Donald Trump handed the Trump-Hating Axis another stick to beat him with when he commented on recent polls showing American Jews supporting the Democrats by a 60%-40% margin. “I’ve said long and loud anybody who’s Jewish and loves being Jewish and loves Israel is a fool if they vote for a Democrat,” Trump said. “If you want Israel to survive you need Donald J. Trump as the 47th president of the United States, it’s very simple.”
For this typically blunt observationTrump is being called, of all things, “anti-Semitic.” No, the correct word is “undiplomatic.” Another word is “correct.”
On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly passed by a vote of 124 to 14, with 43 abstentions a resolution calling on the IDF to withdraw to pre-1967 borders within 12 months, and also calls on member states not to sell arms or military equipment to Israel that would be used in Gaza, the West Bank, and east Jerusalem. It also calls for a boycott of all Israeli products produced over the pre-1967 lines.
This, of course, validates the Hamas strategy of using terrorism to gain international support for its cause. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s Democratic Party is complicit with the pro-Palestinian and anti-Jewish advocates and activists on college campuses and elsewhere. In August, Holocaust survivor and former Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman wrote that the situation for Jews in the US had deteriorated to the point that they had to meet in secret at the Democratic Party National Convention. [Note that this deterioration has occurred during the Biden Administration and during the emergence of The Squad, led by DNC Convention speaker Rep. Ocasio-Cortes, who recently criticized Israel for targeting Hezbollah members with exploding pagers.] “After 50 years fighting antisemitism in America, I could not have imagined a time Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC,” Foxman said.
American Jews have no obligation to support Israel, however (I consider myself a Greek American, and I have lost no sleep over Greece’s many problems). Many have, sadly, been co-opted by the Left’s delusion that the position of the Palestinians in the hopeless Israel conflict is analogous to that of American blacks and Native American being victimized by whites. In one of his more disgusting comments since he crawled back out of the woodwork for the campaign season, James Carville claimed that the GOP supports Israel because Jews are whiter than the Palestinians.
Trump’s error, typical of him, is generalizing that all Jews care what happens to Israel, and presuming that Jewish Democrats should be any less blind to their party’s corruption in recent years than any other Democrats.
Trump is not wrong, however, that electing another Democratic administration will vastly reduce the chances of Israel surviving, and that anti-Semitism will continue to metastasize. There are just a lot of Jews, apparently, who are more passionate about leaving the borders open, keeping DEI policies alive and making sure women can kill their unwanted unborn children than about those issues.
It is, after all, a free country. At least for now….
Ethics Alarms 
Alan Dershowitz offers his opinion on the United Nations resolution referenced in this post.
Dershowitz has already publicly stated that he has left the Democratic Party.
Trump’s statement does give me vibes of “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black!”
It does.
Can’t fault him for trying. After all, it worked for Biden.
“American Jews have no obligation to support Israel, however (I consider myself a Greek American, and I have lost no sleep over Greece’s many problems)”.
Fair enough, but where does Trump suggest that all Jews must support Israel?
“I’ve said long and loud anybody who’s Jewish and loves being Jewish and loves Israel is a fool if they vote for a Democrat,”
The grammar police in me looked at that statement and finds no fault with it. The statement is vastly different than if you don’t votes for me you ain’t black. The latter generalizes all blacks being of one monolithic perspective. Trump’s statement is specific. Trump’s statement is targeted at those that love Israel and implicitly excludes those who don’t give two shakes about it.
He concludes with, “If you want Israel to survive you need Donald J. Trump as the 47th president of the United States, it’s very simple. Again, he is specific. American Jews who could not care less about the independent state of Israel are excluded.
This is no different than Harris saying if she is not elected women will lose their rights to abort their babies. Not all women see it as a right or even a desire.
It does not matter what Trump says. The axis will contort the words to mean anything that can damage him. We need not pile on.
Nicely parsed. President Trump’s extemporaneous style often leads to “cringeable” statements. After reading your thoughts, I cringe much less about this one.
It’s (not) funny how the media experts spend a lot of time creating “specifically-targeted” audiences for the blanket statements made by the Left, while simultaneously creating “blanket” audiences for the specifically-targeted statements made by those on the Right.
The interesting part about this statement is that it is not one of his sweeping generalizations about a specific group.
This was specific, using logical connectors such as “and” and “or” which are found in most legal documents to narrow down a particular population.
Fair enough. I can’t say that I “love being Greek,” and my relatives on my mother’s side who “loved being Greek” to the extent that they didn’t want non-Greeks marrying into the family were, to my mind, bigots. “Loving” one’s race, color, ethnicy, gender, etc. is unhealthy narcissism and tribalism. I believe Trump didn’t mean his—again, blunt and sloppy–statement the way it could be heard through a jaundiced ear, but still, he could be accused of employing the stereotype of Jews that they are clannish, ironically by criticizing them for not being clannish enough.
ALL Americans should oppose the insidious Democratic Party’s undermining of Israel and enabling of anti-Semitism.
