Members on the Record (Automated) for Sun November 27, 2022

Last updated on Sun November 27, 2022 at 12:47 PM Washington DC time.


Israel - Palestine

Bacon (R-NE-2) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @mikepompeo – “Anti-Semitism is a cancer. As Secretary, I fought to ban funding for anti-Semitic groups that pushed BDS. We stand with the Jewish people in the fight against the world's oldest bigotry.

Cruz (R-TX) 11/27/2022: Tweet – “ICYMI: Sen. Cruz Responds to Biden Administration Weaponizing DOJ Against Israel: “Everyone Involved With this Debacle Should be Fired or Impeached”   Sen. Cruz Responds to Biden Administration Weaponizing DOJ Against Israel: “Everyone Involved With this Debacle Should be Fired or Impeached” | U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas

Escobar (D-TX-16) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @brianschatz – “Being dedicated to Jerusalem as the eventual location of the rapture does not make you a friend of the Jewish people. It means you think we are all going to eventually convert to your religion.

Espaillat (D-NY-13) 11/26/2022: Twitter thread – “I pray for the victims and all who were injured during the terror attack that recently occurred in Jerusalem and stand in solidarity with the people of Israel. Daughter of New Jersey rabbi injured in Jerusalem blasts that killed...... | nypost.com Rezo por las víctimas y todos los que resultaron heridos durante el ataque terrorista que ocurrió recientemente en Jerusalén y me solidarizo con el pueblo de Israel.

Schatz (D-HI) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “Being dedicated to Jerusalem as the eventual location of the rapture does not make you a friend of the Jewish people. It means you think we are all going to eventually convert to your religion.

Swalwell (D-CA-15) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “You proudly worked for a guy who just called an Anti-Semite a great guy. You're not going to be able to pussyfoot your way into the White House, Mike. Call Trump out by name or spare us the trite nonsense. Link to quoted tweetAnti-Semitism is a cancer. As Secretary, I fought to ban funding for anti-Semitic groups that pushed BDS. We stand with the Jewish people in the fight against the world's oldest bigotry.

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “What about Donald Trump dining with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes? Selective denunciations of Antisemitism ring hollow. Link to quoted tweetAnti-Semitism is a cancer. As Secretary, I fought to ban funding for anti-Semitic groups that pushed BDS. We stand with the Jewish people in the fight against the world's oldest bigotry.

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @RitchieTorres – “If you deny the terrorism of Hamas or the Taliban, trying testing your hypothesis and living under the rule of either one. Something tells me the experiment wouldn't end well.


Apartheid

Bush (D-MO-1) 11/26/2022: Twitter thread – “.@elonmusk, leave St. Louis/Ferguson out of your disingenuous, ignorant pseudo intellectualism. You don't know the first thing about our movement. Link to image The last time I checked, not a single person is asking an out of touch, failed businessman, the son of an apartheid benefactor who harvested emeralds on the backs of Black people in South Africa his thoughts on a Black-led social movement. Leave St. Louis out of your mouth.


Iran

Cornyn (R-TX) 11/27/2022: Tweet – “"The Regime's Legitimacy Is Eroding": Iran Protests Continue Despite Brutal Repression "The Regime's Legitimacy Is Eroding": Iran Protests Continue Despite Brutal Repression... | spiegel.de via @derspiegel

McCaul (R-TX-10) 11/27/2022: Retweet of @saletan – “"Iranian drones are going into Crimea, and the Ukrainians can't hit those Iranian drones unless they have the longer-range artillery," says @RepMcCaul. @MarthaRaddatz: "Does it further incite Russia" if we send that artillery to Ukraine? McCaul: "Crimea's not part of Russia."

Swalwell (D-CA-15) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “#NewProfilePic Post yours before #USAvIran on Tuesday. #BeatIran Link to image


Qatar

Swalwell (D-CA-15) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “As a congressman to one of the largest Muslim-American constituencies in the country, it's with immense pride that we watch the first Arab-hosted #WorldCup. The play on the pitch has been phenomenal — but it's been matched by Qatar's showcasing of the region's religion & culture.


Jewish, Anti-semitism

Castro (D-TX-20) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @BillPascrell – “It's been nearly 24 hours since we learned the leader of the republican party donald trump had dinner with a leading neo nazi and Holocaust denier and not a single prominent republican has condemned their leader - not one.

Nadler (D-NY-10) 11/26/2022: Twitter thread – “Once again, Trump exposes his comfort with antisemitism and unabashed racism. While I appreciate the condemnations from certain Republican leaders, the silence from others has been deafening. Trump's Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist... | nytimes.com Failing to call out the perpetrator means failing to call out antisemitism. Trump must be condemned by name, as should be done when anyone–regardless of party–displays such behavior.

Nadler (D-NY-10) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @danielsgoldman – “To all those who profess to condemn antisemitism among our leaders, but are quiet when Holocaust denier/white supremacist Nick Fuentes and avowed antisemite Kanye West are welcomed to dinner by Donald Trump: your silence is deafening. Speak out now by name or don't speak at all.

