North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson, who has been accused of antisemitism for past social media remarks about Jews and the Holocaust, traveled to Israel Monday to show support for the Jewish people in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, according to his campaign. Robinson is seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 2024. His campaign said the trip was organized by the North Carolina Faith and Freedom Coalition, a Christian political group with strong ties to the Republican Party’s right wing. Robinson, who won the lieutenant governor’s office in 2020, has a social media history dotted by conspiracy theories, downplaying the threat of Naziism and making other comments criticized as antisemitic or holocaust denial.
“There is a reason the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the Nazi and the ‘6 million Jews’ they murdered,” Robinson said in a 2017 Facebook post. “There is also a reason those same liberals do not fill the airwaves with programs about the communist and the 100+ million people they murdered throughout the 20th Century.”
Statements such as those, as well as derogatory comments about LGBTQ+ people and statements viewed by some as misogynistic, have drawn criticism from the left and have caused some members of his own party to worry about his electability.
Robinson is working to put some of these things behind him, and to be pro-Israel. He called a press conference last month to announce a week of solidarity with Israel but spent most of the time fielding questions about his past remarks.
He apologized for the wording of some of those social media posts, but “not necessarily for the content.”
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