Trump is already fanning the flames of anti-Jewish feelings among his dangerous gun-toting followers by saying - knowing he is losing the elections - that his impending loss is because of the Jews.
White conservatism in all its forms - KKK, NRA, GOP, white supremacist militias like Proud Boys, Christian Evangelicals etc... - is all about Jew-hating. This conservatism, as inherited from Christian English white supremacist colonialism, invented anti-semitism in the Europe of the lower and higher middle ages, leading to the pogroms and the Holocaust.
Anti-semitism never existed among Arab and Muslim cultures and civilizations for centuries; indeed, Muslims and Jews coexisted in peace and were both expelled from Moorish Spain by the very Catholic Spanish monarchy. The chief rabbi of Baghdad, for example, in the first half of the 20th century, would ride proudly through the city with a servant before him chanting "Make way for the son of David", and Muslims and Jews alike would stand aside to let him pass. The identity between Muslim and Jewish cultures went unbroken through the 1,300 years of their coexistence, until the so-called fake "Judeo-Christian" identity was invented in the Europe of the 19th century as part of the fake "rapprochement" between an antisemitic colonial West and the Zionist colonial project.
See: " https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2023/06/kinship-between-islam-and-judaism.html " for a commentary about how Islam was a reform movement by Mohammad against what he perceived as "polytheistic" Christianity and in which he called for a return to the Judaic-Hebraic strict monotheism in which he grew up in the Arabian peninsula.
That colonial convergence between Christian and Jewish Europeans led to the criminal creation of the Zionist colony in Palestine, "Israel" which remains a colonial tool for the West to implant itself in the Near East near the oil fields of Arabia further afield. Israel is a western forward base - first English, then American - in the Middle East; the notion of a homeland for Jews is a facade, a lie. If the West wanted to genuinely atone for its crimes against its own Jewish people, it would have given them a few thousand square miles somewhere in the vastness of Europe to establish a self-ruling autonomous entity protected by European laws. Why did they choose Palestine?
Because the Palestinian people, emerging hapless from 400 years of a brutal and obscurantist Turkish occupation, trusted the crooks of the British Empire mandate to lead them to independence and help them build their institutions - exactly like mandatory France did successfully in nearby Lebanon. But ther English crooks had already sold Palestine to the colonial Zionists behind the back of the Palestinians in one supreme act of treason and treachery typical of how the English managed their empire, leaving behind them torn countries that have yet to see normality in their lives - India-Pakistan, South Africa, Palestine-Israel, etc. Everywhere they went, the English sowed division and racial hatred.
But also because the trash in the Torah, that no one believes except the fanatic Jewish salafists (like their brethren the fanatic Muslim salafists), is an idiotic argument from the Bronze Age to shove down the throats of ignorant people burdened by the guilt their own antisemitism and the Holocaust.
Those are the bases on which Israel was artificially created over the ashes of historic Palestine.
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Harris campaign, Jewish groups fiercely criticize Trump preemptively blaming Jewish voters if he loses
FRITZ FARROW and OREN OPPENHEIM
Fri, September 20, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign and Jewish advocacy groups on Friday forcefully criticized what they called former President Donald Trump's "dangerous" and "antisemitic" comments saying Jewish voters would be to blame if he lost the presidential election.
"I'll put it to you very simply and as gently as I can: I wasn't treated properly by the voters who happen to be Jewish," Trump said at an event Thursday night in Washington that was meant to highlight antisemitism. "I don't know. Do they know what the hell is happening if I don't win this election? And the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens, because at 40% that means 60% of the people are voting for the enemy."
The backlash was fierce.
"Donald Trump is resorting to the oldest antisemitic tropes in the book because he's weak and can't stand the fact that the majority of America is going to reject him in November. But we know that words like these can have dangerous consequences," Harris campaign national security spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein said in a statement. "As Trump has proven, including over the past few weeks with his lies about Springfield, Ohio, he will cling to fearmongering and intimidation, no matter the cost."
Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, have in recent days pushed the baseless claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, most of whom are legally there, of stealing and eating neighbors' pets -- an accusation roundly refuted by local officials.
"When Donald Trump loses this election, it will be because Americans from all faiths, ethnicities, and backgrounds came together to turn the page on the divisiveness he demonstrates every day," Finkelstein added.
Harris' husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish himself, wrote on X Friday that Jewish Americans would not be "intimidated" by Trump's attacks. "Last night, Donald Trump once again fanned the flames of antisemitism by trafficking in tropes blaming and scapegoating Jews. He even did it at an event purporting to fight antisemitism, no less," Emhoff wrote. "This is dangerous and must be condemned. We will not be intimidated and will continue to live openly, proudly, and without fear as Jews."
Non-partisan Jewish advocacy organizations also vocalized their strong opposition to Trump's comment.
"Whoever a majority of the Jewish community votes for, Jews -- roughly 2 percent of the U.S. population -- cannot and should not be blamed for the outcome of the election," the American Jewish Committee wrote in a statement. "Setting up anyone to say, 'we lost because of the Jews' is outrageous and dangerous. Thousands of years of history have shown that scapegoating Jews can lead to antisemitic hate and violence."
Some Jewish voters will vote for Harris, and some will vote for Trump, the AJC said, adding that "None of us, by supporting the candidate we choose, is 'voting for the enemy.'"
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblat wrote on social media that Trump's comments contradicted the message of the antisemitic event at which he was speaking and can make it worse for Jewish Americans.[Greenblatt and his ADL have been banned from Wikipedia because it supposed objectivity was exposed for the absolutely racist bias against Palestine]
"Preemptively blaming American Jews for your potential election loss does zero to help American Jews. It increases their sense of alienation in a moment of vulnerability when right-wing extremists and left-wing antizionists continually demonize and slander Jews," Greenblat wrote "Let's be clear, this speech likely will spark more hostility and further inflame an already bad situation."
Amy Spitalnick, who leads the progressive-leaning Jewish Council for Public Affairs, encouraged more people to join growing chorus slamming Trump's comment.
"Last night, Trump preemptively blamed the Jews for his possible electoral loss, after spending months calling Jews who don't support him 'crazy' & 'disloyal.' Speaking out against this isn't about partisan politics -- it's about fundamental Jewish safety," Spitalnick wrote. "We need everyone to do so."
Trump did receive backing from some on the political right. The Republican Jewish Coalition, a major Jewish political group that has endorsed Trump, praised Trump for his remarks on combatting antisemitism.
Matt Brooks, the CEO of the organization, told ABC News in a phone interview that he thought the comments about Jewish voters and the election were about motivating Jewish voters, and that Democratic claims otherwise are a deflection.
"I think what it was is the president trying to motivate the Jewish community," Brooks said, adding that Trump "realizes what's at stake" for American Jews, who feel unsafe in America due to a rise in antisemitism. (Brooks pointed to intimidation faced by Jewish students on college campuses as one example.)
"This is an absolute distraction, to deflect that [Trump] made many significant and important contributions to the Jewish community," Brooks said.
He added that Trump was also indicating how close of an election it may be in battleground states, where given the likely slim margin, "if the Jewish vote doesn't move in his favor, it may cost him the election."
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