Trump complains American Jews don't appreciate his moves on Israel, drawing criticism - CNN

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Former President Donald Trump connected Sunday criticized American Jews for what helium argued was their insufficient praise of his policies toward Israel, informing that they request to “get their enactment together” earlier “it is excessively late!”

The suggestion, made connected Trump’s societal media level Truth Social, plays into the antisemitic trope that US Jews person dual loyalties to the US and to Israel, and it drew contiguous condemnation.

“No President has done much for Israel than I have,” Trump wrote earlier saying it was somewhat astonishing that “our fantastic Evangelicals are acold much appreciative of this than the radical of the Jewish faith, particularly those surviving successful the U.S.”

The caput of the American Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt accused Trump of “Jewsplaining.”

“We don’t request the erstwhile president, who curries favour with extremists and antisemites, to lecture america astir the US-Israel relationship. It is not astir a quid pro quo; it rests connected shared values and information interests. This ‘Jewsplaining’ is insulting and disgusting,” helium wrote.

The Jewish Democratic Council of America likewise lambasted Trump’s remarks. “His menace to Jewish Americans and his continued usage of the antisemitic dual loyalty trope fuels hatred against Jews,” the group tweeted. “We volition not beryllium threatened by Donald Trump and Jewish Americans volition cull GOP bigotry this November.”

Trump’s comments echo an statement helium has made before. In an interview past December, the erstwhile President argued that Jewish Americans “either don’t similar Israel oregon don’t attraction astir Israel,” and besides repeated his assertion that evangelicals “love Israel much than the Jews successful this country.”

A Pew Research survey released successful 2021 recovered that 45% of Jewish adults successful the US viewed caring astir Israel arsenic “essential” to what being Jewish means, with an further 37% saying it was “important, but not essential.” Only 16% said caring astir Israel was “not important.”

During his archetypal run for president, Trump delivered a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition that was rife with antisemitic stereotypes.