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NBC: Trump: Jewish people who vote Democrat show ‘great disloyalty’
August 20, 2019
Halie Soifer, Executive Director of Jewish Democratic Council of America, called Trump’s comments “yet another example of Donald Trump 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,” she said in a statement. “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 Republican Party has been halved in the past four years.”