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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 12:12 PM Nov 2018

NRA Tweets anti-Semitic Meme That Top Republican Congressman Previously Deleted

Tom Steyer, whose father was Jewish, called a similar tweet from Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the House majority leader, 'a straight-up anti-Semitic move'

JTA and Haaretz Nov 01, 2018 1:24 PM

The National Rifle Association tweeted that three prominent liberal Jewish billionaires are pushing “their elitist agenda on Americans.”

The tweet came three days after a shooter killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

In the responses, a number of readers charged that the tweet fed into far-right notions of a Jewish conspiracy, as critics also noted in February when NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre gave a speech accusing the same three men — George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg — of promoting “socialism” and “social engineering.”


https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/nra-tweets-anti-semitic-meme-that-top-republican-congressman-deleted-1.6614392
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NRA Tweets anti-Semitic Meme That Top Republican Congressman Previously Deleted (Original Post) workinclasszero Nov 2018 OP
NRA -- Nazis, Russians, Anti-Semites ? Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2018 #1
I thought one of their points was "If Jews in the ghetto had had guns... underpants Nov 2018 #2
Nazis hate Jews workinclasszero Nov 2018 #3
I doubt they have ever "liked" Jews. Behind the Aegis Nov 2018 #4
That's still blaming the victims ProudLib72 Nov 2018 #5

underpants

(182,603 posts)
2. I thought one of their points was "If Jews in the ghetto had had guns...
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 12:25 PM
Nov 2018

they could have fought back against Hitler"

They don't like Jewish people now?

Behind the Aegis

(53,919 posts)
4. I doubt they have ever "liked" Jews.
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 02:56 PM
Nov 2018

They, like so many others, usurp the idea of the Holocaust to peddle their own ideas and products. It is also another anti-Semitic tactic to show the Jews as being responsible for their own demise as well as being weak.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
5. That's still blaming the victims
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 03:00 PM
Nov 2018

Because, you know, Jews in the ghettos were unwilling to shoot their way out to freedom.

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