Laura Loomer uses Holocaust imagery to attack Jewish opponent over BLM [Also, nice plastic surgery face change.]
The ad appears designed to play on fears that the Black Lives Matter movement will lead to antisemitism
By MARCY OSTER | JTA | Sept. 8, 2020 | (appearing in Israeli media, such as Jerusalem Post, Sept. 9)
A new political advertisement for Jewish Republican congressional candidate Laura Loomer uses Holocaust imagery to attack her Jewish opponent, Democrat Lois Frankel, and calls Frankel “meshuggah,” Hebrew for crazy.
Sannhet writes, quoted:
Loomer is also Jewish.
This is a Jewish Democrat vs. Jewish Republican race in a district that is heavily Jewish in south Florida.
There may be nearly as many Jews as persons of White-European-Christian origin in this district (Florida's 21st District), which may be one reason Laura Loomer's "stunt" of running for office succeeded in the first place and she was able to win the Republican primary, as a Jewish nationalist.
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The ad by Loomer, a right-wing provocateur known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric, claims that Frankel is allied with the Black Lives Matter movement and attempts to link the vocal pro-Israel incumbent to a past platform from one Black Lives Matter coalition that accused Israel of genocide. The ad appears designed to play on fears that the Black Lives Matter movement will lead to antisemitism.
Loomer is challenging Frankel in a heavily Democratic South Florida district. Loomer, who calls herself an “investigative journalist,” has been banned from Facebook and Twitter for hate speech, and is also banned from the ride-share companies Uber and Lyft for anti-Muslim posts. President Donald Trump has endorsed Loomer in a district that includes Mar-a-Lago, the president’s Palm Beach home.
“Lois Frankel loves Black Lives Matter. That is Meshuggah,” begins the ad, which appears on the Loomer campaign website and YouTube. Later it calls Frankel “gornisht Lois,” using the Yiddish word for “nothing,” and says she “kneels to” a group that wants to end American foreign aid to Israel. The ad says Frankel is “incapable of protecting the Jewish community or Israel.”
Quoting Sannhet again:
The sixty-second ad is really embarrassing.
It's embarrassing given that Laura Loomer is running for a seat in the US Congress, not the Israeli Knesset.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZaMwKUb44
The references to the Holocaust in the 53/54 seconds of content of the ad (the final 6/7 seconds only shows her campaign logo) are:
0:08 to 0:16 -- implies Jews are the ultimate victims and are incapable of committing genocide (as against Palestinians).
0:26 to 0:36 -- implies that you really can't trust radicals or any kind of non-Jewish ethnonationalists, never, never, never, because they will always turn on Jews. As true of Black Lives Matter today as with 1930s Germany. Insert Holocaust scenes. The point is not really clear, but the point is made, bluntly, that BLM = Nazis,so elect Laura Loomer and not the other woman.
From that rough count, one third of the ad is "about the Holocaust" (18 seconds / 53.5 seconds of content).
If you don't want to watch the video or it goes down, here are three representative scenes:
https://forum.codoh.com/download/file.php?id=2811&t=1
https://forum.codoh.com/download/file.php?id=2810&t=1
https://forum.codoh.com/download/file.php?id=2809&t=1
Here is the ADL playing the controlled opposition:
“Appropriating Nazi imagery? Hurling baseless Islamophobic insults? Using Israel as a political cudgel? Laura Loomer - who has a well-known track record of promoting bigotry - accomplished all of these in a single, disgusting attack ad. She should take it down and apologize.“
A 501c3 organization can not endorse politicians. So why would they do this?
https://twitter.com/adl_florida/status/1303390176371249152?
there doesn't seem to be anything here