Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for governor of New York, has said fellow Jewish politician Brad Lander, an ally of New York City’s anti-Israel Mayor Zohran Mamdani, would have collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust.

“He’s anti-American, he is antisemitic, even though he’s Jewish,” Bruce Blakeman said of Lander in an interview with right-wing network Newsmax on Wednesday. “This guy would be a camp guard in a concentration camp if he could. He’s a disaster. He’s terrible.”

Blakeman largely stood by his comments on Thursday, saying in a statement to NBC News that “maybe camp guard was too strong, but certainly collaborator as Brad Lander turned his back on the Jewish community when he locked arms with the extremists who want to wipe Israel off the map.”

Lander, who ousted US Congressman Dan Goldman, a Jewish centrist, in the Democratic primary this week, slammed Blakeman’s comments.

“I don’t know where Bruce Blakeman went to Hebrew school, but I was taught that ‘Never Again!’ means never again to anyone,” Lander said in a statement quoted by NBC. “Standing up for Palestinian human rights doesn’t make me any less proud to be Jewish, or any less serious about fighting antisemitism.”

He added that voters “will resoundingly reject Blakeman’s far-right MAGA bigotry this November.”

Republican nominee for New York Governor Bruce Blakeman calls Brad Lander “anti-semitic”, says Lander “would’ve been a camp guard in a concentration camp if he could” Source:........

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