- Republican candidates across the country are attacking their Jewish opponents with anti-Semitic stereotypes, according to a Washington Post analysis.
- The candidates are depicted as holding a fistful of cash, playing into the stereotype of Jews being nefarious with money.
- Republicans have used attacks that appear anti-Semitic on a national level as well.
Republican candidates across the United States are attacking their Jewish opponents with the same anti-Semitic stereotype: depicting them with bundles of cash.
The stereotype of Jews being crafty and greedy with money is hundreds of years old and pervasive in history and media, appearing in everything from Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
According to a Washington Post analysis of advertisements in the 2018 midterm elections, it’s a recurring theme in Republican campaigns as well.
The Post tracked six different ads depicting Jews with cash Photoshopped into their fists.
The ads sometimes go further than just that image. In an ad targeting California state assembly candidate Josh Lowenthal, Lowenthal was tinted green and appears to have an enlarged nose.
And in an advertisement in Pennsylvania, targeting state representative candidate Sara Johnson Rothman, she’s referred to as only “Sarah Rothman.” The advertisement uses her husband’s name, which appears to be more recognisably Jewish.
Read the article by Jacob Shamsian in Business Insider Australia.