Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz wrote the love song “Rhode Island Is Famous For You.” President George Washington articulated the principle of religious tolerance in his famous 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport. Now Rhode Island may be famous for the sick Jew hatred that is coursing through the Democrat Party.
Tricia Posner sums it up in the X post below and cites Matthew Kassel’s long Jewish Insider story “Antisemitism roils Providence mayoral race” {“Mayor Brett Smiley, who converted to Judaism while in office, faces a Bernie Sanders-backed democratic socialist in Wednesday’s Rhode Island primary, with an anti-Israel divestment referendum looming over the race”). It’s a sign of the (Democrat) times.
How did a mayor's race in Providence Rhode Island turn into a nasty campaign of antisemitism and a vote more about Israel than potholes?
The current mayor, Brett Smiley, converted to Judaism in office. Not because he married someone Jewish, and although he had a Jewish…
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