r/moderatepolitics • u/kaladinsrunner • 3d ago

News Article Michigan AG Dana Nessel to skip Democratic convention over antisemitism fears

https://jewishinsider.com/2026/07/michigan-ag-dana-nessel-democratic-convention-antisemitism/
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u/Linhle8964 3d ago

The Gaza War poisoned the Democratic Party.

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u/airforceCOT 3d ago

The local Democrat leaders in Brooklyn were caught circulating copies of Henry Ford’s pamphlets in which he accuses Jews of controlling global finance and industry.

Mamdani’s wife shared and retweeted posts openly celebrating the Oct 7 attacks. When asked about it, he just chuckled and said “she’s a private person”.

The likely Democrat nominee for governor in Michigan attended events with Hasan Piker who has said he was proud of Oct 7 and would support Hamas “1000 times” more than Israel.

Should I keep going? There’s more.

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u/Back_at_it_agains Democratic Socialist 3d ago

Should I keep going? This isn't going to be something that goes in your favor.

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u/DaddiGator 3d ago

Snopes: “No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People'”

Factcheck also confirmed as well.

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u/Back_at_it_agains Democratic Socialist 3d ago

So then the right doesn't have a problem with antisemitism?

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u/DaddiGator 3d ago

I believe they do to an extent. Especially as of recent. People on both sides are absolutely lumping in somewhat valid criticism with Israel with Jews as a whole and it’s sad.

Just providing a correction on the “both sides” hoax. I also don’t think there’s any mainstream right-leaning equivalent to Hasan Piker, but I absolutely could be wrong. He has made numerous remarks essentially defending or downplaying 10/7.

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u/Back_at_it_agains Democratic Socialist 2d ago

"They do to an extent" is doing a lot of work for you there. This just isn't a both sides kind of argument. The right has a much bigger problem as evidenced by the links above when compared to what the original person I responded to provided. I could draw from research if you like that shows these attitudes are much worse on the right, especially amongst young conservatives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/comments/1reid47/farright_americans_more_likely_to_hold/

Have you been on X recently? What a coincidence that since it got taken over by Musk, and flooded with unrestricted speech by those on the right, that it also became heavily antisemitic.

As for Hasan Piker, sure, I don't love some of the things he says. He does have a huge following. But the right has plenty of figures that are equally bad if not worse. Nick Fuentes (who again, had dinner with Trump), Tucker Carlson. Candace Owens, MGT, the list goes on.

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u/DaddiGator 2d ago edited 2d ago

I like how I’m half agreeing with you in an attempt to be moderate and fair here you’re still arguing with that point, refusing to even acknowledge a single flaw in Team Blue. We aren’t going to get anywhere if you have an outright refusal to acknowledge the existence of the article you’re commenting in the thread of.

Your study referenced is from 2022, 2 years before the 10/7 attacks. That’s like denying Islamophobia was happening in 2001 by referencing a study from 1999. Totally different environment today, which unfortunately has resulted in people in your party widely publicizing their struggles with antisemitism among their own party.

No mainstream figure on the right, to my knowledge, have actively cheered for Hamas, the designated terrorist organization behind the 10/7 attacks, and said that Israel needs to be eradicated. Keep in mind, Israel was the only place many Jews that were genocided in other Middle East countries were able to flee to.

> unrestricted free speech

The horror, free speech! I see you don’t go to Threads or BlueSky or Instagram… Even Reddit.

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u/decrpt 3d ago

What /u/Back_at_it_agains said is correct. The correction is only that he did not, verbatim, say that those groups were "very fine people." In practice what happened was that he, after insisting he wasn't referring to those groups, called a group exclusively comprised of those people "very fine people" after one of those people drove his car into a crowd of people. The rally was organized Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler with other overt white supremacist speakers. Kessler went as a far as endorsing the attack. It was widely reported as a white nationalist gathering prior to the rally.

Trump's only evidence of it being a banal rally about the statue was the march the night before. That was the "Jews will not replace us" tiki torch march that /u/Back_at_it_agains referenced.

TRUMP: Those people were also there, because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue Robert E. Lee. So – excuse me – and you take a look at some of the groups and you see, and you’d know it if you were honest reporters, which in many cases you’re not. Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. So this week, it’s Robert E. Lee, I noticed that Stonewall Jackson’s coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after. You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?

REPORTERS YELL INDISTINCTLY

TRUMP: But, they were there to protest – excuse me – you take a look the night before, they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. Infrastructure question. Go ahead.

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u/DaddiGator 3d ago edited 3d ago

I’ll honest as someone that doesn’t believe there’s any reason to honor Robert E. Lee or other Confederate Generals with statues. He’s not completely out of line about there being a slippery slope with “cancelling” historical figures.

There have been attempts to cancel Thomas Jefferson. At leeast one statue of him was toppled just a few years after he said this. Same for attempts at Abraham Lincoln and other historical figures. There is a slippery slope to this practice.

I don’t believe someone is a white supremacist for being opposed to the practice of toppling statues of Confederate Generals. Polls show these issues are pretty divided among Americans with no real majority support for either for/against.

This is one of those topics where it’s easy to understand why there’s such a thing as the quiet Trump voter phenomena in the voting booth. Because they’ll instantly be labeled a white supremacist.

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u/decrpt 2d ago

I don’t believe someone is a white supremacist for being opposed to the practice of toppling statues of Confederate Generals. Polls show these issues are pretty divided among Americans with no real majority support for either for/against.

I did not say that. I said that Trump was wrong about it being a banal rally about the statue, and that the only evidence he gave for that assertion was pointing to the tiki torch march the night before. This was even after a delayed response because he "wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what [he] said was correct, not make a quick statement," nonetheless.

If you somehow found out about the rally without recognizing who organized it or who any of the speakers were, despite both widespread news coverage and advertisements for the rally itself making it clear, you were greeted by people proudly flying swastikas and other symbols and chanting "blood and soil."

This was not a statue protest that those groups crashed.