This week, multiple campaign signs for Alma Hernandez, a Jewish Latina woman representing Tucson in the Arizona Statehouse and currently running for a seat in the state Senate, were vandalized. Splashed across the signs in large red letters were the words: “Zionist B*tch.” Both antisemitic and misogynistic, one word targets her as a Jew, while the other demeans her as a woman.
This is not politics as usual.
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Alma Hernandez speaks at No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People, July 11, 2021, in Washington, DC. Featuring Elisha
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