随着选举日的临近，一些全国性的犹太宣传组织呼吁共和党采取更强硬的立场，谴责几位共和党候选人或其支持者的反犹太主义。
他们的呼吁紧随几起高调的言论争议之后由名人制作政治候选人竞相赢得中期选举。
例如，宾夕法尼亚州共和党州长候选人道格·马斯特里亚诺因其关于他的犹太对手的声明州司法部长乔希·夏皮罗。
他在9月份指责夏皮罗“蔑视我们这样的人”，因为夏皮罗将他的孩子送到了一所“特权、排外、精英”的犹太学校。他的评论被广泛谴责为唤起常见的反犹太主义比喻。
在上个月的一次竞选活动中，马斯特里亚诺对他的陈述加倍下注。
“很明显，现在如果我谈论这所学校，这是某种种族主义的东西，”他说，重申“这是一所非常昂贵的精英学校。”
马斯特里亚诺的竞选团队没有立即回应ABC新闻的置评请求。
俄亥俄州共和党参议员候选人J.D .万斯也被指控呼应反犹太比喻在1月份暗示如果俄亥俄州禁止堕胎，“那么每天，乔治·索罗斯都会派一架747飞机去哥伦布搭载不成比例的黑人妇女，让她们去加利福尼亚堕胎。”
“希望我们能达到俄亥俄州禁止堕胎，加利福尼亚州和全世界都尊重堕胎的地步，”他继续说道。
反诽谤联盟报告说提到索罗斯-一位匈牙利犹太亿万富翁、慈善家和大屠杀幸存者，因资助进步事业而闻名-已成为右翼的阴谋论者，这些阴谋论认为富裕的犹太人控制和操纵社会以促进他们自己的利益。
万斯的竞选团队没有立即回应置评请求。
共和党领导人在几起案件中强烈谴责反犹太主义。
参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔大声说出来起诉R-Ga的马乔里.泰勒.格林议员。和亚利桑那州共和党人保罗·戈萨尔(Paul Gosar)参加了3月份由著名白人民族主义者尼克·富恩特斯(Nick Fuentes)举办的美国第一政治行动会议(America First Political Action Conference)，他说，“共和党中没有白人至上主义者或反犹太主义者的位置。”
共和党全国委员会主席罗娜·麦克丹尼尔此前也公开反对反犹太主义，称“白人至上主义、新纳粹主义、仇恨言论和偏见令人厌恶，在共和党中没有一席之地。”
一些人说，政治家需要像企业一样应对反犹太主义
但是一些犹太组织的领导人说声明是不够的。
美国犹太人大会主席杰克·罗森表示，候选人也必须为他们的言论承担物质后果，他认为该党应该切断他们的支持和资金。
“他们需要确保这些(候选人)没有被接受，没有得到好的任务，没有财政支持，”罗森告诉美国广播公司新闻。
作为模特，他举了阿迪达斯的例子与叶断绝关系在最近几周发表了一系列攻击犹太人的煽动性言论后，他的原名是坎耶·韦斯特，其中包括一条威胁他将“对犹太人进行死亡骗局3”的推文。
“我们已经了解到，当像商界这样的强大力量出来，停止与你做生意，抵制你的路线，这确实有影响，”罗森说。
美国犹太人委员会的首席政策和政治事务官员雅各布·艾萨克森说，该党及其候选人也有责任驳斥那些表达反犹太情绪的支持者和同伙。
马斯特里亚诺在向极右翼网站Gab支付了5000美元的竞选咨询费后受到了攻击，据称一名男子在2018年在匹兹堡的生命之树犹太教堂杀死11人之前，在那里发表了反犹太主义的帖子。
Gab首席执行官安德鲁·托尔巴说，他和马斯特里亚诺都有只与基督教记者交谈的政策，《耶路撒冷邮报》报道。
在巨大的公众压力下，马斯特里亚诺发布公告t说托尔巴并不“为我或我的竞选说话”，而且“我拒绝任何形式的反犹太主义。”但在7月，马斯特里亚诺仍然接受了500美元的捐赠根据9月份的竞选财务报告，来自托尔巴。
在佐治亚州，共和党参议员候选人赫歇尔·沃克也因没有公开拒绝而受到批评以示对叶的支持在Instagram上。
“我希望看到的是拒绝公然反犹太主义者的支持，这需要成为一种普遍原则，”艾萨克森告诉美国广播公司新闻。
沃克的竞选团队没有立即回复置评请求。
经济不确定性，文化战争导致反犹太阴谋
随着通货膨胀问题推动许多选民参加这次中期选举，一些犹太组织领导人表示，美国人的经济焦虑也为反犹太阴谋论提供了平台。
反诽谤联盟(Anti-Defamation League)首席执行官兼国家主任乔纳森·格林布拉特(Jonathan Greenblatt)表示，犹太人的替罪羊身份在历史上曾在经济压力时期达到顶峰，如该国目前的“衰退环境”。
“当系统失灵、市场失灵、政策失灵时，人们会寻找替罪羊，”他告诉ABC新闻。
例如，ADL报告了反犹太互联网活动在2008年大衰退期间，包括文章和帖子指责犹太人的金融危机。
In this July 22, 2022, file photo, Eli Crane, a Republican candidate for the 2nd Congressional District in Arizona, is introduced by former President Donald Trump as Trump speaks at a "Save America" rally in Prescott, Ariz.
