Trump: Jews Voting for Democrats Show Lack of Knowledge or Great Disloyalty
Source: The Jerusalem Post
US President, Donald Trump, said Tuesday that Jews who vote for Democrats "shows either total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty."
Asked by reporters about the Ilhan Omar-Rashid Tlaib saga, the President slammed the two for suggesting to cut aid for Israel. "I would not cut off to Israel, and I can't even believe we are having this conversation," he said. "five years ago, the concept of even talking about cutting off aid to Israel because of two people who hate Israel and hate Jewish people - I can't believe we are having this conversation. Where has the Democratic party gone?"
"Where have they gone where they are defending these two people over the state of Israel?" the President continued. "I think any Jewish people that vote for a democrat -- I think it shows either total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty."
He spoke about the joint press conference of the two Congresswomen and added: "You should see the horrible things that Tlaib said on Israel over the last couple of years. Omar is a disaster for Jewish people. I can't imagine if she has Jewish people in her district that they could possibly vote for her."
Read more: https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Trump-Jews-voting-for-democrats-show-lack-of-knowledge-or-great-disloyalty-599207
In response; "Jewish support for the Republican Party has been halved in the past four years."- Halie Soifer, Executive Director of Jewish Democratic Council of America
"This is yet another example of Donald Trump continuing to weaponize and politicize anti-Semitism. At a time when anti-Semitic incidents have increased -- due to the president's emboldening of white nationalism -- Trump is repeating an anti-Semitic trope. If this is about Israel, then Trump is repeating a dual loyalty claim, which is a form of anti-Semitism. If this is about Jews being "loyal" to him, then Trump needs a reality check. We live in a democracy, and Jewish support for the Republican Party has been halved in the past four years."
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I'm Orthodox. My family are Orthodox. Some members of my family now live in Israel.
Many (or, rather "some"
Orthodox consider the Democratic Party as incomparable with Jewish values, which generally line up on the right. They are also greatly distressed by tolerance of our party with some of the very poorly phrased statements of Omar, Tlaib, etc.
Anyway, I get the "Democrats are not good for the Jews" pronouncements enough from people I love.
I don't need it from the President.
I honestly suspect Ivanka (who is Jewish) and her family of being behind this kind of thinking.
Converts must be respected, as they are Jews-by-choice. But I have often found them more over-the-top in their beliefs than people born Jewish.
I am certain they are offended by the dual loyalty claim of il douche and will publicly rebuke him
just in case
But he does have his defenders, who tell us what he meant!
"The Republican Jewish Coalition defended Trump, arguing that the president was speaking about people being disloyal to themselves rather than to Israel."
"President Trump is right, it shows a great deal of disloyalty to oneself to defend a party that protects/emboldens people that hate you for your religion," the group said in a tweet. "The @GOP, when rarely confronted w/anti-Semitism of elected members always acts swiftly and decisively to punish and remove."
The GOP punishes and removes...
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/15/ilhan-omar-aipac-republicans-anti-semitism/
McCarthy, Scalise, Gohmert, Gaetz, King, Gosar...the only one who has been punished is King and it wasn't because of his association with certain pro-Nazi groups!
