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Alert the media! The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed another lawsuit!
WPVI in Philadelphia covered CAIR’s press conference announcing its latest legal crusade. This time, CAIR is representing Keziah Ridgeway in her fight against alleged unlawful discrimination and retaliation for her “Palestinian views.”
That may be what the lawsuit says it’s about, but Ms. Ridgeway herself is about something else entirely.
The misspellings are preserved in the excerpts that follow — consider them a built-in footnote on the intellectual rigor of CAIR’s legal filings. According to the lawsuit:
. . . in November 2023, a colleague reached out to Ridgeway with a professional development teaching opportunity (PD) on How to teach the Genocide in Palestine in the classroom.
Upon information and belief, the District Chair of the Social Studies Department approved the PD.
Within 24 hours of approval of the PD, Pro-Isreal and Jewish faculty, staff, and members of the community objected, and The District required ‘genocide’ be removed from the title of the PD. Ridgeway agreed to the change, but inexplicabley, the District subsequently cancelled the PD.
Keziah Ridgeway is not some noble civil rights figure — she’s a radical activist posing as a teacher, determined to inject her worldview into classrooms. Her students love her, of course. They always do. Cult leaders tend to get five-star reviews from the newly initiated.
In another gem, Ridgeway is pictured holding two pro-Nazi books, as proudly as a showcase model on the Price is Right.
This would be ironic, if irony hadn’t already been clubbed to death by CAIR’s hypocrisy. This is the same CAIR that will trip over a microphone to denounce the faintest whiff of white supremacy — unless it’s repackaged with a keffiyeh and a slogan about decolonization.
Apparently, to some, Israel (or “Isreal”) is the new Nazi Germany.
Understandably, a group of Jewish parents banded together to bring Ridgeway’s conduct to the school district’s attention. And Ridgeway, in turn, began searching for her critics — eventually discovering the Jewish Families Alliance (JFA) social media page.
Though she appeared calm and composed at CAIR’s press conference, Ridgeway is fully capable of letting the mask slip. She warned JFA that she would “fight back” and ominously quoted, “It’s no fun when the rabbit’s got the gun.” Later, she casually asked online if anyone knew of a black-owned gun store, adding, “Asking for a friend.”
That was the last straw. The Jewish Families Alliance filed a formal complaint. Ridgeway was suspended.
CAIR’s transmogrification of Ridgeway into a civil rights martyr is part of a larger strategy: obscure the atrocities of October 7, replace them with tales of Israeli oppression, and rebrand extremism as activism. It’s a clever trick — a PR makeover worthy of a Hollywood agent.
Apparently, anything is forgivable if you fly the Palestinian flag high enough. You can brawl with police. You can fire a teacher for failing to praise Hamas. You can even sneak Nazism into public school curricula — all under the comforting blanket of “free speech.”
Which brings us to a legal flashback.
In National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977), the Supreme Court didn’t say Nazis were good — it said even hateful speech is protected by the First Amendment, unless it crosses very narrow lines. So, yes, the Nazis marched, even though through Chicago, instead. But the key distinction? Everyone knew they were Nazis. No one confused them for civil rights activists.
Today, we have widespread support for Hamas, served up as “pro-Palestinian advocacy.” This isn’t just offensive. It’s dangerous. The line between free speech and national security is starting to blur — and if don’t start calling support for “Palestine” what it is, we’ll wake up one day to find both have disappeared entirely.
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I wouldn’t expect anything less from a towel head.
The invasion was allowed and encouraged by the leftists who were in power. Now with activist judges and the leftists who are still in place it’s going to be a lot of effort to dislodge and deport them.