AIPAC In Rare Rebuke: No ‘Moral Equivalence’ In Charlottesville
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a rate statement unrelated to Israel or the Middle East, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee implicitly rebuked President Donald Trump for drawing an equivalence between the sides in the Charlottesville, Va. clash.
“AIPAC shares the outrage and deep concern of our fellow Americans about the inexcusable violence and sickening displays of racism and anti-Semitism in Charlottesville this weekend,” AIPAC said in a statement posted on Twitter.
“The vile hatred expressed by neo-Nazis, the KKK and white supremacists must be categorically and unambiguously rejected,” said the statement. “We urge all elected officials to reject moral equivalence and oppose between those who promote hate and those who oppose it. There must be no quarter for bigotry in our county.”
Our statement on #Charlottesville: pic.twitter.com/1mvdnBSBnK
— AIPAC (@AIPAC) August 17, 2017
AIPAC joins the virtual gamut of Jewish groups — encompassing all religious streams — that have issued similar statements after Trump forcefully reiterated in a press conference on Tuesday that both sides were to blame for the deadly violence.
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