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Other Jewish groups similarly condemned Gaetz’s rhetoric as concerning. On November 13, 2024, Gaetz resigned from Congress following President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of him as the next U.S. Attorney General. Gaetz is married and has a son. Sources: “About,” gaetz.house.gov.
On October 12, 2017, Gaetz introduced a resolution affirming the connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem and condemning UNESCO's efforts to the contrary. [191] In December 2017, he supported Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and said that the move would pressure Palestine to recognize Israel .
Gaetz, who with other renegade GOP colleagues has tried to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, is widely disliked within Congress, and Jewish groups have long accused him of trafficking in antisemitism.
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, putting forward a firebrand who has tussled with Jewish groups, embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory...
JTA — US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, putting forward a firebrand who has tussled with Jewish groups, embraced an antisemitic...
What is clear, however, is that Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are antisemites through and through. Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Kehillat Torat Chayim v’Chesed–a virtual congregation,...
In explaining his rejection of the bill, which overwhelmingly passed with bipartisan support despite concerns of conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, Gaetz himself trafficked in explicitly antisemitic tropes about Jews killing Jesus.
Former President Donald Trump announced that he’s planning to nominate ethically-embattled, far-right former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as his attorney general, tapping a figure with a checkered record on antisemitism for a role with key responsibilities in addressing discrimination and hate crimes.
November 17, 2024 (San Diego) - Several national Jewish organizations are opposing President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nomination of recently resigned Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida for U.S ...
He has identified himself as an “admirer” of his party’s ultraconservative Freedom Caucus. In 2018 he brought a right-wing activist who had questioned whether six million Jews actually died in the Holocaust to the State of the Union address.