For some reason known only to her, Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene decided she’d send out Purim greetings to Jews via Twitter, but it didn’t take long before she likely realized that had been a really bad idea.
Here’s the tweet:
Happy Purim! May it bring light, happiness, joy, and honor!
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 6, 2023
Purim, it should be noted, commemorates a story from the Biblical Book of Esther in which Queen Esther was able to thwart a plan that would have completely destroyed the Jews who were living in ancient Persia at the time. The holiday began Monday and ends this evening.
Greene would seem to be the last person who should wish anyone anything on any Jewish holiday. After all, she’s the same person who also:
Suggested that Jewish space lasers were to blame for wildfires in the United States
Appeared at a rally in 2022 with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who has said the Holocaust didn’t occur
Has advocated that the Republican Party be the party of Christian nationalism
And now Greene wants to make nice with the Jewish community? People weren’t buying what she was selling, and they let her know what a putz she is.
Until someone on your staff told you what Purim was, and you should probably send a tweet to improve your image to deflect from being a bigoted, vitriolic Nazi, you probably thought Purim was an anabolic steroid.
— Francisco Vives (T.A.F.K.A. Paco Luís ♏ontaña)⚛ (@Franks2ndlife) March 6, 2023
On behalf of Jewish people everywhere. Fuck you and your Anti-Semitic ass ✡️
I really hate the Jews. But without support of those who think I’m the anti semite that I am, my chances of getting ahead politically are nil. Which is why I scrubbed my social media accounts of all my anti semitic posts.
— Kal – Watch how they vote, ignore what they say. (@TruthJustis4USA) March 6, 2023
Rapper Kanye West (a.k.a. Ye) doubled and tripled down on his recent vile anti-Semitic comments, telling Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes on Monday that Jews need to “forgive Hitler” for the Holocaust.
Rolling Stone reports that West made his remarks on Censored.TV, a right-wing platform, with McInnes telling his guest that he was hoping to “talk him off the ledge” and keep him from “becoming an anti-Semite or a Nazi.”
But rather than take the olive branch being offered to him, West told the host:
“Jews should work for Christians. I’ll hire a Jewish person in a second if I knew they weren’t a spy and I could look through their phone and follow through their house and have a camera all in their living room.”
West added:
“We make our reputations, that was made by Jewish people. But some of it’s incorrect. Also, the Holocaust is not the only holocaust, so for them to take that and claim — we have abortion right now. That’s eugenics, that’s genocide. That’s a holocaust that we’re dealing with right now, so because Jewish people control the majority of the media, along with banks, along with real estate, along with malls.”
McInnes then told the rapper that he believed Jews were “liberal elites,” along with former President Barack Obama and current Vice President Kamala Harris, which led West to blame Jews for pornography, which he called a “gas chamber,” a clear and disgusting reference to the deaths of over 6 million Jews in Nazi concentration camps and crematoriums.
“They can control the narrative. History is written by the winners.”
Last week, West told InfoWars host Alex Jones that Hitler and the Nazis did “good things.”
“Well, I see good things about Hitler, also. I love everyone. The Jewish people are not going to tell me, you know, you can love us and you can love what we’re doing to you with the contracts and you can love what we’re pushing with the pornography.
“But this guy that invented highways and invented the very microphone that I use as a musician. You can’t say out loud that this person never did anything good and I’m done with that, I’m done with the classifications, and every human being has value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”