“because if they weren’t keeping the rest of those crazies in check you’d be looking at a major war created by the hard line religious sect in those Middle Eastern countries.”

I’ve never read the Protocols; is there a prominent character in it named Benjamin?

“Great, those people are not advocating holocaust 2.0, but what are they advocating exactly?”

“Israel’s right to exist without thinking abusing the palestinian people is necessary for this existence.”

“HOWEVER, it is legitimately not possible to separate aggressive anti-Israel rhetoric from antisemitism.”

Of course it is. That’s just silly. For most Palestinians, Israel has meant dead relatives, burned villages, lives spent in refugee camps as a result of ethnic cleansing and a lifetime of oppression. It’s obscene…

“But if you think Israel/Palestine is a simple, black-and-white, good-vs-bad guys story, that may not be anti-Semitism but it’s also not the kind of self-questioning perspective that progressives are supposed to value”

I say this as someone who knows quite a bit about the issue: the more you learn about the history of…

I understand that you feel wary; that’s why I’m merely presenting you with facts that can be independently verified and pointing you in the direction of some of the most knowledgeable experts on the issue. When you’ve spent your life hearing anti-Palestinian propaganda (I know from first-hand experience; I was raised…

That’s because the pile-on she faced was bigoted and dishonest. She may not be perfect, but what she said was true and not at all antisemitic: Washington is swayed by lobbyist money and on the issue of Israel, that lobby is AIPAC.

Don’t be disingenuous. If Omar had said that Congress’ refusal to put an end to US support for the war in Yemen was due to the “Benjamins” from the Saudi/UAE government, nobody would have batted an eye.

There’s a difference between indulging in antisemitic stereotypes like claiming the world is controlled by a Jewish cabal or that Jews qua Jews are inherently greedy on the one hand and claiming that attempts to quash pro-Palestinian advocacy is being bankrolled by wealthy lobbies like AIPAC on the other. AIPAC…

“Because, at the time, they supported the same Arab nationalists who were persecuting and expelling Jews (which they failed to do themselves).”

“You’re right that I’m not familiar enough with the history”

Except that the fundamentalist Christian lobby's influence is limited to the GOP whereas AIPAC's is bipartisan.

See, this is why I told you that you should educate yourself on the topic. For one thing, any history of Hamas has to begin in the 80s (not the turn of the millennium) when it was an offshoot of the MB supported by Israel (because a) it was fiercely opposed to the PLO, b) the PLO’s primary source of international…

Why on Earth do you care? Take a look at the unemployment rate; the fact that it’s above 0 means that there are more job-seekers than there are jobs available. Given that, what is so terrible about giving people a minimum income even if they don’t work? Moreover, this would be good for working people like you or me…

In mainstream Democratese, too.

Did you read the article?

As long as they steal the art and put it in a museum first.

No, this is why we need guillotines.

“not one AG of any state in the country, at any point ever, has ‘reformed criminal justice’ from that position”