Posted on 03/11/2019 9:49:08 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
In a few weeks, Jews all over the world will sit down to a Passover seder. We will eat matzah—unleavened bread that was not baked with the blood of Christian children. The claim that matzah is baked with the blood of Christian innocents is, of course, a famous anti-Semitic libel; it’s a libel that’s anti-Semitic because, first and foremost, it’s false (and ugly). If it were true, it wouldn’t be anti-Semitic to say such a thing.
Telling ugly lies about the Jewish people is anti-Semitic, and it’s anti-Semitic, first and foremost, because it’s a lie. Subscribe to The JNS Daily Syndicate by email and never miss our top stories
This simple truth enables us to understand why Ilhan Omar and David Duke are now on exactly the same page, so much so that Duke has tweeted his applause for Omar, and Omar has not declined the compliment.
Duke lies about the Jewish people, claiming that they control the world for their own ugly purposes. Rep. Ilhan Omar does exactly the same; that’s why Duke praised her. Omar lies about the Jewish state, and about the Jewish people there and in America.
Does Israel ban or punish religions other than Judaism? Muslims control the mosques on the Temple Mount; the muezzin’s call is broadcast freely on loudspeakers all over Israel five times a day, starting at 5 a.m. Christians go safely to church in Israel as they cannot do anywhere else in the Middle East. Omar’s claim that the Jewish state discriminates against religions other Judaism is a lie, and it’s anti-Semitic because it’s a lie about the Jewish people and their state.
Is Israel—the nation-state of the Jewish people—an apartheid state? Nobody who’s ever gone to the grocery store in Israel could ever truthfully say such a thing because they would have seen Jews and Arabs shopping together and working together. Nobody who’s ever looked at the government of Israel could ever say such a thing because the government is populated by Jews, Druze, Arabs (Christian and Muslim), Baha’i and every other religious group you can think of. Claiming that the Jewish state puts Arabs in Bantustans is a lie: Some 44 percent of the population of Haifa is Arab. Equating Israel with South Africa before Mandela is an anti-Semitic lie because it’s an ugly untruth about the Jewish people and about the Jewish state.
Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Lying about the actions of the Jewish state to delegitimize the Zionist enterprise, while affirming the right of every other people in the world to a place of their own (and not caring all that much how those other places treat their minorities), is anti-Semitic because it’s a lie.
The overwhelming majority of U.S. senators and representatives support a close relationship with Israel because they believe that such a relationship is in America’s interest. Lying about the Jews spreading money around to buy this support is anti-Semitic, and it’s anti-Semitic because it’s a lie. (It’s a lie, in part, because the overwhelming majority of support for America’s pro-Zionist position comes not from Jews but from Christians.)
Omar has claimed that she is merely “questioning” America’s relationship with Israel. But she’s lying because she’s done no such thing. She’s advanced no argument about why it isn’t in America’s strategic interest to maintain its current relationship with Israel. She’s adduced no reasons why the United States would be better off supporting the terror-exporting, America-hating government of Iran.
What she has done (and all she has done) is lie about Israel and the Jews. Telling such lies is no less anti-Semitic than “explaining” hostility towards the Jewish state by claiming that on April 19, the Jews who live there, like the ones who live here, will be eating blood-drenched matzah.
Omar’s actions, though, have afforded the world some badly needed clarity because they enable us to see who’s lined up with whom. David Duke’s website trumpets his agreement with Omar, and Omar hasn’t rejected his support.
This unity of purpose among Jew-haters shows clearly why it’s delusional to claim, as Paul Krugman recently did, that only the haters on the right are dangerous. There is no left or right on Jew-hatred; whether it comes from a Somali woman in a headscarf or a white man wearing a pointed hat, it’s all the same. If you’re lying about Israel, the Jewish state, or you’re lying about the Jews, as a people, then you’re an anti-Semite.
Does a congressional resolution condemning “hate” make all of this go away? Of course not, because the only “hate” that’s been on display is Jew-hatred. Therefore, it was Jew-hatred that needed to be condemned. The Democrats’ inability to do this speaks volumes about them, about their party’s allegiances and about their capacity (or willingness) to understand the world. And themselves.
Oh boy, someone woke up.
That worm should be sent back to the filth where she came from.Why is she allowed to even be in our politics she isn’t even American..She came here and lived on our dollar and went to college then now she is saying such lies about our friends from Israel..I really wish God would destroy her and her group of liars they have no bushiness in our country spreading lies..
Writer has me up to “majority of US politicians suppprt Israel because they think it’s in national interest”
He is giving them way too much credit. Most of our politicians don’t think anything or care about anything besides themselves.
Ilhan Omar is a disgusting slob. She is horrible in her aversion to the Jewish people. It shows a lack of thought to just mouth an objection to a group of people without them doing anything.
She is here because we created a congressional district with a muslim majority.
Even when the Irish and Italians had their own communities, they did not control congressional districts.
Find out who created the district and you will see it was socialist who are in league with islamists….just like in WWII.
They are working together to undermine and destroy western culture and Judeo-Christian nations...they do this with multiculturalism, political correctness, suppression of Judeo-Christian symbols and actions while supporting islamist practices, sharia law and hatred of our history.
Apparently the author of this article has been awake for quite a while. See here: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/24/us/president-s-trial-lawsuit-quietly-team-lawyers-kept-paula-jones-s-case-alive.html
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