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Last week, a major political party in America openly embraced legislation to legalize elective abortion during live human birth. Previously, such infanticidal horrors had been glimpsed only in murder trials of monsters like Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist serving a life sentence for murdering three babies at birth.

In this modern Democratic Party, Gosnell could serve as Virginia governor — at least he would not have a history with blackface. Perhaps he could even be the party’s nominee for president in 2020.

This week, the same Democratic Party has openly and emphatically embraced open borders and lawlessness. The immigration laws that Democrat politicians once argued for, voted for, enacted and enforced are today completely meaningless to them.

A Democratic lawmaker from New Jersey has invited an illegal alien from Guatemala to pass through every security checkpoint imaginable to enter the House Chamber to watch President Trump’s State of the Union Address before Congress.

In past years, Democrats have invited so-called “Dreamers,” who as children were dragged into the country illegally by their parents. These so-called “Dreamers” are protected from deportation by a web of executive action and legal rulings.

But the illegal alien from Guatemala invited to Tuesday’s SOTU address is in no way protected from prosecution and deportation. The woman came to the country illegally of her own accord in 1999 and has been living illegally in the U.S. ever since. By her own admission, she has forged documents so that she could work illegally in the United States.

Even if this woman were to be arrested or otherwise come to the attention of U.S. Capitol Police, she would not be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That is because U.S. Capitol Police have a policy against alerting ICE when they detain or become aware of an illegal alien illegally in the House Chamber or anywhere else.

Congress — the so-called “People’s House” — has officially become a “sanctuary” against the very federal laws enacted in the House and Senate chambers. According to Democratic politicians, these laws no longer apply.

Which laws? Well, that depends. According to Democratic leaders, some laws still apply to some people. Other laws do not apply to certain other people.

How do we know which laws apply to which people?

It all depends on the whims of these Democrat politicians. But here is one little hint: Laws almost always apply to innocent tax-paying citizens. They often do not, however, apply to noncitizens who are illegal aliens illegally residing and illegally working in the U.S.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her lawless gang of scofflaws may as well blockade the Supreme Court with scaffolding, climb to the top and take hammer and chisel to the sacred words inscribed in the great marble pediment.

“Equal justice under law” no longer applies to the American citizenry, according to these people. Certain laws only apply to certain people, as politicians see fit.

Kermit Gosnell must be wondering why on earth he is spending the rest of his life in jail.

• Contact Charles Hurt at churt@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter @charleshurt.

A Colorado school district is reportedly about to dismiss a teacher after she wrote several tweets calling a Kentucky student a member of the “Hitler Youth.”

Douglas County School District Superintendent Thomas Tucker requested that the school board fire Mountain Ridge Middle School teacher Michelle Grissom after she wrote several tweets accusing the Kentucky student of being in the misrepresented viral video showing an encounter between Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann and Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the March for Life in Washington, DC.

“I understand that many in the community have strong opinions regarding Ms. Grissom and the circumstances giving rise to my recommendation. The District respects those opinions. However, to ensure that the process complies with Colorado law, while the dismissal process is ongoing, Douglas County School District will not provide further comment,” Superintendent Thomas Tucker wrote in a statement obtained by KDVR Tuesday.

Tucker said Grissom has the right to request a hearing before the school formalizes its decision.

Grissom, whom the district has placed on administrative leave since January 20, penned a viral tweet misidentifying a student as Sandmann, calling him part of the “Hitler Youth.”

“His name is Jay Jackson. His twitter account is closed to non followers so we don’t interfere with his training in the #HitlerYouth,” Grissom said in a now-deleted tweet, according to Complete Colorado.

But the student in question turned out not to be in Washington, DC, at the time, as the 17-year-old boy’s father responded to Grissom, telling her that his son was at a varsity basketball game and not in D.C. on the school’s field trip.

“She finally apologized but has refused to take down her post and my son’s picture. My son was harassed and bullied as a result of this teacher’s rush to judgment…totally abhorrent behavior and inexcusable actions that need to have consequences,” the father later tweeted.

