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[fujiyamasan]

7. So please tell us what you are trying to imply...

I don’t hear anyone calling for boycotting “Jewish owned” businesses (unless it was some idiots trying to boycott the local deli a year or two ago). Besides I don’t know what “Jewish money” even means in an American context. For that matter, if you said something about white, black, Latino, Christian, Muslim or Hindu money, I’d also be confused.

If this is about AIPAC well, yeah I think we all ought to know how an organization representing foreign interests is spending their money. That’s the whole point of campaign finance laws — providing transparency to the public. A lot of the politicians getting AIPAC money aren’t even Jewish. They’re Christian, and right wing Christians at that.

If this were about rising antisemitism, I think there’s a valid discussion to be had (yes, incidents such as the attack a week or two ago in Michigan are very disturbing and are part of a series of attacks over the years on Jewish cultural and religious centers and Jews in general — they should be strongly condemned by everyone), but any thinly veiled attempts to tie AIPAC or criticism to Israel to antisemitism fall flat and make a mockery of the seriousness of both US foreign policy in the Middle East, and real antisemitism globally.