Florida candidate’s pro-Hitler campaign video vs. Jewish congressman sparks alarm

Jewish groups and members of the US Congress condemn and express alarm over a Florida congressional candidate’s antisemitic campaign video, which includes support for Adolf Hitler.

Dan Bilzerian is running a primary campaign against US Rep. Randy Fine, who is Jewish, in Florida’s 6th Congressional District.

Bilzerian has run an openly antisemitic campaign, including an AI-generated song and video released last week.

“Jewish supremacist, Satan’s creepy little minions,” the song says, showing Fine embracing a bag of cash.

“Should we revisit that Austrian painter’s opinions?” it says, over an image of Hitler. “Austrian painter” is often used as a euphemism for Hitler, who was a failed artist before rising to lead the Nazi Party.

The video also says Fine “wants you to die for Israel,” says Fine views his constituents as “goyim cattle,” accuses him of “raping kids,” calls him a “Satanic whore” over an image of Fine sprouting horns, and refers to him as “Shylock.”

The video has been viewed over 1.4 million times.

In other recent statements, Bilzerian has referred to Fine as a “fat disgusting Jew,” attacked other prominent Jews and said that “Jews are the problem.”

Over the weekend, Bilzerian posted a video of himself with supporters, saying, “District 6 understands the Jewish problem.”

“This is not politics. It is Nazi propaganda, aimed at a Jewish American running for office. This unadulterated Jew-hatred has no place in America — not in our politics, not in our political parties,” the American Jewish Committee says in a statement.

“Leaders in both parties have condemned it. It’s time for America to say enough is enough,” the AJC says.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress denounce the video.

“This brazen Nazi—who’s urging us to “revisit” the opinions of Hitler—revels in Jew hate & defends Sharia law. This evil has no place in the Republican Party,” says Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

US House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says, “The hateful campaign being run by Daniel Bilzerian in Florida is blatantly antisemitic and shocks the conscience.”

“People of goodwill regardless of political affiliation must reject his vile attacks on the Jewish community. This cannot and will not stand,” Jeffries says.