Trump makes his week of ‘send them back’ about the Jews. Few Jews are happy.
It’s been dislocating, even dizzying, witnessing the devolution of President Donald Trump’s argument with four of his fiercest congressional critics, none of whom are Jewish, into an argument about… what Jews want.
Over and over since Monday’s tweet saying that that the Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” Trump has defended himself by calling the lawmakers and their party anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. In turn, Jews — including many who share Trump’s contempt for some of the women — appear to be asking the president to leave them out of it.
In a flurry of subsequent tweets, press gaggles and at a rally in North Carolina, Trump pushed back, saying the congresswomen “hated” Israel and Jews, and also quoted Sen. Lindsey Graham, (the pasty faced christstain) R-S.C., as saying the congresswomen were anti-Semitic.
“As Jews, we are all too familiar with this kind of divisive prejudice,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL’s CEO and national director, in a statement. “While ADL has publicly disagreed with these congresswomen on some issues, the president is echoing the racist talking points of white nationalists and cynically using the Jewish people and the state of Israel as a shield to double down on his remarks.”
https://www.jta.org/2019/07/19/unite...jews-are-happy
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