Anti-Defamation League director: Rise in anti-Semitism 'more than what one man does'
Source: The Hill
BY MEGAN KELLER - 10/28/18 09:58 AM EDT
The chief executive and director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Jonathon Greenblatt, Sunday said that his organization will continue to call out rhetoric used by President Trump, but emphasized that the rise in anti-Semitism across the U.S. is the work of more than one man.
"I was encouraged that the president said something yesterday," Greenblatt told ABC's "This Week," regarding Trump's statements after a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning that killed at least 11 people.
"But it isn't only what you say after a tragedy that matters, it's the environment that you create with your rhetoric," he said. "And at the ADL we have spoken out when candidate Trump or President Trump has invoked anti-Semitic memes or used the rhetoric favored by White supremacists. But its more than what one man does," Greenblatt added.
"Whether youre an elected official meeting with Nazi sympathizers or bringing Holocaust deniers to the House of Representative or if youre a candidate for office invoking wild anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish financiers like George Soros manipulating world events or if youre a religious leader referring to Jews as 'termites,' all of this is absolutely unacceptable."
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/413519-director-of-adl-we-will-continue-to-call-out-trump-but-this-is
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Jrsygrl96
(129 posts)Anti-Semitism has always been around, but in small pockets. When you live in an area with a large Jewish population, it is not unusual to see a story about swastikas on a synagogue or of a rabbi or others who were attacked. The Pittsburgh carnage was not what I just described! It was the single, deadliest attack of Jewish people on American soil. The person in the Oval Office spews hatred everyday!!!!! His rhetoric tells hate mongers violence Is ok. PERIOD!
yardwork
(62,578 posts)Hate crimes against Jewish people rose 57% last year.
Trump has the biggest voice right now but this is a problem that is bigger than one man.
EleanorR
(2,425 posts)yardwork
(62,578 posts)Please listen to yourself. 57% - LAST YEAR! 45 was inaugurated in 2017. 57% since he became our so called president.
yardwork
(62,578 posts)yardwork
(62,578 posts)Which way will you choose?