BDS movement<\/a>after Israel banned Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-MI.) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN.) from visiting the country: \u201cIt\u2019s a bulls**t purity test by people who want to appear woke but actually slept through history class.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMaher quoted one of the BDS movement\u2019s leaders, Omar Barghouti, who said, \u201cNo Palestinian, rational Palestinian, not a sell-out Palestinian, would ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.\u201d Maher added: \u201cSo that\u2019s where that comes from, this movement, someone who doesn\u2019t even want a Jewish state at all. Somehow this side never gets presented in the American media.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCongresswoman Omar has said things like, \u2018It\u2019s all about the Benjamins,\u2019 \u2018Israel has hypnotized the world,\u2019 \u2018May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,\u2019\u201d Maher added. \u201cShe apologized for it, but it\u2019s out there: Jews control the world, control the money. I can see why they don\u2019t get a hero\u2019s welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Typical of BDS hypocrites who believe the First Amendment entitles them to attack Jews and Israel, but does not apply to anyone who criticizes them, Tlaib called for a boycott of Maher\u2019s show.<\/p>\n
In one of the best ripostes to the preachers of intersectionality and their claim that Jews are among those who enjoy \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d Maher said, \u201cIt\u2019s predicated on this notion, I think \u2014 it\u2019s very shallow thinking \u2014 that the Jews in Israel [are] mostly white, and the Palestinians are browner, so they must be innocent and correct, and the Jews must be wrong. As if the occupation came right out of the blue, that this completely peaceful people found themselves occupied.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maher, who loathes President Trump, gave him credit for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital: \u201cI hate to agree with Donald Trump \u2026 it doesn\u2019t happen often, but I do. I don\u2019t know why Israel \u2014 it has been their capital since 1949, it is where their government is. They\u2019ve won all the wars thrown against them. I don\u2019t understand why they don\u2019t get to have their capital where they want.\u201d<\/p>\n
When New York Times<\/em> columnist Michelle Goldberg, appearing on his show \u201cReal Time,\u201d replied, \u201cWhen you win a war you don\u2019t get to take the other side\u2019s land,\u201d Maher responded, \u201cActually, you do, especially because [the Israelis] were attacked.\u201d He added, \u201cThey were attacked more than once and they took land in those wars that they won and there has been peace offers on the table ever since to give part of that land back.\u201d<\/p>\nMaher also seems to understand better than the foreign policy mavens the problem with the two-state solution. He asked why it should be up to the Israelis to come up with a plan, since anything they propose is rejected and then they are blamed for making it \u201cimpossible.\u201d He said of the Palestinians, \u201cthe essential thing that is making the two-state solution impossible is that one party is perpetually hostile, a coiled snake.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Goldberg ranted about the settlements and Palestinians having to go through checkpoints, Maher schooled her: \u201cBut this is always what happens. We talk about what happened as a result; we don\u2019t look at the beginning of it. Like the Israelis just put up those checkpoints for no reason. They put up those checkpoints because there was an intifada and they were having bombings every day \u2013 a pizza parlor or a bus stop was getting blown up, that\u2019s why they built it, not for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goldberg persisted in arguing how bad life is in the West Bank, and Maher reminded her of what so many two-state advocates ignore. \u201cIsrael gave back Gaza and what was the result?\u201d he said. \u201cDid they use the funds to build schools and hospitals? No. They used them to build tunnels to get weapons and they invited Hamas in to shell Israel across the border.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s time to replace the Arabists at the State Department with comedians.<\/p>\n
(Mitchell Bard, executive director of AICE and Jewish Virtual Library, has written 24 books including \u201cThe Arab Lobby,\u201d \u201cDeath to the Infidels: Radical Islam\u2019s War Against the Jews\u201d and \u201cAfter Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine.\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n