I awoke this morning to some good news for a change. The government of Israel has decided that it will ban from entry to the country two of the biggest Jew-hating and Israel-hating nutjobs around, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib. The Israeli government has made this decision because of the involvement of this pair in the Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The BDS movement is nakedly anti-Israeli and uses outrageously dishonest propaganda in order to paint Israel as the world’s worst human rights criminal, despite there being far worse regimes than Israel across the world. Any study, even a brief and cursory one, would see that Rashida Tailb and Ilhan Omar are not motivated to criticise Israel from any position of knowledge, but instead by an Islamic faith that commands the destruction of Israel and the Jews.

Apparently when Israel passed a law in its parliament, the Knesset, banning the entry of those who are actively involved in groups that wish to see Israel destroyed, there was an exemption for members of the US Congress. However, it seems that pressure from US President Donald Trump has convinced Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to ban the entry of Omar and Talib. This is a decision by the Israeli PM that I completely agree with. Why on earth should any nation be expected to accept a visit by anyone who wants to see their country destroyed, even if that individual is a member of their home nation’s legislature? It is one thing for a legislator visiting a country to make measured and informed criticisms or report their findings, even critical ones, of their host nation, but Omar and Talib are something else, something worse.

Omar and Talib are little better in their attitude to Israel and its citizens than the genocide promoters of Hamas. This pair do not just want to see Israel change the way it is governed or modify or amend certain policies, they, like Hamas, want to see the total destruction of Israel. Keeping people like Omar and Talib at arms length is something that any civilised and sensible country should do.

Ilhan Omar in particular is a person to whom scandal and hatred seem to stick to her like shit to a blanket. She’s made numerous statements that have been perceived to be anti-Jew, was voted in by a Minnesota Islamic community that holds views about Jews that would not be out of place in 1930’s Germany and has consistently demonised and delegitimised the state of Israel. Ilhan Omar is about as welcome in Congress as a pork chop at a Bar-mitzvah and unlike Rep Occasio-Cortez, is not just stupid but also malicious.

Talib is just the run of the mill Islamic hate-fountain but the sort of scandals that are sticking to Omar are ones that can no longer be written off as propaganda against her. She has not properly addressed any of the gossip about her such as campaign finance violations and marrying her brother in order to get him entry to the USA. She has spoken at conferences organised by groups closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and has become a poster-girl for American Islamists and a deranged far Left that will support anyone and anything that they see as anti-American.

Predictably, the Left is whining about this action being taken by the Israeli PM. They are, according to the commentator Pat Condell speaking on Gab, screaming about ‘muh free speech’ over the banning of Omar and Talib. This is the same Left that was either silent or cheered when Theresa May, when she was Home Secretary, banned peaceful critics of Islam, such as Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, from the United Kingdom. As always with the Left, we have the double standard of ‘free speech for me but not for thee’.

Talib and Omar are quite frankly an embarrassment to the US Democratic Party. These hate-filled gobshites who cry wolf or rather ‘racism’ whenever they are criticised are dangerous radicals who do not just criticise the State of Israel, a major American ally, but wish to see it destroyed and its inhabitants driven into the sea. This pair are so dodgy that they are like a turbo-charged, amphetamine-fuelled version of UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, but with an infinitely higher public profile. I have conversed with many moderate Democrat supporters in the USA over the years and the likes of Omar and Talib do not represent them in any way shape or form. I suspect that there may be many people who have voted Democrat in the past, when the party was much more moderate than it is today, who may in future be too embarrassed to vote Democrat in the future. I know this as I used to, in the distant past, vote Labour myself, but stopped when the party descended into lunacy and its policies started to hurt me and mine.

But, it’s not just the US Democratic Party who are or should be embarrassed by their association with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib. The British Islamic group Tell Mama, a bunch of mendacious grievance mongering taqiyya artists, went big on congratulating Ilhan Omar when she was elected to Congress. This Tell Mama group, which regular readers of this blog will recall is backed with a large amount of taxpayers money (£1.9M) at last count, put out this communication in November of last year:

As I wrote last year on the subject of this praise:

A group like this (Tell Mama), especially one in receipt of so much of our money, should not be treating as heroes those like Omar who are plainly subject to a considerable degree of legitimate criticism. I cannot help but wonder how this ill-judged action will play with some of Tell Mama’s supporters? I think specifically of the Jewish groups and individuals that Tell Mama have over recent years hoodwinked into working with them and supporting them. It should give groups such as the Community Security Trust, along with the man who is seemingly becoming Tell Mama’s pet Rabbi, Jonathan Wittenberg, a good deal to worry about. This because by Tell Mama choosing to praise Omar, these Jewish groups and individuals now find themselves supporting an organisation that has praised a Jew-hater and a person with an incredibly murky past.

What gets me about this whole story is that much of the scuttlebutt about Omar was known and being discussed before her election to Congress. There was enough of this dirt that was adhesive enough to stick and there were copious records of some of her more challenging utterances, behaviour and associations along with the ‘Brotherlover’ allegations to make many organisations think twice about sticking their heads above the parapet for her. Tell Mama on this occasion was not one of those organisations. They ignored all of Omar’s past issues and celebrated the fact that she was the first Hijab wearing ‘refugee’ to enter Congress. You would have thought wouldn’t you that an organisation so heavily publicly funded would have thought twice about supporting Omar because of her dodgy record. Sadly Tell Mama didn’t think twice they just instinctively pushed the ‘praise her because she’s Muslim’ button.

The record of this pair of Islamic hate-fountains Omar and Talib is genuinely awful. I suspect that it will further divorce the Democratic Party from ordinary voters who are not by any stretch of the imagination ‘far Left’. I also hope that this action by the Israeli PM will further inform the public about the sort of political jihad that is being practised by extremist Muslims who are elected to public office. Although I do not believe that Israel, or any country for that matter, should be isolated from genuine, informed and thoughtful criticism, all countries should have the right to keep out those like Omar and Talib who do not come to criticise but to attempt to destroy.