Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Sunday said he supports Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) after he apologized for comments he made following an attack on a Detroit-area synagogue earlier this year, with the South Carolina House…
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Trump offers to rescue Canadian Jews from antisemitism as ally defends congressman's synagogue remark
As it ran on the front
You ever notice how they only remember Jews exist when it's overseas? Trump's out here backing a plan to help Canadian Jews escape antisemitism -- real nice, real photogenic, waving the flag for people three thousand miles away. Meanwhile, back here, a member of Congress lamented the death of a terrorist's family in the same breath as a synagogue attack, and it took him however long to finally say sorry. And who shows up to walk him home? Clyburn. 'All of us deserve second chances.' That's the line. Write it down, because you're going to hear it again, just not for you.
See, that's the con. It's never about the thing, it's about who gets to be forgiven for the thing. You say the wrong sentence after a synagogue gets attacked, and if you're in the right seat, in the right party, somebody older and more respected than you walks out and hands you absolution on a silver plate. 'Second chances.' Beautiful words. Try getting one of those if you're the guy who missed a court date because his shift ran late. Try getting one of those if you're the family whose kid got a record for something a rich man's kid walked away from with a lecture.…
…(cont) And the timing, that's the part that gets me. You don't announce a save-the-Jews-abroad initiative in a vacuum. You announce it the same week you need cover for a domestic mess. It's not a coincidence, it's a release schedule. Somebody in a windowless room looked at the calendar and said, we need a good headline to sit next to the bad one. That's not policy, that's inventory management.
Here's the part nobody wants to say plain: antisemitism is real, the synagogue attack was real, and the fear in that community is real. It deserves better than being used as a prop for one party's foreign-policy photo op and the other party's domestic damage control. You use people's fear to sell forgiveness to your own guy, you're not fighting antisemitism, you're just another middleman skimming off the top of it. Ask yourself who's actually protected here, and who's just being quoted.
“Here's the play: pledge to save Jews from antisemitism in Canada while your own party circles the wagons for a congressman who mourned a terrorist's family after a synagogue attack. That's not consistency, that's message discipline. Watch who gets 'second chances' and who just gets targeted.”
“Look, the Congressman apologized, that's accountability, that's what we ask of everybody -- did I say everybody? I meant certain people. And the Canada initiative stands on its own, it's about protecting Jewish communities, full stop, it has nothing to do with -- okay, maybe the timing's a little on the nose.”
The receipts
Trump amplified a plan for expedited legal pathways for Jewish Canadians fleeing antisemitic persecution as Christian lawmakers press his administration.
Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed formally apologized to Jewish Democrats for weaving a jab at Israel in his response to an attack on a Michigan synagogue in March.
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