{"id":2646594,"date":"2026-08-18T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-faces-backlash-for-condemning-antisemitic-attacks-on-randy-fine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:22:28","slug":"jeffries-faces-backlash-for-condemning-antisemitic-attacks-on-randy-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-faces-backlash-for-condemning-antisemitic-attacks-on-randy-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries faces backlash for condemning antisemitic attacks on Randy Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-faces-backlash-for-condemning-antisemitic-attacks-on-randy-fine%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=2646594&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--><p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) faced criticism from progressives after condemning antisemitic attacks by Dan Bilzerian against Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), without addressing Fine&#8217;s own history of inflammatory remarks about Muslims. Bilzerian, a GOP primary challenger to Fine, posted a racist and antisemitic video targeting Fine&#8217;s Jewish identity, which drew condemnation from both party leadership. jeffries described bilzerian\u2019s campaign as \u201cblatantly antisemitic\u201d and urged rejection of such hatred, though some critics pointed out that jeffries did not condemn Fine&#8217;s past anti-Muslim rhetoric. Prominent voices, including Mehdi Hasan and Hasan Piker, condemned Bilzerian\u2019s antisemitism and criticized Jeffries for not equally addressing Fine&#8217;s remarks.Othre commentators, like Georgia Rep. Ruwa Romman, emphasized that the real issue is the rise of bigotry facilitated by gerrymandering, which pits voters against polarized extremist candidates. Fine, known as the &#8220;Hebrew Hammer&#8221; for his support of Israel, has a history of controversial statements supporting discrimination against Muslims, which some argue should also be part of the broader conversation on bigotry and extremism in Congress. Jeffries ultimately condemned Fine and called for accountability amid the ongoing concerns over hate speech and discrimination among political figures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"790\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) is facing backlash from progressives after condemning Dan Bilzerian\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antisemitism\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"376\">antisemitic <\/a>attacks against Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/randy-fine\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"17705\">Randy Fine<\/a> (R-FL) without mentioning his colleague\u2019s history of inflammatory remarks about Muslims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bilzerian, who is challenging Fine in Tuesday\u2019s GOP primary, released an artificially generated video attacking the lawmaker\u2019s Jewish identity. The ad, particularly, portrays Fine as \u201cSatanic\u201d and repeatedly references him as a \u201cfat Jew.\u201d The ad led Democratic and Republican House leadership to condemn the antisemitic rhetoric targeting Fine.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4691234\/hakeem-jeffries-progressive-backlash-condemning-antisemitic-remarks-randy-fine\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Jeffries faces progressive backlash for condemning antisemitic attacks on Randy Fine<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4691134\/talarico-poach-cornyn-staffer-jacob-smith\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Talarico campaign poaches former Cornyn staffer in race against Paxton<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4690943\/alaska-senate-election-poll-mary-peltola-dan-sullivan\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Alaska Senate election polls show nail-biter race between Mary Peltola and Dan Sullivan<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe hateful campaign being run by Daniel Bilzerian in<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/florida\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"159\"> Florida<\/a> is blatantly antisemitic and shocks the conscience,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepJeffries\/status\/2089166349335454179?s=20\">Jeffries wrote<\/a>. \u201cPeople of goodwill regardless of political affiliation must reject his vile attacks on the Jewish community. This cannot and will not stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement garnered more than 2 million views on X but drew criticism from several prominent voices on the Left, who agreed Bilzerian\u2019s rhetoric was antisemitic while faulting Jeffries for failing also to condemn Fine\u2019s past remarks about Muslims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBilzerian is awful and antisemitic,\u201d <em>Zeteo<\/em> Editor-in-Chief Mehdi Hasan <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mehdirhasan\/status\/2089399302082687024?s=20\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cDo you have anything to say about the Republican Islamophobe currently sitting in that seat, Rep. Randy Fine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Streamer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hasan-piker\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"22479\">Hasan Piker<\/a>, who has become a political lightning rod for the Right because of his own past controversial remarks, lambasted Jeffries for \u201ccomplaining about\u201d Bilzerian while Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) \u201cis <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4689752\/elijah-manley-rips-debbie-wasserman-schultz-bid-majority-black-district-florida\/\">carpetbagging to a black opportunity district<\/a> &#038; running against a more than qualified black opponent \u2026 who happens to be progressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wasserman Schultz\u2019s district was drawn to become competitive, but she opted to run in a safer, historically majority-black seat. Republican-led redistricting retooled the lines so that it was no longer majority-black, and she\u2019s been criticized by some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-speaks-for-white-liberals-black-leaders-entrepreneurs-slam-stacey-abrams-over-georgia-boycott\/\" title=\"\u2018She Speaks For White Liberals\u2019: Black Leaders, Ent...reneurs Slam Stacey Abrams Over Georgia Boycott\">black community leaders<\/a> for the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drop Site News reporter Julian Andreone said that Bilzerian and Fine were both \u201cbigots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBlizerian\u2019s antisemitism is disgusting. Everybody knows that,\u201d Andreone <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JulianAndreone\/status\/2089187564087619671?s=20\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cHis primary opponent, Rep. Randy Fine, has used even more virulent rhetoric towards Muslims than he has towards Jews. Both candidates are bigots unfit to serve in Congress. Hakeem Jeffries could have included a mention of Fine and made it a dual condemnation. He, of course, did not. Why? All Muslim and Jewish people are human beings of equal value.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Georgia Democratic state Rep. Ruwa Romman even went as far as to write the statement she thought Jeffries should have made:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA better statement would\u2019ve been: \u2018Republicans have leaned so far into bigotry that Republican voters are left picking between a raging antisemite and an anti-Muslim bigot,\u201d Romman, the first Muslim elected to the Georgia legisalture,<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ruwaromman\/status\/2089467130970534190?s=20\"> said on X<\/a>. \u201cThis is the result of Republican gerrymandering that now guarantees all voters in Florida\u2019s 6th district will end up with a bigot representing them no matter the result in this primary of candidates competing for the award for most hateful. As Speaker, I\u2019ll push for a nationwide gerrymandering ban and return the power to voters to choose differently.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fine won a seat in the House last year via a special election to replace U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz. He is one of four Jewish Republicans in Congress. Known as the \u201cHebrew Hammer\u201d by Florida allies, Fine has been unabashed in his support for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"219\">Israel<\/a> amid the Gaza war. He\u2019s also been unafraid to court controversy, such as when he responded in February to a story about a Muslim community advocate calling for a ban on dogs in New York City.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,\u201d Fine wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4690104\/house-ethics-committee-confirms-investigation-into-democrat-jimmy-gomez\/\">HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE CONFIRMS INVESTIGATION INTO DEMOCRAT JIMMY GOMEZ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeffries denounced Fine\u2019s remarks at the time, calling the Florida Republican \u201ca disgrace to the United States Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe is an Islamophobic, disgusting and unrepentant bigot,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cHouse Democrats will not let the racist and bigoted behavior of Randy Fine go unchecked. Accountability is coming to all of these sick extremists when the gavels change hands in November, if not sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffries criticized Bilzerian\u2019s antisemitism but overlooked Fine\u2019s Muslim remarks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3691,"featured_media":2646595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-x5xk9jir4-1787076320700-e1787077849566.jpg?1787062008&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7053,50470,52548],"class_list":["post-2646594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-antisemitism","tag-jeffries-2","tag-randy-fine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-x5xk9jir4-1787076320700-e1787077849566.jpg?1787062008&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646594","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\/3691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646598,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646594\/revisions\/2646598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2646595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}