{"id":541059,"date":"2021-05-26T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=541059"},"modified":"2021-05-26T09:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:06:18","slug":"democrat-rep-david-cicilline-i-see-no-evidence-whatsoever-in-democratic-party-of-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-rep-david-cicilline-i-see-no-evidence-whatsoever-in-democratic-party-of-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Rep. David Cicilline: \u2018I See No Evidence Whatsoever\u2019 In \u2018Democratic Party Of Anti-Semitism\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fdemocrat-rep-david-cicilline-i-see-no-evidence-whatsoever-in-democratic-party-of-anti-semitism%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=541059&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5FEE49C8-6827-4674-8F67-303BA4830A4C-e1622033583617.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. David Ciclline (D-RI) told CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night that he saw \u201cno evidence whatsoever\u201d of anti-Semitism inside the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Cicilline\u2019s remarks came during a segment about controversial remarks made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). After discussing Greene, Cooper asked Cicilline if he was \u201cconcerned\u201d about Democrats such as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over her history of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>Cicilline responded by claiming that Omar had immediately apologized for her anti-Semitic remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see no evidence whatsoever in the Democratic Caucus or in the Democratic Party of anti-Semitism at all,\u201d Cicilline said. \u201cIn fact, the strongest voices that have condemned acts of anti-Semitism and this rise in anti-Semitic violence have been members of the Democratic Caucus, but everyone should be condemning it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p><em>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: Well, tonight we know how many anti-Semitic utterances from a conspiracy spouting freshman congresswoman it takes for Republican leaders to say anything about it. As for what it\u2019ll take for those same leaders to actually do anything about it, that is anyone\u2019s guess, because for now, talk is all they\u2019ve got.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some of it is not even unequivocal, not even about Nazis and the Holocaust. What\u2019s more, these words come five days after Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s first try comparing anti-COVID measures to the Holocaust.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This morning she tweeted: \u201cVaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazis forced Jewish people to wear a gold star.\u201d As one Jewish colleague put it today, gold stars are what you get for behaving in class, yellow stars of David were what Nazis forced Jews to wear to mark them for everything from public ridicule and attack to official discrimination and extermination.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is what the Congresswoman has been invoking. Here\u2019s how she started five days ago. And it\u2019s the last you\u2019ll hear from her on the program because as we pointed out last night, this is less about her and her deeply stupid remarks and more about the people leading the Republican Party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second class citizens so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COOPER: She later doubled down, then tripled down this morning, but it was all cut from the same cloth. Nothing today was any more ahistorical, offensive or provocative than her first remarks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So what changed? Why did it take a full five days for leadership to think, you know, maybe invoking gas chambers and Nazis is not a good idea for the Republican Party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well, we have some breaking news on that shortly. In a nutshell, Leader McCarthy had to be pushed. But first, here\u2019s what he and the rest of the leadership finally said today, not five minutes after Greene\u2019s racist remarks, but five days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik tweeted: \u201cEquating mask wearing and vaccines to the Holocaust belittles the most significant human atrocities ever committed.\u201d Minority Whip Steve Scalise\u2019s office put out a statement, it begins: \u201cRepresentative Scalise does not agree with these comments and condemns these comparisons to the Holocaust.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the congressman adds, quote: \u201cWe also need to be speaking out strongly against the dangerous anti-Semitism that is growing in our streets and in the Democratic Party, resulting in an alarming number of horrific violent attacks against Jews.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So not even condemning someone for trivializing the murder of six million Jews can be done without bothsidesing it. The same for Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. His statement reads: \u201cMarjorie is wrong and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing mask is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That is followed by: \u201cAt a time when the Jewish people face increased violence and threats, anti-Semitism is on the rise in the Democratic Party and is completely ignored by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\u201d Now, keeping them honest, Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar did come<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>under criticism in 2019 for a tweet playing on anti-Semitic tropes suggesting that Israel\u2019s political allies in this country were motivated by money rather than principle. She later apologized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Congresswoman Greene has apologized for nothing, because then she couldn\u2019t fundraise off it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joining us now Rhode Island Democratic Congressman David Cicilline. Congressman Cicilline, the fact that it took five days for the House Republican leadership to finally address these repulsive comments and according to CNN\u2019s reporting, Kevin McCarthy had to be pushed. What does that