Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), the ranking member of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, used his opening statement at a hearing about antisemitism on campus to complain about the 2017 Charlottesville riot.
Rather than responding to the issue at hand — specifically, the testimony of Columbia University President Nemat Shafik and numerous other Columbia officials about rampant antisemitism on campus — Scott brought out an old Democratic Party favorite.
Scott played a video of the Charlottesville riot of August 2017, including the infamous torchlight parade of neo-Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us,” and scenes of clashes in the streets the following day.
The riot spawned false claims that then-President Donald Trump had sided with the rioters (whom he “condemned
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