America First Or Israel First? Trump To Deport ‘Hamas Sympathisers’ On U.S. College Campuses
Trump order targets pro-Palestinian student protesters | Morning in America
And who better to help identify them than the DNI and the FBI Director!
There's a lot of so-called "antiwar" people expressing their all-out love for Tulsi Gabbard, and demanding her confirmation as DNI. Remarkably, that includes a lot of critics of what Israel is doing to Palestinians, "genocide," as many call it, even though Gabbard as a "Radical-Right Hindu extremist," is also closely tied to Israel's "Radical-Right Zionist extremists, with some on that below. So, go figure. With her as DNI and Kash Patel as FBI Director, this administration can put an to the "treason" in college campuses protesting genocide, as Patel/Gabbard call for here:
"Tulsi Gabbard: Pro-Palestinian protesters are 'puppets' of 'radical Islamist organization' "
Tulsi Gabbard: 'Pro-Hamas calls' are the 'underlying issue' of the anti-Israel protests
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6362954750112
Kash Patel: Israelis can't take on Iran alone
These are Not Peaceful Protests & They Have to Stop | Kash Patel
"Trump was more blunt in an attached fact-sheet released with the executive order. “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” Trump said. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
"As usual, the meaning of “Hamas sympathizer” was left ill-defined, leaving many pro-Palestine protesters at risk."
Here's the triumverate:
So I vigorously disagree with this headline, and this conclusory point, when it is clear what Gabbard stands for; we know what she stands for and we don't need to wait to see what "her worldview looks like next week."
"Many Trump supporters seem to be hoping that, as Trump’s director of national intelligence, Gabbard will be a counterbalance to the influence of warmongering “neocons” like Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for secretary of state. If this hope is based on the foreign policy positions she holds right now, or even the ones she’s held in the past, then it may be premature. We’ll all have to wait and see what her worldview looks like next week."
What is hard to understand of her "worldview" with evidence at the links above?
But the article below, edited with removal of extraneous nonsense, summarizes her "worldview" quite adequately, except for the one point I put a note to.
Tulsi Gabbard is now team Trump. What are her views on the Middle East?
Hindutva, Zionism, and Islamophobia
As Gabbard was being lauded in her early career as a progressive star, she was also heavily praised by a number of other groups, including those espousing anti-Muslim, Hindu nationalist, and pro-Israel views.
For years, she has argued that "radical Islamic ideology" fuels terrorism, a common right-wing talking point. She criticised former President Barack Obama for not using the phrase "Islamic extremism".
"Let us #NeverForget that it was the Islamist ideology which inspired the terrorist attacks and declaration of war against America on 9/11," Gabbard said on X, formerly Twitter, in 2021.
"And it is this Islamist ideology that continues to fuel terrorist attacks around the world and is the foundation for so-called 'Islamic' countries like Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory policies against Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists, etc."
Gabbard has denied that she is Islamophobic.
Most recently, Gabbard has condemned the ongoing pro-Palestinian protest movement that has been taking place all over the country. The demonstrations have been taking place in protest of US support for Israel's war on Gaza, which human rights and legal experts, as well as several countries, have said is a genocide being perpetrated by Israel.
Gabbard, however, has accused the hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters of being puppets of a "radical Islamist organisation", in an apparent reference to Hamas.
The pro-Israel views of Gabbard are not dissimilar from those of many Democrats. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also accused pro-Palestinian protesters of being financed by foreign groups.
But in many instances, Gabbard has set herself apart from Democrats and embraced the full-throttle support of Israel of the Republican Party.
In 2015, she spoke at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) conference, a major right-wing and Christian pro-Israel organisation based in the US, where she lauded the US-Israel relationship.
Despite all of her anti-war and anti-US intervention views, Gabbard has supported Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children.
Even though she has supported ending US military support to foreign governments for helping fuel conflicts and wars, she doesn't extend that call to Israel and also opposed a ceasefire in Gaza.
According to a 2019 analysis by The Intercept, more than 100 individuals affiliated with the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) organisation have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Gabbard's political campaigns since 2011, when she first ran for Congress.
She has also praised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and claimed that there was "a lot of misinformation" around the 2002 Gujarat riots that took place while Modi served as Gujarat's chief minister.
A BBC documentary released last year revealed a previously unpublished report by British diplomats that concluded Modi was "directly responsible" for the "climate of impunity" that enabled the violence, in which around 2,000 people were killed in pogroms against the Muslim community.
As Gabbard now enters the transition team for the Trump campaign, it's unclear how influential her views would be. She is likely to be at odds with the many Iran hawks in the Republican Party. (TP note-Not at all, given all the evidence!)
But joining the Trump team could help Gabbard get closer than ever to her goal of having a commanding influence over the US's military policy if Trump were to win the election.
