See Israel-firster in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2010, James Petras, Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power, page 78:",
"text": "The ZPC never lost a beat: Israel Firster and Zion-Con fanatic, US Treasury Under Secretary responsible for terrorism and financial intelligence, Stuart Levey, succeeded in convincing China to tighten trade credit ...",
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"ref": "2011, Norman G. Finkelstein, \"This Time We Went Too Far\" - Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion, page 177:",
"text": "Former Israel-firster Andrew Sullivan chalked up the likes of Krauthammer as \"victims of Israel Derangement Syndrome.\"",
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"ref": "2013, Josh Ruebner, Shattered Hopes - Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace, page 75:",
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"ref": "2014, Ben Shapiro, Bullies - How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans, page 247:",
"text": "routinely used the white supremacist anti-Semitic slur \"Israel Firster\" to describe any Jew who was hawkish on Israel.",
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"ref": "2017, Johan Eary, Discussing Israel:",
"text": "Don't pull U.S. into this. You Israel firster should fight your own fights.",
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"ref": "2018, Colton C. Campbell, David A. Dulio, James A. Thurber (editors), Congress and Diaspora Politics - The Influence of Ethnic and Foreign Lobbying, page 236:",
"text": "One critic argued, \"Kirk is a pure Israel-firster ... [H]e brings home the bacon for Israel big time.",
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"ref": "2019, Alan Dershowitz, Taking the Stand - My Life in the Law, page 478:",
"text": "It has also earned me the titles \"Ziofascist\", \"Jewish Nazi\", \"Tool of the Likud\", and \"Israel Firster\".",
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"ref": "2022, Richard Landes, Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong? - Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, page 478:",
"text": "On the other, to fail to show sympathy for Palestinians was to out yourself as a heartless tribalist, an Israel-firster.",
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