Longtime Democratic political consultant James Carville said in a June 4 episode of his “Politics War Room” podcast that “really wealthy Jewish fundraisers” tell him all the time that they can’t continue to support the Democratic Party given the Jew-hatred at Columbia University.
“What the [expletive] did the Democrats have to do with what happened at Columbia?” Carville said. “They tell me that. They look me right in the eye, and I said, ‘No, you just want your [expletive] tax cut now.’”
“Please tell me this is not true, that it is fake news,” stated Abraham Foxman, director emeritus at the ADL. “James Carville spews forth classic antisemitic garbage. I always knew antisemitism in America exists and is serious, but felt people, or at least public persons, especially centrist liberals, were constrained by history, morality, values and fear of consequences to publicly spout it.”
“I guess even those restraints are gone. America is in crisis and Jews are a target,” Foxman said. “Why is there no outrage? Why is there no demand for explanation? Apology? Why is this being cast as politics or political?”
“Election after election, more and more Jewish Americans are leaving the Democratic Party and joining the GIP, because the Republican Party defends, elevates and champions our voices, unlike Democrats, like putz James Carville, who flippantly dismiss them,” the Republican Jewish Coalition stated.
Liel Liebovitz, editor-at-large of Tablet magazine, wrote that “just in case you think there’s any hope yet for the Democrat Party,” Carville is “accusing the Jews of voting for Nazis if they can save a few shekels.”
“At this point, if you’re Jewish and support this hate group, you deserve whatever’s coming your way,” he wrote.
Mark Penn, CEO of the marketing firm Stagwell, who was a pollster for former U.S. President Bill Clinton, wrote that Carville’s comments “are classic antisemitism.”
“Accusing ‘wealthy Jewish donors’ of voting for ‘Deutschland’ to get a tax cut is a typical antisemitic trope accusing Jews of greed because they are Jews, as though wealthy donors of other religions would be different,” he stated. “This is really disappointing, and he should apologize for it.”
