Jake Tapper rips into hypocrite Marjorie Taylor Greene for pretending to care about antisemitism

CNN’s Jake Tapper has no time for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) hypocrisy when it comes to antisemitism. Reporting from Tel Aviv, Israel, the State Of the Union host tore into the anti-LGBTQ+ congresswoman – who has a history of making antisemitic comments – for introducing a resolution to censure Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for her statements against Israel.

“The degree to which some folks only pretend to care about antisemitism when they can weaponize it never ceases to amaze,” Tapper opened, proceeding to detail Greene’s laundry list of antisemitic indiscretions.

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“Greene spoke at the white supremacist conference run by Holocaust denier, racist, anti-semite Nick Fuentes, who participated in that hateful 2017 Charlottesville rally,” he said. “Now Greene later said she didn’t know Fuentes’s views although they were pretty well known.”

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He continued, “This is the same Marjorie Taylor Greene who has pushed the ‘great replacement theory’ in videos, the deranged notion that rich Jews are trying to replace white Americans and westerners with Blacks and Brown Muslims, not to mention of course her Jewish space laser conspiracy that a consortium, including yes wealthy Jews were using lasers on satellites to start forest fires.”

He said Greene has also been criticized in Israel for “belittling the Holocaust” by comparing President Biden to Hitler and comparing the House floor mask mandate to Jews being taken to gas chambers.

Tapper then expressed disbelief that it was indeed Greene who introduced the motion to censure Tlaib.

“When you read Greene’s resolution,” he said, “you realize it is A) written by someone who seems to have learned about the Arab/Israeli conflict maybe 10 minutes before, who maybe didn’t have access to Wikipedia, and B) while there are plenty of valid criticisms of Congresswoman Tlaib, this resolution twists a bunch of things she said beyond recognition.”

Tapper also said that Greene seemed to be focused more on January 6th in the resolution than on the war in Israel, as she described a recent, peaceful protest of Israel’s government by left-wing Jews at the U.S. Capitol as an “insurrection. “

“Antisemitism is not a cudgel to be used against people for political points,” he concluded, “nor is Islamophobia or racism or anti-gay behavior or misogyny or any other kind of bigotry.”

“Just over three weeks ago, 1,400 people, mostly Jews, mostly civilians, were slaughtered here in some of the cruelest and most unimaginable ways in the deadliest days for Jews since the Holocaust.”

“This s**t is not a game.”

Since Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel on October 7th, over 1,400 Israelis and over 8,000 Palestinians have died.