{"id":2071369,"date":"2023-10-18T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-fairfax-county-school-board-member-objects-to-moment-of-silence-for-israeli-victims\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T07:48:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T11:48:49","slug":"democrat-fairfax-county-school-board-member-objects-to-moment-of-silence-for-israeli-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-fairfax-county-school-board-member-objects-to-moment-of-silence-for-israeli-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Fairfax County School Board Member opposes moment of silence for Israeli victims."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fdemocrat-fairfax-county-school-board-member-objects-to-moment-of-silence-for-israeli-victims%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=2071369&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Fairfax County School Board Member Sparks Controversy with Anti-Israel Remarks<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Oct. 12,\u2064 Abrar Omeish, an at-large member on Fairfax County\u2019s school board, objected to calling for a moment of silence for\u200d the innocent victims of the Hamas massacre in Israel. Omeish asserted that she \u200ddid not support the dominance of one side\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A suburb of Washington, \u200cD.C., Fairfax County\u2019s school district is the eighth largest in\u200b the \u2063nation, with a\u2063 $3.5 billion budget and 181,000 enrolled students.\u200c Like many other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/44-san-francisco-schools-to-see-name-changes\/\" title=\"44 San Francisco schools to see name changes\">school board members<\/a> across the\u2064 country, Omeish uses her position at \u2063the dais \u2063to grandstand about issues that have little or nothing \u200cto do \u200bwith our children\u2019s \u200bpublic education.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1994909647\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-37d99103e7da14184add0d1705820acd fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-37d99103e7da14184add0d1705820acd\"><\/div>\n<p>Omeish stated that by \u200dproposing the moment\u200c of silence, her colleagues on \u200bthe school board \u2062had engaged in a \u201csneak attack\u201d\u200d against her. \u201cWe often sympathize with and humanize the \u2063side that \u2026 our biases guide \u200bus toward, but doing \u2062so \u200dobscures the root of the violence,\u201d she said, adding that the adage, \u201cNo justice, no peace\u201d is\u2062 relevant for the situation in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Many of her colleagues on the school\u200c board left the dais as she was speaking, likely as\u200d a\u200d protest to her remarks. \u2064Despite some turbulence along the\u200b way, the 12\u200c Democrat-endorsed Fairfax County school board members maintained a tenuous, unholy alliance, in which they \u2064voted almost\u200d unanimously on \u2062every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-fairfax-county-school-board-member-objects-to-moment-of-silence-for-israeli-victims\/\" title=\"Democrat Fairfax County School Board Member opposes moment of silence for Israeli victims.\">single dysfunctional political initiative<\/a> for the last four\u200d years.<\/p>\n<p>Their alliance has withstood Omeish\u2019s previous demonstrations of anti-Americanism on the school board. In June 2021, as a school board member speaking at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-police-say-door-to-uvalde-elementary-school-was-unlocked-when-gunman-entered\/\" title=\"Texas Police Say Door to Uvalde Elementary School Was Unlocked When Gunman Entered\">high school graduation ceremony<\/a>, she told the graduates they should remember \u2062their \u201cjihad\u201d because they were about\u200b to enter a world of \u201cracism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, [and] \u200c white supremacy.\u201d A \u200cfew months later, she opposed \u200da motion\u200d to honor the victims of 9\/11. In Feb. 2023, Omeish said \u200cthat the\u2064 battle of Iwo\u2062 Jima \u201cunfortunately happened\u201d and \u201cset a record for really what, I hate to say, human \u200cevil is capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax County\u2019s parents waited for\u2063 an explanation\u2062 of Omeish\u2019s\u200b anti-American Iwo Jima remark, \u200dbut\u200b there was not \u200bone. We \u200bthought at this point her Democrat-endorsed colleagues on the \u2062school board would condemn her \u200bremarks, but they also were silent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3b28ae770eb83c64e0a03216fc2d1539 