Ted deutch (D-Fl) just accused Rashida tlaib of anti-semitism on floor of house

[R.P. McM]

That the entire Jewish population being tied as a synonym to a foreign government's actions, and that literally any criticism of that government's actions is deemed anti-Semitism, is itself pretty damn anti-Semitic and downright hypocritical.

Exactly. If the Jewish population of the US and the Israeli government are viewed as indistinguishable, then nothing about the dual-loyalty "canard" is actually false or anti-Semitic. The proponents of this perspective are absolutely loyal to a foreign nation to an equal/greater extent than they are to the US. Think Jonathan Pollard, minus the espionage.

[R.P. McM]

Tlaib is a Palestinian. Can we give her a pass on not being supportive of Israel? Please?

Calling Israel an apartheid state is at once incendiary and false. There is no need for her to go there. So I won't give her a pass. I say this as one who has been harshly critical of the Israeli settlements unilaterally placed there on the West Bank, and the excessive US "blank check" to "let" Israel do that, since day one. The problem is that the Palestinian leadership itself has been hopeless. The whole thing is a freaking mess. It is almost as bad as the current state of the US public square!

What is out there to give one a reasonable level of confidence that "that woman" is not an incorrigible Jew hater btw?

Calm down Torie. It's time to take your meds, you old curmudgeon you.

So let’s just run down the list here.

Israel has separate qualifications for citizenship based of ethnic origin, a stateless population created by their ethnically tiered citizenship qualifications that is both physically separated and denied legal rights, periodic campaigns justified by those legal disabilities to remove that population, territories outside of the jurisdiction of their legal system in which to house stateless people under military administration.

But it’s not apartheid because no one speaks Africaans?

And the accusations of anti-semitism are particularly galling given that literally the only people talking about ‘the Jews’ are people trying to defend the Israeli government.

Good points, but I came to a conclusion years ago, that it doesn’t really matter.

Israel may not be the best friend of USA or other Western governments, but it’s a far better friend than the Palestinians will ever be, and siding with the Palestinians will not make Muslims in general and Arabs specific more friendly toward USA, they will hate you no matter what you do.

Wow, how did this massively bigoted statement escape censure? Besides the obvious, blatant double-standard, that is ...