President Trump and Republicans will need to get pickier when attacking House Democrats. They’re numbing the nation to real anti-Semitic outrages and they risk making people stop caring, as they have stopped caring about liberals’ claims to see racism in every person, place, and thing under the sun.
The text of recent remarks from freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., during a radio interview is Exhibit A. They do read like she’s taking a passive-aggressive swipe at Jews around the world by emphasizing the suffering Palestinians endured on behalf of Israelis. Read the transcript and Tlaib sounds like she’s elevating the attempted mass extermination of Jews with efforts to offer them help. But listen to the audio and she sounds genuinely reflective, if even naive, about the enduring conflict between Arabs and Jews.
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