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3b28ae770eb83c64e0a03216fc2d1539\"><\/div>\n<p>On\u2064 Feb. 24, 2023, I \u2062emailed\u2064 Omeish demanding an explanation\u2063 for her offensive comments. My great-uncle \u2062had \u200bfought and\u200c was wounded in Iwo Jima. Both of \u2064my grandfathers,\u2063 my father, my brother, and my husband are veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Omeish responded that \u200bthe\u200c only reason \u200cI had problems with her remarks was because of my biases, a \u2063comment she often throws at white members\u200b of\u2064 the community. She wrote, \u201cThere is\u200c no reason to \u2062warp what was\u200c said and reading more into it merely \u2063reflects biases forced in by the listener.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Omeish \u2014 who never\u200b seems to take responsibility for\u2063 her actions, has\u200d no \u2063children of her own, and, as of recently, still lived with her parents \u2014 Fairfax community \u200dmembers and their biases are generally the problem. She is so obsessed\u200d with\u200b the issue of inherent biases, that last year, she \u2062proposed a bias incident \u2064reporting system for\u200b the \u200dschool \u2064district, which \u200csubsequently passed.<\/p>\n<p>Omeish did not respond to my additional questions, but instead issued \u2062a public statement\u2064 in which she victimized herself. She claimed\u2064 that people who\u200c take issue with her statement on Iwo Jima believe that \u201cMuslim somehow implies anti-American.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ca46fdf55da7d3e4734eda241f95ffa8 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ca46fdf55da7d3e4734eda241f95ffa8\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite all of her antics, her \u2064Democrat-endorsed colleagues on the school board\u200c said \u200cvirtually nothing over the last four years. It \u2062truly has been \u200ba \u2064case of tribal partisan \u200cloyalty at all costs, also much like \u2062at the national level. With the silent protest where a few of the school \u200dboard members exited the \u200ddais during the last meeting, her refusal to honor the\u200c victims \u200cof the Israel massacre on Oct. 7 \u200bmight be\u200d the breaking point\u2063 of the\u200c woke alliance on Fairfax County\u2019s school board.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, up \u2064until this point, Omeish\u2062 has always shown her hand, and her fellow Democrat-endorsed colleagues seem to have been mostly \u200bsupportive. In 2019, four years before she objected to\u200d the moment\u200c of silence for the slaughtered civilians in Israel, Omeish campaigned at a fundraiser for the \u2062American Muslims for Palestine. There, she informed the audience that as \u2064a member of the school board, she \u200bwould change the narrative on \u200bPalestinians, meanwhile referring to Israel \u200das an \u201capartheid nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She proudly \u200dboasted that she would achieve her ends in\u2063 the system that educates our \u200dchildren, with the \u200bdistrict\u2019s multibillion-dollar budget. In other words, she explicitly bragged about her intentions to politically indoctrinate our \u2063children in public schools with regard to the situation in\u200b Israel. Her remarks at\u2062 the last school board meeting are abhorrent, but not particularly surprising given what she has already said and done.<\/p>\n<p>What is more surprising is \u2062that Fairfax County\u2019s \u200bDemocratic Party endorsed her and all of the other candidates who sat silently around her at the dais\u2063 for \u200cthe last four years. The case of Abrar Omeish is a cautionary tale. Voters should think about the\u200c inappropriateness of integrating politics in public schools, and what happens when we disagree on issues outside of the fundamentals when\u200c we do.<\/p>\n<p>Omeish\u2019s story is also a warning for voters \u2063to\u200c be informed about their local candidates and\u2062 not simply march to the orders of a political party\u2019s sample ballot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fa2d9b0883d1c970e8a88ae523b63397 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fa2d9b0883d1c970e8a88ae523b63397\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does Omeish&#8217;s pattern of \u2063deflecting\u200b criticism and refusing to take responsibility for her actions raise concerns about her ability\u200b to effectively serve as \u200ba representative and advocate for the \u2063community<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The \u200crecent controversy surrounding Abrar