Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Who Will Stand Up for Ilhan Omar?

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21741/ilhan_omar_chelsea_clinton_donald_trump_aipac_israel_apartheid_democrats

Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, speaks during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Who Will Stand Up for Ilhan Omar?

False charges of anti-Semitism are being used to silence critics of Israel.
BY Nora Barrows-Friedman
The pressure on U.S. lawmakers by Israel lobby groups is precisely designed to silence its critics, using the threat of being labeled with anti-Semitism as a cudgel to break any defection from the status quo on Israel.
Over the weekend, Democratic Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar exposed a long-held open secret when she inferred that the financial influence of AIPAC, a top pro-Israel lobby group, is a significant player in lawmakers’ key policy decisions that support Israel’s interests.

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