Tracking GOP Antisemitism

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Jones is one of several Nazis, Holocaust deniers or white supremacists who have elbowed their way onto the GOP ballot for November’s midterm elections, in part by either concealing their views or running unopposed in the primary. But their campaigns have alarmed Republican leaders, with state and national GOP figures now speaking out against them and making clear they are not welcome in the party.

How many state and national Democrat party figures have said
Jew haters like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar aren't welcome in their party?

 

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The Squad is all yours.

 

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Pedro Gonzalez, the magazine editor and online influencer who has amassed a following on the far right over the past several years, made more extensive anti-Semitic remarks than previously reported.

The politics editor of the paleoconservative Chronicles magazine who gained prominence through appearances on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, Gonzalez argued in online messages obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) “can’t be criticized” publicly because she is a Jew—Pelosi is a Roman Catholic—and that Jewish scholar Yoram Hazony is an unfit spokesman for American nationalism because he was born in Israel.

Gonzalez told the Free Beacon on Sunday that he now believes the comments “were wrong” and “don’t reflect who I am.”

In the messages, Gonzalez expressed frustration that he couldn’t vocalize publicly his opposition to letting “an Israeli scholar like Hazony define the rules of American nationalism.”The comments, relayed in online messages to a friend in 2019 and 2020, are of a piece with messages that Gonzalez wrote on a pro-Trump group chat in the same years and that were the subject last month of a Breitbart exposé.

In those messages, Gonzalez, who has made a name for himself as a vocal supporter of Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, wrote that “not every Jew is problematic, but the sad fact is that most are,” and that the “only tactical considertation [sic] of Jews is screening them for movements.”

Never Back Down, the super PAC supporting DeSantis, denounced Gonzalez and said it had no affiliation with him.


Other DeSantis allies, however, have stood behind Gonzalez. Weeks after the publication of the Breitbart exposé, the Florida Standard, a news outlet described by Politico as part of DeSantis’s attempt to forge his own press corps in the Sunshine State and a publication “at the center of DeSantis’s norms-smashing media strategy,” published an op-ed by Gonzalez arguing that Trump is a likely loser in a general election.

The editor of the Standard, Will Witt, did not respond to a request for comment.

The latest messages from Gonzalez come to light just days after the DeSantis campaign parted ways with a campaign aide, Nate Hochman, for including a Nazi “Sonnenrad” symbol in a video that he secretly distributed to a pro-DeSantis Twitter account.

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Gonzalez battled accusations of anti-Semitism before his private messages were published. Early last year, the author and columnist Douglas Murray accused Gonzalez of unmasking himself, “boringly and yet still wretchedly, as an antisemite” after Gonzalez mocked the appearance of the liberal Jewish economist David Rothschild: “That Rothschild physiognomy is pure nightmare fuel.” At the time, Gonzalez and his allies strenuously denied the allegation, arguing that he “frequently lobs such jibes at political opponents of all ethnic backgrounds.”

Gonzalez told the Free Beacon that he does not consider the remark anti-Semitic but rather “one of those weird, online-right insults.”


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'Not every Jew is problematic... but most are': DeSantis ally slammed for vile antisemitism | World Israel News

In private messages, social media influencer Pedro Gonzalez made more extensive anti-Semitic remarks than previously reported. He now claims he's changed his tune.

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Republican antisemitism is the worst!!!

Just look at those smug bastards!

 

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Rumble has been placing ads for the Republican National Committee on pro-Hitler and neo-Nazi videos on its streaming site ahead of the Republican presidential debate tonight. The existence of those virulently antisemitic videos are further confirmation of how the Republicans’ debate partner has trafficked in extreme and toxic content for profit.

The RNC chose Rumble as its livestreaming partner in April, with RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel stating that “people deserve a fair, unbiased platform and that’s exactly what this partnership will provide.” (Conservatives have spent years promoting dubious claimsabout being unfairly censored by various platforms.)

Rumble was founded as a “free speech” alternative to YouTube. The publicly traded platform, as Media Matters has documented, features violent threats, far-right conspiracy theories, and bigotry against LGBTQ people.

Rumble is also a cesspool of antisemitism and pro-Nazi propaganda.

Europa: The Last Battle is a pro-Hitler and neo-Nazi film. The ADL wrote that it “is an antisemitic, World War II revisionist film released in 2017 that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews — as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel. The film is popular with white supremacists and antisemites, who often use it to recruit new individuals into their hateful ideology.”

