{"id":403274,"date":"2019-04-17T19:57:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anti-semitism-as-a-reactionary-political-tool\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T19:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:57:30","slug":"anti-semitism-as-a-reactionary-political-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anti-semitism-as-a-reactionary-political-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism as a Reactionary Political Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

President Donald Trump recently perverted Ilhan Omar\u2019s words<\/a> as a means to stoke his Islamophobic, white supremacist base.<\/p>\n

In concert, Elan Carr, the Trump administration\u2019s newly appointed<\/a> Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating \u201cAnti-Semitism\u201d, revealed his true agenda, which is to target non-violent organized resistance<\/a> to Israeli apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people; e.g. the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.<\/p>\n

Carr declared:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAn 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\u2026 We are going to focus relentlessly on eradicating this false distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Notably, Carr has received<\/a> support in the form of $100,000 from ardent Zionist and Trump supporter<\/a> Sheldon Adelson.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s tweet and Carr\u2019s statement are the direct and logical outcomes of the relentless smear campaign<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n

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1. A deceptive liberal Zionist campaign<\/p>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair President Donald Trump recently perverted Ilhan Omar\u2019s words as a means to stoke his Islamophobic, white supremacist base. In concert, Elan Carr, the Trump administration\u2019s newly appointed Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating \u201cAnti-Semitism\u201d, revealed his true agenda, which is to target non-violent organized resistance to Israeli apartheid and genocide […]<\/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-403274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}