March 10, 2019
An Anti-Semite by Any Other Name
By Christopher Paslay
If Democrats have one advantage over Republicans, it's their innate ability to tailor language to fit their politics. They use qualifying adjectives to pander to specific identity groups when it suits them – such as "white privilege" and "black lives matter" – and then chose more universal terms when they find themselves boxed-in by their own ideology.
A prime example of this is the response to the anti-Semitic comments made by Democratic freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar. In January Omar tweeted that Israel had "hypnotized the world," and recently stated that American support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins" and involved "allegiance" to a foreign country.
As David French wrote in the National Review, "Each of these statements represents a classic anti-Semitic trope, and the latter statements were made after she came under fire for her previous comments. She knew she was under scrutiny and yet doubled down."
When pushed to specifically address Omar's derogatory attitude toward Jews, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided to issue a more bland, universal rebuke – offering a resolution condemning "hateful expressions of intolerance" without mentioning Omar by name.
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