US Jewish Groups Slam Trump Over Social Media Post Attacking ‘Liberal Jews’
Former US President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower after his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. Photo: Reuters/Jeenah Moon
US Jewish groups strongly condemned Donald Trump’s recent social media post slamming “liberal Jews,” while largely refraining from direct accusations of antisemitism against the former US president.
“Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. “Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward! Happy New Year!”
The image was accompanied by a text that misspelled the word “Nazi” as “Natzi,” as well as a list of what many Trump supporters view as his administration’s key achievements regarding US relations with Israel and the security of the US Jewish community.
“Wake Up Sheep. What Natzi/Anti Semite [sic] ever did this for the Jewish people or Israel?” the text stated.
Among the achievements listed were the 2018 decision to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and Trump’s signature on the “Never Again” bill, which allocates funds for Holocaust education. The post did not mention that the legislation was the result of a bipartisan initiative, with Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen (NV) and Richard Blumenthal (CT) joining Republican legislators Marco Rubio (FL) and Kevin Cramer (ND) as sponsors.
Responding to Trump’s post lambasting “liberal Jews,” Jonathan Greenblatt — CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) — said in a statement on Monday that it was “dangerous and wrong,” adding that “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.”
The American Jewish Committee separately tweeted that “[C]laiming that American Jews who did not vote for Mr. Trump voted to destroy America and Israel is deeply offensive and divisive.”
The Jewish Democratic Council of America did accuse Trump of antisemitism, with CEO Halie Soifer condemning “the antisemitic threat Donald Trump issued on Rosh Hashanah” in a statement.
“At a time of rising antisemitism in the United States, this hatred and bigotry must not be normalized, including by the party Trump leads,” Soifer added.
Trump’s post appears to have been originally crafted by a right-wing advocacy group calling itself “Jews Exiting the Democratic Party” (JEXIT). An Instagram post from the group accompanying the graphic declared, “It’s so embarrassing to me that 74 percent of American Jews voted for Biden.”
The group claims on its website that its mission is to “help educate and encourage Jews to understand and be fully cognizant of the fact that the Democrat party [sic] has abandoned them and Israel,” asserting that “much of the core of today’s Democrat party [sic] is anti-Israel, antisemitic and anti-American.”
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