NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York Young Republican Club called Andrew Cuomo’s director of Jewish affairs a “court Jew” and tweeted that he is “working for the most antisemitic Governor in America.”
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Responding to a tweet by the director, Jake Adler, disparaging an upcoming in-person conference hosted by the state’s Young Republicans, the GOP club was repeating a claim by Cuomo critics that he has been biased against Hasidic communities in Brooklyn during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Imagine being Jewish and working for the most antisemitic Governor in America,” the group tweeted. “You are a disgrace and pathetic. Shouldn’t you guys be arresting Orthodox Jews in BK? Keep being a good boy for your failed corrupt boss.”
Imagine being Jewish and working for the most antisemitic Governor in America. You are a disgrace and pathetic. Shouldn't you guys be arresting Orthodox Jews in BK?
Keep being a good boy for your failed corrupt boss.
Also we love how we got under all your skin. Keep crying. https://t.co/gocW50sFAg
— New York Young Republican Club (@NYYRC) December 1, 2020
When David Greenfield, an Orthodox Jew who is CEO of the Met Council on Jewish Poverty, vouched for Adler on Twitter, the Young Republicans responded by deriding “court Jews.” The reference was to Jews who would work in royal courts in exchange for special privileges not afforded other Jews. It has become a slur disparaging Jews who are seen as selling out communal interests to advance their own status.
“Court Jews defending the blatant antisemitism of Cuomo is so repugnant & vile its almost too unreal to behold,” the Young Republicans tweeted. “Thankfully our Club leadership is full of proud Jews who are happy to call a spade a spade and not cover up the systemic discrimination and persecution of Hasidic Jews.”
Court Jews defending the blatant antisemitism of Cuomo is so repugnant & vile its almost too unreal to behold.
Thankfully our Club leadership is full of proud Jews who are happy to call a spade a spade and not cover up the systemic discrimination and persecution of Hasidic Jews. https://t.co/3AKEycDcBq
— New York Young Republican Club (@NYYRC) December 1, 2020
The Anti-Defamation League’s regional office tweeted in response that “Everyone has the right to disagree w/ public policy & political positions, but resorting to tropes should be off limits.”
Everyone has the right to disagree w/ public policy & political positions, but resorting to tropes should be off limits. We call on #NewYorkYoungRepublicanClub to retract & apologize for their use of the term "Court Jew" to refer to government staffers & other Jewish activists. pic.twitter.com/lNwlg4Jz9u
— ADL New York / New Jersey (@ADL_NYNJ) December 2, 2020
In response, the Young Republicans tweeted that the ADL is a “sham” and told the civil rights group to “shut up.”
Your org is a sham that has done nothing to actually fight growing threats of antisemitism. You take donor money and run cover for Democrats. Thats it.
Meanwhile Orthodox and Hasidic Jews are being beaten and murdered and their communities systemically targeted.
Shut up. https://t.co/Raj0PjcbwP
— New York Young Republican Club (@NYYRC) December 2, 2020
Finally someone calls out the ADL. The ADL is a sick evil organization that profits off the holocaust by pretending to fight antisemitism in order to fundraise to keep up their bloated fat cat salaries. They stay silent when the perpetrators are leftists and attack any Republican that might make a harmless insensitive comment. The ADL is really the enemy of the Jewish people at this point. Just a pack of hypocrites
Wow!!! Someone with a spine!!! Amazing in this day and age. Yasher koach!!!!
Adler is a hack who used to work for greenfield who makes $450,000 a year ” fighting” poverty.
Is Coumo an anti-semite? Maybe yes perhaps no. But Evil he is. His closing of the yeshivos and businesses after sukkos was not for safety. it was to pay us back for one upping him when he closed camps and we opened in other states. It was also a way to show he’s doing something after he caused the deaths of thousands of seniors. The proof is only 2- 3 weeks after closing our yeshivos he criticized Deblosio for closing public schools.
Absolutely !
ADL IS a sham and should shut up.
They are right just a bunch of JINOs who won’t stand up to a major Jew hater targeting frum Jews and the adl are just propagandist shills for the democrat party
The ADL are shills for the democrata party, when will tehy condemn the Jew hater Tlaib for her basically calling for the destruction of Israel and when will they call on the democrats to condemn her.
Who are the leaders of the New York Young Republican Club? Does anyone know their names?
I suspect they are right in saying the members of their club call a spade a spade.
‘COURT JEW’? Are we back in the middle ages with that Jew-hating slur? So MAGA Republicans are free to use this trope? Don’t attack the ADL- attack the MAGA rightists who hate Yidden.
It’s interesting seeing Cuomo being labeled an anti-Semite in NY City. In upstate NY most of the goyim think that Cuomo is in the pocket of the Jews and especially the Charedim because he didn’t crack down harder on them. Apparently whatever he does bring him criticism.
ADL is an organization of well-meaning people.
But not, generally speaking, halachic people.
Gov Cuomo is not an anti-semite. It is the Charedi (not regular orthodox) Yidden that is the problem. Not caring about anyone else -Jew or gentile, by making large simchas. no masks, hidden minyonim, and then you have the king of all frauds making a 7,000 person weddinl in top-top secret. Who knows how many people died or will die from these shenanigans. But Cuomo, that is trying to keep us safe – he is an anti-semite.What greater anti-semite is there if a Yid does not mind killing another Yid who is compromised for Corona. Cuomo would indeed be an anti semite if he did not try to stop it and said “just let them kill themselves”.