The New York Times apologized for an "anti-semitic" toon in its international edition depicting yamulka-wearing Trump being led by dog w/ Star of David collar.
I see the toon as more anti-Israel, specifically their RW influence on US policy and Trump's backing of Netanyahu, than anti-semitic. There is a difference between ethnic bigotry and opposition to policy. It's a shame that sensitivity to our current divisive culture can't seem to recognize the difference.
Yes, Israel and Jews are an inseparable pairing, but the opposition of nearly two thirds of American Jews to the invasive land stealing and discrimination of Palestinians and AIPAC's influence in our policy decisions is evidence that displaying antagonism to policies is not the same as ethnic bigotry.
Some may say that it's too soon after the vicious killings at synagogues to bring this up, but I say it's more necessary now. The white supremacist terrorists make us too sensitive to the targeting of an ethnic group indelibly linked to a whole country when their targets are more diverse (don't forget the African-American churches in Louisiana) and even American Jews separate Israeli policy from Jews in general.
Don't let wholesale bigotry cloud the picture of who the real enemies of sanity and community are.
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I also posted this on Democratic Underground. One response there noted:
"It was anti-semitic. The dog is wearing a Star of David and Trump was wearing a yamulka. Both jewish symbols not just Israeli symbols. Now remove those symbols, give the dog Netanyahu's face. Even better, showing Trump as Netanyahu's lap dog."
Point taken on that.
Monday, April 29, 2019
Friday, April 19, 2019
Healthcare Issues link to Mueller Report for Dems
Polls say healthcare is voters' #1 issue so Democratic leadership use that as an excuse to let Trump's impeachable offenses go largely unpunished. This misses an opportunity to rid us of the infestation of self-serving, party-first-&-let-country-be-damned Republicans in Congress.
McConnell made their absolute partisanship clear in November 2008 when he vowed to make President Obama a 1-term POTUS and confirmed his stance by abrogating Senate's duty and ignored Judge Garland's nomination. Then, despite excoriating the idea of Trump as POTUS during 2016 campaigns, he, Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz and others quickly jumped on Trump's snakeoil wagon and with cheerleaders like Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes have fully supported the corrupt administration in its steamroller destruction of every environmental, economic and social advance made in the past 30+ years. While Affordable Care Act has largely escaped over 50 attempts at repeal, they're still trying.
The links between the corruption and attacks on ACA in Trump's administration and his Congressional boosters has been ignored, or at least not defined. This misses an opportunity by Democratic leadership and presidential candidates to both show they are the party determined to increase healthcare access and affordability while giving a solid reason to turn both houses of Congress blue. The Mueller Report made official what has been obvious in the administration but the Republican Senate's complicity has mostly been gone unmentioned. Holding on to their majority leads them to resist correcting problems such as election security. After all, Russia Saudia Arabia and other foreign powers like having a manipulative asset in the White House and a right wing legislative body. Putin's apparatchiks helped elect Trump not just in social media manipulation but by directly invading voting systems. Mueller made this clear. So is it any wonder Congressional Republicans resist passing laws to bolster election security?
Democrats need to stress their fealty to the rule of law and their interest in citizens' concerns by continuing to reveal the depth of corruption of the administration and Congressional Republicans and that cleaning house, both the White House and Capitol, is the best route to healthcare issues as well as the others that top the polls of American voters. There is no separating concerns of healthcare, gun violence, security (both national and electoral), Social Security, Medicare and the corruption that has become the face of the Republican Party. Democrats must shout loud about the connection.
McConnell made their absolute partisanship clear in November 2008 when he vowed to make President Obama a 1-term POTUS and confirmed his stance by abrogating Senate's duty and ignored Judge Garland's nomination. Then, despite excoriating the idea of Trump as POTUS during 2016 campaigns, he, Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz and others quickly jumped on Trump's snakeoil wagon and with cheerleaders like Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes have fully supported the corrupt administration in its steamroller destruction of every environmental, economic and social advance made in the past 30+ years. While Affordable Care Act has largely escaped over 50 attempts at repeal, they're still trying.
The links between the corruption and attacks on ACA in Trump's administration and his Congressional boosters has been ignored, or at least not defined. This misses an opportunity by Democratic leadership and presidential candidates to both show they are the party determined to increase healthcare access and affordability while giving a solid reason to turn both houses of Congress blue. The Mueller Report made official what has been obvious in the administration but the Republican Senate's complicity has mostly been gone unmentioned. Holding on to their majority leads them to resist correcting problems such as election security. After all, Russia Saudia Arabia and other foreign powers like having a manipulative asset in the White House and a right wing legislative body. Putin's apparatchiks helped elect Trump not just in social media manipulation but by directly invading voting systems. Mueller made this clear. So is it any wonder Congressional Republicans resist passing laws to bolster election security?
Democrats need to stress their fealty to the rule of law and their interest in citizens' concerns by continuing to reveal the depth of corruption of the administration and Congressional Republicans and that cleaning house, both the White House and Capitol, is the best route to healthcare issues as well as the others that top the polls of American voters. There is no separating concerns of healthcare, gun violence, security (both national and electoral), Social Security, Medicare and the corruption that has become the face of the Republican Party. Democrats must shout loud about the connection.
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