#Palestinian MMA fighters

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Kanye West apologizes to Jewish community, after his name was written on Israeli missile

Famous American singer, Kanye West’s name has been spotted on an Israeli missile which is apparently going to be used in the Middle East war. A prominent Israeli mixed-martial artist, MMA, fighter, Haim Gozali is taking credit for the stunt. Gozali, who was once affiliated with Bellator, shared the picture of the missile on his official social media handle. DAILY POST reports that the MMA star has been very outspoken on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, oftentimes mocking the death of Palestinians over the past few months. In November, Gozali had written the names of Muslim UFC fighters including Khabib Nurmagomedov and others who have expressed support for Palestine on a bomb that seemed to be on the frontlines. However, sharing new photos of some of the missiles apparently in the possession of Israeli soldiers on his X account, Gozali wrote “@kanyewest you don’t like us Jewish. So we don’t like you either.” The picture captured a shell with the inscription “Kanye West Flying to Gaza Haim Gozali.” It’s unclear if Gozali is the one actually writing the names, or if someone else in the Israeli Defense Forces, IDF, does it on his behalf. Meanwhile Kanye West or Ye, has finally tendered a public apology to the Jewish community over his anti-Semitic comments. This is coming one year after the singer declared war on the Jewish community following his controversial Paris Fashion Week show, where he showcased his White Lives Matter shirts. DAILY POST reports that Kanye had in October 2022 lost lucrative contracts with Adidas and Balenciaga led to losing his billionaire status. He was also banned from X platform and Instagram after saying he was going to ‘go death on 3 on Jewish people’ in a tweet. In a new development on his Instagram page on Tuesday, December 26 2023, the 46-year-old, however, posted a message written in Hebrew which translates to: ‘I sincerely apologise to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions. ‘It wasn’t my intention to hurt or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused. I’m committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future. “Your forgiveness is important to me, and I’m committed to making amends and promoting unity.” @kanyewest you don’t like us jewish. So we don’t like you too !!! pic.twitter.com/V0oF6mNBnq— Haim gozali (@GozaliHaim) December 24, 2023 Read the full article

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Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady points out Luan Santiago’s weakness before ‘Brave 23: Pride and Honor’ in Amman, Jordan

Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady points out Luan Santiago’s weakness before ‘Brave 23: Pride and Honor’ in Amman, Jordan

Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady (© Brave Combat Federation)

Abdul-Kareem “Pride of Palestine” Al-Selwady, 23, of Jordan will defend his Brave Combat Federation Lightweight Championship title at “Brave 23: Pride and Honor.” The challenger has been confidently declaring that he would finish the Palestinian mixed martial artist.

Luan “Miau” Santiago, 24, of Brazil will challenge Al-Selwady in one of the two…

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Hasbro pulls Cara Dune action figures after Gina Carano (falsely) accused of “denigrating people based on their cultural/religious identities”

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Hasbro Stops Making Toys Based on Gina Carano's Mandalorian Character After Her Removal from Show

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Gina Carano, the 38-year-old actress and former MMA fighter was fired last week from her role as the character Cara Dune in Disney+'s “The Mandalorian” series after being accused of making “controversial” social media posts.

Now, Julie Duffy, senior vice president of Global Communications for Hasbro Toy Company, made a statement that the company is discontinuing toys based on her popular character.

For months the cancel culture mob on social media had been trying to get Carano fired from her job when she refused to put her pronouns in her bio, using instead the R2-D2 - esque sounds “Beep Bop Boop”.  She was then falsely accused of hating transgender people.

After almost 4 years of political violence in the United States (including by far left groups), Gina Carano posted message on social media making parallels to World War II Germany, stating that causing hatred toward a group of people makes it more socially acceptable to harm them.

That was the excuse that Disney+ decided to use to justify firing Gina Carano. She was accused of insulting jewish victims of the nazis (even though she did no such thing).

Interestingly, her co-star Pedro Pascale, a rabid anti-conservative, made a similar post about a year prior, comparing the United States to Nazi Germany, comparing republicans to nazis, and comparing immigrants at the border to jews in concentration camps (although it appeared he may have used a picture of palestinian children instead of latin-american immigrants). However he was never fired and still works for Disney+.

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Election Results - Firsts for Women

I know that there are some disappointments with the election results, but there were also a lot of firsts for women. For example, for the first time in history, more than 100 women have been elected to the House of Representatives.

I tried to compile a list of some of the other firsts for women from the election. Each one mentions the woman’s name, where she won the election, and what news station the headline is from in case anyone wants to find the full article.

Also, Davids identifies as a lesbian, which makes her the first openly LGBTQ+ member of Congress from Kansas. (Fun fact: she’s also a former MMA fighter.) She was elected in New York. Haaland was elected in New Mexico.

