character, or invalidate the work that I continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mesbah was running for vice president at the time, and narrowly won after a 2016 tweet she had written using an anti-semitic slur was revealed the night before the election. Mesbah was 13 when she wrote the tweet while watching a presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. She blamed the debate on the \u201cyahood,\u201d which Politico noted was an Arabic word sometimes used as an anti-Semitic slur. To make matters worse, Mesbah also tagged a user who had a history of writing anti-Semitic tweets.<\/p>\n<p>After<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One doesn\u2019t often hear about the College Democrats of America (CDA) unless they\u2019re protesting some alleged microaggression on campus, but apparently the organization is in disarray.The organization is \u201cin turmoil,\u201d according to Politico, which reported that the \u201cgroup\u2019s leaders are publicly firing off accusations of\u00a0anti-Blackness, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism at each other\u201d largely based on things they tweeted when they were younger teens \u2013 years before college.\u201cImpeachment proceedings are now in the works against the organization\u2019s new vice president, Nourhan Mesbah, who is Muslim. College Democrats say that screenshots of tweets that their peers sent in adolescence spread rapidly through group texts, which already caused a student running for president of the group to withdraw their candidacy in September. And national advocacy groups for Muslim and Jewish Americans are now weighing in with criticism,\u201d Politico continued.A Democrat familiar with discussions within the Democratic National Committee (DNC), told the outlet that the national Democrat organization is considering disaffiliation with the CDA and instead partnering with the state groups that fall under the national college organization. As Politico reported, CDC members insisted the internal strife was part of a necessary dismantling of systemic racism, but other Democratic officials told the outlet it looks like a bunch of woke kids playing politics in a destructive way.\u201cThey are caught up in their own drama and playing \u2018Boys State\u2019 government,\u201d the Democrat official told Politico. \u201cThey think they\u2019re the hottest s\u2014 on Earth.\u201dThe unraveling began in September after a 2014 tweet from former CDA vice president Tasneem Ahmad Al-Michael, a Muslim, caused him to abruptly withdraw from running for president. The tweet allegedly included a racial slur and was posted when Al-Michael was 15.\u201cWhat I said as a 15 year old prior to being in politics was ignorant, inappropriate, and flat out wrong,\u201d he told Politico. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t define me, my character, or invalidate the work that I continue to do.\u201dMesbah was running for vice president at the time, and narrowly won after a 2016 tweet she had written using an anti-semitic slur was revealed the night before the election. Mesbah was 13 when she wrote the tweet while watching a presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. She blamed the debate on the \u201cyahood,\u201d which Politico noted was an Arabic word sometimes used as an anti-Semitic slur. To make matters worse, Mesbah also tagged a user who had a history of writing anti-Semitic tweets.After winning, Mesbah consulted with the DNC on releasing a statement, which contained no apology in the initial draft. After many edits, it still didn\u2019t contain an actual apology, but rather shifted blame for her actions: \u201cI apologize for my words in 2016. My comment was in no way rooted in malice or anti-semitism, especially as a 13-year old, relatively new immigrant from North Africa, with a different regional dialectic linguist comprehension.\u201dShe also said, \u201cwhile I take responsibility for my actions, I am hurt by the Islamophobia and xenophobia that continues to unfold.\u201dThe CDA board then passed a resolution to censure Mesbah and require her to \u201cundergo training about antisemitism and cultural sensitivity from the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, or the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.\u201dShe has yet to take that training.Last week, the person who took over Mesbah\u2019s former role as the CDA\u2019s director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA), Jeremy Ward, released a report calling for Mesbah to resign, insisting that her tweet was anti-Semitic and that there was no basis for her claims of Islamophobia. Ward\u2019s report also accused Mesbah of exhibiting \u201ca pattern of discrimination against members of the black community, specifically black women,\u201d but it didn\u2019t include examples, claiming that was done so no one would face retribution or harassment.Now two factions have been created, with one side demanding Mesbah resign and the other accusing Ward and others of a political hit job. Mesbah, naturally, blamed the situation on Islamophobia.Several well-known Muslim groups have offered support to Mesbah and immediately accepted her accusations as \u201ccredible.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}