All posts tagged "Antisemitism"

The departure of a right-wing star subtly hides a darker statement, according to a former Republican insider.

Steve Schmidt, a long-time GOP strategist, spoke on his podcast The Warning about right-winger Tucker Carlson's announcement that he's leaving the Republican Party. He dissected Carlson's move but put it in a context that Schmidt said revealed a deeper motive.

"Tucker Carlson has left because of the Jews," Schmidt said. "That's what he's saying."...

A GOP group failed to prove a university violated its First Amendment rights by banning it for alleged antisemitism, the New York Times reported.

The University of Florida College Republicans were banned by the school from its Gainesville campus in March after a photo circulated showing two people giving a Nazi salute, the Times reported.

Members denied involvement with the photo, but the group was already accused of antisemitic and racist behavior, according to the Times. The University of Florida argued that it booted the group because a statewide campus Republican organization withdrew its charter, and the Gainesville branch no longer had any official affiliation, the Times reported....

The drunken son of a GOP senator hurled anti-Semitic taunts at a Republican congressman, according to new reports.

William Paul, the son of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), confronted Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday and went on an anti-Semitic rant, according to reporting by NOTUS.

After introducing himself as Rand Paul's son, William Paul started talking about Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a Trump foe who could be ousted in the primaries. NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman wrote that the confrontation happened in front of him "in full view."...

New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg described how there is something more troubling behind right-wing podcaster and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's recent apology for misleading people in his support of President Donald Trump.

In a column published on Friday, Goldberg described how the conversation between Tucker and his brother, Buckley, a former Trump speechwriter, exposed much more of their message — a false narrative.

"I'm all for embracing converts to the anti-Trump cause," Goldberg wrote. "But if you listen to the dialogue between Tucker and his brother, it's clear that rather than honestly reckoning with their role in America's derangement, they're developing a new conspiracy theory to explain it away."...

President Donald Trump's MAGA coalition has fractured in the months following the assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk and turned on itself over its internal battle over anti-Semitism.

Following Kirk's death, his Turning Point USA organization had anticipated bringing together MAGA loyalists to continue Kirk's attempt to unify the group during its AmericaFest in December — but that backfired when "one by one, MAGA’s leading lights took the stage and began shivving one another in public," according to an analysis from Yair Rosenberg in The Atlantic published Wednesday.

"When Kirk was killed, conservatives believed that his death would galvanize his cause," Rosenberg wrote. “'Millions of Charlie Kirks were created today,' declared Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado. But as it turned out, Kirk’s assassin didn’t kill just one man; he destabilized the entire Trump coalition by removing a pivotal person who had been holding it together. In doing so, the killer helped unshackle dark forces—chief among them anti-Semitism—that now threaten to overtake the conservative movement."...

Three years ago, Jonathan Cagle was a MAGA loyalist, part of a messaging machine that sowed doubts about the outcome of elections and helped build an air of inevitability around Donald Trump’s return to power.

Last week in Alabama, a federal magistrate judge ordered Cagle held without bond, for allegedly cyberstalking U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the top civil rights official in Trump’s Department of Justice.

As Trump enters the second year of his tempestuous second term, Cagle’s story offers a signpost to growing disillusionment and division on the U.S. far right. ...