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“Now, I want to ask you about this, Heidi, because you are from Dearborn, Michigan. This is being run in Michigan where the Republicans are trying to make mischief and try to play this, not because they’re trying to appeal to people and say, please support Doug Emhoff because of this wonderful history that he would be the first Jewish first spouse, but to the very large, perhaps Arab-American vote and electorate to say, do you really want this guy in the White House?” Bash asked panelist Heidi Przybyla.

“We have a massive Middle Eastern population in Dearborn, probably the biggest in the entire country, and it is already primed in that there are a lot of Arab-Americans who are upset about Biden’s handling of the war in Israel. They are primed in the sense that they tend to be kind of culturally conservative,” Przybyla replied, adding:

That’s like the history. And a lot of them were Republicans before the Iraq war, after the war, after Trump’s Muslim ban, not so much. All you have to do is is get them to stay home. It’s not about necessarily winning the votes over for Trump, but if you get them to stay home, go back to 2016, for instance. One of the last stops Hillary Clinton made on her campaign was Michigan, because they thought they had it. But then the numbers went sideways.

It wasn’t necessarily Arab-Americans at that time, but we do know is that it can be very fluid. And so this is extremely strategic. And as Isaac said, if this is what they’re doing now, just wait for the next few weeks in terms of targeting that population, which they.

Later in the discussion, the panel denounced the ad as pushing anti-Semitic tropes by equating American Jews generally with Israeli policies. The New York Times also dubbed the ad anti-Semitic.

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[–] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

equating American Jews generally with Israeli policies

What a shocking occurrence! (if you ignore the many decades of propaganda explicitly doing just that, equating Zionists with Jewish people in general)

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Funny how that's fine when Israel itself does that.

It is absolutely not fine when Israel does that.

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I think most people, not just Israel, have noticed people saying “zionists” when they mean “Jews”

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do you think it's fine?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People like Netanyahu do it, and he doesn't get called out by the ADL for peddling antisemitic tropes.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So? Why does it matter what the ADL does?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's so fucking like the GOP to fixate on Emhoff's for being Jewish and completely ignore how he's the brother of a senior Uber executive and tied into all sorts of Silicon Valley money.

God forbid we get any actual socialism around here. It's always got to be the socialism of fools.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The dude was a highly successful and sought-after Hollywood lawyer for copyright and tech law, gave up his job at a law firm because he didn't want conflicts of interest, and is now a professor at Georgetown. You don't need to jam his bro onto him. He was already set, lol.

He also did work for a law firm representing Walmart and Merek. You could ding him for that maybe, I don't know what he did for either, but to drag his brother into a political fight seems a bit icky.

[–] geogle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

work for a law firm representing Walmart and Merek. You could ding him for that maybe

That's still a ding by association. And, he's just a spouse. You're now dinging Kamala by secondhand association. I wish people would just stick with the facts and actions that matter.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago

GOP is antisemitic. Go figure.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

because he would be the first Jewish first spouse.

No no no no no. It's not first spouse it's First Lord dammit. If I were him I would demand to be referred to as such.

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

usually it's First Gentleman (as per Jared Polis's husband)