 Rashida Tlaib has the I don't even want to call it the Palestinian flag because they're not a state they're a territory that's about to probably get eviscerated and go away here shortly as we're going to turn that into a parking lot. In a predictable turn of events that Republican who you just watched call for genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is now one of two Republicans that submitted a resolution condemning and denouncing anti-Semitism. Now in a vacuum a resolution condemning and denouncing anti-Semitism is obviously perfectly reasonable although he's not necessarily the best messenger for obvious reasons but to make matters even more bizarre this supposedly anti anti-Semitism resolution that he submitted is actually being labeled as anti-Semitic by Jewish activists. Ryan Grimm reports a new house resolution which may be voted on as early as tonight clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. This comes after a previous resolution hinted at that claim but did not fully state it. So now Congress wants to leave no question. Now as you can see here in part four it's unequivocal and if you remove this part then the entire resolution is just objectively good. Denouncing anti-Semitism and reiterating support for Jewish people is necessary but equating anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is just downright absurd and as Ryan Grimm also points out anybody who votes against this resolution will be said to have voted against condemning anti-Semitism and that's exactly the point of this. This is extremely cynical but not necessarily surprising but we know why they're doing this. It is getting increasingly difficult for Israel supporters to defend their ongoing slaughter of innocent civilians. The New York Times reports that civilians in Gaza are being killed at an historic pace and once the ceasefire ended Israel killed over 700 people in Gaza within 24 hours and also Gazans are reporting that the bombing has been non-stop and in some areas they've officially ran out of food so if they're lucky enough to avoid getting bombed they could starve to death and just to put things into perspective for you listen to this UNICEF spokesperson James Elder describe the situation in Gaza. It's just on sunrise now a night of utterly relentless bombardments. I cannot stop thinking about the 1.8 million people here in the South. I don't think there was more than a five or 10 minute period throughout the course of the night and and I really didn't sleep where where something wasn't flying overhead or the sky being lit up and the 1.8 million people in in the South. I spend my days in Canyunas. It is mattress next to mattress person next to person 10,000 people in that shelter 20,000 in that shelter 500 sleeping outside and all these bombardments that such is the tight knit pack of mums and children and families that I can't imagine how it would seem to me that everything that's blasted off I pretend no military expertise but it almost hit something someone. Now when you hear numbers like 1.8 million Gazans under bombardment or 15,000 plus deaths it's such a large number that it's difficult to visualize that it's hard to fathom the actual human toll when you just see these big numbers it doesn't mean anything to us on a broader level but I want to put it into perspective for all of us. So here's just one man reacting to all of these numbers that we're seeing. This is a man who just lost his entire family. The pain that he is feeling is incomprehensible. I couldn't imagine it losing one family member is incredibly difficult. I'm still not over my dad who passed away multiple years ago but to lose everyone all at once everyone in your family I mean I wouldn't know how to how to go forward how could anyone it's just such a huge loss that it's inconceivable to even fathom what that'd be like I'd be inconsolable. I mean even if you survive what's your quality of life like after that after you lose everything and even if you don't necessarily have family members that have died well maybe you lost your home you've been living there and now it's all taken away from you what's your quality of life after that like it's not just the worst case scenarios that we have to grapple with here it's just other instances where okay you survived but you lost everything for example here's a child in Gaza reacting to his room being destroyed in an Israeli airstrike now the twitter account who shared this claims that he said I wish I could die and find peace I mean what is he like 11 12 years old at most this right here is what turning Gaza into a parking lot looks like there are people there with lives and family and homes and aspirations dreams desires and that's all being destroyed and it's indefensible I don't know how you can defend this and live with yourself so if you condemn the Zionist regime of Israel for doing that then supporters of this genocide like max miller who wanted to turn Gaza into a parking lot who said he wanted to do that well he's now trying to label you as an anti-semite isn't that a little bit interesting how a member of a fascist party is supposedly denouncing hate as if they're not the party that propagates hate non-stop that's what the republican