The women in the photo above are Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Omar was elected in Minnesota, and she is the first Somali-American woman to have ever been elected to Congress. Tlaib was elected in Michigan, and she is the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress.

Ocasio-Cortez was elected in New York.

The above photo is Teri Johnston.

Axne and Finkenauer are Iowa’s first two women elected to the House.

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In the immortal words of Ann Romney: “I love you, women!!!” Think Progress reports that Tuesday was an excellent day for voters putting their Xs next to the names of the double-X-chromosomed: Sharice Davids, a professional MMA fighter, Native American, and openly lesbian attorney, won the Democratic primary for Kansas’ 3rd congressional district. Davids would be the first Native American elected to Congress if she wins in November. She also joins a record number of LGBTQ candidates running for office this year. The wins also include Rashida Tlaib, who won the Democratic nomination in Michigan’s 13th district. As no Republican is contesting the seat, Tlaib will likely be the first Muslim and first Palestinian American congresswoman in U.S. history. Women will also contest a record number of gubernatorial seats this year. After the primaries, there are now 11 female nominees for governor, including Gretchen Whitmer (D) in Michigan and Laura Kelly (D) in Kansas. The previous record was 10. The Democratic party in Michigan boasts an all-female statewide ticket going into the November elections, with women in the running for governor, Senate, state attorney general, and secretary of state. This is especially significant considering the Republican party has controlled Michigan for more than seven years. And it just gets better: Democratic women could exceed the number of white male Democrats in the House of Representatives for the first time in history, according to recent data which shows that women currently account for 32.7 percent of House Democrats in 2017, while white men account for 39.7 percent. All those in favor of flipping the House from “M” to “F” control say “Aye.” But first let me pop in my DuraPlugs so you don’t blow out my eardrums.

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Midterm Elections 2018

As of 4:00 p.m., Democrats had taken 225 out of 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 46 out of 100 seats in the Senate. Republicans lost one Senate seat but flipped 3 previously Democratic seats. All but one gubernatorial race had been called.

Despite the crushing losses in Texas, Georgia  and Florida for Democrats, Democrats were still able to make huge gains as well as history.

Sharice Davids and Debra Haaland will become the first Native American women to serve in the House.

Davids, who will represent Kansas’s 3rd Congressional District,  will also be the first openly gay Native American to serve in the House and to represent Kansas. Davids is from the Ho-Chunk Nation and ran against Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder. She is also a former MMA fighter.

Davids has been a critic of Donald Trump’s unpopular tax bill. Davids is also pro-choice, supports renewable energy, curbing/forgiving student loans and debt and gun control.

“We must demand more than condolences from our lawmakers. We need swift legislation to enact common sense gun safety laws,” Davids’ website states. She won with 53.3 percent of the vote.

Haaland is from the Pueblo of Laguna tribe and won in a three-way race against Republican Janice Arnold-Jones and Libertarian Lloyd Princeton. Haaland will represent New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District and won with 59 percent of the vote.

Haaland is also pro-choice, supports getting rid of military grade weapons among other gun control measures, keeping families together at the border and equal rights for transgender people.

“Transgender Americans have the same rights as all Americans -- and I will fight to ensure my transgender neighbors have access to the same dignity, jobs, social services, and housing as we all do,” Haaland stated on her website.

Her website also states that “As a Native American woman, my family has experienced the violence of government-enforced family separation. I will always fight to keep families together. ICE is an out of control institution that is terrorizing American families.”

Democrat Xochitl Torres Small managed to flip New Mexico’s conservative 2nd Congressional District with 50.7 percent of the vote. According to Mother Jones, Small “will be the first woman to represent the district in its history and only the third Democrat in nearly 50 years.”

Small’s platform included increased funding for public schools, affordable and accessible healthcare for rural communities and tightening border security.

Ilhan Omar, a Democratic state legislator from Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic state legislator from Michigan, will be the first Muslim women to serve in congress. Omar is Somali-American and Tlaib is Palestinian-American.

“Their election would be a milestone in any year but is especially symbolic as a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s fearmongering about Islam and immigrants. Omar and Tlaib are among 100 or more Muslims who ran for office in 2018, an unprecedented surge in political engagement for a community targeted by policies intended to keep them on the sidelines,” Hannah Allam of Buzzfeed News wrote.

Omar was endorsed by the Sierra Club and Moms Demand Action among others and ran on a progressive platform that championed gun control, Medicare-for-all, providing immigrants with paths to citizenship, the scaling back of U.S. military involvement overseas and banning conversion therapy.

“Tlaib is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, a burgeoning left-wing group that also counts New York Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among its members,” according to CNN.

