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How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, traveled to Columbia University two weeks ago to decry the “virus of antisemitism” that he said pro-Palestinian protesters were spreading across the country. “They have chased down Jewish students. They have mocked them and reviled them,” he said to jeers from protesters. “They have shouted racial epithets. They have screamed at those who bear the Star of David.”

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Amid the widening protests and the unease, if not fear, among many Jews, Republicans have sought to seize the political advantage by portraying themselves as the true protectors of Israel and Jews under assault from the progressive left.

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Debate rages over the extent to which the protests on the political left constitute coded or even direct attacks on Jews. But far less attention has been paid to a trend on the right: For all of their rhetoric of the moment, increasingly through the Trump era many Republicans have helped inject into the mainstream thinly veiled anti-Jewish messages with deep historical roots.

The conspiracy theory taking on fresh currency is one that dates back hundreds of years and has perennially bubbled into view: that a shady cabal of wealthy Jews secretly controls events and institutions contrary to the national interest of whatever country it is operating in.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And then tweeted this a few days ago:

Antisemitism is wrong, but I will not be voting for the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090) today that could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/mtg-votes-against-antisemitism-awareness-act-antisemitic-trope/73539622007/

The act itself is bullshit, but that's just sick.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think X is wrong, but I want it to be legal to do wrong stuff that I like.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Okay? This has nothing to do with Twitter apart from it being the medium she used to be antisemitic about a bill going through congress.

Edit: I see you completely edited your original comment which talked about being blocked from Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think there may have been a tragic misunderstanding... It looks like they were using X as a placeholder, rather than the noun that Elon wants it to be; but the sentence construction could have been clearer.

Something like "I think X is wrong, but I want it to be legal for me to do wrong things Y and Z" might be a bit closer to what they were going for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Where did I talk about Twitter? And I didn't edit anything.