Opinion: Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are equally wrong. May Ilhan Omar learn this lesson.
By E.J. Dionne Jr. E.J. Dionne Jr. Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist March 10 at 6:44 PM The polling is imperfect, but it’s fair to say that more than 70 percent of American Jews and Muslims vote Democratic.
And you can’t help but cheer the fact that Jews and Muslims across the country have stood in solidarity when local institutions of either group have been defaced or attacked.This is why the dangerously careless use of language by Rep. Ilhan Omar about Jews and Israel — she spoke of people who “push for allegiance to a foreign country” — has been cause for both heartbreak and anger.
Partly because of this history, but also in common with almost all liberals and social democrats of a certain age, I have always — and will always — support the existence of Israel as a democratic Jewish state. When I covered the war in Lebanon in the 1980s, a Palestinian friend underscored for me the cost of being stateless. All he wanted, he would say, was the legitimacy that citizenship and a passport confer. It did not seem too much to ask.
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