
NO NAZI TATTOOS! Dem Rep Blasts His Party Over Normalization of Antisemitism
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.Y.) blasted a Maine Democrat for saying that a Nazi tattoo is preferable to an Israeli tattoo.
At a campaign event for Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who has come under fire for his Nazi Totenkopf (death’s-head) tattoo, a woman who has been identified as Laura Dobson answered a reporter’s questions about the Nazi tattoo.
“I think people are making as much of it as they can because they don’t have a lot of substance around anything else,” the woman said. “And if they did, we’d hear about it, believe me.”
“They are trawling for dirt,” she added.
Then Caroline McCaughey from The New York Sun asked her, “So if he has, like, an Israeli flag tattoo … would that be a deal breaker?”
“For me?” the woman responded. “Honestly? Yeah. Israeli? Yeah. Because I don’t support genocide.”
Dobson ran as an independent against Susan Collins in 2008, sought a seat in the Maine House of Representatives and served as co-chair of the Cranberry Isles Municipal Advisory Commission.
StopAntisemitism is the one who identified the woman in the video as Laura Dobson.
“Meet Maine resident Laurie Dobson,” the group posted on X alongside the now-infamous video. “She can overlook Graham Platner having a Nazi tattoo on his chest … But had it been an Israeli flag tattoo? That would be a dealbreaker. Suddenly, he’d be unfit for office.”
Gottheimer was incensed by his own party’s normalization of antisemitism.
“Are you kidding me? A tattoo of the Israeli flag is worse than a Nazi symbol? This should not be welcome in the Democratic Party!” Gottheimer wrote on X.
Lawmakers on the opposite side of the aisle jumped on board.
“Today’s Democrat party: Nazi? Great! You’re my guy!! Jewish? Hell no!” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sneered. “Utterly tragic.”
“I couldn’t agree more with Rep. Josh Gottheimer,” wrote Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), alongside a video of a Fox interview with Gottheimer.