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No she hasn't. She is only attacking Netanyahu, the fascist dictator of sad Israel and his Likud assholes.
I don't want to talk about Middle East politics, and it is pretty irrelevant to more problematic part of the Minnesota congresswomen's comments (though the Israel comments were quite bad too, and calling the comments bad says nothing about the caller's views on Middle East politics or mindset toward Arabs and Israelis).
I doubt many people here get into the conversations with real people that I do.
I am regularly told (by people who don't even know who any of these Muslim congresspeople are, and have little care about politics to the level of knowing about congresspeople) how "powerful" Jewish people are (as opposed to the powerless individuals they actually are), and it was last night actually. The issue of "Zionism" and "banking" comes up as reasons why Jewish people are so evil, and all the persecution comes from there (and the actual persecution is always mentioned with a side note that "Jews make up stories of persecution" and "Jews seed false media stories about hatred" "they haven't been as hated as they say, but all the 'dislike' - not 'hate' - has been from their own evils", which are "banking" and "Zionism").
"Powerful" and a "force" seem to be buzzwords about "The Jews". I hear them all the time.
I HARDLY KNOW WHERE TO START.
I used a phone last night to demonstrate hatred directed against Jewish people comes from pre-Zionism and decided to go to the KARAITES Wikipedia article, for starters (this is a tiny minority sect of Jews that are distinct from Rabbinical Jews and have a 1000-2000 year history of existence). Russian Karaites, about 125 years ago, got the idea to "prove" to the Russian Empire that they were in Crimea before Jesus was born, so they could escape the Blood Guilt the Empire officially saw Jews to have. The bogus historical evidence - making Karaites seem to be residents of Crimea for 2000 years - actually was accepted in courts, but the Russian authorities told them they were still living under the Blood Guilt that all Jews were under.
The fact is that it doesn't take much for many people to bring up their hatred of Jewish people. They will then say they don't hate Jewish people. They just hate the "hateful things" the "powerful people do". "I hate Zionism".
The ironic thing is the blood guilt idea was defended by these same bigots once I told them what the Gospel of John said ("The Jews somehow killed all the Prophets" according to the Gospel of John).
I always get comments that there is still "love" (or at least no "hate" for individuals).
(There is so much more crap to the typical accusations, often Jewish people get accused of controlling the media and then "The evil media Jews" actually get blamed for "dividing people". I have been told multiple times - by ethnic Mexicans - that Jewish people are actually responsible for anti-immigration policy and Donald Trump. Really! And these are people who otherwise are nice.)
(It should be pointed out that many ethnic Mexicans are actually Pro Trump, and even those folks are often anti-Semitic. I hate to make too much of the ethnic issue because many don't care about the fact that they are Hispanic or ethnic-Mexican. Many are born American and don't know Spanish, and don't care one bit, but it is amazing how much they care about Jewish issues. It is a wake up call when you see people you think aren't racist show different colors when it comes to Jewish issues.)
Here are the troubling comments about the supposed Jewish "POWER" by the congresswomen:
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I want to talk about the POLITICAL INFLUENCE in this country that says it is OK to for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country. I want to ask, why it is OK for me to talk about the influence of the NRA or fossil fuel industries or big pharma, and not talk about a POWERFUL lobbying group that is influencing policy?
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Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.
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It's all about the Benjamins baby.
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I am told every day that I am anti-American if I am not pro-Israel. I find that to be problematic
All "about the Benjamins" reminds me of the really tired and lackluster response a guy (descended of Polish Jews who escaped in the 1930s, though he himself is not Jewish) gave to an aggressive anti-Semite who said the "Jews have been hated for their banking and money" claim (plus Zionism). I was aggressively arguing against the tropes & canards, but the part-Polish guy was speaking about academic studies on anti-Semitism and essentially conceded the points to the attacker.
The attacker started asking which type of Jew people were. His point was that he hates Zionist Jews but respects Orthodox Jews (he presented those 2 as the only options). Then he said he hates nobody anyway.
I brought up the Blood Guilt issue and then talked about the Gospels - especially the Gospel of John.
I talked about the Russian Empire, but then told how the Gospel of John was not written by John, nor was it called "The Gospel of John until about 200 A.D. It wasn't written until after 100, or quoted till 150. I even mentioned how the "beloved" Apostle might not have been talking about "John". I even explained how King James himself thought John and Jesus had homosexual sex based on the identification of John with "the beloved".
Then he (a Hispanic) - and the other attackers (non Hispanic whites who bought into his crap) - ended up giving evangelical arguments on Christianity and how "we serve the same God", as if he was debating Jewish folks (neither me nor the other guy who opposed him were Jewish, but I was the only actual debating opponent - the other guy on my side was worthless).
I was friends with all of them. We hang out. The vocal anti-Semite is also a 9/11 Truther. He attacks me for watching CNN. The media is all controlled by the Illuminati and the "Jews" who run it all. He just can't understand how people - like me - see Jews are the least powerful people on Earth. He feels I am brainwashed. He said they (Jews) were "Powerful" beyond all others before I said they are not.
He probably does not know who 3 of the 4 "Squad" members are. I assume he knows who AOC is, but he might not. She is an amazing celebrity to pro-immigration ethnic Mexicans (they know she is Puerto Rican), but he is more of an anti-immigration type though he says he "loves all people". He and my super-liberal part-Polish friend (descended of Jewish folks who fled during the turmoil of the 1930s) are always fighting on politics, though he feels everybody politician is part of some evil conspiracy and he hates politics. He cares almost nothing of his grandparents Mexican ethnicity though (both his parents are "100%" Hispanic and essentially both ethnic-Mexican). He did not sound racist at all until he starts talking about Jewish people (I heard hints of this anti-Semitic stuff for a while from him, but it got lost in all the conspiracy theory talk and joking).
He concluded by saying Jews are under a blood guilt but he hates no person regardless.
"Jews" are "POWERFUL" is indeed anti-Semitic.
Jewish "big bucks baby" is ALL ABOUT THE BANKER CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
(Jewish communities often were expelled from entire countries when people did not want to pay their debts - often war debts - so they blamed those evil bankers WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE THE SAME PEOPLE WHOSE MONEY JESUS KICKED OVER, before "those evil Jews murdered him")
This stuff is all about attacks on the Jewish people.
(and attacking Jewish people is THE POPULAR POSITION in the world!)
Israel is not the actual issue.
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