The March for Life incident on the Lincoln Memorial quickly went viral, prompting politicians, media outlets, celebrities, and others to accuse Sandmann of harassing Phillips and vilify him online.

Subsequent video clips which revealed more of the story showed that the Covington Catholic students, wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, were the ones being harassed before Phillips approached the group.

Another group, the Black Hebrew Israelites, was spotted in the footage verbally accosting the students with racial slurs.

Sandmann’s family has since retained legal counsel, which has prepared to take legal action against a large number of individuals and groups for libel and defamation.

Sandmann’s legal team has been preparing to send defamation suit warning letters to a laundry list of celebrities, individual journalists, media outlets, and several Catholic dioceses who falsely accused Sandmann and his classmates of harassing a Native American.

His lawyers also released a 15-minute video exposing “the truth” about what happened to Sandmann at the March for Life.

New Jersey residents could soon see their hard-earned dollars go down the drain if Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy decides to sign recently passed legislation from New Jersey’s legislature allowing for a “rain tax.”

The legislation, Senate Bill S-1073, which the New Jersey Assembly and Senate approved, would allow local governments to create water utilities that would give them the power to tax homeowners and business owners with large paved surfaces.

When it rains, the rainwater mixes with pollutants and seeps into municipal sewage systems. The money collected would replace or repair sewage pipes or create “green infrastructure,” such as rain gardens that would collect polluted water.

“With all the salt that we’ve had on roads recently, that’s all running into the sewer systems, so you can’t ignore the problems because they don’t go away,” New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney told CBS New York.

Republicans have blasted the bill, dubbing it a “rain tax” on residents who contribute a large portion of their salary to state and local taxes.

“We all want to protect our environment. We all want to preserve it for future generations, but this is a weighted tax,” State Sen. Tom Kean Jr. told CBS New York. “The citizens of New Jersey … really [have] no way to defend themselves against tax increases at local levels.”

The bill would not only allow these utilities to collect taxes from residents, but it would also authorize them to go after people who do not pay them.

The governor’s office said Wednesday it could not comment on the pending legislation, which several reports say Murphy is likely to sign.

The New Jersey Democrat has 40 days to decide whether or not to make the legislation state law.

Upon returning from his historic Apostolic Journey to the Arabian Penninsula, specifically the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis said that Islamic world and the Christian world will work together to promote “common values.”

Speaking before his general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, Pope Francis discussed his meeting with the Great Imam of Al-Azhar and their signing of the document on the Human Brotherhood, which condemned all forms of religious violence and the spreading of authentic values throughout the world.

“The Great Imam of Al-Azhar and I signed the document on the Human Brotherhood , in which together we affirm the common vocation of all men and women to be brothers in As God’s sons and daughters, we condemn all forms of violence, especially those with religious motivation, and we commit ourselves to spreading authentic values and peace throughout the world,” Pope Francis said. “It gives so much pressure to move forward in the dialogue on human brotherhood.”

The Holy Father said the document was meant to give a “clear and decisive sign” that different religions can respect each other in dialogue. He also denounced the temptation to see a “clash between Christian and Islamic civilizations.”

“In an era like ours, in which the temptation to see a clash between Christian and Islamic civilizations is strong, and also to consider religions as sources of conflict, we wanted to give a further, clear and decisive sign, that instead it is possible to meet, it is possible to respect and dialogue, and that, despite the diversity of cultures and traditions, the Christian and Islamic world appreciate and protect common values: life, family, religious sense, honor for the elderly, the education of young people, and others,” the Pope said.

The Roman Pontiff’s decision to visit the UAE was an entirely strategic one, given the country’s progress in recent years by becoming a “crossroads of East and West.”

“That country has grown a lot in recent decades: it has become a crossroads between East and West, a multiethnic and multi-religious “oasis”, and therefore a suitable place to promote the culture of encounter,” Pope Francis said of the UAE.

In perhaps his speech’s most emotional moment, Pope Francis told the audience of meeting one of the UAE’s first Catholic priests, who expressed deep joy despite being blind and confined to a wheelchair.

