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Posted By admin on March 3, 2020

Michelle Malkin is catching grief from conservatives over comments made at the American First Political Action Conference [AFPAC] last week in which she defended questions about the number of Holocaust victims from World War II.

Malkin is nothing if not a provocateur, and as such, her primary rhetorical goal often seems less about informing her audience, but instead provoking people into anger and animus, either in concert with her opinion or, in many cases, in disagreement with what shes said. As her influence has waned of late, her inflammatory rhetoric has only burned brighter and has included endorsing anti-Semitic trolls.

During the AFPAC speak, Malkin played the best defense is a good offense card by going through a litany of third-rail issues often criticized as anti-Semitic tropes, including dual loyalty and a clear dog-whistle for Holocaust deniers. Watch a portion of the speech here:

A transcript of her remarks:

Already right out of the gate, before I even knew who Nick Fuentes was, before I knew who Groypers were, I was being tarred as an anti-Semite. Its become a useless, meaningless term and everybody knows it. And thats why theyre so desperate to tar all of us as that.

Its anti-Semitic to mention George Soross billions. Its anti-Semitic to criticize the Anti-Defamation League. Its anti-Semitic to question whatever the precise number is of people who perished in World War II. It is anti-Semitic for me, being married to a 100% Ashkenazi Jew, to question dual loyalties of people who are working here as agents of a foreign country.

Oh, and it is an unacceptably anti-Semitic to point out the rank hypocrisy of people who are fiercely protective of an ethno-state and an immigration enforcement system that workswho turn around and call those of us who believe, whatever our backgrounds are, who only have one homeland that theyve ever known, to call us what is it now?white majoritarianism I believe is the term. Thats me. Thank you.

Questioning Holocaust victims has long been a trope for fringe white nationalist groups who believe the Holocaust was a hoax designed to give Jewish people some sort of global political advantage with which they could control non-Jewish people. The Dual loyalty trope was recently in the political sphere when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was criticized by numerous Republican officials for making a similar suggestion.

Of course, Malkin is not an elected official, but her influence as an (erstwhile) conservative thought-leader is undeniable. Or maybe its time to start to question just how influential she still is, as the bipartisan reaction to her comments are quite noteworthy.

Take for example David Harsanyi, writer for National Review and theNew York Post:

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Young Americas Foundation, a conservative college outreach group that recently fired Malkin, released the following statement:

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Conservatives Blast Michelle Malkins Anti-Semitic Questions: Once Admired Her. This is Disgusting. - Mediaite

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