{"id":1526292,"date":"2022-06-22T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T21:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526292"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T21:50:00","slug":"the-jewish-factor-its-money-biden-ambassador-pick-under-fire-for-anti-semitic-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-jewish-factor-its-money-biden-ambassador-pick-under-fire-for-anti-semitic-tirade\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Jewish Factor, It\u2019s Money\u2019: Biden Ambassador Pick Under Fire for Anti-Semitic Tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-jewish-factor-its-money-biden-ambassador-pick-under-fire-for-anti-semitic-tirade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526292&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Elizabeth Frawley Bagley decried \u2018the influence of the Jewish lobby\u2019 and its \u2018major money\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tElizabeth Frawley Bagley (Via YouTube)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 June 22, 2022 5:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s nominee to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Brazil spoke at length about the influence of Jewish money in politics, claiming the &#8220;Jewish lobby&#8221; exerts undue influence over the Democratic Party with its &#8220;major money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, a longtime diplomat and Democratic Party insider, is scheduled on Thursday to have her nomination advanced to the full Senate by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But Bagley\u2019s comments about Jewish money in politics\u2014tropes long considered anti-Semitic in nature\u2014are raising red flags among Democratic and Republican members of the committee, senior congressional sources told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bagley, in a 1998 interview,\u00a0a full copy of which was obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, bemoaned &#8220;the influence of the Jewish lobby because there is major money involved.&#8221; She went on to claim &#8220;the Democrats always tend to go with the Jewish constituency on Israel and say stupid things, like moving the capital to Jerusalem always comes up.&#8221; Support for these Israel-related issues are due to &#8220;the Jewish factor, it\u2019s money.&#8221; The interview was conducted by a historian at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training for an oral history project.<\/p>\n<p>Senate sources involved in the confirmation process said Bagley\u2019s comments should disqualify her from the ambassador\u2019s role and told the <em>Free Beacon <\/em>that both Democrats and Republicans on the Senate committee have privately expressed concerns about these remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under a normal administration this kind of vicious anti-Semitism would be disqualifying. You couldn&#8217;t get hired as an intern,&#8221; said one senior congressional Republican staffer, who was not authorized to speak on record about the concerns related to Bagley. &#8220;It speaks volumes that the Biden administration was confident enough to nominate Bagley and send her to the Senate for confirmation. They know that Democrats are going to fall into line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bagley opened up about the &#8220;Jewish lobby&#8221; and its impact on Democratic Party politics in the 1998 interview. She was asked about &#8220;the Israeli influence&#8221; on the Clinton administration, where Bagley served as the ambassador to Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is always the influence of the Jewish lobby because there is major money involved,&#8221; Bagley said. &#8220;But, I don\u2019t remember any major issues coming out on that, besides the usual \u2018make Jerusalem the capital of Israel,\u2019 which is always an issue in the campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, she said, &#8220;always tend to go with the Jewish constituency on Israel and say stupid things, like moving the capital to Jerusalem always comes up. Things that we shouldn\u2019t even touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jewish Democrats,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;were going to give their money to Clinton anyway and Jews are mostly Democrats on social issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Jewish factor&#8221; is not about the raw number of electors who care about these issues, Bagley said, &#8220;it\u2019s money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When questioned about these remarks during a May 18 confirmation hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bagley claimed they were the result of a &#8220;free-flowing discussion&#8221; with the interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The language you used in regard to the Jewish community, Israel\u2019s influence on our election, and Jewish money have me concerned,&#8221; Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.) said during the hearing. &#8220;The choice of words was fit into the traditional tropes of anti-Semitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I regret that you would think that it was a problem,&#8221; Bagley told Cardin. &#8220;I certainly didn\u2019t mean anything by it. It was a poor choice of words, but it was something that the interviewer had asked me, prompted by something about politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bagley added that she is &#8220;very sorry about that choice of words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cardin noted that as a career diplomat, Bagley should be trained to more carefully choose her words.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), the committee\u2019s chairman, also expressed alarm over Bagley\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it a suggestion that one group of Americans don\u2019t have the right to engage in the political process as others do?&#8221; Menendez asked. &#8220;Words, especially for those who are going to be ambassadors of the United States to other countries are incredibly important, probably more significant than maybe in our individual daily lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bagley told Menendez she holds no animosity toward Jewish people or the pro-Israel community.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Elizabeth Frawley Bagley decried \u2018the influence of the Jewish lobby\u2019 and its \u2018major money\u2019  Elizabeth Frawley Bagley (Via YouTube)  Adam Kredo \u2022 June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}