Rep. Summer Lee: This Idea that Every Criticism of Israel Is Anti-Semitic Is Dangerous

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LEE: "But the one thing that I know is that Benjamin Netanyahu has not been on a college campus in the United States. He has not talked to these students. He has not seen their encampments. He has not seen or heard the message that they're delivering. And he doesn't want to hear it, right? His number one goal is, you know, what he's doing over there. And anything that harms or makes it harder for him to achieve that goal, he's going to — he's going to distract from. But this idea that every criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic is dangerous. There is a fair critique that we must make of every government, of every war, of every appropriation. And when we say that students who are engaging in the time honored tradition of civil disobedience, of campus protest and action, are inherently bad or inherently anti-Semitic, particularly as we see Jewish students standing in solidarity with Muslim students or Arab students and black students, when you're on the ground, you see that all of those students have been working together or have been learning and educating together. And they are all in one voice crying for a difference in direction, particularly from Benjamin Netanyahu. So, I'm not shocked that he would want to cast them as evil, cast them as in the wrong. That's been his M.O."