From Jewish Insider; Massie: “I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.”

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Pro-Israel and Republican Jewish groups helped oust one of their leading GOP antagonists on Tuesday night, aligning with President Donald Trump to defeat Rep.Thomas Massie (R-KY) in the most expensive House primary in recent memory.

Ed Gallrein, a military veteran and farmer recruited by the Trump White House to challenge Massie, decisively defeated the congressman by 10 points, 55-45%. Massie, a libertarian lawmaker who long cast lonely Republican votes against Israel funding and resolutions condemning antisemitism, increasingly trafficked in bigoted rhetoric in the closing weeks of the campaign.

In his concession speech, Massie continued his antisemitic vitriol against his opponent, telling the crowd: “I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.” Even though Trump’s outspoken opposition was the leading factor behind his demise, he routinely blamed Jewish and pro-Israel donors like Miriam Adelson for costing him his seat and insinuated that Israel was buying seats in Congress. [anti-Semitic vitriol???]

Massie first drew the ire of Trump for voting against his “big beautiful” reconciliation bill last year, and the anger was exacerbated by his work with Democrats to force the Department of Justice to release all of the files involving Jeffrey Epstein.

Outside groups, including a Trump-aligned super PAC (MAGA KY) and those affiliated with the Republican Jewish Coalition, AIPAC and Christians United for Israel, spent aggressively with ads and billboards attacking Massie over his record, with several pointing out his opposition to Israel and Trump’s foreign policy.

Massie’s defeat also underscores Trump’s strong and continued support within the party, with his endorsements in primaries almost always translating into his candidate’s victory. His opposition to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) led to his defeat last week, and he successfully ousted most of the Indiana GOP state senators who opposed his redistricting efforts.
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  1. Res Cogitans
    Res Cogitans says:

    What the? … “Massie continued his antisemitic vitriol?” Really? Who wrote that drivel? Nothing Massie has said or done has ever *come close* to the nonsense term “antisemitic.” That’s laughable. It’s hilarious how anything a jew doesn’t like is “antisemitic.” Massie’s defeat is a critical downward turn in our government, which is now 100% thoroughly a ZOG. Hold on to your seats folks, because now Trumpstein’s ZIO-Force program is about to kick into full gear. If you thought the brutal Bolshevik Cheka era was bad, just wait …

  2. Pierre de Craon
    Pierre de Craon says:

    From a May 18 essay by Paul Craig Roberts:

    Tomorrow will tell us whether it is possible for a member of the US Congress [viz., Massie] to put American interests, morality, law, and justice before Israel’s interests and remain in office. If Americans in Kentucky can be taken in by Israeli propaganda and abandon a representative of America, we will know that there is no hope for the American people.

    Perhaps tomorrow “no hope” might be brushed off as an exaggeration, but today it feels pretty close to the mark.

  4. Tony
    Tony says:

    This doesn’t sound at all like the Kevin MacDonald I’ve read over the years. Did he really write this?

  5. James Clayton
    James Clayton says:

    Video is embedded

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    On, 29 March 2026, Tom Switzer hosted a discussion with me and Steve Walt about our article, “The Israel Lobby,” which appeared 20 years ago in March 2006 in The London Review of Books. The back and forth with Tom provided me and Steve with an excellent opportunity not only to talk about what we said in the original article, but what has changed since then regarding the lobby and its influence on US foreign policy. We naturally focused much attention on the Iran war and the central role that Israel and the lobby played in pushing the US into this disastrous war.

  6. Pierre de Craon
    Pierre de Craon says:

    Yesterday evening, Tucker Carlson responded to Massie’s defeat with a fifty-minute solo video wherein he spoke with sarcasm and acrimony about Israel, AIPAC, Jewish money more generally, and, not least, the jerk who won the primary.

    Even those who, like me, have a generally low opinion of Carlson might find his performance on this occasion worth a look.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgjThZM8Z8U

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