{"id":50362,"date":"2023-05-12T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50362"},"modified":"2023-05-12T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:46:07","slug":"preventing-a-celebration-of-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50362","title":{"rendered":"Preventing A Celebration Of Antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Scott Johnson at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/05\/mccarthys-good-deed.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Line Blog<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>We are obviously crushed by the voluminous bad news. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy provides what must count as today\u2019s good news. He has foiled Rep. Rashida Tlaib\u2019s attempt to host an event at the Capitol Building with anti-Israel groups decrying the founding of Israel as a \u201ccatastrophe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThis event in the US Capitol is canceled,\u201d McCarthy announced in a tweet on Tuesday (below). \u201cInstead, I will host a bipartisan discussion to honor the 75th anniversary of the US-Israel relationship.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Washington Free Beacon first <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/exclusive-mccarthy-blocks-rashida-tlaibs-anti-semitic-congressional-event\/\">reported<\/a> on Tlaib\u2019s event in Adam Kredo\u2019s story yesterday. McCarthy linked to Kredo\u2019s story in the tweet canceling the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Kredo <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/exclusive-mccarthy-blocks-rashida-tlaibs-anti-semitic-congressional-event\/\">followed up<\/a> on the cancelation in the Free Beacon last night. McCarthty told Kredo, \u201cIt\u2019s wrong for members of Congress to traffic in anti-Semitic tropes about Israel. As long as I\u2019m Speaker, we are going to support Israel\u2019s right to self-determination and self-defense, unequivocally and in a bipartisan fashion.\u201d The New York Post also covers it <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/10\/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-blocks-rep-rashida-tlaib-from-hosting-anti-israel-event\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Speaking for myself, I would like to thank Speaker McCarthy for this good deed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antisemitism has no place in America or in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Scott Johnson at Power Line Blog reported the following: We are obviously crushed by the voluminous bad news. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy provides what must count as today\u2019s good news. He has foiled Rep. Rashida Tlaib\u2019s attempt to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,8203,5276],"class_list":["post-50362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antisemitism","tag-power-line-blog","tag-scott-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50363,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50362\/revisions\/50363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}