Posted by Bruce Bialosky at 2:00 am on Sep 10, 2019 Comments Off on Trump and The Jews Redux
Needless to say my last column on this subject caused a
significant controversy as the orthodoxy on Trump and particularly
on his statement that Jews were being ignorant and disloyal was
anti-Semitic. There is quite a division on this subject. There of
course is the effort to use this as an example that Trump is
anti-Semitic in the minds of some on the Jewish Left.
The people who knee-jerk want to attack Trump on this act as if
his statement existed in a vacuum. Not one person I queried knew to
which question Trump was actually replying when he made his
statement. Many did not even care to find out. The question was
about the two actual anti-Semites, Tliab and Omar, suggesting they
were propose cutting off funding for Israel.
Since the question was solely about Israel, one would question
why people would write anything about Trump questioning people’s
loyalty to America. They went off in legions saying, “whether Trump
was questioning Jews’ loyalty to the U.S. or Israel does not
matter.” Of course, don’t let facts get in the way.
And then there were people taking the position Trump was
questioning loyalty to himself. In a summary from The Hill… Read More