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Apr 29, 2021
“There’s a word for holding Jews to a higher standard than everyone else: It’s called anti-Semitism,” said Newsweek’s Batya Ungar-Sargon, commenting on John O. Brennan’s remarks on Israel.
By United with Israel Staff
Obama-era CIA director John O. Brennan was blasted this week for a tweet in which he expressed shock that Israelis are not the “empathetic champions” of Palestinians.
Brennan’s tweet read, “I always found it difficult to fathom how a nation of people deeply scarred by a history replete with prejudice, religious persecution, & unspeakable violence perpetrated against them would not be the empathetic champions of those whose rights & freedoms are still abridged.”
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He writes, “the United States needs to tell Israeli leaders to cease provocative settlement construction and … oppressive security practices.”
Brennan proposes “a two-state solution,” but the
Times contextualizes his article with a link to a Peter Beinart
Times article headlined, “I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State.” That’s a way to make sure that no innocent or impressionable
Times readers are permitted to take away from Brennan’s article the idea that Israel be allowed to continue existing as a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian one.
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