Ron Paul Accused of Anti-Semitism

The courageous, libertarian and one of my favorite Congressmen Ron Paul was on Larry King discussing the recent attempted terrorism by the Nigerian Muslim on an American flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Paul is the only one who calls it like it is: terrorists do not hate us for "our freedom" (as if American is the only free country in the world), but they hate "us" because of what "us" does to "them": U.S. bombings, support for Israel, U.S. wars and occupations, U.S. support for authoritarian Arab regimes.

Just this week, the U.S. government bombed parts of north Yemen - killing civilians - in an exclusively domestic fight. And American can not have it both ways, it cannot create terrorists aboard through its wars and then claim innocence when there is terrorist blowback from those wars. Ron Paul noted this:

So know it is not only anti-Semitic to criticize Israel, but just to criticize U.S. wars in Yemen? What does semitism have to do with this - motives of terrorism and Yemen? How is criticizing the U.S. occupation of Iraq anti-Semitic unless Stein is assuming that Ron Paul is blaming the "Jews" for the war (which, of course, he isn't)? This is how low discourse standards are in America. Talk about canards: warmongers simply accuse anyone of anti-Semitism over disagreement on U.S. Middle East foreign policy.

And as for anti-Semitism, Stein worked for the anti-Semitic Richard Nixon: