{"id":1027889,"date":"2021-11-18T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027889"},"modified":"2021-11-18T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:29:17","slug":"dnc-weighs-disaffiliation-from-college-dems-amid-anti-semitism-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dnc-weighs-disaffiliation-from-college-dems-amid-anti-semitism-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Weighs Disaffiliation From College Dems Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdnc-weighs-disaffiliation-from-college-dems-amid-anti-semitism-scandal%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=1027889&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--><div readability=\"29.51724137931\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">VP Nourhan Mesbah faces calls for her resignation over anti-Semitic tweets<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NourhanMesbah-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NourhanMesbah-scaled-e1637259661491.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NourhanMesbah-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NourhanMesbah-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NourhanMesbah-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NourhanMesbah-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NourhanMesbah-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NourhanMesbah-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tNourhan Mesbah (Democrats.org)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 November 18, 2021 2:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"104.22759601707\">\n<p>The Democratic National Committee is considering disaffiliating from College Democrats as the national student organization faces fallout from an anti-Semitism scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Semitic comments from the organization&#8217;s new vice president, Nourhan Mesbah, have prompted calls for her resignation from College Democrat members\u2014a push Muslim advocacy groups are calling &#8220;Islamophobic.&#8221; In response to the conflict, the DNC is weighing disaffiliation from the student organization, which includes more than 500 campus chapters across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are caught up in their own drama and playing \u2018Boys State&#8217; government,&#8221; a Democratic official told <em>Politico<\/em>. &#8220;They think they&#8217;re the hottest s\u2014 on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The College Democrats&#8217; Jewish Caucus called on Mesbah to resign in September after her anti-Semitic tweets resurfaced, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/college-democrats-leader-under-fire-for-anti-semitic-tweets\/\">reported<\/a> at the time. In one post, Mesbah blamed the &#8220;yahood,&#8221; an Arabic word for Jews, for Hillary Clinton&#8217;s performance against Donald Trump in a 2016 presidential debate. In the tweet, Mesbah tagged Dima Jubara, an acquaintance who has tweeted that she prays &#8220;God will kill the Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mesbah apologized for her tweets in a statement, saying they were &#8220;in no way rooted in malice or anti-Semitism&#8221; and attributed them to her &#8220;different regional dialectic linguist comprehension&#8221; as an immigrant from North Africa. The College Democrat official also said she has faced harassment over the tweets, which &#8220;is never acceptable but unfortunately all too common for Muslim, immigrant women of color who often face bigoted targeting unique to our experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A new report from College Democrats&#8217; director of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access reignited the controversy last week after the group concluded Mesbah&#8217;s tweet was anti-Semitic and that her accusations of Islamophobia are &#8220;unfounded.&#8221; The report also claimed Mesbah has demonstrated &#8220;a pattern of discrimination against members of the black community, specifically black women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response, a spate of Muslim and pro-Palestinian advocacy groups have defended Mesbah, who faces renewed calls from College Democrat members for her resignation. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/harriss-ties-to-leading-anti-israel-group-draw-scrutiny\/\">faced<\/a> allegations that it helped fundraise for Hamas, defended Mesbah in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cair.com\/press_releases\/cair-calls-on-the-college-democrats-of-america-cda-to-probe-complaints-of-rampant-anti-muslim-bigotry-within-organization\/\">letter<\/a> last week, calling for an investigation into &#8220;widespread anti-Muslim bigotry within&#8221; College Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>A coalition of Muslim advocacy groups, including CAIR and American Muslims for Palestine, also denounced the College Democrats board&#8217;s requirement that Mesbah undergo &#8220;cultural sensitivity&#8221; training with the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, or U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AMP-_-Pal-Legal-Advocacy-Statement.pdf\">letter<\/a> last week to College Democrats&#8217; leadership, the groups said ADL and AJC have &#8220;a history of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian actions&#8221; and claimed the Democratic student organization is &#8220;tolerating an environment hostile toward Muslims within the organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The College Democrats&#8217; scandal comes as the Democratic Party confronts growing anti-Semitism among its ranks. &#8220;Squad&#8221; member Ilhan Omar (Minn.) has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/ilhan-omar-knows-what-shes-doing\/\">said<\/a> her Jewish Democratic colleagues &#8220;haven&#8217;t been partners in justice&#8221; and faced widespread criticism from her party in 2019 when she said U.S. support for Israel is &#8220;all about the Benjamins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A number of Omar&#8217;s fellow Democrats believe Omar is an anti-Semite, even if they don&#8217;t say so publicly,&#8221; <em>Punchbowl News<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/email.punchbowl.news\/t\/ViewEmail\/t\/DBB3890FCBF06AC82540EF23F30FEDED\/6D952D78B1F1191ACE63909E3969C05F\">reported<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus VP Nourhan Mesbah faces calls for her resignation over anti-Semitic tweets  Nourhan Mesbah (Democrats.org)  Cole Carnick \u2022 November 18, 2021 2:20 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"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-1027889","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\/1027889","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027889\/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=1027889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}