Posted on 08/28/2024 6:54:28 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
A Republican state party official in Georgia appeared to agree with the host of a white nationalist TV show who said Jews run the government, responding, “They’re controlling everything.”
Kandiss Taylor, who chairs the Republican Party in her southeast Georgia congressional district, appeared on a mid-February episode of “The Stew Peters Show,” whose namesake host lives in Florida and has a history of promoting antisemitic rhetoric and Holocaust denial. Peters and Taylor discussed the arrest of a man accused of vandalizing a rainbow crosswalk mural in south Florida honoring the LGBTQ+ community.
In the episode, which the liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America reported Monday, Peters said, “No more funding our own demise — bioweapons and forever wars from the Jewish lobby that basically runs our entire government. And they run this as well, don’t they?”
Taylor responded, “Yeah they run this. 100%. They’re controlling everything.”
The comments were condemned by Georgia’s only Jewish state representative, Democrat Esther Panitch, who called on the state Republican Party to condemn the exchange.
“Ok, @GaRepublicans, it’s time to show the Jewish community of Georgia that you reject antisemites. Let me know if I can be of assistance,” she wrote on X.
“We always knew she was extreme,” Panitch told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I just didn’t realize her extremism went after Jews. I mean, I’m not surprised, but I was not aware of these specific comments.”
Panitch also told JTA that nobody from the Georgia Republican Party had reached out to her about Taylor’s comments.
“You can’t pretend to be a friend to the Jews, or to support us, and allow your officials to make these statements without any remarks,” she added.
This is not the first time this month that Taylor has been in the public eye for comments about religious discrimination. In an Aug. 17 episode of her podcast, “Jesus, Guns and Babies,” Taylor said that only Christians should be permitted to run for elected office.
“We shouldn’t be electing anyone in government — local, state or federal — that is not a Christian,” Taylor said. “That is how we take back this nation.”
In a now-deleted post from October 2023 screenshot by Media Matters, she responded to a post on X that said, “This has become very clear to anyone who can see: The Democrat Party has been overtaken by Marxist trash who hates Jews.” In her reply, Taylor wrote, “Hey, We have some Marxist trash using our R who pander to the Jews. Not much difference.”
In a statement posted to X, Taylor declared her opposition to antisemitism and support for Israel and Jews. She did not directly address the exchange with Peters.
“I have been made aware of the Media Matters hit piece on me,” Taylor wrote. “I want to state unequivocally that I support the State of Israel, that I support the Jewish people around the world, and that I categorically reject antisemitism in all forms. I have been proud to stand with the Georgia Republican Party on supporting Israel and rejecting antisemitism whenever and wherever it occurs.”
To Panitch, Taylor’s statement isn’t enough.
“This isn’t an apology,” Panitch said. “The fact that she’s in leadership at the Georgia GOP says that they do not take the antisemitism within their ranks seriously. They can use whatever platitudes they want, which I appreciate for them saying anything, but if they’re going to allow their members to say that Jews control the world, without any repercussions, then they’re just words.”
Well kandis, they obviously don’t co trol everything because you were able to freely give your asinine opinion!
It’s not that these people don’t exist. They always have.
What is pertinent is the timing.
With the problems that the democrat party is having with Gaza/Hamas/Hezbolah tacit to explicit support, there is a need to dig up links between anti-semites and republicans to do political damage control
People involved in nearly every single major black political organization hold this view, and the media could care less.
This is Leftist agitprop.
I keep hearing about Republicans in Georgia who seem eager to help Democrats win. I’m in MA, so I am familiar with this phenomenon.
And you posted this so we can self flagellate
Fact, Jews did not have to hide at the Republican convention while they had to go deep cover at the Democratic convention.
Jews running everything would be better than a Harris/Walz regime.
Jews are controlling everything? Hadn’t noticed.
Free?? WUT is wrong with you? Like Antifa and BLM she was paid handsomely by the DNC.
Anytime an MSM brothel calls someone “right wing”, yah know it is a setup.
This woman - a county party official - is the nut who the national liberal media loves to quote. They’ve done it before and she is giving them plenty more ammunition now. The GOP needs to boot her to stop the bleeding.
Taylor said that only Christians should be permitted to run for elected office.
“We shouldn’t be electing anyone in government — local, state or federal — that is not a Christian,” Taylor said. “That is how we take back this nation.”
Sounds like the author is dishonest. Advocating to only VOTE for Christians is not the same as saying only Christians should be permitted to run for office.
If a Jew said “we should only elect Jews to hold office in Israel, that’s how we fix the country”, nobody would bat an eye.
My point was that jews don’t swoop in and arrest .iberals when they voice their asinine opinions, therefore jews do not “control everything” contrary to the persons ignorant statement
Stew Peters is such an unhinged wack job, he’s got to be a Fed.
Not gonna lie, I’d do a better job than Harris.
And, unlike Waltz, really did serve in Iraq.
That said, there are antisemitic nuts everywhere. Such is life.
The republicans, unlike the democrats, purge them from their ranks.
The democrats elected one President for 8 years and have them in all ranks of their party.
Taylor Swift is into satanic ritual. That’s not news.
I have to say that I voted for Kandiss Taylor in the last GA gubnatorial primary against Brian Kemp and I have never heard her spout anti Semitic stuff. Stew Peters is another matter.
You know who invented astroturf don’t you?
The Jews.
-Seinfeld.
This is why the media says there is antisemitism on both the left and the right. Exhibit A: this woman.
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