Under pressure of extreme irritation from some Twitter guy I assembled a lengthier set of thoughts starting with Representative Ilhan Omar and carrying it somewhere I haven't entirely been before. It probably duplicates some stuff I've said before, especially in the earlier bits, but I'd like to keep it here for the record in this format.
Somali Muslim Ilhan Omar complained when Irish Catholic Kevin McCarthy pressured her to show "allegiance" to Israel. She said nothing about Jews and "dual allegiance". It is time to stop misinterpreting this story. https://t.co/FZef1EiwJk— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 16, 2019
That's all Democrats have to do is apologize, not the same for Conservatives— Maria Gillette (@mariapa1776) March 16, 2019
Do you have a reading disability? Relevant text highlighted in screenshot: pic.twitter.com/VBfARYUkq4— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 16, 2019
She and Tlaib were put under particular pressure, threatened by McCarthy. No Jews are singled out as having "dual loyalty". pic.twitter.com/CkDJ9BWeeo— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 16, 2019
I probably should have realized at this point that I wasn't going to be able to make him understand what I was talking about.
And in the Omar-Tlaib scuffle, McCarthy's obvious purpose was to distract attention from the ongoing scandal of the open white supremacy advocacy of Steve King (R-IA) by suggesting "Democrats are racists too". Jews should not buy into this revolting game. https://t.co/yeNIVghz9B— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 16, 2019
That's still an absurd misreading btw. She explains it by saying, correctly, that she was elected to represent her district. All other reps are elected to represent their districts too, so she clearly implies that they shouldn't be expected to have dual loyalty.— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 16, 2019
She certainly wasn't saying other Congresscritters, unlike her, are obliged to be Netanyahu's servants. I offered an example:
And the same goes for Senator Schumer. I'm far more concerned with non-Jewish reps and senators--the fundamentalist Protestants who back Likud in the hope of bringing on the Battle of Armageddon and second coming of Jesus and condemnation of all the unconverted Jews to Hell.— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 16, 2019
I guess she still doesn't understand the consequences of her words!— Gerald Kanter (@GeraldKanter1) March 16, 2019
"No reply-ee-ay-ay." Does he mean that House Minority Leader is entitled to punish her as and when he feels the need? What consequences? But I can't get over the dishonesty of everybody looking at these words (well, I forgive Chelsea Clinton, who's under no obligation to be right about anything, but I'm more and more furious with Jonathan Chait, a very good writer who is allying himself with idiots in this matter, for what I can only regard as deliberate insensitivity to the language Omar uses).
As far as I'm concerned, these are anti-Semites in an unholy alliance with Netanyahu to prevent peace in the Middle East, and in the long run they are likely to destroy Israel as the situation in West Bank and Gaza becomes as unsustainable as white-ruled South Africa was.— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 16, 2019
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