‘They’re Being Spread Lies!’ Ted Cruz Warns of ‘Growing Cancer’ of Right-Wing Anti-Semitism

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) decried the “growing cancer” of right-wing anti-Semitism in remarks delivered at Hagee Ministries’ 45th annual Night to Honor Israel in San Antonio on Tuesday.

“Listen, about a decade ago, anti-Semitism began rising on the left. And the Democrat Party did nothing. And in the decade that followed, it has consumed the Democrat Party. I do not believe this is exaggeration to say there is a real and meaningful pro-Hamas contingent of the Democrat Party in Washington. And the remainder of the Democrats are terrified of the pro-Hamas contingent,” began Cruz. “We know that, but the danger that I want to highlight to you tonight is not anti-Semitism on the left, it is anti-Semitism on the right. And I’m here to tell you in the last six months, I have seen ant-Semitism rising on the right in a way I have never seen it in my entire life.”

“I’m here to tell you, the church is asleep right now. If I pick up my phone and send out a tweet, if I say good morning, within minutes I will have hundreds of blatantly anti-Semitic responses. When Prime Minister Netanyahu was here a few months ago, I sat down with him for a couple of hours. I raised this issue with him, and his first reaction was, he said, ‘Well, that’s Qatar. That’s Iran. They’re paying for it. It’s AstroTurf.’ And I said, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, yes, but no. Yes, Qatar and Iran are clearly paying for it, and there are bots, and they are putting real money behind it, but I am telling you this is real, it is organic, these are real human beings and it is spreading,'” said the conservative senator. “In the last year we had three prominent voices on the right publicly muse, ‘Gosh, maybe Hitler wasn’t that bad a guy after all.’ Yes he was, he was the embodiment of evil! And I asked Prime Minister Netanyahu, I said, ‘Imagine how different American political history would have been if Rush Limbaugh had been an anti-Semite instead of a philo-Semite. We would have a fundamentally different country if Rush Limbaugh has spent years spreading poison.”

“This poison of anti-Semitism on the right, it is spreading with young people. It is gaining traction,” continued Cruz, who expanded on this point minutes later:

But I will tell you, there is a movement among Christians, particularly young Christians. The public polling numbers of support for Israel among young Christians is plummeting. And they’re being spread lies. They’re being spread lies, isolationist lies that we should withdraw from the world because nobody wants to hurt us. But they’re also being spread theological lies. They are being taught replacement theology. Which is a lie that the promises God made to Israel, and the people of Israel, are somehow no longer good! They are no longer valid! That when God made a promise, He didn’t mean the promise He made! And instead, it is an argument that the Christian church has replaced Israel and the Jews, and the Jew are no longer God’s chosen people, and all of the promises throughout the Bible are now a dead letter.

Cruz has sparred with other figures on the right over Israel and anti-Semitism — including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson — in recent months.

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