ANOTHER LIAR! What Is It With Democratic Socialists Lying About Their Background?

What is it with Democratic Socialists and fake backstories?

As I mentioned a while ago, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez came up with some sob story about how she grew up a poor girl from the Bronx.

It turns out Alexandria actually grew up in Westchester County, a wealthy suburb of NYC, and one of the most expensive counties in the NATION.

Cue Julia Salazar.

Julia is running for a New York State Senate seat as a “Jewish, Columbian immigrant.”

She is neither of those things.

Incredible reporting here from @ArminRosen in @tabletmag on @SalazarSenate18. The candidate is running on her identity as a Colombian immigrant and Jew of color. But it seems she is neither of those things. https://t.co/ypxaGX3prb

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) August 23, 2018

Iiiiinteresting.

According to Daily Wire:

Julia Salazar, who is supported by Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour, is running for a seat in Brooklyn’s 18th district. She has had numerous profiles in media outlets; some of which described her as Jewish. JTA referred to her as Jewish; Lilith magazine wrote that Salazar’s father was “a Sephardic Jew from Colombia”, and the Forward remarked that “her father was Jewish.” As The Times Of Israel notes, “The author of the Forward piece, Ben Fractenberg, told JTA that he recalls her saying that her father was Jewish.”

Yeah… that’s all BULL.

For the story I linked to above, her BROTHER said, “There was nobody in our immediate family who was Jewish … my father was not Jewish, we were not raised Jewish.”

Uh oh.

Julia quickly responded with what sounds like a truckload of BS:

Salazar countered the claims that she is not Jewish by writing on Facebook Messenger, “My parents weren’t religious when my brother and I were growing up. Some of my extended family are Jewish; many are Catholic. Others converted from Judaism to Catholicism. My dad didn’t identify as Jewish (or any other religion, although his funeral was in a Catholic church).”

Armin Rosen, writing for Tablet, did not deny Salazar’s right to claim a Jewish identity, but pointed out that when she was an undergraduate at Columbia University she seemed to identify as a conservative Christian.

Julia, however, claims to have gone “through a conversion process with a Reform rabbi at [Columbia-Barnard] Hillel in 2012. I don’t really bother to consider it a conversion because many people don’t respect Reform conversion”

Of course, she “declined” to do a  b’nai mitzvah ceremony, as she didn’t want to make a big deal about it. It also didn’t feel earnest to consider it a conversion “because there was no religion for me to convert from.”

…WUT?

Salazar opined, “But I am Jewish, there’s no way for me to become un-Jewish except by converting to some other religion which I never intend to do. Even if the gatekeepers of Jewishness want to deny my Jewishness, that doesn’t really upset me.”

Yeeeeah, ok. See… what about the fact that she had formerly been a practicing Christian? She just ignored that bit.

I mean… it’s not that I CARE what religion she practices… it’s just all so… ick? Why LIE about who your parents are and what religion you practice?

And then it gets EVEN WORSE.

She claims to have been brought to the US as a child by her immigrant parents.

Nah. She was born in Miami.

As far as Salazar claiming to be an immigrant, Tablet noted Salazar told Jacobin Magazine, “My family immigrated to the U.S. from Colombia when I was a baby.” She also said at a Brooklyn forum on July 3, “My family immigrated from Colombia to the US when I was a little kid.”

Nope.

But Salazar also told JTA that she was born in Miami, a claim she echoed in an interview last May with Village Voice reporter Emma Whitford. She told Whitford, “I was born in Miami but it’s kind of complicated. Basically my parents were living in Colombia at the time but my mom was a flight attendant when my parents met so they were sort of transient when my brother and I were really young. So we lived in Colombia and then my mom raised my brother and I in South Florida.”

WUTT???

I mean… it sounds like this chick is all over the place.

Obviously her “I’m a Jewish immigrant of color” narrative is just really popular with the New York libs crowd.