{"id":70175,"date":"2019-03-12T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70175"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:26:04","slug":"whats-in-a-name-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70175","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In A Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Rep. Ilhan Omar keeps talking about Israel having&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/03\/03\/ilhan-omar-accused-anti-semitic-remark-israel-criticism\/3048379002\/\" target=\"_blank\">undue influence in American politics<\/a>, and people keep ripping her for it, calling her anti-Semitic.<br>I don\u2019t like it.&nbsp; Name-calling is a silencing tactic of the Left.&nbsp; Whether you are branded as a homophobe, sexist, denier or anti-Semitic doesn\u2019t matter: they\u2019re all variations on \u201chater\u201d and the Left won\u2019t listen to haters, no matter what they have to say.&nbsp; People on the Right should not use that tactic. We should be able to defend our position with logic and reason.<br>Anti-Semitic means prejudiced against Jews. One need not harbor religious prejudice to ask why it\u2019s in the best interest of the United States to support a nation, whether it\u2019s Vatican City, Somalia, or Israel.&nbsp; The best foreign policy advice was given by Washington and Jefferson \u2013 honest friendship and commerce with all, entangling alliances with none.&nbsp; Religion shouldn\u2019t enter into it at all, on either side, for or against. <br>I\u2019m not saying Rep. Omar is right that Israel has too much influence on American foreign policy.&nbsp; But I am saying she\u2019s not wrong to ask whether it does, and calling her names to silence her is an indication that the name-callers don\u2019t think they can defend our Israel policy in an honest debate.&nbsp; That\u2019s the most troubling aspect of all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I agree with Joe about the name-calling &#8211; but, all due respect, I believe it&#8217;s possible to both have a rational debate about Israel point out the Democrat party has a bit of an antisemitism problem.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar keeps talking about Israel having&nbsp;undue influence in American politics, and people keep ripping her for it, calling her anti-Semitic.I don\u2019t like it.&nbsp; Name-calling is a silencing tactic of the Left.&nbsp; Whether you are branded as a homophobe, sexist, denier or anti-Semitic doesn\u2019t matter: they\u2019re all variations on \u201chater\u201d and the Left won\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-70175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-congressional","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70194,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70175\/revisions\/70194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}