Georgia Senator Is Criticized for Ad Enlarging Jewish Opponent Jon Ossoff's Nose
ATLANTA Senator David Perdue of Georgias re-election campaign was assailed on Monday for a Facebook advertisement that enlarged the nose of his Democratic opponent, Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, in a portrayal that critics immediately denounced as anti-Semitic.
The Republican senators fund-raising ad, which surfaced after The Forward published an article about it on Monday, included grainy photographs of Mr. Ossoff and the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, who is also Jewish. Democrats are trying to buy Georgia! the ad said, adding that Mr. Schumer had poured millions of dollars into the race.
Mr. Perdues campaign said on Monday that the ad had been taken down and that the alteration had been an outside vendors error.
But critics said that it reflected something more insidious, arguing that the campaign had employed imagery long used to malign Jews at a time when a rising tide of anti-Semitism in the country has seeped into politics. In a post on Twitter, the political advocacy arm of Bend the Arc, a progressive Jewish organization, called it blatant: Its not an accident.
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