Tlaib Rashida response to Antony Blinken, a Jewish man...

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132. Tlaib's stance on BDS is well known, and irrelevant to the issue of antisemitism,

which in her case predates the current issue.

It's entirely possible to be a person of good will toward all men and to fight to end the plight of the Palestinians, with various plans for how best to do that. Hundreds of millions around the planet are.

Many millions of Israeli Jews are. The Israeli versions of our trumpsters and other religious and racist bigots are the problem, because in these mean times the mean people have been prevailing there as they have here.

Tlaib, unfortunately, is not. She wants the state of Israel eliminated and the Jews gone. However much I might wish that the Jewish diaspora had been to part of Germany to establish a homeland there, it wasn't, and what it would take to destroy the state of Israel is extremism from any angle.

One could say she's not really for that -- because, after all, it's impossible! -- but what if it seemed to become...possible, perhaps as the ME continues to destabilize over the coming decades? What will people like her call for as fresh water, livable and arable lands, and wealth disappear and the whole region threatens to go up in climate flames?

People who mistake bad trouble for good and religious bigotry for truth need to be contained, not excused. There are plenty here who have no trouble recognizing those syndromes in passionate Christian nationalists, but they're hardly limited to one religion or one ethnicity.