JTA — The messages that Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz said he received at his office were filled with obscenities, calls to “kill Jews,” and warnings that the Florida Democrat would be “going down.”

Moskowitz played the voicemails during an interview with CNN’s Sara Sidner on Friday as he described a sharp rise in antisemitic hostility against Jewish lawmakers since the war in Gaza began in 2023, a trend he said reflected a broader normalization of antisemitic rhetoric in American public life.

“We seem, Sara, to have passed a Rubicon now with these antisemitic threats,” Moskowitz said. “It used to be once in a while you’d see a swastika on a building, once in a while, you know, someone would say something online. Now it’s every day, all the time, on podcasts, online, in the media, in the halls of Congress, and they’re trying to get Jews.”

CNN played multiple messages that illustrated Moskowitz’s point, with Sidner warning viewers that what they would hear was “deeply disturbing.”

Moskowitz, who is Jewish, said the spate of threats had caused him to need a police officer stationed outside his home 24 hours a day, since a man was sentenced to prison for plotting to kill him in November 2024.

“The US government needs to kill Jews, you kill these f–cking nasty Jews, kill every single f-cking Zionist scumbag,” a caller said in one of the voicemails. “Zionism is treason to ‘we the people’ in our US Constitution. Kill Israel.”

Antisemitism is mainstream. It’s being ignored or worse rationalized. Propaganda spreads as fast as you can post it. We are in a war against time before it’s too late. We need good people to stand up and speak out. pic.twitter.com/7z8XyWOEH3 — Congressman Jared Moskowitz (@RepMoskowitz) May 18, 2026

Antisemitism is mainstream. It’s being ignored or worse rationalized. Propaganda spreads as fast as you can post it. We are in a war against time before it’s too late. We need good people to stand up and speak out.........

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