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Why Has Supporting Israel Become So Unfashionable on the Left?
After VP Kamala Harris failed to challenge the claim that Israel is an “Apartheid state” during a Q&A this week, Jewish groups are asking why.
There are leading questions; and there are leading questions. There are questions which expose bias, or at the very least lay bare a certain perspective, and aren’t really questions at all.
Like this one put to Vice President Kamala Harris by a college student this week during a Q&A:
“You brought up how the power of the people and demonstrations and organizing is very valuable in America, but I see that over the summer there have been protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers standing with Palestine, but then just a few days ago there were funds allocated to continue backing Israel which hurts my heart because it’s ethnic genocide and displacement of people, the same that happened in America, and I’m sure you’re aware of this.”
Bias often outs itself, exposing a vested interest, an incomplete grasp of the facts, sometimes willful, sometimes not. Bias is often fairly straightforward and easy to understand.
For instance, someone working in the oil or natural gas industry could probably list all the ways in which the wrongly-vilified companies who selflessly fulfill our endless energy…