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例如，一些候选人还使用反犹太主义的比喻来吸引选民对堕胎、批判种族理论和LGBTQ权利等正在进行的文化战争的关注。
亚利桑那州共和党众议院候选人伊莱·克莱恩多次表示，他将与批评种族理论作斗争，声称其根源在于“文化马克思主义”这被描述为源于反犹太主义的毫无根据的阴谋论。
克雷恩的竞选团队没有立即回应ABC新闻的置评请求。
反犹太主义在美国达到空前高度。
美国犹太人民主委员会首席执行官哈利·索伊弗(Halie Soifer)表示，共和党内反犹太言论的正常化和放大，使其支持者，包括白人至上主义者和右翼极端主义团体，更加大胆地对犹太人实施暴力。
ADL报道说美国的反犹太事件。2021年在美国达到历史最高水平。
索菲说白人民族主义的高涨在中期选举中，特朗普政府仍然是一个问题。
“在唐纳德·特朗普2016年参选期间，在他的整个总统任期内，以及在2020年，我们都看到了这一点，当时他呼应了反犹太阴谋论和白人至上主义者所共有的其他仇恨观点，并拒绝谴责白人至上主义，”索伊弗告诉美国广播公司新闻。“现在它已经扩散，被候选人视为接受，他们中的一些人甚至可能在一周内当选。”
就在上个月，特朗普在他的真理社交媒体平台上分享了一篇帖子，告诉美国犹太人通过表达对以色列的更多支持来“团结一致”。
一些民主党候选人和议员也面临反犹太主义的指控，主要是因为他们批评以色列和促进抵制，撤资，制裁运动的评论。
在回应置评请求时，RNC的一位发言人向美国广播公司新闻提到了其中的几条声明，例如，众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔2012年的推文称以色列“催眠了世界”，这被广泛指责为反犹太主义。
奥马尔此后对该评论表示遗憾，但坚持认为这是针对该国政府和军事行动，而不是“特定信仰的人”。
纽约州民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥·科尔特斯(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)和密歇根州民主党众议员拉希达·特拉伊布(Rashida Tlaib)也一直因支持BDS运动而受到批评，通常是受到共和党人的批评。
Jewish leaders call on GOP to take stronger stance on condemning antisemitism
With Election Day around the corner, some national Jewish advocacy organizations are calling on the Republican Party to take a harder line on condemning antisemitism from several GOP candidates or their supporters.
Their calls come on the heels of several high-profile controversies over remarksmade by celebritiesand political candidates vying to win their midterm races.
Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, for example, has made headlines with hisstatements about his Jewish opponent, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
He accused Shapiro in September of having "disdain for people like us," because Shapiro attended and sent his children to a "privileged, exclusive, elite" Jewish institution. His comments have been widely condemned as evoking common antisemitic tropes.
At a campaign event last month, Mastrianodoubled down on his statements.
“Apparently now it’s some kind of racist thing if I talk about the school,” he said reiterating that “it’s a very expensive, elite school.”
Mastriano’s campaign did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.
Ohio GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance has also been accused ofechoing antisemitic tropesafter suggesting in January that if Ohio prohibited abortion, "then every day, George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California."
"Hopefully we get to a point where Ohio bans abortion and California and the Soroses of the world respect it," he continued.
The Anti-Defamation League has reported thatreferences to Soros-- a Hungarian Jewish billionaire, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor known for funding progressive causes -- have become a right-wing dog whistle for conspiracy theories about wealthy Jewish people controlling and manipulating societies to further their own interests.
