WASHINGTON — A month after he was the lone senator to oppose a bill to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is blaming Democratic lawmakers’ rhetoric about Israel for attacks on Jewish Americans.
After a string of anti-Semitic assaults in New York and other cities, Hawley has promised to offer a Senate resolution “to condemn the poisonous rhetoric by the Left and the media about Israel that has helped inspire violence against Jewish people across the world.”
In an interview on Fox News Monday morning, Hawley blamed rhetoric by Democratic members of Congress for violence against Jewish Americans.
