Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was publicly shamed Thursday for holding a hearing on antisemitism on college campuses the same week former President Donald Trump shared messaging said to "echo Nazi Germany."
Stefanik also lead the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing Thursday as pro-Palestinian protests take root at university campuses across the U.S.
The New York Republican, said to be on the shortlist of Trump's potential running mates, has recently mounted a high-profile campaign against what she describes as "pro-Hamas" agents who endanger Jewish students.
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Stefanik is among a group of MAGA Republicans who march under the banner of anti-antisemitism, even as rhetorical experts raise alarms over subtler messaging being sent to white nationalists.
“It’s turning very ugly,” Alvin Rosenfeld, director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University, Bloomington, recently told the New York Times. “It’s not just bad, it’s vile.”
President Joe Biden's campaign contends this was the point of a video Trump shared earlier this week in which appear the words "unified Reich."
While Trump's campaign has said the words appeared in error, the purported mistake was again spurred political experts, historians, and scholars to once again sound the alarm about Trump's language echoing that of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
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When House Republicans shared video of Stefanik grilling Northwestern University president Michael Schill on his handling of anti-Israel-Hamas war, they received angry messages about Trump.
"Trump posts Nazi rhetoric and you're all silent," replied @csbrockman.
"You republicans have really done nothing significant to help America in 3+ years," X user JannieLee wrote in a tweet that included a Trump gif. "We no longer trust you!"
"[Senate and House Republicans] claim to care about Jewish people, but they'll still vote for a guy who says the GOP is a 'unified Reich," argued @WinnieJ93360511. "R's are hypocrites."
Another X user shared Texas Tribune journalist Robert Downen's tweet from earlier Thursday when he reported on two noteworthy attendees of his state's GOP Convention.
"Spotted at the Texas GOP Convention," Downen wrote, "Avowed antisemites Ella Maulding and Konner Earnest, who lost their jobs at Pale Horse Strategies last year in the fallout from its owner's meeting with Nick Fuentes."
