This is a touchy subject. Many will disagree with me. But I find it offensive and bizarre that this was choreographed so that the Israeli Ambassador is the one who greeted the President first at the Tree of Life synagogue. The Prez is not visiting Israel.
2/ The important context is that the Ambassador is himself a former GOP political operative in the US. He represents a government that has allied itself strongly with President Trump, notwithstanding the fact that the American Jewish community is overwhelmingly opposed to the ...
3/ President and the President is himself spending a lot of time whipping up xenophobia and a climate of anti-Semitism which is contributing to these attacks. As I said a couple days ago, paraphrasing Andrew Gillum, I'm not saying Trump's an anti-Semite. But anti-Semites ...
4/ think he's an anti-Semite. And he's been pretty happy to let them think so because of the political benefits.
