Ilhan Omar

The fallout from Israel’s ban on the two members of Congress has exposed a growing rift in the country over how to respond to B.D.S. supporters.

To the Democratic Party’s chagrin, American progressives have been drawn into a simple contest about Israel’s reputation, which can elide its realities.

Last week, the President wasn’t just attacking four congresswomen of color; he was reanimating ideas whose prevalence wreaked havoc in the nation’s past.

“It’s the kind of thing I would have been disgusted by if I had been there to hear it,” he said. “Unfortunately, I wasn’t there.”

The President’s plan is for a political civil war, and it is working.

When asked about the chant, Trump told reporters he disagreed with it. But it was the President who set the terms here.

This is the dull semantics of racism: the white conservative twists the discursive field so that he is the sane arbiter of what is or isn’t racist; everyone else is “recklessly” invoking the most sacrilegious offense.

Will Trump’s voters flee or remain loyal to a bigot?

Just how far does the President have to go before his Party colleagues muster the independence to register some semblance of a protest? We may finally have an answer.

The U.S. government may have assimilated Trump, but he seems to think the jury is still out on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.

It is the lot of so many immigrants, children of immigrants, and people of color in this country to wonder whether we can ever truly belong here, and who gets to decide.

The freshman representative’s fundamental positions are as uncomfortable for many Americans as they are indisputable. Her way of expressing them makes her easy to shun.

To the freshman representative, the controversies surrounding her are an episode not in the Jewish experience but in the Muslim one.