Claremore, OK – Jarrin Jackson, an antisemitic businessman running for Oklahoma state Senate district 2, recently listed Jews as evidence that evil exists. He also claimed he is not “beholden to the Jews.”
The Jews, including this writer, are a convenient scapegoat. We have been the alleged mark of bad tidings for hundreds of years.
Yet we will continue to fight against the rising antisemitism that is now part of the political narrative in this country. Recall our last illegitimate president who said there are “very fine people on both sides” of the Charlottesville, VA, Unite the Right rally, in which Heather Heyer was killed.
During the January 6th insurrection, one of the criminals prominently featured wore an antisemitic sweatshirt that read 6MWE, for six million weren’t enough. Six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
Further media focused on a man in an antisemitic Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt. Auschwitz was the main concentration camp where Jews were slaughtered by the thousands each day.
Many were rightfully horrified by these pictures. Yet Jarrin Jackson and his hate-filled followers take pleasure in saying the quiet part aloud, hoping to tip the political scales in his favor with voters.