Nadler (D-NY-10) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @RitchieTorres – “Donald Trump and Kanye West have befriended Nick Fuentes, who promises “the most racist, sexist, Antisemitic, Holocaust-denying speech in all of Dallas this weekend.” Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. Link to video

Nadler (D-NY-10) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @RitchieTorres – “What about Donald Trump dining with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes? Selective denunciations of Antisemitism ring hollow. Link to quoted tweet

Nadler (D-NY-10) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @ChrisMegerian – “He's issued several of these statements, and none of them have denounced his guests' racism or anti-Semitism. Link to quoted tweet

Omar (D-MN-5) 11/27/2022: Retweet of @stevesheffey – “Few better examples of the hypocrisy of @GOPLeader and @GOP on #antisemitism than McCarthy's threats to remove @IlhanMN from HFAC, except maybe his silence on Trump's dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes. Read my latest, co-written with Jonathan Jacoby. Kevin McCarthy and the weaponization of antisemitism... | lasvegassun.com

Pascrell (D-NJ-9) 11/27/2022: Tweet – “It's been 48 hours since we learned the leader of the republican party donald trump had dinner with a leading neo nazi and Holocaust denier — has a single prominent republican unequivocally condemned their leader by name? One?

Swalwell (D-CA-15) 11/26/2022: Twitter thread – “Kevin McCarthy condones Donald Trump hanging out with this Holocaust-denying Jew-hater. Why won't the media seek comment from McCarthy? If Barack Obama did this every single one of us would be hounded for comment. Link to quoted tweet“The Jews had better start being nice to people like us, because what comes out of this is going to get a lot uglier for them…” Meet neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Fuentes was President Trump's dinner guest at Mar-a-Lago this week along with Kanye West. (Link to twitter.com) We are not powerless. Let's demand the media ask McCarthy if he's OK with this. This ain't any old scandal he's being asked about. Trump is hanging with Nazis. Kevin wants to be Speaker. He can't just take potshots from the gallery any longer. What is it @GOPLeader?

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @RitchieTorres – “Donald Trump and Kanye West have befriended Nick Fuentes, who promises “the most racist, sexist, Antisemitic, Holocaust-denying speech in all of Dallas this weekend.” Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. Link to video

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @FredMenachem – “Why #KanyeWest's #Antisemitism makes Jews stronger by @FredMenachem Kanye West's Antisemitism Makes Us Stronger... | algemeiner.com

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @RitchieTorres – “Kanye West is promoting a video that features Nick Fuentes—an avowed white supremacist who denies the Holocaust and demonizes people of color. This is dangerous, @elonmusk.

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @RitchieTorres – “Nick Fuentes harbors an Antisemitism so unabashed and unhinged that it shocks the conscience. Anyone who normalizes Fuentes should be disqualified from public life. Link to quoted tweet

Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “Republicans who remain silent become complicit in legitimizing bigotry and hate when the leader of their party mainstreams fringe white nationalists and antisemites. Regularizing bigots, racists and antisemites among supporters and advisers poses a real danger to our democracy. Link to quoted tweetFormer President Donald Trump hosted Holocaust denier at Mar-a-Lago estate during visit with Kanye West, a week after announcing 2024 run (Trump hosted Holocaust denier at Mar-a-Lago estate during visit with Kanye West, a week after announcing 2024 run | CNN Politics)


Afghanistan

Cornyn (R-TX) 11/27/2022: Tweet – “The "new" Taliban same as the "old" Taliban. Taliban lash 12 people before stadium crowd in Afghanistan... | apnews.com

Malliotakis (R-NY-11) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @RepMalliotakis – “15 months ago today 13 American soldiers were killed in @POTUS's botched Afghanistan withdrawal by an ISIS-K fighter released from our base by the Taliban. Democrats refused to demand answers about this preventable attack. @HouseGOP has not forgotten & will get accountability. Link to image

McCarthy (R-CA-23) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @RepMalliotakis – “15 months ago today 13 American soldiers were killed in @POTUS's botched Afghanistan withdrawal by an ISIS-K fighter released from our base by the Taliban. Democrats refused to demand answers about this preventable attack. @HouseGOP has not forgotten & will get accountability. Link to image

McCaul (R-TX-10) 11/27/2022: Retweet of @bensiegel – “.@RepMcCaul says Afghanistan withdrawal was a "disgrace" and dishonored U.S. veterans. "Putin looked at Ukraine" after Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, he adds - suggesting it led to Russian invasion.

McCaul (R-TX-10) 11/27/2022: Retweet of @bensiegel – “.@RepMcCaul says Afghanistan withdrawal was a "disgrace" and dishonored U.S. veterans. "Putin looked at Ukraine" after Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, he adds - suggesting it led to Russian invasion.

McCaul (R-TX-10) 11/27/2022: Retweet of @RepMalliotakis – “15 months ago today 13 American soldiers were killed in @POTUS's botched Afghanistan withdrawal by an ISIS-K fighter released from our base by the Taliban. Democrats refused to demand answers about this preventable attack. @HouseGOP has not forgotten & will get accountability. Link to image