TTG is a highly trained and experienced retired US Army psywar officer, SF officer and HUMINT clan ops officer. IOW, he and I are similarly qualified colleagues. i asked him to research this because of the now ever present theme in the media that criticism of Israel is both anti-Semitic and career suicide.

I'll add that I spent near the last ten years of my career penetrating these kinds of national IO and cyber activities. I know what several states have done in these fields and are still capable of doing. In other words, I know what I'm talking about. One of the central tenets of these PSYOP and influence ops is that basing them on total lies is a near guarantee of failure. There has to be some truth to build on. In Russia's case, the divisions in US society were and are real. In Israel's case, antisemitism is absolutely real, a real and ugly threat to Jews everywhere and to Israel. It needs to be confronted and fought. At the same time the Israeli government's cynical use of antisemitism to further their own hateful policies is equally vile.

"In Israel's case, antisemitism is absolutely real, a real and ugly threat to Jews everywhere and to Israel. It needs to be confronted and fought."
Can you be more specific?
The omnipresent charge of "antisemitism" has a chilling effect: the old lady who runs the drycleaning shop is afraid to say anything lest she violate PC.
So precisely what are these "ugly threats to Jews everywhere" and who is committing them?
In addition, I reject most of the definitions of antisemitism posted at the IHRA website. Nobody has the right or authority to tell me that the logic that I apply to evidence of history is not permissible.
For that matter, nobody has the right to tell me who I may or may not hate, or for what reason. If it is not acceptable to constrain who a person may "love," as in homosexual relations, then it is equally not acceptable to tell me who I may or may not hate. Both are matters for my own moral sense and character.
If I do actual, physical harm to any person, there are laws that sanction those acts and that can be employed to punish me.
My thoughts, however, are my own, and I reject any authority that presumes to constrain them.
Neither Jews nor any other ethnic or religious or however-designated group is entitled to exalted protection by laws that cover all men/women, if the affirmation, All are created equal under the law, holds true.

Vile, and both ultimately and ironically, damaging to its primary objective.

I would suggest that the fastest way to a second holocaust is to keep telling people that Jews are different from other people, Jews deserve safety more than other groups, that you can't criticize Jews, Jews are gods chosen people etc, etc. When they are singled out like that it breed resentment and paints a target on them.

How do you eliminate real anti-Semitism? Admit Jews are just people like every one else. Some are good people and some are monsters just like every other group of people on the planet.

No known connection as Paul Harvey used to say but DOJ is going to spent time enforcing the FARA requirements. Link may be dead so good luck.
https://www.nytimes.com/201...

Bravo for publicizing "The Lobby" TTG, frankly I am astonished YouTube haven't taken the videos down yet.

I just wish to comment on your final paragraph. The IHRA definition of antisemitism (adopted by the State Department in 2010) now includes the following: "Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.". This IMO is not that unreasonable and offers 2 key defenses to accusations of antisemitism when criticizing Israeli:

1) The State of Israel is of course a state comprised of people of many faiths and not simply a "Jewish collectivity". Criticism solely directed at state policy cannot therefore fall within this definition.

2) If another state introduces legislation to discriminate against a section of its population, shoots dead unarmed children protesting at a border fence etc. it should, of course, be condemned in the same terms.

Omar has broken the taboo and sunlight is already flooding in. The Dems and US politics in general will emerge the better for the impending discussion.

Finally, I have said this here before and with your indulgence I will say it again: Israeli state policy of conflating anti Zionism with antisemitism is profoundly dangerous. Criticism of Israel will not stop, unless state policies change - and there is no sign of that. What will change is the stigma of being labelled an antisemite, if it simply becomes synonymous with holding legitimate views against an apartheid state. Do Jews everywhere really want to wake up one day in a world where we have no separate way to identify real Jew-haters?

There is a perverse irony in this. The final example of antisemitism given by the IHRA is this: "Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.". By deliberately seeking to dilute the definition of a hate crime, the MSA is holding Jews collectively hostage. Israel has effectively made all Jews responsible for speaking up and challenging this policy before it is too late. One must hope they now do so.

"Omar has broken the taboo and sunlight is already flooding in. The Dems and US politics in general will emerge the better for the impending discussion."
Omar has also stated - in congress nonetheless - with certainty that US troops, while furthering oppressive US policy, perpetrated a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Central America in the 1980s and destroyed governments in the region. She represents a district that the FBI has identified as the #1 jihadist recruitment center in the US. Before becoming a congressional rep for that district she wrote pleas for leniency for young men caught with fake passports trying to leave the country to join ISIS in Syria. She's just getting warmed up. If you believe that AIPAC causes the US to do things in the MENA that it wouldn't do otherwise, then Omar is the last person you want calling it out. In time she will prove that she is a true anti-Semite by anyone's standards and anti-USA. She will confirm everything that AIPAC and their allies are saying about her recent words. She will have the reverse effect from what TTG wants.

She represents a district that the FBI has identified as the #1 jihadist recruitment center in the US.

The fault of Omar specifically, or any MN-5 Rep?

As for "she will..", I prefer to reserve condemnation for "she has..".

"US troops, while furthering oppressive US policy, perpetrated a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Central America in the 1980s" where and how was that? are you sure you do not mean local national troops? One of the problems with training and advising foreign troops is that once you do that you have no control over what they do in detail.

Sir,
I agree with you, not Omar. She delved into that when grilling Abrams. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
You're right, though, in the specifics. Omar was referring to US trained troops, but twisted it to be US trained troops carrying out US policy. She also recently turned on Obama and more or less stated that he was randomly attacking people with his imperial criminal drones.

My experience of how such campaigns works is as I said that the US does not direct not does it have any real control over the actions of local government unless it be in air support perhaps provided.

Perhaps the progressive congress could propose legislation that no members of congress can hold duel citizenship. We can follow the example of our ally in that regard.
https://www.timesofisrael.c...

I would support such legislation. My intel sergeant still had his British passport and considered himself a boyo from the bogs. The Group S2 kept asking him to drop/renounce his British citizenship so he could get a TS clearance. This was in the early 80s. I don't know if this was a government wide or Army wide policy at the time. In the 90s one of my ops officers had a British passport, but that was forced on him simply because he was born while his US citizen parents were stationed there. He had a TS clearance and we were in a black SMU. I know the US now doesn't give a rat's ass about dual citizenship. Maybe that should change for those in government positions. I'm surprised Trump, an avowed nationalist, hasn't jumped on that band wagon.

Is Jared a dual citizen? Trump's biggest donor in the last election, Sheldon Adelson will sell out the USA without batting an eyelid when it comes to Israel.

While I'm on the other side of the policy spectrum to Reps. Omar & AOC, I applaud Rep. Omar for having the courage to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy on criticism of Israeli policy and AOC for having the guts to back her.

Don't see any Republicans challenging the Israel ueber alles theme song.

As you know I am a dual US/Canadian national. But I was unaware of this when I held a US clearance (all 50 or so compartments and SAPS) It really is a matter of decision by someone way up high in the IC as to whether or not a dual can hold a US clearance at any level.

Would barring dual citizens from Congress change the allegiances of a congressperson, who renounces a foreign passport? If a person is committed to advancing the best interests of another country, would avoiding citizenship change their allegiance?

Surely, there are dual national citizens, who faithfully serve the best interests of the U.S., and others with U.S. citizenship only, who work in the interest of foreign countries. Even without a rule barring dual citizenship, no congressperson ever says, "I support this for the good of Moldova/ choose a country." What would change?

Could Congress legislate eligibility requirements for congressional candidates or would that require a constitutional amendment? Where do the states fit in with respect to Congressional elections?

That's a good question. The oath of naturalization when becoming a citizen requires renouncing all other allegiances.
https://www.uscis.gov/us-ci...

The only limitations on members of the House of Representatives are stated in article 1 section 2. However article 1 section 5 states:
"Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members..."
I don't see why the house could not pass such a restriction for being a member and refuse to seat those who don't comply.

Fred,
How does renouncing all other allegiances work when religion is involved? Do you think that a literal Christian renounces the belief in the Bible and the promised Second Coming and all the associated prerequisite events that must occur in Israel? Do you think that a Muslim like Omar or Tlaib renounces their religion and belief in the supremacy and inevitability of the global Ummah? I am curious as to what Omar and Tlaib are going to say and do the next time some jihadis raise hell. In the meanwhile, the Dem are helping them establish a law that says, as Muslims, whatever their reaction, they can't be criticized anymore than Israel can be. Sometimes enemy of your enemy is not your friend, but is worse than your enemy.

