Criminal Case Dismissed After Sheriff Uses Camera to Zoom in on Lawyer's Notes.

Dismissing one case is not, I think, enough of a discouragement for thugs to try this sort of thing again and again.

Maybe the cameras in the courtroom should be placed somewhere else.

We must reject AIPAC's attempt to conflate criticism of Israel's occupation policy with anti-semitism.

There are real anti-semites with political power stirring up violence in the US, but they are allies of the bully, not defenders of Palestinians' rights.

Ilhan Omar held Elliott Abrams responsible for his support of previous massacres in Latin America, and his convictions for false testimony.

Real anti-semites in Congress falsely accused Ilhan Omar of anti-semitism because she talked about the heavily-funded lobby that pressures US politicians to support Israel's policies.

That's not anti-semitic; also, it happens to be the fact.

It is a mistake to assert that this money comes only from Jews, because rich fanatical US Christians contribute a lot of it. They want Israel to build a new temple so that their prophecies about the end of the world could be realized.

Why a supposedly omnipotent god would need this sort of help from humans, I can't grasp.

"The fierce backlash against [Congresswoman Ilhan Omar] for stating the obvious can be seen as a sign that the Israel lobby, though still powerful, is losing some of its oomph."