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The world is learning a lot about Georgia and how it feels about Jews.
On the one hand, a Jewish Democrat named Jon Ossoff – along with a progressive Black minister – were elected as the state’s senators, tipping the national legislative balance to the Democrats.
One the other, newly-elected Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican representing a district in the state’s northwest, was stripped of her committee assignments for promoting kooky QAnon conspiracy theories, including a belief in Jewish-run space lasers.
Is Georgia a forward-thinking haven, or the deep racist and antisemitic south? The answer is both, and confronting that reality is a priority in these polarizing times.
So, now Mitch McConnell tells us that Marjorie Taylor Greene s views are a "cancer" on the Republican Party and on the country. Odd that he neglected to make that point when one of his preferred candidates in the Georgia runoff, Kelly Loeffler, campaigned with Greene.
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