- Jewish groups have accused President Donald Trump of using anti-Semitic tropes in remarks at the Israeli American Council conference in Florida on Saturday.
- “A lot of you are in the real-estate business, because I know you very well,” Trump said in a speech at the conference. “You’re brutal killers. Not nice people at all, but you have to vote for me you have no choice.”
- The Jewish Democratic Council of America’s executive director, Halie Soifer, in a statement Sunday denounced what she called “vile and bigoted remarks in which the president – once again – used anti-Semitic stereotypes to characterise Jews as driven by money and insufficiently loyal to Israel.”
- Some conservative Jewish groups, however, backed the president.
Progressive Jewish groups have accused President Donald Trump of spreading anti-Semitic smears when he spoke on Saturday night in an appeal to Jewish voters at an Israeli American Council conference.
In the remarks, Trump suggested that some of the audience members were so motivated by money that they would vote for him regardless of whether they liked him – and he attacked some American Jews as insufficiently loyal to Israel.
The Jewish Democratic Council’s executive director, Halie Soifer, in a statement Sunday denounced what she described as “vile and bigoted remarks in which the president – once again – used anti-Semitic stereotypes to characterise Jews as driven by money and insufficiently loyal to Israel.”
Trump addressed some of the remarks specifically to those working in real estate.
“A lot of you are in the real-estate business, because I know you very well,” Trump told those gathered at the summit in Hollywood, Florida. “You’re brutal killers. Not nice people at all, but you have to vote for me you have no choice.”
Trump then went on to attack Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination – groundlessly claiming that she wanted to impose a 100% wealth tax.
Read the article by Tom Porter in Business Insider Australia.