Yesterday it was the allegation that maps depicting Palestinian dispossession are anti-Semitic. Today J Street is called anti-Semitic. This type of rhetoric shows how useless the term has become– it is used to smear any opponent to one’s left.

The Forward’s Nathan Guttman reports on the battle for a Chicago-area congressional district between a Zionist zealot Republican incumbent, Joe Walsh, with ties to the Netanyahu camp, and a two-state-consensus challenger, Iraq veteran Tammy Duckworth.

You can see that the issue is getting politicized more and more, though the discourse is still far right. There are few Jews in the district, but many Jewish donors with a political interest in the conflict are funding the races.

Walsh has opposed the two-state solution, saying all of historical Palestine is Israel’s. The shocking statement in my headline appears late in these excerpts.