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The House Democrats' "rebuke" of Rep. Ilhan Omar is a fraud for many reasons, Including its wild distortion of her comments interc.pt/2H2nNgQ
Again, the irony of this Omar controversy is that what is actually anti-Semitic is to conflate "the Israeli Government and its supporters" (which Omar criticized) with "Jews" (who Omar never criticized). Anti-semitism is not coming from Omar but from those denouncing her.
The other irony is so many people - Haim Saban, Tom Friedman and the NYT - have made comments far more extreme than Omar's about the limits of the Israel debate, yet never got denounced. Hard not to see bigotry in the attacks on the first black Muslim woman elected to Congress.
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This is exactly right. They accused opponents of the Iraq War of supporting Saddam. They accused opponents of US involvement in the war in Libya of supporting Gaddafi. They accuse opponents of US intervention in Syria of being pro-Assad. Same scummy tactic now used for Maduro:
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Will the brave luminaries of the IDW a) condemn this direct, state-sponsored attack in the west on free speech rights, b) cheer it because they have a gigantic Israel exception for their "principles," or c) ignore it completely?
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