Trump's Rosh Hashanah message attacks majority of U.S. Jews for 'voting to destroy America and Israel'
By: Ben Samuels (The Forward)
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Former President Donald Trump on July 29, 2023. Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
By Ben SamuelsSeptember 18, 2023
This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Sign up here to get Haaretz's free Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday posted an ominous warning to American Jews in honor of Rosh Hashanah, retreading well-worn territory of dual loyalty tropes and conflating support for Israel and American Jews.
Trump has frequently targeted Jewish Americans for not voting for him, including imploring them to "get their act together before it's too late," earning widespread condemnations for "Jewsplaining."
He has also repeatedly used his unprecedented support for Israel as a deflection against accusations of antisemitism, all while invoking dual loyalty tropes and deeming Jews who vote for Democrats as "very disloyal" to Israel.
Trump's opinions of American Jews, however, have deteriorated into stereotypes for decades - touching on tropes of wealth, power and status.
"Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives! Let's hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward! Happy New Year," Trump posted on an image shared to his Truth Social profile.
The image added "wake up sheep. What Natzi/AntiSemite ever did this for the Jewish people or Israel," before detailing several of Trump's signature policy initiatives related to Israel.
The post detailed Trump's moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem ("no other president had the balls to do it"), as well as his recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights and "settlements in Judea and Samaria."
The Trump administration took a variety of policy measures shifting the legality of Israeli settlements under U.S. law. While the Biden administration has opted to no longer transfer funds to research institutes or academic projects taking place in the West Bank, it has opted not to reverse the key tenets of Trump's settlement policy.
The post further noted that Trump signed an executive order deeming Judaism a nationality in addition to a religion so it would fall under the category Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a move widely viewed as targeting critics of Israeli policy on college campuses as a political attempt to limit free speech.
The post finally noted Trump's signing of the "Never Again" Education bill that allocated millions to expand Holocaust awareness - a bill lauded by Jewish establishment organizations, though much of which works against Holocaust deniers that Trump has allied himself with in the months and years since his presidency.
"Clearly one of the greatest Anti Semites of our time," the post concluded, flanked by Israeli and American flag and heart emojis along with #TRUMP2020 #JEXIT hashtags.
The latter hashtag was particularly prominent before the 2020 presidential election, alluding to a supposed shift among Jewish voters - the vast majority of whom have traditionally voted Democratic - to the Republican Party, largely based on Trump's Israel record.
A poll earlier this summer showed 72 percent of Jewish voters prefer U.S. President Joe Biden over Trump, with 80 percent holding unfavorable views of Trump. Orthodox Jews, however, prefer Trump by a 76-13 percent difference.
A Haaretz review of Jewish Republican donations over the first several months of the 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign revealed that a notable number of pro-Trump donors will clearly back the former president no matter what as he faces a series of indictments, Jewish donors appear divided on who represents the best alternative to the former president, with several hedging bets by donating to several candidates.
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Am I imagining things or does this article say that Trump's post misspelled the word "Nazi" ?
"though much of which works against Holocaust deniers that Trump has allied himself with in the months and years since his presidency."
Is there any credible evidence to support this assertion.
Trump is a great supporter of the state of Israel, not so much for liberal American Jews who seem to vote against their own best interests by supporting Democrats.
Obama's distain and hostility towards Israel is disgraceful. And Biden appears to carry on the tradition.
Obama's Disgraceful and Harmful Legacy on Israel | Washington Examiner
ODS.
I see it, too
Yes, American Jews are understandably leery of autocratic despots!
Four sentences in and we finally got the quote:
“Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives! Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward! Happy New Year,”
I see the words liberal Jews there. Does anyone other than the extreme left consider it anti-Semitic to say that? What Donald Trump, who has Jews in his family, may have discovered is what many may not know. Jewish Americans tend to be raised in a liberal culture. That does not mean that every American Jew is going to vote democrat. What it does mean is that as a demographic Americ Jews trend to be democrats, no matter who leads the party.
Thus, you get the figures here that we see in virtually every election:
We found about 80% of our sample publicly stating that they planned to vote for Joe Biden, with 97% of that sample actually voting for Biden on Election Day or in mail-in voting.
That is a vital statistic. They also voted in large numbers for Barak Obama. No two presidents have treated Israel worse than Obama & Biden. The democrat party is the home of anti-Semitism. This article is a product of an ideology.
So, the question Trump is raising is why people would vote for those who don't like them?
Here is the answer Mr. President: To many American Jews ideology is more important than religion or even self preservation.
Always defending the indefensible.
Why don't Trump or his handlers know how to spell the word "Nazi" ?
That is a redirection. The site redirected the non-word 'Natzi' to the real word 'Nazi' phonetically.
'Natzi' is not a word.
They don't know how to draw an accurate representation of the bloated fat orange pig either.
Suggest you check things prior to your NOT proving something wrong
As Tig said
Nazism
Nazism ( / ˈ n ɑː t s ɪ z əm , ˈ n æ t -/ NA(H)T -siz-əm ; also, Naziism /- s i . ɪ z əm / ), [1] the common name in English for National Socialism ( German : Nationalsozialismus , German: [natsi̯oˈnaːlzotsi̯aˌlɪsmʊs] i ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany . [2] [3] [4] During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe , it was frequently referred to as Hitlerism ( German : Hitlerfaschismus ). The later related term " neo-Nazism " is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the Second World War .
The word "Nazi" appears in that wikipedia article 471 times. Not once is it spelled "Natzi".
BUPKIS:
Bupkis is a Yiddish word, which is literally translated as “beans” and is derived from a Slavic word for “goat droppings.” Apparently goat droppings look like beans, although I’ve never actually seen any goat droppings.
However just to make things confusing, it’s not used as a reference to something edible (beans), or something inedible (goat droppings), but as something worthless (a bean isn’t worth much, and goat droppings even less)
To make things even more confusing, it’s traditionally used as part of a double-negative in an insult: “You haven’t got bupkis!” which meaning “You don’t have anything!” or “This isn’t worth bupkis!” which means that something is worth less than nothing.
What is Bupkis? – Bupkis.org
I will leave it up to you to see the problem with @3.2.7
Bupkis! 200 grams of droppings runs at 21$
You win!! l concede. But it still comes up in a search as Natzi keyword.