Rep. Jerry Nadler Friday criticized Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu as the worst leader of the Jewish people since a king from the Hasmonean dynasty more than 2,000 years ago.
Speaking on an episode of Politico’s “Playbook Deep Dive” podcast, the New York Democrat said Netanyahu has “got only one competitor for the worst Jewish leader in history, and that would be the Hasmonean king [John Hyrcanus II] who in the first century BC, in order to help him in a factional dispute, invited in the Romans.”
Hyrcanus II requested that his Roman allies help him defeat a rival Jewish faction, but that move backfired and led to the Romans effectively subjugating the Jews, the New York Daily News pointed out.
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