A Columbia University public health instructor ranted to 400 incoming students about how the school’s prominent Jewish donors only made their gifts to “launder blood money” and denied the existence of the Jewish state, according to a stunning antisemitism report released by the Ivy League school.
This jarring example is just one among many cited in the recently released fourth and final report by the university’s task force on antisemitism, which outlined numerous heinous instances where rogue professors turned classrooms into their personal anti-Israel soapboxes.
“The shocking examples given in the report are a harsh reminder of how deep and pervasive antisemitism is at Columbia,” Columbia graduate and co-founder of the Jewish Alumni Association Ari Shrage told The Post.
“Few, if any, of the professors have been held accountable and the vast majority are teaching today. Tenure is not a free pass to violate student’s civil rights and real change will only come through accountability. Columbia clearly has a lot of work to do.”
Many of the antisemitic or anti-Israel incidents were previously revealed, but the new report offered more in-depth details of the the harassment against Columbia’s Jewish community.
None of the perpetrators were named in the report.
In the case of the public health profession, the Mailman School of Public Health did not renew his contract. He later told the Wall Street Journal that students who complained were “privileged, white students” ignorant of how they’ve been the beneficiaries of a “system of white supremacy.”
The task force report — publication of which followed Columbia receiving an “F” grade in StopAntisemitism’s 2025 report card — strongly condemned instances where an instructor had “singled out” Jewish or Israeli students for “scapegoating,” of which there were multiple instances highlighted.
One such example included an Israeli student who served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and was attending a class that included in-depth discussions of the current conflict with Hamas.
The student said when the IDF came up in class, it was cast as an “army of murderers,” and that the professor pointed their finger directly at her in front of the entire class and said “since she had a combat role in the IDF, she should be considered as one of the murderers,” the report stated.
These occasions, though rare, according to school officials, illustrate the importance of new policies and procedures that have emerged in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack in Israel.
“Our faculty handbook is very clear that you need to stick to your subject matter, and these examples illustrate why that makes sense,” David Schizer, Dean Emeritus of Columbia Law, and co-chair of the university’s task force on antisemitism told The Post.
“So I don’t think this was a general phenomenon happening in every classroom, but it did happen too often,” he conceded.
Some of the instances highlighted by the report showed an abject lack of respect for students’ private communications with teachers.
One student who emailed a professor to voice their objection to how the Middle East conflict was being presented endured the humiliation of the teacher reading the personal email out loud, giving a line-by-line refutation in front of the entire class.
“Academics are given a lot of discretion in the way they run their classes, and generally that’s appropriate, but it’s important to remind faculty members that academic freedom is not a license to harass or to discriminate,” Schizer said.
“It doesn’t mean that you can do whatever you want.”
Many Jewish and Israeli students the task force spoke to in compiling its report recounted times when teachers voiced harsh anti-Israel viewpoints in classes that had nothing to do with the topic.
People protest outside Columbia University on October 7, 2025. Getty Images
According to the report, students got an earful of Israel condemnation in a photography class, an architecture class, a class on nonprofit management, a class on film, a music humanities class and a Spanish class.
Sometimes professors shoehorned their opinions on Israel and its war with Hamas into class curricula in absurd ways.
One student said during a vocabulary lesson in an introductory Arabic class, the professor gave as an example sentence, “The Zionist lobby is the most supportive of Joe Biden.”
Professors at times peddled outright fabrications in service of their anti-Israel agenda when talking about atrocities committed by Hamas during the war.
In a class on advocacy, a teacher made the vile proclamation that “accounts of sexual violence by Hamas were exaggerated or fabricated,” the report’s authors noting that in fact, such violence has been well-documented and repeatedly confirmed by news reports and the United Nations.
Straying from the truth was common in classes about the Middle East, where “harsh condemnation of Israel is common,” the report said.
One student said an instructor told the class that Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, was an antisemite, and that Jews of Eastern European origin are “not really Jewish.”
A student who was in the class, Barnard sophomore Shoshana Auszien, told The Post that she was “incredulous” when she heard the professor’s ill-informed take.
“How are you supposed to respond to that? It’s completely asinine,” she said, adding that the university’s Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies program is “overrun with historical revisionists.”
