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Old October 27th, 2020 #52
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Adam Schiff says Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise ‘amplify’ anti-Semitism. He also wants to crack down on social media.


By Ben Sales October 23, 2020 10:16 am

(...) Schiff, the Jewish Democratic congressman from California who led the House’s impeachment inquiry of Trump last year, also floated the idea of Congress removing legal immunity from social networks that fail to crack down on hate if their recent steps to curb bigotry prove insufficient.

“My Republican colleagues are the ones amplifying these anti-Semitic attacks on George Soros or myself,” Schiff told JTA. “They’re pushed out by the Republican leadership. People like Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise have amplified these anti-Semitic attacks in their own social media.”

In 2018, McCarthy, the House Republican leader, posted a tweet reading “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg to BUY this election!” referencing three donors with Jewish heritage. That same year, Scalise, a Republican congressman from Louisiana who serves as minority whip, blamed “radical, Soros-backed elements of the Democratic Party” for violence against Republicans.
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The Anti-Defamation League and the Department of Homeland Security say that the biggest anti-Semitic threat in the United States comes from the far right and white supremacists, whom a recent DHS report called the “most persistent and lethal” domestic terror threat in the country.
https://www.jta.org/2020/10/23/polit...n-social-media