Rudy Giuliani: Jewish men have ‘small’ and ‘unused’ genitalia, transcripts reveal
Rudy Giuliani during a visit the burial site of the Lubavitcher rebbe in Queens on Nov. 1, 2018. Photo by Jacob Kornbluh
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Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and attorney for former U.S. President Donald Trump, accused Jewish men of having “small” and “unused” genitalia as part of natural selection according to newly released audio transcripts relating to a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Noelle Dunphy, a former associate of Giuliani who began working for him in 2019, had filed a 70-page complaint earlier this year accusing him of sexual assault and making racist and antisemitic remarks.
After Giuliani demanded the court sanction her and her attorney, they responded by asking for Giuliani and his team to be sanctioned while releasing audio transcripts illuminating on what she originally described as “alcohol-drenched rants” that frequently veered into antisemitic and racist territory.
“The way natural selection works. Jewish men have small cocks because they can‘t use them after they get married. Whereas the Italian men use them all their lives so they get bigger,” Giuliani was revealed to have said.
He also was revealed to have attacked Jews for celebrating Passover, saying “Jews want to go through their freaking Passover all the time, man oh man. Get over the Passover. It was like 3,000 years ago. The Red Sea parted, big deal. It’s not the first time that happened.”
Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Giuliani, said in a statement to Rolling Stone that the relationship with Dunphy was “consensual” and questioned her motivations in filing the lawsuit. “It’s disappointing to see some so-called ‘journalists’ stoop so low with these smears and attacks against a man who has dedicated his life to serving others,” Goodman said, adding that “Mayor Giuliani cleaned up the streets of New York City, took down the Mafia and comforted the nation following September 11th.”
The original lawsuit claimed that “to tide Ms. Dunphy over and keep her obedient to him, Giuliani sometimes paid Ms. Dunphy in increments of no more than $5,000 in cash, at random times.” Her employment was terminated in January 2021 after she demanded her long-delayed salary, which the lawsuit alleged was promised to be $1 million per year.
Giuliani has a well-established history of trafficking in antisemitic tropes, particularly relating to Jewish billionaire George Soros. He has called him “the antichrist” and “hardly a Jew” while asserting that he wanted to destroy the government because of his “sick background.”
“It’s not up to Rudy Giuliani to judge anyone’s Judaism, and shame on him for perpetuating hateful stereotypes and attacks that have been used by antisemites to target Jews, including George Soros,” Jewish Democratic Council of America CEO Halie Soifer said at the time of his anti-Soros remarks.
After being defeated in the 2020 presidential election, Trump named Giuliani‘s son Andrew to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which governs and funds the U.S. Holocaust museum.
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