During last spring’s encampment protests, which saw Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus transformed into a tent city for weeks until administrators finally cracked down, some teachers encouraged students to participate.
Protesters gather outside an Anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University on April 29, 2024. James Keivom
This entailed canceling class sessions “in the hope their students would join the protest” or moving classes off-campus so they could be used as “political organizing sessions.”
Incredibly, some even held classes or offices hours in the encampment itself, “where in several cases it was indicated Zionists were not welcome,” the task force notes.
Columbia has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs over accusations it allowed campus antisemitism to fester rather than meaningfully tackling the issue.
Christianity -- Maronite, Orthodox, Catholic, as well as other denominations -- was the dominant religion in the entire Levant before the Islamic military invasions and conquests in the seventh century. Constantinople (renamed Istanbul in 1930) was the capital of the great Christian Byzantine Empire.
After defeating the Byzantine Empire in 636... the Islamic Arab Caliphate conquered Lebanon.... Today, Lebanon, like formerly Christian Turkey and Egypt, is majority-Muslim.
Shia Muslims in southern Lebanon have been moving to Christian areas, increasingly displacing the Christians there. Increasingly, Shia Hezbollah families, with financial backing from Iran, have been purchasing properties in Christian areas, threatening Christians with weapons, and gaining wider control while many Christians flee the country.
"Christians also have lower birth rates than Muslims. Muslims can marry more than one wife and create many more children than in monogamous marriages." — Habib C. Malik, Lebanese retired associate professor of history and cultural studies at the Lebanese American University, to Gatestone, November 2025.
"The new Lebanese government and President have pledged to 'disarm' Hezbollah and concentrate all weapons in the hands of the state-run Lebanese armed forces, but so far very little of this has actually happened; the pro-Iran group has been openly defiant in handing over its arms." — Habib C. Malik, to Gatestone, November 2025.
"Hezbollah remains an armed force capable of paralyzing the Lebanese state and defying its policy of concentrating all weapons in the hands of the Lebanese authorities. Hezbollah, which still has several MPs in the Lebanese parliament and at least two ministers in the Lebanese cabinet, act as a state-within-a-state inside Lebanon and are the main obstacle thus far preventing a Lebanese-Israeli peace treaty from materializing." — Habib C. Malik, to Gatestone, November 2025.
"Whatever the preferred political outcome, it would help if the West could shepherd any such process to protect the Christians and their freedom." — Habib C. Malik, to Gatestone, November 2025.
Today, Lebanon, like formerly Christian Turkey and Egypt, is majority-Muslim. The once-thriving Christian community has plummeted to roughly one-third of the population. Increasingly, Shia Hezbollah families, with financial backing from Iran, have been purchasing properties in Christian areas, threatening Christians with weapons, and gaining wider control while many Christians flee the country. Pictured: A view of St. Paul Cathedral on August 11, 2024 in Beirut. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Although Lebanon is in the news today largely due to the actions of the terror group Hezbollah and the economic hardships in the country, Lebanon in the mid-20th century was one of the wealthiest, most prosperous and stable countries in the Middle East. It was also, until a few decades ago, the only majority-Christian country in the Middle East. Thanks to its being a center of commerce and a thriving mixture of Muslims, Christians and Jews, Lebanon was known as the "Switzerland of the Middle East" and its capital, Beirut, as the "Paris of the Middle East."
Lebanon, historically, was a Christian-majority land. The religion was introduced to the area in the first century by St. Peter and St. Paul, and the faith spread early throughout the region.
Lebanon ceased to be majority-Christian during the years of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war. Since then, the Christian share of the population has steadily declined to a rough third of the population for each of the three largest religious groupings -- Sunni Muslim, Shia Muslim, and Christian.
Christianity -- Maronite, Orthodox, Catholic, as well as other denominations -- was the dominant religion in the entire Levant before the Islamic military invasions and conquests in the seventh century. Constantinople (renamed Istanbul in 1930) was the capital of the great Christian Byzantine Empire.
