In what is surely the most shameful decision of her current term as speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has decided that the time has come for the House of Representatives to rebuke Rep. Ilhan Omar for things she didn't actually say and ideas she didn't actually express. In the process, Pelosi and other Democrats are helping propagate a series of misconceptions about anti-Semitism, Israel, and American political debate.
I'm going to try to bring some clarity to this issue, understanding how difficult it can be whenever we discuss anything that touches on Israel.
To be clear, I do this as someone who was raised in an intensely Zionist family with a long history of devotion and sacrifice for Israel, but who also, like many American Jews, has become increasingly dismayed not only by developments in Israel but by how we talk about it here in America.