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I don't think there is a more potent example right now than the Israel Lobby.

The Holocaust and Hitler basically define modern Western morality, and Zionism's claims to legitimacy are closely related to those concepts. Associating someone with "Hitler" or "antisemitic" is worse than calling them "bin Laden" or "slavemaster".

Other popular foreign lobbies in Washington, from Ukrainian, Taiwanese, Kurds, Uyghurs, don't have nearly the same influence.

>>pphysc+(OP)
Saying this as a person that typically doesn't care at all about these things: you can't possibly compare Hitler to Bin Laden. The first is definitely worse - and I am sorry for people who lost family or friends in 9/11. But he was way worse. The guy started a world war, he literally killed dozens of millions of civilians and made life shi*ier for everyone on this planet. What he and his crew did to people, to society, and everything else - books have been written so that we hopefully, as humanity, won't repeat again.