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The insults just keep rolling in.
Former president Donald Trump is facing criticism for recent comments made about the Jewish community in which he claimed a Jewish American who votes for a Democrat is “an absolute fool.”
The American Jewish Committee (AJC), a global Jewish advocacy group, condemned Trump’s comments. “At a time when antisemitism is at record levels, the statement by the former president is divisive and potentially dangerous,” the AJC told ABC News in a statement.
What did the insult comic say this time?
In a July 30 interview with New York radio host Sid Rosenberg on the radio station 77WABC, owned by Red Apple Media, Trump said that “any Jewish person that voted for her or him or whoever it’s going to be … should have their head examined,” referring to likely Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Trump continued: “If you love Israel, or if you’re Jewish, because a lot of Jewish people do not like Israel, and they happen to be in New York, you know that. But if you are Jewish, regardless of Israel, if you’re Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you’re a fool, an absolute fool.”
Rosenberg then made derogatory comments about second gentleman Doug Emhoff, calling him “a crappy Jew” as Trump appeared to agree.
“Doug Emhoff, Mr. President, is Jewish,” Rosenberg said during the interview. “He’s Jewish like Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Are you kidding me?”
“Yeah,” Trump responded.
“He’s a crappy Jew,” Rosenberg continued.
“Yeah,” Trump again said.
“He’s a horrible Jew,” said Rosenberg.
Well Trump is definitely the right person to consult on that question.
Trump’s most recent comments follow his claim at a July 26 speaking event that Harris doesn’t like Jewish people, despite her being married to a Jewish man. “She doesn’t like Jewish people. She doesn’t like Israel. That’s the way it is, and that’s the way it’s always going to be. She’s not going to change,” he said at a conservative Christian event in Florida.
Talk about projection. Trump is the one who hates people, and Trump is conspicuously the one who will never ever ever change.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S., slammed Trump for repeating what Schumer called an “old antisemitic trope” about the loyalties of Jewish voters.
“It’s been used for a very long time to drive Jews out of their homes, to paint them as untrustworthy to deny the basic dignity,” Schumer said in a July 31 speech.
Schumer continued: “Donald Trump then repeated the sick idea that if you’re a Jew, and if you happen to support Democrats, you should ‘have your head examined’ and that you’re a bunch of ‘fools.’ Sadly, we’ve been here before, but it must be said again: Donald Trump’s comments were reprehensible, dangerous, and prove that he is disturbingly at ease with antisemitic rhetoric.”
Which is unsurprising given all the other kinds of rhetoric he’s disturbingly at ease with.
A comic is someone who gets you to laugh with him, not at him.
The majority of American Jews are Democrats as far as I know, and the Democrats are *very* supportive of Israel. But according to Rosenberg the only proper way of being a Jew is supporting Bibi “”river to the sea”-ing one of Israel’s largest ethnic groups. It’s people like him that test the validity of considering the “dual loyalty” trope a mere calumny.
BKiS, was about to write the same.
Jews have many faults, because as Shylock eloquently expressed, they like us, are merely Human. But in my admittedly limited experience of Jewish people, the ones I have come to know are almost always as Left in their social views as I. We share the human experience, we want the same good things for our families and our societies. And we’re all smart enough to know we don’t get those things from a Trump.
Out of curiosity, I looked for and found this 2021 Pew survey on US Jews’ political views. It was interesting. I note that the survey includes “Jews by religion” and “Jews of no religion”. Jews do, fairly substantially, align with Democrats, and support liberal views – except Orthodox Jews, who are much more conservative than any other subset of Jews.
One of the questions was whether the respondents thought various people or groups supported Israel. While that is interesting, I would also like to know the respondents’ thoughts on the degree to which they themselves supported Israel.