Georgia official slammed by fellow Republicans for rant on Jews 'controlling everything'
A top Georgia Republican Parry official, Kandiss Taylor, said recently that Jews in America were "controlling everything" while also alleging unnamed politicians "pander to the Jews," Media Matters found this week.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday that state Republicans are rushing to condemn her.
"Statements or actions that even hint at antisemitism are wrong," said Attorney General Chris Carr. "Kandiss Taylor should do the right thing, apologize and make amends with the Jewish community, or resign her position because she does not represent the values of the Republican Party."
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Rep. Scot Hilton, from Gwinnett County, also shamed the comments, saying they "have no place in our party."
Taylor first denied she ever made the comments until a video of them was published online. She then said she regrets not making it "explicitly clear that I do not buy into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."
"I know that these conspiracy theories are used by the very people protesting on American college and university campuses in support of Hamas terrorists," she said. "The last thing I would ever want to do is lend any credence to those evil efforts."
But Taylor isn't the first Georgia Republican to deploy anti-Semitism while representing the state's Republicans.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) refused to vote to support a bill denouncing antisemitism, saying on X, it "could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews. Read the bill text and contemporary examples of antisemitism like #9.”
Greene is also often mocked for her conspiratorial rants about Jewish-funded space lasers.
In her 2018 comment, Green alleged that the California wildfires were started by "space solar generators" funded by powerful, mysterious backers like the Rothschild family. The Rothschilds, a Jewish family, have been part of conspiracy theories that claim they secretly control the world.
As for Taylor, she has long espoused a wide range of fringe beliefs, including her support of the flat-Earth conspiracy theories.