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The National Rifle Association (NRA) suffered some major blowback in February 2018 after yet another mass shooting took the lives of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida. As survivors called on members of Congress to stop accepting money from the NRA, and companies ended commercial partnerships with the group, an image of a Tweet posted by spokeswoman Dana Loesch in 2010 that seemingly expressed an anti-Semitic sentiment resurfaced: This tweet is real: Loesch deleted it shortly after it went viral in February 2018, but the original was preserved by sources such as the Internet Archive. The controversial tweet was widely reproduced in February 2018, usually without any context explaining what it referenced or offering any insight into as to whether it may or may not have been anti-Semitic in intent. It was originally posted in October 2010, shortly after journalist Rick Sanchez had been fired by CNN for making anti-Semitic remarks during an interview on a SiriusXM radio program. During that interview, Sanchez referred to former Daily Show host Jon Stewart as a bigot, mocked the minority status of Jewish people, and implied that CNN and other television networks were controlled by Jews: When Loesch's tweet resurfaced in February 2018, she defended it by saying that it had been intended to point out the poetic justice of Sanchez's firing, not as an expression of anti-Semitism on her part: In another tweet, Loesch asserted that she found (and still finds) Sanchez's comments abhorrent: Others, however, expressed skepticism about the phrasing of Loesch's original tweet. The Jewish news outlet Haaretz, for example, reported that:
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