House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) fired back at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for criticizing House Democrat leadership over their handling of antisemitism within their own conference.
In comments to The Epoch Times on July 19, Mr. McCarthy blasted the nine Democrats who the previous day voted against a pro-Israel House resolution, which also condemned antisemitism: Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Summer Lee (D-Pa.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.), Cori Bush (D-Mo.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
“Well, if you look at the nine Democrats there, they’ve got a real antisemitic problem inside their conference, and it seems to be growing with their leadership doing nothing about it,” said Mr. McCarthy. “They allow them to continue to say the things they have—to equate the U.S. military to the Taliban, to say Israel is evil, to say only members’ relationship with Israel is ‘all about the Benjamins.’”…