I believe we are focusing on two distinct aspects of the statement. My specific focus was on the part in which he says “. . .and loves Israel”. You cannot say you love Israel and vote for the candidate who plans to allow its enemies to survive until they have the strength to annihilate the Jewish people and end the state of Israel. I did not focus on the part where he says “and loves being Jewish” because being Jewish is like another saying being I love being a Catholic. Reverence for a particular religion is a choice. If followers don’t love their religion why would they devote themselves to it? It is a tautology in my estimation.
Virtually all the peoples in that region are considered Semitic. There is no difference between Palestinian or Jew from a racial perspective . Each traces their origins back to the same group of people.
Loving Israel is also a choice but what does that actually mean. It could very well mean that the nation state stands as a bulwark against tyrannical theocratic rule. That is how I see it. More to the point, loving being Jewish does not preclude the ability to love things non-Jewish.
But remember, “Jewish” is not necessarily a religion, but a culture and an ethnic designation. And again, one should not have to love Israel to not approve of the only democracy in the Middle East being undermined by U.S.policy and the Left’s “intersectionalism” cons.
Not being Jewish, I am speculating here. While agree that a significant number of American Jews find Israel and ultra conservative Jews, shall we say, problematic, I can’t help thinking they would perhaps be well advised to regard Israel, and the Jew hate it has fostered ever since 9/11 and the subsequent presence of Palestinians and their fellow travelers in American politics, policy and academia, as a metaphorical canary in the coal mine. It can happen again.
The culture of Judaism is a function of the religious edicts. Most of those, Christians embrace within its own culture. Some religious observances are different but significant religious differences exist with Christianity. The most obvious are the differences between Catholics and Protestants.
As for race I believe one must pick their Hamitic hypothesis to make a distinction. As for ethnicity, while I may be of German descent, I am an American and no more German than I am Canadian. But if Russia invaded Germany and tried to exterminate its people then it would be foolish for me to vote for a candidate that supports the Russian invasion.
“And again, one should not have to love Israel to not approve of the only democracy in the Middle East being undermined by U.S.policy”
I don’t think he said you must love Israel to vote for him to protect Israel.
“. . . anybody who’s Jewish and loves being Jewish and loves Israel is a fool if they vote for a Democrat,” Does this statement limit being a fool only to Israel loving Jews who choose to vote Democrat? I don’t think so.
Further being Jewish does not mean being an Israeli. In fact, one can be an Israeli and not Jewish. Even Americans who consider themselves of the Jewish faith and have no ties to Israel or love for Israel could also be considered foolish to vote for Harris who is not giving full throated support for Israel’s strategy to crush Hamas. The only people not fools would be those antagonistic to Israel.
I am sure Harris could construct a Venn diagram to illustrate that the statement permits overlapping groupings that would love and support Israel and others who simply support them.
I have no love for any country other than my own and I wholeheartedly support Israel’s right to exits and to pulverize those hell bent on its destruction. I would also say that about any other sovereign nation.
Had Trump said if you are a parent, and love being a parent and love your children you should vote for me because I will actively work to protect your child from molestation. And if you do not you are a fool. (the assumption is the other guy will be more deferential to child molesters) I don’t have to be a parent or even have a child at all to say that voting for the other guy will result in more child molestations and would be therefore foolish. What is foolish are the LGBTQ groups voting against Trump but supporting the pro-Hamas groups.
We both believe that supporting Israel’s goal to destroy Hamas as quickly as possible is the most prudent strategy for long term peace in the region. We only differ in the interpretation of what Trump said. I don’t think he was ruling out the potential of others supporting Israel.
Parsing Trump is useless. He speaks imprecisely, allowing both the worst and the best possible interpretation. Drives me nuts. I don’t know how he graduated from college or business school communicating that sloppily.
Fair enough.
If you love the U.S. Constitution you are a fool if you vote Democrat because they support a global government. Read for yourself what awaits us under a Harris administration.
sotf-pact-for-the-future-rev.3.pdf (un.org)
From the program for the “Summit For the Future” at the UN
“World leaders are at UN Headquarters in New York where they adopted the potentially game-changing Pact for the Future by consensus – with a small group of just seven countries holding out, having failed to pass a last-minute amendment. The centrepiece of the Summit of the Future is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine the multilateral system and steer humanity on a new course to meet existing commitments and solve long-term challenges.”
Perhaps what is on the ballot is the loss of our own country.
Oh wait, it’s not the 2025 Project, whatever that is!?
Along these lines, I read an article a couple of weeks ago that contained interviews with Palestinians in the Dearborn area. They were outraged that the U.S. policy in Israel and the Middle East was not pro-Palestinian. They said this was “undemocratic” and they had lost their voice.
The article was striking because this is what people seem to think needs to happen. Borders and countries need to be dissolved. We all need to be citizens of the world and societies need to be reduced to some chaotic least common denominator. Everyone must have a voice, which means the ones who shout the loudest carry the day. And the entire world will be reduced to third world tribal warfare.