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Behind the Aegis

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Sun Sep 24, 2023, 02:51 PM Sep 2023

(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitic MTG Ridiculed for Posting Chanukah Menorah on Yom Kippur

G’mar chatima tovah. At sundown, it is officially Yom Kippur, the holiest of days on the Jewish calendar.

While Jews around the world prepare for their fast on this solemn Day of Atonement, anti-Semitic lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene couldn’t help but weigh in on the holiday.

The Republican congresswoman, who once spread a conspiracy theory that secret Jewish space lasers cause wildfires and was the keynote speaker at an event hosted by avowed Nazi Nick Fuentes, wrote on X (formerly Twitter):



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(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitic MTG Ridiculed for Posting Chanukah Menorah on Yom Kippur (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 OP
She's pathetic JustAnotherGen Sep 2023 #1
Right up (or down) there with the Republican holiday greeting of Molotov catrose Sep 2023 #2
Ms. Jewish Space Lasers got her Jewish holidays mixed up LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2023 #3
Either her or her intern got it wrong... FirstLight Sep 2023 #4

FirstLight

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4. Either her or her intern got it wrong...
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 06:55 PM
Sep 2023

but I guess if you're anti-semitic, you wouldn't bother to know the difference between a shofar and a menorah...

Looked at google images for yom kippur, and was surprised by the stupid clipart with menorahs. Which also proves it was her or some underling that she ordered to "say something about this holiday so they don't think I'm racist" ugh

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