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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongressman hit with horrific voicemail threats (Trigger Warning)
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) has been targeted with violent and antisemitic voicemails from multiple people, according to TMZ.
Moskowitz, who is Jewish, is well-known for trolling President Donald Trump's allies in congressional hearings.
"TMZ has obtained several voicemails from people who called Congressman Jared Moskowitz's Washington, D.C. office ... all diatribes on Jews, Israel and how both should be exterminated. We're told this is a 'small sampling' of voicemails with the same message and tone," said the report.
One of the callers said, "The U.S. government needs to kill Jews. You kill these [expletive] nasty Jews. Israel is an abomination, it's fake. Jews from Europe are fake. These are Ashkenazi, Satanic fake Jews. Kill every single [expletive] Zionist scumbag. Zionism is treason to We the People, and the U.S. Constitution."
https://www.mexc.co/en-IN/news/1096101
hlthe2b
(114,643 posts)pdxflyboy
(945 posts)n/t
sheshe2
(98,407 posts)paleotn
(22,684 posts)hadEnuf
(3,657 posts)It seems when these threats happen to fanatical right-wingers the outrage goes to fever pitch. Anyone else, including Democrats, it's "ho hum".
Then again, the fanatical right-wing has a media and we don't.
EdmondDantes_
(2,053 posts)That's what people who call in false swatting attempts usually do.
mcar
(46,343 posts)yardwork
(69,612 posts)They just want peace and goodwill.
PCIntern
(28,577 posts)yardwork
(69,612 posts)mcar
(46,343 posts)Melon
(1,674 posts)Its not ok to be racist anymore to anyone except the Jews it seems. Ive heard it in daily like as well as what we saw on college campuses being accepted. I dont know what changes this. Its even worse when Im working overseas.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)Do you see what is happening in the south and the nonsense coming from the White House, dont get me started on Charlie Kirk. The majority of people who identify as Jewish voted for Kamala, I stand with them and support them.
Hope22
(4,878 posts)Every fertile non male has a target on the back! Face it hate has been spread particularly heavy over the last 19 years by one felon .One very sick human who lit the wick of ignorance and fear in an army of people.
Melon
(1,674 posts)Im pro woman. Pro choice. Woman are half the population or more. They arent hated on openly more than the groups above. This is not a race over who the worse off is.
Hope22
(4,878 posts)The hate is bred from the top down. That being said every day a fertile non male is at risk of being harmed, many times lethally by hospitals and law makers. It matters not their race, religion or orientation. The feeding of hate from our elected and corporate lords make the situation intolerable.
Melon
(1,674 posts)I live in the south. I dont hear the N word in decades used casually. I hear negative remarks on Jews every month. There are no anti black lockdowns or signs and chants like what was accepted on college campuses a few years ago. Black students participated.
Making a disparaging comment regarding blacks in a professional setting would be condemned by everyone I know. And result in termination. Ive heard the same about Jews and Israelis numerous times. This is my sheltered life perspective.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)I dont see people who are Jewish losing their jobs or their right to representation because of religion.
I also live in the south and I no longer feel comfortable traveling because of the racists privilege.
Melon
(1,674 posts)Hes going to be in prison. He was getting views because its shocking and unacceptable. You can read the comments below his arrest.
Go back 3 years when college students were actually carrying signs, on campus, condemning Jews. Chanting. Barring Jews from entering. Actually preventing them from entering areas because they are Jewish. Finding an anti Jewish video is daily these days.
Im not trying to one up bigotry, but anti Jewish is accepted.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)Calling them the hard R with a gun on his hip. He monetizes this garbage trying to provoke them so he can use his gun. It backfired on him pun intended. He is making money from harassment and intimidation. There are places in the United States where people of the Jewish faith can feel comfortable, there is no place in this country where a black person can breathe freedom for one minute. The police state exists for us.
Melon
(1,674 posts)Chad was one guy acting a fool. You cant police every individual.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)Also people who are asking black people what they are doing when they are eating, sitting in a park , exercising and driving while black its just one more wound to people who have never been free of racism . It is the American culture. Whats more painful is people who excuse it and people who ignore it. If one is European and Jewish no one would know unless you tell them so if you choose to not disclose your religious beliefs and culture you are free to go about your business and be left alone.
Melon
(1,674 posts)Out that its become acceptable to denigrate Jews, to point out you or anyone is a bigger victim. Its ok to victimize Jews because you feel like you are the true victim? Its not the right thread for that. This is not the oppression Olympics.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)I told you I stand with them but Im pointing out there are others who are suffering injustice and we should support all of our targeted communities. I hear the slurs against Jewish people because of Netanyahu, all Jews are not responsible for his inhumanity anymore than orange Caligula represents all Americans. I gave you examples of others being targeted as much as your community. Im saying you should not play the only victim card.
DavidDvorkin
(20,676 posts)That's just an excuse for the current open antisemitism on the Left.
