{"id":3628,"date":"2018-01-02T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajcongress.org\/jewishpoliticalguide\/?page_id=3628"},"modified":"2024-07-03T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T21:30:20","slug":"jewish-insider-gop-congressman-scott-perry-shares-antisemitic-meme-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ajcongress.org\/jewishpoliticalguide\/jewish-insider-gop-congressman-scott-perry-shares-antisemitic-meme-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"JEWISH INSIDER: GOP congressman Scott Perry shares antisemitic meme on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Congressman from House Freedom Caucus Scott Perry(R-PA) hold a news conference to call on Attorney General William Barr to Protect Church, Monument and Bussines today on June 19, 2020 in Washington DC, USA. (Photo by Lenin Nolly\/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Matthew Kassel<\/a>, Jewish Insider<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) approvingly shared<\/a> an antisemitic meme on his campaign\u2019s Facebook page earlier this week, underscoring a broader pattern in which the Pennsylvania Republican has espoused conspiracy theories and used inflammatory rhetoric while in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSays it all\u2026,\u201d Perry wrote on Tuesday in a comment he posted above the meme, which invokes several antisemitic tropes. The image depicts a scheming cabal of stereotypically Jewish bankers with hooked noses and thick beards gathered around a Monopoly board that sits atop the hunching backs of a group of naked figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meme is also framed by two ominous lines of text. \u201cIf the people stand\u2026,\u201d it states, \u201c\u2026the game is over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Perry campaign removed the post on Friday afternoon after Jewish Insider<\/em>reached out for comment. \u201cAfter receiving your inquiry, learning the history of the image, and contacting several members of the Jewish community (some who were familiar with it and some who were not) out of grave concern that it is considered antisemitic \u2014 we removed it immediately,\u201d the campaign said in an email to JI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image, which has long been widely denounced<\/a> as antisemitic, originates from a 2012 wall mural painted in London by the Los Angeles street artist Mear One, whose real name is Kalen Ockerman. The mural, called \u201cFreedom for Humanity,\u201d set off an uproar when it debuted and was soon removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Ockerman has denied<\/a> that his painting relied on antisemitic imagery, he has acknowledged that \u201cthe banker group\u201d portrayed in the mural \u201cis made up of Jewish and white Anglos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The painting \u2014 a meme of which has circulated online for years \u2014 has continued to stir controversy in England as well as the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, Jeremy Corbyn, the former British Labour Party leader who has faced accusations of antisemitism, apologized<\/a> for defending the mural in a Facebook comment at the time of its removal, claiming that he \u201cdid not look more closely at the image,\u201d which he described as \u201cdeeply disturbing and antisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, Louisiana state Rep. Danny McCormick drew a rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League after the GOP lawmaker posted the image<\/a> to his social media accounts and soon deleted it amid widespread criticism. In 2021, meanwhile, another Republican state lawmaker, James Spillane of New Hampshire, apologized for amplifying the meme on his Parler page, drawing a formal admonishment<\/a> from the state\u2019s legislative ethics committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perry\u2019s decision to post the meme is just the latest example of his penchant for attracting controversy over extreme remarks and social media activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As recently as last month, for instance, Perry, a member<\/a> of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, faced backlash for comments in which he claimed<\/a> that \u201creplacement theory is real,\u201d endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory often alleging that Jewish elites are engaged in an effort to supplant the white race with non-white immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey added white to it to stop everybody from talking about it,\u201d Perry said in his comments during a lawmaker briefing on campus antisemitism in early May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perry, who has previously<\/a> espoused<\/a> replacement theory rhetoric, also claimed in the closed-door briefing that the Ku Klux Klan is the \u201cthe military wing of the Democratic Party,\u201d which he called \u201cdecidedly, unabashedly racist and antisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement to CNN, which obtained a recording<\/a> of his remarks, Perry said \u201cthe radical Left twists facts in order to silence conversation about its own crimes\u201d and that \u201cit debases and smears instead of engaging in debate on merits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 62-year-old congressman had earlier drawn criticism for comments likening<\/a>the modern-day Democratic Party to Nazi Germany in a 2021 speech that was condemned<\/a> by several Jewish groups in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent months, Perry has also faced scrutiny from the pro-Israel community<\/a> for voting in April against supplemental funding for Israel. In response to the vote, AIPAC\u2019s political action committee, which has endorsed his campaign, halted fundraising for Perry on its online political portal<\/a> \u2014 along with other GOP lawmakers who had opposed the assistance to Israel amid its war with Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perry defended his vote in a statement to JI<\/a> last month, alleging that the funding bill \u201calso allocates billions to Hamas,\u201d while calling himself \u201cone of the most vehement defenders in Congress of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perry, a six-term incumbent who represents a district in central Pennsylvania that election forecasters rate<\/a> as \u201clean Republican,\u201d is facing a Democratic challenger, Janelle Stetson<\/a>, in the November election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stelson, a former local news anchor who has embraced pro-Israel positions during the campaign, has in recent weeks sharply criticized<\/a> Perry for his vote against the Israel aid bill while accusing him of having \u201ca pretty disturbing history of antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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