Misplaced Assignment of Blame

The conflation of legitimate criticism of the government of Israel with anti-semitism is a deliberate attempt to silence the opposition to the current/past US policy of lock-step support for one side of the Israeli/Palestinian issue. Moreover, to equate Representative Ilan Omar's recent remarks (for which she has taken responsibility) with the hateful and racist statements regularly uttered by White Nationalists and the anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric coming from the highest levels of our current government is to further demonize a member of a religion already subject to decades of abuse at the hands of an intolerant minority in the long and shameful aftermath of 9/11.