Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair
President Donald Trump recently perverted Ilhan Omar’s words as a means to stoke his Islamophobic, white supremacist base.
In concert, Elan Carr, the Trump administration’s newly appointed Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating “Anti-Semitism”, revealed his true agenda, which is to target non-violent organized resistance to Israeli apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people; e.g. the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Carr declared:
“An individual has a right to buy or not buy what they please. However, if there is an organized movement to economically strangle the state of Israel, that is anti-Semitic… We are going to focus relentlessly on eradicating this false distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.”
Here, Carr is following Zionist propaganda talking points by dishonestly conflating legitimate grassroots protest against oppressive Israeli policies, war crimes and crimes against humanity with anti-Semitism.
Notably, Carr has received support in the form of $100,000 from ardent Zionist and Trump supporter Sheldon Adelson.
The President’s tweet and Carr’s statement are the direct and logical outcomes of the relentless smear campaign targeting Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. The dynamic may serve as a window into the escalating rightward spiral in American politics, with lessons for other locales, and has included the following steps:
1. A deceptive liberal Zionist campaign
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