Lahoud-LaHood: From pro-Syrians in Lebanon to Zionists in America

The LaHood family is a notorious political and feudal family in Lebanon. For decades, one of the Lahouds (Lebanese spelling) was a puppet president of Lebanon working for the Stalinist Syrian regime and its occupation of the country. "LaHood" is the Americanization of the name: The reason for the uppercase H in the middle of the name is that the sound this letter represents is a deep guttural voiceless pharyngeal fricative - ح - in Arabic, and the American Lahouds decided to highlight it, even though Americans cannot pronounce that sound.

In America, one of the LaHoods founded another political family farm in Illinois, and one of his offspring by the name of Darin LaHood has become a Zionist in the US. From pro-Syria in Lebanon, they are pro-Israel in America. Loads of principles and high moral standards.

This is typical Lebanese duplicity where survival compels them to become chameleons, donning the colors of the substrate on which they tread. If Darin defends the pro-Palestinian protesters, he might lose the election next time. Just as his ancestors did in Lebanon: Emile Lahoud would not have become president of the country under the Syrian occupation if he did not kiss ass to the Assads in Damascus. So he criticizes the pro-Palestinian protesters to prove his loyalty to the Zionist powers-that-be in America.

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LaHood says Pro-Palestinians crossing the line

Linda Cook

Sun, May 5, 2024 

WHBF Davenport

Demonstrations on college campuses across the country about Israel’s war against Hamas continue to grow in number and in intensity. They are getting more confrontational.

University of Wisconsin Police and demonstrators got physical Wednesday when officers arrested more than two dozen people for violating the law against camping on campus.

Hundreds of officers in New York broke up a protest at Columbia University at the request of the administration after protestors started occupying a building on campus.

There was a more violent confrontation on the campus of UCLA between Palestinian supporters and Israel supporters. Classes were canceled there Wednesday.

Several members of Congress see the pro-Palestinian demonstrators as anti-Semitic, pointing to verbal attacks directed at Jewish students on campus.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act Wednesday to beef up federal anti-discrimination laws. It now moves to the Senate.

This response on Capitol Hill to those pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses pits the argument of free speech against anti-discrimination law.

It’s one of the topics host Jim Niedelman gets into with Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood.

“We’ve seen a disturbing trend of antisemitic activity on college campuses,” LaHood said. “We should never tolerate the type of hate that we’ve seen toward Jewish Americans and Jewish students on campuses across the country.”