A Democratic lawmaker slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) Wednesday over past tweets that used anti-Semitic tropes and promoted notorious anti-Semite Kanye West,
who once told Alex Jones he likes Adolf Hitler.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) skewered Jordan (R-OH) in a House Judicial Committee hearing Wednesday over a 2022 post praising West and his months-long delay in taking it down, despite calls from nonpartisan groups who warned it endangered Jewish people.
Swalwell, referencing the report that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his son monitor each other’s internet browser for pornography, told Jordan that he wanted to be his “online accountability partner.”
Swalwell's attack arrived as the House debated free speech on college campuses amid the war in Israel and Gaza, and included a tweet from Jordan that used a dollar sign to spell American businessman Tom Steyer's name.
The California lawmaker said he was very happy to discuss the dangers of anti-Semitism then shared tweets posted by West in the days when Jordan was still promoting him.
West’s tweets include a comment that Jared Kushner’s Jewish family is about “making money,” a “joke” that knowledge of Hanukkah would somehow provide “financial engineering,” and a threat to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”
“I, the chairman at the time Chairman [Jerry] Nadler, many people in the Jewish community asked Jordan to take this down,” Swalwell noted. “It stayed up for months.”
Jordan did not directly reply to Swalwell, but took to Twitter to declare support for Israel and Jewish students on college campuses.
