Donald Trump decided to take time during Rosh Hashanah — the start of the Jewish High Holy days and the celebration of the New Year — to blame “liberal Jews” for voting to destroy America and Israel.
“Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed in false narratives!,” he wrote on Truth Social on Sunday, presumably referring to the American Jewish support for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. “Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward!”
The leading Republican presidential candidate then shared what appeared to be a flyer boasting of Trump’s record on Israel and pro-Jewish causes. “Wake Up Sheep. What Nazi / Anti Semite ever did this for the Jewish people or Israel?” the flyer reads. The flyer goes on to crow about moving the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (“no other president had the balls to do it”) and endorsing “Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights” and “over settlements in Judea & Samaria” — also known as the West Bank. The flyer also mentions Trump’s signing the “Never Again” Education Bill into law, which funds Holocaust awareness — which was praised by organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League. “Clearly, one of the Greatest Anti Semites of our time!” the flyer jokes.
Strangely, it neglects Trump’s notorious statement that neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia were “very fine people.” Or his speech in front of prominent Republican Jews, telling them that they were manipulative money-grubbers. Or his dinner with Kanye West after the rapper tweeted that he was “going death con3 on JEWISH people.”
The time in between Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, is when Jews are supposed to ask for forgiveness from those they may have hurt. Trump used this faithful, soul-searching time to make it about himself.
It’s unlikely to have much impact; American Jews have traditionally voted overwhelmingly for Democrats — and 2024 looks to be a continuation of the trend. According to a poll by the Jewish Electoral Institute, which found among 800 Jewish voters, Biden leads Trump by 72 percent.
By the way, I’m a liberal Jew. Most of what Trump mentioned as “things he did to help Jews” were for Israel. Jews =/= Israel no matter how often the Republicans say “vote for us because we support Israel.”
Trump could do amazing things for Israel, but that doesn’t matter to me - especially when he cozies up to and encourages Nazis.
GOP policy on Israel is used in domestic politics as a tool to pander to Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists who believe it will put the US on the right side of Biblical end times prophecy.
IOW it’s just batshit and has nothing to do with “helping Jews.” On the contrary, they believe Jews will ultimately mass convert to Christianity when Jesus flies back on a white horse while shooting swords out of his mouth.
Please, he’d obviously be shooting M4 Carbines from his mouth, not swords. And you forgot to mention how his totally-not-middle-eastern definitely-white skin would gleam in the sun, while his I-swear-it’s-natural blond hair flies defiantly behind him and his definitely-indistinguishably bright blue eyes shoot holy lasers at the heathens.
And I am so tired of having to justify being a Jew that doesn’t support Israel. Either against right-wingers who expect me to when I don’t or people who just think all Jews support Israel, which I don’t. I’m not an Israeli, I’m an American. If you want to talk to me about my culpability as an American citizen, let’s talk about it. But don’t associate me with Israel just because I’m a Jew.
What do you mean you don’t support a right wing militant theocracy? What do you mean you don’t support invading the west bank and displacing people who were there thousands of years before you started moving in? What do you mean you don’t support apartheid? What do you mean you don’t support imprisoning two million people in gaza, an open air prison critically lacking water, electricity, medicine, and any opportunity whatsover, in an area the size of Washington DC? You must be a self loathing jew. /s
