Rabbi Aryeh Spero, spokesman for the National Conference on Jewish Affairs, just released a blistering new op-ed that should wake America up to the real dangers of the Democrat Party.
Rabbi Spero makes the case that newly-elected representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are daily turning the Democrats toward anti-Semitism, intent on making anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment official party doctrine before the 2020 presidential election.
From American Thinker:
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It is becoming more obvious by the day–even by the tweet-hour–that newly elected Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is anti-Semitic and is peddling her anti-Israel and anti-Jewishness through the well-known and effective drip-by-drip method.
It is a strategy, as we have seen from Islamists in Europe, where an anti-Israel or anti-Jewish statement is made and then partially retracted after an uproar. It is repeated multiple times, followed by multiple half-hearted retractions with the goal and effect being the slow but inevitable seepage of anti-Jewish caricatures into the country’s political discourse and into the minds of its people.
This successful strategy has poisoned Europe’s discourse against Jews and Israel and is being imported here with the arrival into Congress of Ms. Omar and Ms. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
The question today is: Do the leaders of the U.S. Congress, and especially House Speaker Ms. Pelosi, have the conviction and will to oust this never-ending shower of anti-Jewish rhetoric as they would if such was being said against other groups. Will they permanently shut this down before it metastasizes as it has in Europe and is unfolding in front of our very eyes?
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There is no question that Ms. Omar’s playing-innocent type of apologies are done in such a manner to momentarily quell the outcry against her remarks while assuring her base that she has not capitulated to the powers outside her community. Her nonchalant use of anti-Semitic stereotypes and language is furthermore disturbing for it reflects a communal comfort with and approval of anti-Semitic ideas that most Americans deem beyond the pale.
Of course she should be censured and, beyond that, removed from the very powerful and influential House Foreign Affairs Committee that Speaker Pelosi surprisingly granted to this first-year legislator. Omar’s thinking, her conduct, and her blithe willingness to inject anti-Semitic tropes into the legislative process make her unfit to hold such a strategic position.
She and Ms. Tlaib have come to Congress with an unprecedented brazenness, defiance, and impropriety that go beyond mere difference of opinion. Right out of the gate, both women have overridden expected norms as single-minded propagandists eager to use their presence and committee positions as platforms to propagandize against Israel, and Jews who support Israel, by making the heretofore unacceptable now acceptable.
No one should be afraid to censure and remove Ms. Omar from the Committee as a way of stopping the drip-by-drip plot to sully Israel and the Jewish people; nor be afraid of being labeled ‘anti-woman,’ or ‘racist,’ or ‘Islamophobic.’ Her defenders, and organizations here such as CAIR, will label her censure indicative of the ‘power of the Zionists,’ but what it will in fact be is the power of justice and the American way.
How Americans can continue to support these two is beyond me.
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The case is growing for Speaker Pelosi to force Rep. Omar off the House Foreign Affairs committee after her outburst yesterday that displayed her ignorance of American history and foreign policy.
While Rep. Ilhan Omar questioned Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams in a House Foreign Affairs hearing, I got the eery feeling that Rep. Omar had no clue what the Iran-Contra Affair actually was. pic.twitter.com/cKDfYeCKeA
— Mike (@Doranimated) February 13, 2019
Here’s how Twitter responded:
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What gave it away? The fact that she could barely read from a prepared statement?
— Luke Coffey (@LukeDCoffey) February 13, 2019
And she supports state mandated serial killing of over 300K little humans a year. Her human rights hypocrisy has no bounds.
— JACKIE ACHEE (@AcheeJackie) February 13, 2019
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I was thinking the same thing. She was reading it off a piece of paper word for word and poorly. I bet someone else wrote it and she is just reading it cold.
— John L Meyer (@Irish_Searcher) February 14, 2019
And she smirked sarcastically the other half. A total lack of respect from a position of power.
— SiL✍🏻 (@silbehar) February 14, 2019
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Mind you the reading and comprehension…
“Yes or No question”
“NO”
“I will take that answer as a YES” pic.twitter.com/eJoViohJeX
— SiL✍🏻 (@silbehar) February 14, 2019
A year ago I could never have imagined that our congress could be any MORE embarrassing than it was, but then Omar got elected.
— Forest Budke (@ForestBudke) February 14, 2019
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Wait and watch. This is just the beginning.
— DJ (@KapeeshRaj) February 14, 2019
Her script is straight off wikipedia. She sure knows how to plagiarize her “research.”
— Leslie Dee (@cactuspatchhill) February 14, 2019
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It’s called a “loaded question”. Listed as a fallacy in the textbook.
Usually followed by a command to answer by “yes” or “no” so as to prevent the denial of the false statement included in the question.— 🇮🇱 Yosef Kutner (@ynkutner) February 14, 2019
Who is Mr. Adams?
— (((ObsessedAbroad))) (@Obsessedabroad) February 13, 2019
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She is unfit to be a member of this committee and should be expelled from it ASAP. She makes a joke of this hearing.
— 🇮🇱 Yosef Kutner (@ynkutner) February 14, 2019
I wonder how she feels about ISIS human rights violations.
— Scott Andersen (@mistertennis) February 14, 2019
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She’s dangerous and has NO place to be placed on the Foreign Affairs Committee. This is inappropriate.
— Lisa (@ljcljf) February 13, 2019
She has no place in Congress
— dfconservative (@BigRfaze) February 14, 2019
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Outrageous!! Elliot Abrams is a true American hero. I’m shocked he’s being treated in this manner. Makes me want to cry to see what’s happened to our country. Thank The Lord President Trump is in office..🇺🇸🙏✝️
— clare mahoney (@cemahoney77) February 13, 2019
Yes, but to be honest, she has no clue about a whole lot of events
— George L. Duncan (@GeorgeLDuncan) February 13, 2019