Boston city councilwoman Kendra Lara (D.)
Posted on 06/23/2022 2:38:38 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
A Democratic Boston city councilor is under fire for informing her constituents that they are "letting the Zionists SHAKE YOU DOWN," rhetoric that a watchdog group says is grossly anti-Semitic.
"Ya'll are letting the Zionists SHAKE YOU DOWN," Boston city councilor Kendra Lara tweeted on Thursday, referencing a court decision this week that upheld a law targeting the anti-Semitic campaign to boycott Israel. She later deleted the tweet.
Lara—a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and an ally of "Squad" member Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) who took the far-left congresswoman's "policy pledge"—quickly came under fire for the tweet, with one user of the social media site saying her language is identical to that used by "neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers."
"Oh I get it! The use of the phrasing was lost on me but I have been told now, thank you!" she tweeted in response.
Later that day, she clarified that she was talking about a federal court's ruling this week to uphold an Arkansas law that bars the state government from contracting with an entity that supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which wages economic warfare on Israel. Then she issued copious apologies, saying that reinforcing "anti-Semitic tropes about the Jewish people" was not her intent and that she "should have known better." She then deleted her original tweet.
Lara is one of many far-left activists to condemn the anti-BDS court decision. The decision is seen as a bellwether for other anti-BDS laws that are being challenged by anti-Israel forces across America.
Lara's comments are a thinly veiled shot at American Jews, according to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a watchdog group that combats anti-Semitism.
"Will the city councilor be held accountable for her slur by her peers, by the media, by the voters, for this screed?" Cooper said in comments to the Washington Free Beacon. "Why would a local politician in Boston get worked up over an Arkansas court upholding anti-BDS laws—an important tool to fight back against anti-Semitic BDS? Maybe because she hates ‘Zionists'—read Jews."
Lara has repeatedly used this type of rhetoric in the past.
When Ben & Jerry's pulled out of Israel as part of its support for the BDS movement, Lara mocked pro-Israel advocates who launched their own boycott of the company.
"Zionists: *Googles how to ethnically cleanse ice cream company*," she tweeted in July 2021. The tweet is a reference to unfounded accusations by anti-Israel activists that Israel is engaged in the genocide of Palestinians. These types of remarks are widely considered anti-Semitic.
"Oh, the blue check mark Zionists have found me. *Mutes tweet*," Lara tweeted after her initial missive drew pushback.
Cooper said that Lara's rhetoric embodies "two of the most distressing aspects of anti-Semitism today in America"—"violent Jew-hatred" and the "increasing of open, blatant Jew-hatred in the mainstream of our society."
There is "little or no accountability or consequences" for targeting Jewish people in this way, Cooper said, adding that "anti-Semitic hate crimes"—which are rising at steep rates—"don't happen in a vacuum."
Boston city councilwoman Kendra Lara (D.)
They are all Jew haters plain and simple.
Probably a muzzie.
Bi#@h be raciss.
Well, maybe, in woopsee’s vernacular, “She didn’t ‘mean it’ ‘ mean it’.”. Now had she been astute enough to understand the shake down applies to the dems. Alas.....
You can be an overt, open anti Semite and remain a Democrat in good party standing.
And yet Jewish people continue to vote for morons like this! 🙄
The fault of the Jews, you say. Such tolerance. Where did this end up during past times?
They are coming for all of us. Even those fools who so errantly empowered them.
What’s with negro females? They are the few racial/gender groups that isn’t moving to the right?
“And yet Jewish people continue to vote for morons like this! 🙄”
I know and that continues to amaze me in front of all this evidence.
It was a better speech in the original German.
Ghetto hates the Jews and the Asians. Pure jealous rage.
You would think blacks of all people would be sensitive to dishing out racial attacks. I guess they are only when the attacks are on their race.
There was no VEIL at all. Blatant Jew hatred in all her tweets.
99% of all anti-Semitism is on the Democrat side, despite constant media lies.
By 2035 that will no longer be true, thanks to borth rates of Orthodox Jews and abortion-trans-gay rates of atheist "Jews." "Chabad"-oriented Jews -- the majority in Crown Height, Brooklyn, for example -- supported Trump 90% in 2020. "Libs Of TikTok" woman is a Chabad religious Jew. They AVERAGE 7 kids a piece. They will overtake "Reform" (non-religious, Democrats) Jews by 2035.
Oh, look! A Democrat Socialist is an anti-Semite!
What a shocker!
“Oh I get it! The use of the phrasing was lost on me but I have been told now, thank you!”
This sounds like a South Park episode. Funny, she doesn’t look like Eric Cartman.
In overwhelmingly Catholic Massachusetts, this will gain her votes, especially among the Irish
There has been a decades long rivalry between the Blacks and the Jews. the unraveling of relations between the Blacks and Jews began in 1966 when the Jews began transitioning into middle-class and upper-class status. The Blacks felt they were being left behind and the Black Power movement began spreading envy against the Jews. That envy spilled into the labor movement and has not stopped.
So do self-professed Christians.
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