Everyone remembers Ilhan Omar’s remark about American support for Israel: “It’s all about the Benjamins.” This was a reference to Jewish financial support for politicians being the only conceivable explanation for their support for Israel. Omar couldn’t imagine that anyone might support Israel for any other reason. She can’t imagine anyone being moved by Israel remaining a steadfast ally of the U.S. for its entire history or being impressed by the tiny country’s ability to defend itself successfully against three attempts on its young life, in 1948, 1967, and 1973, or admiring the scientific and entrepreneurial talent that has made Israel, famously, the Start-Up Nation. But, argues Daniel Pomerantz of Reality Check, her remarks about Jews and money are far worse than that. More on his claim can be found here: “Ilhan Omar Didn’t Say That Jews Are ‘Into Money’; It Was Far Worse,” by Daniel Pomerantz, Algemeiner, February 16, 2023:
With 11 million streams per episode, “The Joe Rogan Experience” boasts an audience almost 20 times CNN’s prime time news ratings, nearly double the subscription readership of The New York Times, and larger than most, if not all other episodic programs in any form of media. In short: what happens on Joe Rogan’s podcast, matters.
That’s why we must talk about what happened on February 4, when Rogan hosted Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti of the “Breaking Points” podcast. During a discussion about embattled Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN)’s infamous 2019 tweet “It’s all about the Benjamins” (a reference to Jews and money), Ball came to Omar’s defense saying “She shouldn’t have apologized” and Rogan agreed, saying “It’s not an antisemitic statement, I don’t think that is. Benjamins are money. You know, the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza.”
Joe Rogan clearly has his own problem with antisemitism – he cannot recognize it when it is so obvious, as in Omar’s remark about “the Benjamins.” Joe Rogan’s convinced that Jews are “into money” the way that Italians are “into pizza.”
It’s not clear whether Rogan shared this antisemitic trope out of malice, or merely out of ignorance. In either case, he had essentially misinformed his audience because Congresswoman Omar didn’t actually say that Jews are “into money.“ To the contrary, Omar made her infamous tweet in the context of several longer statements from around the same time: including one in which she claimed that pro-Israel groups exert control over the United States Congress by paying off its members, as well as another in which Omar questioned whether, as a group, American Jews owe their allegiance to a foreign country.
In sum, the Congresswoman has articulated a narrative in which Jews stand accused of being untrustworthy, disloyal citizens, who control America through the use of money. This is characteristically different from saying that Jews like money or Italians like pizza. To the contrary, Omar’s rhetoric almost precisely tracks the content and structure of the propaganda used by the Nazi party in the years leading up to Hitler’s Final Solution, as well as countless other leaders who sought to persecute and murder Jews.
Ilhan Omar was not saying that “Jews are into money.” She was saying that “Jews are into money” for a reason: money is used by Jews to control the American government, buying the support of American politicians for the sake of Israel. The Jews are “into money” not merely to enjoy it (the way Italians may “enjoy pizza”), but to put it to work for the sake of a foreign state – Israel – to which they owe their sole loyalty. They are reminiscent of the powerful Jewish bankers depicted in The Protocols of the Elder of Zion, who form an all-powerful secret cabal to control the world for the sake of world Jewry. The Protocols were, of course, written before Israel existed to become, as it is now, the main target of antisemites.
In his 1925 autobiographical manifesto “Mein Kampf,” Hitler blamed Germany’s Jews for controlling the country’s politics through money, destroying its economy, and undermining the state itself:
In economics, he [the Jew] undermines the state until the social enterprises which have become unprofitable are taken from the state and subjected to his financial control … In the political field he refuses the state the means for its self-preservation, destroys the foundations of all national self-maintenance and defense, destroys faith in the leadership, scoffs at its history and past, and drags everything that is truly great into the gutter.
Hitler’s specific threats against Jewish communities evolved over time, but the underlying philosophy remained firmly rooted in the idea that Jews use wealth to exert political control over others.
For example, in a 1941 speech to the Reichstag, Hilter blamed Jewish “financiers” for causing World War II, as well as the previous world war, saying, “If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging nations once more into a world war, then the result [will be] the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!”
The Final Solution began six months later.
When Ilhan Omar said “It’s all about the Benjamins,” she didn’t mean that Jews “are into” money. According to her own statements, Omar meant that America’s support for Israel (one of its closest allies) and for American Jewish communities (one of America’s most loyal and most vulnerable minority groups) couldn’t possibly be the result of shared values or even American self interest, but rather the result of Jewish manipulation of the political system through the use of money. This idea isn’t true and it isn’t new: we’ve already seen where it leads.
This should not be seen as an issue of Democrats versus Republicans: Omar’s own party has more than once condemned her statements as being “antisemitic tropes” and “deeply offensive,” and in 2019, Congressional committees debated “House Resolution 241 – Condemning the anti-Semitic comments of Representative Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.”
However, the bill was subsequently watered down to a critique of antisemitism in general, and the Democratic House leadership allowed Omar to continue serving on the House Foreign Relations committee, a body that manages America’s relations with the world, including with its key ally, Israel. This year, the new Republican House leadership removed Omar from the Foreign Relations committee, sparking a renewed public debate about her antisemitic rhetoric.
