Conservative activist group Turning Point USA (TUPSA) has severed ties with one of its ambassadors after a series of antisemitic posts.
On Thursday evening, influencer Morgan Ariel shared a screen shot of a message she received from TPUSA informing her the organization had removed her as an ambassador.
“I was just removed as an ambassador from [TPUSA] for exercising my 1st amendment right and upholding biblical principals,” she claimed.
I was just removed as an ambassador from @tpusa for exercising my 1st amendment right and upholding biblical principals.
— Morgan Ariel (@itsmorganariel) January 4, 2024
More to come… pic.twitter.com/tfWmpjIItU
The message did not specify what part of her commentary crossed a line. However, it came after she posted, “The Zionist Jews controlling our planet are all pedophiIes who have no regard for the sanctity of human life and purity. Read the Talmud and it will all make more sense.”
The Zionist Jews controlling our planet are all pedophiIes who have no regard for the sanctity of human life and purity.
— Morgan Ariel (@itsmorganariel) January 4, 2024
Read the Talmud and it will all make more sense.
You could perhaps wail about cancel culture in this incident.
However, those who think the decision was wrong should wonder if Turning Point really wanted to be associated with someone who wasn’t just saying fringe things, but actively pushing a blanket animosity toward Jewish people.
On Friday morning, Ariel shared a meme of a cartoon figure — clearly supposed to be Jewish — angrily crying asking, “You think we’re the synagogue of Satan?”
Meanwhile, a figure meant to be Jesus Christ responds, “Yes.”
Gm ?
— Morgan Ariel (@itsmorganariel) January 5, 2024pic.twitter.com/iBLGcSpfTV
This post, and others in the past, about Jews go far beyond simply taking issue with Zionism — a belief in a Jewish state — and have targeted Jewish people and their faith regardless of their stance on Israel.
Meanwhile, Ariel labels herself a “lioness for Jesus” and a “Christian activist” while seemingly ignoring the commandment to love your enemies.
Loving your enemies does not mean accepting and approving their beliefs or their actions. But it also doesn’t mean launching angry, conspiracy theory-filled tirades against them.
And, let’s be clear, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and expressing blanket disgust for Jews is not standing up for biblical principles, or being a bold truth-teller, or a “lioness for Jesus.”
It’s shameful behavior that brings a stain on Christianity when you so boldly label yourself a warrior for the faith and then attack people. You unleash a stream of antisemitic invective to your thousands of followers online.
And the First Amendment protects you from government censorship. It doesn’t force companies to associate with people sharing vile comments.
That TPUSA continued to associate with her despite this behavior — which really started going viral after the Oct. 7 massacre — for as long as it did should raise questions about the organization’s leadership. But it does deserve at least a tiny bit of credit for deciding that labeling all Jew pedophiles who are part of a global cabal running the world was just a bridge too far.
