Let's fact check, I have almost zero interest in US politics and know two members of Congress speaking frequently in defense of Palestine (Ilhan Omar and AOC). In fact, both called for ceasefire while Hamas terrorists were still in Israel. Ihlan criticized Israel even before the election to Congress. Was it almost politically suicidal for them?
He didn't say that.
> know two members of Congress speaking frequently in defense of Palestine
This is your evidence? Really? I mean, do you guys hear yourselves?
Two members of congress? Out of hundreds? Two members who, might I remind everyone, are constantly accused of being anti-American communists?
> Was it almost politically suicidal for them?
Yes! These two are treated like the scum of the Earth by 100% of the American right and 80% of the American left!
It's not even debatable that the US is absurdly pro-Israel. I don't know what we're even arguing here. Zionists should all agree that Zionism is good, right? So why are we arguing that Zionists are some sort of minority? You should be ecstatic that our government is explicitly Zionist!
Sure, you replace "Jews" by "Zionists" and then every trope is ok. It's Zionists who have the power to influence or direct US government behavior (i.e., control it).
> Two members of congress? Out of hundreds?
Well yeah, to show something possible it's enough to show one example.
> Yes!
How is being elected to Congress political suicide?
> It's not even debatable that the US is absurdly pro-Israel.
I'm not debating that. I'm debating the idea that this is somehow doing of evil Zionist lobby or that repeating antisemitic tropes is not antisemitic because you euphemize Jews by Zionists
Yes, because Zionism and Judaism are not related. Zionism is the belief that Jews are entitled to a Jewish Ethnostate and they may create that state through violence and colonialism.
That has nothing to do with being Jewish. I would wager the majority of Jews are not Zionists. And being not-Jewish doesn't make you not-Zionist. The Third Reich were Zionists.
> Well yeah, to show something possible it's enough to show one example.
That was never the argument. The argument was that the US government is explicitly Zionist. Which they are. Nobody is claiming literally everyone within our government is a Zionist. Because that's stupid and obviously not true. You're creating a strawman.
> euphemize Jews by Zionists
Nobody is doing this. They're calling Zionists Zionists because said Zionists are saying "I am a Zionist". These policies, for example, are explicitly Zionist. The US government is explicitly Zionist.
According to Jimmy Carter:
"The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other nations — but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices.
It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians."
https://www.latimes.com/news/la-oe-carter8dec08-story.html
Carter was of course widely (and absurdly) slandered as an antisemite. He probably wouldn't get a visa.