Philip Bump, arguably the worst of the Washington Post’s unethical reporters (but it’s a large and closely bunched field), went into full-Trump hate mode when the ex-President said, during the Democratic National Convention, “Why would somebody who’s Jewish be voting for these people? If Jewish people vote for her [Harris] and I use this expression, they ought to go out, because Kamala is a person that is very anti-Israel, and very anti-Jewish. But she solves that problem by saying her husband’s Jewish, okay? But that doesn’t…her actions are the worst that we’ve ever had.” In April, Trump made a similar statement about Jews voting for Joe Biden. “Any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to,” Trump said. Ethics Alarms covered that “horrible” statement here. The ethics Alarms verdict: rhetorically sloppy and undiplomatic (as usual), but essentially correct.

So was the most recent statement. That this is true was nicely illustrated by none other than Professor Turley, who noted, as the Washington Post and most of the mainstream media did not, that while pro-Palestinian/Hamas/terrorism protesters were given a permit to demonstrate outside the convention hall, pro-Israel, anti-Hamas groups were not. The Democratic Party’s fingerprints are all over this: Chicago’s mayor is a Democrat just like it was in 1968, when Democratic Boss Mayor Daley denied anti-war demonstrators permits, and they protested anyway.

Wrote Turley in part,:

While pro-Palestinian protesters have been given an array of accommodations by the city (and received a shoutout from President Joe Biden in his convention address), the Jewish protesters are only able to gather due to the donation of a private lot by an owner for their use….Besides pro-Palestinian protesters, pro-abortion protesters have been allowed to march, and Planned Parenthood is celebrating the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris with free abortions….Josh Weiner, co-founder of Chicago Jewish Alliance, confirmed that the group was not granted permits, so all they could do is walk around such approved protests to “make our presence felt.”

…For Chicagoans like myself, the treatment of the pro-Israel protesters at the DNC could not be more ironic or disturbing. Forty-six years ago, Nazis were allowed to march through Skokie, Illinois, despite the presence of thousands of Holocaust survivors in the largely Jewish city.

The Skokie case is considered one of the milestone moments for free speech…Now roughly five decades later, Jewish marchers are being effectively blocked from marching through the city of Chicago, presumably because they would be “too disruptive.”

….The Johnson administration has been coordinating plans for the convention with the Democratic leadership. The record in this case shows a transparently hostile response to the Jewish protesters.  Despite putting in their request in June, the Jewish protesters were denied while pro-Palestinian protesters were granted permission to march… Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the Arab American Action Network, said that the mayor had personally reached out to reemphasize his support: “The mayor has said from the very beginning that he supports the protest movement. The protest movement is what brought him to City Hall. . . . He said, ‘I understand that struggle. Because I am part of a national liberation struggle as well.’”

…The treatment of the Jewish groups in Chicago outside of the convention stands in sharp contrast to what is being said inside the convention. Speaker after speaker has declared the party to be the champion of the Constitution and free speech. The one thing that organizers cannot abide in a celebration of constitutional freedom is the actual exercise of those freedoms by unpopular groups…

Turley correctly identifies the massive hypocrisy of the Democratic party on two fronts: claiming to be “protecting democracy” while being actively hostile to speech its component tribes can’t abide, and claiming to be an ally of Israel, while its Presidential nominee openly supports the permanent ceasefire that will ensure that Hamas survives to murder and rape Israelis again, while she embraced The Squad, which is openly and shamelessly anti-Semitic.

Trump’s assessment of the pro-Hamas voting Jews—which is what Democratic-voting American Jews will be—is fair and correct.