My Take | US politician claims China is spreading antisemitism. Really
Democrat Congressman Jared Moskowitz says China is following the ‘Nazi playbook’ by using TikTok to ‘brainwash’ American youth
China has been accused of doing many nefarious things in the United States, but deliberately spreading antisemitism?
That’s the claim made by Democrat Congressman Jared Moskowitz in an official hearing. You have to admit facts-free China criticism in the US gets more inventive by the day.
Beijing has been criticised for allowing antisemitic content without online censorship within China, and TikTok has been accused – the big reason it faces being banned – of platforming antisemitic criticism of Israel in the US. But equating the two explicitly is pretty new.
“This is not going well for Jews right now, and it isn’t getting better. We have not yet peaked,” Moskowitz said.
“We are losing the youth of this country. We are losing them on TikTok, which is owned by a foreign country that the president has now extended beyond what the law has allowed.”
He was referring to Donald Trump’s repeated extension of the deadline for a total ban or a forced sale of TikTok required by US law.