{"id":1129285,"date":"2021-12-17T18:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129285"},"modified":"2021-12-17T18:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:44:01","slug":"trump-criticizes-american-jews-over-lack-of-support-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-criticizes-american-jews-over-lack-of-support-for-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Criticizes American Jews over Lack of Support for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-criticizes-american-jews-over-lack-of-support-for-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129285&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Trump-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump criticized American Jews for failing to support Israel, according to comments released Friday from an interview for a podcast by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist for the left-leaning online publication Axios.<\/p>\n<p>Invoking what both CNN and&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em> are calling \u201cantisemitic tropes,\u201d Trump said that American Jews \u201ceither don\u2019t like Israel or don\u2019t care about Israel,\u201d given the fact that Jews overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama and for Joe Biden, both of whom have put pressure on Israel to make major concessions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A recent poll by the non-partisan Jewish Electoral Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishelectorateinstitute.org\/poll-domestic-issues-dominate-the-priorities-of-the-jewish-electorate\/\">found<\/a> that \u201cIsrael is the lowest policy priority for Jewish voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has long felt that he has been ill-treated by the mainstream Jewish community, despite moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, and brokering the Abraham Accords between Israel and several Arab neighbors. Supporters say these accomplishments make him the most pro-Israel president in U.S. history since Harry S. Truman, who recognized the Jewish state shortly after it declared independence in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Most American Jews vote Democratic, though Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2020\/11\/04\/rjc-exit-poll-trump-gained-6-points-among-jewish-voters-in-2020\/\">increased<\/a> the Republican share of the Jewish vote to roughly 30%.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last year, Trump stirred controversy when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2019\/08\/20\/pollak-trump-just-told-liberal-jews-what-theyve-been-telling-conservative-jews-for-years-about-disloyalty\/\">called<\/a> Jews who voted Democratic \u201cdisloyal,\u201d given the Democratic Party\u2019s shift away from its traditional support for the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments about the American Jewish community for&nbsp;Ravid\u2019s podcast, <em>Unholy<\/em>, are provoking controversy once again.<\/p>\n<p>Among other comments, Trump claimed that Evangelical Christians \u201clove Israel more than the Jews.\u201d A 2013 poll by the Pew Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2013\/10\/03\/more-white-evangelicals-than-american-jews-say-god-gave-israel-to-the-jewish-people\/\">found<\/a> that \u201con some measures, Jews\u2019 feelings for Israel are equaled or even exceeded by those of white evangelical Protestants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Trump said that the&nbsp;<i>New&nbsp;York Times<\/i> \u201chates Israel,\u201d and marveled at the fact that the paper is hostile to Israel, adding: \u201cThey\u2019re Jewish people that run the <em>New York Times<\/em>.\u201d He was referring to the Sulzberger family, which has Jewish roots, but whose owners have actually been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/the-sulzberger-family-a-complicated-jewish-legacy-at-the-new-york-times\/\">associated<\/a> with mainline Protestant denominations for several generations.<\/p>\n<p>Noting the anti-Israel shift of the Democratic Party, Trump also said that Israel used to have \u201cabsolute power over Congress,\u201d but no longer does. Though Israel once enjoyed broader bipartisan support, it never had \u201cabsolute power\u201d over Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Critics claim that Trump is invoking the idea of Jewish control of American politics \u2014 an idea that is often regarded as antisemitic. Several Democrats and journalists professed shock and horror at Trump\u2019s comments on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized American Jews for failing to support Israel, according to comments released Friday from an interview for a podcast by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}