Squad Rep. Plans Anti-Semitic Event to Mourn the Founding of Israel

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., was expected to host an anti-Israel group that has called the 1948 establishment of the Jewish nation–state a “catastrophe” at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on Wednesday.

The event, titled “Nakba 75 & the Palestinian People,” will mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of Israel. Nakba means “catastrophe” in Arabic.  

Descriptions of the event further espoused its anti-Semitic viewpoint.

“The new Israeli military violently expelled approximately three-quarters of all Palestinians from their homes and homeland in what became the state of Israel,” read one such description.

Organizers neglected to mention that in 1948, five Arab armies pounded Israel, with support from the Palestinian leadership.

Tlaib drew criticism last week for invoking the term “Nakba” to counter the characterization from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., of America’s “special relationship” with its longtime Middle Eastern ally. 

“Speaker McCarthy wants to rewrite history, but the apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” Tlaib wrote in a May 1 tweet. ”75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day,” she concluded.

Any event held at the Capitol Visitor Center’s ‘s 400-seat auditorium is a privilege for members of the U.S. Congress or officers of Congress—suggesting Tlaib’s direct involvement in organizing the event.

The Michigan Democrat, a resolute supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, was partnering with organizations that have glorified acts of violence against Israel.

The Jewish Voice for Peace, for instance, was said to have applauded the First Intifada, which claimed the lives of close to 300 Israelis. The anti-Semitic group parading at the Capitol this week was also backed by the Institute for Middle East Understanding.

That organization announced that it would be honoring Ghassan Kanafani—and it should raise eyebrows. Kanafani was responsible for the infamous 1972 Lod Airport Massacre in which 26 people, including 17 U.S. citizens, were murdered.

Liora Rez, the executive director of the nonprofit group StopAntiSemitism, condemned Tlaib for spending too much time attacking Israel instead of serving her constituents.

Rez told the New York Post on Monday she hoped Tlaib “would spend as much time helping Michigan’s 12th District as she spends demonizing the world’s only Jewish state.”

Tlaib is a “natural ally for organizations like IMEU, one of the top propagators of false anti-Israel rhetoric on social media,” Rez said in a statement to the Post.

NFL’s Brett Favre Calls for Boycott of Fox After Tucker Carlson Ouster

(Headline USA) NFL legend Brett Favre called for a boycott of Fox News this week following Tucker Carlson’s outing.

“I’m with Tucker,” Favre tweeted along with a clip from Megyn Kelly’s podcast, in which she blasted the network. “Time to boycott Fox until they come to their senses and let the man speak.”

Kelly reported this week that Fox is allegedly trying to bench Carlson by refusing to release him from his contract, which expires after the 2024 presidential election.

“They don’t have a deal. Why not?” Kelly asked in the clip. “Because he needs to be silenced while Fox tries to rebuild that disappearing audience.”

Kelly also called for a boycott of Fox.

“They are banking on you coming back to them. They got a debate in August. You can’t resist. You’ll go. You’ll forgive everything. They’re banking on it,” she added.

According to reports, Carlson is ready to “go to war” with Fox if the network refuses to release him from his contract. He’s considering launching his own media empire, and has even discussed the possibility of starting something new with Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

“The idea that anyone is going to silence Tucker and prevent him from speaking to his audience is beyond preposterous,” Bryan Freedman, the high-powered Hollywood lawyer Carlson retained for the contract dispute, said.

Fox’s ratings have tumbled as a result of Carlson’s exit. Fox drew 1.33 million viewers for substitute host Brian Kilmeade in the 8 p.m. Eastern hour on Wednesday night, putting the network second to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in a competition Carlson used to dominate, the Nielsen company said. That’s down 56% from the 3.05 million viewers Carlson reached last month during one of his programs.

For all of 2022, Carlson averaged 3.03 million viewers, second only to Fox’s The Five as the most popular program on cable television.

