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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,176 posts)
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 10:56 PM Dec 2022

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff to convene antisemitism roundtable at the White House this week

This looks a needed event



https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/politics/doug-emhoff-antisemitism-summit-white-house/index.html

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff – the first Jewish person in his position – will convene an antisemitism roundtable Wednesday at the White House, Emhoff’s office tells CNN.

Planning for the event was underway for weeks, but White House aides said that it’s taken on extra significance now following a series of antisemitic comments from the rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, as well as the revelation that former President Donald Trump hosted West along with White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate in late November.

“Literally every single day it gets worse,” Emhoff said on Friday, appearing at an event in Washington last week where he described himself as “in pain.”

“Jews in our generation didn’t experience this level of antisemitism at all,” he added. “Like with so many issues, we thought that it was behind us.”

Emhoff, joined by domestic policy advisor Susan Rice, director of public engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms and administration special envoy to combat antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, will bring together leaders of 13 different Jewish groups from the Anti-Defamation League to Jewish on Campus and several religious organizations.
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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff to convene antisemitism roundtable at the White House this week (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 OP
❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 2022 #1
I'm sorry that this event is necessary. brer cat Dec 2022 #2
Excellent! 💙 TY & 2nd Gent! nt Cha Dec 2022 #3

brer cat

(24,562 posts)
2. I'm sorry that this event is necessary.
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 12:06 AM
Dec 2022

As Emhoff said, we thought this was behind us. I would never have predicted the rise of Nazis in our country.

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