Shamefully, thought perhaps unsurprisingly, the WSJ editorial drew a flagrant false equivalence between comments made by Ilhan Omar and Marjorie Taylor-Greene. The paper cited this comment from Omar "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel" as counter point to Taylor-Greene's assertions, for example, that California wild fires were started by space lasers funded by a a cabal of Jewish fanciers.
While one my disagree with Omar's depiction of Israel's actions as evil, it is nonetheless one interpretation of verifiable facts on the ground. Taylor-Greene's conspiracy theory on the other hand is not an interpretation of facts, it is a ludicrous, deranged fantasy, completely disconnected from the real world of facts. To suggest they are remotely equivalent is absurd.
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