{"id":1007554,"date":"2026-08-18T00:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1007554\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:26:16","slug":"house-leaders-johnson-jeffries-issue-rare-bipartisan-rebuke-over-florida-candidate-dan-bilzerians-vile-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1007554\/","title":{"rendered":"House leaders Johnson, Jeffries issue rare bipartisan rebuke over Florida candidate Dan Bilzerian’s vile antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> and Dem Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries <\/a>have teamed up for a rare bipartisan rebuke of a Florida Republican pol who spewed vile antisemitic rhetoric against his primary foe.<\/p>\n

Wannabe House member Daniel Bilzerian rolled out a disturbing ad <\/a>last week attacking fellow Republican and incumbent Rep Randy Fine as a \u201cfat Jew,\u201d \u201cShylock\u201d and \u201csatanic whore\u201d and suggesting whether it was worth revisiting Adolf Hitler\u2019s \u201copinions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., and other members of the House of Representatives leave for a five-week recess just after narrowly passing a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 23, 2026. AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vile attack ads against Congressman Randy Fine in Florida\u2019s 6th District are disgusting and should be condemned by all political leaders on the Right and Left,\u201d Johnson said in a statement late Sunday. \u201cAntisemitism and outward hatred of Jewish communities have no place in our politics or in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffries echoed the speaker about an hour afterward, calling Bilzerian out by name.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hateful campaign being run by Daniel Bilzerian in Florida is blatantly antisemitic and shocks the conscience,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople of goodwill regardless of political affiliation must reject his vile attacks on the Jewish community. This cannot and will not stand.\u201d<\/p>\n

A still from Bilzerian\u2019s antisemitic attack ad on Fine. X\/Dan Bilzerian<\/p>\n

Bilzerian (pictured) is vying for Fine\u2019s Florida congressional seat. Instagram\/Dan Bilzerian<\/p>\n

Bilzerian\u2019s ad was only the latest sickening salvo in both sides\u2019 scorched-earth attacks involving Israel and the Gaza war.<\/p>\n

Fine for his part has spouted egregious Islamophobic rhetoric and seemingly implied that the Gaza Strip, home to about 2 million Palestinians, should be nuked.<\/p>\n

Bilzerian\u2019s ad was filled with depictions of the Israeli flag, used artificial intelligence to add some physical girth to the Sunshine State Republican and showed him hugging a bag full of cash. It also called him a \u201cJewish supremacist\u201d and \u201cSatan\u2019s creepy little minion.<\/p>\n

\u201cShould we revisit that Austrian painter\u2019s opinions?\u201d a singer in the ad asked in footage of Hitler.<\/p>\n

Bilzerian\u2019s attack ad included antisemitic imagery. X\/Dan Bilzerian<\/p>\n

The ad meanwhile boasted that Bilzerian doesn\u2019t take money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n

On social media, Bilzerian has railed against<\/a> \u201cthe Jewish problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Bilzerian dropped the sickening attack ad last week, his antics got the attention of the Jewish Insider<\/a> outlet Sunday, and the spot was seemingly the impetus for Johnson and Jeffries to speak out.<\/p>\n

Fine, who succeeded US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz in the Florida district, called Bilzerian a \u201cNazi\u201d and vowed to \u201cdefeat this evil on Tuesday,\u201d when the pair face off in a primary.<\/p>\n

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson underscored his endorsement of GOP Rep. Randy Fine in Florida\u2019s 6th Congressional District. MediaPunch \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

The rep is one of the most hardcore pro-Israel voices in either chamber of Congress, going so far as to say<\/a>, \u201cThere is no such thing as Palestinian\u201d and spouting egregious Islamophobic rhetoric.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,\u201d Fine posted on X in February in comments he has repeatedly defended.<\/p>\n

At one point, Fine seemingly implied Gaza should be nuked.<\/p>\n

New York Dem House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has taken some flak from his lefty base for defending Fine. WireImage<\/p>\n

\u201cIn World War II, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis,\u201d he told Fox News last year<\/a>. \u201cWe did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fine also has a history of implying or outright calling Muslim politicians terrorists.<\/p>\n

\u201cJihadi Mamdani does not belong as Mayor of NYC. He needs to be denaturalized and sent back home to Uganda,\u201d Fine posted on X on Sunday, referring to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cTell your fellow Muslim terrorists to release the hostages and surrender. Until then, #StarveAway,\u201d he said to \u201cSquad\u201d Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) last year on X.<\/p>\n

Bilzerian cited some of Fine\u2019s past hateful rhetoric in his disturbing attack ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson and Dem Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have teamed up for a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1007555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[12648,327,723,8123,99,239993,8119,50,80,1154],"class_list":["post-1007554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-antisemitism","tag-congress","tag-florida","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-israel","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-mike-johnson","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117113677011755438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}