Thread by @JewhadiTM

Impeachment Won't Be The Trump-Ending Silver Bullet Democrats Expect thefederalist.com/2019/01/23/imp…

Dems have been scrambling over the last few weeks to downplay a surge in anti-Semitic rhetoric in their party and on the left, w/a rationale that such statements express “anti-Zionism” in defense of the supposedly oppressed 'Palestinians' and have nothing to do w/anti-Semitism.

This is nonsense. The claim that “anti-Zionism does not equal anti-Semitism” is a fallacious argument to discredit Israel and weaken American support for it.

Unfortunately, such arguments appear to be having an effect, since a recent Economist/YouGov poll found that only a quarter of American liberals think of Israel as an ally — down from the 36 percent of liberals who viewed Israel as an ally in 2017.

Sen. Chuck Schumer took a bold stand on this issue in July 2017 when he praised French President Macron for condemning anti-Zionism as a reinvented form of anti-Semitism. Schumer added:

“The idea that all other peoples can seek and defend their right to self-determination but the Jewish people cannot; that other nations have a right to exist but the Jewish State of Israel does not, that, too, is a modern form of anti-Semitism...”

Schumer also condemned the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement as “a pernicious effort to delegitimize Israel through boycotts, divestment and sanctions” and a reinvented form of anti-Semitism.

Due to a surge in this new form of anti-Semitism, including in the U.S. Congress, it is time for Schumer and other congressional Democrat leaders to speak out again against this religious bigotry.

For example, two openly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic House members, @OmarMN and @RashidaTlaib (D-Mich), were sworn in this month. Tlaib wants to do away with the state of Israel and renamed Israel “Palestine” on a map in her Capitol Hill office the day of her swearing in.

She also recently came under fire for making the notorious anti-Semitic “dual loyalties” charge against members of Congress who oppose the BDS movement. Schumer and other congressional Democratic leaders have said nothing about Tlaib’s anti-Semitic comments.

Even worse, not only have Democratic leaders ignored similar anti-Jewish and anti-Israel slurs from Omar, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently gave her a coveted seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a decision House Republicans immediately condemned.

Pelosi took this action even though Omar casually refers to Israel as an “apartheid regime” and sent a tweet in 2012 that said: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

We are watching far-left, anti-Semitic radicals take over the party. While I give Wasserman-Schultz a great deal of credit for speaking out against religious bigotry among the leaders of the @WomensMarch, her statement was an exception and she is not in the House Dem leadership.

Anti-Zionism is not just another form of anti-Semitism. It is an attempt to normalize anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel, all to undermine Israel, one of America’s closest and most important allies.

The Dems should not be tolerating this threat to religious freedom and U.S. national security in its ranks.

It is time for Schumer to go to the Senate floor again and declare that anti-Zionism is a reinvented form of anti-Semitism.

But this time he must also declare that there is no room for this bigotry in the U.S. Congress or in the Democratic and Republican parties.