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Mehdi Hasan
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"There Is a Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC — and Ilhan Omar Just Destroyed It" - my latest for @theintercept on how we rightly go after the pro-gun lobby but give the pro-Israel lobby a pass:
theintercept.com/2019/02/12/the…
"In 2005, Steven Rosen, then a senior official with [AIPAC], sat down for dinner with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg... 'You see this napkin?' Rosen asked Goldberg. 'In twenty-four hours, [AIPAC] could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin.'"
theintercept.com/2019/02/12/the…
Yes, AIPAC doesn't do direct donations to candidates but, as I explain in my piece, it still helps raise tons of cash for candidates, and I even mention how @tomfriedman of all people explained it to me, very bluntly, back in 2013:
theintercept.com/2019/02/12/the…
It's obviously not right to suggest it's only about "the Benjamins" - there are plenty of other explanations for US support for Israel, see below - but to pretend the Benjamins play no part is just disingenuous, as I argue here:
theintercept.com/2019/02/12/the…
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Mehdi Hasan
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So, on the whole @IlhanMN controversy, I wanted to do this #thread pointing out the absurdity of saying it's off limits to mention money and support for Israel, when the US media (rightly) does mention money, influence-peddling & lobbying when it comes to Saudi Arabia and DC.
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Why is it okay to talk about Saudi lobbies, and Saudis buying Trump, and Saudi-first policies, why is it not Islamophobic to say all of that, but it's anti-Semitic when it comes to Israel? Try changing Saudi to Israel in some of these mainstream headlines - here we go:
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Here's the Washington Post; remember, Saudi, not Israel:
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Mehdi Hasan
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I think I may have burst a blood vessel reading this pro-dictator, warmongering Tony "conflict of interest" Blair op-ed on Iran and the Middle East in the Washington Post.

How some in the Labour Party can slam Corbyn but be okay with Blair is still beyond me. FFS.

*THREAD* 1/
Check out this gem of a para from Blair on the Middle East where he mentions Yemen, without mentioning the Saudi bombing/starvation campaign; he mentions Bahrain without mentioning their crackdown; and mentions Iraq's "independence" - the guy who illegally effing invaded Iraq! 2/
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Mehdi Hasan
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1) I've tweeted already about why the contrition & apologies towards the #Covington kids is misplaced and wrong. But their Trump-inspired racism & bullying is not new - we've seen this in schools across the country since Trump's emergence in 2015. Here's some evidence:
*THREAD*
2) In March 2016, high school basketball fans in Indiana chanted ‘Build A Wall’ at their Latino opponents.
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