It is antisemitic to gloss over Israel’s influence on the USA
JVL Introduction
We will continue to reject assertions that the USA is controlled by Israel but powerful influence is another thing. This article outlines the reality that Israel did influence the USA into bombing Iran, citing an article in the New York Times, which revealed that when the prospect of war on Iran was discussed in the Situation Room, not only (unusually) was a foreign leader present but “Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin, Netanyahu took over the presentation space, backed on a screen by the leader of the Mossad as well as Israeli military officials.” The NYT “makes it clear that Netanyahu’s “hard sell” of a quick war was pivotal to the US president’s decision to partner with Israel in attacking Iran.”
But Stanley looks at why this influence is rarely addressed in the legacy media, compared, for example to the exposure about Trump’s relationship with Putin. Is this because of journalists – or proprietors’ – fear of allegations of antisemitism? Stanley argues that the reverse is true: “It is antisemitic to treat criticism of Israel’s foreign influence as antisemitic. But it is not just antisemitic – it also contributes substantially to antisemitism.” Why because doing so implies that criticism of Israel is antisemitic and is another (all too common) example of those who support Israel conflating that country with Jews.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Mon 27 Apr 2026. Read the original here.
Why is the US media silent about Israel’s role in Trump’s decision to go to war?
I suspect the main reason they avoid criticizing Israel is that they believe that would be antisemitic. But this is both dangerous and wrong
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Let us not deceive ourselves, that even though Netanyahu may not be physically present in Downing Street, Zionism is in full occupation of the British “Establishment” and its willing disciples in Parliament.
We, the general public, have been tied into knots by Netanyahu who is openly engaged in war crimes of the very worst kind against the Palestinians and Lebanese and that’s only to today’s date. Even writing that sentence was tortuous, what was I saying that might be construed as anti-Semitic? Was I somehow linking Jewish people worldwide with the crimes of the Israeli government?
‘To mask the actions of the current government of Israel on the grounds that to decry them is antisemitic is to associate Jewish people with these crimes.
Good article. It is however, a bit galling to read the passage about ‘omission’. For those of us who have been complaining to the media in general and the BBC in particular, for decades, about this, their ‘chosen’ form of state propaganda, only to be rebuffed every time, this ‘revelation’ in Stanley’s piece, makes us feel somewhat, historically, ‘omitted’.