JD Vance Does Tucker Carlson's Bidding With US Foreign Policy "Cannot Be Subservient to The State of Israel" Claim

During a speech in Los Angeles yesterday, Vice-President JD Vance did Tucker Carlson's bidding with this remark:

[We have] a lot of important relationships, a lot of important partnerships in NATO, but that doesn’t mean we’re gonna completely make our European foreign policy subservient to NATO, in the same way that we cannot let our Middle Eastern foreign policy be subservient to the State of Israel.

Well, that's an anti-Semitic dog whistle if I ever heard one. 

At the very minimum, it is a straw man argument. Because during the course of his remarks, Vance maintained of President Trump:

I think that more than frankly any president in the last 40 years, he has shown a willingness to actually part ways with Bibi Netanyahu when he feels like the interests of the American people are different from the interests of the government of Israel.

For starters, although Netanyahu is the longest serving Prime Minister in Israel's history, he has not held that office for 40 years. Vance also seems to have a short memory where it concerns President Obama's relationship with Bibi particularly concerning Iran. If U.S. foreign policy was subservient to the State of Israel, then how did the Iran nuclear deal ever come to pass?

But it is also interesting that Vance did not see fit to use the phrase "we cannot let our Middle Eastern foreign policy be subservient to the State of Qatar". 

You know, the country which donated Trump his new Air Force One. 

The country which several current and former members of the Trump Administration worked as lobbyists for Qatar and has twice as many registered foreign lobbyists in this country than Israel. 

The country which has long harbored Hamas. 

The country with which the Trump Administration was happy to discuss Israel's future along with Egypt and Turkey while conveniently ignoring Israel in the process. 

Vance stating the U.S. foreign policy must not be "subservient" to Israel is a small step removed from Carlson's claim that this country (and specifically President Trump) is a "slave" to Israel. 

This is merely Vance's effort to legitimize anti-Semitism as part of our mainstream political discourse including denial there is an anti-Semitism problem in this country. Let us not forget that Vance went along with Joe Rogan's unsubstantiated claim that Jeffrey Epstein was part of Mossad.

Needless to say, we can expect more of this from Vance especially if he makes a White House bid in 2028. While it is certainly disturbing that Democrats are falling all over themselves doing the genocide gig, Republicans cannot claim the high ground against anti-Semitism if they insist on nominating someone whose dog whistle is every bit as loud if not louder.