{"id":95714,"date":"2026-09-03T06:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=95714"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:37:13","slug":"far-right-israel-critic-james-fishback-likens-abortion-to-the-holocaust-in-ole-miss-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/far-right-israel-critic-james-fishback-likens-abortion-to-the-holocaust-in-ole-miss-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right Israel critic James Fishback likens abortion to the Holocaust in Ole Miss speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

By SHARON UDASIN<\/p>\n

(JTA) \u2014 James Fishback, a fierce critic of Israel and a far-right politician, offered scathing remarks about the Jewish state and likened abortion to the Holocaust during an address at the University of Mississippi on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

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The Lyceum, oldest building on the campus of the University of Mississippi on April 12, 2008 in Oxford, Mississippi. (Wesley Hitt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fishback, a former GOP gubernatorial candidate in Florida, recalled that earlier this summer the Combat Antisemitism Movement flagged as antisemitic one of his X posts describing abortion as a holocaust.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbortion is a holocaust, and by every single historical metric available, it was worse than the other one,\u201d Fishback said, claiming that \u201c61 million children have been killed in the womb since Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided in 1973.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also had harsh words for the state of Israel. \u201cIt is time for President Trump to call [Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu and cut him off. We must decouple from Israel to save America,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Fishback was speaking at a Turn Up the Mic forum arranged by members of the University of Mississippi chapter of Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

Slamming immigration policies on both sides of the aisle \u2014 Republicans for too few mass deportations and Democrats for an influx of foreign workers \u2014 Fishback declared, \u201cIt\u2019s time to stand up and tell both parties that no, American jobs are for Americans only.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted, however, that making such demands could result in a person being labeled a racist or misogynist, and that \u201cif you\u2019re really bad they\u2019ll call you an antisemite.\u201d Stressing that he condemns \u201call forms of religious hatred,\u201d he maintained that \u201cthe most virulent\u201d type is the hostility \u201cagainst Christians in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fishback blamed Israel and the inability of the U.S. to \u201ctell them no\u201d for drawing the country into the war with Iran. That war, he argued, has pushed gas prices and Treasury yields higher.<\/p>\n

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