Perspective: No one loses a debate over anti-Semitism. Except Jews.
Rep. Ilhan Omar whispers to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outside the Capitol during a rally on Friday. By Seth Mandel Seth Mandel Bio Follow Seth Mandel is executive editor of the Washington Examiner magazine. March 11 at 6:00 AM House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just got a humbling lesson in the power of anti-Semitism: It can’t be bribed away with a plum subcommittee appointment or threatened out with a primary challenge.
The cherry on top of this rancid sundae was that 23 Republicans voted “nay” on the resolution. Yes, there was good reason to for some, like Rep. Lee Zeldin , who is Jewish and was rightly nauseated at the prospect of voting in favor of what amounted to a slap in the face to the Jewish community. But let’s not pretend King’s “present” vote was a principled defense of American Jewry, rather than a cynical middle finger to the forces of tolerance he thinks unfairly target him.
The defense many Democrats made of Omar’s statements is that they weren’t anti-Semitic, they were targeting Israel and its allies in Washington. But anti-Semitism often hides behind “anti-Zionism.” As Izabella Tabarovsky, who grew up in the Soviet Union, wrote in the Forward about one such case, “It was under the banner of anti-Zionism that Soviet anti-Semitism blossomed.
Reporting in Washington, the Guardian’s David Smith found leftists who “regard the fierce backlash as an alliance between Republicans and centrist Democrats, and speak of the foreign policy establishment lashing out by using charges of antisemitism.” Some told Smith the plan is for these forces to “nuke” Omar as a warning to others.
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