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In his latest epistle, the Reverend Chris Hedges warns Israel and its apologists how misplaced charges of anti-Semitism will only expand the ranks of legitimate anti-Semites from the violent cults of far-right, White Christians to the hordes of radical Islam:
Israel’s Stranglehold on American Politics
"Twenty-four state governments’ passage of Israel lobby-backed legislation requiring their workers and contractors, under threat of dismissal, to sign a pro-Israel oath and promise not to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is not an anti-Semitic trope.
"It is a fact.
"The shameless decision in 2014 by all 100 U.S. senators, including Bernie Sanders, to pass a Soviet-style plebiscite proposed by the Israel lobby to affirm Israel’s 'right to defend itself' during the 51 days it bombed and shelled homes, water treatment plants, power stations, hospitals and U.N. schools in Gaza, killing 2,251 Palestinians, including 551 children, is not an anti-Semitic trope.
"It is a fact."
The sole criterion of Israel and its lobby in determining who to support for US public office is identifying who backs the far-right agenda of the apartheid state of Israel and who does not.
"Genuine anti-Semitism is irrelevant"
IMO I believe the US & US states should have a policy of NOT supporting terrorists & terrorist states.
IMO it is difficult to do that when the US is also a terrorist state.
OMG what an idiot post from an idiot poster. US is a terror state now? LMAO. Dumbass old manThe US has been a terrorist state since it was founded on chattel slavery and genocide.OMG what an idiot post from an idiot poster. US is a terror state now? LMAO. Dumbass old man
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS06/pmo/eng/audio/Chomsky.pdf
"...(I)n December 1987, at the peak of the first war on terrorism, that’s when the furor over the plague was peaking.
"The United Nations General Assembly passed a very strong resolution against terrorism, condemning the plague in the strongest terms, calling on every state to fight against it in every possible way. It passed unanimously.
"One country, Honduras, abstained.
"Two votes against; the usual two, United States and Israel.
"Why should the United States and Israel vote against a major resolution condemning terrorism in the strongest terms, in fact pretty much the terms that the Reagan administration was using?
"Well, there is a reason.
"There was one paragraph in that long resolution which said that nothing in this resolution infringes on the rights of people struggling against racist and colonialist regimes or foreign military occupation to continue with their resistance with the assistance of others, other states, states outside in their just cause.
"Well, the United States and Israel can’t accept that.
"The main reason that they couldn’t at the time was because of South Africa.
"South Africa was officially called an ally."
You're insane