Dem Rep. Jared Moskowitz criticizes ‘dozens of members’ of his own party for anti-Semitism

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) criticized “dozens of members” of his party who have engaged in anti-Semitism and said Democrats “don’t get a pass” when it comes to bigotry against Jews.

“I’m angry, and I think the Jewish community should be angry,” the Florida representative said in a fiery speech while accepting a “Ray of Light in Darkness” award from Israel advocacy organization EMET at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in D.C. on Tuesday. ” Evening.

Moskowitz has personally dealt with anti-Semitism. earlier this month, He revealed that he was an armed maniac Armed with a manifesto that contained “anti-Semitic rhetoric” and the 43-year-old’s name was on a “target list”, he was arrested near his home.

Additionally, his grandmother is a Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed in Auschwitz.

“He’s one of those kids you read about. He told me about things that seemed incredible… I never thought we would see some of the same currents and topics,” Moskowitz lamented during his speech.

Since Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200, captured 254 and injured thousands, the United States has watched Increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes And there have been Jewish students Harassed and bullied on college campuses By his anti-Israel classmates.

The Florida congressman criticized his left-wing colleagues for turning a blind eye to the plight of the Jewish community.

He particularly rebuked his “progressive colleagues who have fought for every endangered species, but were silent when it came to Jews.”

Moskowitz urged Jews of all persuasions to unite in demanding that both Republicans and Democrats root out anti-Semitism within themselves.

“I’d like to see Republicans call out Tucker Carlson when he has Holocaust denial on his program, and Democrats call out dozens of people in our party, and people in the streets and people on Twitter treat us with a double standards. And third-class citizens,” Moskowitz stressed.

In September, “historian” Dale Cooper appeared on Carlson’s podcast and claimed that Winston Churchill was the “chief villain” of World War II and that the massacre was an unintended consequence of poor German war planning.

Moskowitz has stood for his own party in the past. In April, he criticized “Squad” Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) after she accused Jewish college students of being “pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”

“I met 10-year-old and 7-year-old Jewish kids,” he said at the time. “I don’t know whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide. I think I’ll talk to him about it.”

Omar’s history of anti-Semitic comments, including a 2012 tweet in which she accused Israel of “hypnotizing the world” and calling for “Allah to wake up (people) and help them see the evil deeds of Israel.” He had prayed for this, due to which he was put to death. Removed from House Foreign Affairs Committee In April 2023.

Moskowitz told The Post it remains to be seen whether Democrats will require Omar or other progressive representatives to take more steps to combat anti-Semitism.

Florida poll accuses Democrats of double standards in discriminating against Jews compared to other minority groups.

“The students who are going to class, no one knows whether they support the war or support Netanyahu, but they have a Jewish star around their neck and they are attacked. Does anyone really believe that any of these things would have gone away after lunch on the first day if he had been a minority student and not a Jewish student?” he asked.

“If it were a minority student or an LGBTQ student, my party would have led this effort — and we didn’t do that.”

Moskowitz further stated that despite anti-Semitism within his party, he would remain a Democrat, warning that American Jews would be of no benefit if anti-Semitism or support of Israel became a “partisan issue.”

“We don’t want people who fight anti-Semitism to leave my party,” he said. “You don’t want that. Jews in this country need to come together. Because we are the target.”

Florida Pole, who once worked as an aide to the late Democrat-turned-independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, lamented that Jews had fought for other persecuted minority groups but “abandoned” them in their time of need. Had gone.

“We have been at the forefront of every movement in this country when other minority groups needed help, we were the ones who stood up. And when we needed them, they abandoned us, period.”