Almost 5 years ago, I was one of those to expose the lies of Julia Salazar, a state Senate candidate in Brooklyn and Israel-hater. Among them: she had claimed to be Jewish, even though the evidence showed otherwise.
Think George Santos, but in high heels.
Since then, she became a senator – and has just further disgraced herself.
My friend David Kelsey took exception to a tweet of hers, which he saw as being the height of chutzpah given her lies about being Jewish:
The senator responded with this tweet:
“No comment” – but speaking volumes.
My initial reaction to her tweet was to think she was making fun of David’s appearance. More specifically, it seemed to me she was making fun of his Jewish appearance (note how she also included a screenshot of David’s pinned tweet mentioning the “gentile executive director of Open Society.”
David (and others) also interpreted her tweet this way:
Salazar denies she made fun of David’s appearance at all:
Yet she deleted the offending tweet.
Moreover, she liked a comment stating that David “sucks”:
I believe Salazar was mocking David’s Jewish appearance, but even if she was mocking his appearance in general, is that the behavior we would want of an elected official?
Is liking a comment insulting him also the behavior we would want of an elected official?
Heck, is someone with a history of habitually lying someone we would want as an elected official?
