{"id":1978702,"date":"2023-07-20T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-fires-back-at-mccarthy-for-faulting-house-democrat-leadership-on-handling-antisemitism\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:10:23","slug":"jeffries-fires-back-at-mccarthy-for-faulting-house-democrat-leadership-on-handling-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-fires-back-at-mccarthy-for-faulting-house-democrat-leadership-on-handling-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries retaliates against McCarthy&#8217;s criticism of House Democrat leadership on handling antisemitism."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fjeffries-fires-back-at-mccarthy-for-faulting-house-democrat-leadership-on-handling-antisemitism%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=1978702&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>House Democrats Face Criticism Over Antisemitism<\/h2>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) fired back at House Speaker Kevin \u200bMcCarthy (R-Calif.) for criticizing House Democrat leadership over \u2062their handling\u2062 of antisemitism\u2063 within their own\u2064 conference.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200b comments to The Epoch \u2063Times on July 19, Mr. McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mccarthy-rebukes-9-democrats-who-voted-against-pro-israel-resolution_5408479.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blasted<\/a> the nine Democrats who the previous day voted against a\u200d pro-Israel House resolution, which also condemned antisemitism: Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Delia Ramirez\u200b (D-Ill.), Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Summer Lee (D-Pa.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.), Cori Bush (D-Mo.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, if you look at the nine Democrats there, they\u2019ve got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-fires-back-at-mccarthy-for-faulting-house-democrat-leadership-on-handling-antisemitism\/\" title=\"Jeffries retaliates against McCarthy's criticism of House Democrat leadership on handling antisemitism.\">real\u2063 antisemitic\u200c problem inside<\/a> their conference,\u2062 and it seems to be growing with their leadership doing nothing about it,\u201d said Mr. McCarthy. \u201cThey allow them to continue to say the things they have\u2014to equate the U.S. military to the Taliban, to say Israel is evil, to say only members\u2019 relationship with Israel is \u2018all about the Benjamins.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June \u200d2021, Ms. Omar equated the United States and Israel to the Taliban and Hamas, the latter of which is a U.S.-designated terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must have the \u200dsame level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes \u200bagainst\u2062 humanity. We have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-ilhan-omar-the-united-states-and-israel-commit-unthinkable-atrocities-like-the-taliban-hamas\/\" title=\"Democrat Ilhan Omar: The United States And Israel Commit \u2018Unthinkable Atrocities\u2019 Like The Taliban, Hamas\">unthinkable atrocities committed<\/a> by the U.S., Hamas,\u200d Israel, Afghanistan, and the \u200dTaliban,\u201d Ms. Omar posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>She subsequently sought to clarify \u2063her tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday, I asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken about ongoing International Criminal Court investigations,\u201d Ms. Omar said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mccarthy-rebukes-9-democrats-who-voted-against-pro-israel-resolution_5408479.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cTo be clear: \u200bthe conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding those ICC cases, not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban\u2064 and the\u200b U.S. and\u2063 Israel. I was in no way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-leading-democrats-thank-ilhan-omar-for-clarification-of-statements-appearing-to-equate-us-israel-with-hamas-taliban\/\" title=\"Pelosi, Leading Democrats Thank Ilhan Omar For \u2018Clarification\u2019 Of Statements Appearing To Equate US, Israel With Hamas, Taliban\">equating terrorist organizations<\/a> with\u2063 democratic \u200bcountries with well<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-slams-jewish-democrat-critics-accuses-colleagues-of-islamophobia-harassment\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar Slams Jewish Democrat Critics, Accuses Colleagues Of Islamophobia, \u2018Harassment\u2019\">-established judicial systems<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Ms. Omar \u2064posted in\u2064 a now-deleted tweet that U.S.\u200d lawmaker \u200csupport\u200d for Israel is \u2063\u201call\u2063 about the Benjamins, baby,\u201d echoing the antisemitic notion that Israel pays lawmakers to support the Jewish state. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/02\/11\/its-all-about-benjamins-baby-ilhan-omar-again-accused-anti-semitism-over-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later apologized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u200c mean, they\u2063 continue to allow this behavior, antisemitic talk\u2014go on and ignore it,\u201d said \u200cMr. McCarthy. \u201cBut what\u2019s even worse is they let them be the most influential head \u2064of a caucus they have in their entire conference. So\u200b it shows that the Democratic Conference will ignore antisemitism and allow it to grow in their own conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked by The Epoch\u200b Times on July 20 \u200babout Mr. \u200dMcCarthy\u2019s\u200c comments, Mr.\u2064 Jeffries did not hold \u2062back.<\/p>\n<h2>Won\u2019t \u2018Be\u200d Lectured\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going \u2064to be lectured by extreme MAGA Republicans on antisemitism or racism, on bigotry, \u200band on intolerance. Period. Full stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you kidding\u2064 me? Just look \u2064at their track record and the fact that they continue to stand behind the hater-in-chief,\u201d Mr. Jeffries stated. \u201cSomeone\u200b who\u2062 has unleashed, in terms \u200bof the former \u2063president, a wave of \u200bbigotry and hate crimes \u2063and an effort \u2064to turn back the clock that is extraordinary in scope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd yet they continue to bend the knee to \u200dDonald Trump. When Donald Trump tells extreme mega \u2064Republicans in the House to jump,\u200b they say \u2018how high?\u2019\u2063 Try to accommodate his fantasies. And so \u2063we\u2019re not going to be lectured by extreme MAGA Republicans about intolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5403781\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/07\/17\/id5403781-2023-07-17T010809Z_1_LYNXMPEJ6G00N_RTROPTP_4_USA-DEBT-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><\/p>\n<p>    U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) leads a House Progressive Caucus news\u200b conference in the midst \u2063of ongoing negotiations seeking a deal to \u2064raise the U.S. debt ceiling, on Capitol Hill, \u200con May 24, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are\u200c the party that has done as\u200c much as we can to march toward a more perfect union to make sure that every single community\u2063 in America feels welcome, inclusive of race and religion and ethnicity and region and\u200d educational attainment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd \u2062so I think the\u200c vote on the Israel resolution speaks for itself in terms of the House \u2062Democratic Caucus and its perspective on \u2064the special relationship that exists between the United States and Israel. A relationship that is anchored, as [Israeli] \u2062 President Herzog articulated so well yesterday, in our shared democratic values and our\u200b shared strategic interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, introduced by\u2064 Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), states that Congress believes: \u201cThe\u200b state of\u200c Israel is not a racist or apartheid state\u201d\u200d and that\u200d \u201cCongress rejects all forms of antisemitism and\u2063 xenophobia,\u201d\u200c and \u201cthe United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter\u200d of Israel.\u201d It passed\u2064 on July 18, \u2063412\u20139\u20131.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062resolution was put forth just days after Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of\u200b the \u200cCongressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), called Israel a \u201cracist state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs \u2063somebody who\u2019s been in the streets and participated in a lot of demonstrations, I want you to know that we have been fighting to make\u2063 it clear \u2063that Israel \u200cis\u200c a racist state,\u201d Ms. Jayapal told pro-Palestinian demonstrators \u200cat\u2062 the annual conference for the progressive \u2062organization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) responded to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticizing House Democrat leadership for mishandling antisemitism. McCarthy condemned the nine Democrats who voted against a pro-Israel House resolution. Jeffries fired back at McCarthy&#8217;s comments to The Epoch Times on July 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1978703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978702","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\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}