“I had the opportunity to greet the first priest – ninety – who had gone there to found so many communities,” Pope Francis said. “He is in the wheelchair, blind, but the smile does not fall from his lips, the smile of having served the Lord and of having done so well. I also said hello to another ninety-year-old priest – but that was walking and continuing to work.”

Pope Francis is the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam.

The Pope’s full remarks:

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!

In recent days I made a short Apostolic Journey to the United Arab Emirates . A short but very important journey which, linking up to the 2017 meeting in Al-Azhar, Egypt , has written a new page in the history of dialogue between Christianity and Islam and in the commitment to promote peace in the world on the basis of human brotherhood .

For the first time, a Pope went to the Arabian peninsula. And Providence wanted it to be a Pope by the name of Francis, 800 years after the visit of St. Francis of Assisi to the sultan al-Malik al-Kamil. I often thought of Saint Francis during this journey: he helped me to keep the Gospel, the love of Jesus Christ in my heart, while I was living the various moments of the visit; in my heart there was the Gospel of Christ, prayer to the Father for all his children, especially for the poorest, for the victims of injustices, wars, misery …; prayer because the dialogue between Christianity and Islam is a decisive factor for peace in today’s world.

I sincerely thank the Hereditary Prince, the President, the Vice President and all the Authorities of the United Arab Emirates, who welcomed me with great courtesy. That country has grown a lot in recent decades: it has become a crossroads between East and West, a multiethnic and multi-religious “oasis”, and therefore a suitable place to promote the culture of encounter. I express my gratitude to Bishop Paul Hinder, Vicar Apostolic of South Arabia, who prepared and organized the event for the Catholic community, and my “thank you” extends with affection to the priests, religious and laity who animate the Christian presence in that land.

I had the opportunity to greet the first priest – ninety – who had gone there to found so many communities. He is in the wheelchair, blind, but the smile does not fall from his lips, the smile of having served the Lord and of having done so well. I also said hello to another ninety-year-old priest – but that was walking and continuing to work. Good boy! – and many priests who are there at the service of the Christian communities of the Latin rite, of the Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankara rituals, of the Maronite rite that come from Lebanon, India, the Philippines and other countries.

In addition to the speeches, in Abu Dhabi one step was taken: the Great Imam of Al-Azhar and I signed the document on the Human Brotherhood , in which together we affirm the common vocation of all men and women to be brothers in As God’s sons and daughters, we condemn all forms of violence, especially those with religious motivation, and we commit ourselves to spreading authentic values and peace throughout the world. This document will be studied in schools and universities in several countries. But I also recommend that you read it, know it, because it gives so much pressure to move forward in the dialogue on human brotherhood.

In an era like ours, in which the temptation to see a clash between Christian and Islamic civilizations is strong, and also to consider religions as sources of conflict, we wanted to give a further, clear and decisive sign, that instead it is possible to meet, it is possible to respect and dialogue, and that, despite the diversity of cultures and traditions, the Christian and Islamic world appreciate and protect common values: life, family, religious sense, honor for the elderly, the education of young people, and others.

About a million Christians live in the United Arab Emirates : workers from various Asian countries. Yesterday morning I met a representation of the Catholic community in St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Abu Dhabi – a very simple temple – and then, after this meeting, I celebrated for everyone. They were so many! They say that among those inside the stadium, which has capacity for 40 thousand, and those who were in front of the screens outside the stadium, it was 150 thousand! I celebrated the Eucharist in the city stadium , announcing the Gospel of the Beatitudes. In the Mass, concelebrated with the Patriarchs, the Major Archbishops and the Bishops present, we prayed in a special way for peace and justice, with special intention in the Middle East and Yemen.

Dear brothers and sisters, this Journey belongs to the “surprises” of God. We therefore praise him and his providence, and pray that the scattered seeds bear fruit according to his holy will.

A trio of far-left Democrats are normalizing blatant anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party as leaders in the party idly stand by and refuse to condemn their actions and statements.

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — all new members of Congress — have all defended anti-Semites or espoused anti-Semitic positions over the last several months.

The disturbing trend comes as the U.S. experienced the worst anti-Semitic attack in the nation’s history in October 2018 after a man walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 people, later telling law enforcement that he wanted all Jews to die.

Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib belong to Justice Democrats, a federal political action committee, which far-left Vox describes as “a left-wing group whose mission is to drag the Democratic Party left by making life miserable for incumbents…threatening them with progressive primary challengers.”

While Omar and Tlaib have stolen most of the national headlines on their anti-Semitism, Ocasio-Cortez’s ties to anti-Semitism are just as strong.

Here are Ocasio-Cortez’s ties to anti-Semitism:

1. Following her upset win in New York’s 14th Congressional District in June 2018, Ocasio-Cortez was photographed with a man “who ran unsuccessfully for New York City Council last year on a campaign against ‘greedy Jewish landlords.”

Ocasio-Cortez responded to the photo, tweeting: “No idea who this guy is, hundreds of folks walked into the hall open to the public last night. I absolutely denounce any such bigoted and reprehensible statements.”

While she claims to not have known who Lopez-Pierre was, he appeared in a video “wearing an Ocasio-Cortez campaign shirt and declaring that he is campaigning against ‘greedy landlords.” On his alleged Twitter account, he appears to have tweeted that he “spent 8 hours handing out 1,000+ campaign flyers for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Bronx.”

2. The following month, Ocasio-Cortez appeared on PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover,” where she claimed that Israel was illegally occupying Palestine, a false claim that is commonly held by anti-Semites.

3. Following her disastrous PBS interview, which garnered significant national attention, Ocasio-Cortez appeared in an interview with the far-left group “Democracy Now!” where she refused to state if she supported for a two-state solution between Israel and “Palestine.”

4. Ocasio-Cortez has defended Linda Sarsour, an anti-Semite who called for Muslims to wage a form of “Jihad” against Trump. Sarsour also has connections to convicted terrorists that murdered people in two bombings in Jerusalem. Sarsour, a co-chair in the Women’s March, was recently called on by the group’s founder to step down over anti-Semitism.

Ocasio-Cortez not only has defended Sarsour, but she has also praised her, tweeting that “the far right constantly maligns her w/ false attacks” and that “she is, as always, fighting for everything our flag represents.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet on Sarsour even drew criticism from some of her followers, who noted Sarsour’s controversial nature.

5. Ocasio-Cortez’s political party, the Democratic Socialists of America, are openly anti-Semitic and called for the elimination of Israel during their 2017 national convention at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

After DSA’s 697 delegates voted to adopt the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign, they chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

“The river in this formulation is the Jordan, the naturally occurring eastern border of Israel and of the West Bank; the sea is the Mediterranean to the west,” The Daily Beast reported. “Uttered by advocates of the Palestinian cause for decades, the pithy slogan very pointedly makes no place for Israel. It evokes a strip of Middle Eastern land where Israel is no more, replaced by a unified Palestinian entity in the space it once occupied.”

6. Ocasio-Cortez refuses to state whether she supports the anti-Semitic BDS campaign. When asked following her upset win in New York’s 14th Congressional District primary for the Democratic nomination whether she supports BDS, she said, “no comment…at this time.”

The Daily Caller asked Ocasio-Cortez in December to share her stance on the anti-Semitic movement.

Ocasio-Cortez spokesmen Corbin Trent responded to the inquiry, saying, “No, sorry.”

7. Ocasio-Cortez embraced and attended the anti-Semitic Women’s March in January after the Democratic National Committee (DNC), top Democratic lawmakers, and far-left groups abandoned the group over its blatant anti-Semitism.

Before the march took place, Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory, who called notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan the “greatest of all time,” refused to affirm Israel’s right to exist.

During the march, Sarsour openly championed BDS as Mallory nodded in agreement.

When asked at the march about the group’s anti-Semitism scandal, Ocasio-Cortez claimed, without evidence, that the Trump administration were the ones that have a problem with anti-Semitism.

“I think that concerns of anti-Semitism with the current administration in the White House are absolutely valid and we need to make sure that we are protecting the Jewish community and all those that feel vulnerable in this moment,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

8. Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign appears to have hired a man to be a field director who was fired by another Democrat for anti-Semitism.

