Trump’s disloyalty lie about Jews echoes a blood-soaked anti-Semitic slur

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

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Had a meeting tonight at our synagogue, not only do we have and armed guard during services , now we are going to install closed circuit cameras, due to the fact a potential unhinged trump white goyim might go off that Jews aren't loyal. The rabbi also said other synagogues are having to do the same


On Tuesday, when Donald Trump accused American Jews who vote for Democrats of “great disloyalty,” he invoked an anti-Semitic trope that is not just offensive but also historically lethal.

Like the racist fear of African American men assaulting white women, the idea that Jews are suspect citizens of their home nations is deep-seated, pernicious and blood-soaked. It persists over time, from Exodus to the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible, from the ovens of Auschwitz to last year’s massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Hearing it echoed from the White House is not only chilling but also representative of yet another way the Trump administration is eroding American values. It denies a fundamental American value: e pluribus unum — out of many, one.

For centuries, Jews have been scattered across the globe, dwelling among others. At worst, they were enslaved, as in pharaonic Egypt; at best, they lived the perilous existence of second-class citizens, part of society, but not fully of it, safe for today, but marked for possible slaughter tomorrow.
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-21/donald-trump-israel-jews-disloyalty
 
guno said:
Had a meeting tonight at our synagogue, not only do we have and armed guard during services , now we are going to install closed circuit cameras, do to the fact a potential unhinged trump white goyim might go off that Jews aren't loyal. The rabbi also said other synagogues are having to do the same



https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-21/donald-trump-israel-jews-disloyalty
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Nice try, but the stereotype is that Jews aren't loyal to their host countries because they're loyal to the Jewish community. In the Post-WWII era, this includes being more loyal to Israel than they are to any other country they're living in because Israel is now the country of the Jewish community.

Trump is telling the lie that Jews like. He's saying Jews don't care about Israel, which is obviously not true.
 
The virus of the Jewish disloyalty slur took root in the U.S. as well. Henry Ford, America’s preeminent anti-Semite, published a set of pamphlets, “The International Jew,” that spread the lies of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in the New World.

Today, the perfidy proliferates in two forms. First is the accusation that Jews are secretly loyal to Israel above their own nations. Trump echoed this in a follow-up to his disloyalty comments. A reporter asked to whom Democratic Jews were disloyal and he answered, “Israel.” The second is associated with the white genocide theory, also called the Great Replacement, which sees a Jewish conspiracy in immigration. It lies behind claims that George Soros is driving “caravans” to the U.S. (which Trump has also repeated) and inspired the Tree of Life synagogue shooter.

That an American president would traffic in any aspect of the Jewish disloyalty/betrayal slur is profoundly disturbing. It also undermines one of the best and most unique aspects of the United States: We are a mosaic, or, if you prefer, a melting pot, and no matter your ethnicity or religion.
 
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