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... [Representative Illhan Omar] was accused of parroting an old anti-Semitic trope which held that Jews would never be fully loyal citizens of the countries in which they lived. The accusation that they held "dual loyalties" has justified the oppression of Jews dating back to the Roman Empire.   So Donald Trump raised some eyebrows on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, when he bragged to a crowd of Republican Jews gathered in Las Vegas that he had "stood with your prime minister at the White House," The reality is that Jewish Americans worry less about Israel than things like health care, the economy, and the environment… Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/07/benjamin-netanyahus-proposal-would-bury-the-two-state-solution     The Israeli PM's West Bank annexation idea is likely to have had the nod from Trump.   …Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the US-based progressive advocacy group, J Street, said Netanyahu's statement was intended to sabotage the creation of a Palestinian state and potentially endangered Israeli lives…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://bostonreview.net/politics/donna-nevel-mark-tseng-putterman-what-anti-semitism-is?fbclid=IwAR2JOqeYNdn1LD74TNP9wIuLn005CWf3K4ejKprZ7smPbGHyN6QCFZXXjKc   Two Jewish activists discuss the place of anti-Semitism in contemporary movements for social justice.   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member