Things ain’t going smoothly …..
Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY), “who reportedly lied about his Jewish heritage and has admitted he fabricated key details of his resume, said in an interview Monday evening that he never claimed to be Jewish,” the Forward reports.
Said Santos “I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
“However, in a position paper shared with Jewish and pro-Israel leaders during the campaign and obtained by the Forward, Santos called himself ‘a proud American Jew.’”
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The Republican Jewish Coalition said Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) “deceived” the organization and “misrepresented” his Jewish heritage, adding the incoming lawmaker is no longer welcome at its events, The Hill reports.
Aaron Blake: The scale of George Santos’s deceit — and the remaining questions.
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“Several U.S. Jewish leaders during a meeting with Israeli officials earlier this month warned that racist and extremist moves by the new Israeli government could seriously hamper support for Israel among Jews in the U.S.,” Axios reports.