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“California is a better place because of you—our Muslim, Palestinian American, and Arab American neighbors and friends who contribute so much to our state’s sense of faith and belonging,” reads the March 21 letter from Gov. Gavin Newsom to “California’s Muslim, Palestinian American, and Arab American communities.” Excerpts from the 1326-word letter include:
Hateful acts targeting those who are or are perceived to be Muslim or Arab American are becoming more common. In California, reported anti-Muslim bias events rose 44.4% from 2021 to 2022. Reports also indicate a spike in reported anti-Muslim and anti-Arab incidents following the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel—the largest documented surge of its kind since late 2015 and early 2016, amidst calls for a Muslim ban. And now, many Muslim and Arab American communities report a level of fear comparable to the months following 9/11.
The Muslim and Arab American leaders I’ve sat with stressed that these numbers reveal only a fraction of the problem. They’re right. Out of fear and historically rooted distrust, we know that hate crimes and hateful incidents too often go unreported by many Muslim Californians, Arab Americans, Palestinian Americans, and other groups who have endured suspicion and alienation in this country. We in government must earn back your trust.
So let me be clear—I condemn the ongoing and horrific loss of innocent civilian life in Gaza. I support President Biden’s call for an immediate ceasefire as part of a deal to secure desperately needed relief for Gazan civilians and the release of hostages. I also unequivocally denounce Hamas’s terrorist attack against Israel. It is time to work in earnest toward an enduring peace that will furnish the lasting security, autonomy, and freedom that the Palestinians and the Israeli people both deserve.
While we continue to call for peace and freedom in the Middle East, here in California, my administration remains focused on building a California for All. As part of that effort, we are fighting back against Islamophobia and Anti-Arab hate—working to keep communities safe while uplifting Muslim and Arab American heritage and culture.
And so on, welcomed by the California chapter of CAIR, which
has advocated with state and federal elected officials to call for a cease-fire since the beginning of Israel’s violent military offense five months ago, including with Governor Newsom’s office. We are invigorated to see the Governor ultimately decide to take action and commend him for his commitment to peace and justice amid the heartbreaking violence that has tragically resulted in the death of over 30,000 Palestinians.
One day before Newsom’s letter, in California’s capital city, the Sacramento City Council passed Resolution 240, which:
Calls for an immediate and permanent bilateral ceasefire to urgently end the current violence; a true and effective bilateral ceasefire must include four key simultaneous elements. (1) Hamas must cease all military operations directed against Israel, (2) the immediate unconditional release of all Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, (3) Israel must stop the bombing and military action inside the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and (4) the elimination of all offensive weapons by Israel and Hamas directed at one another.
Recognizes this conflict will not be resolved militarily; rather, it will be resolved diplomatically when wise, courageous and visionary leaders on both sides replace the current leaders in charge today. This resolution calls for new leadership on both sides. There is no chance for real peace and a long-term bilateral ceasefire so long as the current leadership exists on both sides.
Calls upon the Biden administration to promptly send and facilitate the entry of unrestricted humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip. Calls for the immediate unconditional release of all Palestinians held without charge or trial in Israeli prisons.
The measure is the project of Sacramento mayor Darrell Steinberg, a former state senate boss known for boondoggle health projects. According to local CAIR executive director Basim Elkarra, “calling for a cease-fire and acknowledging each other’s perspectives is a significant step for our communities.” The resolution “recognizes that the situation on the ground doesn’t just impact Palestinians and Israelis, but also affects us Arabs, Muslims, Christians and Jews here in Sacramento.” Over at UC Berkeley, Jews are the targets of choice.
Israeli spokesman Ran Bar-Yoshafat was slated to speak there on February 26 but hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the venue, smashed windows and physically attacked students who came to hear the speaker. The event was canceled because campus police could not guarantee students’ safety.
UC Berkeley now joins Harvard, Penn, MIT and Columbia, all attracting congressional attention for tolerance of anti-Semitism. Gov. Newsom’ website shows no letter addressing that reality, or the events of February 26 at Berkeley, which Gavin Newsom did not attend.
Newsom claims he went to Santa Clara University on a “partial baseball scholarship.” The carefully coiffed governor, with connections to the Brown, Pelosi and Getty families, now faces a budget deficit of $73 billion.
Darrell Steinberg is a graduate of UCLA and earned his law degree at UC Davis. Even so, his resolution had nothing to say about the events of February 26 at Berkeley. California’s capital now faces a budget deficit of $66 million and the homeless problem is worse than ever. California, the nation and the Middle East are not better places because of Darrell Steinberg and Gavin Newsom.
Newscum is the type of idiot Democrat who naturally falls over himself to embrace the B.S. that the usual Muslim suspects spout about the religion of “peace”. I wonder what they promised him?
With Democrats like Newscum and the rest of the pro Muslim and pro communists idiots currently running the federal government it won’t be long before we are in full scale shooting war with them.
Is it any wonder that Republicans and conservatives are abandoning the Kali Sh*thole in droves?
Short of calling for his own death there is nothing that Newsom will not say to advance his political chances.
