The former United Nations ambassador delivered remarks with other candidates at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition gathering, criticizing her former boss and his comments about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The Republican Jewish Coalition gathers in Las Vegas this weekend, drawing G.O.P. leaders and candidates at a moment of unique peril for Israel and American Jewry.
The group said that Representative-elect George Santos would be barred from its events, but it stopped short of calling for him not to serve in Congress.
Genealogy websites cited by The Forward suggest that Mr. Santos’s grandparents were born in Brazil, and were not “Holocaust refugees,” as he has claimed.
Supporters who looked past the former president’s admirers in bigoted corners of the far right, and his own use of antisemitic tropes, now are drawing a line. “He legitimizes Jew hatred and Jew haters,” says one. “And this scares me.”