The Palestinian Authority has all but abandoned Jenin, leaving behind a power vacuum that has been filled by terrorists.In the past six months, those terrorists made Jenin a launching pad for more than 50 shooting attacks against Israelis.Israel is responding with a counterterrorism operation aimed at surgically removing these terrorists and their terror infrastructure.There’s a word for this: self-defense, which is the right of every sovereign country, including Israel.
There is not a word in this tweet that is inaccurate. So, naturally, it upset the Palestinians.
Torres is Black and a progressive, which are two categories that Palestinians think that they have complete control over, but Torres is also an unapologetic Zionist - and this drives them crazy.
So crazy that even the most politically astute Palestinians reveal their racism and antisemitism when foaming at the mouth about him.
Commenting on Khaled Elgindy's fact-free tweet criticizing Torres, Hanan Ashrawi, the much honored grande dame of Palestinian politics, writes about Torres, "He's just mindlessly reciting what his AIPAC masters sent him as a mouthpiece of Israeli hasbara. Shameful."
In one sentence, Ashrawi evokes two bigoted tropes.
One is that Black people - even charismatic, clearly intelligent Black people like Torres - are too stupid (mindless) to come up with their own opinions on Israel and the Palestinians.
The other is that Torres - like other members of Congress - are controlled by a powerful cabal of Jews who are their puppet masters.
Racism and antisemitism in one tweet!
Ashrawi cannot claim that his skin color is irrelevant to her statement, because if that is true, then the progressives no longer can claim that every criticism of Ilhan Omar and other people of color for their opinions is racist and/or Islamophobic. If these are the rules they set for others, they must follow them as well. Additionally, while most criticisms of Omar describe exactly why her opinions are wrong, Ashrawi simply slurs Torres as being "mindless" with no supporting evidence that his tweet was at all wrong.
Similarly, one cannot say that AIPAC is not a proxy for "Jews" in her statement because the trope of powerful, presumably rich Jews controlling the government is well known; Ashrawi is clearly evoking a classic antisemitic canard.
You don't need the IHRA working definition of antisemitism to show that her statement is antisemitic; the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism that the Left loves says:
What is particular in classic antisemitism is the idea that Jews are linked to the forces of evil. This stands at the core of many anti-Jewish fantasies, such as the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in which “the Jews” possess hidden power that they use to promote their own collective agenda at the expense of other people. This linkage between Jews and evil continues in the present: in the fantasy that “the Jews” control governments with a “hidden hand” ....
Antisemitism can be direct or indirect, explicit or coded. For example, “The Rothschilds control the world” is a coded statement about the alleged power of “the Jews” over banks and international finance.
The phrase "AIPAC masters" is about as explicitly antisemitic as it gets - according to the favored anti-Zionist definition of antisemitism.
By the Left's own standards, Ashrawi fits every definition of racist and antisemite.
Yet somehow I don't see a single "progressive" calling Ashrawi to task for her outrageous and bigoted statements. Indeed, her fans doubled down on antisemitic statements in response.
People tend to reveal who they really are when they tweet without going through an editing process. Ashrawi has just informed the world who she is - a hateful, antisemitic racist and bigot.
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