According to the National Association of Immigration Judges, the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) sent court employees a link to a blog post from VDare in its morning news briefing earlier this week that included anti-semetic attacks on judges.
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The briefings are sent to court employees every day and include links to various immigration news items. BuzzFeed News confirmed the link to a blog post was sent to immigration court employees. The post detailed a recent move by the DOJ to decertify the immigration judge’s union.
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“The post features links and content that directly attacks sitting immigration judges with racial and ethnically tinged slurs and the label ‘Kritarch.’ The reference to Kritarch in a negative tone is deeply offensive and Anti-Semitic,” wrote Tabaddor in a letter to the EOIR head.
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Tabaddor said the term Kritarchy is a reference to ancient Israel during a time of rule by a system of judges. “VDare’s use of the term in a pejorative manner casts Jewish history in a negative light as an Anti-Semitic trope of Jews seeking power and control,” she wrote.
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The judges are asking for an immediate apology from EOIR/DOJ, the post to be taken down, and that steps to be taken to protect the judges cited in the post. DOJ declined to comment when I asked them about this.
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A former senior DOJ official said that the email in question is "generated by a third-party vendor that utilizes keyword searches to produce news clippings for staff. It is not reviewed or approved by staff before it is transmitted."
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NEW: DOJ spokesman just emailed to say that “the daily EOIR morning news briefings are compiled by a contractor and the blog post should not have been included.”
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I will also note that the Vdare post in question features the term "lugenpresse" -- a term frequently used in Nazi Germany -- when describing an NYT story about the DOJ trying to decertify the union.
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UPDATE: EOIR Assistant Press Secretary Kathryn Mattingly emailed this comment: "The daily EOIR morning news briefings are compiled by a contractor and the blog post should not have been included. The Department of Justice condemns Anti-Semitism in the strongest terms.”
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We have updated our story to include the letter sent to the head of the immigration court today. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/justice-department-immigration-judges-white-nationalist …pic.twitter.com/HbH1Pz5l6G
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