(JTA) A Democrat in Virginia’s legislature blamed Israel for “fossil fuel” wars, including the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and the 2003 Iraq war, and said identifying Zionism with Judaism was a form of antisemitism.
The tweets by Ibraheem Samirah, a dentist, came as he agreed with a call by the Washington, D.C., branch of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental advocacy group, to boycott three Jewish progressive movements with Israel ties.
“Mossad creates fossil fuel wars using malicious intel, most famously the WMD lie Colin Powell spewed to the world to justify the Iraq war,” Samirah said Wednesday on Twitter, referring to Israel’s intelligence agency. He attached to the tweet a Guardian article that made no such claim.
