A series of tweets by Emily Hauser who is an American-Israeli writer currently living in Chicago. She has studied and reported on the contemporary Middle East since the early 1990s for a variety of outlets, including The Chicago Tribune and The Daily Beast:
1) If I still wrote about Jewish issues &/or Israel/Palestine (which I don't) this is what I would be writing abt the @keithellison nonsense
2) This shameful treatment of Ellison is a natural outcome of organized Am-Judaism ceding our identity as Jews to a modern-day nation-state.
3) The ADL isn't sure if Steve Bannon, an actual anti-Semite, is an anti-Semite, b/c he's willing to back Israel's occupation & RW govt.
4) The ADL is sure that Keith Ellison, a good man who is NOT AN ANTI-SEMITE, is an anti-Semite, b/c he's willing to argue w/ Israel's govt.
5) The machinations of Israeli politicians trying to hold on to land that DOESN'T BELONG TO THEM is a geo-political issue, not a Jewish one.
6) The dog whistles & stated animus of many in Trump's circle toward Jews, OTOH, IS a Jewish issue. It is anti-Semitism. It is Jew hatred.
7) But yrs ago, the organized Am-Jewish community chose to make being an Am-Jew all abt having a collective crush on Israel, come what may.
8) So when faced w a good man devoted to the wellbeing of all INCLUDING THE JEWISH STATE,we can't handle that he won't demonize Palestinians
9) We call the failure to demonize Palestinians anti-Semitism. It is not really crystallized what I've been feeling for the past 5 years (as a chasidic Jew who used to live in Jerusalem) It's hard - I'm Israeli, husband Jslm-born-&-bred, & truly love it but a place & a govt don't = Judaism or malkhut shamaim.
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