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At Biden fundraiser focused on anti-Semitism, Schiff, Rosen and Jason Alexander bash Trump and get personalA fundraiser for Joe Biden on Monday night was billed as a Virtual Conversation on Anti-Semitism with three marquee speakers: Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee; Nevada freshman Sen. Jacky Rosen; and Jason Alexander yes, that Jason Alexander, the one famed for his portrayal of George Costanza on Seinfeld.
The conversation, co-organized by the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee, included plenty of critique aimed at President Trump, whom liberal Jews accuse of stoking anti-Semitism in the U.S. but it also veered into poignant territory at times, offering a rare window into the politicians personal Jewish identities. Biden did not attend.
Alexander, who moderated the talk, invited Rosen (who last year co-founded the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism) and Schiff (who spearheaded Trumps impeachment proceedings last year) to draw a direct line between Trumps rhetoric and the rise in anti-Semitism during his term, evidenced in attacks such as the Pittsburgh Tree of Life and Poway synagogue shootings. Trumps defenders counter that by saying the president forcefully and unequivocally condemned anti-Semitism after the Tree of Life attack.
We have to assume that our president has exacerbated the problem. Adam, he typically refers to you as Shifty Schiff, so he obviously plays into anti-Semitic tropes and stereotypes, Alexander said. How much do you hold him, and frankly the Republicans that echo and abet him, responsible for these increases in the amount of hate activity that were seeing?
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(Jewish Group) Biden fundraiser focuses on anti-Semitism, Schiff, Rosen and Jason Alexander bash... (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Aug 2020
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sheshe2
(83,357 posts)1. K&R
Excellent!
JudyM
(29,122 posts)2. Glad to see this!
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)3. Nice of them
To talk about antisemitism at a fund raiser.
I'll be impressed if they talk about it outside a fund raiser. I'll be astounded if they actually do anything about it.