Vance’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
GOP party leaders have strongly condemned antisemitism in several cases.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnellspoke outagainst Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who attended the America First Political Action Conference in March, run by Nick Fuentes, a prominent white nationalist, saying, "There’s no place in the Republican Party for white supremacists or antisemitism."
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has also previously spoken out against antisemitism, stating that "white supremacy, neo-Nazism, hate speech and bigotry are disgusting and do not have a home in the Republican Party."
Politicians need to respond like businesses to antisemitism, some say
But some Jewish organization leaders say statements are not enough.
Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, said candidates must also face material repercussions for their comments, arguing the party should go as far as cutting off their support and funding.
"They need to make sure that these [candidates] are not accepted and not given good assignments, are not supported financially," Rosen told ABC News.
As a model, he cited the example of Adidassevering ties with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, after he made a slew of incendiary comments attacking Jewish people in recent weeks, including a tweet threatening he would go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
"We've learned that when a powerful force like the business community comes out and stops doing business with you and boycotts your lines, that does have an impact," Rosen said.
Jacob Isaacson, the American Jewish Committee's chief policy and political affairs officer, said the party and its candidates also have a responsibility to repudiate supporters and associates who have expressed antisemitic sentiments.
Mastriano came under fire after paying $5,000 for campaign consulting to the far-right site Gab -- where a man allegedly made antisemitic posts before killing 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.
Gab chief executive Andrew Torba said both he and Mastriano have a policy of speaking only to Christian journalists,the Jerusalem Post reported.
After significant public pressure, Mastrianoput out a statement saying Torba does not “speak for me or my campaign” and that “I reject antisemitism in any form.” But in July, Mastriano stillaccepted a $500 donationfrom Torba, according to a September campaign finance report.
In Georgia, Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker has also faced criticism for not publicly refusinga show of support from Yeon Instagram.
"What I would like to see is the rejection of endorsement from blatant antisemites and that needs to be kind of a universal principle," Isaacson told ABC News.
Walker’s campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
Economic uncertainty, culture wars give rise to antisemitic conspiracies
With the issue of inflation driving many voters this midterm election, several Jewish organization leaders said Americans’ economic anxieties have also provided a platform for antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the scapegoating of Jewish people has historically peaked during periods of economic stress, such as the country's current "recessionary environment."
"When systems fail, when markets fail, when policy fails, people look for someone to blame," he told ABC News.
For example, the ADL reported a spike inantisemitic internet activityduring the Great Recession in 2008, including articles and posts blaming Jewish people for the financial crisis.
Some candidates have also used antisemitic tropes to appeal to voters’ concerns about ongoing culture wars over abortion, critical race theory and LGBTQ rights, for example.
Arizona GOP House candidate Eli Crane has said repeatedly that he would fight critical race theory, allegingits roots in “Cultural Marxism,”which has been described asa baseless conspiracy theory with antisemitic origins.
Crane’s campaign did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Antisemitism reaches all-time high in U.S.
Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said the alleged normalization and amplification of antisemitic rhetoric within the Republican Party has emboldened its supporters, including white supremacist and right-wing extremist groups, to perpetrate violence against Jewish people.
The ADL reported that antisemitic incidents in the U.S.reached an all-time high in the U.S. in 2021.
Soifer said theupsurge of white nationalismduring the Trump administration remains a problem in the midterms.
"We saw this during Donald Trump's candidacy in 2016, throughout his presidency, and in 2020, when he echoed antisemitic conspiracy theory and other hateful views shared by white supremacists and refused to condemn white supremacy," Soifer told ABC News. "Now it has proliferated, and it is viewed as accepted among candidates, and some of them may even get elected in a week."
As recently as last month, Trump shared a post on his Truth social media platform telling American Jews to "get their act together" by expressing more support for Israel.
Some Democratic candidates and lawmakers have also faced allegations of antisemitism, primarily for their comments criticizing Israel and promoting the boycott, divest, sanctions movement.
Responding to a request for comment, an RNC spokesperson referred ABC News to several of these statements -- for example,Rep. Ilhan Omar's 2012 tweetsaying Israel "has hypnotized the world," which was widely denounced as antisemitic.
Omar has since expressed regret for the comment but maintains it was directed at the country's government and military action, not "people of a particular faith."
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., have also been consistently criticized, often by Republicans, for their support of the BDS movement.
