New Jersey city council members apologize for using and defending anti-Semitic slur

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Three New Jersey city council members are apologizing after one of them used an anti-Semitic slur and the other two defended it.

Trenton City Council President Kathy McBride employed the anti-Semitic trope at a closed-door meeting earlier this month, during which she discussed the city attorney’s ability to negotiate a cheaper settlement in a woman’s personal injury case. She said the city attorney, who is Jewish, was “able to wait her out and Jew down for $22,000 worth of pins in her knee that can never, ever be repaired.”

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