Omar Suleiman

I have cousins that I'll never be, well, I shouldn't say never.

Inshallah, God willing, I will meet them.

But that I've only been able to speak through a phone, FaceTime, Zoom.

I think that it's important for us to separate criticism of Israel's policies from anti-Semitism.

In fact, it's an injustice.

It cheapens anti-Semitism when you throw every person who is opposed to Zionism or opposed to Israel's policies in the bucket of being anti-Semites.

It's wrong.

It cheapens it.

It doesn't do justice to it.

And I think it's important for us to have a meaningful conversation about America's support for Israel.

Listen, there are terms that are important here.

So I'm going to throw out these big terms, right?

Apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing.

These are terms that are legal terms.

There are objective thresholds here for apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing.

The threshold of apartheid has been crossed according to multiple, the most respectable human rights organizations in the world.

These are the organizations that you will champion and that you will use in every single other conflict to justify your own policies.

But that threshold of apartheid has been passed according to Human Rights Watch, according to Amnesty International, according to the Harvard Law Review.

The threshold of apartheid has been crossed.

There's a legal terminology there.