The U.N. resolution would also have demanded the immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other grou
Have you noticed how the actual groups guilty of “dual loyalty” are American politicians and evangelicals? And even then, can you accurately call it “dual” if it’s in fact only to the foreign nation of Israel? You can’t hate the government enough.
Fifty states, one Israel? Try fifty states, one nation, zero Israels. We actually are zero percent Israel. That is a foreign nation and not the US. It’s really not as complicated as our politicians make it seem and it’s time to cut off this albatross.
It's so hard to have humanity here. It's exhausting, and it feels like time after time the world is just asking you to let go
“Dual loyalty” is feeling the heartbreak of this and also of that…
Loyalty may not be the right word. It’s dual pain, dual heartbreak, care, love. It is to hold everyone’s humanity. And it’s hard. It’s so hard to have humanity here. It’s exhausting, and it feels like time after time the world is just asking you to let go. It’s so much easier to “choose a side” – it almost doesn’t matter which side, just choose, and stick to it, and at least reduce the amount of pain you hold. At least feel part of a group and less alone in all this.
As if that’s really an option. As if we don’t understand that our pains are intertwined.
Nor is Israel as a beacon in a sea of barbarism a Jewish issue, which is precisely why the “dual loyalty” allegation against members of the tribe in other countries is a complete lie. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of those Arab citizens of Israel who side with their country’s mortal enemies.
Their allegiance isn’t to the state in which they live and in whose parliament their representatives serve, but rather to various radical Muslim groups. Even many members of Israel’s Knesset belong in this category.
Take Joint List Party leader Ayman Odeh, for instance. In a video message earlier this month that he delivered from the Old City of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, a riot hotspot, Odeh called on Arab-Israeli youth not to serve in the police or other security forces, which “are humiliating our people, humiliating our families and humiliating all those who come to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque.”
He then urged those already enlisted in the “occupation forces” to “throw the weapons back in their face and to tell them that ‘our place is not with you. We will not be part of the injustice and crime.’”
His reference to the “occupation” is an expression of loyalty with the peace-rejectionist Palestinians who mourn the nakba, the “catastrophe” of Israel’s establishment in 1948. They make no bones about their intention to “liberate Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,” a mantra about eliminating the Jewish state in its entirety.
“Dual loyalty,” then, isn’t exactly the problem of Odeh and his ilk; treason would be a better term for it.
Anti-Israel organizations abroad certainly fit the “dual-loyalty” bill, however. After all, protesters waving Palestinian flags in New York to promote “resistance by any means necessary” and a “globalization of the intifada” are letting their true affinity show. And it’s not to Western civilization.
Dual loyalty, unfortunately, is an anti-Semitic conspiracy that still persists to this day.
Haman’s accusation against the Jews also plays a role in Esther’s decision. When Haman asks Achashverosh for permission to destroy the Jews, instead of mentioning them by name, he says, “There is a certain nation, scattered and dispersed among the other nations in all the provinces of your kingdom, whose laws are different from any other nation and who do not obey the king’s laws and it is not in Your Majesty’s interest to tolerate them” (Esther 3:8). Haman’s covert accusation was that Jews’ loyalties lay with their own people, rather than with the government.
Haman’s plot comes directly after Mordecai refused to prostrate himself before Haman, in violation of Persian law. This rivalry actually predated the bowing incident; when Haman and Mordecai were both generals in the king’s army, Haman sold himself as a slave to Mordecai after he foolishly wasted all of his soldiers’ supplies. Simply put, Haman’s accusation of dual loyalty was a cover for his own insecurities.
Dual loyalty, unfortunately, is an anti-Semitic conspiracy that still persists to this day. The Anti-Defamation League found that 44% of Americans agree with the statement that Jews stick together more than other Americans, 24% agreed that they are more likely to be loyal to Israel than to America and 12% agreed that Jews do not care what happens to anyone but their own kind. Worldwide surveys produced an even more frightening response, with an estimated 41% of respondents believing that Jews hold more loyalty to Israel than to their own respective countries.
In American politics, we find Haman reaching out of his grave to reaffirm his disgusting theories. In 2019, when senators worked to combat the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wrote, “they forgot what country they represent.” When President Joe Biden appointed Anthony Blinken, a Jewish man, as secretary of state, Tlaib rushed to tweet, “So long as he doesn’t suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against Netanyahu’s racist and inhumane policies. The Palestinian people deserve equality and justice.” Apparently she forgot what country she represents, considering she couldn’t stand to see a Jewish man appointed to office without immediately making it about Palestine.
Former House representative and current Senate candidate Jason Lewis (R-Minn.) said six years ago that Republicans have “dual loyalties” to Israel, thanks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and a “very strong American Jewish lobby.”
He also called Israel the “51st state.”
These comments resurfaced in a CNN report published on Friday.
“You’ve got a number of dual citizens, by the way—citizens of Israel and citizens of the United States serving in government,” said Lewis in a February 2013 radio show. “In any other country that might be seen as a problem, but it’s not here because of that special relationship.”
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“[Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations] John Bolton’s a dual citizen, for instance, of Israel and America,” added Lewis. “There’s no question that there are a number in—during the Bush years—there were a number of dual citizens, citizens of Israel, citizens of America who were making policy.”
Bolton isn’t Jewish nor does he hold Israeli citizenship.
Ted Lieu Deletes One Antisemitic Tweet -- But Leaves Others Up
Ted Lieu Deletes One Antisemitic Tweet — But Leaves Others Up
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) deleted a tweet Thursday in which he accused U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman of dual loyalty — the same antisemitic theme used in the past by Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
The Israeli government denied Omar and Tlaib entry into the country, based on their support for boycotting Israel. Omar saidearlier this year that Americans who support Israel…