say to you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REP. DAVID CICILLINE (D-RI): Well, it\u2019s disgraceful. I mean, as you said, it took them five days, it should have taken them five minutes. But the reality is, Kevin McCarthy has lost control of his caucus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a set of leaders in the Republican caucus in the House that are focused on one issue and that is returning to power and so they\u2019re willing to put up with a former President who is promoting a big lie about the election being stolen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CICILLINE: Who led an insurrection against the government of the United States, and they have excused that. And now, they are willing to excuse the conduct of Marjorie Taylor Greene because they see her as an important person in their caucus. They still welcome her. She\u2019s a member in good standing of the Republican conference. They haven\u2019t expelled her from that. They haven\u2019t \u2014 she hasn\u2019t been held accountable in any way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Five days later, after enormous pressure from everyone, including Jewish members on the Democratic side, he finally says something, but it\u2019s disgraceful. This is a person who has said the most outrageous anti-Semitic things, comparing the death of six million Jews to following the public health guidance of the attending physician is an outrage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And unfortunately, I think they think that Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to the base of their party, and so she is a welcome member of the Republican conference. And they waited a very long time before they had the decency to speak out against what she said and it\u2019s an outrage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COOPER: I mean, amongst many Republicans, she \u2014 or at the least the former President\u2019s supporters, she is more popular than Kevin McCarthy. I mean, it seems hard to imagine that there\u2019s really going to be any repercussions for her, as long as you know, McCarthy, as you said, and the others are just eager to stay to reclaim power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CICILLINE: Yes, and she raises money for them. She is, you know, she is more popular and he isn\u2019t. And remember, they moved quickly to remove Liz Cheney from a leadership position in their conference because she had the audacity to tell the truth, to call out the big lie. And yet they are fully embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kevin McCarthy has showed a complete failure of leadership, and the fact that she is more popular among Republican voters, and maybe even among the Republican Members of Congress tells you something.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So they did nothing to impose any consequence, any sanction on her for her conduct, and this is one of many things she has done to demonstrate deep anti-Semitism, and it\u2019s outrageous that she is an important member of their conference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COOPER: You, along with other Jewish Members of Congress wrote a letter to Kevin McCarthy today asking him to make it clear that he doesn\u2019t support Green\u2019s anti-Semitic remarks. How do you respond to McCarthy\u2019s accusation in his statement that, quote, anti-Semitism is on the rise in the Democratic Party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CICILLINE: Well, it\u2019s just not true. And again, there\u2019s never any responsibility, you know, the people who refuse to certify the election, despite the fact that they were in fact the valid results. They\u2019ve never apologized for that. The people who have excused the conduct of Marjorie Taylor Greene, and she herself has not apologized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But it\u2019s always about trying to assign responsibility to somebody else, something they privately learned from the former President. You know, deny it and then attribute it to someone else. And that\u2019s what Mr. McCarthy did, rather than taking responsibility for his failure to respond immediately to these comments, to strongly condemn them, and then to impose some sanction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, there\u2019s no reason that she has to remain a member of the Republican conference. She should be expelled, but they welcome her with open arms. They\u2019ve imposed no consequence to her for this conduct, and in fact, waited a good long time before they finally spoke out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So I think it speaks to a failed leadership on behalf of the Republican conference, and her popularity within the Republican caucus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COOPER: Are you concerned about any Democrats and their own issues or past comments like Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota playing on anti-Semitic trope?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CICILLINE: Look, I think Congresswoman Omar apologize for that almost immediately. But you know, I see no evidence whatsoever in the Democratic Caucus or in the Democratic Party of anti-Semitism at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In fact, the strongest voices that have condemned acts of anti- Semitism and this rise in anti-Semitic violence have been members of the Democratic Caucus, but everyone should be condemning it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is unacceptable in America that American-Jews face any kind of discrimination or violence or, you know, harassment. And we \u2014 you know, we\u2019re the party that is speaking out against hate and division and bigotry and racism, and anti-Semitism. We don\u2019t get the same from our Republican colleagues, sadly. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the most recent and I think most <\/em><em>despicable examples of that. And it should have been easy for the Republican leaders in the Congress to condemn what she said to immediately call upon her to apologize, and they didn\u2019t do any of that, because she is welcome in their caucus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COOPER: Congressman Cicilline, I appreciate your time. Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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