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
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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 …
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I do not know if you are a Jewish antisemite, but your ideology prevents you from seeing the reality of the new antisemitic wave originating from the US Congress. Your ideological refusal to condemn the antisemitism from your side of the political divide supports this wave. Sad.
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From (((Semitism))): "Intolerance has led many in Europe – and some in the American academy and fringe left – to make a dangerous leap: The Jews in our midst must renounce Israel or suffer the consequences that they themselves have brought on. ..."
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"...The Jew brings on himself the hate that he has suffered through the millennia – a rejoinder that links the far right anti-Semite to the far- left. It is how the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could call Hamas and Hezbollah “friends," ..."
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"how another Labour leader, Jackie Walker, could call Jews “chief financiers of the slave trade,” and how, in the words of a Parliamentary inquiry, Corbyn, now so close to No. 10 Downing Street, could have “created what some have referred to as a ‘safe space’ for ..."
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"those with vile attitudes towards Jewish people, exacerbated by the Party’s demonstrable incompetence at dealing with members accused of anti-Semitism.” Perhaps you should read before you Tweet.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 …
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