Tag: Ilhan Omar

Javad Heirannia, Is Zionism in the USA Over? A Former Spy and Counterintelligence Officer, Robert David Steele, says, “Yes!”

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by Javad Heirannia TEHRAN – Robert David Steele, a former Marine Corps infantry officer and CIA spy who was recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, regularly answers questions for Tehran Times. Q. You published an article, “Is Ilhan Omar Cynthia McKinney 2.0?: Will the Zionist Parasite Be Purged from the USA This Time?” in the American Herald Tribuneon 18 February 2019. Since then Representative Ilhan Omar has continued to speak out against Zionist control of the US Congress and she is now being attacked in two ways: with…

Andrew Levine: Is Ilhan Omar Wrong . . . About Anything?

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Andrew Levine It has been clear for some time that Ilhan Omar owes no one any apologies for her remarks on AIPAC and those who tow its line; quite to the contrary, apologies are owed her.  Developments over the past several weeks underscore how important it is to drive that point home. Before the 2008 publication of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, the subject was, for all practical purposes, taboo. Everything had to be kept hush hush, just as it did with the NSA (no such agency),…

Chris Hedges, Israel’s Stranglehold on American Politics

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Chris Hedges The harder it becomes for Israel to sell its apartheid state, the more pronounced its already massive interference will become. The Israel lobby’s buying off of nearly every senior politician in the United States, facilitated by our system of legalized bribery, is not an anti-Semitic trope. It is a fact. The lobby’s campaign of vicious character assassination, smearing and blacklisting against those who defend Palestinian rights—including the Jewish historian Norman Finkelstein and university students, many of them Jewish, in organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine—is not an anti-Semitic trope.…

AP: Omar furor reflects intensifying national debate over Israel

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David Crary NEW YORK (AP) — For Congress, the allegations of anti-Semitism directed toward Rep. Ilhan Omar have no precedent. Yet on college campuses, in state legislatures and in many other venues nationwide, the polarized debate about Israel is a familiar conflict and likely to intensify in the months and years ahead. Fueled by a wave of youthful activists, including many Jews aligning with Muslims, criticism of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians has grown in volume and scope, with persistent calls for boycotts and disinvestment. Pro-Israel organizations and politicians have…