The chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party recently apologized for the campaign video presented at the last state party convention, which portrays Jewish Holocaust survivor George Soros as a puppet master who controls the Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, who is also Jewish. Minnesota Republican candidate Kim Crockett released a campaign video in which she accused her Jewish incumbent of being a puppet of George Soros.
BREAKING: this weekend at the @mngop convention, @KimCrockettSOS played a video that portrayed George Soros, a Jewish man, as a puppet master who is secretly controlling Minnesota's elections.
The "Jewish puppet master" is also a longstanding and deeply anti-Semitic trope. pic.twitter.com/XmTKNukK5H
— Minnesota DFL Party (@MinnesotaDFL) May 16, 2022
David Hann said in a statement that he had spoken with the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and “we want to assure our friends in the Jewish community that the image is not intended to incite hostility toward the Jewish people. We apologize, this should not have happened and we are committed to working with the JCRC to educate our staff and candidates about anti-Semitism”.
Hann said he spoke with Crockett and concluded that " the portrayal of Mr. Soros was not intended to be anti-Semitic, and neither Ms. Crockett nor her creative team was aware that the portrayal of a puppet master invoked an old but persistent anti-Semitic trope."
features the state's current Secretary of State Steve Simon and prominent Democratic prosecutor Marc Elias Both are Jewish. Their heads are placed on the bodies of the twins from the movie "The Shining", with a caption:
"Let's ruin the election forever." Simon and Elias are then revealed to be connected to Soros.
Elias, Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, has helped craft various Democratic legal solutions to new Republican-led voting restrictions in closely watched states like Georgia and Wisconsin, making him a frequent target of right-wing election conspiracy theories.
Soros has donated millions to challenge state election laws that Elias says disenfranchise the poor and people of color.
Elias is currently testifying in a federal case Michael Sussman , who is accused of lying to the FBI during the 2016 campaign.
Regarding the above, Andrew Lapin , editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, notes that the Republican primary will be held on August 9. With his party's official endorsement, Crockett is expected to challenge Simon and beat him in the election. At the same time, it should be emphasized that, based on what was previously explained in detail, substantial opposition to the views and activism of György Soros
Source: 888.hu
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