After defeating the Byzantine Empire in 636 in the six-day Battle of Yarmouk, the Islamic Arab Caliphate conquered Lebanon. Later, as part of the vast Islamic Ottoman Empire, Lebanon was occupied by the Ottoman Turks from 1516 to 1918.
The League of Nations granted France a mandate to govern Lebanon from 1920 to 1943, and the country officially gained independence on November 22, 1943, during World War II.
Today, Lebanon, like formerly Christian Turkey and Egypt, is majority-Muslim. The once-thriving Christian community has plummeted to roughly one-third of the population. The largest Christian community in the country, the Maronites, while maintaining affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church for centuries, has its own patriarch, liturgy and ecclesiastical traditions. Originally Aramaic/Syriac-speakers, today Maronites speak Arabic, and use Syriac as their liturgical language.
The 15-year civil war, the crushing influence of the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, an influx of Palestinian and Syrian refugees, large-scale emigration, and massive corruption, among other causes, has turned Lebanon into one of the poorest and least stable countries in the Middle East.
In September 2024, Israel's offensive weakened Hezbollah, causing it heavy losses and forcing its retreat from key areas, thereby significantly diminishing the terrorist group's military and political power.
Hezbollah, however, is currently rearming and rebuilding its battered ranks, defying the terms of the ceasefire agreement and raising the prospect of renewed conflict with Israel.
Due to the political and economic crises in the country, Christians continue leaving Lebanon, reducing their population and influence. According to the human rights organization Open Doors, pressures on Christians have been growing. Increasingly, Shia Hezbollah families, with financial backing from Iran, have been purchasing properties in Christian areas, threatening Christians with weapons, and gaining wider control while many Christians flee the country.
Habib C. Malik, a Lebanese retired associate professor of history and cultural studies at the Lebanese American University, told Gatestone:
"Lebanon's Christians were a majority demographically for most of the 20th century until the 1975 war. The 1975-1990 war in Lebanon took a toll on Christian numbers both physically. Thousands died and thousands more emigrated out of the war-shattered country. Many never returned.
"Christians also have lower birth rates than Muslims. Muslims can marry more than one wife and create many more children than in monogamous marriages. Christians generally have valued education for their children, but as the costs of education began to rise steeply, large families became a thing of the past, particularly in the urban areas of the country.
"In 1948, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, who were mostly Muslims, added to Muslim numbers, although it is important to keep in mind that these refugees are not Lebanese citizens and don't have the right to vote. Lebanon's Shiites have been an integral community in Lebanon for centuries; the increase in their numbers has mostly been due to polygamy and higher birth rates and not to Shiite immigration from elsewhere.
"Once there is some degree of peace and stability in and around Lebanon, many Christians will return with their families from abroad and Christian numbers will pick up."
"Both these populations have remained for the most part unnaturalized as Lebanese citizens. In the case of the Palestinians, they caused instability from the armed PLO when they relocated from Jordan to Lebanon in 1970. Their entry was a direct cause of the outbreak of the 1975-1990 war in Lebanon. Syrian refugees have augmented, indeed doubled, the million or so Syrian migrant workers already in Lebanon. Despite international relief efforts to both these refugee populations, the Palestinians and the Syrians, they have strained to the limit the meager resources of Lebanon and caused prices of basic goods and services for ordinary Lebanese to rise. Being mainly Sunni Muslims, and despite not being naturalized as Lebanese citizens, they have also introduced an element of sectarian imbalance into the already precariously calibrated demographics among the various Lebanese sects. This is regarded as ominous by the other sects such as the Christians, the Druze, and the Shiites. Lebanon's authorities on several occasions have appealed to the United Nations and other international humanitarian agencies to help in repatriating the Syrian refugees to Syria where the civil war has all but ended since the collapse of the Assad regime. However, there has been little real response by the UN and these relief agencies."
