Rep. Ro Khanna is using anti-Israel rhetoric to elevate his profile

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Crazifornia), who has dreams of becoming the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nominee,  traveled to an imaginary country called “Palestine,” and then publicly claimed that a real nation—Israel—wrongfully detained him. Israel quickly set the record straight, but Khanna’s viciously slanted narrative is getting traction.

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Rohit “Ro” Khanna is a Bernie Sanders leftist who describes himself as a “progressive capitalist.” What this seems to boil down to is that he’s allowed to be fabulously wealthy while ordinary Americans are not. It’s the same theory that works for people like Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Shockingly, Khanna is a University of Chicago econ grad. Somewhere, Milton Friedman weeps.

Khanna, who holds a Yale law degree, spent only a few years in the private sector. However, ironically, he worked for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a firm known for helping Silicon Valley entrepreneurs become very rich. Young lawyers working at these firms make good salaries, but they don’t become millionaires. The bulk of Khanna’s career, though, has been spent working for the government or holding political office. In theory, public servants don’t become millionaires either.

Nevertheless, Khanna has a rich man’s lifestyle. He married a wealthy woman (an auto parts heiress), who’s vastly increased her and their minor children’s wealth doing the same things that Khanna routinely decries as a politician. The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kerr did a deep dive into the family’s extraordinary wealth:

An analysis of Khanna’s financial disclosures reveals his gilded life is enriched by the same sort of investment vehicles that Khanna has said he has a “moral” duty to oppose and that Khanna’s family is a beneficiary of the “New Gilded Age” he condemns.

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In 2024, Khanna’s financial disclosures clocked in at 333 pages of non-text-searchable tables, listing over 3,000 individual assets owned by him, his wife, and his children, with each asset having ticked one of 13 available boxes corresponding to an asset valuation range. Put together, those assets are worth anywhere from $103 million to more than $340 million, according to a Free Beacon review. It’s possible that the net worth of Khanna’s nuclear family could far exceed $340 million.

You really need to read Kerr’s report to understand Khanna’s “wealth for me but not for thee” hypocrisy, including his tolerance for the (legal) market-manipulation tactics his family can employ.

As a multi-millionaire who isn’t using his wealth like Neville Singham or the Soros men to fund America’s downfall, Khanna needs a “hook” for his planned presidential run. For any leftist politician today, attacking Israel is the easiest hook of all.

So it was that Khanna and an alleged fact-finding team traveled to the West Bank to expose the evil Israelis for being…you know…evil. (Despite the claimed “fact finding” goal, Khanna and his team resolutely refused to get any facts that might reveal that Israel is not actually evil.)

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Armed with the “Israel is evil” plan, Khanna was soon able to tweet out that the Israeli government treated him and his team with tremendous evilness. According to him, gun-wielding evil Israeli settlers, with support from equally evil IDF troops, dared to detain him and his team. Yup, he was detained, so he instantly went into threat mode against evil Israel:

According to PM Netanyahu, this was anything but a massive international incident. Instead, the IDF quickly disbursed some edgy young people affected by the October 7 attack. Moreover, said Bibi, those who detained Khanna will be dealt with in compliance with the law:

As a practical matter, Khanna was part of a panel laughing at the very idea of condemning October 7, so his presence near the West Bank should rightly be regarded as a security risk for Israel. Ynet has a good analysis of how Khanna is becoming increasingly hostile to Israel as he seeks greater political power. Basically, Khanna intends to ride this narrative the way Biden rode Charlottesville straight into the White House, and both men are equally full of bovine fecal matter.

The last time a socialist party rode to power on the back of Jew hatred, it ended badly for the Jews, but also for the rest of the world, not to mention 5.3 million German deaths, not including the six million Jews these same socialists slaughtered.

Today’s Democrat Socialists (which includes just about every Democrat except for John Fetterman), in their lust for power, are playing with fire. This will not end well if the American people, through the ballot box, do not stop this madness right now.

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