No, Israel doesn’t run America

Shortly after being deposed by Republican primary voters last Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took a parting shot at his Jewish bugbear: “I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.” 

This wasn’t the first anti-Israel conspiracy Massie spewed. A few days before the election, he framed it as a “referendum” on “whether Israel gets to buy seats in Congress.”

Others echoed similar arguments. “Israel won in Kentucky,” wrote left-wing talking head Cenk Uygur, who also asserted that “Israel controls our government.”      

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Beneath these remarks is one of the oldest antisemitic canards in the book: that scheming Jews run the world. It’s an ugly, contemptible charge. It’s also baseless. Massie did not lose because of Jews or Israel. He