Robert Akleh, whose LinkedIn page states that he was a Field Director for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez for US Congress, appears to be the same Robert Akleh that was fired in 2014 over anti-Semitic comments he posted on Facebook.

FEC records show that Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign paid Akleh $1,823.31.

9. Ocasio-Cortez praised notorious anti-Semitic Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday following a phone meeting the two far-left politicians had.

“It was an honor to share such a lovely and wide-reaching conversation with you, @jeremycorbyn!” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Also honored to share a great hope in the peace, prosperity, + justice that everyday people can create when we uplift one another across class, race, + identity both at home & abroad.”

Corbyn has attended memorial services for the terrorists behind the Munich massacre, his political party is under criminal investigation for anti-Semitic hate crimes, and he has a long history of espousing blatant anti-Semitism.

Here are Omar’s ties to anti-Semitism:

1. Omar’s anti-Semitic views have been public for years. In 2012, she tweeted: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

Responding to criticism over the tweet, Omar claimed she was “drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime.”

“The oft-repeated notion that Israel is an “apartheid” nation is incorrect on multiple grounds,” The Daily Wire reported in October. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) refutes the notion that Israel is an “apartheid” nation:

Arab citizens of Israel enjoy the full range of civil and political rights, including the right to organize politically, the right to vote and the right to speak and publish freely. Israeli Arabs and other non-Jewish Israelis serve as members of Israel’s security forces, are elected to parliament and appointed to the country’s highest courts. They are afforded equal educational opportunities, and there are ongoing initiatives to further improve the economic standing of all of Israel’s minorities.

In a New York Times column, Bari Weiss slammed Omar’s conspiracy-minded views on Israel:

The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history. In the New Testament, it is a small band of Jews who get Rome — then the greatest power in the world — to do their bidding by killing Christ. Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, speaks to the Jews about Jesus in the book of John: “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your own law.” But the Jews punt the decision back to Pilate: “We are not permitted to put anyone to death.” And so Pilate does the deed on their behalf. In the book of Matthew, the implications of this manipulation are spelled out: “His blood is on us and our children,” the Jews say — a line that has been so historically destructive that even Mel Gibson cut it from his “Passion of the Christ.”

In the two millenniums that followed, even after 1965, when the Catholic Church formally disavowed the belief that the Jews killed Jesus, this was the template for the anti-Semitic conspiracy: the ability of this tiny minority to use its wiles and its proximity to power to con others into accomplishing their evil ends. It has led to countless expulsions, murders, massacres and pogroms throughout Europe and elsewhere.

The Jewish power to hypnotize the world, as Ms. Omar put it, is the plot of Jud Süss — the most successful Nazi film ever made. In the film, produced by Joseph Goebbels himself, Josef Süss Oppenheimer, an 18th-century religious Jew, emerges from the ghetto, makes himself over as an assimilated man, and rises to become the treasurer to the Duke of Württemberg. Silly duke: Allowing a single Jew into his city leads to death and destruction.

Read the full column here.

2. In a January interview, Omar defended her tweet, saying those were “the only words I could think about expressing at that moment.”

3. Omar later stated in an interview on CNN that she did not understand why Jewish Americans would find her anti-Semitism to be offensive.

“I wonder what your message is this morning … to Jewish Americans who find that deeply offensive?” CNN’s Poppy Harlow asked.

“Oh, that’s a really regrettable way of expressing that,” Omar responded. “Um, I, I, don’t know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans.”

4. Immediately after winning her congressional election, Omar changed her views on anti-Semitic BDS campaigns from saying it was “counteractive” during her campaign to saying that she “believes in and supports the BDS movement, and has fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized.”

5. In an interview last week, Omar suggested: “that Israel should not be allowed to exist as a Jewish state, Israel is not a democracy, and compared Israel to Iran — which is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” The Daily Wire reported.

“I want to talk about Israel because it has been a point of contention,” Yahoo News’ “Through Her Eyes” host Zainab Salbi said. “How can America work productively towards a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians in your opinion?”

