MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow might as well have been standing in front of a corkboard with newspaper clippings and red twine during Monday’s edition of her eponymous show. The ranting Maddow opened her once-a-week show with an over 25-minute screed where she stitched together a bizarre argument that tied the recent increase in anti-Semitism in the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan (not the pro-Hamas crowd), to an anti-Semitic Army general in 1939, and ultimately to former President Trump’s recent campaign rhetoric.
Maddow started out the show fairly measured as she rightfully decried the recent surge in anti-Semitic incidents across the country ranging from vandalism of synagogues to a rash of bomb threats against them. But things took a turn when, instead of blaming the October 7 terrorist attack and the extremists supporting Hamas, she seemed to link them to white supremacists:
They know what to do at Beth Israel in Jackson. They've had to do this before. In 1967, which was just four years after a Klansman murdered Medgar Evers in his driveway, in Jackson, in 1967 the Klan also bombed the Beth Israel synagogue in Jackson, the very same synagogue that was evacuated for the bomb threats this weekend. Beth Israel in Jackson was bombed by the Klan in 1967, the rabbi of that congregation had his house bombed that year too.
She even suggested the bomb threats represented the political “climate right now in the United States of America. This too is what it's like in our country right now.”
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