To be clear, there’s plenty to criticize Fine for. For example, the congressman has made what I consider to be vile and inhumane statements about Muslim people, called for the Gaza Strip to be nuked, and suggested that there’s no such thing as an innocent Palestinian. But no matter how controversial the target, using someone’s identity pejoratively such as this — i.e., “Fat Jew” — is textbook antisemitism that’s always immoral and unacceptable. Yet when TMZ confronted Bilzerian on his blatant antisemitism, he responded by simultaneously insisting that he’s not antisemitic but also that it’s a “made-up term.” After the...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
