{"id":398468,"date":"2019-03-07T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/you-may-well-prove-ilhan-omar-correct\/"},"modified":"2019-03-07T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:55:22","slug":"you-may-well-prove-ilhan-omar-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/you-may-well-prove-ilhan-omar-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou May Well Prove Ilhan Omar Correct\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly still considering a symbolic \u201cshow vote\u201d in Congress on an anti-Semitism and \u201chate\u201d resolution \u2013 which would offer all the authenticity and honesty of a Soviet show trial. If Pelosi proceeds, it will prove Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s point about the inordinate influence wielded over Congress by the \u201cIsrael-right or-wrong\u201d\/AIPAC lobby and its power to stifle criticism of Israel.<\/p>\n

The anti-Omar resolution, whether mentioning Omar or not, was\u00a0originated<\/a>\u00a0by two Democrats who are among Congress\u2019s most longstanding pro-Israel diehards:\u00a0Eliot Engel<\/a>\u00a0and Nita Lowey. Both endorsed Bush\u2019s Iraq invasion. Both opposed Obama\u2019s Iran nuke deal. Both supported Trump\u2019s move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a proud Jew raised in a liberal family that supported civil rights and human rights. My experience growing up during the 1950s and 1960s was typical of many Jewish Americans. Like many Jews with this background, I\u2019ve grown increasingly ashamed of Israel.<\/p>\n

For 40 years, Israel has been ruled mostly by a series of right-wing governments \u2013 more and more openly racist and abusive of Palestinian rights. It\u2019s not the land of tree-planting, kibbutzim and \u201ca country treating its Arab minority nicely\u201d that we were sold as youngsters.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why a large number of proud Jewish Americans \u2013 raised to believe in civil liberties and open discussion \u2013 are appalled by the campaign to muzzle Rep….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly still considering a symbolic \u201cshow vote\u201d in Congress on an anti-Semitism and \u201chate\u201d resolution \u2013 which would offer all the authenticity and honesty of a Soviet show trial. If Pelosi proceeds, it will prove Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s point about the inordinate influence wielded over Congress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}