Jewish Groups Praise House Vote to Sanction Bigoted Marjorie Taylor Greene
On 2/5/21 at 5:41 AM EST
Jewish groups are among those celebrating Thursday s vote to strip far-right GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, amid outrage over past comments in which the Georgia lawmaker backed anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and far-right conspiracy theories.
The House voted 230-199 to remove Greene from the committees, with 11 GOP House members siding with Democrats. Speaking in the chamber before the vote, Greene said the remarks had been made before she ran for office last year. These were words of the past. These things do not represent me, she said.
by Patrick J. McShay
“Democrats are determined to snuff out freedom of speech and assembly to protect the corporate ruling order while pretending it’s to safeguard Black people.”
by Glen Ford (informationclearinghouse.info)
“There are things you can’t do by Executive Order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy, we need a consensus.” Joe Biden (2020)
“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim. Nothing less than to create a system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central bankers of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.”
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Opinions: New Sinn Féin TD Réada Cronin has been in trouble for some of her tweets. Photo: Tony Gavin
In February, Sinn Féin TD for Kildare North Réada Cronin was forced to apologise for a number of social media posts including one where she to someone claiming “loads of judges are paedophiles” by saying: “Wouldn’t surprise me”.
She also tweeted or retweeted claims European wars were instigated and funded by banks, Irish water was poisoned by fluoridation, Hitler was a pawn for a bank owned by the Jewish Rothschild family and the Israeli spy agency Mossad intervened to stop former Labour leader Jeremey Corbyn winning the last UK general election.