In today’s reminder that history doesn’t echo, it rhymes, Jewish Insider is reporting a Black, likely Russian-backed independent presidential candidate with the surname West sent to split votes off from Joe Biden and help Donald Trump return to the White House defended his associations with virulent antisemites, as Cornel West is saying the very Reich-y cartoons by his campaign’s art director Dwayne Booth aka Mr Fish. The cartoons depict “Zionists” drinking the blood of Gazans, the Star of David replacing a Swastika on a Nazi flag, a mock painting of a 1945 photo of newly-liberated Holocaust survivors holding up signs saying shit like “Stop US aid to Israel.”
“Like the great satirists of the past – from Jonathan Swift to Ishmael Reed – he exposes the hypocrisy and cruelty in our lives and society!” West wrote. “He’s my dear brother and I am blessed to have him as the premier art director in my presidential campaign for Truth Justice Love!”