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Former President Donald Trump on Monday once more criticized Jewish People who don’t assist him and stated any Jewish one that votes for President Joe Biden doesn’t love Israel and “needs to be spoken to.”
It’s the most recent instance of the presumptive GOP nominee playing into an antisemitic trope that Jewish People have twin loyalties to the US and to Israel.
“Any Jewish individual that votes for Biden doesn’t love Israel and admittedly, needs to be spoken to,” Trump stated in an interview aired Monday evening on Actual America’s Voice.
Trump argued Biden was “completely on the aspect of the Palestinians” amid Israel’s warfare with Hamas in Gaza. Biden has largely remained steadfast in his assist of Israel’s proper to defend itself, solely final week seriously threatening Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with penalties if Israel didn’t change the best way it was waging its warfare. And Trump simply final week stated Israel wanted to “finish what they started” and “get it over with quick,” as he stated Israel was “shedding the PR warfare” due to the visuals popping out of Gaza.
Trump additionally argued on Monday that Jewish and Black People vote for Democrats “by behavior.”
“Numerous it’s behavior. Jewish individuals by behavior, they only, they vote for the Democrats and Black individuals, by behavior, vote for the Democrats,” Trump stated.
His newest feedback echo remarks he made final month that earned swift condemnation from Biden’s administration and reelection marketing campaign. Talking on a podcast hosted by his former White Home aide Sebastian Gorka, Trump stated any Jewish one that votes for Democrats “hates their faith” and hates “all the pieces about Israel.”
Trump has lengthy performed into antisemitic tropes, lashing out at Jewish People he says don’t assist him sufficient. Throughout his first marketing campaign for president, he delivered a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition that was rife with antisemitic stereotypes, and shortly after he left workplace in 2021, he told reporters that Jewish People have turned their again on Israel.
A yr later, he said American Jews weren’t praising his administration’s policies towards Israel sufficient: “Evangelicals are much more appreciative of this than the individuals of the Jewish religion, particularly these residing within the U.S.” And final yr, throughout celebrations of the Jewish New 12 months, Trump shared a social media post that stated liberal Jews who didn’t assist him “voted to destroy America & Israel.”
At the least 63% of American Jews stated their place in American society is much less safe than a yr in the past, based on a report released last month by the American Jewish Committee. The Anti-Defamation League tracked a complete of three,283 antisemitic incidents within the three months following Hamas’ October 7 assaults on Israel, CNN previously reported, a 361% enhance in comparison with the identical interval the prior yr.
Jewish People have for many years been a largely Democratic and politically liberal constituency, figuring out with Democrats over Republicans by a large margin, based on the Pew Research Center’s 2020 survey. Whereas Orthodox Jews lean closely Republican, American Jews of different denominations, together with the Reform and Conservative branches, have recognized with or leaned towards the Democratic occasion.