Yet some nations will not recognize a renunciation by their citizens of their citizenship.

You also have the situation where someone born in the US also has foreign citizenship. For example, a US citizen born in the US to a French citizen mother is also a French citizen. There is no naturalization involved and thus no renunciation of that French citizenship either.

Finally, though the US may not recognize dual citizenship, the US has no authority to strip away or revoke the foreign citizenship. That would only lie with the foreign nation, as above, France.

The US DOES recognize foreign citizenship. Are you so stupid that you have not been following the conversation here?

Article I, sec. 2:

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Those are the constitutional requirements. Changing the requirements would require an amendment imo.

On a related matter, I also think the various proposals circulating in Congress to require that presidential candidates furnish their tax returns are also unconstitutional on their face in the absence of an amendment. The constitution sets forth the requirements for presidential eligibility, not Congress.

I am still trying to figure out how the MSM accepts the narrative that accusing non-Jewish Congressman of supporting Israel because they are being paid off by lobbyists is an 'anti-Semitic meme'. Many have accused Congressman of being in the pockets of lobbyists over many different topics. It is hardly a 'meme' uniquely applied to Jews. It is as common a statement as 'save money by cutting wasteful govt spending'.

I disagree with her, to rightwing Republicans like Pence, Cotton, and Rubio, suporting Israel is a labor of love.

My posts on the lack of critical thinking in the MSM are redundant. I am still in mourning over it because without these fools being on their game there is no accountability until circumstances imposes one on us.

Yep. Plenty of people in Congress and other positions of power would support Israel 100% due to purely religious convictions and a sense of making good on what happened in the past in Europe. Conversely, I have to believe that Omar is also acting out of religious convictions. She has made statements that tend to confirm that motivation. As Col Lang has taught over the years, ideology is a stronger and deeper motivator than "the Bejamins". AIPAC offers money. However, there is money available from many sources. Ideology determines from which source the money will be accepted. The whole, "AIPAC and Israel, as a clan with only loyalty to themselves, are undermining the USA" sounds awfully close to what Hitler had to say about Jews.

This is what is so tragic (and I use that word in the Sophoclean sense) about the motivations and forces at work here. The doubtless very smart folk at the MSA are in real danger of outsmarting themselves on a grand scale. The label of "antisemite" has become a Wunderwaffe to be used in ever broader attempts to quash groups opposing Israeli policy. Liberal elites and their tame media have seen its effectiveness and have adopted the same tactic to counter anti Establishment movements such as the Labour party and the Gilets Jaunes. It is like a biological weapon that has got out of hand. But where it is not lethal, an immunity will gradually build up in target populations. A catastrophic backlash is the logical outcome, unless it can be got under control.

Philip Giraldi has written an excellent examination of a number of these issues:
"The Growing Anti-Semitism Scam" by Philip Giraldi, 2019-02-19
Parts of his article:

Congressional votes professing love for Israel notwithstanding, the fact is that
there is a massive, generously funded effort to
corrupt America’s government in favor of Israel.

And regarding charges of anti-Semitism:

Former Israeli Minister Shulamit Aloni explained how it is done
“Anti-Semitic”…“its a trick, we always use it.”

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

TTG, there is another issue you have omitted, probably deliberately.
That is the claim that “any accusation that (some) American Jews have dual loyalty is both wrong and anti-Semitic.”
That claim seems to fly in the face of some real evidence.
Take, for example, The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
According to J.J. Goldberg, writing in page xviii of his 1996 book Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment (At the Amazon site for the book, click on "Look Inside" to see the following, and much else)::

The [CPMAJO] was created by its members in the mid-1950s to express American Jewry’s “consensus support for Israel.”

And now, on 2019-03-07, its website leads with this statement:

The Conference of Presidents was designated to receive a 70th-anniversary award recognizing the contribution of American Jewish organizations to Israel, the US Israel relationship, and strengthening of ties between the peoples of the two countries.

The book Jewish Power is a real revelation on the power American Jews have and how they have used it. Some of the chapter titles give the idea:
Chapter 8: Jerusalem on the Potomac: The Rise and Rise of the Israel Lobby;
Chapter 13: Separated by a Common Faith: American Jewry's One-Way Love Affair With Israel.

