(Jewish Group) Bloomberg: Partisanship blinds too many Jews to antisemitism within their own parties

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At a fundraising dinner Monday, Michael Bloomberg criticized Jewish Americans for too often failing to call out antisemitism when it comes from political allies.

“Partisanship can be blinding,” the former New York City mayor said in a speech at the UJA-Federation of New York’s annual Wall Street Dinner in Manhattan. “It blinds us to shameful wrongs in our own party that we would be outraged by if the other party committed them.”

The consequence is a Jewish community that is “not truly defending” itself at a time when “across the country, we have seen Jews harassed, beaten, and killed for their faith,” Bloomberg continued, imploring Jewish Americans to root out antisemitism no matter where it originates.


He singled out Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a controversial Republican from Georgia, and Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic progressive from Michigan; both have been accused of making antisemitic comments and aligning with antisemites. He said they should be treated in “the same way we treat those who traffic in any form of bigotry: as extremists who are a danger to our country, who are unfit for public office, and who should be relegated to the fringes as political pariahs.”

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