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Why are Reps @Ilhan Omar & @RashidaTlaib making it so difficult for moderates & bridge-builders to foster a coalition against hate? They WANT everyone to CHOOSE SIDES, and they see Jews—including peacemakers—as being on the ‘other side’, unless we stand with them against Israel.
The Jew-baiting in Omar’s comments isn’t some slip of the tongue—it’s daring humanrights advocates to criticize her so SHE becomes the victim. The racists attacking her just for being a Muslim are helping her make that case, so she can paint Jews and Democrats as oppressors.
Now, any Jew or Democrat who does not take the side of Omar & Tlaib—that their narrative is beyond dispute—is labeled a bystander, collaborator or agent of hate. We are the enemy. They don’t have to win control of the Democratic Party this year or the next—theirs is a long game.
And by giving disproportionate airtime to these deliberately divisive junior legislators, @CNN & other media outlets are rewarding their sensationalism, empowering enemies of peace, and undermining our civil discourse—just as they did by magnifying DJT starting 4 years ago.
If these politicians are able and effective enough to get non-stop coverage, then they are also mature and strong enough to withstand real on-air challenging of their premises and to be held to account for their own promoting and abiding of hate.
NO. Democrats condemning antiSemitism within their own ranks is NOT due to Islamophobia—especially when the person claiming so has yet to acknowledge that tropes about Jewish $$ and dual loyalty DO constitute anti-Semitism... cnn.com/2019/03/17/pol…
I awoke this morning devastated by #ChristChurch, only to turn on CNN and see a Member of Congress implicitly agreeing that fighting anti-Semitism kills Muslims. Hopefully, everyone on this thread agrees that the 50 Mosque victims are our focus today: nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…
