Posted on 12/14/2023 3:16:35 PM PST by 11th_VA
The Republican party of Long Island, New York, has nominated Mazi Melesa Philip, an Orthodox Jewish, Ethiopian-Israeli mother of seven who currently serves in the New York state legislature, to run for the seat in Congress recently vacated by George Santos, according the New York Times on Thursday. The seat's former occupant was ejected from the House on December 1, dogged by two federal indictments for fraud and revelations that most of the life story on which he had campaigned was a lie. He was only the sixth representative in history to be expelled from Congress.
Philip, 44, served as a paratrooper in the IDF, just a few years after immigrating to Israel from Ethiopia at age 12 as part of Operation Solomon. After her army service, Philip studied at the University of Haifa, earning a degree in occupational therapy and serving as Chairwoman of the Ethiopian Student Union. There, she met her husband, Adalbert Pilip, a Ukrainian-American Jew studying medicine at the Technion.
She returned with him to the United States, where she became active in speaking about Israel for Jewish federations and other Jewish groups. Philip, who also holds a degree in diplomacy and security from Tel Aviv University, told JTA last year that her interest in politics was revived when her oldest son, preparing for his bar mitzvah, reported antisemitic comments he'd received from a classmate at his Great Neck public school. According to the New York Times, the party is expected to announce Philip as their pick for the seat at a rally on Friday in the town of Massapequa. She will face off against Tom Suozzi, the moderate Democrat who occupied the seta before George Santos, leaving it open as he retired to mount an unsuccessful bid for governor against incumbent Kathy Hochul.
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So her kids are Orthodox Jewish, Ethiopian-Israeli Ukrainian-Americans. That is what we call a melting pot.
The kids was harassed in Great Neck because he is Jewish and not because he is black. That makes little sense.
She returned with him to the United States,
Poorly written. She came with him to the US. You cannot return to a place you have never been.
Give credit- they hit all the boxes with this one- Jew, black, female.....
If she’s defeated by a white guy the GOP can claim she lost because the district is racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic
It was still stupid for Republicans to vote out Santos and I didn’t even like the guy.
Sounds good!
It's amazing how many very fine and good conservative folks (my peeps) should consider looking past the short game.
While Bob Menendez is still in the Senate.
sure sounds like a fantastic, capable person!
AND more good news,
now that the liar Santos is Expelled from Congress, maybe we can put enough pressure on Congress to start expelling MORE of its worst liars, anti-American seditionists, and bigots!!!!????
Smiles smiles
There won't be many left. I suspect a quorum would constitute around 50.
Great Neck is Jewish. Only the Five Towns which border the Rockaways have a greater percentage of Jewish residents.
That’s a heck of a resume.
By looking at her picture she’s defiantly from the Ethiopian neck of the woods. The tell is she does not have typical Negroid features. Her skin is black, yes. But having actually lived in Ethiopia in the late 60’s I learned many of them considered themselves black Caucasians.
Definitely checks all the boxes, plus she is very nice looking. Probably personable too. Hope she wins/
Agreed
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