What a wonderful Rosh Hashanah message.
Trump accuses 'liberal Jews' of voting to 'destroy America and Israel' in Rosh Hashanah message
The post on Trump's Truth Social account came on the weekend of the Jewish New Year.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... rcna105540
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday night shared a post on his Truth Social platform that accused "liberal Jews" of voting to "destroy" America and Israel.
“Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed in false narratives!" said the post, which came on the weekend of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. "Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward!”
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Other groups, however, said Trump’s post plays into antisemitic tropes that American Jews have dual loyalties to the U.S. and Israel. The content of the post also mirrors his past remarks claiming broad support in Israel for his policies, in contrast with many Jewish voters in the U.S., who often vote Democratic.
Reached for comment, the American Jewish Committee pointed to a tweet it posted Monday that condemned Trump's post: "Claiming that American Jews who did not vote for Mr. Trump voted to destroy America and Israel is deeply offensive and divisive."
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'Whether or not it’s intentional, President Trump is playing into conspiracy theories about dual loyalty here," he said. "Even worse, this is happening on one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, Rosh Hashanah. Even as an organization that supported many of these policy decisions, ADL doesn’t believe that our community needs to be lectured about how to vote.”
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The Jerusalem Post’s then-editor-in-chief, Yaakov Katz, tweeted: “Nothing to see here. Just a former US president using threatening language about American Jews at a time when antisemitism is on a global rise."
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I want to destroy Israel? Nope, I have dozens of relatives who live there. As for destroying America, well, I'm sorry if I don't think it's the greatest country in the history of the world evah, but that doesn't mean I want to destroy it, either.
Right now, I think it has a deep anti-Semitism problem, and the chief demagogue of the GQP is throwing fuel on the fire.
70% of American Jews did vote for Biden in 2020. Typical and not unusual. I don't think this kind of demagoguery will move the needle of "Jexit".
All I can say is those who say they won't vote for the lesser of two evils, usually are not the ones facing the heat of the greater evil.
