Sure. He’s not anti-semitic.
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Even your excuses for him are tropes. ”he let his daughter marry a jew! some of his best friends are jews!”
I don’t want to be this as construed as defending Trump. But society needs to start getting on the same page of things and having some level of objectivity.
This is like when the right complains Joe Biden can barely string a coherent sentence together and is clearly in cognitive decline for years but will also accuse him of being a money laundering mastermind behind Hunter Biden. It can’t be both at this point.
The “fine people on both sides” in context almost certainly refers to the pro and anti tearing down of statues people and said there were bad people on one side. It’s an inexcusably incoherent conversation on Trumps part in a sense talking past the reporter and it’s his own fault for not being more clear and something that could be misconstrued.
I never hear anyone complain about Joe Biden’s numerous racist comments that get laughed off as gaffes? Are they? Or do they reveal what he actually thinks?
Anyways... why would Trump have Allen Weisselberg as his CFO for years? Or Michael Cohen as his long time personal lawyer and Jason Greenblatt his CLO. Harold Bernstein, longterm personal physician. When you have multi-billion dollar families marrying, parental approval often is a much more a factor and an official marriage an adherent orthodox Jew is a much more complicated task. You don’t think if someone like Trump said “no” to his prized daughter marrying that she and the husband be intimidatory involved in his life, let alone working in the White House along side him as an advisor.
We all know Trump is obsessed with loyalty why would he bring several of the aforementioned people from company into the White House, not to mention Jarred Kushner, Steve Mnuchin, Stephen Miller, Gary Cohn, Carl Ichan, etc, etc. I don’t think if you TRULY believe Jews are inherently uncommitted and untrustworthy you invite them into your close circle as POTUS.
How do I square this with Trump’s comments basically saying Democrat Jews should vote for him because of his Israel comments… First, it’s not really necessarily suggestive of dual loyalty at all. Mainly in this case I see this as Trumps personality disorder in action, mad that more American Jews don’t like him after all these *wonderful things* he’s feels done for the Jewish population (while democratic support has been falling for years), he’s entitled to their appreciation and vote. We all know that’s not how things work. That makes a lot more sense in the context of his actions and relationships.
It’s a narcissist’s frustration expecting admiration and not receiving it, that’s not antisemitism. It might have basis in stereotypes or ignorance, but that’s not necessarily antisemitism.
Antisemitism are the dads who tell their daughters, “you shouldn’t date that Jew because I will never let you marry him. I want my grandchildren to have blond hair and blue eyes, just like my 3 daughters”. (To quote one of my high school girlfriends dads re: me… this was in the mid 2000’s, not 1930 btw).
Antisemitism is the non-Jewish patient who refuses to be seen by a non-Jewish healthcare provider because “they don’t want to be touched by a dirty Jew” or who believe psychiatry is a program of Jewish mind control of gentiles. (Been there many times)
Antisemitism would be not hiring Jews to your top company positions because they can’t be trusted or because they might have undue influence society via culture or art or legislation.
Antisemitism is the seizing of forced registration of all assets and their eventual seizure because Jews have only been able succeed at everyone else’s expense.
Antisemitism is selectively blocking Jewish students from attending class because you assume you know their stance on Gaza/Israel because of their Jewish religion or heritage.
If people can’t recognize the difference between insensitivity, ignorance, etc and basically sees an equivalence between effectively a “micro aggression” with Nazi policy…
I think up until relatively recently most Jews felt the biggest threat in the US came from the far right. In some sense that’s true-
Particularly with mass killings, not really the case with vandalism and isolated attacks.
Increasingly, it’s the growing Progressive-Marxist faction of the Democratic Party and young people that’s concerning. And I think this is suddenly becoming very, very clear to a lot of Jews. There is legitimate talk if there will be an exodus to the right. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some measurable movement but I cannot fathom anywhere close to a majority tipping for Trump. The FBI is already wanting of domestic terrorism related to Gaza.
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