A Jewish warrior is looming large in President Trump’s home
district in Florida.
Laura Loomer came striding into the political arena because
she is concerned at the American drift to a place she rebels against. She
decided to take a stand. In fact, she has taken several stands as an angry
individual who has attracted media attention.
Loomer was angry at the staged assassination of President
Trump in a Central Park leftist adaption of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in
which the Roman emperor was replaced by a lifelike Donald Trump. The bloody
mock assassination of Trump on stage incensed Laura Loomer.
American presidential assassinations are nothing new and
Loomer considered this public presentation an incitement, giving license to
murder Trump, so she protested the event by leaping onto the stage and
interrupting the production to much media acclaim.
Like too many conservative voices, Loomer has been banned
from social media including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for pointing out
Ilhan Omar’s anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slanders which Loomer rightly claims
emanate from Omar’s personal background as an Islamist. I have written extensively
about this in the past. Facts are on Loomer’s side, despite the ban.
Loomer is “the most banned woman in the world,” having been
banned on every social media site for exposing gross examples of anti-Semitism.
Not being a supine quitter, in 2018, after being banned from
Twitter, Loomer highlighted the Big Tech’s abuse of conservative opinions by
chaining herself to the door of a local Twitter’s New York headquarters to
protest her ban, claiming it was not hate speech.
It is important to note that, in America, there is no legal
definition of hate speech. The Supreme Court having ruled there is no such
thing as hate speech.
It was the assault on conservative voices and the blocking
of free speech that triggered Loomer to enter politics.
Laura Loomer has launched a bid for Congress as a Republican
candidate in Florida’s 21st Congressional District of Palm Beach County
where President Trump and the First Lady, Melania Trump, live.
Some try to paint Laura Loomer as a racist, but she celebrated
the launch of her political campaign at a local Boca Raton diner owned by a
Muslim woman who immigrated from Pakistan.
The owner, Naheed Khan, told the UK’s Daily Mail that she is
a practicing Muslim and was at first concerned about why Laura Loomer had done
some of the things that had made headlines, so she and her pediatrician daughter
invited Loomer for a chat where no questions were off limit.
“She’s not anti-Muslim,” Naheed concluded, “she’s
anti-radicalism.”
Laura and Naheed share a couple of things in common. “We’re
both fighters,” Loomer told the Daily Mail. And they both agree that people
who immigrate into America need to assimilate and embrace American values.
This, after all, has been the hallmark behind America’s successful history of
immigration.
Laura Loomer is a highly charged, energetic individual with
strong convictions. When she sees an injustice she acts on it, instinctively.
As with the Shakespeare incident, she felt that the cultural
theft of a character to forge a false and biased allegory for political purposes
was sufficient for her to perform her own drama to show the audience and a
wider public the ultimate danger of the fake misrepresentation of the President
leading to a conclusion that murder is the ultimate outcome to save Rome.
We see the current violence on American streets, the anarchy
and the destruction, as a real life enactment of what had been presented on a
Central Park stage. Laura Loomer is a rarity, a woman who is prepared to act
and speak out against the anarchy by calling it for what it is.
It left her little option, as an American woman and a Jew
who cares, but to take to the political stage.
This is a risky thing to do as America lurches to the
intolerant left and counter voices are silenced, even physically attacked.
But Laura Loomer is a fighter. If you didn’t know her you’d
think she was an Israeli. She has the spunk of an Israeli taking on forces
larger and stronger than herself. And Israel is an issue she feels strongly
about, not only because she is Jewish but because she sees the injustices being
perpetrated against Israel by prominent members of the Democratic Party, and
she is prepared to go to war against them both in public and in Congress.
27-year-old, Laura Loomer, plans to unseat the four-term
Democrat incumbent, Lois Frankel, in Florida’s 21st District in
order to become the youngest Representative ever elected to the United States
Congress.
The Democrat Party has been trending downward in its
position on Israel as radical new anti-Israel members replace Democrat elders
and Israel fades as flavor of the year in that party. Elliot Engel was the
latest Jewish Establishment figures fall to a new breed of radical Democrat
lawmakers. Democrat veterans are loath to be seen publicly supporting Israel.
They think it would come at a political or career cost. That’s how far left the
party has drifted. That is why Lois Frankel, Loomer’s opponent, who also
happens to be Jewish, did not come to Israel for the historic opening of the US
Embassy in Jerusalem.
Loomer, on the other hand, did travel to Israel for the
opening of the embassy.
Despite Florida’s 21st District being strongly
Democrat, there is an unsettling political wind blowing from the far left
across America, bringing with it a destructive storm that should worry middle
class and wealthy voters, particularly Jewish voters, who are the core of the
21st District constituents.
Frankel voted with the majority against BDS attempts to
boycott Israel, but sixteen of her party’s members actively promoted this
anti-Israel legislation which is bound to rapidly reappear should the Democrats
take power. It won’t be the Frankel’s that will dictate policy. It will be the
Omars and the Tlaibs in control. Win or lose, it is certain that the number of Democrat
radicals will multiply as an inevitable outcome of the 2020 elections.
This is certain based on the British experience in the
Labour Party, where Palestinian flags waved at their Annual Conferences, where the
issue of Palestine worked its way into the top five policies of a Labour Party drenched
in the stench of anti-Semitism rising in its ranks.
Sound familiar, America?
Fortunately, in Britain, traditional Labour voters, many who
had been in the party for 40 and 50 years, could not take the Corbyn-led party any
longer. They walked away before the all-important Brexit election of 2019,
which caused the Labour Party a timely defeat.
As early as 2017, this writer anticipated that we would see
the emergence and spread of this Socialist anti-Semitic poison metastasize in
the American Democrat Party, and it will fester and grow if left unchecked and
unchallenged. This has happened far more rapidly than I predicted.
With the radical shift in the ideology of the Democrat
Party, politicians like Frankel are becoming increasingly tepid in their
approach to Israel, and all too silent in criticism of the anti-Jewish rhetoric
within her party. Laura Loomer will be far more affirmative.
Despite being a political newcomer and outside candidate,
Loomer has attracted influential groups such as JEXIT and United West to her
cause.
She has also raised more campaign donations than all her rivals
combined, including Frankel. Since launching her bid for Congress one year ago,
Laura |Loomer has raised over one million dollars.
Should she win her primary on August 18, she will be a
formidable rival for Frankel. Loomer will have the wind at her back with an
increasing number of traditional Democrat voters feeling as if their party has
left them. She will almost certainly have the personal backing of the President
and his family as Trump’s Florida resort home, Mar-a-Largo, is located in
Loomer’s district. She will also attract the support of Ron De Santas, perhaps
the most popular state governor in America.
Israel will be watching Loomer’s battle with interest. We
need more affirmative pro-Israel representatives in Congress as Israel and
America face many challenges after the 2020 elections, because a Biden
presidency is not to be trusted.
Laura Loomer is certainly a young politician who will shake
things up in Congress for the voters of Palm Beach County.
Barry Shaw is the International Diplomacy Director at the
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is an author, writer and speaker on
Israel and global strategic issues.
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