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Walking past Union Station in the nation’s capital, I recently was met with a heartbreaking sight. Vandals had defaced the Columbus Memorial Fountain with spray paint, writing the words “Hamas is coming” in big red letters.  Trash and signs discarded by anti-Israel protesters littered the ground. A burnt shopping cart stood off to one side with piles of ash beneath it.    Most depressing, however, were the three bare flag poles that had been robbed of their American flags. Protesters had burned the flags, the only remnant a charred piece of fabric atop another pile of ash.  This was the aftermath of the July 24 “pro-Palestinian” protests in Washington, D.C., organized in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address that day to a joint meeting of Congress.  As an American of Palestinian heritage, some expect me to cheer on these people. They expect me to condemn the U.S., hate Israel, and support Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to wiping out the Jewish state.   But these expectations don’t represent me, nor my family.  I inherit my Palestinian background from my mother’s side of the family; her parents emigrated to America from the Middle East. My grandma was born in Israel and later moved to Ramallah in the West Bank and eventually to Jordan.  After arriving in America in her 20s, my grandma worked hard to become a U.S. citizen.  She learned the English language while raising my mother and uncle.  She opened a restaurant with my grandpa, lovingly named the Chicken Pantry, in Hamtramck, Michigan.  When that business closed, my grandma worked as a real estate agent before eventually retiring in the land of prosperity.  America brought my family prosperity. My grandparents taught my mother to “kiss the ground you walk on” because they knew what a blessing America is.   They passed this lesson on to me.  Although many seem to think that my Palestinian heritage should cause me to align with protests that supposedly are “pro-Palestinian,” it’s precisely because of my heritage that I cannot do that.   Israel went to war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip only after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 and kidnapped about 250 in a rampage of rape, torture, and murder Oct. 7 in southern Israel.  About 10 months later, as pro-Hamas protesters march in this country to “free Palestine,” they call for the death of America. As they burn the American flag, they burn all that my family has worked to achieve.   As the protesters pledge their allegiance to Hamas, they encourage a group that my grandmother wouldn’t hesitate to call a terrorist organization that operates with a strategy of human sacrifice.  Think about it. Why are there no Hamas military bases in the Gaza Strip adjoining Israel? Because the terrorists hide behind their own people.   They dress like noncombatants in Gaza. They establish bunkers in hospitals. They commandeer ambulances for transportation.   These actions are all in direct violation of Article 18 of the Geneva Conventions, the international pacts that set minimum standards during armed conflict for the treatment of civilians, soldiers, and prisoners of war.  One example is Hamas’ use of Gaza’s most important hospital, Al-Shifa. According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Hamas uses a bunker under the hospital as a base for military operations. This not only makes the hospital a target, but takes medical resources needed for the sick.    In contrast, the Israel Defense Forces have given civilians in Gaza opportunities to evacuate and warned of impending attacks.  No other nation goes this far to protect enemy civilians.  How can I support pro-Hamas demonstrators who wish to end the nation that brought my family so much? How can I back a terrorist group that uses its own people as human shields? How can I hate Israel, when the IDF has worked to keep Palestinian civilians out of harm’s way?  I believe it’s important to point out that, contrary to popular belief, not all Arabs think the same. Some of us do see this conflict differently. And our thoughts and beliefs should not be snuffed out because they go against the “narrative.”    To some, perhaps our stance makes us walking oxymorons. But we are proud ones, nonetheless.  The post I’m a Palestinian American. Here’s Why I Can’t Support the Anti-Israel Protesters.  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Left-leaning media outlets like MSNBC are doing their best to protect Vice President Kamala Harris from scrutiny. As Ben Shapiro has been so keen on pointing out these last few weeks, it's been nearly 30 days since Harris became the de facto Democrat nominee, and not once in that time...

A Boeing 737 nicknamed “Trump Force Two" that was carrying Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance (R-Ohio) was forced to make an emergency landing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Friday following a "malfunction" during the flight.

