Fairfax School Board Member Opposes Moment of Silence for Israel

from The Republican Standard

Fairfax County School Board Member Abrar Omeish put liberal intolerance on full display during a school board meeting Thursday night.

The Yale-educated Democrat broke into a minutes-long diatribe following a moment of silence held by her colleagues for the victims of Hamas terrorism and the innocent Israeli and Palestinian lives lost:

Thursday wasn’t the first time Omeish disrupted school board proceedings. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, she opposed a moment of silence for the victims, implying it was racist and neglected to acknowledge “state-sponsored traumas” inflicted by the U.S. government.

As The Daily Wire reported at the time:

Abrar Omeish is on the school board of Fairfax County Public Schools, near the Pentagon. She lives with her father Esam, who was a director of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, and hired as its imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who President Barack Obama later ordered killed by drone strike. The mosque was attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers as well as the shooter in the 2009 attack on Fort Hood, Texas. She said a school board resolution calling for a moment of silence marking the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 was not “anti-racist.” While 9/11 was “jarring” and a “historic turning point in our nation’s history,” she said, the resolution failed to address “state-sponsored traumas” to Muslims. “Just two years ago, even I was profiled as a threat, in one of the most traumatic experiences of my life,” she said. That refers to an incident in which she was pulled over by the police for running a red light, then removed from her car for repeatedly refusing to show her license. Video shows an obvious traffic infraction and that the officer could not see her appearance when he pulled her over.

Omeish also took heat for saying the Battle of Iwo Jima “unfortunately happened” – setting a record for “human evil.” Her remarks didn’t acknowledge the 7,000 Americans who died fighting there to stop Japanese militarism that had claimed tens of millions of lives.

This article originally appeared in American Liberty News. Republished with permission. 

Republished on Bacon’s Rebellion with permission from The Republican Standard. 


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12 responses to “Fairfax School Board Member Opposes Moment of Silence for Israel”

  1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
    Eric the half a troll

    So… where did she say that she opposed a moment of silence…?

    1. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      Yeah, I noticed that during the first wave of outrage Tweets. I guess the point is she didn’t actually provide any silence. 🙂

  2. Gordon McKinley Avatar
    Gordon McKinley

    When is this person up for re-election?

    1. Ms. Omeish is not running for reelection this year.

    2. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
      James Wyatt Whitehead

      Abrar is highly useful though. Not one member of the school board challenged her remarks or stopped her out of order comments.

  3. Iwo Jima?

    Make sure nobody tells her about Dresden. On the other hand, Dresden killed white people, and she is an intolerant racist, so she probably wouldn’t care.

  4. Stephen Haner Avatar
    Stephen Haner

    What was the poster back in the day? War is not healthy for children and other living things? I just finished a book about the 1944 Normandy campaign, with its related total destruction of so many beautiful and ancient Norman towns and thousands of French civilian deaths. And intentionally using human shields was not the direct Nazi tactic, unlike Hamas. As I watched the news coverage of Gaza, I wondered what CNN would have reported from Caen or St. Lo.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Wow, don’t have to go back to 1944. 2001 and 2003 are much more well covered in the literature.

      Remember the constant “Richard Butler was kicked out of Iraq” refrain from CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, ABC, WaPo and Examiner, and the Times and Post.

      It was the only time all media coverage willing told the same lie.

      1. Stephen Haner Avatar
        Stephen Haner

        Until we got to this summer, “the hottest in the history of the world.”

        1. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          Let me know when someone bombs a city over that one.

    2. Eric the half a troll Avatar
      Eric the half a troll

      “And intentionally using human shields was not the direct Nazi tactic, unlike Hamas…”

      This inspiration predates the Nazis…

      “In the British mandate of Palestine, Arab civilians and rebels who were captured by the British during the Great Arab Revolt were frequently taken and placed on “pony trucks”, “on which hostages could be made to sit”; these were placed at the front of trains to deter other rebels from detonating explosives on the railways.”

  5. The Hamas Network in America: A Short History
    Lorenzo Vidino October 2023

    Hamas supporters have long operated in the United States. Internal Hamas documents and FBI wiretaps introduced as evidence in various federal criminal cases clearly show the existence of a nationwide Hamas network engaged in fundraising, lobbying, education and propaganda dissemination dating back to the 1980s.

    The network formalized its existence in 1988, when it created the Palestine Committee in the US. The Committee’s goals included “increasing the financial and the moral support for Hamas,” “fighting surrendering solutions,” and publicizing “the savagery of the Jews.”

    https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/2023-10/the-hamas-network-in-america.pdf

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