NEW YORK (JNS / VINnews) — A left-wing Democratic activist group has apologized for poking fun at the names of U.S. House of Representatives candidate Dan Goldman and New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, both Jewish, in a now-deleted Twitter post.
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“We’re sorry—no anti-Semitism was intended, and we took this down when folks expressed concerns it could be taken the wrong way,” No IDC NY wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
We're sorry — no anti-Semitism was intended and we took this down when folks expressed concerns it could be taken the wrong way.
— No IDC NY (@NoIDCNY) August 28, 2022
In 2018, No IDC NY advocated against former members of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), who partnered with Republicans to maintain majority control of the Senate, according to its website. The group declared success when Democrats won the majority in the Senate, and most members of the IDC lost in the primaries.
In the tweet that was uploaded on Saturday, No IDC NY wrote: “The jerk buying a House seat with inherited money is ‘Goldman’ … the IDC-adjacent Assembly member is ‘DINOwitz.’ Who came up with these names, Dickens?”
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) criticized the tweet, with its references to the age-old trope linking Jews to power and money, as “dripping with anti-Semitism,” saying “the normalization of anti-Semitism is a sign of how poisonous our politics has become.”
Bronx-born Dinowitz, who represents District 81 in the Bronx, released a statement on Twitter in response to the offensive message by the Democratic group. He said, “I’ve been the target of anti-Semitic attacks from both the far-right and the far-left. This tweet from an extremist, anonymous account selectively singles out two Jewish politicians and is disgusting. It’s a classic display of anti-Semitism and should be condemned.”
A campaign spokesman for Goldman declined to comment when approached by the New York Post.
No IDC NY said on Sunday that the Twitter post “was a joke about the names that certainly would have been better not made, e.g. DINO stands for Dem in name only, and was not supposed to be riffing off their Jewishness; we do not tolerate anti-Semitism.”
The group added that it has since suspended the social-media account manager who posted the anti-Semitic tweet.
anti semitism on the left keeps growing and growing–witness their support of the anti frum hate org, Yaffed whose leader shamelessly writes anti-semitic articles in the secular media bringing back every anti semitic troupe that ever existed, jews spread disease control politicians steal money from goyim and more. i am thinking of writing to the adl about his antisemitic articles but of course this obama appointee who runs it will probably not condemn this antisemite. Maybe its kdai to do it anyways…
I love it when the left eat their own, but the statement isnt anti semitic, lily white trust fund baby Goldman did just defeat the progressive black incumbent, and Dino as in dinosaur in a name is a little funny.
As a conservative Orthodox Jew, I initially was quite offended. Then I thought: perhaps they were trying to focus on the amount of money spent. They should have written GOLD-man, like they did with DINO-witz.
Then it might have been more of a really bad pun and less antisemitic.
Goldman , the Trump hating impeachment fraudster.
“No IDC NY?” Never heard of them.
Why are all these hate filled incidents happening under the Biden administration?
Poupko???