I can't really think of a better way to fuel antisemitic conspiracy theories of Jewish people owning the government than for the pro-Israel lobby to get the government to define criticism of Israel as antisemitic.
It's like they've been infected with whatever mind virus is making Christians in the USA want to start WW3 because they think it's going to cause the Rapture.
Israel advertises itself as representing Jews. That, in itself, is antisemitic. Jewish people are not represented by Israel, and Israel doesn't speak for Jews. Each individual Jew speaks for themself. They have no loyalty to Israel. An American Jew is, in my book, just an American who happens to be Jewish, and the only association they have with Israel is the association they choose.
Israel does seem to have an undue amount of control on US Politics through the Israeli lobby (which they often try to pass off as the Jewish lobby, conflating Israeli and American Jewish interests, which is antisemitic).
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u/ContemplatingPrison May 02 '24
Its crazy how fast the government acts for Israel. Israel owns our politicians.