If anyone on earth falls for this shit, shame on them. Done playing: just pure shame.
Dig in full, including what Tlaib actually said, which is pretty much philo-semitic as fuck: she is proud of Palestinians sheltering Jewish refugees from the Nazis but can't be entirely thrilled because, like, they lost their fucking country. This now counts as some kind of Holocaust-denying Jew-hatred, at least according to Trump and Scalise, two fucking antisemites, each.
And many liberal Jews just nod approvingly. You all suck, though: Jewish or not. If you're not a right-winger and you fell for this shit, shame on you, and skip to the end of this to get the fucking message, which I'll even bold; then go and sin no more:
Dig in full, including what Tlaib actually said, which is pretty much philo-semitic as fuck: she is proud of Palestinians sheltering Jewish refugees from the Nazis but can't be entirely thrilled because, like, they lost their fucking country. This now counts as some kind of Holocaust-denying Jew-hatred, at least according to Trump and Scalise, two fucking antisemites, each.
And many liberal Jews just nod approvingly. You all suck, though: Jewish or not. If you're not a right-winger and you fell for this shit, shame on you, and skip to the end of this to get the fucking message, which I'll even bold; then go and sin no more:
We should see this phenomenon for what it is: a cynical strategy to discredit anyone who criticizes Israel and its fiercest advocates in the United States government, coming from people who don’t give a rat’s ass about bigotry against Jews or any other religious or ethnic minority.
Steve Scalise is a perfect example. He once spoke at a rally for a fascist group called the European-American Unity and Rights Organization where, according to the Jew-hating white supremacist website Stormfront, he lamented government assistance for non-whites. Before becoming president, Donald Trump ran a real-estate empire that routinely and intentionally discriminatedagainst black people. Trump’s Muslim ban literally targets a group of people for discrimination based on ethnicity and religion.
These Republicans don’t care about social justice. They have no problem with prejudice. They’re opportunists looking to smear their political opponents, because those opponents are against unconditional US support for Israel as it murders Palestinian civilians.
Democrats too have spent decades rolling out the red carpet for Israel with little concern for Palestinian rights. Accordingly, they attempted to censure Omar for her comments, out of a supposed concern for antisemitism. We shouldn’t expect any different from a party establishment that believes, as top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi put it last year, that “there is no greater political accomplishment in the twentieth century than the establishment of the State of Israel.”
We should, however, expect better from the Democratic Party’s liberal base. Liberals are by and large opposed to prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination, and have made a good habit of opposing intolerance wherever it manifests. But now that opposition to bigotry is a majority position in the US — something that wasn’t true half a century ago — liberals need to learn a new habit. They need to learn how to discern when somebody is manipulating their earnest desire for social equality in order to score points and take down a political adversary.
Recognizing the manufactured blowback to Tlaib’s comments as insincere and devious politicking is a good place to start.