New progressive talking point after NYC attacks: We condemn anti-semitism -- and Islamophobia hotair.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hotair.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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I m not sure why anyone is surprised. There is an intense and growing hostility to Israel on the hard Left, and there s quite a bit of overlap between anti-Zionists and anti-Semites. In many cases, the former phenomenon is the modern, politically acceptable manifestation of the latter. When Rep. Ilhan Omar spewed some flagrantly anti-Semitic rhetoric a few years back, Democrats left-wing base rallied to her cause and successfully pressured Nancy Pelosi to rewrite a condemnatory resolution to de-emphasize Omar s anti-Semitism by expanding it into a watery denunciation of many forms of bigotry. It was deliberately transformed from a specific rebuke of anti-Semitism to a meaningless all hate matters document. All lives matter is an offensive reply to Black lives matter, they say – and I ve come to better understand why many people believe that. Yet it would appear that the progressive Left s go-to reaction to rank anti-Semitism, incl