The Home Judiciary Committee held a listening to on antisemitism that Rep. Eric Swalwell used to name out Jim Jordan’s antisemitic tweets.
Rep. Swalwell (D-CA) mentioned:
On October sixth, Kanye, Elon, Trump, these 5 statements that I simply learn to you have been from Kanye West, who had made a variety of anti-Semitic statements earlier than this tweet was put up after which made the DEFCON assertion a few day after the tweet was put up. I, the chairman on the time, Chairman Nadler, and many individuals within the Jewish group requested the chairman, Chairman Jordan, to take this down.
And it wasn’t simply members of Congress. It was nonpartisan Jewish organizations who mentioned Kanye West is anti-Semitic, I don’t know what you’re doing, however please don’t give him a platform by leaving this tweet up. It stayed up for months. Defiantly, the chairman stored this tweet up. So, Mr. Chairman, I need to be, simply right now, your accountability accomplice, your on-line accountability accomplice, and simply undergo your social media.
As a result of, if we’re going to have a listening to about antisemitism, We are able to’t enable a tweet like this to be posted on our facet or your facet. In 2019, Chairman Jordan additionally tweeted at Tom Steyer and used the greenback signal for Steyer to spell his identify. Once more, a recognized Jewish philanthropist taking part in into what Ms. Burdett talked about earlier, tropes about Jewish folks and cash.
So, this committee ought to have a dialog and a listening to about antisemitism. However I’d first insist that the chairman, I don’t know why he put this tweet up, both he believes it, which I hope will not be the case, or he simply wished to personal the libs. And if that’s what you’re doing, you’re hurting lots of people by conserving that tweet up for thus lengthy, particularly understanding what it represents.
And, if we’re speaking about being your on-line accountability accomplice chairman, you continue to have a subpoena in your inbox that’s about 500 days outdated. And, with that, I’ll yield again.
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Home Republicans like Jim Jordan (R-OH) are making a present of pretending to assist Israel, when in actuality they’re pushing antisemitism to attraction to Donald Trump and his followers. It is without doubt one of the most evident hypocrisies of the present Republican Occasion and it was good of Rep. Swalwell to not enable it to cross unmentioned.
Rep. Jordan isn’t going to be Speaker of the Home ever, and in slightly greater than a 12 months, he’ll most likely not be the chair of the Home Judiciary Committee.
Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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