MN Senators Condemn Colleague's Comments About Palestinian Children, Sparking Division Over Rhetoric
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Minnesota DFL senators condemned Senator Ron Latz for "dehumanizing" comments about Palestinian children, calling them aspiring murderers. Latz defended his comments as taken out of context.
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Latz made the controversial comments while speaking out against the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it antisemitic.
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Over a dozen DFL senators signed a statement criticizing Latz's "degrading language" in describing Palestinians. The local chapter of CAIR also denounced the comments as Islamophobic.
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The Jewish Community Relations Council defended Latz's comments as accurate about Hamas's toxicity, not hateful generalizations.
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DFL Party Chair Ken Martin said inflammatory rhetoric from officials is counterproductive and all DFLers should avoid broad generalizations about groups.