Democrats don't want to hear Rashida Tlaib's anti-Semitic dog whistle

Shockingly, media watchdogs and champions of racial justice have maintained utter silence in the face of Tlaib’s dog whistle, an anti-Semitic trope at least as old as the Persian Empire. And Democrats are increasingly falling in line with their famous freshman racists.

“Really dangerous to play politics [with] support for Israel,” said Rep. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., in opposition to Rubio’s dogged defense of his bill.

The merits of the bill aside, and the veracity of Rubio’s charge that a “signifcant” number of Senate Democrats now support BDS aside, the lack of outrage and seeming acceptance of hackneyed attacks on Jews and Israel from Democratic politicians at the highest echelons of government is astounding. Tlaib’s assertion that “they” are first and foremost loyal to Israel due to Judaism, not from a sound desire to defend our only democratic ally in the Middle East, screams of the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism in Democratic politics.