Ilhan Omar's "anti-Semitic" tweets criticizing the outsize role of the Israeli lobby in American politics were neither anti-Semitic nor remotely controversial, and the insane overreaction of both Democratic Party leadership and member…
Ilhan Omar's "anti-Semitic" tweets criticizing the outsize role of the Israeli lobby in American politics were neither anti-Semitic nor remotely controversial, and the insane overreaction of both Democratic Party leadership and members of the Lobby proves her point better than she could have hoped to do alone. AIPAC and its ilk are lobbying groups - by definition, their purpose is to get money to congresscreatures in order to elicit the desired legislative behavior. It's as Pavlovian as it sounds. By attacking Omar, AIPAC and Israel's army of hasbara trolls (more than half the Twitter users attacking Omar, especially those claiming to be from her district, are obvious sock-puppet accounts, likely being run out of Tel Aviv) proved she was right. The arrogant, hubris-bloated Lobby sees no reason it should not continue operating with impunity - while Democratic leadership cravenly proved it would rather appease a foreign government that holds the purse strings than stick up for one of their own, even when that "one" is a Muslim woman of color, a winner of the intersectional identity politics sweepstakes.
Democrats have revealed what we knew all along - all this identity politics talk was just divide-and-conquer rhetoric, and what really matters is - as Omar said herself - the benjamins. Good luck getting people to vote for your morally-bankrupt asses in 2020.
Meanwhile, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is sabotaging an entire generation's attempt to reform the rotting husk of capitalism, poisoning the well for future activists and dashing the hopes of an entire generation with her sloppy, fake, spineless half-measures, abandoning her campaign platform before she was even sworn in, & allowing unseen forces to sand off what rough edges remain. And Rashida Tlaib is looking more like a sellout every day, content to screech-to-impeach but remaining silent where it matters. Somewhere in Congress, there is a room full of the spines that have been checked before lawmakers are allowed to enter the legislative chamber.
MUST WATCH:
al-Jazeera's "The Lobby" part 1 https://youtu.be/3lSjXhMUVKE (the rest is linked here if Youtube is censoring search results https://electronicintifada.net/content/watch-film-israel-lobby-didnt-want-you-see/25876)
Cynthia McKinney on loyalty oaths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-rbw_SLoeA
An explanation of how AIPAC works (it does not directly contribute to candidates, so don't be fooled by its comparatively paltry budget) https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/03/22/the-best-congress-aipac-can-buy/
#standwithIlhan
MOAR: helenofdestroy.com
