Trump tells American Jews that Netanyahu is 'your prime minister' in bonkers Vegas speech
Source: Raw Story
NOOR AL-SIBAI
06 APR 2019 AT 15:51 ET
During a speech held by the Jewish Republican Coalition on Saturday, President Donald Trump told audience members that Israels Benjamin Netanyahu is their prime minister a common anti-Semitic trope.
While discussing a meeting he had at the White House with Netanyahu in which he made the controversial decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, Trump told the audience he stood with your prime minister.
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greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Jews have the right of return and can make Aliyah.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)The anti-Jewish trope is that American Jews are beholden to a foreign power and are traitors. Of course we know that is not true and is racist.
The ironic thing is that the speaker is an American who seems truly to be in the thrall of foreign potentates in Russia, Arabia, and China.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Why am I called anti-Israel if I don't support Bibi? There are plenty of Israelis who don't support Bibi.
Why am I called anti-Israeli if I don't approve of the pact made between Israel and Saudi Arabia? As far as I'm concerned SA is a terrorist nation just like Iran.
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)Is more so than Iran.
No Iranians took part in 9-11.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Water's wet.
Sky's blue.
Republicans are hypocrites with no shame.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)that space.
thesquanderer
(11,993 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)Not to mention, just because he is the Prime Minister, Israelis would not have allegiance to him, but to their country. Just as Americans pledge allegiance to "flag and to the republic for which it stands -- not the President.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I don't understand
Girard442
(6,085 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)Since when do US citizens have a prime minister, a leader of another country?
Take time to think about things.
In essence he is saying they are actually foreigners here.
Celerity
(43,535 posts)Many of us dual-citizens do. I am both a US and a UK citizen.
I unfortunately won the shit lotto, as my PM is May (albeit not for long, thank dog) and my POTUS is Trump (hopefully not for long as well.)
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)Celerity
(43,535 posts)Russian/Turkish, Saudi/Libyan. Wonder if there are many of any of those combos?
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Also, he's a nazi, with dozens of nazi ties and nazi superfans.
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)The prejudiced bigots said that catholics were beholden to the Pope and would sell out the USA for anti-protestant purposes.
See also my post #10 above this one to another poster.
IronLionZion
(45,534 posts)it's common for white nationalists to say non-white Americans are loyal to other countries and not the US. I deal with this every damn day of my life as a brown Indian-American, even DUers think I'm stealing jobs away from (white) Americans.
It's bonkers
brush
(53,871 posts)for American. POCs have been part of this country for centuries. Native Americans were here when they got here. Africans came with the conquistadors.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Instant Liberal
(66 posts)She said something about a divided loyalty from American Jews or something.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,793 posts)Israel ......No matter where they stood on policies regarding Palestinians.
Israel is no friend to the Palestinians. Recognizing the seizure of territory in the Golan Heights for further Iraeli expansikn, makes things worse there, not better.
R Merm
(409 posts)You are just willing to give Omar the pass.
I believe Omar was referring to US politicians passing laws to punish American citizens for participating in boycotts of Israel (Marco Rubio, etc.).
R Merm
(409 posts)I choose to defend neither and call out anti semitism when seen. Omar specifically called out Jewish Democrats, not only Jewish Democratic representatives. Just because tired old racial canards are directed at a limited number of that group does not allow us to dismiss them. Is Omar implying that Jews cannot be trusted to serve in Congress because of them being Jews? Omar is unfairly being targeted because she is a member of multiple minorities. That does not give her a free pass to turn that slander towards members of other minorities.
And, would you have the same reaction if people called out Omar's dual loyalty as a Muslim woman?
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)paleotn
(17,986 posts)Her comments were not directed at all Jews. Shitlers were. A common neo-Nazi trope. Fitting. He is a neo-Nazi after all.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)theophilus
(3,750 posts)Jews, right?" Sounds like Trump to me. Meshuga.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Why, he loves "The Blacks" and imagines they love Trumpie too!
What a maroon.
Keep On Thinking Free
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)sakabatou
(42,176 posts)IronLionZion
(45,534 posts)This is worse than anything our Muslim Democrats have said or tweeted about AIPAC.
mainer
(12,029 posts)Implying they're not really Americans.
erronis
(15,339 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)rzemanfl
(29,570 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)In his last few years, sick with cancer, he went to Israel. On his return we got into a conversation and he said - I'll never forget this- his first love was his religion, second his country -ISRAEL, and third his family. I remember asking him if he considered America his country since he was born and raised in America. No, he assured me , he was a Jew and Israel was his country.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Stuart G
(38,448 posts)He does not speak for anyone but himself..He thought Israel was his country?..Good for him
Most Jews in the U.S.A. (of which I am one) think of the U.S.A. as "our country"... But you would have to ask most Jews to find out the truth. Not one owner of a "Hardware Store" who happens to be Jewish.
packman
(16,296 posts)not American but relating to his religion and "his" country. Why the quote marks around "Hardware Store" in your reply? Does that somehow make him less/more insensitive to his allegiance?
kimbutgar
(21,199 posts)Evangelical who believes in the rapture. I am no longer friends with her. She became cray cray.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)38 Marines and Sailor aboard the USS Liberty? I ask this because when I got home a week after that incident the majority of members of my congregation decided that Israel was not an ally of America but would even kill Americans to get what they want, the Golan Heights. They did not change their minds in the next 10 years that I knew them.
Stuart G
(38,448 posts)...Trump is racist, Anti-Semitic, Anti Gay, Anti Women, Anti Everyone except a few close friends and his family. Trump is an idiot. He really doesn't know anything. He is too stupid to say anything about anything. He doesn't even know that he is insulting people that live in the U.S.A. to say their allegiance is to another country.
...Of course, I am insulting most "idiots" who make far more sense then Trump to put them in the same basket.
...... Trump hasn't got a clue...Says Stu. !!!!!!!!!!!!!
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Stuart G
(38,448 posts)John F. Kennedy was a Catholic..correct?
....Was his allegiance to Rome, and the Catholic Church in Rome, and not the U.S.A.?
...ok, you get the picture..now..that is what idiot Trump is saying. Not only is Donald Trump much too stupid to be President, he is also much too stupid to be a Member of .."Idiots of the U.S.A. Club"
ck4829
(35,091 posts)kimbutgar
(21,199 posts)And Central American descent is the same thing hitler did to the Jews.
The orange maggot is the new hitler. Jews should recognize the danger of Netanyahu embracing the modern day hitler.
keithbvadu2
(36,922 posts)Trumpsters, Nazis, Evanglicals are pro-Israel... Pro-Jews? Not so much.
Trumpsters marching down the street in the Charlottesville event - making anti-Jewish comments like 'blood and soil' and threatening Jews with ovens.
mahina
(17,701 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,989 posts)It is things like this which make me angry on so many levels. He basically is asserting Jews are not loyal Americans. I see peoples' ignorance of anti-Semitism in their not understanding why what he said was anti-Semitic; I see people "fired up" about his anti-Semitic remarks of 'dual loyalty' but when certain others do it, well, suddenly it isn't anti-Semitic; I see people falling all over themselves to "condemn" this anti-Semitism, but it all for show and just another stepping stone to move the conversation to their bigotry of choice; I see anti-Semitism, in general, get attention because of who the speaker is and not what it does to the Jewish community.
I also see, though few in number, a certain group willing to always speak out clearly and without reservation against anti-Semitism.
The Wizard
(12,549 posts)besmirches the good names of all the Jews who answered the call of duty with some making the ultimate sacrifice. Any Jewish male who supports Trump should be subject to foreskin restoration.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Harker
(14,039 posts)have a "president" in Trumpsky.