GOP Senate candidate Jason Lewis said Republicans have 'dual loyalties' to Israel, 'Jewish lobby'

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(CNN) Jason Lewis, a Republican running for US Senate in Minnesota, once said Republicans had "dual loyalties" to Israel, adding that support for the country was the result of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a "very strong American Jewish lobby."

Lewis, who also argued that the Israel lobby controlled the Republican Party, said in a February 2013 radio show that many in the party viewed the country as the "51st state." He claimed policymakers in President George W. Bush's administration, including former UN Ambassador John Bolton, were dual citizens of Israel and the United States. (Bolton, who was fired last week by President Donald Trump, is neither Jewish, nor is he a citizen of Israel.)

"You've got a number of dual citizens, by the way, citizens of Israel and citizens of the United States serving in government," Lewis said. "In any other country that might be seen as a problem, but it's not here because of that special relationship."

"John Bolton's a dual citizen for instance of Israel and America," Lewis added later. "There's no question that there are a number in -- during the Bush years -- there were a number of dual citizens, citizens of Israel, citizens of America who were making policy."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/politics/jason-lewis-israel-kfile/index.html

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Jason Lewis is cracked......

Tina Smith will win in a landslide.

[onenote]

3. Lewis probably won't be the repub nominee. The primary is still a long way off.

[MurrayDelph]

2. I'm so old

I remember when Republicans used to hide their anti-Semitism (by claiming they supported Israel so that Jesus could come back and destroy it).

[paleotn]

9. Bingo. Me too.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Sounds sooooo faniliar.

Wonder where I have heard this and similar accusations before? Oh where oh where?!

[crazytown]

6. Not sure

Perhaps mr lewis is a gifted original thinker? He could consider writing a book. He's a Republican, so how about Mein Trumpf?

[Polybius]

7. Are you implying Ilhan Omar?

Both are in Minnesota. If you are referring to someone else, I apologize.

[paleotn]

10. Jewish people and the current Israel goverment

are two separate entities. You know that, don’t you?

[Progressive Jones]

12. Thank You. nt

[Progressive Jones]

13. Wrong. The left doesn't have an anti-Semitism problem.

The right wing mainly supports the Israeli government for two reasons.
Anti-Arab sentiment, and religious fantasy (The "Holy Land&quot .

[RandiFan1290]

14. What a bullshit lie

[IronLionZion]

5. Spewing easily disproved falsehoods is standard Republicanism

[paleotn]

11. Just go ahead and say it, Lewis.

Jewish conspiracy! Illuminati! The Illuminati!!

At least you allways knew where old time nazis stood. No weasel words.

[Bradical79]

16. Most Republicans' "dual loyalty" is really to the Xtian right

and that Evangelical money, and the MIC. For much of that Evangelical crowd, Israel is a means to fulfilling prophesy. Of the citizens themselves, alot teach that all but a small number will burn in Hell as part of the final judgement.