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Jesse Lehrich
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I’m glad we are all denouncing anti-Semitism. I have a few other instances I’d like to nominate for bipartisan condemnation...
In 2013, Donald Trump launched an anti-Semitic effort to essentially dox Jon Stewart as a Jew, which he seemed to viewed as an inherent flaw.

Trump taunted, “why did he change his name from Jonathan Leibowitz? He should be proud of his heritage!”
vox.com/policy-and-pol…
at @RJC in 2015, Trump literally told their Jewish membership: “You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money. You want to control your politicians, that’s fine.”
forward.com/news/national/…
Trump’s ‘America First’ slogan is borrowed from the leading WWII-era anti-Semitic group who urged the U.S. to appease Hitler & demanded we stay out of the war.

Trump has ignored pleas from the Anti-Defamation League & others to abandon the term.
haaretz.com/world-news/tru…
In early 2016, Trump said he’d be “neutral” in Israeli-Palestinian talks, and when accused of not being pro-Israel, defended himself by saying: “I happen to have a son-in-law and a daughter that are Jewish, OK?”
jta.org/2016/03/11/pol…
In summer of 2016, Trump vigorously defended an overtly anti-Semitic tweet depicting the Star of David & $100 bills that labeled Hillary the most corrupt candidate ever.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Trump’s closing campaign ad in 2016 depicted George Soros, Lloyd Blankfein, and Janet Yellen (all Jewish) as it warned about those who “control the levers of power” & “global special interests” – blatant anti-Semitic dog whistles.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-r…
Trump repeatedly refused to disavow David Duke. he defended ‘both sides’ when neo-Nazis marched on Charlottesville.

he explicitly declined to condemn fans of his making anti-Semitic death threats against a Jewish reporter who wrote a piece he disliked.
washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wem…
anyways, I happen to be Jewish. I received anti-Semitic death threats in 2016. it concerns me when *any* leader traffics in anti-Semitism.

but I have no patience for Rs trying to tag the entire Dem Party as anti-Semitic, while lionizing a president who’s mainstreamed bigotry.
P.S. — here’s a small sampling of the lovely fan art tweeted at me in 2016.

this isn’t even bad compared to some of the things regularly directed at Jewish reporters.
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