Exclusive | RNC chair claims Dem majority in Congress will put antisemites in power: Direct threat to the Jewish community

The head of the Republican National Committee claims a Democratic takeover of Congress will put antisemites in power and pose a “direct threat to the Jewish community.”“A Democratic majority in November is not just a political setback for our party and our movement — it is a direct threat to the Jewish community,” RNC Chairman Joe Gruters is set to tell the Republican Jewish Coalition leadership summit in Las Vegas on Monday, according to excerpts of his speech obtained by The Post.“The people in charge would not be the moderate Democrats who have occasionally pushed back on antisemitism — it would be the squad.It would be the DSA [Democratic Socialists of America].

It would be the people who looked at Oct.7 and stood with Hamas.”Gruters says in his upcoming address that Israel-bashing and Jew hatred “has found a home in the Democratic Party” and that “this did not happen overnight.“Radical extremists took over the party — and the Democrat leaders let them,” he says.The head of the national Republican Party points to democratic socialists who have big voices in the Democratic Party — chief among them New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who oversees the municipality with the largest Jewish population in America.Mamdani did not immediately condemn Hamas after the terror group invaded Israel Oct.

7, 2023, and murdered more than 1,200 people.The far-left mayor also has repeatedly refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, and on his first day in office, he revoked his predecessor Eric Adams’ strong executive order to combat antisemitism, the GOP chairman notes.“That was his priority,” Gruters says in his speech.The RNC chief also flags Jew-bashing Reps.

Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and RashidaTlaib (D-Michigan) and the rantings of the anti-Israel Democratic candidate running for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.El-Sayed apologized Saturday for saying the attempted targeting of a synagogue preschool in Michigan ...