LOUISVILLE, KY — Anti-Israel and anti-Zionist commentators from the far left, the far right and Middle Eastern groups lamented Republican Thomas Massie’s loss in a primary election this week.
Massie is one of the Republican Party’s only anti-Israel representatives.
“Thomas Massie’s primary defeat is the saddest political development in a long time,” far-right commentator Tucker Carlson says, accusing a “globalist lobby” of orchestrating Massie’s loss.
“Globalist” is sometimes a dog whistle for Jews and anti-Israel commentators fixate on the pro-Israel lobby in the US.
“Thomas Massie was the standalone, lone voice, and lone vote against funding Israel” in the party, says the far-left Hasan Piker.
“I don’t agree with Thomas Massie on 98% of issues,” he says, “and yet on this one issue he showed integrity and he was punished for it.”
The Palestinian Youth Movement says Massie “consistently opposed aid packages to Israel.”
“Consequently, the Zionist lobby spent record amounts of money to unseat Massie,” the group says. “Tuesday night’s results show us just how dangerous the Zionist lobby remains on the US political scene.”
The far left, the far right and Middle Eastern groups represent the three pillars of the anti-Zionist movement in the US.
The three movements agree on little besides their shared antipathy to Israel.
Massie has accused the Jewish population of rural Kentucky of being the cause of his primary defeat.
After taking the stage to concede the race to Ed Gallrein, an angry Massie squarely laid the blame for his loss on the "dirty Zionists" of the tiny country towns that dot the Ohio River valley.
"I couldn't reach Gallrein to concede. He was probably lost with his supporters in yet another small-town Kentucky synagogue," declared Massie. "Yes, the deck was stacked against me by the Hebrew population of rural Kentucky. We ran a great campaign, I'm really proud of our team. We just couldn't overcome the Hasidic powers that control the farm towns of Appalachia."
Watching as the votes were tallied, Massie's campaign manager Randy Barnes stated that the Congressman had performed well in a few areas, but could not overcome the losses in heavily-Jewish areas of backwoods Kentucky. "Those nudniks really put the kabash on us," sighed Barnes. "Despite Israeli influence over the little villages of Kentucky, we showed a lot of chutzpah out there on the campaign trail. Mazel tov to Ed on his victory."
