Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) denounced the “growing cancer” of right-wing anti-Semitism in remarks delivered Tuesday at Hagee Ministries' 45th annual Night to Honor Israel in San Antonio.
“Listen, about ten years ago, anti-Semitism started to rise on the left. And the Democratic Party did nothing. And in the decade that followed, it ate the Democratic Party. I do not believe it is an exaggeration to say that there is a real and meaningful pro-Hamas contingent of the Democratic Party in Washington. And the rest of the Democrats are terrified of the pro-Hamas contingent,” Cruz began. “We know that, but the danger I want to emphasize to you tonight is not anti-Semitism on the left, but anti-Semitism on the right. And I'm here to tell you that over the past six months I've seen anti-Semitism on the right rise in a way I've never seen in my entire life.”
“I'm here to tell you that the church is sleeping right now. If I pick up my phone and send out a tweet, if I say good morning, within minutes I will get hundreds of blatantly anti-Semitic responses. When Prime Minister Netanyahu was here a few months ago, I sat down with him for a few hours. I discussed this issue with him and his first response was, 'Well, that's Qatar. That's Iran. They're paying for it. AstroTurf.' And I said, 'Mr. Prime Minister, yes, but no. Yes, Qatar and Iran are clearly paying for it, and there are bots, and they are putting real money into it, but I'm telling you, this is real, it's organic, these are real people and it's spreading,” the conservative senator said. “This past year we had three prominent voices on the right publicly musing, 'Gee, maybe Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all.' Yes, he was, he was the embodiment of evil! And I asked Prime Minister Netanyahu and said, 'Imagine how different American political history would have been if Rush Limbaugh had been an anti-Semite instead of a philo-Semite. We would have a fundamentally different country if Rush Limbaugh spent years spreading poison.”
“This poison of anti-Semitism on the right is spreading among young people. It is gaining momentum,” Cruz continued, expanding on this point a few minutes later:
But I will tell you that there is a movement among Christians, especially among young Christians. Public opinion polls on support for Israel among young Christians are plummeting. And lies are spread. They are lies that are spread, isolationist lies that we must withdraw from the world because no one wants to hurt us. But theological lies are also spread. They are taught replacement theology. That is a lie that somehow the promises God made to Israel and to the people of Israel are no longer good! They are no longer valid! That when God made a promise, He didn't mean the promise He made! And instead it is an argument that the Christian church has replaced Israel and the Jews, and that the Jews are no longer God's chosen people, and that all the promises in the Bible are now a dead letter.
Cruz has spoken about Israel and anti-Semitism with other right-wing figures — including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson – in recent months.
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