Sorry, Democrats: Inconvenient anti-semitism is still anti-semitism

Such is the reason why so many of us are terrified. The Democrats aren’t confronting Members of Congress when they spew lies about Israel. How can Representative Ilhan Omar accuse Israel of committing “acts of terrorism,” and why is this comment not challenged by House leadership? Those so quick to (rightly) condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene for her theory about the Rothschilds’ secret space lasers can’t seem to concern themselves with throngs of “Pro-Palestinian” demonstrators in Los Angeles attacking Jewish men on the street simply for being Jewish. They’re not speaking up when marchers for Palestinian liberation attribute Israel to Nazi Germany and call for its destruction. They’re not speaking up when Jews are assaulted in Times Square for holding an Israeli flag, or when a firecracker is thrown in The Diamond District at visibly Jewish people. There are those who argue that criticism of Israel is not the same as anti-Semitism, and that’s true—to a point. But we’re seeing the limits of this claim tested now. So-called “criticism of Israel,” can, and has, encouraged the vilification and targeting of Jews. Soviet-Jewish activist Natan Sharansky points to The “3d Test” as a resource for ascertaining when hostility toward Israel trespasses into anti-Semitic territory. The test asserts that when anti-Israel rhetoric demonizes, delegitimizes, or applies double standards to the Jewish state, it is incumbent upon liberals to cry foul and speak out against it.
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