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lees1975

(3,980 posts)
Mon May 13, 2024, 11:08 AM May 13

Concerned about anti-Semitism? Look at Donald Trump's record.

https://baptistnews.com/article/concerned-about-antisemitism-look-at-donald-trumps-record-house-member-says/

Trump’s record of antisemitic remarks is so long that the Washington Post wrote an entire article cataloguing them in 2022.

Among the examples not already mentioned:

He attacked American Jews for being insufficiently supportive of him. “Wonderful evangelicals are far more appreciative of (his record on Israel) than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S.”
He said he was so popular in Israel that he could be elected prime minister, added, “U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — before it is too late!”
He has repeatedly spoken of American Jews as belonging more to the state of Israel than to the U.S. as citizens, referring to “your country,” “your prime minister” and “your ambassador.”
He accused American Jews multiple times of not loving Israel enough.
He said, “Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”
While campaigning in 2015, he played to the trope that Jews control society by virtue of their money and cunning — one of the oldest and more pernicious antisemitic tropes.
In the 2016 campaign, he tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton surrounded by money with the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” inside a six-pointed star, the shape of the Star of David.
He ran an ad featuring prominent Jews — George Soros, Janet Yellen and Lloyd Blankfein — while warning of “global special interests.”
In a December 2021 interview, Trump said, “It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress, and today I think it’s the exact opposite.”
In a 2019 speech to the Israeli American Council, Trump said: “A lot of you are in the real estate business because I know you very well. You’re brutal killers. Not nice people at all. But you have to vote for me; you have no choice.”
In 2016, the Times of Israel also devoted an entire article to Trump’s “antisemitism controversies.”
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