{"id":526880,"date":"2021-05-19T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=526880"},"modified":"2021-05-19T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:36:19","slug":"jewish-group-rescinds-award-to-politician-who-said-israel-desecrates-the-holy-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-group-rescinds-award-to-politician-who-said-israel-desecrates-the-holy-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Group Rescinds Award To Politician Who 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\">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%2Fjewish-group-rescinds-award-to-politician-who-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=526880&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&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Jewish group on Wednesday rescinded an award it was set to give to a Northern Virginia school board member who last week tweeted that Israel is a colonizing state that \u201cdesecrates the Holy Land\u201d and \u201ckills Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington (JCRC) said that it had offered Abrar Omeish \u201can opportunity to meaningfully amend her remarks. Unfortunately, she has continued to stoke the flames of division and acrimony: She has not taken down her tweet, she has not taken affirmative steps to try to stem the vitriolic, hateful rhetoric on social media triggered by her remarks, and she seems uninterested in being a voice for authentic empathy, grace, and healing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jewish-group-set-to-honor-libyan-american-politician-days-after-she-said-israel-desecrates-the-holy-land\">reported<\/a> Tuesday that days before she was set to receive an award at the JCRC\u2019s annual event \u201chonoring\u201d her for \u201cfaith equity,\u201d Omeish tweeted, \u201cHurts my heart to celebrate while Israel kills Palestinians &amp; desecrates the Holy Land right now. Apartheid &amp; colonization were wrong yesterday and will be today, here and there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omeish is an at-large school board representative in Fairfax County. Her constituency includes more than 1.1 million people. Her father was born in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>JCRC said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcouncil.org\/statements\/jcrc-rescinds-honor-fairfax-county-school-board-member-abrar-omeish\">statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><i>Omeish fails to understand that as a public official, she cannot distinguish her personal statements from her official ones. It is irresponsible of her to use her public platform to publicly advance controversial political views that target and marginalize Jewish students and their families and divide our community. Her actions constituted a dereliction of her duty and they compromise the entire Board. She should be held accountable. \u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We cannot in good conscience offer this celebratory award that would have recognized and elevated months of work and partnership because she has spent the last week tearing those efforts down.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It said Omeish was one of \u201cthe five members of the Fairfax County School Board who partnered with the JCRC to champion faith equity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the four who will still be honored Thursday is Karl Frisch, who in November gave an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=REiWMnOgXBY\">hour-long interview<\/a> to the American Humanist Association, a group for agnostics. The video claimed that Fairfax County, a diverse and liberal D.C. suburb, was \u201ctargeted by religious extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe religious nuts come out of the woodwork,\u201d he said. \u201cFairfax has a history of being an epicenter for right-wing religious fanaticism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not want those in positions of government authority ignoring science or pushing their religious beliefs on others who they have purview over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frisch does not appear to have issued any statement condemning Omeish.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join me in wishing my School Board colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbrarOmeish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AbrarOmeish<\/a>  a very <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyBirthday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyBirthday<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UusdA0ck2A\">pic.twitter.com\/UusdA0ck2A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karl Frisch (@KarlFrisch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlFrisch\/status\/1217819505491050496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite JCRC\u2019s warning about the risks of \u201ccontroversial\u201d positions coming from people of authority over children, in December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/virginia-bureaucrats-map-out-anti-racist-reeducation-plan-opinion-1590045\">Newsweek<\/a> reported, the school board\u2019s Governance Committee met to discuss replacing a requirement that teachers \u201cremain impartial\u201d on controversial issues with a directive permitting them to \u201ctake a clear position\u201d on \u201cmatters of contemporary controversy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee is chaired by Frisch and counts Omeish as a member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/grand-jury-indicts-school-board-members-for-secret-discussions-about-racial-agenda\">Texas Grand Jury Indicts School Board Members For Alleged Secret Discussions About Racial Agenda<\/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. 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