Trump invokes antisemitic tropes while discussing his support for Israel
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Former President Donald Trump veered into several antisemitic tropes in a recent interview, claiming that Israel used to have "absolute power over Congress" and saying that American Jews — the majority of whom vote Democratic — "either don't like Israel or don't care about Israel."
Trump's comments to Israeli journalist Barak Ravid are not the first time he's used language that skews toward biased stereotypes about Jews: In 2019, the then-president said Jews who vote Democratic are "being very disloyal to Israel."
Trump also claimed to Ravid, who recently published a book about his administration's Abraham Accords treaties between Israel and Arab nations, that evangelical Christians in the United States “love Israel more than the Jews” — touting a group he heavily courted in his 2016 presidential campaign and a pillar of his political base.
As for his assessment of Israel's waning influence in Congress, Trump cast blame on former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden. He went on to lament the voting preferences of the Jewish electorate.
“Obama and Biden did that, and yet in the election they still get a lot of votes from Jewish people, which tells you the Jewish people — and I’ve said this for a long time — the Jewish people in the United States either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel,” Trump said in an interview with Ravid that aired on the "Unholy" podcast.
The former president also cited the heritage of the Sulzberger family that publishes The New York Times, which he said “hates Israel."
“They’re Jewish people that run The New York Times,” Trump said.
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17 Dec 2021, 6:46 pm