Soros, Zuckerberg Bankrolled Activist Protests over Death of Homeless NYC Subway Lunatic

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Voices of Community Activists and Leaders New York, the activist group promoting protests over the death of Jordan Neely, received massive amounts of funding from leftist billionaires via several puppet organizations, the Daily Caller reported.

Neely, a homeless New York City subway performer with a past history of violent assault, appeared to be suffering from a mental breakdown as he held hostage a group of straphangers on May 1. He died after retired Marine Daniel Penny attempted to use a chokehold to restrain him.

Far-left activist groups quickly pounced into action, demanding justice against the good Samaritan who had prevented harm from befalling innocent passengers.

VOCAL, which previously received large donations from both George Soros and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, organized a protest in the subway station and released a statement declaring that Neely was “lynched.”

Neely’s death was “a direct result of the sustained political, systemic abandonment of people experiencing homelessness & mental health complexities, fueled by press coverage that clearly influences policies & emboldens vigilantes,” it claimed.

The Open Society Foundation, chaired and largely funded by Soros, donated nearly $1 million over the course of four years.

Of that sum, nearly $100,000 was earmarked for VOCAL NY’s Housing Justice for All project. The group partnered with the Communist Party USA and the New York Young Communist League for the endeavor; all three groups advocated against evictions throughout the pandemic.

The FWD.us Education Fund, founded and bankrolled by Zuckerberg, donated another $100,000 to VOCAL NY in 2019.

The group also received $15,000 in 2020 from Democrat-linked Arabella Advisors for purported “environmental programs.”

VOCAL went after local government officials after Neely’s death, arguing that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYC Mayor Eric Adams, both Democrats, designated too much money to things like police overtime pay, when that money could have gone to house homeless people such as Neely.

Homeless Union Leader Milton Perez accused the officials of “blaming homeless people or people with mental health [disorders] for everything.”

Protestors also called for the Penny’s arrest and sentencing, despite the lack of evidence that he intentionally killed Neely.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., accused Penny of “murder,” drawing a surprise rebuke from Adams.

However, VOCAL’s New York organizing director, Jawanza Williams, suggested that arresting Penny was the bare-minimum and would hardly placate the newly mobilized activists, Spectrum News reported.

“Just arresting this person, though I think accountability is absolutely necessary, it will not solve the critical structural failings that lead to the 70,000+ people experiencing homelessness every single night in our city, and it will not have saved this person’s life,” she said.

SHOCK: Texas 1st-Grader Allegedly Forced to Perform Sex Act on Classmate

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A Texas school district canceled classes on Monday and Tuesday following recent protests by parents over a disturbing allegation of sexual abuse involving a first-grade victim and her classmates.

According to the Plainview Independent School District, staff at South Elementary had been receiving threats in connection with “misinformation” about the investigation, KCBD reported.

Administrators also cited the mass shooting in Allen, Texas—roughly 350 miles away—as part of their rationale for canceling.

Parents were, among other things, demanding more transparency given that officials apparently never initially contacted the family when a 6-year-old girl was allegedly victimized by male classmates on April 19.

Heather Gonzales, the girl’s older cousin, said parents had received only sparse details  when a protest was staged outside the PISD administration building, everythingLubbock.com reported.

Two incidents allegedly occurred: A student forced the girl to “perform a sex act” under a desk, which was recorded on an iPad, and another boy exposed himself to her on the cafeteria lunch line.

In the first incident, a teacher was reportedly in the classroom. The district indicated that it occurred “away from full vision of the teacher.”

Officials placed the educator on administrative leave while local police and the Texas Child Protective Services investigated.

The family apparently only got wind of what happened because they noticed a significant change in the youngster’s behavior, Gonzales explained.

“She’s in distress, she’s like, ‘My stomach hurts. I just want to lay down,’” said the cousin.

“You can tell something’s wrong with her,” Gonzales added. “So, they said ‘what’s going on? What happened.'”

The girl’s aunt, separately, said the child had been suffering from nightmares as a result of what happened and was unwilling to return to school.

Plainview ISD Superintendent H.T. Sanchez said that the district and parents should work together to come up with a solution.

