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> He didn't say that.

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






> Well yeah, to show something possible it's enough to show one example.

AIPAC used almost 20 million dollars to defeat Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, for example.


So out of 9 members of "the Squad", 7 were reelected and only 2 outed? Quite inefficient suicide in my book.



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