Glenn Greenwald comments Regarding Freedom of Speech and the Verbal Slaughter of Muslim Congressman Ilhan Omar
Rep. Ilhan Omar (left) of Minnesota, who is one of two Muslim women elected to Congress, came under fire from Chelsea Clinton (right), Republicans, and pro-Israel supporters for a Twitter post that some say advances anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money
McCarthy vowed to 'take action' against Omar and Tlaib, who is Palestinian-American, over their past comments allegedly criticizing Israel.
Greenwald, the journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Edward Snowden NSA story, slammed McCarthy on Twitter for his comments.
'Equating @IlhanMN & @RashidaTlaib's criticism of Israel to Steve King's long defense of white supremacy is obscene (McCarthy said it's worse),' Greenwald tweeted.
'In the US, we're allowed to criticize our own government: certainly foreign governments. The GOP House Leader's priorities are warped.'
Greenwald wrote in a subsequent tweet: 'Sorry, but you're not going to turn the two first Muslim women to serve in the US Congress into overnight Jew-haters because of their criticisms of Israel.
'What's actually anti-Semitic is conflating the Government of Israel with Jews, so those of you doing that should stop.'
'Benjamins' is a reference to Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait appears on the $100 bill. So the term 'all about the Benjamins' implies money.
Omar's implication that AIPAC was dictating to members of Congress what kind of speech is permissible when it comes to Israel is considered by some to be anti-Semitic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6692439/Jewish-Democratic-lawmakers-blast-freshman-Rep-Ilhan-Omar-using-anti-Semitic-tropes.html
Omar’s recent tweet blaming American support for Israel on lobbyists’ cash. The ultimately conservative, reassuring effect of concentrating on the Israel lobby is this: it suggests that American interests are fundamentally good, but that they are corrupted and distorted by some small clique.
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