‘Greedy Jewish Landlords’ Candidate Trolls Liberal Jews on Twitter

By Josh Nathan-Kazis May 2, 2017

In a series of tweets directed at Jewish groups yesterday, fringe New York City Council candidate Thomas Lopez-Pierre asked a left-wing Jewish group if it would “help protect Black and Hispanic tenants in NYC from ‘Greedy Jewish Landlords.’”

Lopez-Pierre, a candidate in a City Council district in upper Manhattan, has been widely criticized as anti-Semitic.

His tweet, directed at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, a liberal activist group tied to the Reform Movement, referred to a video he posted Monday, in which he spoke further about “greedy Jewish landlords.”

Hey @TheRAC please help protect Black and Hispanic tenants in NYC from “Greedy Jewish Landlords” in NYC. @JewishNewsUSA @jdforward @ADL_NY

— Thomas Lopez-Pierre (@VoteLopezPierre) May 1, 2017

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Josh Nathan-Kazis is a staff writer for the Forward. He covers charities and politics, and writes investigations and longform.

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