Tlaib’s platform included a $15 minimum wage, promoting homeownership, debt free college and equal pay.

Tlaib’s website states that “The cost of higher education is a major barrier for many people, and we must make public colleges, universities, and trade schools tuition free for working families.”

Progressive superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her House race, becoming the youngest woman elected to Congress. Ocasio-Cortez first gained nationwide attention during the New York primaries when she took on Joe Crowley.

Ocasio-Cortez’s platform included Medicare-for-all, federal jobs guarantee, abolishing ICE and a ban on assault weapons.

Ocasio-Cortez states on her website that “The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was created in 2003, in the same suite of post-9/11 legislation as the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. Its founding was part of an unchecked expansion of executive powers that led to the widespread erosion of Americans’ civil rights. Unlike prior immigration enforcement under the INS, ICE operates outside the scope of the Department of Justice and is unaccountable to our nation’s standards of due process.Now we see the consequences: young children are being ripped from their parents and kept in detention centers without due process and without accountability to Congress.”

She will represent New York’s 14th Congressional District.

Ayanna Pressley will be the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in Congress, beating 10-term incumbent Michael Capuano in the primary in September. Pressley promised a progressive agenda and will represent the 7th Congressional District of Massachusetts. Pressley, along with Democrats Joseph Kennedy and Stephen Lynch, ran unopposed.

On her website, Pressley promised to “build healthy communities” by taking on the NRA, promote small businesses, protect dreams and those with Temporary Protective Status and expanding access to “affordable, high quality health care.”

According to her website bio, Pressley’s “election to the Boston City Council in 2009 marked the first time a woman of color was elected to the Council in its 100-year history. This laid the foundation for Ayanna’s groundbreaking work, with which she has consistently strived to improve the lives of people that have too often been left behind.”

Similarly to Pressley, Jahana Hayes, a former school district administrator, will become the first black woman to represent Connecticut. According to the New York Times, Hayes “was chosen as the National Teacher of the Year in 2016.” Hayes won against Republican Manny Santos in the 5th Congressional District with 55.8 percent of the vote.

Hayes will replace the current Democratic representative Elizabeth Esty who Hayes claimed wasn’t doing enough to support women who had been sexually assaulted. Esty “waited three months to fire her former chief of staff, Tony Baker, after Anna Kain, another former staff member who once dated him, said he had sexually harassed and threatened to kill her,” according to the New York Times.

Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia will also become the first Latina women to represent that state of Texas in the House. Escobar will represent the 16th Congressional District , replacing Beto O’Rourke who ran for Texas’s Senate seat.

Escobar won with 68.4 percent of the vote, beating Republican Rick Seeberger and Independent Ben Mendoza. Escobar ran on a platform that promoted a single-payer healthcare program, paid maternal leave and immigration reform.

On her website Escobar states that “The demonization of migrants who seek a better life and the talk of building taller walls does nothing to get to the root of a broken immigration system. It is long past time that this country finally reforms the laws that make hard-working individuals live in the shadows, pushes out educated immigrants, and refuses to honor the talents and labor of non-citizens who make our country stronger.”

Garcia won her race in the 29th Congressional District with 75.1 percent of the vote against Republican Phillip Aronoff and Independent Cullen Burns. Garcia’s platform included compassionate immigration policy, Medicare-for-all and government transparency.

Other Democratic wins in the House include Mike Levin who flipped California’s 49th Congressional District, Ann Kirkpatrick who flipped Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, Jason Crow who flipped Colorado's 6th Congressional District and Tom Malinowski who flipped New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District.

In the Senate Republican Marsha Blackburn made history. She will become Tennessee's first female senator. Blackburn is a close ally of Trump’s and is fiercely pro-life and on has shown support for Trump’s border wall. Blackburn won with 54.7 percent of the vote, beating Democrat Phil Bredesen.

Democratic hopeful O’Rourke put up a good fight against Ted Cruz but ultimately lost with only 48.3 percent of the vote. Libertarian Neal Dikeman came in third place with 0.8 percent of the vote.

O’Rourke campaigned on a liberal platform that included increased access to disability services in the home and community, stronger antitrust organizations, legal protections for the LGBT community, term limits for members of Congress, ending the sale of high capacity magazines and support for federal research on gun violence.

In his concession speech he said “Tonight’s loss does nothing to diminish the way I feel about Texas or this country. I’m so fucking proud of you guys.”

Republican Mike Braun flipped Indiana’s Senate seat, defeating Democrat Joe Donnelly with 51.8 percent of the vote. Josh Hawley flipped Missouri’s seat, beating Democrat Claire McCaskill with 51.5 percent of the vote. In North Dakota Kevin Cramer won against Democratic incumbent Heidi Heitkamp with 55.4 percent of the vote.