Jew hatred is ancient. It never goes away. It just hides a bit for a while.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)When people are angry they lash out at perceived enemies. I separate dictators from the people of their countries but others just paint with broad hate. We have people on the left and right making book on hate, the American people dont know what happened yesterday the damn sure dont know about the holocaust.
We dont learn history, we dont learn anything at all in school so we go around waiting for someone to fill our empty heads. I dont believe we will ever get back to attempting to be progressive or sane. People are losing jobs and the rich are stealing everything they can and people point fingers at each other rather than the rich folks putting their stooge in office.
sarisataka
(22,822 posts)'You wouldn't be targeted by antisemites if you just keep your Jewishness hidden'
Melon
(1,674 posts)It didnt work for them in 1940 but give it a shot today.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)I said it is not obvious. You can wear any type of religious symbol you choose, I said no one is going to ask you if you are a Jew when you walk down the street and tell you to go back to your country. You can parse every word or phrase and get pissed about it , have at it.
Solly Mack
(97,259 posts)Deuxcents
(27,664 posts)The Jewish community, for some reason, has been a target of hate forever. The hate movement seems to fluctuate between the Blacks and Jews and both have suffered immeasurably and probably wont get any better but we all need to stand up together and fight this ignorance.
Behind the Aegis
(56,208 posts)You provided gerrymandering, but there is also redlining, plea deal malfeasance, and so many other examples. With anti-Black racism, "Kitchen table bigotry" is very much in play. Overt? Not as much or as obvious, except in certain areas. Anti-Semitism, however, has moved from its longstanding Kitchen Table bigotry status, to the fucking front porch! Both groups, and others, have seen microaggressions morphing into flat-out aggression, especially Jews. It is where and by whom these bigotries and aggressions are coming that have many Jews on our collective heels.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)America has always looked for someone to hate , its just which group is in the notation. We are ignorant and easily led by demagogues , the gain power through fear and hate. Solutions I no longer believe things will get better we are to stupid and myopic to fix what ails us.
Melon
(1,674 posts)I worked in the Middle East. They looked down on Indians/pakistan Asians. They hated the Jews
Germany they dont like Turks. The only place Ive heard someone called out in a meeting for being really Dark.
In India they hated Singaporeans. Actually most of Asia.
Japanese wont buy a Korean appliance.
Much of China doesnt like the Japanese or blacks.
I drank beers in Mexico at a bar called the little negro.
Hatred of those not us seems to be somewhat universal. The dislike of outsiders.
Keepthesoulalive
(2,411 posts)No one is born hating. As the song goes you have to be carefully taught. Light Hispanics hate dark Hispanics hence Latinos want to be white adjacent. The internet has inflamed our divisions.
Old Crank
(7,239 posts)But that doesn't mean I hate Jewish people. I know a good number of Jewish people and they are great, kind and caring people. I can separate the people I know from the actions of the state. What I really don't understand is the blind hatred for any group of people. You are X. There for you are scum and deserve to be treated horribly. That makes no sense to me at all.
I hope that authorities will be looking into these calls. But I'm not sure this administration even cares.
Behind the Aegis
(56,208 posts)Anti-Semitism is bad no matter who is doing it or to whom it is directed. That simplistic statement seems to be lost on way TOO MANY!
Joinfortmill
(21,658 posts)I have Jewish relatives. They are decent, kind, hardworking people. I love them. Who are we?
Stargazer99
(3,553 posts)problems (Jews, blacks, etc) except the real cause (the greedy rich) that way you can control of masses without them actually figuring out where the real problem is coming from (using the common man's emotion so he doesn't think any farther). That is why critical thinking is not what your controllers want you to have which is also why critical thinking is not allowed to be taught in public schools (for example Texas) That is what one would call management. Do you notice the ICE program?
Jacson6
(2,195 posts)They sensationalize the smallest thing for ratings.
IMHO.
RandySF
(86,132 posts)sarisataka
(22,822 posts)but:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/tmz/
Do you have a reason to doubt a Jewish Congressman would receive antisemitic threats?
RandySF
(86,132 posts)sarisataka
(22,822 posts)"those people" cannot be trusted to tell the truth.
B.See
(8,833 posts)get into a p-contest about who Trump & Co. hates the most. Remember that the Klan despised (correction, DESPISES) Blacks, Jews, and Catholics alike. NONE of it is acceptable. and I believe they intend on getting around to all of us, sooner or later.
So let's not help the haters and supremacists out by engaging in a divisive back and forth.
RandySF
(86,132 posts)How we go from threats against a representative to this?
B.See
(8,833 posts)discriminated against? I don't know. I'm confused too. These kind of threats, just unacceptable.
But then again, I've been writing about the right's proclivity for this kind of thing for quite some time, while Trump has the audacity to label us 'terrorists and anarchists.'
His every accusation, a confession.
Initech
(109,251 posts)And why haven't there been any damn arrests? This shit has got to stop!
Eko
(10,097 posts)Skittles
(172,820 posts)WTF is that all about?
RandySF
(86,132 posts)Its not a contest, people. Threats against anyone are immoral and illegal and we should all be looking out for one another.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,563 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(17,203 posts)There's no excuse for this.