Exactly. The man’s a vote whore. California resident here…
Anti Islamic violence is mostly faked (how many times have Muslim women falsely claimed that “some white boys” pulled at or cut their hijabs?). In contrast, antisemitic violence has surged in California and much of it is perpetrated by academic imstitutions (school districts as well as universities) controlled by the state. And Governor Gerlhead is too sympathetic (or too chickenshit) to even chastise the perpetrators. They’re his woke base, after all.
I guess I missed the part where Newscum demanded the RETURN of the HOSTAGES and DAMAGES PAID by the GAZANS to rebuild the Israeli HOMES they destroyed in their INVASION!
What an absolute disaster it would be for that scum to ever prop his feet up on the Resolute Desk!
The lives of the Israelis murdered can never be rebuilt.
I find it reprehensible that the US government, the President or various governors , mainstreams Jew-hatred and the murder of the Israeli Jews;
that they blatantly lies about the Gazan casualties, using the numbers provided by the Hamas propaganda people; that they continue to blabber about zthe ‘ceasefire’ as if there was no ceasefire in place when Hamas and the Gazans chose to invade Israel and torture and slaughter over 1200 Jews in a horrific way and take over 240 (we still don’t really know how many were taken) hostages, including a pregnant woman, small children and a baby; that they put the release of the terrorists on the same plane as the release of the Israeli civilians.
It is becoming quite obvious that to the majority of the world, including our country, Jewish lives do not matter at all, just like the Jewish lives didn’t matter during the Holocaust. That revelation has become quite an eye opener to me, but apparently not to Mr. Steinberg.
And once again, except for the Christian Zionists, all the other Christian denominations support the dark side, especially the Pope. Quite depressing really. Happy Easter.
T
Looking back, it was always amazing that the actual number anti-Muslim incidents in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 were so few. And if there had been a large number, you just KNOW that the regime media would have been running front page headlines every day. And they did not.
Exactly. Same thing for now. We hear about the “rising number” of attacks on muslims and how islamophobia is increasing but where are the “news” reports? All I ever see is the muslims and muslim sympathizers out in the street intimidating and accosting Jews.
Governor Nuisance has lost his Marbles if he thinks Islam id a Peaceful Religion Might i suggest Nuisance get his head examined his screws are loose
You’re assuming he had any marbles to lose in the first place. With his lack of principles, who needs marbles? He was mayor of San Francisco, lieutenant governor of California and finally governor, and look at how that worked out! SF is a hole with declining property values and California has lost business and population for the first time in its history. And he did all this while boinking his best freind’s spouse after his wife kicked him out. Nice going there, Gav! But the hair gel looks good…
Pity Kimberly Guifoyle, the former Mrs. Newsom who now wants to be Mrs. Donald Trump Jr. didn’t have the brains or the guts to cut off Newsom’s “:Johnson” . If anyone needs and deserves a Lorena Bobbitt moment it is that fruit fly.
Kimberly walked into Newsom’s office and caught him having sex with one of their best friends – too bad we don’t have a video of that – the look on Newsom’s face would have been priceless.
The FRAUDULENT and HYPOCRITICAL “governor” of California is incapable of not tripping continually over his own words. That simply says he says one thing and then a seconds later says the EXACT opposite. The example:
“I condemn the ongoing and horrific loss of innocent civilian life in Gaza. I support President Biden’s call for an immediate ceasefire as part of a deal to secure desperately needed relief for Gazan civilians and the release of hostages.” He concludes with While we continue to call for peace and freedom in the Middle East, here in California, my administration remains focused on building a California for All. As part of that effort, we are fighting back against Islamophobia and Anti-Arab hate—working to keep communities safe while uplifting Muslim and Arab American heritage and culture.”
This Pretender has no Moral Compass, thereby, saying whatever is necessary regardless of the Consequences of his behavior, words and actions.
mr newsome is a SLAVE to THE IDEOLOGY which allows him to LIE LIE LIE, and then in his Habitual LYING to tell half-Truths, deceive, Misinform and just make stuff up.
In his defense of the indefensible, he does NIOT mention what was done to the Israelis on October 7th. Further, his total IGNORANCE if not STUPIDITY of History the Middle East where if the Israelis laid down their weapons and defense of their Sovereignty the slogan of from the River to the Sea would be a REALITY. On the other hand, if the Terrorists put down their weapons the outcome would end up beneficial for all parties.
#46 and his Gaggle known as the democrat party are Anti-Israel and by extension anti-Jew. It seems that the obama and #46 administrations are attempting to recreate Germany in the 1930 by using the Middle East
as its major weapon.
Finally one MUST ask a very simply and direct question: WHO? do the democrat party/GAGGLE truly represent, and WHAT is their end Goal?
All of this tells me there are now a lot more Muslims than Jews in the country.
Hamas: “Newsom is our favorite infidel!”
Gavin Newsom keeps referring to “Palestinian Americans”AND “Arab Americans.” He doesn’t know that the now-so-called “Palestinians”ARE Arabs?