john,
There’s a disturbing trend lately that has turned into a national crisis — the rapid rise of antisemitism in the United States.
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been a staggering increase in the volume of tweets with antisemitic sentiments. Conspiracy theories and antisemitic tropes are being pushed by some celebrities and athletes.
However, perhaps what’s most concerning is that the people espousing this hatred are infiltrating some of the highest levels of politics.
The leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, recently had dinner with Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes and Ye (formerly Kanye West) at Mar-a-Lago. Ye went on to praise Hitler on Alex Jones’ far-right radio show and said in another interview that Jewish people should “forgive Hitler.”
I want to be very clear — I denounce antisemitism in the strongest possible terms.
We must not normalize this. It is wrong, and we must stamp it out now. Antisemitism will never find a home in modern American politics.
I stand with the Jewish community, and I will continue to call out antisemitism in all its forms.
But right now, that is not enough.
Despite Ye’s very public tirades spewing hate-fueled antisemitic conspiracy theories, and even wearing “White Lives Matter” t-shirts, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee tweeted in support of Ye, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump in early October.
Only after Ye praised Hitler and Nazis was the tweet deleted. And not one Republican leader has condemned Trump by name after hosting Ye and Nick Fuentes for dinner. That is a complete and utter disgrace.
That’s why I call on all of my colleagues, Republican and Democrat, to stand with me in solidarity with Jewish people, denounce antisemitism, and call out Donald Trump for normalizing this rhetoric in our politics.
There are no two sides to this, and silence is complicity.
We have more work to do, and I remain committed to fighting against the systems that allow bigotry, racism, and hatred to be perpetuated.
Thank you,
— Tina