In a lengthy statement that underscored certain privacy and confidentiality requirements that apply to minors, the school district asserted that the teacher took charge of a password-protected, school iPad and a technician subsequently did a workaround to access inappropriate content.

“The two parents/guardians of students suspected to be on the video were called,” and were informed that CPS would be also be notified, the district noted. The school system superintendent, assistant superintendent, and school principal have also visited the family.

Earlier this month, the Plainview Herald implied that these may not be isolated incidents, and that that some parents were considering pulling their kids out of South Elementary for safety reasons.

“Multiple parents of students at South Elementary shared their concerns during the protest and called for answers and changes, including change in district leadership,” said the newspaper.

One parent asserted that “A 6-year-old was exposed to things that even adults would have a hard time overcoming. This is trauma at its worst and it is a trickle-down effect because it affects everyone around them.”

On Friday, Plainview IDS told Fox News that “CPS is continuing its investigation, and we continue to cooperate with CPS and law enforcement, by their request we are not able to comment any further than we have shared.”

The school district was working with the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division “to evaluate the reported threats,” the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal noted. The FBI is also involved.

Mexican President Whines about DeSantis’s New Illegal Immigration Budget

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico, bitterly complained about a new bill in Florida intended to counter the impacts of illegal immigration.

The Florida House of Representatives earlier this month approved the bill, which granted $12 million to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s “Unauthorized Alien Transport Program” that was permanently established by the Florida government in February.

The bill also required employers to use E-Verify, mandated that hospitals ask patients about their immigration status, allowed charges of human trafficking to be brought against those who knowingly move an illegal across state borders and prohibited illegals from driving cars even if they have a license from another state, reported Politico, which disingenuously labeled the bill “anti-immigration,” instead of the more accurate “anti-illegal immigration.”

Obrador similarly conflated the two when he whined about the new bill on Monday at a press conference.

“Why does [DeSantis] have to take advantage of people’s pain, of migrants’ pain, of people’s need for political gain,” he said. “This is immoral. This is politicking.”

Obrador’s grievances, ironically, were nearly all political and failed to address the point of regulating illegal immigration.

“Now I found out that the Florida governor — imagine, Florida, which is full of migrants — is taking repressive, inhumane measures against migrants in Florida because he wants to be a candidate,” he said, referring to DeSantis’s likely presidential bid and failing to mention the plague of violent crime unleashed upon Americans by illegal immigrants moving through his country. “Can’t he not make another proposal to convince people?”

Obrador’s commentary turned explicitly partisan, when he announced that he planned to have a phone call with Joe Biden to address the issue of Florida enforcing illegal immigration policies to keep residents safe from mounting drug trafficking and violence flowing across an open border.

“We will talk about our cooperation, which is very good, very, very good, and we will keep it that way,” Obrador vowed.

The Mexican president did not indicate that he intended to meet with former President Donald Trump, DeSantis or any Republican lawmakers in the near future.

EXCLUSIVE: Charlotte School Promoted Pornography-Laden Books to Students

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Educators at Palisades High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, called it “Right to Read Day”—a contest where students were encouraged last month to “fight back against censorship” by reading and making videos about frequently banned books.

But many of the books promoted in this contest were laden with pornography, including graphic rape scenes, pedophilia and anal sex between minors.

Headline USA learned this from Wendy Hawley, a concerned parent of a student at Palisades; and Brooke Weiss, a substitute teacher at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and the head of North Carolina local chapter of the non-profit organization Moms for Liberty.

“When I saw this come out, where it’s literally a school-wide initiative … What kind of message is that sending the kids?” Hawley said.

While not all the books available in the “Right to Read Day” were pornographic, many of the ones specifically promoted by Palisades faculty were, according to Hawley and Weiss, who provided screenshots and other internal records of the pornography promotion.

Indeed, one of the books promoted by Palisades librarian Meghan Sanford on social media was All the Boys Aren’t Blue, which contains the following passage: “I remember the condom was able and flavored like cotton candy. I put some lube on it and got him up on his hands and knees, and I began to slide into him from behind. I tried not to force it because I imagined that it would be painful … I eased in, slowly, until I heard him moan.

