Politician Switches From ‘Greedy Jewish Landlords’ To Alt-Right (((Echoes))) On Twitter
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ari Feldman July 19, 2017
Less than two hours after agreeing to stop using the phrase “Greedy Jewish landlords” on Twitter, Thomas Lopez-Pierre, a candidate for New York City Council, has taken to using the (((echoes))) popularized by Holocaust deniers and the “alt-right.”
On Monday afternoon, Lopez-Pierre, who is a candidate for a district in Manhattan comprising the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods, tweeted, “After discussions with my Jewish supporters, I have agreed to NO longer use the words: “Greedy Jewish Landlords”.”
Later that afternoon, Lopez-Pierre sent out a tweet that contained the infamous (((echoes))) around the phrase “Greedy landlords”: “(((Greedy Landlords))) ‘Preferential Rent’: How Landlords Kill NYC’s Affordable Apartments and Get Away With It.” Lopez-Pierre’s tweets containing (((echoes))) have been liked and retweeted by “alt-right” Twitter users.
Lopez-Pierre is running against the incumbent Mark Levine, who is Jewish. He has a history of making anti-Semitic comments and until recently had a section of his website that said, “Jewish Landlords… are at the forefront of ethnic cleansing/pushing Black/Hispanic tenants out of their apartments.”
Contact Ari Feldman at [email protected] or on Twitter @aefeldman.
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