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Goose Gate
May 1, 2022, 6:45:02 AM5/1/22
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JNugent <jennings&c...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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The Jews can never seem to live up to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D.,
Minn.) exacting standards.
The Minnesota congresswoman’s latest broadside came Tuesday
afternoon, when she told CNN’s Jake Tapper that her Jewish
Democratic colleagues "haven’t been partners in justice" and
have yet to apologize for their allegedly Islamophobic comments.
Omar’s statement came after Tapper asked whether she regrets her
comments last month comparing the United States and Israel with
terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Taliban. Her answer
was unequivocal: "I don’t."
That’s funny, because Omar at the time "clarified" that
statement, which elicited a rebuke from Democratic leaders and a
dozen Jewish Democrats, saying that she did not say what in fact
she said: "I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with
democratic countries." To be clear, she also believes Israel is
a terrorist nation.
Omar, as the kids say, is owning her truth. Her tap dance
follows a pattern that is by now well established, in which the
justice-seeking congresswoman makes nakedly prejudicial remarks,
pretends to walk them back in the face of muted criticism from
her colleagues, characterizes the criticism itself as
Islamophobic, and proceeds to reoffend.
That pattern gives the lie to the apology Omar issued after
arguing that American support for Israel is "all about the
Benjamins, baby": Her offenses were born of ignorance rather
than prejudice, she said, and thanked her colleagues for
"educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes."
Omar could give a master class on anti-Semitism, and the pattern
of her offenses makes clear she is using that knowledge to
perpetuate it. That’s probably why a Punchbowl News report
earlier this month indicated that "a number of Omar’s fellow
Democrats believe Omar is an anti-Semite, even if they don’t say
so publicly."
It is, of course, the only prejudice about which Democrats are
tight-lipped and the only one tolerated in the party’s ranks.
It is also the latest indication that the party is following in
the footsteps of the British left, led until recently by Squad
ally Jeremy Corbyn. A report from the United Kingdom's Equality
and Human Rights Commission implicated not just Corbyn, whose
offenses are legion, but the Labour Party itself, which "at
best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst,
could be seen to accept it."
To the extent there is resistance in the Democratic Party to
Omar’s relentless attacks on Jews and her condemnations of
American power and influence, surely it is driven at least in
part by the shellacking the British left took in the last
national election there.
Should the Democrats continue down this path, we have faith that
the outcome for the left will be the same here as in Britain,
and that the more they see of Omar and her allies, the dimmer
their prospects become.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/ilhan-omar-knows-what-shes-doing/
JNugent <jennings&c...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
The Jews can never seem to live up to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D.,
Minn.) exacting standards.
The Minnesota congresswoman’s latest broadside came Tuesday
afternoon, when she told CNN’s Jake Tapper that her Jewish
Democratic colleagues "haven’t been partners in justice" and
have yet to apologize for their allegedly Islamophobic comments.
Omar’s statement came after Tapper asked whether she regrets her
comments last month comparing the United States and Israel with
terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Taliban. Her answer
was unequivocal: "I don’t."
That’s funny, because Omar at the time "clarified" that
statement, which elicited a rebuke from Democratic leaders and a
dozen Jewish Democrats, saying that she did not say what in fact
she said: "I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with
democratic countries." To be clear, she also believes Israel is
a terrorist nation.
Omar, as the kids say, is owning her truth. Her tap dance
follows a pattern that is by now well established, in which the
justice-seeking congresswoman makes nakedly prejudicial remarks,
pretends to walk them back in the face of muted criticism from
her colleagues, characterizes the criticism itself as
Islamophobic, and proceeds to reoffend.
That pattern gives the lie to the apology Omar issued after
arguing that American support for Israel is "all about the
Benjamins, baby": Her offenses were born of ignorance rather
than prejudice, she said, and thanked her colleagues for
"educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes."
Omar could give a master class on anti-Semitism, and the pattern
of her offenses makes clear she is using that knowledge to
perpetuate it. That’s probably why a Punchbowl News report
earlier this month indicated that "a number of Omar’s fellow
Democrats believe Omar is an anti-Semite, even if they don’t say
so publicly."
It is, of course, the only prejudice about which Democrats are
tight-lipped and the only one tolerated in the party’s ranks.
It is also the latest indication that the party is following in
the footsteps of the British left, led until recently by Squad
ally Jeremy Corbyn. A report from the United Kingdom's Equality
and Human Rights Commission implicated not just Corbyn, whose
offenses are legion, but the Labour Party itself, which "at
best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst,
could be seen to accept it."
To the extent there is resistance in the Democratic Party to
Omar’s relentless attacks on Jews and her condemnations of
American power and influence, surely it is driven at least in
part by the shellacking the British left took in the last
national election there.
Should the Democrats continue down this path, we have faith that
the outcome for the left will be the same here as in Britain,
and that the more they see of Omar and her allies, the dimmer
their prospects become.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/ilhan-omar-knows-what-shes-doing/
Goose Gate
May 8, 2022, 9:45:02 PM5/8/22
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