{"id":522816,"date":"2021-05-18T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=522816"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:06:16","slug":"jewish-group-set-to-honor-libyan-american-politician-days-after-she-said-israel-desecrates-the-holy-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-group-set-to-honor-libyan-american-politician-days-after-she-said-israel-desecrates-the-holy-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Group Set To \u2018Honor\u2019 Libyan-American Politician Days After She Said Israel \u2018Desecrates The Holy Land\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fjewish-group-set-to-honor-libyan-american-politician-days-after-she-said-israel-desecrates-the-holy-land%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=522816&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abrar.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Last Thursday, Fairfax County, Virginia school board member Abrar Omeish triggered national headlines for writing that Israel is a colonizing state that \u201cdesecrates the Holy Land\u201d and \u201ckills Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington (JCRC) is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcouncil.org\/events\/jcrc-2021-annual-meeting\">\u201chonor\u201d<\/a> Omeish as a \u201cchampion of faith equity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.806267806268\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eid Mubarak! Congrats on 30 days of worship!<\/p>\n<p>Hurts my heart to celebrate while Israel kills Palestinians &#038; desecrates the Holy Land right now. Apartheid &#038; colonization were wrong yesterday and will be today, here and there. \ud83c\udf0e\ud83d\udc9e\ud83c\udf0d<\/p>\n<p>May justice + truth prevail.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EidWithPalestine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EidWithPalestine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JmQjJzAaS4\">pic.twitter.com\/JmQjJzAaS4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abrar Omeish (@AbrarOmeish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbrarOmeish\/status\/1392801499483410433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ron Halber, the JCRC\u2019s executive director, did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire about Omeish\u2019s statement and the reason for the honor.<\/p>\n<p>JCRC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcouncil.org\/who\">describes<\/a> itself as \u201cthe central community relations agency of the organized Jewish community in our nation\u2019s capital\u201d focused on \u201cfour pillars: government relations, Israel advocacy, inter-group relations, and social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speaker at Thursday\u2019s event, the JCRC 2021 Annual Meeting, is a rabbi who was previously honored by the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHurts my heart to celebrate while Israel kills Palestinians &#038; desecrates the Holy Land right now. Apartheid &#038; colonization were wrong yesterday and will be today, here and there,\u201d Omeish\u2019s Twitter post said.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Merin, another member of Fairfax\u2019s all-Democrat school board, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelanieForEdu\/status\/1393229891278098439\">replied<\/a>: \u201cAs a SB Member, I\u2019m aghast at the alienation your sentiment has cast on many in our community, including myself, &#038; am appalled at the setback this puts in @fcpsnews\u2019 equity work. Rebuilding of relationships will need to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vinson X. Palathingal, who ran against Omeish for the at-large school board seat representing more than 1.1 million people in the 2019 election and had the endorsement of the county Republicans, strongly condemned Omeish\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>But he told The Daily Wire that it was not a \u201csetback\u201d to the far-left board\u2019s \u201cequity\u201d agenda, but rather the fulfillment of it.<\/p>\n<p>Omeish\u2019s Twitter profile shows that she does not just view Israel as a racist land of \u201ccolonizers,\u201d but also America: It lists her location as \u201cStolen Manahoac Land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s par for the course with the board\u2019s \u201cequity\u201d backers, he said. There is no indication that Meren objected to negative characterizations of America in schools or among her school board peers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all coming from the critical race theory, that\u2019s why they\u2019re using this word \u2018colonize\u2019 all the time,\u201d Palanthingal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just Abrar. They\u2019re all there to support some other cause,\u201d he said of the partisan school board. \u201cThey\u2019re saying America is stolen from the natives, constantly telling kids that. Why bring that up so often? Because their goal is to make America look bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that Republican-backed candidates told voters they\u2019d keep politics out of schools, but that most people didn\u2019t vote in the election, and that those who did simply voted for the political party that they generally prefer at the national level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican candidates were not going to try to indoctrinate kids with conservative politics, they just wanted common sense, the basics, politics out of schools. But voters just went to the polls and chose the Democratic candidates who are not focused on education, they\u2019re focused on politics, when schools are failing miserably under their watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school district is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/virginia-bureaucrats-map-out-anti-racist-reeducation-plan-opinion-1590045\">\u201crevising\u201d<\/a> its Controversial Issues Policy, which currently says if schools teach controversial issues, they must do so fairly instead of in an opinionated manner. The district is also developing a curriculum policy focused on \u201cAnti-Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seven months before the election, Omeish was arrested after being pulled over for a traffic violation and repeatedly refusing to show her license. Video shows her also repeatedly refusing to get out of the car. The officer appears to pepper spray her and pulls her out. She screams, \u201cA cop is being brutal!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Traffic Stop March 5 2019 Mason Police District\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uaDwefdXE9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Omeish alleged anti-Muslim bias and took the incident to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/a-northern-va-school-board-candidate-was-pepper-sprayed-during-a-traffic-stop-she-decried-it-as-police-brutality-police-say-she-resisted-arrest\/2019\/06\/03\/508ac84e-7e45-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, boosting her name recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Virginia schools were completely closed to in-person learning for most of the schoolyear, cowing to teachers union pressure. On Sunday, Blue Virginia, a blog for local Democrat insiders, lamented that people who wanted \u201cOpen Schools\u201d were running for school board in nearby Falls Church, pleading, \u201cWill Some Democrats Step Up\u201d to run against them?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6491228070175\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Currently, It Appears the Only Candidates For Falls Church\u2019s Four Open School Board Seats Are \u201cOpen Schools\u201d Folks. Will Some Democrats Step Up? (One of them is a a right-wing Cato Institute Vice President\u2026) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E3RBoAvo8f\">https:\/\/t.co\/E3RBoAvo8f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blue Virginia (@bluevirginia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bluevirginia\/status\/1394043431509495815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-virginia-mother-who-delivered-fiery-takedown-of-critical-race-theory-speaks-out\">Virginia Mother Who Delivered Fiery Takedown Of Critical Race Theory Speaks Out<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The 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<\/i>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, Fairfax County, Virginia school board member Abrar Omeish triggered national headlines for writing that Israel is a colonizing state that \u201cdesecrates the Holy Land\u201d and \u201ckills Palestinians.\u201dThis Thursday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278488,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abrar.png?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Jewish Group Set To \u2018Honor\u2019 Libyan-American Politician Days After She Said Israel \u2018Desecrates The Holy Land\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abrar.png?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Jewish Group Set To \u2018Honor\u2019 Libyan-American Politician Days After She Said Israel \u2018Desecrates The Holy Land\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522816","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}