Donald Trump is an anti-Semite. This isn’t a new development. He’s always been this way. We’ve known it since the ‘80’s when he said that “the only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes.”
In 2015 Donald Trump told the Republican Jewish Coalition that "I'm a negotiator like you folks” and "You're not going to support me because I don't want your money.”
In 2016 he tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton that displayed a star of David over a pile of money.
During the first month of his presidency, Donald Trump ignited a firestorm by failing to mention the Jewish people in his statement honoring Holocaust Remembrance Day—only citing "the innocent" in his comments.
After the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in August 2017 where tiki torch-wielding mobs chanted "Jews will not replace us," and a domestic terrorist injured 19 people and killed Heather Heyer, Trump said there were "some very fine people on both sides."
In a speech before the Republican Jewish Coalition this past April, Trump referred to Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu as "your prime minister." A commonly used anti-Semitic trope suggesting that Jews have divided loyalties.
In July an artist who drew a “blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon” which showed U.S. government officials as puppets of George Soros and the Rothschilds, was invited to the White House by Donald Trump. He was later disinvited after his invitation became public.
On Twitter Donald Trump frequently retweets white nationalists, conspiracy theorists, and creators of anti-Semitic memes. During the 2016 campaign, he retweeted several users whose Twitter accounts were later suspended for promoting neo-Nazi hate speech.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the incidence of anti-Semitic hate crimes jumped nearly 60 percent in 2017, the biggest increase since the organization started keeping track 40 years ago. It’s no coincidence that the increase coincides with Trump’s first year in office.
Words have consequences. And words uttered by the American president have outsized influence. They reverberate around the world. And echo in the ears of dangerous people with evil intent. A president should be a uniter. Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric puts us all in harms way.
Today the President doubled down on his anti-Semitism by announcing that Jews who vote Democratic are disloyal to Israel. He also referred to himself as the “King of Israel.” Care to comment @GOP?
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