Interview with award-winning journalist and Senior Editor-in-Chief of JNS, Jonathan Tobin, to discuss his recent column in The Federalist, 'If Ilhan Omar Was A Republican She'd Be Another Marjorie Taylor Greene.'Jonathan cited the fear that Jewish Democrats in Congress feel in the face of the incessant antisemitic attacks promulgated by Squad members AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, who hide behind gender and "women of color" status to insulate themselves against criticism from Party leaders. Their blood-libeling of Israel has led to direct attacks against Jews in the streets of America. Further, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi accepted Ilhan Omar's "clarification" where she compared the US and Israel to Hamas, ISIS, and other terrorist organizations. Omar stated, "I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems." But since Omar DOES NOT recognize Israel as either a democracy or a country with a "well-established judicial system," her "apology" or "clarification" was a ruse to push aback against Pelosi and her Jewish Democrat critics.Opening monologue from the interview: "Over the last month, I’ve been to multiple rallies on Long Island in support of “Fighting antisemitism.” The rallies featured speakers from all backgrounds; Religious leaders, activists, and politicians from both sides of the political aisle.The one thing they all had in common was their lack of a strong backbone. With all of the attacks against Jews in America and Israel; from academia, student government bodies trying to ram BDS resolutions down universities throats, to media unbalanced reporting on Israel, To Jews getting beat up in the streets of New York and L.A., to Israeli cargo ships being blocked from docking at US ports, to outright blatant attacks against Israel’s very legitimacy from powerful voices inside the United States Congress – Congresswomen focused primarily on Israel, who blood libel Israel in ways that would parallel Josef Goebbels, with accusations of apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity – ALL intentional lies to delegitimize Israel and destabilize the US/Israel relationship, not one single speaker at these rallies had the guts to call out these people by name, so I will: Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley – the leaders of the Hamas Caucus, who know that they are lying, but are so forceful in their lies, that leaders of their party, including long-time serving Jewish Democrats, like Chuck Schumer and Jerrold Nadler, are terrified to rebuke them, out of fear of being called sexists and racists, and even worse, the fear of being primaried by another radical progressive.Today, we are honored to once again have our great friend, Jonathan Tobin, whom Baila will introduce shortly, and whom we want to congratulate and wish success on the launch of his new Podcast, The Top Story with Jonathan Tobin. Today, we will discuss amongst other things, his recent column in The Federalist, If Ilhan Omar were a Republican, She’d be treated like Marjorie Taylor Greene"

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