{"id":403094,"date":"2019-04-14T13:43:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-zionist\/"},"modified":"2019-04-14T13:43:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T12:43:40","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be-a-zionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-zionist\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be or Not to be a Zionist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110856\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-110856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art by Banksy, photo by Yoav Litvin in Bethlehem, Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jewish American progressives are falling for the oldest trick in the Zionist playbook: the conflation of Zionism with Judaism. The ultimate victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/zionist-fallacy-jewish-supremacy-190108202804743.html\">this propaganda ploy<\/a>\u00a0are always Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheldon\u2019s Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, Sheldon Adelson\u2019s Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) welcomed President of the United States, serial sexual harasser and inspiration to murderous white supremacists worldwide \u2013 Donald Trump \u2013 as a god.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the audience brandished \u201cTrump\u201d-embroidered Kippahs, enthusiastically clapped at the President\u2019s overt incitement against Rep. Ilhan Omar and swallowed whole his anti-Semitic reference to Benjamin Netanyahu as \u201cyour Prime Minister\u201d \u2013 a clear suggestion of dual loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>In an act comparable to the ancient Israelites\u2019 worshipping of the Golden Calf, Senator Norm Coleman, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/21\/opinion\/what-republicans-really-think-about-trump.html\">once called<\/a>\u00a0Trump: \u201cA bigot. A misogynist. A fraud. A bully,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddale8\/status\/1114600210083266561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1114600210083266561&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fforward.com%2Ffast-forward%2F422201%2Frepublican-jewish-coalition-donald-trump-dayenu%2F\">led a Passover Dayenu chant\u00a0<\/a>in which he replaced \u201cGod\u201d with \u201cTrump\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Moses, where art thou?<\/p>\n<p>Still, a drama unfolded during Trump\u2019s speech. Ten members of\u00a0<em>If Not Now<\/em>, a nonviolent American Jewish organization aimed at ending US support for the 1967 Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IfNotNowOrg\/status\/1114608646984470529\">\u00a0stood up and chanted in protest<\/a>: \u201cJews are here to say, occupation is a plague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A<a href=\"http:\/\/ifnotnowmovement.org\/2019\/04\/06\/young-american-jews-disrupt-president-trump-at-republican-jewish-coalition-rally-protesting-trump-netanyahus-violent-racist-agendas-which-rjc-actively-supports\/\">\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0soon followed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>10 young American Jews disrupted Trump\u2019s speech at the National Jewish Republican Coalition (RJC)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/04\/12\/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-zionist\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art by Banksy, photo by Yoav Litvin in Bethlehem, Palestine. Jewish American progressives are falling for the oldest trick in the Zionist playbook: the conflation of Zionism with Judaism. The ultimate victims of this propaganda ploy\u00a0are always Palestinians. Sheldon\u2019s Party Last Sunday, Sheldon Adelson\u2019s Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) welcomed President of the United States, serial [&hellip;]<\/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-403094","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\/403094","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=403094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}