Ilhan Omar says she did not realize her statements about Israel could be construed as anti-Semitic. Maybe we should take the Minnesota congresswoman at her word, Jacob Sullum says—except that she is manifestly unwilling to give people who disagree with her the same courtesy.
Omar’s comments, which last week yielded a broad, anodyne House resolution against bigotry that satisfied no one, evoked a trifecta of anti-Jewish stereotypes. But Sullum says they also embodied a bipartisan tendency to question people’s motives rather than rebutting their arguments, a tactic that is poisonous to civil and rational debate.
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