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by seattle_spring 1628 days ago
You do realize that a non-trivial amount of politicians have publicly made similar claims about the Jews? It's not like this is some isolated incident.
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According to the article he believed that Jews have managed to take over the Catholic church. We are well past standard conspiracy theories here.
Can you name some politicians that claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot by "the Jews" to exterminate people or something similar?
Ron DeSantis spokeswoman

https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-governors-press-secret...

Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/...

Ohio US Senate candidate Josh Mandel

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-jewish-go...

https://ktxs.com/news/local/shackleford-county-gop-chairwoma...

And these are just the outright ones, there is plenty of this stuff at rallies and protests that help fund politicians - there are hardly any condemnations unless it's so blatant it hurts their war chest.

Sen. Wendy Rogers's quote was not about Jews at all. It was about latino migrants (not that that's better).

Ron DeSantis spokeswoman isn't, what I would call, a politician - and her quote was specifically about the Rothschild family. Although it's not clear which conspiracy theory she's refering too - many of them (while all irrational) are not anti-semitic. It also doesn't seem to be a serious comment.

Your other two links are for a candidate, not an active politician.

These are not good examples.

>Ron DeSantis spokeswoman

There is no direct antisemitism, only some sort of wink-wink dog whistle accusations.

>Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers

Demographic concerns are common across the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_threat). There is really nothing special about it. And there are always fears of "voter importation". It is not comparable to "Jews want to exterminate others with vaccines".

>Ohio US Senate candidate Josh Mandel

I guess if he weren't Jewish, he would also be accused of antisemitism because he mentioned Soros? Thankfully for him he ticked the right box when he was born. And yeah, this seems to be the only person who openly articulated conspiracy theories. But again, that's your run-of-the-mill "deep state is puppeteering social movements to keep power", it doesn't look like "similar claims about the Jews".

Majore Taylor Green thought Jewish space lasers started the California fires

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/article/marjorie-taylor-...