Pandering to Hamas sympathizers, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz spoke about a ceasefire, a two-state solution, and Islamists “speaking out for all the right reasons.”
Leftist concern about maintaining favor with the anti-Israel voting bloc beneath their radical and demographically divided party tent had already appeared to be a major factor in Vice President Kamala Harris choosing Walz as her running mate over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Thursday, their desire to bend over backward in appeasing the intifada-cheering rabble-rousers continued to play out as the vice presidential hopeful chided the Israeli counter-offensive to the Oct. 7 terror attack.
“Well, I think first and foremost, what we saw on Oct. 7 was a horrific act of violence against the people of Israel. They have certainly, and the vice president said it, I’ve said it, have the right to defend themselves, and the United States will always stand by that,” the governor first stated carefully when asked if a Harris-Walz administration would break from the Biden-Harris administration on the Middle Eastern conflict during an interview with Michigan’s WCMU.
“But we can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen,” he went on in a clip emphasized by former President Donald Trump’s campaign. “The Palestinian people have every right to life and liberty themselves. We need to continue, I think, to put the leverage on to make sure we move towards a two-state solution. I think we’re at a critical point right now.”
SICKENING: Tampon Tim Walz says pro-Hamas radicals “are speaking out for all the right reasons” and calls to “put the leverage” on Israel to ensure Hamas terrorists live to see another day. pic.twitter.com/WYDZiX84PL
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 6, 2024
Walz then proceeded to add pressure to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while lauding the terrorist sympathizers who’ve threatened to without their vote if their cries of “from the river to the sea” are not backed by the Democratic Party leaders.
“We need the Netanyahu government to start moving in that direction. But, I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons,” stated Walz.
The latest controversial remarks from the governor followed a recently resurfaced video from 2018 where he was caught praising Muslim cleric Imam Asad Zaman who’d previously promoted a video that claimed Adolf Hitler was framed for the Holocaust.
“I am a teacher. So when I see a master teacher, I know it. Over the time we’ve spent together…one of the things I’ve had the privilege of is seeing the things in life through the eye of a master teacher to try and get the understanding,” Walz had said of Zaman, adding, “I have pushed back through my whole career on the demonization of Islam, on the demonization of immigrants. In this space, Imam Zaman is right on this: there is Islamophobia, there is a hatred that is being stirred.”
Walz’s administration went on to award Zaman’s Muslim American Society (MAS) of Minnesota $100,000 in grants and he went on to meet with the imam on no fewer than five occasions from 2019-2023. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates had designated MAS a terrorist organization while federal prosecutors had called the group, “the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.”
Further reporting found that the Minnesota Department of Health under Walz’s leadership had awarded over $2 million in grants to the Islamic Association of North America, the same group that held a fundraiser for a group sanctioned by the U.S. government for funding al-Qaeda and believed to be involved in fundraising for Hamas — after the Oct. 7 attack.
While a spokesperson for the Harris campaign reacted to the video contending, “The Governor and [Imam] do not have a personal relationship,” and “Governor Walz strongly condemns Hamas terrorism,” Harris’ running mate’s actions spoke volumes on their own when he was taped walking away after he’d been asked for reaction to word that six Hamas hostages, including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, had been murdered by the terrorist group to subvert a rescue attempt.”
“All right,” said the governor as he departed, “Thanks, everybody.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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