It’s been almost two full days since the words “Kanye is right about the Jews” were displayed on a screen at TIAA Bank Field stadium in Jacksonville, Florida (and on another building in that city)—a reference to Kanye “Ye” West’s recent antisemitic comments that were straight out of the notorious forgery and roadmap for antisemitic conspiracy theories, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who was in attendance at the game, hasn’t said a thing in public about the messages, even as other leaders condemned them. This includes his Democratic opponent for governor, Charlie Crist (a former congressman and governor himself), who blasted DeSantis’ silence as a “disgusting and absolute failure of leadership.”
As of Monday morning, DeSantis’ office has declined to comment on the incident. This craven silence is becoming a trend for the GOP star governor, the leading contender to be Trump’s successor as leader of the GOP.
DeSantis has run campaign ads that included Christian nationalist Pastor Larry Jinks, who has been quoted as saying, “We are called to be at odds with any religion that does not acknowledge Jesus as the Prince of Peace and the only way to the Father.” Jinks, earlier this year, wrote on his Facebook page that “It’s a shame that the Jews, who should know better,” rejected Jesus as their messiah.
DeSantis has also trafficked in antisemitic tropes, vilifying Democrats as puppets of financier George Soros and condemning one official he fired as being “Soros-backed.”
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