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Fast Forward Here’s What Jewish Leaders Said About Trump And Omar’s Dual Loyalty Comments
Updated August 22 President Trump’s remarks from the Oval Office on Tuesday, in which he claimed that Jews who voted for Democrats showed “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” were condemned by a variety of Jewish figures and organizations. But in some cases, their initial reactions were different from their responses after…
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Opinion Trump Doesn’t Get It: Our Hatred Of Him Is Our Loyalty To America
On Tuesday afternoon, President Trump called the vast majority of American Jews disloyal. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” he said. And while he didn’t specify disloyalty to whom, on Wednesday, he doubled down, explaining that a vote for…
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Fast Forward ‘I Am #DisloyalToTrump’: Jews Clap Back To The President On Twitter
After President Trump invoked an anti-Semitic trope by calling Jews who vote for Democrats “disloyal,” Jews began storming Twitter with the hashtag #DisloyalToTrump. “Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Trump’s…
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The Schmooze The 12 Funniest ‘King Of Israel’ Tweets, Because If We Don’t Laugh We’ll Cry
This morning, the American president indirectly called himself “the king of Israel.” This morning Sean Spicer, a man who once claimed that Hitler did not use gas chambers, announced that he would be going on a dance-based reality show. There also appears to be something going on with Greenland. Being alive and being Jewish right…
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Opinion Trump’s Bigotry Isn’t Accidental. We Must Unite To Fight It.
In a strike of incredible irony, Donald Trump engaged in horrific anti-Jewish bigotry while in the course of leveling false charges of anti-Semitism against two of his political opponents: Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. While attempting to make the false and baseless case for why these Congresswomen supposedly hate Jews, Trump stated that “any…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Trump Says Jews Who Vote Democrat Show ‘Great Disloyalty’
President Trump said Tuesday that American Jews who vote for the Democratic Party may be showing “great disloyalty.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office while meeting with the President of Romania, Trump was asked about his criticisms of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who were barred from entering Israel last week due to…
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Fast Forward Tlaib’s Grandmother Curses Trump Over Cancelled West Bank Visit
(JTA) — Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother cursed President Donald Trump after he tweeted that she should be happy that her granddaughter was not coming to visit her in the West Bank. “Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down,…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Ambassador Denies Trump Pressure Was Behind Decision To Ban Tlaib And Omar
(JTA) — Israel’s ambassador to the United States said the decision to ban Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country had nothing to do with President Donald Trump. In a conference call with Jewish groups Thursday afternoon, Ron Dermer said reports implying that Israel had caved into pressure from Trump were false….
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