Pelosi and Hoyer aren’t idiots, and they weren’t born yesterday. I’d bet a million dollars — yeah, I know, we Jews and money; it’s always money — they know perfectly well what Omar is. The thing is, it matters less to them than being on the right side of their party’s young vanguard in the House.
Here’s another: Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, who told Politico she doesn’t think Omar is an anti-Semite. Politico makes much of the fact that Schakowsky is a Jew, and she is. She also happens to be a supporter and devotee of J Street, the Democratic organization that exists to criticize Israel and the pro-Israel community in the United States.
The very fact of J Street’s existence, and that Schakowsky herself survives and thrives as an anti-Israel Jew, gives the lie to Omar’s repugnant contention about Jewish control of the conversation on Israel and the Palestinians in America. That’s about the only good thing I can say about the views of J Street and Schakowsky.
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