The anti-Jew caucus is strong in the Democratic Congress
By Pete Kaliner
March 8, 2019
House Democrats couldn't muster enough votes to approve a resolution condemning the anti-Semite Congresswoman from Minnesota.
They couldn't even get enough votes to simply and discretely condemn anti-Semitism.
So pervasive is the anti-Jewish sentiment inside the Democratic Party ranks, that they had to make the resolution a catch-all "anti-hate" resolution.
But we shouldn't talk about all of this antisemitism in the Democrat party out loud and in public.https://t.co/773NHQ7f3L
— A.P. Dillon 🤨 (@APDillon_) March 8, 2019
This has exposed exactly how widespread the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic strain is inside the left.
It shouldn't be a surprise to people who have been paying attention, though:
AOC is a registered member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 8, 2019
In 2017, after implementing anti-Semitic BDS campaigns in their platform, DSA chanted: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
This is calling for the elimination of Israelpic.twitter.com/2krBoMgPBm
This is who they are.
And the old guard Democrats in the House are still using an old playbook.
TFW you pander to the intersectional coalition by watering down condemnation of anti-Semitism and still get clocked pic.twitter.com/FGSymGC1d2
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 7, 2019
Allahpundit at HotAir.com has a great write-up on this. He says Democrats seem unwilling to admit that their base (or at least a very substantial part of it) hates Israel:
They’re not going to support punishing a progressive who plays rough with supporters of the Jewish state, even if “playing rough” in this case means old smears about dual loyalty. They want more political space to attack Israel’s advocates, not less. If that means protecting anti-semites then that’s what it means.
But, hey... at least we know that Democrats oppose hate.
I, for one, am glad that Congress is involved in an important debate as to whether hate is good or bad
— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) March 7, 2019
Pete's Prep: Friday, March 8, 2019
- Julie Kelly writing at American Greatness: "Now we know, and all Americans finally see, what we are up against in 2020. To that extent, we owe George Will and his outliers a debt of gratitude. [NeverTrumpers'] bitterness might have hastened a reckoning with the Left that only a Trumpified Republican Party is equipped to confront. Will and his fellow outcasts still are invited to continue cohabitating with the Left—we certainly don’t want them back."
- Former Attorney General Eric Holder says Democrats should pack the Supreme Court if they get back in control of the US Senate and Presidency.
- At Campus Reform.org: "I was assaulted because I'm conservative."
- A New Jersey man leaves lottery tickets at the counter. A stranger turns them in to the cashier. Guy returns the next day and gets his tickets. Wins a quarter of a billion dollars.