Disappearing Kamala Crowd It looks like the crowds are disappearing at Kamala’s rallies, but since 2020, it’s apparent that it might not matter. Biden was lucky to have his own staff attend his speaking engagements, and he somehow won 81 million votes. Reportedly, only 109 people went to the North Carolina rally. That number included […] The post Kamala Had 109 People at Her North Carolina Rally appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The 2024 Emmy Awards have found not just one star, but a father-son duo to take over hosting duties for this year’s ABC telecast in September. On Friday, ABC announced that comedian/actor Eugene Levy and his son actor Dan Levy will emcee the 76th annual awards show that celebrates the best of TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “For two Canadians who won our Emmys in a literal quarantine tent, the idea of being asked to host this year in an actual theater was incentive enough,” the Levys said in a statement to Variety. “We’re thrilled to be able to raise a glass to this extraordinary season of television and can’t wait to spend the evening with you all on Sept. 15,” it added. Craig Erwich, president, Disney Television Group, celebrated the first time a father and son will partner for the Emmys. “Schitt’s Creek” father-son duo Eugene Levy and Dan Levy are officially confirmed as the hosts of the #Emmys on Sept. 15. https://t.co/Z84rM0zP88 — Variety (@Variety) August 16, 2024 “Eugene’s and Dan’s comedic intuition and uncanny ability to capture the hearts of viewers will make for a memorable Emmys telecast honoring this year’s best and brightest,” Erwich said. Not only will this year be the first time for a father-son duo as emcees, but it’s also the first time since 2018 that the awards show has opted to have two people share the duties, making it only the second time in this century that it’s occurred, Variety noted. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. TV Academy chair Cris Abrego said they are thrilled the Levys are hosting, calling it a big night for Eugene, who’s been nominated for his Apple TV+ series, “The Reluctant Traveler.” “We are thrilled to welcome two generations of comedy genius to the Emmy’s stage as hosts,” Abrego told Variety. “Eugene and Dan Levy are known for creating unforgettable laugh-out-loud moments on screen, and together, they are super-charged. I cannot wait for Emmy fans to see what they have in store for all of us.” In 2020, Eugene and Dan, the co-creators of “Schitt’s Creek,” took home a record number of Emmys, winning in every major comedy category, THR noted. The Emmys will air live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 15 (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT) on ABC, and streams the next day on Hulu, Variety noted. Related: ‘The Bear’ Breaks Emmys Record For Most Nominations In Comedy Category

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 opinion posted late Friday, has blocked the Biden Administration’s Title IX rules that would force schools that receive public funding to allow trans-identifying males into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports. The rules went into effect on August 1 for all but 26 states plus hundreds of additional schools, and expanded the definition of “sex” to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.” Title IX was originally implemented in 1972 and prohibited schools receiving public funding from discriminating against students based on sex. In a 12-page ruling, the Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of the guidelines by siding with multiple other lower courts, which ruled against the Biden administration’s attempts to sever the sexual orientation and gender identity portions of the new rules from the guidelines as a whole, and allow the rest of the rewritten rules to go into effect. While the focus has been on transgender issues, the remaining rule changes eviscerate due process protections for students accused of sexual assault, protections that had been put into place under the Trump administration. SCOTUS agreed with the lower courts, writing that “the new definition of sex discrimination is intertwined with and affects many other provisions of the  new rule,” meaning it couldn’t be severed from the rest of the guidelines. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson, and Gorsuch – a Trump appointee – dissented. The block is only temporary as the legal system works slowly, and the Biden administration is appealing decisions in the lower courts. On August 1, the day the new rules were supposed to go into effect, former President Donald Trump promised he would repeal the Biden administration’s rules on “day one” of his administration. Trump posted on Truth Social: “I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!” and told radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton that he would do so on the first day of his administration. “President Trump just pledged to all of us on @clayandbuck that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president,” Travis said on X. “He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.” President Trump just pledged to all of us on @clayandbuck that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president. He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen. — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 1, 2024 Twenty-six states previously blocked the Biden administration’s rules, with U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, calling the new rules an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” “Title IX was written and intended to protect biological women from discrimination,” Doughty wrote. “Such purpose makes it difficult to sincerely argue that, at the time of enactment, ‘discrimination on the basis of sex’ included gender identity, sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics. Enacting the changes in the Final Rule would subvert the original purpose of Title IX: protecting biological females from discrimination.” Other judges ruled similarly. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge John Broomes, another Trump appointee, included a massive list of K-12 schools and universities across the country where the rules would also be blocked. That list came from schools attended by children of the defendants in that lawsuit, Moms for Liberty, and members of the Young America’s Foundation.

