MSNBC seems to have all the boxes checked. Racist and homophobic with Joy Reid. Groomers with basically all of their left wing hacks, and now anti-Semitism from Canadian Ali Velshi. While talking about the Russia-Ukraine ongoing war, Velshi called Israel the “leading occupying force”, claims Israel Palestine has been made “Swiss Cheese” by Israeli forces and even claimed that Israel forced the annexation of several Arab territories.
Velshi was going through some of the recent history of wars of aggression to make the point that Russia’s war on Ukraine is nothing new. Still, the world’s number one bad guy in this respect is not Vladimir Putin, but Israel, “Which brings us, arguably, to the leading occupying force in the world: Israel. The map of the Palestinian Authority sometimes described
as, Swiss cheese, has been carved up by Israel over the past century.”Velshi claimed, “The state of Israel has forced the annexation of several Arab territories. Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the Six Day War in 1967 and it remains occupied by Israel to this day, but occupation is just a step towards annexation.”
1967 was only 55 years ago, so if Velshi chose his words carefully, he just claimed that Israel’s very existence make it’s an occupying power. No other is talked about in such terms and such double standards are widely agreed to be anti-Semitic. Even if Velshi just chose his words poorly, he is still guilty of bad history.
As he continued, Velshi attacked the Biden Administration from left, “Israel actually did an annex two-thirds of the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six Day War, passing a law extending Israeli law, jurisdiction, and administration to the area and America also under the former president, finally recognize that illegal annexation in 2019 as a gift to the then-Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who was struggling politically. In a massive political failure, the Biden administration has not rolled that the recognition.”