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I draw your attention to a little-noticed but very important statement made by Bernie adviser @joshorton to the DNC platform committee: https://jewishinsider.com/2020/07/dnc-advances-the-2020-platform-including-a-pro-israel-plank-by-unanimous-consent/">https://jewishinsider.com/2020/07/d...
Let’s take a closer look at this offensive lie. Why would someone who works in far-left American politics refer to a religious-national dispute in the Middle East using an irrelevant phrase taken from US domestic politics? It& #39;s odd and out of place. What’s going on here?
Maybe Orton is ignorant or misinformed? Not plausible – he prefaced his accusation that Israelis are racists with perfunctory, insincere throat-clearing about his deep concern for the Jewish state. He knows what he’s doing.
There is a deliberate effort by leftists like Orton to racialize the Israel-Pal dispute, putting it – they hope – in a political frame instantly understandable to American progressives who have passionate feelings about domestic racial issues but know nothing of Israel or the ME
I think they are successful among progressives, who increasingly see our society solely through the lens of race. It’s pushing on an open door: This complicated dispute in the ME is just like this other, familiar, issue – understand one, and you understand the other.
That’s the cynical and dishonest game Orton is playing. Its origin is probably w/ Edward Said, but it’s been promoted more aggressively recently, starting w/ Ferguson protests in 2014, when BDS groups attempted to attach their hatred of Israel and Jews into the BLM movement.
In 2014, BDS groups convened, developed a slogan (“From Ferguson to Palestine”), and promoted the poisonous narrative that Palestinians = American blacks, Israelis = racist American whites.
So when you hear a Bernie adviser seemingly out of nowhere say that a dispute between Jews & Muslims that dates back to the Islamic conquests & Pact of Omar is an American-style matter of “racial justice,” it is not an accident.
It is a very deliberate strategy to turn liberal opinion against Israel by employing a big lie. Congrats, @joshorton
Final thought: Israel is one of the most racially diverse countries on earth, w/ communities from Iran, N. Africa, Iraq, Ethiopia, E & W Europe, Russia, Yemen. This campaign to paint it as a white ethnonational state is laughable to anyone who& #39;s lived there.
