Shame on Cory Booker



writes:
"New Jersey Senator Cory Booker says that the Pittsburgh massacre has led him to support the Israel Anti-Boycott Act. He becomes the first politician to use the killings of 11 Jews to take a racist position against Palestinian rights. His move should be described exactly that way, as a cynical use of real antisemitism as an excuse to dismiss Palestinian rights so as to further his political career."
Shame on Booker
They conclude: "Racism against Palestinians still doesn’t count. You can criticize Israel, but you can’t call them racist. Why bother? Remember that the country lately adopted a law deeming Israel “the nation state of the Jewish people,” where Jews have the exclusive right of self-determination between the river and the sea, where Jewish settlement has a higher value than any other group’s land claims, and where Arabic has been stripped of its status as an official language."
To read the article by the writers, click here:  https://mondoweiss.net/2018/11/semitic-massacre-palestinians/

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