Racism Claims

Ilhan has had a series of racially insensitive claims against Israel. Not all of them are up to MY standards of racism (racially insensitive isn't racist, unless the folks believe the entire race is inferior to another) -- but that's not the standard the left uses. By their standards, she's racist, so they want to do nothing to censure her, because she's a Democrat. A Republican would have been excoriated for a fraction of the following:

1. saying that the only reason Republicans support Israel is their money and AIPAC.
2. She supports the anti-semitic BDS (boycott, divest and sanction) movement which wants to destroy Israel
3. claimed pro-Israel lawmakers hold dual loyalty, twice (touching on an old racist trope, and doubling down when called on it)
4. claimed that Israel (Jews) "hypnotized the world" and did "evil things", both also old racist dirty-Jew tropes .
5. If you think people like you are better than everyone else, and those that aren't are inferior, you're a racist. Like she does with constantly bragging about the women of color, and demeaning those who aren't.
6. If you falsely claim someone else is racist, that's racist. (Assuming you only do that to people who aren't of color). Omar does this to individuals and the entire nation. If you don't agree with her, and aren't of color, you're a racist. (Which means she's a racist to judge everyone by their color and see them through that lens).

🗒️ NOTE: Again, I'm not sure if these touch my standards for calling her a bigot. More she's insensitive or clueless for these comments. But I believe she's a racist based on a lot more information than this, going back to stereotypes about Muslims and Somali's and their penchant for anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and their selective victimization of other Mulsims, and overlooking of far worse against Jews or others -- and evidence that she fits that pattern. So I'm not sure she should be smacked for this. But since the Democrats would smack a Republican for less, they have to, or they're hypocrites. And they didn't smack her, so they're hypocrites -- and anti-Semites, based on their standards, not mine.

📚 References https://www.theblaze.com/news/james-mattis-ilhan-omar-israel https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/10/tucker-carlson-ilhan-omar-left-racism/ Vogue Arabia (she implies that coming to America made her deal with racism): http://archive.is/dTzk9 NYT she talks about the lesson her Dad told her about bullies, "they are threatened by who you are" -- teaching her the lesson she took to heart, it's never about her or her actions or attacks on others or bitchiness, it's always someone else's fault. Which seems to define her: http://archive.is/5AJMu https://thehill.com/homenews/house/426425-rep-omar-apologizes-for-tweet-about-israel