Jewish democrats slam Stephen Miller for ‘weaponising antisemitism’

United States (QNN)- Twenty-five Jewish Democratic House members signed a letter sent to President Donald Trump Friday calling for the sacking of White House adviser Stephen Miller, a Jewish-American top aide to President Donald Trump who has expressed anti-immigrant and Islamophobic views.

The Congress members focused on Miller’s hardline views on immigration and decried “weaponising antisemitism”, referring to the White House’s defence of Miller, which invoked the Trump adviser’s faith and accused his detractors of “consistently” attacking Jewish members of the Trump administration and also to recently leaked emails in which he promoted white nationalist materials to the right-wing Breitbart News website.

“With America experiencing historic levels of anti-Semitism, xenophobia, racism, and white supremacy, there should be no place in our government and on any President’s staff for people propagating such views,” the letter says.

“Hateful ideology is not just unacceptable, it is un-American, irrespective of the faith, race, or nationality of the individual promoting it,” the letter added.

Emails with anti-immigration and Islamophobic statements written by Miller to an editor at conservative website Breitbart News between 2015 and 2016 were made public by the Southern Poverty Law Center in November.

Some of the emails blatantly expressed Islamophobic sentiment, including an exchange where Miller said he had suggested to anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller holding a gay pride parade in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood.

“I suggested Pamela Gellar do this to illustrate the absurdity of the Left’s theory that you can’t do anything which violates the tenets of fundamentalist Islam,” the email reads.

Miller promoted the Muslim-ban as well, which everely restricted entry into the United States from several Muslim-majority countries. He also promoted the policy to separate family members, including children and parents, seeking asylum at the southern US border.

Muslim-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar had faced accusations of antisemitism earlier this year for calling Miller a “white nationalist”.

“As I said earlier this year: Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. And now we have the emails to prove it,” Omar wrote on Twitter 12 November after Millet’s racist emails became public.

“Weaponising antisemitism is incredibly dangerous – by muddying the waters, we are no longer able to see and fight against the real antisemites in our midst,” the Jewish House Democrats said in their letter to Trump on Friday.

“We will not now, or ever, accept intolerance or hate anywhere within our government, and especially not in the White House. On behalf of the American taxpayers from our districts contributing to Miller’s salary, we urge you to immediately dismiss Stephen Miller from his duties and the White House.”