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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Nov 2, 2021, 02:03 PM Nov 2021

(Jewish Group) 'It's the Jews': An antisemitic tirade at an Arizona school board meeting...

'It's the Jews': An antisemitic tirade at an Arizona school board meeting spurs a response, and a debate

An antisemitic tirade at a school board meeting in suburban Phoenix last week has spurred an extensive response among local officials and Jewish leaders — some of whom say they were distressed that board members did not rebut the comment at the time.

During the public comment portion of the meeting of the Chandler Unified School District board, a woman who identified herself as Melanie Rettler spoke for over a minute about critical race theory and vaccines — topics not listed on the meeting agenda but at the center of heated public debate nationwide.

Her comment crescendoed with an antisemitic claim drenched in the language of right-wing conspiracy theories.

“Every one of these things, the deep state, the cabal, the swamp, the elite — you can’t mention it, but I will — there is one race that owns all the pharmaceutical companies and these vaccines aren’t safe, they aren’t effective and they aren’t free,” Rettler said. “You know that you’re paying for it through the increase in gas prices, the increase in food prices — you’re paying for this and it’s being taken from your money and being given to these pharmaceutical companies and if you want to bring race into this: It’s the Jews.”

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(Jewish Group) 'It's the Jews': An antisemitic tirade at an Arizona school board meeting... (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Nov 2021 OP
SUCH POWER, we have! elleng Nov 2021 #1
Right?! Behind the Aegis Nov 2021 #2
That's really at the core of all this underpants Nov 2021 #3

Behind the Aegis

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2. Right?!
Tue Nov 2, 2021, 02:13 PM
Nov 2021

It's like that old joke about the two Jewish men reading different papers in Nazi Germany. The one asks his friend, "Why are you reading "Der Stürmer?! It's Nazi propaganda!" His friend responds, "True, but at least in this paper we are powerful and in control!"

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