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Lauren Boebert worryingly predicts antisemitism plan will be used to target conservatives

May 27, 2023 | | Print Article

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert is worried that the Biden administration’s new antisemitism initiative will be used to attack conservatives.

“When they say stuff like this, they mean they want to go after conservatives. Their tactics are straight out of the USSR’s playbook,” she tweeted Friday in response to a video of President Joe Biden announcing the new initiative.

Look:

The new initiative — the first-ever by any White House — calls for taking “100 new actions” to “raise awareness of antisemitism and its threat to American democracy, protect Jewish communities, reverse the normalization of antisemitism, and build cross-community solidarity.”

“Informed by input from over 1,000 stakeholders from every sector of American society, it outlines over 100 new actions that Executive Branch agencies have committed to take in order to counter antisemitism—all of which will be completed within a year,” a statement from the White House reads.

“The strategy also calls on Congress to enact legislation that would help counter antisemitism and urges every sector of society to mobilize against this age-old hatred, including state and local governments, civil society, schools and academic institutions, the tech sector, businesses, and diverse religious communities,” it continues.

Because it admittedly sounds harmless to anyone who’s not a rabid antisemite, Boebert’s tweet prompted leftists into mocking her for having essentially suggested that all Republicans/conservatives are antisemites.

Look:

The problem is that Boebert had a point. The proof lies in the left’s incessant attacks on the right for daring to criticize billionaire mover and shaker George Soros, who just happens to be Jewish.

In recent months, leftists in the Democrat Party and the media have seized on the false narrative that any criticism of Soros is rooted in anti-Semitism. Never mind that Soros has spent oodles of money bankrolling Democrats, particularly soft-on-crime Democrat prosecutors, all across the country.

Even conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, has complained that this narrative is phony boloney:

That being said, the White House has pushed back on Boebert’s concerns by claiming they recognize that “antisemitism is not ‘conservative.’”

“Congresswoman Boebert is mistaken; antisemitism is not ‘conservative’ – it is evil. President Biden is standing up for a bedrock American value that goes beyond politics and is embraced by liberals, conservatives, and independents: that we are better than antisemitism and hate,” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement.

“Those vile forces fly in the face of what America represents. If anyone finds opposition to hate threatening, they need to look inward. Congresswoman Boebert should also Google the Soviet Union’s long, repulsive history of antisemitism. She might find a result for Joe Biden, who at the time decried antisemitic acts by Soviet communists as ‘shameful.’”

All this comes days after Harvard Law School’s Alan Dershowitz, a Jew, published a column for The Wall Street Journal defending Elon Musk, who too has received the “anti-Semitism” treatment for criticizing Soros and comparing him to the Marvel supervillain Magneto.

“Mr. Soros also has had a pernicious influence on American domestic issues, such as funding leftist candidates for district attorney, who have politicized law enforcement. Unlike Mr. Musk, I haven’t compared Mr. Soros to Magneto, a Marvel supervillain who, like Mr. Soros, survived the Holocaust,” the piece reads.

“I wouldn’t make that comparison because I had never heard of Magneto. But I agree with Mr. Musk that Mr. Soros’s acts contribute to fraying the ‘fabric of civilization.’ And Mr. Musk has shown no hostility toward Israel or the Jewish people,” it continues.

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