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Former president Donald Trump again claimed that the Democratic Party “hates Israel” and that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats “hate” their religion, echoing previous attacks he has made about Jewish Democrats.
The comments were part of a lengthy interview with far-right former adviser Sebastian Gorka that was posted online Monday.
“Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,” Trump added.
Trump, in his interview with Gorka, went on a lengthy rant about the Democratic Party and Jewish Democrats. Doubling down on his attack on Schumer, the former president claimed that the Senate majority leader “was always pro-Israel” but that he’s “very anti-Israel now.”
In a post Monday on X, Schumer said that making “Israel a partisan issue only hurts Israel and the US-Israeli relationship.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, criticized Trump’s remarks.
“Accusing Jews of hating their religion because they might vote for a particular party is defamatory and patently false,” he said in a statement. “Serious leaders who care about the historic US-Israel alliance should focus on strengthening, rather than unraveling, bipartisan support for the State of Israel.”
[Trump campaign spox backs him up to the hilt.] “President Trump is right — the Democrat Party has turned into a full-blown anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist cabal,” Karoline Leavitt, the campaign’s national press secretary, said in a statement.
[Funny thing about cabal -- it derives etymologically from Kabbalah.]
[There have been several other similar statements from Trump, including...]
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His use of the word “disloyalty” immediately drew criticism from Jewish groups that said Trump was echoing antisemitic tropes about where American Jews’ loyalty lies.
The comments were part of a lengthy interview with far-right former adviser Sebastian Gorka that was posted online Monday.
“Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,” Trump added.
Trump, in his interview with Gorka, went on a lengthy rant about the Democratic Party and Jewish Democrats. Doubling down on his attack on Schumer, the former president claimed that the Senate majority leader “was always pro-Israel” but that he’s “very anti-Israel now.”
In a post Monday on X, Schumer said that making “Israel a partisan issue only hurts Israel and the US-Israeli relationship.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, criticized Trump’s remarks.
“Accusing Jews of hating their religion because they might vote for a particular party is defamatory and patently false,” he said in a statement. “Serious leaders who care about the historic US-Israel alliance should focus on strengthening, rather than unraveling, bipartisan support for the State of Israel.”
[Trump campaign spox backs him up to the hilt.] “President Trump is right — the Democrat Party has turned into a full-blown anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist cabal,” Karoline Leavitt, the campaign’s national press secretary, said in a statement.
[Funny thing about cabal -- it derives etymologically from Kabbalah.]
[There have been several other similar statements from Trump, including...]
Trump Questions Loyalty of Jewish Democrats
Filed under You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Jewish leaders outraged by Trump saying Jews disloyal if they vote for Democrats - CNNPolitics Five years ago, the concept of even talking about this -- even three years ago -- of cutting off aid to Israel because of two people that hate Israel and...
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His use of the word “disloyalty” immediately drew criticism from Jewish groups that said Trump was echoing antisemitic tropes about where American Jews’ loyalty lies.
