But the biggest “Jew” today in the demonology of modern anti-Semitism is the Jewish state, Israel. During the weeklong November 2012 war, which began when Hamas fired roughly 100 rockets at civilian targets, Israel “hypnotized” nobody. The original Hamas charter from 1988, only recently revised, claimed that the Jews orchestrated the French and Russian revolutions and both world wars. During that interview with CNN, Ms. Omar also tried to defend another of her controversial tweets, this one from last Tuesday, suggesting that Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, was being blackmailed. It’s no wonder she has already landed on the cover of Time magazine and in front of Annie Leibowitz’s camera.

Source: New York Times January 21, 2019 06:00 UTC