Mary Miller in the news

From The Guardian : “Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing.” The subheadline: “Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity.” Sure enough, there’s Illinois’s own Mary Miller:

A number of Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism this week are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have reportedly threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground.

A group of Haverford [College, Haverford, Pennsylvania] professors, most of them Jewish, has raised concerns about the legislators, pointing to statements they have made in the past and antisemitic incidents in their districts that the professors say they have not forcefully condemned....

In a memo shared exclusively with the Guardian, the faculty at Haverford have questioned the credibility of several members of the committee.

The faculty have requested anonymity to avoid retaliation. In the memo, they write that the committee’s chair, Republican representative Tim Walberg of Michigan, is associated with the Moody Bible Institute, which, according to the memo, “trains students to convert Jewish people to Christianity.” Representative Mark Harris of North Carolina, it notes, once said that until Jews and Muslims accept Jesus Christ “there’ll never be peace in their soul or peace in their city.”

The faculty also condemned committee member Mary Miller of Illinois, who in a speech outside the US Capitol the day before the January 6 attack, quoted Hitler and said he was “right on one thing” when he said that whoever “has the youth has the future.” (Miller later apologized.)

Well, she sort of apologized. She also said that her words had been twisted. And one of her daughters praised her on Facebook:

Mom is getting roasted on national news media platforms. The funny thing is: she and Dad don’t care!! She said it. She’s owning it. Go mom!

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