“He got up on top and slowly inserted himself into me. It was the worst pain I think I had ever felt in my life. He added more lube and tried again.”

Another book promoted in the contest, Flamer, includes lines such as “Hey Navarro, suck any good dicks lately?” and, “We are each busting a load into this bottle you don’t cum you have to drink it!”

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Excerpts from the book “Flamer,” which was promoted by teachers at a Charlotte high school. Photo: Screenshot

Yet another promoted book was The Bluest Eyes, which contains a gruesome scene where a father rapes his daughter.

“He wanted to fuck her—tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her vagina was more than he could bear,” the book states, before going into even more graphic detail.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Interim Superintendent Crystal Hill didn’t respond to an email query about the matter, but Hawley informed Headline USA that the “Right to Read Day” was cancelled last month due to parental backlash.

But that’s not good enough for Weiss, who wants to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Weiss said that when another pornographic book, Let’s Talk About It, was discovered at the Palisades library around February, superintendent Hill immediately removed it and promised a sweeping review of all books for similar material. That review apparently never happened, Weiss said.

The more recent “Right to Read Day” controversy angered Weiss further, as school faculty tried to justify the event by comparing the removal of pornography from schools to Nazi-style book-burning. Weiss, a Jewish woman, let the school staff know what she thought about that dubious comparison.

“As a Jewish woman I am quite shocked by this incredulous response. To equate demanding age-appropriate curricular and co-curricular literature in our public schools to the banning and burning of books by the Third Reich is at best an embarrassing misunderstanding of history for you, and most appropriately gross negligence,” she told school officials in an email, which she provided to Headline USA.

“At this point, CMS inattention to this matter equates to promoting the use of graphic, explicit, obscene material with minors. It is not a one-off, not something leadership is not aware—it is organized use of pornographic material with minors in our public schools.”

Weiss also said she resents the attacks being levied against her. She said her critics have accused her of trying to ban books.

To the contrary, Weiss said she simply wants a ratings system for the school, similar to how movies, video games and music are rated.

“I want them to decide through a committee at the district level, made of educators and parents, to decide which books should be slapped with a limited-access label, and for those books to be in a section where parents have to opt-in for the children to be able to access,” she said.

Luckily for Weiss, Hawley and other worried mothers, it looks like Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is listening to their concerns. Shortly before this article’s publication, Weiss informed Headline USA that superintendent Hill plans on implementing a review system, and has invited her to participate in getting that process off the ground.

“This is a major win, and I am truly grateful to SI Crystal Hill and this opportunity,” Weiss said. “Based on her response in February to the controversy then, and her current response to the Palisades TikTok controversy, I do think she is trying to do the right thing.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

TikTok Accused of Harvesting Data for Users Who Watched LGBT Content

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) China-owned social-media giant TikTok has been accused of harvesting the data of users who accessed LGBT-related material, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Though the app does not require that users list their sexual orientation, it does track the categories of videos that one watches, using that data to create targeted advertisements through the collection of information.

For more than a year, some employees reportedly had access to a list of those who watched LGBT content, according to whistleblowers at the company.

TikTok executives did not deny the claim. Rather, a company spokesman noted that “safeguarding the privacy and security of people who use TikTok is one of our top priorities.”

The company also claimed that the collected data had been deleted, and it insisted that no inferences were made about sexual orientations based on content.

“TikTok does not identify individuals or infer sensitive information such as sexual orientation or race based on what they watch,” said the statement.

The youth-friendly, video-based platform has been accused in the past of fostering a breeding ground for pedophiles and other sexual predators who can freely identify and communicate with potential victims on it.

The company also has faced widespread accusations in the past of data-mining user information—possibly including facial details that it could use to weaponize artificial-intelligence-based “deep fakes” to sow public confusion in the event of a future U.S. conflict.

Several federal and state lawmakers have moved to ban the use of the app altogether. Montana legislators, for example, recently approved a statewide ban of the social media app.

