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ellenrr

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Fri Mar 18, 2016, 03:53 PM Mar 2016

Rabbis, Jewish leaders plan boycott of Donald Trump at AIPAC

Source: CNN

Several groups of rabbis and Jewish religious leaders are planning to protest Donald Trump's speech to a major pro-Israel conference in Washington on Monday, accusing the presidential candidate of encouraging hatred.

Trump is scheduled to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Monday night, and several groups are organizing boycotts of the speech.

Rabbis David Paskin and Jesse Olitzky organized one such campaign, called Come Together Against Hate, a play on the conference's theme of "Come Together."

The pair and their allies have created a website and Facebook group to organize a protest that they say is not designed to disrupt AIPAC but to signal their condemnation of Trump.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/donald-trump-aipac-boycott-protest-rabbis-jewish-leaders/index.html



--- I'm glad to see this..

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However, I cannot agree that AIPAC is about "love and decency"

"Come Together Against Hate's plan is to either skip the speech altogether or silently walk out after Trump is introduced, then assemble outside and study Jewish scripture about what Paskin called the "opposite" of Trump -- love and decency."
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Rabbis, Jewish leaders plan boycott of Donald Trump at AIPAC (Original Post) ellenrr Mar 2016 OP
I wonder if Trump will continue his nightclub act from last December about jews and money. PSPS Mar 2016 #1
lol. maybe he will perform it at his aipac presentation. nt ellenrr Mar 2016 #2
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