Rumble hosts the film, despite claiming that it “has strict policies that ban … antisemitism.” Media Matters found advertising for the Republican National Committee on a page for the film:

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We also found an ad promoting Rumble’s debate coverage.

The film Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told is a similarly pro-Nazi film. Rumble hosts it on its platform. Its description page states: “It also reveals a personal side of Adolf Hitler: who he was, his family background, his artwork and struggles in Vienna and what motivated him to come to power. There’s so much hidden history to recount; FDR Pearl Harbor conspiracy, Soviet brutality, betrayal and treachery on all sides. Do we really know the true cost of war? Do we really possess all the facts?”

Here is an RNC ad on a page for that video:


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Media Matters has heavily documented the intersection between the Republican Party and antisemitic media.

GOP debate streaming partner Rumble placed RNC ads on numerous pro-Hitler videos

www.mediamatters.org

 

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OFFS!

 

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Antisemitism and xenophobia​

Gaetz has, for years, pushed antisemitic rhetoric and excused antisemites. In 2018, he invited Charles “Chuck” Johnson as his guest to the State of the Union. Johnson, whom Politico described as an “alt-right troll,” had been banned from Twitter and was accused of Holocaust denial and white supremacy.

The two met after another unnamed member of Congress sent Johnson to talk to Gaetz about “cannabis and cryptocurrency.” Gaetz had recently learned that his father would not be able to attend the State of the Union with him, and so offered a ticket to Johnson.

Gaetz said he did not know who Johnson was before inviting him. But he did not rescind the honor after being made aware of Johnson’s beliefs. In fact, Gaetz insistedthat Johnson was “not a Holocaust denier, he’s not a white supremacist,” even though, a year prior, Johnson had actively spread Holocaust denial conspiracies. In a Reddit Ask Me Anything on the since-banned subreddit r/altright, he wrote, “I do not and never have believed the six million figure” and “I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic.”

In October of that same year, Gaetz suggested that George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire Jewish philanthropist and favorite bogeyman of the right, was behind the migrant caravan, pushing an idea that manages to be both antisemitic and xenophobic at the same time (antisemitic because one Jewish person is credited with manipulating a wave of migration; xenophobic because it strips agency and cause from those trying to come to the United States).

Gaetz would return to this fertile ground of conspiracy and chaos. In 2021, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson pushed the racist, xenophobic and antisemitic replacement theory, in which shadowy forces orchestrate the replacement of white nationals with non-white immigrants. Carlson did this in a segment discussing voting rights and disenfranchisement. When the Anti-Defamation League criticized Carlson for this, Gaetz leapt to his defense.

Gaetz tweeted, “@TuckerCarlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America,” adding, “The ADL is a racist organization.”

This was three years after a shooter who blamed Jews for bringing in “invaders” killed 11 Jewish people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A year after his tweet, in 2022, when a shooter penned a manifesto that included replacement theory and killed 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, Gaetz offered that he had “never spoken of replacement theory in terms of race.”

Open and unabashed hate​

Unlike allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, Gaetz’s antisemitic and xenophobic behavior is not alleged. He did and said all of this out in the open, in plain view and for public consumption.

This is who we’re talking about when we talk about Congressman Matt Gaetz. He’s defended an apparent Holocaust denier and pushed a conspiracy theory that has shown up in the most violent manifestos of recent American history.

Maybe this is simply how we live now. Maybe it is unreasonable to expect that the congressman in the limelight in any given week will not have a history of saying and doing things that further antisemitism, or hatred or suspicion of any group.

But just in case it still matters, it is worth remembering that, when Matt Gaetz steps into the middle of a circle of reporters, this is the person being interviewed. In this way, he is not dissimilar to his political ally, former U.S. President Donald Trump, or to entrepreneur Elon Musk: All so regularly attract so much media attention, and do so in such an over-the-top, circus-like way, that they can seem like performers or protagonists in a drama.

But they’re not just that, and we are not just watching a show. These individuals are prominent people who have platforms and power, and who choose, over and over again, to use those platforms to push conspiracy theories and hateful rhetoric, to foster distrust and disillusion not just with Congress, but with one another. And if Matt Gaetz is a congressional star, all of that is burning right along with him.



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The chaos is the point: Matt Gaetz and the mainstreaming of conspiracy, xenophobia and antisemitism

With his latest stunt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Congressman Matt Gaetz reminds us that conspiracy theories and chaos go hand-in-hand.

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