The video shows Michael Yon making false claims regarding so-called “terrorists coming across the border being funded by Jewish money.” Yon was speaking at a “Take Back Our Border” convoy in Texas.
In the video posted on X, formerly Twitter, the man can be heard claiming that HIAS, a global Jewish nonprofit that works to protect refugees, is responsible for funding terrorists coming to America.
The number of American Jews I know that are backing Israel in this are not insignificant. There’s a lot of I stand with Israel out there It like to throw around anti-Semitism when people disagree with them.
The muddying of the term is deliberate and political. And I agree that it is important that people know the difference, which is why I’m against leaving it muddied. If you walk up to a thousand people screaming it’s anti-Semitism and scream back at them that’s not anti-Semitism there’s no movement. You’re telling them that you don’t think what they’re doing is right and they’re telling you you’re a Nazi.
How do you fix that?
People used to claim all kinds of things like blackface weren’t racist when they are racist. Meanwhile, there are black writers who claim hip hop is racist., which implies that you’re a racist if you listen to it. Such writers are wrong and ‘but they’re black’ is not a justification. Blackface is racist because it’s white people pretending to be black. Hip hop is not racist because it is part of black culture. And the way you fix that is you keep insisting one thing is bigotry and the other isn’t. Which is why people do not accept blackface today but do accept hip hop.
You have a fairly large group of people here that are making every argument possible to validate genocide. If someone calls me a racist for listening to hip hop there’s nothing really hurt in the balance. The one person in a minority view or even the 000 1% wouldn’t bother me.
25% of the Jews I know on social media are still flying the I stand with Israel flag. These are not normally sociopaths. If you get into an argument with them they say you just don’t get it they did this and they did that and they do this and they do that. They start quoting scripture, You say yeah but none of that validates genocide, then they change their argument back to what are the white man do to the Indians.
The term anti-Semitic is being flown as a flag and watered down. I think it would be useful to have a secondary term that means I’m against supporting the genocide of Palestine.
25% of the Jews I know on social media are still flying the I stand with Israel flag.
How many Jews do you know and how many of that 25% claim that any criticism of Israel is antisemitism? Because otherwise, I’m not sure why that’s relevant.
