In today's Washington Post...

[Grins]

In today's Washington Post there is this statement from a Republican Congressman about Rep. Ilhan Omar calling Stephen Miller a white nationalist:

“During my time in Congress ...I didn’t once witness another Member target Jewish people like this with the name calling & other personal attacks.” - Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.),

Yes, no one from your party ever took on any Jew like, say....George Soros.

Like Richard Nixon
Or Fred Malek.
Or Jim "Eff the Jews" Baker.
Or J.D. Haworth.
Or Pat Buchanan who argued there are too many Jews on the Supreme Court!
Or GOP Rep. Walsh who argued ‘American Jews Aren’t As Pro-Israel As They Should Be’
Or Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio who posted a photo of a condom package that said “Israel, it’s still safe to come,” and wrote “Fucking’ Jews” to accompany that picture.
Or Reich-wing hate radio host, Jan Mickelson, who went after Justices Kagan and Ginsburg: "They are both liberal Jews."
Or Michele Bachmann who wrapped up a tour of Israel with a renewed drive to convert as many Jews as possible to Christianity.
Or the focus group with Donald Trump supporters who said they would vote for Trump - even if he proposed a “national registry of Jews.”
Or the Trump supporter in Arizona who said “If she is Jewish, she should go back to her country."
Or the Trump administration's Bible study leader, Evangelical "pastor", Ralph Drollinger who said God doesn't hear prayers of Jews.
Or when Dinesh D'Souza retweeted a tweet with the hashtag "Burn the Jews."
Or America's favorite narcoleptic neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, who said "Jews are great but not always as appreciative as our Christian friends".
Or when Trump tweeted a pic of Hillary Clinton against a backdrop of dollar bills, next to a six-point star.
Or when Trump promoted Nazi Twitter account,"WhiteGenocideTM", that showed him gassing Bernie Sanders.
Or when Trump said to the Republican Jewish Coalition: “you’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money” and that “you want to control your own politician.”
Or when Trump said to the Republican Jewish Coalition, "Is there anyone in this room who doesn't renegotiate deals...This room negotiates them - perhaps more than any other room I've ever spoken in".
Or when Trump said, "The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."
Or when Trump told a Jewish reporter to "sit down" and heatedly denied he was anti-Semitic
Or when Steve Bannon who objected to sending his daughters to a certain school because it had too many Jewish children.
Or when Bannon sponsored an ad claiming Hillary Clinton was "part of a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class," while images flashed on the screen of George Soros, Janet Yellen and Lloyd Blankfein - all of them Jewish.
Or that Trump omitted omitting any mention of Jews in his Holocaust Memorial Day statement.
Or Bannon's deputy, Sebastian Gorka, who once joined members of the anti-Semitic Jobbik Party in Hungary.
Or the fascist gathering in Washington, DC that celebrated Trump's election where attendees shouted "Hail Trump!" and gave the Nazi salute.
Or when the Trump campaign's Michael Flynn criticized “the corrupt Democratic machine” and vowed “Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.”
Or when an Alaska GOP group ran an ad depicting Jewish candidate Jesse Kiehl, seen stuffing a wad of hundred-dollar bills into his suit.
Or when North Carolina’s state Republican Party depicted Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) doing the same thing.
Or when Republicans in Washington state showed Jewish Democratic congressional candidate Kim Schrier of doing the same thing.
Or GOP candidate Tyler Diep, showed his Jewish challenger Josh Lowenthal tinted in green, with $100 bills in his hands.
Or Connecticut Republican Ed Charamut’s campaign that showed his Jewish challenger holding a stack of cash in front of him, with a crazed look in his eyes.
Or the Trump supporter who clubbed woman and vandalized Jewish center in Colorado.
Or when New York Times' Jonathan Weisman called out anti-Semitism among Trump supporters and was flooded with anti-Semitism comments.
Or the Trump supporting neo-Nazi and white supremacist website, The Daily Stormer, dedicated to solving "the Jewish problem".
Or Mayor Dan Clevenger who "Kind Of Agreed" with the white supremacist who killed three people at Jewish facilities.
Or Jerome Corsi and Sandy Rios who said "Powerful Jewish Forces" will destroy Ameica.
Or when Texas Republican Speaker of the House had to battle anti-Semitism to get RE-ELECTED, and replaced with a "good" Christian.
Or Trump's "America First" foreign policy slogan, adopting the name of the pro-Nazi American anti-Semitic isolationists.

I could go on, but you get the hint, don't you Congressman Zeldin...?

* Updated to add the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/09/rep-ilhan-omar-called-stephen-miller-white-nationalist-gop-critics-accused-her-anti-semitism/?utm_term=.ac6723e34d84

[MyOwnPeace]

1. OK, so maybe...........

it was a couple of times...........

[gratuitous]

2. And, for those in the back that maybe didn't hear

Characterizing someone accurately independent of their religion or ethnic heritage isn't a slam on that religion or heritage. Spare me the hand-wringing over anti-Semitism, which has been a hallmark of conservative prejudice for centuries.

[gristy]

3. no member of Congress

That's the group that Zeldin is referring to.

[aeromanKC]

4. 3 of the first 6 listed are GOP Congress

But then again, seems this is just another IOKIYAR

[erronis]

5. Great response. I hope it is the WaPo comments

I can still see some WaPo articles but I had to cancel my free Bezos subscription (Amazon Prime trial ran out.)

I do wish there was a way to filter/sort these comments. The grey lady allows some filtering with "Reader" and "NYT" picks but when there are thousands there needs to be *a better way*.

[ffr]

6. Encore!