Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard left the Democratic Party to become an independent in large part because she felt it had become a party that harbored members who were open “apologists” for “terrorists.”
In an interview with “Fox & Friends” morning show this week, Gabbard added that more Americans should be outraged at the naked anti-Semitism inherent within her former party and the tolerance for violent actors.
“It is terrible, but sadly it doesn’t surprise me,” she said at one point.
“Go back to [Minn. Democratic Rep.] Ilhan Omar’s statement about 9/11 as a day when ‘some people did some things.’ There’s a group of people within Congress who are blatantly Islamist terrorist apologists,” the former Hawaii Democrat said.
“That shouldn’t surprise any of us, they have made themselves known. What should be surprising and disturbing to the American people is how many people in my former party, the Democrat Party, which is one of the reasons I left, are also Islamist apologists or who are so afraid to be labeled Islamophobic, they won’t stand up and say what is necessary to speak the truth about the threat of Islamist terrorist whether its Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, ISIS and Al-Shabaab, and other groups pose to freedom and people loving people everywhere,” she added.
Former President Barack Obama, meanwhile, spoke about the Israel-Hamas conflict on the left-wing Pod Save America podcast last week, where he said that “all of us are complicit” in the conflict.
He noted that the tragic conflict involved diverse perspectives: condemning the horrific actions of Hamas, acknowledging the intolerable conditions for Palestinians due to “occupation,” recognizing the history of antisemitism, and the innocent lives lost in the present situation.
“What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians, is unbearable, and what is also true is that there is a history of the Jewish people that may be dismissed unless your grandparents, or your great-great-grandparents or your uncle or your aunt tell you stories about the madness of antisemitism, and what is true is that there are people right now that are dying who have nothing to do with what Hamas did,” he said.
Obama stressed the need to address the conflict from a comprehensive viewpoint, claiming that no side has clean hands and emphasizing the need for a truthful, multi-dimensional approach rather than one-sided narratives.
🚨🚨🚨Obama says Israel is engaging in “OCCUPATION” Of Palestinian land.
Then makes a moral equivalency between the State of Israel and Hamas.
Hard to quantify how radical and extremist this world view is coming from a former President who funded Iranpic.twitter.com/cXwT8WBUcC
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 5, 2023
