Outrage Over “Anti-Semitic Characterization of Jews” by S.C. GOP Leaders

Alexis Rice — October 21, 2009 – 12:34 pm | Republicans Comments (0) Add a comment

Two Republican county officials in South Carolina have now apologized following public outrage for what the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)  called “anti-Semitic characterization of Jews” for remarks in an op-ed for The Times and Democrat in Orangeburg, SC on Sunday.
 
The op-ed noted, “there is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves.”

ADL said that “despite the apology of two South Carolina Republican Party chairmen for characterizing Jews as penny-pinchers, ‘they need to do more to publicly disavow their words and to understand why their remarks were so insensitive.’”

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