Take the log out of your eye…
Fighting in Gaza may have ceased, but partisan politics continues to upend the seemingly universal fight against discrimination toward Jews.
www.politico.com
Anti Semitic canards…
State party chairman says Republican candidate was unaware depiction invokes antisemitic tropes, accepts offer for training on antisemitism from local Jewish group
www.timesofisrael.com
Propaganda has consequences: Remember the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings.
www.wgbh.org
Recent Facebook posts show that he supports causes including COVID vaccine skepticism and the debunked lie that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
www.jpost.com
Why conspiracy theorists always end up pointing the finger at Jews — and why that’s a problem for the GOP.
www.vox.com
…and not so fringe anymore…
Greene defended herself by calling her Republican detractors "Pharisees" — a term that some Jews find antisemitic.
www.jta.org
Donald Trump wants Ilhan Omar to resign from Congress for purported anti-Semitism. What these six Republicans have said was way worse.
theintercept.com
Steve Scalise
Yet, in 2002, Scalise, then a Louisiana state representative,
attended and spoke at a convention of the white supremacist European American Unity and Rights Organization, a group founded by David Duke. You remember Duke, right? The
Holocaust-denying former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who has been
described by the Anti-Defamation League as “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite.”
Matt Gaetz
You want anti-Semitism? Where to begin with Gaetz? He
invited the notorious Holocaust denier Chuck Johnson* to be his guest at the State of the Union and later
defended Johnson: “He’s not a Holocaust denier; he’s not a white supremacist. Those are unfortunate characterizations of him.”
He has
appeared on Alex Jones’s “Infowars” show. Jones has
said that “it’s not that Jews are bad, it’s just they are the head of the Jewish mafia in the United States. They run Uber, they run the health care, they’re going to scam you, they’re going to hurt you.”