Curtis Sliwa blasts Orthodox Jews as a "drag on the tax system"

Who'd a thunk it--Curtis Sliwa has a brief history of what appears to be anti-Semitic rhetoric as evidenced in a resurfaced video from 2018.

[H/T The New York Jewish Week]

Sliwa is the Republican candidate for mayor in New York City and denounced the "bloc vote," which is comprised of Orthodox Jewish voters. This is definitely not a smart thing to say when you have future political aspirations in a city where many Orthodox Jews live, especially when Orthodox Jews, much more than secular Jews, tend to vote Republican, the party that takes freedom of religion more seriously than the left.

But the reality is, if you're running for New York City mayor on the Republican ticket, you have a very poor chance of winning.

“We’re not talking about poor, impoverished, disabled people who need help," Sliwa went on, referring to Orthodox Jews, "we’re talking about able-bodied men who study Torah and Talmud all day and we subsidize them. And then all they do is make babies like there’s no tomorrow and who’s subsidizing that? We are.

“So are we the schmucks and putzes? Yes.” Good to know he has familiarity with everything Orthodox Jews do [make babies], versus the left who is okay with killing babies.

The video shows Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels speaking at a meeting for the Reform Party. The video was originally posted to a Facebook page called United Hudson Valley on Oc. 25, 2018.

Sliwa won the Republican primary Tuesday against Fernando Matteo.

In the video, he repeatedly speaks out against the “bloc vote,” referring to Orthodox Jews. He encourages the meeting attendees to vote for Reform Party candidates to keep the “bloc vote” from continuing to control New York politics.

“They don’t vote the way normal Americans vote…They’re being told by the rebbe or rabbi this is who you vote for,” Sliwa said. All the left has to tell them who to vote for is the legacy media, unions and celebrities.

He also spoke about political contributions from Orthodox donors, as if that was a bad thing. Follow Sliwa's thinking and the left would never lose another election.

Sliwa was a member of the Reform Party until Feb. 2021, when he joined the Republican Party to run for mayor of New York City as a Republican, implying that his allegiance is dependent upon how he might benefit.

In his 2018 speech, Sliwa took issue with the idea that his own words might be construed as anti-Semitic.

“The moment you bring this to somebody’s attention, you’re called an anti-Semite. You’re not anti-Semites, you’re trying to preserve your community,” he said adding that his two youngest sons are Jewish, as if one cannot be an anti-Semite based on that.

But perhaps he isn't. I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

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