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This story was meant to start a serious conversation about the strength of AIPAC and the stifling of policy debate. Given the number of people calling me an anti-Semite for raising it, I think we have work to do.https://nyti.ms/2NJwj4W
Also, while you debate whether I am an anti-Semite, please read the book I wrote on the rise of contemporary anti-Semitism, (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump.https://read.macmillan.com/lp/semitism-jonathan-weisman/?utm_source=authorsocialpost&utm_medium=socialpost&utm_term=na-semitismsocial&utm_content=na-buy-buynow&utm_campaign=9781250169938 …
I’m not only Jewish, I’m Israeli. And the one thing people here need to understand is that there is much more freedom to criticize Israeli government policy in the Israeli parliament than in the US Congress, and that’s absurd. Enough already.
Yeah, whenever I hear people getting called anti-Semitic for criticizing the Israeli administration I always wonder what they’d do if they heard how we talk about our own government.
That being said, we do so at our own risk, as we found out from the recent deposition showing Assaf Harel’s critique led Netanyahu to order Walla to publish a hit piece on him.
Being called anti-Semitic for questioning pro-Israel lobbying practices reminds me of being called un-American for questioning our country's involvement in Viet Nam
or for not supporting Trump.
Or for not supporting the Iraq war.
JMO but I recall that there was a lot more room for dissent around the Iraq invasion/occupation. (not a war but a LBO with lots of ammo). support for Israel has been a liberal litmus test for decades, but this is changing as Israel devolves to a de facto apartheid state.
The problem is that the interests of American Jews and Israel are starting to diverge, and it is getting messy. Why would a non-Jew think the Omar resolution is in good faith when JDL and AIPAC won't call for condemnation of contemporaneous antisemitic smears from Conservatives?
The interests of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora diverged years ago, IMO, but some of us have only just started noticing. (Myself included.)
We need to be able to have this conversation.We need to be able to question the relationship between US lawmakers and the representatives of ANY foreign power. This whispered implication, that ANY criticism of Israel/AIPAC is anti-Semitic, that needs to go. It's false.
Agree
Questioning representatives that get free trips to a “promised land” for some at the expense & suffering of others should be 
Religious beliefs should be kept out of government affairs especially government employees
Extreme Evangelicals can’t lead
There are a lot of American Jews who are uncomfortable with AIPAC and its positions on peace talks and settlements. We don’t like when the antisemitism card is played for no good reason. If big $ lobbying is bad when pharma and oil does it, why not Israel?
Yes. And yet we’re able to have the discussion without the use of antisemitic tropes. Why is this too much to ask?
I have been bewildered by the death grip that Israel holds on policy debates in the US, which has only grown in the last few decades - the result of the faustian bargain between evangelicals and Likud. It is possible, and desirable, to support Israel but oppose settlements.
Indeed.
AIPAC has powerful voice but not a veto over US Middle East policy. Indeed farther you go from Congress less influence it has. The notion that White House is Israeli occupied territory or that Congress in words of words of a Saudi official is Knesset is pure anti-Semitic tripe.
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