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Whom Do Bigots Blame for Police Shootings in America? Israel, of Course!

(Jerusalem Post) Alan Dershowitz - In response to the tragic deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling at the hands of police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana, respectively, the New York University Chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) tweeted the following: "In the past 48 hours another two black men have been lynched by the police.... We must remember that many U.S. police departments train with #IsraeliDefenceForces. The same forces behind the genocide of black people in America are behind the genocide of Palestinians." Even in moments of national mourning such as these, SJP bigots cannot help but exploit the deaths of innocent Americans to further their own anti-Semitic political agenda, namely to delegitimize and demonize the nation state of the Jewish people. The reaction by the SJP is reflective of a broader trend in hardleft politics. Increasingly, groups such as Black Lives Matter, MoveOn, Code Pink and Occupy Wall Street have embraced intersectionality - a radical academic theory, which holds that all forms of social oppression are inexorably linked. Black Lives Matter activists have visited Gaza to express solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by so-called racist Israeli self-defense measures.
2016-07-22 00:00:00
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