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Title: House Democrat: AIPAC Is A Hate Group That Weaponizes Anti-Semitism
Source: HuffPost via Yahoo
URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/bett ... ipac-hate-group-003400232.html
Published: Feb 12, 2020
Author: Jessica Schulberg
Post Date: 2020-02-12 22:01:58 by Dakmar
Keywords: None
Views: 581
Comments: 6

Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), an outspoken critic of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, accused the influential lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee of being a hate group that weaponizes anti-Semitism to silence dissent. 

Last month, AIPAC started running paid Facebook advertisements with pictures of McCollum, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). The ads warned that the “radicals in the Democratic Party are pushing their anti-Semitic and anti-Israel policies down the throats of the American people,” according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency. The ads included a link to a petition urging supporters to “protect our Israeli allies especially as they face threats from Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS and — maybe more sinister — right here in the U.S. Congress.”

“AIPAC claims to be a bipartisan organization, but its use of hate speech actually makes it a hate group,” McCollum said in a statement on Tuesday. “By weaponizing anti-Semitism and hate to silence debate, AIPAC is taunting Democrats and mocking our core values.”

The implication that McCollum and her colleagues represent a bigger threat to Israel than ISIS “is not a call to action, it is incitement,” McCollum said. Omar and Tlaib, who are the first Muslim women elected to Congress, have faced racist threats and attacks — including from the president. “Hate speech is intentionally destructive and dehumanizing, which is why it is used as a weapon by groups with a stake in profiting from oppression,” McCollum continued.

AIPAC removed the most offensive ads and apologized on Saturday for “the inaccurate assertion that the poorly worded, inflammatory advertisement implied.” But the group reiterated its claim that a certain group of members in Congress are “deliberately working to erode the bipartisan consensus on this issue and undermine the U.S.-Israel relationship.” 


Poster Comment:

It was just a matter of time before cognitive dissonance shattered the coalition of the weak minded.

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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)

Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), an outspoken critic of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, accused the influential lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee of being a hate group that weaponizes anti-Semitism to silence dissent.

A glimmer of sanity in the D ranks. Everything has its positive uses, I suppose.

Pinguinite  posted on  2020-02-12   22:17:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Dakmar (#0)

“By weaponizing anti-Semitism and hate to silence debate, AIPAC is taunting Democrats and mocking our core values.”

What was it that was supposedly being weaponized back in the 90s? I think it was Anthrax. Could this be anything like that? ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-02-12   22:17:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Pinguinite (#1)

A glimmer of sanity in the D ranks. Everything has its positive uses, I suppose.

Not familiar with McCollum, but the modus operandi in the alleged two party system is to pair a pouplar idea harmful to the ruling class with unrelenting nonsense fringe lunacy. I read a couple of the links from top story, but they linked back to huffpost so still no solid basis for an opinion on McCollum. Dollar to donuts she has advocated eating children or something equally horrendous in the past. I'll delve further tomorrow.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2020-02-12   22:30:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Dakmar (#0)

It was just a matter of time before cognitive dissonance shattered the coalition of the weak minded.

A+

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2020-02-12   22:41:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Dakmar (#0) (Edited)

AIPAC Is A Hate Group That Weaponizes Anti-Semitism

That's the TRUEST Statement You've Read ALL Year!!!

It NEEDS to be REPEATED, OVER and OVER!

Ricky  posted on  2020-02-12   23:23:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Dakmar (#0)

If those we have deemed to be Jews are actually "God's Chosen People" heaven will be the most disruptive and unhappy place in the Universe, and one would be curious to know whether God had also bought into the propaganda promoted by the Jews and their media.

http://ustvgo.tv/one-america-news-network/

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. "

The best thing about old age is that it doesn't last forever.

noone222  posted on  2020-02-13   6:33:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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