Note also the discussion in the Prologue (included in the "Look Inside" Amazon feature) of Jewish hostility to Bush-41 over the loan guarantees issue, opposition which IMO was a key reason for his defeat in his reelection campaign.

This is not a bulletin board.

A very good explanation by TTG. The main issue about Ilhan Omar which is ignored is that it is a matter of protected speech, core political speech, free expression, or whatever term is desired. Everything she has said is 100% protected speech, and those persons excoriating her -- especially those who are lawyers -- whether Jewish or not, know that. I have yet to hear an authentic recording, if there is one, of what she said about "allegiance", and how accurate a use of language it was.

Three more issues of course are what foreign policy should be as to all foreign countries, including Israel; who does lobbying and seeks to influence the U.S. government and politicians; and where the money comes from and goes to for the lobbying and efforts at influence.

As has been said inside and outside of "the law", the answer to speech that is disliked is more speech.

The House resolution is H.Res. 183. As of about 5:23 p.m., eastern time, I have not found a copy of it. There apparently was 40 minutes of "debate", and now a vote is going on--

5:05:06 PM H. Res. 183 On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Roll Call 108 - 2/3 Yea and Nay vote pending.

4:02:28 PM H. Res. 183 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Res. 183.

4:02:26 PM H. Res. 183 Considered under suspension of the rules.

Thankyou TTG for the video links. The four episodes run consecutively from Youtube so I accidentally on purpose binge-watched all four parts. Apart from the main topic of the expose, several things stood out:
The ease in which the AJ reporter managed to infiltrate the various anti-BDS groups and the high quality of the surreptitiously recorded AV.
The way the targets 'sang like canaries' to above reporter with the minimum of prompting.
I'm the polar opposite of an expert in these matters but it seems like the actions of the 'lobby' (the collecticn of various groups that promote Israel and denigrate Israeli opposition) have the these faults:
Belief that they are untouchable and above the law (familiarity breeds contempt).
Belief in their own bullshit; i.e. those that espouse lies begin to believe them.
An uncritical view of what may happen in the future. Altough I will concede that several lobbiests admitted the they had lost the BDS youth battle.
There is no question that the 'controller' of these affairs is the Israeli goverment further funded by wealthy US ctizens (semi-citizens?).
My belief is that Israel is playing a very dangerous game courting the US in the way they are. The time will come when the Alderson"s et al are gone, youth have taken up new causes and goverments change. Human or natural events could trigger a rapid collapse in their society. They would have only themselves to blame for this. There is still time for a correction however, whatever that maybe.
RW

TTG,

it's not war, OK
But seems to me that Reifkind work " an American citizen employed as an Israeli intelligence and action agent " can be labelled as treason ?
Or did I miss something ?.

It's not war, nor is is espionage since no state secrets are involved. We are also not at war with Israel so it cannot be legally called treason. I think the most applicable crime is a violation of FARA. Perhaps we may see a more draconian application of the FARA statutes going forward.

This is a battle that's becoming daily more important. I started tweeting warnings to the Justice Democrats some time back that the same antisemitism fraud being used to attack UK Labour was headed their way and now it's arrived... Donald Trump accusing the Democrats of being antisemitic and the attacks on Ilhan Omar are the Confederates opening fir on Fort Sumter...

First time reading your blog. Good article. On point. Your font hurts my eyes though.

Keep it up.

The comic sans font has grown on me over the years. I am fully aware that it is more appropriate for use in graphic novels or comics for perfectly logical typesetter and design reasons. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or drawing skills to present articles as graphic novels. I wish I did. That would make for a truly wonderful SST.

No! No! We love that font!

Get glasses.

The author clearly doesn't understand that the font used is annoying as hell, because it is used only for titles, not for wall of text.

No, we actually don't give a damn about what you think of the font.

1) Some supporters of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar say that she did not mention Jews when she questioned dual loyalties and that she was actually referring to congress members who accept AIPAC support and vote as AIPAC directs.
2) I think that the power of AIPAC flows in part from its alignment with the military-industrial-propaganda complex in the US and also with certain strains of American Christianity. If AIPAC demanded demilitarization and a cessation of US intervention in the Middle East (for example Syria and Libya) and asked for huge sums of money for purchasing Chinese industrial goods rather than US military goods, wouldn't much of its base in the US turn on it?

No

Well said sir! I wholeheartedly agree and I thank you for your comments. All Americans benefit from them.