Friday, March 08, 2019

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Anti-Semitism Resolution Doesn’t Name Omar ‘Because It’s Not About Her,’...

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"Anti-Semitism Resolution Doesn’t Name Omar ‘Because It’s Not About Her,’ Says Pelosi.
Related: That’s a wrap! Ilhan Omar votes yes on House Dems’ resolution and then has ‘a good laugh.’
“The resolution was a joke and they humiliated Pelosi. I’d laugh too,” Allahpundit tweets.
Omar Knows Exactly What She Is Doing,” 
Bret Stephens wrote earlier today at the New York Times:
The goal is not to win the argument, at least not anytime soon. Yet merely by refusing to fold, Omar stands to shift the range of acceptable discussion — the so-called Overton window — sharply in her direction. Ideas once thought of as intellectually uncouth and morally repulsive have suddenly become merely controversial. It’s how anti-Zionism has abruptly become an acceptable point of view in reputable circles. It’s why anti-Semitism is just outside the frame, bidding to get in... Read all.
As Neo writes, “Anti-Semitism: it’s all the rage:”
I don’t think Democrats much care if they lose the Jewish vote, because the number of Jews in the US is small and highly concentrated in places that are and will remain Democratic enclaves even without the Jewish vote. Plus, many Jews today are secular and have replaced any allegiance to Judaism with an allegiance to leftism, so perhaps this won’t even alienate them...
This would be a great topic for this Sunday’s Beltway chat shows. Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with Chyrons, if it doesn’t come up.---Posted by Ed Driscoll "

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