Jared Polis became the first openly gay governor in the United States. He beat Republican Walker Stapleton with 52 percent of the vote. Polis introduced his long-term partner, Marlon Reis, to estatic crowds.

Polis’s campaign championed 100 percent renewable energy,free full day preschool and kindergarten, universal healthcare, water conservation, keeping guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and animal welfare.

Dianne Primavera, a former state representative, will be Polis’s lieutenant governor.

Kristi Noem, a four-term Republican congresswoman will be the first female governor of South Dakota. Noem won with 51 percent of the vote and campaigned on a strong conservative agenda, taking a stand against abortion and expanding medicaid.

Janet Mills, the Democratic state attorney general of Maine will become the state’s first female governor. Mills was previously the first woman to become Maine’s state attorney general. Her campaign promised to tackle the opioid epidemic by reforming prescription practices, expand medicaid in addition to lowering the cost of healthcare and to defend women’s access to abortions.

Mills won with 50.9 percent of the vote.

Lourdes Leon Guerrero, a will become the first female governor of Guam, a territory of the United States territory in the Pacific. Guerrero promised on her website to “Provide leadership based on honesty, transparency, inclusion and fairness to provide our people with a government worthy of their trust,” and to “Develop policies that serve the long term interests and needs of our people by ending the short term political focus on the next election.”

Guerrero’s platform consisted of building partnerships with NGOs and the private sector, a unified pay scale for government workers, reestablishing the Bureau of Women’s Affairs to promote female leadership, combating all forms of discrimination and introducing medical marijuana.

Josh Tenorio will be Guerrero’s lieutenant governor.

Democrat Andrew Gillum, who hoped to become Florida’s first black governor and had gained national attention in recent months, lost his race against Republican Ron DeSantis.  

In another crushing defeat for Democrats, Stacey Abrams, who would’ve been the first  black woman to serve as governor in the country, lost to Republican Brian Kemp. The Georgia race was scarred by allegations of corruption on the part of Republicans.

Kemp is currently the secretary of state and in charge of overseeing the ballot counting process, prompting suspicion from voter rights advocates. Kemp also came under fire for an insufficient number of voting machines and voter disenfranchisement.

“Among the calls logged at a voter hotline run by a consortium of voting rights groups including the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union and Common Cause were complaints from hundreds of voters who said their requests for absentee ballots went unanswered. Voters — and advocates — said they were chagrined at how many of those reports came from communities with large minority populations,” The Washington Post reported. “‘From our vantage point, this was an intentional system failure in targeting communities where African Americans made up a high percentage of active voters,’ said NAACP President Derrick Johnson.”

The Washington Post also reported that new strict voter ID laws, championed by Kemp, kept hundreds of people from casting their votes. The new law requires  personal information down to the hyphen to be an exact match with other government records.

Governor Kate Brown of Oregon, who is bisexual and a Democrat, won her reelection campaign with 49.4 percent of the vote, beating Republican Knute Buehler and Independent Patrick Starnes who got 2.9 percent of the vote.

Some smaller races also managed to draw national attention. Conservative Christian darling Kim Davis who gained notoriety in 2015 when she refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple after the legalization of same-sex marriage lost her reelection bid to Democrat Elwood Caudill Jr. For many in the LGBT community, this was some well deserved karma.

In Nevada’s 36th Assembly District, Dennis Hof, a pimp running for the Nevada state legislature, won his race against Democrat Lesia Romanov  with almost 68 percent of the vote, despite having been dead since Oct. 16.

County officials will appoint a different Republican to take his place.

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Abdul Kareem al-Selwady became a Mixed Martial Arts World Lightweight Champion in 2018, the first Palestinian to do so. from BBC News - Home https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51613998 via TV Aerials Oldham on Google TV Aerials Oldham

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MMA fighter: 'I'm the pride of Palestine'

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MMA fighter: 'I'm the pride of Palestine'

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MMA fighter: 'I'm the pride of Palestine'

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Palestinian-American Belal Muhammad earns 6th UFC win at 'UFC 236' in Atlanta, Georgia

Palestinian-American Belal Muhammad earns 6th UFC win at ‘UFC 236’ in Atlanta, Georgia

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Palestinian-American mixed martial artist Belal “Remember the Name” Muhammad, 30, was one of the winners at “UFC 236.” It was his sixth victory in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Featuring 13 MMA matches, “UFC 236” took place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on April 13, 2019. In the fourth bout of the evening, Muhammad faced Curtis “Curtious” Millender, 31, of…

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MMA fighter: 'I'm the pride of Palestine'

Abdul Kareem al-Selwady became a Mixed Martial Arts World Lightweight Champion in 2018, the first Palestinian to do so.

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