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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNRA 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.
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
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,313 posts)1. NRA -- Nazis, Russians, Anti-Semites ?
underpants
(182,736 posts)2. I thought one of their points was "If Jews in the ghetto had had guns...
they could have fought back against Hitler"
They don't like Jewish people now?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. Nazis hate Jews
Same as it ever was....
Behind the Aegis
(53,939 posts)4. I doubt they have ever "liked" Jews.
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
Because, you know, Jews in the ghettos were unwilling to shoot their way out to freedom.