Bill de Blasio: Anti-Semitism is just a ‘right-wing movement’

Published June 5, 2019 1:02pm ET



New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said anti-Semitism is something that comes from “the right-wing movement” and said he does not believe anti-Semitism is a problem on the Left.

“I think the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic is the right-wing movement,” de Blasio said at a press conference Tuesday, according to the New York Post. He disagreed when a reporter asked about rising anti-Semitism “on the Left in the [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement and around the world.”

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