Republican U.S. senators have also suggested that congressional members be banned from using the app, as they have access to particularly sensitive information.

“We feel this situation warrants further action to protect the privacy of both sensitive congressional information and the personal information of our constituents,” several Senate Republicans wrote. “To that end, we urge you to enact a change to the Senate and House rules to ban members of Congress from using TikTok for official use.”

Of particular note, the news comes in the wake of the Biden administration’s hiring hundreds of TikTok “influencers” to promote the administration’s agenda and to assist with the president’s upcoming re-election effort.

Leftists Unhinged over Hollywood Mega-Star Chris Pratt’s Christian Faith

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Movie star Chris Pratt sent internet leftists into a rage for reiterating that he draws strength from his Christian faith, the Blaze reported.

Pratt made the comments in a recent interview about his latest movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3.

“That’s nothing new, that’s nothing new, you know?” he replied, addressing the online criticism he has received for being a Christian.

“If I was of this world, they would love me just like that but as it is, I’ve chosen out of this world. That’s John 15:18 through 20,” he said. “That’s the way it is, nothing new—2,000 years ago they hated him, too.”

When asked how he deals with the constant attacks on his character, Pratt said that he mostly ignores the criticism.

“Oh, just how you deal with anything,” he joked. “Like a rhino, stick your head down, you keep driving forward, you have thick skin and if anyone gets in your way, you stick the horn right up their a**!”

He also noted that he learned to handle rejection by being “trained in the crucible of door-to-door sales some 25 years ago. So, you can’t turn me away, there’s no stopping us.”

In response, anti-Christians came out of the woodwork to criticize the actor for engaging in the world.

“When is Chris Pratt going to sell all his belongings and give the money to the poor like Jesus suggests? Or do we just get to skip parts of the Bible we don’t like?” one critic wrote.

Another suggested that Pratt “couldn’t possibly be any more of a p***k” for comparing himself to Christ.

The Terminal List actor—who currently stars in the top-two highest grossing movies in domestic box-office returns, as of Tuesday—has been outspoken on his conservative Christian views in the past, each time sparking new outrage.

He did, however, cave to the left last summer, denying Christianity in a June 2022 interview.

“Religion has been oppressive as f**k for a long time,” he said. “I didn’t know that I would kind of become the face of religion when really I’m not a religious person.”

Pratt, following the leftist formula, blamed religious prejudice for modern ills.

“The evil that’s in the heart of every single man has glommed onto the back of religion and come along for the ride,” he said.

Trump Rape Accuser’s 2012 Facebook Post Jokes about Having Sex w/ Him

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump’s rape accuser, E. Jean Carroll, has a disturbing history of sexual posts on Facebook, particularly regarding Trump himself, the National Pulse reported.

Among Carroll’s recently discovered posts is one that jocularly asked a hypothetical question about having sex with the former president.

“Would you have sex with Donald Trump for $17,000?” she asked in 2012, roughly 16 years after she claims to have endured such a trauma herself.

“(Even if you could A) give the money to Charity? B) Close your eyes? And he’s not allowed to speak?)” she added.

It is believed that Trump’s defense lawyer Joseph Tacopina unearthed the old Facebook posts.

Jury deliberations in the trial began on Tuesday after Tacopina in his closing arguments reiterated the many inconsistencies and irregularities concerning the shock allegations.

Carroll, 79, first made the claim that Trump raped her in her 2019 book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal. Since that time, she has sued the former President on multiple different grounds.

She testified in court, however, that she could not recall whether the rape occurred in 1995 or 1996.

The sexual advice columnist, who has in the past called rape “sexy,” also claimed that her own rape took place in almost the exact manner of a rape scene in a Law and Order episode.

Trump has denied the allegations, calling her a liar. Carroll then sued him for defamation.

Trump suggested when the accusation first took place that Carroll was simply “trying to sell a new book—that should indicate her motivation.”

He also noted that the book should be sold “in the fiction section.”

