Their was a grand total of zero lies detected.
Isreal and it's lobbyists have all the major powers singing its praises as it commits atrocities with full impunity.
She does not refer to all Jews, but the influence of Isreal and its supporters.
Again, the whole point of the lobby's influence is lost to most people.
This post misses the point of why that tweet got an antisemitic reaction. You're not saying anything don't agree with here. Yes, she was right. Where she fucked up was how she presented it. She didn't answer this like it was a question on Jeopardy. Many posters have gone into the details of why negative Jewish stereotypes are bad, but it's not getting through.
That
Ichthyosaurus would use that tweet as an example of her alleged use of "offensive Jewish stereotypes", as well as his eagerness to equate AIPAC = Jewish and Israel = Jewish, is telling.
Also not surprising, in a way. It's just one of those "criticizing Israel = anti-semitic" bullcrap we've seen again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
No, it's not. You're refusing to acknowledge the issue here isn't that back and white. No-one is arguing for AIPAC here, and you know it. Did you forget that AIPAC are Jewish, which is why this is coming off as bad? I agree they don't represent all Jewish people, but they don't have to for this to be viewed as anti-semitism.
This isn't about criticising Israel, i'ts clumsily attacking AIPAC with framing that can be interpreted as anti-semitism.
Why can we talk about the NRA like that but not about AIPAC?
I'm Jewish and I really don't get why anyone would find that offensive.
Also, that 2012 tweet is during operation pillar of defense.
Why the fuck are we tone policing her reaction to shit like this?
You can talk about the NRA like that since it's not an ethnic group or a persecuted history or has oppressive language by its enemies around the world because of the former. You can badmouth the NRA all you like and I'd agree with you, but this thread isn't about thread so they're off-topic.
You may not, but many Jewish people do and I'm not including AIPAC or Lukid. Which is why this is a controversial subject where people treat with kid gloves for a reason, particularly politicians.
Antisemitic language doesn't cease to be antisemitic despite having good intentions behind it. That was a tweet she has to apologise for, as well. There is no "get to of jail free" card for being racist because you had good intentions, it's not how this works.
You're focused on whether what her message was, which many people are doing to ignore the real problem here - the framing of her words. That's all it is. Posting responses like that is useless because I agree with you already, as do many other posters which keeps getting ignored because people want to get on a cross defending Omar, when she fucked up. More than once.
Israel =/= Jews.
AIPAC =/= Jews.
Why is it that are you unable to acknowledge that there is more to do this than that. That's what the AIPAC are doing, yes, we're not discussing that aspect because we agree on that. Linking money to AIPAC is naturally a bad idea to them because they are in fact Jewish, that does not go away to win an argument. It's why that's a tone deaf response. There was no clarity or nuance in her tweet so she got backlash from it.
There's nothing wrong with that tweet. Although, what you are doing is antisemitic, I'm afraid. She didn't mention Jews or Jewish people. Conflating AIPAC or Israel with Jewish people generally is antisemitism. It's astounding how so many of you who claim she has uttered an antisemitic statement are the ones invoking the trope, not her.
That you can't see what's going on here is astounding, or you're trolling. It's disingenuous, regardless.
Ignore AIPAC, and their disingenuous claims - they have no credibility in this thread. This is about perception of antisemitism in American politics and global culture where showing signs of being an antisemitic is an obvious bad idea. This is nothing to do with AIPAC, as explained previously. It is possible to anciently say racist things without meaning to be racist, this is not something inherent to antisemitism. It's why white people don't say the R word, or touch Black people's hair.
Do none of you recognise antisemitic language when you see it in public? This is breathtakingly ignorant. The lack of self awareness is staggering. This is about antisemitic language can be appear antisemitic due its framing, his isn't about if she's right or this would be a very short thread because everyone agrees with her. Defaulting to that defence shows they're not looking at anything side from surface detail of a very serious topic.
