They want to run Ron out of town. A group of New York City LGBT officials are demanding that Chelsea Piers cancel an appearance by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — just weeks after another venue, a JEWISH one (Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage), controversially declined to host him because of pressure from LGBT groups.
NY Post Branding him anti-LGBTQ, critics say the Republican shouldn’t be allowed to speak at the conference organized by a Jewish group at Chelsea Piers on Sunday — particularly during Pride Month.
They specifically oppose a new Florida law that bans school instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity for children in kindergarten through the fourth grade. Backers contend that the law — dubbed by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — shields kids from sexualized content in their classrooms.
The Tikvah Fund originally planned to host DeSantis, commentator Bari Weiss and other conservative personalities at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. But those plans were scuttled after the facility refused to host DeSantis, Tikvah organizers said.
NY Post Tikvah Fund leaders Elliott Abrams and Eric Cohen told The Post Friday that museum brass advised them to either disinvite DeSantis or take the annual Jewish Leadership Conference elsewhere. Cohen said they were shocked by the ultimatum.
“Never before did the museum share their opinions about or seek to assert oversight over our guest speakers,” he said Friday. Tikvah leaders refused to cancel DeSantis and instead moved the entire event to Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers.
“In disbelief, I spoke directly to the museum CEO, Jack Kliger,” Cohen said. “He said that the museum does not host political figures, whether from the left or the right.” But Cohen noted that the museum had hosted Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo without incident in years past.
Governor DeSantis has always been a steadfast friend of the Jewish people and the state of Israel,” spokesperson Christina Pushaw said Friday, contending that “he has enacted policies that help Florida’s Jewish community thrive.”
They quickly shifted to Chelsea Piers and now some city officials are clamoring for the facility to also bar DeSantis.
Another despicable far-left Jewish Democrat, Jerry Nadler, tweeted:
Karol Markowicz writes that history shows us that forced ideological conformity never ends well for Jews, but liberal/leftist Jewish institutions keep wanting to give it another go.
The museum gingerly pushed back. On its Twitter account, it said this wasn’t a “free speech or censorship issue” but “simply a contractual and logistical decision,” which doesn’t actually contradict what Abrams and Cohen are alleging.
Thinking it’s smarter than everyone else, the museum added a carefully worded tweet saying, “We welcome Governor DeSantis and elected officials from across the spectrum to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for a tour of our new exhibition, The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do, when it opens this summer.” So it won’t block the door if DeSantis buys a ticket for a tour, but no one is welcome to host the governor for an event at the museum. Got it.
Abrams and Cohen write that they chose DeSantis because a “remarkable Jewish renaissance is under way in Florida.” And it is. Our family is part of that renaissance. We moved from New York to Florida in January in large part because of the governor’s leadership. COVID policies were at the forefront of our decision, but DeSantis fighting woke nonsense in schools and putting parental rights at the top of his agenda have also been positive.
And our governor takes the safety and security of Jews in his state very seriously.
In 2019, I wrote in these pages again and again and again that Jews were being assaulted in New York and our elected officials barely mentioned it. Then-Mayor Bill de Blasio kept blaming imaginary Donald Trump supporters, who apparently exist in far larger numbers in New York City than anyone had ever known. Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo would also offer lip service after every attack. Both men, however, enjoyed ratcheting up the rhetoric against Jews when they blamed the Jewish community for COVID spread in 2020.
But my governor simply does not play when it comes to the safety of Jews in his state. Last June, legislation assigning millions of dollars in funding for various Holocaust memorials included, he noted, “$4 million in security funding for Florida’s Jewish Day Schools, including for the first time ever funding for professional security.”
DeSantis said, “I’m proud to sign these bills today to help protect religious freedom in Florida and increase the safety and security of our Jewish communities. I will continue to make sure that in Florida we root out anti-Semitism and that every day we show our support for Israel and our Jewish communities.”
Meanwhile, the museum allowed a 2018 event with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about a month after she was famously forced to dial back her support for a two-state solution in Israel as leftist thought does not allow for Israel’s existence at all. Does that “align with the museum’s values”? Is this the ideology we must all be forced to adhere to before renting space at the museum?
Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacks Israel, calls them the occupiers of Palestine.
When pressed on what she meant she struggled to give an answer and then admitted she does not know what she is talking about. pic.twitter.com/e3Uq1eupD3
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 16, 2018
When a Jewish museum bars DeSantis for having the wrong opinions, they bar me and so many other Jews, conservative or otherwise, too. We know that if he is unwelcome, we are also unwelcome.
Linda Rivera says
CHILD HATER SATANISTS Celebrate with Dirty, Demonic Delight and Thunderous Applause.
NEW YORK Democrat Governor Satanist Cuomo and his fellow Satanists CELEBRATE the Excruciating Agony and Mass Slaughter of Innocents.
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/01/23/one-world-trade-center-lit-up-pink-to-celebrate-new-york-passing-bill-legalizing-abortions-up-to-birth/
One World Trade Center Lit Up Pink to Celebrate New York Passing Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth
Jan 23, 2019
The One World Trade Center was lit up pink Tuesday night to celebrate the passage of a bill by the New York state legislature that legalizes abortion through the ninth month of pregnancy while rolling back protections for babies born alive after a botched abortion.
The “Reproductive Health Act,” which New York Governor Andrew Cuomo demanded be passed before he’d agree to sign the state’s budget in April, relaxes the state’s already-permissive abortion laws to allow abortions past the 24 week of pregnancy – the current limit in New York – while also allowing non-doctors to perform abortions.
The bill passed 38-24 through the Democrat-led state legislature and was met with thunderous applause from both lawmakers and those in the gallery.
BareNakedIslam says
Linda, they need to show that day of birth abortion procedure on a live baby to the whole country on all the network and cable TV channels so people can really understand what it means.
Linda Rivera says
New York City LGBT CHILD HATER officials oppose a new Florida law that bans school instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity for children in kindergarten through the fourth grade.
This CRIME Against Innocent Children — CRIME Against HUMANITY must be banned through every grade including High School in America and the entire world.
PROTECT CHILDREN!!!
The overwhelming majority of children and adults in New York, America and the world are Straight.
Democrat-Communist New York State and New York City are consumed with SATANIC HATE for children and want to destroy children physically, mentally, emotionally, sexually and spiritually.
Most of all, the fiends want to destroy the precious souls of the precious children.
Muslimmadness says
We finally have both CONSERVATIVE Jews and an America/ Israel respecting governor: and the lunatics revolt!
G-D help us!
BareNakedIslam says
And a lot of those lunatics are Jews.
Fear The Legion says
Conservatives and Republicans, if you want to stop this madness you must vote in the midterms !! Do you want the squad to run things? Do you want that old senile degenerate and that hyena Harris to have the power to pass more draconian measures? Do you want ANTIFA and BLM to be the armed black shirted schutzstaffel? No more APATHY, no more INDIFFERENCE. If we dont change the course of the nation. The nation shall surely change our courses.
BareNakedIslam says
I think there is going to be a massive Republican/Conservative turnout. There has to be to override the Democrats cheating.
sixlittlerabbits says
Disgraceful. These LGBQT politicians are as bad as Nazis. They don’t believe in tolerance or freedom of speech. Why don’t New Yorkers vote these idiots out?
BareNakedIslam says
Because most New Yorkers are leftists…including the Jewish traitors.