Kevin McCarthy has pledged to remove Ilhan Omar from her committee seat for allegedly making antisemitic comments, but is fine meeting up every week with Marjorie Taylor Greene, who once blamed “Jewish space lasers” for starting wildfires.
The Jewish American groups suggested McCarthy is exploiting controversy over antisemitism for partisan gain. According to the statement:
Leader McCarthy’s pledge seems especially exploitative in light of the rampant promotion of antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories by him and his top deputies amid a surge in dangerous right-wing antisemitism. He posted a tweet charging that George Soros and two other billionaires of Jewish descent were seeking to “buy” an election. His newly elected Whip Tom Emmer said the same people “essentially bought control of Congress.
McCarthy’s has also promised to strip Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell of their seats on the House Intelligence Committee. The two Democrat congressmen are major targets of the right-wing media and fierce critics of former President Donald Trump. These pledges are clearly motivated by partisanship, not principle, the Jewish groups said, and McCarthy’s pledge to remove Omar for voicing criticism of Israel is no different.
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