His name is Ro Khanna, and he’s a Democratic congressman representing California’s 17th district in Silicon Valley. Khanna will likely run for president as a long shot for the party nomination, and as a result, he’s attempting to reach as many voters as possible.
It isn’t just Piker.
Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks have gained influence across Canadian government, universities, charities and political organizations, according to a new report warning that Islamist groups are exploiting democratic institutions to expand their reach.
The 195-page report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, or ISGAP, examines what it calls “Islamist entryism,” a strategy of gaining influence within established institutions.
Two years ago, Zainab Bibi Ahmed thought she had turned her back on the Democrats for good. Now, she is volunteering for the party’s US Senate nominee in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.
Ahmed was one of 100,000 people to vote uncommitted in the February 2024 Democratic Michigan primary, in a bid to send a message to then US president Joe Biden about his support for Israel, as people watched what Amnesty International later called a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza on their screens.
That November, Ahmed – a resident of Troy, Michigan, and an academic staffer at Wayne State University – opted to vote for the Green party’s Jill Stein amid calls to punish Democrats over the administration’s support for Israel.
Fifty members of the Democratic Socialists of America flew from New York to Michigan before the primaries. They came to support DSA candidates, but they also canvassed for a Senate candidate their own organization had never endorsed. Abdul el Sayed doesn’t call himself a socialist, and the DSA never put its name behind him. Its members showed up anyway.
