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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApologize for calling out white supremacy to get approved for a job calling out white supremacy?
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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
@truahrabbis
🎶It's like raaaaain on your wedding day. It's like making someone apologize for calling out white supremacy to get approved for a job calling out white supremacy.🎶
Deborah Lipstadt may be asked to apologize to senator before shes confirmed as antisemitism envoy
According to a New York Times report, Lipstadt may have to apologize to Sen. Ron Johnson , who she accused of white supremacy.
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com
8:44 AM · Jan 10, 2022
T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
@truahrabbis
🎶It's like raaaaain on your wedding day. It's like making someone apologize for calling out white supremacy to get approved for a job calling out white supremacy.🎶
Deborah Lipstadt may be asked to apologize to senator before shes confirmed as antisemitism envoy
According to a New York Times report, Lipstadt may have to apologize to Sen. Ron Johnson , who she accused of white supremacy.
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com
8:44 AM · Jan 10, 2022
https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/deborah-lipstadt-may-be-asked-to-apologize-to-senator-before-shes-confirmed-as-antisemitism-envoy/
According to a New York Times report, Lipstadt may be asked to apologize to a Republican senator for a tweet in which she accused him of white supremacy before Republican members of Congress will agree to confirm the noted historian of the Holocaust.
On March 14, 2021, Lipstadt tweeted an article about a statement by Republican Senator Ron Johnson in which he said he would have been more concerned by the events of Jan. 6, 2021 had the rioters been Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters instead of Trump supporters. Lipstadt tweeted the article, saying This is white supremacy/nationalism. Pure and simple.
Other Republican lawmakers have faulted her for appearing in an ad during the 2020 presidential race likening former President Donald Trumps rhetoric to those of the Nazis in the 1930s, before the Holocaust.
Speaking to CNN in December, Senator Bob Menendez, the Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which would move Lipstadts nomination forward, balked at the notion that Lipstadts tweet should be an obstacle to her confirmation.
If calling out anti-Semitism in the past is somehow an obstacle to this nomination, and that would be an amazing set of circumstances, because thats what we want this person to do, Menendez told CNN.
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Apologize for calling out white supremacy to get approved for a job calling out white supremacy? (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2022
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Anyone asking...Who is asking for the apology to a noted white supremacist and fascist
Alexander Of Assyria
Jan 2022
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Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)1. Anyone asking...Who is asking for the apology to a noted white supremacist and fascist
Ron Johnson? Or this just another boring attempt at striking up shit? The latter, cause I m with Melendez
whats the beef?
Cause aint no apology coming to anyone, let alone that Johnson traitor.
Nevilledog
(51,197 posts)2. GOP Senate wants her to apologize to Ron Johnson.
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)3. "Senator Johnson, I'm sorry you're a white supremacist. As I've gotten to know you, sir . . .
I can see you are anything but superior, be it for whites or any other group to which you may belong."