Antisemitism is not the reason Ilhan Omar lost her committee seat

[Guno צְבִי]

If House Republicans were truly concerned about antisemitism, they would be dealing with their own members’ remarks

As Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) stated before the vote today, 90% of Jewish members of the House were set to vote to keep Congresswoman Omar on the committee “because we believe in the human capacity to learn from mistakes, to make amends, and that atonement should be rewarded.”


It is true the lopsidedness of the Jewish vote in the House is a reflection of the partisan nature of the vote, but it is also worth remembering that many of these Jewish Democrats who supported Omar issued strong condemnations of her tweet at the time — including Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, her most outspoken and persistent Democratic critic.

Yet these Jewish members of Congress supported Rep. Omar today because they understood this old news was not being dredged up for the benefit of American Jews, but rather for a historically weak Speaker of the House who has chosen to humiliate an opponent loathed by the Republican base. That Congresswoman Omar is a member of a religious and ethnic minority demonized by white nationalists ascendant on the American right is also undoubtedly motivating this solidarity.

https://forward.com/opinion/534849/antisemitism-not-the-reason-ilhan-omar-lost-committee-seat/

 

[Guno צְבִי]

What may be most baffling in the hypocrisy department is that McCarthy himself has invoked the antisemitic specter of disproportionate Jewish political power in America — and on Twitter, no less. Before the 2018 midterm elections, McCarthy tweeted that “we cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election! Get out and vote Republican November 6th. #MAGA.”

McCarthy has dismissed the notion that he was being antisemitic, noting the three Jewish donors he accused of trying to “buy” the election were united in his mind not by faith but politics. Perhaps so, but wasn’t this precisely the problem with Rep. Omar’s tweet? It is not antisemitic to point out AIPAC’s political influence in Congress, which it proudly touts in its own materials, but it may be problematic to do so with careless language that could harm American Jews.

What we witnessed today was not a congressional majority standing up against antisemitism. Instead, a deadly serious issue was exploited for partisan purposes. The vast majority of American Jews did not call for this unnecessary and cynical spectacle, but we may be haunted by its endless afterlife.

 

[Nordberg]

Well, the rightys know the California fires were created by Jewish Space lasers. Ask MTG.

 

[evince]

Republicans nowadays don’t have any morals that they wouldn’t sell real cheap


It’s one horrifically pathetic party


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