The head of London England’s Metropolitan Police Force is threatening to extradite Americans and arrest them for saying things he doesn’t like. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh, Klavan, you elfin merchant of merriment, how on earth do you always manage to reach into your imaginational grab-bag of zany jocularity and pull up such mirthful gems of goofi-tudinous effervescence as the absurdly hilarious idea that a police commissioner in a country whose imperial army we kicked in the bum so hard it flew all the way back to their tiny irrelevant island of funny-talking homosexuals, would be crazy not to mention stupid enough to take time out from watching through his office window as a once-great nation of free Englishmen devolves into a violent hell-hole of teen-raping, machete-wielding, bomb-blasting Muslim extremists, in order to threaten a United States of individuals who seriously cannot fart in his face loud enough to express our disdain for him and his now-crappy little country?” But no, so help me, I am not making this up. While there are still many great police detectives solving serious crimes in Britain, like Inspector Morse and Inspector Morse when he was a younger man, they are limited in their jurisdiction by the fact of being imaginary. Whereas Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley, who would be imaginary in a better world, is in this world and ridiculously real. And while in this world, Muslim gangs in the U.K. have repeatedly groomed teenage girls as sex slaves while authorities looked the other way, and Muslim honor crimes such as murder, punitive gang rape and forced genital mutilation have risen 200 percent in the U.K. since 2016 while authorities looked the other way, and while Islamic terror accounts for nearly 70 percent of U.K. terror attacks while authorities let illegal Islamist immigrants swarm in unchecked, Sir Mark has been dispatching his officers to arrest Britons for having opinions and posting them on Facebook. And now, he’s threatening to extend this oppressive idiocy to people in our country where we just feel Sir Mark should, to translate this into his own language, bugger off and stick to arresting women who pray silently for abortion victims while his country turns into Afghanistan except full of funny-talking homosexuals, like in Afghanistan. Sir Mark — who along with being the Metropolitan Police Commissioner also serves full time as a gormless twit — made his remarks after riots broke out across his country in the wake of a horrible murder. After years of being told that the massive illegal flood of immigrants into Britain was not causing the crime, abuse and terrorism it was causing, Angry White British People assumed the police, who had lied and lied and lied and then lied, were lying when they said the murders had not been committed by an illegal Muslim immigrant. Furious, the Angry White People stupidly clashed with Muslim people who did not kill anybody, since it turned out in this case, the police had broken with long-standing police protocol and were telling the truth. WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show The Angry White People then decided that while they were stupidly rioting, maybe they should keep at it in the hopes that the authorities would stop the illegal immigration that was causing all the crime, abuse and terrorism. After all, the man who is now Prime Minister had been in favor of stupid race riots when British people stupidly rioted over the death of George Floyd as if they lived in America instead of their crappy little gay country. So the Angry White People figured, hey, we’re white, the illegals are brown, so this will be one of those stupid race riots the Prime Minister loves so very much. Unfortunately, the Angry White People had not read the stupid race riot small print which says brown stupid race riots are great but white stupid race riots are so bad that even if you live in America and post about them on Facebook, Police Commissioner and Gormless Twit Sir Mark Funny-Talking Homosexual will come to America to arrest you, which would, in fact, promote brotherhood by bringing Americans of all races, colors and creeds together to kick Sir Mark in the bum so hard he goes flying back to Londonistan where he bloody well belongs. * * * Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “The House of Love and Death,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “The Andrew Klavan Show.” The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI