Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis rebuked a reporter who equated Islamophobia with antisemitism.
He pointed out the numerous examples of anti-Jewish hatred on college campuses and global rallies and said that there is a ‘false equivalence’ between the discrimination faced by Jews and Muslims.
He asserted that Jews were the most targeted ethnic group for hate crimes in the world and in the United States, and no other group came close to their level of persecution.
Ron DeSantis slams a reporter for purporting the idea of “Islamophobia” being an equivalent concern to antisemitism. He goes into the evidence-supported, active, antisemitic threats to Jews today. He discusses the history and consistency of the statistics showing Jews as… pic.twitter.com/rnxEEmlGed
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 6, 2023