Malik spoke of the relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Hezbollah:
"Since its founding, Hezbollah has always been a military arm of Iran's IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Core), and it sees itself as an integral part of the ideology of the Iranian regime's Wilayat al-Faqih -- "guardianship of the Islamic jurist, meaning that an Islamic jurist should lead the community in the absence of the infallible Imam -- first under Khomeini and now under Khamenei. From day one they began to acquire weapons and to train under the self-proclaimed heading of "Resistance to the Zionist Enemy". With time they emerged as the strongest force on the ground inside Lebanon rivaling, and indeed in many areas exceeding, the power of the official Lebanese armed forces. Hezbollah along with the Amal movement of Shiites under the leadership of aging Speaker of the House Nabih Berri formed a Shiite duo that became the main political and paramilitary face of the Shiite community in Lebanon. After the July 2006 War between Hezbollah and Israel, the Lebanese Iranian proxy, which received a major battering at the time, declared "victory" and proceeded to rearm, retrain, and rebuild its paramilitary infrastructure across Lebanon with direct input from Iran's IRGC—a move that has included acquiring long-range precision-guided missiles and drones, anti-tank munitions, and other weapons.
"On October 8, 2023, Hezbollah single-handedly dragged Lebanon into the bloody war between Hamas and Israel without consulting anyone inside Lebanon and against the wishes of the majority of Lebanese from all sects. The result has been a renewed battering of Hezbollah, with widespread decimation of its military assets plus the wholesale destruction of Shiite villages along the border with Israel in the south. Hezbollah's biggest loss came with the "Pager Operation" on September17, 2024 engineered by Israel's Mossad. Ten days later, top Hezbollah leaders including Hassan Nasrallah and his designated successor were taken out by the IDF along with much of the group's elite fighting force, the "Radwan" brigade. Since the "end" of that round of fighting on November 27, 2024, Hezbollah has been attempting to rebuild itself militarily and financially while Israel has been going after it with targeted assassinations and airstrikes. The new Lebanese government and President have pledged to "disarm" Hezbollah and concentrate all weapons in the hands of the state-run Lebanese armed forces, but so far very little of this has actually happened; the pro-Iran group has been openly defiant in handing over its arms. Despite the military setbacks Hezbollah has endured since October 8. 2023, Hezbollah remains an armed force capable of paralyzing the Lebanese state and defying its policy of concentrating all weapons in the hands of the Lebanese authorities. Hezbollah, which still has several MPs in the Lebanese parliament and at least two ministers in the Lebanese cabinet, act as a state-within-a-state inside Lebanon and are the main obstacle thus far preventing a Lebanese-Israeli peace treaty from materializing."
Malik noted that Christians in Lebanon are against Hezbollah and Iran controlling their country:
"Except for the remnants of former Lebanese President Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, a receding political grouping in the Christian community with dwindling popular support, virtually all other Christians in Lebanon are vehemently opposed to Hezbollah and to Iran's influence in their country. This opposition is spearheaded by the largest and strongest Christian political party in the country, the Lebanese Forces (LF) led by Samir Geagea. The vast majority of Christians support the government's policy of confiscating Hezbollah's weapons and monopolizing all arms in the hands of the Lebanese state. This same majority wishes to see Lebanon move towards specific long-term security arrangements with Israel paving the way towards an official and historic peace treaty between the two states. In addition to the Christians, this is supported by huge swaths of Sunnis and Druze and even some intrepid and independent-minded Shiites, and it is in direct and open opposition to Iran's regional stance and the wishes of its main proxy, Hezbollah. The continued impotence of the Lebanese government in acting upon its pledge to confiscate Hezbollah's weapons has hampered any tangible moves towards the rehabilitation of Lebanon as an independent and once-again prosperous state. We hope that Isreal, the United States, and the international community are losing patience with this endemic condition of official Lebanese paralysis."
Malik also pointed to the need for establishing a federal political system in Lebanon:
"The opportunity for creating a Maronite state in mount Lebanon came and was missed back in 1920 when Greater Lebanon was fashioned. Since then, the uneasy and precarious coexistence of disparate communities within a sectarian pluralist Lebanon has been exposed to repeated external interventions on behalf of this or that sect or religious community at the expense of all the others. There have been repeated calls, including among Christians, for applying a federal formula to Lebanon to accommodate its religious and sectarian diversity. The federalism of heterogeneous religious communities could be a workable solution for a divided and composite society like that of Lebanon. Such a federal configuration need not involve any population transfers or geographic tampering—it would be constitutional federalism whereby each community would have proportional representation within one legislative chamber made up of two tiers as well as layers of local and regional protections for each community and its citizens (something along the lines of an Ombudsman or Oblast). Such a system would liberate the respective communities from the vicissitudes of demographic fluctuations, namely from the tyranny of sheer numbers, and would provide, in addition to the existing laws of the land applied to all, specific local protections to members of minority communities embedded within larger minority communities. The details of a constitutional federal arrangement for Lebanon have been worked out by legal and other experts; they only require a national decision to move them to actual implementation.
"Given the tensions that have emerged recently among Lebanese communities after Hezbollah's October 8, 2023 unilaterally launched war against Israel, many within the Christian as well as Sunni and Druze communities have become more vocal in their calls for a federal solution for Lebanon. Some have even surpassed federalism and desire open secession from a unitary state in favor of autonomous and homogeneous sectarian enclaves—recall that it was Hezbollah's creation of their own statelet and army ideologically beholden to an alien foreign power, Iran, that provoked the others to embrace the alternative of splitting apart completely. Increasing numbers of Christians and their political parties are entertaining both the federal option and this idea of separation leading to a recognized Christian/Maronite entity. Even Sunnis in Lebanon have had enough of feeling constantly threatened by Hezbollah and its Shiite community; these Sunnis for the first time have been seriously contemplating a divorce from coexistence with the Shiites and are even considering the federal alternative or outright secession. The West can surely be more mindful of the plight of beleaguered native Christians in Lebanon, given that Lebanon's Christians are the only remaining free and indigenous Christian community in the entire Near and Middle East. They did not succumb to dhimmitude, or second-class dehumanization and servitude under Islamic rule. Mount Lebanon, particularly the region from East Beirut northwards to encompass the Koura plain, and eastwards to include the Bekaa city of Zahle, continues to exhibit a pretty solid Christian demography. Whether it will achieve a degree of autonomy through a federal formula applied to all of Lebanon, or split from the rest of the unified state to form its own recognized entity, remains to be seen. Whatever the preferred political outcome, it would help if the West could shepherd any such process to protect the Christians and their freedom."
Uzay Bulut, a Turkish journalist, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.
The Democrats have decided that “affordability” is the issue that will win the next election cycle. Are they daft? The most unaffordable states and cities in the country are Democrat strongholds.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Democrat from New York, one of the least affordable states in the country, has told party leaders they need “to adopt a laser focus on the affordability crisis,” says Axios.
Politico noted that the “Democrats are gearing up to hammer the GOP on the issue,” then quickly jumped in to help, declaring that the “Republicans have an affordability problem.”
Will the Democrat strategy work? Not if voters get the facts, which we will helpfully provide.
According to U.S. News & World Report, the most unaffordable state is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California. It is a deep blue, having been under the boot of Democrats for more than a quarter century, which, yes, includes eight years of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who ran as a Republican but governed more like the Democrats, as he was unable to break their now three-decade grip in Sacramento.
U.S. News & World Report’s six most unaffordable states are Democratic states. The only Republican state among the 15 least affordable is Florida, the seventh least affordable. At the other end, the 12 most affordable states are Republican. Only two among the top 20 are Democrat.
America’s most unaffordable cities are also Democratic bastions. San Jose, says the Visual Capitalist, is the least affordable city in the nation, followed by New York, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles – we could go on, but let’s shorthand it and point out that we have to get to the ninth city on the list, Miami, to find one that isn’t Democratic (though voters just elected a Democrat to be mayor for the first time in nearly three decades). The next non-Democratic city is Dallas, at No. 20.
“Nine of the 10 most expensive are big cities in blue states,” the Committee to Unleash Poverty said last month. In 2023, Fox Business reported that “Democrat-run blue cities, including some of the country’s most liberal areas such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, are the least affordable for homebuyers.”
From their ancient habit of adding regulation onto regulation to their affinity for taxing everything that moves to their inflationary fiscal policies and deep affection for subsidies for their favored causes and grifters, Democrats make life unaffordable for those who aren’t connected to them. Naturally, they want to twist the truth, because the facts clearly show they are the offenders.
Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
“Somali Immigrants Are Revitalizing Main Street America,” NBC News claimed. A barrage of similar stories hailed Somalis and other Muslim migrants for ‘transforming’ Middle America.
After President Trump’s criticism of Somali abuse, triggered by reporting of massive $1B plus frauds conducted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center and other conservative media outlets, the media has rushed out more of these same stories about Somali accomplishments.
But let’s look at some of the facts.
Somalis are the second largest foreign-born population in Minnesota after Mexicans. 42% of Somalis fall below the poverty line. This is far worse than the 21% poverty rate for African-Americans or any Christian African immigrant population such as Ethiopians (18%) or Nigerians (8%). 45% of Nigerians own homes, so do 27% of African-Americans, but only 12% of Somali settlers in America do. Somali ‘exceptionalism’ is not racial or immigrant: it’s cultural.
40.6% of Somalis settlers in Minnesota don’t even have a high school degree. 40% of Somalis have an income at the 200% federal poverty line. 40% of Somali settlers in Minnesota earn below $35,000. Their median household income is $43,600.
This limits any taxes they are likely to pay and allows them nearly limitless access to welfare.
Recent media stories claim that Somalis “pay about $67 million in state and local taxes.” Considering that there are an estimated 100,000 Somalis, that comes out to around $670 per Somali. That $670 not only falls far short of the average tax burden of over $8,000 in the state, but it only pays for about two weeks of public school for one of their children, a few months of their food stamps or two of their medical visits. Never mind the cost of a single court date.
While Somalis for now form only a small part of the adult population in the state, their offspring represent a sizable part of the underage population with over 42,000 Somali offspring to over 68,000 black children. At this rate, Somalis will outnumber African-Americans in Minnesota.
1 in 5 children in the state are already foreign-born.
Minneapolis spends around $18,500 per pupil. The cost of educating the Somali offspring alone amounts to three quarters of a billion per year. The $67 million that Somalis allegedly pay in taxes doesn’t even cover 10% of the cost of educating their kids. Never mind everything else.
Had Somalis remained just another underemployed high-welfare population, they would have been mostly overlooked, but members of the community took existing welfare abuses to a whole new level with a massive series of ‘super-frauds’ beginning with a $250M meal fraud in which Somali facilities claimed to be feeding over 100,000 kids (more than twice as many kids as they had) that escalated to a $120,000 cash bribe and efforts by those responsible to flee America.
Then there was the signature billion dollar autism fraud. 1 in 16 Somali four-year-oldswere supposedly suffering from autism leading to a mass demand for “culturally sensitive” services. The services were fraudulent and parents were paid to sign up their children by the providers.
Somali food aid demands shot up from $3.4M in 2019, to $42 million, to $197 million in 2021. Autism claims followed a similar pattern, going from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million in 2021, $279 million in 2022, $399 million in 2023, and nearing $400 million most of the way through 2024 for a total of over $1.4 billion.
These two giant frauds were supplemented by $100 million plus housing anddaycare frauds that take the toll for Somali welfare to somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion.
Divide that up by the Somali population and you get a $15,000 per person fraud burden. Deduct the reported $67 million in taxes and you get $1.43 billion and a $14,300 per person burden.
Those are just the basic numbers. They do not take into account the wave of Somali crime, including the rapes recently reported on by the Freedom Center or the ICE arrests of illegal alien criminals in Minneapolis including a Somali pedophile and Abdulkadir Sharif Abdi, a Somali illegal alien and a former member of the Gangster Disciples and a Vice Lord.
We are often told that Somali immigrants are in Minnesota to “do the jobs that Americans won’t do.” Are we really suffering from a shortage of gang members?
Does Minnesota have a dire shortage of people without high school diplomas earning 200% of the federal poverty line and sitting on every welfare program imaginable even if they have to make them up?
In the last fiscal year, Minnesota was supposed to have a $17 billion surplus. Now that surplus has turned into a $6 billion hole. The surplus was used to approve a gargantuan $72 billion budget with tons of welfare spending that was supposed to fix the state’s problems.
Welfare spending grew by 42% in 20 years. Health and Human Services spending, the political piggybank that was raided by the Somali fraud machines, went from a quarter of the budget to approaching a third of the budget. Per person welfare spending rose to around $35,000 per person. The Somalis frauds benefited massively from this unlimited spending spree.
But these numbers also show how Somalis benefited Minnesota. They certainly didn’t benefit its economy or build its future, but they provided the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party with the political and human capital to staff up and fund their welfare state machine.
Somalis not only voted DFL, but they justified the massive social welfare spending that the DFL wanted to build up the political infrastructure, provide the consulting contracts and employ the staffers who traditionally form the Democratic Party’s political and operational base.
And $1.5 billion is cheap at the price when you consider that in New York City, $850 million in mental health funding just ‘disappeared’ and in Los Angeles, $2.4 billion in homeless spending couldn’t be tracked. Somali welfare fraud isn’t American, but it’s certainly Democratic.
Somalis didn’t build Minnesota, but they built the Minnesota Democratic machine.
Microsoft’s deep entanglement with China, exposed in a new report, shows how the tech giant’s pursuit of profit is undermining U.S. security and handing leverage to a hostile regime.
One of America’s major national security threats is the cozy relationship between many American corporations and the Chinese government. Microsoft is one of the worst offenders in this regard, as proven by a new report released last week. It adds to the growing evidence that the tech giant is far too close with America’s chief geopolitical foe to be trusted with handling critical infrastructure.
The report, compiled by Nathan Picarsic of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Horizon Advisory, reveals a disturbing picture about the tech giant. “Over three decades, the company has built a vast commercial, research, and engineering presence in China, one that now intersects directly with the PRC’s intelligence, surveillance, and military-industrial ecosystem,” the study notes.
American Greatness has previously covered Microsoft’s suspicious ties to the Chinese Communist Party. In August, the Department of War severed ties with a Microsoft cloud service program that relied on Chinese engineers. “The use of Chinese nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments? It’s over,” Secretary of War Pete Hegesth said at the time. The new report references this tawdry connection, as well as several other “risky engagements.”
The report states:
Microsoft’s over three decades of operations in China have created dependencies that risk intertwining US government systems with China’s state-backed technology ecosystem. Microsoft’s pursuit of market access in China has coincided with repeated security breaches and sensitive technology spillover. A web of opaque partnerships in the Chinese market has seemingly normalized this set of risks and magnified the persistent conflict between managing short-term commercial interests in the Chinese market with long-term US national security interests.
According to the report, Microsoft has shared information from Windows and Office code with an entity allegedly overseen by China’s foreign intelligence service. This access would give Chinese spies unprecedented ability to exploit a service that many American government agencies rely on, providing a valuable asset to the CCP. With this power, Chinese intelligence can figure out new ways to hack into and monitor critical American infrastructure.
Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure is seriously compromised by Chinese assets, as Horizon Analysis finds. Along with its cloud service that the Department of War previously relied on, the tech giant’s Azure China cloud offers CCP officials the ability to see into Microsoft’s entire cloud infrastructure. This access would threaten many government agencies and contractors who rely on the tech company’s services. This connection has already come at a high cost. The Azure framework is believed to have played a role in the notorious “Storm-0558” hack, which stands as one of the worst data breaches in American history.
Its partnerships in China, which Microsoft loves to tout, provide even more opportunities for Chinese agents to subvert our national security. Microsoft Research Asia collaborates with universities linked to the Chinese military and its AI development efforts. Microsoft’s operations in the country have been tied to Chinese entities implicated in the communist country’s severe human rights abuses. Microsoft’s joint venture with a firm overseen by Chinese intelligence provided Windows technology to a core part of the CCP’s military goliath.
The list goes on and on.
The report is another example of how too many American companies put their own interest ahead of the national interest. Microsoft doesn’t care if its technology and services are used to build up the Chinese military and help Chinese intelligence gain access to sensitive information. A price needs to be paid for these irresponsible practices.
Thankfully, the Trump administration, as seen by the War Department’s decision to end use of a Microsoft program, shows the willingness to do what’s necessary to protect the national interest against the dangers of corporate greed. It’s time for other government agencies to follow suit.ByPaul Bradford
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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