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Title: David Harsanyi: Democrats have an anti-Semitism problem
Post by: TomSea on February 17, 2019, 03:14:52 pm

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David Harsanyi: Democrats have an anti-Semitism problem

    By DAVID HARSANYI Feb 17, 2019

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar — someone who had previously argued that Jews hypnotized the world regarding their “evil” deeds — recently claimed that Americans only support Israel because of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s “Benjamins” — and then retweeted a person pointing out that she might as well call all Jews “hook-nosed.”

Though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who put Omar on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, offered a condemnation of Omar’s comments, many progressives jumped immediately to her defense. Some of them implored Omar to stop deploying these ugly “tropes” because they undermine what is a completely reasonable position toward the Jewish state. (Omar has since apologized, promising to avoid using insulting stereotypes when peddling her anti-Semitism.)

The problem is that “anti-Zionism” — the predominant justification for violence, murder and hatred against Jews in Europe and the Middle East — is a growing position on the American left. Though Omar embraces the worst caricatures of this ideology, it’s her core contention regarding the Jewish state — not her clumsy “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”-style insults, which are just a manifestation of her underlying position — that is most consequential.

Read more at: https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/columnists/david-harsanyi-democrats-have-an-anti-semitism-problem/article_9054d4b8-4830-5114-a319-790df12d83ed.html#tncms-source=article-nav-prev (https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/columnists/david-harsanyi-democrats-have-an-anti-semitism-problem/article_9054d4b8-4830-5114-a319-790df12d83ed.html#tncms-source=article-nav-prev)

Title: Re: David Harsanyi: Democrats have an anti-Semitism problem
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on February 17, 2019, 06:59:17 pm

Yes?

Democrats have had an Anti Everyone problem forever.

Their method has always been Divide and Conquer.

And they are running out of 'Other People/Bad People' to blame.