Antisemites Combating Antisemitism: An Orwellian Farce

In general, and through this anti-Semitism conference in particular, these paragons of “peace and justice” embody and purvey Orwell’s “doublethink” and “newspeak”—terms he invented for the dystopian and totalitarian universe he so deftly portrayed in his 1949 novel, 1984—are alive, well and kicking with a vengeance.

Let’s start with Tlaib, a member of the notorious “Squad” of young female Democratic congresswomen. The progressive from Michigan, a socialist of Palestinian descent—there’s an oxymoron for you—has many claims to fame. Among these is a T-shirt she proudly sported with a drawing of a map of “Palestine” completely covering the entire state of Israel. It’s an unmistakable message: that the Jews don’t belong anywhere in the Jewish state within any borders. In other words, Zionism in her eyes is illegitimate at its core.

Then there’s Beinart, author of The Crisis of Zionism. A self-described “proud Jew” who was recently hired by The New York Times as a contributing opinion writer to further the paper’s anti-Israel agenda, he recently went so far as to bash the Muslim-majority countries who signed the Abraham Accords. Yes, the symbol and darling of the anti-Israel left, who has renounced the Zionism he never possessed, penned a lengthy piece in Jewish Currents about the normalization deals, which he titled “Israel’s Repressive Diplomacy.”

Hill—author of We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility—told TMZ earlier this month that anyone who voted for Trump is a racist. The scholar and TV analyst was fired two years ago from CNN, of all places, after he delivered a speech at the United Nations in which he called on the international community to boycott and divest from Israel.

“We have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words, but to commit to political action, grass-roots action, local action and international action that will give us what justice requires and that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” Hill said, during the U.N.’s “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.”

Like Tlaib’s map-of-Palestine T-shirt, Hill’s use of the phrase “from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea,” is code for the elimination of the Jewish state.