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Jeremy Ben-Ami at J Street's 2022 National Conference, December 2022. (Photo: J Street/Flickr)

AIPAC is suddenly unwelcome among Democrats, but there’s a new sheriff in town to enforce the pro-Israel orthodoxy. J Street aims to make liberals ‘love Israel again,’ but most Democrats are looking to distance themselves due to the Gaza genocide.

"Israeli soldiers set fire to Aqsa University library in Gaza City and took pictures of themselves in front of the flames," journalist Younis Tirawi reported on X on May 23. Tirawi showed evidence that photo was shared on social media by Israeli soldier Tair Glisko. 424th Battalion, Givati Brigade, who later made his account private.

Israel’s inability to solve the Palestinian issue except through apartheid and massacres has fostered a fascistic and racist political culture in the country. But this truth must be kept from Americans, because it would discredit Zionism and put politicians at odds with the Israel lobby.

A Palestinian child sits on a barrier blocking a street in the middle of the West Bank city of Hebron that Palestinians are prevented from using while illegal Israeli settlers have free movement under protection of the military. (Photo: Wikimedia/Austin 202)

Years before the murder of American aid worker Jacob Flickinger in Gaza brought worldwide outrage this week, and calls to cut off aid to Israel, pro-Palestinian activists condemned Israel’s murder of American Rachel Corrie. Now activists should welcome all those who decry Israeli human rights abuses.