Why is Trump allowed to keep referring to "hatred of Israel" when talking about the four

[richsonpoordad]

Representatives in the House. If one criticizes Israel why does it translate into hatred of Israel?
Will someone please ask Trump to quote what anyone of them has said? Didn't we say many of the same things about South Africa and its apartheid?

What else will they just allow Trump to say without offering any proof?

I hope soon someone will fact check all the info about the debt and deficit for the past 30 years and show when and under whose administration they exploded.

[elleng]

1. For a long time, forever?, any questioning of Israel has translated by many into 'hatred,'

ANOTHER way to divide us.

[hlthe2b]

2. I was told the other day that I didn't even have the right to ask why that is...

Really really really tired of these "untouchable" issues.

[elleng]

5. The RIGHT? Person questioning obviously not aware of

the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[hlthe2b]

6. They tried to turn it onto the "mansplaining" example and feminist issues to which

I promptly replied I had no problem with a feminist-issue-friendly man or men discussing feminist issues any more than I would have an issue with someone from out-of-state discussing Colorado politics.

Apparently, this is the one area "non-members" can not tread (at least in that person's view and I have gotten that from others here before). As I am deeply sensitive to the issues and have no desire to offend, I let it go.

[elleng]

7. I generally stay away from it, as I have no fondness for that country.

[hlthe2b]

8. I think my point is that this "feeling" among some complicates our attempts to push back on

RW attempts to paint Liberals as "hating Israel" and related.

It just seems to me we ought to be able to draw a very clear and clean line between antisemitism and criticism of Israel governmental policies and action as we would our own government. But apparently that reflects my own naivete'.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. MSM is in total fear of

AIPAC.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. So Trump defends Israel reneging on Middle East Peace....

by grabbing Palestinian territories in the Golan Heights and the West Bank in order to build more settlements? As well as continued personal attacks against Arabs living in Israel?

It has been the policies of the Israeli Government that the 4 have questioned, especially by Omar, not attacking the people themselves.

[richsonpoordad]

9. How does all this square with Charlottesville supporters of Trump? Did he call them out for their

very obvious anti-Semitism ?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. NOPE!!!

"Jews will not replace us!"

Trump was okay with that because those shouting that were HIS PEOPLE. The 4 Congresswomen are not.

[Demovictory9]

11. Thats his method..

[ooky]

12. Every time he says someone hates Israel he never says what they actually said or did.

They just "hate Israel".

Ask an evangelical some time what the hell he's referring to and the evangelical won't even know.

[mopinko]

13. i wish someone would make him point to what they actually said.

aside from the "benjamins" comment and the 9/11 business, i havent got the slightest idea what he is talking about
usually there is some tangent one can follow, to see how insidiously he has twisted someone's word.
now he is just pulling shit out of his ass.

[lunatica]

14. "Allowed"?

No one “allows” Trump to do or not do anything his withered black heart desires.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. I don't like this attitude of treating Israel as some "sacred cow"

whose governmental policies are not allowed to be questioned lest one be accused of hatred of Israel and anti-semitism. As long as you're not directly attacking the people of Israel and/or their faith, it's just another country, like ours, whose policies we may or may not agree with.

[maryellen99]

16. Because the RW needs Israel for their End Times crap nt

[smirkymonkey]

17. It's funny how so many of his cult members "love" Israel (even thought most of them

aren't sure why) but hate actual Jews (Charlottesville, anyone? That is just one of many examples).

[Poiuyt]

18. Trump has made worse allegations

Trump asserted that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a Somali-born refugee who fled civil war when she was 12, “says horrible things about Israel, hates Israel, hates Jews.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/16/trump-omar-racism-accusation-anti-semitism/?utm_term=.07993775c8a8

I don't know how he gets away with it.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. He is trying to win over the Jewish American vote.

It's a valid concern. I have a latina friend who works for the VA and she says she has to put up with a lot of abuse from conservative veterans, including Jewish veterans.

We shouldn't be taking anything or anybody for granted.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. And why is it that Trump, or anyone else, has the right to expect members of Congress

To display fealty to any foreign country? Why should they have any kind of allegiance to Israel, or any other country besides the United States?

Isn't this the question that got Ilhan Omar into so much hot water for asking a few months ago? I think she had a valid point.