Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isnât Ilhan Omar | Moustafa Bayoumi
The GOP’s animus is based on what the outspoken, Black, African, female, Muslim congresswoman is and what she does
www.theguardian.com
Who remembers how, in 2018 and just days before the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history, a prominent US politician tweeted: “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election!”?
The tweet was widely – and correctly – understood as dangerously antisemitic, particularly heinous in a period of rising anti-Jewish hatred. And whose tweet was this? If you thought the answer was Minnesota’s Democratic representative Ilhan Omar then, well, you’d be wrong. The author was none other than the House majority leader at the time, Republican Kevin McCarthy
A very good article on the victimisation of Ilhan Omar. She seems to have become a bogeyman figure to the GOP. Quite why this black,muslim woman is so hated is a mystery to me.
Perhaps the GOP should tackle the anti semites in its own ranks before picking on political opponents.