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Avi Benlolo: Resigning U.S. official blames 'powerful' Israel lobby for starting Iran war

Joe Kent, former National Counterterrorism Center director, resigned protesting the Iran war

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The antisemitic delegitimization campaign about the war began in earnest this week with the resignation of Joe Kent, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

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Expressing that America “started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby” was a blatant lean toward antisemitic tropes — that Jews somehow pull the strings in America. Senator Mitch McConnell accused Kent of spreading “virulent antisemitism” in his resignation letter.

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Nothing is further from the truth. Israel did not drag America into war. It was Iran that turned against America in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution. For more than four decades, it was Iran’s parliamentarians who called for “death to America” and referred to America as the “Big Satan.” It was Iran who murdered thousands of American soldiers........

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