Omeish, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/director-of-research-at-govt-accountability-institute-fbi-corruption-goes-all-the-way-to-the-top\/\" title=\"GAI Research Director: FBI Corruption Reaches Top Levels\">school board\u200b member<\/a> in\u2062 Fairfax County,\u200c Virginia, it is clear that her focus has strayed far from\u2062 the realm of public education. Omeish&#8217;s anti-Israel\u2063 remarks during a discussion about a moment of\u200b silence for the\u2064 victims of the Hamas massacre have sparked outrage and highlighted her tendency to use\u200d her position \u200bfor personal grandstanding and\u2063 political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax County&#8217;s school\u2063 district is one of the largest in\u2062 the \u200dnation, with a significant\u2062 budget and a sizable student\u2064 population. It\u2063 is\u200c crucial that the individuals serving on the school \u200dboard prioritize the \u2062education and\u2062 well-being of the students they represent. However, \u200cOmeish has repeatedly \u200bdemonstrated a \u200ddisregard for these responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>During the \u2062discussion about the moment of silence, Omeish objected \u2063to\u200d it on the grounds\u2063 that it supported one \u2062side&#8217;s narrative. She\u200d accused her colleagues of \u2063engaging in\u2064 a &#8220;sneak attack&#8221; against her and \u200cargued that focusing on the victims of the violence obscures the root cause. Omeish&#8217;s comments not only show a\u2063 lack of empathy for the innocent victims \u2062but also\u200c reveal \u2062her biased \u2064perspective on\u2064 the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>This incident is not the first time\u200b Omeish has stirred controversy with her remarks. In\u2063 previous instances, she has displayed\u2063 anti-American sentiments and made \u200coffensive comments. Despite these\u200d actions, her \u2064Democrat-endorsed colleagues on the school \u2062board have remained\u200b silent, failing \u2064to condemn her \u200bbehavior. This\u2064 demonstrates a concerning lack of accountability and an unwillingness to\u200d prioritize the needs\u200c and values\u2064 of the community\u200c they serve.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2062response to \u2062concerns about her offensive comments, Omeish deflects the criticism by accusing others of having\u200c biases. She dismisses \u2062genuine\u2064 concerns as a result of the listener&#8217;s personal biases\u2062 and refuses \u2062to\u2062 take responsibility \u2064for\u2063 her actions. \u2063This pattern of behavior\u200c is concerning and raises questions about her ability to effectively serve as a representative and advocate for the community.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u2064essential\u200d for school board members to prioritize the well-being of their students and to foster an inclusive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hi-this-is-100-illegal-megyn-kelly-slams-school-district-after-critics-say-it-will-factor-in-race-when-disciplining-students\/\" title=\"\u2018Hi! This Is 100% Illegal\u2019: Megyn Kelly Slams School District After Critics Say It Will Factor In Race When Disciplining Students\">respectful learning environment<\/a>. Omeish&#8217;s\u2063 repeated \u200doffensive remarks \u200cand her unwillingness to address the \u200bconcerns raised by \u2063the community undermine these goals. The lack of condemnation from her colleagues on\u200b the school board further \u2064erodes trust in\u200b their ability to effectively govern and represent\u200b the community&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax County&#8217;s parents and \u2063community members deserve leaders who\u2064 prioritize\u2062 the education and well-being of their children.\u2062 They should not tolerate officials who use \u2062their positions for personal grandstanding and \u200cagenda pushing. It is crucial for the community to hold\u2062 its elected \u200bofficials\u200d accountable and demand better leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Abrar Omeish&#8217;s anti-Israel remarks and offensive comments highlight her\u200d unsuitability for\u2062 her position on the Fairfax County school board. Her repeated demonstrations of \u2062bias and unwillingness to take responsibility for\u200c her actions raise concerns about her ability to effectively represent \u200dand advocate for the community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 12, Abrar Omeish, a Fairfax County school board member, opposed a moment of silence for the innocent victims of the Hamas massacre in Israel. Omeish argued against favoring one side&#8217;s narrative. 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