Powerline makes it official: Neo-Palestinians have lost control of both the Labour Party in the UK and the Democratic Party in the USA:
I think we have crossed a Rubicon of sorts. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the Congressional Black Caucus–which supported Omar unanimously, as best one can tell from news reports–are in the driver’s seat. Anti-Semitism is now accepted by the Democratic Party.
Never mind lame attempts to change the subject like the multiple tweets from presidential candidates to the effect that it is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the government of Israel. Of course not, but that is not what Omar did, and not what she got into trouble for doing. She has criticized, rather, American supporters of Israel who she says were bought off by “Benjamins” and are loyal to a foreign power. And she has tried to bring about the destruction of Israel, an important American ally, by supporting the BDS movement, which seeks Israel’s obliteration.
The Democratic Party is not the first to embrace anti-Semitism. A number of European parties did so in the early decades of the 20th century. The political calculus is straightforward: there are only a few Jews, a slow-growing (if growing at all) demographic, while there are lots of anti-Semites, especially among our fast-growing Islamic population. That is, of course, Omar’s base.
We witnessed today the birth of a new Democratic Party. And so far, I haven’t seen a single Democratic officeholder complain about it.
“American supporters of Israel” is an amusingly dishonest bit of rhetoric. If 400 years of residence didn’t make transform them into Egyptians, how could less than 100 years of residence possibly have transmogrified them into the Constitutional Posterity of the American revolutionaries?
Anyhow, Neo-Palestinians still effectively control the Conservative Party in the UK and the Republican Party in the USA, even though very few of them actually vote for the latter. But that influence will rapidly decline over the course of the next 15 years, at which point the UK and the USA will almost certainly be added to the long list of no-good, very-bad places that the nomadic Neo-Palestinians used to reside and from which they have been encouraged to move on for absolutely no fault of their own.