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Originally Posted by revots33
She also tweeted Israel has hypnotized the world (with their Jew powers I suppose) and trotted out another old chestnut about Jewish Americans having dual loyalty.
The "hypnotize" quote is many years older, but is actually the only one that made me uncomfortable. It's the sort of thing that makes me check closely the other things they say. Is this a person who simply meant that Israel is an effective media manager, or that all Jews have magical powers of villainy? The latter is not borne out by her record. She consistently distinguishes between the state policies and the ethnicity.
And revots, this is the second time you've made the ugly slight of hand of claiming Omar was talking about the Jewish ethnicity when it was actually about the Israel lobby. Her statement was that the pro-Israel lobby demands that she have loyalty to a foreign power as the price for serving in office. That's factually true. Representative Juan Vargas Tweeted on March 4 that "questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is unacceptable." WTF.
David Simon (The Wire, Homicide, etc.) Tweeted:
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Her critics are hiding in the mock outrage over dual loyalty. If anyone is so committed to having Israel supported that they seek to subvert the republic by demanding silencing of dissent, then I'm entirely ready to query their loyalty to the American experiment.
BTW, numerically, I'm pretty sure that Jews are not the most numerous part of pro-Israel activists -- it's Christian evangelicals. So Ilhan was not even talking
mainly about Jews when she challenged the lobby.
Revots, one drawback to your conflating Jews with Israel is that people might be persuaded. Then you get all Jews being blamed every time the IDF devestates 1,500 homes in Gaza in one go.
Last edited by Bill Haywood; 03-07-2019 at 11:26 PM.