Alina Habba, one of Trump’s defense lawyers, called Carroll’s efforts “a political ploy like many others in the long list of witch hunts against Donald Trump.”

Carroll posted other disturbing things in 2018, asking her Facebook followers what they thought about “Big D**k Energy,” referencing an obscene slang word for male genitalia in the uncensored post.

Included on her list were former President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and far-left California Rep. Maxine Waters.

“Obama’s got it,” she wrote. “Putin’s got it. Maxine Waters’s got it. Who’s on YOUR Big D**k Energy List?”

Carroll also posted about unnatural forms of sex, whether promoting them or asking women about their personal lived experiences.

‘I Am Not Suicidal’: Biden Rape Accuser Fears Being ‘Epsteined’ by Regime Reprisals

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) After agreeing to an invitation to share in Congressional testimony her allegations of being raped in 1993 by then-Senator Joe Biden, Tara Reade warned on social media over the weekend that she feared being targeted for reprisals by the Biden regime.

“I want to make something clear. If something happens to me, all roads lead to Joe Biden,” Reade wrote on Twitter. “Joe Biden and DNC political machine threats, bullying, and intimidation over the last three years will not work. I am not suicidal. I should not be under investigation nor am I a foreign agent. I am a private citizen.”

Noting that she was “a former staffer of Joe Biden’s that has chosen to step forward to tell the truth,” Reade wrote.

“The tactics using intimidation and bullying to silence me and suppress me using DOJ and FBI and social media will not work. Leave me alone. I will testify under oath in Congress if asked to do so and tell what happened and what I know,” she added. “The Biden corruption must end. Period”

During the 2020 election, Reade dropped her bombshell claim that in 1993 when she was a Congressional staffer, Biden cornered her in a deserted hallway and forced himself on her, penetrating her with his fingers.

The mainstream media uniformly ignored Reade’s claims, while the Justice Department opened an investigation that focused on Reade rather than her allegations. The accusations gained renewed prominence when Reade, one of seven women who have accused Biden of sexual assault, agreed to testify about her claims.

Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene invited Reade to appear before Congress, alarmed at the details of Reade’s allegations.

“It happened all at once, and then… his hands were on me and underneath my clothes. And then he went down my skirt and then up inside it. And he penetrated me with his fingers, whatever,” Reade told New York City blogger Katie Halper during a 2020 interview.

“For me, everything shattered in that moment,” Reade said. “He wasn’t trying to do anything more. But I looked up to him. He was my father’s age. He was this champion of women’s rights in my eyes and I couldn’t believe it was happening.”

More disturbing details were alleged during an interview with Megyn Kelly.

“He was kissing my neck area and he whispered, Did I want to go somewhere else in a low voice,” Reade said at the time, claiming that Biden said “something vulgar.” Recalling the incident, “He said, ‘I want to f— you,” Reade said. “And he said it low and I was pushing away.”

Reade punched back Monday when Fox News noted that her “cryptic message” was posted after a whistleblower had claimed he was arrested to stop him from spilling information about the Biden family.

“Well, the message is not so cryptic, rather direct information I would say,” Reade tweeted. “I will not be silenced or intimidated by aspects of my own government that act as a vassal for Joe Biden.”

Reade’s concerns for self-preservation hit social media as House Republicans sent “a demand for records to the secretary of the Senate.” The employment records being sought “will further corroborate the claims she has made,” Gaetz told Newsmax on Monday, noting that he was a member of the weaponization of government subcommittee.

“Nothing is a sicker weaponization than what her allegations say,” claimed Gaetz, who called Reade “one of the most credible witnesses I have ever interviewed.”

Newsmax host Jenn Pellegrino scorched fake news media for ignoring Reades’ claims and running cover for Biden.

“What’s it been, three years since we first heard from her, and it’s been buried under the rug. The leftist media doesn’t care unless it involves former President Trump,” Pellegrino said. “Their woke bible is ‘believe all women’ unless you’re abused by Joe Biden.”

To which host Chris Plante deadpanned, “Or any Democrat.”