Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Israel of committing genocide in a post on X which primarily went after newly elected Florida GOP Congressman Randy Fine. The post read in part:
It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza.
But a Jewish U.S. Representative calling for the continued starvation of innocent people and children is disgraceful.
His awful statement will actually cause more antisemitism.
For starters, I'm not surprised that Greene would accuse Israel of genocide despite all evidence to the contrary. But Greene isn't interested in the facts and has made no secret of her dislike of Jews.
Greene disdainfully refers to fine as "a Jewish U.S. Representative calling for the continued starvation of innocent people and children". I'm surprised Greene didn't accuse Fine of drinking the blood of Palestinian children.
Fine did not call for anyone to be starved and Greene knows it. What Fine did was challenge the premise that Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians noting, "It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda."
It would seem that Greene accepts the words of Hamas at face value. In this respect, she is no different than Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib or Zohran Mamdani. I would dare say that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a socialist at heart albeit a national one. Alas, anti-Semitism is flourishing on both the far left and the far right with the middle too afraid to take a stand in word and in deed.
Greene concludes her statement by essentially saying Jews are the cause of anti-Semitism as a means of rationalizing her own hatred. She is not the first to make such a claim (i.e. Elon Musk) and she won't be the last. Indeed, it won't be the last time we hear anti-Semitism from the mouth of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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