Ilhan Omar did not merely claim, as Joe Rogan insisted on his program, that Jews are “into money” the way “Italians are into pizza.” They are into money, she has made clear, in order to control the American government for the sake of Israel, the only country to which they owe their loyalty. This is much worse than simply ascribing a love of money to them. This is Protocols-of-the-Elders-of-Zion stuff. it’s exactly what Hitler claims about “international Jewry” in Mein Kampf. Ilhan Omar needs to be shamed and shunned as a purveyor of such claims. Kicking her off the House Foreign Relations Committee was a good start in limiting the damage she can do to the U.S.-Israel relationship. Now she needs to be booted from Congress altogether. In Minnesota’s 10th Congressional District, the 2024 election can’t come fast enough.
Her theme song is the very same theme song for all Trail Lawyers, Eco-Freaks Liberal Democrats and thats Money Thats What i WANT BY BRETT STRONG
Why do people call her Ilhan Omar? Her name is Ilhan Elmi, like her father. The Omar’s were just the unrelated family she hitched a ride with from Dadaab when the Omars hit the immigration lottery. Not content with that immigration fraud, she went on to marry her own brother to get him into the country. That’s why she will always be Brotherf*cker to me.
Unfortunately, all those Somali voters let into Minnesota by Obama
will make sure Omar isn’t booted out of Congress.
It is so satisfying, however, to know she’s been kicked off the House
Foreign Relations Committee. It makes it that much harder for this
anti-Semitic, anti-American Muslima to try to destroy our country.
It has been reported that her Somali constituents are not so enamored of her, but vote fraud ensures that she may have a longer tenure in Congress than they would like.
Mein Kampf most likely sits on her bookshelf next to The Communist Manifesto.
Afterall; the book “Mein Kampf” has been proudly displayed next to Jimmy Carter’s bullshit book “Palestine Peace; Not Apartheid”, as both are muslim favorites.
She reads books?
Is she a proper muslima, or is she sporting a clitoris like some sort of western ho’?
Mr. Rogan is not antisemitic. Did he misspeak? Or, not consider the totality of what Omar has said in the past? Yes, but stop the nonsense of Joe has his own antisemitic issues. I’m sure if you explained to Joe the problem with Omar, and gave it this context he’d agree. Do Jews like money? Who doesn’t? Everyone likes money. It’s an absurd conversation to have. Who in the world doesn’t like money? Are Italians the only people who like Pizza? Everyone loves pizza.
“American Jewish communities (one of America’s most loyal and most vulnerable minority groups)”
Vulnerable? Yes. Loyal? I’m not so sure. Considering the majority are Democrats/Leftist’s and support Marxist ideas how do you measure “one of America’s most loyal?” Are the Jewish folks in NYC loyal Americans? I don’t think so. Of course, I’m not stating every Jew is a Leftist. Many are not and are very loyal. Unfortunately, Jewish folks seem to drop 50 IQ points when entering a voting precinct.
The Jewish population of New York City and elsewhere in the U.S. is quite divided in the issue of patriotism. The further right you go on the religious spectrum, the more conservative and patriotic the population is. Haredi and other right-wing Orthodox Jews tend to be largely Republican and love Donald Trump. They also have a lot of children, who as they grow up are changing the face of America Jewry. When you move left on the religious spectrum you see more lockstep, rubber-stamp Democrats whose grasp of Jewish values and rules seems to be tenuous at best.
Yes, the Orthodox are conservative and take their religion seriously.
“Anti-Zionist; the new sanitized way of shouting “KIKE”
Omar is a low life terrorist supporter.
She’s an islamist just like any other low life islamist. Advocating for genocides of non-muslims, and taking all they have. That’s what muhammad’s followers have been doing for 1,400 years.
Joe Rogan is a useful idiot of world antisemitism. He lets uber antisemite, Roger Waters, spout his trash without a complaint and also lets Abby Martin of the antisemitic Russia Today do the same. He should regarded as an enemy of the Jews and Ben Shapiro should be stern with him instead of buttering him up. Ben Shapiro should have fired Candace Owens too, but that is too much to ask for.
That Muslim politician ,Ilhan Omar is very anti-Jewish and likewise very anti- Israel, as seen in those anti- Israel foreign policies she always keeps on pushing for. Therefore Omar is ,in essences, un-American . As former US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech that “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
Related to this is a grand statement in a speech former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
In addition, Omar is so terrible and such a danger to US Homeland Security that even an American imam had described Omar as “ISIS with lipstick.” [1]
[1] THUMP CARD by Dinesh D’ Souza
First you say this should not be an issue of Democrats vs Republicans, and then you go on to contradict yourself by saying the Democrats watered down their response. It most certainly IS Dem vs Rep, especially as the Dems are nothing more than the “kind” face of the CPUSA.
islamism is the new nazism.
This daft wee lassie leads the charge.
An existential threat,
Ilhan Omar is guilty of TREASON!She has been since she took The Oath of OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It’s important to approach any statement by a public figure like Ilhan Omar with careful consideration, as the interpretation of their words can vary depending on one’s perspective and context. To truly understand what she meant, it’s crucial to analyze her statement in the broader context of her beliefs and policies, taking into account the specific issues and circumstances she was addressing. Constructive dialogue and a willingness to engage in open discussions about differing viewpoints are essential for a more comprehensive understanding of her intentions and the issues at hand.
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