Silence from prominent Jewish leaders about Trump's Star of David

[no_hypocrisy]

On Facebook, both Rabbis Wolpe and Shmuley Boteach are silent altogether about the week-end Trump Tweet with the Star of David over dollar bills while calling Hillary Clinton corrupt. Yet Rabbi Boteach has dedicated several Facebook posts about Max Blumental being a traitor to the Jews and calling for HRC to repudiate him.

It's the silence and one-sidedness of the criticism that is remarkable. One can debate Blumental but without ignoring Trump's denunciation of Jews based on traditional condemnation of the Jews as money-hungry, corrupt beings.

[MADem]

1. Journalists and others are fighting back and not tolerating the bigotry.

...Bethany Mandel, a political columnist, has received such a barrage of anti-Semitic tweets since her criticism of Donald Trump — everything from being called a “slimy Jewess” to being told she “deserve[s] the oven” — that she went out and bought a gun.

“After I tweeted something like, ‘Now that Trump has won South Carolina we won’t hear the end of his anti-Semitic fans,’ I was receiving a tweet almost every 30 seconds,” she recalled, adding that she received death threats and that someone even posted her phone number and home address.

She then bought the gun, something she said she had long planned to do but put off because of all the paperwork involved in obtaining a gun permit in New Jersey.

Other Jewish journalists have been similarly targeted with hate-filled anti-Semitic messages on social media, including Jake Tapper of CNN, freelance journalist Julia Ioffe, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Jonathan Weisman of The New York Times.

Now, from across the political spectrum, members of the Jewish community have begun speaking out about the ugly tenor of the primary campaign season that ended this week with Hillary Clinton winning enough delegates to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. And at least one progressive Jewish organization, Bend the Arc Jewish Action, has launched a campaign to defeat Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, because of his hate-filled rhetoric.....Because Bend the Arc is a 501(c)(4) group, it may devote a portion of its activities to advocacy politics.

The Republican Jewish Coalition, whose mission is to “foster and enhance ties between the American Jewish community and Republican decision makers,” has been conspicuously silent since Trump became the party’s presumptive nominee — save for a one-line wish of congratulations. The organization’s leaders declined to respond this week to several requests for an interview.

But Cotler said it is the Jewish community that must now speak up to show its “moral outrage about Trump’s policy positions that go against the very grain of what the Jewish community stands for, and the ethics and morality that our tradition teaches.”


Read more at http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/tenor-trump-campaign-sparking-fresh-outrage#BcdvqE8ZPvLfvuS4.99

The whole article is worth a glance.

[Lance Bass esquire]

2. Jewish anti Defamation league all over this.

Saw them on cable news outlets yesterday.

[liberalhistorian]

4. That's really good to hear.

That was a disgusting, deliberate, blatantly in-your-face anti-Semitic tweet that needs to be called out for what it is. "Sheriff's badge" (as Drumpf claimed) my ass. Sometimes I have to wonder if this is 2016 or 1936. I guess this shit just has to be continually and endlessly fought against.

[leftynyc]

3. 2 "leaders" - one of which

I've NEVER heard of (wolpe) and your title makes it sound like ALL prominent Jewish leaders are silent - your OP is complete bullshit. Try looking at what the anti-defamation league has to say before you embarrass yourself further.

[EllieBC]

5. Rabbi Wolpe a well known rav of the largest Conservative

shul in LA - Sinai Temple.

Frankly I think he's not getting involved because lately Jews are targets for both sides of the political spectrum.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. It could be all of us and THAT would be considered a problem.

The ADL speaks out...problem; they don't...problem. It is the ever, on-going "damned if we do, damned if we don't."