The first Palestinian American elected to the New York State Legislature celebrated her victory by posting the Palestinian flag on social media — with no American flag in sight.
Democratic socialist Aber Kawas defeated Republican Han-Khon To in New York's 12th State Senate District on Tuesday. Her X post declared simply: "We made history." alongside a Palestinian flag emoji. The flag of the country she was just elected to serve was nowhere in the message.
For ordinary Americans — and especially for Christians who have watched their own symbols and conscience protections stripped from public life — the message is unmistakable: a seat in an American legislature is being claimed as a win for a foreign cause, not for the people of Astoria, Sunnyside, and Woodside.
The Daily Caller reported Kawas' post verbatim, flag omission and all. The New York Post, meanwhile, buried the story entirely — its roundup of midterm upsets focused on Democratic gains in Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina but found no room for a new state legislator who couldn't be bothered to fly American colors on election night. When the establishment press ignores a story this glaring, it's because it knows the narrative is damaging.
Kawas' campaign website describes her as a "community organizer and democratic socialist." Her political worldview, she says, was shaped by her father's deportation by ICE. "While he was in detention, my family struggled to make ends meet," Kawas wrote. "These experiences … made me the organizer I am today — determined to build power for poor and working people, so that everyone can live a life with equal dignity."
Her endorsements read like a roll call of the anti-American, anti-Christian left: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Every one of them has a record of targeting religious liberty or undermining U.S. sovereignty in favor of foreign causes.
This is the same political coalition that fights to strip Christian bakers, florists, and hospitals of their conscience rights — while demanding institutional deference to every foreign grievance and identity claim. When a Christian pharmacist refuses to dispense abortifacients, the left calls it discrimination. When a new legislator plants a foreign flag on an American office, the left calls it history.
The question isn't whether Kawas has a right to her heritage. She does. The question is whether the people of the 12th District just sent to Albany a representative who serves them — or one who sees her seat as an outpost for a foreign movement that has no love for the constitutional order, and less than none for the Christians who still cling to it.
