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Warnock, unfortunately, has a long record of hostility to Israel that cannot be dismissed as this article attempts to do quite dishonestly (and smugly). If anything, @J_Insider downplayed how bad his record is. @rudoren, how did you let this get published? Short thread. 1/ https://twitter.com/aefeldman/status/1326302370922377216
First, @aefeldman puzzlingly ignores yesterday's @J_Insider scoop revealing a horrendous 2018 Warnock sermon: "We saw the government of Israel shoot down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey." Pals are brothers & sisters, Israelis are birds of prey. Nice.
Second, @aefeldman's reporting on the statement Warnock signed just last year leaves out virtually every anti-Israel trope in it. Here are a few items that didn't make the cut in his piece:
The statement uses outrageous language to accuse Israel for the living conditions of Gaza, where Pals elected the Hamas terrorist group as their leaders and have supported the instigation of numerous wars against Israel (that Hamas always loses).
Gazans, per the Warnock statement, are subjected to "collective punishment" (a war crime, BTW), "subjugated," and Gaza is "one big densely populated prison" run by Israel. Palestinians in WB & Gaza "live a grinding and dehumanizing existence" because of Israel.
Israel, the Warnock statement says and @aefeldman ignores, "confiscated" the homes of Palestinians in 1948 and maintains "laws of segregation that allow one thing for the Jewish people and another for the Palestinians." This accusation of Apartheid racism is flagrantly false.
There is more smelly rhetoric used in the Warnock statement to describe only the Jews, who are engaged in "an unstoppable gobbling up of Palestinian lands." Birds of prey, unstoppble gobbling -- where have we seen this kind of rhetoric used? Not newsworthy, @rudoren?
The Warnock statement endorses the demographic destruction of Israel when it says: "We call for the return of [Palestinian] refugees and exiles." They're talking about millions of members of the Palestinian diaspora, and the goal is the eradication of Israel as a Jewish state.
Warnock, now that his anti-Israel record has been exposed, is suddenly denouncing BDS, the movement to destroy Israel through economic/diplomatic/political warfare. But the statement he signed last year endorsed BDS. It called for "an end of weapons sales" to Israel. And...
...it said this, which is tortuous but ultimately perfectly clear: "We are keenly aware of the need to preserve the option of utilizing economic pressure as a means of bringing recalcitrant dominant forces to the negotiating table." Shorter version: They support BDS.
There's more to the statement Warnock signed, which is long, detailed, & awful. Israel is a monster, the Pals are angels. It even claims, ludicrously, that "the leaders of the Palestinian Authority had made a conscious decision to forgo armed solutions to the conflict."
It ends w/ a comparison of Israel's alleged treatment of the Pals to Apartheid, slavery, & Holocaust. Little of this made it into @J_Insider piece, yet it seems that for @aefeldman & @rudoren, it is imperative that Warnock receive a Jewish stamp of approval. No criticism allowed.
Needless to say, @KLoeffler is entirely right to highlight Warnock's strange anti-Israel fixation. I encourage everyone to read his statement for themselves: https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/group-pilgrimage-statement-on-israel-and-palestine/
