On Jan. 20, Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres posted a public attack on X against LaRouche-affiliated congressional candidate Jose Vega. Avoiding mentioning Vega by name, Torres writes, “My opposition sees antisemitism not as a tragedy but as a strategy.
“One of my opponents appears in a despicably antisemitic video with Erik Warsaw, who once lionized Nick Fuentes—a notorious Holocaust denier—as a ‘hero.’ In that video, my opponent demonizes the Jewish residents of Riverdale, trafficking in the oldest and ugliest antisemitic tropes about money….”
Vega responded by reiterating his charge that Torres does not care about his constituents in the Bronx, and is funded by Zionist billionaires (including, it has been learned, Marco Rubio’s sugar daddy, Paul Singer).
Following this exchange, an [article defending Torres](https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/22/us-congressional-challenger-says-incumbent-ritchie-torres-bought-controlled-zionists/ appeared in the online edition of the Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner, which reads in part: “On Tuesday, a video circulated around social media featuring Vega, who is running for U.S. Congress as a Democrat/Independent, speaking with anti-Zionist pundit Erik Warsaw. The video featured images juxtaposing ‘Zio Rich Neighborhoods’ and ‘Everyone Else Neighborhoods.’
“‘Zio’ is an antisemitic slur brought into prominence by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. While the term, derived from ‘Zionist,’ has generally been deployed by white supremacists and other far-right extremists, it has more recently been used as well by anti-Israel activists on the progressive far left to refer to Jews in a derogatory manner.”
The “journalist,” Corey Walker, a young African-American who probably got paid $7,000 by Bill Ackman for posting on X that Israel had conducted the most humanitarian urban warfare ever seen, also takes a swipe at “activist Diane Sare” for telling Erik Warsaw in a short video interview that members of Congress and the military should have to give up dual citizenship in any nation other than the United States.
What Walker neglects to mention is the name Lyndon LaRouche or any relationship between the Vega and Sare candidacies, and that Diane Sare is running for President of the United States, thereby revealing what they fear the most.
