She is “horrified” Republicans nominated him for Speaker of the House “at a moment when our Jewish communities are in so much pain.”
U.S. Rep. Summer Lee enters the inauguration ceremony of Josh Shapiro as the 48th governor of Pa. on Jan. 17, 2023. Joe Hermitt | [email protected] the House voted Tuesday on whether to elect U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan as speaker, Rep. Summer Lee blasted the Ohio Republican as a “white supremacist antisemite” and said his rhetoric “motivated” the shooter who carried out the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre almost five years ago.
Mr. Jordan did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ms. Lee, D-Swissvale, joined every other House Democrat in supporting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York for speaker in the first vote Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Jordan fell short of the votes he needed as 20 Republicans, including Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Butler, chose another candidate.
She also said Mr. Jordan had embraced the great replacement theory, which claims Jews are responsible for bringing in nonwhite immigrants to the U.S. to outnumber native-born whites. Before murdering 11 Jews at a Squirrel Hill synagogue in October 2018, Robert Bowers issued screeds against the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, or HIAS, which helps resettle refugees in the U.S.
That led Ms. Lee to charge that “Jordan also used his chairmanship and his taxpayer-funded platforms to peddle white-supremacist and antisemitic replacement theory that motivated the murders of 11 beloved members of my community in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting,10 Black grocery shoppers in Buffalo, 23 Latino community members in El Paso, and 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch.
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