For decades Israel has been unassailable and Jewish organizations have been the most powerful lobby groups in Washington and many state capitals. Even mentioning these facts has been verboten in polite society, recalling the dictum attributed to Voltaire about whom you can’t criticize. Now college students are demonstrating in support of the Palestinians amid hysterical claims, even in the alternative media, that the second Holocaust is just around the corner. It recalls the censoriousness of the Covidiots, and the hysteria mongers are headed for the same ignominy. There are plenty of Jews who are anti-Zionist. From Dave DeCamp at antiwar.com:
Only 13 Democrats and one Republican voted ‘no’ while 92 other Democrats voted ‘present’
The House on Tuesday passed a resolution that says “anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” the chamber’s latest piece of legislation conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
The resolution, which is presented as a resolution condemning antisemitism, passed in a vote of 314-14-92. Only thirteen Democrats and one Republican voted against the legislation, while 92 Democrats voted “present” in protest of a line buried in the bill that explicitly claims anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
The Republican-drafted resolution declares that the House of Representatives “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the most senior Jewish member of the House, criticized the language of the bill ahead of the vote. “The resolution suggests that ALL anti-Zionism is antisemitism. That is either intellectually disingenuous or just factually wrong. And it unfairly implicates many of my orthodox former constituents in Brooklyn, many of whose families rose from the ashes of the Holocaust,” he said.
Nadler claimed that “most anti-Zionism is antisemitism” but added that if authors of the bill “were at all familiar with Jewish history and culture, should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was, and is, expressly NOT antisemitic.”
I guess that makes me an antisemite because I am sure anti-Zionist. This is nonsense! I have Jewish friends who are anti-Zionist. They weaponize words and also weaponize ideas. These people are clowns.