T. Belman. Evidently it is racist to attack Jew-haters as racist. Long live Trump.
These Jewish voices would rather attack Israel-loving Trump than Jew-hating Muslims and fellow travellers. They function in solidarity with the Demnocratic Party rather than the Jewish people.
In a series of follow-up tweets, Trump said the representatives all “hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion” and have “made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.”
President Donald Trump’s comments on Sunday calling for some Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to their countries of origin have been widely condemned as racist.
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” the president wrote on in one of a number of tweets aimed at what he called “‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen.”
Despite not naming them all, most have assumed Trump was referring to four women of color: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. They are all U.S. citizens and only Omar was born abroad, in Somalia.
In a series of follow-up tweets, Trump said the representatives all “hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion” and have “made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.”
The president presumably was referring to the rising wave of Israel criticism in the Democratic Party that some of these congresswomen have helped to spearhead. Omar specifically came under fire earlier this year for some comments about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that some took to be anti-Semitic. Tlaib took heat as well for comments on Israel’s founding after the Holocaust, which some saw as revisionist.
“We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own Country,” he wrote.
For Jewish groups and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Trump’s comments have struck an intense chord. Here’s how many of them have responded.
The Republican Jewish Coalition said it agreed with a comment by Sen. Lindsey Graham in response to Trump’s tweets calling the Democratic congresswomen “a bunch of communists” and saying “They hate Israel. They hate our own country.”
Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, called Trump “America’s ‘Racist in Chief’” in a statement denouncing the comment.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, called the comments “flat-out racist” and “xenophobic.” He also criticized Trump for “using Israel to defend his blatant racism.”
Abraham Foxman, the former longtime director of the ADL, called the tweet “one of the oldest xenophobic prejudiced comments expressed by bigots in our country.”
The American Jewish Committee praised diversity in response to Trump’s comments. “Surely we can have policy debates in this country without resorting to potshots at our opponents’ identities or origins,” the organization said.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center said “Every American came from somewhere. Time for everyone in #WashingtonDC to drop the identity politics #racism.”
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action called Trump “a racist and white supremacist” and criticized Republicans for not condemning the remarks.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. asked on Twitter, “Is the Republican silence over President @realDonaldTrump’s racism agreement or embarrassment?”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., described the president as “a liar, a fraud, a narcissist and a bully” in response to the comments.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., called the comments “racist and hateful.”
“Telling a group of American women of color to go back to their country is fundamentally un-American,” she wrote on Twitter.
Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., condemned the comments on Twitter, calling them “xenophobic.”
Fat kraut Angela Merkel puts her two cents in, in defense of the 4 anti-Semites at war with President Trump. It’s no surprise she would defend them since she is the descendant of nazis. BTW, she needs to cut back on the knockwurst and bratwurst.
bravo Laura, and Bear— how true. all the pansies and libtards, so many (!) of whom are Jews (is it the soy that’s made them so unmale?) are out to (here comes that loaded word) crucify Trump. It’s like that terrible scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest, when Jack Nicholson is lobotomized and Nurse Rachet, the p.c. mistress, is back in charge and all the inmates are medicated and reduced to nullity. Will Trump win in 2020? I hope so, but if not, I predict there will be a big “nativist” backlash against crucifying libtard Democrat Jews… and understandably so.
The media and political establishment are shocked that a white man has a set of balls. I’ve had enough of those 3 white-hating, America-hating anti-semitic, self-entitled, bullying bitches using their gender and race as a shield against criticism and pretending to be victims. They are not victims, they are the aggressors. These broads are used to having scared white men by the balls. Well not with President Trump.
President Trump has stood up more for the Jewish people and Israel than all of the emasculated Jewish liberals combined.
@ Bear Klein:
Bear,
Thank you for your positive comments about my country and my president.
An outsider might think that the US Congress has made a mistake by letting women in. Cat fighting is not the purpose of Congress. This is a sickening display. Trump speaks truth, and the media calling them women of color is such Orwelian lying. Puerto ricans are caucasians, as are Arabs from Israel. What, we can’t say “black” anymore? I refuse to use the idiotic phrase “people of color”. What are they, purple? Black is -to an artist – the absence of color, and white reflects all colors. Look up prisms. Maybe we should return to the N word? And American liberal Jews seem to regard democrat as their religion. At least, those in my family sure do.
Any donations BY JEWS to any the people mentioned here [besides The Republican Jewish Coalition] are acts of moral treason and sedition to the Jewish people word-wide and especially to Israel.
Ted some Democrats some Jewish and some not reacted in their anti Trump mode about his tweet war with these anti-Semitic, US hating freshmen congresswomen.
Trump speaks plain and direct and not PC. That is why some people love him and some hate him.
These congress women shovel out their anti-Semitic and US hating crap all the time. Trump called them on it in a fashion that a regular Joe the truck driver who was never PC would. If you do not like it, why not go back to the shit hole country you came from with the other anti-Semites and American haters. If that is not a quote that is what he was clearly communicating.
Not presidential but right on the mark!
I don’t think that Trump attacked the “Democrat Congresswomen”because of their (race(s), race, or even because of their national origins. He did suggest that that they should be doing something to help their mother countries rather than attacking the United States.
Everyone knows what he meant and it is just another opportunity for posturing to the electorate…
Ted,
“These Jewish voices would rather attack Israel-loving Trump than Jew-hating Muslims and fellow travellers. They function in solidarity with the Demnocratic Party rather than the Jewish people.”
I don’t know what Jews think “Jewish” means in other countries, but in the US it has come to mean “Libtard”. Some 75% of them are extreme radical Democrats — more than any group except perhaps Muslims and Blacks.
Why do you call them “Jewish voices”? Perhaps “Jewish-American” would be appropriate; but calling them “Jewish” really denigrates the name.
Can’t tell the truth about the broads, they will vote against their own country. Israel will shut its ear’s to them, they will not get a diplomatic invite nor welcome. They will be treated as they deserve.
Soon the foolish u s will see through them and send them packing. The offensive tour 1 was due to make has fallen thru before shes packed her napkins.