Trump comments on Jews who vote for Democrats draw outrage

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Trump comments on Jews who vote for Democrats draw outrage

New York — Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate *******” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and ******* leaders.

Trump, in an interview, had been asked about Democrats’ growing criticism of ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the war in Gaza as the civilian ****** toll continues to mount.

“I actually think they hate *******,” Trump responded to his former aide, Sebastian Gorka. “I think they hate *******. And the Democrat party hates *******.”

Trump, who last week became the *********** Party’s presumptive nominee, went on to charge that, “Any ******* person that votes for Democrats hates their religion. They hate everything about ******* and they should be ashamed of themselves because ******* will be destroyed.”

The comments sparked immediate backlash from the White House, President Biden’s campaign and ******* leaders.

The vast majority of ******* Americans identify as Democrats, but Trump has often accused them of disloyalty, perpetuating what critics say is an antisemitic trope.

At the White House, spokesperson Andrew Bates cast the comments as “vile and unhinged Antisemitic rhetoric” without mentioning Trump by name.

“As Antisemitic ******* and acts of hate have increased across the world – among them the deadliest ******* committed against the ******* people since the Holocaust – leaders have an obligation to call hate what it is and bring Americans together against it,” he said. “There is no justification for spreading toxic, false stereotypes that threaten fellow citizens. None.”

Mr. Biden’s campaign said, “The only person who should be ashamed here is Donald Trump.”

“Trump is going to lose again this November because Americans are ***** of his hateful resentment, personal attacks, and extreme agenda,” said spokesman James Singer.

Jonathan Greenblatt, who heads the Anti-Defamation League, said, “Accusing Jews of hating their religion because they might vote for a particular party is defamatory & patently false.”

“Serious leaders who care about the historic US-******* alliance should focus on strengthening, rather than unraveling, bipartisan support for the State of *******,” he wrote on X, formerly known as

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Halie Soifer, CEO of the ******* Democratic Council of America, said, “Another day, another depraved antisemitic screed from Donald Trump, who has repeatedly vilified the overwhelming majority of ********* Jews. He first called us ‘uninformed or disloyal’ in 2019 and essentially repeated it today. The feeling is mutual.”

Trump’s comments come as Mr. Biden has been facing mounting pressure from the progressive wing of his party over his administration’s support for ******* in its retaliatory offensive in Gaza. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been ******* since ****** attacked ******* on Oct. 7, according to the Health Ministry in the ******-ruled territory.

While Mr. Biden continues to back *******’s right to defend itself, he has increasingly criticized Netanyahu. After his State of the Union address, he said he needed to have a “come to ******” conversation with the ******** leader. He has also accused Netanyahu of “hurting ******* more than helping *******,” saying, “he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken.”

The president and Netanyahu spoke on Monday for the first time in more than a month. The White House says Mr. Biden “reiterated his deep concerns about the prospect of ******* conducting a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than one million displaced civilians are currently seeking shelter after fleeing fighting in the north.” Netanyahu also agreed to send a team of ******** officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation, according to White House and national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

Trump took particular issue with recent comments from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the country’s highest-ranking ******* official. In a speech last week, Schumer sharply criticized Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza, warning that the civilian toll was damaging *******’s standing around the world. He also called for ******* to hold new elections.

While the White House formally distanced itself from Schumer’s comments, the Democratic leader and key ally was voicing an opinion increasingly held across Mr. Biden’s administration.

Schumer – whom Trump accused of being “very anti-******* now” – responded by accusing Trump of “making highly partisan and hateful rants.”

“To make ******* a partisan issue only hurts ******* and the US-******** relationship,” he wrote on X.

The Pew Research Center reported in 2021 that Jews are “among the most consistently ******** and Democratic groups in the U.S.,” with 7 in 10 ******* adults identifying with or leaning toward the Democratic Party. In 2020, it found that nearly three-quarters of ********* Jews disapproved of Trump’s performance as president, with just 27% rating him positively.

Americans have also increasingly soured on *******’s military operation in Gaza, according to surveys from The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. In January, 50% of U.S. adults said the military response from ******* in the Gaza Strip had gone too far, up from 40% in November.

That number was higher among Democrats, 6 in 10 of whom said the same thing in both surveys.

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