“Most of the things that have always been aggravating to me is that we have had a policy that makes one superior to the other and we mask it with a conversation that’s about justice and a two-state solution when you have policies that clearly prioritize one over the other,” Omar responded.

When pressed for examples, Omar responded: “Our relationship, really with the Israeli government and the Israeli state.”

“And so when I see Israel institute, um, law that recognizes it as a Jewish state and does not recognize, um, the other religions that are living in it and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East, I almost chuckle because I know that if, you know, we, we, we, we see that in any other society we would criticize it.”

“We would call it out,” Omar continued. “We do that to Iran.

6. On her first day in office, Omar embraced anti-Semite and alleged Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer Linda Sarsour.

“Linda Sarsour is an extremist who has ‘roots in [the] Muslim Brotherhood,’ according to an English-language feature on Al-Arabiya, the Saudi Arabia based news channel,” The Jerusalem Post reported. “The article published in idiomatic English on Sunday accused the Brotherhood of ‘shaping the thoughts of American activist Linda Sarsour, [which resulted in] her declaring her ‘Jihad’ against US President Donald Trump.'”

Here are Tlaib’s ties to anti-Semitism:

1. Tlaib has promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories as she unleashed an “anti-Semitic slur leveled at her Congressional colleagues for their support of a bill which would allow local, state, and federal agencies to avoid doing business with entities that support the anti-Israel Boycott-Divestment-Sanction (or BDS) movement.”

“They forgot what country they represent. This is the U.S. where boycotting is a right & part of our historical fight for freedom & equality,” Tlaib tweeted. “Maybe a refresher on our U.S. Constitution is in order, then get back to opening up our government instead of taking our rights away.”

“The idea of Jews as having divided loyalty, and of using their influence to convince others to act against the interests and principles of their own country, is an age-old anti-Semitic trope,” The Washington Examiner reported.

2. On her first day in office, Tlaib embraced anti-Semite and alleged Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer Linda Sarsour.

“Saudi Arabian state media has accused her of being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that the Trump administration has considered designating a terrorist organization,” The Daily Wire reported.

3. Tlaib supports anti-Semitic BDS campaigns.

“Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib has become just the second US lawmaker to express support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement…” MME reported.

“I personally support the BDS movement,” Tlaib said.

4. Tlaib does not support a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.

“Before her victory in last week’s Michigan Democratic primary, Tlaib’s campaign represented her as supporting a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and endorsing continuing U.S. aid to Israel,” Haaretz reported. “Since the primary win, Tlaib has staked out far different positions in media interviews, explicitly endorsing a one-state solution and opposing aid, a change celebrated by far-left Palestinian activists, who sharply criticized her for seeking out and receiving the J Street endorsement.”

5. Tlaib has been photographed with supporters of Islamic terrorist organizations who have said that Israel has no right to exist.

“Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., was photographed with a Palestinian activist who praised the terrorist group Hezbollah, said Israel did not have the right to exist, and has called for Israeli “Zionist terrorist” Jews to return to Poland, where roughly three million Jews were killed during the Holocaust,” The Washington Examiner reported.

Abbas Hamideh tweeted out of a photo of himself with a smiling Tlaib, writing, “I was honored to be at Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib swearing in ceremony in #Detroit and private dinner afterward with the entire family, friends and activists across the country.”

Here are some of Hamideh’s tweets:

6. Tlaib belongs to a group that “frequently demonizes Jews, and its Palestinian founder, Maher Abdel-qader, raised substantial funds for Tlaib for her congressional campaign as well as organizing some of her campaign events,” The Daily Wire reported.

“Claims of Abdel-qader’s virulent anti-Semitism are buttressed by various facts: he reportedly shared on his Facebook page and on the page of the “Palestinian American Congress” an anti-Semitic video that claimed Jews aren’t really Jews and their historical claim to Israel was a fiction they created,” The Daily Wire added. “The video also parroted the usual anti-Semitic claim that Jews control the media as well as purveyed the idea that the Holocaust was fake, stating, “Research the truth about the Holocaust, and you’ll definitely start to question what you thought you knew.”

