The New York Post has published an unsparing editorial calling out Rep. Ro Khanna for the patently manufactured incident he conducted in order to defame Israel:
Rep. Ro Khanna’s latest showboating stunt is too much even for other Democratic electeds — not only a transparent ploy to get past his all-in bet on the Graham Platner campaign, but a transparently pathetic bid to play victim of those darn Israelis.
Just days after his scorched-earth defense of the Maine Senate candidate failed to stop the implosion, Khanna (D-Calif.) rushed off to the Middle East to change his storyline.
He headed to the West Bank, intentionally directing his entourage into a restricted zone, then pretended he’d been taken hostage by Israeli “settlers” run amok.
In reality, he was briefly stopped by local security; after the army checked out his story he was free to proceed on his inane “fact-finding” mission.
Khanna’s subsequent whining that it’s “unprecedented” and “illegal” for an “American citizen” to be stopped in a high-security area in another country is not only absurd, it’s the ultimate entitled “ugly American” behavior.
Notice that none of Khanna’s House colleagues have stepped up to defend him: Even other progressives are sick of this self-promoting phony.
Whole thing here. In the Post itself John Mac Ghlionn has more here. On X Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leither has more here on X.
Speaking to the press, Khanna mouthed the requisite shibolleths that turn the truth on its head: “If you’re unwilling to speak up for Palestinian human rights, if you’re unwilling to speak up against the genocide in Gaza, the apartheid in the West Bank, then you are morally compromised.” This repreents the current (degraded) state of the Democrat Party in a nutshell.
