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July 27, 2016

A U.S. Congressman Calls Jews Insects and (Almost) Gets Away With It

Don’t give anti-Semitism a pass.

Speaking at an event on Monday organized by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Hank Johnson, a congressman from Georgia, likened Jewish residents of the West Bank to termites. After being rebuked rather tepidly by the Anti-Defamation League, he responded via Twitter with something less than an apology, as David Wolpe writes:

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