- President Donald Trump sparked widespread outrage and confusion on Tuesday when he said that Jewish Americans voting for Democrats was showing “great disloyalty.”
- Trump made the comments in reference to two Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, who have been openly critical of the Israeli government.
- “Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they are defending these two people over the state of Israel?,” Trump said on Tuesday. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”
- Prominent Jewish commentators slammed Trump for invoking clearly anti-Semitic tropes of Jews being “disloyal” and why he used it as a voter turnout strategy.
President Donald Trump sparked widespread outrage and confusion on Tuesday when he said that Jewish Americans voting for Democrats was showing “great disloyalty.”
Trump made the comments in reference to two Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, who have been openly critical of the Israeli government’s policies towards Palestinians.
In a Monday press conference, Omar argued that the US should cut foreign aid to Israelover the government initially barring them from entering the country in their official capacities as members of Congress.
Read the article by Grace Panetta in Business Insider Australia.