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Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest. Marjorie Taylor Greene may be drawing headlines right now for her decision to launch a motion-to-vacate attempt against Mike Johnson. (Here we go again, right?) But she also elicited gasps by tweeting that she’d vote against a bill condemning antisemitism, claiming that it would “convict Christians” who believed “the gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews.”
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Marjorie Taylor Greene may be drawing headlines right now for her decision to launch a motion-to-vacate attempt against Mike Johnson. (Here we go again, right?) But she also elicited gasps by tweeting that she’d vote against a bill condemning antisemitism, claiming that it would “convict Christians” who believed “the gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews.” It might be the most extreme example of a shift I’ve noticed these days in the American right—that the Republican Party’s support of Israel may no longer be ironclad—and given the rise of antisemitism across the country, to say nothing of college campuses, that vibe shift requires some excavation. More on that, below the fold.

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A Far Right Exodus on Israel
A Far Right Exodus on Israel
Yes, the majority of the party is still fervently aligned with Netanyahu and his war in Gaza. But a growing number of House lawmakers, bolstered by the isolationist (and occasionally antisemitic) far right, are beginning to view Israel more as a bargaining chip than a sacred cow.
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While far-left campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza have been dominating media coverage this week, filling primetime A-blocks and the Times op-ed page, a stranger, slower revolution has been working its way through Republican politics, too. Sure, the G.O.P.—like the Democratic Party—remains a nominally pro-Israel institution, and the recent aid package for Israel was approved by Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support. But in certain far-right pockets of the party, sentiment surrounding Israel is clearly beginning to shift in perceptible ways. Indeed, when the House bill came to the floor on April 20, nearly two dozen Republicans—including Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Anna Paulina Luna, and...
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