Squad Disappointed Its ‘Bomb Jewish Institutions’ Bill Not Yet In Committee

Part of a larger initiative to make the country safer for progressive, tolerant values.

Washington, October 7 – Several progressive members of the House of Representatives voiced frustration today that legislation they introduced earlier this session to authorize attacks against synagogues, Hebrew schools, and similar targets, has not even reached preliminary stages of the lawmaking process.

Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed impatience and some consternation Thursday following an update from Congressional clerks that as of this week, the House Interior Committee has not taken up their Karing for Koncerned Kommunities (KKK) Act, which aims to allocate funding and personnel to the task of conducting shooting, bombing, burning down or otherwise attacking institutions of Jewish communities in America, part of a larger initiative to make the country safer for progressive, tolerant values.

The Squad, as they have been known since Ocasio-Cortez referred to them as such shortly after her election, made their frustration known via social media and sympathetic journalists. “The leadership has failed yet again, and remains blind to both the needs of the American people and the demands of the voters,” she lamented. “It’s one thing to fawn all over a woman in a ‘Tax the Rich’ gown at an art museum’s main fundraising event; anyone can talk the talk. It’s another thing entirely to put your money where your mouth is and do something concrete for the progressive cause. Our party leadership is just out of touch with the pulse of the people on this.”

“The committee wont even indicate when our proposed legislation might see action,” added Omar. “The clock is ticking on this. The more the months and years elapse without an official government move against the main sources of pernicious, divisive influences in this country, the less effective those moves will be. Even worse, there are radicals and provocateurs on the far right who will most certainly try to reassert their dominance in this arena, and we can’t allow ourselves to relinquish to them the advantage we progressives and allies of the Palestinian people managed to seize from them over the last decade. That the streets of Brooklyn, for example, are no longer a safe place for a visibly Jewish person to walk is down to our activism, not some Trump-voting redneck. That the majority of Jews on college campuses have experienced antisemitism is our achievement, not that of some backwoods hick who’s still white and therefore wrong. We need to maintain that edge.”

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