United States: Ex-president Donald Trump, on Monday, launched a scathing criticism of Jewish Americans who don’t support him and slammed all the Jewish Americans who voted for President Joe Biden as the ones who don’t love Israel and “should be spoken to.”
It serves as a recent case of the candidate from the Republican Party leaning on the so-called ‘Jewish’ template, that the Jewish Americans would prefer Israel over the US.
This is another instance of the presumptive Republican candidate being associated with the antisemitic trope that Jewish people devote themselves not only to the United States but also to Israel, as CNN reported.
Jewish siding Biden are anti-Israelis – Trump
Trump said, “Any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to,” in an interview aired on Real America’s Voice on Monday.
Trump claimed that Biden was “totally on the side of the Palestinians” amid Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
However, Biden, during the last week, expressed support for the Israeli approach to the war, only last week threatening Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with consequences if Israel did not amend the way it was pursuing its war.
And Trump just last week said it was like needing to “finish what they started” and “get it over with fast,” as he said Israel was “losing the PR war” because of what we see happening in the Gaza Strip.
Trump also mentioned that votes from Jewish and Black Americans to Democrats are out of habit. He added, “A lot of it’s habit. Jewish people, by habit, they just, they vote for the Democrats, and Black people, by habit, vote for the Democrats,” as CNN reported.
Moreover, speaking on a podcast hosted by his former White House aide Sebastian Gorka, Trump added that any Jewish who supports and votes for Democrats “hates their religion” and hates “everything about Israel.”
Trump has a history of playing the antisemitic card, as he was lashing out against Jewish Americans whom he did not support enough.
As Donald Trump ran for the presidency, during his first campaign, he delivered a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition with antisemitic tropes not long after he handed over his office in 2021.
However, a year later, he stated that American Jews were not in much praise for his official policies towards Israel and added, “Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the US”