Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) accused “dozens of members” of his party of engaging in anti-Semitism and said Democrats “don't get a pass” when it comes to bigotry against Jews. Ta.
“I'm angry, and I think the Jewish community should be angry, too,” the Florida lawmaker said forcefully while accepting the “A Ray in the Darkness” award from Israel advocacy group EMET at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. said in a speech. evening.
Moskowitz has personally grappled with anti-Semitism. Earlier this month, he revealed that an armed maniac with a manifesto containing “anti-Semitic rhetoric” and a 43-year-old name on a “target list” had been arrested near his home.
Additionally, his grandmother is a Holocaust survivor and his parents were killed at Auschwitz.
“She's one of those kids you read about. She told me about incredible things…I never thought we'd see the same threads and themes. ” Moskowitz lamented in his speech.
Since Hamas's barbaric attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people, captured 254, and injured thousands more, anti-Semitic hate crimes have skyrocketed in the United States, and on college campuses. Jewish students are being harassed and threatened by anti-Semites. -Classmate from Israel.
A Florida congressman accused his left-wing colleagues of turning a blind eye to the plight of the Jewish community.
He particularly criticized his “progressive colleagues who have fought for all endangered species, but were silent when it came to Jews.”
Moskowitz urged Jews across the ideological spectrum to unite in demanding that both Republicans and Democrats eradicate anti-Semitism from within their ranks.
“I want to see Republicans condemn Tucker Carlson when he puts Holocaust deniers on his show, and I want to see Democrats condemn dozens of people in our party, people on the streets, I want to see people on Twitter treating us like second-class people. Third-class citizens,” Moskowitz stressed.
In September, “historian” Dale Cooper appeared on Carlson's podcast, saying Winston Churchill was the “main villain” of World War II and that the Holocaust was an unintended consequence of Germany's poor war planning. He claimed that there was.
Moskowitz has stood up to his own party in the past. In April, the Squad member, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), accused Jewish college students of being either “pro-genocide or anti-genocide.” He lashed out at the legislators.
“I had two Jewish children, ages 10 and 7,” he said at the time. “I don't know if they're pro-genocide or anti-genocide. I'll try to talk to them about that.”
Omar's history of anti-Semitic comments includes a 2012 tweet in which he accused Israel of “hypnotizing the world” and prayed “for the sake of Allah.” [to] “Wake up the people and tell them of Israel's evil deeds,” she was expelled from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in April 2023.
Moskowitz told the Post it remains to be seen whether Democrats need to take further steps to combat anti-Semitism from Omar and other progressive lawmakers.
The Florida Poll accused Democrats of having double standards when it comes to discrimination against Jews, as opposed to other minority groups.
“Students walking to class, no one knows whether they support the war or Netanyahu, have Jewish stars hung around their necks and are assaulted. “Does anyone actually believe that if it had been a minority student instead of a Jewish student, something like this would have gotten past lunch on the first day?” he asked.
“If it had been minority students or LGBTQ students, my party would have led that effort, but we didn't.”
Moskowitz went on to say he remains a Democrat despite anti-Semitism within the party, saying American Jews would not benefit if anti-Semitism and support for Israel became “partisan issues.” he warned.
“I don't want those who fight anti-Semitism within my party to leave,” he added. “You don't want that. Jews in this country need to come together because we are the target.”
Florida police, who once served as an aide to the late Democratic-turned-independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, said that even though Jews have fought on behalf of other persecuted minorities, At that time, he lamented that he had been abandoned.
“When other minority groups needed help, we stood at the forefront of every movement in this country. And when we needed them, they abandoned us.” I did.”