The Daily Wire further noted that “Tlaib, honoring Abdel-qader for his help with her campaign, during which she took a number of pictures with him and he sometimes was a speaker at her events, gave him a medal for his contributions.”

As our deeply divided nation prepares to listen to the President’s State of the Union address this Tuesday, I think every politically-minded American has an idea as to what they might like to have the President say. It could be something regarding new policies or proposed legislation, or it could be how he responds to certain current events.

I have a few tings I would like to see him address, and one of those relates to how he addresses us.

One way I believe the President could improve upon his Administration’s success would be by creating a complete and coherent communication strategy so that his supporters can better understand and get behind his efforts and initiatives.  The President’s use of Twitter and social media has made him the most communicative President in U.S. history.  He is always weighing in on anything that is within the immediate news cycle.  The volume and frequency of communication is unprecedented.  This allows him to move beyond the mainstream media which will not present him fairly or accurately to American citizens.

Those quick-hits on Twitter are great for current events. On more substantive issues, like the border wall, the President needs to understand that the typical American citizen is filled with political and economic interest and passion, but they are not proportionately filled with political or economic knowledge.  That means they are not necessarily able to follow or understand what he might be trying to do.  Shifts in positions or rapid advances or retreats on his part can seem random and inexplicable to the average person.  At their core, people may very much believe in his agenda and want to support him, but they can start to lose patience or interest if they can’t figure out what he is doing.

Many supporters find themselves wanting to defend the President but not knowing how to do so because they can’t really articulate the purpose of his actions or the plan within which they are undertaken. His communication style evokes passion in people but doesn’t necessarily lead to execution.  His words are sometimes like a brilliant locker room speech that sends everyone charging out onto the field inspired, but then realizing when they get out there they don’t know what game they are supposed to be playing.

In his SOTU address, I think he would do well to offer a new “Communication Compact with America.”  President Trump could make some sort of pledge to conduct his version of FDR’s fireside chats where he agrees to address the nation regularly to clearly state and explain what he is trying to accomplish and what he needs his supporters to do to help make it happen.  The world of social media has nearly killed the complete sentence.  It hasn’t killed the need, however, for people to still hear complete sentences.

The President is facing two years where Congress will be hostile and uncooperative.  Chaos will reign within elected government.  People should be, and need to be, assured in the State of the Union that the President will continuously help them to understand exactly what he is doing and will tell them exactly what they must do to help.  Clear expectations need to be set. Citizens need to be asked to help.  It is what then-businessman Donald Trump had to do with his company employees. The American people are willing to go to work in the President’s employ, but they need a better understanding of company objectives and their job description.

President Trump needs to let his supporters know that he is going to do a better job of helping them to help him. He is also going to make them better prepared to answer his critics in coffee shops, in the workplace, and on social media.

The President’s communication style is largely what got him elected.  It was brilliant.  It remains brilliant on many levels.  There is need, I believe, to adjust it a bit to help him more effectively govern.

In the State of the Union, he needs to reassure people that he hasn’t forgotten his campaign promises.  He should dwell less upon those fulfilled and focus on the ones that remain.  He then needs to let people know how he is going to work toward those ends, and tell people how to help him. He needs to promise people that he is going to communicate with more clarity going forward.

Over the centuries, many political philosophers have held many different opinions as to the nature of man and his attendant role in society. One thing that no philosopher of whom I’m aware has ever contended is that people do best in an environment that feels chaotic and disordered. America today feels that way. Many supporters don’t feel comfortable that they know what the President is doing. Too many spend time speculating or auto-completing what they believe are his plans.

This President is the most proven negotiator ever to hold the office. The problem is that it is difficult to negotiate with today’s American progressives. They are a hate-filled bunch anxious to tear down Western Civilization and the United States along with it. The President is at war, and to win a war you need troops who clearly understand the objectives and their orders.

On Tuesday, the President needs to place his hand on the shoulder of the nation, look into its eyes, and say “Don’t worry.  We’re going to get through this together. I will lead you. Let me tell you what to do.”

Charlie Kirk is the founder and president of Turning Point USA.