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As Republicans prepare their next anti-semitism show hearing targeting colleges, a memo weitten by professors suggest they should look at themselves before casting stones.
"In a memo shared exclusively with the Guardian, the faculty at Haverford have questioned the credibility of several members of the committee. The faculty have requested anonymity to avoid retaliation. In the memo, they write that the committee’s chair, Republican representative Tim Walberg of Michigan, is associated with the Moody Bible Institute, which, according to the memo, “trains students to convert Jewish people to Christianity”. Representative Mark Harris of North Carolina, it notes, once said that until Jews and Muslims accept Jesus Christ “there’ll never be peace in their soul or peace in their city”. The faculty also condemned committee member Mary Miller of Illinois, who in a speech outside the US Capitol the day before the January 6 attack, quoted Hitler and said he was “right on one thing” when he said that whoever “has the youth has the future”. (Miller later apologized.)
The memo notes that several members of the committee hail from districts with a history of neo-Nazi incidents. It points to Appalachian State University in North Carolina – in a district committee member Virginia Foxx has represented for two decades – where, in recent years, antisemitic groups have distributed promotional materials, scratched swastikas and racist slurs on to the car of a Jewish student, and spray-painted swastikas and covered campus spaces with antisemitic stickers. The university, the memo notes, is not among those facing congressional investigations, which are instead focused on pro-Palestinian speech.
The memo also criticises representative Mark Messmer of Indiana for making “no visible statements critical of Nazi and white supremacist antisemitism” in his district and state, and New York’s Elise Stefanik for backing a political candidate who praised Hitler as “the kind of leader we need today”. (The candidate, Carl Paladino, apologized but suggested that his comment was taken out of “context”.) And it calls out Representative Randy Fine of Florida, a Republican Jewish congressman who reportedly threatened to burn his own synagogue “to the ground” for hiring an LGBTQ+ staff member."
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It's sickening to see these legislators self-righteously exploit anti-semitism when they ignore in themselves and their own districts.
"In a memo shared exclusively with the Guardian, the faculty at Haverford have questioned the credibility of several members of the committee. The faculty have requested anonymity to avoid retaliation. In the memo, they write that the committee’s chair, Republican representative Tim Walberg of Michigan, is associated with the Moody Bible Institute, which, according to the memo, “trains students to convert Jewish people to Christianity”. Representative Mark Harris of North Carolina, it notes, once said that until Jews and Muslims accept Jesus Christ “there’ll never be peace in their soul or peace in their city”. The faculty also condemned committee member Mary Miller of Illinois, who in a speech outside the US Capitol the day before the January 6 attack, quoted Hitler and said he was “right on one thing” when he said that whoever “has the youth has the future”. (Miller later apologized.)
The memo notes that several members of the committee hail from districts with a history of neo-Nazi incidents. It points to Appalachian State University in North Carolina – in a district committee member Virginia Foxx has represented for two decades – where, in recent years, antisemitic groups have distributed promotional materials, scratched swastikas and racist slurs on to the car of a Jewish student, and spray-painted swastikas and covered campus spaces with antisemitic stickers. The university, the memo notes, is not among those facing congressional investigations, which are instead focused on pro-Palestinian speech.
The memo also criticises representative Mark Messmer of Indiana for making “no visible statements critical of Nazi and white supremacist antisemitism” in his district and state, and New York’s Elise Stefanik for backing a political candidate who praised Hitler as “the kind of leader we need today”. (The candidate, Carl Paladino, apologized but suggested that his comment was taken out of “context”.) And it calls out Representative Randy Fine of Florida, a Republican Jewish congressman who reportedly threatened to burn his own synagogue “to the ground” for hiring an LGBTQ+ staff member."
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It's sickening to see these legislators self-righteously exploit anti-semitism when they ignore in themselves and their own districts.
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