party's entire ethos is but yet all of a sudden they're against hate yeah that's that's fucking bullshit they're not anti-hate they're pro-genocide that's what this is about the goal of this resolution is to shut down critics of Israel since they can't defend Israel they're just going to smear anyone who condemns Israel now matt lex shared a video from Israeli professor avi schlaim where he concisely explains how this conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism is being used to silence critics of Israel anti-semitism is the hatred of Jews because they are Jews anti-zionism is opposition either to the Zionist ideology the officialized geology of the state of Israel or more commonly it's criticism of specific policies of the Israeli government particularly policies towards the Palestinians policies of the occupation anti-semitism is a very ugly thing and can never be justified anti-zionism most of the criticisms most of the anti-zionism zionist statements that I've come across are reasonable evidence-based and legitimate but is the problem is that Israel and its friends and its very powerful friends around the world deliberately deliberately conflate the two so as to pretend to claim that any criticism of the state of Israel and its policies is anti-semitic and the last example of that I've already given at the beginning of my talk which is the secretary general of the united nations who made a very humane statement about the need to ceasefire and protect civilians and the Israeli representative immediately accuses him of anti-semitism and of blood libel so this is a very clear illustration of the strategies of Israel and its friends around the world right no notes needed he is absolutely correct now he's not alone in pointing this out because Jewish leftists on twitter responded to this resolution by explaining that this resolution even though they claimed that they're condemning anti-semitism the resolution itself is anti-semitic and they explain why ellie valley for example says among other things by codifying ethno-nationalism as the only acceptable expression of Judaism in America this is the most anti-semitic resolution to be considered in generations lol overruled rights making Jews all over the world unsafe by tying them all to a fascist government that's killing thousands of civilians Jordan Zakharin writes honestly as a Jew this feels more anti-semitic to me than most anti-zionist rhetoric there are a whole lot of Jews who are anti-zionist to oppose a right-wing government's war on civilians would you say someone is anti-catholic if they condemn the Vatican's abuse cover-ups and that's such a good point joshua p hill writes anti-zionism will never be anti-semitism no matter how these ghouls vote if anything weaponizing our identity to force people to support a genocidal apartheid state is anti-semitic and lastly Jewish voice for peace writes this republican led resolution threatens both Jewish and Palestinian safety ignores the threat of rising white nationalism and is a direct attack on free speech every member of congress should vote against it they continue conflating anti-zionism with anti-semitism conflates all Jews with the Israeli state and endangers Jewish communities just as blaming all Jews for Israel's actions as anti-semitic so is the inverse suggesting that Jewish people are synonymous with Israel and Zionism and what they're saying here is crucial but I'm assuming that the supporters of Israel the defenders of genocide they're not going to listen to these Jewish voices even as they claim that they're against anti-semitism they don't actually care they're pretending to be outraged at anti-semitism because they just they don't know how else to defend Israel you can't defend Israel's actions based on the merits just objectively speaking so they try to weaponize the identities of Jewish people and they use that to shut down criticism it's just it's so disgusting I mean at a time when anti-semitism is on the rise in this country and around the world this resolution is essentially an incitement of hate against Jewish people they are not responsible for the violence being perpetrated by the Israeli government and to say that criticism of Israel and their governments is anti-semitism that ascribes culpability to Jewish people who are not responsible for what Israel is doing and to suggest that they are responsible and to criticize the government of Israel as a criticism of them is just so fucking despicable it's like saying criticism of Saudi Arabia is is Islamophobic or criticism of Nigeria's government is racist it's absurd right I mean if you ever criticize a gay person like Milo Yiannopoulos then I guess you're homophobic it like what are we doing here this is so comical right governments are governments and people are people and furthermore Judaism has been around long before Zionism so it's so cynical to conflate the two just to silence critics of Israel it's disgusting but unfortunately this is what our government and largely the media are continuing to do rather than having the courage to condemn this genocide being perpetrated with our tax dollars members of congress are instead choosing to defame the people brave enough to condemn it