There is this absurd attempt to paint Ted Cruz as anti-Semitic. Ted. Cruz. Yes, the same Ted Cruz who champions First Amendment liberties, champions Israel blew the crowd away at AIPAC, and for years has outreached to the Jewish community.
But what’s even funnier is the idea that the supposedly diabolical Cruz is doing it with “dog whistles.” You know, it’s disguised anti-semitism, designed to be picked up by his Jew hating minions but for no one else to hear.
Here’s a pro tip, Geraldo et al. People in places like Texas and Iowa aren’t very Jew-sensitive. I never saw a Hassid until I was in college, and that was in the airport in London. A friend from the northeast had to explain to me that the guy with the little curls hanging down was Jewish. I had no idea.
Growing up, Jewish kids in TX were just kids. They got some extra holidays from school, which was the only time you even remembered they were Jewish. “Where’s David, is he sick?” “No, I think maybe today is a Jewish holiday.” “Dude. Lucky!”
Most of us in flyover country have no idea what it is like to live somewhere like NYC with a large Jewish population. My next door neighbors in Texas are Jewish, and they’re fantastic, but we don’t have Jewish neighborhoods. We don’t have Jewish restaurants or hangouts.
So, when someone like Geraldo goes on Fox News and suggests that Ted Cruz’s “New York values” remarks are anti-Semitic dog whistles, people in the heartland blink in confusion for a moment and then groan/sigh in disbelief.
The fact is, Judaism isn’t on our minds enough to hear supposed dog whistles or to even remember that NYC has lots of Jews. We tend to think of NYC as a place with lots of liberals. And we don’t need whistles to remember that.
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