By Baruch Green in VIN News
Chassidic commentator Yossi Gestetner and Rabbi Yaakov Menken are feuding with conspiracy-theorist Mike Cernovich on X. The subject? Antisemite Candace Owens, whom Cernovich likes to defend.
It began when Cernovich, who has 1.3 million followers and is considered right-wing, accused Jason Lazarus, a Jewish X user, of hypocrisy, after he questioned why Cernovich refuses to call out Owens.
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Cernovich replied: “Yall loved her when she talked about black on black crime, and you didn’t call her racist for focusing on those issues. What changed?”
A comparison would be talking about Jew-on-Jew crime.
She is now blaming world problems on Jews/Israel.
Focuses on Israel/Jew stories of 60-100 years ago (Liberty; Frank).
Most of her recent content are disproportionately about those 2 topics, and…
in the extreme negative.
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) December 29, 2024
Gestetner replied that there is no comparison between Owens slamming BLM and her criticism of Israel.
He wrote: “A comparison would be talking about Jew-on-Jew crime. She is now blaming world problems on Jews/Israel. Focuses on Israel/Jew stories of 60-100 years ago (Liberty; Frank). Most of her recent content are disproportionately about those 2 topics, and…in the extreme negative.”
He added: “Additionally, she is an African American so if she focuses disproportionately on problems impacting Blacks by fellow Blacks, it makes way more sense than her obsession with Jews and Israel (in the constant negative) when she is neither Jewish nor Israeli.”
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of Coalition for Jewish Values, who is blocked by Cernovich, got in on the action. He posted an image of the interaction and wrote: “There’s a reason Cernovich blocked me. He doesn’t like being called out when he tries to hide his bigotry against Jews.”
There's a reason Cernovich blocked me. He doesn't like being called out when he tries to hide his bigotry against Jews. pic.twitter.com/UPqRwxDdrV
— Rabbi Yaakov Menken (@ymenken) December 29, 2024
Photo credit: Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash