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Trump's anti-Semitism comes in different shapes & sizes. He verbalizes it, encourages it, enables it
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,.......tolerates it, and makes excuses for it. What he doesn't do is condemn it. U.S. Presidents have historically PUBLICLY disavowed bigots who act in their name — without taking responsibility for their views. Last February, the conservative American Spectator urged Presidential candidate Trump to take a page from President Ronald Reagan, who forcefully repudiated an endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan. Trump of course refused!

So, let’s take a closer look at the anti-Semitism controversies surrounding Donald Trump. Is he enabling anti-Semitism? You be the judge.
Slurring Jon Stewart, Trump accentuates the comedian’s original Jewish name.

On April 24, 2013, Trump seems to go out of his way to highlight the “Daily Show” host’s Jewish background, tweeting: “I promise you that I’m much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz — I mean Jon Stewart @TheDailyShow. Who, by the way, is totally overrated.”

Trump tells Republican Jews: ‘I don’t want your money’

In a speech in Washington to the Republican Jewish Coalition last December, Trump appears to traffic in stereotypes about Jews. “You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money,” he told the Jewish audience. He also says, “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t negotiate deals? Probably more than any room I’ve ever spoken.”

Trump muddles the message on David Duke.

After David Duke, the white supremacist and former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, says he supports Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper asks Trumpon Feb. 28 if he would disavow Duke’s support. Though Trump in the past had condemned Duke — and two days earlier at a news conference said, “David Duke endorsed me? OK, all right. I disavow, OK?” — this time Trump demurs.

Journalist Julia Ioffe is inundated by anti-Semitic vitriol

After Melania Trump criticizes Ioffe’s April 27 profile of her in GQ as “another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting,” the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer urges followers to “go ahead and send her [Ioffe] a tweet and let her know what you think of her dirty kike trickery.” Ioffe, who is Jewish, then is inundated with a deluge of anti-Semitic online wrath, including a doctored photo of her wearing a Holocaust-era Jewish star, a cartoon of a Jew getting his brains blown out and threats that she would be sent “back to the oven.”

The online anti-Semitism directed at Ioffe is similar to online attacks directed at other Jewish commentators who denounced Donald Trump, such as Forward columnist Bethany Mandel.

When CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, a Jew and former reporter for The Jerusalem Post, asks Trump if he has a “message” for supporters who were flooding Ioffe with “anti-Semitic death threats,” Trump says, “I know nothing about it. You’ll have to talk to them about that.” He then went on to echo his wife’s criticism of Ioffe’s article. Pressed, Trump says, “I don’t have a message to the fans,” and added, “There is nothing more dishonest than the media.”

Trump champions ‘America First’

In a major speech designed to unveil his prospective foreign policy agenda, Trump declares, “’America First’ will be the overriding theme of my administration.” The theme carries echoes of the America First Committee, which lobbied hard against America’s entry into World War II and whose most prominent spokesman was aviator Charles Lindbergh, an avowed anti-Semite.

A Jewish New York Times editor becomes a target of Trump-supporting anti-Semites

After tweeting a link to an essay about emerging fascism in the United States, New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman is attacked by anti-Semitic online trolls identifying themselves as Trump supporters.

“Trump God Emperor sent me the Nazi iconography of the shiftless, hooknosed Jew,” Weisman writes in a Times essay about the responses to his tweet. “I was served an image of the gates of Auschwitz, the famous words ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ replaced without irony with ‘Machen Amerika Great.’ Holocaust taunts, like a path of dollar bills leading into an oven, were followed by Holocaust denial.”

Trump’s white supremacist delegate

William Johnson, leader of the white supremacist American Freedom Party, is among the list of delegates the Trump campaign submitted in California ahead of the state’s May 9 deadline. After news organizations begin reporting about the controversial delegate, the Trump campaign blames Johnson’s inclusion on its list as a “database error.” Johnson then says he is resigning as a delegate and will not attend the convention.


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In a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Donald Trump was asked a fairly commonplace question about the recent uptick in anti-Semitic acts in the United States. His response:

Well, I just want to say that we are, you know, very honored by the victory that we had—316 electoral college votes. We were not supposed to crack 220. You know that, right? There was no way to 221, but then they said there's no way to 270. And there's tremendous enthusiasm out there.  

I will say that we are going to have peace in this country. We are going to stop crime in this country. We are going to do everything within our power to stop long simmering racism and every other thing that's going on. There's a lot of bad things that have been taking place over a long period of time.  

I think one of the reasons I won the election is we have a very, very divided nation, very divided. And hopefully, I'll be able to do something about that. And I, you know, it was something that was very important to me.  

As far as people, Jewish people, so many friends; a daughter who happens to be here right now; a son-in-law, and three beautiful grandchildren. I think that you're going to see a lot different United States of America over the next three, four or eight years. I think a lot of good things are happening. And you're going to see a lot of love. You're going to see a lot of love. OK? Thank you.

Trump's response has gotten a lot of negative attention, for two reasons. The first is that it's rambling to the point of being stupidly nonsensical, actually it's worse when watching the video. When the video clip was re-played on CNN, four political pundits —a left-winger, a centrist, a right-winger, and the other left-winger—couldn't help but shake their heads.

Trump was asked a nice, big softball question—an opportunity to condemn anti-Semitism, and he chose not to take it. Given the number of anti-Semitic moments he blundered into during the campaign, not to mention the perception that his top adviser is an anti-Semite, it's not a great look. What say you, Dr Gonzo?

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I mean his some of supporters would not stand for it!

Posted By: saltyballs
In a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Donald Trump was asked a fairly commonplace question about the recent uptick in anti-Semitic acts in the United States. His response:

Well, I just want to say that we are, you know, very honored by the victory that we had—316 electoral college votes. We were not supposed to crack 220. You know that, right? There was no way to 221, but then they said there's no way to 270. And there's tremendous enthusiasm out there.  
   
 I will say that we are going to have peace in this country. We are going to stop crime in this country. We are going to do everything within our power to stop long simmering racism and every other thing that's going on. There's a lot of bad things that have been taking place over a long period of time.  
   
 I think one of the reasons I won the election is we have a very, very divided nation, very divided. And hopefully, I'll be able to do something about that. And I, you know, it was something that was very important to me.  
   
 As far as people, Jewish people, so many friends; a daughter who happens to be here right now; a son-in-law, and three beautiful grandchildren. I think that you're going to see a lot different United States of America over the next three, four or eight years. I think a lot of good things are happening. And you're going to see a lot of love. You're going to see a lot of love. OK? Thank you.
Trump's response has gotten a lot of negative attention, for two reasons. The first is that it's rambling to the point of being stupidly nonsensical, actually it's worse when watching the video. When the video clip was re-played on CNN, four political pundits —a left-winger, a centrist, a right-winger, and the other left-winger—couldn't help but shake their heads.  
   
 Trump was asked a nice, big softball question—an opportunity to condemn anti-Semitism, and he chose not to take it. Given the number of anti-Semitic moments he blundered into during the campaign, not to mention the perception that his top adviser is an anti-Semite, it's not a great look. What say you, Dr Gonzo?


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Posted By: saltyballs
In a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Donald Trump was asked a fairly commonplace question about the recent uptick in anti-Semitic acts in the United States.  

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 Trump was asked a nice, big softball question—an opportunity to condemn anti-Semitism, and he chose not to take it. Given the number of anti-Semitic moments he blundered into during the campaign, not to mention the perception that his top adviser is an anti-Semite, it's not a great look. What say you, Dr Gonzo?

1 - I never supported Trumps candidacy, despite claims made by Laffy because he's an asshole and troll, or bigguy30 because he channels Zippy the Pinhead.

2 - It is very disappointing on the face of it, considering his daughters conversion, and his "Jewish" grandchildren. I would have expected him to be more forceful, just on those merits.

3 - It is not, however surprising he would dodge this question, considering the extreme and alt-right demographics of his support base.

4 - I am genuinely puzzled and befuddled by the tunnel-visioned support given Trump by one Shmuley Boteach, a Jewish right winger with whom I used to correspond when he first started his blog in the 90's. He says neither Trump nor BANNON are anti-Semitic. I am on record  that I simply do not believe there is much difference between Haters like Richard Spencer, David Duke or our resident bigots, and those that by virtue of their positions of power and influence EMPOWER those Haters.

5 - I believe that Trump simply is not sophisticated enough to comprehend the deeper dynamics at work here. Sorry quadseasonal, I respect you, I really do, but I simply can't put my support behind your man. Unlike the vermin on here who want nothing more than for Trump, and by extension the US Government to fall on its face, I actually DO love this country and want it to succeed regardless of which political party is in power.

6 - I also said that though I want the US Embassy moved to Jerusalem, I'm not holding my breath due to the simple fact I'm realistic about the chaotic effect it could have in the region at this time.  

7 - I do not consider Judea and Samaria to be Occupied territory. I prefer Liberated, but must accept "disputed" because that's what they are. Disputed territory which was taken from and liberated from enemy control during wartime. Nasser and the entire Arab world invaded the brand new country of Israel mere hours after the UN validated its existence. They lost and kept on losing, and have been whining about it ever since. And spending billions in revisionist history campaigns and an incessant barrage of canards and taking advantage of the Western mindsets inability to comprehend the mindset of the Middle East. Appeasement is a sign of Weakness.

8 - I think there are just as many or more anti-Semites being empowered by the Hard Left than are being influenced by Bannon on the alt-Right. We've always known about the Nazi's and the KKK. But the fetid swamp of Jew hatred is far more openly prevalent and encouraged TODAY from the left, and deep within the Democratic Party. There will always be 1%-er old money Elitist Protestants who refuse to allow Jews into their country clubs and believe (like bigguy30) that Jews have horns and a tail. It's been societally fashionable to hate Jews for 2500 years or more. But the new breed of hatred festering on college campuses is coming from the Hard Left, financed by certain Arab oil princes, and the George Soros financial network.

9 - Settlements are not the obstacle to Peace. Intransigence on the part of Momzer Abbas and the Palestine Terrorist Network is the bigger hurdle.

10 - I maintain that in the big picture, American and Israeli interests coincide far more than they clash. Especially when it comes to the fight against terrorism, regardless of the perpetrators, be they Shiite, Sunni, Christian, or Haredi.

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