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Forward: WATCH: Trump Says Jews Who Vote Democrat Show ‘Great Disloyalty’

August 20, 2019

“Yet another example of @realDonaldTrump continuing to weaponize and politicize anti-Semitism. At a time when anti-Semitic incidents have increased – due to the president’s emboldening of white nationalism – Trump is repeating an anti-Semitic trope,” tweeted Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. “If this is about Israel, then Trump is repeating a dual loyalty claim, which is a form of anti-Semitism. If this is about Jews being ‘loyal’ to him, then Trump needs a reality check – we live in a democracy and Jewish support for the @GOP has been halved in the past four years.”