SCOOP: Democrats' votes, antics undermine bipartisan vigil to honor murdered Israeli diplomats

THE LOWDOWN:

• Republicans and Democrats in Congress hosted a bipartisan vigil in honor of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, the two Israeli embassy staffers allegedly murdered by a deranged anti-Semitic gunman outside the Jewish Museum of Washington, D.C.

• The vigil, hosted by Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.), was a moving ceremony that featured remarks from Jewish leaders as well as from staffers who worked with the murdered diplomats.

• However, the actions and words of Democrats in D.C. immediately undermined their stated commitments to combatting violent anti-Semitism.

• One hundred and thirteen House Democrats voted against a bipartisan resolution from Rep. Gabe Evans (R., Colo.), that condemned a separate terrorist attack in which an illegal immigrant allowed into America under President Joe Biden allegedly attempted to set Jews on fire in Boulder, Colorado, by throwing Molotov cocktails at them.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress hosted a bipartisan vigil in honor of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, the two Israeli embassy staffers allegedly murdered by a deranged anti-Semitic gunman outside the Jewish Museum of Washington, D.C.

The vigil, hosted by Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.), was a moving ceremony that featured remarks from Jewish leaders as well as from staffers who worked with the murdered diplomats.

However, the actions and words of Democrats in D.C. immediately undermined their stated commitments to combatting violent anti-Semitism.

One hundred and thirteen House Democrats voted against a bipartisan resolution from Rep. Gabe Evans (R., Colo.), that condemned a separate terrorist attack in which an illegal immigrant allowed into America under President Joe Biden allegedly attempted to set Jews on fire in Boulder, Colorado, by throwing Molotov cocktails at them.

Jeffries lashed out at the legislation, calling it “not a serious effort,” and personally attacked Evans as a “joke” for introducing it.

Evans’s resolution passed with almost 300 votes.

Congressional veterans told the Reporter that Jeffries’s antics exposed a deeper rot in the Democratic Party.

“Everyone knows Ilhan and Ayanna and Rashida hate the Jews,” one said. “Everyone knows that and everyone knows how the rest of the Democrats tolerate it.”

“What may be just as bad or worse is that the Democrats’ antisemitic base tells the rest of the party to jump, and they answer ‘how high?’” the congressional veteran continued.

Days after the bipartisan vigil, a senior Democrat baselessly and inaccurately claimed the Trump administration are “Nazis.”

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D., Mass.), who is running to serve as the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, made the historically illiterate remarks during a hearing about sanctuary cities by separately comparing the Trump administration to the Nazi Gestapo.

Holocaust trivialization, like what Lynch said into the congressional record, is a frequent component of anti-Semitism.

These latest actions follow years of Holocaust minimization by figures well within the Democratic Party’s mainstream. Gov. Tim Walz (D., Minn.) recently wrongly compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to the gestapo during a commencement address he delivered.