Originally planning to celebrate the release of hostages from Gaza, Republican Jewish Coalition confab shifts focus to the growing anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric on the right.
Concerns that antisemitism is on the rise among Republicans burst to the surface this weekend, turning a conference of the nation’s leading Jewish Republicans from jubilation over a tenuous ceasefire in the Middle East into a clarion call to stem the spread of anti-Jewish voices within the party.
The emerging schism was laid bare by a prominent conservative think tank president’s defense of talk show host Tucker Carlson’s controversial decision to welcome a far-right Holocaust denier with antisemitic views onto his podcast Thursday, and Carlson’s hesitation to challenge some of his views.
It prompted nearly every speaker who took the podium at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference in Las Vegas to call for rooting out anti-Jewish elements in the GOP.
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