And we connect what he says and does to our history.

When Trump tried to ban people from Muslim countries, we remembered our expulsions and exile.

When Trump denied refugees fleeing violence and persecution, we remembered our refugees facing imminent death turned away.

When Trump blamed immigrants for crime and economic hardship, we remembered Jews being singled out and scapegoated.

When Trump refers to COVID-19 as the “Chinese Virus,” we remember Jews being attributed to diseases for centuries.

This shows up in the data. The Democratic Party’s allotment of Jewish votes went from 66% in pre-Trump 2014 to 72% in 2016, to 79% in 2018. Trump’s 2016 rise correlated with an exponential increase in hate crimes against Jews and other minority groups. Since 2016, anti-Semitic incidents have increased over 66%, leading to the most annual anti-Semitic incidents in nearly 50 years, including the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history, the shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue.

In Trump’s America, division, denigration, alienation, prejudice, and hate are standard.

Our Jewish faith is founded upon the antithesis of that.


https://forward.com/opinion/453886/m...us-imperative/