House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) called out members of his own party in the same breath as he lobbed criticism at President Trump for anti-Semitic remarks.
Okay. I’ve just looked at that cartoon for the first time.
I’m not well-versed in anti-semitic tropes. Can someone help me see the problem?
Nadler on auto-pilot:
And the Carlos Latuff cartoon forwarded by @RepRashida and @Ilhan can surely be read for its vile underlying message.
Here’s the cartoon with its “vile underlying message”:
There is no problem. Nadler is just helping Republicans demonize Tlaib and Omar. You can bet his comment will be used by them.
Why you would play both sides with this is beyond me, and there is no explanation to use this cartoon to do it. Watching the left play these games with Tlaib and Omar is infinitely more maddening than watching the right play it.
I think Nadler’s reaction is not to the cartoon, but to who drew it. It’s the messenger, not the message.
One wonders if maybe Jerry has a problem with these women?
That’s absolutely his point, but not one that needed to be made in public while calling out Trump.
Nadler is understandably sensitive to antisemitic incidents, however, equating trump’s ongoing exploitation of the issue to Tlaib and Omar’s forwarding of a cartoon which by all accounts is an accurate description of the recent episode is a bit of bothsiderism that seems out of line.
The alleged fact that the cartoonist has an antisemitic and even Holocaust denying history does not obviate the accuracy of the cited work. As has been stated many times, criticism of Netanyahu and of Israeli policies is not the same as antisemitism any more than taking a knee at a football game is anti American.
In the past both these Congresspeople have been guilty of speaking intemperately, something that as newbies they need to learn. But in this circumstance the juxaposition of their actions with those of trump are just plain wrong. And as along time atheist who was raised in a marginally religious Jewish household I am sensitive to the fact of antisemitism and have even experienced it. This isn’t it and Nadler is wrong.
No criticizing Israel ever, or jews in general, I once got yelled at here for calling Cohen a rat.
Of course he does.
That would seem to be the case had he not added the bit about the “vile underlying message.” Its not obvious what he means by that.
You may well be right, but that does not excuse Nadler’s equating the women with trump - he’s smarter than that and should have known better.
Maybe, but it’s not quite what he said.
I guess Nadler got needled by Trump comments about not being loyal enough to Israel.
One underlying message Nadler seems to criticizing may be that the cartoon is saying that Jews and Trump are stifling dissent. If it was just Nentanyahu, it might be read somewhat differently, but there’s a Star of David there. Maybe there’s something about the blue arms?
Yes. Take a look at the Israeli flag.
Well, sure. The blue arms, the white field between them, and the Star of David, together shape an Israeli flag.
Which kind of seems like fair comment.
On the other hand, what was the purpose in their posting the cartoon? Frankly, I agree with Nadler, better not to spread it.
The blue arms and star of David make the Israeli flag, and it was Israel by way of Netanyahu, who ultimately enforced the censorship.
