Caitlin Johnstone reports:

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt gave a bizarre appearance on CNN in response to an attempted car bombing of a Michigan synagogue by a man whose Lebanese family members were killed by Israeli forces.

“We are seeing Jewish people, the Jewish state, blamed for the war in the Middle East,” Greenblatt said. “That is wrong. It is wrong to scapegoat, it is wrong to hold Jewish people accountable for something you don’t like on the other side of the planet. And we really need leaders on all sides in politics, running for office, podcasters, to stop with the conspiracies, to stop with the accusations, and then tell us ‘but we oppose antisemitism’. You don’t get to say you’re opposed to hate if you’re trafficking in hateful conspiracy theories.”

Bizarre indeed.

Apparently it's OK to conflate all Russian people with the Russian state over Ukraine but it's not alright to do the same with Jewish people - whose athletes and artists are not subject to global bans - and the state of Israel over Iran, Lebanon and Palestine.

This is hypocrisy of the highest order.

Yes it is wrong to scapegoat, we can all agree about that.

So how about mentioning that other people are subject to similar 'hateful conspiracy theories' and it is not only Jews especially who are subject to this kind of hatred.