Rashida Tlaib Spouts Politically Correct Anti-Semitism for the 21st CenturyBy Joel Griffith
Published on July 30, 2019
In generations past, anti-Semites accused Jews of slaughtering gentile children and using the blood as an ingredient in their matzos.
Most of the public is no longer duped into believing such literal blood libel, and contemporary anti-Semites instead direct accusations of treachery, greed and trickery against the democratically elected government of Israel, rather than against Jewish individuals.
They call it “anti-Zionism.†In reality, it’s just the modern manifestation of anti-Semitism. ...
The charter of the Palestinian Liberation Organization — the entity delegating governing power to the Palestinian Authority — continues to call for the violent destruction of Israel. ...
Now, a congresswoman from the heart of the United States, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is carrying the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions banner, decrying the “racist policies of the government and state of Israel.†...
Tlaib says that boycotting Israel is akin to boycotting the Nazi regime. She has it backward, in classic Orwellian fashion. Leading up to the Holocaust, Nazi Germany boycotted, divested and sanctioned Jewish businesses. Some 75 years later, relatively few Jews remain in Germany.
Nearly half of all Jews now call Israel home. Today’s anti-Semites are hunting Jews down in this place of refuge. ...
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